Atlantis lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, July 8.

Natalie Willoughby

News Feature

The Last Shuttle

NASA promises this is not the end of human space travel

By Natalie Willoughby

The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, marks the end of NASA's 30-year program, which began in 1981 with Columbia. Despite predictions that weather conditions would force a cancellation, an estimated 1 million visitors and 2,000 members of worldwide media looked on with awe.

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Fans at Isotopes Park get ready for a game

Toby Smith

Sports

Heads Up

Making claim to a foul ball is seldom easy

By Toby Smith

Many of the signatures on Art Duran’s memento belong to players lost to time: Ray Katt and Al Aber, for instance. Four scribbles, however, were done by Baseball Hall of Famers: Leo Durocher, Bob Lemon, Al Lopez and Monte Irvin. What is most important to Duran, 77, is that he gained this souvenir during a game, not at some memorabilia show or off eBay.

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Guest Editorial

Kaaa-ching

Holding back the tide of big money in New Mexico politics

By Steven Robert Allen

Five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court seem hell-bent on dismantling campaign finance laws designed to prevent the wholesale buy-off of the American democratic process. The judges’ efforts are based on an eccentric interpretation of the First Amendment that could only be concocted by a bunch of insulated eggheads who are completely out of touch with political reality.