By ROBERT PELAKIt is 7 p.m. on a Tuesday evening and the trash bins line my street still holding their precious contents.
Looks like our side of the street was forgotten again even though the bins on the other side were emptied. This is getting to be a regular occurrence – every month or two either the trash or recyclables are not collected.
Is this happening to anyone else?
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By ASHLEY MAMULADear Los Alamos County Councilors,
First I would like to say that while I am a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission, I do not intend to represent the views of the commission.
I wholeheartedly support the Open Space Management Plan and I am thankful to the county and community members who have devoted so much time and effort to this endeavor.
Many of us want great things for our town: a vibrant downtown, restaurants, more shopping, nicer houses … but our greatest asset is something we can’t build or develop. It is, however, something we really need to make sure Read More
By TINA SIBBITT
Los Alamos
To the Los Alamos County Council:
I was able to listen to most of [February]’s presentation by Craig Martin and company to Council of the proposed Los Alamos County Open Space Management Plan.
I wholeheartedly support the Plan and thank Craig Martin and the team for their tremendous work, research, blood, sweat and tears that obviously have gone into this project! I am sure that the Plan will undergo further revisions and proposals.
Here are the points that sprang out at me from the discussion and questions:
The Plan performs the critical function of addressing Read More
Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Karin Ebey. Courtesy photoLos Alamos county should incorporate the bag ban because plastic is drastically affecting our planet in many harmful ways.
Currently carbon dioxide levels are the highest yet, 385 ppm (parts per million). Carbon dioxide reflects infrared rays back to Earth, thus warming our planet.
Plastic bags release a lot of carbon dioxide when they are made. To make one kilogram of plastic it takes six kilograms of carbon dioxide. There are 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile Read More
By RICHARD STUPKA
By LYNN M. FINNEGAN, PresidentAs President of the Board of Directors for Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service, I extend a huge THANK YOU to the Los Alamos community for its support of our Daffodils for Hospice 2015.
We sold 2,300 bunches of daffodils (23,000 flowers!) and raised $16,000!
Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service is the only non-profit provider of home health care and hospice services in Los Alamos and the generous support of our donors has been a major factor in our ability to provide quality services for over 42 years. The Sanctuary at Canyon’s Edge, an inpatient Read More
By DELANEY RIEKE, President 
By JESSE GUILLENAs the United States and Iran work toward a historic nuclear draft accord on the status of Iran’s nuclear program, dozens of US senators have interfered in the negotiations.
Sen.r Tom Cotton and 46 others sent an ill-informed letter to Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, threatening to end any negotiated agreement regarding nuclear weapons once President Obama leaves office. This undermines the President’s ability now, and in the future, to achieve the national security goals of the United States.
It should be the long-term goal of our national Read More
By RICHARD ELLENBERGCongratulations to our Legislators for coming together in our big tent to turn back efforts to hurt workers and children. The session was not fun, and was full of ‘my way or the highway’ tactics.
The Republicans at the last minute amended the bipartisan capital improvement bill, cutting programs for seniors, education and others, to create a highway slush fund for the Governor to dole out to her supporters. At the end, they gave the Senate 20 Read More
By SHEILA ARMSTRONG