Op-Ed: Pass The Rest Of The Health Care Worker Compacts This Year
By FRED NATHAN
Executive Director
Think New Mexico
It was a big bipartisan win for New Mexicans when the legislature and governor enacted Senate Bill 1 to bring New Mexico into the interstate licensure compact for doctors. According to the New Mexico Medical Board, joining this compact will result in an increase of 10-15% in the number of doctors applying to practice in New Mexico annually.
Unfortunately, eight other compacts needed to address shortages of psychologists, counselors, EMTs, physician’s assistants, speech therapists and audiologists, physical therapists, occupational Read More
The FOIA: Off To A Slow Start, Picked Up Speed, Now Hitting A Brick Wall
By THOMAS M. SUSMAN
American Bar Association
Feb. 16, 2026
It was June 1968 when I arrived in Washington, D.C., after a year in New Orleans clerking for Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom. A new law requiring more government transparency was just going into effect.
I had accepted a job as a Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Frank Wozencraft in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While I worked on efforts to advance the confirmation of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, I was also assigned to work with OLC attorney Warren Belmar, Read More
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