Letter to the Editor: More Great Local Customer Service
BY RUTH WILLIAMSONYet another local service deserves our accolades.
One of the blinds in my livingroom recently broke. I was informed by Cheryl Sowder at The Finishing Touch that the Hunter Douglas blinds, which I have enjoyed in recent years had been discontinued. The broken blind could neither be fixed nor be replaced by a window covering, which would match the other blinds throughout the room.
The only alternative was to purchase new window coverings for all nine of the windows. Since the current blind could not be repaired or replaced, Hunter Douglas offered to give me a trade-in Read More
Letter to the Editor: Education in Los Alamos
By ANITA SCHWENDT
Los Alamos
I am concerned about the lack of funding for education in the state, and how it affects the quality of education in Los Alamos.
The community is committed to strong education, but the funding is not supportive of the quality that this town has come to expect. Considering that, for the last few decades, the great schools in Los Alamos have attracted and kept many families in this town, the quality of education is not just a concern for current parents, but for LANL, the county, as well as other community members. It is a source of recruiting and retention for LANL. LANL supports Read More
Letter to the Editor: Great Local Customer Service
By KAY GRADYAbout two years ago, my husband and I bought a Lazy-Boy Recliner from CB Fox in Los Alamos.
Recently, the foot rest broke. I contacted CB Fox to find out how I could get the chair repaired. Someone from the store came to my home to look at the chair and figure out what part was needed. The part was ordered, and CB Fox arranged to come pick up the chair and take it to their store.
They fixed the chair and returned it to my home the same day. I was not charged for the part, labor, or transporting the chair to/from the store.
Great Customer Service from a local merchant. Read More
Food on the Hill: Fall Off The Bone Baby Back Ribs
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comDirections:
Prep the ribs by cutting off all the fat that you can, without Read More
Letter to the Editor: On Big Ideas, Ignorance, and Irony
By ED SANTIAGOIt strikes me as ironic that in an age that has not known smallpox, in a town founded on reason, we’re debating whether or not a make-believe sky-god will be offended by our choice of date for a Big Idea conference.
Why limit our concern to Jehovah, though? Should we also check with Allah, God, Zeus, Amen-Ra, Quetzalcoatl, Zoroaster, Yukiyú, and the thousands of other gods mankind has invented throughout the millennia? Each of those has or had adherents whose belief is just as strong and whose sacred-day rules are just as arbitrary. No matter what day is picked Read More
Letter to the Editor: Is the Next Big Idea to Tackle Ignorance, Revisited
By KHALIL J. SPENCER
Los Alamos
After reading Judith Stauber and Daniel Cooper’s letter in the Los Alamos Daily Post, I kept expecting an explanation from the organizers of the Next Big Idea to what looks to this reader like a display of either insensitivity or stubbornness.
I do find it amazing that an event predicated on great ideas would have the “great idea” to schedule the event on Yom Kippur. Like the two authors of the original letter, I doubt that the organizers would schedule such an event on Easter, Good Friday, or Christmas Day.
Given that one can not separate the development Read More
Yang: Simple Ideas
Simple IdeasSummer fantasies and lite-writing are supposed to be over…well, summer isn’t officially over, and I allow myself to cross my “black line” every so often. Black line, as in “black words,” shows on your computer white background.
The first simple idea is this: What if we dropped packages of Sarin antidote in Syria?
Do I cross the line into politics? Not really. Geopolitics has a profound impact on economics and organizations. Wall Street developed an allergic reaction to just the speculation of a potential strike against Syria, lowering the Dow Jones indices; it is likely Read More
