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New Mexico Students Selected 2024 Daniels Scholars

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Daniels Fund President & CEO Hanna Skandera, right, with the 2024 Daniels Scholarship recipients. Courtesy/Daniels Fund

Daniels Fund News:

DENVER, Colo. — The Daniels Fund has announced its 2024 class of Daniels Scholarship Program recipients. Twenty three New Mexico high school seniors were selected as 2024 Daniels Scholars. They were among 209 students across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming accepted into the program.

Daniels Scholars may use their scholarship at any accredited nonprofit college or university anywhere in the United States. Daniels Scholars have their Read More

Heinrich, Luján Urge Senate Leadership To Act Immediately To Lower Prescription Drug Costs

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SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter to Senate leadership, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) urged Senate leadership for immediate action on reforming pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in an effort to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

“Immediate action is needed to address these harmful practices by PBMs. Americans deserve and expect protection from inflated prescription drug costs, forced pharmacy closures, formulary manipulation, and barriers to their pharmacy of choice that result from harmful PBM tactics. We cannot sit idly by while patients Read More

New Mexico’s Elections Ranked Number One In Nation

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New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

STATE News:

          • Prestigious Non-Partisan Ranking Measures Election Performance in Each State

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s elections have been ranked best in the nation by the prestigious Elections Performance Index (EPI), a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Election Data and Science Lab described as “a non-partisan, objective measure of U.S. election administration.”

The rankings, released late last week and based on the 2022 midterm elections, use a variety of performance indicators measuring aspects of election Read More

White House Investment Set To Make New Mexico A Vital Domestic Epicenter For Advanced Chip Manufacturing

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks to Intel New Mexico employees Jan. 24, 2024, at the company’s Rio Rancho campus. Attendees include, from left, Rio Rancho Mayor Greggory Hull, Sandoval County Commission Chairman David Heil, U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury. Courtesy/Intel Corp.

NMEDD News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has applauded the White House announcement that will make New Mexico a vital domestic epicenter for silicon chip manufacturing.

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel Read More

Interior Department Makes $55 Million Available To Clean Up Orphaned Oil And Gas Wells On Tribal Lands

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DOI News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior Friday announced final guidance for Tribal communities on how to apply for $55 million in grant funding and direct assistance available under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells across Indian Country.

Funding through the program may be utilized to plug, remediate or reclaim orphaned wells on Tribal lands, restore soil and habitat in degraded areas, decommission or remove associated infrastructure, identify and characterize additional undocumented wells on Tribal land, and set Read More

Heinrich Pushes For Action To Tackle Fentanyl Crisis

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) held a press conference with New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, first responders, law enforcement, and a New Mexico resident personally impacted by the fentanyl crisis to highlight the urgent need for action and discuss efforts happening at all levels of government to keep families safe and get deadly fentanyl out of our communities.   

Heinrich is leading comprehensive efforts to tackle the opioid epidemic and protect New Mexico communities from fentanyl. Most recently, as Read More

McDonough: Doing Something About State Of Education

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By Patrick McDonough
Chairman
Excellent Schools New Mexico

A dear friend of mine has a standard question for his friends complaining about the state of education in New Mexico. He asks, “what are you going to do about it?”

Well, my wife Nella Domenici and I are doing something about it.

We believe this is the social justice issue of our time – the lack of educational preparedness that is systemic in underserved, and often ignored communities. We know, based on results being achieved nationally in underserved communities, and at our Excellent Schools New Mexico (ESNM) partner schools, that this Read More

USA Today Names New Mexico State Land Office Among Top Workplaces In The Nation For 2024

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The New Mexico State Land Office team including Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, front row 3rd from left, celebrate as USA Today announces that their agency has been ranked 22nd nationally in its category of 150-499 employees and the #1 government agency in the top 100 organizations of its size. Courtesy/NMSLO

New Mexico State Land Office News:

SANTA FE — USA Today has announced that the New Mexico State Land Office has won a Top Workplaces USA award, ranking 22nd nationally among organizations with employees between 150-499.

More than 2,220 organizations participated in anonymous Read More

Congressional Delegation On $10M To Help Close Digital Divide, Expand Opportunity For Tribes In New Mexico

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Congressional News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), welcomed $10 million for multi-purpose facilities for Tribes under the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund (CPF).

This investment will fund New Mexico’s Tribal Library Broadband-Ready Facility Improvement Program, which will construct a new childcare center and expand six libraries and family resource centers to help ensure access to educational Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Is Developing Technology To Provide Fast, In-Field Actinide Measurements

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In-field alpha spectroscopy has great potential for nuclear emergency response. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new technology called the Non-destructive Alpha Spectrometer, or NDAlpha, which is the first field-deployable alpha spectrometer that is capable of “point and shoot” measurements of nuclear material or contaminated surfaces.

One of the key signatures of a nuclear accident is the release of alpha-emitting radionuclides such as plutonium.

“Alpha spectroscopy is exquisitely sensitive to these signatures, but normally Read More

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