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  • Biden could challenge Trump in Texas

    Dallas Morning News|Updated Jul 25, 2020

    WASHINGTON — The president’s new campaign manager scoffed Friday at the idea that Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump in Texas, despite a raft of recent polls showing a dead heat and one that has the Democrat leading by 5 points. “I would love — I would invite the Biden campaign to play in Texas,” Bill Stepien told reporters in a state-of-the-race briefing call. “They should play hard. They should go after Texas really, really heavily — you know, spend a lot of money in the Houston and Dallas media markets. “I would invite th...

  • Biden under new pressure for VP pick

    Los Angeles Times|Updated Jul 25, 2020

    Joe Biden is approaching the most important decision of his presidential campaign — choosing the woman who will be his running mate — on political terrain that has changed dramatically since he began the search, and amid intense lobbying that has showered uncommon attention on the contenders. With the former vice president enjoying a strong polling lead over President Donald Trump, some supporters say Biden is under less pressure to make a game-changing pick to galvanize voters than when he was first struggling to unify the p...

  • Restaurant battle escalates

    Albuquerque Journal|Updated Jul 25, 2020

    SANTA FE — The food fight between Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration and the New Mexico Restaurant Association is getting messier. Attorneys for the restaurant association filed a new lawsuit in the Albuquerque-based 2nd Judicial District on Friday in an attempt to force the Lujan Grisham administration to turn over documents underpinning its decision to reimpose a ban on in-person restaurant dining. In the lawsuit, the restaurant group’s attorneys claim the Department of Health has not supplied them with records re...

  • Jail log - July 26

    Updated Jul 25, 2020

    Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis ∞ Heather Sutterfield, 33, false imprisonment ∞ Moses Ortiz, 24, possession of a controlled substance ∞ Christopher Mills, 41, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Rodolfo Perez, 61, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Daniel Heil, 39, aggravated battery, aggravated assault against a household member, kidnapping, aggravated assault, larceny ∞ Chandler Lucero-Hutchinson, 25, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Stephen Levenshown, 3...

  • Meetings watch: Curry County Commission

    Updated Jul 25, 2020

    Curry County: 9 a.m. Tuesday at Commission Chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis Agenda: 1. The public may view the meeting at www.currycounty.org and on the Facebook page at Curry County, NM. 2. Anyone can contact the County Manager at [email protected] regarding any questions or comments. ∞ CONSENT AGENDA Items listed below are recommended by the County Manager for placement on the consent agenda. These items are placed on the agenda so that the Commission, by unanimous consent, can designate those routine agenda items t...

  • Meetings watch: Portales City Council

    Updated Jul 25, 2020

    City of Portales: 6:30 p.m. July 28 at Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St. Portales Agenda: • Item(s) from Finance/Administration Committee & Finance Director - M. Miller, Pro-Tem/Chair & M. Rapp, Finance Director. 1. Resolution #20-21-02, 107th Fiscal Year, Final Budget Adjustments for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020. 2. Resolution #20-21-03, 107th Fiscal Year, Final (4th) Quarter Financial Report Year Ending June 30, 2020. • Public Hearing/Presentation of Final Budget for 108th Fiscal Year 2020-2021: - R. Jackson/S. Standefer,...

  • New Clovis football schedule drops - sans Hobbs

    Peter Stein|Updated Jul 25, 2020

    Normally, it's Halloween that falls in the midst of a high school football season, not Easter. But this is no normal time. The New Mexico Activities Association, in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's announcement that there would be no contact sports in the fall, has allowed for high school football to play a late winter and spring schedule. And that schedule dropped for Clovis High this past week, with the 6A Wildcats kicking off against reigning 5A champion Roswell on...

  • LSC announces fall season postponement

    Peter Stein - Staff writer|Updated Jul 25, 2020

    Perhaps someone who didn't see it coming could be termed an eternal optimist. Whatever the case, expected or unexpected, it came - the Lone Star Conference announced Friday that it is postponing its fall season, at least a bit, which will impact Eastern New Mexico University athletics. An LSC press release on Friday afternoon stated: "Given the uncertainty associated with COVID-19 and the need to fully assess the ability of member institutions to adhere to the NCAA guidelines...