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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as word spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase.

October 12, 2010

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MATTHEW ARCO RECORD STAFF WRITER

SOCIAL SECURITY FREEZE

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City manager search down to 3

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The search for a new city manager has been narrowed to three candidates and a vote to approve the mayor’s recommendation is slated for the end of the month, city officials said. Mayor Del Jurney announced the names of the three final candidates for the position on Monday, during a City Council workshop. He chose the names from a list of 26 applicants, naming Jeffrey Lester, assistant city manager from Moline, Ill., Pete Mileta, and Larry Fry, Roswell’s assistant city manager, as the three most likely possible contenders. “We want to make the very best decision we can for the city of Roswell,” said Jurney, follow-

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ing the hour-long workshop. “I don’t take this lightly,” he said. “I’m not just here to throw out a name.” Jurney used the workshop to discuss how the finalists will each have a day touring the city and meeting with local officials. He announced the agenda and described how councilors will have time to talk with each candidate before hosting workshops at the end of the month to hash out final details. “It’s so important that we be able to share ideas,” he said. Each candidate will end their day touring the city with a workshop in City Hall. The forum is an open meeting, however the public will not have an opportunity to ask questions of the candidates during the workshop.

City officials plan to hold a special council meeting on Oct. 28 to vote on the mayor’s recommendation. The mayor is tasked with appointing the next city manager, pending an approving vote from the city councilors. Lester will tour Roswell Oct. 18, Mileta will visit Oct. 20 and Fry will tour on Oct. 21. Each candidate will meet different department heads and have lunch with the Chaves County manager, Stan Riggs, Roswell Independent School District’s superintendent, Michael Gottlieb, and local economic development officials. Jurney said Fry will go through the same process as the other candidates. “I’m real excited,” Jurney said. “It’s coming together.”

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Young cadets from Roswell and the surrounding area undergo cadet training at the Roswell Fire Department’s training center on Monday.

SANTA FE (AP) — Taxes and spending during Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration have become political grenades in New Mexico’s governor race. But criticisms leveled by the Republican gubernatorial nominee Susana Martinez aren’t always on target because they’re based on a selective use of data about the budget

stances Wear purple for Focus on tea partyOnesocial by one, tea party challengers have veered away from the issues of domestic violence taxes and spending — or in some GODDARD DEFENSE If there’s a better defense than Goddard’s in the state of New Mexico, I challenge any person to find it.

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JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER

October is a good time to wear purple. The New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the New Mexico Domestic Violence Leadership Commission and New Mexico Attorney General Gary King launched a statewide campaign to “Wear Purple” as part of the Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The campaign calls on New Mexicans to wear purple on Fridays in October in order to bring attention to the prevalence of domestic violence in the state. Judy Pittman, the Domestic Violence special commissioner in Chaves County, hears some 25 domestic violence cases a week. “This month is a good time to make everyone aware of the impact of domestic violence,” she said. For her, the effect of domestic violence has been both personal and profound.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration’s bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social issues. In New York, Carl Paladino, the tea party-backed Republican candidate for governor, caused a furor among Democrats when he said over the weekend that children shouldn’t be “brainwashed” into thinking homosexuality is acceptable. In Colorado, GOP Senate nominee Ken Buck has tried to deflect questions about his stance against abortion rights. In Delaware, Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell has come under fire over the conservative religious views she espoused as a TV commentator, including preaching against the evils of masturbation. And in Nevada, Senate candidate Sharron Angle, a Southern Baptist, has called herself a faith-based politician. She opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest, and doesn’t believe the Constitution requires the separation of church and state. Her opponent, Senate

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cases were pushed off message, either by the media or by the Democrats, who have tried to portray the insurgents not as populist alternatives to the mainstream GOP but as Republican regulars.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeks to portray her as outside mainstream America. One by one, tea party challengers have veered away from the issues of taxes and spending — or in some cases were pushed off message, either by the media or by the Democrats, who have tried to portray the insurgents not as populist alternatives to the mainstream GOP but as Republican regulars. “It is clear that the Democrats and many

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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — They’ll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests — first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth. The dramatic endgame hastened Monday for the 33 Chilean miners who have braved two months underground, with rescuers reinforcing the escape shaft and the 13-foot-tall rescue chamber sliding, as planned, nearly all the way to the trapped men. “It didn’t even raise any dust,” Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said. If all goes well, everything will be in place late Tuesday to begin pulling the men out, officials said. The lead psychologist for the rescue team recommended the extractions begin at dawn Wednesday. No official decision was announced, but Andre Sougarret, the rescue team coordinator, tweeted Monday evening that “today the miners sleep their last night together!” On Monday, the Phoenix I capsule — the biggest of three built by Chilean navy engineers, named for the mythic bird that rose from ashes — made its first test run after the top 180 feet of the shaft was encased in tubing, the rescue leader said. Then the empty capsule was winched 2,000 feet, just 40 feet short of the shaft system that has been the miners’ refuge since an Aug. 5 collapse. “We didn’t send it (all the way) down because we could risk that someone will jump in,” a grinning Golborne told reporters. Engineers had planned to extend the piping nearly twice as far, but they decided to stop after the sleeve — the hole is angled 11 degrees off vertical at its top before plumbing down, like a waterfall — became jammed during a probe. Rescue team psychologist Alberto Iturra said he recommended the first

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In this image released by the government of Chile, Chile's Minister of Mining Laurence Golborne, second right, directs the work being done for the eventual rescue of the 33 miners trapped inside the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Monday.

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