All Shall Be Well: Letting Go
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, The Rev. Lynn Finnegan, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry and Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Deacon Amy Schmuck
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Grace and peace to you, readers of this weekly article. I pray in the spirit of our column title, “All Shall Be Well” that you are finding ways to feed your souls with comfort, with gratitude, with joy, and with community in order to live into that mantra as you are able. Pr. Nicole’ Raddu Ferry wrote last week about remaining faithful during the election Read More
Mead: ‘Power Humor’
By William Mead
Los Alamos
At election time it might be good to have some “power” humor.
We have a friend in White Rock who recently had a computer zapped by a power “outage”, even though it was on a surge suppressor. That got us wondering how you can tell if a surge suppressor still works. In the search, we happened on this great (perhaps apocryphal) story.
“Here’s a story: Back when I was doing power supplies one product needed a qualification test to see if it would safely isolate itself from the AC line for a fault. Isolation was achieved by using a huge (size of a frozen orange juice can) SCR to short the Read More
Denish: A Bouquet For Bret Baier
By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Research shows most of us watch network or cable stations whose reporting or commentary we find most appealing and with which we agree – especially in election season. I rarely watch Fox News.
Nevertheless, last week I saw an alert reminding me Vice President Kamala Harris was about to do her first ever interview on Fox News. I decided to tune in, as did 7.8 million other viewers – over half of them women.
The event was promoted as an interview but what the vice president got was a debate – and a contentious one. She also experienced a lot of Read More
Chief Justice Thomson: Make An Informed Decision About Judges On The Ballot
By DAVID K. THOMSON
Chief Justice
New Mexico Supreme Court
Assessing how state court judges perform on the job is difficult, particularly for New Mexico voters in today’s divisive political environment. But information from the state’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC) can assist New Mexicans in deciding whether to vote “yes” or “no” to retain judges and justices on the general election ballot.
JPEC was established to specifically help voters carry out their role in ensuring competent, professional judges in New Mexico. The commission’s evaluations also provide feedback Read More
‘Peace & Prayer Pilgrimage’ To Protest LANL Transmission Line Through Caja Del Rio Friday In Downtown Santa Fe
Caja del Rio News:
SANTA FE — Friday, Oct. 25, the Caja del Rio coalition is inviting members of the public to join its “Peace and Prayer Pilgrimage” through downtown Santa Fe to protest the controversial Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) transmission line project set to be built through the Caja del Rio plateau and call on federal officials to intervene.
The pilgrimage will begin at the Santa Fe County Administrative Complex (240 Grant Ave.) and culminate at the National Nuclear Security Administration building (N. Guadalupe Street) where participants will hand deliver the coalition’s Read More
Day: Los Alamos Needs A County With A ‘Can-Do’ Philosophy To Help Small Business Thrive
By ROBERT DAY
Los Alamos
I appreciated the editorial by Allen Saenz published in the Sept. 24 Los Alamos Daily Post (link). It confirms many of the concerns that I have regarding Los Alamos County’s lack of support for our business community. I have had my permanent address in Los Alamos for over 70 years and have seen our town proceed from having a thriving business community with a wide variety of stores to a few stores of very limited commodities.
This erosion seemed to begin in the 1980s and proceeded on a downhill path ever since. It appears to have been advanced by LANL being able to rent space at Read More
Robinson: Bipartisan Index Shows Which Members Of Congress Work Across The Aisle
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Entertainer-turned-politician Kinky Friedman was asked in 2006 about getting the Democrats and Republicans to work together. He responded, “I’m running for governor, not God.”
After months of political advertising that’s more punishing than enlightening, the likelihood of anybody working together to get something done seems remote, despite all their fine language about “reaching across the aisle.”
And yet, sometimes they do. There’s even a measure of how often this happens in Congress.
In 2015 two organizations created Read More
