Shea Andersen: At the Roundhouse

Who are you people anyway? and, Guv on Payday

The Albuquerque Tribune's ever-ready Webmaster Jeff Commings has a few stats about Web traffic I'll pass along:

In the month of February, this short-lived blog had 3,052 individual "hits" from various Web crawlers.

Who are you junkies anyhow? People just dying to know what the coffee scene is like here? Bad basketball fans?

I offer the numbers with next to no context. I don't know how that compares to various giants and mysterious legends of the blogging world. But thanks, all, for the visits.

The Tribune's Web site is chugging along too: 87,859 unique visitors in February, compared to 98,180 in January.

Okay, some real news:

Gov. Bill Richardson told reporters today that the payday lending bill overwhelmingly approved by the House was no good.

The House voted to approve H.B. 65, sponsored by Rep. Patty Lundstrom, last week. Though it is the first regulation of payday lending in New Mexico, the measure does not have caps on interest rates the lenders charge to borrowers.

"I believe we need stronger consumer protection," Richardson said. "I'd like to see a workable cap that still seems to elude everybody."

Posted by sandersen at March 7, 2005 07:13 PM