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World Recognized Expert Deniece Korzekwa Named Los Alamos National Laboratory Senior Fellow

Deniece Korzekwa, of LANL’s Sigma Division, has been named a Senior Fellow. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Deniece Korzekwa, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Sigma Division, has been named Senior Fellow for outstanding leadership and seminal contributions to nuclear weapons manufacturing science, global security initiatives and international scientific exchanges involving plutonium and uranium.

Korzekwa is a world recognized expert in actinide casting with significant technical contributions across the entire Weapons Program including manufacturing, Directed Stockpile Work Read More

Tales Of Our Times: Suffragettes Field-Tested Many Strategies In Quest Of Reform

Tales of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Women’s right to vote is a case study in the strategic use of democracy’s working tools. Today marks 100 years since that day in 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by Tennessee, the last of the required 36 states to do so.

Crossing such a finish line is surely a proud event to celebrate. However, women’s right to vote has much more to offer for our time than a hundredth anniversary. In the lengthy struggle, suffragettes ran field tests on a wide range of political strategies and noted the results

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AGU Study Finds Widespread Electric Vehicle Adoption Would Save Billions Of Dollars, Thousands Of Lives

A new study finds if electric vehicles replaced 25 percent of combustion engine cars on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. Courtesy/Michael Movchin / Felix Müller / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If electric vehicles replaced 25 percent of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution, according to new research. Read More

NNSA To Conduct Aerial Radiation Measurements Over Charlotte Ahead Of Republican National Convention

NNSA News:

CHARLOTTE — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over downtown Charlotte and areas in and around Yorkmount Aug. 20 and 21 in preparation for the upcoming Republican National Convention.

The Convention is Aug. 24-27.

NNSA’s Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) aircraft will measure naturally occurring background radiation as part of standard preparations to protect public health and safety on the day of the event.

Local residents may see a twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter, which Read More

Udall, Senators Press For Accurate 2020 Census Count For Indian Country And Native Hawaiian Community

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and 18 Senate Democrats in urging the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau to honor their previously announced 2020 census completion date to ensure an accurate count for Indian Country and the Native Hawaiian community.

April 13, 2020, the Commerce Department and Census Bureau announced a modified timeline for 2020 census operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which extended the deadline for field data collection to Oct. 31, 2020. Aug. 3, the Bureau reneged on its Read More

Chart 156: COVID-19 In New Mexico Aug. 17

Overall COVID-19 risk by state. The nonprofit organization Covid Act Now monitors daily diagnoses, infection rates, testing positivity, ICU headroom, and contacts traced in each state. The overall COVID-19 risk is based on these five metrics. map/mapchart.net. Source: covidactnow.org. Eli Ben-Naim
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New Mexico COVID-19 Cases Now At 23,500 With 4 More Deaths And 10,602 Patients Recovered

STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials have announced this afternoon 95 additional positive tests for COVID-19.

Los Alamos County remains at 24 cases today that have tested positive for COVID-19.

Today’s update announces 4 additional deaths reported in New Mexico related to COVID-19.

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

  • 29 new cases in Bernalillo County
  • 6 new cases in Chaves County
  • 2 new cases in Cibola County
  • 3 new cases in Curry County
  • 11 new cases in Doña Ana County
  • 3 new cases in Eddy County
  • 3 new cases in Hidalgo County
  • 9 new cases in Lea County
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SBA: Businesses Eligible For Economic Injury Disaster Loans

SBA News:

Small nonfarm businesses in 10 New Mexico counties and neighboring counties in Texas are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West.

These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began July 14.

Primary New Mexico counties:  Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and Lea;

Neighboring New Mexico counties:  Guadalupe, Lincoln, Otero, Quay and Roosevelt;

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NMDOT Proposing Safety Improvement Project For N.M. 599 Southbound On-Ramp To U.S. 285/84

NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, is proposing safety improvements at the interchange between N.M. 599 and U.S. 84/285.

The proposed project includes realignment of the N.M. 599 southbound on-ramp to U.S. 84/285, addition of a 1,200-foot acceleration lane, installation of median wall barrier to replace the aging/sub-standard median wall barrier between N.M 599 and the Guadalupe Street exit, and the closure of Viento Drive access to/from U.S. 84/285. 

Access to Viento Drive would still Read More

Chart 155: COVID-19 In New Mexico Aug. 16

The bars show the number of deaths versus date, and the line shows the seven-day average. Also displayed are the monthly death tolls. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
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