Catch Of The Week: Tax Season Is Also Scam Season
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
It is that magical time of year when Americans gather their receipts, promise themselves they will be more organized next year, and log into tax software with mild dread. Unfortunately, it is also the time of year when scammers come out of hibernation.
Tax season is the prime hunting ground for cyber criminals. People are expecting messages from accountants, banks, and the IRS. That makes it easier for scammers to slip fake messages into the mix and hope someone clicks before thinking twice.
Every year the same tricks come back with a few updates. Read More
National Sunshine Week Runs March 15-21, 2026
The Document Divide: Why public record laws are failing average Americans, and what to do about it
By DAVID CUILLIER
Brechner Freedom of Information Project
Feb. 9, 2026
Freedom of information should be freedom of information for all.
It is not.
As we approach the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and celebrate national Sunshine Week March 15-21, we look back at the signing of the law by Lyndon B. Johnson on July 4, 1966: “I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people’s right to know is cherished and guarded.” Read More
Robinson: Chronicling Tariffs’ Path Of Economic Destruction
By Sherry Robinson
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services
Jerry Pacheco probably doesn’t own a crystal ball, but at the end of the year he wrote: “Countries that strongly trade with each other do not go to war with each other. The animus and uncertainty caused by starting a tariff war put the U.S. on the road to fractured relationships and isolationism.”
Pacheco is executive director of the nonprofit International Business Accelerator in Santa Teresa. He’s spent his career advising on international trade and recruiting companies to the border region. In the last year Pacheco has opined Read More
Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: March 11, 2026
BRIDGE News:
Bev Cooper and John Ruminer were Monday winners in flight A.
On Wednesday, Steve Kemic and Jennifer Young were 1st in Flight A.
Bobby Haynes and Alan Wadlinger were high in Flight B.
Here is a competitive hand, which is common when the HCP are fairly evenly divided.
Board 9 from the March 11 game: North is the dealer and E/W are vulnerable.
After North passes, East will open 1♦. South can either bid 1♠ or make a takeout double, intending to bid spades and thus show a strong (17+ HCP) hand. Assuming a double, the best choice, West will pass, and North will likely respond 1♥. East should Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 16, 2026
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The weather has been unseasonably warm in Northern New Mexico this past week. Winter is loosening its grip, and more fishing locations are opening. Bank fishing at lakes is normally good at this time of year. The streams have yet to be swollen from spring runoff and could also provide good fishing.
The ice-fishing season was a real dud this year. The only spot open for most of the season was Hopewell Lake. Eagle Nest Lake was open for about a week, and Fenton Lake was never able to offer ice fishing.
Several lakes in Northeast New Mexico opened Read More
McQuiston: Why Wildfire Risk Is Changing Home Insurance In The Southwest
By ALLEN MCQUISTONJemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
And the changes are happening faster than most people realize.
Wildfires in the western United States have become larger, more frequent, and more expensive over the past two decades.
Longer droughts, hotter summers, and expanding development near forests and open land have created what insurers call the “wildland-urban interface”. That’s where homes sit close
Sen. Jaramillo: Española’s Culture Deserves Recognition
By Sen. Leo Jaramillo
New Mexico Dist. 5
Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval & Santa Fe
As a proud native son of the Española Valley and a member of the New Mexico State Senate, I was deeply disappointed to see the veto of $500,000 that would have funded Phase 2 of the feasibility study for a Lowrider Museum in Española. This follows last year’s veto of legislation recognizing our community as the “Lowrider Capital of the World”.
That license plate bill received bipartisan support, and when I rose to defend it on the Senate floor, my colleagues responded with a standing ovation. Lawmakers from across Read More