Public Safety

School Safety By Students For Students!

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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

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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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Public Comment Needed On Proposed New Way Waste Is Measured At WIPP

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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

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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

FBI: Federal Grand Jury Charges Espanola Man With Federal Child Sexual Abuse Offenses

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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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Attorney Kate Ferlic Files Response In Brenner Case

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos County Councilor Susan O’Leary’s personal attorney Kate Ferlic has responded to briefs filed by two other attorneys in a suit filed by Patrick Brenner in First Judicial District Court against the County Council and the County Custodian of Records.

The case, which has dragged on since June, involves a request by Brenner under the state Inspection of Public Records Act for all emails sent and received May 15 by Los Alamos County Councilors. Brenner maintains not all O’Leary’s emails from her personal email account from Read More

State Supreme Court Affirms Adoption Of Water Pollution Regulations For Copper Mining

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NM SUPREME COURT News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Supreme Court has affirmed the state Water Quality Control Commission’s adoption of regulations governing groundwater contamination at open pit copper mines.
 
The Court ruled unanimously that the regulations, known as the “Copper Rule,” were valid under the state’s Water Quality Act (WQA). The commission adopted the regulations in 2013.
 
The Court rejected arguments by the New Mexico Attorney General and other groups, including Amigos Bravos, the Gila Resources Information Project and Turner Ranch Properties,
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AG Balderas Announces Start Of White Peak Trial To Defend New Mexicans Access To Public Lands

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From the Office of Attorney General Hector Balderas:

 

TAOS – Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that the Office of the Attorney General will begin a major trial against a wealthy Texas landowner’s illegal attempts to bar New Mexicans from treasured public lands.

The trial begins Monday in front of Judge Sarah Backus in Taos County over the public’s right to use historic roads that provide access to White Peak in Colfax and Mora counties.

The Office of Attorney General Balderas will demonstrate that there are several major public roads that have been used for over a century Read More

Governor Susana Martinez Announces DWI Superblitz Over St. Patrick’s Day Weekend

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Courtesy/endwi

STATE News:

  • Also Announces Decrease in DWI Fatalities

SANTA FE – Today, Gov. Susana Martinez announced that law enforcement across the state will be out in full force this weekend to crack down on drunk driving during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

The Governor also announced that last year DWI fatalities were down about 16 percent compared to 2016.

“If you drink and drive you’re putting every life you come across on the road in danger,” Martinez said. “Driving drunk is unacceptable and dangerous. It’s also 100 percent preventable. Do the right thing and have a plan to keep yourself Read More

Valles Caldera National Preserve Plans Prescribed Burn For Valle San Antonio

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NPS News:
 
JEMEZ SPRINGS — Valles Caldera National Preserve is planning to implement a prescribed burn targeting up to 1,050 acres of meadow grassland in Valle San Antonio, located in the northwest portion of the preserve’s backcountry.
 
The burn operations are planned for late March or April, dependent upon suitable weather and fuel conditions, and should take one to three days to complete. The area is currently under a seasonal closure, so impacts to visitors will be minimal.
 
NPS officials hope to reintroduce fire into the meadow grasslands, which would result in a low
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