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Los Alamos Resident Kelly Garcia Named To University Of Central Oklahoma President’s Honor Roll

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UCO News:

Los Alamos resident Kelly Garcia has been named to the University of Central Oklahoma President’s Honor Roll for their work in the fall 2024 semester, a distinction given to those who achieve the university’s highest academic standards.

To be included on the President’s Honor Roll, a student must record a “straight-A” or 4.0 grade point average for their work in qualifying classes.

To be eligible for the President’s or Dean’s lists, students must complete at least 12 hours of on-campus class credit for the semester.

With strong connections throughout the Oklahoma City metro, the Read More

Heinrich Responds To Latest Developments On Ben Archer Health Center In Southern New Mexico Turning Away Patients Without Birth Certificates On-hand 

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

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

          •  “What Ben Archer was pulling at its health clinics wasn’t just wrong, it was illegal.” –Heinrich

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement today after constituents notified his office that Ben Archer Health Center was denying medical care to individuals unable to provide “proof of citizenship’:

“What Ben Archer was pulling at its health clinics wasn’t just wrong, it was illegal. I am glad they reversed course, and that they did it quickly. Let this be a lesson to all health care Read More

Posts From The Road: Cruising Saguaro Lake In Arizona

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Lake & Canyons: Saguaro Lake was formed when the Salt River was dammed in 1930. The lake is a few miles long with a combination of open spaces and areas within the canyons. The lake offers various water and outdoor recreational activities for visitors. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Saguaros: The Saguaro Lake is named for the thousands of saguaro cacti that line the shores of the lake. The surrounding desert landscape combined with the blue waters of the lake create dramatic views. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

It’s not often Read More

Tales Of Our Times: EPA Warns Of Iran, China Waging Cyberwar On U.S. Water Facilities

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Ancient Persia had a place on history’s pathway that brought the technology and culture of acequias for water usage from the Middle East to Morocco to Moorish Spain and eventually to hundreds of villages in Northern New Mexico. An “acequia” is a ditch system of irrigation that works by gravity and to this day is still managed by its users. The name itself goes back thousands of years to the Arabic.

But aspects change. Modern Iran is pure trouble for the more recent water systems in our nation. To update us, the U.S. EPA offers Read More

U.S. Rep. Leger Fernández, New Mexico Farmers And Advocates Speak Out Against Freeze Of USDA Funding

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Scene from U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández hosting a press conference Thursday with local farmers, ranchers, Tribal representatives and conservation leaders in Santa Fe. Courtesy photo

From the Office of U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández:

WATCH THE PRESS CONFERENCE

SANTA FE – U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) hosted a press conference Thursday with local farmers, ranchers, Tribal representatives and conservation leaders to denounce the Trump Administration’s funding freeze on critical U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, including the Environmental Quality Incentives Read More

Bipartisan Legislation Introduced To Bring New Mexico Into Nine Major Interstate Compacts For Health Care Workers

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Fred Nathan, Jr.
Executive Director
Think New Mexico

From Think New Mexico:

A bipartisan team of 10 legislators has introduced a package of bills to bring New Mexico into the interstate compacts for physicians, physician assistants, psychologists, counselors, dentists and dental hygienists, emergency medical personnel, audiologists and speech therapists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. (See below for a chart listing all bill numbers and sponsors.)

Joining these interstate compacts was one of the top reforms recommended by the nonpartisan think tank Think New Read More

Los Alamos-Based UbiQD Expands Solar Innovation With Acquisition Of BlueDot Photonics

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QCD on flexible film. Courtesy/UbiQD

Courtesy/UbiQD

UbiQD News:

UbiQD, Inc., the New Mexico-based leader in quantum dot (QD) technology and manufacturing, today announced the acquisition of substantially all assets of BlueDot Photonics, Inc. (BlueDot), including its groundbreaking perovskite-based quantum cutting technology. The deal also enabled UbiQD to secure exclusive rights to BlueDot’s associated intellectual property, originally developed at the University of Washington and licensed from CoMotion.

By leveraging BlueDot’s innovative doped perovskite materials, Read More

New Mexico Lawmakers Consider Ending Revolving Door Of Top Education Leaders With New Board System

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Executive Director Stan Rounds
New Mexico Coalition of Educational Leaders

By ESTEBAN CANDELARIA
Santa Fe New Mexican

Eight people have occupied the position of top public education chief in New Mexico since 2003 — more if you count those who held the job on an interim basis.

Most of them have come under Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has had five people serve full time as Cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Public Education Department so far.

To address the often-referenced revolving door in the top leadership of the state’s public education system, lawmakers have introduced Senate Joint Read More

Congressional Dems Highlight Trump Fears, Praise Mental Health Work In Roundhouse

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U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández greets Thomas H. Begay, a Navajo Code Talker who served in World War II, after addressing a joint session of the New Mexico Legislature on the House floor of the Capitol on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Michael G. Seamans/The New Mexican

By CORMAC DODD
The Santa Fe New Mexican

U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández did not mince words Monday on the New Mexico House floor when raising concerns about the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term.

“I’m going to say it, guys: We are at the door of a constitutional crisis, when profiteering billionaires who are not elected,” Read More

Hundreds Hold Presidents Day Protest Outside Roundhouse: ‘Our Democracy Is At Stake’

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Hundreds of protesters filled the areas in front of the Old Santa Fe Trail entrance of the Roundhouse around noon Monday to rail against policy directives set by the Trump administration as well as billionaire Elon Musk’s new role in the federal government at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Photo by Matt Dahlseid/The New Mexican

By CORMAC DODD and ESTEBAN CANDELARIA
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Penny Yardman Gonzales held aloft a stick with a mask meant to depict President Donald Trump with devil horns, something she said she wore in 2017 as a Halloween costume during his Read More