I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Los Alamos National Labs would get a seven percent decrease in their budget and Sandia Labs would get a slight increase in the proposed Barack Obama budget, according to John Fleck at the Albuquerque Journal.
The big cut at Los Alamos, it seems, would be the Neutron Science Center, where $19 million could be cut. “Other cuts at Los Alamos are spread across various parts of the nuclear weapons program,” Fleck wrote.
Meanwhile, at Sandia there would be cuts in nuclear weapons, but Sandia Labs “would see offsetting increases in other areas, including renewable energy.”
Total Energy Department spending in New Mexico would drop from $4.27 billion this year to $4 billion in fiscal year 2010. The budget now goes before Congress. The fiscal year beings Oct. 1.
There was some good news on the LANL front yesterday, however, according to Fleck. A congressional panel backed Los Alamos over the Oak Ridge, Tennessee facility if one had to be chosen over the other.
[O] an issue that has been an enormous question mark in New Mexico, the group said replacement of the aging CMR complex at Los Alamos, where plutonium research has been done since the early 1950s, should be the top priority if there is not enough money to build both it and a major uranium complex at Oak Ridge.
The suggestion came from the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.
