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Catch Of The Week: Wayne County, MI Cyber Attack

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Wayne County is the most populous county in Michigan. Per Wikipedia – “As of 2020, the United States Census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States”. Reports are indicating that this week Wayne County fell victim to a cyber attack.

Details remain slim, but according to reports from local news they are investigating a cyber attack that has targeted “some internal systems”.

“The County Information Technology team is aware of a cyber incident targeting some internal systems. Read More

Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Green Chile Corn Fritters

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Green Chile Corn Fritters. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

There is a bit of magic that happens in New Mexico when the green chile tumbles in roasters and the aroma wafts through valley. The fact that fresh green chile is being roasted while our corn harvest is ripe for the picking is an amazing moment for those seeking pairs to entice the palate. Fresh corn and green chile mark the turning of the season. That magical time when the heat of the summer backs off and allows the cool, crisp mornings of the coming fall take center stage. This is the treat that will satisfy your taste Read More

Gibson: Natural Gas Is Our Biggest Local Climate Change Challenge

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By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities

What greenhouse gas (GHG) emission source is our largest and will be hardest for Los Alamos to reduce or eliminate? No, it is not automotive tailpipes or billowing smokestacks at the plants that still supply much of our electric power. It is natural gas, here called simply “gas”.

Gas is a hydrocarbon, like coal, oil, gasoline, and wood. Burning hydrocarbons produce carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal GHG. (They also produce harmless water vapor.) In addition, gas is primarily methane, a much more potent GHG. Unburned gas leaks Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 1, 2024

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post  

Kokanee salmon snagging season begins today, Oct. 1 at Navajo Lake and Eagle Nest Lake.  

Kokanee salmon are a landlocked form of sockeye salmon that spend their entire life cycle in freshwater  rather than migrating to the sea. Originally native to the Pacific Northwest  they have been stocked in lakes throughout the Western United States. 

Like other species of Pacific salmon kokanee live for three years and in their fourth year spawn and then die. During spawning they gather in large schools Male kokanee undergo dramatic physical Read More

Haaser: Ongoing Work By Art In Public Places Board

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By STEPHANIE HAASER
Chair
Art in Public Places Advisory Board 

Art in public places helps to create beautiful public spaces and the Art in Public Places Advisory Board values community input.

Ongoing work being pursued by the Board:

  • Working to access indoor art,
  • Pending gate art for Betty Ehart Center,
  • Creating a Working Group to define criteria for art celebrating homestead families,
  • Working to identify language for an information plaque for Flower of Flight, located at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center,
  • Voted to recommend that the Maru Fountain, located at the Los Alamos Public
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: What To Know About Your Mammogram

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By JANET SANDY, FNP
Los Alamos Women’s Health
Los Alamos Medical Center

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month – a time for all of us to acknowledge the impact breast cancer can have on our lives, and to learn about the ways we can keep ourselves healthy. Breast cancer is a health risk for many people, with one in eight women expected to develop the disease during her lifetime. Thankfully, breast cancer is very treatable – if detected early. For women who are at risk, scheduling screening mammograms on a regular basis is an essential part of managing your health.

This October, add Breast Cancer Awareness Read More

Robinson: We Celebrate 20 Years Of Columns

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

“I want to stop and smell the roses,” he said. “If you want it, you can have it. Otherwise I’m going to shut it down.”

That was newsman Hal Rhodes, founder of New Mexico News Services. He had started NMNS in 1997 to provide opinion columns to New Mexico newspapers. When Hal was ready to step aside in 2004, he passed the baton to me.

We are now celebrating 20 years of a tiny business. The writers and some of our newspapers have changed but not the mission, and that is to provide views on New Mexico issues by New Mexico writers based on long experience Read More

Posts From The Road: Touring Aspen, Colorado

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Mill Street Mall: Mill Street Mall is one of two pedestrian malls in downtown Aspen, Colo. Shops and eateries line the mall which also serves as a space for public events, shopping, and an entrance to Aspen Mountain Ski Area. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Paradise: Paradise Bakery & Gelateria was a popular resting spot for people to enjoy a cold drink, snack or gelato including the bird in the seat on the left who was also taking part in the afternoon gathering. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

Nestled among the peaks of the Elk Read More

Fr. Glenn: Realizing Our Raison d’être

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Aren’t you just soooooo impressed—a little French in the title? It’s always fun to throw in some phrases from another language once in a while; it helps a writer look more edjamacated than he done is.😉 A little Latin here, a little French lingo there, to spruce up the column … a sine qua non lest ennui set in, and then … adios amigos. Or did you ever read an article which seemed to be written by a thesaurus? Who knew that the purpose of language was actually communication?! As the alien-inhabited Mr. Spock said in TOS  episode “Is There in Truth No Beauty”, “You depend on [language] for Read More

Tales Of Our Times: Founders Feared These Festering Acts That Endanger Democracy

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos

In their own writings, our Nation’s founders expressed their fierce distrust of political parties and the extreme power they need to acquire from the people. Critical discourse comes from our Nation’s first forward-thinking president in George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796). TV reports his warnings, President Washington’s farewell words ring true. Thomas Jefferson’s trenchant insight told us: “If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”

Fast forward to now. We voters need more efficient pollution controls; Read More