Letters to the Editor

By RICHARD SKOLNIK
(in his personal capacity)
White Rock

Los Alamos is facing a school board election that has enormous consequences for the health and welfare of our children and for our ability to keep schools open. Los Alamos voters must decide if they want to support candidates who believe in science and evidence-based approaches to public health or if they would rather support those who don’t.

Los Alamos voters must also decide if having school leaders who believe in and will enforce New Mexico’s public health guidelines is important to them. The recent outbreak at Barranca Elementary School Read More

By ELLEN SPECTER
Vice President
LAPS School Board

I want to thank Los Alamos County voters for their ongoing support of our schools. I am asking you to continue your support by voting YES on the School District Mill Levy. Your YES vote will re-authorize an essential funding stream for our schools.

Because over 90% of school funding comes from the state, this mill levy is one of the few ways for the community to supplement revenue to maintain our excellent schools.

Can you imagine how much more difficult remote learning would have been without Chromebooks or iPads for every student? Because of the Read More

By CHARLES REICHHARDT
Los Alamos

I am writing a letter to endorse Nickole Aguilar Garcia, in my District 5.

The main emphasis of schooling should be attaining the highest level of education in science, math, arts, history, writing, athletics and other specialized skills needed for adulthood or college. Los Alamos already has a reasonably strong school district, which is not only beneficial to Los Alamos residents, but also supports the ability of Los Alamos National Laboratory to attract top people.

One of the issues that has been raised centers around the potential teaching of Critical Race Read More

By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos

With my full respect for the efforts that Mr. Skolnik is making to convince individuals to get vaccinated, I have a suggestion for our leaders: take a “shortcut” to get Americans happily vaccinated.

Acknowledging the contributions the previous Administration has made in leading the fight against the pandemic, e.g. support of developing COVID-19 vaccine, is the shortcut.

I remember earlier this year when the President visited NASA, he expressed his sincere gratitude to the former President for his leadership role in launching the Artemis program to land astronauts Read More

By MARTHA KATKO
Los Alamos

To my fellow community members,

Let’s talk a little about HB33 and property taxes. HB33 is on the November ballot. Passage of HB33 provides an important funding source for our schools and provides necessities such as desks and chairs, computers and playground equipment. This funding is already in place. We already pay it. What we are voting on is whether to continue this funding. Passage of HB33 will NOT add to your taxes.

I know there are people concerned about their property taxes right now because the value of homes has been growing rapidly. Did you know that your taxation Read More

By MICHELANGELO LOBATO
Parent

My name is Michelangelo Lobato and I am writing this letter to express my support for school board candidate, Antonio Jaurigue.

I have known Tony for the past six years and have always been impressed with his positive attitude and willingness to lend a hand when Chamisa was in need of volunteers.

Tony helped run the Chamisa Robotics Team and I saw first hand what a great leader and role model Tony is for our children. When the Robotic Cheetahs were in need of a functional robotics competition table, Tony took it upon himself to research and build a very sturdy, well-manufactured Read More

By JENNY MCCUMBER
Los Alamos

I love getting a good deal. I hardly ever pay for shipping, I’m an expert at using Kohl’s 30% off coupons and my husband and I have a running competition to see who can get the highest percentage of savings at Smith’s. He once bought only the Friday free download just so his receipt said 100% savings. Clearly cheating if you ask me. Too bad I didn’t think of it first. . .

At the same time, there are a lot of things in life that fit into the category of “You get what you pay for”.  Cheap shoes hurt your feet, cheap sheets pill up after two washes, and no one ever uses any of the cheap water Read More

By STEPHEN BOERIGTER
Candidate
LAPS Board District 2

Thank you for allowing me to serve your district as the school board member these past 4+ years. As early voting has begun already, it’s time to decide on your school board member for the next 4 years. I thought it would be best if I provided some clarity.

Many of you know me, I’ve been in White Rock for 29 years. If you don’t know me … you can google me.  These days it can be easy to determine who someone is, but much harder to find out who they are not.  Therefore, I have provided 4 reasons why I’m not your guy.

Reason 1: Your school board member should “fight Read More

By MARIE JEREMIC
Los Alamos

I write this as a former Democrat turned Republican. Barely a year and a half ago I would laugh at this statement not believing this would ever happen to me but here we are.

Part of me feels politically homeless as I don’t fit into either party perfectly. Nor does anyone else, I think.

My family and I are transplants to Los Alamos, and we were so excited to move here in the beginning as I had heard nothing but good. And at the time we moved here, we should have fit in politically, and now we don’t.

We moved here early 2020 right as things were shutting down. We didn’t get to meet our neighbors Read More

By LAUREN GRIFFITH
Los Alamos

I made the decision about two years ago to stop using Facebook for anything other than yard sales and private messages. I stopped looking at it pretty much completely. However recently, I jumped on for something and took a quick look at some of the Los Alamos pages. And I was instantly reminded of why I decided to “quit” Facebook.

The hateful words filling the page weren’t what disturbed me most. It was the hateful response that immediately rose up in me. It was the snap judgements I made about people I don’t know and the vicious words I wanted to post to cut them down. And these Read More