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Fuselier: The Hopes And Dreams Of Ella And Nedah

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Ella, an Afghan student at the University of New Mexico, hopes to become a cardiologist. Donations are being sought to help her continue her education in New Mexico. Contact Bob Fuselier at fuselierbob@gmail.com if interested in donating. Courtesy photo

Retired LANL physicist Steve Greene speaks with Afghan student Nedah, who is enrolled at the University of New Mexico to study computer science. Donations are being sought to help her continue her education in New Mexico. Contact Bob Fuselier at fuselierbob@gmail.com if interested in donating. Courtesy photo

By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos Read More

Leadership In Action: Moving Forward Hand In Hand Together With Me, Melanee Hand

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By MELANEE HAND
Candidate for Re-election
Los Alamos County Council

If you’ve lived in our community for a while, you’ve probably heard my name. I’m not just a familiar face; I’m someone who has called this place home for over 40 years. Now, I’m asking for your support as I seek a second term as County Councilor — and I have a message that’s as clear as it is compelling: “Move Forward Hand in Hand Together.”

But what does that really mean? For me, it’s more than a catchy slogan. It’s a way of life and leadership. It’s about rolling up my sleeves and working side by side with neighbors, listening carefully, Read More

An Open Book: I, Robot, Vacuum

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

While finishing graduate school in the 1980s, I knew a few people involved in robotic vision, or how to build robots that recognize objects to pick up or avoid. Instead of a humanoid robot, think of a single eyeball mounted near a disembodied arm to find and manipulate simple objects. If your robot could pick up a torus (i.e. a donut), and dunk it in a container (i.e., a coffee cup), you’d have a prize-winning doctoral thesis. It is not far from the truth to say that one could see a graduate student dunking a donut in a coffee cup while programming a robot to do the same. Kind Read More

Catch Of The Week: Prove You’re Human (While Getting Hacked)

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

You know that annoying “I’m not a robot” checkbox you click seventeen times a day without thinking? Turns out, that automatic, muscle memory click is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on. Yikes!

A nasty scam called FakeCaptcha has been making the rounds, and it is disturbingly simple.

You land on a compromised website, a CAPTCHA pops up, you click “I’m not a robot” and without knowing it, a PowerShell script gets copied to your clipboard. The fake verification then walks you through three steps: press Win + R to open the Run dialog, Read More

Op-Ed: Flag Etiquette At NO KINGS

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By NEILL GOLTZ
Los Alamos

I am a recent immigrant to the Los Alamos community, but here long enough to have participated 3 times with the local “Indivisible” chapter at the “NO KINGS” rallies at Ashley Pond and along Trinity Drive and Central Avenue.

At a recent chapter meeting, I learned that a number of people in the community were upset with the upside-down display of two or three American flags.

I represent that this expression of my feelings is entirely my own, and in no way is the policy or advocacy of the “Indivisible” organization, or any of its other participants.

“NO KINGS” rally participants Read More

Dannemann: Voters Will Decide About Paying Legislators

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2026 by Merilee Dannemann

If New Mexico legislators were paid a salary, what would you expect them to do that they have not been doing up till now?

New Mexico is the only state legislature where legislators are not paid something like a salary, though they do receive per diem and mileage compensation. This November, a proposed amendment to the state constitution (House Joint Resolution 5) will be on the ballot, asking voters to approve or vote down proposed compensation. You and I will vote on this proposal.

Here’s the problem: The language of the proposed Read More

Home Country: A Duchess And A Truck Driver

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

Dud was especially quiet this morning, sitting in his usual seat at the philosophy counter of the Mule Barn truck stop. He was doodling with his napkin and a feed store ball-point pen.

Doc looked over to see if he could make it out. He couldn’t. Bert adjusted his glasses and looked over.

“Murder?” said Bert.

“What?”

“You wrote murder on the napkin,” Bert said. “Did I say something wrong?”

“Naw,” Dud said, blushing a bit. “It’s my book, that’s all.”

“Still having trouble trying to figure it out?” Doc said, kindly.

“The publishing company suggests I outline it first to kinda Read More

Robinson: How Do We Reform CYFD And Care For Unwanted Children?

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By Sherry Robinson
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services

What bothers Melissa Beery is that in all of the investigations, lawsuits and reporting on CYFD, nobody captures the day-to-day experience of children in state custody. Too many of these kids are shuffled from place to place—CYFD offices, shelters, the streets—without food, medicine or school. Or the notice of a single caring adult.

Beery is a peer support worker—someone who raised a child with mental or behavioral health issues or development delays and is trained and certified by the state to work with families in the case load Read More