Op-Ed: Mountain Lions 101
By Terry DuBois
Los Alamos
I would like to offer a little education on coexisting with mountain lions. Though I am no wildlife biologist, I have learned a lot about these powerful creatures from observation, conversation, reading, and attending webinars discussing their behaviors and habits. Living on the edge of Walnut Canyon, our wildlife cameras have captured many images of lions, bears, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, bobcats, skunks and one ring tail cat.
I have heard about recent cases where dogs have been taken from backyards during the night time hours. It is my hope to educate residents Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: April 25, 2023
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
As expected, the spring runoff in the Jemez River has passed its peak. Streamflow is dropping and fishing conditions are improving. Now is a good time to fish the Jemez River and its tributaries if you would like to catch a bigger-than-average trout. The heavy flows will have the fish actively feeding. There should be some surprisingly big fish caught, particularly brown trout.
Anglers and for that matter anyone traveling through the Jemez Mountains and Santa Fe National Forest should be aware that State Road 126, which runs through the Read More
Op/Ed: ‘Devoted To Parking’ – Policies That Hurt Our Town
By STEPHANIE NAKHLEH
Los Alamos Planning and Zoning Commissioner
This is the second op-ed I’m writing on downtown revitalization, an issue that is coming before Los Alamos County Council Tuesday, May 2.
My focus here is urging Council to accept the Planning and Zoning Commission’s unanimous recommendation on gently reducing parking mandates. (The first op-ed looks into the issue of building heights.)
If residents of Los Alamos are tired of the drab/depressing downtown with its ocean of empty parking lots and vacant buildings, and want to see that area instead filled with housing and retail, Read More
Reagor: Response To Public’s Questions About GRT
By DAVID REAGOR
Los Alamos County Councilor
The public has been asking questions about the GRT.
Here is a summary of the questions and my answers.
Please contact me at davidreagor@gmail.com if you have any comments or questions.
Is GRT going to pay for broadband?
- Answer: No
How much is broadband going to cost?
- Answer: LAC staff estimate 35M$, but many technical choices have not been made.
How will the bill get paid?
- Answer: The initial cost will be funded with a general obligation bond. The long term is yet to be decided. We should use our taxes and fees to pay for this bond when the time arises.
Skolnik: Housing In Los Alamos – No, It Really Does Not Have To Be This Way
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock
I commend Stephanie Nakhleh for her exceptionally insightful and well-written pieces on housing.
Ms. Nakhleh makes many important points in her articles. Among the most important for me, someone who has spent a lifetime working in public policy, is:
Our housing shortages are NOT inevitable; rather, to a large degree they stem from a failure of our County Council and its housing policies.
The Planning and Zoning Commission has outlined a number of measures that can be taken to begin to ease some of our misguided housing policies:
- one is to ease limitations on building
Fear Of Heights: We Need True Pro-Housing, Anti-Blight Leadership
By STEPHANIE NAKHLEH
Los Alamos Planning and Zoning Commissioner
Questions for Los Alamos: do you like the way Downtown Los Alamos looks? Are you good with exorbitant commercial and residential rents? Do we love empty storefronts? Are the vacant buildings downtown something we should just learn to live with? Is it cool that more and more people who want to live in Los Alamos are forced to commute? Do we want the town to remain inaccessible to teachers, nurses, firefighters, dry cleaners, restaurants, cafés, and daycares who want to live or operate their small businesses in town? Are we sure that Read More
Posts From The Road: Hill Country Bluebonnets
Bulls and Bluebonnets: In many areas around the hill country west of Austin and San Antonio, Texas various animals graze among the bluebonnets and other wildflowers in the fields. Seen are two bulls standing in a field of bluebonnets staring at the photographer trying to figure out what the guy is up to! Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Boat In the Bonnets: A small boat rests on the shore of a pond near Kingsland, Texas among a blanket of bluebonnets. The granite rocks surrounding the pond add another level of interest to the scene. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer Read More
