By Marisa Demarco

— Want to know all about local government but don’t want to spend a couple of hours digging through our archives? Tune in to our new podcast “Local Government Matters.”

Compass editors sat around Carolyn Carlson’s kitchen table a couple evenings ago and talked about the major issues this year for the City Council and Bernalillo County Commission. In the background are Carlson’s finches, providing a real live twitter feed. (If you haven’t yet, follow us on nonfinch Twitter, @nmcompass.)

Carlson is our City Council reporter. I cover the Bernalillo County Commission. Compass Managing Editor Margaret Wright led the discussion.

The intro and outro music is public domain, source: Brian Boyko. Passionate music lover that I am, it’ll change every week.