Gessing: LNG Permit Ban Absurd
By PAUL GESSING
President
New Mexico’s Rio Grande Foundation
What if I told you that one federal government policy could do the following:
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- Undermine Russia’s war against Ukraine (without the US spending a dime);
- Strengthen economic ties between the US and Asian and European nations;
- Reduce CO2 emissions; and
- Increase US tax revenues and American jobs (including in New Mexico).
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The policy I’m referring to is to allow American exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Thanks to American technological prowess the US is producing enough energy not only for itself, but for the world as well.
Sadly, Read More
Dannemann: A Medical Cost You Didn’t Know About
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Most of us have never heard of independent medical examinations. We might need to know a little more about them.
An independent medical examination (IME) is an exam performed when there is litigation related to a sick or injured person’s medical condition that requires more than the opinion of the treating physician. A doctor is hired – or, if necessary, a few doctors with different specialties – to give an unbiased opinion.
New Mexico workers’ compensation has an unusual system for IMEs. If the parties can’t agree to an IME Read More
Harris: Two New Mexico Political Groups Using Opposite Tactics To Reach Common Goal … Elect Democrats
By LINDA G. HARRIS
Politics Two Ways
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Two New Mexico political groups are using opposite tactics to reach a common goal—elect Democrats. While the West Side Democrats in Albuquerque focuses on personal activism, Blue CD2 New Mexico uses data and remote messaging techniques to reach new voters. Both groups say their specific methods are helping win elections.
The West Side group is led by Dorothy Wilkinson. She spent 28 years teaching in Gallup before retiring to Albuquerque, where she had planned to take it easy. “But 2016 happened,” she said. Her return to activism Read More
Fr. Glenn: Who Among Us Is Greatest?
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Hmmm … so many videos nowadays of people shoplifting, stealing, attacking the weak, etc. Now we have to wait for the clerk to come open the case even for a can of $1 shaving cream! But, if they’re locking it up, that means people are stealing it. Sigh. No wonder Amazon stock keeps going up; at least with them you don’t have to go through the hassle (and often the danger, in larger cities) of going shopping, waiting for clerks to unlock, broken carts, etc.
One wonders where the sense of honor has gone, much less the simple sense of right and wrong and respect for property. Of course there Read More
All Shall Be Well: Longing For Home
All Shall Be Well
Guest Column by
Chuck McCullough
We drove for seemingly endless miles through the verdant countryside, a couple of small boxes containing the ashes of mom and dad carefully nestled in the trunk of the car. Our destination was the old cemetery, located not far from where we had grown up, where generations of our family lay in quiet repose. Our parents had chosen this resting place years ago.
As I stepped out of the air-conditioned minivan that late summer morning, my senses were Read More
McQuiston: Hail … Yes, No Or Maybe So?
By Allen McQuiston
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Early spring is usually the kick-off to hail season. As you are likely aware, hail can do significant damage to anything it comes in contact with depending on the size of the hail. Hail is a solid form of precipitation made up of balls or irregular lumps of ice referred to as hailstones. Hail normally develops and falls during periods of severe thunderstorms. The size of hail varies from pea size on up, with the largest recorded hailstone in the United States measuring 1.67 pounds with a circumference of 17.5 inches.
Your home’s Read More
Catch Of The Week: Change Healthcare Ransomware Part 2
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
After suffering a huge ransomware attack in February, Change Healthcare has been hit again, by yet another ransomware attack. Yikes!
The attacker this time is RansomHub, a fairly new player to the game, having just popped up a few months ago. On Monday they claimed to have stolen over 4 TB of data from Change Healthcare, and are threatening to sell it to the highest bidder if they don’t receive payment within 12 days.
According to an article by The Register:
“Change Healthcare and United Health you have one chance in protecting your clients data,” Read More
