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A STEM summer internship gave some Gallup-McKinley County Schools seniors experiences that could alter their career paths.

Last summer, 15 seniors from Gallup High School and Miyamura High School participated in a STEM program that partnered with national labs to give the students a chance to see what real-world STEM careers look like. In the six week period between May 17 and June 24, the students worked with Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National Labs, and Lawrence Livermore National Labs.

The students spent the last year and a half of  high school taking high-level math and science classes to prepare for the internship. According to...

The Gallup rebranding journey has met a milestone. City councilors approved a new logo  Aug. 24.

Gallup Tourism and Marketing Manager Jennifer Lazarz presented the councilors with three color options for the new “Visit Gallup” logo after they requested that more color, specifically turquoise, be put into the logo during their July 27 meeting.

The three options Lazarz presented included one where “Gallup” was in turquoise and had a turquoise and yellow border around it, one had “Gallup in turquoise and a red and turquoise border, and the final option had “Gallup” in red and a red and yellow border.

After he had seen the options, Mayor Louis Bonaguidi asked if it...

Part Two: A way forward

The Yazzie/Martinez decision has brought into sharp focus a long simmering debate about how best to educate Native American children.

New Mexico has passed laws since the 1970s intent on providing culturally relevant education and language programs to Native children, most notably the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act of 1973, and the Indian Education Act of 2003. It’s these laws that [late New Mexico Judge Sarah] Singleton pointed to as an existing state blueprint for adequate education, if only they were followed.

The decision described as ideal an educational framework that draws on decades of Native scholarship about the needs of Indigenous...

Week ending Friday, August 27, 2021


Greenland Rain

The second freakish heat wave to blow across Greenland so far this summer caused rain to fall at the highest point of the country’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history. The instruments at Greenland’s Summit Station, established in 1950, recorded temperatures above freezing for more than nine hours on Aug. 15, with rain falling off and on for 13 hours. But since there are no rain gauges at the typically frigid location, the research staff was unable to say how much rain actually fell.  Parts of the ice cap were 18 degrees Celsius above average on that day, triggering a massive melting event that was seven times above...