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AG Balderas Urges Congress To Preserve New Mexico’s Authority To Enforce Data Breach & Data Security Laws

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas
 
AG News:
 
SANTA FE  Attorney General Hector Balderas Monday joined a coalition of 31 states and the District of Columbia urging Congress not to preempt state data breach and data security laws, including laws that require notice to consumers and state attorneys general of data breaches.
 
Attorney General Balderas is currently investigating the Equifax data breach and has previously settled with Nationwide and Target for their breaches impacting New Mexicans. In their letter, the attorneys general argue that
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Hopkins: Christine Chandler Superbly Qualified For Dist. 43 House Seat

By JOHN C. HOPKINS
Los Alamos

I urge all Democrats in District 43 to vote for Christine Chandler in the June 5 primary. She is superbly qualified through temperament, knowledge and experience.

I have known Christine almost from her first day at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1986. At that time, I was a lab associate director responsible for the nuclear weapons program. Christine and I worked together on numerous issues and problems facing the lab.

She was always professional in the face of serious challenges. I remember one case early in her career when she was selected by the legal office

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Los Alamos Police Blotter: March 16 To March 18, 2018

LAPD News:

The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges against them.

CAMERON PAUL OTERO: March 16 at 8:45 p.m. / Police arrested Cameron Paul Otero, 27, of Farmington at 83 Chiquita on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.

 

 

 

GREGORY CAYTON: March 17 at 6:14 p.m. / Police arrested Gregory Clayton, 37, of Los Alamos on Beryl and charged him with aggravated battery.

 

 

 

TYLER JAMES SPARKS: March 17 at 11:04 p.m. / Police

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CAB Hears From EM Management And Contractor

Members of the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board listen to presentations at their March 14 meeting at UNM-Los Alamos. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

EM Los Alamos Field Office Manager Doug Hintze and NMED Manager for LANL Permitting Neelam Dhawan chat following the March 14 CAB meeting at UNM-LA. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL

Los Alamos Daily Post

maire@ladailypost.com

 

Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board members meeting March 14 in Los Alamos heard updates from Doug Hintze, manager of the Environmental Read More

Air Force And NMED Host Public Information Meeting Thursday, Open House Saturday

KIRTLAND AFB News:

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – The Air Force and the New Mexico Environment Department will co-host a public information meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday at the African American Performing Arts Center, to provide an update about the Kirtland Air Force Base Bulk Fuels Facility leak cleanup activities.

Additionally, an open house will be held at the groundwater treatment system facility 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday.

Community members are invited to participate in a poster session 5:30-6 p.m., March 22. The main meeting presentation runs 6-8 p.m,. and includes a project status update Read More

Obituary: Harry Williams March 18, 2018

HARRY WILLIAMS March 18, 2018

Harry Williams, 97, of Los Alamos, NM, passed away peacefully on March 18, 2018.

Harry worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 27 years as a maintenance engineer. He enjoyed fishing and restoring old cars.

He is survived by his loving wife Linda, step-daughters, Yvonne (Steve) McKelvey and Yolanda Frazier and his children Connie (Henry) Sanchez; Lee, Bud, and Renee Williams.

Harry lived a very full life and will be missed by all who knew him. Read More

NM Delegation Calls On U.S. Navy To Designate Next Nuclear Sub ‘USS Los Alamos’ Upon 75th Anniversary

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer in support of naming the Navy’s next Virginia class fast attack submarine the “USS Los Alamos” in recognition of the contributions the residents of Los Alamos have made to the United States Navy.

“The effort to honor the national laboratory responsible for the beginning of the nuclear age is a citizen-based initiative, and we hope their Read More

Scenes From 2018 Annual Family YMCA Red & Black & Green Ball Saturday Night – Part 1

The Chairman’s Round Table members are honored at the annual Red and Black (and Green) Ball Saturday night at Buffalo Thunder Resort, from left, TRK Management Co-owner Roger Waterman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Terry Wallace, Espanola YMCA Teen Center Director Ben Sandoval accepting for Ross and Marlene Sanchez of Cross Connection, Centerra Los Alamos General Manager Ted Spain, Los Alamos Daily Post Owner/Publisher Carol A. Clark, Los Alamos Medical Center CEO John Whiteside and Los Alamos National Bank President/CEO John Gulas. This year’s charitable event Read More

Pearce Leads Subcommittee Hearing On Transnational Criminal Organization

U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce
 
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce will lead the Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee hearing entitled “Exploring the Financial Nexus of Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime” at 2 p.m. EST March 20, in 2128 of the Rayburn House Office Building. 
 
This hearing will explore how transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are financed, as well as the intersection between criminal groups and other illicit activity like terrorism and political corruption.
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Adam Baker Solo Exhibition At Karen Wray Gallery

Adam Baker
 
ART News:
 
Like most of Adam Baker’s paintings, it all started with a gunfight.
 
