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Robinson: Rethinking The American Revolution

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services

The USA is a miracle, and the revolution that made it possible could easily have gone the wrong way. These were a couple of thoughts I had after watching “The American Revolution,” on PBS. Instead of the tidy history I learned in school, the revolution was a sprawling and complex series of events.

What the creators want us to know is that the United States was born of violence and division. And it was as much a civil war as a revolution because a great many colonists were loyal to Britain. They thought rebellion was insanity.

Britain was an Read More

Los Alamos Researchers Receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes

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Top row, Matthew Biss, Sowjanya Gollapinni. Bottom, Andrei Simakov and Etienne Vermeulen. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Simakov recognized for research; Biss, Gollapinni, Vermeulen for leadership

Four Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have been awarded Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes: Andrei Simakov received the Fellows’ Prize for Research and Matthew Biss, Sowjanya Gollapinni and Etienne Vermeulen received the Fellows’ Prize for Leadership.

“We are honored to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of this year’s Fellows’ Prize recipients,” Laboratory Director Thom Read More

Posts From The Road: Oklahoma Aquarium

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Shark Tunnel: The popular shark exhibit and Shark Tank Adventure Tunnel at the Oklahoma Aquarium leads visitors through the 500,000-gallon shark tank, where they can watch sharks swim around and view the largest number of bull sharks living in an aquarium setting anywhere. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Pot-bellied Seahorse: The Pot-bellied Seahorse is a unique fish. that appears to have a head like a horse, tail of a monkey, and fins of a fish. Seahorses are the only known animal where the male gives birth. The brood pouch is used to hold eggs. The female will deposit up to 700 eggs into Read More

Heinrich, Luján, Stansbury Meet With Pueblo Leaders On Next Steps To Permanently Protect Chaco Canyon

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U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep, Melanie Stansbury host a press conference Nov. 21 with Pueblo leaders on the next steps to permanently protect Chaco Canyon. Courtesy photo

Congressional News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), hosted a press conference with Pueblo leaders on the Read More

SAR Announces 2025 Book Award: J.I. Staley Prize For ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’

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Book cover: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’. Courtesy image

SAR News:

SANTA FE — The School for Advanced Research (SAR) announces that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize, recognizing exceptional scholarship and writing that expand the boundaries of anthropological thought.

The endowed award specifies that the prize goes to a living author for a work published within the last 10 years.

The Dawn of Everything, published in 2021, has received international acclaim since its release. Read More

LANL Director To Host Year’s Final Virtual Public Town Hall

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Lab Director Tom Mason

LANL News:

          • All New Mexicans invited; no registration required

All employees, their families and community members across New Mexico are invited to tune in to Laboratory Director Thom Mason’s final virtual Town Hall of the year, 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, on Zoom.

Mason will recap 2025 activities, including significant mission-related accomplishments and notable community-focused initiatives. He will also provide a brief preview of the year ahead and discuss some of the main challenges and opportunities for the Laboratory in 2026. Mason will close with a public Read More

Sen. Leo Jaramillo Elected To Serve As West Region Chair For National Hispanic Caucus Of State Legislators

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Sen. Leo Jaramillo (D–Española), center, is elected to serve as the West Region Chair for the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, during NHCSL’s National Summit Saturday in Oklahoma City. Courtesy photo

Sen. Leo Jaramillo, 4th from right, is sworn in Saturday as West Region Chair to represent and coordinate legislative leadership across 13 western states and territories, including New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and Hawaii. Courtesy photo

STATE News:

New Mexico State Sen. Leo Jaramillo (D–Española) Read More

Heinrich Emphasizes Importance Of Creating Land Management Plans That Balance Preservation Of Public Lands, Permitting Processes

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U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivers opening remarks at a hearing to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) affects permitting before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Nove. 19, 2025. Courtesy photo

NATIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his opening statement at a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land use planning process impacts permitting under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Read More

U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze To Launch Laureateship With Inaugural Reading, Translation Programs

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ARTS News:

U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will open his tenure in December with a workshop and reading focused on poetry translation at Queens College of the City University of New York, in the borough where he grew up, followed by his inaugural reading at the Library of Congress on Dec. 11 (rescheduled from October) and two poetry translation workshops in Sze’s hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in early January.

Sze plans to engage with students and the public in a series of readings and workshops focused on translating poetry originally written in other languages during his laureateship. Translation Read More

Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus Endorses Public Lands In Public Hands Act

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NATIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, co-chaired by U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), announced its official endorsement of the bipartisan Public Lands in Public Hands Act to safeguard America’s public lands and ensure they remain open and accessible for all. This is the first bill endorsed by the Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, which was founded by Rep. Vasquez and Rep. Zinke in May 2025. 

Rooted in the belief that public lands are “for the benefit and enjoyment of the Read More