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President Joe Biden is set to visit New Mexico next week as part of a three-state swing through the West promoting efforts to combat climate change. The visit will also include stops in Arizona and Utah. The president's last visit to New Mexico was in the final days before last year's midterm election. He also traveled to the state amid the devastating wildfires last summer. In next week's visit, a White House official said, Biden is expected to tout provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act addressing climate change and...
Noel is a 1-year-old, physically disabled goat that has gone through three wheelchairs in the past 19 months. Despite not being able to use her back legs, owner Sara Williams of Clovis said this little goat always has energy to jump off the porch and race around the yard. When Noel isn't working on physical therapy, she is enjoying bath time in the sink or napping after all that yard activity....
I am writing this column a bit early this week — mostly as a defensive measure. As long as I’m writing, I’m under air conditioning. And I’m not mowing the second half of my yard. I mowed the first 5,000 square yards of my yard this morning, but then I had a noon meeting. Since it’s 103 degrees now, I’m willing to wait until later to finish. The legendary David “Davy” Crockett had already served in the U.S. Congress (from Tennessee), but he lost the 1835 election and fa...
I’m spending the dog days of summer complaining about the soul-sapping heat, and tweaking my teaching materials for the fall. Because of that, I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole of sorts. I always reference my dad in leadership presentations, as an example of honor and integrity, and doing the right thing even when it’s hard. Memories flooded my mind while I worked on my slides. I take those unexpected moments as a gift, a hug from heaven. I’m grateful to have another chance...
From fire truck sirens to the musical hum of trumpets playing on the back of parade floats, activities for Border Town Days Saturday attracted over 2,000 residents. They lined the sides of U.S. 60/70 for the 56th annual Border Town Days parade on Saturday morning in Texico City Park. The annual celebration is a family-friendly event that brings the combined neighboring communities of Texico and Farwell, Texas, for a day-long celebration. Chairman of the event for 19 years,...
When I was a kid, new in the world, I had a different view of things compared to my grown-up life. There were sports that, as a kid, I thought were quite deadly: Golf and paddle tennis. Oh, and department store dress racks were deadly things too. I’ll explain. When I was a kid my dad took a job managing a hotel in Hawai’i. Among the tunes my dad would play on his hi-fi stereo would be those by Alfred Apaka, the great Hawai’ian singer. I knew he was a great Hawai’ian singer because my dad said he was a great Hawai’i...
On this date ... 1937: The Clovis Evening News-Journal reported farmer A.G. Kenyon had a well pumping 90,000 gallons of water an hour. Kenyon, whose crops east of Clovis included peanuts, wheat and sweet potatoes, said his well ran 11 hours a day. 1958: A 37-year-old Clovis woman was fined $25 for discharging a firearm in the city limits. She said she was attempting to bring her husband home after he’d been “gambling all night” in a home at 515 W. First. She said she fired...
Clovis Assistant City Manager Claire Burroughes gathered city commissioners and Clovis residents on Monday to provide input on what projects they believed should be included in the city’s Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan. She said the goal of the meeting was to see what the public sees as needs for the city and to input that information into the list of ICIP projects or possibly rearrange items for higher priority before it is presented to the Clovis City Commission on Thursday. Burroughes said that Monday’s mee...
Recently I was asked how I voted on a bill in the Legislature. I was interested in why that person, a friend of mine, didn’t already know! So, I sat down and explained how they can watch how I voted on any piece of legislation or how I voted on bills in the past and how they can monitor my votes going forward. Every voter should have immediate access to their representative and senator’s votes. The website is: www.nmlegis.gov. Anyone can search any legislator’s votes on any bill before the House or Senate and with a littl...
Despite the Republican Party’s routine claims it wants to increase its appeal with non-white voters, it often seems to find a way to impede any progress made. Such supposed attempts encountered a series of roadblocks last month when two GOP lawmakers made racially offensive comments, resulting in fierce condemnation from civil rights groups and further weakening the party’s message that it is a large and politically diverse tent. Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Arizona Rep...
The weekend brought news that several hundred Cannon Air Force Base personnel and seven MC-130J aircraft are transferring to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. That’s supposed to happen “in the upcoming fiscal years,” according to a news release from New Mexico’s congressional delegation. But Mayor Mike Morris said the announcement is no reason to worry about Cannon’s future. “(A)ny news that the Air Force is moving a squadron from CAFB is definitely troubling,” Morris said. “Howev...
The City of Clovis Commission will be starting the fiscal year 2024 with a $67 million cash balance in the budget, which is $7 million more than what was predicted in the preliminary budget that was hosted in May, said City Finance Director LeighAnn Melancon told the Clovis City Commission Monday in a special meeting. At Monday’s meeting the City of Clovis Commission approved the 2023 fiscal year end financial report and fiscal year 2024’s final budget, as presented by Melancon. The final report for fiscal 2023 approved on Mo...
The Clovis High School band and Clovis Police Department will assist Cannon Air Force Base in an exercise scheduled for Saturday that is designed to help school children at Cannon cope with deployments of parents, which often mean long absence from home. The exercise is called Operation KIDS, and it simulates a deployment situation experience for children ages 5-13. According to a flyer for the event, the” rules of engagement” include having fun, making new friends, and learning about the deployment experience. The event wil...
The Portales Municipal School District has filed a response to a federal lawsuit by a former teacher who claims she was forced to resign her teaching job due to pressure from district officials. The response does not go into detail but denies the claims of Kelly Cradock, a former Portales High School teacher, who sued the school district in federal court after she claims to have been forced to resign for teaching the book “The Hate U Give” to her freshman honors English class. Cradock’s lawsuit, filed June 16, named as defen...
A motion to keep the names of former Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball players under seal is among documents recently filed in the former basketball players’ lawsuit against ENMU and others. The former players allege in their complaint that the husband of their ENMU coach sexually assaulted them in “treatment” sessions, which the husband has denied. The motion noted that only Glen De Los Reyes, the husband of former ENMU women’s basketball coach Meghan De Los Reyes, opposes keeping the names of the plaintiffs c...
The transfer of about 350 military personnel and several MC-130J aircraft from Cannon Air Force Base to an Arizona air base over the next several years is part of a larger effort to create a new Special Operations wing at the Arizona base. That's according to Air Force and Congressional officials. Cannon is among three Air Force bases that will contribute to the new "Power Projection Wing" of the Air Force Special Operations Command at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Ariz. The...
The former superintendent of House Municipal Schools was honored as New Mexico Schools Superintendent of the Year just a few months after the school district ousted her. About the same time Bonnie Lightfoot was honored by the New Mexico Coalition of Educational Leaders, a petition was filed in district court that stated the House school board would pay her $180,000 in a settlement agreement. During a New Mexico Coalition of Educational Leaders conference in Albuquerque in...
