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With John Fleck

Folks around the state are gearing up for more winter weather. The National Weather Service late this afternoon upped the numbers for this latest storm, which has been dripping on… Read more »

The Associated Press just moved a somewhat gloomy story about drought conditions in Arizona: Snowpack in the state's mountains totals 38 percent of what it should be right now, with… Read more »

Most winter days over the last few years, the chance of an inch of snow in Albuquerque would be cause for either alarm or celebration, or possibly both. Not this… Read more »

Jeff Bingaman on Linton Brooks' resignation: “Clearly there have been a series of problems that the current leadership at the NNSA has not been able to solve with respect to… Read more »

The Project on Government Oversight , a DC activist group that (for better or worse) has been as influential as anyone in exposing real and perceived problems at the nuclear… Read more »

Pete Domenici thanks Linton Brooks, then twists the knife: “I’d like to thank Ambassador Brooks for his years of dedicated service to our nation.  Ambassador Brooks has worked on our… Read more »

Linton Brooks is resigning as head of NNSA. In his public statement announcing it, he's frank about the reasons: "The Department has just announced that Secretary Bodman has asked for… Read more »

A decision on RRW, the new U.S. nuclear warhead design, is near, according to Ian Hoffman. Ian, who always has a fun insider's take on the weapons world, has a… Read more »

I can't really tell you when all this snow will melt, sorry. The bait and switch headline was a trick to get you in to read my explanation of why… Read more »

Charlie Liles, who heads the local Weather Service Office, had a delightful email waiting for me when I got in to the office yesterday. The result : An epic snowstorm… Read more »

Meanwhile, in non-weather news: Los Alamos security whistleblower Glenn Walp earns a writeup in the Arizona Republic in his new digs as Apache Junction police chief: The city was buoyed… Read more »

The next storm is tracking well to the south of Albuquerque today, so it's looking like clear and sunny skies to help the Big Meltoff. There's so much moisture around… Read more »