Opinion

Letter To The Editor: ‘The Problem Of The Modern Science Of Global Warming’

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By GERALD ANTOS
Los Alamos
 
Mr. (Joel) Williams,

In your letter to the Los Alamos Daily Post you wrote: “I suspect that ‘climate change’ and ‘environmental pollution’ are not very well delineated. Air pollution that extends 10s of thousands of feet upwards is hard to miss. I went through Gary, Ind., back in the 1960s when the sky was bright orange and the sun set well before it went below the horizon.

 
Media often show citizens of Beijing wearing masks because of the extremely poor air quality. Citizens of Beijing would very likely say
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Letter To The Editor: Room For Rent Ad Draws Scam

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By PAUL MARTINEZ
Los Alamos

Just thought you and your readers might want to know about an incident (scam) I recently dealt with. I had advertised a room for rent on Craigslist thinking that I could rent an extra bedroom out to a LANL summer intern. 

I immediately got a response from a young woman wanting to lease the room. Her name was Margaret and informed me that she would send a deposit and extra money that was to be paid to someone for delivering a car to Los Alamos for her. She was currently in Alaska and would be arriving in Los Alamos in June to attend graduate school.

On Friday, May 22, 2015, I received Read More

Letter To The Editor: Facebook Dilemma

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LINDA GOFORTH
Los Alamos

When one tries to become more independent of Facebook, it can lead to some surprising results, and I have had to deal with one that has me effaced. 

My friends who were a part of my account keep getting invitations to be friends. After trying to rectify the problem, if you are still getting notices, and this goes for any other person having the same problem; unfriend the person
who has been seemingly sending such notices repeatedly. 

It is only mechanical. It eliminates the account successfully, and the person who has unsubscribed does not know.

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Letter To The Editor: Only You Can Control Your Personal Carbon Footprint

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By E. JACOB
Los Alamos
 
Here! Here! T.J. Taub, does anybody who is in favor of plastic bags know how many MILLIONS of gallons of petroleum it takes to produce these plastic bags
every year?
 
Each and everyone of us plays an important part in how we interact with our environment here and now to protect our wildlife and our planet from further damage. It’s totally self centered and naive to think that we can’t make a difference.
 
YOU, and only YOU can control your personal carbon footprint.
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Letter To The Editor: ‘Thank You Alan Wadlinger’

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By DEBBIE MORLEY
Los Alamos
 
Thank you Alan Wadlinger for the timely letter regarding White Rock Visitors Center. In its present configuration, I agree this beautiful tourist facility says ‘NO’ to Los Alamos, loud and clear.

The first big issue is that the facility is expensive:

  • $100,000 annual fee paid by Los Alamos County to LACDC to run WRVC; and 
  • $150,000 paid by Los Alamos County for ‘free shuttles’ to take visitors to Bandelier. 

That is a quarter of a million dollars spent to efficiently shuttle people out of town.

The second issue is that
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Letter To The Editor: CO2 And Global Warming

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By JOEL M. WILLIAMS
Los Alamos
 
On Tuesday, Gov. Brown of California signed a pact with 11 other states and countries to slash greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change.
 
The non-binding agreement pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 to 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 (click here). AUN summit on climate control will take place in Paris later this year.
 
I previously sent a letter to the Los Alamos Daily Post entitled: “Can Mankind Really Expect to Tame Earth’s Climate and Remove It from Cosmic Control?” (click
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Letter To The Editor: No Silver Bullets

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By TJ TAUB
Los Alamos

I am continually amazed at the vehemence and/or mildly condescending voice of those who reject change – e.g. banning plastic bags – rationalizing their position with the argument that since the change doesn’t fix the ENTIRE problem and, according to them, only affects some small-to-infinitesimal portion of a problem, we should not make ANY change.  

Although I admit it took a bit of time to remember to take the reusable bags into the store, most of us ARE trainable. And unlike an assertion that people don’t make enough use of reusable bags, for example Read More

Letter To The Editor: Still Hundreds Of Plants For Sale

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By LOS ALAMOS GARDEN CLUB
Los Alamos
 
Dear Los Alamos Daily Post Editor, thank you so much for covering the details of The Los Alamos Garden Club Spring Plant Sale held last Saturday. 
 
With your help, the sale was a success even without the cooperation of the weather. The stalwart souls of Los Alamos braved wind, rain and even a little snow to come out and support our efforts. 
 
As a consequence of Mother Nature, we still have a few hundred plants left and so will be offering them for sale again from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday, May
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Letter To The Editor: Should Have A Say In Our Town

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By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos

The Comprehensive Plan was completed in 1987. By now even the updates are outdated. An effort to rewrite the whole plan in the early 2000’s produced only a Vision Statement and Policy Plan, adopted in 2005, that is now cited by the Community and Economic Development Department (CEDD) as “the Comprehensive Plan.”

This is 19 pages of aspirational platitudes that are so vague and ambiguous that they are useless to anyone attempting to satisfy the requirements of applications for permits and rezoning, or anyone attempting to defend their neighborhood against one of Read More

Letter To The Editor: Where Is Los Alamos!

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By COLLEEN HANLON
Los Alamos
 
Where is Los Alamos? It wasn’t in the New Mexico Summer Guide published in the Albuquerque Journal this past week.
The only mention was a line item in the events calendar for our Friday night concerts. I kept looking and looking, but to no avail.
Perhaps we’re spending too much money hiring out-of-town consultants to “advise” us on how to attract people to Los Alamos, and we’ve missed a perfect opportunity, right under our noses.
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