Politics

Council Oks List Of Rec Projects For Bond Election

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The Los Alamos County Council this evening voted 5-2 to approve a list of recreation projects and directed staff to develop a ballot question in the amount of $20 million for a May 2017 all mail ballot. The list includes Ice Rink improvements, Softball Field improvements at Overlook Park, a new Recreation Center with Ice Rink, a new Multi-generational pool and a Splash Pad at Pinon Park in White Rock. Council also voted to direct staff to develop a plan for advertising and promoting the bond. Councilors David Izraelevitz and Steven Girrens voted against the measure. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

James Robinson Files For UNM-LA Advisory Board

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The first candidate to make it official – James Robinson files this morning in the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office for Position 5 on the UNM-Los Alamos Advisory Board. Watch for a column by Robinson in Thursday’s print edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post in which he details his interest in serving on this board. Three seats are open on the UNM-LA Advisory Board and two on the Los Alamos School Board. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

DOE Awards Co-op Agreement To New Mexico Energy, Confederated Tribes Of Umatilla Indian Reservation

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DOE News:

CARLSBAD — The Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office Monday awarded a $375,000, five-year cooperative agreement to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Ore. for the coordination of activities to ensure the safe transportation of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

Activities under the cooperative agreement focus on technical assistance to be provided through training and exercises for the Indian Nation to prepare emergency responders and emergency management for the continued assurance of safe

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Notice Of Quorum For Arts in Public Places Board

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COUNTY News:
 
Notices of a possible quorum of the Arts in Public Places Board at tonight’s County Council meeting and Wednesday’s Canyon Rim Trail Ribbon Cutting Ceremony have been published and are available online at: https:////losalamos.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
 
No action will be taken by the board at these events.
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Los Alamos County Council To Review Final Report On Eight Proposed Capital Improvement Projects Tuesday

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COUNTY News:
 
The Dekker Perich Sabatini (DPS) team, the group contracted to scope, develop concepts and put together cost estimates for the County’s proposed recreation projects, will give its final presentation at the Los Alamos County Council Tuesday, Dec. 20 meeting.
 
The DPS team will give detailed opinions of probable costs as well as projected operations and maintenance costs for the eight proposed recreation projects.

The report the County Council will review and discuss is available at: losalamosbondprojects2017.com/newsroom/

The Dec. 20 County

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U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell Leads Call To Protect National Laboratory Employees From Blacklisting

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U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell

CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA15) today led 26 members of Congress, including Ben Ray Luján (NM-03) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01), in sending President-elect Donald Trump their vow to defend the scientific freedom of employees at the Department of Energy’s 17 National Laboratories, following reports that Trump’s transition team sought personal information regarding department employees’ work on climate change.

Swalwell’s district includes Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories. The Trump transition Read More

Scenes From Wednesday’s Chamber Breakfast

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State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard speaking at Wednesday’s Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast at UNM-LA. Rep. Garcia Richard briefed the gathering of business owners and managers on the upcoming Legislative Session. She explained that the Legislature’s interim committees meet between sessions to study a broad range of issues in preparation for the next legislative session. This next Legislative Session begins at noon Jan. 17 and runs through noon March 18. Photo by Ryn Herrmann

State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard listens to questions and concerns from local business Read More

RSF: 74 Journalists Killed Worldwide This Year

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RSF News:

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that at least 74 professional and non-professional journalists have been killed in connection with their work in 2016.

Some were killed while out reporting. Most were clearly deliberately targeted victims of deadly violence.

This is fewer than in 2015, when 101 journalists were killed. But the fall is not encouraging because it is due largely to the fact many journalists have fled countries that became too dangerous, especially Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Burundi. These exoduses have created news and information black holes Read More

WIPP’s Long Closure Nears End

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WIPP officials at the Carlsbad Town Hall Meeting from left, Phil Briedenbach, president and project director of the Nuclear Weapons Partnership, DOE’s operational readiness review team leader, Ed Westbrook, Carlsbad Field Office Manager Todd Shrader, along with John Heaton, the moderator. ScreenShot Photo

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Thanks to Internet video streaming, informational meetings in the two-and-a-half year struggle to re-open the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Southern New Mexico are accessible not only to the people of Carlsbad but for people Read More