Letters to the Editor

By GERALD ANTOS
Los Alamos

Are you out of your stinking minds? $4.15 plus for gas and $5.70 plus for diesel? Never has there been such disparity in the fuel market as there is now! I watch the price of oil and gasoline every day on https://www.oil-price.net/ and you seem to be making the highest amount of profit in all of Los Alamos History!

This war we are fighting is not the reason for the high prices, it’s your greed. The US is self-sufficient in regards to fuel and oil. You’re just forcing your big fat lie on the citizens of Los Alamos! Empty oil tankers flock to US to load up with oil and gas Read More

By NORA HAASER
Junior Girl Scout
Los Alamos

At the County Council meeting today, April 7, my friends and I are all going to ask the County if we can have a four-way stop up at North Road and Urban Street. I think the County should do this because Dr. Easton died there because of an accident and I don’t want any more people dying from accidents.

Dr. Easton was a pedestrian, just like everyone who lives here and me. If people can stop at Quemazon, then they can stop at this intersection. Along with this accident, I don’t want these two other accidents to happen again when a person was driving peacefully until Read More

By BONNIE EDWARDS
Los Alamos

There is no denying that at this moment in time we have had some life changing incidents happen in our country. In the last few months, we have seen two people killed while protesting. We have seen a person killed on a college campus as he spoke. Children have been killed as they prayed. We tend to blame these incidents on our leaders, on the system, on something other than ourselves but are we scapegoating? Is this a sign of who We the People are becoming? Is there more intolerance, anger and unwillingness to expend energy to find the truth in each of us?

We seem to deal in caricatures Read More

By WILLIAM CLODIUS
Los Alamos

The Angry Staffer on X provided a summary of Trump’s, April 1, 2026, speech on the war with Iran that those who didn’t have the time to listen to the speech or were confused by the speech might find edifying.

Iran won’t close the Strait

Iran better open the Strait

Iran has 2 days to open the Strait

Iran has a week to open the Strait

NATO, open the Strait

I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened

I don’t care about the Strait

No ceasefire till Strait is open

Trump’s speech didn’t seem to be intended as an April Fools joke.

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By GEORGIA STRICKFADEN

Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago was gorgeous, so after working with my horses in the Stable Area, I walked into where FEMAville had been 25 years ago, an area being master planned as North Mesa Park.

Thanks to community action a generation ago, the area is a park. The far east end of North Mesa Park is a remnant of native mesa top grasses, forbs, and trees, encircled by a well-used hard-surface trail (first photo) frequented by residents of adjacent neighborhoods. An official small sign says it is a “Natural Habitat Area”, but the new North Mesa Park Master Plan has a bike Read More

By MATTHEW SNOWBALL
Los Alamos

Until now, I have sat quietly on the sidelines watching the discussion of the healthcare provider crisis in this state play out on social media and the news. I’ve watched as lawmakers tell us they have the ‘golden ticket’ solution to a crisis that has been building for decades, and all we have to do is ram through a few bills with less than 4 weeks of debate. I have felt more and more anxious, with an internal dialogue that grows in disgust and even anger while watching as the pleas of victims of medical malpractice are drowned out by the shouting on all sides.

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By KAY GRADY
Los Alamos

Well done Los Alamos County for initiating a lease with Piñon Pool to help while the County Pool is out of commission. 

First, I am pleased you are using a facility already in the community. I am also excited to see White Rock have access to a community pool in their neighborhood. 

So many memories from my girls growing up in White Rock. As soon as chores were done, they would pack a lunch or find some way to buy snacks at the pool. They were off on their bikes and so excited to go to the pool, visit with friends, or just swim to their heart’s content. 

I remember sitting at the pool Read More

By BRUCE WARREN
Los Alamos

I joined the protest march staged by Los Alamos High School students on Jan. 30 and was very impressed. The march was well organized by students, and was orderly and peaceful. All of the student speeches were excellent: Well thought out, to the point, well delivered and passionate. Congratulations to all the students who worked on and attended the event.

However, I was disappointed in the Los Alamos Schools response to the event (link). It is true that students have a responsibility to attend classes. It is also true that they have a wider civic responsibility to be Read More

By GREGORY BUNTAIN
Los Alamos

Alarm bells immediately went off while reading Daymon Ely’s February 3, 2026, opinion piece in the Los Alamos Daily Post, “Reasonable malpractice reform benefits every New Mexican” (link). Mr. Ely asserts that the amendment weakening House Bill 99—inserted by Rep. Liz Thomson, one of the top ten recipients of contributions from the New Mexico Trial Lawyers PAC—“benefits every New Mexican.” That claim deserves skepticism. It certainly benefits Mr. Ely.

Mr. Ely is not a neutral observer. He is a longtime malpractice trial lawyer and a direct beneficiary of the Read More

By ANTONIO MAGGIORE
Los Alamos

I’m writing this letter in support of our youth.

I congratulate them on seeing through the lies that the current administration is peddling. Good on them for recognizing a cold-blooded murder when it floods their social media feeds for the second time in three weeks.

I want to encourage them to engage and exercise their First Amendment right to protest. 

That being said, times are dangerous. I am confident, and yet I put this out preemptively to ensure that our local government and our local police department will be present and vigilant at any and every local protest Read More