Opinion

Letter To The Editor: New WIPP Accident Theory Implausible

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By STAN KOSIEWICZ
Los Alamos

A new theory advanced by Charles Bowman that a hydrogen deflagration caused the 2014 WIPP accident is implausible. This theory was reported in the Aug. 11, 2016 print edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post. It contains errors and omissions that should be corrected.

I spent most of my 30+ years of corporate experience dealing with TRU waste. As the manager of the LANL plutonium analysis section, I had hands-on generation of portions of LANL’s TRU waste.  Under contract to Sandia National Labs, I led a LANL team to conduct Read More

Letter To The Editor: Fair Warning To Council Candidates

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By TERRY GOLDMAN
Los Alamos

I give fair warning to all candidates for County Council: 

I don’t care if you lie and say that you just want the electorate to decide whether or not to have a sheriff. But unless you actively support a ‘no’ vote on the proposal to eliminate the office of sheriff in Los Alamos County, I will find it very difficult if not impossible to vote for you in this upcoming election, no matter how completely we agree on other issues.

While there are certainly examples of very bad sheriffs (a case in Arizona Read More

Letter To The Letter: Thank You Thank You One And All!

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By KRISTY ORTEGA, Executive Director
United Way of Northern New Mexico

The United Way of Northern New Mexico board and staff would like to thank everyone who planned, sponsored and played in this year’s Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament benefitting United Way of Northern New Mexico! 

As always, Los Alamos National Bank was the major sponsor for this event. In addition to financial support they were able to provide outstanding volunteers, helping make this tournament a huge success! Thank you always LANB! 

Other gracious sponsors included KRSN/Flowers by Gillian, Read More

Letter To The Editor: Shame On LANB

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By BRUCE WARREN
Los Alamos
 
Shame on Los Alamos National Bank for the way they have handled their upgrade to a new banking system.
 
They made no effort to facilitate the changeover for customers’ online transactions at all. They should have done a software fix to transfer payees, wires, transfers and other recurring online transactions, but instead left the burden on their customers.
 
I had over 80 payees in my online bill payment on the old system which covered nearly all my bills, donations and other transactions, and now I’m left with the lengthy task of manually
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Letter To The Editor: Students Benefit From Many Inspiring Teachers In Los Alamos

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By TOM HILL
Los Alamos

Thanks for printing Jonathan Neal’s very touching farewell letter in its entirety. And thanks to Jonathan for putting his thoughts to paper.

In the 2014-2015 school year, my Lunch Buddy, Isaiah Jones (the one in the picture with the goofy beard and stovepipe hat), was most fortunate to have Jonathan as his third grade teacher. It was clear to me from day one that Jonathan was an exceptional and inspiring teacher and that this was no ordinary third grade class. As I watched his students interact with him, their enthusiasm for learning was transparent.

He went to great Read More

Letter To The Editor: Wither The Good Samaritan In Los Alamos?

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By MARK MACINNES
Los Alamos
 
Regarding Stephanie Nakhleh’s poignant letter about the injured cyclist and supposed absence of Los Alamos Good Samaritans, who didn’t stop, here are some thoughts:
 
1) She is A good Samaritan, an ethical stranger that stopped to help an injured traveler!
2) In the words of Lewis Carroll: ‘The Hurrier I go, the Behinder I get’.
 
Drivers analyze and react to situations that are complex, changing quickly, by making semi-unconscious decisions – go, stop, avoid, and navigate normal driving situations. Things can go south quickly!
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Letter To The Editor: Mesa Public Library Is A Furnace

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By Sarah Jane Smith
Los Alamos
 
As a frequent patron of Mesa Public Library, I wrote last summer about the awful summer heat conditions in the Library and how the lack of proper air conditioning/cooling in the Library made me (and other patrons I’ve talked to) physically ill and unable to stand being there for too long. I was told that the County would be taking care of that by this summer.
 
Sadly, I see that has not come to pass and I and other patrons are once again being forced to either go to the Library very early on in the day or avoid it altogether during
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Letter To The Editor: Can’t We Help These Creatures?

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By KATHLEENE PARKER
Los Alamos

Kudos to Karen Williams and Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richards for their effort (DAILY POST, July 14, 2016) to change New Mexico’s law requiring that bears who harm humans be killed, even when they acted only in self-defense. Can’t we also help these creatures—already confronted with the threats associated with living in the world’s 3rd most populated nation behind only China and India—survive the increasing pressures caused by an absolutely unacknowledged United States population explosion?

The July 7, 2016 DAILY POST ran a picture of a young bear “munching bird Read More

Letter To The Editor: Thank You For ScienceFest

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By RICK NEBEL
Los Alamos
 
This is a thank you note to Suzette Fox, Ryn Herrmann and all of the people who put on Science Fest this year! 
 
We at Tibbar Plasma Technologies had a lot of fun blowing up cans with ping pong balls and showing people our facility. We had a good turnout both days, and we were almost overwhelmed with the number of people who visited our laboratory on Sunday. 
 
I hope that we got to talk to most of you and answer your questions. Thanks again for a fun event and an enjoyable weekend.
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Letter To The Editor: Reminder To All To Be Vigilant

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By TERRY FOX
Los Alamos

Dear Motorists,

This is a facebook entry posted today, July 19, by my daughter who lives in Albuquerque. She and her husband bike to work. Fortunately most of the way is along bike paths but there are still streets to cross and in some places streets to ride. Drivers are incredibly oblivious to what is around them. I think this is a reminder to all of us to be vigilant for cyclists, pedestrians, and motor cycles. We don’t need any more white ghost bikes as a memorial to a killed cyclist. Accept for a second’s difference that could have been our family.

 

By ERIN CHAVEZ
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