Baker, a painter who commonly depicts Western themes and is active in the reenactment scene in New Mexico, dreamed he was racing across the desert with a friend. They were reenacting a gunfight scene on horseback, giving chase across a dusty landscape. Guns were blazing and it was a chase reminiscent of any cowboy movie.
 
There was just one problem: Their horses were metal. They were also coin-operated.
 
“I woke up laughing.” Baker explains. “I thought, ‘I have to paint that.’”
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School Safety By Students For Students!

Maksym (goes by Maks) Gerashchenko’s turn to read a student bio. Courtesy/LAPS
 
By Dr. KURT STEINHAUS
Superintendent
Los Alamos Public Schools
  • To honor and remember the victims of school violence  … To identify actions for students to be safer at school

On Monday March 12, 2018 at the Topper Parent Advisory Council, high school staff and I were fortunate to hear from two student leadership representatives about their plans for the walk out.

They expressed that this was planned and organized by local students for students. It was an opportunity to honor the victims of the Parkland Read More

Letter To The Editor: Put Sights On Whatever May Add To Mass Shootings

By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos
 
School kids of the nation seem intent on pursuing varied means of giving enough visibility to school shootings to achieve useful changes in the problem.
 
Any major discussion of mass shootings eventually gets around to the growing “culture of violence” — the gun-filled movies and video games. School kids could further heighten visibility with protests in Hollywood against the epidemic of violent movies and in Silicon Valley against gun-filled video games.
 
I don’t know whether this added visibility and the data would
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Spring Training In Los Alamos Means Learning The Community’s History

By HEATHER MCCLENAHAN
Los Alamos Historical Society
 
In Florida or Arizona, this season brings the crack of bats and the cheers of fans at baseball spring training games.
 
Spring training in Los Alamos has its own meaning—time for new volunteers to learn about Los Alamos history.
 
The Los Alamos Historical Society will host training sessions each Tuesday in April from 4:30–5:30 p.m. The classes will meet in the lobby of Fuller Lodge and then work their way around different areas of the museum campus and galleries.
 
The training is free and open to the public. Registration
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Public Comment Needed On Proposed New Way Waste Is Measured At WIPP

CCNS News:
 

The Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractor, Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), submitted a Class 2 Permit Modification Request Jan. 31, 2018 to change the way that waste is measured at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the repository for defense plutonium-contaminated or TRU waste, in southeastern New Mexico.

 
Public comments can be submitted to the New Mexico Environment Department until Tuesday, April 3. https:////www.wipp.energy.gov/rcra-com-menu.asp 

Because the federal WIPP Land Withdrawal Act limits the amount

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Convicted Spy Pedro Mascheroni Released From Prison

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni during an interview on the deck of his Barranca Mesa home in October 2010 just prior to his arrest by the FBI. Photo by Carol A. Clark

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

A scientist formerly employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory was released from federal prison March 16 after serving a sentence for communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person he believed was an official of the Venezuelan government.

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 82, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, was sentenced in 2013 in U.S. District Court Read More

Film Office Announces ‘Untitled Roswell Project’ Pilot To Begin Production In New Mexico

NMFO News:
 
SANTA FE  New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced today that the “Untitled Roswell Project,” a new pilot for Warner Bros. Television / Palladin Productions LLC, will begin principal photography in mid March through the end of March in Albuquerque.
 
“We’re excited to welcome another production highlighting New Mexico’s unique history,” Film office Director Nick Maniatis said. “With strong tools, infrastructure, as well as unique stories and landscapes, New Mexico is a perfect location for
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Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Elects New Chair And Treasurer

Regional Coalition of LANL Communities board members convening Friday in Espanola, from left, Councilor Darien Fernandez, Town of Taos; Councilor Peter Ives, City of Santa Fe; Commissioner Barney Trujillo, Rio Arriba County; Council Vice Chair Christine Chandler, County of Los Alamos and Commissioner Henry Roybal, County of Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
 
County officials at Friday’s RCLC meeting, from left, Los Alamos County Deputy Manager Steve Lynne, Los Alamos County Manager Harry Burgess and Santa Fe County Attorney Bruce Frederick. Photo
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FBI: Federal Grand Jury Charges Espanola Man With Federal Child Sexual Abuse Offenses

FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE  A federal grand jury has filed an indictment charging Kevin Vigil, 52, a non-Indian man from Espanola, with child sexual abuse offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Special Agent in Charge William McClure of District IV of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
 
The indictment charges Vigil with two counts of aggravated child sexual abuse. The indictment alleges that Vigil sexually abused an Indian child under the age of twelve years Feb. 4, 2018,
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