Letters to the Editor

By JAMES J. KUROPATWINSKI
Los Alamos

I continue to admire and commend the LANL employees who are on leave, and will remain so for the foreseeable future; which forces me to ask, when did I become a hypocrite.

Was it prior to the Oct. 15 LANL Mandate deadline? Or Oct. 21 when I received the first dose? Perhaps Nov. 4 when I received the second (knowing full well that there are numerous challenges in play)? Or ultimately, Nov. 24, when I should be permitted to go back to the office.

After another week of the Accommodation, the State of New Mexico and the County of Los Alamos is still red – at least from COVID. Read More

By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos

I felt really sorry for the deer that died from being stuck in the window well (link). It brought about refreshed memories of the deer collision accident I experienced. One thing I recalled was the awful smell that almost made me vomit although I was like at least 50 meters away from the injured deer…

We human beings breathe, so do wildlife. An injured wild animal would struggle to breathe much more in order to survive. If the animal carried some virus, the virus concentration in the atmosphere would be significantly increased.

As now we know a large percentage of the Read More

By BOB WILLIAMS
Los Alamos

I think the arguments against permitting a cannabis microbusiness in Los Alamos come from the old suspects: power and money.

It is of course the civic duty of those in power to be in control and prevent the town from being destroyed by pot-heads. And it is the larger, deeper-pocketed businesses that will do what they can to prevent competition from the little guys. Duh!

For those in power: Of course regulations must be set, but don’t make them so that they put the small business at a disadvantage. In fact, larger businesses should have tighter constraints, especially in Read More

By CHARLIE STRAUSS
Los Alamos

Judging from recent letters to the editor, there seems to be people who question the effectiveness of masks and vaccines because they don’t understand the point of these precautions. I’ll take a stab at explaining this from a different perspective.

Every person that dies of COVID, got the disease from someone else, who in all likelihood, did not die of COVID. And every person who has gotten COVID has gotten it from someone else. and so on. Many, perhaps as many as half, don’t even know they had it, yet they spread it.

So if you have had COVID, then, on average, you are personally Read More

By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos

I have complained long and loud about the sparseness of the data from NuScale on the development and testing of the NuScale nuclear core. At the last public hearing in August a year ago I submitted a number of questions that were very poorly answered, and I complained more. 

In response to my and perhaps others’ complaints Cornell Wright, Chair of the Utilities Board, invited Jose Reyes, the Chief Technical Officer of NuScale, to give a technical presentation and made available to him the questions that had been raised.

Reyes presented to the Utilities Board last night Read More

By JAMES ROBINSON
Vice Chair
Los Alamos County Council

On Tuesday night, during the regular session, Councilor Sara Scott, Councilor David Reagor, Councilor David Izraelevitz, and Councilor Denise Derkacs opted to postpone recommending the proposed art for the Leisure Lagoon, pending further discussion with staff and the Arts in Public Places Board (APPB) about process and come back to Council with a summary of that process for the proposed art for the Leisure Lagoon.

I strongly voted against this motion, and I profoundly apologize to the all-volunteer members of the APPB for Council’s Read More

By WILLIAM and COLLETE HUNTER
Los Alamos 

First of all, with the Holiday Season upon us, we say Happy Holidays to all!  

Second, we write to to provide an update on our quest. And, most importantly, to request the community’s support for our quest to open a home-based integrated cannabis microbusiness here in LA County.

This is the third letter either one or both of us have written regarding this subject. If you have not read the first two, we invite you to do so. They are located in the “Letters” section of the Los Alamos Daily Post. The first letter was published Nov. 4.

To begin, we thought it would be Read More

By JONATHAN LEDUC
Los Alamos

Howdy Los Alamos!

My name is Jonathan LeDuc. I started a new Los Alamos based cannabis business, Wheeed LLC, to bring a next level cannabis experience to Los Alamos!

I have been a Los Alamos resident since 1993, a medical cannabis user since 2013, and I have held a  personal production (grow) license since 2014. I have produced my own medicine (cannabis)  successfully for a number of years both indoors and outdoors.

For the majority of my working career, I have worked for small businesses in Los Alamos. For the last 9+ months I have been working in Santa Fe in the medical Read More

By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos

The first Christmas gift I received many years ago was from an American friend. It was a Teddy Bear! For someone who just arrived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and barely experienced the so-called culture shocks, receiving such a lovely gift was a pleasant surprise. The legendary story about Teddy Bear introduced me to learn American History and to explore Western culture concurrently with Chinese culture.

Teddy Bear is an iconic American Children’s toy and has become among the most popular gifts often given to adults on special occasions. It is associated Read More

By KAREN HOLMES
President, Board of Directors
First Born Program of Los Alamos

Although we homeschool our kids, I watched the recent school board elections with interest. If the last couple of months have told us anything, it’s that serving on a board is of huge importance. Nonprofit boards, like the school board, make policies, direct the focus of an organization, hold the members of the organization accountable, and strategically plan the growth and function of the entity. Board members are crucial to the health and structure of their organization.

I want to remind the community that there Read More