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Gibson: Inflation Squeezes Utilities, Too

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By Robert Gibson
Chair
Los Alamos County
Board of Public Utilities

There’s no way to sugar coat this. Utility rates will be going up. 

The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and then County Council will soon be considering several utility rate increase proposals from the Department of Public Utilities (DPU). Why?

Inflation is the underlying driver. Most utility costs increase at least as fast as general inflation. Some costs, particularly construction materials and electrical distribution equipment, have gone up much more than the familiar Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Water rates are already Read More

Dewart: Another Serious Traffic Accident … Let’s Ask DOE To Take More Aggressive Actions!

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By JEAN DEWART
Los Alamos

Fellow citizens,

Another serious traffic accident on N.M. 502/Main Hill Road on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. The cause: too many vehicles traveling at too high speed.

There is one more day to comment on the DOE draft Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement for LANL. The draft EIS covers transportation as an impact of LANL operations.

You can comment on the draft EIS though 5 p.m. April 10, 2025, and ask DOE to take more aggressive actions to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads and to reduce the speeds of these vehicles. 

The full EIS can be found at https://www.energy.gov/nepa/articles/doeeis-0552-draft-environmental-impact-statement Read More

Rabbi Shlachter: Passover Begins Saturday Evening April 12

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By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos Jewish Center

The 8-day holiday of Passover is the most widely celebrated holiday on the Jewish calendar and traditionally requires a great deal of advance preparation. (My blood pressure is already rising as I recognize the rapid approach of the holiday). This year, Passover begins on Saturday evening, April 12. Passover commemorates the release of the Jewish people from slavery thousands of years ago, and many of us will have in our minds and hearts the remaining 59 hostages still held captive in Gaza following the Hamas atrocities of 18 months ago. 

The festive Read More

Op-Ed: A Deep Dive Into New Mexico’s Lack Of Economic Freedom

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By MATTHEW MITCHELL, Fraser Institute
and PAUL GESSING, Rio Grande Foundation

A thousand years ago, a group of people settled along Red Willow Creek at the base of the Taos Mountains and never left. They were among the first, but hardly the last, to be enchanted by New Mexico’s snow-capped mountains and sun-drenched vistas. The state’s moderate climate, rich culture, and mouth-watering cuisine are peerless. And now that New Mexico churns out 2 million barrels of oil every day—more than 15 percent of all US production—you’d think New Mexicans would be riding high.

Instead, the state’s citizens Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: April 7, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

Winter made a return visit last week to New Mexico. Friday and Saturday saw winter-like temperatures below freezing. The big winner in terms of snowfall was the east facing slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Areas near Mora picked up 16 inches of snow. 

The temperatures will rise dramatically this coming week, with forecasts calling for 80 degrees by Saturday. 

Streamflows should increase this week due to melting snow. The warm temperatures will bring an end to the State Game and Fish Department’s winter trout stocking program Read More

Denish: Measles March On

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By DIANE DENISH
Corner To Corner
diane@dianedenish.com

March madness is an exciting month for basketball. For me it’s all about the New Mexico high school basketball tournament. As a Hobbs Eagle, I’ve spent decades going with friends to the March tournament.

This year as I made plans to attend the tournament, I called Hobbs friends in Albuquerque to see if they wanted to go. I was surprised when two of them expressed reluctance to attend given that Hobbs was the center of a measles outbreak with thirty-one cases at the time. They were sure that at least some of the hundreds of fans who made the trip Read More

Los Alamos County Health Council Member Shares Education For Elderly On Ways To Avoid Falls

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By ROLLIN TYLERR JONES
Registered Nurse
Firefighter
EMT

Hello my fellow Los Alamos residents, my name is Tylerr Jones and for the better part of the last 20 years, I have worked as a fireman in Los Alamos and Santa Fe as well as an emergency room nurse in Los Alamos and Santa Fe. I am currently working with Los Alamos Visiting Nurses and serving as a member of the Los Alamos County Health Council.

One of the most prevalent situations I’ve encountered in both careers is injury from falls in the elderly. Typically we will run calls to help “lift” an individual who fell and simply isn’t able to get up. The issue Read More

Fr. Glenn: Countin’ For Somethin’

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

I’ve been watching the old black and white episodes of “Gunsmoke” during relax time lately, and saw a rather poignant one recently (Ssn 9, Ep.26). A struggling farmer was feeling that he was getting “old” (a whole 43 … puh-leeaasssse!) and was depressed because he felt that he had been of no consequence in his life—barely making a living, no kids, and a shrewish wife declaring him a “failure”. A rather timid yet good fellow, he goes into Dodge City hoping to find some way to make his mark, and ends up publicly backing down to a bully in shame (in front of a woman who had been kind to him, Read More

Posts From The Road: Death Valley, Zabriskie Point

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Zabriskie View: A view toward the south from the Zabriskie Point walkway reveals a portion of the badlands in the area. The textures of the landscape and the various colors of the soil and rocks are easily visible from the walkway and viewpoint. The popular viewpoint is named in honor of Christian Zabriskie who was an executive with the Pacific Coast Borax Company more than 100 years ago. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Manly Beacon: The triangular shaped geological feature seen looking north from Zabriskie Point is the most notable feature in the badlands around the point. The stripped Read More

Catch Of The Week: NMB&T Themed Smishing Scams

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

This week’s scam is a New Mexico Bank & Trust themed smishing scam!

What is smishing? Smishing (SMS phishing) uses deceptive text messages to trick victims into sharing personal information or clicking malicious links, while phishing uses fraudulent emails and fake websites to achieve the same things. 

It’s still a phishing scam, just via text message. 

In this case, I received the below text message this week:

 

Courtesy photo

This actually went to my Google Voice number, which helpfully tells me this may be spam- indeed! Read More