Amateur Naturalist: Encountering The Unexpected – Red Water
A pond suddenly turns red on its surface with the arrival of summer. Picture by Robert Dryja
The red surface breaks into small squares when blown among grasses growing in the water. Photo by Robert Dryja
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
One of the interesting things about exploring the natural world is to observe how things change over time. Some changes are expected. The change of the seasons from winter to spring, to summer, and then fall are one example. The changes in plants as they grow over the summer is another example.
But some changes can be sudden and unexpected. Imagine hiking by a small pond in Read More
Scott: Nov 8, 2021 Cannabis Town Hall – Follow Up
By SARA SCOTT
Los Alamos County Councilor
I hope this note finds you and your families well as we head into winter and maybe some snow!!!
On Monday Nov. 8, members of the Los Alamos County Council and County staff hosted a Town Hall focused on a proposed ordinance regarding cannabis retail operations in Los Alamos County – this ordinance will be considered at the upcoming Dec. 7 County Council meeting.
Background information regarding the ordinance was provided, but the Town Hall was primarily an opportunity for comments and questions from the public. Council also has received comments and questions Read More
Izraelevitz: Of Hanukkah And Sondheim
Hanukkah set of wood Dreidels. Courtesy image
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah began this past Sunday night, following the Jewish tradition that all holidays begin in the evening and continues the next eight days. It celebrates the successful revolt by rebels against a Syrian Greek monarchy around 165 BCE that was imposing Hellenistic culture on the Jewish people, including prohibiting the traditional practice of daily sacrifices in the Jerusalem Temple. When the rebels led by Judas Maccabee (or Judas “The Hammer”) succeeded in recapturing Jerusalem, a new Read More
Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Carne Adovada
Video of the steps to prepare Carne Adovada. Video by Liddie Martinez
Carne Adovada. Photo by Liddie Martinez
Editor’s note: Author Liddie Martinez will be signing copies of her award winning book Chile Line Cookbook: Historic Recipes of Northern New Mexico, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Los Alamos Daily Post, 1247 Central Ave.
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
When we began growing Chimayo red chile on our farm, neither my husband Rick nor I anticipated the dedication and devotion required nor the knee cartilage we would be sacrificing for this small, heritage crop.
Once I had the seeds Read More
An Open Book: Q Is For Qannabis
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
Dear Reader: Satire is sometimes difficult to discern and appreciate, so I think I should introduce this essay with a few remarks. During the period when legalizing recreational cannabis was being debated in the Roundhouse, the organization representing the 106 cities and towns in our state, the New Mexico Municipal League, was lobbying for a so-called “local option” where individual communities could decide whether or not to permit local retail sales within their boundaries. I would argue that if there is a community where cannabis sales should be limited Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Nov. 30, 2021
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The unseasonably warm weather and abnormally dry conditions returned after a much-appreciated but brief period on wet weather early last week.
The trend so far this fall and looking ahead to winter is for more of the same as we feel the effects of a La Nina current in the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning next week, the fishing report will include conditions at some of the more popular fishing locations in Southern New Mexico.
Although several ski areas have opened up, they still have very limited areas of their overall terrain open for skiing due to Read More
Ferguson: 2021’s COVID Crisis May Have Boosted More Accessible Legislature
By HEATHER FERGUSON
Executive Director
Common Cause New Mexico
Ever since the 1970s, when Americans woke up to the dangers of government secrecy thanks to Watergate and Vietnam, the value of transparency in public policy making has become more and more apparent.
Bad things are more likely to happen in darkness, not only when it comes to crime but also when it comes to laws made in secrecy, or decisions made without public input. That’s why New Mexico enacted the Open Meetings Act in 1974.
As it says in the act itself, the legislature recognized that a representative government is dependent upon Read More
