Dannemann: Affordable Housing
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
Everybody wants affordable housing.
At a recent legislative town hall, several legislators present named affordable housing as a top priority. There was not much specificity as to how housing should be made affordable or how to get it done.
Meanwhile, the people who actually build the houses (more precisely, the people who speak for the people who build the houses) are trying to tell us why new laws and regulations are making it less affordable to build anything.
In a letter to me, Melanie Lawton, government affairs director Read More
McQuiston: Happy New Year … May It Be Good To You
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
As we close the chapter on another year and stand at the threshold of new beginnings, there’s something special about this moment. The turning of the calendar brings with it a sense of possibility, a chance to reflect on where we’ve been and dream about where we’re going.
This past year has held its share of challenges and triumphs, lessons learned and memories made. Whether it brought you closer to your goals or taught you resilience in unexpected ways, each experience has shaped the person you are today. Read More
Amateur Naturalist: The life Of Oaks And Mosses
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
Consider some the dimensions of a gambel oak tree. It may grow as tall as 30 feet. It is considered to be a large shrub or small tee. Its leaves may be 2 to 7 inches long and 1.5 to 3.5 inches wide with deep lobes, (see Picture 1 below). Its fruit is the acorn seed pod. The lower half of a seed pod connects with a branch. It has a bowl shaped cup at this connecting end. A seed pod may weigh about 1/10 of an ounce.
Now consider a moss. Unlike a gambel oak tree, a moss “branch” may be 0.1 to 3.9 inches long, far less in comparison to the trunk or branches an oak tree. The main branch of a moss may have Read More
An Open Book: Math Lesson
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
I inherited my interest in mathematics from my Dad. He had studied engineering for a year in Uruguay before having to drop out and get a job, but his love for the subject remained. Even as a factory worker, he would work through geometry puzzles during his work breaks.
Uruguay’s technical university system was modeled on the French system, heavy on abstract mathematics and cruelly reliant on culling students through difficult written and subsequent oral exams. One of the last subjects he struggled through was synthetic projective geometry, a subject last Read More
Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: Dec. 22, 2025
BRIDGE News:
This is the last bridge session of the year. Duplicate bridge will resume Jan. 5, 2026. Happy New Year, everyone!
Open winners on Monday were Steve Kemic and Jennifer Young. Flight B winners were Harry Dewey and Linda Lambert.
Here is an interesting hand where, with competitive bidding, the optimal contract is difficult to find.
Board 8: South is the dealer, and nobody is vulnerable.
After South passes, West appears to have three options: Open with 1♣; Open with 3♣, or pass. The hand is too good for a 3♣ opening; a pass will make later bidding difficult, so probably the best option Read More
Home Country: Community Project
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Dewey’s a community project. He’s our resident accident-prone guy who managed to get his dad’s pickup stuck in the county’s only mud hole during a six-year drought, release 300 steers from the feedlot onto the interstate, and create about a ton of tossed salad with hot oil dressing on the on ramp.
Quite a few of us have scratched our heads over helping Dewey find something he could do without causing widespread destruction.
Last year, at Doc’s suggestion, Dewey fixed up his dad’s pickup and became what Doc later called an “entre-manure,” by taking manure from feedlots Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Dec. 22, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Happy New Year!
There was limited stocking activity last week and most of the stocking activity was in Southern New Mexico. This area had a taste of winter. Temperatures may not be as warm as they normally would be for this time of year.
Small streams at higher elevations are starting to ice up. The Rio Pueblo, Santa Cruz River and Rio Costilla are already reporting icy conditions that prevent the measurement of streamflow. Lakes are starting to develop thin ice, but it will be a while before the ice is thick enough for safe ice fishing.
This Read More
