Houck: Retirement Series Part 2
By DAVID HOUCK
Qualifying Broker
Atomic Realty LLC
Downsizing – Many older Americans are choosing to go to smaller homes and downsize when retiring. Moving is a stressful experience, at any age, and downsizing for retirement carries unique challenges. Downsizing involves letting go of 60 to 80 percent of the belongings that took a lifetime to accumulate.
Downsizing Advantages
Saving money is one of the primary reasons people downsize their home for retirement. Less expensive housing is a reasonable way to increase budgets and retirement savings.
Some possible financial advantages of downsizing Read More
McQuiston: Apps To Help Keep Your Teen Driver Safe
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Obtaining a driver’s license is a major rite of passage for millions of young people across the country. Getting a license means freedom, self-reliance and the ability to hit the open road. But with that privilege comes risk and increased responsibility. As a parent, it is important to help your teen stay safe on the road – and new technologies can make it easier than ever.
Where to find safe driving apps?
There are many safe driving apps for teens with a variety of features. You can find apps for iPhone in the App Store and for Android Read More
Catch Of The Week: Facebook Rental Scams, Again!
By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
Spring showers bring…more Facebook rental scams! I have seen so many scam rental listings on Facebook this week it is ridiculous.
Image of Facebook rental listing
What a deal, right? Seems like a total bargain, but wow that is a crazy low price. Too good to be true? Yep.
Aside from the ridiculously low rental price, what other signs are there that this is too good to be true?
Right off the bat, this is a rental listing, and it’s listed in a group completely unrelated to housing-Los Alamos Trails. The pictures in the listing are very generic, and look Read More
Trask: Denish’s Diatribe On Musk A Misguided Hit Piece
By CHARLIE TRASK
Los Alamos
At the end of her Op-Ed, Diane Denish recommends that we speak up and push back against Elon Musk. Well, SURPRISE, I’m going to push back on Denish and the failure of our Democrat leadership. I’m urging our normal citizens to stand up for America.
Denish has thrown her/their cards on the table. She tells us that the world’s smartest person is a racist, bullied kid, non-engineer, Trump donor, user of drugs, father, emotionless, adolescent user of “X”, empathy-less, lover of chaos, and a multitude of other unfounded liberal innuendos and lies.
This is such a standard play Read More
Posts From The Road: Oceanviews
La Jolla Coastline: We enjoyed a sunny but cool day as we walked the coastline pathway in La Jolla, Calif. The views, the sounds, the smells of the coast we wonderful. The scenes as we walked were continually changing and always beautiful. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Napping: We first spotted sea lions and seals as we passed the Children’s Beach area which has been claimed by the sea mammals. A short distance farther we say this “herd” or “raft” of sea lions and seals mostly minding their own business and snoozing as they listened to the crash of nearby Read More
Catch Of The Week: Road Toll Smishing Scams – Part 2, The Revenge!
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daiy Post
Oof, yet again the nation is facing a wave of toll themed 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 Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 18, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The snowpack in Northern New Mexico is still well-below normal. Despite more beneficial snow that fell this past week, the measure of snow water equivalent, which is the amount of water you will have once the snow is melted, is below 50-percent of normal in the Upper Rio Grande, Jemez River and Pecos River basins. The Chama River Basin improved somewhat and is now 57-percent of normal.
The snowpack in Southern Colorado, including the headwaters of the Rio Grande, is also below normal. Snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters Read More
