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Reported cases of the flu in New Mexico are down 50% from the baseline prediction for a normal season, which typically runs from the beginning of October until early April. Influenza-like illness (ILI), which is what the state tracks all flu strands under, accounted for just 1.7% of patient visits to healthcare facilities during the last week of 2020. The New Mexico Department of Health predicted the baseline for ILI visits to be 3.4%. The United States as a whole is reporting flu cases below its projected expectations. At...
CLOVIS - Forced online for the first time in a history that's spanned parts of four decades, a Clovis celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. covered successes, obstacles and the work that still remains toward achieving the slain civil rights leader's dreams. In place of the normal scholarship breakfast the Saturday before and the walk through the city streets on the day of, Martin Luther King Jr. Committee members and speakers went to a Zoom meeting format Monday morning...
RICHARDSON, Texas — The Lone Star Conference has scrapped plans for a spring football season, and will begin its volleyball and soccer seasons as soon as next week following decisions from its Council of Presidents. The conference initially moved those four sports — football, volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer — from the fall to a potential spring timeframe on Aug. 7, two days after the NCAA Division II President’s Council canceled fall championships. Eastern New Mexico and Western New Mexico both opted out of the voll...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the mob that stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 was “fed lies” and “provoked by the president” and others into violence. McConnell’s words on the Senate floor Tuesday were some of the strongest he’s used to tie President Donald Trump to the attack that disrupted the certification of the Electoral College votes that elected Joe Biden as the next president. “They tried to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like,” McCo...
New Mexico’s Energy Transition Act became the law of the land in 2019, setting the state on a path to 100% clean electricity by 2045. But three senators now want to reform it, potentially opening a new can of worms in this year’s legislative session. The law, approved by a strong bipartisan majority, requires New Mexico’s public utilities to replace fossil fuels with 50% renewables by 2030, 80% by 2040 and 100% carbon-free generation by 2045. Electric cooperatives have until 2050. The law has already accelerated Public Servi...
Change. I love it. Yes, and I also love each morning to throw open the blinds immediately to retina-scorching sunlight and then to jump into pep-rally-volume conversation. If you believe any of the wretched falsehoods above, you surely don’t know me at all. If you think I love “change” ... Evidently, to be a “progressive,” not a label I love, desire, trust, or in any way covet, one must accept the notion that change itself is always change for the better. “What we need is cha...
An Otero County commissioner who said there could be "blood running out" of the U.S. Capitol building on Inauguration Day was arrested Sunday in Washington, D.C., for his alleged role in the riots at the Capitol earlier this month. FBI spokesman Frank Fisher said Couy Griffin, 47, was detained Sunday afternoon by U.S. Capitol Police, who then notified the FBI. Griffin had a warrant for his arrest on a charge of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or...
On this date … 1951: The Portales Lambs defeated the Clovis Kittens in the junior high Friendship Basketball Tournament hosted by Clovis. The Lambs improved their record to 11-0 with the 28-24 win. W.S. Pearson scored 11 points to lead Portales’ scoring. Rosedale finished third in the tourney, edging Floyd, 16-13. 1956: An F-86 jet pilot had died after his plane crashed near Tucumcari. First Lt. Roger B. Cox, 27, of Clovis was killed. Jack Bollinger of Tucumcari, who was doi...
New Mexico and the rest of the United States are in the early stages of a mass vaccination effort to crush the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccines now on the market are proving to be incredibly effective at preventing severe cases of the virus, but the national vaccine rollout has been complicated by logistical challenges as states wrestle with how to get the vaccines out quickly, while also targeting residents most at risk. Here's a Q&A intended to help readers better understand how New Mexico is pursuing vaccination. Q. Is New...
BOYS RANCH, Texas — Farwell’s boys made short work of Boys Ranch on Saturday, rolling to a 27-6 first-quarter lead and handing the Roughriders a 72-32 loss their District 3-2A opener. Senior guard Jonathan Mora led three Steers in double figures with 22 points as Farwell (18-1 overall) cruised to its 17th consecutive victory. Junior Grayson Waldrop finished with 13 points for the Steers, while senior Leefe Actkinson had 12. Boys Ranch (0-2, 0-2), which lost its opener on Friday at district foe Bovina after having its sea...
