Today's News

Everything up to this point has just been a warm-up. Now the real work begins.

Los Alamos’ girls basketball team heads to Taos tonight to take on the homestanding Tigers in the opener of the District 2AAAA season for both teams. Tonight’s game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

This will also start the first 2AAAA race for first-year Hilltopper coach Tarah Logan, who thinks her team is ready to go.

kDear Editor,

Hey, should visit your local schools and see for yourself, the things that have happened over the last few years.  We at Barranca Mesa Elementary are thankful for our new boiler, so now we all have heat regularly. 

Yes, we do have much more to do to get our run down schools up to where they need to be for safety and quality of education.  The tax rate in our community is so low that it is hindering us from doing many things within the community and actually I find it embarrassing. 

There’s an old story about a philosophy professor who presented the students with a test asking a single question ... “Why?” 

As the story goes, the only person who received an “A” was a student who submitted the answer, “Because.”  Another version of the story has the student answering, “Why not?”

The story is of course a classic academic myth, a folk legend promulgated on the premise that philosophy defines its own worth and that the value of questioning the questions is itself in question. 

Two hugely influential scientists received Los Alamos National Laboratory’s highest recognition.

LANL Director Michael Anastasio bestowed the 2008 Los Alamos Medal on Siegfried S. Hecker and Robert D. Cowan in a ceremony and reception at the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center Thursday afternoon.

Hecker, LANL director from 1986-1997, is now a professor and co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.