Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: June 9, 2025 Game Results
Bridge News:
Here is a hand from the June 9 game of the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club that offers both sides an opportunity to bid to a makable part score.
When the HCP are divided rather equally, it behooves both sides to bid to what they feel is the maximum contract they can make.
This is board #7. South is the dealer and both sides are vulnerable.
| North | ||||
| ♠ KQT74 | ||||
| ♥ JT93 | ||||
| ♦ 9 | ||||
| ♣ AJ3 | ||||
| West | East | |||
| ♠ 8 | ♠ A62 | |||
| ♥ K4 | ♥ 865 | |||
| ♦ AT3 | ♦ QJ8762 | |||
| ♣ KQT754 | ♣ 8 | |||
| South | ||||
| ♠ J953 | ||||
| ♥ AQ72 | ||||
| ♦ K54 | ||||
| ♣ 96 | ||||
After South passes, West opens the bidding with 1♣. North should overcall 1♠, and I think most competitive Easts would call 2♦. South has an easy 2♠ Read More
AMA Statement On Sec. Kennedy’s Removal Of All 17 Members Of Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices
By Bruce A. Scott, M.D.
President
American Medical Association
Note: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday that he is removing all 17 sitting members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with new members. The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations on the safety, efficacy and clinical need of vaccines.
“For generations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been a trusted national source of science- and data-driven Read More
Dannemann: Dental School To Open In NM This Month
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
New Mexico is about to have a school of dentistry. That is potentially very big news. Meanwhile, New Mexico has done apparently nothing to develop a program that was supposed to provide dental care around the state. The dental therapy program, which was pushed hard by healthcare advocates several years ago, is not happening.
The new dental school is opening in late June and will offer low-cost dental care to the public, provided by advanced students under the supervision of dentists. The school has come to us by an unusual route. Read More
Robinson: ‘We want to disrupt the status quo’
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Steve Moise and friends have a new way to begin solving New Mexico’s many problems. He’s unveiling Imagine New Mexico. “We want to disrupt the status quo,” he says. “New Mexico is change averse. We want to cause people to think bigger and better.”
The mission, he explains, is to incentivize a few well-respected nonprofits “to collaborate and make positive, measurable change” instead of trying to chip away at the state’s many needs in isolation. “We’ll hire someone to facilitate. We’ll raise enough money to reward them for their work.” Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: June 9, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Anglers that would like to catch a Gila trout should head to Lake Roberts near Silver City. The lake was stocked June 5 with 1,031 Gila trout from the Federal Fish Hatchery near Mora. This Hatchery is devoted to the raising of Gila trout.
These were big trout. They averaged 20.1 inches in size and slightly over three pounds. They were excess brood fish used to supply eggs for the hatchery. Gila trout are one of two trout species (the other is the Rio Grande cutthroat trout) native to New Mexico. Gila trout are native to the Gila River system in Southwestern Read More
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By ALLEN MCQUISTONJemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Fr. Glenn: Go And Bear Fruit
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
One of the beauties that we see up in the Jemez Mountains and in many places around New Mexico is the seed-bearing cotton from alamos (cottonwoods) lazily drifting to the final resting places unknown—evolutionarily hoping to take root like their parents, grow strong and produce their own “kids” to go off into the world in the future. Driven by winds strong or slight, that resting place to which they finally arrive will either be a blessing or bane for its future. Of course, as cottonwoods tend to require a lot of water to grow strong, many of those driftings inevitably end in places Read More
