By Fred Nathan and Allen Sanchez: Guest columnists The Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce (GACC) recently proposed that New Mexico reimpose the tax on food. If the GACC wants to raise taxes, a wiser strategy would be a targeted tax on junk food, rather than making necessities like fruits, vegetables and baby food more expensive […]
Take time to let mom know she is appreciated
May 9, 2009
Freedom New Mexico Moms are the greatest producers of wealth among us. They are greater and more important than glamour stars, politicians, business leaders and all the people our culture worships with a misguided understanding of value and wealth. A Jewish proverb says: “God could not be everywhere, and so he made mothers.” Abolitionist preacher […]
Two words tacked onto the ‘Great Commission’
May 7, 2009
By Curtis Shelburne: Religion columnist My wife and I and some fine friends just returned from a four-day motorcycle trip to the Texas Hill Country. It was wonderful! As we were rolling back into the Greater Muleplex on Sunday evening, trip meters rolled to 1200 miles. It takes time to get back into the normal […]
Two Words Tacked Onto the “Great Commission”
May 5, 2009
By Curtis K. Shelburne: CNJ columnist My wife and I and some fine friends just returned from a four-day motorcycle trip to the Texas Hill Country. It was wonderful! As we were rolling back into the Greater Muleplex on Sunday evening, trip meters rolled to 1200 miles. It takes time to get back into the […]
April 5, 2009 On the shelves
April 4, 2009
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn features the deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp as he wages a counter-terrorism war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier who is as dedicated and as lethal as they come. iPod and iTunes by Guy Hart-Davis shows how to download music, videos, photos, podcasts, calendars, […]
Editorial: Government funds boost cost of education
December 4, 2008
Perhaps the best known economic tenet is that of supply and demand: The more scarce something is, the greater its value. The obvious corollary is just as true but often ignored: the greater the supply, the lower the value. That truth applies to money just at it does to anything else. These facts are only […]
Michelle Obama answers Q and A
September 4, 2008
Military families have never had a greater voice than today.
April 13, 1921
April 11, 2007
Cotton’s Café, next door to Taylor’s Tire & Battery Co., promised “You will not have to wait long for your meals here” and encouraged potential customers to “Try us on!” … E. B. Reed’s “Greater Shows” were on their way to Clovis. The traveling show featured a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and an aero swing.
‘Ownership’ means taking responsibility
January 20, 2005
Freedom Newspapers The “Ownership Society” seems poised to make a comeback, just in time for the president’s second term. Some might remember the Ownership Society: It made a brief appearance during last fall’s campaign, as the president and his handlers took a half-hearted stab at what the elder George Bush once called “the vision thing,” […]
Domenici seeks funding for city 911 dispatching
May 1, 2004
By Darrell Todd Maurina U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici has asked the federal government to pay $368,000 to the City of Clovis for 911 dispatching, now that Cannon Air Force Base has discontinued its own independent dispatch services. According to Domenici’s office, Cannon ended its own service in 2002, forcing Clovis to provide the same services. […]
Qwest touts broadband
August 29, 2003
John Badal (center), president of Qwest’s New Mexico operations, helps Danielle Welsh (left) and Marie DePatti, both of Albuquerque, look for driving directions on the Internet from Clovis to Albuquerque on Thursday at Clovis-Carver Public Library. By Jack King While many of us still don’t know the difference between an Internet “site” and a “link” […]
