At Awareness Walk Today In Española, Deb Haaland Vows To Address Fentanyl Crisis And Support Paths To Recovery
New Mexico Gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland speaking today in Española to families impacted by fentanyl addiction, vows to address the crisis. Courtesy photo
ESPAÑOLA – At the Walk For Our Lives fentanyl awareness event today in Española, Deb Haaland, candidate for governor of New Mexico, stood alongside families impacted by fentanyl addiction and vowed to address the fentanyl crisis.
She committed to investing in addiction recovery services, family support programs, and tools for law enforcement to get illegal drugs out of New Mexico. The walk was led by Española native Alicia Pauline Read More
NM Museum Of Natural History & Science & Smithsonian Researchers Discover Prehistoric Plant Near Socorro
Rendering of prehistoric plant discovered by NMMNHS and Smithsonian researchers in Socorro County. Courtesy/NMMNHS
NMDCA News:
ALBUQUERQUE — A team of researchers from the Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) have unearthed a new species of plant that lived before the age of dinosaurs in rural Socorro County.
This new species, Socorropteris cancellarei, lived roughly 290 million years ago during the Permian Period, and provides vital insight into what the landscape that’s now southern New Mexico may have looked like at that time.
The research, Read More
New Mexico’s August 2025 Unemployment Rate: 4.1 Percent
NMDWS News:
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) has announced that New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in August, down from 4.2 percent in July and down from 4.3 percent in the previous year.
The national unemployment rate in August was 4.3 percent, up from 4.2 percent in July and up from 4.2 percent in August 2024.
Total nonagricultural payroll employment grew by 12,100 jobs, or 1.4 percent, between August 2024 and August 2025. The majority of gains came from the private sector. The private sector was up 7,400 jobs, or 1.1 percent, while the Read More
Governor Announces Eileen Riordan Judicial Appointment
Judge Eileen P. Riordan
From the Office of the Governor:
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has announced the appointment of Eileen Patricia Riordan as judge of the Fifth Judicial District Court, which serves Chaves, Eddy, and Lea counties.
The appointment takes effect Oct. 11, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of the Honorable Jane Shuler Gray.
Riordan previously served as a district judge for the Fifth Judicial District Court from January 2021 to December 2022. She currently works as an attorney with 575 Law Group, LLC in Carlsbad and served as Carlsbad City Attorney from Read More
State Seeks Members For Technology & Innovation Board
EDD News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) is seeking applicants for a new advisory board to help shape the state’s growing technology and innovation sectors.
Community and industry leaders are invited to join the new Technology and Innovation Network Advisory Board, established by House Bill 20 and signed into law April 9 by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The board will help shape the future of the state’s tech economy by guiding strategic planning for the newly created Technology and Innovation Division.
The board will provide recommendations, ensure active Read More
Veteran-led Volunteers Support Wildfire Mitigation Efforts In Santa Fe County
Team Rubicon News:
GLORIETA – Volunteers from Team Rubicon, a veteran-led nonprofit humanitarian organization, are in Glorieta to help protect a vital part of the community from the increasing dangers of wildland fire.
The Glorieta Adventure Camp is a critical resource for the children and families of the community. This operation is to help protect the camp, the youth who depend on it, and the Glorieta community at large.
Team Rubicon volunteers, known as Greyshirts, perform disaster mitigation operations year-round to ease the risks of wildfires and floods to vulnerable communities Read More
LANL: Quantum Computers Tackle Century-Old Math Puzzle
A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum computers can be used to ‘factorize’ group representations, a mathematical concept used in particle physics, engineering and many other fields. Image created in GPT-4o
LANL News:
A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum algorithms can be used to factor group representations — a problem central to particle physics and many other fields — that was thought to be infeasible for computers at any practical scale
Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Martín Larocca and Vojtěch Havlíček, a researcher at IBM, have shown that quantum computers Read More
Rep. Chandler To Local Businesses: Tough Few Years Ahead As State Faces Federal Cuts
Dist. 43 Rep. Christine Chandler
By MARLENE WILDEN
Los Alamos Daily Post
marlene@ladailypost.com
State Rep. Christine Chandler spoke with local business leaders Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Chamber Business Breakfast at SALA Los Alamos Event Center. The event gave business owners a chance to discuss economic challenges and opportunities with the Los Alamos lawmaker.
Chandler, who serves on the House Judiciary and Tax & Revenue committees, said her workload reflects the breadth of issues before the legislature.
“Last year in the judiciary we had 389 bills related to the legal system, Read More
Grassroots Wildland Firefighters Respond To DOI/USDA Secretarial Memos
GWF News:
In the past week, both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture have issued memoranda aimed at improving how the federal government organizes and delivers wildfire response. Grassroots Wildland Firefighters welcomes this attention to the challenges our firefighters face and recognizes these memoranda as an important and historic first step forward.
We view these memoranda as progress, and as an opportunity to build momentum, but they do not yet go far enough. Grassroots Wildland Firefighters remain committed to working with federal leaders and Congress Read More
NMDOT Receives National Award For Excellence On Rte. 66
Courtesy/NMDOT
NMDOT News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) received the 2025 Perpetual Pavement Award from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance, recognizing exceptional long-term performance and preservation of a historic section of New Mexico Route 6, part of the original Route 66 alignment.
The recognized segment is a nine-mile portion of Route 6 west of Los Lunas, originally opened in 1928 as part of Route 66. Remarkably, it has never experienced a structural failure, despite nearly a century of use, extreme temperature swings, difficult soil, and seasonal Read More
