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Three-night downtown festival launches with live shows at Skylight
01. August 2014
One dead after oil field pipeline explosion south of Artesia
01. August 2014
Does it matter how many students are raped?
01. August 2014
A young woman, a student at the University of New Mexico, gets into a BMW with three men, including two UNM athletes.
Later she shows up at her dormitory in tears and reports that she has been raped. Her lawyer says she was drugged.
The men say she had sex voluntarily with them. She says she blanked out because she was drugged. The investigation has been dropped at least temporarily.
This incident, which transpired in April, and the questions it raises are typical of many of the sexual encounters on campuses around the country. Was it a sexual assault? Was it rape? What should the university, the police and the district attorney do about it?...
Continue reading...Oh what a tangled web panel we weave
31. July 2014
The U.S. political polling universe shifted a bit this past week when CBS and The New York Times decided to radically depart from their reliance on traditional live-interview telephone polling. In collaboration with the British marketing survey firm YouGov, CBS and The New York Times switched from random-digit dialing to a much more difficult to understand methodology for their political polling...
Continue reading...Work requirement could be added to New Mexico’s food stamp program
31. July 2014
Doctor Contests Health Fears About Artesia Immigration Facility
31. July 2014
Warrants reveal details in beating deaths of homeless men
31. July 2014
Viewpoint: Diane Denish’s response to the business owners ‘pissed’ about the ACA
31. July 2014
01. August 2014
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