Op-Ed: DPU Should Consider Shopping Local For Solar
By RICK NEBEL
Los Alamos
Several years ago, my wife Kathy and my son Dan worked for Carol and Tex Felts at Los Alamos Music. Like many small businesses they provided multiple services to the community. They gave music lessons. They sold new and used instruments. They did “rent-to-own” instruments for beginners. They repaired instruments. However, the real money-maker for that business was that Tex tuned pianos.
For many years, Tex had a contract with the County to tune its pianos. One year he put in his usual bid, and the County told him that they had awarded the contract to some outfit from Santa Read More
Catch Of The Week: Road Toll Smishing Scams – Again!
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
They’re back… more road toll smishing scams!
What is smishing? Smishing is phishing via SMS – text message, as opposed to phishing, which is when they try to trick you into giving up sensitive information via email attack.
These attacks started up again this year, and thousands of people have already reported the attacks.
In 2024 the FBI had warned about this scam, “Since early-March 2024, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received over 2,000 complaints reporting smishing texts representing road toll collection service from at Read More
Houck: Retirement Series 5 Of 5 … Downsizing – A Process That Requires Planning
By DAVID HOUCK
Qualifying Broker
Atomic Realty LLC
Downsizing in preparation for retirement isn’t a quick or easy task. It takes thoughtful planning, effort, time—and often, money.
Let’s say you’ve made the decision to move and simplify your living situation. Now comes the next big question: where do you begin?
It’s important to remember that downsizing is a process. In fact, many professionals have built entire careers around helping others navigate it. The good news is, with the right approach and support, you can tackle it step by step.
Step 1: Be Realistic About Your Belongings
Take a clear-eyed Read More
Review: LALT’s ‘Copenhagen’ Proves 1941 Meeting Remains Relevant 84 Years Later
‘Copenhagen’ starring Jeff Favorite as Werner Heisenberg, Angel Virgillio as Margrethe Bohr and Thomas Graves as Neils Bohr, focuses on a conversation between two Nobel Prize winning physicists during WWII. Photo by Ashely Horner/LALT
Review By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The play, “Copenhagen” focuses on a meeting that occurred 84 years ago when Danish physicist Niels Bohr met with German physicist Werner Heisenberg. What were the exact details of this almost century-old conversation? No one really knows but Michael Frayn’s play presents several Read More
Republican Party Of Los Alamos On Summer Events 2025
By LISA SHIN
Chair
Republican Party of Los Alamos
Dear Friends:
A big thanks to all who helped us with our 2025 Legislative Update. Harry Montoya described the steady decline of New Mexico as a result of failed leadership as well as grassroots efforts to defeat socialism.
We had an informative Central Committee meeting on April 17! We heard from LAPS Superintendent Jennifer Guy, David Reagor on the County Council, Joshua Muck on the Transportation Board, Heather Muck on the Health Council Board, and Robert Gibson on the Board of Public Utilities.
My brief response to the Los Alamos County Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: May 5, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
There was a nice, soaking rain Sunday in the Espanola Valley. More rain is forecast for the coming week temperatures are on the cool side for May and the higher elevations are still getting snow.
The moisture is most-welcome after our dry winter and meager snowpack.
Streamflow in the Rio Grande remains low. The streamflow at Cerro near the Colorado border was just 173 cubic-feet-per second.
There will be no big spring runoff from Colorado. Snowpack in the Rio Grande headwaters is just 17-percent of normal.
New Mexico’s snowpack remains Read More
Robinson: Lawmakers, Governor Let Housing Bills Wither
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
For many people the most affordable route to home ownership is to buy a manufactured home, and planned communities of these dwellings appeal to retirees. But they often rent the lot.
If the property sells it can throw homeowners into a tailspin.
“For me and many others, living in a 55-plus manufactured home community is a life choice that provides both affordable housing and a supportive, tight-knit environment,” wrote Joanne DeMichele in an op ed.
After the owner sold the property to out-of-state investors, “rents jumped, and services Read More
