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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 CANNABIS IN COURT 9 Be gone, stereotypical laid-back pothead; across the state, cannabis companies are litigating like nobody’s business WORK TO DO 11 Three months in, Alan Webber still has to fill the city’s top jobs and create a women’s advisory council COVER STORY 12 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN As usual for election days, SFR held the presses so we could get you all the election news that’s fit to print THE ENTHUSIAST 17 CREWS CUT With the forests closed, what will work crews do for the time being?

31 POMP AND FIZZ Yeah, we’re all still pretty sad about Back Street Bistro closing, but the newly opened Café Mimosa should help to fill at least some of the void.

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NEWS, MAY 14: “UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR TEEN ARTS CENTER”

WHAT’S IN A NAME? After 21 years, Warehouse 21 was labeled the “Studio Center” by a fresh board of directors. That name sounds so generic to me and hardly memorable. I was relieved to see W21 signage still in place there for past six months. Just recently came key changes on the board, and news that the original name hadn’t been legally switched. I’m assured that this place may continue to

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Our society is experiencing an historic shift. More and more victims of sexual violence are finding the courage to declare #MeToo, and people are listening. It’s not happening just in Hollywood or Washington DC, but also right here; in the New Mexico legislature. The weather is changing—for the better. As men, we need to change as well. When men are accused of sexual misconduct and raise the alarm of “False Allegations!!” the only thing I can hear is a stubborn denial to look at themselves and take stock. As a group, we men have been taught to view women as less value, objects and property. It is present even among those of us who have been taught to be gentlemen. Each of us men are responsible to make a change in ourselves to ensure that the violence ends. I would hope that our state leadership would set an example and face accusations of sexual harassment with humility and a true desire to make amends. I would hope that these leaders would recognize the courage it takes to speak up—especially against someone who holds public office. Claims of “conspiracy” are not only ridiculous, but are also disrespectful and harmful to survivors. The real conspiracy has been men keeping our mouths shut while we see and hear our brothers abusing women in word and deed. Not to mention the times we ourselves have participated.

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serve as Santa Fe’s Teen Arts Center. Recognized often as a “Best of Santa Fe” Youth Program and Recording Studio by Reporter readers, the Warehouse has nurtured enthusiastic young people to become talented achievers in several arts disciplines. How Santa Fe can you get?! The Warehouse now needs urgent support from Santa Fe adults and our City Hall so our youth will have a spot right here in the artistic heart of Santa Fe where they can grow in their creative passions. Here we are, living one of the world’s most vibrant arts centers. Let’s help make it possible for our young people to become the recognized artists of tomorrow.

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SNAKE FOR THE RECORD Thank you for the story about Eldorado Snake Relocation Volunteers (ESRV). However, there are two errors that need to be corrected. [You reported] that snakes do not like water. The fact is that snakes like and need water as much as they need food and shelter. ... [As for who to contact when you find a snake,] snakes move quickly, so the available volunteers must be in close proximity to the resident requesting a relocation. ... We [in Eldorado] are in our seventh season of successfully educating residents about the value of snakes and relocating snakes as needed. We are available to help other neighborhoods set up a similar program.

LYN DEMARTIN ELDORADO Editor’s Note: When we reported that snakes don’t like water, what we meant was you’re not likely to find a rattlesnake choosing to live in your toilet tank. But, either way, the phrasing has been changed online.

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LETTERS CLAYTOONS, MAY 16 LET THERE BE LIGHT? The Santa Fe Reporter’s May 16, 2018 editorial cartoon depicts the smiling caricatures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ivanka Trump, as the Prime Minister holds his coat over the blood of dead Gazans so that Ms. Trump does not soil her boots. Representing the Prime Minister and Ms. Trump—proxies for Israel and the United States—as taking pleasure in the deaths and wounding of people in Gaza is a gross and unfair fabrication. It presents a very difficult and complex situation in a simplistic light: ignoring the role of Hamas in mobilizing the breaching of the border and Israel’s very real dilemmas in trying to defend that border. All involved—including Israelis and Americans—unquestionably recognize it as a horrific tragedy that so many people have been killed and wounded at the Gaza border. The editorial cartoon’s biased view makes light of a very serious and complex situation.

