U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich’s Field Representative Mike Sullivan, right, met Monday with Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Membership Coordinator Katy Korkos and Chamber Executive Director Kevin Holsapple at their Chamber Offices in downtown Los Alamos to hear about the local business climate and relay that information back to the Senator in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Politics
UNM-LA Advisory Board Members Take Oath
Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk swears in new UNM-LA Advisory Board Member Michelle Hall at the Monday, March 11 UNM-LA Advisory Board Meeting held at the college. Hall was elected to Position One on the Board in February. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Newly elected UNM-LA Advisory Board Member John Hofmann is sworn in by Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk Monday evening at the college. Hofmann was elected to Position Five on the Board in February. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comRep. Stephanie Garcia Richard Votes on Driver’s License Bill and Urges Governor to Stop Playing Party Politics
STATE News:
SANTA FE – Saturday, March 9, the New Mexico State House Appropriations and Finance Committee convened to vote on HB 606 (driver’s licenses bill.)
After hearing testimony and expressing concern over the fiscal implications, the committee had a tied tabling motion on HB 606.
Democrat Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard broke party rank and joined Republicans in voting against the tabling motion.
Garcia Richard again joined committee Republicans in voting in favor of passing the bill out of committee, but the vote failed through a second tie.
“I have been deeply concerned by Gov. Martinez’s Read More
Los Alamos Federation of Republican Women Meets March 14
LAFRW News:The Los Alamos Federated Republican Women will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m., March 14, at UNM-LA, Building 2, Room 203.
The guest speaker will be Frances Fernandes who is president of the Santa Fe Federated Republican Women.
Members are reminded to bring non-perishable food items and toiletries for the LAFRW charity.
All Replubicans are encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact Donna MacDonald at 662-4001.
Read More Governor Calls Out Rep. Garcia Richard
Gov. Susana Martinez
By GREG KENDALL
Los Alamos Daily Post
This morning on the KRSN AM 1490 morning show, Gov. Susana Martinez accused Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard of breaking her campaign promise to voters in Los Alamos with regard to driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants (House Bill 606.)
Garcia Richard is on record during her campaign for favoring the repeal of the current law, which grants driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, saying “It’s a bad law that needs to be changed.”
It appears Garcia Richard was trying to do just that through her vote yesterday. Read More
NM House of Representatives Highlights March 5
STATE News:
On the Floor
- House Education Committee Substitute For House Bill 27 (“Expand Lottery Scholarship Eligibility”) sponsored Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, passed the House with a vote of 49-13. The legislation will extend the Legislative Lottery Scholarship eligibility to students who are accepted to attend a two-year state educational institution within two years of completion of a high school curriculum at a public or accredited private NM high school, receiving a high school equivalency diploma, beginning service in the US armed forces, or honorable service or medical
Council Approves Certification of Canvassing Committee Results of 2012 General Election
Los Alamos County Clerk Janet Foster addresses Council during the Council meeting tonight in Council Chambers. The Council unanamously approved the results of the Canvassing Committee and directed the County Clerk to certify the results to the State Canvassing Board in conformity with applicable New Mexico election law. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Informative Column
By JJ Maier
Los Alamos
Dear Ralph, et al,
My perception is that the “media” needs a ‘close race’ in order to retain the purchase of commercial time by both “sides”,and thereby maintain their seriously large financial income streams from same.
Facts and benefits to the “People/community” have become unimportant and are no longer a consideration, even though that is the commitment they supposedly make to utilize “the airwaves, which belong to the People.”
Thanks for your informative column.
(Los Alamos Daily Post Nov. 9, 2012: “Thoughts from a – hopefully – Enlightened Skeptic” Read More
Column: Analytical Failures in the 2012 Election Results with Implications for Other Topics of Importance
Thoughts from a – hopefully – Enlightened SkepticBy Ralph E. Chapman
To listen to the pundits before the election you would think that anything could have happened last Tuesday when we all went to the polls.
The mainstream media was emphasizing just how close the election was going to be and that Mr. Obama was potentially in grave danger of becoming a one-term president.
If you listened to the conservative pundits you were assured that good, as they define it, would win out over evil; some suggested it would be a rout with Gov. Romney getting over 300 electoral votes.
As an aside, I find it interesting Read More
LAHS Students Hold Mock Election
From left, Los Alamos High School senior Nicholas Hill cast his ballot as “election workers” Isabelle Coons, senior, and Grace Montano, junior, participate in the LAHS Presidential Mock Election. Photo by Maire O’NeillLAHS News:
President Barack Obama won the Presidential Mock Election at Los Alamos High School Tuesday, earning 51 percent of the student vote.
Gov. Mitt Romney received 37 percent, Gary Johnson 10 percent and Virgil Goode, Jill Stein and Ross Anderson received less than one percent each.
The election was organized
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