Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Heck yes, the GRT tax was close to criminal in how some of the money is wasted. What they could do
is write NM a check for 10% of what they use to get and maybe NM and the Los Alamos county will use it more wisely.
501(c)(3) isn't granted and even if it is LANL will still have to pay NM GRT on all of the purchases and contracts.
The LA County waste during the LANS years has been stunning. All that money used to employ people at LANL until it had to be diverted into the county coffers and LANS award fee.
Good riddance doesn’t seem to do it justice.
July 10, 2018 at 1:39 PM
Can we get rid of the ugly sculptures all over the place, they are hideous. How much money was wasted on this junk?
Not so bright now, huh?
July 13, 2018 at 3:02 PM
What is your point, they are mostly cowboys so it is all good.
July 14, 2018 at 12:12 PM
You must be a newby. "Payments in lieu of taxes" from the government. Since UC started. Who do you think owns the Fire Department equipment? Not LA County. All the great fire trucks and ambulances that show up at your home for free if you have a hangnail? DOE owned and paid for. The crews are of course county employees.
The thing is that the payments from DOE before LANS was far far less than the GRT taxes. If they want to return to the money amounts given by the DOE fine, but this will be at least five times lower than the GRT taxes and the county members cannot live with this.
July 15, 2018 at 6:07 PM
Do you really believe that DOE didn't eventually skim those payments out of what they budgeted for LANL? Here's a clue -- DOE doesn't print money.
That may be true but this is on there order of 15 million not 100 million. The GRT is way more than DOE ever gave the town. If LANL wants to chip in 15 million a year like in the old times fine. You will notice that the city council never gives the amount they received before 2006, never because it was vastly lower than what they are getting now.