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.
An internal U.S. Department of Energy investigation found that Los Alamos National Laboratory and its federal managers have repeatedly skirted nuclear safety rules at plutonium labs, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Mexican consul Gustavo de Unanue has accused city…
This morning Rep. Janice Arnold Jones, R-Albuquerque, a Department of Energy contractor, received a frantic phone call today from employees working for her at Kirtland Air Force Base after a shooting just off base at Emcore Corporation on Eubank Boulevard…
A 1978 report for Congress on the 1965 disappearance of more than 200 pounds of weapons-grade uranium from a nuclear plant in Apollo, Penn., has been declassified.
Investigators were unable to draw any firm conclusions because of stonewalling by…
The White House on Wednesday announced a major open government initiative that includes increased access to information from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The Department of Energy, which is heavily involved with Los Alamos National Labs and Sandia National Labs,…
New Mexico will be getting up to $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help build and run a New Mexico integrated biorefinery project near Columbus, New Mexico. The demonstration-scale facility “will cultivate algae in ponds…
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has released an internal U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) memo that was highly critical of Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) and even threatened to pull funding for the facility if it didn’t improve…
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will be making his first visit to New Mexico since becoming the head of the Department of Energy, according to John Fleck at the Albuquerque Journal.
Chu will visit the Los Alamos and…
Despite the fact that Inés R. Triay supported George W. Bush in 2004, Barack Obama chose her to stay on as assistant secretary for the Office of Environmental Management (OEM).
And AllGov gave a rundown on just who…
In a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Energy, New Mexico’s junior senator urged diversification as a way to grow the role of Los Alamos and Sandia national labs.
John Fleck at the Albuqeurque Journal’s blog noted an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that says that switching over control of national labs to the Department of Defense could have an adverse effect on the caliber…
U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich isn’t convinced about the proposed changeover of control of the national labs from the Department of Energy to the Department of Defense. In a statement, Heinrich worried about one word that is on every politician’s lips…
The Albuquerque Journal reported today that President Barack Obama and his administration are looking at turning control of the U.S. nuclear weapons design and manufacturing complex — including Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) and Sandia National Labs — over to…
