LASA: Pollinators As Teachers Of Love
By DANA ECELBERGER
Los Alamos Sustainability Alliance
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- Did you know? New Mexico has a surprising number of native pollinators: bees of all shapes and sizes, flies, butterflies, wasps, birds, bats and more, but bees are the hardest working in the pollination department. Out of around 4,000 native bees in the United States, New Mexico has around 1,000 bee species! That is a full fourth of all the known native bees in America.
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As we celebrate Valentine’s Day, many of us are thinking about love and what in the world it is all about. Some of us may already have found love, either as a romantic connection, Read More
Legislative Clock Is Ticking, Putting Some Key Measures Into Doubt
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN & ROBERT NOTT
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hasn’t made much use of her pen this legislative session.
With only about a day and a half before the session ends, lawmakers were feverishly debating a number of bills Tuesday night with the hope of getting them over the finish line and onto the governor’s desk for her signature.
So far, their record is nothing to brag about.
As of 6 o’clock Tuesday, only 35 pieces of legislation out of 777 bills, memorials and resolutions filed before and during the 30-day session had made their way past both the House of Representatives Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 14, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
For several years the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish had periodically throughout the season made stockings of bigger-than average rainbow trout in many of the state’s trout lakes and ponds.
Averaging between 15-20 inches long, these larger fish are a welcome addition for anglers used to catching 9-12 inch catchable-size rainbow trout
Reviewing last year’s (2023) stocking reports, there were few if any stockings of these larger trout made. The places where larger trout could be caught like the San Juan River, Navajo Lake, Chama Read More
Amateur Naturalist: A Rocky Landscape Part 3
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
We have reviewed how the composition of lava rock influences the size of boulders. We also have considered how the slope of the land influences where boulders may eventually settle.
Three interesting kinds of rock formations may occur:
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- (1) vertical columns next to one another;
- (2) a single column; or
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The rim of a canyon may be made of thick layers of dense lava. A thick layer would cool sooner from its outside since it take time for heat within to move outward to the surface.
Cooling lava contracts and so cracks penetrate from the surface downward into the Read More
Life After 50: 10 Years And Counting…
The CCO of Pet Pangaea (Crescent) gives Vets With Pets program 2 paws up! Courtesy photo
Village Arts has Taylor Swift coloring books to purchase while dropping off pet supplies. Courtesy photo
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Champions of Youth Ambitions
Our non-profit, Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA) will celebrate 10 years in June of 2024.
This year our non-profit will have several new additions to our programs in an attempt to give back. Our goals are to educate community members and provide resources for them to help someone they know who they believe is struggling.
This spring we will start Read More
Robinson: A Better Way To Govern
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
One of the most important bills this legislative session has tiptoed through the House with scant publicity and no controversy.
House Bill 232, to create the Infrastructure Planning and Development Division within the Department of Finance and Administration, sounds a dry and bureaucratic, but it could transform the state’s dysfunctional capital outlay system.
Communities need public works, such as senior centers or libraries, and their legislators secure capital outlay money to get them built. However, small entities Read More
Catch Of The Week: 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes?
By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
Who knew the internet might contain false information?? Lessons learned last week after false reports that 3 million smart toothbrushes were compromised and used in a DDoS attack went viral!
The story of 3 million “hacked” smart toothbrushes used in a DDoS attack quickly went viral last week, only to be proven false.
What is a DDoS attack? DDoS Attack stands for “Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack” and it is a cyber attack in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to stop users from accessing online services Read More
