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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Around the region … 1984: Victor Stout of Clovis had been appointed chairman of the New Mexico Farmers Union Advisory Board. He was also president of the Curry County Farmers Union. Stout and his wife Maggie raised wheat and maize on a farm near Clovis. He also operated a ranch near Nara Visa. 1971: A former Tucumcari resident on convalescent leave from the state mental hospital was arrested and charged with murder in the Dec. 1 shooting death of Quay County District Attorney Victor Breen. United Press International r...
The Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun have been sold to Clovis Media Inc., a new company based in Sheridan, Wyo., officials announced on Tuesday. The sale also includes all of the publications produced by the group now known as Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico. Here’s a brief history of each newspaper:...
The Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun have been sold to Clovis Media Inc., a new company based in Sheridan, Wyo., officials announced on Tuesday. The sale also includes all of the publications produced by the group now known as Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico. Here's a brief history of each newspaper: Clovis News Journal - The Clovis News first published in May 1907. Founder Arthur Curren said the newspaper office at 113 W. Grand was the third "complete business house" in the city's history,...
The Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun have been sold to Clovis Media Inc., a new company based in Sheridan, Wyo., officials announced on Tuesday. The sale also includes all of the publications produced by the group now known as Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico. Here’s a brief history of each newspaper:... Full story
The Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun have been sold to Clovis Media Inc., a new company based in Sheridan, Wyo., officials announced on Tuesday. The sale also includes all of the publications produced by the group now known as Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico. Here's a brief history of each newspaper: Clovis News Journal - The Clovis News first published in May 1907. Founder Arthur Curren said the newspaper office at 113 W. Grand was the third "complete business house" in the city's history,... Full story
National School Choice Week started Monday, focusing attention on efforts of parents, activists, legislators, students and grass-roots networks to promote school choice programs throughout the United States. Legislators should take heed and this year expand choice programs for all students in an effort to fix the country's ailing public education system. School choice, in the broad sense, involves giving parents and students more power in educational pursuits and more opportunities. Parents and students select the school — p... Full story
National School Choice Week started Monday, focusing attention on efforts of parents, activists, legislators, students and grass-roots networks to promote school choice programs throughout the United States. Legislators should take heed and this year expand choice programs for all students in an effort to fix the country’s ailing public education system. School choice, in the broad sense, involves giving parents and students more power in educational pursuits and more opportunities. Parents and students select the school &...
National School Choice Week started Monday, focusing attention on efforts of parents, activists, legislators, students and grass-roots networks to promote school choice programs throughout the United States. Legislators should take heed and this year expand choice programs for all students in an effort to fix the country’s ailing public education system. School choice, in the broad sense, involves giving parents and students more power in educational pursuits and more opportunities. Parents and students select the school &... Full story
National School Choice Week started Monday, focusing attention on efforts of parents, activists, legislators, students and grass-roots networks to promote school choice programs throughout the United States. Legislators should take heed and this year expand choice programs for all students in an effort to fix the country's ailing public education system. School choice, in the broad sense, involves giving parents and students more power in educational pursuits and more opportunities. Parents and students select the school — p...
The U.S. government shouldn’t be playing the stock market with Americans’ tax money. But that’s what it did in 2009 when it bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, which, combined, received $85 billion from the Bush and Obama administrations. Both companies were restructured under President Barack Obama. The U.S. Treasury issues monthly reports on how the bailout is progressing. Its latest report, released last week and covering the period ended Sept. 30, found that the government now expects to lose $23.6 billion from the b...
Glenn Beck, thank you for helping women find God. Beck, who defends the founding principles of freedom that made our country the envy of the world, learned about a new challenge facing Gospel Shelters for Women. The organization’s website says it helps “homeless, previously incarcerated women with programs of restoration through the Love of Jesus, Bible truths and self-discipline.” Government recognizes the shelter’s value and has given it two annual $25,000 grants for years. Now it wants control. The modern crusade to sani... Full story
Glenn Beck, thank you for helping women find God. Beck, who defends the founding principles of freedom that made our country the envy of the world, learned about a new challenge facing Gospel Shelters for Women. The organization’s website says it helps “homeless, previously incarcerated women with programs of restoration through the Love of Jesus, Bible truths and self-discipline.” Government recognizes the shelter’s value and has given it two annual $25,000 grants for years. Now it wants control. The modern crusade to sani...
Mary Ann Milbourn IRVINE, Calif. — Freedom Communications Inc. has agreed to sell its television division to Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. It’s a $385 million deal that will leave the company and its newspapers free of debt, Freedom announced Wednesday. Freedom newspapers include the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun. The sale of Freedom’s eight television stations, none of which are in New Mexico, is expected to close in four to six months subject to Freedom shareholder, Fed...
