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Daily Postcard: American Kestrel On The Watch 

Daily Postcard: This American Kestrel recently spent considerable time on the tree at the back of the Water Treatment Plant in White Rock. These Kestrels are the smallest of the Falcons. They live year-round in Northern New Mexico, but their numbers increase from late summer through winter. Photo by Richard Skolnik Read More

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Rev. DeYoe: Unitarian Universalism & Our Tradition of Covenant

By Rev. Tina DeYoe
Minister
Unitarian Church of Los Alamos

Unitarian Universalism & Our Tradition of Covenant

Are you searching for an interfaith, pluralistic community? Are you looking for a community that will help you in your free and responsible search for truth and meaning in life? Do you live your life based upon values of love, justice, equity, transformation, generosity, and interdependence? Are you looking for an anti-authoritarian, spiritually-based community? Are you looking for a community that upholds the importance of freedom, reason, hope, right of conscience, and Read More

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Catch Of The Week: Amazon Scams

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Remember when Prime day was once a year as opposed to every single month? Yeah, now you can’t go a week or two without some new Prime Days deal blowing up your inbox, and this month’s special day promises to kick off the holiday shopping season with more amazing deals!

Shoppers aren’t the only ones excited…Stay aware, because scammers keep an eye out for events like these and will use them against customers.

Picture this: you check your inbox expecting a cute cat video or a newsletter about pumpkin recipes, and instead you find an urgent Read More

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Robinson: Tracking Every Federal Cut That Will Hit The State

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services

Legislators got the people’s business done in two reasonably efficient days during the recent special session, but not without some political theater.

This year, the governor and Democrats were on the same page in wanting to prepare the state for the Republican president’s funding cuts. And because of the Legislature’s newly created Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee, they had numbers.

Few people know the state’s numbers like the subcommittee’s co-chair, Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup, who is former chair of the Read More

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Fall Colors Reflected In Los Alamos Reservoir

Beautiful fall colors reflect on the water Saturday at Los Alamos reservoir. Photo by Lauren Hughes

Another view of fall colors reflected on the water Saturday at Los Alamos reservoir. Photo by Lauren Hughes

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Appel: Legislators And Governor Should Fix New Mexico’s Road Crisis

By PAUL APPEL
President
Asphalt Pavement Association of New Mexico
As often happens, a bill died in the last day of the 2025 session when time ran out and what died just might be our roads. But legislators and the governor have a chance to fix it, make our roads safer, and save thousands of jobs.
In average years, the legislators fund road construction and necessary road maintenance to the tune of $200 million. In this year’s session back earlier this year, there was only a $65 million allocation – for maintenance alone, leaving the state’s road construction and maintenance fund short by $135 million.
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