Opinion

LAHS Financial Aid Night Oct. 27

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LAPS News:

Los Alamos High School will host a Financial Aid Information Night at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27 in the Speech Theater. 

All interested students and parents are encouraged to attend.

Cindy Black, guidance counselor at LAHS, and Jenny Duran, Financial Aid Officer at UNM-LA, will provide information about FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), CSS Profile, Scholarships, Grants, Work Study programs and loan programs. 

“This is an important first step for seniors and parents in planning how to pay for college,” Black said. “With the skyrocketing costs of higher Read More

Letter To The Editor: Dismayed By Suggestion To Close Chamisa

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By Patricia McCulloch
White Rock

Dear Editor and Los Alamos School Board,

My children are the third generation in my family to attend Pinon school. My father was in the inaugural class at Chamisa, and was there the day the kids from Pinon packed up their supplies and walked as a group to the newly built Chamisa Elementary School. I attended Pinon from K-6th grade, and I currently have a 2nd and 4th grader at Pinon. So I am quite invested in the future of our community schools.

I am dismayed by the suggestion to close Chamisa and consolidate the White Rock schools into one large school. As a parent, I see

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Letter To The Editor: Wrong To Say Weather Extremes Occur Due To Climate Change

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By TOM HARRIS, Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition
Canada
 
It is wrong to say that “weather extremes occur due to climate change.”

This is one of the few areas of agreement between the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

In 2012, the IPCC asserted that a relationship between global warming and wildfires, rainfall, storms, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events has not been demonstrated.

In 2013 the NIPCC concluded the same saying, “in no

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Op-Ed: Mediation Week In New Mexico

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By EDWARD L. CHAVEZ, State Supreme Court Justice and Co-Chairman
Statewide Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission

The New Mexico Supreme Court declared the week of Oct. 11, 2015 as Mediation Week. If you or your business are in a lawsuit or know that soon you will be in a lawsuit, you may be concerned about the potential costs and time involved in resolving the dispute. If so, mediation in the courts is a less expensive and time-consuming option available to you. 

Mediation is a cooperative process in which a neutral person – a retired judge, a lawyer or anyone else trained as a mediator Read More

Letter To The Editor: Dangerous Dog Spotted In Starbuck’s Parking Lot

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Los Alamos Resident
Name withheld by request

Wednesday I turned into the Starbucks parking lot and the first thing I see is very obviously this very dangerous and massive dog that has been described several times now.

Obvious I say because I had to stop for it in the very busy parking lot and it was standing right in front of my car and big enough that I couldn’t drive over it if I needed to!

It was wearing a solid metal cage muzzle and was being “controlled” by a slight blond women who couldn’t have weighed more than that dog and only had a regular type leash on it and try as she might Read More

Letter To The Editor: Reader IDs Dangerous Dog

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Los Alamos Resident
Name Withheld By Request
 
I just read one of your readers account of his dangerous encounter with a vicious dog on pipeline road. I had a similar encounter with that same dog and his owner about a month ago while walking a friends dog we were watching for them while they were out of town.
 
I too am a dog lover and this was without a doubt the scariest encounter with a dog I’ve ever had. Fortunately the dog stopped a few feet from us as we stood our ground and the owner grabbed the leash that had been ripped out of his had once his dog spotted us. 
 
I know where this
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Dangerous Bull Mastiff On Pipeline Road

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Peter Heimdahl
Los Alamos

Last Sunday I was hiking up Pipeline Road and a mountain biker coming down stopped to talk. He said he was just attacked by a large and very aggressive dog, probably a Bull Mastiff. The owner was unable to control the dog (the dog only had a leather collar, not a pinch collar) and the dog broke away from the owner’s grip and pursued the biker, who fortunately was able to out pedal the dog. The biker was quite frightened and warned me not to go up the road.

I waited and soon I could see in the distance a man and dog making their way down the road. I decided to retreat and take a detour Read More

Letter To The Editor: Surely Worth It To Save Lives?

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By VIVIEN ZAPF
Los Alamos

It’s time to drive home from LANL, and time for another round of “dodge the mother with child running across the street.”

There is no place for a pedestrian to safely cross the street on Trinity between Diamond and Oppenheimer, and nowhere on Central between Diamond and Ashley Pond.

In this space there are numerous apartment and condo complexes filled with families with children, as well as the swimming pool, library, a children’s dentist and orthodontist, a school, several churches, dance, art and music classes, a demonstration garden/park, Read More

Letter To The Editor: The Most Dangerous Thing I Do Every Day

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By ANDREW M. FRASER
Los Alamos

‘I think that the most dangerous thing that I do every day is bike home. In particular, I don’t know how I should navigate the combination of the security area, the Omega Bridge, and the lights on Diamond at Trinity and at Canyon.’ I wrote that in May of 2010, a little more than five years before I was struck by a truck at the intersection of West Road and Diamond Drive.

As I was being knocked on to the pavement in the middle of Diamond, I realized what was happening and understood that my life depended on the driver stopping immediately. He did stop, and I Read More

Letter To The Editor: Where Is The Money?

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By GLENN MICHEL
Los Alamos

YIKES! Show me the money! Where’d it go?

We can see plainly that the SEC is on it like a blood hound and the guilty will be punished, but the news release (link) never says where the money went. It says TCC was in dire straits, and $30 million in bad loans were laying around, but who got those loans? 

I’m holding TCC certificates now, I do have a dog in this fight. Read More