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NPT Wednesday Brief: A True Drug War
Today from 4-6 p.m., LisaD on Radio KAMA, 750 AM. Scheduled guests are Republican candidates for state representative and county sheriff, Dee Margo and George Stoltz. Go to the NPT home page for streaming audio, and call in to the show at 880-5262.
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News
Truly, a drug war: Grenade attack in Mexico kills 7
by Alejandra Gomez
 The music kept playing, and people were still chanting the national anthem, people mistook the explosions as fireworks until the governor of Michoacán, Leonel Godoy, who was in a balcony, stopped the ceremony when he saw the sudden chaos of the people from below.
Posted on September 17, 2008 • read more »
Let the shopping wars commence
by Sito Negron
 The county still must approve its portion of the Foster-Regency shopping center project, approved by the city Tuesday on a 5-4 vote, broken by the mayor, after a five-hour discussion. Competing shopping center operators say their tenants already are being courted.
Posted on September 16, 2008 • read more »
Missing plane carrying officials from El Paso compounds disaster in Presidio
by David Crowder
 Overdue since Monday, the private plane carrying the commissioner of the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, Carlos Marin of El Paso, Mexican sector IBWC Commissioner Arturo Herrera and the executive director of El Paso’s Rio Grande Council of Governments, Jake Brisbin Jr., from El Paso to Presidio has yet to be found.
Posted on September 16, 2008 • read more »
Opinion
Two presidents, three Gritos
by Alejandra Gomez
 This year, just like there are two presidents, there were three different “Gritos” at the Zocalo. One by the governor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, who people speculate will be a candidate for president in 2012, the other one by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and the third one by Felipe Calderon.
Posted on September 16, 2008 • read more »
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