Meadows: Shopping Along The Perimeter
By JENNIFER MEADOWS
Deeply Rooted Nutritional Therapy
Los Alamos
Grocery shopping can sometimes feel like a chore. If you’re trying to improve your health and eat differently, it can be downright daunting. With so many choices available today, it can be hard to know which products really are the best for you. Even the smallest grocery stores have tens of thousands of items, many of which claim to be good for you in some way. It’s a lot to navigate and who has the time to do the research necessary to really know which choice is best?
Hands down, one of the best things we can do for our health is to remove Read More
Home Country: My Squirrel’s Life Depends On It
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Doc isn’t even sure why he did it. For days afterwards, people would talk about it, then smile and shake their heads and just say “Oh, that Doc…”
The whole thing came up on the spur of the moment. Doc and Mrs. Doc were planning to go out of town for a few days and needed several hundred dollars in cash, so Doc dropped by the bank to take it out.
He drew Ardis Richardson as his teller, after he wound his way through the bank’s roped rat maze, and told her how much he needed.
Then, on an impulse, he leaned forward and whispered, “Ardis, I need that in small, unmarked bills, please.”
“Unmarked, Read More
Huang: From The First A-Bomb To The Last O-Mega … Is 78-Years Too Long A Time?
Courtesy/Zhen Huang
By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos
In Los Alamos, we have a bridge, the only bridge. It is a steel bridge across the Los Alamos Canyon at Otowi Crossing built in 1951. It connects the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a giant scientific research complex that is also the base of nuclear weapons development, and Los Alamos County, a small town sitting at the Pajarito Plateau surrounded by the peaceful National Forest and sacred land of Native Americans.
The official name of the bridge is called Omega Bridge. “Omega” is the name of an experimental nuclear reactor at the Los Alamos National Read More
Dannemann: Listen To The Outsider Perspective
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
New Mexicans have been singing the refrain “What’s wrong with New Mexico?” for so long we should make it the official state ballad.
Or maybe we could try listening to keen observers who are not stuck in old ways of thinking.
Sen. Bill Tallman, (D-Albuquerque), quoted to me a statement that a fellow senator had made recently on the Senate floor: “New Mexico doesn’t like change, and it doesn’t take risks.”
That has the ring of truth.
Tallman is definitely not “from here”, to use a favorite New Mexico term. He is unaffected by the Read More
Posts From The Road: South Park Coney Island Boardwalk
Coney Island Boardwalk: The iconic South Park Coney Island Boardwalk is a unique roadside diner near Baily, Colo. Folks love the quirky restaurant built to look like a giant hot dog. The hot dog is 42-feet long inside of a hot dog bun, which measures 35-feet long. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Taking Orders: We stopped for a late lunch at South Park Coney Island Boardwalk and were not surprised when we drove up to a full parking lot. The line seen here leads through the small diner where orders are taken and hot dogs made and delivered as you move through the line. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More
Fr. Glenn: Make It So
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I was meeting some people who had had a recent death in the family recently, and in the conversation they spoke both about the various virtues and quirks of the deceased—of the kindnesses of which they had been the fortunate recipients, and also chuckling about the quirky things that drove some of them nuts at times. Concerning the latter, one incisive comment that was offered when things got a little too uncharitable: “Yeah, but she never had meanness or a bad intention.” Not a bad, though rather sideways, compliment. Would that we could say that about all people.
After all, whom Read More
Robinson: Outdoor Recreation Division Deserves Kudos, But Don’t Neglect State Parks
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
Carl Colonius, an outdoor recreation planner for the state Outdoor Recreation Division, sat down before the Legislative Finance Committee recently, prepared to talk about trails. He found that lawmakers want to know about more than hiking. They’re eager to learn about the full range of outdoor recreation enjoyed all over the state.
In the conversational silos of state budgeting, they weighed outdoor recreation only from the Outdoor Recreation Division’s perspective, which they support. Days later, another silo of state government Read More
