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McQuiston: 10 Home Maintenance Tips For Spring

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

Spring has officially arrived, sort of, and with it comes the perfect time to tackle important home maintenance tasks.

As days grow longer and temperatures rise, it’s the ideal season to ensure your home is in top condition.

Spring Home Maintenance Tips:

 

Clear and Clean Gutters and Downspouts

  • Remove debris from gutters and downspouts, and check for any loose or leaking sections. This is especially important during months when snow and ice on the roof starts to thaw, as any leaks may be a sign of ice dams. Proper drainage
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Op-Ed: Nation’s Report Card Should Be A Warning

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By CARTER SWANSON
Policy Analyst
Opportunity for All Kids

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as “The Nation’s Report Card”, was released in January. Released every two years, this report provides the most comprehensive data on educational performance nationwide. It is a stark reminder of what SHOULD be the most important issue facing New Mexico’s Legislature and Governor. Unfortunately, the results barely garnered media attention in New Mexico. 

For the last two reports, 2022 and 2024, New Mexico has been 52nd (behind all 50 states, plus the District of Read More

Republican Party To Host ‘The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of 2025 New Mexico State Legislature’ With Harry Montoya March 29

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By LISA SHIN
Chair
Republican Party of Los Alamos

As a small business owner and health care provider, I have been closely watching the following bills of our 2025 Legislative Session:

  1. House Bill 11: Paid Family and Medical Leave Act. Liberal economist Harry Holzer has noted, “A mandatory paid leave policy might well lead employers to begin discriminating in hiring against less-educated women in the child-bearing ages.” Indeed, both California and New Jersey’s paid family leave programs resulted in a 8-9% decline in the employment rate for young women. We should not be surprised if those with
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Denish: DOGE And Musk Impact New Mexicans

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By DIANE DENISH
Corner To Corner
diane@dianedenish.com

Elon Musk has been dominating the headlines recently with his slash and burn efforts as head of “DOGE” – the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

The world’s richest man is everywhere, firing federal workers, in the Oval Office, you name it.

I wanted to learn more about Musk, so I listened to the biography of Musk by Walter Isaacson (20 hours). I’ve also read a slew of business articles about Tesla, SpaceX and Musk’s current endeavor DOGE.

Here is what I learned.

He’s a South African by birth. Although he once attended an anti-apartheid Read More

Robinson: How Many Doctors Do We Have To Lose In New Mexico Before Lawmakers Act?

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

Dr. Lawrence Andrade and his wife, Dr. Aedra Andrade, are leaving Gallup. He’s a private practice family medicine doctor and owner of Family Medicine Associates. He’s practiced in Gallup since 2003. She’s a family practice physician with Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital. Together they have 9,000 active patients in a place that’s already undeserved.

Andrade has deep roots here, which makes his loss all the more painful. He’s a Gallup native and graduate of Gallup High School, UNM and the UNM School of Medicine. He is the team Read More

Home Country: Simulated Seafood

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

Willoughby breezed through the valley the other day. He lives in the capital city, but whips on through here about once a month, and each time he comes he has new things to sell.

“Do you suppose,” said Bert, watching Willoughby’s van pull into town, “he sells all of it each time and fills everyone’s orders, or just doesn’t sell any of it and has to try new things?”

If we were to ask him, of course, it would ruin the speculation, which is one of our favorite things to do around here. Willoughby, despite his advancing years, leaped out of the van and went into the Soup ‘R Market to Read More

Posts From The Road: California Or Bust

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Pacific Ocean: After traveling from Colorado it was a joy to see the Pacific Ocean after crossing the desert and southern California mountains. The reason for this trip was to attend a RV Rally but it is perfect timing for us to travel and enjoy the change of scenery and weather. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Sail On: San Diego has many marinas along the shores of San Diego Bay leading out to the Pacific Ocean. We enjoy walking the shorelines and viewing the thousands of boats along the way. Shown is a sailboat as it leaves the marina and trolls toward the open waters. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More

Fr. Glenn: The Examination

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

Probably this is one of the best-known sayings attributed to Socrates and recounted in Plato’s “Apology”, relating Socrates’ defense against the capital charge of impiety to the Greek gods and corrupting youth. Yet it remains a phrase as relevant now as it was over 2,000 years ago. Socrates was explaining why he could not abandon his philosophical inquiries, even when threatened with death.

Now, as most of us Christians have entered into the Lenten season, that phrase becomes rather a description of our self-reflection, and yet also Read More

Amateur Naturalist: The Geometry Of Tree Branches

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Picture 1: The initial branch on this tree is several feet long but the pairs of branches that then emerge are shorter in length.  Photo by Robert Dryja

By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

Winter can be good time to see how trees grow since their branches are free of leafs. Branches grow in different ways depending on what they are doing to help the tree grow. The branches may weigh hundred of pounds in a large tree. The primary purpose of the trunk emerging from the ground therefore is to support the rest of the tree. A trunk grows vertically since the weights of the branches above it now are directed downward. A Read More

All Shall Be Well: Nietzsche, Nazis & An Inconvenient Gospel

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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

Next Sunday, March 16, I will be in Germany for the 80th anniversary of the fire-bombing of Würzburg. Ninety percent of the city was destroyed in 20 minutes, and I had family members among the 5,000 people who perished in that bombing. Every ordinary German family eventually suffered under Hitler, and that doesn’t even begin to touch the suffering inflicted on the Read More