U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico's Third District and a member of the Safe Climate Caucus spoke on the House floor last night about how enhancing green job training programs at community colleges can prepare workers for careers in a clean energy economy that helps address the impacts of climate change.

The Safe Climate Caucus, a group of Democratic members who are highlighting the need for action on climate change through daily floor speeches and other activities. Watch Luján's speech here:

Weather permitting, the public is invited to come out, wander among the telescopes and star gaze. The main event of the evening will be looking at the tight grouping of three planets in the west: Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter.

The three planets will form a triangle that will fit inside a small, 2.5 degree circle above the western horizon.

How the Hen House Turns: Turkeys are not Chickens

Turkey One, we called her Turkey, arrived from the feed store with one other turkey poult and three chicken chicks. She didn’t bond with the latter three, not even after the second turkey poult refused to live.

They do that. Some newly hatched turkeys give up. It doesn’t make sense after all that work getting out of the shell. Some simply refuse to eat. Websites tell me that commercial turkey raisers run colored beads through the feed so they will be stimulated to "hunt."

When our two new turkey

PACE RACE News:

David Kratzer was just 3 seconds shy of a perfect prediction in Tuesday's pace race.

The annual staggered-start pace-race/fun-run was held Tuesday on the White Rock bike path. The predictors with the slowest times started first from Piñon/Rocket Park, and the ones with the fastest times started last. The Jones family had many good predictions.

The best predictors (and the time that they were off their prediction) for the 1 mile were Emilee Jones (16 seconds), Makaeka Jones (17 seconds), Morgan Jones (18 seconds),

SANTA FE—The public is invited to comment on the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s 8th amendment to the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP.) 

The program will serve as a four year plan for the state’s federal aid highway program. The STIP contains proposed road and bridge projects and is required under the federal legislation. Projects on the list are on federal and state highways (roads with I, U.S. or NM designations).

The NMDOT has posted the 2012-2015 STIP amendment on the Internet asking for public comment until Thursday, June 20. In addition, NMDOT

NM PBS News:

New Mexico Attorney General Gary King talks about the state’s water battle with Texas on this week’s edition of NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS, airing 7 p.m. Friday, May 17 on New Mexico PBS/KNME 5.1.

With both states mired in historic droughts, every drop of water has the potential to be contentious. The A.G. says it amounts to “water rustling” but is there anything the state can do to prevent a Texan water grab?

Also on the program, open government issues still swirl around King and the Martinez administration as the two prepare to do battle in 2014.

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Rotary Club of Los Alamos Local Hero Bill Hudson was honored at a Club meeting Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

ROTARY News:

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos selected Bill Hudson as this year's "Local Hero." Hudson was honored at the 2013 Rotary District Conference May 5 in Las Cruses and again at a Rotary Club of Los Alamos meeting Tuesday.

Hudson is a decorated World War II Marine Corps veteran who served at the Battle of Iwo Jima when he was just 19.

Now in his late 80s, Hudson has been a coach and fitness instructor and has participated in many volunteer activities in

The Los Alamos Board of Education has scheduled a Special School Board meeting for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater.

Special School Board Agenda:

• 4.1 Master Ground Lease Amendment

• 4.2 Trinity Site Update by Steve Lynne

• 4.3 Trinity Revenue Projections

• 4.4 LANL Request to use School Facilities for 70^th Anniversary Celebration

• 4.5 Approval of Certified Contract for 2013/2014

• 4.6 Approval of Classified Contract for 2013/2014

• 4.7 Approval of Salary for 2013/2014 for Administrative Staff not represented by Collective Bargaining Agreements

• 4.8 Approval

NM CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S.