From North Mesa Stable Owners:
Due to a contagious horse virus that has entered New Mexico from neighboring states, the Los Alamos Stable Owners Association has decided to postpone the annual stables’ Luminaria Walk open house to Saturday, Dec. 27.
The community is invited to participate in the peaceful evening walk through the stable area and enjoy the holiday afterglow in the company of horses and other barnyard animals, and their people. Read More
From the Republican Party of New Mexico:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it has taken legal action against six Democratic-leaning states—Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and New Mexico—alleging that they broke federal law by refusing to release their full voter registration lists when requested. New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has outright refused to comply and is now being sued by the DOJ.
“We are not going to have free, fair, or accurate elections if we cannot maintain accurate voter rolls, and it should concern Read More
COURT News:
SANTA FE — New Mexico’s Judiciary uses a robust text and email reminder messaging system to help ensure people awaiting trial return to court for their future hearings and comply with other pretrial supervision requirements.
The program marked its second anniversary last month.
The messaging system by the Pretrial Justice Program of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC):
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — A Pojoaque man pleaded guilty to a count of sexually abusing a child over a period of several months.
According to court documents, between December 2021, and February 2022, Alexander John Duran, 31, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Pojoaque, engaged in a sexual act with a child under the age of 12.
Duran pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact and upon conviction will receive 14 years in federal prison. Upon his release from prison, Duran will be subject to no less than five years of supervised release up to life and must register as a sex offender.
Acting U.S. Attorney Read More
VCNP News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – The National Park Service is set to begin winter pile burning operations within the San Antonio Mountain project area of Valles Caldera National Preserve beginning on or shortly after Tuesday, Dec. 2.
If conditions are not favorable to begin burning in San Antonio, the team will switch to burning piles on either South Mountain or Cerro Piñon. The area around the burn activities will be closed to public access until operations are completed.
Fire updates will be posted on the Current Conditions page of the park’s website, the park’s Facebook page, and the New Mexico Read More
Los Alamos Police Cpl. Joey Robinson answers questions from students in Los Alamos High School English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class Nov. 5 at the Justice Center. The students will be writing articles from their interviews. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Counce takes questions from Los Alamos High School students outside her office on Nov. 5 at the Justice Center. The students are in English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Municipal Court staff member Read More
The Honorable Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Allen speaks with Los Alamos High School Students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class in early November as they interview her in her office at the Justice Center. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class interview the Honorable Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Allen in her office recently at the Justice Center. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Read More
Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
History Recalls The Wisdom In Clean Air Decisions
A common theme is: “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” The history of cleaning polluted air gave us hard-won lessons learned that can spare us from repeating them. As ever, what we don’t know or remember will again cost the continuing effort. So, this column looks back at the early years of clean air rules (the 1970s), when rules were first shaped.
Those pioneer struggles for clean air showed us much more than merely the outcomes of lawsuits. To Read More
By CHICK KELLER
Los Alamos
In response to Terry Wallace’s recent article about previous underground testing of nuclear weapons (link), I’d like to first support his complete opposition to any atmospheric testing. I suspect President Trump isn’t serious, but is merely trying to scare other countries into cessation of any nuclear testing.
I recall the disaster of the Baneberry underground test that broke through and emitted radioactive material to the atmosphere.
I was a junior scientist working on determining how to contain the very first moments of underground tests. Soon after that Read More
