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Curry County will host a pair of public forums Monday and Oct. 12 regarding the general election questions for the first phase of the proposed Curry County Criminal Justice Complex. Both forums begin at 6 p.m. at the Clovis-Carver Public Library’s North Annex. Those attending will be able to ask questions about the two ballot questions, and view a video tour of the courthouse and detention center. Voters are being asked to support separate property and gross receipts tax increases for the $33 million to pay for the first...
We know change is hard. But after more than a decade of nearly the same Sunday comics lineup, we believe it is time to introduce some new features. Beginning Sunday, old standards such as Peanuts, Doonesbury, Dennis the Menace and others will be replaced by characters and storylines we think are more relevant to the 21st century and our readers’ daily lives. Among those joining the Sunday stable are Pickles, Baby Blues, In the Bleachers and Baldo — comics many of you may already know. Then there are some upstart...
Freedom New Mexico: Clarence Plank Eastern New Mexico University has 10 foreign-born players on its 30-man roster. The Hounds are ranked 17th in this week's NCAA Division II poll. The Eastern New Mexico University men’s soccer team is as culturally diverse as some professional soccer teams. There are six Brazilain, two English, one Canadian and one Japanese player on the team’s 30-man roster. Danillo Santos and his older brother Diego Santos came to ENMU from Natal, Brazil, for an education and to play soccer. Danillo...
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Eastern New Mexico University a $2.873 million grant over five years for its role as a Hispanic-serving institution. The four-year college will use the grant to expand opportunities for Hispanic, low-income and other graduate students. Its eligibility for the grant was based on the institution’s percentage of Hispanic students (more than 32 percent in fall 2010) and its large number of students who are categorized as low-income. Over the five years, ENMU will revise curricula...
Clarence Plank The Eastern New Mexico University men’s soccer team is as culturally diverse as some professional soccer teams. There are six Brazilain, two English, one Canadian and one Japanese player on the team’s 30-man roster. Danillo Santos and his older brother Diego Santos came to ENMU from Natal, Brazil, for an education and to play soccer. Danillo said in Brazil after a player reaches the age of 17 or 18 years old, they can become a professional soccer player or go to college. He said the universities there are...
A celebrity New York City chef says he could eat raw Valencia peanuts all day. Chef, restaurant owner, culinary teacher and cookbook author Suvir Saran visited the Portales area Wednesday and Thursday on his quest to better understand peanut farming and farmers. Since India is the world’s largest producer, user and importer of chile, the New Delhi-born chef said, he was also interested in New Mexico’s chiles. The National Peanut Board sponsored Saran’s trips to farms growing different varieties of peanuts in Virginia,...
There’s a famous story that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I looked it up, and it turns out Nero supposedly played an instrument called a cithara. There is another problem with that story. He couldn’t have fiddled, because fiddles weren’t invented until much later. There’s even disagreement over whether he played any musical instrument at all. Either way, the cithara was a stringed instrument similar to a guitar. I’m thinking maybe that famous saying – “music feeds your soul” -- applied to him in that...
Freedom New Mexico T he White House wants additional power to snoop on private e-mail and social- network communications in the interest of national security. These are thorny issues, not easily resolved. Our advice is to go slowly. Once government intervenes, even for the best of motives, that authority rarely is rescinded. There also promises to be unintended consequences and perhaps more damage than benefit if the federal government plows ahead without regard to tradeoffs and costs. The New York Times recently reported...
When working out what should guide public institutions and policies, those who chime in have advanced various proposals and they have often been divided into two groups. Members of one of these advance certain basic principles that ought to ground the institutions and policies, while those of the other suggest the way to decide is by focusing on anticipated consequences, never mind any purportedly firm principles. In the United States, the former group is called deontologists while the latter consequentialists. Deontologists...
Curtis K. Shelburne The amazing wordsmith G. K. Chesterton once observed that ideas (presumably, bad ones) can only be conquered by other ideas (presumably better ones), and, alas, “modern politicians have no ideas.” Ain’t it the truth? And when they do flirt with an idea or two, they seem to latch onto only really bad ones. I always enjoy the writing of Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will. In a recent column, Will pointed his readers to a fascinating book by Daniel Okrent entitled The Rise and Fall of Prohibit...