Martinez: Importance Of Small Businesses In Los Alamos
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
President, Los Alamos Region
Enterprise Bank & Trust, Member FDIC
National Small Business Week began April 30 and runs until May 6. This week especially, I’d like to highlight the importance of the small businesses in Los Alamos. Small businesses make up the foundation of our local economy and keep us going. I encourage each of you to support a small business near you this week, and consider buying from local retailers when given the option.
I am grateful that Enterprise Bank & Trust values our local small businesses and always prioritizes uplifting our community. Read More
Skolnik: LAPS Attendance Policies … Helping Or Hurting?
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock
The present LAPS “attendance campaign” may be doing more harm than good and should be terminated immediately. This “campaign” includes giving awards to students for outstanding attendance and giving awards to classrooms with the best attendance. Such efforts are not evidence-based; they risk shaming the large number of students who have missed a significant number of schooldays this year because of illness; and, they lead to the bullying of students who, by getting sick and correctly not going to school, “cause their class” to miss winning an attendance award. Read More
$2.5 Million In Grants From Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Operator Benefit Nonprofits, Students And Businesses
Jenny Parks, president and CEO of the LANL Foundation; Val Alonzo, executive director of the Regional Development Corporation; Thom Mason, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Kathy Keith, director of the Laboratory’s Community Partnerships Office mark Triad’s 2023 Community Commitment Plan investment at a recent community event. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Economic diversity, education and community giving will get a big boost this year, thanks to a $2.5 million grant from Triad National Security LLC, operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
“This funding underlines Read More
Ozment: Who benefits?
By CAT OZMENT
Los Alamos
Who benefits from development policy that allows for increased building heights and decreased parking requirements?
Even the “intellectual and skilled human capital the lab needs” will benefit from service industry and retail staff, County employees, mechanics, teachers, health care providers, and other critical members of the fabric of our community having the option to live in the same town where they work.
Instead of worrying that some people may have to choose between their “toys” and their extra car, I am worried about those in town who right now have to choose Read More
Statues As History
The Mussolini Obelisk at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome. (Photo by Pino Pacifico/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
By FRANCIS MORRONE
City-Journal.org
On the periphery of Rome, not far from the Vatican, stands a towering obelisk named for Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and ally of Adolf Hitler. On a recent visit to the city, my taxi driver knew exactly where it was and found nothing remarkable about a request to go there.
The Mussolini Obelisk, standing watch over the Foro Italico sports complex, served as the starting point for my atypical tour of the Read More
Chandler: Let’s Push Back…
By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos
When I came to the Lab 49 years ago, a popular aphorism posted on the walls in group offices where reports and documents were put into final form by overworked typists said, “A failure to plan on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part.” Los Alamos County might post such a sign on the Omega Bridge.
The 2016 Comprehensive Plan notes a housing shortage and anticipates population growth driven by the laboratory. The unilateral decision by NNSA to turn a scientific laboratory into a manufacturing plant has accelerated that growth to wholly unanticipated levels. Read More
Posts From The Road: Tower Station And U Drop Inn Café
Tall Tower: When entering Shamrock, Texas the tallest thing on the horizon is the massive 161 feet 6 inch tall water tower that welcomes visitors to town. This is the tallest water tower in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Tower Station: The Tower Station is the other well-known tower in Shamrock, Texas. The beautiful art deco facility included a gas station on the west end, which features two canopies and multiple gas pumps significant when the station opened in 1936. A garage bay completes the station next to the Shamrock Visitor Center. On the east end of the building is the U Drop Read More