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SHOE = OTHER FOOT This cartoon was shocking for its blatant anti-Semitism, disguising itself as “mere anti-Israel” political comment. How would you and your readers have reacted if “mere anti-Obama” commentary had been delivered in the form of a caricature presentation of Little Black Sambo from 60 years ago? Would you have published and defended such a cartoon as a simple political statement? The depiction of the democratically elected leader of the only democracy in the Middle East, using the traditional iconography employed by the Nazis 80 years ago demonstrates a truly depraved taste and an utter lack of historical information on the part of the creator of the cartoon, and a total lack of editorial responsibility on the part The Reporter. You should apologize in print and on your website for disseminating this dis-

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REALITY Thank you for your courage in standing up for Palestine in your recently published cartoon. I’m sure you’re getting blasted with accusations of anti-Semitism, but how can portraying reality be anti-Semitic?

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SPADE I applaud the Reporter for printing the cartoon lampooning the horrors of the Gaza massacre as Ivanka Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu celebrate the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem; a clear violation of the status of the city as determined by the UN to be a multi-national/cultural city. ... While many would call the cartoon at least anti-Israel, more will call it anti-Semitic while ignoring the definition of Semitic. ... Not all of the people of Palestine are semitic, including many Jews. But what users of the term mean is “anti-Jew.” It matters not one wit if the Israelis led by Netanyahu are Jews, Arabs (some are) or bananas, the same international ethics and morality apply. A massive amount of blood was spilled by Israel’s actions. Ivanka Trump made the presentation at the new US embassy while the massacre was going on and Gazans died and bled per Israel’s decisions. ... Don’t be afraid to call a spade a spade.

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eyond the dispensary counters and the budtenders, some of the state’s largest cannabis producers are teaming up with high-powered law firms to push the limits of regulatory law and defend proprietary turf. The pending litigation mostly concerns producers and other ancillary businesses that hold large market shares in New Mexico’s cannabis trade. The cases are a cross-sample of an emerging area of law as the state and industry professionals wade into new territory, though one lawyer argues that their outcomes will likely not make it any easier for new players who aren’t already well-capitalized to enter or thrive in the industry. The latest salvo was initiated by Erik Briones of Minerva Canna Group, which has dispensaries in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Bernalillo and Los Lunas. According to a complaint filed in First Judicial District Court on May 23, a man named Sean Gabaldon allegedly tried to usurp control of the company from Briones, Minerva’s president, in what reads like a failed coup d’etat. It started when Gabaldon bought enough shares in Aspen Management, the for-profit company that manages the operations for Minerva, to make him the only member of Minerva’s executive board alongside Briones, according to the nonprofit’s bylaws. The complaint says Gabaldon was also supposed to receive dividends from Minerva’s cannabis sales each quarter. But in February 2016, the state Tax and Revenue Department informed Briones that it intended to impose a gross receipts tax on all funds passed from Minerva to Aspen. Briones continues to contest this tax burden, according to his legal team, and he informed Gabaldon two years ago Aspen wouldn’t receive dividends for much of 2018 because of the potential tax liability. Instead of accepting these terms, the complaint says, Gabaldon formed a shadow board with six other named defendants “for the stated purpose of removing” Briones as president from Minerva’s

executive board of directors. He tried to take funds out of Minerva’s creditor, Kirtland Federal Credit Union, but instead Kirtland froze Minerva’s account. “There was no promise [of dividends], it was just an investment—you take a risk, sometimes you get paid dividends and sometimes you don’t,” says Thomas Hnasko, the lawyer representing Briones. A preliminary hearing on the injunc-

Sacred Garden likens products regulated by the state’s Medical Cannabis Program to prescription medicine, and argues they are therefore not subject to a gross receipts tax. That case went to the New Mexico Court of Appeals in March. Another case wending its way through the court could set new limits for how competing cannabis-testing businesses access each other’s trade secrets. On April 2, the company Steep Hill Labs, which has a testing facility in Albuquerque, filed a complaint against the New Mexico Department of Health and competitor Scepter Labs in Santa Fe, alleging that the DOH illegally handed over copies of Steep Hill’s standard operating procedure for cannabis testing to Scepter

