NM Earmarks

By Julia Goldberg on March 31st, 2010

Thanks to Poynter for pointing us to this handy search tool from Legistorm that allows users to search for congressional earmarks by state, sponsor and recipient. I went ahead to see what was going in with New Mexico earmarks. Here’s a brief look at the most recent ones:

2010: $97,000,000 for Chemistry and metallurgy facility replacement project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (no sponsor indicated)
2010: $41,269,000 for SOF Fuel Cell Hangar (MC-130) (Military Construction) / earmark by the President (solo)/ Cannon Air Force Base,
2010: $39,000,000 for Army Aviation Support Facility/ earmark by the President (not entirely sure where this is)

Check out what else was earmarked for NM; let us know what you find!

Crossposted at Muckrakersguide

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Job Cuts at Northern NM’s largest Employer? (Updated)

By Corey Pein on July 7th, 2009

If there’s any truth to this anonymous tip posted on Frank Young’s feisty LANL blog, northern New Mexico stands to lose hundreds more well-paying jobs.

I’ve got an email out to a media rep at the Lab and will update this post when I get a response.

Updated July 7: LANL spokesman Jeff Berger told SFR yesterday afternoon that the rumor is false. “We do not have plans for layoffs,” Berger says.

Period?

“Period.”

What about going forward?

“If the budget necessitates layoffs, we would go there,” Berger says. “But we’ve anticipated and experienced in recent years relatively flat budgets. That’s what we continue to anticipate.”

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