Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Underground Powerline Issues

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By Richard Nebel
Los Alamos

This is just a quick answer to the letter by Jody Jones and Dan Cather. (https://ladailypost.comcontent/letter-editor-bury-power-lines-through-or-near-forests).

You cannot ship AC power underground for long distances. The losses are too high. 

AC couples both inductively and capacitively to the surrounding environment. That is why transmission lines sit high above the ground.

My company (Tibbar Technologies) is working on a solution to this problem. If you are interested in this, contact me at r_nebel@hotmail.com and I will be happy Read More

Letter to the Editor: Bury Power Lines Through or Near Forests

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By Jody Jones and Dan Cather
White Rock
 

This is in response to a column by Sherry Robinson that ran July 3, 2013 in the LA Monitor entitled, “Cut hundreds of trees or lose them to fire.”

A third, and more effective option is never mentioned. Bury all power lines through or near the forests. This is a proven method of providing utility service, and its use in forests is long overdue. All the discussions about clearing vegetation, purchasing wider easements and interagency cooperation are fruitless.

Even with 150-foot easements, a downed power line can ignite weeds and fire can Read More

Letter to the Editor: Beware of Considerate Behavior

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By RICHARD NEBEL
Los Alamos

One of the nice things about living in Los Alamos is that we have so many considerate drivers. 

However, this can also cause problems. My understanding is that you yield for pedestrians in crosswalks, but you don’t yield for golf carts. Yet I don’t know how many times I have seen automobiles stop at the crosswalk at the western end of the golf course and wave golf carts out into the middle of Diamond Drive. 

Sooner or later one of these good Samaritans is going to lure a golf cart out into Diamond Drive where they will be T-boned by a car doing 40 (or more) Read More

Letter to the Editor: Many Make July 4 Event Successful

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A crowd of more than 10,000 people settled in at Overlook Park for Thursday’s Kiwanis 4th of July Celebration. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Many Make July 4 Event Successful
By STEVE BOERIGTER         
Kiwanis July 4 Celebration Chair

The 2013 Fourth of July Celebration at Overlook Park was an outstanding success. After the tragedy of the Las Conchas Fire in 2011 and the cancellation of the fireworks display in 2012, we all traded nervous excitement for satisfaction and wonder.

Thankfully, good rains in White Rock in the Read More

Letter to the Editor: Zip Lines Continue to Garner Big Followings Worldwide

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Zip Lines Continue to Garner Big Followings Worldwide
By WILLIAM T. SELLERS
Vice President, Los Alamos Entrepreneurs Network
 
Nearly one year ago, the Los Alamos Daily Post was so gracious as to publish an opinion piece I wrote on how Los Alamos might [try-try-try] to diversify its economy for more tourism, using something my wife and I had seen on a 3.5 month “off the grid” soiree through six countries in Southeast Asia: Zip Lines.
 
It looks like zip lines are becoming increasingly bigger attractions, courtesy of this story (July 5) on Fox News https:////www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/07/05/world-15-craziest-zip-lines/
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Letter to the Editor: Flower Larceny a Shameful Act

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Wanton destruction, apparently by someone taking pleasure in defacing a flower garden at Central Park Square Sunday. Courtesy photo

Flower Larceny

By Philip Kunsberg
Owner, Central Park Square

My predecessor, Tom Netuschil, established a custom at Central Park Square of planting Marigolds, thousands of them, every spring. 

We have continued this tradition. It is an expensive and elaborately organized project, with very precise specifications on planting, mulching, irrigation, etc. Our highly capable maintenance crew, Cesar and Howard, cumulatively spend weeks carefully Read More

Letter to the Editor: Response to Local Editorial Regarding 4th of July Event

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By DON CASPERSON
President, Los Alamos Kiwanis Club

In their editorial comment section of June 23, the Los Alamos Monitor chose to criticize the manner in which the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos is preparing for our annual 4th of July celebration at Overlook Park. 

I would like to respond to that editorial with our own viewpoint, and to remind all of the residents of Los Alamos that a great deal of preparation and planning has already taken place, and much of that has been in consultation with the Los Alamos Fire Department. We take the safety issues associated with a fireworks display very seriously, Read More

Letter to the Editor: Democrats and Republicans Should Address Root of Problem

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By Tom Ribe
Santa Fe

Behold the shallow immigration debate in Congress! Watch as republicans struggle with their racist base. See Democrats embrace a symptoms based “solution” while the root causes go unaddressed like a starving dog in the yard.

Why do millions of people from Central America and Mexico come to the U.S.? Why do they risk their lives in hot deserts and dodge heavily armed drug gangs to get minimum wage jobs in freezing cities full of strangers? In Santa Fe hundreds of immigrants are homeless on our south-side.

Yes, the U.S. is a land of opportunity to an extent, but the flip side is that Read More

Letter to the Editor: Thank You from United Way

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Kristy Ortega 
Executive Director
United Way of Northern New Mexico

Thank you to the 33 agencies who submitted proposals for funding this year. We had $1.2 million requested in this funding process.  

Our Community Action Fund had about $600,000 available to fill these requests.  

Needless to say, the grant committee had some very difficult decisions to make. Thanks again to the 33 agencies who requested funding.

Special thanks to the volunteer grant committee. Kelly Duran, Debbie Gill, John Hofmann, Carolyn Mangeng, Taylor Martinez, Valerie Martinez, Cathe McClard, A.J.

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Letter to the Editor: Los Alamos Firefighters Saved My Home

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By MARIA MOJICA
Los Alamos

Thank you Los Alamos Fire Department for saving my house from burning completely on Nov. 30, 2012.

 
Our emergency reponse team in Los Alamos is absolutely top notch.
 
To all the firefighters including John Kelly and Justin Cassel who were efficient and compassionate, to the dispatcher who took my 911 call, to Mark Hartman the Electrician and Don’s Plumbing for immediate emergency response and to Bernadette Naranjo, stellar agent with Farmer’s Insurance for service beyond the call of duty – I send out warmest thanks.
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