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A bill that local officials say would put the city of Roswell and its convention center on a level playing field with other municipalities in the state, failed to make its way out of a House committee on Tuesday. City officials say they are
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to try to stymie the Republican governor’s plan to strip unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights. Both houses of the ... - PAGE A6
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disappointed that Rep. Dennis Kintigh’s, RRoswell, bill failed to make it out of the House Health and Gover nment Af fairs Committee following a 2-5 vote. The legislation would allow the city to expand the Roswell Convention and Civic Center through an additional lodging tax of up to $2.50 per hotel night stay, an ability already
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bestowed on certain New Mexico municipalities. “I’m very disappointed that some legislators don’t want to let all municipalities have the equal right to have a better convention center,” said city Councilor Jason Perry, chairman of the city’s Building and Lands Committee.
SANTA FE (AP) — Lawmakers are trying to reach a compromise with Republican Gov. Susana Martinez on a $5.4 billion state budget and a proposal to trim the state’s film incentives, House Speaker Ben Lujan said Tuesday.
Lujan said a proposal is being developed to limit the amount of subsidies provided yearly for film production
Fry says assistant search soon See BUDGET, Page A3
See CONVENTION, Page A3
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Linemen for Xcel Energy power up the new sub-station on Pine Lodge Road, Tuesday afternoon.
Cadet dies in car wreck Pearce undecided on Senate run JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
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The Roswell boys basketball team had two games to stew over an 80-78 overtime loss to archrival Goddard. During that time, all the Coyotes talked about was how they didn’t take care of business against the Rockets. The Coyotes took care of business on Tuesday, though. Roswell climbed out of a two-point halftime deficit ... - PAGE B1
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• John Lawrence Beckham • Alice Marie Thompson • Mary Woodrome • Richard Dutchover • Earl Lynn Tankersley • Manuel Lara • Virginia ‘Cunie’ Lucero • Christine Graves - PAGE A6
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Roswell’s city manager says of ficials are preparing to advertise for the position of assistant city manager and that he hopes to have the position filled in the coming months. City Manager Larry Fry announced Tuesday that officials plan to advertise for the position over the course of three to four weeks. The city’s human resources department will likely post the available position in statewide publica-
New Mexico Military Institute is mourning the loss of Cadet Corey Rozell, 22, of Whitefield, Maine, who died from injuries sustained in a car accident Friday on Interstate 10 near Deming. Rozell, enrolled in NMMI’s U.S. Coast Guard prepatory cadet program, was not wearing a seat belt. “The corps of cadets is a family, and we have suffered the loss of one of our family members,” Brig. Gen. Richard V. Geraci, NMMI commandant of cadets, said in a press release Tuesday. “It’s something we don’t want to have happen but we have to accept it and we must mourn his loss by remem-
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bering his life and what he meant to each of us.” The accident is still
Congressman Steve Pearce, R-N.M., says he has yet to make a decision on whether to run for Jeff Bingaman’s, DN.M., soon-to-be-vacant seat in 2012, but that it’s something that he’s taking “a serious” look into. The federal lawmaker made the comments following a town hall meeting at the Artesia Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night, where he discussed the challenges and obstacles of the nation’s debt and job creation, that currently face policy makers in Washington. Pearce said he has not
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Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., hosted a town hall at the Artesia Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday.
given too much thought on the issue and that more pressing matters in the coming months are
waiting for him on the House floor. “We haven’t ruled it See PEARCE, Page A3
Chaves County emergency services receives helping hand See CADET, Page A3
In preparation for the upcoming wildfire season, New Mexico Wing Civil Air Patrol signed a letter of understanding with Chaves County last week, making it easier for it to respond to local emergencies. Authorities say the agreement allows the city of Roswell and Chaves County emergency manager to
bypass state channels by directly requesting air support or other emergency services from NMCAP, a civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force that conducts search and rescue missions and disaster relief operations. “This is going to be such an assistance to us in doing damage assessment or locating emergency situations from the air, so we are really looking forward
to the agreement, and welcome it,” Teresa Barncastle, Roswell and Chaves County emergency manager, said. Civil Air Patrol assets were already made available to EMS, Sheriff and local fire and police agencies per a 2009 memorandum of understanding between the Civil Air Patrol New Mexico Wing and the New Mexico Department of Military Affairs.
CAIRO (AP) — A defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight to his “last drop of blood” and roared at supporters to strike back against Libyan protesters to defend his embattled regime Tuesday, signaling an escalation of the crackdown that has thrown the capital into scenes of mayhem, wild shooting and bodies in the streets. The speech by the Libyan leader — who shouted and pounded his fists on the podium — was an all-out
call for his backers to impose control over the capital and take back other cities. After a week of upheaval, protesters backed by defecting army units have claimed control over almost the entire eastern half of Libya’s 1,000mile Mediterranean coast, including several oil-producing areas. Celebratory gunfire by Gadhafi supporters rang out in the capital of Tripoli after the leader’s speech, while in protester -held
Benghazi, Libya’s secondlargest city, people threw shoes at a screen showing his address, venting their contempt. International alarm rose over the crisis, which sent oil prices soaring to the highest level in more than two years on Tuesday and sparked a scramble by European and other countries to get their citizens out of the North African nation. The U.N. Security
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But, according to Mike Lee, squadron commander for the Roswell NMCAP, called Southwest Region082 Roswell Composite, in order to request services, one had to “climb the chain of command,” which included calls to him, the wing commander and eventually reaching the National Operating Center, headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala.
The letter states that any local Chaves County entity can request NMCAP assistance by calling the city of Roswell/Chaves County Office of Emergency Management, who, in turn, will call the Civil Air Patrol National Operations Center, which would assign the mission a number and call NMCAP to activate the operation.
Defiant Gadhafi vows he will fight to ‘last drop of blood’
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Libyans stand on an army tank at the state security camp in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday.