Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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I agree this is a non-story, every town does this, it is a political witch hunt would never see the light of day in any other town but whatever reason is going on now. I refuse to read these articles and you should too.
One minor incident on possible misuse of tax money coming from LANL should not be associated with LANL or the GRT tax. This stuff just happens on occasions is probably not as bad as it is being made out to be. The money is necessary for the community and the small possible misuse of a very small amount of amount is non-issue and should be mentioned on this blog.