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She said, she said

Candidates for the 1st Congressional District finally met Tuesday in their only televised debate. Incumbent Republican Heather Wilson painted challenger Attorney General Patricia Madrid as soft on domestic security, while Madrid hammered Wilson for her support of the Iraq war. In the end, predictably, both campaigns claimed victory, although Wilson went a step further with a Wednesday news conference replaying video of what she called Madrid's gaffes.

Judges wary of jail plan

Leaders of the Metropolitan Detention Center launched a sales pitch aimed at convincing judges that an idea to reduce the jail population could work. At issue: The Community Custody Program, which requires a judge's blessing to move a nonviolent inmate out of a jail cell and back home. Jail officials say hundreds of inmates remain in the crowded jail when they could be in the program. Under a plan discussed Tuesday at the Bernalillo County Commission, judges would be removed from the process of deciding who gets out on community custody. Some judges are already wary of the idea, expected to come to commissioners for a vote in a month.

Say it isn't so

You may not be a weekend drunk, but people who are have ruined your chance to stop in at the landmark Frontier Restaurant in the early-morning hours on the weekend. Starting this weekend, the popular, 35-year-old Central Avenue eatery will close from 1:30 to 4 a.m. Fridays through Sundays. "People are out after the bars close. Sometimes it looks like a bar in here," explained shift Manager Gabriela Fernandez. Frontier will remain open 24 hours a day Monday through Thursday.