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Life After 50: Love And Marriage

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By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
Champions of Youth Ambitions

This is a time in life when our children and their friends may marry and begin their lives as young families. This weekend, I had the honor to assist with the wedding of Brandi Weiss to Nash Taylor, but let’s start at the beginning.

The year is 2013/2014 as 52 eighth graders at Los Alamos Middle School become the first WEB Crew in the State of New Mexico. Back then, I started a WEB Crew program, from the Boomerang Project. As an anti-bullying initiative Where Everybody Belongs, students are trained to welcome the younger classmen Read More

Op-Ed: New Mexico Is Leading The Way On Childcare – Now We Must Deliver

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By JACOB VIGIL
Chief Legislative Officer
NM Voices for Children

New Mexico has been on a mission to recognize early childhood education and care for what it is a public good that is essential to families, communities, and our economy.

In 2022, New Mexico voters overwhelmingly affirmed this mission by passing a constitutional amendment for early childhood funding. Now, we’re setting our sights even higher. Because of over a decade of advocacy from families, organizers, educators, and community leaders, with bold leadership from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state legislature, Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 13, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE 
Sports and Outdoors 
Los Alamos Daily Post 

Kokanee salmon snagging season is open at Navajo Lake, El Vado Lake and Eagle Nest Lake.  

Snagging season at Heron Lake begins Nov. 11 after the egg-taking operation. Possession of kokanee salmon at Heron Lake is prohibited from Oct. 1 until Nov. 11. 

All snagging seasons end Dec. 31 at all locations. 

In recent years, the best snagging success has been at Navajo Lake. 

Southern Colorado has experienced heavy rainfall and rivers are flooding. The San Juan in Colorado is flooding at Pagosa Springs. The Piedra, Pine and Animas Read More

Robinson: Keep ICE Detention Centers But Monitor Them

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services

Picking pumpkins just got a whole new spin. Ellen Bernstein, president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, emailed her members that Torrance County Commissioner Kevin McCall was an ICE supporter and cautioned teachers against field trips to McCall’s Pumpkin Patch, a popular family-owned business, according to SourceNM.

The online uproar prompted McCall to clarify during a commission meeting: “Our business is in no way communicating or working with ICE, which is utterly false. From its start 28 years ago, our mission has Read More

Posts From The Road: Mickey Mantle’s Boyhood Home Along Route 66 In Oklahoma

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Boyhood Home: The modest white wood-sided house at 319 S. Quincy Street in Commerce, Okla., is where Mickey Mantle spent his early years from age three until he signed a pro baseball contract after high school. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Mantle Homestead: The Mantle homestead included the house and a tin garage or barn on the side of the property. The open grassy lawn between the two structures is where Mickey Mantle spent every afternoon practicing his hitting skills. His father and grandfather served as his pitchers. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
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Fr. Glenn: The Freedom Of Restraint

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

When you watch the fiction of television, you’ll often see portrayals of freedom as being unrestrained license to do anything that passions impel you to do at the moment. Sadly, often tragically, things don’t tend to turn out well when you do that—either for yourself or for those around you. TV is, after all, fiction. How much pain has been doled out because we don’t restrain ourselves when we give in to temptations moving us to do things which are wrong—the tearing apart of families, destruction of financial security, health problems, feuds, and even murder, etc.

Freedom, according Read More

McQuiston: Are Self-Driving Cars Really The Future? … Or Just A Trend?

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

For years, self-driving cars have been painted as the future of transportation—sleek, effortless, and nearly accident-proof. Tech companies promised we’d be reading, working, or napping while our cars did the driving. But as the years go by, many people are wondering: are autonomous vehicles truly the next revolution, or just another overhyped tech experiment?

When self-driving technology first hit the headlines, it felt like science fiction becoming reality. The idea was simple: remove human error—the cause of

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Home Country: The Gas Station Gun Shop

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By SLIM RANDLES
Home Country

The sign in front of the gas station says “Unleaded, 3.39, special on Colt .357 Magnum, six-inch barrel.”

Visitors here in the valley do a double take when they see Vince’s sign there at what we all know as “the gas station gun shop.” That’s because Vince doesn’t believe in being deprived of his passion while earning a living. His passion: guns. His living: pumping gas.

We had all known of his passion for many years. He is the perennial president of the local rod and gun club, plans nearly all their annual spaghetti feeds to raise money for targets. If you want to go hunting, Read More