Ringside Seat: Victory At Last … Legislature OKs Bill To End 175 Percent Interest Rate
The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Post file photo
By MILAN SIMONICH
The Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexico legislators took a giant step Wednesday toward shutting down a few hundred businesses.
Good for the lawmakers.
They went from timid to tough-minded in a month, at last acting to end more than three decades of legal loan-sharking in New Mexico.
By approving House Bill 132, the Legislature sided with state residents instead of wealthy predatory lending companies. The bill would reduce the maximum annual interest rate on installment loans from 175 percent to 36 percent.
A late amendment by Sen. Cliff Read More
Gruninger: Celebrate Random Acts Of Kindness Day
‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.’ –The Dalai Lama. Courtesy photo
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
I have been musing on the idea of kindness and what it means and today is the perfect day to read this as it is National Random Acts of Kindness Day. I realize it isn’t exactly the same as being nice, it is much bigger than that.
Kindness is expansive and to me includes elements of generosity, respect, selflessness, compassion, and consideration. Kindness isn’t something we should only be for other people, we need to show kindness to ourselves as well. When we are kind to ourselves Read More
Coro De Cámara Performs ‘Winter Wonder’ Feb. 26-27
The popular choral ensemble Coro de Cámara at Overlook in White Rock. Courtesy/Anne Marsh
By ANNE MARSH
Coro de Cámara Board
“The cold demands a silence of the land, a looking inward…” Thus begins the poem by Tara Wohlberg that inspired Coro de Cámara’s upcoming concert, ‘Winter Wonder.’
The popular chamber chorus will give two performances:
- 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, White Rock United Methodist Church (580 Meadow Lane)
- 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, United Church of Los Alamos (2525 Canyon Road)
Coro de Cámara’s Artistic Director Nylea Butler-Moore says, “Some people don’t like winter. Having grown Read More
Ringside Seat: Legislator Arrested For Drunken Driving Listed As ‘Excused’
The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Post file photo
By MILAN SIMONICH
The Santa Fe New Mexican
A few people have phoned to complain that I’ve been too tough on state legislators this year.
These callers say politicians are human, and they’re doing their best to meet tight deadlines and high expectations.
My response is most state legislators don’t live in the real world. If not for the double standard, they would have no boundary at all.
Consider Rep. Georgene Louis, who was booked early Monday on suspicion of aggravated drunken driving, speeding and having no proof of vehicle registration or insurance. Read More
Skolnik: COVID Update #12 – Are Cases Plateauing In Los Alamos?
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos
Status of the Pandemic
The table below shows cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for the US, New Mexico, and Los Alamos for the week ending February 14.
The graphic below (thanks to Eli Ben-Naim) shows the rolling 7-day average of cases in Los Alamos County over the last six months.
This graphic (also thanks to Eli Ben-Naim) shows the age distribution of new cases over the last two weeks.
Cases in Los Alamos have come down substantially in the last two weeks. However, they remain higher than at any time prior to the Omicron surge. In addition, the number Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 15, 2022
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
February is a month that will tease you with hints of spring. Temperatures in the 60’s, 70’s and even 80 degrees will likely be recorded here in New Mexico.
Winter still lets us know it’s hanging around by every now and then sending a frigid blast down from the North that drops the temperatures 30 degrees in 24 hours. They hopefully will also bring some much-needed snow to the mountains.
It is still below-zero in some of the high mountain towns like Chama, Red River, Eagle Nest and Angel Fire. Every now and then Angel Fire will make the news as the Read More
Military Order Of The World Wars: Bob Hull On Drone Technology & Use In An Ever-Changing Threat Environment
Robert Hull
MOWW News:
This month’s presentation by Robert Hull of LATA Corporation in Los Alamos is a brief introduction to drone technology and use.
We are all familiar with the recreational use of drones, but much more sophisticated drones are being developed and used by militaries as well as terrorists around the world.
These are used for a variety of purposes like surveillance but also for attacks on critical infrastructure. Because of their generally smaller size than regular air – or watercraft, they are much cheaper to make and many are, if necessary, expendable, or even intentionally Read More
