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Multiple standards no good for policy One of the biggest problems with our immigration policy is the policy itself is different for different countries. If you are escaping from Cuba and you set foot on dry land, you cannot be sent back. Why do Cubans get special treatment? Because the U.S. doesn’t like Castro? Immigration laws should be the same for every country, not based on whether you come from a Communist country or just one that is economically depressed. Out of interest, how many other countries allow illegal immigran...
The immigration protests held across the country on Monday serve as a perfect Rorschach test: What reaction did you have to the sight of hundreds of thousands of immigrants marching down American streets, calling on Congress to accommodate them? Dismay? Ambivalence? Admiration? A lot of political debates turn on facts and arguments. This one is mostly a matter of competing emotions. Among many conservatives, the emotion is outrage. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the protests “make me mad.” Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., fum...
Staff and wire reports ALBUQUERQUE — The Clovis News Journal took home five first-place and 16 total awards Saturday at the 2005 New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors award banquet. The CNJ staff earned first place for its continuing coverage of the Base Realignment and Closure process involving Cannon Air Force Base, while staff writer Marlena Hartz and Editor David Stevens garnered the top honor in spot news for their coverage of a report of a junior high student w...
ALBUQUERQUE — The Portales Lady Rams will have to wait another year for a shot at a Class 3A state tennis championship. Portales played competitively for the most part, but couldn’t match Santa Fe St. Michael’s depth on Saturday in dropping a 6-3 semifinal decision to the Lady Horsemen at Sierra Vista Tennis Complex. Junior Ella Erf and sophomore Bethany Self provided the only wins for the top-seeded Lady Rams, remaining unbeaten for the season in both singles and doubles. Erf defeated St. Mike’s Maria Lopez 6-0, 6-1 at No....
If how they practiced during the week means anything, coach Patrick Crowley believes the Portales Rams are ready to make a run at the Class 1-3A boys state golf tournament championship on Monday and Tuesday at UNM South in Albuquerque. Portales’ quintet of senior Matthew Parkey, junior Jefferson Powers and freshmen Donavin Sanchez, William Archibeque and Rick Bergman left Saturday for the 36-hole event which tees off at 8 a.m. Monday. The Rams come into the tourney as one of the favorites, although that in itself doesn’t mea...
ALBUQUERQUE — Senior Kelli Johnson earned a second runnerup finish on Saturday to help the Floyd Lady Broncos to a fifth-place team finish in Class 1A girls state track competition at the University of New Mexico. Johnson ran a time of 5:43.74 in the 1,600, a personal best by about three seconds, to finish behind only Whitney Coca of team champion Cimarron, who was clocked in 5:34.80. Johnson was second in the 3,200 on Friday after placing fifth in the 1,600 and third in the 3,200 a year ago. Cimarron cruised to the team t...
LOVINGTON — The Portales High boys were unable to qualify additional events for next week’s Class 3A state meet in Friday’s District 4-3A meet, but the PHS girls added two events to their list. Both Portales squads finished third in the four-team competition, the girls scoring 99 points while the boys finished with 93 1/2. The Lady Rams added Michaela Alexander in the 3,200 after she won the event on Friday in 13 minutes, 7 seconds, and Tara Johnson in the 400 after she placed third with a qualifying time of 1:04.44. Jordan R...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Junior Mario Salazar threw 5 1/3 innings in relief and the Portales Rams escaped two early deficits on Saturday en route to a 13-8 victory over Las Vegas Robertson in a first-round game of the Class 3A state baseball tournament. The Rams (14-12), seeded 12th in the 16-team field, advance to a 3 p.m. quarterfinal at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque against fourth-seeded Bloomfield, which beat Grants 14-4 on Friday night. “Mario Salazar wanted the game today,” PHS coach Arturo Ontiveros said. “He p... Full story
The following criminal dispositions were recently filed in the 9th Judicial District Court: • Aaron Tanner, 34, pleaded guilty to theft and fraudulent use of a credit card, evidence tampering, issuing a worthless check valued at more than $25 (two counts) and forgery. He will serve 18 months in prison, followed by five years supervised probation, with credit for 18 months imprisonment, and ordered to pay fines and fees. • Eugenia Smith, 35, pleaded guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia and was sentenced to one year les... Full story
No Cinco de Mayo would be complete without the breaking of piñatas, colorful Mexican ballet folklorico dancers and plenty of festive fiesta foods. Hundreds of people attended the Portales Cinco de Mayo celebration at Lindsey Park on Saturday which featured all of the above, plus performances by Native American dancers from Farmington and brought in by Eastern New Mexico University, Christian songs by Antoinette Urioste, a performance by the Unbreakable rap group, Spanish songs by Andy Mason and more. “Some people think Ci...
