Opinion

Letter To The Editor: Support Expressed For County’s Sheriff And Police Department

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By PATRICK BRENNER, Republican Candidate
Los Alamos County Council

In light of recent events, I offer my full fledged support of our County’s Sheriff and Police Department. Thank you for everything you do.

I am jumping into the quagmire of the Sheriff feet first. I am stumped by the amount of vitriol surrounding the elected position that Sheriff Lucero has legitimately won and is in his 2nd term. What could cause a County Council to systematically reduce the role of our Sheriff to virtually nothing and then ask the voters whether they’d like to remove the Office of Sheriff from our town permanently? Read More

Letter To The Editor: Not One Person Stopped…

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Letter To The Editor: White Rock’s New Zip Code

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By CAMILLE MORRISON
White Rock
 
I just got off the phone with Brent Montgomery of the USPS in Phoenix, Ariz.
 
He was the one who sent the letter to White Rock residents informing us that as of July 1 our zip code would be 87547. The letter did not say you have a new address White Rock, NM 87547. My husband was on the phone with Dell computer this morning. They asked for his address. He said Los Alamos, NM 87547. The computer wouldn’t accept that zip code. She tried putting in the zip code and it came up White Rock, NM.
 
I tried to explain to him that we are a suburb of Los Alamos, not a separate
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Letter To The Editor: Unitarian Church Says Black Lives Matter

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By Rev. John Cullinan, pastor
and on behalf of the Board of Trustees
Unitarian Church of Los Alamos

The murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week, along with the murders of police officers in Dallas, should serve as a wake up call to the people of our nation that cycles of violence in our communities cannot be dismantled until we begin to examine the effects of historic racism imprinted into the systems of our American culture.

The call of the Black Lives Matter movement to awaken to systemic racism in our country and to end the disproportionate amount of violence committed against Read More

Letter To The Editor: LA Cares Thanks Farmers’ Market And Mystery Man

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By LA Cares Board Members
With grateful hearts

LA Cares, our local food pantry, set up a table to take in donations at Thursday’s Farmers’ Market. We would like to thank the vendors and customers who donated produce and other items for our distribution later that day and Friday morning.

One interesting older gentleman wandered past our table several times, then came up to talk. He opened his wallet, took out a $100 bill, and said, “Thank you for all you do.”

We were so surprised and stunned that we neglected to get the man’s name in order to thank him properly. So, to

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Cinema Cindy Reviews: The BFG

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Letter To The Editor: Biggest 4th Of July Thanks Ever!

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By STEVE BOERIGTER
Kiwanis 4th of July Celebration Chair

The 2016 4th of July Celebration at Overlook Park was the best ever. A good rain a few days earlier led to clear skies and green fields. While we had some brief periods of wind in earlier evening, the sky settled down for a great show. Seeing the skydivers, especially the big flag as the sun was setting was spectacular. Sim Balkey had a huge crowd dancing on the field. Based upon our unofficial receipts, this was the biggest Independence Day Celebration in Los Alamos history. Probably the single biggest Los Alamos community event ever!

While Read More

Letter To The Editor: The Tragedy Of The Commons, Part II

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By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos

Ralph Chapman recently observed that the intensification of residential uses in existing single-family residential areas that is currently being advocated by the Community Development Department (CDD) and some members of the Planning and Zoning Commission perfectly illustrates the “tragedy of the commons.” I couldn’t agree more.

The CDD introduced this intensification into the discussion of the Comprehensive Plan when it salted the recent survey with questions about the use of “casitas,” “granny houses,” or “guest houses” to ease the supposed (undocumented) Read More

The Good, The Bad And The Sbagliato*

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Patricia Racette (Minnie), Gwyn Hughes Jones (Dick Johnson) and ensemble cast in ‘The Girl of the Golden West’. Photo by Ken Howard for Santa Fe Opera, 2016
 
Gwyn Hughes Jones (Dick Johnson) and Patricia Racette (Minnie) in ‘The Girl of the Golden West’  Photo by  Ken Howard for Santa Fe Opera, 2016

 

BY ROGER SNODGRASS AND CARL NEWTON
Los Alamos Daily Post

  • For its Diamond (60th) Anniversary Santa Fe Opera goes for the gold

One of the great all-time Italian comic operas, Giacomo Puccini’s Fanciulla del West takes place in a small-mining camp during the early days of the California Read More

Elie Wiesel And The Holocaust

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By Dr. T. DOUGLAS REILLY
Los Alamos

The death of Elie Wiesel (weasel in German) brings many stories of his life; his internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bürgenwald, his many books, and his insistence the world must never forget. I’ve been to Warsaw and seen the monument to the many Poles who died in concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau; it’s at the site of the bus station where Poles were herded onto buses that took them to the railroad station, where they were taken, like cattle, to the various camps. I’ve seen the monument a couple blocks away to the 7,500 or so Poles Read More