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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Letters to the editor Every time I drive down Thornton Street in Clovis, I see another portable building on the campus of Clovis High School. When will Clovis realize enough is enough? It is an understatement that the high school is overcrowded. There are well over 1,200 students enrolled at Clovis High, hundreds more than the school was built to accommodate. However, there is a solution: Build a second high school. Some say this won’t happen because Clovis does not want to split up the football team. But since when was winni...
Memorial Day brings reflections, honoring and remembering those who have gone on before us. The importance of younger generations knowing and appreciating the principles that has made America great cannot be measured. As a child during World War II, I vividly remember the symbols of pain and sacrifice. My grandmother lived by the highway and the railroad tracks. I spent many hours waving to troop trains and army caravans. “”They are giving their lives for us,” Granny said through misty eyes. Some will not come back.” Many di... Full story
A narrow court ruling upholding one small aspect of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act highlights the problems that ensue when Congress passes feel-good legislation that turns out to be imprecise and more sweeping than in keeping with the constitutional ideal of limited government. Sloppy language in laws allows — sometimes requires — the courts to step in to interpret what the legislature really meant or should have meant. Although the current Supreme Court decision might have little practical impact, it does mark a se... Full story
Dear Dr. Black, I have a question. I live in an area prone to guerrilla grazing. It’s private land but New Mexico is a fence-out state, so it is legal for people to put cattle on other people’s land. This is unregulated, so unfenced land gets overgrazed. Then cows resort to busting fences and eating people’s trees, windshield wipers and Wal-Mart bags. I would like to grow Arizona Cypress for a windbreak — I live on the Llano and am curious if my hungry visitors will eat them. Thanks, J.R. Dear J.R., An excellent questio...
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” — T.S. Eliot, 1943 Last week’s final episode of “Frasier” left me in tears. I’ve found this TV psychiatrist’s dry sense of humor funny over the years. Frasier left the building with class, something I hope to do, too. At the end, Frasier finds himself alone. Niles and Daphne have a new baby. His dad has a new bride and Frasier’s new-found love suddenly moves to Chicago. His ex-w... Full story
State officials took control of Buena Vista Nursing Home Thursday afternoon after filing a special court petition to put the facility into receivership, a state cabinet secretary said Thursday evening. While three nursing homes are under investigation, so far Buena Vista is the only one state officials have gone to court to control, according to Michelle Lujan Grisham, secretary of the Aging and Long-Term Services Department. The other nursing homes included in the investigation were in Ruidoso and Albuquerque. Dr. Ali...
New Mexico State University students Shane Brooks, front, and Ashleigh Wilson paddle their concrete canoe which the engineering students design, build and race. Courtesy photo: Kenny Stevens. A New Mexico State University program in which engineering students design, build and race a concrete canoe would be sunk without the efforts of a 2001 Clovis High graduate and a handful of other students. New Mexico State recently won a regional competition and is headed for Rustin, Va., next month for a national competition sponsored b... Full story
Members of Clovis Pride told city commissioners Thursday they would be out in force on June 12 to help clean up the city. Clovis Pride board member Len Vohs said the group — along with city employees — will form a “posse” that will go up and down city streets identifying houses, businesses, even city facilities that violate city codes governing litter and derelict buildings. They will then turn the names and addresses over to the city’s inspection division, which may issue citations, he said. Vohs said Clovis Pride decided t...
A narrow court ruling upholding one small aspect of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act highlights the problems that ensue when Congress passes feel-good legislation which turns out to be imprecise and more sweeping than in keeping with the constitutional ideal of limited government. Sloppy language in laws allows — sometimes requires — the courts to step in to interpret what the legislature really meant or should have meant. Although the current Supreme Court decision might have little practical impact, it does mar...
