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Life After 50: Needing Help
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
LARSO
There are few things that annoy me, but one is when someone needs help and doesn’t ask for it. Then some one or some business goes into demise and no one ever knew they needed an assist.
So, I’m asking the entire community and those of surrounding communities for that assist to help senior citizens across the State of New Mexico, for years to come.
Here we are at the start of another Legislative Session. It hasn’t been often, since I arrived in New Mexico 25 years ago, that I found myself intimately involved in legislation. Now I am asking for you to be involved, Read More
Snyder: Even Though It Never Flew, Project Rover Changed History
Raemer Schreiber explaining a detail of Project Rover in 1959. Courtesy/AHF
By SHARON SYNDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
“Nuclear power not only will enhance space exploration; its use, both for propulsion and for auxiliary power, is the key to extensive outer space exploration.” —Leland Hayworth, AEC Commissioner 1961-1963 and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Rover Boulevard in White Rock gets its name from Project Rover, an ambitious and controversial program to use nuclear power for space rockets.
Doomed financially by the escalating costs of the Vietnam War and NASA’s Read More
Spencer: Issues With Extreme Risk Protection Order
By KHALIL SPENCER
Santa Fe
Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO, or “red flag”) bills designed to remove guns from those who have credibly put self or others at risk of gun violence have been prefiled at the legislature and are supported by the Governor.
In their present form, the bills have several highly problematic aspects. Of particular importance, and not just to gun owners, is the weakening of what constitutes due process under New Mexico law
Last year’s attempts to pass a defective bill died in Committee and have been resurrected with minor changes.
If there is any good news in this year’s Read More
Ribe: Bandelier National Park? Here’s The Problem…
By TOM RIBE
Executive Director
Caldera Action
Sen. Martin Heinrich recently introduced a bill in Congress to re-designate Bandelier National Monument as national park.
It is hard to see how this bill benefits either the public or Bandelier.
On its face, this may sound like a bill to give Bandelier more protection, but if this bill passes, I believe it will damage Bandelier’s land and cultural features and diminish the authority of Bandelier’s National Park Service managers.
Sen. Heinrich does many good things for our state and the country and he means well with this bill. His goal is to increase Read More
Marco Serna Releases Education Position Paper
By MARCO SERNA
Candidate for Congress
District 3
“Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela said.
More than anytime in history, we must heed his advice and make basic changes to our education system if we are going to maintain our economic and moral leadership around the world.
The United States entered the 21st Century as the world’s sole superpower. We had the third-largest population with 327 million people, the largest economy and the second-largest higher-education system.
As recently as 20 years ago, the United States was ranked No. Read More
Q&A: Congressional Candidate Teresa Fernandez
Congressional District 3 Candidate Teresa Leger Fernandez
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series in which the Los Alamos Daily Post presents the same set of questions to each of the candidates running for Congressional District 3, which serves the northern half of New Mexico.
Democratic candidate Teresa Leger Fernandez provided the following answers:
POST: Why do you believe you are qualified to represent New Mexico in Congress?
LEGER FERNANDEZ: I have spent the past 30 years working with and on behalf of our communities Read More
Posts From The Road: White Sands National Park
Footprints: At first glance the footprints appear to be in snow but that is not the case. The footprints were left by a park visitor climbing to the top of a sand dune. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Admiring the View: A group of visitors admire the view from the ridge of a sand dune as they look across miles of dunes near the San Andres Mountains in southern New Mexico. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
Our country’s newest National Park is right here in New Mexico! White Sands National Monument officially became White Sands National Read More
Fr. Glenn: Overturning Tables
By Fr. Glenn Jones
Several years ago there prevailed among Christian youth groups a very applicable adage by which to live one’s life: “WWJD”—“What Would Jesus Do?” Since Christians (ostensibly, at least) long to fashion their own lives in the love and charitable principles that Jesus taught and demonstrated, WWJD always before a Christian’s mind’s eye and, indeed, should be the governing principle of his life. But, as a Facebook post I saw once stated rather humorously, what lay in the realm of possibilities of “WWJD” is overturning tables.
I happened upon Jesus’ table tipping episode (Matthew Read More
Morales: Our Children Have The Potential – Let’s Ensure They Have The Opportunity
Mila Morales
By HOPE MORALES
Executive Director
Teach Plus New Mexico
Even after six months, my daughter would hide under the chair when her speech teacher would come to escort her to class for her 30-minute session.
Mila is the youngest of our three children. She is very shy and has struggled with articulation. We started her speech classes early. It took a while, but little by little, her speech teacher and I saw improvements.
When Mila turned four and it was time for her to go to PreK, I was very nervous. Mila rarely engaged with adults because she didn’t like the attention to be on her. She loved other Read More