Fuselier: The Month Before Christmas
By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos
‘Twas a month before Christmas
And all through the nation
The people were anxious
And manning their stations.
When Big Money decided
It’s that time of year
To grant all a reprieve,
From their anger and fear.
Big Money’s no fool;
He’d grown strong and, yes, bold.
But his streets were in need
Of more layers of gold.
He deserved it, you see,
He worked hard this past year.
Installing his minions
With false pride and big fear.
It took hard work to buy
All those hearts and those minds.
They came from everyone,
You and me, all peoples, all kinds.
They came from the rich.
They came from Read More
Common Cause Report Documents Influence Of Alcohol Industry On New Mexico Decision Makers
CCNM News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Common Cause New Mexico (CCNM) released a new report Wednesday examining the influence of the alcohol industry on New Mexico politics, government and legislation.
“Still Under the Influence” is the second in a series of “Follow the Dots” reports on the alcohol industry by the non-partisan organization. The first was published in 2004.
The report’s release comes on the heels of the veto of last year’s small tax increase on alcohol and in advance of another attempt at an excise tax increase in the 2024 legislative session. The larger context includes New Mexico’s ranking Read More
Los Alamos County Library Board To Meet Dec. 4
County Climate Action Plan Survey Results Now Available Online
Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County’s Sustainability Manager Angelica Gurule is sharing with the community the Climate Action Plan survey results, available now on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Study website. The survey results will inform the first-ever County Climate Action Plan and provide input regarding how the County should direct funding.
Gurule explains that the survey, held in September 2023, asked responders to prioritize their environmental concerns, identify measures the county could implement, and how the County should approach climate mitigation. Survey results Read More
Council Updates County Manager Finalists List As One Candidate Withdraws … Community Invited To Meet Remaining Two Candidates Thursday Dec. 7 At Los Alamos Nature Center
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Council received notification on Tuesday, Nov. 28, from County Manager finalist Gretchen Cassini of her decision to withdraw from consideration for the position.
As such, Council has confirmed the shortlist of candidates for the County Manager position moving forward are:
- Tracey Jerome, Senior Deputy City Manager for the City of El Paso, Texas; and
- Anne Laurent, Deputy County Manager for Los Alamos County, New Mexico.
Finalists will meet with the public at a meet-and-greet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, at Los Alamos Nature Center, Read More
New Mexico Governor Establishing Advisory Council To Implement Missing And Murdered Indigenous Persons State Response Plan
STATE News:
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is establishing an advisory council to support the state’s ongoing work to implement the New Mexico State Response Plan released in 2022.
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Advisory Council will be led by tribal and state leadership, law enforcement agencies, advocates and family members who have experienced the loss of a missing and murdered person.
Gov. Lujan Grisham appointed Pueblo of Pojoaque Gov. Jenelle Roybal and Picuris Gov. Craig Quanchello to lead the Advisory Council. Govs. Roybal and Quanchello are in the final Read More
State Canvass Board Certifies Regular Local Election Results, Orders Automatic Recounts
Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver
From the Office of the Secretary of State:
SANTA FE — New Mexico’s State Canvass Board met today in Santa Fe and unanimously certified the official results of the 2023 Regular Local Election.
The State Canvass Board is composed of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (absent today), Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, and Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court C. Shannon Bacon.
“Every New Mexican should have the highest level of confidence in these official election results and in the conduct of the recently completed statewide Regular Local Read More
FEMA Claims Office: Simple Process To Request Extension
FEMA News:
If you filed a Notice of Loss (NOL) but not all of your supporting documents are readily available, you may need to ask for an extension.
Claimants can submit a written deadline extension request before the due date explaining why they need more time, such as if they are unable to submit the supporting documents (i.e., an NRCS plan) prior to the deadline due to circumstances beyond their control. you will miss either the Proof of Loss (POL) or Release and Certification (R&C) deadline, contact your Navigator before the deadline to request an extension either by letter or email.
Claims Read More
Robinson: Criminal Justice Debates Must Include County Jails
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
Maybe in the future a speaker will urge new high school graduates to consider the rewarding career of a detention center guard. If counties can shake more money out of the state. If the state takes responsibility for its part of counties’ expenses. If our jails get the attention they need.
If…
Legislators recently heard about the sorry state of New Mexico jails from the New Mexico Association of Counties, presenting before the interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee.
New Mexico has more people in detention than in prison, Read More
Los Alamos County Social Services: Comprehensive Health Plan Online Public Listening Session Moved To Dec. 14
Scene from County Health Forum held Nov. 15 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County Social Services would like to invite the community to the last remaining public listening session to collect input for the County Comprehensive Health Plan (CHP). The Zoom-only session was changed to 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14. No advance registration is needed.
