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Skolnik: Response To Lisa Shin

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock

Dr. Shin’s adulation for Donald Trump’s economic policies is extraordinarily short-sighted (link). It is especially disappointing to me, given that Dr. Shin is a healthcare provider.

To assist Dr. Shin’s consideration of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and Trump’s economic policies, I would like to remind her, for a start, of the following negative impacts of the bill on the US economy and on the American people.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that the bill will add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit from 2025 to 2034.

According to the Read More

Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: June 9, 2025 Game Results

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Bridge News:

Here is a hand from the June 9 game of the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club that offers both sides an opportunity to bid to a makable part score.

When the HCP are divided rather equally, it behooves both sides to bid to what they feel is the maximum contract they can make.

This is board #7. South is the dealer and both sides are vulnerable.

 

North
♠ KQT74
♥ JT93
♦ 9
♣ AJ3
West East
♠ 8 ♠ A62
♥ K4 ♥ 865
♦ AT3 ♦ QJ8762
♣ KQT754 ♣ 8
South
♠ J953
♥ AQ72
♦ K54
♣ 96

After South passes, West opens the bidding with 1♣. North should overcall 1♠, and I think most competitive Easts would call 2♦. South has an easy 2♠ Read More

Dannemann: Dental School To Open In NM This Month

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann

New Mexico is about to have a school of dentistry. That is potentially very big news. Meanwhile, New Mexico has done apparently nothing to develop a program that was supposed to provide dental care around the state. The dental therapy program, which was pushed hard by healthcare advocates several years ago, is not happening.

The new dental school is opening in late June and will offer low-cost dental care to the public, provided by advanced students under the supervision of dentists. The school has come to us by an unusual route. Read More

Robinson: ‘We want to disrupt the status quo’

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Steve Moise and friends have a new way to begin solving New Mexico’s many problems. He’s unveiling Imagine New Mexico. “We want to disrupt the status quo,” he says. “New Mexico is change averse. We want to cause people to think bigger and better.”

The mission, he explains, is to incentivize a few well-respected nonprofits “to collaborate and make positive, measurable change” instead of trying to chip away at the state’s many needs in isolation. “We’ll hire someone to facilitate. We’ll raise enough money to reward them for their work.” Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: June 9, 2025

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

Anglers that would like to catch a Gila trout should head to Lake Roberts near Silver City. The lake was stocked June 5 with 1,031 Gila trout from the Federal Fish Hatchery near Mora. This Hatchery is devoted to the raising of Gila trout.

These were big trout. They averaged 20.1 inches in size and slightly over three pounds. They were excess brood fish used to supply eggs for the hatchery. Gila trout are one of two trout species (the other is the Rio Grande cutthroat trout) native to New Mexico. Gila trout are native to the Gila River system in Southwestern Read More

McQuiston: Do You Have Enough Coverage To Rebuild In 2025? Why Homeowners Should Be Asking This Right Now

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Imagine waking up to news of a wildfire, flood, or major storm nearby. It’s the kind of story that reminds every homeowner of a critical question:
Could your current insurance fully cover rebuilding your home today — in 2025’s market?
Why Costs Have Changed So Much
Rebuilding a home today costs dramatically more than it did a few years ago — thanks to labor shortages, higher material costs, and supply chain issues.
A house that cost $350,000 to rebuild in 2020 might now cost $450,000 or more.
If your insurance coverage hasn’t
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Fr. Glenn: Go And Bear Fruit

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

One of the beauties that we see up in the Jemez Mountains and in many places around New Mexico is the seed-bearing cotton from alamos (cottonwoods) lazily drifting to the final resting places unknown—evolutionarily hoping to take root like their parents, grow strong and produce their own “kids” to go off into the world in the future. Driven by winds strong or slight, that resting place to which they finally arrive will either be a blessing or bane for its future. Of course, as cottonwoods tend to require a lot of water to grow strong, many of those driftings inevitably end in places Read More

All Shall Be Well: Unity, Liberty, Charity

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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. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church

The first time I saw that famous image from the Eagle Nebula – Pillars of Creation – I turned to the friend I was with and babbled something like “how do we even have a universe that contains something like this AND the duck-billed platypus?!? The friend who showed it to me shrugged and said, “Because God loves infinite variety?” 

This is the time in the Christian Read More