TEXICO - Even when you're part of a program that's won four consecutive state championships, it's still difficult to get college looks playing at Class 3A Texico. Now imagine doing it when your body of work largely occurred two years ago, and it's even more impressive Seth Griego found himself on Monday at the Texico Sports Arena, signing a letter of intent as friends and family dressed in Oklahoma Panhandle State shirts looked on. Griego, a 5-foot-9, 165-pound pitcher and out...
I spent a good half hour recently digging through boxes in search of a handful of photos I took during one of the most beautiful and serene evenings of my life. When I found them, I was transported back - as I hoped I would be - to a hushed and snowy night in February of 1986. I lived near Washington, D.C., then and worked for a high school civic education program. For several weeks each year, our entire staff moved into a large hotel in the district where we played host to...
If there was ever a moment to reflect on the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this is that moment. There’s a good reason why we created a federal holiday to honor this fallen civil rights leader. He led us to our better selves by taking on an issue older than this nation itself. Racism is deeply, deeply rooted in America and yet King led a movement that permanently disrupted its power over us. Among the changes the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s brought in was a popular acknowledgement that all peo...
No matter how you feel about them, U.S. presidents are both too powerful and figureheads without any real power. It seems contradictory, but it’s true. A president has the power to sign unconstitutional legislation and impose unconstitutional executive orders — such as Trump’s ban on bump stocks — but unless he does what those with the real power want him to do, he loses the power to do anything. This defeats the point of gaining the office. So presidents usually play the gam...
Failure to wear masks can do more than spread COVID-19, as some of the intruders who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week are finding. It also reveals faces to security cameras, government investigators and online private eyes, who’ve used those bare visages and other telling clues to identify many of the miscreants. As a result, not only have many of them been hit with criminal charges, but several were summarily fired from their jobs. As a group, the mob inside the Capitol certainly was breaking the law in the most serious o...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Manuel Gonzales, 55, driving under the influence of liquor, speeding, open container • Paula Dowell-Hurd, 32, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug • Antonio Gallegos, 23, battery, kidnapping, probation violation • Jeremy Rainey, 32, child abuse-intentional, battery against a household member • Darnell James, 47, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Greg Nunez, 38, failure to appear on misdemeanor...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will be a group of seven when it meets Thursday, with District 4 Commissioner R.L. “Rube” Render’s resignation effective today. The meeting will determine just how the commission gets back to eight. The meeting, which will be held virtually, is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. and will be livestreamed on the city of Clovis website and Facebook page and broadcast on Suddenlink Channel 10. When a vacancy is created in the City Commission, the city charter notes, “the remaining members of the Commi...
CLOVIS - The Clovis Community College Cultural Arts Series will have its first performance of the season Tuesday, when classical music trio Take 3 provides a virtual performance. The 7 p.m. streaming performance is the first performance that will be covered under the series' Virtual Access Pass. The pass is available for $19.50, and will cover the Take 3 show and any virtual Cultural Arts Series performances for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year. Kolby Rains, director...
Both Curry and Roosevelt counties are showing improvements in the last week on COVID-19 infections, with Roosevelt County reporting just two new infections during Monday’s report from the governor’s office. The state report indicated a total of 628 new infections of COVID-19, its second-straight day under 1,000 cases and third inside of seven days. Locally, Curry County accounted for 30 new infections while Roosevelt had the two. The Monday total was the best day of 2021 for the county, and its fourth time reporting sin...
CLOVIS - Organizers of a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Clovis said the event went smoothly Monday as Roden Smith Pharmacy and Clovis Family Healthcare began administering 2,500 Moderna vaccines they received from the state. Dr. Micah Lansford, head of Roden Smith Pharmacy, explained the vaccination process being housed inside the former Raintree Grocery that is scheduled to continue through Friday: Once patients have registered on the Roden Smith website and are approved for grou...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department has awarded a contract to analyze plumes at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases as an initial step in cleanup of “forever chemicals” PFAS and PFOA at both bases. Additionally, the NMED announced it would sample drinking water sources across the state to determine if per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are having impacts on other communities. The department is using much of a $1 million appropriation from the 2020 New Mexico legislative session to hire Daniel B. Stephens and A...
