Pongratz Appointed To Representative Council On RCLC
Los Alamos County Councilor Morrie Pongratz is the newly appointed Council representative to the RCLC Board. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos County Council Vice Chair Chris Chandler said Tuesday she is sorry to be leaving her position as County representative to the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Board.
Councilor Morrie Pongratz was recently appointed by Council Chair David Izraelevitz and will represent the Council for the remainder of 2018. Izraelevitz said Chandler has been instrumental Read More
AFT-NM Responds To New Mexico PARCC Results
AFT-NM President Stephanie Ly
AFT-NM News:
ALBUQUERQUE – American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
“We appreciate the small gains in PARCC exam scores for New Mexico students, imagine if we empowered our educators and students to actually teach and learn instead of doubling-down by NM PED on our overreliance on standardized testing, and additional district-level testing necessitated by NM PED data demands. While these scores are indeed ‘unprecedented’, so is the sheer volume of days educators and students Read More
NMED Accepting Applications For Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Funding
NMED News:FBI: Acoma Pueblo Man Gets 15 Years For Federal Voluntary Manslaughter And Firearms Conviction
FBI News:Change Of Command At 58th Special Operations Wing
Col. Justin Hoffman
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – Col. Justin Hoffman will take command of the 58th Special Operations Wing in a ceremony Friday. Hoffman will take the guidon from Col. Brenda Cartier, who has commanded the unit since her arrival in June of 2016.
Hoffman comes to Kirtland from his post in Afghanistan, where he has been serving as the vice commander, 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force; executive officer, NATO Air Command; and deputy director, AFCENT’s Joint Air Component Coordination Element for US Forces. He directed the daily activities of a 63-person joint and multinational Read More
State Auditor Releases 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commission Audit Report
State Auditor Wayne JohnsonTobacco Use Among New Mexico High School Students At All-Time Low
NMDOH News:
The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reports that rates of cigarette smoking by New Mexico high school students are lower than ever before – dropping by more than 50 percent over the last decade.
According to data from the 2017 New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS), youth cigarette smoking has dropped from 24.2 percent in 2007 to nearly one in 10 (10.6 percent) New Mexico high school students in 2017.
Usage rates for other tobacco products including cigars, chew/spit tobacco, and hookah (a large water pipe used to smoke tobacco) have also fallen to historic Read More
World Futures: Statistics (And Probability) – Part Four
By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World
Futures Institute
In the previous column (Part Three) we ended with a question about statistics and its uses – investing, making money, providing governance, managing the budget, making choices, or something else.
As an example, consider baseball, professional baseball. For the vast majority of us, baseball is a form of entertainment as well as a sometimes highly emotional activity (are you a Yankees or a Red Sox fan?) without any real consequence other than bragging rights, unless, of course, you are betting on the outcome.
But what about the teams themselves Read More
AG Balderas Warns New Mexicans Of Online Phishing Scam Targeting Personal Bank Accounts
Attorney General Hector BalderasCAPTURED: Absconder Johnny Black Behind Bars
Absconder Johnny Black
NMSP News:
Santa Ana Pueblo – Around noon July 11 fugitive Johnny Black was spotted near Warrior Fuel on US 550 in Bernalillo by a Santa Ana Tribal Police officer.
Black was successfully taken into custody and arrested by the Santa Ana Tribal Police.
The New Mexico State Police would like to thank the public for its patience and assistance as officers worked to bring this dangerous fugitive into custody.
New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau continues to investigate this case with no new information available at this time. Read More
New Mexico [External Sources]
- Kira Miner: Backdoor cold front for some Thursday - KOB 4
- New Mexico town has endured toxic arsenic in drinking water for - The Washington Post
- Juárez man convicted of murder sentenced to prison in immigration case - El Paso Times
- Electric vehicle rules upheld by New Mexico amid local dealer anxiety - Carlsbad Current Argus
- Venezuelan refugees detained in NM fearful of more deportations to Mexico • Source New Mexico - Source New Mexico
- Legislature's interim session will include more focus on child welfare; water • Source New Mexico - Source New Mexico
