Opinion & Columns

Letter to the Editor: County Planning

By CHRISTINE WEAVER
Los Alamos

Hooray for Los Alamos County project planning office. In a town full of geniuses, it’s amazing that none of them work for the county. We will now have the two major thoroughfares in town under construction at the same time. 

Trinity Drive is “supposed” to be completed by July 16, but when have we ever had a road project completed on time. The Central Avenue project is due to be completed in 60 days … RIGHT! 

In the meantime, when visitors ask directions from one end of town to the other, the response will have to be, “You can’t Read More

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Yang: A Humorous Poke … Into Some Serious Issues

By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Today’s example helps illustrate “how to break the mold,” carefully selected to follow the “Weird Ideas” innovation series.

By now, you might have come across the story about how a group of four Canadian professors at the University of Alberta satirized the high salary of their outgoing university president, (read it here and here). And the group of four rapidly grew into new groups comprising 56 professors. (Quick, how many groups are there?)

In responding to the job opening for the president of the University of Alberta, Kathy Cawsey and three other professors decided Read More

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Life as Experience — In Defense of Who We Are, What We Know and What We Are Capable of Doing

Representing introspection — there is always hidden beauty within each of us, not necessarily requiring the transcendent. Courtesy photo
 
Editor’s note: This piece is a response to Sherry Hardage’s “Solo Traveler: Religion” column (here).
 
By KEVIN HENDERSON
Los Alamos
 
A lifetime does not invent itself. It is made by the aggregate of small, everyday choices — choices that each of us wills into existence. Each morning, you awake and you are, for a moment, your only friend, your best friend. You spend your whole life with yourself and you engage
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Why Drinking Beer Has Nothing to do With the Beer Co-op

By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ

I saw some friends through the crowded “Get the Brewery Open Campaign Party” this past Saturday, and walked over to sit with them for a while. “What do you think of the Imperial Java Stout,” he asked, glancing at my Santa Fe Brewery beer can. I liked it, I said. He was less approving. “It’s so-so. I like beer, and I like coffee, but the two together…” I looked down at my beer and realized for the first time that it was brewed with coffee beans, that it had a hint of coffee taste, that it had Java in the title. I had picked the beer randomly because I have no clue about such matters. Read More

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Letter to the Editor: End of the Road, of the New Start

By LOUISA J. GILANI
Los Alamos
 
A long time ago, I walked by a young man sitting on the sidewalk in front of Smiths. He was obvious homeless. I gave him some money, but I did nothing else. A few days later I read how he was having a smoke where he was sleeping, and this was next to the garbage can, and it caught fire. He died in that fire.

My two small doggies went missing, I was horribly worried a coyote would get them, or they would be hurt in some way. I was so relieved when the Los Alamos Shelter had them. To shelter homeless doggies is a relief, as when left to the elements without a roof over their heads they Read More

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The Stumbling Critic Reviews ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2′

The Stumbing Critic: ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
By STEVEN WALTER

Genre(s): Fantasy, Animated, Dragons, Action, Comedy

Animated films seem to be coming back with a vengeance and success this year. I’ve only been reviewing movies for about a year, but my eyes have always been on the ratings. I’ve stated before that Rotten Tomatoes is my comparison point for my own ratings, a digital wall of other opinions. Never have I seen a non-documentary film reach almost one hundred percent until How to Train Your Dragon hit theaters in 2010.

That movie was alright, but its sequel is far superior. Read More

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