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Letters

  • A warning to drivers

    Last Friday evening, my husband and I witnessed a collision on State Road 4 just outside White Rock between a small car and a bull elk. The collision incapacitated but did not kill the elk, and the motorist who hit him did not stop.
    The injured, suffering elk lay in the center of the road, struggling to  get up and presenting a significant hazard to both lanes of oncoming traffic.  
    My husband and I stopped to call 911, and while we waited for LAPD to respond, my husband and others waved to oncoming vehicles to warn them of the elk in the road.
    I ask anyone who reads this to please remind inexperienced  drivers in your household about the appropriate response to this kind of accident.

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  • Keep it green

    We’ve all heard Joni Mitchell sing “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone.  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
    Los Alamos High School, rather than rehabilitating the venerable green space along Diamond Drive, plans to pave the area to create a bus-only drop off loop.
    This “parking lot” will obliterate the leafy green area in front of LAHS, but not substantially improve parking lot safety.  It will, however, create new hazards.  Additional curb cuts along this heavily traveled section of  Diamond will disrupt traffic patterns, adding to current congestion.

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  • USDA offers help to homeowners

    After the fire this summer, I thought it would be obvious that housing plays a key role in New Mexico’s economy. And while recent signs point to an improving national outlook, economists generally agree that a healthy and strong housing market is vital to sustaining the current economic recovery.
    This is why the Obama administration is working to help our state and others that have been hit hard by the housing downturn.
    Last month,  Agriculture  Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a pilot program here in New Mexico and 18 other states to help rural homeowners refinance their current loans to lower their monthly mortgage payments and get lower interest rates.

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  • Protect the Children

    I was appalled at the apparent insensitivity of the writer and the editor for publishing the article in last Tuesday’s Los Alamos Monitor, “Girl alleges sexual assault”.  Recent media uproar over alleged sexual abuse in the Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine stories have highlighted the need for siding with the victims.

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  • Heinrich will help lab

    A friend sent me former Congresswoman Heather Wilson’s article in the Los Alamos Monitor: “Congressional delegation failed to stick up for Los Alamos.”  The article cited the deferral of the Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility project for her concern.  As a former LANL staff member (when it was called LASL) I am well aware of the importance of the Chemistry and Metallurgy facility and the need to replace it with a modern facility.  The cost and complexity of this project calls for thoughtful consideration.  Unfortunately fiscal concerns have led to the delay.  Wilson says that nobody in the New Mexico Congressional delegation is willing to fight for Los Alamos.  I disagree.

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  • Expressing support for Trinity project

    After reviewing the available information about the Trinity Development  project on the LA County website and the LA Schools slide show, I want to  express my support for this project.

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  • Protestors take too much credit

    The CMRR critics are taking too much credit for the CMRR deferral for 5 years by the Obama administration. The critics focus on their own efforts is human nature but the decision to delay CMRR is a political decision made by the Obama administration.

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  • Are old buildings safer?

    If the seismic risk to any new building at LANL is so much larger than estimated before, would not the risk to the old CMR Building and PF-4 also be larger?  Wouldn’t a new building be safer than the old one?
    Alan Hack
    Los Alamos

     

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  • Memo to teens: Show up to meeting

    Hey Teens, on January 17, I went to the final Phase One public meeting for the new Los Alamos Teen Center. I, along with lots of other teens and adults, learned lots of information on what the new teen center is going to look like, what it’s going to provide, and where it’s going to be – behind the Quest Building across from Ashley Pond.
     Everybody voted on either of two options: Path of Discovery or Prism. Path of Discovery will have circular features, and Prism will be very angular.
    Both options will have inside and outside decks, a snack area, a performing arts area, loud spaces, chill spaces, quiet spaces, and a multi-purpose area.

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  • Disappointed in LANL funding

    Dear Editor,
    I was disappointed that our funding for LANL was cut in proportion to that received by Sandia. I have sent a note along with the newspaper clipping and my book The Strange Disappearance of Uncle Dudley: A Child’s Story of Los Alamos, to the President.  I inscribed it  to President and Mrs. Obama and Daughters. (Signed and dated by the author, of course)
    On the note I said I’m not in favor of bombs, but LANL does work in space, medical and environmental fields. I wish that funding for all the National Labs could be balanced and a percentage earmarked for non-weapons work.
     The book is for the White House Library.
    I added that I am still planning on voting for Obama.

    Inez Ross

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