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Udall: Americans Deserve More Transparency on Phone Record Collection

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U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall released the following statement today on news reports that government agencies have collected extensive information on Americans’ phone records:
 
“The news that the government issued a blanket order for Americans’ phone records is deeply disturbing and exactly why I voted against the Patriot Act in 2001. It’s also why I have opposed reauthorization of similar provisions without adding civil liberties protections – protections that require agencies to explain specifically what information
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House Passes Luján Amendment to Increase Funding for Wildfire Preparedness and Preventative Measures

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U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District offered an amendment late last night to the Fiscal Year 2014 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act to increase funding for grant programs that help communities prepare for wildfires.

The amendment passed the House with broad bipartisan support by a 287 to 136 vote this morning. Below are Representative Luján’s remarks from last night. Click here<https:////www.youtube.com/watch?v=579fTTs_gLM&feature=youtu.be> to watch Luján’s Read More

Luján Encourages DHS to Use National Labs Rather than Build Duplicative Capabilities

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Rep. Ben Ray Lujan

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District spoke on the House floor late last night in an exchange with the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Rep. John Carter, to encourage the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to utilize the national labs rather than waste money on duplicative capabilities.

Rep. John Carter

The exchange occurred during debate on the Fiscal Year 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations Act. Below are their remarks. Click here<https:////www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-pUTK85SRA&feature=youtu.be Read More

LANL: Metamaterial Flexible Sheets Could Transform Optics

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Members of the metamaterials team, from left: Nathaniel K. Grady, Hou-Tong Chen, Jane E. Heyes. Courtesy/LANL

(a) Photograph of an ultrathin (72 µm thick) metamaterial sample. (b) Illustration of how the metamaterial redirects an electromagnetic wave, which would not happen for a normal thin film. The structure is not drawn to scale. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • New design flattens bulky optical devices

New ultrathin, planar, lightweight, and broadband polarimetric photonic devices and optics could result from recent research by a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. The Read More

Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard Attends National Meeting in Cincinnati

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Los Alamos air service to Albuquerque continues to grow in popularity and Monday’s 6:30 a.m. flight was nearly filled to capacity. On Monday’s flight was State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, left, who took the early flight on her way to attend a national meeting in Cincinnati for legislators dealing with DOE site cleanup and other nuclear industry related issues. Garcia Richard is a member of the National Conference of State Legislators’ Nuclear Legislative Workgroup. Courtesy photo Read More

FBI Seeking Information in Kidnapping of U.S. Citizen

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FBI News:

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS—Armando Fernandez, Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio Division of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), whose territory includes Brownsville, Texas, announced that the FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the person(s) responsible for the kidnapping of Armando Torres, III in La Barranca, Tamaulipas, Mexico May 14, 2013.

As reported in the national and international news services, the FBI and Mexican law enforcement agencies have been investigating the May 14, 2013 kidnapping in La Barranca, Tamaulipas, Mexico, of U.S. citizen Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Introduction

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Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
By ANN McLaughlin
 
Introduction

On a spring day in 1958, a gangling young man perched atop the back seat of an open Chrysler Imperial as it rolled down 5th Avenue in New York.  Confetti and ticker tape swirled down. People packed the sidewalks and strained to catch a glimpse of him. He was not a visiting head of state, or a military hero, or a sports luminary. He was an American, he was a pianist and he had just won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

The Tchaikovsky Competition was conceived as a demonstration Read More

Column: Valles Caldera Faces Troubled Future

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Column by TOM RIBE
Santa Fe

The beautiful Valles Caldera National Preserve atop the Jemez Mountains faces a troubled future if Congress doesn’t act soon.

 
This vast volcanic wild and beautiful place is often cited by visitors as “national park quality.” The legislation that created the Preserve in 2000 expires in 2020 and if congress does nothing, the Preserve will cease to exist as a protected place and will become general multiple use Forest Service land with no staff and virtually no protection of any kind.

How could this happen? When New Mexicans pressed Congress to buy the old Baca Ranch

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Navy Mom From White Rock Receives Tiger Wings

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Juanita Jebbanema (Dr. Jebb) receives her Tiger Wings from her son Petty Ofc. Aban Jebbanema. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

A White Rock mom boards the USS John C. Stennis Aircraft Carrier in Hawaii and the VFA-14 “Tophatters” Squadron, known as the “The Oldest and Boldest” Naval Aviation Squadron, to be with her son as he comes home from an 18 month deployment.

Juanita Jebbanema better known at Los Alamos Public Schools as Dr. Jebb, met up with her son Petty Ofc. Aban Jebbanema from White Rock in Hawaii April 22, as the carrier docked port for a couple of days. 

Dr. Jebb participated Read More

Memorial Day 2013 Observed at Guaje Pines

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Post Commander, LtCol Bill Cooper, USMC (ret) addressed the crowd gathered at Guaje Pines this morning for the Memorial Day event. Photo by James A. Mariner

Rev. John Carney speaking at this morning’s Memorial Day event at Guaje Pines. Photo by James A. Mariner

Scouts salute during today’s Memorial Day ceremony. Photo by James A. Mariner

AMERICAN LEGION News:

“Remembering those who have lost their lives for their country and a special remembrance of Vietnam” marked the theme for today’s Memorial Day community celebration at Guaje Pines Cemetery.

This year’s speakers Read More