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Op-Ed: Looming Anniversary Of Hiroshima At 80

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By PETER N. KIRSTEIN, Ph.D.
Professor of History Emeritus
Saint Xavier University

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the world changed forever when the United States exploded the first atomic bomb, “Little Boy”, over Hiroshima. In an instant, incineration ravaged the city, killing over 140,000 people. Three days later, the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 75,000. By year’s end, an estimated 250,000 had died from the blasts, fire, and radiation poisoning.

These acts of war ruptured the moral and existential boundaries of modern civilization. While they marked the end of

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Weekly Fishing Report: July 14, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE 
Sports and Outdoors 
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The brown trout was introduced into New Mexico’s rivers and streams in the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally native to Europe and Asia, the brown trout has proven to be very adaptable and has established wild populations in all the states where it has been introduced. They have not been stocked in New Mexico for many years. If you catch a brown trout in New Mexico, it is a wild, naturally reproduced fish.  

Some off the best brown trout fishing is in the larger rivers. The Rio Grande, Chama and San Juan Rivers all have wild Read More

Catch Of The Week: Chamber Of Commerce Phishing Scams

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Local businesses rely on their local, non-profit chambers of commerce to help them grow and build a thriving community. Unfortunately, this makes local chambers of commerce targets for scammers! Recently, I’ve seen reports coming out of other areas that their local chamber of commerce has been impersonated by scammers. It seems to be mostly back east so far, but it is good to be aware as it will likely make its way out here.

See example phishing email below, the subject of this was “The Riverton Chamber of Commerce”.

HiServiceplumbing, Read More

Denish: When Is The Right Time To Ask The Hard Questions?

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By DIANE DENISH
Corner To Corner

This is a heartbreaking column to write. But as the flood tragedies in Texas and New Mexico unfold, heartbreak is unavoidable. More families are reeling from the deaths of children, missing loved ones, and homes and lives destroyed.

As I watched the crisis in Texas, my mind went back to childhood memories — when my sister and a friend from another Hobbs family went off to Camp Mystic in the Hill Country. They were excited to go and returned glowing from the experience.

I also remembered peaceful summers in Ruidoso, walking on river rocks and spotting minnows in the Read More

Robinson: Red Tape & Indifference Slow Disaster Recovery

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

Exactly one day before the Rio Ruidoso swelled from 18 inches to 20 feet of death and destruction, Mayor Lynn Crawford told legislators that money they approved for disaster recovery is bottled up.

“The process is broke,” he said. “What you passed, we don’t have access to.”

The Village of Ruidoso is still rebuilding from last year’s fires and floods, reported Source New Mexico. Crawford told a July 7 meeting of the interim legislative Economic and Rural Development and Policy Committee that Ruidoso spent $16.8 million on repairs Read More

Posts From The Road: Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

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Listen To Me: A female elephant seal appears to be barking orders at a young male seal that does not seem to be hearing much! The male elephant seal has a nose that resembles a short elephant trunk called a ‘proboscis’ – thus the name elephant seal. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Just Another Day At the Beach: Elephant seals lie in groups scattered about the beach at Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery when we visited the area in May. These are almost all female seals with a few younger male seals mixed in during the molting season. Molting takes about a month, and then the female seals will depart Read More

Fr. Glenn: Do Likewise

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

As I scroll through the pictures of devastation wrought by the flood in Texas, many things go through my mind. First of all, there is the obvious: the tremendous power of nature unleashed—houses wrecked, vehicles tumbled, bridges collapsing. And so many lives—many of them just begun—gone. It is only the hardest of hearts that could not sympathize with an anguished heart, the sufferers’ plight, especially that of parents whose little ones are no longer here … and have not even been found.

Sadly, in a flood such as that with the many tons of debris and silt it carries with it, many Read More

Gessing: BBB Is Not The Tragedy Our Politicians Portray

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By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation

If you haven’t heard already, over the 4th of July weekend, President Trump signed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) into law. Setting aside the merits and demerits of the legislation, you have to hand it to President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson for achieving the President’s goal of signing the bill by July 4.

Considering the complexity of the bill and the narrow majorities held by Republicans (with implacable opposition from Democrats), there was not much wiggle room for compromise or lost Republican votes. Needless to say, New Mexico’s Read More