Order of Merit Awarded to DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart
Photo:DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart is awarded the Order of Merit by Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez. Courtesy/DEA Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez has awarded the Order of Merit to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart for her effort and commitment to battling global drug trafficking.
The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez, and Mella is the principal order of the Dominican Republic, and is conferred by the President to both civilians and militaries for distinguished services.
Founded in 1931 as the Order of Merit of Juan Pablo Duarte
NMFA Arrests Shouldn’t Impact Los Alamos
Photo: John Duff. Courtesy/Santa Fe County JailMember of Joint Chiefs Asks for Nuclear Stockpile Cuts
Editor’s note: Update 9:25 a.m. with change of command ceremony information and recent photo.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz responds to questions at the Pentagon July 24, during a media availability to discuss his time as Chief of Staff. Schwartz finishes a four-year term in office shortly. U.S. Air Force photo/James Varhegyi
Staff report
The Boston Globe reports General Norton A. Schwartz, chief of staff of the Air Force and member of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff is asking for cuts in the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.
“We have more backup systems Read More
PRC Commissioner Doug Howe Talks Natural Gas
Editor’s Note: The Los Alamos Daily Post has received Commissioner Howe’s presentation slides. You may view them by clicking here (google docs).
PRC Commissioner Doug Howe discusses Natural Gas At Mesa Public Library Wednesday evening. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
By Greg Kendall
District 3 PRC Commissioner Doug Howe presented “Focus on … Unconventional Natural Gas: Boon or Bust?” to a full Mesa Public Library conference room audience Wednesday evening.
The talk was sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Los Alamos Sustainable Read More
‘CBS This Morning’ Features Los Alamos in National Historic Park Video
The V-Site buildings and nearby Gun Site are the last significant structures still standing at Los Alamos associated with the development and assembly of the world’s first nuclear devices. Courtesy photo
On Monday, the CBS This Morning Show ran an interesting video segment on the topic of the potential Manhattan Project National Historic Park. Los Alamos was a key feature of the story.
Click the following link to read the story and view the video: “Atom bomb historic sites may become national park.” Read More
Curiosity Lands on Mars!
NASA News
NASA’s Curiosity rover has landed on Mars. Curiosity is a car-size, one-ton rover that touched down on Mars at 11:31 a.m. Monday. The landing marks the beginning of a two-year prime mission to investigate.
Courtesy Photos. First photos sent to NASA from Curiosity within minutes of landing on Mars.
Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the “sky crane” maneuver. Nearly 400 people gathered at the Bradbury Science Museum to watch the direct feed from NASA television and celebrate the historic
Watch NASA TV Live
Live NASA Television coverage of the Curiosity Rover Mars Mission. Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars at 11:31PM MST.:
Watch the landing coverage at the Bradbury Science Museum in downtown Los Alamos. Click here for details. Read More
Valles Caldera Workshop and Campout, Aug. 17-19
Courtesy/LADVC
Los Amigo de Valles Caldera News:
The final of three workshops planned on the tributaries of San Antonio Creek this summer is on the Santa Rosa Creek Aug. 17-19.
Santa Rosa Creek ia a major tributary to San Antonio Creek and is being severely impacted by increased runoff from adjacent slopes burned by the Las Conchas Fire.
During a July workshop, Los Amigo de Valles Caldera members and volunteers completed an array of 26 stone structures that were severely tested in a flood that Saturday evening. The structures came through in flying colors.
Los Amigos is again Read More
New Mexico Municipal League Chief Appears Sunday on Report From Santa Fe
Executive Director Bill Fulginiti of the New Mexico Municipal League with host Lorene Mills of Report From Santa Fe. Courtesy Photo
This week’s guest on Report From Santa Fe is Bill Fulginiti, Executive Director of the New Mexico Municipal League. Fulginiti serves as the Vice Chair of the New Mexico Finance Authority and the Water Trust Board.
Recipient of the Governor’s Distinguished Public Service Award and the New Mexico Distinguished Public Administration Award, Fulginiti’s public service experience also extends nationally with his two terms on the Board of the powerful Read More
Unconventional Natural Gas Supplies Subject of Wednesday “Focus On” Meeting
The meeting is 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Mesa Public Library (upstairs meeting rooms 1 & 2.)
