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Posts From The Road: Big Rocks Park In Glen Rose, Texas

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Rocks and River: A view of the Paluxy River seen from the rock field at the Big Rocks Park in Glen Rose, Tex. The water level is controlled by small levees or spillways seen in the center of the photo. The water level at the park is generally shallow, which allows for easy wading or relaxation on hot Texas days. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

View Through the Rocks: Two boulders at Big Rocks Park lean on each other above the rocky shore of the Paluxy River forming a window. A view through the window shows visitors enjoying time in the cool waters of the river on a sunny weekday afternoon. Photo by Read More

Fr. Glenn: Holding On

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Fr. Glenn Jones:

As we experience often daily, it is becoming increasingly challenging to hold to true and ageless Christian principles. Faith often comes under attack by those advocating for the values of modern culture, which are often diametrically opposed to our faith. We hear often sometimes even from clerics: “The Church should get in touch with the times!”, those critics essentially believing that the values of the world should override even very clear teachings of the faith.

But that’s always been the case, really. Even in the story of Adam and Eve, we are given a first glimpse of the struggle Read More

Tales Of Our Times: Each Party Depicts Voter Laws In Its Own Way … Here’s My View

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Tales Of Our Times

By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos

Each Party Depicts Voter Laws In Its Own Way: Here’s My View

The work done in politics and science is more alike than most would guess. But politics has a worsening handicap. Politics forever deals with the billion dollar costs, lost time, and incoherence of campaign cycles, primaries plus general. With differing burdens, science is more agile. Voting laws illustrate this range of habits.

Political rivals launch separate images of voting laws. Slogans and flyers from either party tell us the importance of stopping the election crimes their rival Read More

McQuiston: Evacuation Orders & Your Homeowners Insurance … What You Need To Know

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

With the McCauley Springs fire in the Santa Fe National Forest currently affecting Sierra Los Pinos, there is a lot in the news over the last day or so. Given the situation, we want to review how a standard homeowners policy typically responds to a civil authority evacuation order.

Please Note: 

This guidance is meant to provide a general idea of how a common homeowners policy might respond. It does not confirm coverage. Every insurance policy is different, and to officially determine coverage, a claim must be filed and confirmed

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Quote Of The Day: Man In The Arena

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, Read More

Daily Postcard: A Century Plant Blooms On Rover

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Daily Postcard: A Century Plant blooms Thursday on Rover Boulevard in White Rock. This one appears to be 14 feet tall. They are toxic when touched. They can create ‘pups’ around the base that can be transplanted elsewhere and sometimes develops ‘bulbis’ on the stock that can be transplanted. One of the most spectacular blooms in the Southwest and the stock can grow 6” to 12” a day before getting ready to bloom. Buzzing with bees! A Century Plant blooms only once in its lifetime. Photo by Shari Mills Read More

Catch Of The Week: Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. Breach

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Need another reason to dislike Texas (kidding!)? If you or anyone you know bought a Texas hunting or fishing license recently, your personal information may already be in criminal hands.

A breach involving a third-party vendor used by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has exposed data belonging to more than three million people. We are talking driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses. Yikes!

That combination is worth understanding. A driver’s license Read More

Robinson: New Mexico—‘A Brilliant Destiny Awaits Her’

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

As we observe the nation’s 250 th anniversary, historians focus on the East Coast, but New Mexico has proud moments too. Return with me to 1851, when New Mexico became a territory of the United States.

Five years after the United States claimed New Mexico as a prize of the Mexican-American War, Congress declared New Mexico a territory and President Millard Fillmore appointed James Silas Calhoun as governor.

Calhoun was a cut above the usual federal appointee; a former judge, legislator, merchant and banker from Georgia, he was highly Read More