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  • — by Rick Nathanson
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For years, World War II Navajo Code Talker Adolph Nagurski didn’t talk much about his war experiences. In fact, his son, Benjamin Nagurski, said, “I didn’t know my dad had been in the Marines until maybe the 1970s, when it was finally revealed there were such things as Code Talkers.” For the past...
  • — by Michael Coleman
    As hundreds of thousands of American schoolchildren prepared to rally for gun law reform in Washington, Albuquerque and other U.S. cities late last month, Sen. Martin Heinrich marveled at the students’ power to change the national conversation. “It’s had more impact than anything I’ve seen in my years in elected...
  • — by Ron Davis
    New Mexico lost almost 14 percent of its solar jobs in 2017, but had a strong showcase in solar installations compared to the rest of the country. A report from The Solar Foundation however, indicates the state is going to be installing more solar in the coming years. The Land of Enchantment ranked No. 29 overall for solar jobs in 2017 with 2,522...
  • — by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
    To know the Plains of San Agustin of western New Mexico is to love it. I remember the first time I drove west of Magdalena and laid eyes on this vast expanse of grasslands. A couple winters ago, I took my son Carter on an elk hunt in the Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area where the views stretch out for miles above the surrounding plains....
  • — by Tay Wiles
    At a time of extraordinary political division, it’s rare that a public lands bill gets sweeping bipartisan support. Fights over how to manage public lands rage in today’s West, from disputes over national monument boundaries to whether states should have control over federal lands. Yet when Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, brought a public...
  • — by Tom Trowbridge
    Today’s (March 21, 2018) KSFR Wake-Up Call: Two reports emanating from Washington: Senator Martin Heinrich is pushing for answers into the question of Russian cyber-interference in US elections….while Heinrich’s New Mexico colleague Tom Udall is hopeful that Congress adopts common sense steps to reduce gun violence while still...
  • — by TIM STARKS, CORY BENNETT and MARTIN MATISHAK
    Leaders of both parties on Tuesday made a high-profile push to keep hackers and online trolls from skewing American democracy, offering the first major set of bipartisan suggestions to bolster the digital defenses protecting the country’s electoral systems. The recommendations — the first release from the Senate Intelligence...
  • — by Karoun Demirjian
    Senate Intelligence Committee members said Tuesday that the federal government and states should take immediate steps to update antiquated voting machines; improve information-sharing and cybersecurity measures surrounding threats to systems; and make it clear that the United States will respond to attacks on election infrastructure as hostile acts...
  • — by Steve Terrell
    A small city in the mountains of landlocked New Mexico could become the namesake of the next U.S. attack submarine. All five members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation this week asked Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer to name the next Virginia class fast-attack submarine “USS Los Alamos” in recognition of the...
  • — by Las Cruces Sun-News Editorial Board
    Trade wars are rarely effective as a grand strategy and allow our leaders to create winners and losers by pitting one sector of the economy against another. If you are reading this editorial in the print version of the Las Cruces Sun-News, you could be among the losers. New Mexico’s entire congressional delegation – U.S. Sens. Tom...
  • — by Adrian C Hedden
    More than $11 billion in maintenance projects at national parks across the country are awaiting completion. New Mexico’s 15 national parks have about $123 million in total deferred maintenance. And about a third of that is being spent at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, for its elevator modernization project. To address the national backlog...
  • — by Morgan Chalfant
    A bipartisan group of senators is pressing President Trump to issue a national strategy for deterring malicious activity in cyberspace “as soon as possible,” accusing successive administrations of not giving enough urgency to the issue. “The lack of decisive and clearly articulated consequences to cyberattacks...
  • — by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
    President Trump’s border wall is a symbol of everything that’s wrong with his administration. The heated rhetoric about our border region coming from the White House is wildly out of touch with the realities of our experiences in New Mexico. I’m familiar with nearly every mile of our state’s border with Mexico. A $25 billion...
  • John Garcia feels the playing field has been leveled. The New Mexico district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration believes Sandia National Laboratories' decision to launch a 5 percent pricing preference for qualified companies will "light the fuse and ignite the flame" for small businesses in New Mexico. Potentially, $100...
  • — by Martin Matishak
    Senate lawmakers stumping for election security legislation are trying to ride the recent wave of Russia attention to resurrect their fitful attempts to get a bill passed before the 2018 midterms. Senators on both sides of the aisle are eyeing new strategies for moving their long-stalled proposals, including reintroducing proposals and attaching...
  • — by ABQJournal News Staff
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Local leaders and communities from throughout New Mexico can access a comprehensive guide to help expand their solar generation through a new website unveiled by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D–NM, on Thursday. The new “Solar Toolkit,” sponsored by Heinrich’s office, aims to connect local governments,...
  • — by Matthew Reichbach
    Following the latest mass shooting, one of New Mexico’s U.S. Senators wants to repeal an amendment that bars the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from researching gun violence and its impact on public health. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich announced his opposition to the Dickey Amendment Tuesday, saying that CDC research is necessary to...
  • — by Ron Davis
    Sen. Martin Heinrich made a return to Albuquerque on Thursday to talk solar power at the Central New Mexico Community College Workforce Training Center. City leaders such as Mayor Tim Keller and City Councilor Pat Davis, along with other energy representatives joined Heinrich as he unveiled what he is calling his Solar...
  • — by Edwin Rios
    On Tuesday, as teenagers swarmed the Florida legislature to advocate for gun control, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) renewed a familiar call for Congress to repeal an amendment that blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding research into the public health effects of gun...
  • — by Dean DeChiaro
    The Senate squandered three opportunities on Thursday to advance legislation that would protect so-called Dreamers from deportation and enhance border security measures. Lawmakers could not muster the 60 votes needed on any of the three proposals, all of which would have offered a path to citizenship for at least 1.8 million Dreamers in return for...