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Heinrich Featured In TIME’s 100 Most Influential People In AI

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From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, was featured as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI. Heinrich is the only member of Congress included in the list.

TIME Magazine: Martin Heinrich, U.S. Senator for New Mexico, 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024, 09/05/2024.

Martin Heinrich
U.S. Senator for New Mexico
By Andrew R. Chow 

New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich has long been a leader in AI legislation on the hill: He co-founded Read More

Española City Councilor Sam LeDoux Selected To Represent New Mexico At LAMP Summit In Washington, D.C.

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Española City Councilor Sam LeDoux

STATE News:

ESPAÑOLA – City Councilor Sam LeDoux of Española, N.M. will be one of two representing the state at the annual Leadership Alliance for a More Perfect Union Summit in Washington, D.C. The prestigious event is an initiative of the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy and Arizona State University’s Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service to bring together the next generation of conservative leaders with state legislators, mayors and city councilors from all 50 states to provide training to tackle the country’s biggest challenges. Read More

Stansbury Champions Small Businesses In New Legislation

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From the Office of U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) Friday introduced the Innovation and Empowerment for Startups Act creating grant programs for incubators and accelerators across the country to support women-owned and rural businesses.

“Small businesses run our country, grow our communities, and strengthen the working class,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) said. “With a focus on women-owned and rural businesses, the grants established by the Innovation and Empowerment for Startups Act will create more pathways for Americans to Read More

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Recognizes The Life Of Former LANL Director Dr. Charles McMillan

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Dr. Charles F. (Charlie) McMillan

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement this afternoon in recognition of the life of Dr. Charles F. (Charlie) McMillan, the former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

“Julie and I extend our sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Dr. Charlie McMillan. He had an incredible mind, a kind heart, and a strong commitment to our country. His tragic passing today is a loss to Los Alamos and the entire scientific community. 

“Just Read More

Los Alamos Composer And Musical Director Ted Vives Earns Honorable Mention In Composition From American Prize

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Ted Vives

COMMUNITY News:

The American Prize has announced the 2024 winners in music composition competition for opera/theater/film/dance (professional division).

Local composer and musical director of the award-winning Los Alamos Community Winds Ted Vives received an Honorable Mention award for his musical “Scientific Method”. The musical tells the story of Claire Jennings, a physics professor who has built a device to measure quantum anomalies (link).

Unexpectedly, the device begins to function on its own, sending her back in time where she observes the similar struggles of scientists Read More

LANL’s ChemCam Fires Laser For Millionth Time On Mars

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The ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover has fired 1 million times since it landed on Mars in 2012. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
LANL News:
  • The Curiosity rover has been roaming the red planet for 12 years

The ChemCam instrument, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently zapped its laser for the 1 millionth time on Mars. Sitting on top of NASA’s Curiosity rover, ChemCam has been helping make groundbreaking discoveries since 2012.

“Not only is this a remarkable technical accomplishment for our instrument, but it also represents a staggering amount of chemistry data from Read More

Heinrich, Luján, Leger Fernández, Stansbury Welcome $2 Million To Help New Mexico’s Working Families Lowerer Energy Costs

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Congressional News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) welcomed $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help working families in New Mexico lower energy costs by making their homes more energy efficient.

The funding was made possible through the DOE Weatherization Assistance Program’s Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers (SERC) grant.  

This federal grant will fund weatherization Read More

New Mexico Environment Department Signs Consent Order With DOE For LANL Legacy Waste Clean-Up

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From the Office of the Governor:

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration and the U.S. Department of Energy have executed a Settlement Agreement to clean-up legacy radioactive wastes at Los Alamos National Laboratory, marking a historic moment in the fight to hold the federal government accountable for the toxic waste it left behind in the wake of nuclear weapons testing in New Mexico.

The Settlement Agreement, executed on Aug. 30, and associated Compliance Order on Consent supersedes the contested 2016 agreement that failed to deliver meaningful clean-up of legacy radioactive Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society To Host First Lecture Of Season With NASA Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane Sept. 10

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NASA Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane

Los Alamos Historical Society News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society announces its first lecture of the season will feature NASA Astronaut Richard “Mike”  Mullane. This free event is 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge.

Colonel Mullane, born Sept. 10, 1945, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a longtime resident of Albuquerque  brings a wealth of experience and inspiration to the community. As a child of the space race, Mullane embarked on his own rocket experiments in the deserts near his childhood home, setting the stage for a remarkable Read More

Senatorial Candidate Nella Domenici Wants End To Consent Decree ‘Stifling Albuquerque Police Department’

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Nella Domenici

From the Nella Domenici for Senate Campaign:

ALBUQUERQUE — Senatorial candidate Nella Domenici has asked the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, to quickly review the consent decree that has governed the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) for 10 years and cost taxpayers more than $40 million.

Domenici said she sees no “legitimate reason for the Decree to remain in effect” and wants Garland to immediately ask the court to terminate the Consent Decree.

“The bitter irony is that the Consent Decree is siphoning off and diverting valuable resources away from Read More