Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Legislature Should Focus On Doing Good For New Mexico Working Families

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By RYAN ROSS, Teacher
Piñon Elementary, White Rock

As a teacher, New Mexico families trust me with our state’s most precious resource: their children. Out-of-state corporate billionaires don’t see them as our nation’s future, they tend to see them as profit machines.

Right-to-work laws now being considered by New Mexico legislators are destructive, unnecessary, and a distraction. They threaten to take away my voice. I didn’t enter the teaching profession to work at a for-profit corporate education machine, I signed up to work for New Mexico’s kids.  

Today, I have a voice allowing Read More

Letter to the Editor: Won’t Be Held Hostage

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By STEVE ABELN
Los Alamos

We are currently looking for investment property and have discovered that the only county in the U.S. so far that does not give information on cost, sales and history is Los Alamos. 

Our local realtors are holding us hostage from what is public information across the U.S.

I personally will boycott them and do my own work. Read More

Letter to the Editor: Domenici Says Right-To-Work Bill Good For New Mexico

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By PETE DOMENICI
Retired U.S. Senator, R-N.M.

I am writing in response to those who oppose the proposed right to work legislation. While I respect those who oppose, they are flat out wrong on this issue. 

The truth is, passing right-to-work legislation would be good for New Mexico’s workers and our economy. But unfortunately, some politicians are trying to turn this into a partisan battle even though a majority of Americans support it.

It’s not hard to see why.

At the heart of this issue is the freedom of choice. In New Mexico, our workers can be forced to join a union or financially contribute

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Fisher: Lottery Bill Is A Bad Gamble For Students

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By KRISTINA FISHER, Associate Director
Think New Mexico

Responsible parents would never gamble with their child’s college savings account. Yet that is precisely what the New Mexico Lottery is proposing to do with the Lottery Scholarship, which  serves as the college fund for many New Mexico students from low and middle income families.

The Lottery is attempting to pass Senate Bill 355, which would eliminate the requirement that a minimum of 30 percent of lottery revenues be dedicated to the scholarship fund. This requirement was enacted in 2007, based on a proposal by Think New Mexico. Read More

Letter to the Editor: Opposed To Preventable Disasters

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Letter to the Editor: I’ll Pass On Being Part Of Any Herd

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ERICA WISSINGER
Los Alamos

To all those who think a lack of 322 vaccinations is risky, please stay off the roads then, because driving on the roads is risky, and I worry about your safety.  

I do have the right not to get vaccinated and to concurrently attend public spaces, just like you have the right to coddle your fragility and not attend public spaces.

Life itself is a big risk. Perhaps extremely risk-averse individuals are not up to the task. But, keep mooing as part of any herd you like. I’ll pass on being part of any herd.
 
I understand that people will respond to this with the rationale
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Letter to the Editor: ‘Your Right To Swing Your Fist Ends At My Face’

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BY JESSIE GAUNTT
Los Alamos

In reply to Erica and Gerald,

While having two neurons to rub together is indeed a mathematical improvement on having one or none, those of us graced with the normal billions generally rub them together by doing our homework when making major decisions in areas where we have no expertise. I learned how vaccines work when I was in high school; I will admit it is possible the University of California does not require elementary human biology, and certainly acknowledge that getting anyone of any age to do homework is very difficult.

 

****ing vaccines, how do they work?
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Letter to the Editor: It’s About Freedom Of Choice

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BY GERALD ANTOS
LAHS Class of 72

In response to Bruce Blevins letter about immunizations, the issue isn’t that we have gone Ignorant nor non-scientific, it’s about freedom of choice and not allowing ourselves to be shamed into doing something that is known to be dangerous and risky at best.

The following URL along with a list of others too long for any newspaper to print give the most compelling information on how badly the CDC has lied to us over the years: https:////healthimpactnews.com/2015/u-s-media-blackout-italian-courts-rule-vaccines-cause-autism/

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Letter to the Editor: I Watched My Daughter Die

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By AMBER BAUMBACH
Los Alamos

I watched my daughter die.

She died from cancer, not from measles, but I feel compelled to jump in to the vaccination discussion.

She was diagnosed as an infant and because of chemotherapy treatments she was not able to receive vaccinations for a long period of time. There were no outbreaks of nearly eradicated diseases at the time, but we still worried. 

The chemo treatments completely knocked out her white blood cells (the ones that fight off diseases), and had she contracted measles, or the flu, or any number of diseases, she would have landed back in the

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Letter to the Editor: Discussion About Vaccines Isn’t A Simple One

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By EVAN ROSE
Los Alamos
 
It would be nice if the discussion about vaccines was simple, but it is not.
 
Our son was vaccinated for pertussis as an infant and had a severe reaction that included inflammation of the brain. We found that there were problems with this circa-1986 whole-cell vaccine; and there were reports that some American doctors were using a Japanese acellular pertussis vaccine for their own children. We avoided this one vaccine for both our sons.
 
I have been assured by doctors that problems with the American pertussis vaccine have been solved. Nevertheless, my
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