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Heinrich, Luján Call On DHS To Reduce Delays For DACA Renewals

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) sent a letter demanding that outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow reduce the delays in processing renewal applications under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Created in 2012, DACA protects individuals who came to the United States as children from deportation. DACA recipients across the country are experiencing increasing delays in renewing their Read More

Los Alamos Native Eric Diamond Honored At Grand Ole Opry

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International award-winning country singer Eric Diamond with several of his many awards during a recent interview at the Los Alamos Daily Post newsroom. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Eric Diamond is named Traditional Country Music Male Vocalist of the Year during the annual Josie Music Awards on Nov. 2, 2025, at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. The Josie Music Awards celebrates independent music artists of all genres from around the world. Courtesy photo

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos native Eric Diamond was named Traditional Read More

The FOIA: Off To A Slow Start, Picked Up Speed, Now Hitting A Brick Wall

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By THOMAS M. SUSMAN
American Bar Association
Feb. 16, 2026

It was June 1968 when I arrived in Washington, D.C., after a year in New Orleans clerking for Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom. A new law requiring more government transparency was just going into effect.

I had accepted a job as a Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Frank Wozencraft in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While I worked on efforts to advance the confirmation of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, I was also assigned to work with OLC attorney Warren Belmar, Read More

Ten Los Alamos High School Seniors Named Finalists In 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program

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2026 National Merit finalists from LAHS include, front row, Emily Xu, center row from left, Galina Nelson, Alyssa Sun and Anya Seet, and back row from left, James Thomas, Henry Gans and John Kang. (Not pictured Jasper Carpenter, James Ito and Helena Welch.. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Ten Los Alamos High School (LAHS) seniors have been named National Merit finalists. They join more than 15,000 other finalists now eligible to receive National Merit scholarships.

LAHS seniors Jasper Carpenter, Henry Gans, James Ito, John Kang, Galina Nelson, Anya Seet, Alyssa Sun, James Thomas, Helena Welch Read More

American Bar Association Chooses Five Recipients For 2026 Women Lawyers Of Achievement Award

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ABA News:

CHICAGO — The American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Women in the Profession has chosen five women lawyers to receive its 2026 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. The award ceremony and reception will take place from 3-5:30 p.m. CDT, Aug. 2 during the ABA Annual Conference in Chicago.

This year’s honorees:

Cory M. Amron, co-founder and president of Women Lawyers on Guard Inc. (WLG), a national non-profit organization addressing four areas: sexual harassment, women’s reproductive rights, gender and workplace equity and an increasing focus on protecting, Read More

Heinrich And Whitehouse Host Roundtable On Skyrocketing Energy Costs

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, host roundtable on skyrocketing energy costs, March 17, 2026. Courtesy photo

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, hosted a Read More

National Sunshine Week Runs March 15-21, 2026

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The Document Divide: Why public record laws are failing average Americans, and what to do about it

By DAVID CUILLIER
Brechner Freedom of Information Project
Feb. 9, 2026

Freedom of information should be freedom of information for all.

It is not.

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and celebrate national Sunshine Week March 15-21, we look back at the signing of the law by Lyndon B. Johnson on July 4, 1966: “I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people’s right to know is cherished and guarded.” Read More

Leger Fernández’s Small Cemetery Conveyance Act Passes In The House Of Representatives

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CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House unanimously passed Congresswoman Leger Fernández’s (NM-03) bill, H.R. 4284, the Small Cemetery Conveyance Act. The bill would remove long-standing federal obstacles for rural, Tribal, and land-grant communities to care for ancestral cemeteries located on National Forest lands.

For generations, families laid their loved ones to rest on lands consecrated long before those lands were claimed by the federal government. Too many communities must navigate costly, time-consuming bureaucratic processes simply to maintain the cemeteries Read More

Democracy On The Move: Wonders On Wheels Celebrates America’s 250th In New Mexico

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Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum. Courtesy/NMDCA

NMDCA News:

SANTA FE — In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is traveling a new exhibit, “The Arts of Democracy in New Mexico” beginning this spring.

The all-ages exhibit on the Wonders on Wheels (WoW) RV, highlights ideals of freedom and self-government embedded in the Declaration and traces the development of those same ideals in New Mexico, showing how they have been expressed in art forms such Read More

Luján, Budzinski Introduce Legislation To Strengthen Resilience Of U.S. Food Supply Chains

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U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, introduced the Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act, legislation that would create a new, permanent grant program to provide stabilization payments to farm, grocery, and meatpacking workers in the case a major disaster.

In 2021, the United States Department of Agriculture created the Farm and Food Workers Relief Read More