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Denish: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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By DIANE DENISH
CORNER TO CORNER

The New Mexico Legislature just wrapped up a special session convened by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. The goal was to protect New Mexicans from looming federal budget cuts to healthcare and public broadcasting.

Most of the attention focused on shoring up healthcare funding—appropriating dollars to offset recent cuts and the removal of Medicaid subsidies. Lawmakers also passed a bill to help stabilize services in rural clinics and hospitals.

All of this is good, but something important is missing: medical compacts that would give New Mexicans more access Read More

Amateur Naturalist: The Autumn Leaves

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By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

Autumn is now entering its peak for the seasonal change of leaves. Trees of all kinds had green leaves during the summer. The leaves were making nourishment for the rest of the tree by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and making more complex carbon compounds.

Oxygen was released into the air as a by product. This process, called photosynthesis, is now stopping with winter coming. Green leaves no longer make nourishment but instead dying away until next spring.

Maple trees can have a particularly colorful change. The hundreds of green leaves change color altogether. Read More

Fr. Glenn: Go, Therefore …

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

One thing that the Charlie Kirk murder made very evident was a modern stark divide between Christian and secular thought. Regardless of what one might have thought of Kirk,  much hatred has been directed at him and at Christians in general—even to the point that he “deserved” to die, some mocking and even celebrating his death, and more broadly, ridiculing and disparaging Christian faith which he professed, however imperfectly as some have said (but NO one observes it perfectly because of human weakness). But, sadly, that seems to be the norm of “dialogue” these days. Even Read More

Op-Ed: The Shared Vision Of Jane Goodall And Pope Leo

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By TERRY HANSEN
Milwaukee, WI.

Conservationist Jane Goodall has passed away at age 91. As a United Nations Messenger of Peace, she urged: “You’re supposed to share the planet, and yet species are disappearing. Ecosystems are collapsing. That’s going to affect us.”

More recently, Pope Leo XIV implored: “We cannot love God, whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures. Nor can we call ourselves disciples of Jesus Christ without participating in his outlook on creation and his care for all that is fragile and wounded.”

Pope Leo and Goodall share deeply rooted values: reverence for life, Read More

All Shall Be Well: Blessings, Praise And Poverty

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Lynn Finnegan
Associate Rector
Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe

Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla Park, New Mexico is a “Franciscan oasis of prayer and personal growth.” I joined Episcopal clergy from throughout New Mexico and west Texas there this past week. It seemed quite fitting that we were in this tranquil Franciscan setting a few days prior to the Feast of St. Francis on Oct. 4.

Honored in the Catholic, Evangelical Read More

Best Of Liddie’s Recipes: Carne Adovada

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Carne Adovada. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

When we began growing Chimayo red chile on our farm, neither Rick nor I anticipated the dedication or devotion required nor the knee cartilage we would be sacrificing for this small, heritage crop. Once I had the seeds in my hot little hands, I was hooked. I visited my greenhouse daily and watched the seeds sprout into vibrant green shoots and celebrated each new leaf. I pinched off the early blooms to ensure all energy was being used to create strong and healthy plants. In May, after we transplanted, I prayed we would be spared Read More

Houck: Easements—What Buyers And Sellers Should Know

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By DAVID HOUCK
Qualifying Broker
Atomic Realty, LLC

When buying or selling a home or vacant land, it’s important to know whether an easement exists on the property. Easements can affect a property’s value and limit what a buyer can do with the land.

An easement is a legal right to use someone else’s property for a specific purpose. There are several types of easements—such as prescriptive, implied, by necessity, and express—but this article focuses on two common types: express and prescriptive easements.

Express Easements

An express easement is a formal, written agreement that Read More

Life After 50: Crisis Of Leadership?

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By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

I know about a few local … I’m going to say businesses, non-profits or organizations (B,N,O) … experiencing a crisis of leadership and I wanted to register some thoughts.

I say BNO because my goal is not to throw any singular entity under the bus, but struggle is afoot. I do hope people unite to engage in potential ways to solve issues in this community.

I’ll start with my philosophy about what makes a great leader. The first is that if the custodian urgently becomes ill and out sick for a few days and the leader is too good to clean the toilet, he/she is not a good leader. Read More

Geimer Top Predictor In Final Pace Race Of 2025 Season

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Racers prepare for the final pace race of the 51st season, Tuesday on the Canyon Rim Trail. Courtesy/ACRR

ACRR News:

Paul Geimer was the best predictor in Atomic City Road Runner’s (ACRR) final pace race of the 51st season held Tuesday on the Canyon Rim Trail. He was 21 seconds off his predicted time as well as the first finisher on the 3-mile course at 18:39. 

Other accurate predictors were Lynn Bjorklund at 22 seconds off and the top female finisher in the 3-mile distance with a time of 24:52; Warren Scoggins with a 40 second difference; Sean Thomas with a 43 second differential; and Chris Mullender Read More