Opinion & Columns

Amateur Naturalist: A Rocky Landscape Part 3

By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

We have reviewed how the composition of lava rock influences the size of boulders. We also have considered how the slope of the land influences where boulders may eventually settle.

Three interesting kinds of rock formations may occur:

          • (1) vertical columns next to one another;
          • (2) a single column; or
          • (3) a field of rock.

The rim of a canyon may be made of thick layers of dense lava. A thick layer would cool sooner from its outside since it take time for heat within to move outward to the surface.

Cooling lava contracts and so cracks penetrate from the surface downward into the Read More

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Life After 50: 10 Years And Counting…

The CCO of Pet Pangaea (Crescent) gives Vets With Pets program 2 paws up! Courtesy photo

Village Arts has Taylor Swift coloring books to purchase while dropping off pet supplies. Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Champions of Youth Ambitions

Our non-profit, Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA) will celebrate 10 years in June of 2024.

This year our non-profit will have several new additions to our programs in an attempt to give back. Our goals are to educate community members and provide resources for them to help someone they know who they believe is struggling.

This spring we will start Read More

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Robinson: A Better Way To Govern

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

One of the most important bills this legislative session has tiptoed through the House with scant publicity and no controversy.

House Bill 232, to create the Infrastructure Planning and Development Division within the Department of Finance and Administration, sounds a dry and bureaucratic, but it could transform the state’s dysfunctional capital outlay system.

Communities need public works, such as senior centers or libraries, and their legislators secure capital outlay money to get them built. However, small entities Read More

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Catch Of The Week: 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes?

By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Who knew the internet might contain false information?? Lessons learned last week after false reports that 3 million smart toothbrushes were compromised and used in a DDoS attack went viral!

The story of 3 million “hacked” smart toothbrushes used in a DDoS attack quickly went viral last week, only to be proven false.

What is a DDoS attack? DDoS Attack stands for “Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack” and it is a cyber attack in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to stop users from accessing online services Read More

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Granillo: Every Child In New Mexico Has The Right To Learn How To Read

By CHELSEA GRANILLO
TeachPlus

Every day, as a first-grade teacher, I change the trajectory of my students’ lives through one simple act: Teaching them how to read.

As a student teacher, I was fortunate to have been trained by a gifted kindergarten teacher as my mentor. She taught me impactful literacy strategies, such as guiding children to generate word lists based on spelling patterns and building up their phonemic awareness skills to help them blend sounds together when reading simple words. Now, it is my turn to set my students up for success, as I welcome 24 tiny children into my classroom

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Fr. Glenn: Big Week

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Big week this week. Superbowl Sunday. And then beginning of the Lenten season with Ash Wednesday … which, unfortunately, falls on Valentine’s Day this year. Well … maybe better to celebrate romance on Fat Tuesday this once, and thus keep whole the spirit of Ash Wednesday—that of repentance, for we Christians begin our annual “time in the desert” with Jesus in anticipation of the remembrance of His Passion and subsequent Resurrection at Easter. That repentance is the sign for which the ashes are applied to the forehead at the services on that day—the traditional sign of penance Read More

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All Shall Be Well: What’s That Somethin’, Somethin’ On Your Forehead?

Clergy from left, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Rector, Trinity on the Hill, Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Associate Priest Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church

“So it looks like you have a little somethin’, somethin’ on your forehead.” Did anyone say that to you this week?

If you answered yes, you probably are part of a faith community where the “imposition of ashes” is shared on Ash Wednesday. If you answered no, or if you were the person asking about that cross on your Read More

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