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tion to stop Gabaldon and others from representing themselves as Minerva’s leadership is scheduled for June 11 in front of Judge Raymond Ortiz. Hnasko says it’s not clear when the separate but related matter of whether dividends passed from Minerva to Aspen are subject to gross receipts tax could be resolved, but it echoes a similar dispute between producer Sacred Garden and the Tax and Revenue Department over the Santa Fe nonprofit’s losing efforts to win a $530,000 tax refund for the sale of cannabis products.

owner and director Kathleen O’Dea in response to her request under the state Inspection of Public Records Act. Steep Hill compared O’Dea’s successful request to “a student [obtaining] the answer key for a major exam,” and asked the court to compel return of the SOPs, which Steep Hill characterizes as trade secrets that shouldn’t have been disclosed. O’Dea’s lawyer Jason Marks says Scepter had no intention of imitating Steep Hill’s testing methods, as the latter alleges.

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“We have basically denied everything, and we believe that it’s completely improper to haul someone in for misappropriation of trade secrets because of filing a lawful IPRA,” Marks tells SFR. Lawyers from the Santa Fe law firm Bardacke Allison representing Steep Hill compared disclosure of its testing procedures to competitors obtaining the formula for Coca-Cola and said the DOH erred by disclosing them. Meanwhile, the largest producer in the state by revenue, Ultra Health, also has a lawsuit pending against the DOH over its limit on the number of cannabis plants producers can grow. The nonprofit’s owner and CEO Duke Rodriguez tells SFR a ruling could be be announced “possibly in days” after a bench trial last year. Ultra Health and a patient filed a joint complaint in District Court in August 2016 alleging the DOH is creating an artificial shortage by limiting producers to 450 plants per growth cycle. DOH increased the plant cap from 150 in 2015 after it found the original kept production so low that some patients were reportedly buying cannabis on the streets. Cannabis programs in other states have had challenges maintaining appropriate supplies of the plant. US attorneys claim there is currently a glut of pot in Oregon, while Nevada ran out of pot only three months after it legalized a recreational market last July. Later this year, in a separate federal case, a jury is slated to decide whether three officials from the New Mexico State Fair violated free speech when they prohibited Ultra Health from displaying certain diagrams and other cannabis-related information at last year’s fair. The producer is represented by Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood, and New Mexico House Speaker Rep. Brian Egolf is on the producer’s legal team in the matter as well as in the plant cap dispute. For Jason Flores-Williams, a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer who handled cannabis litigation in Santa Fe before moving to Denver several years ago, examples of big-name businesses hiring big-name lawyers do not bode well for creating an industry with an even playing field. “It was my misplaced hope that the cannabis business in New Mexico might be a more fair type of business,” Flores tells SFR. “But it’s just like every other type of business in America, benefiting the rich and white and well-connected.”

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Three months in, Alan Webber still has to fill the city’s top jobs and create a women’s advisory council B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

hen Santa Fe voters sent Alan Webber to the mayor’s office in the fourth round of ranked-choice balloting last March, they did so with a degree of trust. Trust in the man. Trust in the message. Webber promised to reform City Hall not by leaning on front-line workers, but by asking division chiefs and department heads to be more accountable and to prove that they shared his vision for a city that could be a model for customer service, sustainability and other lofty— but achievable, he argued—goals. He promised to work hard to ensure women had a much more active role in city governance. Three months into his stint as mayor, there’s work to do, trust to gain and promises still to fulfill. Webber hasn’t hired any of the three positions for which he has sole authority—the city’s clerk, attorney and manager. Shortly after he took office, he asked all exempt staff, which generally means senior positions, to reapply for their jobs. “We’re watching the clock,” Webber told SFR after a recent tour of city water facilities. “We want to get decisions made.”

