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Robinson: Revealing Epstein’s Sorry Sojourn In New Mexico

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2026 NEW MEXICO NEWS SERVICES

We value privacy so much in New Mexico it’s a personal ethic. That’s the first of four reasons why Jeffrey Epstein’s activities at the Zorro Ranch could go undetected for years.

Epstein bought 10,000 acres in southern Santa Fe County from the family of former Gov. Bruce King in 1993. The parcel sits on a lonesome stretch of NM 41 between Galisteo and Stanley. He didn’t raise public eyebrows until 1995.

“Build a 30,000-square-foot house in the middle of WayOutThere, call it the Zorro Ranch, and people are bound to notice,” wrote Shonda Read More

Denish: When Compassion Gets Lost

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By DIANE DENISH
Corner To Corner
diane@dianedenish.com 

Recently, I listened to the historical fiction novel The Frozen River, based on the life of Martha Ballard. Her life is chronicled in The Midwife’s Diary, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. From 1785 to 1812, Ballard recorded the weather and daily life in Hallowell, Maine. During those 27 years, she attended 816 births.

The story is inspiring, intriguing and, most of all, authentically human.

What struck me was Ballard’s calm and gentle nature as she attended women giving birth. She asked permission before touching or examining a mother Read More

Fr. Glenn: Strength In The Storm

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

This Sunday (August 9) we have that very well-known Gospel account of Jesus walking on water. It’s always a favorite—the subject of paintings, daily comparisons (“That guy thinks he walks on water!”, etc.), and for Christians a never exhausted source of hope while enduring difficulties. We see in mind’s eye Jesus’ hand stretched out to us as He did to the sinking Peter.

What never ceases to amaze me when I read that Gospel is that: Judas Iscariot witnessed this and many other miraculous things and yet he still betrayed Jesus. For just a bit of money, no less. He had witnessed Jesus Read More

RPLA Announces August 2026 Events

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By LISA SHIN
Chair
Republican Party of Los Alamos

Dear Friends:

RPLA will have a table at the Rodeo Fair tomorrow Aug. 8! This is your opportunity to meet our 2026 Council candidates, Jason Chappel and Eric Stromberg. Ask your questions, share concerns, pick up a yard sign, and find out how you can help!

Mark your calendars for our Central Committee meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, at Open Door Bible Church.

Are you worried about Los Alamos County building a mass surveillance system that infringes on your basic rights and freedoms? Please come to the Council Chambers from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Read More

McQuiston: When Rodents Move In … What They Do To Your Car & Home … And What’s Covered By Insurance

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

You go out to start the car on a cold morning and something’s off. A warning light you’ve never seen, a strange smell, or you pop the hood and find a pile of piñon shells and shredded insulation where none should be. Something has been living under there.

In this part of New Mexico, that something is often a pack rat or a deer mouse. Piñon-juniper country, cold nights, and a warm engine bay make an appealing winter rental, and it has nothing to do with how clean you keep things. Plenty of tidy people find a nest under the hood.

Here’s Read More

Going Back In Time At The Obama Presidential Center

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President’s Reading Room at the Obama Presidential Center. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

Makers Space at the Obama Presidential Center. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

The Obama Presidential Center provided the opportunity to step back in time, stand in the moment, and glimpse the future, all at the same time.

Let me give you what I think is a brief look at my origin for this story. When the country elected their first black President, I knew the inauguration would be a pivotal moment in history that one might remember forever. That morning, I called the Read More

Op/Ed: Creating A New Future For Former CB FOX Building

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By PHILLIP GURSKY 
Representative for 1735 Central Investment, LLC
Los Alamos

To continue our transparency with respect to redevelopment of the old CB FOX building, the developers of this project are taking this opportunity to provide more public information on what our project is and does, who the developers are and our commitment to the vitality of this Community Dept.

The Project

When we set out to return this major building to life, we focused on meeting long-sought community needs and desires for downtown Los Alamos. We will have a boutique hotel centered on high-quality full-service Read More

Catch Of The Week: Your Hotel Wi-Fi Might Be Lying To You

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Here’s one to file under “things that ruin business travel forever.” Microsoft just published research on a campaign where hackers hijacked hotel Wi-Fi networks… specifically the captive portal, that login page you click through before you get online… and used it to push fake browser and Windows updates to guests. Yikes!

The trick works because the hotel’s Wi-Fi gateway often doubles as the DNS resolver for every device on the network. What’s a DNS resolver? A DNS resolver is a server that translates human-readable web names into Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Aug. 4, 2026

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The State Game and Fish Department stocked a total of 65,466 rainbow trout weighing 17,978 pounds. Most of the stocking will now be in Northern New Mexico. 

Streamflow in the Rio Grande stayed about the same—it is below average to extremely below average in Northern New Mexico. At Taos Junction Bridge, the streamflow Sunday was 134 cubic-feet-per-second. Streamflow at Cerro near the Colorado border was 37.6 cubic-feet-per-second. The streamflow at Embudo was 140 cubic-feet-per-second. Portions of the Rio Grande south of Albuquerque Read More

Robinson: CYFD Sending Kid Alone Across Border Violates Our Sense Of Right And Wrong

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By Sherry Robinson
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services

Two days after CYFD assured the public that it was successfully addressing its high caseloads and recruiting new foster families, a story broke that the state agency charged with protecting children walked a teenager to the Mexican border and ordered him to rejoin his mother in Juarez. The mother he hadn’t lived with in nine years. The mother deported by Texas on drug charges. The mother CYFD first said was abusive but then reversed itself to force reunification. The mother CYFD claimed to have vetted by phone.

CYFD sent the teen, a Read More