The Girls I Left Behind
Column by Bonnie J. Gordon
I’m grateful to my friends — my new friends for giving me a chance and my old friends for hanging in there with me all this time.
I’ve done things like lose touch for 30 years until rediscovering someone of Facebook and low and behold, most of these people still want to be friends with me.
Maybe that’s less surprising than that people right here in Los Alamos put up with me on a daily basis.
You don’t get another chance with everyone.
Some people are gone for good, whether by choice or by mischance.
I look back and think, how could this have happened? How could I have Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thanks For Your Support
I would like to thank everyone in Los Alamos who took the time to meet with me over the past few weeks. I truly enjoyed getting to know my neighbors on the hill, and will continue to work with you to address issues of mutual concern as a Rio Arriba County Commissioner.
I anticipate many opportunities to strengthen regional collaboration towards clean water, economic development, educational opportunities, health care and other issues we all care about over the next few years.
Fire and Water: The Las Conchas Fire
Column by State Representative Jim Hall
On June 4 and 5, I attended a conference “Impacts and Lessons Learned from the Las Conchas Fire,” sponsored by New Mexico’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR–http://nmepscor.org/).
NM EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation, and this year their focus was to research the impacts of climate change on Northern New Mexico water resources.
The Las Conchas Fire broadened their focus to the environmental impacts of wildfire–with water and water quality as an important subtext.
The Read More
I = IR + SE Innovation Results from Intelligent Risk Taking and a Supportive Environment
Column by Dr. Harry Hertz
Like many people in many companies and organizations, I have been thinking a lot about innovation lately.
In my case, the effort has been a prelude to thinking about upcoming revisions to the Baldrige Program’s 2013–2014 Criteria for Performance Excellence.
I consulted works by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Clayton Christensen, Jeff Dyer, and Hal Gergersen, as well as numerous articles and blogs.
And my conclusion was that innovation (I) is the result of intelligent risk taking (IR) and a supportive environment (SE): I =IR + SE.
In this column, I will explore each of Read More
Letter to the Editor: What Happens When Mike Grabs George by the Ego?
My friend Mike grabbed me by the ego, put me hard up against reality, and forced me to face my shortcomings.
Conceptually, the dialogue went something like this: “George,” he said, “you guys look like you’re hiding something. You can’t just say that signing those petitions will cost people their right to vote on the Charter Amendments. You have to explain it.”
“But Mike,” I wailed, “this is a complicated issue. I can’t put all that information in a $68 dollar ad or a leditter. People have to do some of their own research.”
“George,” he replied, twisting my rationality, “don’t tell me Read More
Canyon Rim Trail: June 5, 2012
PAJARITO RAMBLER…
Column by Nina Thayer
Bone dry. Los Alamos is bone dry and there are only a few wildflowers to be found.
But I will gladly share a “secret trail” and the wildflowers I found there this morning.
A friend and I are both recovering from recent knee replacement surgery, so we strolled at a leisurely pace the lovely new Canyon Rim Trail that parallels N.M. 502 entering town.
We parked at the eastern trailhead immediately across the road from the Coop. There is no sign but one turns right (south) into the paved parking lot between two yellow and black striped poles. Read More
Letter to the Editor: Why doesn’t LANL patch its potholes?
Dear Editor,
I’m wondering why Los Alamos National Laboratory lets West Road, near the Ice Rink, get so full of potholes?
There are now several in the eastbound lane that I go into the other lane to avoid.
In the past when I’ve called Los Alamos County to report the potholes, I discovered that this is a section of West Road that is the responsibility of the Lab to maintain.
Locating the responsible person at the Lab is always an “interesting” (time-consuming) process.
I can’t understand why the Lab doesn’t do routine checks of West Road to assess the potholes Read More
