Opinion

Letter To The Editor: If You Need A Compounding Pharmacy, Nambe Is Great!

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By DIANN MILLS
Los Alamos

I would like to express my admiration for and add a hearty welcome to Nambe Drugs!

When my cat was recently diagnosed with a heart problem that required her to take a daily pill, I knew this was going to be a problem. All you’ve heard about the difficulty in pilling a cat is true.

If they can be tricked into taking the pill in food you’re in luck. Mine decided I was trying to kill her and wouldn’t eat anything but her dry food. Nambe Drugs came to the rescue when they said they could make a lotion that could be rubbed on the inside of her ear. 

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Letter To The Editor: Welcome To The Hill Nambe Drugs

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By DIANA NORWOOD
Los Alamos

Some of us, up here in town are already very familiar with our new pharmacy, Nambe Drug Store, located in Central Park Square. 

The main store is located in Pojaque. Many of us, including myself, have been customers there for many years. I just want to share with you all; a few reasons, why I’m thrilled that they’ve opened a store up here. 

Not only are they “always” able to get my prescription(s) filled … they’ve actually been delivering prescriptions to us, up here on the hill, when a customer couldn’t

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Letter To The Editor: Facts About Plastic Grocery Bags

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By JOEL M. WILLIAMS
Los Alamos

The 15-gallon plastic trash bin bag liner we use for the trash collector has no carry-out grocery bags in it, but is mainly filled with paper and plastic “packaging”.

My wife uses her own “totes” mostly when shopping, but business supplied carrier bags are sometimes required. I do little shopping.

The rhetoric about a bag ban seems to contain mostly “opinions”. As in most crusades, there is a lot of  “hype”. In this case, mostly from the “green” side. As a chemist, I found some of the information Read More

Letter To The Editor: Plastic Grocery Bags – Freedom’s Gift

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By AREAL H. OAKES
Los Alamos

I have been reading with great amusement the back-and-forth about whether to ban plastic grocery bags.

Is inconveniencing people really worth such a Herculean effort? Aren’t there better things to be worrying about in Los Alamos? Things like how do we exterminate the dog-killing cougar, or how we increase the amount of shopping possibilities here, or what underutilized land should we strip to build a parking garage or high-density housing for the new workers who will be required to live here now that hundreds of thousands of annual visitors will be flocking here for Read More

Letter To The Editor: In Response To Some Thoughts On Global Warming

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By JOHN GONZALES
Los Alamos
 
Dear Mr. Richard Nebel,
 
Scientists and lay people have been passionate from the beginning of time (it is natural). 
 
Humans are not Vulcans. Vulcans supposedly have no emotions, but I might add that they are known from time to time to struggle with emotions and logic. Especially Spoc who is…half human. Simple analogy to lend perspective to your concern that people have the passion, which makes you “sad.” I agree it is sad. So let me be as emotionally divested as I can and respond to your letter as objectionably as possible.
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Letter To The Editor: It’s Warming And It’s Us … What Are We Willing To Do About It?

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By Dr. CHARLES “CHICK” KELLER
Los Alamos

Joel Williams’ piece is a classic example of people with only a little information trying to convince you that all those professional climate scientists have missed his points even though they are the ones who did all the work he cites.

Consider just one of the unsaid assumptions: that a single ice core at one place near a pole on the Earth is representative of global behavior—not! As for recent temperature fluctuations, Joel’s graph disagrees with every one of the peer-reviewed papers—some 20 of them—in their determinations of global Read More

Letter To The Editor: ‘Thoughts About Plastic Bags And Cultural Dead Ends’

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By ERICA WISSINGER
Los Alamos
 
Thoughts about plastic bags and cultural dead ends … they say that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
 
I was a child when I first heard that saying in grade school, and I wondered “Why did he fiddle while that was going on? It makes no sense.” Such is the logic of a child looking at the world of adults and thinking that life is supposed to be Oh so much more logical when one grows up. Surprisingly, it is not, the optimist observes. The pessimist observes something else entirely, usually unprintable.
 
I wish to call the reader’s
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Letter To The Editor: Foul On Plastic Bags

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By JOHN GONZALES
Los Alamos
 
What the Environmental Sustainability Board is trying to do with this plastic bag ban (green initiative) is to do the right thing as an entity for the collective good of the people.
 
This means to reduce, reuse, and recycle through the use of greener products (and concepts i.e. plastic bags) etc., will reduce the amount of waste we make (and impact we have on the environment) and is necessary for a better tomorrow for Los Alamos and the world.
 
But, when they do this they seek to have community involvement, and they got quite what they did not expect
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Letter To The Editor: Thank You Atomic City Transit For ACTracker!

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By HEATHER HUGHES
White Rock resident
 
I would like to thank Atomic City Transit and any affiliates for the new ACTracker!
 
I’m not sure how many Los Alamosians know about this amazing new ACT feature, but I highly recommend they check it out and use it as often as possible. Check it to see if a bus is on time or late, its previous stop, its current destination, and more. I use it daily, and I couldn’t be more pleased.

According to the ACTracker page listed on the Los Alamos County website (https://www.losalamosnm.us/transit/Pages/ACTracker.aspx), “Atomic City

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Letter To The Editor: Close The Open Forum Survey On Plastic Bags

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By JOYCE ANDERSON
Founder, Save the Bag: Los Alamos

I was very disappointed to see that the open forum on the plastic bag ban was reopened this week. When I asked the Environmental Sustainability Board’s staff liaison, “Why?”, she told me, “to give more people a chance to answer.”

I am calling foul on this. The original survey was open for four weeks and had over 400 on forum responses — which is more than any other open forum survey results. The open forum survey was also well publicized by local media, as well as by my group, Save Read More