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Watch NASA TV Live

Submitted by CSTadmin on August 5, 2012

Live NASA Television coverage of the Curiosity Rover Mars Mission. Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars at 11:31PM MST.:
Watch the landing coverage at the Bradbury Science Museum in downtown Los Alamos. Click here for details. Read More

Valles Caldera Workshop and Campout, Aug. 17-19

Submitted by Press Release-DailyPost on August 4, 2012

Courtesy/LADVC

Los Amigo de Valles Caldera News:

The final of three workshops planned on the tributaries of San Antonio Creek this summer is on the Santa Rosa Creek Aug. 17-19.

Santa Rosa Creek ia a major tributary to San Antonio Creek and is being severely impacted by increased runoff from adjacent slopes burned by the Las Conchas Fire.

During a July workshop, Los Amigo de Valles Caldera members and volunteers completed an array of 26 stone structures that were severely tested in a flood that Saturday evening. The structures came through in flying colors.

Los Amigos is again Read More

New Mexico Municipal League Chief Appears Sunday on Report From Santa Fe

Submitted by Press Release-DailyPost on August 3, 2012

Executive Director Bill Fulginiti of the New Mexico Municipal League with host Lorene Mills of Report From Santa Fe. Courtesy Photo

This week’s guest on Report From Santa Fe is Bill Fulginiti, Executive Director of the New Mexico Municipal League. Fulginiti serves as the Vice Chair of the New Mexico Finance Authority and the Water Trust Board.

Recipient of the Governor’s Distinguished Public Service Award and the New Mexico Distinguished Public Administration Award, Fulginiti’s public service experience also extends nationally with his two terms on the Board of the powerful Read More

Unconventional Natural Gas Supplies Subject of Wednesday “Focus On” Meeting

Submitted by Press Release-DailyPost on August 1, 2012

Doug Howe, PRC Commissioner for District 3, will hold a “Focus On” meeting to discuss the new found attention on unconventional natural gas supplies – what we know, what we don’t know. The meeting will be 30 minutes of remarks by the commissioner, followed by open Q&A.

The meeting is 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Mesa Public Library (upstairs meeting rooms 1 & 2.)

The meeting is open to the public. To make suggestions for a future “Focus On …” meeting, send information to charlotte.duran1@state.nm.us or contact the office of Commissioner Douglas J. Howe at 505-827-4533

Los Alamos County Councilor Apologizes for Behavior During Trip to Russia

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 31, 2012

By Carol A. Clark

Los Alamos County Council Vice Chair Ron Selvage apologized today for an indiscretion he had with a woman while on an official visit to Moscow and Sarov last September.

“I did make a mistake on the Russian trip and it’s something that I regret and that I’m going to be paying for,” Selvage said this morning. “My wife and I are working through this and we would appreciate some privacy during this difficult time.”

The mistake Selvage is referring to is an inappropriate relationship he had with Nora Arbuckle, a member of the Sister Cities Initiative

Nearly 8,000 in Rural N.M. Getting High-Speed Internet Access

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 31, 2012

WASHINGTON – U.S. . Udall, D-N.M. has announced that nearly 8,000 rural New Mexico residents will gain high-speed internet access within the next three years.

This is part of the first phase of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “Connect America Fund.”

Udall is a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees telecommunications issues.

Broadband and telecommunications companies CenturyLink and Windstream will receive $2.3 million to build broadband infrastructure for New Mexico homes and businesses that currently lack high-speed internet

Medicaid, New Mexico, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 30, 2012

Column by Rep. Jim Hall

House District 43

This is the second — somewhat delayed — column on Medicaid. This column discusses Medicaid’s future in New Mexico.

The June 28 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) decision by the Supreme Court makes the Medicaid issue even more timely and important.

Let’s start with a review of Medicaid’s importance and its basic structure. Medicaid matters for two major reasons.

First, it provides about 560,000 New Mexicans with health coverage. Second, health care is the fastest growing part of New Mexico’s budget and Medicaid funding Read More

Udall Advocates Constitutional Amendment to Rein in Flood of Secret Money

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 30, 2012

U.S. Sen. Tom Udall speaking at a congressional hearing Tuesday. Courtesy photo

Washington, D.C. – At a committee hearing on Capitol Hill last week, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. built support for the constitutional amendment he is sponsoring to give Congress the authority to undo dangerous Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United and rein in the unprecedented flood of secret money in the campaign finance system.

“Money has poisoned our political system,” Udall said. “We, as Americans, believe in government ‘of the people, by the people, for the

FBI Seeks Identity of Woman Found Dead in Shiprock

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 30, 2012

FBI News:

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying an adult female whose body was found in an irrigation canal in the Paradise area of northern Shiprock in New Mexico.

The body was discovered at approximately 8 a.m. Sunday, July 22.

The woman is believed to have been Native American, approximately 25 to 40 years old. She was about 5’3” to 5’6” tall and weighed approximately 150 to 170 pounds.

She was wearing a yellow T-shirt, blue denim shorts, and Nike running shoes. Her hair was braided.

The cause of death is not being released at this Read More

Udall, Bingaman & Luján Announce Federal Assistance for Santa Clara Pueblo

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 29, 2012

Sen. Tom Udall, right, tours the Santa Clara Pueblo burn area one year after the Las Conchas Fire. Courtesy photo

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced Friday that more than $11 million in federal assistance relief is being made available for Santa Clara Pueblo following recent flooding in the area.

On July 13, the New Mexico officials wrote a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, FEMA Administrator William Fugate and Assistant Secretary of the Army Jo Ellen Darcy, asking that federal funding dedicated for flood mitigation

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