Opinion & Columns

Column: Simply the Los Alamos County Municipal Building

Submitted by CSTadmin on January 31, 2013

Column by Greg Kendall

There is no question that Jeannette Wallace was an outstanding woman who represented Los Alamos well at the state legislature for many years.

Wallace was elected 11 times to represent District 43 in the State House. She served 22 years there, which is quite amazing.

Wallace served our citizens several terms on the Los Alamos County Council. She was very active with the schools, Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts and served as a Sunday school teacher and did so much more for our community.

The plaque that now hangs at the “Jeannette O. Wallace” hall on the

Letter to the Editor: Vote for Michelle Hall for UNM-LA Advisory Board

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 31, 2013

By Jack and Colleen Hanlon

Los Alamos

Please vote for Michelle Hall for the UNM-LA Advisory Board.

We believe Michelle is the best candidate for position one, which is the only contested seat in the election.

We are writing because such an outstanding candidate for the UNM-LA Advisory Board rarely comes along. If elected, Michelle will bring new vision, renewed enthusiasm and new ideas to the UNM-LA Board.

Here are just a few of her career highlights: She taught Geophysical Science at the University of Arizona for 10 years; she has been a Program Director at the National Science Foundation; she Read More

Letter to the Editor: Consultants Must Love It Around Here!

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 31, 2013

By Jerry Fleming

Los Alamos

I read the other day that there is a serious shortfall in county receipts, and that now county management is scrambling to cut expenditures in order to avoid a serious deficit situation.

Personally, I cannot understand how this could happen, except that when you look around at all the projects going on now and over the past few years, it’s pretty clear that the county has been spending as though ever-increasing receipts would continue forever.

Now I see in the Los Alamos Daily Post that yet another boondoggle expenditure for “developing a brand” Read More

Letter to the Editor: Thank You for Resounding Endorsement!

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 30, 2013

By Kevin Honnell
LA School Board President

On behalf of your School Board, I would like to thank the citizens of White Rock and Los Alamos for their resounding endorsement of our public schools in the recent referendum.

Whether you voted yea or nay, we appreciate that you took time to contemplate the future of your schools and provide us with direction, by way of your ballot.

From the Ranch School days, though the Manhattan Project and into the present, Los Alamos has always been a community that values education.

This endorsement of the schools-revitalization program by our citizens underscores Read More

Money IQ: SBA 504 Loans

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 30, 2013

Money IQ

By AL HERNANDEZ

SBA 504 Loans

The U.S. Government offers a number of business assistance programs through various entities, the most well-known of which is the Small Business Administration (SBA.)

The SBA offers direct, indirect, sponsored and guaranteed loan programs largely through existing lending institutions in your community and throughout the country.

This column is going to focus on just one of the many SBA products, the SBA 504 Loan program.

For small businesses that are currently paying rent, outgrowing their current space or even needing to downsize, the SBA’s Read More

Letter to the Editor: Setting the Record Straight on the School Bond – Rationale for an All-Mail Ballot

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 29, 2013

Setting the Record Straight on the School Bond: Rationale for an All-Mail Ballot

By Gene Schmidt

Over the last two weeks, I have been following an interesting conversation in the Los Alamos Daily Post about the timing of the school bond election.

At least one writer wondered aloud why the bond election was not tied to the general election last November.

Another wondered why the district chose to run an all-mail ballot that costs taxpayers up to $30,000 – money that might have been saved had the School Board chosen to run it as part of the general election last November.

In order to set the record Read More