| New Mexico News Brief, Monday, Feb. 18
Chandler also was the Clovis police chief for nine years. TIJERAS, N.M. - The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to designate a motorized road and trail system in the Sandia Ranger District. The agency said comments on the environmental assessment will be taken for 30 days. .
Reports warn of mercury levels in tuna
Mercury concentrations in tuna steaks and sushi tuna are nearly twice as high as U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimates - and roughly at levels that the agency warns about in other fish, two new reports suggest. Oceana, an international organization trying to force grocery stores to post mercury warning signs, sampled tuna steaks from 23 stores and sushi from 24 restaurants around the United States in November. Tuna mercury levels averaged 0.68 parts per million in the stores and 0.86 parts per million in sushi restaurants, Oceana said Wednesday. The FDA estimates mercury levels of 0.73 in king mackerel, one of the fish the government thinks children and women of child-bearing age should not eat. Some of the highest mercury levels in tuna showed up in a St.
The song that changed it all: Duo made famous by tune 'Ashokan ...
Still, traditional American acoustic music isn't what one would call trendy. Mason jokes that she and Ungar tell people that they are each 172 years old at heart. But people are still responding to this music, some of which is two centuries old. They respond to the implicit historical connection and the social side to it all since playing music - in an age before radio and television were even conceivable - was a way families bonded and communities came together.Mason and Ungar took different musical paths to American acoustic music. Mason grew up in Washington state, just north of Portland, Ore. Her father played the mandolin, her uncle the fiddle. She took piano lessons in fourth grade, but was excited to switch to guitar at age 12, inspired by cowboy shows on television. In her teens, Mason started going to fiddle contests on the West Coast.
Nick Robinson's Newslog
If you ladle it out, you've got to take it, as the old saying goes. My post yesterday has provoked 52 MPs (and counting) to sign the following Early Day Motion tabled by Peter Kilfoyle: "THE REPORTING OF MR NICK ROBINSON That this House deplores the innuendo of the blog of Nick Robinson, the BBC's lobby correspondent; calls upon him to substantiate the imputations he makes in his blog concerning the Speaker and hon. Members; and also calls upon the BBC to publish a full, itemised account of the expenses of Mr Robinson, in the name of transparency and accountability of public funds." Mr Kilfoyle posted his comments below yesterday's blog in which he describes as "outrageous" the suggestion that some MPs are too afraid to condemn the Speaker because he'd abuse his position in the chair to punish those that did.
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