NMG&F News:
There are several spaces remaining in the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Hunter Education class scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17 in Los Alamos.
All course registration is conducted online at https:////www.wildlife.state.nm.
DOE Secretary Nominee Dr. Ernest Moniz
BY MIRANDA VISCOLI
In the next week, our senate will vote on Rep. Miguel Garcia’s House Bill 77, also known as the Fire Arms Transfer Act.
The bill would require background checks at gun shows. It has received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and Gov. Susana Martinez has said she would sign the bill.
In New Mexico today, anyone can sell a gun at a gun show. You are not even required to ask if that person is a felon.
Whether they have been convicted of domestic violence, are a fugitive from the law or restricted from owning a gun because they are considered dangerously mentally Read More
STATE News:
SANTA FE – On Feb. 27, Innovate+Educate announced $200,000 in funding to communities in New Mexico interested in building their talent pipeline.
The grants will bring together industry, community and education leaders to bridge the skills gap and develop new mechanisms for hiring, skills assessment and training.
These grants were made possible due to the funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to advance the New Options Project.
Awardees include:
Robbery Suspect Jay Patrick Mount. Courtesy/FBI
FBI News:
The FBI is looking for Jay Patrick Mount, 34, of Albuquerque, who is wanted for the Feb. 25 robbery of U.S. Bank, 1418 Carlisle Blvd NE, in Albuquerque.
Anyone with information on Mount’s whereabouts is asked to call the Albuquerque FBI Office at (505) 889-1300 (24 hours) or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at (505) 843-STOP.
Anyone spotting Mount in Los Alamos may also call local police at 662-8222.
Mount is described as a white male, approximately 5’10” tall with a medium build. He has brown eyes and Read More
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District released the following statement today after Congress failed to pass legislation to prevent the sequester’s budget cuts that are scheduled to begin tomorrow.
“Today is a disappointing day, when partisanship and ideology stood in the way of compromise and the best interests of the American people. The arbitrary cuts from the sequester will impact education, public safety, health care, and more – leading to job losses and harming an economic Read More
Catherine Allen
VCT News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – Catherine Allen was officially appointed as the newest member of the Valles Caldera Trust, Board of Trustees Thursday.
She is the fifth trustee appointed by President Barack Obama and joins Kent Salazar and Karyn Stockdale, who were also appointed by the Obama administration.
“The Valles Caldera is a national treasure and must be respected as such,” said Allen, who served on President Obama’s Economic Development and Small Business Committee during the
first Administration. “I am honored and excited to become a part of the effort to ensure Read More
Bandelier. Courtesy/BNM
BNM News:
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 193,914 visitors in 2011 spent $9,218,000 in Bandelier National Monument and in communities near the park.
That spending supported 139 jobs in the local area.
RCLC News:
The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities announced today the endorsement and unanimous support of Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard’s House Memorial 71 that recognizes the critical importance of New Mexico’s National Laboratories and DOE facilities to the state’s economic welfare and the dramatic negative effects that sequestration will have on New Mexico’s economy.
Los Alamos National Laboratory alone has close to a $3 billion impact on the state’s economy each year and supports more than 24,000 jobs in Northern New Mexico. Read More
Finishing the Job of PRC ReformThe Public Regulation Commission (PRC) touches the lives of every New Mexican who pays a gas, electric, or landline telephone bill, or buys home, auto, or health insurance, among many other things.
Unfortunately, the PRC has had a troubled history ever since it was created about 16 years ago.
In late 2011, Think New Mexico published a policy report entitled “Rethinking the PRC,” which proposed a strategy for reforming the agency.
Our report concluded that the PRC’s poor performance was due, in part, to a fundamental structural problem: it Read More