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All Shall Be Well: ‘Mortal, Can These Bones Live?’

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill

The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” Ezekiel 37:1.

Six years ago, clergy friends and I were wondering if our congregations would survive. We couldn’t hold services. Parishioners Read More

Op-Ed: Pass The Rest Of The Health Care Worker Compacts This Year

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Many homeowners are surprised to learn that wildfire risk is now one of the biggest forces shaping home insurance prices and availability across the region.

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

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Cinema Cindy Reviews: ‘The Optimist’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

Now playing at SALA is a film worth your time, the “based on a true” story of a man whose early life he kept secret for sixty years.

Herbert Heller, played by Stephen Lang (Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar), is told by his oncologist that he should put his affairs in order. Even as he doesn’t tell his family this news, he has never told them that he survived Nazi concentration camps as a boy. But now, he commits to tell his survivor story to a project filming interviews with Holocaust survivors. 

Abby (played by Elsie Fisher), a young intern on the project, is left to interview Read More