Hampton: On Upcoming County Budget Hearings
By DAVID HAMPTON
Los Alamos
Chair Derkacs and Councilors,
First of all, I want to thank our County staff for an excellent 2025-2026 Biennial Budget Package and Citizens Guide. I found them both informative and easy to use. In regards to capital improvements, I applaud the emphasis on maintenance of existing facilities and infrastructure. Performance measures for each department were very useful.
My main concern is the budget option to add a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) and Training Analyst. I strongly support implementing the Racial Equity and Inclusivity (REI) Task Force’s Read More
Catch Of The Week: Road Toll Smishing Scams
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
On Friday, April 12 the FBI warned of a massive ongoing smishing scam themed towards unpaid road tolls.
What is smishing? Smishing is phishing via SMS – text message, as opposed to phishing, which is when they try to trick you into giving up sensitive information via email attack.
These attacks started in March and thousands of people have already reported the attacks.
“Since early-March 2024, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received more than 2,000 complaints reporting smishing texts representing road Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews: Civil War
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
Morbid curiosity … You could say that is what took this reviewer to see “Civil War,” which opened in theaters Friday and is now showing at SALA. “Morbid” because, in an election year, who really wants to imagine our nation warring against itself? “Curiosity” because the film’s trailers were decent, and because there are somewhat-encouraging numbers given it by IMDb (7.6/10) and Rotten Tomatoes (83%, with an audience score of 79%).
Fortunately, my concern wasn’t necessary. Writer-director Alex Garland intentionally left out any specific politics that would Read More
Robinson: A Better Way To Run A Railroad
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
There’s nothing like a road trip to make you appreciate another mode of transportation – trains. They keep motorists company along many a New Mexico highway. Before we left the federal Department of Transportation unveiled a new railroad rule, so I was paying more attention to trains.
On April 2 DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration began requiring trains to have at least two crew members. The feds cited “troubling trends that point toward a need for heightened caution and awareness in railroad safety”.
The number of human-caused Read More
Hampton: April 4 Transportation Board Meeting Update
By DAVID HAMPTON
Chair
Los Alamos Transportation Board
At our last Transportation Board meeting, April 4, 2024, we received a presentation from Member Karen Edwards on the inclusion of blind and low-vision customers in public transportation. She challenged us to consider special transportation difficulties these individuals may experience and to take them into consideration in planning and operating our public transit system.
May 16 will be the annual Bike-to-Work Day (note the date change). If you are interested in helping with this event, including planning, please email Louise Romero Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: April 15, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The weather has finally settled down and spring is definitely here. Flowers and fruit trees are blooming. The land gets a little greener every day.
Spring hunting season for wild turkeys opens today, April 15. New Mexico has three species of wild turkeys. The most common is the Merriam’s, which is found throughout the state in mountainous areas, mostly in ponderosa pine forests. The Rio Grande wild turkeys are found in riparian areas of Eastern New Mexico. The Gould’s wild turkey is very limited is habitat and found only in the Bootheel Read More
