National Work Zone Awareness Week: Watch Out For Workers And Stay Safe
Arnold Murphy from the NMDOT Moriarty Project Office created this ‘orange barrel family’ as a safety reminder in the work zone just west of Moriarty on I-40. Courtesy/NMDOT
NMDOT News:
SANTA FE—The week of April 7 marks National Work Zone Awareness Week, which also is the official start of the roadway construction season across most of the country.
Each year local, state and federal transportation officials observe National Work Zone Awareness Week by reminding drivers to slow down and drive safely through work zones.
What many motorists may not realize is that Read More
WIPP Conducts Q&A With Public
WIPP News:
With regard to the Feb. 5 incident, the public has asked a number of questions at recent Town Hall meetings and in an effort to share this information, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has provided some of the questions and corresponding answers:
Q. If the filters were not deployed, how much radiation would have come out of the exhaust?
A. We cannot speculate. The filtration system is in place to minimize the amount released to the environment, and this is what happened.
Q. Wasn’t there some time after the air monitors went off, but before the filters were deployed?
A. The shift to Read More
NCRTD Board Elects Three New Officers
NCRTD News:
The Board of Directors of the North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has elected three members to serve as officers for the District.
Daniel R. Barrone, Taos County Commissioner, District 1, was re-elected to the post of NCRTD Board Chair;
Miguel M. Chavez, Santa Fe County Commissioner, District 2, will now serve as Vice Chair; and
Dennis Tim Salazar, City of Española Councilor, is the newly elected Treasurer/Secretary. NCRTD officers are elected to serve a two-year term.
The North Central Regional Transit District provides Read More
Unique Opportunity to Influence Long Term Strategic Management Plan for Santa Fe National Forest
SFNF News:
Santa Fe National Forest is beginning a four-year process to revise its Forest Plan, the guiding document that serves as a “vision” for land management activities. Once approved, the Forest Plan will guide activities for the next 10-15 years.
The public is invited to provide input and participate in the Forest Plan revision process. This unique opportunity will allow community members to influence the long term strategic management plan for Santa Fe National Forest.
The Forest Plan is a comprehensive document that addresses many activities including hunting, hiking, Read More
CCNS Calls For Independent Investigation of WIPP
Courtesy/WIPP
CCNS News:
By Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS)
It has been almost two months since the vehicle fire and radiation release from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and we don’t know the essential facts about what happened. We do know that the radiation release was never supposed to happen, and the federal government is unprepared to safely address the situation. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency, charged with determining whether WIPP would leak in 10,000 years, said it would not.
On Wednesday, two eight-person teams traveled down an elevator Read More
FBI Honors Community Leaders
Courtesy/FBI
FBI News:
The FBI and law enforcement agencies around the country diligently work for the good of the communities they serve and for the nation as a whole. But they can’t do it alone—they also need the support of the people who live in those communities.
Friday, at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Director James Comey publicly recognized 58 individuals and organizations from communities around the country for giving the FBI that support. The recipients of the FBI’s annual Director’s Community Leadership Award have made tremendous contributions toward crime and Read More
Heinrich Addresses CIA Detention, Interrogation Report
Sen. Martin Heinrich
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C- Thursday, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement after he voted to declassify the committee’s Executive Summary and the Findings and Conclusions of its Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) detention and interrogation program:
“America has paid a huge price for torturing detainees. Not only is torture morally wrong, it just doesn’t work. It’s a grave stain on our history costing us global credibility on the issue of human rights. I hope Read More
Sarov, Russia Sends Gift To Los Alamos County Council
Los Alamos County Communications & Public Relations Administrator/Public Information Officer Julie Habiger holds a gift from the Sister City of Sarov to the Los Alamos County Council, which was presented today by Desta Parkinson on behalf of her sister Summer Shelley who brought it back from Russia. The gift will be placed in a display case at the Los Alamos Municipal Building. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Albuquerque FBI Seeks Ricardo Alonzo Perez-Trujillo
Ricardo Alonzo Perez-Trujillo
FBI News:
The FBI and Valencia County Sheriff’s Office are looking for Ricardo Alonzo Perez-Trujillo, 48, who is wanted for his alleged involvement in a major drug-trafficking organization that operated out of New Mexico.
Perez-Trujillo has ties to Phoenix, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mexico. He is also known to use narcotics, and may possibly travel to Chihuahua, Mexico, where he was born.
Perez-Trujillo, a white Hispanic male, uses several aliases. When he was last seen, Perez-Trujillo was described as 5’10” to 6’0″ Read More
Governor Issues Two Child Welfare Executive Orders
Gov. Susana Martinez
STATE News:
SANTA FE—Gov. Susana Martinez issued two executive orders to take a more proactive and coherent approach to working with families who have faced multiple Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) investigations, and to improve communication between child welfare caseworkers and law enforcement officers.
“This new approach allows us to take a more proactive, deeper interest in families where CYFD has been regularly called to intervene, even when investigations of those incidents were unable to substantiate abuse Read More
