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AG: Record $54.251 Million Tobacco Settlement

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 1:47 pm

Attorney General Hector Balderas

STATE News:

Payment in excess of $54 million is the largest ever for New Mexico

SANTA FE – Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that Thursday New Mexico received the largest tobacco settlement payment to date, a total payment of $54,251,491.01.

In late March, the Balderas Administration announced there would be a record payment, in excess of $50 million, because the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) secured an additional $14.5 million after a judge agreed with the OAG that New Mexico was being shortchanged by Big Tobacco. The cigarette industry didn’t Read More

Quorum Notice Of Art In Public Places Board At Demonstration Garden Ribbon Cutting Wednesday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 1:35 pm

COUNTY News:

A notice of a possible quorum of the Art in Public Places Board at the Green Team Demonstration Garden Ribbon Cutting April 26 has been published and is available online at: http://losalamos.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Read More

Los Alamos Middle School Offers New Electives

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 1:02 pm

LAMS Principal Mike Johnson and LAMS Receptionist Debbie Castro greet students in the middle school office. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

More elective classes are being offered at Los Alamos Middle for the 2017-2018 school year than ever before, Principal Mike Johnson said Monday. He said incoming seventh and eighth graders are excited about classes in Astronomy, Introduction to Computer Science, Introduction to French and German, Jazz Band, and particularly Introduction to Forensics.

Two Introduction to Forensics classes will Read More

Update On Shoplifting Incident At Bealls

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 12:37 pm

Stephanie Garcia

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

A second suspect involved in a March 9 shoplifting incident, which ended with a local man being struck by a vehicle outside Bealls Department Store in the Mari-Mac Shopping Center is now in custody at the Los Alamos Detention Center.

LAPD Cdr. Preston Ballew confirmed Thursday, April 13, that Stephanie Garcia, 31, of Espanola, was picked up Tuesday night in Santa Fe.

The man injured in the incident sustained a broken nose. He told police he ran out the door of the store to attempt to get the license plate number of the vehicle, but because the Read More

Study Examines Mortality Burden Of Modifiable Behavioral Risk Factors

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 12:29 pm

SGIM News:

A team of researchers from Cleveland Clinic and New York University School of Medicine have found that based on 2014 data, obesity resulted in as much as 47 percent more life-years lost than tobacco, and tobacco caused similar life-years lost as high blood pressure.

Preliminary work presented by Cleveland Clinic today at the 2017 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting analyzed the contribution of modifiable behavioral risk factors to causes-of-death in the US population.

Based on this preliminary work, the team found the greatest

Letter To The Editor: Two Important Letters

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 12:27 pm

J. TAUB

Los Alamos

Kudos to two important letters in the Los Alamos Daily Post regarding Rally For Science and This Could Happen To You.

Origins of a particular quote seem vague but the words are crystal clear: “All it takes for the triumph of evil is that good ‘men’ do nothing.”

I’m not surprised about the lack of a science rally or march in Los Alamos, just very disappointed in lab personnel, again. And the abuse of our new, alleged, immigration ‘policy’ is also not surprising given those now in power who are afraid of their own shadows and anyone

Adrian Taylor Pleads Not Guilty To Violation Of Conditions Of Pretrial Probation

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 12:23 pm

Adrian Taylor leaving the First Judicial District Court Friday in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Adrian Taylor pleaded not guilty Friday, April 14, to violation of conditions of pretrial probation before First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommers in Santa Fe and was returned to the Los Alamos Detention Center.

Taylor’s alleged violation stems from a March 25 arrest in which he was charged with a fourth offense driving under the influence in Los Alamos. His conditional release was on a District Court case that combined Read More

Andy Bond Discusses Avalanches With Mountaineers

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 12:15 pm

Andy Bond investigates an early season snow pack with lots of facets. Courtesy photo

Andy Bond at work. Courtesy photo

MOUNTAINEERS News:

Join the Los Alamos Mountaineers Tuesday, April 25 at the Los Alamos Nature Center for a presentation by Andy Bond of the Taos Avalanche Center.

Social time is at 6:45 p.m. and reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7 p.m. The program begins at 7:30 p.m.

Bond and Graham Turnage founded the Taos Avalanche Center in 2016 as an independent nonprofit. Located in an area that has significant avalanche prone terrain, the Center seeks to inform skiers of current Read More

Deputy DA Files Response In Scott Mallory Case

Submitted by Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin) on April 21, 2017 - 12:09 pm

Scott Mallory of Los Alamos, right, leaves the courtroom April 3 with Assistant District Attorney Kent Wahlquist following his pre-trial status hearing in District Court in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Deputy District Attorney Kent Wahlquist has filed a response in First Judicial District Court to an attempt to suppress a charge of sexual exploitation of children – possession charge against Scott Mallory.

Mallory’s attorney Christopher C. Marlowe filed an intent to invoke spousal privilege April 3. Mallory’s affidavit said Read More

Los Alamos Physician Provides Aid In Mosul

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:53 am

From left, Paramedic Derrik Ross from Melbourne, Australia; LAMC Physician Dr. Christopher Hammond, Los Alamos Paramedic Tylerr Jones and a first responder. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos Medical Center Physician Christopher Hammond works with bullets slicing through the air and bombs exploding all around him. As a member of Global Outreach Doctors, Hammond is serving a three-week deployment in Iraq that includes two weeks in Mosul, a city engulfed in the war between ISIS and Iraqi forces.

