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ENGINEERS HELP BRIDGE REACH 75 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world’s longest suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous to be bridged.
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Questions about protest mindset after NATO summit CHICAGO (AP) — For activists, the NATO summit in Chicago served as one big stage from which to air a broad range of grievances — not just the war in Afghanistan or other actions of the 63-year-old military alliance. In their effort to maximize turnout, organizers were quick to welcome a wide variety of interests, including Occupy protesters, immigration groups, the nation’s largest nurses union and others. But after a week of protests and rallies, the allinclusive mindset raised questions about the focus of some of the nation’s major protest movements. Were their messages becoming too dif fuse to make a difference?
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“The issue with the protests here is that everybody is kind of protesting their own thing. There’s not really a solid voice and united message against NATO,” protester Trent Carl said Monday during a demonstration at Boeing Co. headquarters organized by Occupy Chicago to oppose the company’s tax breaks. Carl, who said he was not part of the Occupy crowd, was disappointed that the week’s protests weren’t more focused on NATO. “Everybody has their own message, (and) it isn’t super -effective when you want to get a singular message across,” said Carl, who said he came out specifically to protest U.S.
and NATO actions in Yemen and Pakistan, where he has friends and family. In the days leading up to the two-day summit, nurses rallied in a downtown plaza to call for a “Robin Hood” tax on banks’ financial transactions. The next day, groups marched to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house to protest the closure of six community mental health clinics. At other times, noisy protesters snaked aimlessly through downtown streets, evading and taunting police. One activist even abandoned a march that began as an environmental protest because it had been “hijacked” by a raucous group with no focus. Then on Sunday, they all came together for the
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Protesters demonstrate outside Boeing's corporate offices Monday, in Chicago, on the final day of the NATO summit.
largest effort — a march against the NATO summit that was peaceful until the
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Grant helps NMSU researcher study chile LAS CRUCES (AP) — A graduate student researcher at New Mexico State University will head to Asia to help unravel the genetic mysteries of a disease-resistant chile. Horticulture student Greg Reeves has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to spend the summer helping study a chile known as CM334, which grows wild in Mexico. Hot peppers are one of
The setting sun is eclipsed by the moon Sunday and Roswell received a spectacular show. The sun, moon and Earth lined up for a “Ring of Fire” annular eclipse that tracked eastward along a roughly 200mile-wide, 8,500-milelong track.
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96 Yemeni soldiers killed in bombing
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility, saying in an emailed statement that the suicide attack was intended to avenge a U.S.-backed offensive against al-Qaida in a swath of southern Yemen seized by the militant movement last year. The bombing left a scene of carnage, with scores of bleeding soldiers lying on the ground as ambulances rushed to the scene. Several severed heads were on the pavement amid large pools of blood and human remains. “This is a real massacre,” said Ahmed Sobhi, one of the soldiers who witnessed the blast. “This is unbelievable. I am still shaking. The place tur ned into hell. I
Fire Dept. purchases new equipment
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allotment. The money comes from homeowner insurance,” RFD Chief Chad Hamill said. He explained that the money is then divided by the state and distributed amongst its communities.
New Mexico’s signature products. Reeves said the goal of the study is to build research partnerships with Asian countries where chiles also are a huge crop. While looking at genetic structure, Reeves will be searching for specific markers in the chile that identify resistance to phytophthora, which is caused by a fungus that leads to what far mers
end, when some protesters
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Beau Roach checks out one of the three new fire trucks obtained by the Roswell Fire Department and housed at Station 3 temporarily, Friday morning.
The City of Roswell purchased three new fire engines for the Fire Department for a total cost of $1.6 million. The vehicles were
budgeted and the purchase was partially funded by the New Mexico State Fire Fund. “We receive an annual
The two pumpers will go to Fire Stations No. 2, 501 E. McGaffey St., and No. 5, 701 W. Gayle St. The ladder truck will go to Fire Station No. 6, 1501 N. Sycamore Ave.
“We can be anywhere very quickly,” Hamill said. “We will now have one reserve unit in each of the fire stations, for those times when we are busy.”
Congressman Steve Pearce seeks re-election to District 2 post JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce, R-N.M., says he is seeking re-election to his District 2 post. If re-elected, he will serve his fifth Congressional term overall. Pearce is being challenged by longtime Democrat activist Evelyn Madrid Erhard. Aside from spending cuts, Pearce suggested reforming “the way that we spend tax payers’ dollars,” in an effort to create more
jobs. He listed taxes and regulations as two inhibitors of job creation. Pearce called for eliminating punitive requirements that stop individuals from being able to create jobs and growing their businesses. While he isn’t against regulations, Pearce said, “We should try to find the balance to where we can get whatever the objective of the regulation is without killing the jobs.” He cited the listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species, as
a punitive regulation to New Mexico’s livelihood. Additionally, regulations surrounding the spotted owl choked off thousands of jobs in New Mexico, he said. Pearce indicated that taxes in New Mexico and throughout the nation have forced many manufacturing jobs overseas. “The president himself has suggested that we need to lower the corporate tax rate and get in line with the rest of the world. I think we should go about doing
Congressman Steve Pearce
that,” Pearce said. While he agrees with
President Barack Obama on corporate tax rates, Pearce is against ObamaCare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act. He offered his own health care suggestions such as the inclusion of more preventive medicines, especially in government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; lawsuit abuse protection to cure the frivolous filing of suit; and most importantly, he said, restoring the doctor and See PEARCE, Page A3