Catch Of The Week: American Water Cyber Attack
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For The Los Alamos Daily Post
Utilities such as gas, water and electric are necessities it is easy to take for granted. Loss of service due to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, happen; but what would happen if a utility company suffered a cyber-attack?
Unfortunately, that is just what happened earlier this month to American Water, the largest publicly traded utilities company in America. American Water is a major supplier of water in the US, serving more than 14 million customers across 14 states and 18 military installations. The company employs about Read More
Fr. Glenn: Evaluating Worthiness
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Ah, marriage. Ah, romance. As I forementioned last week, we had a lovely wedding Saturday. It’s quite the treat when we priests and ministers can witness at the tying of the knot with young people we’ve known since they were young lads or lasses. Of course, as you ladies know, dads almost never think anyone good enough for their daughters—that innate protective instinct. “Who dare think himself worthy of MY little girl?!”
Courtship, of course, exists to find someone with whom one who seems at least compatible and hopefully moves the heart toward love. In earlier days of arranged Read More
Robinson: We Must Take Care Of Our Rural Hospitals
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Last year three small New Mexico hospitals had only enough cash on hand to last a few days. That situation has improved a bit, said Troy Clark, president and CEO of the New Mexico Hospital Association, but four hospitals still have just 20 days of cash on hand. Others are losing money.
“We must take care of our rural facilities,” he said.
Patients in rural areas are older, poorer and sicker; their hospitals rely more on Medicaid than on private insurance or other sources, and Medicaid reimburses them below cost.
Legislators threw rural Read More
Gessing: The Rich Pay More Than Their Fair Share
By PAUL J. GESSING
Rio Grande Foundation
“It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just isn’t so.” –attributed to Mark Twain
The rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. This has been said or written by politicians from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris, Sen. Martin Heinrich, to Rep. Melanie Stansbury and many others.
“Soak the rich” forms the basis of “progressive” economic thinking in the United States.
What constitutes “fair” in the world of taxation is an open question, but many of these politicians make the unfounded claim that the rich pay taxes at a lower Read More
All Shall Be Well: Matter Matters
Clergy from left, Pastor Deb Church, Deacon Amy Schmuck, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, The Rev. Lynn Finnegan, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church
October is the time of year when many Christians remember with fondness St. Francis of Assisi (see Mother Lynn Finnegan’s column from two weeks ago). St. Francis’ feast day is celebrated in early October. For many of us, that celebration includes a special blessing of the animals. As a priest, I have met many household Read More
Lentini: City Managers Are Not Elected Officials
By CYNTHIA P. LENTINI
Española Resident/Community Activist
The Unsheltered Committee of the City of Española met Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. It’s sad when City representatives spend more time in denials and retaliation than on the business at hand: What to do for the unsheltered in the community.
The highlights of the meeting were not presentations of data, facts, reasonable arguments, and planning. Instead, the meeting spent an inordinate amount of time complaining about the alleged BS of social media and the City Manager’s verbal attacks against City Councilor Samuel LeDoux. Sitting back Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 12 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Streamflows in Northern New Mexico have fallen to the lowest level they have had in months. The Rio Grande at Cerro near the state border near Colorado was flowing at just 66.5 cubic-feet-per-second. The Chama River above the town of Chama was at 21.4 cubic-feet-per-second. The Pecos River was flowing at 42.3 cubic-feet-per-second.
These flows are well-below normal for this time of year. They make for good fishing, but the low water requires a stealthy approach and accurate casts.
The wild brown trout and brook trout are spawning this Read More