He is joined by Tylerr Jones, a RN/EMT from White Rock. The Read More

SFNF Fire Crews Meet Objectives On Watershed Prescribed Burn

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:42 am

SFNF News:

SANTA FE ― Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) said that the prescribed burn implemented one week ago in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed successfully met objectives, removing heavy fuels to reduce the risk of high-intensity wildfire and restore the landscape to historic conditions.

Although aerial and hand ignitions were completed April 11, the 340-acre treatment area still has a few interior pockets of fuel that are smoldering, which may create visible smoke in the Santa Fe metro area. Fire crews are monitoring the treatment

AFTNM On Student Well-Being PISA Results

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:40 am

AFT News:

ALBUQUERQUE ― American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly released the following statement on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2015 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) student well-being results released today:

“Today’s PISA report highlights another troubling statistic for the United States: our students are stressed out, with nearly 68 percent reporting anxiety related to testing, a full 13 percent higher than other international peers. We must treat today’s report with the

Just One Thing To Do This Week: Build Sandcastles

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:37 am

By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos

Lately I feel like I am running out of time. I have always felt there just wasn’t enough time on a day-to-day basis, but now I feel like I am running out of time in the BIG picture. As I look at the list of things I want to accomplish in my life and I compare it to the number of years I may (or may not) have left, I realize that I kinda gotta get it together pretty quickly. This has been weighing on me quite heavily. I don’t have that sense of impending doom that I usually experience before my birthday, but it is close.

When one comes to a crossroad such as this you can ruminate on it and Read More

SFCC Partners With Seattle Film Institute On Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:31 am

SFCC News:

SANTA FE ― Santa Fe Community College announces it is partnering with the Seattle Film Institute to offer an accelerated Bachelor of Arts in Film degree through the Santa Fe Higher Education Center, 1950 Siringo Road.

Students can choose concentrations in Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Motion Graphics & Visual FX, or Sound Design and Recording Arts. The collaboration will help meet the demands of the state’s growing film industry by helping students obtain a bachelor’s degree in three years.

Also, for those seeking a graduate degree,

Why Can We See And Hear Meteors At The Same Time?

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:28 am

A new study explains why we can hear meteors at the same time as we see them. Courtesy photo

By LAUREN LIPUMA

AGU Blogosphere

Light travels nearly a million times faster than sound. But for thousands of years, humans have reported hearing some meteors as they pass overhead, puzzling scientists for decades.

Now, a new study puts forth a simple explanation for the phenomenon: the sound waves aren’t coming from the meteor itself. Instead, radio waves created by the meteor convert to sound waves when they strike metal structures on Earth.

Edmund Halley – namesake of the

FBI: Albuquerque Man Faces 25 Years To Life On Federal Bank Robbery Charges Under ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Initiative

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:22 am

FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE ― A U.S. Magistrate Judge in Albuquerque April 19 found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Isaac Joseph Dodge, 41, of Albuquerque, with armed bank robbery offenses.

During the proceedings, Dodge waived his right to a detention hearing and was ordered to remain in custody pending trial.

Dodge was arrested April 13, 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with committing two armed bank robberies in Bernalillo County. The complaint alleges that Dodge robbed the BBVA Compass Bank March 7, 2017 at 1201 San Pedro Drive

World Futures: INFORMATION – What And How Do We Teach People?

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:15 am

World Futures: What Do We Need?

By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

It was not that long ago that we went to school to learn the three R’s – Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. These skills served the student well as the foundation for learning other skills, communicating, and doing basic mathematical calculations of everyday life. Today reading is often supplanted by video, writing has given way to keyboarding, and mathematics has become a smart phone application.

Video increases the speed of information transmission, keyboarding increases speed of composition, and Read More

Golf Course Improvements Long Overdue

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:10 am

Los Alamos Golf Course Manager Sam Logan, left, and Head Golf Pro Donnie Torres. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Improvements to the Los Alamos Golf Course are long overdue. The last major capital improvements to the course occurred in 1970 and its irrigation system is 30 years old.

If passed, the $20 million recreation bond would provide an estimated $4.5 million to fix up the golf course. The proposed project would install a new irrigation system, aerate tees and fairways, improve greens and drainage, fix T-boxes and perform some bunker restoration. Read More

Welcome To The Woods

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:08 am

WICCAN News:

Ever wondered what real witches do on the night of the full moon? Or what the Pentagram really means? Or what a Wiccan ritual is like — or wanted to see one? Join the Coven of Our Lady of the Woods for three fun and informative evenings where they will explore these questions and much more.

The group meets the second Wednesday of May, June and July to share information and skills about the modern practice of witchcraft. They gather at 6:30 p.m. and the program begins at 7 p.m. at the Los Alamos Unitarian Church, 1738 North Sage St. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks to share. Read More

Los Alamos Ranks #8 Best Place To Live In America

Submitted by Chris Clark on April 21, 2017 - 11:07 am

NICHE News:

Niche just released its new 2017 Best Places to Live rankings. Out of more than 15,000 towns and neighborhoods in the US, Los Alamos is the #8 best place to live in America.

These new rankings explore 228 cities and over 15,000 towns and neighborhoods to find the best places to live in the U.S. based on crime, public schools, cost of living, job opportunities, and local amenities. Data used in this ranking was pulled directly from the U.S. Census, FBI, BLS and CDC, as well as millions of reviews from residents.

Here’s a first look at the 2017 Best Places