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Online resources can help people with voting process

Editor, This election is too important for anyone to sit on the sidelines. We applaud the good work of the voting rights community that has led to increased energy and an increase in new voter registrations in this election year. Long before the term "third-party registration" was coined, the League of Women Voters, too, was working to ensure that every voter has fair access to registration.

"W." blends Bushisms, truth into bland flick

Oliver Stone once told us that gay anti-communists killed JFK and that Jim Morrison was more than a cretin with a beard. Now he takes on President Bush with "W.," half of which is a boozy, half-cocked oedipal drama and the rest of which is an episode of "The West Wing" written by an eighth grader.

Health care conundrum

The cost of health care has skyrocketed in recent years, and Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain believe the U.S. will need to cut those costs. Todd Sandman, director of government relations for Presbyterian Healthcare Services, said the health care system in New Mexico needs attention.

College Republicans' record shows strong volunteerism

Editor, My letter on Sept. 13 urging the College Democrats to convince their candidates to debate their Republican opponents at UNM has brought forth a torrent: B. Lee Drake had a guest column on Sept. 23, and Juan Carlos Holmes wrote on Oct. 10. Once again, I e-mailed Drake four times but received a response only to the first query.

One-man zine team archives local shows

Brett Bakker, editor of local zine Wig Wam Bam, has written about every music show he's seen in the past 10 years. "I think there's an amazing amount of local talent here in a lot of different styles," said Bakker, who writes under the name Captain America.

Daily Lobo Spotlight

Daily Lobo: What instrument do you play for UNM's marching band? Patrick Beare: This is called a snare drum. It's part of the drum line, the percussion instruments that are actually marched on the field. DL: How long have you played it? PB: I started in the fifth grade, so I guess that would be about eight years.

The Lobo Threesome

Second Day Red Gallery of Strangers Available now 2.5/5 The sound of Second Day Red is highly original and highly derivative at the same time. It blurs genre lines. At one moment the band sounds like ordinary alternative rock - albeit, whiny alternative rock.

Schrader's self-induced poverty points to laziness, selfishness

Editor, This letter is in response to the Oct. 21 letter in the Daily Lobo from Don Schrader titled "Living modestly can solve America's greedy addictions." Schrader, before we use your lifestyle as the example of how America can solve its problems, let's take a closer, more critical look at it.

Obama breathes new life into the U.S. political system

Editor, George Will, Christopher Buckley, Colin Powell, Kathleen Parker, Michael Smerconish, Christopher Hitchens, C.C. Goldwater, David Brooks and even Mike Murphy (John McCain's chief strategist from his 2000 campaign) are saying it. Polls are reflecting it.

Battle for the Senate

State Senate candidates vying for the District 15 seat say they will fight to improve UNM students' futures. District 15 is located between Carlisle and Wyoming boulevards and Constitution and Hallmark avenues. H. Diane Snyder, a Republican, is up for re-election this year.

Mystery author was a 'literary light' to region

Author Tony Hillerman stepped on a land mine in WWII and recuperated in a hospital in France, and he received a Purple Heart for it. "While he was up in the air, he was thinking, 'This is really going to hurt when I hit the ground,'" said Luther Wilson, UNM Press president and Hillerman's friend.

Processing provisional ballots

Official election results will not be available until more than a month after Nov. 4 because of provisional ballots, but Bernalillo County races could be called before then. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said every vote will be counted but that provisional ones will go through a verification process that can take up to 34 days.

Chartwells slow in giving nutrition facts

When Chartwells took over UNM's food-service contract in June, the company promised healthy choices on campus. But Chartwells has been slow to provide nutrition facts for its on-campus eateries. "We are in the process of developing all of that information onto the dining Web site," said Michelle Giles, the Chartwells retail manager at the SUB.

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Lobos edge out Stanford with shrewd shooting

The UNM men's soccer team wasn't about to let an underachieving Stanford steal a win on Friday. The Lobos beat the Cardinals 2-1 at the UNM Soccer Complex. With the win, UNM improved to 7-5-2 overall and 3-2 in the Mountain Pacific Soccer Federation. Stanford, which came into the game winning only one match in its last eight games, fell to 3-8-2 overall and 1-3-1 in the Pac-10.

UNM ties Aztecs, remains strong in double overtime

The UNM women's soccer team was tested on Senior Night, when the Lobos battled SDSU to a 1-1 tie in double overtime. "They showed a lot of character in overtime," head coach Kit Vela said. "We never quit and we never gave up. We were the aggressors. We kept pushing, pushing, pushing; we just couldn't get anything for the effort.

McCain discusses economic policy at Fairgrounds rally

Sen. John McCain promised to cut taxes and government spending during a rally in Albuquerque on Saturday. About 1,000 people attended the rally at the State Fairgrounds, likely McCain's last stop in New Mexico before the election. Congressional candidate Darren White, Rep.

Pearce's consistency in voting shows his critical thinking

Editor, I am writing in response to Hugo Arias-Pulido's letter about Rep. Steve Pearce's visit to UNM. Arias-Pulido used few facts in his letter, and I would like to offer a few of those as well as an interesting perspective. The main view that Arias-Pulido gave stated that Pearce was completely wrong in voting "no" on the financial bailout bill both times.

War stories, long drives and straight talk

Tommy drives the Straight Talk Express, John McCain's campaign bus. He's been with the bus since it left Belen on Sept. 11. He's been back home for just one day since then. He's an unpaid volunteer. "I closed my business," he said. "I own a restaurant, and my manager is struggling along to keep it open while I'm gone.

Down-ticket races can be uncharted territory for voters

Some early voters say they haven't heard of the candidates on the lower part of the ballot or of the bonds they have to choose from. Bernalillo Country Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said she often sees the bottoms of ballots left blank. "As a general rule, we do see that the majority of votes cluster towards the top of the ballot," she said.