Western Bank will have a new home and a new location off of Chicago Avenue in the future, but Connie Landry, executive vice president for Western Bank, said the new building is still in the preliminary stages of that planning. The current Western Bank office is located at 203 S. Main St. (in the downtown area). According to Landry, it’s been located in the downtown area for more than 10 years. The new Western Bank building will be located at 220 N. Chicago Ave. “We’ve been interested in a different location for quite some...
Staff and wire reports ALBUQUERQUE – The Portales News-Tribune won an award for second place in column writing Saturday at the 2005 New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors award banquet. The entry was by Managing Editor Karl Terry for a column entitled “Grandma Terry” remembering the life of his grandmother following her death last fall. Terry’s columns appear each Sunday in the PNT. The PNT’s sister newspaper, the Clovis News Journal took home five first-place and 16 total awards at the banquet. The CNJ staff earned fi...
Mary C. Gonzales Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Mary C. Gonzales, 69, of Clovis, died Friday, May 5, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center. Born on May 22, 1936, in Vaughn, she married Alfonso Gonzales on Nov. 13, 1963. She enjoyed her grandchildren, playing bingo and cards, putting together puzzles and crocheting, family members said. She was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Senon Aragon and Floripa Tafoya Aragon; her husband,... Full story
Editorial We’ll abstain from clichés about rearranging deck chairs, but the personnel changes at the White House in recent weeks, while they may matter greatly to inside-the-Beltway pundits and the immediate families of those involved, don’t suggest that significant policy changes are in the offing. That’s unfortunate, because changing policy in significant ways would do much more to salvage the final two-plus years of the president’s time in office than having different people do the same old things. Domestically, as Grove...
My wife has been confused throughout most of our 24 years of marriage. Somehow she’s under the impression that she married Bob Vila but she actually got something more akin to Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor. She’s been undeterred by my lack of skills with a hammer and saw, however, and continually comes up with new home improvement projects. The advent of satellite/cable TV and all the home improvement shows hasn’t helped a bit. She sees some bubble-headed blonde on TV being taught to give her bathroom the look of a Roman pal... Full story
Here at the Trivia Memorial Library (Motto: If you wish you were young again, think algebra), we’ve been gathering thought-provoking quotes from icons so that someday we can publish them and make big bucks. These samples are gleaned from politicians, industry leaders and bureaucrats, followed by movie stars and sports figures. •“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I’m just the one to do it.” (A former Texas senator who shall remain nameless) •“Outside of the killings, Washington ha...
