Weekly Fishing Report: Aug. 5, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
There was very limited stocking of trout last week in Northern New Mexico. This reflects the conditions. Rising water temperatures and low streamflows limit the amount of water where hatchery trout can be stocked.
One river that seems to be holding up well is the Pecos River. The Eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains have been getting more monsoon rain than North-Central and Northwestern New Mexico.
Some of the best fishing will be found below dams. Water released from the bottom of the lakes will be cooler so trout remain Read More
DeHaven: The Role Of Social Services Division In Our Community
By Jyl DeHaven
Vice Chair
Los Alamos County Health Council
If you are living life in Los Alamos, you may have often thought, “I wish we had… more restaurants, more things to do after 8 p.m., less traffic going up/down the hill, more affordable housing choices, better medical access…”
However, most days we are grateful for the sense of peace, safety, beauty, moderate weather, and walkability. For many of us, this is a great place to raise a family and grow old. We seldom see the harsh realities present in other towns in this nation – the invisible community members who sometimes need a hand-up. Those Read More
Robinson: Jobs Numbers Look Better In New Mexico Than They Do Nationwide
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Day in, day out, the number crunchers at the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics keep tabs on the economy and report data, a job only a geek could love. Much hangs on those numbers.
The stock market, industry and government decision makers, and the business press track statistics coming from the BLS and other agencies to gauge the health of the economy. That’s why there was such an uproar when President Trump fired the bureau’s head geek, Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, because he didn’t like the numbers in the July jobs report. The economy Read More
Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: July 28, 2025
BRIDGE News:
Perhaps you’ve seen the old card game “Bridge“ mentioned in a book or seen it being played on the Orient Express in an old Agatha Christie black-and-white movie. Maybe you’ve even tried to play it in the remote past with Mom and Dad (or even more likely Grandma and Grandpa) around the kitchen table. Well, it hasn’t quite gone the way of the typewriter or film cameras, yet – and, in fact, it has a substantial Free-on-the-Internet presence. LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE!
That being said, it is a game that needs new and younger Face-to-Face players and, here in Los Alamos the local club Read More
Dannemann: Congressional Contradiction Underlies Passage Of RECA Bill
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
Many New Mexicans watched with emotions from concern to dismay as the 900-plus page federal budget reconciliation bill—what the president called the One Big Beautiful Bill—was passed a few weeks ago. We knew provisions of that bill would damage New Mexico in ways we had heard about and ways that we had not learned about yet. We knew the bill, on balance, would be harmful for New Mexico, even if a few things in it might be beneficial—because it was too big and stuffed with too many unrelated provisions.
We had heard about Medicaid Read More
Sam LeDoux: Not Right Time To Run For Española Mayor
By Sam LeDoux
Española City Councilor
ESPAÑOLA – Over the last year or so, I have been approached by many city residents and stakeholders to run for Mayor of Española in 2026. After much thought and prayer, I have decided that it is not the right time for me. Kiele and I are just starting to build our lives together and hope to start a family soon.
I also want to be more present in the lives of my aging grandparents and available to my mother during these trying times with her illness. I know that the stress and time constraints of such a campaign and mayorship would test my ability to meet these responsibilities. Read More
Fr. Glenn: Becoming Royalty
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I was scrolling through the news the other day and came across a story about a princess from a European royal family soon to be married. The article displayed a file photo of the princess in which she was wearing some jewels which royal families have accumulated over the centuries. Yes, very lovely.
But is true royalty in jewels, a crown, power, a title? Might we define a more humanistic—a more truly human—royalty of moral goodness rather than through power and possession? All too often we become consumed with what the world teaches that we should want, but neglect that which Read More
