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Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 9
By GEORGE MORSELos Alamos Daily Post
Sports and Outdoors
We had some snow and very cold temperatures over the weekend. The snow was most welcome because snowpacks throughout New Mexico are well below normal. The recent storm helped but we need many more. Even with the 23 inches of snow they received at Wolf Creek Pass over the weekend, the snowpack there is well below normal. Most areas throughout the state where the snowpack is measured are reporting snow depths less than 50-percent of normal.
If you would like to check on snow depths here in New Mexico, the National Resource Conservation
Read More Child: Fending Off Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
By Dr. JOSIAH CHILDMedical Director
LAMC Emergency Department
As the flu season kicks into full gear, braving airplanes and winter get togethers can provide germaphobes with a daunting onslaught of fearsome exposures.
So for those who understand that months of isolation can take its own toll, here are some tips for defense against upper respiratory infections.
Flu shots: while flu shots do not provide perfect protection against the flu, the trivalent vaccine for the average population and the quadrivalent vaccine for at- risk populations represent the best protection
Read More McQuiston: What You Need To Know About Your Auto Liability Insurance
By ALLEN MCQUISTONThe Jemez Agency
If you drive a car, you likely have auto insurance. Your insurance policy provides coverage against the many exposures of owning a vehicle. One of the most important perils it covers is your liability associated with operating a vehicle.
If you are found liable in an accident, it means you could be held responsible for any property damage or bodily injury resulting from the operation of the vehicle.
So what is your auto liability limit?
Take a look at your insurance policy. On the very first page (called the Declarations Page)
Read More Jury Orders Zia Credit Union To Pay Former Employee $1.5 Million
By MAIRE O’NEILLLos Alamos Daily Post
Zia Credit Union will pay $1.5 million to a former 20-year employee under a verdict handed down by a Santa Fe jury in a case involving a 1.3-acre piece of property in Pojoaque.
The case was originally filed in 2015 by Edwin Ortiz against Zia alleging wrongful discharge and defamation. Ortiz was hired by Zia in 1990 and worked his way up to senior vice president. He inherited the Pojoaque property from his parents.
The lawsuit alleged that beginning in 2005, Zia management and board of directors considered expanding the field of membership into Pojoaque Valley
Documents Detail Discrimination Suit Against County
By MAIRE O’NEILLLos Alamos Daily Post
Documents make public the specific allegations of a suit filed in October, in First Judicial District Court, against Los Alamos County by a procurement department employee under the Fair Pay for Women Act (FPWA).
The documents include the findings of the Human Rights Bureau (HRB) of the Department of Workforce Solutions Labor Solutions Division.
Lillie Martinez, a buyer/planner for the County, originally filed a charge of discrimination with the HRB in July 2016, alleging that she had been employed by the County for almost 16 years and had learned through
Hall: Less Desirable Aspects Of Season May Be Surfacing
By JIM HALLLos Alamos
As we are coming into a long election season, less desirable aspects of the season may already be rearing their ugly heads.
Having been in local and state politics since the late 1980’s (School Board, County Council, State Cabinet Secretary, and State Representative), I see that the tone of political campaigns since 2010 has changed.
Campaigns, even at the local level, have become more partisan, strident, and occasionally vicious.
Too often they are no longer about capabilities, experience, and effectiveness, but are litmus tests of party affiliation,
Community Invited To N3B Meet And Greet Monday
N3B News:
Read More Newport News Nuclear BWXT – Los Alamos (N3B) the contractor awarded the new Los Alamos legacy cleanup contract is hosting a meet and greet event for the public to learn more about the company.
Community members may drop in at anytime between 4-7 p.m., Monday, at Cottonwood on the Greens Restaurant, 4244 Diamond Dr. Light refreshments will be provided.
Learn more at www.hii.nb3.com.
Sheehey: Why I Joined Women’s March
By PETE SHEEHEYLos Alamos County Councilor
Dist. 43 House Candidate
Why did I don a handmade pink hat and march alongside my wife, Naishing Key, and thousands of others on a freezing day at the 2018 Women’s March in Santa Fe? Because I feel the same outrage that millions of people across the United States feel. No one, whether the President or a private citizen, should abuse women or other human beings, or treat them with disrespect.
Together we demand equality, justice, and respect. That means an end to discrimination on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation or disability. These Read More
World Futures: Lying, Cheating And Stealing: Part One
By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” on July 5, 1960, I was sworn in as a cadet at the United States Military Academy and accepted the Cadet Honor Code. The opening quotation above is from the Star Wars opening crawl. If asserted as true for my case, would be a lie. While I might argue that July 5, 1960 was a long, long time ago, the last time I checked, West Point is in New York, USA, planet Earth, in this galaxy.
In 1960, the Cadet Honor Code, as I remember it, was that a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal. Subsequently, the words “or tolerate those who Read More
