Opinion

State Treasurer: Let’s Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is!

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By LAURA M. MONTOYA
New Mexico State Treasurer

My journey is similar to many other New Mexicans’ in that it took a lot of hard work, hope, resilience, community, and prayer to keep pushing forward to work towards something better for me and my family.

Dreams were the hope that helped drive the determination to keep pushing forward, but survival was always at the forefront of every decision and job I undertook. Financial struggle, living paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet — a typical New Mexico story. Add limited resources, knowledge and opportunity, and you have an equation for failure or extreme Read More

Op-Ed: Deer And Roads In Los Alamos County

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By LESLIE HANSEN
White Rock

I have read with interest the recent letters about feeding wildlife and its possible unintended consequences. I was the senior investigator on a study of road-crossing behavior of deer in Los Alamos County that was funded by LANL around 2002 and 2003. If you would like to read the final report, it is available here: Life in the Fast Lane: Road Crossing Behavior of Mule Deer in a Wildland-Urban Interface (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV. We put GPS collars on mule deer and recorded where, when, and how often they crossed roads in and around Los Alamos.

For the four deer we collared Read More

Op-Ed: County-Issued Roll Carts

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By MARIA PEROTTO
Los Alamos

Nuisance or Not

Each property owner as a resident of Los Alamos [town and county] has been required to use a county-issued container, the roll cart, which was instituted to control garbage dispersal and to eliminate physical injuries to collection staff. Garbage generation and collection are a part of everyday aggravation of regular life. Using roll carts is not a nuisance. Using roll carts is a sufficient solution to the town of Los Alamos for reasonable garbage collection. Anyone who has newly moved to Los Alamos has assumed the risk and conditions of roll cart use, Read More

Los Alamos Leaders Share Holiday Wishes For Community

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A bird’s eye view of the many colorful lights Friday night decorating the trees surrounding Ashley Pond and along Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net

And just like that, 2024 and the holiday season are reaching their conclusions. But before the holiday decorations are packed away and another page gets torn from the calendar, local leaders are seizing the opportunity to offer their well-wishes and season greetings to the community.

Los Alamos National Read More

Supreme Court Justice And District Judge: Healthy Communities Are Rooted In Meaningful Access To Affordable Civil Legal Services

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Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon

By New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon
and District Judge Erin B. O’Connell, chair of the New Mexico Commission on Access to Justice

Three out of four low-income households in New Mexico struggle with legal issues impacting basic needs like housing, financial stability, access to social and medical benefits.

New Mexico’s civil legal service providers handle thousands of cases every year, but a lack of capacity caused them to turn away more than half of the people seeking help last year.

The New Mexico Commission on Access to Justice works Read More

County Seeks Public Input To Help Shape East Downtown Los Alamos Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County is seeking community feedback through open comment available until Dec. 31, 2024, to help shape the East Downtown Los Alamos Metropolitan Redevelopment Area (MRA) Plan.

Residents can also watch the recording of the public forum held Dec. 16, 2024, in Council Chambers to learn more about the plan and the project’s next steps at lacnm.com/WatchMRAForumRecording.

The MRA Plan aims to address issues such as vacant properties, low commercial activity and deteriorating infrastructure. It will identify community-supported projects, programs and policies to Read More

LWV President’s Message: Our Work Continues

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By FELICIA ORTH
President
League of Women Voters of Los Alamos

Even the lightest touch on the pulse of current public discourse reveals strong contention, anger, and fear. The League’s work and goals feel more important than ever: to register those who are eligible to vote, to educate them through voter guides and candidate forums, to help assure ease of voting and the integrity of the electoral process, to advocate for sensible decisions on matters of public policy, to combat disinformation, and to fight gerrymandering and maintain fair districting.

Over the next few months we will Read More

Op-Ed: Send The Dogs To Heaven

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By KELLY PARKER
Los Alamos

I LOVE dogs. Ask anyone who knows me. I’d rather watch cute dog videos on Instagram than the latest TV program or movie. I stop and say hi to all the dogs when I walk and even wave to them when I see one in a car driving by. What I don’t love are irresponsible dog owners!

I was walking my 11 1⁄2 year old dog around 1:30 p.m., Nov. 19, on Grand Canyon in White Rock. She was feeling great that day and was excited to be out smelling the smells. We noticed two very large dogs approaching from the opposite direction. They were on leashes; a young lady was walking them. My dog and I crossed the street Read More

Op-Ed: I Am Not Antisemitic

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By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos

I am not antisemitic.

No, I am not antisemitic even though I stand against Israel’s decimation of Gaza.

I attest to the fact that Hamas, elected in 2006, is a totalitarian regime whose military wing the US has designated a terrorist organization.

I attest Hamas does not recognize Israel, and that since 1993, it has committed suicide bombings on Israel in retribution against the Israeli 1967 occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank.

I attest that on October 7, 2023, Hamas led other Palestinian militant nationalist groups in a terrorist attack in the Gaza Envelope that killed Read More

Gibson: Home Energy Conversion Is Not New

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By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities

My family travelled frequently to my grandparent’s Ohio farm while I was growing up. On colder mornings and evenings, my grandfather would descend to the cellar to shovel coal into the furnace. Quaint though that may seem today, more than half the space heating in the U.S was coal until after WW II. (Much heat in wartime Los Alamos was coal, too.) Stoking a coal furnace was a dirty and physical job. That farmhouse was converted to oil heat in the 1960s.

That was not its first conversion, either. Built in the mid-1800s, it originally Read More