ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – Season tickets for the upcoming 2022-23 College of New Mexico males’s and ladies’s basketball season went on sale on Monday, October 3.
Tickets for the 20-game dwelling males’s schedule begin at $199, with sideline seating beginning at $306. Tickets for the 18-game dwelling girls’s schedule begin at $110, with chairback seating beginning at $220. Followers can buy season tickets on-line at GoLobos.com/tickets or in individual on the College Area Ticket Workplace.
The boys’s crew returns All-Mountain West guards Jamal Mashburn, Jr. and Jaelen Home from final yr’s squad that greater than doubled the earlier yr’s win whole. In whole, New Mexico’s prime 5 returning scorers from final yr return, and are joined by a proficient group of newcomers.
The Lobos’ 20-game dwelling schedule contains 10 non-conference video games, 9 convention video games and one exhibition. This yr’s non-conference schedule is highlighted by the annual rivalry recreation with New Mexico State, the return of the Lobo Basic throughout Thanksgiving weekend and a December matchup with Iona, the place Richard Pitino will coach in opposition to his father, Corridor of Famer Rick Pitino.
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The boys’s Mountain West dwelling schedule begins Dec. 28 in opposition to Colorado State, one in all six 2022 NCAA Match groups to go to The Pit this season. Reigning convention champion Boise State is one in all 4 January video games, whereas Wyoming and San Diego State are among the many 4 February dwelling video games.
The Lobo girls’s basketball crew completed 26-10 final season, together with 14-4 in convention and 17-1 at dwelling. Whereas they return three starters and eight gamers who noticed enjoying time from a season in the past, UNM added additional depth with three transfers and 4 freshmen. Moreover, there shall be native expertise on the 2022-23 roster with 5 New Mexico natives.
The Lobos have 18 dwelling video games on the schedule, with seven non-conference video games, 9 convention video games and two exhibitions, and contains notable non-conference video games in opposition to Arizona, Arizona State, Houston and New Mexico State.
UNM opens its dwelling schedule on Nov. 12 in opposition to Houston and eight days later has its second dwelling recreation in opposition to Arizona State on Nov. 20. The Lobos host the Wildcats to open December on Dec. 4, the beginning of a 3 recreation homestand. Convention play begins at dwelling for New Mexico on New Yr’s Eve with Air Pressure and has three dwelling video games within the month of January and 5 dwelling video games within the month of February.
Students from Los Alamos Public Schools pose for a photo on the campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro prior to the start of the 2024 New Mexico State Science and Engineering Fair. Photo Courtesy LAPS
Students from across the state converged on the New Mexico State Science and Engineering Fair last Saturday at New Mexico Tech, including 19 students from Los Alamos Public Schools.
“The students worked hard and I am very proud of them,” said County Science Fair Director Eva Abeyta. “They represented Los Alamos well.”
Los Alamos High School students Helena Welch and Tate Plohr qualified and will be attending the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles, CA in May.
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Congratulations to the following students who received awards at the competition:
Junior Division Animal Science, 3rd place: Andres Trujillo, Los Alamos Online Learning Academy Chemistry, 3rd place: Ellen White, Piñon Elementary Chemistry, Honorable Mention: Nora Whitton, Piñon Elementary Chemistry, Honorable Mention: James Work, Barranca Mesa Elementary Engineering, 1st place: Natan Svyatsky and John Fung, Los Alamos Middle School Mathematics, 2nd place: Linus Plohr, Los Alamos Middle School Physics & Astronomy, 2nd place: Kalliope Welch (homeschool) Systems & Software, Honorable Mention: Patrick Avery, Piñon Elementary
Special Awards Linus Plohr: 3rd place Paper Competition Ellen White: American Chemical Society Jane Smith: NM Network for Women and CO2 Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Honorable Mention) Benjamin Minko: Association for Women Geoscientists Brandon Keller: CO2 Greenhouse Gas Reduction (1st place)
Senior Division Mathematics, 3rd place: Helena Welch, Los Alamos High School Physics & Astronomy, 2nd place: Tate Plohr, Los Alamos High School Special Awards Brayden Allen: Climate Change NM, US Air Force, and CO2 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award (1st place) Helena Welch: NM Network for Women in Science & Engineering Photo caption: Students from Los Alamos Public Schools pose for a photo on the campus of New Mexico Tech prior to the start of the 2024 New Mexico State Science and Engineering Fair.
$4.5 billion has been allocated for hundreds of projects throughout New Mexico, but it’s just sitting unspent. That’s the total state lawmakers discovered in their latest capital outlay quarterly report.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — $4.5 billion has been allocated for hundreds of projects throughout New Mexico, but it’s just sitting unspent. That’s the total state lawmakers discovered in their latest capital outlay quarterly report.
There are six pages of what’s called red-rated projects – plans with state money already set aside that have made almost no progress.
For example, in 2022, lawmakers approved $10 million for pedestrian improvements in Old Town and the Sawmill District in Albuquerque. None of that money has been spent.
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Over at UNM, $2 million was dedicated to health care lab improvements in 2021. Only around half a million has been spent.
Lawmakers awarded $1 million to renovate Santa Fe’s Midtown Campus in 2021. Officials haven’t spent a dime. So what’s the problem?
“It’s 112 different people making 112 different decisions without a lot of planning or coordination,” said Kristina Fisher, the associate director of Think New Mexico.
Fisher says the state’s capital outlay process is unique and outdated.
“Big projects don’t get fully funded and so a lot of the time there is money sitting on the sidelines because it is for a project that needs $10 million and a legislator was able to give them $2 million,” Fisher said.
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Fisher said paying for projects in layers adds up because construction costs grow every year, so they’re perpetually underfunded. On top of that, communication is another problem.
“Sometimes funding will go to projects that the local government didn’t know about, didn’t request, doesn’t want, so that can slow that down,” Fisher said.
Think New Mexico is one of the groups calling for changes to the way the state handles capital outlay. Instead of allocating money for each lawmaker to spend on projects in their districts, Fisher believes the state should pool the money together and then distribute it more evenly and efficiently.
“So you would have local governments and agencies saying, this is what we need for higher ed construction, this is what we need for roads, for water systems, and figure out, gosh, we have a high priority need for pipelines over here and over there, and let’s make sure those get fully funded and are on track to go right now,” Fisher said.
This past legislative session, the governor signed a bill ensuring there’s better tracking of those capital outlay funds being spent.
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To see the capital outlay quarterly report and all of the red-rated projects, click here.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland withdrew more than 4,000 acres of federal land in New Mexico on Thursday from new mining and oil and gas drilling.
Following through on a proposal announced last year — and an effort that Haaland supported during her time in Congress — the agency is removing a large swath of land within the Placitas area in Sandoval County for a period of 50 years as part of a mineral withdrawal that would still recognize valid and existing rights.
“Indigenous communities have called the Placitas area home since time immemorial, with evidence of their presence found from nearly every settlement period of the past 10,000 years,” Haaland said in a statement released after she signed the order. “The site contains significant cultural ties to neighboring Pueblos and provides outdoor recreation opportunities to the local community.”
The Pueblos of San Felipe and Santa Ana have long sought protections for the Placitas area, according to the agency, saying they consider the lands ancestral and sacred. Interior said the land contains known archaeological resources that date back to the Paleoindian Period. The areas being withdrawn are also near the Albuquerque metro area and are popular for hiking, camping, sightseeing and hunting, according to Interior.
