Politics

NNSA Schedules Public Meeting To Discuss Data From LANL Flanged Tritium Waste Containers Depressurization Dec. 9

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LANL News:

A public meeting to discuss data from the depressurization of four flanged tritium waste containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory is scheduled for Dec. 9, 2025, in Los Alamos.

This in-person meeting will be held, 5:30-7 p.m. at Sala Event Center, 2551 Central Ave.

A virtual Zoom meeting option is available as follows:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86235824828?pwd=zCBisrAgasSL2ZnhuiRlZw67azyXEE.1

Meeting ID: 862 3582 4828

Passcode: 463520

The National Nuclear Security Administration and LANL shipped the fourth and final flanged tritium waste container Read More

Los Alamos County Library Board To Meet Monday Dec. 1

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COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Library Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, in Room 110 at the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.

The meeting is open to the public in person, and a Zoom option is also available at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85215643936.

Find the meeting agenda here.

Note: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, please contact the County Human Resources Division at 505.662.8040, at least Read More

There’s More To The Pilgrim Story Than Thanksgiving

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Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930, The Mayflower Compact 1620, Oil on Canvas. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Courtesy/Wikipedia Commons

By CHRIS BROWN
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ASENATH KEPLER
New Mexico’s Mayflower Society

This Thanksgiving marks 70 years since New Mexico’s Mayflower Society was founded by descendants of the ship’s 102 passengers. Our mission is to keep the Pilgrim story alive and relevant to New Mexicans today.  More important than the first Thanksgiving that half of the passengers survived to celebrate only with help from their native benefactors, Plymouth’s settlers

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Homeless New Mexico High School Students To Receive $500 Monthly For Meeting Attendance Goals

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PED News:

SANTA FE — High school students experiencing homelessness will receive $500 monthly payments for meeting attendance and academic requirements under a new state pilot program launching this month. 

The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) will enroll 330 students in grades 10–12 across 12 school districts and one charter school. The Legislature funded the three-year pilot $2.1 million annually. 

Students must maintain 92% monthly attendance, complete all schoolwork, attend three academic support sessions weekly and meet with counselors for wraparound services Read More

New Mexico To Host Farm To Cafeteria Food Conference

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ECECD News:

SANTA FE — The National Farm to School Network will bring its annual National Farm to Cafeteria Conference to Albuquerque this year, spotlighting New Mexico’s leadership in providing children with local, healthy food in schools and early childhood settings.

The event will gather hundreds of advocates, educators, farmers and community leaders from across the country to promote local, nutritious food choices in schools and childcare centers. The conference is Dec. 1 through Dec. 4 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd St. NW.

The theme of the conference is “Rooted in Culture, Read More

New Mexico State Canvass Board Certifies Regular Local Election Results And Orders Automatic Recounts 

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Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

From the Office of the Secretary of State:

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s State Canvass Board met today in Santa Fe and unanimously certified the official results of the 2025 Regular Local Election.

“The 2025 Regular Local Election was conducted with the professionalism, efficiency, and integrity that New Mexicans expect from their election administrators,” Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said. “These certified results should give every voter full confidence in the process. I extend my sincere thanks to the State Canvass Board for their work Read More

Op-Ed: Vaccines – Who Can You Trust?

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock

The Republican Trump administration has “gone to war” against vaccines. This includes recently changing the CDC’s website on childhood vaccines at the direct request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to imply that “vaccines cause autism.” This is despite the complete lack of scientific evidence for this idea.

Secretary Kennedy’s battle against vaccines appears to have four pillars, dealing with trust and the destruction of key vaccine institutions:

  • Reduce trust in vaccines
  • Take over the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
  • Make
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Op-Ed: New Mexico’s Economic Freedom Now Dead Last

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By PAUL J. GESSING
President Rio Grande Foundation

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MATTHEW MITCHELL
Canadian free market think tank
Lives in Angel Fire

In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the US to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now know that it is worse than we thought.

People are more economically free when they are allowed to make more of their own economic choices; economists measure this freedom by looking at the degree to which government spending, taxation, and regulation limits choice.

We relied on data from the Fraser Institute’s Economic Read More

Leger Fernández Introduces Bill To Protect Sacred Tribal Sites, Cultural Items, & Practices From Public Disclosure

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) introduced H.R. 6206, the Protect Culturally Sensitive Information Act to make sure Native American Tribes, Alaska Native Entities, and Native Hawaiian Organizations can share sacred and culturally important information with the federal government without fear that it will be made public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 

The bill also creates a safe, confidential space for consultation so tribes can protect information about sacred and religiously significant sites, burial grounds, cultural items, and Read More