By Concerned Parent
By KHALIL J. SPENCERI saw yet another letter in the Los Alamos Daily Post where it looks like folks are still shouting past each other. So here goes. First, some caveats.
1. I don’t like the idea of piling more laws on people, but gun culture has changed. More households owned guns when I was young, but we didn’t have this “me too” movement of mass shootings. Plus, to borrow an analysis from Wake Forest University’s David Yamane, Gun Culture 1.0 was about gunsport and hunting. Gun Culture 2.0 is about self defense, i.e., shooting people. I think that transition Read More
By Linda vanDyckI have read your entire letter (Robert Visel) and would like to address your points one-by-one.
The gun problem in this country is both the user AND the gun. Without the gun, the user cannot do anywhere near the damage that he/she can do with the gun … it’s the combination that’s deadly.
Guns haven’t changed???? At the time the second amendment was written, guns fired one shot then had to be cumbersomely reloaded. No one at that time could possibly have conceived the weapons that are available today.
Today’s kids have become spoiled brats? There have always Read More
By ROBERT VISEL
By LINDA DALY June is national Pride month! The Family YMCA has partnered with Los Alamos Pride and other groups and individuals who are driven by the shared commitment to ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect.
At the Y, we use this time to celebrate and support our LGBTQ+ community, members and staff. We honor those who have done the hard work for equity.
We remember the cruelty and inhumanity that has been and is perpetrated against our LGBTQ+ family. And most of all we honor those who are living life as their authentic selves and those who are on the path Read More
Rev. John Cullinan
Unitarian Church of Los Alamos
Twenty-five years ago, to be out as a LGBTQ+ person in Los Alamos carried risks beyond what most people might experience across the rest of the country. In addition to derision, discrimination, and outright violence, in Los Alamos being out meant risking your security clearance – and your livelihood.
It was not until 1995, when President Clinton signed Executive Order 12968, that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was barred in making decisions regarding who has access to classified information. But worries about coming out Read More
By LAURA MULLANEThis week, 75 parents, students, and recent graduates of the Los Alamos Public School system sent a letter to the superintendent and school board expressing concern that the dress codes at the individual schools as they are currently written and enforced unfairly target girls with the following negative consequences:
By ANNA DILLANE
By STEPHANIE GARCIA RICHARDI’d like to take this time to thank our Los Alamos County Council for declaring the second week of June the first ever Los Alamos Pride Week!
Our community has always, when faced with discrimination whether sexual or marriage equality, stood up on the right side.
I invite every Los Alamosan to join us for the Pride Festival on June 15 at Fuller Lodge, to celebrate our LGBTQ+ community members and show the world that Los Alamos is a place of love and acceptance of all people.
By RANDALL RYTI