Opinion & Columns

Catch Of The Week: Canvas Data Breach

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

If you or anyone in your family uses Canvas – the learning management system that powers online coursework at thousands of schools and universities – you are going to want to read this one carefully. What is Canvas? Canvas is a popular, cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) by Instructure that allows educators to manage courses, post grades, and share materials, while students use it for assignments, quizzes, and communication.

Instructure, the Salt Lake City company behind Canvas, disclosed a data breach Read More

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Op/Ed: Petition Circulating To Keep LAMC OBGYN Open

By NICOLE O’DANIEL
Los Alamos

We, the Los Alamos community and surrounding areas, want to keep labor and delivery (L&D) open at the Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC). It has been devastating news for many in our community to learn of the closure as, for our community members it is not safer or better for pregnant or laboring women to be forced to travel outside of Los Alamos through cellphone dead zones. The community is coming together via a petition/letter that insists LAMC keep their doors open and continue providing necessary services to the women in our community.

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Harms Is Top Predictor & First-Place Finisher In Pace Race

Courtesy photo

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ACRR News:

Madeline Harms was the best predictor as well as the first-place finisher in the 1-mile race held on American Springs Road up in the Jemez. She was 12 seconds of her predicted time recording a 9:57. Other accurate predictors were Chris Michel at 20 seconds off; Lynn Bjorklund recording a 21 second difference as well as the best female finisher on the 3-mile course at 27:57; Edith Acosta coming in at 22 seconds off; and Aurea Rojas with a 23 second difference.

5-year-old Ryder Hetrick was the top male finisher on the 1-mile distance with a time of 11:46.

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Benson: Early Voting Has Begun … You Can Vote Now Too

By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos

Voting in New Mexico began on May 5, Cinco de Mayo, an auspicious historical date when Mexican General Zaragoza led his outnumbered troops to win the Battle of Pueblo against the imperial army of Napoleon III as he expanded France’s influence in the Americas. Against all odds, the Mexicans defeated the great European power, thus proving that in a battle for your country, every single fighter, every single bullet, counts.

Voting in the Primary is like the Battle of Puebla. How could one little soldier, one little voter, make a difference? Because just as every bullet counted Read More

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Robinson: To Survive, News Outlets Learn New Ways Of Reaching Readers

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services

This week, after a conference of New Mexico Press Women, I’d like to turn the high beams on my own world – newspapers, reporting and journalism. Despite bad news and worrisome trends, I came away hopeful because the public still wants local news. That’s a reliable constant we newshounds can hold to our hearts.

But we’re in troubled waters.

The nation’s founding fathers considered basic freedoms of the press so important to the new democracy that they cemented them in place with the First Amendment.

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