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2023 AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity April 15-22

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AFROMUNDO News:

2023 AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity is April 15-22 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

AfroMundo explores the complexities of Latinidad throughout this bilingual series of music, dance, films, literature, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more.

Featured regions include Honduras, Peru, Brazil and the United States.

All are welcome but registration is required: Register here.

Activities include:

  • 7:30 p.m. Sat. April 15: Concert, Garifuna in Songs, Outpost Performance Space
  • 3 p.m., Sun. April 16: Poetry Reading, From
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Accessing Library Materials More Convenient Than Ever

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Mesa Public Library announces a new outdoor locker system that makes it easier than ever for patrons to access library materials. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

The staff at Mesa Public Library has announced a new outdoor locker system that makes it easier than ever for patrons to access library materials.

The lockers are designed to allow patrons to pick up materials that they’ve placed on hold anytime, day or night. This 24/7 access means that patrons no longer have to go into the library during normal business hours to access books in print, audiobooks, DVDs, music CDs, and more; however, the old Read More

Mesa Public Library Presents An Evening With Santa Fe’s Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Thursday On Zoom

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Mesa Public Library presents Santa Fe’s 2021-2023 Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Feb. 23 for a livestream event. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

Mesa Public Library presents Santa Fe’s 2021-2023 Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington for a livestream event 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23.

This event is free to the public; however, registration is required. See below for more information.

In honor of Black History Month, Wellington will discuss the historical trajectory of Black poets from New Mexico and beyond and from the Civil War through Black Lives Matter. Learn how Black poets have Read More

New Mexico WWII Veteran And Voting Rights Advocate Miguel Trujillo Presented Posthumously American Democracy Award

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From left, New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way, Miguel H. Trujillo’s granddaughter Patricia Abeita and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Photo by Philip Smith

The 2022 Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award presented posthumously to Miguel H. Trujillo. Photo by Philip Smith

NASS News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Miguel H. Trujillo, the World War II veteran, educator and Isleta Pueblo tribal member has been posthumously presented the 2022 Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award for political courage for his work championing Native American voting rights. Read More

Posts From The Road: Exploring Bisbee Arizona

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Downtown Bisbee: A view of downtown Bisbee, Ariz. shows a town built during the mining boom days. Bisbee has become a vibrant tourist community and home to former miners, hippies, artists, retirees and others. The downtown area still boasts hotels more than 100 years old such as the Copper Queen Hotel seen on the left side of the photo. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Lyric: The former Lyric Theater has been repurposed as a real estate office and other shops. Most of the downtown buildings have been home to multiple types of businesses throughout the town’s history. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More

Morales: Give Support To Local School Board Members By Giving Them Opportunities To Learn

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By HOPE MORALES
Executive Director
Teach Plus New Mexico

We don’t know what we don’t know. Three years ago, I was elected to serve on Roswell school board and currently serve as board president. Because of my training and experience—I have been in education for more than 15 years as an educator and advocate—I bring expertise on student learning, understanding data, the need for quality teacher training, and alignment between the three. Yet, as a newly elected board member, I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

Elected school board members have very specific duties that they are required to do. One Read More

Ham: Making Law Abiding New Mexicans Into Felons Is Extremism & Unlikely To Change Gun Deaths In New Mexico

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Image depicting outcome if proposed laws to criminalize legal guns and magazines pass. At top is a Winchester Wildcat in 22lr with 10 rounds of 22lr ammunition. At bottom is a Glock style pistol with 9 rounds of 9mm ammunition. Courtesy/Ham

By MICHAEL HAM
Los Alamos

Under two proposed laws that would criminalize the possession of many currently legal guns and magazines, a Glock style semi-automatic pistol with 9 round magazines would remain legal.

As we have seen recently in California [1], adding more gun control laws results in vastly diminishing returns to public safety. My hope is after reading Read More

County To Host Public Open House On Managing Short-Term Rentals In Los Alamos Feb. 15 At White Rock Fire Station

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Community Development Department (CDD) will host the first public open house for community input to the Short-term Rental (STR) Program 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the White Rock Fire Station #3 (129 NM-4, White Rock).

The public is encouraged to attend a project presentation and Q&A session planned for 6:15-6:45 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

Short-term rentals, also known as vacation rentals, are now a mainstay in most communities and Los Alamos is no exception. The purpose of the Los Alamos STR program project is to define the market in the County, Read More

Benson: Gus, The Glow-In-The-Dark Gopher

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By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos 

Today demarcates the point in the calendar halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox.

In simpler times, (prior to anthropogenic green-house gases causing climate change with the resulting predictability of drought, fires, floods, and species extinction, but the rarely predictable weather) on this day—Groundhog Day—it would be up to the groundhog to partner with his shadow to determine the weather for the next six weeks.

Here in New Mexico, as many of you already know, we do not have groundhogs. Rather we have gophers. Bwazillions of gophers. Los Alamos’s Read More