Opinion & Columns

Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 29, 2024

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

There are several fishing areas in Northeast New Mexico that will open Friday (March 1) for the 2024 season.

Morphy Lake State Park, Clayton Lake State Park and the Charette Lakes will open for fishing. The Charette Lakes should be good for some nice, holdover trout. There should also be some holdover trout at Morphy Lake.

Clayton Lake will also open. Clayton Lake was stocked Feb. 21 with 3,200 rainbow trout  in preparation for it’s opening Friday for the 2024 season. The state-record walleye was caught here. Clayton Lake is a designated Read More

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Amateur Naturalist: Pieces Of History In The Canyons

A log dining facility was a part of the military police picnic grounds. It was called ‘Eagles Nest’. Picture from the Los Times Newspaper, Jan. 3, 1947. Courtesy photo

A stone fire place still can be seen at the picnic grounds, decades later. Courtesy photo

By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

What was it like to live in the Manhattan Project during World War II and the years immediately afterwards? What was it like to know you were helping to create a whole new way to have war with the atom bomb? To quote Oppenheimer, “Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”. People could not come into the laboratory without Read More

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Home Country: Successfully Retired

Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

Ran into Herb Collins the other day down by the school. He volunteers there, from time to time, helping kids with their math homework, and trying to recruit future members of The Great World of Business.

He loved business, back in the days when he lived in the city and ran the pawn shop. For years now, ever since he hung up his jeweler’s loupe, he’s told us that there was an excitement to making the right deal.

“It has to be right for the customer and for me, or it isn’t right at all,” Herb always says. “You can do that and make several people happy and earn a living. There’s no need Read More

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Denish: Observations Of Some Legislative Highs And Lows

By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner

© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Wins, losses, surprises, and stunning moments. It’s all part of what has become known as “sausage making” during a legislative session.

In an earlier column I noted the number of bills that were introduced in the recent 30-day session – 685 to be exact (not including resolutions and memorials.) That number is lower than in recent sessions. Only 72 of those bills made it through both chambers. A handful have been signed and others await the Governor’s signature or veto.

HB1, which is always the first to pass a session, covers the expenses Read More

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Robinson: Feel-Good Tax Bill Has Much To Like But Stops Short Of Solving Bigger Problems

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Legislators passed a pretty good tax package this year, but instead of responding thoughtfully to the big picture, they simply rolled together a bunch of individual bills. They got in some pet tax credits while ignoring longstanding problems and creating one new irritant for businesses and economic development.

House Bill 252 “modernizes the tax code” and “enables working New Mexicans to hold on to more of what they earn,” said its sponsor, House Taxation and Revenue Committee Chair Derrick Lente, D-Sandia Pueblo.

There is much Read More

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Fr. Glenn: A Model To Follow

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

It’s you parents’ lot to worry about your kids—who they hang around with, what they are exposed to, what models for life will they emulate, etc. Will they be good persons? Will they have common sense, grasp onto their educational opportunities, avoid those pitfalls of life which are foreseeable and most often avoidable? No doubt almost every parent will rue some of his kids’ choices at one time or another, but you also know they have to learn the consequences of going down a foolish path … hopefully learning them prior to serious damage to themselves or to others.

So, whom should Read More

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Tales Of Our Times: Our Nation Devised Means To Use Differences Of Opinion

Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos

Free speech is an endless dilemma. Each of us wants to have it our way. That is, we speak as we see fit, but others should tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Yet, finding what is largely true is hard. It requires testing claimed evidence by some known standard, such as science or law. The glare of constant troubles caused by slivers of speech leaves us blind to the epic dividends of free speech.  

Contrast how much data the law requires in commerce to that in a working democracy. As the days rumble toward next November, the time is right Read More

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