Skolnik: Keeping Our Children Healthy & In School
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock
Last year, LAPS, like many school districts in the US, faced high levels of absenteeism.
As school opens this year, there are a number of health-related measures that LAPS should take to try to keep our children healthy and in school:
- Data on absenteeism – The LAPS should collect information on absences in a consistent way across schools. On a periodic basis, LAPS should also audit attendance data to be sure it is as accurate as possible.
- Causes of absenteeism – The LAPS should, with the help of an epidemiologist as needed, carry out regular analyses of its data on absenteeism,
Robinson: Ambitious Farm Bill Will Be A Heavy Lift
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
Modernization and current conditions are two themes as Congress constructs this year’s Farm Bill. Inflation, safety nets and climate change will all inspire changes.
The Farm Bill, a product of the New Deal in 1933, comes up every five years. The current law will expire in September, and it’s not likely that Congress will finish crafting the new bill by then. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. In this big, kitchen-sink type bill, it’s better to take the time it requires.
“The renewal provides an opportunity for producers and consumers Read More
Meadows: Shopping Along The Perimeter
By JENNIFER MEADOWS
Deeply Rooted Nutritional Therapy
Los Alamos
Grocery shopping can sometimes feel like a chore. If you’re trying to improve your health and eat differently, it can be downright daunting. With so many choices available today, it can be hard to know which products really are the best for you. Even the smallest grocery stores have tens of thousands of items, many of which claim to be good for you in some way. It’s a lot to navigate and who has the time to do the research necessary to really know which choice is best?
Hands down, one of the best things we can do for our health is to remove Read More
Home Country: My Squirrel’s Life Depends On It
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Doc isn’t even sure why he did it. For days afterwards, people would talk about it, then smile and shake their heads and just say “Oh, that Doc…”
The whole thing came up on the spur of the moment. Doc and Mrs. Doc were planning to go out of town for a few days and needed several hundred dollars in cash, so Doc dropped by the bank to take it out.
He drew Ardis Richardson as his teller, after he wound his way through the bank’s roped rat maze, and told her how much he needed.
Then, on an impulse, he leaned forward and whispered, “Ardis, I need that in small, unmarked bills, please.”
“Unmarked, Read More
Huang: From The First A-Bomb To The Last O-Mega … Is 78-Years Too Long A Time?
Courtesy/Zhen Huang
By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos
In Los Alamos, we have a bridge, the only bridge. It is a steel bridge across the Los Alamos Canyon at Otowi Crossing built in 1951. It connects the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a giant scientific research complex that is also the base of nuclear weapons development, and Los Alamos County, a small town sitting at the Pajarito Plateau surrounded by the peaceful National Forest and sacred land of Native Americans.
The official name of the bridge is called Omega Bridge. “Omega” is the name of an experimental nuclear reactor at the Los Alamos National Read More
Dannemann: Listen To The Outsider Perspective
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
New Mexicans have been singing the refrain “What’s wrong with New Mexico?” for so long we should make it the official state ballad.
Or maybe we could try listening to keen observers who are not stuck in old ways of thinking.
Sen. Bill Tallman, (D-Albuquerque), quoted to me a statement that a fellow senator had made recently on the Senate floor: “New Mexico doesn’t like change, and it doesn’t take risks.”
That has the ring of truth.
Tallman is definitely not “from here”, to use a favorite New Mexico term. He is unaffected by the Read More
Posts From The Road: South Park Coney Island Boardwalk
Coney Island Boardwalk: The iconic South Park Coney Island Boardwalk is a unique roadside diner near Baily, Colo. Folks love the quirky restaurant built to look like a giant hot dog. The hot dog is 42-feet long inside of a hot dog bun, which measures 35-feet long. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Taking Orders: We stopped for a late lunch at South Park Coney Island Boardwalk and were not surprised when we drove up to a full parking lot. The line seen here leads through the small diner where orders are taken and hot dogs made and delivered as you move through the line. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More
