Letter to the Editor: Remember White Rock Smith’s
By JANET SANDER With all the letters to the editor about the new Smith’s Marketplace, I am surprised that no one has written in support of the White Rock Smith’s.
It would be a huge loss to White Rock if we didn’t have that store. And I fear that we won’t have it if we don’t support it. Yes, it is smaller and less glitzy than the Marketplace, but it has served the majority of our grocery needs for a long time.
It is nice to have the Marketplace to fill the gaps that the smaller Smith’s can’t, but please, White Rock, give your Smith’s the
TALES OF OUR TIMES: Walls Have Ways to Merge Opinions
Digging into green issues yields insights that apply remarkably far afield. The ideas encompass war and even atomic bombs.
The panel discussion is fertile ground to begin digging. I do not mean a panel with a lineup of speakers all for one side. I mean a panel of contrasting viewpoints.
The dynamic is very different from that of a speech, a talk show, a slogan, a public rally or a rebuttal in next week’s newspaper. All these customs highlight someone’s half of the story.
By contrast, a panel Read More
Reflections On Hope And End-Of-Life Care
By CYNTHIA GOLDBLATT, LPCC, MSW, Ph.D.Hospice is actually about life and helping dying persons to live as fully as they wish until their last moment of life rather than curing the patient’s disease.
There are ways to ease pain and make life better for people who are dying and for their loved ones who are caring for them. It is called Palliative Care. Palliative care means taking care of the whole person—body, mind, spirit—heart and soul– with the goal of alleviating symptoms when curative treatments are no longer working or the patient no Read More
Letter to the Editor: Trouble’s A Brewing Due To New Starbucks Installment
By DRAKE TERRILLBeing an active Starbucks gold cardholder and shopping at Smiths on a regular basis, I was more than happy to see the new Smiths included my favorite coffee shop. Later did I come to find that the new Starbucks installment was not only brewing more coffee, but also brewing more trouble in our small, fragile community.
Due to the amount of new untrained baristas employed at the location, the drinks will be worse than expected. This will deter customers from buying anything, ultimately earning Starbucks less money. The sudden decrease of sales at Starbucks could force
Letter to the Editor: Too Many Churches & Too Much Road Construction in Los Alamos
By AKIRA KAWANO In this past week, I have been wondering about the abundant amounts of money Los Alamos has. As a resident living here for a few years, I have been through numerous construction sites. In the Topper Review a few years ago, they did a parody song about how every day there was at least one construction sight.
I think that these so-called constructions on the road, are unnecessary. The County has been working on these roads for at least four or more years, yet still having to work on the same road plenty of times until the construction workers are satisfied. Some residents have Read More
How the Hen House Turns: Time to Go Sleeping
How the Hen House Turns:In winter, at night, a flashlight beam is enough to guide the little ducks to the warm Hen House. Lucy goose doesn’t object when they dash through the door and between her legs—probably because she raised them. Lucy gives the chicken some trouble in summer, but Gwendolyn has learned to avoid Lucy, and the hen hops up onto the roost when the goose is being bossy.
Lucy and Bobbi, the geese, also follow the beam of light into the Hen House for the night. They are the only ones who stay up outside until I get Read More
More Power For New Mexico
New Mexico’s solar industry is ready to provide the state with clean power and jobs, while reducing the industrial pollution that is exacerbating droughts, causing health impacts and threatening the local economy. Now, our state’s abundant solar potential is becoming all the more important as the Obama Administration issues new public health protections limiting carbon pollution from power plants.
On July 29, hundreds of people will flock to Denver to attend a Western regional hearing on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, our nation’s first Read More
