Opinion & Columns

World Futures: Risks, Rewards & Responsibilities Part 3

By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute
 
In the first two parts of this series, we examined risk and rewards, albeit somewhat simplistically.
It becomes significantly more complicated when you consider responsibility, individually and collectively. Let’s begin by quickly returning to the bubble model. As individuals we are represented by as individual bubbles but we can be part of larger bubbles that include public and private bubbles as well as collective bubbles represented as government entities. As a start, let’s explore business entities.
Corporate social responsibility
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Swenson: Don’t Just Hug Your Trees, Water Them!

Courtesy/Richard Swenson
 
By RICHARD SWENSON
Retired farmer, physicist and metal sculptor
Los Alamos

Many of our trees in town are dying due to the lack of moisture and nutrients, shorter and milder winters, and longer and hotter summers. This combination gives the beetles an advantage in the age-old battle between the beetles and the trees. Let’s water the trees and help the trees defeat the beetles!

Global warming is real and it is not going away. We need to recognize and mitigate its short-term effects and accommodate its long-term climate change. The temperature in Northern New Mexico Read More

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Letter To The Editor: Judge Shaffer Is Hard Working And Professional

By THOMAS E. CLIFFORD, PHD
UNM Regent and former Secretary of Finance and Administration
Santa Fe
 
I worked closely with District Court Judge Greg Shaffer when he was General Counsel and I was Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration (DFA).
 
DFA’s workload includes a wide variety of legal challenges and an extensive amount of interaction with other agencies and local and tribal governments. The work is highly challenging, due to the volume, the technical difficulty and the interpersonal skills required to enable collaboration and cooperation
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Weekly Fishing Report: May 23

By GEORGE MORSE
Los Alamos Daily Post
Sports and Outdoors
 
Now that we have finally received rain, the fishing should get even better in Northern New Mexico.
 
The State Game and Fish Department continues to stock thousands of rainbow trout, including some over 15 inches in size. Streamflows did not rise much, but with the Memorial Day weekend coming up, any moisture that could help ease the extremely dry conditions in our forests was most welcome.
 
Please be careful with fire if you are going camping or just spending time in the outdoors. Temperatures are expected to start climbing
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Letter To The Editor: Pete Sheehey Can Be Counted On To Faithfully Represent Dist. 43 Citizens

By ROBERT WELLS
Los Alamos

Los Alamos Democrats (plus others in House District 43) have to choose in the upcoming New Mexico primary election for State Representative (June 5, with early voting open through June 2) between two Los Alamos County Councilors, Pete Sheehey, a retired LANL scientist, and Christine Chandler, an attorney.

I have supported both Pete and Chris in each of their previous campaigns, but my choice in this election is Pete Sheehey. In making this choice I asked myself: (a) Who will make the greatest effort needed to address a complex range of diverse citizen concerns across Read More

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Home Country: Catching Dry

Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
 
It was just one of those things. It didn’t really mean Marvin Pincus had lost his mind. Consider this yourself for a minute. Marvin had opened the mail that morning and in it was the Fenwick glass fly rod he’d ordered. Oh, it was used, of course. But there’s a feel to a Fenwick that only a man dedicated to a life of using dry flies can appreciate.
 
The weather was gorgeous. The fish were biting on Lewis Creek. But there was a hitch. Marvin had broken his ankle the previous week and was temporarily in a wheelchair. It was his right ankle, so he couldn’t drive down to the
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Letter To The Editor: Vote Christine Chandler For Dist. 43 … A Person Of Energy, Intelligence And Integrity

By SHEILA BROWN
Santa Fe

I highly recommend Christine Chandler for District 43, New Mexico State House.

I have known Christine for more than 30 years as a colleague, supervisor and friend. She is a person of energy, intelligence and integrity. In all the time I have known her, she has devoted herself to public service and to volunteering in the community.

As we all know, New Mexico has a serious problem with its education system. This impacts not only the   lives and futures of the children themselves, but the ability of our state economy to thrive in a highly competitive atmosphere. Christine Read More

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