Webber says he’s conducted interviews for both the city manager’s job and that of city attorney. He hasn’t sat down with candidates for city clerk. But many of the department head positions—technically hired by the city manager, whom the mayor can hire and fire—are still occupied by people who are there as placeholders or people who aren’t sure if they’ll be asked to stick around. Last month, Webber asked Lisa Martinez, head of the city’s Land Use Department, and Rob Carter, who led the Parks and Recreation Department, to step down. The new mayor also walked into a recently kicked hornet’s nest when he initially supported pay hikes for a group of workers who’d been leading the effort to roll out important new software for the business side of the city’s dealings. While Webber supports the idea of pay increases for extra work, he came to discover that they hadn’t been properly vetted by the City Council. The gaffe cost him his city manager and human resources director. In stepped Fire Chief Erik Litzenberg, who is halfway through an interim appointment as city manager, after which he’ll return to the Fire Department. Litzenberg says one of his pri-

mary goals has been hiring department and division heads. “I think getting a good team in place to move the mayor’s initiatives forward and to move the city forward in general takes a team,” Litzenberg tells SFR. While he’s new to the business of hiring department heads and doesn’t have much context for whether the city’s search is taking a long time, he says he’s not willing to hire just to put a warm body in a comfy desk chair. “I would hope we would be very deliberate, that the process would be taken very seriously and that the broad spectrum of candidates is considered, and the top couple, especially, are very well vetted,” he says. One of the hiring outcomes watched most closely will be the split of men and women among senior staff. An SFR analysis of the city’s organizational chart, as included in the budget for next year, shows that of the 44 top positions listed, 34 belong to men and just 10 to women. It’s not an exhaustive analysis—Webber calls the chart “a relic”—but it’s reflective of the gender imbalance many perceive at City Hall. “Well, we haven’t made a lot of formal hires, so it’s a little premature to evaluate,” Webber points out.

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In a January opinion piece published in The New Mexican and titled “No more time to waste—women deserve respect,” Webber wrote that whether he won or lost the campaign for mayor, he felt Santa Fe needed an advisory council for women. He studied other cities with such panels, he said, and “where they’re given real authority, they make a real difference. A Women’s Advisory Council will provide an equity advocate to address the underlying issue of power in our society.” Webber took some flak for the idea from fellow candidate Kate Noble, who told him at a debate amid the arabesques of the Lensic Performing Arts Center, “Women need to not be in an advisory role.” Webber argued that he felt women had a place at all levels of city government, and creating an advisory council with “real authority” would assure a strong, consistent advocate for women’s issues at City Hall. The authority of a women’s advisory council, though, doesn’t extend to direct input on which candidate to hire, Webber says. He sees it as potentially problematic and akin to letting the Bicycle Trails Advisory Committee pick a favored candidate for the engineer’s job that interacts with the panel. The mayor says he hasn’t forgotten about the advisory council and that the city attorney’s office is drafting an ordinance to enshrine it in city law. If the City Council approves, Webber will have his group. But the mayor has shown a willingness to act without the city attorney’s blessing. In April, after a month on the job, he rolled out eight advisory groups to help with his transition. The committees will help the mayor with such policy issues as sustainability, public safety, jobs and a catch-all-sounding group on unity in Santa Fe. There’s no women’s panel.

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2018 PRIMARY ELECTIONS Lujan Grisham and Morales to form ticket for Gov. and Lt. Gov., with Colón for auditor

ichelle Lujan Grisham rolled to an easy victory over two rivals in the Democratic primary for governor Tuesday, and questions about her ties to a company that helped manage New Mexico’s high-risk insurance pool appear not to have diminished the broad support she enjoyed before the criticism piled up. The three-term congresswoman from Albuquerque won 66 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the secretary of state. In an Albuquerque Journal survey published May 27, she had 57 percent approval from likely Democratic voters—compared to 15 percent for former media executive

