OP/ED

Shin: Los Alamos County MRA Review Committee Subject To New Mexico Open Meetings Act

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By LISA SHIN
Los Alamos Family Eyecare

Last July 2024, I submitted an editorial, “Los Alamos Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Commission Necessary for an Open and Transparent Government.” In compliance with the New Mexico Redevelopment Code, this Commission would not include County Councilors or County employees, but rather key members from the community with experience in commercial property development, affordable housing, finances/banking and environmental sustainability. The MRA Commission would make recommendations to our County Council and would reflect a diverse and broad Read More

Letter To The Editor: Comment On Terry Wallace’s Nuclear Weapons Testing Op-Ed

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By ROBERT D. DAY
Los Alamos

Terry Wallace’s Op-Ed (link) in the Nov. 6, 2025 issue of the Los Alamos Daily Post sounded like a lot of political-eze.

Nuclear weapons systems are very complex and even the most sophisticated numerical simulations being used to model them cannot allow for every complexity.

It falls into the you-do-not-know-what-you-don’t-know category. I, personally, would like to know if the weapons in our stockpile still work. (Especially since they have been “mothballed” for around 30 years.) The only way to determine this is by testing. Read More

Op-Ed: New Mexico Needs Common-Sense Malpractice Reform

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By Robert McAtee, MD & Elena McAtee, MD

We write to encourage you to urgently ask your State Representative and Senator to pass medical malpractice reform in the next legislative session.

I am an Emergency Medicine Physician in Española and my wife is a Family Medicine Physician here in Los Alamos. We love New Mexico, but we can no longer ignore how our state’s malpractice environment is driving doctors away and making it harder for patients to get timely care.

The numbers are stark. Independent analyses by Think New Mexico demonstrate that New Mexico has one malpractice lawsuit for roughly Read More

Op-Ed: Former Los Alamos County Councilors Express Support For GRT Proposal

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By Former Los Alamos County Councilors:

We write to express our support for the nominal increase in Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) to be considered this evening by our County Councilors.

We are County residents and former Councilors whose service to Los Alamos and LANL spans decades and whose perspectives cover the spectrum of political positions.

Key responsibilities of our County government are the maintenance of basic governmental services and support for an enhanced quality of life, including public safety, housing, infrastructure, the local business community, and schools. Our property Read More

Op-Ed: Support For Española Pathways Shelter

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By Pastor Russ Hall
Valley View United Methodist

We all know that the pain of addiction, grief, and homelessness runs deeply within this community. We see the symptoms of decades of systems, structures, and neglect that is tearing families apart. We do not have to bring in outsiders to fill the Española Pathways Shelter because it is full with our sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, friends and community members who would otherwise be bereft.

The Española Pathways Shelter is a presence of hope in this community to those who have lost hope. We cannot imagine, nor do we want our community to endure Read More

Op-Ed: A Bike Park Is A Smart, Community-Inspired Investment In Los Alamos’s Future

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By JAMES WERNICKE 
Bike Park Working Group Member

Outdoor, all-ages, all-abilities recreation that fosters physical health and social connection is as much a part of Los Alamos’s identity as its scientific legacy.

We are a community that plans and deliberates carefully—perhaps to a fault—and consistently expresses that we value our natural assets, quality of life, fiscal responsibility, and operational excellence.

While some may view it as “excessive”, the proposed North Mesa Bike Park represents a fiscally prudent, environmentally responsible, and community-supported Read More

Op-Ed: No Kings Protest 2.0 Showcases Unity

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By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

Saturday’s No Kings events across the U.S. likely included some Marxists and anti-fascists, but the overwhelming majority of those peacefully protesting were there because we don’t want one branch of government to rule unchecked by the other two. Such a government is unconstitutional and anti-American.

The protest included the expected Progressives and Democrats, but also Centrists and former Republicans, united in our strong disapproval of how the president insults, indicts, lies about, fires, or otherwise ruins those who publicly disagree with him.

We Read More

Op-Ed: Lessons From The Nuclear Age For Today’s ‘Race’ For Artificial Super-Intelligence

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By Mark A. MacInnes, Ph.D.
Los Alamos 

As a LANL retiree after 37 years of service, my career was focused on biological research and Nuclear Quality Assurance roles. I saw firsthand how competition between nations drove the world to make large investments in nuclear deterrence. Alarmingly, the arms race isn’t over, with more countries pursuing the ‘security’ of atomic weapons. 

Today, with the advancement of large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing, we are experiencing a déjà vu moment. We need to find an alternative approach to the winner-takes-all ‘arms race’ mentality to Read More

Op-Ed: New Mexico Is Leading The Way On Childcare – Now We Must Deliver

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By JACOB VIGIL
Chief Legislative Officer
NM Voices for Children

New Mexico has been on a mission to recognize early childhood education and care for what it is a public good that is essential to families, communities, and our economy.

In 2022, New Mexico voters overwhelmingly affirmed this mission by passing a constitutional amendment for early childhood funding. Now, we’re setting our sights even higher. Because of over a decade of advocacy from families, organizers, educators, and community leaders, with bold leadership from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state legislature, Read More

Op-Ed: One Is The Loneliest Number That You’ll Ever Do … An Open Letter To Bryan Fearey

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By KARYL ANN ARMBRUSTER
Los Alamos

Dear Bryan,

For a candidate who claims to be able to bring valuable experience to the UNM-LA Advisory Board, your campaign slogan/strategy of “VOTE for ONE” is a little puzzling, given that we need THREE new board members to be elected this year, and not just one, in order for the board to function adequately. So what do you mean “Vote for One”… which one were you referring to?

In a non-partisan election, how does this strategy benefit our community? How does it benefit UNM-LA? On the surface, it appears to only benefit you IF you are the ONE you are referring to??? But Read More