Opinion & Columns

World Futures: Water Water Everywhere

World Futures: What Do We Need?

By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

 “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797-1798. On Earth, 97 percent of the water is saline, in oceans, seas and saline ground water.

Per Wikipedia, “Fresh water is naturally occurring on the Earth’s surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as ground water in aquifers and underground streams.” Approximately 3 percent of Earth’s water is fresh water. It Read More

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McQuiston: Are You Unsure About Uninsured Motorists Coverage?

By ALLEN MCQUISTON
The Jemez Agency
 
I had a conversation this week with someone who wanted to delete his uninsured motorist coverage from his policy, so he could save some money. Not a good idea to do, but it gave me an idea for this week’s column.
 
Since nearly every state in the United States requires some minimum level of liability insurance to operate a motor vehicle, you may be left wondering why you would need to purchase uninsured motorists coverage.
 
Unfortunately, we all know that just because the law says we’re supposed to do something, doesn’t mean that
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Tales Of Our Times: Old Mines Tell Candid Stories

Tales of Our Times

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Preface

 
The story below is one I wrote in 1993 for New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air & Water. In 1997, I submitted the article to Governor Gary Johnson as part of my technical credentials, from which he nominated me to serve five years as a public member of the New Mexico Mining Commission.
 
In 2015, a three million-gallon spill of waste water from the old Gold King Mine near Silverton in western Colorado made national news by coloring some 100 miles of the Animas River an eerie orange. The spill broke loose
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Letter To The Editor: Carbon Dividends

By PAUL O. FREDERICKSON
Los Alamos

Carbon Dividends. Many scientists in Los Alamos have a clear understanding that climate change is very real, and cite several observable effects as evidence. One of these effects is the very rapid increase in the number of record amounts of rainfall across the country, or record drought severity, or record heat spells, or record cold spells, various examples of instability in our climate.

See below for more in the way of evidence, but first we want to call everyone’s attention to a possible solution.

The June 20 edition of the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Read More

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McQuiston: Precious Cargo – Keeping Your Children Safe

By ALLEN MCQUISTON
The Jemez Agency
 
I was driving over to Smith’s the other day and saw a woman stopped behind me at the light with what appeared to be a toddler in the seat next to her. 
 
It kind of ticked me off, but then I thought, it’s a small town, what’s the harm. We never have accidents here, right? Every 33 seconds, a child is involved in a car crash. Car crashes continue to be a leading cause of death of children in the United States.
 
An average of 11 children per week died in motor vehicle accidents nationwide between 2010 and 2014.
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Letter To The Editor: Restore Office Of Sheriff Duties

By GREG WHITE
Los Alamos

Open letter to the Council and all citizens of Los Alamos County concerning the illegal activity of the Council from last year until now in regard to the Office of Sheriff of Los Alamos County, giving the Council chair until Monday close of business to postpone the scheduled meeting until Thursday night so as to be able to revise the agenda to include the Sheriff’s budget and meet the required 72 hour notice for agenda publication, as well as leave the County one business day before the new fiscal year starts Saturday to make the necessary changes to comply with state Read More

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Letter To The Editor: Sewer Rate Increase Warranted

By BRADY BURKE
Los Alamos

I went to the BPU meeting. There were about 15 people there and I was the only one that stood up to speak out against the increase on the sewer rate increase. I would have spoken out against the potable water increase, but they had a 45 page powerpoint presentation on power sources by some outside consultant where I could not understand her accent. That presentation was going to take hours and the Potable water issue was somewhere after that. My condolences to the BPU for having to stay.

My first comment to the folks that don’t go to these meetings is that you have no one to Read More

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