Opinion

Letter To The Editor: About Boutique Air

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By DAVE KLOEPPER
Los Alamos

My wife and I travel frequently from Los Alamos to other US cities and to Europe – up to 10 trips a year. We had used the previous LA to ABQ air service, though the timing of the flights relative to continuation flights out of ABQ was seldom workable.

With Boutique we never even got to the point of checking the flight timing: Boutique was not willing to guarantee that any bag larger than a briefcase would be carried, so using them for our vacation flights was out of the question. I know of one other retired couple who encountered the same dumb restriction.

I’m sure Read More

Letter To The Editor: Roundabout Construction – Clear Sight Lines

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By DICK BOUDRIE
Los Alamos

A recent letter from George Jennings advocates that a center piece in the proposed Trinity roundabout “should be big.” This leads me to believe that my friend George has never traversed a big and complicated roundabout. It is very important that when one is preparing to enter a roundabout with other entry points that one have a clear line of sight to those entry points.

The roundabout at Diamond and North Mesa Road provides the needed experience. This roundabout has raised ground, a very nice sculpture and lots of vegetation. At my urging the County is now keeping the vegetation
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Letter To The Editor: No Loyalty Left In Sports

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By ROY M. MOORE
Los Alamos
 
The recent firing of Yvonne Sanchez as the head coach of the Lobos women’s basketball team came as a surprise to me, although I don’t know why I should be surprised. There is no more loyalty left in sports.
 
Loyalty vacated professional sports years ago and now has apparently been eliminated from the college level, too. I really thought that Sanchez was doing a good job and surely there are many values more important than just winning, like building character in a young and growing spirit and demonstrating the importance of loyalty to any team.
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Williams: Multi-lane Roundabout At Central–N.M. 502 More Accident Prone Than If Signalized

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By JOEL M. WILLIAMS
Los Alamos

George Jennings, Jr’s letter on “Arts In Public Places” For New Roundabout  here gives me an opportunity to make some comments and to offer an “ART” suggestion.

Mr. Jennings’ letter sounded like perfect satire with his bow for commuters (disingenuous, since commuters were the last consideration on the Council’s agenda) and a call for a humongous rocket/bomb display. I seem to remember that the council has made a great fuss about de-emphasizing the bomb business in an effort to promote Read More

Letter To The Editor: Why Is County Hemorrhaging Money In Lawsuits To Former Employees?

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By KHAL SPENCER
Los Alamos

As I have said before, and concur once again with Doug Pippin and George Chandler, its long past overdue for our County Council to level with the public on why, exactly, Los Alamos County and our government insurance carrier have been hemorrhaging money in lawsuits to former employees, whether faulty personnel and policy rules or poor administrative decisions (or both) are at fault, and why the public continues to be kept out of the loop on what is OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

I therefore have a modest proposal. All current Councilors standing for re-election, and all those Read More

Letter To The Editor: Gov. Gary Johnson

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By SCOTT SCRIMSHAW
Hood River, OR
 
An interesting dynamic is about to emerge in the 2016 Presidential race: The Libertarian presidential candidacy of former Republican New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. He recently polled at 11 percent in a Monmouth University poll.
 
This may not sound like much but at 15 percent, the DNC and RNC debate platform rules, designed to keep third party competitors out, can’t keep him from the national debate stage.
 
In addition, the American Initiative lawsuit (https://www.) against the two party stranglehold will be coming to bear.
 
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Letter To The Editor: Are We On To Something?

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By DOUG PIPPIN
Los Alamos

In reference to Mr. (George) Chandler’s letter published Sunday in the Los Alamos Daily Post, I want to express my thanks to him and his obvious view from involvement with the County Council of the past.

I also want to thank (Council Vice Chair) Susan O’Leary for her efforts in her attempt to “crack open this egg” and see what is really going on. It would be interesting to see who is pushing back on her attempts and why. I do not at all buy into the “undo burden” it would cause. (The information should be well packaged due to the latest District Court ruling about the Read More

Letter To The Editor: ‘Arts In Public Places’ For New Roundabout

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GEORGE R. JENNINGS JR.
Los Alamos

First, dear County Councilors, thank you for standing your ground on the new roundabout at Central and Trinity. It showed loyalty to our commuters. It was the right and thoughtful thing to do.

Second, this is about a plea – a recommendation – for utilizing the space in the center of the new roundabout.

The question to be asked is, What do we want people to know about Los Alamos as they enter (or leave) the town?

The recommendation is this: We want them to know that this town was central to building the weapon that ended WWII and put up the nuclear umbrella, which has preserved Read More

Letter To The Editor: Kudos To Susan O’Leary

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By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos
 

I want to commend Council Vice Chair Susan O’Leary for her courageous Open Letter to the Council published in the March 28 edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post. I spent eight years in that weird little universe she’s trying to navigate and I can tell from her letter that it hasn’t changed much. A lot of staff time goes into trying to give the Council the illusion of being in control while making sure they never get too close to the real levers of power. Susan is obviously getting too close.

What happens next is the freeze-out. There will be some councilors who buy the Read More

Letter to the Editor: New Report On Fort Bayard Medical Center Raises Concern Over Other State Facilities

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By Sen. HOWIE MORALES
D-28-Catron, Grant & Socorro

 

It is no exaggeration to say that the most vulnerable citizens in New Mexico, as in the broader society, are largely invisible and rarely heard. Among these are the elderly and the ill, children from broken homes in the juvenile detention system, and desperate people struggling with severe mental illness and behavioral problems. When such individuals are being abused and neglected, we must, as citizens, extend compassion, and as public officials, act swiftly.

A new report assembled by staff of the New Mexico Legislative Finance Read More