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Secretary Moniz Announces Dr. Phil Sharp As 2015 Recipient Of Schlesinger Medal For Energy Security

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 23, 2015

Dr. Phil Sharp

DOE News:

WASHINGTON ― U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz has announced Dr. Phil Sharp as the second recipient of the James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security.

Dr. Sharp is president of Resources for the Future and a former U.S. Congressman from Indiana. Dr. Sharp will receive the medal at a ceremony at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Department of Energy headquarters (1000 Independence Ave. Washington, D.C. 20585).

“Phil Sharp has been a fixture in energy security and clean energy progress in every possible

Udall, Heinrich, Luján Comment On LANS Contract

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 22, 2015

U.S. CONGRESIONAL DELEGATION News:

“We have been informed of NNSA’s performance review of LANS and NNSA’s decision not to extend the LANS contract. Among the reasons cited by NNSA were a serious safety incident involving a worker and waste-handling mistakes that have had an expensive and severe impact on LANL, WIPP and DOE’s nuclear waste cleanup

“We have high expectations of the Department of Energy and its contractors that they will go above and beyond to ensure our communities are not endangered. DOE must hold all of its contractors accountable and be responsible stewards

LAHS Hilltalkers Delgado, Mallett, McCumber Advance In International Public Policy Forum Competition

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 22, 2015

Hilltalker team members Will McCumber, Cade Mallett and Nate Delgado have advanced to the top 32 of the International Public Policy Forum competition. Courtesy/LAHS

LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School Hilltalker coaches Margo Batha and Christine Engelbrecht are proud to announce that the team of Nate Delgado, Cade Mallett and Will McCumber has advanced to the top 32 of the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) competition sponsored by the Bickel and Brewer Foundation.

This team of Hilltalkers has submitted several extensively researched cases on the topic of “Resolved: Read More

Los Alamos High School Advances In International Debate Competition

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 22, 2015

LAHS News:

Students from Los Alamos High School have advanced to the “Top 32” round of the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF).

Sponsored by the Brewer Foundation and New York University, the IPPF is the first and only debate competition that gives high school students around the world the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy.

By advancing, the students remain eligible to win a $10,000 grand prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to the IPPF Finals in New York City April 2.

“These students have distinguished themselves in this unique Read More

Closing New Mexico’s Child Pornography & Exploitation Loophole: Representatives Pre-File Legislation

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 22, 2015

STATE News:

SANTA FE ― Representatives Sarah Maestas Barnes, R-Bernalillo, Javier Martinez, D-Bernalillo and Randal Crowder, R-Curry have pre-filed legislation backed by Attorney General Hector Balderas to close New Mexico’s child pornography and exploitation loophole.

The current law limits the ability of prosecutors to charge defendants who possess multiple images of children being raped, objectified, and exploited in multiple forms of media and online.

Currently, these child predators are only subject to prosecution of one count of child exploitation

Gray Matters: Making Sense (Cents) Of WIPP Incident

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 21, 2015

By LARRY JOHNSON

Los Alamos

Introduction:

There has been extensive media coverage of the February 2014 release of radioactive material at WIPP, which has resulted in the shutdown of the facility.

The purpose of this column is to examine the incident and point out that there has been a massive over-reaction to the release resulting in a tremendous waste of taxpayer’s money.

In more common terms it is “making a mountain out of a mole hill” and “much ado about nothing”. The incident should have resulted in a shutdown of the facility of no more than a week or two

Commission For Environmental Cooperation Taps Brumwell To Chair Joint Public Advisory Committee

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 21, 2015

CEC News:

MONTREAL — The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) has chosen Canadian JPAC member Lindsay Brumwell as committee chair for 2016.

She will succeed Mexican JPAC member Gustavo Alanís-Ortega, a lawyer and university professor at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, who has been chair during 2015.

“The Commission for Environmental Cooperation is increasingly relevant as a force for trinational cooperation on environmental issues,” Brumwell said. “I look forward to working

Manhattan School Of Music Free Performances

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 21, 2015

MSM News:

HIGHLIGHTS: The Robert Mann String Quartet Institute; The 2016 Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival; and Mahler Symphony No. 8: MSM Symphony, Symphonic Chorus, and Women’s Chorus at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

January 2016

The Robert Mann String Quartet Institute: Jan. 7–10:

Master Classes at 2 p.m., Jan. 7 & 8, (Miller Recital Hall, 2 p.m.)
Screening of Speak the Music: Robert Mann and the Mysteries of Chamber Music by Academy

HRC’s New Municipal Equality Index Details State Of LGBT Equality In Six New Mexico Cities

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 21, 2015

HRC News:

WASHINGTON ― The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today released its fourth annual report assessing LGBT equality in 408 cities across the nation, including six in New Mexico.

The 2015 Municipal Equality Index (MEI), the only nationwide rating system of LGBT inclusion in municipal law and policy, shows that cities across the country, including in New Mexico, continue to take the lead in supporting LGBT people and workers, even when states and the federal government

New Mexico Credit Unions Receive Juntos Avanzamos Recognition

Submitted by Chris Clark on December 21, 2015

Courtesy photo

STATE News:

ALBUQUERQUE ― Early this week, two New Mexico credit unions became the first credit unions in New Mexico to earn the Juntos Avanzamos designation, which formally recognizes credit unions in the U.S. that specifically tailor financial products and services to serve low-income, Hispanic communities.

The designation was conferred upon Rio Grande Credit Union and Guadalupe Credit Union on Monday, at separate ceremonies.

U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, NM Sen. Michael Padilla, Bernalillo County

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