Week ending Friday, December 13, 2019


Unbridled Warming

Earth is likely to end its hottest decade on record on New Year’s Eve, according to a new U.N. climate assessment released at the start of a two-week global climate summit in Madrid. It also said 2019 is on course to be the second- or third-warmest year on record, and possibly the hottest year not influenced by an El Niño. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that there have been “utterly inadequate”  actions to deal with surging greenhouse gas emissions behind the looming climate crisis. “We simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and...

Christmas is a time for family.  A time to relax and enjoy friends and often overeat the sweet stuff.  But be careful with chocolates and brownies around your dogs.  They love chocolate and can’t get enough - given the opportunity of an unguarded box of chocolates under the tree.  Remember they can smell right past the plastic wrapper.

Chocolate, coffee and caffeine all contain substances called theobromine.  When ingested by pets they can cause vomiting and diarrhea, panting, excessive thirst and urination, hyperactivity, abnormal heart rhythm, tremors, seizures and even death.

Note that darker chocolate is more dangerous than milk chocolate, while white chocolate is the...

‘Twas the night before Hospital Community Care in New Mexico, when across the state,

not a resident was stirring, was the idea of hospital community giving too late?

Patients were all nestled, snug in their beds;

while the concept of community care danced in their heads.

In hospitals, patients were all treated with kindness and care;

but knowing that when they were discharged, the community would be there!

CEOs with medical masks, and CMOs with caps;

all looked forward to these new healthcare community apps.

Across New Mexico, the idea arose with such clatter;

healthcare execs had to check on funding for the matter.

Away to hospital windows, managers flew like a flash;

they...

One address, three arrests

Agents and detectives of the Gallup Police Department executed multiple searches that resulted in the arrest of three Gallup residents for drug-related charges.

Just before midnight on Dec. 11, agents stopped a vehicle on Gallup’s north side after seeing that it did not display a license plate or temporary tag.

The vehicle was occupied by Sharon Diaz, 40, of Gallup, and an adult male. A police K-9 was deployed, and detected the presence of narcotics. Agents obtained consent to search the vehicle and found a substance, presumed to be heroin, inside the vehicle.

Diaz was arrested. It was discovered during the booking process that Diaz was concealing...