Opinion & Columns

Letter To The Editor: It’s Warming And It’s Us … What Are We Willing To Do About It?

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2015

By Dr. CHARLES “CHICK” KELLER

Los Alamos

Joel Williams’ piece is a classic example of people with only a little information trying to convince you that all those professional climate scientists have missed his points even though they are the ones who did all the work he cites.

Consider just one of the unsaid assumptions: that a single ice core at one place near a pole on the Earth is representative of global behavior—not! As for recent temperature fluctuations, Joel’s graph disagrees with every one of the peer-reviewed papers—some 20 of them—in their determinations of global Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: Outdoor Living Spaces

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2015

Outdoor theater. Courtesy photo

Backyard design plan. Courtesy photo

Smart Design With Suzette

By SUZETTE FOX

Outdoor Living Spaces

I love being outdoors this time of year – it’s not too hot, the evenings are cool and let’s face it, our sunsets are the very best in the United States.

Creating a relaxing, stylish outdoor living space can greatly increase the appeal and value of your home while providing an oasis for friends and family to enjoy.

Purpose: How are you going to use your outdoor space? You most likely will need an entertainment area, cooking area and dining area. Some

Pastor Granillo: Fashionable Christians

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2015

By Pastor Raul Granillo

Los Alamos

When I was 14 years old, I was certain that if I had a pair of Bugle Boy jeans I would get that call from a mysterious lady asking, “Excuse me; are those Bugle Boy jeans you’re wearing?”

O.K., maybe that’s a stretch, but I had no doubt that if I could get my hands on a pair my status in Jr. High would drastically change. It certainly couldn’t hurt. I needed something to prove that I wasn’t just another dork in the halls. Fashion had the potential to make or break a person in Jr. High. It still has a great power in every aspect of our lives.

There is something about fashion that we Read More

Letter To The Editor: ‘Thoughts About Plastic Bags And Cultural Dead Ends’

Submitted by Chris Clark on June 6, 2015

By ERICA WISSINGER

Los Alamos

Thoughts about plastic bags and cultural dead ends … they say that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

I was a child when I first heard that saying in grade school, and I wondered “Why did he fiddle while that was going on? It makes no sense.” Such is the logic of a child looking at the world of adults and thinking that life is supposed to be Oh so much more logical when one grows up. Surprisingly, it is not, the optimist observes. The pessimist observes something else entirely, usually unprintable.

I wish to call the reader’s

Home Country By Slim Randles: The Summer Payoff

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 5, 2015

Home Country

By SLIM RANDLES

It is the heat that defines us this time of year. Defines our sweaty days with the brassy skies and afternoons that make us clamor for shade. The heat gives us an excuse to make June the biggest beer-drinking month of the year and returns certain words to our vocabularies: cooler pads, swampers, squirrel cages.

The days themselves aren’t much fun, and we pity those who spend the days working outdoors, even as we envied them in the soft warmth of spring. The heat is an entity now, an oppressive, overbearing beast that weighs on our brains and taxes our body.

It’s the price we Read More

Letter To The Editor: Foul On Plastic Bags

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 4, 2015

By JOHN GONZALES

Los Alamos

What the Environmental Sustainability Board is trying to do with this plastic bag ban (green initiative) is to do the right thing as an entity for the collective good of the people.

This means to reduce, reuse, and recycle through the use of greener products (and concepts i.e. plastic bags) etc., will reduce the amount of waste we make (and impact we have on the environment) and is necessary for a better tomorrow for Los Alamos and the world.

But, when they do this they seek to have community involvement, and they got quite what they did not expect

Gessing: Be Prepared For Obamacare Changes

Submitted by Chris Clark on June 4, 2015

By PAUL J. GESSING

The Rio Grande Foundation

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue its decision in King v. Burwell in June.

The ruling could have tremendous consequences for the healthcare law commonly known as Obamacare – and more importantly, it could have a huge impact right here in New Mexico.

King v. Burwell was argued before the High Court in March 2015. The case hinges on an interpretation of the Obamacare law. The plaintiffs argued that the text authorizes premium subsidies for people in “exchanges established

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