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Unitarian Church To Host Five-Week Program, Dying My Way: What Are Options For Me And My Family?

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Unitarian Church News:

The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos is offering a free online five-week program to help community members plan for the closing chapters of their lives. It is a delight to have several expert speakers who will be presenting on various topics related to death and dying.

There is no charge for these sessions, but people are asked to please register ahead of time. Online sessions will be held from 6-7:30 p.m.

Participants may choose to come to one or all, but it is encouraged to attend all sessions.

Schedule:

  • Thursday, April 2 at 6 p.m. – Presented by End of Life Options New
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NM Junior Foodies: Edible New Mexico’s Grassfed Smackdown 2026

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Taco from Chef Danny Calleros of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing. Courtesy photo

Christopher and Chef Noah Scanland of Noah’s table. Courtesy photo

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
NM Foodies
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

If you want honest food criticism, bring a teenager. But not just any teenager.

My 13-year-old son is the kind of kid who experiments with sauces at home, studies restaurant menus for fun, and debates steak doneness like a seasoned cook. So, when we headed to the annual Grassfed Smackdown in Santa Fe, he arrived ready to evaluate.

Hosted by Edible New Mexico and the Southwest Grassfed Livestock Read More

Robinson: Hispanic Leaders Deliver Quick, Decisive Response To Cesar Chavez Revelations

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

As astonishing as the recent Cesar Chavez revelations were the speed and decisiveness of the response. Within a day of the New York Times story revealing the legendary civil rights activist as a sexual predator, organizations cancelled commemorative marches and communities moved to rename streets and buildings.

No denials, no equivocation, no excuses.

In the context of other disturbing news right now, this one was hard to hear. For decades, the United Farm Workers leader was a voice for the voiceless. But he created a new class Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: March 23, 2026 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The State Game and Fish Department was stocking trout all across the state last week. The Winter Stocking Program in Southern New Mexico is still being done and more locations in Northern New Mexico are being stocked now.  The Winter Stocking will end in March. 

The Department stocked a total of 46,321 rainbow trout weighing 21,373 pounds. That’s over 10 tons of trout. 

The weather has been unseasonably warm in Northern New Mexico this year. Fruit trees are blooming early and may get hit with frost. 

Winter is loosening its grip, Read More

Dannemann: Republicans For Fair elections?

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2026 by Merilee Dannemann

President Trump is talking publicly about his plans to undermine the 2026 midterm election. I’m relieved. Why relieved? Because now that he is talking about it openly, we are also starting to hear about what’s being done, mostly by the states, to counteract those plans.

Trump demonstrated on Jan. 6, 2021, that he does not accept the results of any election he does not win. We know what he did then. Now he has nobody in his inner circle to restrain him and new loyalists who don’t care about the Constitution and apparently will do whatever Read More

Fr. Glenn: Treading Water

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Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well, we’re coming close to Easter. Next weekend (March 27 this year) is Passion (Palm) Sunday, in which we remember and contemplate especially the passion of Jesus—His arrest, torture and crucifixion. This is why the Catholic devotion—very common during Lent—of the Stations of the Cross. We Christians should be more attentive to meditate on His passion frequently, because Jesus does it for us … takes upon Himself the deserved punishment that our sins and wrongs against God and one another deserve. He saves us from ourselves.

As analogy, we might imagine we’re on the Titanic Read More

All Shall Be Well: ‘Mortal, Can These Bones Live?’

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill

The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” Ezekiel 37:1.

Six years ago, clergy friends and I were wondering if our congregations would survive. We couldn’t hold services. Parishioners Read More

Op-Ed: Pass The Rest Of The Health Care Worker Compacts This Year

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By FRED NATHAN
Executive Director
Think New Mexico

It was a big bipartisan win for New Mexicans when the legislature and governor enacted Senate Bill 1 to bring New Mexico into the interstate licensure compact for doctors. According to the New Mexico Medical Board, joining this compact will result in an increase of 10-15% in the number of doctors applying to practice in New Mexico annually.

Unfortunately, eight other compacts needed to address shortages of psychologists, counselors, EMTs, physician’s assistants, speech therapists and audiologists, physical therapists, occupational Read More

The FOIA: Off To A Slow Start, Picked Up Speed, Now Hitting A Brick Wall

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By THOMAS M. SUSMAN
American Bar Association
Feb. 16, 2026

It was June 1968 when I arrived in Washington, D.C., after a year in New Orleans clerking for Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom. A new law requiring more government transparency was just going into effect.

I had accepted a job as a Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Frank Wozencraft in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While I worked on efforts to advance the confirmation of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, I was also assigned to work with OLC attorney Warren Belmar, Read More