(AP) — Candidates for governor of New Mexico are making last-minute appeals for support at polling places and restaurants in Albuquerque. Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham stopped at a coffee house in the Barelas neighborhood Tuesday to eat and shake hands. Campaign spokesman James Hallinan says Lujan Grisham voted in the afternoon along with family members at …

Thanks mostly to oil and gas, legislators will have $1.2 billion or more in new money to divvy up in the next session. After the bruising budget cutting of just a couple of years ago, it’s enough to make legislative finance people giddy. But they’re not giddy. They and we have gotten a lot more realistic about the cycles of …