Posts From The Road: Zion National Park-East Entrance
Highway 9: Visitors entering Zion National Park from the east travel Utah Highway 9, (Zion-Mt. Carmel Byway). This short 24-mile drive takes travelers through some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Tunnel: The Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel was considered an engineering marvel when constructed in the 1920s. The tunnel stretches 1.1 miles on Highway 9 within Zion National Park. The tunnel was blasted through sandstone rock formations to complete the Highway 9 entrance to the park. The roadway opened in 1930. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More
Fr. Glenn: Reserving A Room
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Wow … did you see the destruction from those tornadoes in Kentucky? Those poor people—so many lives lost and families devastated, and so much loss of livelihoods, homes, etc. Let’s consider how we might contribute to aid our brothers and sisters and their families. Prayer, too, is the unseen but a most effective salve for those in pain, difficulty and suffering hopelessness.
“Why does God allow such things to happen?”, is the recurrent question whenever tragedy occurs. No answer seems sufficient, especially if we ourselves are the ones suffering; the pain is simply too near, Read More
Letter To The Editor: Private Home Weed Sales In Los Alamos An Insane Recipe For Disaster
By MIKE DEMPSEY
White Rock
Retail sales of weed at private homes in Los Alamos is insane and a recipe for disaster.
What do TA-55, the Device Assembly Facility at the Test Site, many Banks and all retail sales of marijuana in Colorado and Nevada have in common? They have at least one Sally Port.
What is a Sally Port? That is two secure (typically steel) doors where the guard gets a look at you before he/she opens the outer door, then gets a real good look at you before he/she opens the inner door. That way maybe it can be determined that you don’t have a pistol shoved down your pants and are going to rob the business Read More
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Participates In Navajo Nation Grant Project
Navajo Councilman Mark Freeland with Rotary President Oliver Morris. Photo by Linda Hull
Los Alamos Rotarians and Navajo Nation officials gather before leaving on their first delivery. Photo by Larry Rodgers
By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
Early on the morning of Nov. 20, Rotary Club members from Los Alamos caravanned to Lake Valley and White Rock Chapter Houses in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation.
The first vehicle, a pick-up truck towing a trailer filled with food, water, and general supplies for area residents, led the way toward Farmington. The purchase of the Read More
McQuiston … The Naughty List: Three Holiday Scams To Watch Out For This Season
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
The most wonderful time of the year is officially upon us, but along with the hustle, bustle and holiday shopping comes a whole new wave of seasonal scams.
From pilfering personal information to package theft, there’s no shortage of fraudsters having their names added to the naughty list this time of year.
Learn what to watch out for so you can keep the holidays merry and bright.
Fake Charity Scams
Scammers know that hearts and wallets open during the holiday season, which impels some to ask for charitable donations to fake causes through Read More
Gessing: About Governor’s Claim To Be A ‘Tax-Cutter’
By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation
Recently, Gov. Lujan Grisham posted on Facebook in support of her plan for a small .25 percentage point reduction in the State’s gross receipts tax rate, saying, “Lower taxes would enable them to grow their business and hire more people, including local adults with special needs that they focus on employing – and we’re going to make it happen.”
It sounded almost like something we at the free-market Rio Grande Foundation would write and the Gov.’s statement is true as far as it goes. While we support ANY effort to lower tax burdens on New Mexicans, Read More
Derkacs: Engaging With Constituents
By DENISE DERKACS
Los Alamos County Councilor
At the County Council meeting on December 7, in which the Cannabis Retail Ordinance was considered, a few members of the public provided closing comments chastising Councilors who stated that they had reached out to constituents across the county for their opinions on the proposed ordinance.
One attendee suggested that Councilors could be “unduly influenced by these constituents.” Another attendee referred to “phantom constituents” as a “sketchy way of justifying a vote” and suggested that Council should “pay close attention [only] to those Read More
