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.
Congressman Ben Ray Luján presented his first bill on the House floor yesterday, HR 2729.
A vote on the bill is expected on the House floor later this week.
U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-Albuquerque, spoke on the House floor today in favor of an amendment to an energy and water appropriations bill which would increase funding for research. Specifically, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funding would rise from…
Congressman Ben Ray Lujan will have his first piece of legislation heard on the floor of the House this afternoon. The bill (HR 2729) would authorize funding for seven already-existing National Environmental Research Parks (NERPs), including one…
Los Alamos National Lab has retained its spot atop the list of the TOP500 supercomputer sites. The Roadrunner supercomputer was completed a year ago, in June of 2008, and has held the top slot in the bi-yearly rankings since…
Congressman Ben Ray Luján announced today that he introduced legislation designed to encourage environmental research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
