By MORRIS PONGRATZOnly 160 folks have voted in the school board election.
If you need more information about the school board candidates, come to the high school speech theater at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 29 for the LAPS Foundation’s School Board Candidate Forum. Read More
By DAVID CARROLLIn a recent letter to the Los Alamos Daily Post, Tazler Smith suggests we “take time to learn about Scouting”.
I have and still don’t like what I see. By continuing their policy of excluding gay and lesbian adults in the ranks of scouting leadership, the Boy Scouts of America teach their youth membership discrimination, intolerance and hypocrisy.
This past week the California Supreme Court voted to remove an exception to a ban on membership in discriminatory organizations, which means California judges may no longer have any relationship with Read More
By JODY BENSONLet’s Ban the single-use plastic shopping bag in Los Alamos.
When I was four, we lived on a farm in Maryland. One day, in a weedy pasture where sunflowers grew higher than my head to hide the trash that the locals threw there, and through which ran a drain that at the time seemed to me a stream, I found in that drain a discarded empty bottle of Halo shampoo out of which spewed bubbles.
I thought those bubbles were beautiful as they caught, prismed and sparkly, in the weeds at the side of the seep. I called my dad. “Look! Look! See how pretty?” But he came and stopped me from picking Read More
By GLENN MICHELI just missed all the lights on Trinity on my way home from Los Alamos Home Improvement. Really? This is the best we can do?
People, we live in LOS ALAMOS, widely regarded as overflowing with intelligent people.
I for one find traversing Trinity embarrassing. Hanlon’s razor says, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”, so maybe we ought to form up a “traffic light committee” to assist, because by my lights we’re in the dark. Read More
By TAZLER SMITH
Boy Scout Troop 122
Los Alamos
My name is Tazler Smith and I’m a Boy Scout in Troop 122 in Los Alamos. I’m writing this letter to encourage the community to support and learn about scouting.
I first became involved with scouts when I was in first grade and became a Tiger Cub with Pack 22. I stayed in Cub Scouts until February of my fifth grade year, when I crossed over into Boy Scouts at our Blue & Gold
ceremony. Cub Scouts was a great experience for me, and I hope parents with kids in grade school consider joining Cub Scouts with their boys.
I’m still involved in Boy Scouts three years later Read More
School Board Dist. 3 candidate Nan Holmes with her family. Courtesy photoHello Los Alamos:
I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and to invite community members to join me in conversations about our schools.
For those who don’t know me, I am Nan Holmes, Los Alamos resident of 17 years. I was appointed to the School Board in September 2014 and I am now running to retain my seat as the District 3 representative.
As a parent with children in the Los Alamos Schools, I am excited to have a voice in this system. My son started at Mountain Elementary Read More
By KEVIN HENDERSON
Los Alamos
New Year’s resolutions came again this year—less weight, less stress, less Internet. But resolutions are easy to break. They are not born from tradition. They seek to break from it: from old and unproductive habits that specialize in avoiding adversity. If you suddenly wish to reform yourself consider, as motivation, an individual’s effort to reform something much greater than himself. Raif Badawi stands to endure months of physical punishment for what we call freedom of speech.
Since his floggings began I have swum, once a week, 50 laps of butterfly—one Read More
EVA A. LYMONI am writing about the proposed Child Abuse Legislation that will punish people who kill children with life in prison.
I am concerned that while legislation like this is, I am sure, popular and gives the impression that something is being done, we need is to fix the problem before it reaches the point a child is dead. Possibly give more training to police and first responders to be able to identify and correctly respond to child abuse.
Possibly improve communications between schools, New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department and police.
Putting people in jail after Read More
By MICHAEL DI ROSA, CandidateIn Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech, President Obama raised the prospect of eliminating tuition for qualifying students enrolled at one of the more than 1,000 public community colleges across the Country.
Debates over such a plan’s fiscal chances and mechanics of delivery are certain but shouldn’t detract from the larger point that community colleges are in the news and recognized at the highest political levels as essential to national competitiveness.
A recent report by the New Mexico Legislative Finance Read More
By HEATHER HUGHESIn response to the offensive remark made by New Mexico Airlines CEO Greg Kahlstorf in the story published Sunday in the Los Alamos Daily Post:
How dare Kahlstorf call Los Alamos a “s—hole”. I understand the frustrations that could arise from a contract termination; however, his inability to remain professional speaks volumes about how he conducts business. Kahlstorf further proved with his comments that Los Alamos County made the correct decision terminating their contract with New Mexico Airlines.
To insult an entire hard-working community Read More