The County would like to thank the community members who have already contributed their insight to the development of the Comprehensive Health Plan. Whether volunteering time to be interviewed, attending the previous listening Read More
DOE/NNSA Delivers 2024 Stockpile Stewardship And Management Plan To Congress
Jill Hruby, DOE Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) released Monday the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) for Fiscal Year 2024.
This report describes NNSA’s continued plans to implement the Biden Administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review by maintaining a safe, secure, reliable, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile, without the need for nuclear explosive testing and while revitalizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
This Read More
Heinrich, Luján, Vasquez Welcome $1.4 Million For Head Start Programs At New Mexico State University
Congressional News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are welcoming $1.4 million in federal funding to support Head Start services at New Mexico State University (NMSU).
“I’m proud to welcome over $1 million to support NMSU’s work in creating a strong foundation for our children. The best way to invest in New Mexico’s future is to invest in New Mexico’s families,” Heinrich said.
“Investments in early education create a foundation for future success,” Luján said. “That’s why I’m proud to welcome this Read More
LAPS Board Member Sondra Wyman Expresses Gratitude
By SONDRA WYMAN
Los Alamos
Coming out of the Thanksgiving weekend and moving into the Christmas season, I want to express my sincere gratitude for those in our community who exercised their fundamental right and privilege to vote in the non-partisan elections this November.
Thank you, Los Alamos, for voting to elect School Board members, UNM-LA Advisory Board members, and for voting your opinion of the LAPS General Obligation Bond. I am especially grateful for the overwhelming support of community members in District 5 who voted, representing Mountain Elementary School and Los Alamos High Read More
Nuisance Code Implementation Review Task Force Meets Dec. 1
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Nuisance Code Implementation Review Task Force will meet at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 1 at 1000 Central Ave., and virtually on Zoom.
This meeting is open to the public.
Find the agenda to this meeting here.
Find the link to this meeting here.
Webinar ID: 864 8761 2079 Read More
DPNM: New Mexico Supreme Court’s Redistricting Decision
DPNM News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The Democratic Party of New Mexico released the following statement today’s New Mexico Supreme Court redistricting decision:
“We are glad that the State Supreme Court ordered that the District Court’s redistricting decision will be upheld, hopefully putting to rest months of frivolous distractions from Steve Pearce’s New Mexico Republican Party.
After a non-partisan, deliberative process that was informed by and invited expert and public input from communities across the state, and subsequently went through the complete legislative process in committees Read More
Dannemann: When Leaders Resort To The Unthinkable
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
In an episode of the original “Star Trek,” the Enterprise lands on a planet where inhabitants have lined up submissively to die at the Disintegration Chamber.
The planet is at war with a rival planet, a war fought entirely by computers. After a simulated battle, some people from the losing side will present themselves for disintegration. Because the war is so bloodless, nobody is trying to end it. They have made the unthinkable acceptable.
The episode ends with Captain Kirk destroying the computers and persuading the opponents Read More
Denish: Sen. Stuart Ingle … ‘I’m Out Of Here’
By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
Congenial. Fair. Smart. Trustworthy. Man of his word.
These were words used to describe Sen. Stuart Ingle when I spoke to his colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, in the Senate. Ingle, a veteran of the New Mexico Senate, resigned recently, deciding to call it quits after almost 40 years.
In his typical, low-key manner, he loaded up his box of belongings from his Senate office, and when a passerby asked him what he was doing, he said “I’m done. I’m out of here.”
Ingle came to the Senate in 1985. His first term was the only time he served Read More
Administratively Complete Determination Class 2 Permit Modification Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room
LANL News:
Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has announced that new documents have been added to the LANL Electronic Reading Room.
The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory:
- DP-1132, Monitoring Report, Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, Third Quarter 2023
- Administratively Complete Determination Class 2 Permit Modification for the Addition of New Hazardous Waste Management Unit at Technical Area 60 Los Alamos National Laboratory EPA ID#NM0890010515 HWB-LANL-23-014
New Mexico Congressional Delegation Marks Second Anniversary Of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Highlights How The Landmark Legislation Is Delivering For New Mexico
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the two-year anniversary of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are highlighting how the landmark legislation has delivered billions of dollars in historic infrastructure investments to New Mexico.
“In the two years since President Biden signed this historic legislation into law, we’ve delivered major investments to rebuild and strengthen New Mexico’s Read More
LAPS Notice Of Possible Quorum: AP Celebration
LAPS News:
Members of the Los Alamos School Board may attend the AP Celebration at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Los Alamos High School’s Griffith Gymnasium.
A quorum may be present; however no action will be taken. Read More
