Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has been busy signing bills from the 2020 legislative session into law.

Among those bills is Senate Bill 99 which authorizes public schools to grant diplomas to Viet Nam veterans who were honorably discharged and whose entry into the service prevented them from graduating from a N. M. high school. Signed into law on March 6, the diploma can be awarded whether the veteran holds a high school equivalency credential or is deceased.  SB 99, sponsored by Sen. George Muñoz, D-Cibola, McKinley and San Juan, will allow local school boards to start processing and authenticating high school diploma requests from Viet Nam veterans July 1.

On March 6, the...

Governor makes unemployment benefits available to COVID-19 furloughs

SANTA FE - The New Mexico Department of Health announced a sixth state resident had tested as a presumptive positive for Covid-19.

The sixth case reported, is, according to the New Mexico Department of Health, that of a Santa Fe County woman in her fifties with known recent travel to Italy.  She is at home in isolation.

The fifth case is a Bernalillo County woman in her forties. The Department of Health is investigating a possible travel link.  She is isolating at home.

The fourth  case is a woman in her sixties from Santa Fe County who had recently traveled to the New York City area.

The other known cases...

Former council president compares pandemic fears to uranium experiences

SHIPROCK - The Naabik’íyáti’ Committee convened at Diné College South Campus in Shiprock March 5 for the start of the uranium public hearing series. Legislation No. 0380-19, for approval of the uranium cleanup position statement, was originally debated during the Navajo Nation Council 2020 Winter Session.

The legislation was subsequently withdrawn by the sponsor, Council Delegate Kee Allen Begay Jr., after several members of Council requested adding their communities to the listing of areas impacted by uranium to make the position statement more comprehensive.

“This (public hearing) will become a...

Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”  Those are the words of Pres. John F. Kennedy, 1961.

The Apollo 11 Mission took these words and made them real.

From Feb. 11, through March 11 the Children’s Library presented a special exhibition to bring that mission to space enthusiasts in Gallup.

Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission was a poster exhibit of this extraordinary 953,054-mile voyage to the moon and back which met Pres. John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning...