Letters to the Editor

By ADELAIDE JACOBSON
White Rock

The children and adults of Los Alamos will be celebrating our 30th annual Kite Festival this weekend. The following is a poem written by Refaat Alareer (1979-2023), an acclaimed Palestinian professor and poet who, in a targeted killing by the Israeli military, was killed in December 2023, along with his brother, sister, and four nephews.

IF I MUST DIE

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who Read More

By WILLIAM C. MEAD
Los Alamos

The Op/Ed by Connor Dermody on April 19 misinterprets the electricity rate information given on the Los Alamos County Public Utilities website.

According to the County website, the single rate usage price, as of July 1, 2026, will be $0.151 per kWh until a time-dependent rate structure is implemented.

The planned time-dependent rate structure, after the dual-rate pricing is implemented, the rates will be $0.11 per kWh from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m. and $0.197 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Read More

By RICK NEBEL
Los Alamos

This is a response to the recent letter by Gorbin Lars about Eastern New Mexico joining Texas (link). The reality is that this isn’t a fight about culture, it’s a fight about money. New Mexico treats the “oil patch” counties as its cash cow. They supply over half of the revenue to the state of New Mexico and It’s hardly any wonder that they resent that. They only get a tiny fraction of that cash in return to spend in Eastern NM. 

However, I don’t think that sending Eastern NM to Texas is the best solution. A better solution is for New Mexico to annex all of West Texas from the present Read More

By BILL CABRAL
Los Alamos

I would like to clear up some confusion about who owns the conduits in the streets within the Quemazon Community. Hello my name is Bill Cabral and I previously owned the “Los Alamos Community Network”. I originally started the network from my computer store “Bill’s Computer Shop” in the “Central Park Square” shopping center. I had run fiber optic cable around the shopping center to the other businesses in the steam tunnels below Central Park Square.

I was approached by Sid Singer and the Watermans around Spring 2000 to put the same fiber in their Quemazon Development that Read More

By GORBIN LARS
Los Alamos

In 1978 HB25 was introduced on the floor of the New Mexico House of Representatives. The objective of the legislation was to build a moat around New Mexico to “keep them friggen Texans out.” The bill was revenue neutral as funding for the moat construction was to come through confiscation of all Texan ski equipment found in the state.

The bill of course was a joke. It was introduced during the YMCA model legislative session that year. While it was introduced in jest, it illuminated a fascinating and very real difference in perspective depending on where people lived in NM. Read More

By GERALD ANTOS
Los Alamos

Are you out of your stinking minds? $4.15 plus for gas and $5.70 plus for diesel? Never has there been such disparity in the fuel market as there is now! I watch the price of oil and gasoline every day on https://www.oil-price.net/ and you seem to be making the highest amount of profit in all of Los Alamos History!

This war we are fighting is not the reason for the high prices, it’s your greed. The US is self-sufficient in regards to fuel and oil. You’re just forcing your big fat lie on the citizens of Los Alamos! Empty oil tankers flock to US to load up with oil and gas Read More

By NORA HAASER
Junior Girl Scout
Los Alamos

At the County Council meeting today, April 7, my friends and I are all going to ask the County if we can have a four-way stop up at North Road and Urban Street. I think the County should do this because Dr. Easton died there because of an accident and I don’t want any more people dying from accidents.

Dr. Easton was a pedestrian, just like everyone who lives here and me. If people can stop at Quemazon, then they can stop at this intersection. Along with this accident, I don’t want these two other accidents to happen again when a person was driving peacefully until Read More

By BONNIE EDWARDS
Los Alamos

There is no denying that at this moment in time we have had some life changing incidents happen in our country. In the last few months, we have seen two people killed while protesting. We have seen a person killed on a college campus as he spoke. Children have been killed as they prayed. We tend to blame these incidents on our leaders, on the system, on something other than ourselves but are we scapegoating? Is this a sign of who We the People are becoming? Is there more intolerance, anger and unwillingness to expend energy to find the truth in each of us?

We seem to deal in caricatures Read More

By WILLIAM CLODIUS
Los Alamos

The Angry Staffer on X provided a summary of Trump’s, April 1, 2026, speech on the war with Iran that those who didn’t have the time to listen to the speech or were confused by the speech might find edifying.

Iran won’t close the Strait

Iran better open the Strait

Iran has 2 days to open the Strait

Iran has a week to open the Strait

NATO, open the Strait

I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened

I don’t care about the Strait

No ceasefire till Strait is open

Trump’s speech didn’t seem to be intended as an April Fools joke.

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By GEORGIA STRICKFADEN

Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago was gorgeous, so after working with my horses in the Stable Area, I walked into where FEMAville had been 25 years ago, an area being master planned as North Mesa Park.

Thanks to community action a generation ago, the area is a park. The far east end of North Mesa Park is a remnant of native mesa top grasses, forbs, and trees, encircled by a well-used hard-surface trail (first photo) frequented by residents of adjacent neighborhoods. An official small sign says it is a “Natural Habitat Area”, but the new North Mesa Park Master Plan has a bike Read More