County Council To Meet In Regular Session Tuesday Dec. 2
COUNTY News:NNSA Schedules Public Meeting To Discuss Data From LANL Flanged Tritium Waste Containers Depressurization Dec. 9
LANL News:
A public meeting to discuss data from the depressurization of four flanged tritium waste containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory is scheduled for Dec. 9, 2025, in Los Alamos.
This in-person meeting will be held, 5:30-7 p.m. at Sala Event Center, 2551 Central Ave.
A virtual Zoom meeting option is available as follows:
Join Zoom Meeting
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The National Nuclear Security Administration and LANL shipped the fourth and final flanged tritium waste container Read More
Los Alamos County Library Board To Meet Monday Dec. 1
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Library Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, in Room 110 at the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
The meeting is open to the public in person, and a Zoom option is also available at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85215643936.
Find the meeting agenda here.
Note: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, please contact the County Human Resources Division at 505.662.8040, at least Read More
There’s More To The Pilgrim Story Than Thanksgiving
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930, The Mayflower Compact 1620, Oil on Canvas. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Courtesy/Wikipedia CommonsBy CHRIS BROWN
and
ASENATH KEPLER
New Mexico’s Mayflower Society
This Thanksgiving marks 70 years since New Mexico’s Mayflower Society was founded by descendants of the ship’s 102 passengers. Our mission is to keep the Pilgrim story alive and relevant to New Mexicans today. More important than the first Thanksgiving that half of the passengers survived to celebrate only with help from their native benefactors, Plymouth’s settlers
Homeless New Mexico High School Students To Receive $500 Monthly For Meeting Attendance Goals
PED News:
SANTA FE — High school students experiencing homelessness will receive $500 monthly payments for meeting attendance and academic requirements under a new state pilot program launching this month.
The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) will enroll 330 students in grades 10–12 across 12 school districts and one charter school. The Legislature funded the three-year pilot $2.1 million annually.
Students must maintain 92% monthly attendance, complete all schoolwork, attend three academic support sessions weekly and meet with counselors for wraparound services Read More
New Mexico To Host Farm To Cafeteria Food Conference
ECECD News:
SANTA FE — The National Farm to School Network will bring its annual National Farm to Cafeteria Conference to Albuquerque this year, spotlighting New Mexico’s leadership in providing children with local, healthy food in schools and early childhood settings.
The event will gather hundreds of advocates, educators, farmers and community leaders from across the country to promote local, nutritious food choices in schools and childcare centers. The conference is Dec. 1 through Dec. 4 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd St. NW.
The theme of the conference is “Rooted in Culture, Read More
New Mexico State Canvass Board Certifies Regular Local Election Results And 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 2025 Regular Local Election.
“The 2025 Regular Local Election was conducted with the professionalism, efficiency, and integrity that New Mexicans expect from their election administrators,” Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said. “These certified results should give every voter full confidence in the process. I extend my sincere thanks to the State Canvass Board for their work Read More
Op-Ed: Vaccines – Who Can You Trust?
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock
The Republican Trump administration has “gone to war” against vaccines. This includes recently changing the CDC’s website on childhood vaccines at the direct request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to imply that “vaccines cause autism.” This is despite the complete lack of scientific evidence for this idea.
Secretary Kennedy’s battle against vaccines appears to have four pillars, dealing with trust and the destruction of key vaccine institutions:
- Reduce trust in vaccines
- Take over the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
- Make
Op-Ed: New Mexico’s Economic Freedom Now Dead Last
By PAUL J. GESSING
President Rio Grande Foundation
and
MATTHEW MITCHELL
Canadian free market think tank
Lives in Angel Fire
In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the US to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now know that it is worse than we thought.
People are more economically free when they are allowed to make more of their own economic choices; economists measure this freedom by looking at the degree to which government spending, taxation, and regulation limits choice.
We relied on data from the Fraser Institute’s Economic Read More
Leger Fernández Introduces Bill To Protect Sacred Tribal Sites, Cultural Items, & Practices From Public Disclosure
STATE News:
SANTA FE — Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) introduced H.R. 6206, the Protect Culturally Sensitive Information Act to make sure Native American Tribes, Alaska Native Entities, and Native Hawaiian Organizations can share sacred and culturally important information with the federal government without fear that it will be made public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The bill also creates a safe, confidential space for consultation so tribes can protect information about sacred and religiously significant sites, burial grounds, cultural items, and Read More
Luján, Barrasso Bill Improves Efficiency Of Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Through 988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced bipartisan legislation to improve geolocation data and increase the efficiency of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took action to require service providers to route phone calls to 988 to the nearest call center based on geographic location. In July of this year, the FCC took steps to require geo-routing for texts. Previously, calls and texts were routed based on the phone’s area code, often resulting in a geographic mismatch. Read More
Energy Department Launches ‘Genesis Mission’ To Transform American Science & Innovation Through AI Computing Revolution
Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil to lead Genesis Mission initiative.
