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IRS Guidance On How To Claim Wrongful-Incarceration Exclusion

IRS News:
 
PHOENIX  The Internal Revenue Service recently released guidelines on how wrongfully-incarcerated taxpayers can take advantage of the new retroactive exclusion from income for any civil damages, restitution or other monetary award received in connection with their incarceration.
 
The guidelines are contained in a set of frequently-asked questions, posted to IRS.gov. According to the FAQs, taxpayers who in the past received payments related to their wrongful incarceration and included those payments in taxable income can now file a refund claim
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Heinrich To Unveil Legislation To Prohibit Exporting Sacred Native American Items

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) is unveiling the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act this week at events in Albuquerque and Washington, D.C.
 
Tuesday at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, Heinrich was joined by tribal leaders to discuss the details of the STOP Act and highlight the urgent need to stop the theft and sale of priceless Native religious and cultural items in international markets.
 
Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian
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Albuquerque Franchise Reaps National Accolades

BUSINESS News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE – Brian Bailey has come a long way since beginning his career as a delivery driver in 1985. The local business owner of 47 Domino’s stores throughout New Mexico and Colorado was awarded the esteemed International Franchise Association Gold Franny Award for operational excellence. This is Bailey’s 11th Gold Franny Award.
 
Bailey purchased his first Domino’s store in 1988 and has continued to grow his business and connect with the communities where his stores are located. He and his wife Michelle have 11 children and 12 grandchildren and are very active
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EM, Industry Managers Across DOE Complex Participate In National Cleanup Workshop

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Managers from EM field offices and cleanup contractors across the DOE cleanup program are set to take part in the 2016 National Cleanup Workshop, scheduled to be held Sept. 14-15 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Va.
 
Planned participants include:
  • Doug Hintze, Manager, DOE-EM Los Alamos Field Office
  • Bryan Bower, DOE Project Director, West Valley Demonstration Project
  • Sue Cange, Manager, DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management
  • Jack Craig, Manager, DOE Savannah River Operations Office
  • Robert Edwards, Acting
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Bathtub Row Press Launches Doomed To Cooperate

Former LANL Director Dr. Sig Hecker signing the book for LANL Director Dr. Charlie McMillan. Courtesy photo
 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
 
Bathtub Row Press, the publishing house of the Los Alamos Historical Society, released this week Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers, a two-volume, 976-page series of essays edited by former laboratory director Siegfried Hecker.
 
The book tells the remarkable stories of nuclear scientists from two former enemy nations,
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Udall, Heinrich Urge Agencies To Hold Colleges Accountable For Underreporting Sexual Violence

SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with 29 other senators sent a letter to the Departments of Education and Justice urging the agencies to ensure colleges and universities receiving federal funds adhere to new requirements intended to help prevent sexual violence on campus and increase accountability for students’ safety.

These regulations, which went into effect July 1, 2015, were included in the Violence Against Woman Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) as amendments to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus

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LAHS Delegates Attend National Conference

The entire New Mexico Student Delegation in their show-stopping chile hats at the National Student Council Association’s National Conference, June 21, in Portland, Ore. Courtesy photo.

From left, Delegate Kim Lopez, Teacher Rachel Cowan and Delegate Stephanie Kuzmack at the National Student Council Association’s National Conference. Courtesy photo

 

LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School Seniors Kim Lopez and Stephanie Kuzmack and Teacher Rachel Cowan joined a delegation of 30 New Mexico students and advisors to the National Student Council Association’s National Conference, June Read More

Employee Union Calls For A Profit-Free LANL

UPTEs Jeff Colvin discusses a strategy for taking the profit out of the next LANL contract. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post
 

When the Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operating contract goes up for bid in 2018, one of the most interested and potentially vulnerable groups is a core of ten thousand LANL employees.

While they are routinely patronized and flattered and sincerely thanked in public by upper level managers as the heart and soul of the enterprise, they are also usually the people with the least say about what Read More

Heinrich Highlights Groundbreaking Zika Virus Research At UNM Health Sciences Center

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

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

  • As the threat of the Zika virus grows, Heinrich continues call for emergency funding to address the outbreak

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with researchers in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center and was briefed on their work to combat the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne infectious diseases. 

“Zika is a public health emergency that requires a real response,” Heinrich said. “I am proud that the scientific talent in New Mexico is leading Read More

Hilltopper Marching Band Performs In National Parade

Los Alamos Hilltopper Marching Band. File photo

LAHS News:

The Los Alamos Hilltopper Marching Band is set to perform at noon, July 4, in the National Independence Day Parade on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.

The Hilltopper Marching Band, which left for the nation’s capital Friday, was selected by Gov. Susana Martinez to represent the State of New Mexico in the National Independence Day Parade. More than 50 student-performers in the Hilltopper Marching Band are making the trip to Washington, D.C.

The Los Alamos students’ appearance in the National Independence Day Parade Read More