With millions of tiny ink dots, some smaller than a speck of sand, Valerie Romano pays homage to mankind’s closest living relative — chimpanzees. The former Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University instructor stumbled upon her greatest artistic inspiration late in life. She was 45 years old when she volunteered to work in the world’s largest sanctuary for former laboratory chimps in Alamogordo. Her experience there yielded 21 intimate ink and acrylic portraits of the chimps. “I was really struggling with my... Full story
Former Clovis High School standout Cisti Greenwalt is trying to get tough. Greenwalt is in the Sacramento Monarchs’ training camp for the second straight year, and she hopes to make the final roster this time around by getting mean in the post. “She needs to be more aggressive,” Monarchs coach John Whisenant said. “She goes up for a rebound once, and if she doesn’t get it, she stands. She needs to bang until she gets it or it goes the other way.” The 6-foot-5 former Texas Tech star was cut by the Monarchs last year and sp... Full story
Melrose’s Cedar Rush leads during the first lap of the 800 meters. Rush won the event in a record time of 1:58.53. (De Baca County News: Scott Stinnett) ALBUQUERQUE — Melrose senior Cedar Rush normally doesn’t run the 800. On Friday, he ran it and he ran it well. Rush won the 800 meters with a time of 1:58.53, a new state record. The previous record of 2:00.24 was set by Fort Sumner’s Roel Canales in 2003. “I was really trying to concentrate on my stride,” Rush said. “I was trying to make my stride consistent. “After I cros...
How Mustangs senior Gabby Parra goes, West Mesa goes. Parra, who has signed to play at the University of New Mexico, has pitched every game this season for the Mustangs and, so far, things have gone nearly perfectly. “If you have Randy Johnson,” Mustangs coach Leonard Garcia asked, “why would you pitch anybody else?” West Mesa’s and Parra’s records are one in the same — 23-2. Accordingly, the Mustangs nabbed the top-seed in the Class 5A state tournament. West Mesa hosts Clovis at 11 a.m. today. Parra, the reigning Gato...
Clovis junior Cade Wheeler pitches during the Cats’ 19-1 win over Texico on Tuesday. (CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks) With one spectacular and one solid start in his last two games, senior Sean Cruce got the nod as the Wildcats’ starting pitcher when 13th-seeded Clovis goes on the road to face fourth-seeded Cibola at 1 p.m. today in the first round of the Class 5A state tournament. Cruce pitched a complete game shutout in an 8-0 victory against Carlsbad in April. Cruce’s gem gave the Cavemen, the state tournament’s top-see... Full story
Two Clovis residents have been arrested in connection with attempting to smuggle 30 pounds of marijuana into the city, according to police. Officials have declined to identify the 24- and 34-year-olds arrested, citing an ongoing investigation. Otero County Sheriff’s office narcotics officers made the first arrest late Thursday at a border patrol checkpoint on U.S. 54, between Alamogordo and El Paso. Police discovered the marijuana in the seat cushions of the back seat of a pickup truck, according to Agent Rick Ramsdale w...
Muleshoe resident Augustine Medina of Mariachi Nueva Generacion strums the bass guitar as his group performs at the Cinco de Mayo banquet Friday at Eastern New Mexico University. (Freedom Newspapers: Karl Terry) Eastern New Mexico University Hispanic Affairs Department members celebrated the accomplishments of Hispanic students and faculty while celebrating Cinco de Mayo in Portales. The students and faculty members were recognized during a banquet by the members of ENMU’s Hispanic Affairs and Multicultural Affairs d... Full story
Diane Denish, New Mexico’s first woman lieutenant governor, will be the featured speaker at spring commencement at Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday, May 13. Approximately 367 students will receive degrees during the commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. at Greyhound Arena. This will include the awarding of 285 bachelor’s degrees, 79 master’s degrees and three associate’s degrees. Denish is a lifelong New Mexican who was raised in Hobbs. As the former chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, she has lived through...
ALBUQUERQUE — The first step to a possible Class 1-3A girls state team tennis title was easy as expected for the Portales Lady Rams. Now the real work begins. Portales, the tourney’s top seed, lost more than three games in only one match Friday in steamrolling the Lady Warriors 9-0. The Lady Rams now take on fifth-seeded Santa Fe St. Michael’s, which cruised past Lovington 8-1, at 8 a.m. today at Sierra Vista Tennis Complex. The other semifinal, at 11 a.m., pits third-seeded Sandia Prep, an 8-1 winner over Santa Fe Prep, agai...