LANL News:
President Trump today issued an Executive Order to launch the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort led by the Department of Energy.
Los Alamos National Laboratory supports the Genesis Mission, the Department of Energy’s newly-launched national initiative to advance artificial intelligence and accelerate scientific achievements. From stewarding our nation’s deterrence capabilities with high performance computing for modeling and simulation to driving breakthroughs in quantum science Read More
Luján, Escobar Introduce Bicameral Legislation To Address Deadly Hate Crimes By Closing Dangerous Loophole
NATIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced the Disarm Hate Act, legislation aimed at addressing hate-motivated gun violence in communities across the United States. The bill would protect vulnerable communities by closing a dangerous gap in federal law, prohibiting individuals convicted of misdemeanor-level hate crimes – or those who received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor offense following a judicial finding of hate- or bias-based motivation from purchasing or possessing firearms. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) leads companion Read More
Robinson: Rethinking The American Revolution
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
The USA is a miracle, and the revolution that made it possible could easily have gone the wrong way. These were a couple of thoughts I had after watching “The American Revolution,” on PBS. Instead of the tidy history I learned in school, the revolution was a sprawling and complex series of events.
What the creators want us to know is that the United States was born of violence and division. And it was as much a civil war as a revolution because a great many colonists were loyal to Britain. They thought rebellion was insanity.
Britain was an Read More
Heinrich Hosts Roundtable To Underscore How Cuts To Public Lands Workforce & Cost Of Health Care Is Harming New Mexico Families
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, met with the New Mexico State Forester, public lands advocates, and small business owners to discuss the Trump Administration’s cuts to the public lands workforce and attacks on Americans’ public lands, Nov. 21, 2025. Courtesy photo
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), meets with New Mexicans facing skyrocketing health care costs because of Trump and Republicans’ refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax Read More
Luján Unveils Legislation To Reverse SNAP Cuts, Restore Food Security For Millions Of Americans
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, led the entire Senate Democratic Caucus in introducing the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act of 2025 to repeal the devastating Republican cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) made in the Republican Budget Betrayal.
During the Republican shutdown, Senator Luján’s efforts to ensure millions of Americans would receive their Read More
Heinrich, Luján, Stansbury Meet With Pueblo Leaders On Next Steps To Permanently Protect Chaco Canyon
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep, Melanie Stansbury host a press conference Nov. 21 with Pueblo leaders on the next steps to permanently protect Chaco Canyon. Courtesy photo
Congressional News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), hosted a press conference with Pueblo leaders on the Read More
Albuquerque Cleanup Nets 2,260 Lbs Of Trash, Highlights New Mexico’s Commitment To ‘Breaking Bad Habits’
Scene from the clean up litter campaign Saturday in the International District neighborhood in Albuquerque, during which volunteers collected 2,260 pounds of trash. Courtesy photo
Scene from the clean up litter campaign Saturday in the International District neighborhood in Albuquerque, during which volunteers collected 2,260 pounds of trash. Courtesy photo
From the Office of the Governor:
- Members of the community and state leaders clean local neighborhoods
ALBUQUERQUE — The state of New Mexico’s litter prevention campaign, Breaking Bad Habits, today partnered with Albuquerque Read More
Sen. Leo Jaramillo Elected To Serve As West Region Chair For National Hispanic Caucus Of State Legislators
Sen. Leo Jaramillo (D–Española), center, is elected to serve as the West Region Chair for the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, during NHCSL’s National Summit Saturday in Oklahoma City. Courtesy photo
Sen. Leo Jaramillo, 4th from right, is sworn in Saturday as West Region Chair to represent and coordinate legislative leadership across 13 western states and territories, including New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and Hawaii. Courtesy photo
STATE News:
New Mexico State Sen. Leo Jaramillo (D–Española) Read More
Dannemann: Affordable Care Act Benefits Must Be Preserved
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
“Pre-existing condition.” Remember that term? Fifteen years ago, you heard it all the time on the news. It was the issue that scared the daylights out of millions of Americans who couldn’t get health insurance, or whose insurance was impossibly expensive.
A pre-existing condition might have been asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, a past injury, or any other condition that might increase the patient’s need for future health care.
Pre-existing conditions had been debated in Congress constantly and covered regularly on the news. People Read More
