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.
A 6-year old boy faces traffic court after refusing to wear his seat belt.
David Peet has caused his mother two traffic tickets because he refuses to wear a seat belt despite mom’s efforts to the contrary. As a…
John Fleck, the Albuquerque Journal’s science/water/all-around-smart reporter, makes some trenchant observations and asks insightful questions in a post today about Los Alamos’ old plutonium lab.
U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., announced in a press release today that $172 million in stimulus money will be spent at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, known as WIPP, in southern New Mexico near Carlsbad.
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.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is undergoing a month-long security review in the wake of reports that 69 computers are currently missing from the facility.
Border violence on the rise — in Albuquerque? Apparently so. KRQE reports that men allegedly affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel followed hired drug-runners Danny Baca and Joseph Laycock into Albuquerque after the two men fled with the cartel’s drugs.…
Talking Points Memo has received a classified document which shows the amount of money in the stimulus bill after coming out of conference as compared to the House and Senate versions.
And on the second page of the document,…
According to The Associated Press, there are 69 computers missing from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The missing computers came to light after the Project on Government Oversight obtained a Department of Energy memo from Feb. 3.
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…
A small cadre of moderate senators— Democrats and Republicans — gathered last week to cut tens of billions of dollars of spending from the original Senate stimulus bill. The $350 billion in tax cuts were, however, kept intact. A big…
Corn-based ethanol made in coal-fired plants is becoming more popular, and more criticized. New Mexico’s alternative-energy researchers stand to learn a lesson the fast-deflating ethanol bubble.
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 feds are looking to transfer New Mexico’s national labs from the Department of Energy to the Pentagon, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Criticism mounted Wednesday against the plan as New Mexico’s congressional delegation vowed to fight such…
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…
About 1,890 employees and visitors to Los Alamos National Laboratory could have been exposed to beryllium contamination at a storage facility in Los Alamos Canyon, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Meanwhile, superintendent Winston Brooks has ordered 5 percent…
In many ways, New Mexico’s three new Democratic members of Congress are like pimply-faced ninth graders trying to make their way in a new school full of older, cooler kids. So are Harry Teague, Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich going to play varsity ball and date junior girls? Or will they be relegated to intramural badminton, the chess club, an empty table in the lunchroom?
The US House will vote on President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan today. The plan contains “$700 million for New Mexico,” the Albuquerque Journal reports.
The Las Cruces County Commissioners have expressed unanimous support for a domestic partnership bill being heard at the Roundhouse today, says the Las Cruces Sun-News.
One man in Alamogordo is terrified that prisoners from Guantanamo Bay may be transferred to an Otero County immigrant detention center when Gitmo closes, according to the Alamogordo News.
The $2.7 billion fence along the border between the US and Mexico is only 69 miles from completion, but it is possible the Obama administration may halt the progress of the controversial fence, the AP reports.
“Proposed legislative cuts target ethnic programs,” says a story in today’s Daily Lobo.
The US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has given New Mexico $3.8 million to clean up abandoned coal mines near Lordsburg, T or C, Grants and Soccoro.
Some of my progressive brethren have been giving President-elect Obama the dickens for weeks now. But I have a short list of Obama indicators that I believe will give me some sense of how that rebirth is really going, and if he does well on all of these fronts, that will indicate to me he’s moving in the right direction, no matter what the prevailing opinion might be.
A new book says that Soviets stole the secrets of the hydrogen bomb from Los Alamos National Labs.
The New York Times reported on “The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation,” by Thomas C.…
A 10-year-old Texas girl died Tuesday at Ski Santa Fe when she hit a tree, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal has a very interesting story about authors of a forthcoming book…
