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Home Country: Community Project

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

Dewey’s a community project. He’s our resident accident-prone guy who managed to get his dad’s pickup stuck in the county’s only mud hole during a six-year drought, release 300 steers from the feedlot onto the interstate, and create about a ton of tossed salad with hot oil dressing on the on ramp.

Quite a few of us have scratched our heads over helping Dewey find something he could do without causing widespread destruction.

Last year, at Doc’s suggestion, Dewey fixed up his dad’s pickup and became what Doc later called an “entre-manure,” by taking manure from feedlots Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Dec. 22, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE 
Sports and Outdoors 
Los Alamos Daily Post 

Happy New Year!

There was limited stocking activity last week and most of the stocking activity was in Southern New Mexico. This area had a taste of winter. Temperatures may not be as warm as they normally would be for this time of year.

Small streams at higher elevations are starting to ice up. The Rio Pueblo, Santa Cruz River and Rio Costilla are already reporting icy conditions that prevent the measurement of streamflow. Lakes are starting to develop thin ice, but it will be a while before the ice is thick enough for safe ice fishing.

This Read More

Posts From The Road: 2025 Year In Review Part 1

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Coastal Landscape: A view of the coastline, Highway 1, and the iconic Bixby Bridge is seen from a viewpoint about a dozen miles south of Carmel, Calif. and a short distance from the bridge. The late afternoon sunlight gives the scene a warm glow as the sun sets. The west coast provides many scenic views but images including Bixby Bridge have become iconic views. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

McWay Falls: McWay Falls can be seen when traveling California Highway 1 through Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. We enjoyed exploring the Big Sur coastline with its many popular scenic locations. Read More

Fr. Glenn: Making A Home

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and will continue to have a blessed Christmas season. The coming new year, too, inspires within us new hopes and aspirations, and we know how much those good anticipations rely on the health of our relationships with one another—especially with family.

So, it’s quite apropos in multiple ways that, on the Sunday after Christmas and after celebration of the remembrance of Jesus’ birth, Catholics celebrate the feast of the Holy Family and invited to look not so much at angels or miracles, but at a home. A family. That of Jesus, Mary and Read More

This Week In Sports: Dec. 29, 2025 – Jan. 3, 2026

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SPORTS News:

This week the Los Alamos High School Hilltoppers have boys basketball and wrestling games. Topper girls have wrestling games this week at Cleveland.

The Topper sports games and events are covered by the Los Alamos Daily Post sports team, which includes John McHale, Mike Cote and Nate Limback.

This Week’s Hilltopper Sports Schedule:

Dec. 29 Monday

  • Boys Basketball vs West Las Vegas at Stu Clark Tournament New Mexico Highlands University – 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 30 Tuesday

  • Boys Basketball at Stu Clark Tournament New Mexico Highlands University – TBD

Dec. 31 Wednesday

  • Boys Basketball at Stu
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Tales Of Our Times: Political Rivals Have Easy Chances To Renew Democracy

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos

We live in strange times. Never in our country have political rivalries played out on so large a stage. Settings vary from city parks and plazas to nationwide TV and social media. Each rival, with its allies, rants against its opposition. We hear tell that one set stands for democracy and the other threatens it. Maybe so. I fear that we waste good chances…

Investigations have become “bigger” news than legislation. We hear about large numbers of truly bad immigrants and large numbers of truly good immigrants. We need lawmaking that is suitable for Read More

Catch Of The Week: Spotify Scraping

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

In a reminder that the internet will always try to copy anything that isn’t nailed down, Spotify is investigating claims that a self-described “pirate archivist” group managed to scrape a massive portion of its music catalog. We are talking hundreds of terabytes of data, millions of tracks, and enough metadata to make any data hoarder weep with joy…Yikes!

The group, known as Anna’s Archive, says it scraped Spotify at scale using unauthorized accounts and automation. Not a dramatic smash-and-grab through a blinking server room, Read More

Op-Ed: Legislature Should Pass All 10 Health Care Worker Compacts In 2026

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By KRISTINA FISHER
Associate Director
Think New Mexico

The most immediate way that New Mexico lawmakers can expand access to health care is by joining all the interstate compacts for health care workers, which would make it easier for health care professionals who are licensed in other states to care for patients here in New Mexico, including via telehealth.

States that join the doctor compact experience an increase of 10-15 percent in the number of doctors licensed every year.

This probably explains why states keep joining compacts and no state that has joined a compact has ever left. Forty-two Read More

Benson: Meditation For Women Too Busy For Christmas

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By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos

I’m sick of Christmas,” my friend said. “Every year it’s the same thing. Shopping, baking, writing cards, addressing envelopes, more shopping, decorating, entertaining, cooking the Christmas dinner…. The kids and grandkids always come to mom’s or grandma’s house for their Christmases.

I have to do everything. It’s not like I’m the only one there—after all, I’m married. But does HE ever help? No. All he does is come home and enjoy the place. He thinks he’s done enough if he has to pull out his credit card.”

“It’s been the same since Christmas began,” I agreed theologically. Read More

Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: Dec. 15, 2025

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BRIDGE News:

With this edition, the Los Alamos Bridge Club wishes everyone in Los Alamos County a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! The game on Dec. 22 will be our last duplicate bridge game of 2025.

Open winners on Monday were Jerry Fleming and Martin Cooper. Flight B winners were Laurie and Bob Walker. Wednesday winners were Bobby Haynes and Neill Goltz.

Here is an interesting hand that turns one way or the other depending on West’s 3rd bid.

Board 7:  South is the dealer and both sides are vulnerable.

After North passes, West opens with 1♥. After North’s pass, East will bid Read More