Opinion

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Three Aspects To Music

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By RICHARD HANNEMANN
Los Alamos
 
There are three aspects to music. Most people would say “melody, harmony and rhythm”, which is true enough. But there are three broader aspects, each containing melody, harmony and rhythm, which often get overlooked.
 
First is what is on the page. This would be what you play. It is essentially just instructions “put your fingers here and make the sounds (either by plucking, bowing, or blowing).” The simplest form of this doesn’t even involve a page―it is one person showing another where to put the fingers
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Letter To The Editor: Regarding ‘Words Do Matter’

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By BILL MCKERLEY, Chairman
Los Alamos Republican Party

I read Nancy Schick’s letter “Words Do Matter” in the Los Alamos Daily Post (May 3, 2015) with some interest.

She is correct, of course, words do matter. However, her egregious attack on the Republican Party and limiting the word “enslave” to a terrible period in American history seem to be an attempt to arouse emotion and to smear (“Republicans are racist.”) rather than engage.

The dictionary definition of “enslave” is “to reduce to or as if to slavery: subjugate,” and it is often used by the media when bloviating about the “oppression” of Read More

Letter To The Editor: Regarding Atomic Heritage Foundation Meeting With Japanese Mayors

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By DAVID CARROLL
Los Alamos

So just why did members of the Atomic Heritage Foundation meet with the Japanese mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 

Unless they apologized for the mass murder of 10 million Chinese, Indo-Chinese, Filipinos, and Indonesians (called by historians “the Asian Holocaust”), the Japanese have no position to tell us how to interpret the dropping of the atomic bombs; likewise, the AHF has no right or position to represent Los Alamos and the National Park Service and their effort to do so is inappropriate. 

Anyone remember the rape of Nanjing, the Read More

Letter To The Editor: Thank You Wonderful Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade Aspen Elementary School Teachers!

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By Aspen PTO
 
 
The Aspen PTO would like to thank the wonderful Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade teachers of Aspen Elementary School this Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8):
 
  • Megan Jackson;
  • Luci Bowman;
  • Raeann Harp;
  • Sharon Allen;
  • Sheri Davis;
  • Elisa Ibarra-Garrett;
  • Brittney Vollans;
  • Janet White; Joanna Manard;
  • Dianne Hendricks;
  • Diana Lynn Koeth; and
  • Michelle Carrara.
 
These 12 teachers have more than 200 years of combined teaching experience (about 250,000 combined hours working directly with children in the classroom). Most of them have Master’s
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Letter To The Editor: Thank You Outstanding 4th, 5th, 6th Grade Aspen Elementary School Teachers!

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By Aspen PTO

The Aspen PTO would like to thank the outstanding 4th, 5th and 6th grade teachers of Aspen Elementary School this Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8):

  • Amy Gilbert;
  • Ronda Harmon;
  • Tammy Moore;
  • Stacy Martens;
  • Jennifer Diesburg-Lathrop;
  • Jenny Gallegos;
  • Heather Coy;
  • Ivanna Austell; and
  • Chelly Young.

These nine teachers have more than 160 years of combined teaching experience (more than 200,000 combined hours working directly with children in the classroom) and have educated and inspired from 180-520 students each. 

Most of them have a Master’s Degree in education and/or Read More

Letter To The Editor: Can Mankind Really Expect To Tame Earth’s Climate And Remove It From Cosmic Control?

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By JOEL WILLIAMS
Los Alamos

“A whopping 97 percent of all scientists agree that human activity is causing our climate to change” (see letter). But only 40 percent of all Americans believe this because of “pseudo scientists” and special interests.

Cleaning up the environment to make life livable is one thing: for example, cleaning up the air in steel mill towns and that emitted from uncontrolled, coal-fired, electrical generating stations and the water in streams in mining areas, etc. Controlling the climate of the earth is a bit “bigger” task!  Read More

Letter To The Editor: Words Do Matter

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By NANCY SCHICK
McMinnville, Ore.
(Former LAPS Teacher)

Words matter.

In our public and personal discourse, there are some words that must be used only with the utmost care. One is “Nazi.” Another is “slavery.” Both refer to horrific historic chapters in human history that called into question our humanity.

Unfortunately, we sometimes carelessly inject these words into our conversations in reference to something else entirely. By corrupting the meanings of these words, we disrespect those who suffered under fascism and slavery.

I read that the Los Alamos Republican Party has recently elected Read More

Pay A Visit To ‘Avenue Q’ … It’s Well Worth The Trip

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Trekkie Monster (Zack Baker) and some of the cast of Avenue Q. Photo by Larry Gibbons
 
The Bad Idea Bears (Tyrell Cummings, Gwen Lewis) torture Princeton (Connor Schultz). Photo by Larry Gibbons
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

What to say about a raunchy, silly, sappy musical in which half the characters are puppets? I loved it. “Avenue Q” opened Friday at Los Alamos Little Theater to raucous laughter and hoots of delight.

The production is a collaboration between LALT and the Dixon Community Players and many of the fine cast will be new to the Los Alamos audience.

The production Read More

Letter To The Editor: Are We Getting Civics In Schools?

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By VERNON KERR
Los Alamos

The column by Cal Thomas in Wednesday’s April 22 edition of the Journal highlights a growing problem with our citizenry in understanding and living with our form of government.

Civics is no longer a must for public school students. In the 1940’s “Civics” was a semester course in New Mexico.

Somewhere along the line civics as a discrete separate course was dropped and the topic was meshed with social studies where one thirteenth of it was incorporated in each class from kindergarten through 12th grade. (See New Mexico Public Education Department Read More

Letter To The Editor: Victims But No Victimizers

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

During the last few months, we have seen many protests over the death of suspects at the hands of police. The protesters claim the rights of the suspects were violated. Some claim the suspects were murdered by the police.

We have heard calls to the defense of the police, that they too are often victims, placed in situations of peril as they seek to carry out their mission of defending the peace, a mission bestowed upon them by we the people.

We have also heard that many police departments enforce the laws unequally, that minorities are unfairly targeted, arrested, convicted, Read More