Opinion

Letter To The Editor: Soggy Swimsuits

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By LYNN HANRAHAN
Los Alamos
 
Tossing my bathing suit into the swimsuit dryer the other day at the Aquatic Center I noticed a sign above the machine requesting the highschool freshmen who are swimming there daily for the next few weeks not to use the dryer. They are supposed to bring a baggy instead and stuff their soggy suits in it and lug it around all day. The sign explained that the machine has a tendency to overheat and is rather expensive to repair.
 
A week or two ago there was another sign outside the pool listing schedule changes necessary to accomodate a visiting
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Letter To The Editor: Community Thanks From Love Shouldn’t Hurt Supply drive

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By LOVE SHOULDN’T HURT
Los Alamos Domestic Violence Supply Drive
 
On behalf of the Domestic Violence shelters of northern New Mexico, we would like to thank all who supported the Love Shouldn’t Hurt supply drive. 
 
Thanks to your support, it was a HUGE success! We were able to give each shelter a truckload of items. This drive proved to be an amazing success because of the immense support from individuals in Los Alamos and surrounding areas.
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Shin: Thanks To Our Governor For SB17 Veto!

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By LISA SHIN
Candidate for House District 43

A big thanks to our Governor for her veto of Senate Bill 17! Our Legislature should advocate for policies that bring more job creators to our state, not drive them away. Susana Martinez was right to veto this onerous and flawed tax policy on the #1 job creator in Northern New Mexico. 

Senate Bill 17 failed to meet the following Legislative Finance Committee tax policy principles:

1. Adequacy: Revenue should be adequate to fund needed government services. Our elected representatives lobbied vigorously for SB 17, not to secure funding for necessary Read More

Letter To The Editor: LAHS Swimming And Diving Teams Thank Community

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By LAHS Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving Team
2018 District Swimming and Diving Champions

The Los Alamos High School Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving Team would like to give a huge thank you to all the local businesses who supported the 2018 District Swimming and Diving Championship Meet that was hosted Feb. 2-3 in Los Alamos.

Through the generosity of these local restaurants and businesses we were able to host 11 New Mexico swimming and diving teams at this event and promote the hospitality of our great community. 

Please remember to support these wonderful local businesses as they support

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Letter To The Editor: Overdue Shout Out

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By ALLIE THOMPSON
White Rock

This is an overdue shout out about Los Alamos County employee (I’m sorry, I don’t have his title) Larry Valdez and Joseph from the solid waste department.

We received a “nuisance” notification about a brush pile awaiting pickup. When I explained that I had called and asked if there had been a pickup on our street and was informed that it hadn’t been done yet and I could put the pile out, Mr. Valdez reassured me that they would work with us on the matter, not to worry, and to contact the solid waste department.

Joseph from solid waste returned my call and was also so very helpful. Read More

Letter To The Editor: Jeorg On The Bureaucracy

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Dr. T. DOUGLAS REILLY
Los Alamos

I spent almost 3 years on a Change of Station at DOE in Washington, DC. While there I worked as much with the State Department and other agencies related to nonproliferation and arms control. I offer this as a reply to Mr. Mead’s excellent opinion piece in Thursday’s Los Alamos Daily Post (link).

While there I had several conversations and meals with a former LANL colleague who’d worked many years in government and was then the Chief Scientist-Deputy Director of the On Site Inspection Agency (OSIA). I remember well a conversation regarding the Read More

Reforming The Lottery: Our Voices Matter

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Think New Mexico News:
 
The Lottery Scholarship went through quite the journey this past legislative session and provided a lesson in negotiation for student leaders of ASNNMC and other New Mexico universities.
 
In 2008, the New Mexico legislature passed a law that guaranteed at least 30 percent of lottery revenues to college scholarships. Prior to that law, the Lottery was only delivering about 23 percent of all their revenues to scholarships. For the past three years the Lottery and lobbyists for the multinational gaming companies that contract with the Lottery have unsuccessfully
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Letter To The Editor: Fighting For Gun Sense

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By STEPHANIE NAKLEH
Los Alamos

When it comes to gun violence, we can hardly keep up with the news. One deadly shooting follows another, and there’s no appetite for change in our GOP-led, NRA-bought Congress.

But in all that bad news, I want to focus on our local representatives who are fighting for gun sense. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich have publicly stood up to the NRA’s dangerous priority legislation known as “Concealed Carry Reciprocity”, which would gut state gun laws, forcing New Mexico to accept the concealed-carry standards of every other state—making it easy Read More

Letter To The Editor: Common Sense?

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By ROBERT VISEL
Los Alamos

No sooner do we hear about the school shooting in Florida then the Liberals start playing the “Blame Game” and gun control groups scream for “Common Sense” gun laws.

“Common Sense gun laws”. That’s all you anti-gun politicians and gun control fanatics ever say you want.

Just what is your definition of “Common Sense”?

To me “Common Sense” is if you don’t know anything about guns don’t try to be an authority when talking about them or trying to pass laws restricting them. The “AR” in the AR-15 does NOT mean Assault Rifle it stands for “Arma Lite” and it is NOT a “Machine Gun”. So Read More