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Fr. Glenn: Hail The King!

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Fr. Glenn Jones: 

A very blessed and happy Easter and Easter season to all of you! And we ask for the same for the whole world. In these days of strife and division, what could be better than to have Jesus, the Prince of Peace, risen again to bring kindness, graciousness and charity to the hearts of all?

Ah, but what Catholic term as “concupiscence”—the “stain” of the turning away from God in Original Sin remaining even after baptism—keeps tending to weigh us down like a stone. How is it manifest? By our never-absent bickering, hatreds, jealousies, selfishness, along with all the negativities that Read More

Amateur Naturalist: Banyan Trees Also Called Strangler-Figs

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Picture 1: A set of banyan tree roots are covering the trunk of the support tree. Courtesy photo

Picture 2: Trunk-like branches grow horizontally and have roots growing downward. Courtesy photo

By BOB DRYJA
Los Alamos 

Darwin asserted that species most fit for their environment were more likely to survive and pass their attributes on to the next generation. This is the so called “survival of the fittest”. 

Tall trees with an extensive covering of leaves provide a one kind of environment. The resulting environment at the base of such a tree is very shadowy. It is not conducive for seeds to grow since Read More

Dannemann: Making New Mexicans Healthier

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2026 by Merilee Dannemann

The president’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, questioned by a Senate committee, was asked about her views on vaccines and birth control medications. She gave similar responses on both issues. She said both vaccines and contraceptive medications have side effects that may affect some people more than others, and patients or parents should have in-depth conversations with their doctors.

The nominee is Dr. Casey Means. This interview was in late February. As of the date I’m writing this, her nomination Read More

Op-Ed: New Mexico Is Open For Doctors — And That’s Good News For All Of Us

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By ANNIE JUNG
Executive Director
New Mexico Medical Society

If you have ever waited six weeks to see a specialist, driven an hour each way to find a doctor who takes your insurance, or been told your community clinic is closing, you already understand the stakes of physician recruitment and retention. It is not an abstract policy debate. It is your health, and your family’s health, on the line. New Mexico has faced a physician shortage for years — and this session, our state took the most significant action in a generation to fix it.

A Landmark Fix to Medical Malpractice: HB 99

No single issue has driven Read More

McQuiston: Driving In Los Alamos Is Unlike Anywhere Else

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

Los Alamos isn’t just a town, it’s a landscape. The roads wind through canyons, hills, and mesas, where weather and wildlife create challenges that outsiders rarely anticipate. Even seasoned locals sometimes underestimate how quickly conditions can change.

  1. Microclimates That Change in Minutes

You might leave your house on a clear street only to encounter ice a few blocks away. Shaded roads, canyon curves, and higher elevations mean frost and slick spots appear suddenly. Locals know the worst trouble spots: Diamond

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An Open Book: At The Passover Seder Table

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

Family gatherings at the Ellis household were a symphony of activity, conversation, and food, with my mother-in-law, Faith, serving as both conductor and principal violinist. Like any esteemed musician, she had her favorite pieces. She was famous for her pepper-infused boiled fish balls, or gefilte fish, a dish as much a part of the Passover season as a recital of Handel’s Messiah is to Christmas observance.

Having grown up without the benefit of extended family nearby, I found those multigenerational gatherings of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins Read More

Home Country: Christmas In Spring

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

Spring mornings are a lot like Christmas. Each day we get up and go out into the yard or walk along the creek or visit the horses in the pasture. And each day, each morning, we find something new the sun has brought us.

Pinfeather leaves of an unbelievable green now start showing on cottonwoods that have stood like stark ghostly frames all through the cold winter. Hopeful blades of grass peek through clumps of brown left over from last summer’s verdant pasture. Everywhere we look there is something new and different.

A lot of this Christmas-in-spring is kept just among us, Read More

Travel: Easter Island Offers Visitors A Unique Blend Of Culture, Legend And Landscape

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Ahu a Kivi. Photo by Debbie Stone

Rano Kao. Photo by Debbie Stone

By DEBBIE STONE
Santa Fe

As I gazed at the massive monolithic figures before me, I experienced a sense of awe and wonder, amid an aura of mystery. These enigmatic statues, called moai (meaning “to exist”), were carved by ancient civilizations centuries ago and they are found on Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui.

This remote volcanic island is located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and is part of Chile. It requires some effort and expense to reach this legendary destination, as you first need to get to Santiago, on mainland Chile, Read More

Catch Of The Week: Someone Left The Skeleton Key Under The Doormat

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

A powerful iPhone hacking toolkit just leaked onto the internet – and if your phone isn’t up to date, your data could be at risk. We’re talking messages, location history, browser data, even crypto. Yikes!

So what happened?

Security researchers have been tracking two sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkits – called Coruna and DarkSword; tools of unknown origin, being used by cybercriminals to break into iPhones and iPads. Think of them as master keys, capable of quietly unlocking your device just by having you visit the wrong Read More

Lauritzen: Local Rabbi Jack Shlachter Attends Antisemitism Conference, Invites Community To Learn More

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Earlier this month, local Rabbi Jack Shlachter attended the 2026 StandWithUs (SWU) conference in Las Vegas, Nev. I discovered this when I reached out to Rabbi Schlachter after the March 12 attack at Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

Rabbi Shlachter told me that he was already scheduled to attend an antisemitism conference within the next few days. The last two years have found a group called Rabbis United holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the SWU event. While Rabbis United was a gathering Read More