Governor Orders Flags Half-Staff For Rep. Gloria Vaughn
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From the Office of the Governor:
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she would order state flags lowered half-staff in honor of long-serving former state Rep. Gloria Vaughn of Alamogordo, whose recent death was announced today on the floor of the state House.
Flags are ordered to half-staff beginning Friday through sundown Sunday, Feb. 28.
The governor issued the following statement:
“I was lucky enough to know Gloria and so many were lucky enough to serve with her at a time when partisanship did not get in the way of friendships and close working relationships. She Read More
New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart Issues Statement On Spring Assessments
Secretary Ryan Stewart
PED News:
SANTA FE – New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart issued the following statement today regarding spring assessments:
“The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) has not canceled spring end-of-year assessments. We have a request before the U.S. Department of Education (attached) to waive a requirement that 95 percent of New Mexico students participate in these assessments. Instead, we have asked to test a representative sample of students, which would provide us with the information educators, families and communities need to gauge Read More
New Mexico COVID-19 Update: 299 New Cases, Total Now 184,080 With 13 New Deaths And 139,593 Patients Recovered
Today’s update includes 13 more deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19.
The New Mexico Department of Health reports today’s most recent cases:
- 84 new cases in Bernalillo County
- 10 new cases in Chaves County
- 2 new cases in Cibola County
- 1 new
New Mexico Must Invest Now To Bridge The Digital Divide
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Economic Relief Subcommittee Chair
New Mexico Economic Recovery Council
Amid all the loss and sacrifice of the past year, we have all had to adjust to new ways of doing things.
Forced by the pandemic to remain apart physically, we have struggled to connect with each other through technology. In too many cases, we found our Internet service incapable of delivering the bandwidth needed for an entire family to function in a virtual environment.
The shortcomings became evident early on – business video conferences were dropped, medical services became inaccessible, and children Read More
Chart 348 COVID-19 In New Mexico Feb. 25, 2021
The bars in this chart display the seven-day average number of cases per 100,000 people, and the line shows the gating criterion under New Mexico’s ‘red to green’ framework. Los Alamos County (6.4 average daily cases per 100,000) and its three surrounding counties are highlighted. For the first time since the ‘red to green’ framework was implemented, Los Alamos County meets the gating criterion for average daily cases. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-NaimP-EBT Food Benefits Extended For 2020-21 School Year
NMPED News:
SANTA FE — New Mexico school children who qualify for free or reduced-price meals and who continue in the remote or hybrid learning model for the 2020-2021 school year will share more than $27 million in additional monthly benefits through the Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer program.
The new round of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is enough to feed more than 246,000 vulnerable New Mexico children each month.
In addition, New Mexico households with qualifying children will see an increase in their P-EBT benefits from $5.86 to $6.82 per child per day, the state Read More
LANL: A look Into Mysteries Of Proton Structure And Dynamics Of Antiquarks And Gluons
A new paper out in Nature describes unusual results from the E-906/SeaQuest experiment, showing that distributions of antiquarks are significantly different than expected, with more abundant ‘down’ type antimatter quarks than ‘up’ antimatter quarks. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Physics experiment explores antimatter asymmetry
A complex high-energy nuclear physics experiment, aiming to measure the contributions of antiquarks to the structure of the proton and neutron, has produced results that are the opposite of what had previously been understood about proton structure and the Read More
Legislative Roundup: 23 Days Left In 2021 Session
Legislative Roundup
SFNM
More money to help: A pandemic relief bill that would provide $600 tax rebates to New Mexicans who earn less than $15 an hour and a four-month gross receipts tax holiday to restaurants, bars and other food and beverage establishments sailed through the House of Representatives without discussion or debate Wednesday.
Senate Bill 1, which passed the Senate unanimously, will soon be heading to the desk of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has made economic recovery from the novel coronavirus pandemic one of her top legislative priorities.
Under the bill, food and beverage Read More
EndeavOR New Mexico Accomplishments And Milestones
This map shows statewide endeavOR membership distribution. Courtesy/endeavOR
endeavOR News:
Farmington — EndeavOR New Mexico, the state’s Outdoor Recreation (OR) business alliance, has announced that the nonprofit has reached key milestones and achieved major accomplishments since launching in August of 2020.
During the past six months, endeavOR has surpassed 115 members from around the state comprised of outdoor recreation businesses and organizations, chambers and economic development professionals, municipalities, tribes, state & federal agencies, students and Read More
Attorney General Hector Balderas Files Suit Against Manufacturers Of Antiretroviral HIV/AIDS Treatment Drugs
Attorney General Hector Balderas
From the Office of the Attorney General:
Santa Fe — Attorney General Balderas today filed a lawsuit in the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico against Gilead Sciences, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, LLC, and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., for violating the New Mexico Antitrust Act and New Mexico Unfair Practices Act.
The lawsuit stems from the development, marketing, and manufacturing of several antiretroviral medications used in the prevention and treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”) – a disease which, if left untreated, Read More
New Mexico [External Sources]
- Cooler and rainier weekend around New Mexico - KRQE News 13
- What’s happening around New Mexico April 19-25 - KRQE News 13
- James McGrath Morris brings New Mexico writers to the table - Santa Fe New Mexican
- UNM celebrates 2024 New Mexico Postdoctoral Research Symposium - UNM Newsroom
- New Mexico has $4.5 billion in state funding sitting untouched - KOB 4
- New Mexico Jewish communities concerned about threat of attacks during Passover - KOB 4
