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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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There are decent people, without a selfish hidden agenda, who support increases in minimum wages as a means to help low-skilled workers, and there are other decent people, with the identical goal, who strongly oppose increases in the minimum wage. So the question is: How can people who share the same goals, helping low-skilled workers, come up with polar opposite means that produce polar opposite results? It all depends on one’s initial premise. It would do us some good to make our initial premises explicit and check them a...
Leroy Segura Sr. hugs his niece, Alisha Segura, on Tuesday at his home in Clovis. (CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle) Leroy “J.R.” Segura Jr. had already earned a Purple Heart when he returned to Iraq for a second tour of duty in July. Returning to the war-ravaged country just six months after his first tour was difficult for his son, Leroy Segura Sr. said. He was tired and wanted some down time but didn’t complain, his father said. “He thought it was too soon,” Leroy Segura sa...
Marlena Hartz: CNJ staff writer Private money can be a mighty resource for public schools, and it should be tapped locally, according to Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm. “As many graduates as we have who live right here in Clovis, we are missing a real opportunity for that community to give money to our district, tax-free,” Seidenwurm said. The superintendent introduced the idea of forming an educational foundation Tuesday during a school board meeting. She estimated the district could garner at lea... Full story
A quality-of-life study conducted by an Internet subsidiary of American City Business Journals has ranked Portales 15th in the nation among micropolitan areas. “Isn’t that something? I’m surprised we’re even on the list,” Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Manager Sharon King said. “How interesting. I think it’s absolutely wonderful and I wholeheartedly agree,” she said. According to Bizjournals.com, micropolitan areas are smaller than metropolitan areas, usually consisting of a county or cluster of counties econom... Full story
