Politics

County Grapples With Economic Development Puzzle

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By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

In 2025, as in previous years, a major focus for Los Alamos County was improving economic development and assisting local businesses.

How to achieve these goals is constantly being investigated and discussed. Finding the answer seems more like solving a complicated riddle or a many-sided Rubik’s Cube. Every one from County officials to business owners to the public are taking turns twisting and turning it in hopes of making a neat, clear answer.

This year, a group of business owners formed the Los Alamos Local Business Coalition Read More

Op-Ed: Legislature Should Pass All 10 Health Care Worker Compacts In 2026

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By KRISTINA FISHER
Associate Director
Think New Mexico

The most immediate way that New Mexico lawmakers can expand access to health care is by joining all the interstate compacts for health care workers, which would make it easier for health care professionals who are licensed in other states to care for patients here in New Mexico, including via telehealth.

States that join the doctor compact experience an increase of 10-15 percent in the number of doctors licensed every year.

This probably explains why states keep joining compacts and no state that has joined a compact has ever left. Forty-two Read More

DOE’s Environmental Mgmt. Delivers Nuclear Remediation &Revitalization For American Communities In 2025

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DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Helping to grow America’s burgeoning nuclear renaissance, advancing infrastructure critical to winning the artificial intelligence (AI) race and safely addressing aging facilities to contribute to the modernization of America’s strategic deterrent — these are just some of the ways the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) helped enable American energy, innovation and security in 2025, according to a new document released today.

“Delivering Nuclear Remediation and Revitalization for American Energy, Security and Innovation” Read More

Luján Reintroduces Legislation To Increase Multilingual Content Moderation Enforcement And Transparency

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dec. 8, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, led U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Ron Wyden (D-Oreg.) in introducing the Language-Inclusive Support and Transparency for Online Services (LISTOS) Act to improve multilingual large language models, automated decision-making systems, and content moderation practices online to better protect non-English speaking communities.

The LISTOS Act requires online platforms to consistently Read More

NNSA Renews University Consortium Grant For Research & Development Into Nuclear Science, Engineering, Security

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced a $25 million grant to a University of California, Berkeley-led consortium of nine universities and six National Laboratories for research and development (R&D) in nuclear science, engineering, and security.

This long-term investment will support the consortium at $5 million per year for five years. The grant, awarded for the fourth time to a UC-Berkeley-led consortium, follows the announcement of a funding opportunity issued in November 2024.

The mission Read More

Deb Haaland Campaign Touts Community-Centered Solutions At Climate And Health Candidate Forum

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Deb Haaland

From the Deb Haaland for Governor Campaign:

ALBUQUERQUE – On behalf of Deb Haaland, who is running for governor, Demis Foster, the Chief Executive Officer of Conservation Voters of New Mexico (CVNM), on Dec. 4, discussed Haaland’s plans for climate and public health at a community town hall in Albuquerque. The event, hosted by Healthy Climate New Mexico, focused on solutions that candidates would invest in if elected to office.

Haaland’s experience as a working mother, a member of Laguna Pueblo, former Member of Congress, and Secretary of the Department of the Interior has shaped Read More

Governor Awards $20 Million To Expand Rural Primary Care

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — Thirty-two rural health care organizations will share $20 million in Rural Health Care Delivery Fund awards to expand primary care services across New Mexico.

The fiscal year 2026 awards support projects that strengthen local health care capacity and improve access to coordinated, person-centered care in underserved areas—from tribal communities in Cibola County to frontier clinics in Catron County.

“We created this fund because rural health care providers were struggling to keep their doors open, let alone expand,” Lujan Grisham said. “These awards will help Read More

Voting Rights Groups File Motion To Protect Privacy

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CCNM News:

          • Lawsuit challenges DOJ demand for sensitive voter data

SANTA FE — Common Cause New Mexico (CCNM) and two individual New Mexico voters joined the ACLU National Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of New Mexico in filing a motion to intervene in United States of America v. Toulouse Oliver to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from obtaining New Mexico voters’ personal data.

In July, the DOJ asked New Mexico to turn over voters’ full names, dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers—highly sensitive data that is protected under state Read More

New Mexico Environment Dept. & ENMRD Release State Climate Action Plan Charting Path To Net-Zero Emissions

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Environment Secretary James Kenney

NMED News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico has released its Climate Action Plan, a landmark report outlining the state’s progress toward meeting greenhouse gas reduction goals and the pathway to achieving them.

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (ENMRD) developed the plan over the past year in collaboration with state agencies, local governments, Tribal nations, residents, community organizations, industry, and subject matter experts.

The plan serves as a roadmap to meet New Mexico’s climate Read More