Public Safety

Teaching During A Pandemic: A Heroic Feat…

By KAYLI ORTIZ
New Mexico Teacher

In the spring, teachers had a “superhero” moment. When the world as we knew it was flipped on its head, there was unprecedented clarity on how central teachers and public education are to our children’s welfare, our economy, and our very routines.

When Shonda Rhimes, the creator of “Grey’s Anatomy”, tweeted, “Been homeschooling a 6-year old and 8-year old for one hour and 11 minutes. Teachers deserve to make a billion dollars a year. Or a week,” the tweet got over 588K likes and 102K retweets. It seemed many could relate.

That moment was fleeting. For the past few Read More

Food Donations From LDS Church Packed Into Food Boxes

ALTSD News:

Food donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) will be packed into food boxes containing up to 2 weeks’ worth of meals each.

More than 1,000 of those boxes will be distributed by the State’s Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD) to seniors and disabled adults.

Representatives from the LDS church, Aging and Long-Term Services, as well as three shifts of volunteers, the first shift comprised of 25 community volunteers, will be at the Storehouse parking lot, socially distanced, masked, preparing the boxes this morning, at The Bishop’s Storehouse, Read More

NM Supreme Court Affirms Convictions In Double Murder; Adopts New Standard For Eyewitness Identification Evidence

NMSC News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court (NMSC), in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Michael E. Vigil, Thursday affirmed a man’s convictions for killing two Santa Fe teenagers and adopted a new standard for determining whether eyewitness identification of a criminal suspect will be admitted as evidence at trial.

New Mexico’s highest court adopted a “per se exclusionary rule” that will preclude the admission of eyewitness identifications produced by “unnecessarily suggestive” police procedures. No other state has a comprehensive evidentiary standard for eyewitness identifications Read More

PED Begins Weekly Report On COVID-19 Cases In Schools

NMPED News:

SANTA FE — Beginning today, the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) will issue a weekly summary of New Mexico public schools with two or more Rapid Responses for COVID-19 cases in the previous 14 days, in an effort to help families and communities track outbreaks in their schools.

The report will be a summary of data compiled and reported daily by the state Environment Department, link, which issues a Watchlist of schools and businesses with two or more Rapid Responses within 14 days and a Closure List of those with four or more Rapid Responses in 14 days.

The PED’s weekly report Read More

Scenes From Turn Lane Work East Of N.M. 502 Roundabout

Scenes Thursday of road construction underway to create the turn lanes east of the N.M. 502 roundabout in Los Alamos. Interestingly, they pave the road first, then cut the asphalt where the turn lane goes and remove the broken up asphalt, then put in the curbing, and finally repave the new turn lane. The operator of one excavators lifting up the cut asphalt with its nice clean edges out of the new turn lane, after which, he loads the now broken pieces of asphalt from the turn lane into the bucket of the other excavator for removal. Photo by Ed Birnbaum

Scene of the nearly finished result with the turn lane Read More

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