COLUMN: Vote NO on All 4 Charter Amendments
Coulmn By Richard “Skip” DunnOur community has seen a lot of press recently about the 4 charter amendment ballot questions.
Citizens should vote NO on all four for three reasons: they embody logrolling, further disenfranchisement of voters and more petition exclusions.
REASON 1: LOGROLLING. The county has bundled 21 ordinances into 4 ballot questions, arguing that 1) there wasn’t space on the ballot to list them separately, and 2) they were all related within each question, such that none could stand on its own without affecting all Read More
Money IQ: Protect Yourself From Phishing Scams
Money IQProtect Yourself From Phishing Scams
As technology becomes more advanced, so does the importance of protecting your personal information. With the downturn in the economy, identity theft and fraudulent activity has increased significantly.
There are many ways that scammers try to obtain the information necessary to either steal your identity or your account information.
One technique is by phishing, pronounced “fishing,” through emails. This column will help you learn ways to identify phishing scams and what to do if you are subjected to a scam.
Phishing Read More
Food on the Hill: Smoked Vegetables and Pasta
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Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comColumn: Managers Are Not Leaders
Coulumn by Elena Yang
I contend that by first denying managers can be leaders, we may actually begin to explore some links between these two roles.
There must be thousands of research articles on leadership alone, and only slightly fewer on comparing leaders and managers.
Leadership was one of my least favorite topics when I was taking courses for my PhD. It’s interesting to talk about, but mind-boggling to read through.
To me, leadership is one of those moving targets whose full nature you can never really pin down. As for equating managers with leaders? I think this is another one of those Read More
Letter to the Editor: Ashley Pond Park Really Should Go Forward
By Kristin Henderson
Candidate for Los Alamos County Council
Since I am running for a seat on the County Council, I would like to clarify my position about projects that have already gone through the community vetting process and been approved by Council, as my attendance at a recent Ashley Pond project meeting was noted in a recent front page article in the Monitor.
I am in favor of moving forward with projects that have already had public input and then are approved by Council. That includes this one.
The meeting I attended was about the Ashley Pond project, which includes improving ADA access, Read More
Letter to the Editor: Does Rain Really Follow the Plow?
Does Rain Really Follow the Plow? Or, can we expect better than failed expectation from Trinity Site?There was once a belief that if Western settlers tilled the soil, it led to more rain, i.e., “rain follows the plow.”
That was in large part false causation, because some of the plowing was done during wet climate periods.
One could almost rephrase that Charles Dana Wilber quote in the context of the Trinity Site economic development discussion:
God speed the developer … By this wonderful provision, which is man’s mastery over the economy, the malls Read More
Letter to the Editor: Approve Trinity Site Lease Agreement
