Opinion & Columns

Green: Running For School Board To Represent & Serve All

By ERIN GREEN
Candidate
School Board District 5

My name is Erin Green, and I am excited to announce that I am running to continue representing District 5 (Mountain) of the Los Alamos Public School Board.

I was honored to be appointed in July to the seat vacated by Dawn Jalbert. It has been a rewarding experience so far, and I am eager to have the opportunity to extend my service. In my role as a parent, and through my experiences as a counselor, Girl Scout leader, and church community leader, I have become deeply passionate about advocating for services, support, and opportunities for all members of Read More

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Hoffman: How You Can Tell Vaccines Are Working

By NELS HOFFMAN
Los Alamos

Maybe you heard the news recently that 19 percent of New Mexico’s new COVID-19 cases are happening to vaccinated people. And maybe, like me, your first impulse was to say, “What the heck? That sounds bad! I thought the vaccine was supposed to protect us!”

If that’s the case, let me ask you to think through the numbers a bit further, and you’ll realize that the evidence shows that vaccines really are protecting us. But you need a bit more information to see that.

As is so often the case with statistics, you need more than one number to understand what it all means. In this case, Read More

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Fr. Glenn: Logs In The Eye

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Even at my age there are still certain comics I check every day; it gives a bit of relief from the daily grind and, anyway … how can you not like “Dilbert”?! Recently one comic’s characters were musing at a theme written in the heavens … implicitly indicating a divine source: “Be Nice to Each Other!” I couldn’t but note the irony because the comic’s creator often engages in sharp parody of various political figures. Well, it WAS a Sunday comic.

It’s hard to be TOO tough on the guy, though, because likely almost all of us fall into that trap at times, whether one call it duplicity, Read More

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Gessing: Back To School Brings Big Challenges

By PAUL J. GESSING
Executive Director
Rio Grande Foundation

School has begun for most New Mexico students. While every school year is different, this year is certainly more different than most. For starters, students are returning to “semi-normal” classrooms after 1.5 years of remote learning and relative chaos.

Unfortunately, as of this writing schools in Rio Rancho, Carlsbad, Los Lunas, and Roswell have “temporarily” had to again go “virtual”.

Lost classroom time has had a big impact on academic outcomes for New Mexico students.

According to the Legislative Finance Committee, the Legislature’s Read More

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McQuiston: Is Your Rental Truck Covered?

By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

We had a client call us recently about renting a U-Haul. I thought I would share an article that describes what you should know before you rent.

Summer is peak moving season. U-Haul, the moving truck rental company, estimates that nearly 45 percent of all moves occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that a person in the United States can expect to move 11.7 times in his or her lifetime, and reports that in 2018, 10 percent of people (about 32.4 million) in the United States moved within the year.

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An Open Book: Needles And Flags

By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

If you haven’t visited the Roundhouse during the legislative session, I very much encourage you to do so next year presuming that this COVID craziness is behind us.

Bees working in a beehive is an apt analogy, people running around from committee room to committee room, alternating with long periods of just buzzing in the hallways.

However, if you are not a legislator or a lobbyist or other interested parties, just peeking into the House or Senate galleries is often interesting, and if the political droning gets to you, there is always the incredible art displayed Read More

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Have Stamp, Will Travel: Local Entrepreneur Beverly Neal-Clinton Brings Mobile Notary & Fingerprinting Services To Northern New Mexico

Mobile Notary Beverly Neal-Clinton of Los Alamos with the tools of her trade during a recent visit to the Los Alamos Daily Post world headquarters. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

Beverly Neal-Clinton of Los Alamos is always on the move. Her business, NM Mobile Notary and Fingerprinting, keeps her burning up the highway all over northern New Mexico and even to Albuquerque. She might be heading for Taos at 6 a.m. or driving back from a client’s house at 11 p.m., with a mobile scanner, a printer, her notary stamp and the Read More

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