Letters to the Editor

By RICHARD NEBEL
Los Alamos

Response To Julia Robins Op-Ed (link).

My recollection is that gas turbines for generating electricity are about 49% efficient.

The best your fuel cell solution could possibly do is reduce carbon-dioxide production by a factor of 2.

Would you mind clarifying that?

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By LYNN HANRAHAN
Los Alamos

If men had babies our local maternity department would not be on the chopping block. When I read this a few days ago my first thought was just have the babies at home. My daughters were born over on Walnut Canyon in the living room. Then I remembered had it not been for the services available at LAMC’s delivery room my oldest and I might never had made it that far.

We’re heading up to Durango this weekend for a bike race.  It’s our first mother/son adventure in years. I am glad we are alive to enjoy it.

It is Primary season. Showing up matters. Who we vote for matters. All the kids have Read More

By JOHN ROBERTS
Los Alamos

It’s time to stop wasting money and energy on the geese at the pond. There are too many people around them, especially during the concerts, that they’re probably traumatized from.

I’ve seen multiple kids harass and throw stuff at them, people constantly trying to touch them, then be chased and bitten by them. I’ve seen multiple people hit and kick them once they start being chased. Plus, there is geese crap everywhere!

Send the last goose somewhere calmer and safer from the pond. The idea is great to have them, but it’s just not worth terrorizing and abusing a couple of birds. Read More

By CHRIS JORDAN
Los Alamos

I just found out that Immaculate Auto Total Car Care closed last month, since their landlord sold their building at 99 DP Road.

Started by CEO Barbara Jones, Immaculate Auto had been open for six years. I’ve taken my car there for about the last three years and they provided good service. 

They will be missed. Read More

By KARYL ANN ARMBRUSTER
Los Aamos

It is a little known fact, but the vast power and autonomy of the State Land Office truly rest in the decisions that come before the land commissioner every day.  The decisions rest solely on the discretion of the land commissioner and their ability to resist undue pressure and fear mongering from special interests.

Decisions that will directly impact the future of responsible development and revenue in our state. Decisions that certainly have input and recommendations from land office experts, but that are ultimately at the sole discretion of the land commissioner.  Read More

By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Board of Public Utilities

Tom Tierney’s thoughtful op-ed piece “When the Power Goes Out, Natural Gas Still Works” (https://ladailypost.com/op-ed-when-the-power-goes-out-natural-gas-still-works/) contains many valid points. But it leaves out two large ones that should also be considered.

Gas stoves can be lit with a match. Gas furnaces and boilers have electric control systems and use electric fans, blowers or pumps to distribute the heated air or water. Most gas water heaters also have electric control systems. Gas clothes dryers need electricity to turn the Read More

By HARRY MONTOYA
Nambé

Recently, it came to my attention that New Mexico’s US senators Heinrich and Lujan have introduced a bill called the “Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act.”

If adopted, the plan would eliminate a $1,700 credit for donations made to provide tax credits for “school choice” and also tutoring and special education services, educational therapies, and online materials for children nationwide benefiting traditional, charter, and schools of choice.

Heinrich and Lujan are attempting to kill the best opportunity for New Mexico children to see an improvement in educational Read More

Girl Scouts Nora and Cece with Pollyanna statue outside of Mesa Public Library. Courtesy photo

By NORA and CECE
Los Alamos Girl Scouts

Becky was a normal 12-year-old girl with lots of cheerfulness, talents, and interests. She also played music, she did swimming, and was in Girl Scouts, which is what we want to do, now and today. But sadly, Becky was hit by a car and killed coming home from piano lessons in 1988.

She died from her injuries, which worries us because of how that could have been anyone. But the county made improvements to the road to make it safe. After Becky was hit, they took action, they Read More

By MICHAEL SMITH 
Los Alamos

I personally don’t care if we have a sheriff or not, but I feel there are some misconceptions going around about the sheriff’s office. If we’re going to make a decision about this it should be based on accurate information.

First, the assertion has been made that the sheriff’s office is required by the state constitution under Article X Section 2. While that is true for most counties, Los Alamos has an exception because it is an incorporated county under Article X Section 5. This allows us to operate under a county charter, which is where the Read More

By SARA and BRIAN SCOTT
Los Alamos

We support David Izraelevitz for the position of Los Alamos County Sheriff in the upcoming primary and general elections.  We have known David for over a decade, having served with him on multiple community service organizations. 

David cares deeply about our community, has in-depth knowledge of our government, and a high level of integrity and transparency. 

We support his idea of putting the question of whether having a Sheriff’s office in Los Alamos County is still needed to the community for a vote in 2028.

