Letters to the Editor

Letter To The Editor: 1989, 1999 & 2023

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By LYNN HANRAHAN
Los Alamos

I was standing outside the big art museum in Vienna on a cold, snowy December Saturday in 1989 debating where best to spend the one hour my mother-in-law had allocated to art. Cousin Greti hated modern stuff. I was too sleepy to care, and I can’t remember what we decided on.

A bus pulled up. The walls were falling in the world that year. A new world order was being born. The bus, like dozens more waiting, was from the East. An elderly man disembarked. He was dapper in an elegant hat and black wool coat. He carefully held the rail and when he made it off he got to his knees, bent Read More

Letter To The Editor: Auntie Leona’s Good Parent Guide To Drag For Kids

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By DAVID DANIEL
Los Alamos

Dear Los Alamos,

Greetings and salutations from your very own drag queen of record, reigning supreme, and everyone’s fiercest Auntie, Leona La’Roux. I’m writing you all a nice little note today to help some of you out in your struggles to integrate the fabulousness of drag into the otherwise ordinary day to day of your life, especially your family life, and most especially into the experience of your children.

I understand, truly I do, why some people might have a little “record scratch” when they hear “Drag Queen” and “Children’s Story Hour” in the same breath. After Read More

Letter To The Editor: Exposing Transparency Black Hole

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By AARON WALKER
White Rock

County Council and staff are a transparency black hole. I appreciate Councilors Cull and Havemann for attempting to smooth things over last night, but there must be some significant changes. There have been glimmers of hope at times, but a wholehearted commitment to transparency must be made immediately. Council meetings are frustrating to the public, especially when there are matters that generate public interest on the agenda.

The first major problem is the burying of “popular” items on the agenda. Putting the items that have generated a lot of public input at the Read More

Letter To The Editor: Ask Council To Adopt Planning & Zoning Commission’s Recommendations As Written … Without Meddling

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By REID PRIEDHORSKY
Los Alamos

Dear citizens:

Many of you are familiar with the ongoing housing crisis in our county, which is in fact real. In the community survey published at the beginning of the year, “availability of affordable quality housing” is the second lowest score in the entire survey at 5% positive. (Only “shopping opportunities” is lower, at 4% positive — a related issue.)

The county council is taking an important vote on this matter tomorrow, May 2. The Planning & Zoning Commission recommends changes to the county’s development code that increase building height flexibility Read More

Letter To The Editor: Whoever It Is Who Decides The Trails Need Maintenance, Please Stop

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By GLENN MICHEL
Los Alamos

I hike Quemazon trail regularly up to cave of the winds. It is a nice departure from pavement and close to my house, but it gets a lot of traffic.

Whoever it is who decides the trails need maintenance, please stop. The trails are fine, easy to see and negotiate, and for God’s sake, the trails are wide enough. Put your saw away and stop raping the trees along the paths.

The trails will never be wheel chair accessible. If someone feels they need a wider trail I would suggest the paved path along the airport. Sometimes a tree will fall across the trail and perhaps that can be removed, Read More

Letter To The Editor: Response To ‘Fear Of Heights’ Op-Ed

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By Los Alamos Elks Lodge 2083
Board of Directors

In response to Stephanie Nakhleh’s post on the “Fear of Heights” we would like to address one of the misleading pictures that was posted in her column (link). 

This picture of an “empty lot and trash” is actually the parking lot of the Los Alamos Elks Lodge. We are a fraternal organization that was established locally in 1958.

The Lodge was built in 1962 on this property. We have a long-standing history with this community. Our main charter is charitable works within our community. We annually provide over $30K in donations to various causes, as well Read More

Letter To The Editor: Attitude Problem?

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By SHERRILL COUTS
Los Alamos

As a relatively new Los Alamos County resident, I’m naturally trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible on the local social and political environment. I read with some alarm the letter by Cat Ozment here, which follows up on some positive number of previous articles regarding this issue.

First, I vehemently agree with Ozment’s sentiment. It seems there’s more than just a policy issue here, though, an effect of the cause of an attitude problem, I strongly suspect. To wit:

I suspect that the responsible parties on County Council are trying to play “Big Boys and Read More

Letter To The Editor: Fundraising To Attend Conference

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By BELLA BLAIR
Sophomore
LAHS

Dear Los Alamos Community,

I am a sophomore at LAHS. One of my deepest passions is history and politics. I am so thankful to live in Los Alamos where our schools allow students to develop opinions on our country. Los Alamos is an extraordinary place for history. We have people in our town who care about preserving our past. Growing up here has substantially influenced my passions including wanting to be a lawyer.

Recently, I took a step outside of my comfort zone to attend the New Mexico Youth and Government Conference, where students from around the state come together Read More

Letter To The Editor: Proposed County GRT

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By GERALD ANTOS
Los Alamos

I have to agree with David Reagor who opposes the proposed GRT.

What I want to know is why can’t our Democrat County Council make cuts in our budgets instead of always raising  taxes or fees or whatever the case may be.

I’m afraid that if they did do something like make cuts I would probably have another heart attack because of the shock!

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