Home Country: Skiping Along On The High Spots
Home Country
By Slim Randles
Life is kinda like a corrugated, washboard ranch road, I believe. You give anything enough time and experience and you’ll find that warts and scars and grooves will get worn in it. The down times and the up times can lead to a corrugation in our dirt roads and our lives.
Any good cowboy knows how to handle a washboard road, though. Taken slowly, a pickup truck hits each little dip and rattles its carburetor until it puts a kink in the distributor clamp. It takes forever to get someplace, of course, but it does give a guy time to compose a symphony or a letter to Congress.
There Read More
LAPD Victim Assistant: Examining The Relationship Between Domestic Violence And Child Abuse
LAPD News:
Domestic violence is a pattern of abuse and coercive behaviors to gain power and control over an intimate partner. The power and control wheel was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota in 1984 to help describe the experience of victims of violence and the tactics that abusers used:
Domestic violence is a pattern of behaviors, not a single event. The abuse may become more severe and frequent over time, resulting in an increased likelihood that children eventually become victims.
An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence Read More
Gruninger: Join Us For Lunch
By JACCI GRUNINGER
Executive Director
LARSO
Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series written by Executive Director Jacci Gruninger to introduce Los Alamos Retired and Senior Organization and our services to the community.
Last week I shared about the many services the Los Alamos Senior Activity Centers provide. This week I’d like to invite you to lunch!
Did you know you don’t have to be a member to join us for lunch? We offer delicious, nutritious meals daily for only $10. And if you are a 60-year-young member it is FREE (a $5 donation is always welcome)! There are no long lines and every Read More
Robinson: Lawmakers Should Do What They Can In Special Session
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Rep. Bill Tallman, an Albuquerque Democrat who’s not running for office, has the luxury to say what he wants. “The governor just wants people to think we’re doing something,” he said of the special session that begins July 18.
Like most Dems, he said we must address poverty and mental illness to make a difference. Half the jail population struggles with mental demons, and “we’re swimming in guns.”
“We’re not going to solve that in three days,” he said during a meeting of New Mexico Press Women.
This was in May. It hasn’t gotten better. Read More
Catch Of The Week: What Is The Dark Web?
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
What is the dark web?
A. When you turn on Dark Mode on your web browser and everything is on a black background.
B. A special part of the web dedicated exclusively to content about the night sky.
C. A secret criminal market that is easily accessible to search for illegal things.
D. The part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable.
If you answered D., pat yourself on the back, you are right!
But what is it really, and what does that mean?
You can think Read More
Hanson: Los Alamos’ Climate Action Plan – What’s Missing, What’s Misleading And What We Must Do
By DAVID E. HANSON
Los Alamos
On July 9, 2024, the County Sustainability manager and Cascadia Consulting presented the Los Alamos Climate Action Plan (CAP) to the County Council. They are requesting community feedback and plan to present the final version of the plan in Sept. or Oct. for Council approval.
There are a number of vital actions that are missing from the plan and the single thrust that is the overwhelming focus of the plan (reducing our CO2 emissions in Los Alamos County) is misleading in several ways. Except for Councilors (Randall) Ryti and (David) Reagor, who asked some critical Read More
Posts From The Road: Sawtooth National Recreation Area
Sawtooth Mountain Range: A view of a portion of the Sawtooth Valley and the Sawtooth Mountain Range are seen from the Bethine and Frank Church Overlook Viewpoint where visitors get their first panoramic view of the Sawtooth Mountains and the Sawtooth Valley. The overlook is located near the Galena Summit on the Sawtooth Scenic Byway. The headwaters of the Salmon River are near this viewpoint but it is a small stream. The river increases in size by the time it reaches Stanley, Idaho, just a few miles farther north. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Ranch and Boulder Mountains: While driving Read More
