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A 1949 Broadway musical by Rogers and Hammerstein, "South Pacific," contains a song with lyrics that are penetrating.

Almost 50 years ago, my father took a job teaching at UCLA and my family packed up and moved from Michigan to Southern California. It was the late 60’s and the most successful college basketball coach of all time, John Wooden, was coaching the Bruins to national title after national title.

John Graham reports from Lovington, but he does a lot more than that.

When something's happening in his hometown, Graham often goes out and covers it for his paper, the Lovington Leader. Then he goes back to his desk (in his publisher's office, because he also owns the paper) to write the story, process a photo or two and get it all placed on a page.

Las Vegas, N.M. — where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Well, maybe that’s not the perfect description of our Meadow City. But the shock waves are as palpable as if they originated here.
That topic ­— and others of that ilk ­— took up part of the time we news personnel devoted to the increasingly frequent reports of various sexual impropriety around the country.