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Today's Opinions

  • If only you believed in numbers

    Phew, we missed another one. I can only assume that if you are reading this the end of the world did not happen Saturday - as was predicted.

    See, a group called BetCRIS.com released a statement that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world's population clock will hit 6,666,666,666 and that meant the end of the world was upon us.

    This is related to the "fearful" 666 number sequence, of which this is the biggest yet.

    Of course, there was a time when the population was 6,666 or 66,666, or 666.666, or 6,666,666, or ... well, you get the idea.

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  • Worry about the quiet lab employees

    Dear Editor,

    I’m normally a pretty outspoken person, but even I have been squashed into silence at LANS. We’re all living in a town full of fear – again. We fear for our jobs, our families, and our way of life. We already know we won’t survive the next inevitable LANS budget crisis unscathed.

    I wonder who it is bothering to look seriously at the human toll this will bring? Or is humanity just a problem for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to deal with?

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  • Hope dies last

    Dear Editor,

    There is a prognosis that humanity can survive on this planet only for another 25 generations. The sun will continue to shine after that.

    I would like to remind the wisest in the lab and at the Santa Fe Institute and others that if one cares about a really long-term future, we must drastically change the order of things. We must stop making things useful only for killing and begin to make useful things that are to be distributed widely so as to make this planet secure for all.

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  • Some election recommendations

    The Monitor will continue its tradition of recommendations in election races, this year making some suggestions for the primary – in which early voting has already begun.

    The Monitor editorial board was not unanimous in its recommendations, and that will be noted when pertinent. And we will not comment on uncontested races.

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  • Monitor endorses primary candidates

    The Monitor will continue its tradition of recommendations in election races, this year making some suggestions for the primary – in which early voting has already begun.

    The Monitor editorial board was not unanimous in its recommendations, and that will be noted when pertinent. And we will not comment on uncontested races.

    In the race for the U.S. House seat in the Third District, the board was divided between Don Wiviott and Harry Montoya in the Democratic primary.

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  • Public needs bigger role in governing

    Dear Editor,

    In your March 30 editorial, this passage caught my attention: “We urge the public to come and become informed before the council adopts the budget on May 13.”

    This brings home a fundamental flaw in our current form of governance in our county. If the public’s function is solely to become informed, then one might ask, why bother?

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  • Olions' 'Little Shop' a great show

    Dear Editor,

    This past weekend, the Los Alamos High School Olions Thespian Club gave five performances of the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” directed by Nina Saunders.

    That our high school has many very talented teenagers was clearly demonstrated in this musical. We can be proud of these students who worked long hours over the last two months both on and off the stage.

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  • Cleanup must not be afterthought

    The cleanup of the land in and around Los Alamos National Laboratory must not be something that eventually gets done.

    It must be a priority.

    And this must start with our delegation in Washington and with the Department of Energy.

    Because of funding issues there is a danger that the agreement between the state and the DOE on a timetable to do the cleanup will not be met. We have to agree with NMED Secretary Ron Curry that that is unacceptable.

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