LAPD’s Victim Assistant On Domestic Violence & Gaslighting
By LAPD’s Victim Assistant:
The Los Alamos Police Department’s Victim Assistant shares the following information related to Domestic Violence and Gaslighting.
What is Gaslighting?
Gaslighting is a term that describes a type of emotional and psychological abuse in which an abuser convinces his or her victim that the abuse he or she is remembering didn’t occur, or wasn’t nearly as severe as the victim remembers. Gaslighting often makes the victims of abuse doubt their own memory, question themselves, and at times feel like they are going crazy.
Gaslighting can be hard to recognize, especially Read More
Catch Of The Week: Package Delivery Text Scams- Again!
By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
If you are anything like me, you probably order a lot online, and might have packages incoming at any time. How do you stay on top of your incoming packages? Scammers certainly hope you think it’s via text message, as yet another wave of package delivery text scams are incoming.
Image of package delivery smishing text scam
These text scams are a kind of phishing known as “smishing”. What is smishing? Smishing is a form of phishing that involves a text message or phone number. Victims will typically receive a deceptive text message intended to lure the recipient Read More
Best Of Liddie’s Recipes: Spanish Meatball Soup
Albondigas or Spanish Meatball Soup. Photo by Liddie Martinez
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
This fickle Northern New Mexico weather takes some getting used to for most folks. I have a nephew who invariably falls for the false spring and plants his dahlias too soon. Every May he calls to lament the late freeze, his losses and the trials of now trying to find replacement tubers so late in the season.
It is easy to forget the weather patterns here and get enticed by the beauty of swaying daffodils and budding tulips, but when the skies turn grey and the wind blows, it is the perfect time for one of my Read More
Stradling: The Nature Of The Conservative Movement
By GARY STRADLING
Los Alamos
We live in interesting times.
As President Donald J. Trump swept the elections in November, many strong opinions about the nature of the Conservative movement have been expressed, from both sides.
I would like to share my own views with our community. Note that this statement does not necessarily represent the Republican Party.
The core value of Conservatism is the respect for the freedoms of individual Americans.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that Read More
Robinson: Paid Family Leave Backers Ignore Employers
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
The family leave bill is another great idea New Mexico can’t afford.
Progressive Democrats passed House Bill 11 through two committees and the House, changing its name and its more onerous provisions while ignoring the state’s employers, who are saying loud and clear that they can’t afford it. For many, it would be disastrous.
The rebranded Welcome Child and Family Wellness Leave Act would allow workers to take up to six weeks of paid time off to care for a loved one, deal with serious health issues, welcome a foster child, grieve the loss of a child, or recover from Read More
Dannemann: New Mexico Leaders Respond To Trump Radical Changes
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
© 2025 Triple Spaced
When Donald Trump was elected to his second term, it was a foregone conclusion that he would attempt to make radical changes to our federal government. But we didn’t know what he would do first or how it would affect us, nationally and personally.
It also was predictable that his proposed changes would encounter massive opposition from many sides, ranging from Democrats in Congress to state governments and numerous advocacy organizations. Many of these efforts, we could anticipate, would go through the courts, some with frustrating slowness. Meanwhile, Read More
Sigmon: HB342 & SB527 Will Be Good For New Mexico
By LANCE SIGMON
Principal
Allen Sigmon Real Estate Group
As a past chair and current board member of NAIOP New Mexico, I am recommending legislators pass HB342 & SB527, which will provide equitable property tax reform for non-residential real estate. I’m a registered Republican. Many of the Assessors across the state are Democrats. I’ve been complaining to my wife about the divisiveness and partisanship our country and communities have been engaged in. Instead of complaining about divisiveness, we wanted to be an example to the state of how compromise could actually work.
Instead of Read More
