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Gov. Lujan Grisham, Attorney General Balderas, NMED Secretary Kenney And Trustee Hart Stebbins Announce $32M Settlement With U.S. In Gold King Mine Litigation

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From the Office of the Attorney General:

FARMINGTON — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, Environment Secretary James Kenney, and Natural Resources Trustee Maggie Hart Stebbins announced today a $32 million final settlement with the United States and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Gold King Mine litigation.

Under the settlement, the U.S. will make cash payments to New Mexico of $18.1 million for response costs, $10 million for restoration of injured natural resources, and commit to providing an additional $3.5 million to state water Read More

Chart 653: 7-Day Average COVID Diagnoses In Los Alamos

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This chart shows the seven-day average number of COVID-19 diagnoses in Los Alamos versus date. On a scale of 0 to 100, the diagnoses index quantifies the current level of diagnoses by using a comparison with daily levels since the start of the pandemic (the higher the index, the more severe the current state of the pandemic is). The current number of diagnoses is higher than 96 percent of preceding days. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
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Gruninger: It’s Summer – Get Outside And PLAY

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Jacci Gruninger takes her own advice and has some fun! Courtesy photo

By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
Los Alamos

Plato, the Greek philosopher said, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

Freidrich Froebel, father of modern kindergarten said, “Play is the purist, the most spiritual, product of man at this stage, and it is at once the prefiguration and imitation of the total human life–of the inner, secret, natural life in man and in all things. It produces, therefore, joy, freedom, satisfaction, repose within and without, peace with the Read More

Senate Passes Resolution: May Is Stroke Awareness Month

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday led by U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to recognize May as Stroke Awareness Month.

The resolution encourages continued coordination and cooperation between the federal government, researchers, families, and the public to improve prognoses by increasing access to timely treatments for individuals who suffer strokes.

“As a stroke survivor, I know firsthand how critical it is to raise awareness of strokes and to know the Read More

Skolnik: COVID Update – June 15, 2022 – Still In A Major Surge

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

Cases

The number of cases has increased over the two weeks ending June 14 by 157 percent. We are at a 7-day average of 25+ cases per day, equal to 129 per 100,000 people.

This rate of new cases is the highest in New Mexico and as high as any time except the peak of the Omicron surge. For reference, the county with the 10th highest rate of new cases in the country has 139 cases per 100,000 per day.

The number of reported cases is almost certainly a major undercount of the true number of cases. In addition, the County’s wastewater testing program has not functioned during the recent Read More

Governor Lujan Grisham Acts To Lower Health Care Costs For New Mexicans

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

From the Office of the Governor:

ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham acted to decrease prescription drug and health care costs for New Mexicans Thursday, June 9,  by creating a Prescription Drug Task Force.

Members of the task force will work to reduce the costs of prescriptions for New Mexicans, building on Gov. Lujan Grisham’s record of delivering affordable health care to every corner of the state.

In just three and a half years, Gov. Lujan Grisham took decisive action to increase access to  high-quality health care to every New Mexican. Under Gov. Lujan Read More

LAMC Hosts Ceremony For M.A.S.H. 2022 Graduates

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After completion of the M.A.S.H. program, Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) held a graduation ceremony outdoors Tuesday, June 7, with parents and siblings present. LAMC calls this program a success and continues to educate students on all possible healthcare careers and looks forward to doing this again next year. M.A.S.H. stands for Multiple Avenues for Success in Healthcare. It is a program where LAMC partners with local high schools to invite students to come in and participate in a program where they are exposed to many different aspects of healthcare careers. LAMC has been conducting Read More

Gruninger: Yoga FORE Golfers

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Yoga is the perfect complement for golfing. Courtesy photo

By JACCI GRUNINGER MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
Los Alamos

Even though we spend a lot of our day doing things on one side … using our dominant hand, stepping forward with the same foot, sitting cross-legged with the same leg in front to name a few, golf is a very one-sided practice.

Consider this, you might take over 100 practice swings, lean into 30-40 putts and bend down 40-50 times to pick up a ball; all on one side. That, coupled with walking 4-5 miles can put a lot of strain on the golfer’s body.

Yoga is the perfect complement to regain balance Read More

Leonard: Get Unstuck And Transform Any Aspect Of Your Life … Part 1

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By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos

Have you ever felt stuck in a certain aspect of your life? The answer to this question is likely a yes for most of us. It is human nature to find ourselves struggling with repetitive patterns that we feel powerless to change.

The key to escaping from the hamster wheel is digging into our subconscious beliefs which lurk below the surface of awareness.

A great image to depict this is of an iceberg floating with only the tip sticking out of the water. What lies above is the conscious mind and what lies below is the subconscious mind. The question is why? It Read More