DeVolder: America For Sale – Cheap / Part II
By Mark DeVolder
Los Alamos
I wrote the following Feb. 5, 2024, “After pondering a wide spectrum of issues in America today, I can’t help but think that everything is broken.” (link)
What prompted my initial writing was a report I saw on the internet where Jerome Powell indicated that the American debt level and the interest on maintaining the debt are not sustainable. Furthermore, Jeremy Grantham has been indicating for a long time that we are living on a financial bubble. And finally, I am getting sick and tired of hearing about how the US Government may get shut down tomorrow or three months from Read More
Catch Of The Week: Cyber Attack Shuts Down Children’s Hospital
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
In case you ever wondered how low cyber criminals are willing to go, in this week’s news they took down, checks notes, a children’s hospital…
Nearly a week after a cyber attack shut down their computer systems, a children’s hospital in Chicago is still trying to restore their computer systems. Lurie Children’s Hospital said the attack shut down its network including phone, email and some other electronic systems.
The hospital remains operational for now, but the outage has made scheduling appointments, and getting medical records Read More
Robinson: Vocational Education Bill Off And Running
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Trades, especially the construction trades, have been saying for years that they need more workers. Community colleges and unions are doing their best to make that happen, but funding is up and down.
A bill that easily passed the House last week would stabilize funding for apprentice and training programs in the state.
It lines up with the widespread public realization that college is not for everybody and legislative intentions to boost vocational education. Last month the combined House and Senate education committees prioritized Read More
Op-Ed: Our System Of Public Higher Education Cannot Wait Another Twenty Years For Action
By SATYA WITT
Principal Lecturer at UNM Albuquerque
Member of United Academics of UNM
Higher education in New Mexico is in state of crisis. Despite experiencing a boom in student enrollment, thanks to transformative opportunities like the Opportunity Scholarship, our growing student populations have fewer faculty to teach them because significant numbers of faculty are leaving higher education for better paying positions.
House Memorial 32 seeks to find a solution to this crisis, and requests that the Higher Education Department, in collaboration with the Legislative Finance Committee Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 5, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Now is a good time for hunters to start planning for the upcoming big-game hunting seasons. The deadline to apply for a license in the big-game license lottery drawing is March 20.
New Mexico has some of the best big-game hunting in North America . Trophy-class mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk and pronghorn antelope are taken every year.
New Mexico also offers the unique opportunity to hunt exotic species such as oryx, Ibex and Barbary sheep.
Applications for the license drawing can be submitted online. The 2024-2025 New Mexico Hunting Rules Read More
DeVolder: America For Sale – Cheap
By Mark DeVolder
Los Alamos
After pondering a wide spectrum of issues in America today, I can’t help but think that everything is broken. That is not necessarily a problem if people are willing to face facts, make tough decisions and begin on improving a wide spectrum of concerns / issues. A critical question is where to begin making improvements.
Perhaps I am not the best messenger to address such a large spectrum of concerns/issues and there are those who would probably think that pouring molten gold in my ear might be an acceptable solution. However, I think it best to start somewhere and slowly/methodically Read More
Ringside Seat: Hanging Offenses Weren’t Always What They Seemed
By MILAN SIMONICH
The Santa Fe New Mexican
As happens at this time every year, Republican lawmakers say they want to reinstate the death penalty in New Mexico.
Democrats, as always, have assigned the latest bill for capital punishment to a legislative graveyard. A House committee soon enough will give the measure an unceremonious burial.
Once the Republicans are back home and running for reelection, they will claim everyone would be safer if only the state could again execute New Mexico’s worst criminals.
Justice was never that swift or simple when the state had capital punishment, even in cases Read More
