Sandia National Laboratories

If you’ve heard repeatedly that New Mexico relies on government spending to prop up its economy, but like me wondered what that looks like exactly, here’s some data to fill in the picture.
According to the Consolidated Federal Funds Report for fiscal year 2008, New Mexico ranked 5th out of all the states in the amount [...]

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That was the sound that accompanied the collective slap against the forehead from the nation’s national security community when news came out Tuesday that a 266-page report laying out details of the nation’s network of nuclear sites and programs was accidentally released publicly.

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 a measure, reports ihe Albuquerque Journal.
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Hantavirus has taken the life of a 22-year-old Otero County woman. Meanwhile, a 36-year-old lawyer accused of killing a pedestrian in Santa Fe and then fleeing the scene initially told police he hadn’t been drinking.
In Albuquerque, a Sandia National Laboratories solar energy researcher is a finalist in Discover Magazine’s “The Future of Energy in 2 [...]