Opinion

Letter To The Editor: Thank You Jackie Goodfellow

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Mountain Elementary School students Sophia Pakin and Sean Lo. Courtesy photo
 
By JENNIFER GUY
Los Alamos
 
The students and teachers at Mountain Elementary School would like to express their sincere gratitude to the family and friends of Jackie Goodfellow.
 
Jackie was the librarian at Mountain Elementary School for many years. When Jackie recently passed away, her family and friends made a very generous donation to the Mountain Elementary School library as a way to honor Jackie and pass on her love for reading.  
 
The library was able to purchase 93 new books
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Letter To The Editor: Inaugurations And Power … Let Us All Take This Day To Be Thankful For Our Nation And Government

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By JAMES ROBINSON
Chairman, Republican Party of Los Alamos

Today, Jan. 20, we all got to witness the transition of power without an apparent heir, a war, murder or violence.

Emotions have run very high since the start of this presidential contest, and they will continue to be high, but that is the nature of our republic.

What we witnessed today was one leader with IMMENSE power graciously hand over that power to a citizen who spent over a year challenging his authority and platform. Also in that crowd we saw former leaders and their successors, past and future political adversaries, and many citizens Read More

Letter To The Editor: Unanswered Questions

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BY GERRY WIGGINS
Los Alamos

I appreciate the recent posts by school board member and candidate Mr. Jim Hall. It was a pleasure to read about his march for civil rights and management skills. However, I feel that Mr. Hall has left some very important questions unanswered.

I feel that schools are the heart of our community. An organization made up of teachers, children, parents, staff members, volunteers, all of us; all of us, with our diverse backgrounds, skill sets, abilities, working together to bestow the best upon the next generation. 

Unfortunately, I have found myself questioning Read More

Letter To The Editor: New Internet Service

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By ANDREW FRASER
Los Alamos
 
I write to recommend the AirFiber service introduced by LANET at the end of November last year.
 
In mid December we signed up for a premium plan that provides 100 megabits per second up and down and two static IP addresses. LANET owner Allan Saenz personally supervised the installation. My request for static IP addresses was not standard, but Allan responded promptly to my sequence of requests for help in getting it to work.

Here are some of capabilities we have now:

  • With the higher data rate, we can stream different movies to several rooms in our house simultaneously
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Letter To The Editor: Education Mil Levies Merit Support

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By ROBERT GIBSON
Los Alamos

Tax proposals deserve very critical scrutiny. A tax should be for a legitimate valuable public purpose and should truly be for that purpose. There should be reasonable expectation the funds will be used well. And there should be no other reasonable alternative to further burdening citizens. Few tax proposals meet all those criteria.

The present proposals for a continued mil levy (property tax) to support LA Public Schools reconstruction bonds and an increase for operations at UNM-LA are rare instances that do satisfy those standards.

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Letter To The Editor: UNM-LA Mil Levy – An Investment Now And For The Future

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By Dr. Sheila Schiferl
Los Alamos

We moved here in 1977, and I took FORTRAN at the UNM branch. Later, our college poetry class included the town library director, a dean of instruction, several lab scientists and tech writers, and some retired community members. It also included a few “traditional” teenage college students, each with a spark that the rest of us tried to help grow.

What an amazing idea. Here is a school that has been integrating itself into the community, and vice versa, for decades. In the late 1990’s, X-Division encouraged its scientists Read More

Letter To The Editor: One Los Alamos Launches Diversity Week Drawing Contest

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By ONE LOS ALAMOS

Dear LAPS Teachers and Students,

Jan. 10, 2017, the Los Alamos Council declared the week of Jan. 15-21 Diversity Week. This event was sponsored by One Los Alamos, a group of people interested in promoting thoughtful, civil dialogue around our diversity of backgrounds, beliefs and identities in order to champion shared values and interests that can strengthen our community.

To kick-off the first year of celebrating Diversity Week, One Los Alamos is launching a drawing contest for all Los Alamos students grades K-12. We are having three age categories (grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12). Read More

Peanuts Gang Grows Up Hard In First Rate Production Of ‘Dog Sees God’ At LALT’s Performing Arts Center

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The friends party hard in ‘Dog Sees God’. Photo by Larry Gibbons

CB (Stuart Rupprecht) ponders the death of his beloved Beagle. Photo by Larry Gibbons

 

Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos Little Theatre’s “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead” opened Friday at the Performing Arts Center. The play, written by Bert V. Royal presents the Peanuts gang from the comic strip during their teenage years. Sex, drugs and rock and roll have hit them hard and they aren’t ready. CB (guess who?) is at the center of the story.

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Letter To The Editor: Los Alamos Public Schools – Four Generations And Counting…

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