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Jeff Apodaca, 9 percent for state Sen. Joe Cervantes and 19 percent undecided. In the end, Apodaca, who pressed hardest against Lujan Grisham for the money she made from Delta Consulting, even calling on her to drop out of the race, finished second, garnering 22 percent of the vote. Cervantes won 11 percent to finish a distant third in an election that saw turnout numbers statewide reach at least 28 percent—outstripping state totals of 20 percent in the state’s last midterm primary election in 2014. In a conference call with reporters on election night, Lujan Grisham brushed aside Apodaca’s criticisms as a “political stunt.” “People rejected it because they know me,” says Lujan Grisham, who will face Republican Congressman Steve Pearce of Las Cruces in the November general election. Pearce ran unopposed in his party’s primary. That means two sitting

members of Congress will battle to succeed Republican Susana Martinez, who is barred from seeking a third term in the governor’s office. Democrat Howie Morales will run against Republican Michelle Garcia Holmes and Libertarian Robin Dunn in the November race for lieutenant governor. With unofficial results showing Morales grabbing 47 percent of votes among Democrats, he easily won election to vie for a position as the next governor’s right hand over Rick Miera and Billy Garrett. Morales, of Silver City, has served two terms in the state Senate and lost a primary battle against Gary King in the governor’s race in 2014. He’ll run alongside Lujan Grisham, while Garcia Holmes, a retired Albuquerque police officer who last year lost a bid to become mayor of the state’s largest city, will fill the bottom of the ticket with Pearce. Dunn joins Bob Walsh on the Libertarian ticket. Lujan Grisham describes Morales as a “respected expert in public education” and says he will bring “strength and support in the southern part of the state” to the Democratic ticket. Another closely watched contest was for state auditor. Democrats Brian Colón, who was trounced last year in a bid to be mayor of Albuquerque, and state Rep. Bill McCamley of Las Cruces squared off to face Republican Wayne Johnson, who ran unopposed and as an incumbent. Gov. Susana Martinez appointed Johnson to the position as the state’s financial watchdog after Tim Keller left the seat following his victory in the Albuquerque mayor’s race. Colón won the race handily, according to unofficial results, carrying about 63 percent of the vote.

Voter turnout this year surpassed the last midterm primary in 2014.

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Taking a moment from guests at a celebration in his home, Colón tells SFR he’s ready for the next challenge. “My strategy is the same for the general as it was for the primary, which is I am going to carry a clear message and I am going to outwork my opponent and I am going to rest on Nov. 7,” he says. The former state party chairman says clear mandates from party voters raise all boats. “When you are talking about one candidate in a field of three in the governor’s race consolidating 66 percent of the vote, we are going to have a strong ticket. Republicans are going to have their hands full,” he says. “We are going to work well together as a ticket.” Voters in Santa Fe overwhelmingly turned out for Lujan Grisham, unofficial results show. “She seems like she has her head in the right place and she’s going to do good for New Mexico,” Rejeana Mascarenas told SFR on Tuesday afternoon, after casting her ballot for Lujan Grisham. “I’m really excited, and not just because she’s a woman, but because of her ideas.” Apodaca had supporters here, too. “I’m a Democrat that voted for Martinez in the last election, but I don’t blame her for everything,” Iraq war veteran Mike Luna tells SFR after voting on Tuesday. “I voted for Apodaca, I wanted change, I want to see if he could

She seems like she has her head in the right place and she’s going to do good for New Mexico. I’m really excited, and not just because she’s a woman but because of her ideas.

do a change. Being 49th in the country in education, for almost everything—it’s really bad.” In an encouraging sign, voters turned out to the polls Tuesday in larger percentages than the last time New Mexico held midterm primary elections. In 2014, roughly 200,000 out of almost 1 million eligible voters cast ballots. (New Mexico holds closed primaries, meaning only registered members of the Republican, Democratic and Libertarian parties can legally vote.) This year, more than 259,000 voters—about 28 percent of the

921,796 eligible—blacked in their circles, according to unofficial results. Shortly after the first batch of votes were posted on the secretary of state’s website, both major parties brought out the long knives for their November opponent—signaling the muddy, entrenched battle that lies ahead. At 7:12 pm, the Democratic Governors Association issued a release saying Pearce is “too extreme for New Mexico.” The Republican Governors Association responded 64 minutes later with an email subject-lined: “New Mexicans Can’t Trust Far-Left Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham.” And there’ll be plenty of money to keep the mud flying during the next six months. Pearce spent nearly $1 million on the primary race, even though he did not face a challenger, and he heads into the general election with nearly $2 million in the bank, according to his most recent filings. Lujan Grisham blew through more than $3 million beating back criticisms and attacks from her opponents in the pitched Democratic primary. She has about $1.1 million left over for the general. Observers expect plenty of outside money to be spent on the race as well. Election Day is Nov. 6. (Jeff Proctor)

