Politics

Heinrich Announces Committee Passage Of $6.5 Million To Combat Crime, Save Lives, & Keep New Mexicans Safe

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. With Committee approval of this bill, Heinrich secured support for over $6.5 million for nine local projects in New Mexico.

“While this Appropriations bill isn’t perfect, it includes resources and investments I negotiated for New Mexico that will help our law enforcement officers solve and reduce violent crime, keep our communities safe, Read More

Samizdat To Host Author M.G. Shetfall Aug. 5 Virtually

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SAMIZDAT News:

The community is invited to join Samizdat Bookstore and Teahouse Aug. 5 for a virtual author talk from M. G. Sheftall for the release of his latest book, Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses.

Sheftall will join remotely from Japan to discuss both this new book and his first book of the series, Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses.

The talk will be held in Fuller Lodge. There will be tea and refreshments starting at 6:30 p.m., with the remote presentation beginning at 7 p.m. Afterward, signed copies of both books will be available for sale.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings Read More

Bureau Of Land Management New Mexico State Office Now Accepting Nominations For Geothermal Development

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BLM News:

SANTA FE — The Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office is now accepting nominations of lands for competitive geothermal leasing for the next geothermal lease sale that is tentatively scheduled for March 2026. 

All nominations must be received by Sept. 25, 2025.

Geothermal energy is a renewable resource that generates baseload electricity with minimal carbon emissions. It is an abundant resource, especially in the West, where the BLM has authority to manage geothermal resource leasing, exploration, and development on approximately 245 million surface acres of public Read More

Myers And Abata: Response To ‘Free Palestine’ Objections

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By KELLY MYERS and EMMA ABATA
Los Alamos

Thank you for providing a platform to discuss our upcoming Free Palestine Summer Series. We appreciate the opportunity to address concerns regarding our event’s intentions and impact. As coordinators, we take feedback seriously and value dialogue — but we respectfully disagree with the suggestion that this series promotes divisiveness, hate, or harm.

Our intent is precisely the opposite: to foster understanding, empathy, and action through education. For 77 years, the Palestinian people have endured brutal military occupation and ongoing Read More

Saenz: Why SALA Is Hosting ‘Free Palestine’ Series

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By ALLAN SAENZ
Owner
SALA Los Alamos Event Center

Beginning this evening, SALA Los Alamos Event Center will host Free Palestine, a multi-part film and discussion series produced by an independent group that rented our facility. The announcement has sparked strong emotions across our community; several members have resigned their memberships, and our staff has received a number of angry phone calls and emails.

We write to clarify three points:

SALA’s Mission as a Public-Facing Venue

SALA is an event center first and foremost. We provide space for school recitals, church services, science Read More

Leger Fernández, Murkowski, Klobuchar, Fitzpatrick Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Strengthen Healing Partnerships For Survivors Of Sexual Assault

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U.S. CONGRESS News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), alongside Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), introduced the Healing Partnerships for Survivors Act, a bipartisan bill to improve and expand trauma-informed care for survivors of sexual assault through strengthened partnerships between community-based sexual assault programs and health and wellness providers.

The bill authorizes $30 million annually for five years to help community based sexual assault programs provide culturally relevant, trauma-informed Read More

Heinrich Announces Committee Passage Of Over $205 Million For State’s Military Installations, Significant Wins For Veterans

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. With Committee passage of this bill, Heinrich secured support for over$205 million for New Mexico’s military installations and significant wins for New Mexico’s veterans, including over $32 million in Congressionally Directed Spending for five local projects.

“For our nation’s veterans and military families, this bill keeps our Read More

Dannemann: Work Comp Law Changes Increase Attorney Fees

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
www.triplespacedagain.com

It has been quite a while since New Mexico has done anything substantive to make life better for injured workers covered by the workers’ compensation system.

Instead, we’re making it easier for them to hire lawyers.

Three different actions, a law and two court decisions, have made inroads into the only barrier reducing lawyers’ incentive to represent injured workers in court: money.

About 90 percent of workers compensation claims are resolved without litigation. Either the treatment of the worker was reasonable, so litigation was not needed, Read More

Heinrich Leads Legislation To Protect Dreamers’ Data, Prevent DHS From Referring Dreamers To ICE & CBP

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led the introduction of the Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act, legislation to provide a statutory guarantee to current and prospective Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program applicants, also known as Dreamers, that the private information they provide in their applications will not be weaponized against them as the Trump Administration increases information sharing to advance their draconian mass deportation agenda.

Last month, the Trump Administration gave Department of Homeland Security Read More

Robinson: My 50 Years Of New Mexico Journalism

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

In July 1975, I was stringing for the Gallup Independent from the Navajo Reservation, when they asked me to work temporarily in Grants. The Independent had acquired a small newspaper there, but their hire for that job didn’t want to live in a uranium boom town and fled. They were desperate. It was a Friday, and deadline was Monday.

“Go to Grants and get anything you can,” the assistant editor said.

I’d never heard of the place but figured the best way to fill space was to take pictures. I wound up at Acoma Pueblo on a feast day. As I stood on the Read More