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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Another case of child rape was reported in Las Vegas recently. A Las Vegas City Schools teacher, Leonard Romero, was arrested for the alleged crime. If the accusations prove to be true, this is yet another instance of a young person in this community having their innocence destroyed and their life changed forever because of the actions of someone with power and authority over them. The level of outrage should be off the charts. This should be terrifying for parents and everyone else in Las Vegas. But instead, it seems as if...
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Veteran Affairs clinic is no longer in danger of being shut down, New Mexico’s U.S. Senators announced June 27. The Department of Veterans Affairs in March recommended the closure of 174 VA clinics across all 50 states, including four in New Mexico, including Las Vegas. If the recommendation had been followed, veterans who use the Las Vegas facility would have been forced to seek treatment at in Albuquerque, nearly two hours away from Las Vegas. The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, led by effor...
As New Mexicans 21 or older step into retail shops to legally purchase cannabis for recreational use, tens of thousands of people in the state still have cannabis-related convictions on their records. That’s set to change, though. In April of 2021, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham enacted new laws that legalized the use and possession of cannabis and called for the automatic expungement of previous cannabis-related criminal records. The new law requires that many charges and convictions related to cannabis — like charges ste...
Almost exactly two years after the entire world shut down due to the initial threat of COVID-19, the state of New Mexico’s Department of Health has made it clear it no longer views it as a priority. Recently, acting Health Secretary David Scrase told the media that the staff that has been tasked with compiling daily COVID-19 data will be reassigned to their previous responsibilities, and COVID-19 updates will be provided by an automated system. Daily numbers will no longer be broken down county-by-county. Instead, that w...