Over the last decade, the primary role of Sheriff Read More

By MIKE and KYLE WHEELER 
Former Los Alamos County Councilors

We support David Izraelevitz for Sheriff. We have known David for quite a few years now. He has served 11 years on the council (he was appointed to fill a vacant position, then was elected twice to four-year terms). As former county councilors, we know what a commitment to the community that is. In addition, he was a founding member of the Los Alamos Community Foundation, which has turned into a force for good in our little town, surpassing our expectations in many positive ways. He is a volunteer in numerous non-profits and his dedication Read More

By MORRIS PONGRATZ
Former County Councilor

I am writing to endorse my friend, David Izraelevitz, for election to Sheriff.

I have known David for many, many years and I even served with him on the county council.

David has been a real leader in our community. Besides his many years of service on the council, he was a founder of the Los Alamos Community Foundation, and he served on the Charter Review Committee.

David is a bright, kind, and generous person.

We are fortunate that he has volunteered to renew his service to Los Alamos County!

Please vote for David Izraelevitz for Sheriff! Read More

By DAVID HAMPTON
Member, LACM 

My friends, our Co-op needs your help! Last year sales ran at $60k/week, which is enough to sustain, this year we’re running only $50k/week and will close in June without improvement.

If you had problems in the past, please check us out again. Our selection is better, produce is better, prices are more competitive, and it’s only 2 minutes farther away from our downtown than the other alternatives. AND…there is rarely a line! 

Also, did you know that you can now donate to the Co-op through a 501c3 and deduct your donation on next year’s taxes? Read More

By ADELAIDE JACOBSON
White Rock

The children and adults of Los Alamos will be celebrating our 30th annual Kite Festival this weekend. The following is a poem written by Refaat Alareer (1979-2023), an acclaimed Palestinian professor and poet who, in a targeted killing by the Israeli military, was killed in December 2023, along with his brother, sister, and four nephews.

IF I MUST DIE

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who Read More

By WILLIAM C. MEAD
Los Alamos

The Op/Ed by Connor Dermody on April 19 misinterprets the electricity rate information given on the Los Alamos County Public Utilities website.

According to the County website, the single rate usage price, as of July 1, 2026, will be $0.151 per kWh until a time-dependent rate structure is implemented.

The planned time-dependent rate structure, after the dual-rate pricing is implemented, the rates will be $0.11 per kWh from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m. and $0.197 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Read More

By RICK NEBEL
Los Alamos

This is a response to the recent letter by Gorbin Lars about Eastern New Mexico joining Texas (link). The reality is that this isn’t a fight about culture, it’s a fight about money. New Mexico treats the “oil patch” counties as its cash cow. They supply over half of the revenue to the state of New Mexico and It’s hardly any wonder that they resent that. They only get a tiny fraction of that cash in return to spend in Eastern NM. 

However, I don’t think that sending Eastern NM to Texas is the best solution. A better solution is for New Mexico to annex all of West Texas from the present Read More

By BILL CABRAL
Los Alamos

I would like to clear up some confusion about who owns the conduits in the streets within the Quemazon Community. Hello my name is Bill Cabral and I previously owned the “Los Alamos Community Network”. I originally started the network from my computer store “Bill’s Computer Shop” in the “Central Park Square” shopping center. I had run fiber optic cable around the shopping center to the other businesses in the steam tunnels below Central Park Square.

I was approached by Sid Singer and the Watermans around Spring 2000 to put the same fiber in their Quemazon Development that Read More

By GORBIN LARS
Los Alamos

In 1978 HB25 was introduced on the floor of the New Mexico House of Representatives. The objective of the legislation was to build a moat around New Mexico to “keep them friggen Texans out.” The bill was revenue neutral as funding for the moat construction was to come through confiscation of all Texan ski equipment found in the state.

The bill of course was a joke. It was introduced during the YMCA model legislative session that year. While it was introduced in jest, it illuminated a fascinating and very real difference in perspective depending on where people lived in NM. Read More

By GERALD ANTOS
Los Alamos

Are you out of your stinking minds? $4.15 plus for gas and $5.70 plus for diesel? Never has there been such disparity in the fuel market as there is now! I watch the price of oil and gasoline every day on https://www.oil-price.net/ and you seem to be making the highest amount of profit in all of Los Alamos History!

This war we are fighting is not the reason for the high prices, it’s your greed. The US is self-sufficient in regards to fuel and oil. You’re just forcing your big fat lie on the citizens of Los Alamos! Empty oil tankers flock to US to load up with oil and gas Read More