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I fly quite often and am a member of a number of airline frequent flier programs.
However, I do not feel qualified to design aircraft. Designing a roadway is a skilled engineering occupation, at least as complex as aeronautical design and with the same efficiency and safety ramifications.  
The tools available to street designers, including sophisticated modeling tools, allow accurate analysis of traffic patterns and flow under traffic load with many different road configurations.
The idea that simply driving is sufficient qualification to design a street is absurd.  However this has not prevented a number of opinions in the Los Alamos Monitor, most recently the letter by Anthony A. Amsden.

The headline on the front page of Wednesday’s Los Alamos Monitor, “Intern housing bleak on Hill” made me want to say, “You think?”
The destruction of housing on Central Avenue has seriously contributed to the lack of housing for Los Alamos National Laboratory summer students as well as those who work at low paying jobs and need affordable housing.  
Councilors Fran Berting and Jim Hall said in February  2008 that the county was purchasing the Central Avenue property with money from the Self-Sufficiency Fund to clean it up and put it into the hands of a private developer.  

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Wow. Razor blades really must be safe! Welcome to Marketing 501.  
A common technique used in presentations; repetitive repetitive repetitive reinforcement to drive drive drive into your skull the belief that something is true.  Say it enough times and it must be true.  
And so it was with the presentation given by the California-based consulting firm at the county council meeting April 7.  

Gov. Susana Martinez entered a room packed with Navajo leaders from New Mexico, her first such meeting.
As each person spoke about needs, the governor took notes. She listened, she was gracious, and her visitors left feeling they were heard.
I give the new governor an A for finessing the meeting alone, with no underling to take notes. Imagine her male predecessors doing that!
Martinez has gotten through her first 100 days with a few wins, a few losses and a few questionable decisions.
Her report card would include most of the letters, plus “needs improvement.”
Let’s begin with the A’s. While Martinez wasn’t a commanding presence during her first legislative session, her message certainly was.