-Rejeana Mascarenas

Incumbents fall in two Northern New Mexico House races

A hotly contested race for a Northern New Mexico legislative seat ended in upset. Challenger Andrea Romero held a slim lead with 53 percent of votes to take the Democratic nomination for the District 46 seat from incumbent Rep. Carl Trujillo, according to unofficial election results. The district includes parts of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties and all of Los Alamos county. Although the secre-

reviews of Romero’s spending during her time with the organization. More than $2,000 in expenditures came under scrutiny, including payouts ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

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tary of state website showed a red checkmark next to the race indicating all votes were counted just after midnight, vote totals from Rio Arriba did not appear to be available. Both candidates faced allegations of misconduct during the blistering primary campaign. Laura Bonar, a lobbyist for Animal Protection Voters, accused Trujillo of offering her a favorable vote on legislation she was pushing during the 2014 legislative session in exchange for sex. Another lobbyist and a state representative backed up Bonar’s claims in interviews with The New Mexican; Trujillo fired back, saying the allegations were politically motivated and potentially connected to Romero. Meanwhile, state Auditor Wayne Johnson and the board of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities, where Romero worked as executive director, announced in March separate

for baseball tickets and a $28 glass of WhistlePig whiskey—funds the coalition deducted from money it owed Romero after she left its employ. In other Northern New Mexico House races, Los Alamos County Councilor Christine Chandler led one-time Democratic nominee Peter Sheehey by about 9 percentage points in District 43, according to unofficial results. The winner of that contest will face Republican Lisa Shin for a seat left open by Democrat Stephanie Garcia Richard’s successful run for state land commissioner. In District 41, Susan Herrera appeared headed for an upset of 12-term incumbent Debbie Rodella. Unofficial results had Herrera leading Rodella by nearly 12 percent to take the seat. The winner of the Democratic primary will have a seat in the Legislature next year; there is no Republican running in that district. (JP)

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already in place and one new judge is lining up. The judge assigned to the court’s Division 2 spends most of his or her time in Rio Arriba County hearing cases at the Tierra Amarilla courthouse. The governor appointed Judge Jason Lidyard to the spot in April after sending its former holder, Jennifer Attrep, to the Court of Appeals. Voters chose him with about 60 percent compared to 40 percent for Matthew Eric Jackson. The race was in some ways a third rematch for the pair. Both applied for a previous court vacancy and did not make the short list that went to the governor. Then, for the most recent vacancy, both applied, but the bipartisan nominating commission sent just one name to the governor: Lidyard’s. In Division 5, housed at the courthouse in downtown Santa Fe, three challengers qualified for the ballot against sitting Judge Greg Shaffer. The incumbent narrowly lost to Maria Sanchez-Gagne, who herself narrowly lost the race for First Judicial District Attorney in 2016.

Above: Maria Sanchez-Gagne beat a sitting judge and two others in the three-county race for District Court. Below: Judge David Segura hung on to his spot in the Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.

While Shaffer earned a majority of votes in Los Alamos County, Sanchez-Gange led in Santa Fe and Rio Arriba with early and absentee totals. She finished with 34 percent of votes, according to unofficial results. She campaigned on her experience as prosector both in the attorney general’s office at the district attorney’s, as well as her bilingual skills. Plus she brings much-needed gender and ethnic diversity to the court, which presently is comprised of seven men and two women and is largely Anglo. Santa Fe County’s magistrate rac-

es were lopsided. As presiding Judge David Segura faced a challenge from former bail bondsman Jerry Gonzales, Segura handily won with about 78 percent of votes. Meanwhile, two men who vied for an open seat on the court cut it close, according to early reports. John Rysanek edged out Sam Sena with about 52 percent of votes. Rysanek is a lawyer who works in the intake division of the local district attorney’s office, while Sena is a former State Police officer who lost his job after admitting he falsfied documents. (Julie Ann Grim)

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Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza inches past Linda Ortiz in four-way race

