Opinion

Los Alamos Leaders Share Holiday Wishes For Community

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A bird’s eye view of the many colorful lights Friday night decorating the trees surrounding Ashley Pond and along Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

And just like that, 2024 and the holiday season are reaching their conclusions. But before the holiday decorations are packed away and another page gets torn from the calendar, local leaders are seizing the opportunity to offer their well-wishes and season greetings to the community.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason: Read More

Supreme Court Justice And District Judge: Healthy Communities Are Rooted In Meaningful Access To Affordable Civil Legal Services

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Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon

By New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon
and District Judge Erin B. O’Connell, chair of the New Mexico Commission on Access to Justice

Three out of four low-income households in New Mexico struggle with legal issues impacting basic needs like housing, financial stability, access to social and medical benefits.

New Mexico’s civil legal service providers handle thousands of cases every year, but a lack of capacity caused them to turn away more than half of the people seeking help last year.

The New Mexico Commission on Access to Justice works Read More

County Seeks Public Input To Help Shape East Downtown Los Alamos Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County is seeking community feedback through open comment available until Dec. 31, 2024, to help shape the East Downtown Los Alamos Metropolitan Redevelopment Area (MRA) Plan.

Residents can also watch the recording of the public forum held Dec. 16, 2024, in Council Chambers to learn more about the plan and the project’s next steps at lacnm.com/WatchMRAForumRecording.

The MRA Plan aims to address issues such as vacant properties, low commercial activity and deteriorating infrastructure. It will identify community-supported projects, programs and policies to Read More

LWV President’s Message: Our Work Continues

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By FELICIA ORTH
President
League of Women Voters of Los Alamos

Even the lightest touch on the pulse of current public discourse reveals strong contention, anger, and fear. The League’s work and goals feel more important than ever: to register those who are eligible to vote, to educate them through voter guides and candidate forums, to help assure ease of voting and the integrity of the electoral process, to advocate for sensible decisions on matters of public policy, to combat disinformation, and to fight gerrymandering and maintain fair districting.

Over the next few months we will Read More

Op-Ed: Send The Dogs To Heaven

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By KELLY PARKER
Los Alamos

I LOVE dogs. Ask anyone who knows me. I’d rather watch cute dog videos on Instagram than the latest TV program or movie. I stop and say hi to all the dogs when I walk and even wave to them when I see one in a car driving by. What I don’t love are irresponsible dog owners!

I was walking my 11 1⁄2 year old dog around 1:30 p.m., Nov. 19, on Grand Canyon in White Rock. She was feeling great that day and was excited to be out smelling the smells. We noticed two very large dogs approaching from the opposite direction. They were on leashes; a young lady was walking them. My dog and I crossed the street Read More

Op-Ed: I Am Not Antisemitic

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By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos

I am not antisemitic.

No, I am not antisemitic even though I stand against Israel’s decimation of Gaza.

I attest to the fact that Hamas, elected in 2006, is a totalitarian regime whose military wing the US has designated a terrorist organization.

I attest Hamas does not recognize Israel, and that since 1993, it has committed suicide bombings on Israel in retribution against the Israeli 1967 occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank.

I attest that on October 7, 2023, Hamas led other Palestinian militant nationalist groups in a terrorist attack in the Gaza Envelope that killed Read More

Gibson: Home Energy Conversion Is Not New

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By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities

My family travelled frequently to my grandparent’s Ohio farm while I was growing up. On colder mornings and evenings, my grandfather would descend to the cellar to shovel coal into the furnace. Quaint though that may seem today, more than half the space heating in the U.S was coal until after WW II. (Much heat in wartime Los Alamos was coal, too.) Stoking a coal furnace was a dirty and physical job. That farmhouse was converted to oil heat in the 1960s.

That was not its first conversion, either. Built in the mid-1800s, it originally Read More

LeDoux: Join Us For Española’s Electric Light Parade!

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By Sam LeDoux
Española City Councilor
4th District

The Española Electric Light Parade is just around the corner and if you’ve never been before I urge you to come experience one of the most special times of year in our Valley. You will see all the best Española has to offer, where everyone drops the issues of their lives and works to bring smiles to everyone’s faces. From car clubs, colleges, churches, to banks it’s the time of year where everyone builds truly special entries for all to see.

I have years of memories watching from the Española Plaza or at Northern New Mexico College seeing all the amazing Read More

LACDC Shares Thoughts On Diamond Drive Property Issue

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By LAUREN MCDANIEL, LACDC Executive Director
On Behalf of the LACDC Executive Committee
Staff Lauren McDaniel and David Jolly, Board Members Carol A. Clark, Craig Wehner, Tracie Stratton, Karen Easton, Bill Wadt

After speaking with some County representatives, and hearing from business owners on the topic of the possible Diamond Drive property purchase, it’s clear there are well-intentioned people who are energized about moving forward with community development plans and achieving priorities on the County’s Strategic Plan. We appreciate this enthusiasm and understand what the County Read More

Pongratz: Need Help Helping Our Schools?

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By MORRIE PONGRATZ
LAPS Foundation Board Member

As Giving Tuesday approaches you may be wondering how to best help Los Alamos Public Schools. If you moved here to work at LANL, you may not know that Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) is at the 33.6th percentile for per-pupil spending compared to the national distribution. This means that LAPS spends more per student than about 33.6% of school districts nationwide but less than the remaining 66.4%!

The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation was established in 2005 to enable folks to address this disparity through personal, tax-deductible contributions. Read More