Public Invited To Shape Kinship Caregiver Pilot Program
ALTSD Cabinet Secretary Emily Kaltenbach
ALTSD News:
SANTA FE – The Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD) is inviting the public to weigh in on the rule for the new Kinship Caregiver Pilot Program.
Created through House Bill 252 during the 2025 Legislative session, the Kinship Caregiver Pilot Program is designed to assist those who are raising children outside of the traditional foster care system by helping them access services, legal resources, and financial support.
“Whether it’s grandparents stepping in, an aunt or uncle opening their home, or an older sibling keeping the Read More
Pages Of Our History: Los Alamos Ranch School’s Bill Veeck
Former Los Alamos Ranch School student Bill Louis Veeck, born Feb. 9, 1914 in Chicago, IL, died Jan. 2, 1986 in Chicago, IL. Courtesy photo
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos
Baseball enthusiasts will no doubt recognize the name Bill Veeck, one-time owner of the Chicago White Sox. However, he wore a different uniform as a student at the Los Alamos Ranch School in 1931-1932.
Bill was born in 1914 in Chicago, Ill. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, but with his father once president of the Chicago Cubs, he eventually chose to take a career path in baseball. After observing with the Cubs, he took on a partner, Read More
Life After 50: Honoring The Blissful John Baillie
LARSO Board Treasurer John Baillie receiving an award from the New Mexico Aging and Long-term Services Department (now New Mexico Aging Services), during a statewide meeting in 2022. Courtesy photo
LARSO Board Treasurer John Baillie, left, at the first COVID-19 drive-thru clinic held for residents aged 74 and older at Betty Ehart Senior Activity Center. Nambe Pharmacy staff and Los Alamos Visiting Nurses personnel participate in the event. Courtesy photo
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos
This month, I have been retired from the local senior centers for two years. Oh, it is amazing if you Read More
Daily Postcard: Flourishing 4-O’Clock In Pajarito Acres
A volunteer 4-O’clock in Pajarito Acres flourishes after recent rains. Photo by Bob Reedy Read More
Dannemann: Lack Of Immigration Law Is Intolerable
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
A dairy farm in southeastern New Mexico was more or less put out of business a few weeks ago when 11 workers were arrested for alleged immigration violations and the farmer had to fire an additional 24 workers.
The workers allegedly provided false documentation. What would you expect them to do? Presumably they did what they had to do to qualify for a job. The farmer reportedly is now just taking care of his cows. Without those employees he can’t do what’s needed to sell milk. Nobody benefits from this.
Dairy is a major industry in Read More
Catch Of The Week: FBI Issues Router Warning
By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
Got an old router- like from 2010 or earlier, also known as end of life (EOL)? You might be in for a cyber incident, at least according to a warning issued by the FBI last month. Routers dated 2010 or earlier are likely no longer receiving software updates, which leaves them open to vulnerabilities.
Recently the FBI released a list of EOL routers with remote administration/management enabled that were breached by cyber actors using variants of TheMoon malware. This malware allows actors to install proxies on victim routers and conduct cybercrime anonymously.
What Read More
Op-Ed: About Monday’s ‘We Love Public Lands Rally’
By C&R FRES
Los Alamos
Ref: ‘We Love Public Lands Rally’ To Protest Proposed Public Land Sales & National Monument Reductions Monday, June 23.
And yet, last year when the BLM proposed transferring (via a lopsided trade arrangement) nearly 2,000 acres of BLM land to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, practically no one made a peep.
If that transfer is completed, there will be nearly 2,000 acres of once publicly accessible land in northern NM that will be FOREVER cut off from public access. Unless, maybe, just maybe, you are allowed by the Pueblo to pay to access it as part of a Pueblo resort, golf course, Read More