Mary Ann Milbourn IRVINE, Calif. — Freedom Communications Inc. has agreed to sell its television division to Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. It’s a $385 million deal that will leave the company and its newspapers free of debt, Freedom announced Wednesday. Freedom newspapers include the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun. The sale of Freedom’s eight television stations, none of which are in New Mexico, is expected to close in four to six months subject to Freedom shareholder, Fed... Full story
It looks, finally, like U.S. troops will be leaving Iraq. According to President Barack Obama, the withdrawal means U.S. forces will be “home for the holidays,” fulfilling a campaign promise he made in 2008. No doubt the withdrawal will be a major plank in his re-election bid next year. However, the Status of Forces Agreement made with the Iraq government was signed by former President George W. Bush in November 2008. We’re just happy that this long national nightmare appears to be over. The Iraq war has lasted more than... Full story
In the design of America’s founders, the states are supposed to be centers of democratic experiment. They’re not supposed to be uniform. For example, even though alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933, local laws restricting sales exist in 33 states. In Arkansas, more than half of 75 counties prohibit alcohol sales. This design is why it is disturbing to us that the Obama administration has launched a crackdown on medical marijuana, which is legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia, the home of the federal government. Cal... Full story
Attention, national and international, has focused on the anguish of Seal Beach, Calif., where gunfire inside a hair salon on a warm afternoon Wednesday left eight people dead and a woman wounded. The worst mass killing in Orange County history has stunned the coastal town of about 25,000 residents, along with the rest of the country. One Seal Beach resident, Brand Powers, posted on Facebook, “The whole place is shaken up.” As flowers, candles, balloons and other mementos piled up in front of Salon Meritage, police released t... Full story
Freedom New Mexico Call it hippie abuse. We’ve all heard about undocumented immigrants and their absurd conundrum: They cannot get documents, in part, because they lack documents that are needed to get documents. Duh. Our economy wants them, needs them and taxes them. Meanwhile, the law makes certain they live underground without the licenses and insurance they would need to ever live safely and in accordance with law. Some came here by crossing the border illegally, but millions simply overstayed work or student visas and t...
Freedom New Mexico Call it hippie abuse. We’ve all heard about undocumented immigrants and their absurd conundrum: They cannot get documents, in part, because they lack documents that are needed to get documents. Duh. Our economy wants them, needs them and taxes them. Meanwhile, the law makes certain they live underground without the licenses and insurance they would need to ever live safely and in accordance with law. Some came here by crossing the border illegally, but millions simply overstayed work or student visas and t... Full story
Some on the left, frustrated by the disappointing presidency of Barack Obama, are resorting more than ever to the politics of ethnicity. Those who don’t like Obama’s policies may be racists, the reasoning goes, because Obama is black. One problem is the matter of conservative voters in Florida giving an enormous straw poll victory last week to Herman Cain, who is among the more conservative Republican candidates. He is black. Unlike Obama, who did not grow up immersed in American black culture, Cain grew up in Georgia. He obt... Full story
Let’s do ourselves a big Depression-era favor. Let’s deport a taxpaying jobs creator just for fun. Let’s indulge anger and indignation, even if it eliminates jobs and throws a family into despair. Jeanette Vizguerra, 39, faces deportation after living in Colorado for 14 years. Vizguerra owns a cleaning company. She provides more sustainable jobs and prosperity than Solyndra, the defunct “green jobs” company that received a $535 million loan guarantee from President Barack Obama. Vizguerra and her employees pay taxes. Vi...
A Big Brother bill quietly moving through the House of Representatives would effectively end Americans’ online privacy. H.R.1981, the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, would force Internet service providers to maintain a national database of every user’s name, address, phone number, credit card information, bank account numbers and IP address. “The records would involve all Internet users everywhere, and they would be available to law enforcement for any purpose,” a coalition of 30 privacy groups... Full story
A Big Brother bill quietly moving through the House of Representatives would effectively end Americans’ online privacy. H.R.1981, the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, would force Internet service providers to maintain a national database of every user’s name, address, phone number, credit card information, bank account numbers and IP address. “The records would involve all Internet users everywhere, and they would be available to law enforcement for any purpose,” a coalition of 30 privacy groups...
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Steve Jobs and his family. Last week he announced he was stepping down, for health reasons, as Apple Inc.’s CEO. He no longer will oversee day-to-day operations at the world’s most successful technology company, but will serve as the company’s chairman of the board. We can think of no better characterization of Jobs than this quote from Igor Sikorsky, the Russian-American aviation pioneer: “The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.” That was Jobs, fro... Full story
Tax reform is in the air. One proposal floating around is to eliminate or reduce the tax deduction for home mortgage interest. About 35 million homeowners use the deduction to reduce their yearly tax bills. The total deduction amounts to about $131 billion a year. During the recent wrangling in Washington over the the budget and debt ceiling, one reform proposal came from the “Group of Six” senators — three from each party — that worked out part of the agreement. According to McClatchy News Service, the sen...
