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Posts From The Road: Big Texan Steak Ranch

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Big Texan: The Big Texan Steak Ranch can not be missed as you travel through Amarillo on I-40. The big bright yellow building is the first thing you see but several other ‘attention getting’ features await visitors as they arrive at the Big Texan. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

World Famous: The entrance to the Big Texan is flanked by a stretch limo with Texas Longhorns mounted on the hood and a big Route 66 Shield painted on the walkway into the facility. In Big Texan fashion, the door handles to open the front doors are pistols mounted at an angle to create door handles. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: May 17, 2026 

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By GEORGE MORSE 
Sports and Outdoors 
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The Department stocked a total of 44,581 rainbow trout weighing 16,359 pounds. Most of the stocking will now be in Northern New Mexico.

It has been one of the weakest spring runoffs in memory this year. The snowpack is gone and the weather has been unseasonably warm and dry. This is reflected in streamflow measurements. Normally, the Rio Grande would be swollen with spring runoff from the melting snow. Streamflows above 1,000 cubic-feet-per-second would be common.

Streamflow in the Rio Grande decreased slightly and is extremely below Read More

Fr. Glenn: The Rising Son

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

So, we’re coming to graduation season again. Hard to believe how quickly the years go by, as you parents know all too well. One day you’re taking the little tykes to pre-K, and the next they’re going off to college … spreading their wings, leaving the nest and beginning to make their way in what is often a scary world. Christian parents worry: “Will they resist the myriad temptations of the world and forget what they have been taught by Christ and the Church, or will they hold fast to faith and conscience?”  Priests are not called “Father” for nothing; we, too, worry for our young charges, Read More

McQuiston: Motorcycle Safety Month … A Good Reminder For The Rest Of Us

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON 
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

May rolls around, the roads warm up, and suddenly the bikes are out again. You hear them before you see them — that low rumble coming up behind you, or weaving through traffic on a Saturday afternoon. It’s a good sound. It means spring is here.

May is also Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. Most of the attention goes to riders, and rightly so. But if you drive a car, this month is just as much for you — maybe more so. 

Here’s why:

The Math Isn’t What Most People Think 

Most motorcycle crashes involving a car are caused by the Read More

Q&A Series With LAMC’s New Providers: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Tania Pence

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Dr. Tania Pence
Orthopedic Surgeon
Los Alamos Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

          • Editor’s note: This is part of a Q&A series featuring new providers at Los Alamos Medical Center:

Dr. Tania Pence is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. She brings 20 years of experience and expertise to her practice at Los Alamos Orthopedics & Sports Medicine inside Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC), where she began working on Dec. 1, 2025. She is affiliated with organizations such as the American Read More

Catch Of The Week: That Party Invite Might Be A Trap

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Wedding season is here. Graduation parties, summer barbecues, birthday dinners. Your inbox is about to fill up with invitations—and scammers have noticed.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is warning consumers about a phishing scam that is genuinely clever in the worst possible way. Attackers are sending fake digital invitations that look like they came from someone you actually know. A friend. A coworker. Your cousin. Great Aunt Mildred (how did she even get on the computer??).

The email looks like a real Evite or event Read More

Robinson: Election Changes Favor The Sensible Center

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2026 New Mexico News Services

Eight years ago, I complained in a column that the primaries “blessed progressives and conservatives and left moderates in the dust.”

Another frustrated moderate wrote in a letter to the editor: “When the majority of the country is in the middle, and elections are supposed to be about giving people a choice, those of us in the middle have fewer and fewer choices. Our America has been hijacked and stolen by the extremes of the party elites dictating what candidates we can vote for.”

Partisan posturing has been a turnoff to voters. Seeing Read More

Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: May 4, 2026

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BRIDGE News:

We had a great turnout of 6.5 tables in our Monday, May 4 STaC game. Overall winners were Martin Cooper and Jerry Fleming. Jerry Morzinski and Sig Lodwig were 2nd. Neill Goltz and Tom Alexander were 3rd, and Helen Butler and Beth Schaefer were 4th. Cliff and Michelle Rudy tied with Al Pratt and May Courtright for 5th, and Steve Kemic and Jennifer Young were 7th. Jan Barnes and Reffie Fuchs were 8th.

In Wednesday’s STaC game, in Flight A, Neill Goltz and Beth Schaefer were 1st, Earle Marie Hanson and John Ruminer were 2nd, Martin Cooper and Sam Borkowsky were 3rd, Cliff Rudy and Jerry Read More

Dannemann: New Mexico Has A New Political Party

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2026 by Merilee Dannemann

If all has gone as planned, New Mexico has a new political party.

Official events to establish the Forward Party were scheduled to take place on May 8. On that day—within 30 days of its April organizing event as prescribed by law—the party was due to present its bylaws along with a sufficient number of signatures to the Secretary of State or a county clerk. According to chairman Bob Perls, the required number of signatures was about 3500 and they have more than enough. Party leaders have been working with the Secretary of State’s Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: May 10, 2026 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish stocked a total of 39,163 rainbow trout weighing 16,359 pounds. Most of the stocking will now be in Northern New Mexico.

It looks like there will be one of the weakest spring runoffs in memory this year. The snowpack is already disappearing, and the weather has been unseasonably warm and dry. This is reflected in streamflow measurements. Normally, the Rio Grande would be swollen with spring runoff from the melting snow. Streamflows above 1,000 cubic-feet-per-second would be common.

Streamflow Read More