Letter to the Editor: Youth Team’s Final Event Monday
By JENNA ERICKSON and SIENNA AHLERSHello! This is Jenna Erickson from the United Way Youth Team, and I am back with the news of our fourth and final event happening this coming Monday.
Hamburger Night, which takes place 5-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 at Bandelier Grill in White Rock, is the last event of United Way’s 2014 youth campaign. We are so excited to put it on, and we hope everyone is able to come out and join us. We have had tremendous support for the other events thus far, and we are truly grateful for each and every person involved. Thank you!
Now, a word from Hamburger Read More
Johnson: Giving People Cash Works
By DUSTIN JOHNSONLos Alamos
Much emergency aid in disaster and war zones takes the form of in-kind assistance: food, shelter, clothing, medicine, etc. Part of the reason for this is that these may simply not be available in the area. Often though, some forms of services are still operational, especially near refugee camps or after natural disasters in heavily populated areas.
So, why not give people in these situations cash to take advantage of available, local services? The conventional wisdom has been that if you just give people cash, Read More
Letter to the Editor: Constitutional Amendment #5 Is A Finagle That Needs To Be Defeated
By VERNON N. KERRConstitutional Amendment #5 is a sleeper that might well pass because it is not easy to understand.
It allows investment of the Land Grant Permanent Fund without the protection of the Prudent Man Rule that has governed the State Investment Council (SIC) management of the Fund and served us well since statehood. This rule states that one would make investments of trust money as one would for their own portffolio with essentially minimum
Letter to the Editor: A Shelter Dog Shows Her Thanks
DOROTHY BROWN Our animal shelter tries to minimze euthanasia by keeping our adoption rate as high as possible.
Some of the animals who come to us end up staying a long time until we can match them with homes in which they will succeed. Some of them need a little help to show their best side in order to be noticed. In addition to help from our local media, all of our local veterinarians, and the generosity of Pet Pangea, two local businesses help our dogs strut their beauty.
Yours Truly Diana has donated grooming to many dogs and done so with great compassion for their issues such Read More
Letter to the Editor: Enjoy WGN’s ‘Manhattan’ But Don’t Believe A Word Of It
By ALAN HACKWith the finish of this year’s episodes of “Manhattan” I have a few comments.
There was indeed friction between the Army and civilians involving cutting down trees and other issues. But when the story gets to the scientific and technical issues almost everything shown is wrong.
A key issue was the need to develop an implosion system when reactor generated Pu proved to have too much spontaneous fission to be used in a gun type assembly. But rather than there being resistance to developing implosion, the Lab was immediately reorganized and enlarged to Read More
Letter to the Editor: Crossed-poles
By TRAVIS NAIBERTI appreciate Rando Manley for advocating an exciting new use of the old Smith’s location in his recent letter to the editor, but I think he is treading on dangerous ground by suggesting that we house both penguins and polar bears in the old ice cream section.
Since these animals live at opposite ends of the globe there is no telling what would happen if we combined them here in our community.
I would seriously advocate that we stick to our own hemisphere!
Letter to the Editor: Knights of Columbus Thanks Community for Support of Golf Tournament
JEFF BROWN, ChairLos Alamos Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Council 3137 held our annual scholarship fund raising golf tournament on Friday Sept. 16 at the Los Alamos golf course with over 80 golfers participating, followed by a wonderful steak dinner at the Hall.
The tournament raised nearly $10,000, all of which will be used to award scholarships to worthy Los Alamos High School students. As the Knights look to support students with potential but from disadvantaged backgrounds, these scholarships have a real impact.
We are Read More
