Opinion & Columns

Ozment: Who benefits?

By CAT OZMENT
Los Alamos

Who benefits from development policy that allows for increased building heights and decreased parking requirements?

Even the intellectual and skilled human capital the lab needs” will benefit from service industry and retail staff, County employees, mechanics, teachers, health care providers, and other critical members of the fabric of our community having the option to live in the same town where they work.

Instead of worrying that some people may have to choose between their “toys” and their extra car, I am worried about those in town who right now have to choose Read More

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Statues As History

The Mussolini Obelisk at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome. (Photo by Pino Pacifico/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

By FRANCIS MORRONE
City-Journal.org

On the periphery of Rome, not far from the Vatican, stands a towering obelisk named for Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and ally of Adolf Hitler. On a recent visit to the city, my taxi driver knew exactly where it was and found nothing remarkable about a request to go there.

The Mussolini Obelisk, standing watch over the Foro Italico sports complex, served as the starting point for my atypical tour of the Read More

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Chandler: Let’s Push Back…

By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos

When I came to the Lab 49 years ago, a popular aphorism posted on the walls in group offices where reports and documents were put into final form by overworked typists said, “A failure to plan on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part.” Los Alamos County might post such a sign on the Omega Bridge.

The 2016 Comprehensive Plan notes a housing shortage and anticipates population growth driven by the laboratory. The unilateral decision by NNSA to turn a scientific laboratory into a manufacturing plant has accelerated that growth to wholly unanticipated levels. Read More

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Posts From The Road: Tower Station And U Drop Inn Café

Tall Tower: When entering Shamrock, Texas the tallest thing on the horizon is the massive 161 feet 6 inch tall water tower that welcomes visitors to town. This is the tallest water tower in Texas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Tower Station: The Tower Station is the other well-known tower in Shamrock, Texas. The beautiful art deco facility included a gas station on the west end, which features two canopies and multiple gas pumps  significant when the station opened in 1936. A garage bay completes the station next to the Shamrock Visitor Center. On the east end of the building is the U Drop Read More

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Fr. Glenn: Shepherding

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Ah, spring. Trees are leafing, temps are warming. Allergies are blossoming. And we come to the merry month of May—merry especially for our graduating classes, as well as the non-graduating who are looking forward to a little summer vacation. The roads are already beginning to clog with RVs as the snowbirds migrate northward. And as April ends, we come upon May Day.

Now, May Day (May 1) is a day of many aspects in different cultures. It has the aspect of the celebration of spring, but also of labor movements, and is one of the more important celebrations of communist and socialist Read More

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Tales Of Our Times: News Ads Serve To Poison The Path To Wise Decisions

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water 
 

No doubt that politics is not all the same as growing a business. Yet success in either demands leaders who draw on the mixed skills of people to build a wise mix of ideas. The two endeavors have plenty in common. So, why do we suffer a pandemic of denying costs and benefits when policymaking?

Today’s system of hostile politics works to hide the fact that everything has pros and cons. Every choice made as a family or a business has both advantages and disadvantages. We know it in our bones, and in any big purchase, whether buying a house, a car, Read More

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LAHS NJROTC Ends Year With A Bang

LAHS NJROTC team poses for a photo with all of their awards from the past school year. Courtesy/NJROTC

LAHS NJROTC team poses for a photo with all of their awards from the past school year. Courtesy/NJROTC

By C/ENS Miranda Lopez
Public Affairs Officer
LAHS NJROTC 

April 1, Los Alamos NJROTC competed in the New Mexico State JROTC Military Skills Meet at Cibola High School.

Topper Company competed in marksmanship, color guard, physical fitness, unit personnel inspection, unarmed regulation drill, and, for the first time this year, armed regulation drill. The cadets were eager to show off their Read More

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