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  • Federal Reserve: Smartphone Fraud Rising
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  • Raw: View Atop Washington Monument Scaffolding

    Video captured from the helmet of a worker shows the scaffolding being topped off at the Washington Monument on Monday. The scaffolding is needed to repair the 555-foot marble obelisk damaged in a 2011 earthquake. Video silent from source.

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  • Today in History for May 15th
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  • Convicted Abortion Doctor Gets Life in Prison
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  • Justice Dept Defends Secret Review of AP Records
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  • Commander comes to town
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  • Update 05-14-13

    Lecture

    The Los Alamos Historical Society will hold its annual meeting at 6 p.m. today. There will be pizza, ice cream and the annual experience auction, along with a lecture by former LANL director Robert Kuckuck.

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    County Council

    Los Alamos County Council will meet in a work session at 7 p.m. today at the White Rock Fire Station No. 3.

    BPU meeting

    The Board of Public Utilities will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the DPU Conference Room, 170 Central Park Square.

    Farmers Market

    The Los Alamos Farmers Market will be back beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday and running until noon in the parking lot of the Mesa Library.

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  • Airport master plan OKd

    The Los Alamos County Council’s first Friday afternoon meeting was dominated by the review of a new Airport Master Plan. Councilors green lighted the proposed plan in a 6-0 vote, with council member Rick Reiss away on travel.
    The Federal Aviation Administration recommends that master plans be updated every seven to 10 years. The Los Alamos County Airport plan had not been updated since 1994.
    The plan is not only critical to short- and long-term planning, but is a crucial element in receiving FAA funding for airport projects.
    The county contracted with Delta Airport Consulting to develop the plan. Staff worked closely with the consultants and their sub-consultant Coffman Associates, a firm that specializes in noise and master planning at airports of similar size and activity.
    A Planning Advisory Committee comprised of 20 individuals provided input on a regular basis. Members included representatives from the New Mexico Department of Transportation Aviation Division, based pilot population, the county Community & Economic Development Department and Public Works Department, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and two residents from the Eastern Area.

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  • Council denies protest

    After nearly six and a half hours of hearings and more than a half hour of closed session deliberation, council unanimously denied GEW’s protest of the award of a Smart Meter contract to Landis + Gyr. The hearing began during the April 30 council session and was completed during a special session Monday.
    Despite the fact that the RFP was titled “Request for Proposals for Smart Meters” and the majority of the specifications described the technical requirements for 1,785 Smart electric meters or modules for adapting existing meters, GEW’s proposal did not include one Smart Meter.
    The Department of Public Utilities review committee scored GEW’s bid “0” for that reason. Purchasing Manager Annalisa Miranda also determined that GEW’s appeal was without merit because it “included no provision of or pricing for meters, which is a core element of the requested services.”
    GEW’s bid also included $10.5 million for the installation of gas and water meters, with no meters provided. The RFP requested pricing for1,568 gas meters or modules and 1,500 water meters or modules, but no pricing for installation.

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  • Today in History for May 14th
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