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Determan: Time To Speak Up For Tax Reforms For Health Care Workers

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From ANDREA DETERMAN
Chair
DPLA

Think New Mexico’s proposed legislation to fully repeal New Mexico’s Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) on medical services is approaching its critical decision point.

This morning, House Bill 344 passed the House Health & Human Services Committee unanimously and it now heads to the House Taxation and Revenue Committee. Meanwhile, the Senate version of the bill, Senate Bill 295, received a positive hearing in the Senate Tax, Bustiness & Transportation Committee yesterday afternoon.

The House and Senate tax committees will soon be meeting to decide Read More

Musk/Trump And CDC – Laying The Foundation For The Next Pandemic

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock

The staffing and budget cuts that Musk/Trump are taking to CDC will do immeasurable harm to the health of Americans and to the health of people globally. These harms will take many years to overcome and must be stopped now.

Eliminating critical personnel and funds will immediately harm CDC’s ability to detect, prevent, and help us respond to infectious disease threats. It will harm our preparedness to deal in a timely manner with the next emerging infectious disease, at a time when vaccination rates are falling and bird flu poses potentially grave risks to us and to Read More

Houck: Retirement Series – 1 Of 5

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By DAVID HOUCK
Qualifying Broker
Atomic Realty LLC

Retirement is a major decision, understand your personal motivation to retire? It is usually influenced by your unique financial and emotional factors. People retire for different reasons and at different ages.

Some retire because they are young and feel that with a budget they can enjoy a very long retirement, some temporarily retire taking a year or two off to find themselves and the lifestyle they are seeking. Most retire because they feel they have worked a career, have children, and grandchildren and free time they want to enjoy. There Read More

Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: Feb. 24, 2025

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Bridge News:

This is a very competitive hand from the Feb. 24 game.

This is board #2. East is the dealer and N/S are vulnerable.

 

 

 

North
♠ KT82
♥ T832
♦ 98
♣ A62
West East
♠ 974 ♠ 5
♥ 75 ♥ KQJ96
♦ AQT5 ♦ KJ4
♣ K874 ♣ QT93
 South
♠ AQJ63
♥ A4
♦ 7632
♣ J5

East is the dealer and opens with 1♥. South overcalls 1♠. West makes a takeout  double, showing a decent hand and support for the unbid suits. West raises to 2♠,  and East now bids 3♣. That will likely end the auction, given that N/S are vulnerable, and going set a trick or two, particularly if doubled, will cost a lot more than an E/W  part score in clubs. Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: March 7, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The snowpack in Northern New Mexico is 34 percent of normal. The weather last week was warm and dry. Locally  the snowpack at the Hopewell measuring station was 55-percent of normal with a snow depth of 24 inches a week ago.

Two weeks ago there were two different  weather  patterns in New Mexico. Temperatures were bitterly cold in Eastern New Mexico, but much milder in the Central and Western parts of the state. This week temperatures are forecast to be above normal with possibly some snow in the higher elevations.

The snowpack in Southern Read More

LAPD’s Victim Assistant On Domestic Violence & Gaslighting

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By LAPD’s Victim Assistant:

The Los Alamos Police Department’s Victim Assistant shares the following information related to Domestic Violence and Gaslighting.

What is Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is a term that describes a type of emotional and psychological abuse in which an abuser convinces his or her victim that the abuse he or she is remembering didn’t occur, or wasn’t nearly as severe as the victim remembers. Gaslighting often makes the victims of abuse doubt their own memory, question themselves, and at times feel like they are going crazy.

Gaslighting can be hard to recognize, especially Read More

Catch Of The Week: Package Delivery Text Scams- Again!

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By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos

If you are anything like me, you probably order a lot online, and might have packages incoming at any time. How do you stay on top of your incoming packages? Scammers certainly hope you think it’s via text message, as yet another wave of package delivery text scams are incoming.

 

 

Image of package delivery smishing text scam

These text scams are a kind of phishing known as “smishing”. What is smishing? Smishing is a form of phishing that involves a text message or phone number. Victims will typically receive a deceptive text message intended to lure the recipient Read More

Best Of Liddie’s Recipes: Spanish Meatball Soup

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Albondigas or Spanish Meatball Soup. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

This fickle Northern New Mexico weather takes some getting used to for most folks. I have a nephew who invariably falls for the false spring and plants his dahlias too soon. Every May he calls to lament the late freeze, his losses and the trials of now trying to find replacement tubers so late in the season.

It is easy to forget the weather patterns here and get enticed by the beauty of swaying daffodils and budding tulips, but when the skies turn grey and the wind blows, it is the perfect time for one of my Read More

Stradling: The Nature Of The Conservative Movement

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By GARY STRADLING
Los Alamos

We live in interesting times.

As President Donald J. Trump swept the elections in November, many strong opinions about the nature of the Conservative movement have been expressed, from both sides.

I would like to share my own views with our community. Note that this statement does not necessarily represent the Republican Party.

The core value of Conservatism is the respect for the freedoms of individual Americans.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that Read More

Robinson: Paid Family Leave Backers Ignore Employers

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote

The family leave bill is another great idea New Mexico can’t afford.

Progressive Democrats passed House Bill 11 through two committees and the House, changing its name and its more onerous provisions while ignoring the state’s employers, who are saying loud and clear that they can’t afford it. For many, it would be disastrous.

The rebranded Welcome Child and Family Wellness Leave Act would allow workers to take up to six weeks of paid time off to care for a loved one, deal with serious health issues, welcome a foster child, grieve the loss of a child, or recover from Read More