Today's News

The looming 100-foot instrumentation tower nestled among the pines in the southwest corner of the Valles Caldera National Preserve may help scientists answer some of the most important questions of our age. Data from this tower will be used to foretell how climate change might affect Earth’s life processes. Predicting these impacts has been a vexing problem because there is no precedent for a warming Earth with extensive human habitation.

As part of its goals this year, the newly elected board of directors of the Los Alamos Republican Party had two speakers headline its monthly meeting Thursday.

UNM-LA Advisory Board Chair Marie Chiravalle and Republican candidate Brian Moore of Clayton who is running for lieutenant governor were the guest speakers.

Moore and his wife Linda mingled with the crowd gathered at the Hilltop House Hotel. The couple met in Nederland, Colo. She worked for Johnson Sausage Company and was conducting an in-store brat fry at a large grocery where he worked.

The Los Alamos girls U19 rugby team picked up two big victories, one against New Mexico State University, and held its own against the University of New Mexico in recent play.

Los Alamos thumped Glendale, Colo., 72-0 in a trip to Denver, then traveled south to Las Cruces to soundly defeat NMSU’s women’s team 63-29. Los Alamos lost to UNM’s women’s team earlier this month by a count of 33-10.

The Senate gave final approval to the 2010 Energy and Water Appropriation Bill, which contains funding for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The bill now goes to the White House to be signed.

Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both New Mexico Democrats, voted with the majority. In a joint announcement Thursday, they called special attention to funds for New Mexico’s two national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project and a variety of key water-related projects.