Column: Medicaid, New Mexico, and the PPACA
- Medicaid, New Mexico, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
I attended a Medicaid conference in Washington, D.C., June 27 and 28.
The non-partisan Council of State Governments organized the conference for state legislators to address ongoing growth in Medicaid costs and expected changes in Medicaid programs.
This is the first of two columns on Medicaid. This column discusses the current program. The next column will discuss Medicaid’s future in New Mexico.
The June 28 PPACA decision by Read More
Column: Open Meeting Called Into Question
The Los Alamos School Board strives with great diligence to comply with the statutory rules for conduct of its open meetings in order to ensure transparency in government.
A Special Board meeting was held on May 24, 2012 to approve the 2012-13 Operating Budget.
At that meeting, the Board acted to amend the salary provisions of two collective bargaining agreements with existing school employee bargaining units in order to assure that employee contracts drafted at the end of the school year properly reflected the salaries authorized Read More
Letter to the Editor: YMCA Says Thanks
Letter to the Editor: Kiwanis Says Thanks
Dear Editor,
Despite the damper of dry weather and fireworks show cancellation, the 2012 Fourth of July Celebration at Overlook Park was a great success.
After a few months of dangerous drought, the big rain was even welcome.
Though we canceled the festivities earlier than planned, the fun picnic setting, yummy food, wonderful music, and very cool skydiving display by the Habanero Skydiving Club made for a great afternoon and evening.
We missed the fireworks, but we still celebrate living in the United States of America – the very best country in the world to be from!
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos Read More
The Taming of the Shrew (Aspen)
-The Taming of the Shrew (Aspen) … this consummate white barked beauty is difficult to grow in Los Alamos landscapes.
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) are trees with admirable beauty, and it naturally follows that we want our landscapes filled with what we find beautiful.
Unfortunately, try as we might, aspen are not well adapted to domestic landscapes, even here in Los Alamos.
They are short-lived, as expected from their role in forest ecology, and even properly cared-for trees may not reach 20 years.
Aspen
Day Journeys to the Middle of Nowhere
Travel Column by Kirsten Laskey
Discovering Tierra Amarillo
Driving down N.M. 84, we watched Los Alamos, Espanola and even the scatterings of roadside businesses in Abiquiu just slip past the windows.
Soon, there was nothing filling the windows but a gray strip of asphalt and huge, scenic landscapes.
This is when the adventure began.
My traveling partner (my mother) and I picked Tierra Amarillo to visit at random.
Photo: Tierra Amarillo Municipal Complex. By Kirsten Laskey
It was just a faint spot on the map and an oddball collection of photos on a website.
It was declared an “almost” ghost town Read More
Why Afghanistan?
Dr. Bob Fuselier of Los Alamos with friend Blake Batten, Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti and graduating students in Afghanistan. Courtesy photo
Column by Dr. Bob Fuselier
The main purpose of our Afghanistan trip last month was to visit the graduation ceremonies for Green Village Schools’ Advanced Education Center (GVS-AEC) in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province.
My organization (the Afghan Sister Village Project) and Blake’s organization (Project PeacePal founded by Sarah Wilkinson of Albuquerque) acted as support players for Green Village Schools, the organization that runs the Read More