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Tax credit proposed for science graduates
Text while driving ban proposed
First flu deaths of the season
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Tax credit proposed for science graduates
Text while driving ban proposed
First flu deaths of the season
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Tax credit proposed for science graduates
Text while driving ban proposed
First flu deaths of the season
Senator introduces bill to ban texting while driving
Despite the traffic collisions, texting and driving is not
against the law in
The
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration indicates crashes caused
by texting while driving are 23 times worse than those where drivers are paying
attention. Sending or receiving a text takes a driver’s eyes off the road for
nearly five seconds. At 55 miles per hour, that’s blindly driving the length of
an entire football field.
A texting-while-driving bill has never survived the New Mexico
However, cities like Albuquerque , Rio Rancho and
Santa Fe
Wirth hopes New
Mexico
Gov. declares propane emergency
High
demand for propane across much of the West has prompted New Mexico Gov. Susana
Martinez to declare an emergency.
Governors in Nevada
and Arizona
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First flu deaths of the season
Steve Pearce gives speech
Leg. approves operating budget
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First flu deaths of the season
Steve Pearce gives speech
Leg. approves operating budget
State confirms first flu deaths of the season
The cases involve a 91-year-old woman and a 94-year-old woman from
Rio Arriba
County , a 67-year-old woman from Bernalillo County ,
a 57-year-old woman from Lea County and a 56-year-old man from Chaves County
The providers and laboratories that report flu cases to the state Department of
Health on a weekly basis say nearly 5 percent of patient visits last week were
for flu-like illnesses.
Gary Smith indicted
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| Gary Smith |
The indictment
accuses Gary Smith of aggravated stalking or harassment, criminal damage to
property and tampering with a motor vehicle. The district attorney's office
says the charges stem from three separate incidents. The last one occurred New
Year's Day when Smith allegedly violated the terms of his release when he drove
past the home of Janice Arnold-Jones, the Republican nominee in the 1st
District congressional race.
An arraignment for Smith has not yet been
scheduled. He remains in custody at the Metropolitan
Detention Center
in Albuquerque
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New system skews unemployment claims
Three new senate committee chairmen
Gary Smith indicted
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New system skews unemployment claims
Three new senate committee chairmen
Gary Smith indicted
State Senate has three new committee chairmen
Three new chairmen will lead Senate committees,
including ones dealing with education and health care.
Much of the work of the
Legislature is done in committees and chairmen exert considerable influence by
setting the agenda for their panels.
Sen. John Sapien, a Corrales Democrat,
will serve as Education Committee chairman. Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, an
Albuquerque Democrat, will head the Public Affairs Committee. Its
responsibilities include health care measures.
Sen. Peter Wirth, a Santa Fe
Democrat, takes over as chairman of the Conservation Committee, which handles
legislation involving water, energy and other issues.
New system skews unemployment claims
A new computer system is skewing the
data on unemployment claims in
The state's "fully integrated tax and
claims system" launched Jan. 6. But because the switchover was done Jan. 1
to Jan. 6, those collecting unemployment were unable to re-certify or file new
claims for unemployment from New
Mexico
Because of the shutdown, the
number of claims being reported to the federal government is way down.
The
Santa Fe New Mexican it says the data is showing a 75 percent decrease in
claims for the week ending Jan. 5.
Swickard: The history of changing history
© 2012 Michael Swickard, Ph.D. History is a strange subject because it depends on perspective and each of us has a different perspective. Plus, history is dynamic in that it changes with changing perspectives and those changes happen right when you think something so fixed cannot change. Much of what we think is history is not. Example: there is a widespread notion of the warm welcome American fighting men got when they came home from World War Two. In fact, most citizens today will say that the fighting men of WWII came home to thunderous applause and unconditional love. Our history books today proclaim it. They were the greatest generation.
However, this is an example of revisionist history. One of the most revered men in WWII was a sergeant who drew cartoons of the men at the front. Bill Mauldin created his “Willie and Joe” cartoons from the front lines and it captivated America as much as the writings of Ernie Pyle. Both told and showed a side of the fighting men that was funny and tragic at the same time.
Bill Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, New Mexico near Cloudcroft and enlisted in the Army in 1940. He had always liked to draw so he started drawing what he saw in his spare time as a soldier on the front lines. After a while his drawings got more and more compliments. Eventually he ended up on the staff of the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes.
In 1944 his cartoons were put in a book, Up Front, which won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize. Fast forward to the year 1947 when newly civilian cartoonist Bill Mauldin is back home and publishes his next book, Back Home. Among other things it tells about the way returning soldiers were treated by the folks back home. It was not, according to Mauldin, the way we now think of how those soldiers were treated. They were not treated well.
If you are interested in seeing the returning soldiers through the eyes of someone in 1947, get his book. The poor treatment of returning soldiers made Mauldin mad at an ungrateful nation. We have no sense of his and others outrage now. Again, our history books do not tell that story. Rather, we read about how well soldiers were treated. Who are you to believe, the history books now or Bill Mauldin’s book printed in 1947?
While I have an affinity for stories of the past, I recognize the bane of history, modern revision to make the story, “Politically Correct.” Sometimes as more data is available it is appropriate to rewrite history somewhat, but those instances are few and far between. More often history is changed when there is a change of perspective. History is conditional based upon the needs of that generation. Read full column
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