Carol A. Clark

By VERNON KERR

Please do not enact a plastic bag ban or tax on each bag.

There is no evidence that plastic bags are a problem in Los Alamos. In fact if the ban or tax is enacted, this would be a sign to prospective new businesses that Los Alamos is not a business friendly community. If the tax is enacted and the stated proposal to return the monies to the merchant becomes law there will be a law suit vis a vis the anti donation clause in the Constitution.

The ban will become a political campaign issue in 2016. The council has already passed one tax increase this year and another is Read More

By NERSES H. KRIKORIAN
Los Alamos

To the Council of the County of Los Alamos:

As an active participant in the Charter Commission charged with writing the Los Alamos Charter, which was approved by the voters in 1968, it is worthwhile to relate some of the thinking that took place in writing the original document.

Prior to the writing of the Charter, an approved amendment to the New Mexico Constitution allowed the formation of Los Alamos as an “H Class” County with the intent to unify county and municipal functions. This created a unique task for a new organizational and management structure Read More

By JACQUELINE KROHN, M.D., MPH

In two chilling and gruesome videos, Planned Parenthood officials casually discuss harvesting and selling body parts from 17 to 18 week aborted babies (and 24 weeks, which are viable babies outside of the womb). 

Dr. Deborah Nucatola discusses how to obtain the organs; “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that I’m not going to crush that part. I’m gonna basically crush below. I’m gonna crush above and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact”. “Most of the other stuff can come out intact” [except the head]. Mary Gatter Read More