Opinion

Letter To The Editor: On Harold Morgan’s Column

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By TERRY GOLDMAN
Los Alamos
 
It is a pleasure, for once, to be able to agree with Harold Morgan.
 
In his Wednesday column he says “The left has a mythical attachment to raiding the Permanent Fund for money to spend on education.”
 
I agree completely that the claimed attachment is entirely a myth. On the other hand, if he meant to say ‘mystical’ … well, we can’t all be William F. Buckley or George F. Will.
 
For most of the rest of the column he returned to expected for, but he concludes with: “Less ideologically driven research would
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Letter To The Editor: Gouging Gas Prices

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By J. ROBERTS
White Rock

We, like many others, had high hopes when Smith’s put in a gas station. We had hoped that gas prices in Los Alamos would be more competitive with surrounding areas, and while the old store was open our hopes were rewarded. But now with the new store we seem to have the same old gouging gas prices as before.

When one can take a short drive to Totavi, Espanola or Pojoaque and save 30 cents per gallon or more, it makes you wonder what other prices in the store are being inflated now that the store is becoming established.

We want to support the new Smith’s Marketplace as well Read More

A Victory for Working Families: NM Supreme Court Orders State To Enforce Wage Laws

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By Sen. Michael S. Sanchez
D-29-Valencia and Bernalillo

Unions have made huge contributions throughout America’s history – Social Security, child labor laws, the forty-hour work week, and so on. Working men and women make enormous contributions to our country daily.

Here in New Mexico, the building trades unions successfully fought a recent legal battle to ensure that workers are treated fairly through enforcement of the prevailing wage law.  This will improve the economic conditions of workers’ families. Prevailing wage laws open a door to career paths for young people. They deliver Read More

Letter To The Editor: Where Are We As America?

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By ROBERT FUSELIER
Los Alamos

For whatever reason, perhaps because of age, I often think back to my youth and the image I had then of our country and its role as a nation of this world.

Most of that image was formed from my understanding of the history of our nation during the half-century before my birth: the time of my parents and grandparents. It was an image of growth fueled by immigrants and migration within America, technological advancement that helped feed the world, and our role within the world based a lot on our involvement in WWII and afterwards as we helped the nations we fought rebuild.  Read More

Letter To The Editor: Police Are Not Required To Protect Any Specific Individual

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By JOHN N. HORNE
Los Alamos 

There have been numerous letters to the Post recently regarding the subject of firearms. But in one of these letters, Mr. Pat Kestell made a statement that strikes right to the heart of the matter. He said: “It is not the job of the police to protect my family, it is mine.”

Here Mr. Kestell makes a statement that most Americans do not understand. The police in America are not required to protect any specific individual, their job is to keep the general order. Here are a few citations, which prove this fact:

Law-enforcement has no duty to protect individuals. South v. Read More

Letter To The Editor: Comments Regarding Gun Violence

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By DILLON JONES
Los Alamos
 
I would like to add to this argument and come from a factual perspective. As Lee Graves (letter) did not provide information regarding where he got information, here is the website I’m using to get my data for the math: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-20/table_20_murder_by_state_types_of_weapons_2013.xls
 
So the math I’m doing includes sovereign territories of the United States as well. TheRead More

Letter To The Editor: Adding A Couple More Statistics

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By PAT KESTELL
Los Alamos

I applaud Lee Graves and his letter of Aug. 30, 2015 replying to Stephanie Nakhleh’s (corrected sp.) call for banning guns.

Since Lee used the statistics I would like to add a couple. First, ANY murder is too many; which is why the FBI statistic showing that,every year, gun owners thwart tens of thousands of violent crimes by either shooting the assailant or simply revealing the gun to perpetrators is important. The cannot be exactly determined because up to 90 percent of them are notRead More

Letter To The Editor: Questioning Writer’s Arithmetic

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By JERRY FLEMING
Los Alamos
“14,196 murders in America by firearm, of every type and description, and 69 percent of those were by firearm (letter). That equals about one per day.“
Without getting into the subject of the memo, I’d question the arithmetic.
14,196 murders by firearm in 2013 divided by 365 days in a year = about 39 murders by firearm per day, not one! That’s over 1.5 per hour.
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Letter To The Editor: Correcting Gun Law Comments

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By LEE GRAVES
Los Alamos

I read the comments by Stephanie Nakhleh (letter) in Saturday’s paper, and I have to correct her errors.

She states that “by the time I finish (this letter), three more people will be killed by guns in America.” The truth is, according to the FBI Crime Statistics for 2013, the last year available, there were 14,196 murders in America by firearm, of every type and description, and 69 percent of those were by firearm. 

That equals about one per day, not three in the time it would take her to write a letter, as stated. Quite a big difference. Oh, those pesky Read More