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SANTA FE — New Mexico state officials announced Wednesday some loosening of metrics under its Red-Yellow-Green COVID-19 framework, and provided optimism the state would graduate out of the color-coded system by the end of June. Beginning Friday, counties will be measured on metrics of 10 daily cases per 100,000 residents, test positivity of 7.5% or lower and full vaccination rates of 35% (increasing to 40% on May 5 and another 5% every two weeks following — reaching 60% by June 30). Red counties meet none of the three met... Full story
Fully vaccinated people can exercise and attend small gatherings outdoors without wearing face masks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in revised public health guidance Monday as the Biden administration seeks to ramp up immunizations in the U.S. The new guidelines, unveiled by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on a conference call with reporters, defines fully vaccinated people as those who have gone 14 days since receiving their final shot of the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson cures. Small gatherings...
Ah, Thomas, I hate to mention this, but you could have saved yourself a great deal of trouble if you’d just hung with the rest of the disciples on that first Easter evening. You wouldn’t believe the spin lots of folks have put on the fact that you weren’t there that night. Yes, I know one would think that people would give an apostle of Christ the benefit of the doubt, so to speak. What? Oh, yes, a rather bad choice of words. Sorry. But you would be the first to admit, I’m s...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today will hear its most important case in decades on the 1st Amendment rights of students, and ultimately is expected to decide whether young people are free in the era of social media to post vulgar, cruel or racist comments about their teachers, coaches, classmates or school. At issue is whether social media posts are “off-campus speech” beyond the control of teachers and schools. It is the rare case whose outcome could affect every public school in the nation, but only if the justices succee...
MELROSE - With defense of their 2019-20 Class 1A boys state championship looming in just a few days, 6-foot-4 Melrose senior Tate Sorgen says the Buffaloes are ready to get after it. Sorgen got his team off to a flying start on Saturday, taking advantage of his size to score 15 first-quarter points and 26 overall in an easy 62-28 non-district victory over Gateway Christian. Melrose (8-0), coming off a tough district home win over Fort Sumner the night before, finishes...
