Udall, Heinrich Announce $15 Million For Expanded Telehealth Services Through UNM Health Sciences Center
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center has been awarded $15,120,767 to test expansion of their telehealth infrastructure system that will provide 30 hospitals statewide with remote emergency neurological and neurosurgical consultations.
The funding is being awarded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center. The award will support the Access to Critical Cerebral Emergency Support Services Read More
State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols In Counties Across New Mexico In October
NMSP News:
State Police will be conducting Sobriety Checkpoints, Saturation Patrols, and Registration, Insurance and Drivers’ License Checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of October 2014.
Our efforts continue to show a significant reduction in alcohol related fatalities. This is attributed to the continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving. People are choosing to not drink and drive. This is the biggest step in keeping impaired drivers from crashing into our friends and Read More
Miffed Aide Who Hacked Governor’s Emails Gets 9-Month Sentence
Jamie Estrada leaves an Albuquerque federal courthouse Wednesday after getting a nine-month sentence for hacking into the email account of Gov. Susana Martinez. Photo by Rob Nikolewski
Jamie Estrada was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in federal prison for breaking into the email campaign account of Gov. Susana Martinez and disseminating some of the messages to her political opponents
Council On International Relations Sponsors Lecture On East/West Ukraine Conflict Oct. 14 In Santa Fe
Dr. Eugene Rumer
CIR News:
The Santa Fe Council on International Relations, (CIR) whose mission is to engage citizens in Santa Fe and surrounding communities on the subject of world affairs, has announced its Fall international lecture series.
CIR is bringing several distinguished scholars and statesmen to Santa Fe to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine. CIR is a nonpartisan 501c(3) non-profit organization.
CIR’s forthcoming lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at The Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. The guest lecturer is Dr. Eugene Rumer, Read More
WIPP’s Primary Hoist Begins Inspection Processes
WIPP News:
The waste hoist, which is the largest and primary conveyance into the WIPP underground facility, is undergoing the final inspections necessary to return to operation.
The conveyance consists of a large enclosed platform, similar to an elevator, that transports people, equipment and waste containers from the surface to the WIPP underground facility.
The waste hoist has not been operated since the Feb. 5 fire event because of soot that accumulated on electrical components. These components were carefully cleaned and an electrical transformer was recently replaced to make the Read More
New Mexico Delegation Welcomes President’s Disaster Declaration For Summer Floods
CONGRESSIONAL News:
- Lawmakers had urged ‘prompt action’ to help state recover from widespread storm damage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that President Obama has declared a major disaster for the state of New Mexico for the severe storms and flooding July 27 through Aug. 5.
The declaration means the president has ordered federal aid to help state, tribal, and local recovery efforts. The first round of assistance will be available on a cost-sharing basis for damage Read More
Fall Prescribed Burn Planned On 818 Acres Of Valles Caldera National Preserve
VCNP News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – The Valles Caldera Trust is planning to implement a prescribed burn project that may begin as early as Tuesday, Oct. 14 and last for two to four days.
If conditions are not right next week, the burn may occur later in the season. The prescribed burn will be on 818 acres of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, north of N.M. 4 in the Banco Bonito area near mile marker 30. Because of the location and elevation, smoke from the burn will be visible from all directions coming into the Jemez Mountains area. Smoke will linger a few days after the burn. The burn activity is not expected Read More
Los Alamos Chamber Of Commerce Manager Nancy Partridge Trains For 2014 Avon Walk For Breast Cancer
Nancy Partridge at the 39-mile mark of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in 2013 in Santa Barbara, Calif. The ‘Every Three Minutes’ ribbon she is wearing represents the statistic that every three minutes, there is a new diagnosis of invasive breast cancer in the United States. Courtesy photo
STAFF REPORT
When Chamber of Commerce Manager Nancy Partridge is not at work, chances are, you’ll see her walking around North Mesa, around Barranca Mesa, around Northern Area, around Western Area, around Downtown and back again.
Partridge is training to walk the 2014 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Read More
Think New Mexico Launches Health Care Affordability Initiative
TNM News:
Think New Mexico is launching a new initiative to make health care more affordable by increasing transparency and ending price discrimination.
These reforms are aimed at making it possible for patients to shop around for the highest quality, most affordable health care by providing price and quality information for common medical procedures on a user-friendly public website, similar to those in fourteen other states (five more states are currently developing them).
In addition, we propose to end the practice of price discrimination, in which patients at the same hospital receiving Read More
Udall, Heinrich Announce More Than $550,000 To Strengthen Markets For New Mexico Produce
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $550,750 in grants to strengthen markets for New Mexico produce by providing tools and resources to help agricultural producers successfully enhance their competitiveness and expand their operations.
The funding is being awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Specialty Block Grant Program, and grants will be administered through the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. The grants are authorized through the 2014 Farm Bill, which Udall and Heinrich strongly Read More
