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Imagining Steve Pearce, Tom Udall as senators

Steve Pearce combines a laconic cowboy’s persona with a penchant for brash rhetoric to support his conservative outlook. Tom Udall has skillfully climbed the committee ladder in Congress to carry on his family’s conservationist legacy. Their backgrounds and their styles may just reveal something of how each man might operate in Congress’ more exclusive chamber — the U.S. Senate.

Romney describes Udall as too liberal in Santa Fe

Mitt Romney, no stranger to being a Republican in Democrat-heavy territory, visited Santa Fe to campaign on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Steve Pearce.
The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate joined Pearce at Garcia’s Tire Shop and spoke to a small crowd of Pearce supporters.
“You have to think carefully about who your senators are,” [...]

C. de Baca says he has resigned (updated)

Fernando C. de Baca says he resigned this morning from the position of chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican Party, but maintains the comments that ultimately forced him out were taken out of context.

N.M. labs lauded in Business Week

New Mexico’s two national laboratories are lauded as "national treasures" in an article in Business Week this month.
Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory are the focus of a piece that has private industry executives praising the labs as essential partners in coming up with new product technology, including "green" technology.
Proctor and Gamble president [...]

Nuke power poised for explosive growth

ALBUQUERQUE — Energy has exploded onto center stage as one of the key issues of Campaign ‘08, driven there by skyrocketing fuel prices and concerns about global climate change.
 
The issue has forced some candidates into uncomfortable positions — Democrats supporting offshore drilling, for example, and Republicans embracing higher mileage standards from automakers or subsidies for [...]

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Secrecy lifted on Sandia’s anthrax scientists

Since February 2002, scientists at Sandia Laboratories have worked in secrecy to determine if anthrax that killed five people in the autumn of 2001 came from a terrorist group or foreign state. Now that the FBI has decided anthrax researcher Bruce Ivins — who committed suicide July 29 — was responsible, it has given those [...]

Biofuels get a boost

Principals from the New Mexico Biodiesel Policy Summit held in March have taken that groundbreaking summit a step further, forming the Southwestern Biofuels Association to promote and guide policy in use of this "green" source of energy.
Those who attended the summit received letters earlier this month about the formation of the association, which includes members [...]

Hydrogen tour comes to Albuquerque

Eleven hydrogen-powered vehicles from major automakers like BMW, GM, Honda and Toyota will be available for public view — and some for short test drives — from 2 to 4 p.m. today at the Sandia Science & Technology Park.
 
According to Sandia National Labs, several of the hydrogen-fueled cars will be displayed in the parking lot [...]

Keeping tabs on TB

ALBUQUERQUE — Dr. Gary Simpson, a self-described “infectious disease guy,” says the recent disclosure that a government lab scientist might have been the source of deadly anthrax mailings post-9/11 brought to the forefront the need for national archives of infectious diseases, both bacterial and viral.
 
“It’s just beyond me, to be honest [that it took six [...]

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Creepy crawlers and a massive sink hole

We’re not making this up, but some of the news from around the state sounds like something out of the National Enquirer.
Streets in affected neighborhoods around Las Cruces are being painted greenish yellow as vehicles squish thousands of crawling caterpillars, reports the Las Cruces Sun News, which posted graphic pictures and an up-close-and-personal YouTube video [...]