Letter to the Editor: Outraged…
By Diana NorwoodMoney IQ: Avoiding Overdraft Fees
Money IQAvoiding Overdraft Fees
Whether you have had a checking account for years or you just recently opened one, a fee that should have been discussed with you is the overdraft fee.
This fee can also be called non-sufficient funds or bounced check fee. Your financial institution may even have a fee for both, one for the non-sufficient funds item and another for overdrawing your account.
How does one avoid overdraft fees? Don’t allow your account to become overdrawn. This is easier said than done as a person’s cash flow might be tighter in these tough economic times.
Food on the Hill: Cooking for Valentine’s Day
This week’s recipe:
Cherry Chocolate Cake
For Valentine’s Day (next two weeks) I am going to have recipes in that ANYONE can cook. I feel it is very important that you show the people that you love (Sweethearts, Family, and Friends) that you think they are important. Surprise your loved ones with a great dinner.
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comIngrediants…
Cake
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Devil’s food cake mix
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2 eggs
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1 teaspoon almond extract
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1 pound 5 oz cherry pie filling (strawberry can also be used)
Frosting
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1/3 cup milk
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1 cup sugar
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5 Tablespoons butter
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6 – 7 oz chocolate chips
Cake
PhotoColumn: A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization – Part I
A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization: Drawing Boundary, Yes; Generating Unlimited Rules, Not So Much – Part I
Column by Elena Yang
Plenty of organizations are not sensible but work very hard trying to generate perfect rules to make them look sensible.
The more rules they make, the more innovation they choke off, but the safer they feel within the comfort of all the known rules.
As usual, when dealing with complicated topics, I try to break them into two or more entries, as in today’s topic.
One way of understanding the third law of thermodynamics: To drive all imperfections Read More
Column: Great Year for Recycling in Los Alamos County
By Tom NagawieckiMost people do not get very pumped-up over trash, but 2012 was an exciting year for waste and recycling in Los Alamos County!
After many years of hard work, the County was able to successfully launch the glass drop-off recycling program, bringing back an important recycling option for our citizens.
The County lowered recycling rates for commercial services giving restaurants, churches, businesses, and apartment complexes an affordable option to help keep recyclables out of the landfill.
The Los Read More
Letter to the Editor: Cast Your Vote for Michelle Hall
By Morris B. PongratzI recently went to the County Clerk’s Office to vote in the UNM-LA Advisory Board election. I was only the fifth person to vote!
I know that this election may not be at the top of your radar screen, but elections are important so I urge folks to study the candidates and please vote!
One candidate, Michelle Hall, was recently honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) with the 2012 Excellence in Geophysical Education Award at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held Dec. 5, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif.
The award honors “a Read More
Column: A Moral Tale for Groundhog Day
Saturday, Feb. 2, demarcates the point in the calendar halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox.
In simpler times, (prior to anthropogenic green-house gases causing climate change with the resulting unpredictability of atmospheric conditions) on this day—Groundhog Day—it would be up to the groundhog to partner with his shadow to determine the weather for the next six weeks.
Here in New Mexico, as many of you already know, we do not have groundhogs. Rather we have gophers. Los Alamos’s own rodent celebrity, the glow-in-the-dark gopher, Gus,
