ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * As data-center demand grows, Sandia advances AI controls to keep voltage steady in real time * ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -As artificial intelligence drives rapid growth in data centers, utilities are facing a new challenge: keeping voltage steady as electricity demand grows, shifts quickly and becomes harder to predict. As demand grows and more distributed energy resources such as batteries, rooftop solar and backup more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 1 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * Brad Preber on building a career through curiosity and service * As a student, Brad Preber was known for sitting in the front row, asking questions, and making regular visits to office hours. That curiosity and determination would become defining characteristics throughout his accomplished accounting career, ultimately leading him to serve as CEO and Chairman of Grant Thornton LLP, one of the largest accounting firms in the U.S. Yet accounting more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 2 -- The Central New Mexico Community College issued the following news: * * * CNM Announces Tanya Giddings as New Associate Vice President of Finance & Operations Central New Mexico Community College is pleased to announce the selection of Tanya Giddings as Associate Vice President of Finance & Operations, effective July 13. In this role, Giddings will partner with college leadership to support long-term planning, operational excellence, capital development, and strategic initiatives that advance CNM's vision more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 2 -- The Central New Mexico Community College issued the following news: * * * CNM Ingenuity Selects Mark Fidel as Interim CEO The Board of CNM Ingenuity has unanimously selected Mark Fidel as Interim CEO of CNM Ingenuity, a workforce and economic development arm of Central New Mexico Community College. Fidel, who has served as Chair of the CNM Ingenuity Board since November 2020, will step down from that position and assume the role of Interim CEO effective July 1. He succeeds current CEO Kyle Lee, who announ more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Pushes Trump Administration to Release Affordable Housing Construction Funds As President Trump continues to slow-walk a bipartisan housing affordability bill that already passed through Congress, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) is teaming up with U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and several colleagues in urging the president to unlock community development tools and promptly release $750 million in federal housing construction funds. Ear more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Members of the N.M. Delegation Demand Answers from USPS Regarding Delay in Rebuilding the Chimayo Post Office U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) wrote to Postmaster General David Steiner demanding that the United States Postal Service (USPS) provide answers and an update regarding the delay in the rebuilding project for the Chimayo Post Office. This letter fo more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 1 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * NASA's TESS Mission finds planetary system in a new way * For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound microlensing world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star. "When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable of finding thi more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSletter) -- Rep. Gabriel Vasquez, D-New Mexico, issued the following letter to the New Mexico Health Care Authority: * * * Here is the text of the letter: June 26, 2026 The Honorable Kari Armijo Secretary New Mexico Health Care Authority 1474 Rodeo Road Santa Fe, NM 87505 Dear Secretary Armijo: I write to you following the release of the Legislative Finance Committee's (LFC) report on New Mexico's administration of its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Under H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21), the New Mexico He more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Reps Leger Fernandez and Lieu Re-Introduce 21st Century Federal Writers' Act Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced the 21st Century Federal Writers' Project Act, legislation to create a new grant program administered by the National Endowment for the Arts that will empower America's writers and journalists to capture and document the American experience. As the nation a more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSletter) -- Reps. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, Gabriel Vasquez, D-New Mexico, and Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration: * * * Here is the text of the letter: June 25, 2026 The Honorable Terrance Cole Administrator U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration 8701 Morrissette Drive Springfield, VA 22152 Dear Administrator Cole: We write to request information on the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA's) policies on the handling of fentanyl traffic more PR

LUBBOCK, Texas, July 1 -- Texas Tech University posted the following news: * * * Texas Tech Researcher Part of Team That Finds Planet in New Way * Physicist Michael Fausnaugh works with other physicists to identify new planet through NASA's TESS mission. Michael Fausnaugh, assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas Tech University, is part of a group of researchers who have identified a planet orbiting a distant star, according to a news release from NASA. Fausnaugh and astronomers from the University of New  more PR