By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not known for being generous with moderate colleagues. During the earliest days of his two decades in the House, the far-right firebrand often ignored, or publicly defied, the more centrist members of his party. But with his sights again set […]
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Rep. Jim Jordan angles to lead a possible House Republican minority
By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not known for being generous with moderate colleagues. During the earliest days of his two decades in the House, the far-right firebrand often ignored, or publicly defied, the more centrist members of his party. But with his sights again set […]
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Smashing Pumpkins
This October the Estancia Rotary Club is kicking off fall the same way they have for 28 years: by launching pumpkins as far as they possibly can with mechanical devices. Families, community-serving groups, vendors, pie connoisseurs, slingshot engineers, travelers from around New Mexico and anyone looking to spend a cool afternoon outdoors will be gathered […]
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He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
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He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
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Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
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Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
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Trump downplays U.S. troop injuries in 2020 Iranian attack as headaches
By Niha Masih, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated […]
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Trump downplays U.S. troop injuries in 2020 Iranian attack as headaches
By Niha Masih, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated […]
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Persistence Pays Off
Corrales Fire Chief Anthony Martinez’s persistence paid off. On Sept. 25, county commissioners approved a resolution to donate a decommissioned 2014 Ford F550 pickup from the county’s fire department to the Corrales Fire Department. Martinez had his eye on this firetruck for nearly a decade, repeatedly requesting it over the years. When the truck was […]