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New Mexico COVID-19 Update: 1,753 New Cases, Total Now 60,776 With 18 New Deaths, 24,291 Patients Recovered

STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials have announced this afternoon 1,753 additional positive tests for COVID-19.

Los Alamos County reports 6 more cases today bringing the total to 82 people who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Today’s update includes 18 new deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19.

The New Mexico Department of Health reported today the most recent cases:

  • 611 new cases in Bernalillo County
  • 1 new case in Catron County
  • 62 new cases in Chaves County
  • 34 new cases in Cibola County
  • 3 new cases in Colfax County
  • 83 new cases in Curry County
  • 2 new cases in De Baca County
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Udall Statement On FY2021 Interior Appropriations Bill

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, issued a statement on the FY2021 Interior Appropriations Bill:

“I very much appreciate Chairman Murkowski putting together a bill under difficult funding constraints, and I thank her for accommodating a number of important priorities in this draft.

“I fully support the Appropriations Committee’s efforts to enact an omnibus by the end of the year. During that process, I will work to resolve a number of outstanding Read More

Daily Post Reporter Kirsten Laskey Earns State Award

Los Alamos Daily Post Reporter Kirsten Laskey displays the state award for education writing she earned in the 2019-2020 New Mexico Press Association (NMPA) Better Newspaper Award Contest. Courtesy photo

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Daily Post reporter Kirsten Laskey earned a 2019-2020 state writing award recently from the New Mexico Press Association.

Her winning story was published Dec. 19, 2019 in the Los Alamos Daily Post (link), and detailed Los Alamos Middle School Art Teacher Lisa Fisher’s seventh-grade class project in which her student’s Read More

International Folk Art Market Book Signing Dec. 4

IFAM News:

SANTA FE — The International Folk Art Market (IFAM) will be hosting a book signing Dec. 4 for a new book the organization has published—IN THE BUDDHA’S LIGHT by Joanna Hurley with photographs from award-winning photographer, Jack Parsons and a foreword by Buddhist teacher, Zen priest and anthropologist, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D.

“We’re thrilled to not only announce the publication of IN BUDDHA’S LIGHT, but also to be able to offer the public a chance to meet the author and to have their copy signed,” IFAM CEO Stuart Ashman said. “The book is truly a work of art, providing an immersive Read More

Malenfant: Lest We Forget…

TA-18, Pajarito Site, a collection of general purpose laboratories capable of subcritical, delayed and super-prompt critical operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

Courtesy/Bradbury Science Museum

By RICHARD (DICK) MALENFANT
Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Formerly of Los Alamos

On November 10, 2015, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz signed an MOA for creating and managing the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. 

Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, which included provisions authorizing Read More

New Mexico COVID-19 Update: 1,500 New Cases, Total Now 59,034 With 14 New Deaths, 23,981 Patients Recovered

STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials have announced this afternoon 1,500 additional positive tests for COVID-19.

Los Alamos County reports 1 more case today bringing the total to 76 people who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Today’s update includes 14 new deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19.

The New Mexico Department of Health reported today the most recent cases:

  • 418 new cases in Bernalillo County
  • 1 new case in Catron County
  • 109 new cases in Chaves County
  • 38 new cases in Cibola County
  • 5 new cases in Colfax County
  • 39 new cases in Curry County
  • 3 new cases in De Baca County
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Department Of Justice Awards $96 Million To Fund Specialized Drug And Veterans Treatment Courts

DOJ News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs today announced that it has awarded more than $96 million to fund specialized drug courts and veterans treatment courts.

These courts provide treatment instead of detention for nonviolent juveniles, veterans and adults who have been criminally charged and who have a substance use disorder.

The awards are part of more than $340 million in OJP grants awarded in October to fight America’s addiction crisis.

“My years interacting with drug-involved offenders as a state judge gave personal validation to the findings Read More

New Mexico Governor Appoints Decorated Educator, Researcher, Clinical Scientist, Doctor As Secretary Of Health

Dr. Tracie C. Collins

From the Office of the Governor:

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced today her appointment of Dr. Tracie C. Collins, dean of the College of Population Health at the University of New Mexico, as the new leader of the New Mexico Department of Health, bolstering the state’s public health and pandemic-response leadership.

Collins will formally begin work with the administration in mid-December.

“I’m thrilled to welcome Dr. Collins to our team,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. “New Mexico has never needed experienced and compassionate public health leadership more Read More

Los Alamos County 2020 General Election Results Official

From left, Elections Manager Gloria Maestas, County Clerk Naomi Maestas and Canvass Board members JoAnn Johnson, Cameron Counters and James Cline gathered Tuesday in Council Chambers to certify results of the 2020 General Election. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Former Los Alamos County Assessor JoAnn Johnson serves on the Canvassing Board, which gathered Tuesday in Council Chambers to certify results of the 2020 General Election. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office completed the required canvass process Tuesday to certify Read More

NMED COVID-19 Business Watchlist For Nov. 10

NMED News:

…List includes New Mexico businesses with two or more rapid responses within the last 14 days

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has updated its daily Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist, which includes New Mexico places of employment that have had two or more rapid responses in the last 14 days.

There are 177 establishments on the Watchlist as of Tuesday.

The latest Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist and closure list, which includes all establishments that are currently required to be closed, are posted here.

The Watchlist currently only includes organizations for which Read More

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