Opinion & Columns

Just One More Thing To Do This Week: Look Around The Room

By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
 
I think I have an addiction. I have tried avoiding the temptations, weaning myself, and even going cold turkey, but nothing seems to help.
 
Eventually I am once again, back on the couch, falling victim to another HGTV home renovation show. I love these shows, and I love home renovation. I have lived with ongoing remodeling project chaos for years at a time. As long as there is the slightest bit of improvement, I can wait it out. As soon as one effort is complete, I am jonesing for another, usually bigger, project.
 
My husband, not so much. He wants to be
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Inspirational People: Elected Official Shows Compassion Toward Constituent Whose World Turned Upside Down

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

That shattered look is all too familiar to us in the newsroom at the Los Alamos Daily Post. Since being designated the Official Newspaper of Record by Los Alamos County in January, we’ve seen an influx of widows and widowers, parents and adult children in need of assistance in getting required legal notifications published.

There’s an unwritten rule in our newsroom when we see that look: Drop everything and give our undivided attention. So, it touched us all when a particularly devastated man entered our office recently.

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Letter To The Editor: Thank You For The Best Customer Service Ever

By JOE CORDELL
Los Alamos
 
Often you hear stories about something good resulting from a terrible situation. This is one of those stories. My family and I had a terrible experience when a car we purchased needed repaired.
 
However, during the course of this experience we were given a gift. The gift was being referred to Chevy, Cadillac of Santa Fe, NM.
 
This dealership is incredible.
 
Their teamwork and attention to detail enables them to provide the highest level of customer care. We are very grateful for all of their assistance over the last four months. Chevy, Cadillac
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Weekly Fishing Report Oct. 10

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

The heavy rains we had last week dramatically raised streamflows across Northern New Mexico. In some streams, the flow is two-to-three times what they would normally be at this time of year.

This is great news for the fish, which will benefit from the heavier flows and murkier water. They will be more difficult to catch and will have a lot more food to feed on. The fall-spawning brown trout may have better natural reproduction, with less chance of their spawning redds where the eggs are hatching being left high and dry by low water levels.

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McQuiston: Common Misconceptions About Personal Umbrella Policy

ALLEN MCQUISTON
The Jemez Agency
 
One thing I’ve learned over the years is there are several common misconceptions regarding personal umbrella insurance policies.
 
And I can certainly empathize with these folks since the term “umbrella” can be interpreted a number of ways. An umbrella policy is actually excess liability insurance. Here are some of the more common misconceptions and the truth behind them.
 
Misconception #1: “I have an umbrella policy. I don’t need to worry about insuring my jewelry or fine art.”
 
Unfortunately, it does not. For starters, a personal
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Home Country: Gates Of Heaven

Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
 
The food’s awfully good down at the Gates of Heaven Chinese Restaurant. The valley’s other Delbert, Delbert Chin, has been putting on a decent feed there since he came to this country many years ago.
 
We like that lunch buffet. All you can eat, of course, and he makes this pink sauce that’s out of this world. You can put it on everything. And you want to. He asked me once why I used so much of it, and I told him if I had enough of that sauce, I could live on cardboard boxes and bedding straw.
 
But there’s something else about Delbert, too. He is so proud of
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Garcia Richard: Science Under Threat

By Rep. STEPHANIE GARCIA RICHARD
Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and Santa Fe

I represent Los Alamos; where we take science seriously. And here we know two things: we know that we want our students to be taught real science. So why should we teach any other student in New Mexico anything less than that? And we know that if our students are taught anything less than rigorous, demanding scientific theory, then they will be left out.

You may have seen the NM Public Education Department’s version of the science standards described by a national magazine with the headline: “New Mexico doesn’t want you Read More

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