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 newly-released Sandia National Labs study analyzing projected rainfall patterns across the U.S. suggests that most — but not all — of the lower 48 states would suffer economically from unchecked climate change over the next four decades.…
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…
Los Alamos National Labs would get a seven percent decrease in their budget and Sandia Labs would get a slight increase in the proposed Barack Obama budget, according to John Fleck at the Albuquerque Journal.
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…
There are literally thousands of April Fool’s Day hoaxes around the Internet today. It would feel Grinch-ish (if that is the right term) to out any of these so early in the day, so I won’t do that.
But I…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
Steven Chu, who will oversee the labs at Los Alamos and Sandia as energy secretary, got his first taste of Washington Tuesday.
And by all reports it was a friendly affair.
Chu appeared Tuesday before Sen. Jeff Bingaman‘s committee,…
