Lauren McDaniel Shares Highlights On LACDC, Los Alamos Chamber, MainStreet And Creative District
By LAUREN MCDANIEL
Executive Director
LACDC
With the start of the new year, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC) and the role of some of its programs – namely the Chamber of Commerce and Los Alamos MainStreet and Creative District (LAMSCD) – in the community.
LACDC actively engages on a variety of key small business issues, meets with local small businesses, County staff, regional economic development organizations and legislators, and serves as the overarching voice for small business in Los Alamos County.
Collectively Read More
Skolnik: Reducing Excess Alcohol Consumption
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock
I encourage the Los Alamos Community to ignore the comments of the Rio Grande Foundation that the Post published Jan. 13 and focus instead on the facts and evidence about reducing alcohol-related harms in New Mexico.
First, New Mexico leads the nation in alcohol-related deaths, with a rate of such deaths that is six times the rate of the state with the lowest rate. In addition, New Mexico’s high rate of alcohol-related deaths has gone on for many years.
Second, there is consistent evidence within the US and across countries that higher alcohol taxes and higher alcohol Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Jan. 14 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Happy New Year!
The snowpack in Northern New Mexico improved somewhat last week and now is 32-percent of normal. The weather forecast for this coming week looks like typical January weather with highs in the 40’s and lows in the low 20’s and teens.
Next week could see an Artic blast thanks to the Polar Vortex plunging south. These cold blasts are no joke and temperatures can plunge well-below zero in some of our high mountain valleys.
The Moreno Valley where Eagle Nest Lake is located is a prime example. Temperatures here can Read More
Gessing: Higher Taxes Won’t Solve Alcohol’s Harms
By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation
According to the latest budget analyses from the Legislature, New Mexico policymakers have nearly $900 million in “new” money available as the session begins in Santa Fe. This comes on top of massive surpluses in recent years, which the Legislature has largely spent or used to bolster the State’s already prodigious sovereign wealth funds which now total $58 billion.
In many states across the nation policymakers of both parties would be fighting to see who can come up with the best tax cut or rebate plan. Sadly, this November, New Mexico’s voters Read More
Robinson: Protecting Homeowners & Keeping Insurers In NM
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
When we look back at fires, California’s and New Mexico’s, we’ll see that the victims got burned twice – once during the event and again when they tried to rebuild and found they couldn’t get insurance. That’s if they had any to begin with. Many don’t.
This is not a rant about insurance companies. Two of my early jobs were with insurance companies. I spent years writing about them as a business writer, so I don’t expect them to act like charities.
New Mexico and California have property insurance problems driven by climate change. The disasters Read More
Posts From The Road: Seeing More In Less…
Wide Open Spaces: This photo was made in the panhandle of Texas. While the panhandle does have several unique features, it also has a lot of wide open spaces. This is ranch land which is not very picturesque but I believe the photo works because of the great contrast between the greens and browns of the land and the beautiful blue skies. There is a windmill seen on the horizon in the center of the photo and the simple arrangement of the few puffy clouds creates a pleasing scene. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Straight Ahead: The lines created by the straight highway in this photo make nice landscape Read More
Fr. Glenn: Reminders
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
As of this writing the California fires are still raging through the Los Angeles and surrounding areas—such a tragedy, as is the flooding a few months ago in North Carolina and other natural and man-made disasters throughout our nation and the world.
Certainly Los Alamosians—especially longer-term residents—can empathize with those suffering now in California, as well as can many here in New Mexico. Dante-esque scenes of the fires of not long ago around Los Alamos are common in photos of the time, as are those from other fires in the Jemez Mountains, around Ruidoso, Cimmaron Read More
