Home Country: Love And Other Fiction
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
We wondered about the origin of the new sign down at the Read Me Now bookstore. Sarah McKinley has had the place for about five years now and has become a real asset to our valley. If you’re looking for a book, she either has it or you don’t need to read it.
She is picky, of course, and tends to buy the kind of books she thinks we should read and not always the ones we’d like to read. Fortunately for her, enough of us agree with her choices that we have kept her in business.
There’s speculation about the new sign, naturally. The word got out around the valley about ten minutes after she Read More
Daily Postcard: A Pika Sits On A Rock
Daily Postcard: A pika sits on a rock. Courtesy/NPS. Valles Caldera National Preserve and Bandelier National Monument are continuing to survey for native pika this year, and we’d love for you to join us as a volunteer! Pika monitoring volunteers will collect data to help researchers understand the impacts of environmental changes on these animals and develop strategies to mitigate these effects. Duties include: – Gathering data from iButtons installed in pika burrows. – Conducting field observations to monitor pika activity. – Documenting and recording evidence Read More
Catch Of The Week: Roblox Cheat Codes Lead To Breach
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
Fun new game: guess which link in a chain of events caused a major cloud platform breach this week.
A. Was it a sophisticated zero-day?
B. A nation-state attack on critical infrastructure?
C. A hard-to-detect supply chain implant buried in open source code?
Nope. Someone at a small AI startup was looking for Roblox cheats. Yikes!
Not even joking here! Researchers at Hudson Rock traced the Vercel breach that came to light this weekend all the way back to February, when an employee at Context.ai downloaded Lumma Stealer malware while Read More
Daily Postcard: Sun Dog Seen From Step Up Gallery Window
Daily Postcard: A sun dog was seen from the upper floor of the Los Alamos Library yesterday while the LA Photo Club was giving a tour of their exhibit in the Step Up Gallery. Photo by Steve Bublitz Read More
Denish: Kids Will Bring Cursive Back
By DIANE D. DENISH
Corner To Corner
One of my grandsons recently traveled to Washington, D.C.—his first visit to the nation’s capital. For a young man more at home in 4-H activities in rural Colorado, I imagined the sights and sounds would leave an impression.
On the final day of his trip, I called to ask about his favorite moments. To my surprise, he didn’t mention monuments or museums in general. “I got to see the Declaration of Independence!” he said.
The Declaration, housed in the National Archives alongside the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, is written in cursive—elegant, flowing script Read More
Robinson: CYFD—Moral Rot From Top To Bottom
By Sherry Robinson
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services
Tear it down and start over.
In 2023, after another column about dead children and the failures of the state Children Youth and Families Department, I got an email from Melissa Beery, a family peer support professional who had worked with CYFD. She wrote: “Maybe it’s time to embrace radical change.” She proposed dismantling the department and creating new entities.
Reading the latest report on CYFD brought this email to mind. Earlier this month, Attorney General Raul Torrez released a 216-page report summing up a year-long investigation Read More
Daily Postcard: Painted Lady Butterfly Rests On Blooming Rosemary In White Rock
Daily Postcard: Painted Lady butterfly rests on blooming rosemary Sunday in White Rock. Photo by Richard Skolnik Read More
