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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 2001
Page
4
With school starting drivers must guard against children on streets at peak times. Morning visibility worsens as seasons change and daylight-saving time ends. Roswell officials urge strict speed limits in zones 7:30 to 8:40 a.m., noon, and 2 to 3:30 p.m., backed by radar enforcement and enhanced back lighting on signs to improve driver awareness.
A Roswell YMCA member William Bragg, age 80, recovers independence after a stroke and flotation jacket sale. Colt football mentor Ken Willis conducts a recruitment with 43 candidates and eight returning starters. Two Roswell children escape a bedroom closet fire sparked by candles. Melissa and Kyla Alexander are safe with parents Albert and Melissa Alexander of 1100 East First Street.
The state faces a September start for a special legislative session on redistricting as panels hold hearings across cities. Republicans and Democrats push rival maps. debates over minority rights, packing, and fairness surface in Las Cruces Las Vegas Roswell Clovis and Santa Fe. Senate debates consider Brian Sanderoff as mapmaker while GOP hires Rod Adair to craft districts.
The Daily Record invites signed letters with address and telephone, not published. Libelous or tasteless letters about court cases or addressed to others will not be published. Space limits spare, and no more than two signatures per letter. Monthly letters limit advised. many remain unpublished. The newspaper reserves the right to reject any letter.
Belfast commentary portrays Gerry Adams as a skilled manipulator who leverages threats of violence to pressure politicians. The piece notes Adams withdrew a promise to destroy IRA weapons, provoking Unionists and challenging the British government’s move to dissolve and then reinstate the Northern Ireland Assembly. It argues his stance risks renewed violence and undermines disarmament momentum.
The Maxwell Grant, New Mexico's largest land grant, fueled long standing grievances among Spanish American residents and provoked calls to investigate. The piece traces pre colonial and colonial occupancy, Apache Ute and Comanche control, Spanish settlement patterns, and the grant’s 19th century origins with Miranda, Beaubien, Armijo and Bent, outlining motives and territorial dynamics.
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