Daily Postcard: Fall Colors Reflect In Ashley Pond
Daily Postcard: Fall colors reflect in Ashley Pond. Photo by JJ Mortensen Read More
Posts From The Road: Mickey Mantle’s Boyhood Home Along Route 66 In Oklahoma
Boyhood Home: The modest white wood-sided house at 319 S. Quincy Street in Commerce, Okla., is where Mickey Mantle spent his early years from age three until he signed a pro baseball contract after high school. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Mantle Homestead: The Mantle homestead included the house and a tin garage or barn on the side of the property. The open grassy lawn between the two structures is where Mickey Mantle spent every afternoon practicing his hitting skills. His father and grandfather served as his pitchers. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer Read More
Fr. Glenn: The Freedom Of Restraint
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
When you watch the fiction of television, you’ll often see portrayals of freedom as being unrestrained license to do anything that passions impel you to do at the moment. Sadly, often tragically, things don’t tend to turn out well when you do that—either for yourself or for those around you. TV is, after all, fiction. How much pain has been doled out because we don’t restrain ourselves when we give in to temptations moving us to do things which are wrong—the tearing apart of families, destruction of financial security, health problems, feuds, and even murder, etc.
Freedom, according Read More
Video: Councilor Herrmann Discusses Oct. 7 Meeting
Los Alamos County Councilor Ryn Herrmann discusses Tuesday’s council meeting during a visit to the Los Alamos Daily Post newsroom. Video by Páya Pavlíková/ladailypost.com Read More
McQuiston: Are Self-Driving Cars Really The Future? … Or Just A Trend?
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
For years, self-driving cars have been painted as the future of transportation—sleek, effortless, and nearly accident-proof. Tech companies promised we’d be reading, working, or napping while our cars did the driving. But as the years go by, many people are wondering: are autonomous vehicles truly the next revolution, or just another overhyped tech experiment?
When self-driving technology first hit the headlines, it felt like science fiction becoming reality. The idea was simple: remove human error—the cause of
Home Country: The Gas Station Gun Shop
By SLIM RANDLES
Home Country
The sign in front of the gas station says “Unleaded, 3.39, special on Colt .357 Magnum, six-inch barrel.”
Visitors here in the valley do a double take when they see Vince’s sign there at what we all know as “the gas station gun shop.” That’s because Vince doesn’t believe in being deprived of his passion while earning a living. His passion: guns. His living: pumping gas.
We had all known of his passion for many years. He is the perennial president of the local rod and gun club, plans nearly all their annual spaghetti feeds to raise money for targets. If you want to go hunting, Read More
Daily Postcard: Magnificence Of Nature On Pajarito Mountain
Daily Postcard: Surrounded by the magnificence of nature during a hike this week on Pajarito Mountain. Photo by Annmarie Thomas Read More