Adan Mendoza can stop missing the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department. He’s headed back there. A majority of Democratic Party voters in the county wanted Mendoza to take the reins of the sheriff’s department from termed-out Sheriff Robert Garcia. Since no declared candidates from other parties are set to appear on the November general election ballot, he’s the sheriff-elect. He inherits a department with 2,000 square miles of jurisdiction, including parts of the cities of Española in the north and Edgewood in the south. Early, unofficial totals put Mendoza at about 43 percent of votes compares to 36 percent for Linda Ortiz, with Manny Anaya taking about 14 percent and Leonard Romero finishing with 7 percent. All four candidates for the post worked in local law enforcement before retiring, but Mendoza’s depature was the most recent. He mostly left because of changes to the state’s

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retirement rules, and he wants to return. “I’m young,” the 45-year-old told SFR during the campaign. “I have a lot of fire in me.” Mendoza took an early fundraising lead and appeared to have support in various corners of the county. “I voted for Adan,” said Marguerite Gutierrez from Cuyamungue when she emerged from the polling place at the Pojoaque Valley Middle School. “I know Manny, and I know Linda, but I thought Adan would do a better job because of his experience.” At Turquoise Trail Elementary School, Southside voter Rejeana Mascarenas tells SFR she voted for Mendoza because she works with one of his children. Mendoza has supervised all the divisions in the department and holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology from UNM. He says he wants to start a version of the city’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program in the county. (JAG)

Garcia Richard appears to take VeneKlasen on a thin margin Stephanie Garcia Richard might have squeezed past two others to earn the right to go on to what promises to be a general election battleground for the next New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands. If she hung on to tenuous lead in early returns, in November, she faces two men who have previously held the seat: Libertarian Aubrey Dunn, the incumbent and former Republican, and still-a-Republican Pat Lyons. Garcia Richard—who had to choose between running for the statewide post and seeking re-election to her legislative seat that covers Los Alamos and parts of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties—edged out Garrett VeneKlasen, who was the leading fundraiser in the race and

Santa Fe County Commission District 3 Rudy Garcia leads Dems for southern commission seat Rudy Nelson Garcia grew up on Airport Road before annexation and has worked at Santa Fe County for 27 years. Now he’s hoping to help run the county from an elected position. Unlike many candidates who claimed victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary election, Garcia’s big battle lies ahead. Former commissioner Mike Anaya, of Stanley, says he’s aiming to get on the general election ballot for the county’s District 3 seat to provide some stiff competition. Anaya, who held the seat for eight years before term limits prevented him from seeking a third, plans to run as an Independent rather than a Democrat, which

got the endorsement of two major conservation groups. In the statewide race with the tightest margin of victory, as of midnight she had 40 percent of votes statewide compared to his 37. State Sen. George Munoz saw about 23 percent. Garcia Richard threw her name into the proverbial cowboy hat after former Land Commissioner Ray Powell tapped out of his campaign for health reasons and endorsed her bid. She’s a teacher, and argued she brings a perspective from the classroom, where the office’s revenue is supposed to help the most. Munoz has two years remaining on his Senate term representing the area around Gallup. VeneKlasen is director of the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. The Land Commissioner’s office oversees millions of acres that are leased for oil and gas production, grazing and other uses. Garcia Richard, who carried

is why he wasn’t on the ballot today. His brother Robert Anaya most recently held the seat for two terms. The territory for the county’s largest geographic district spans from the southwestern edge of the city of Santa Fe all the way to the southern edge of the county and includes La Cienega, Galisteo, Madrid and Edgewood. Garcia earned about 55 percent of votes, according to early, unofficial returns posted by the secretary of state. The next closest contender was Filandro Anaya, who brought in about 26 percent. Donald Reece finished with 19 percent. “I just appreciate everyone that assisted and helped out with the democratic process,” Garcia tells SFR as the returns rolled in, and just after the conclusion of a meeting of the Santa Fe School Board, where he is a member. Garcia said he’s not sure that Anaya will end up on the ballot in the fall, but says he’ll be ready when and if that happens. He says he believes he came out on top in the race because he’s the most qualified. While Filandro Anaya, no close relation to Mike, is on the County Planning Commission, for example, he’s never held elected office. Garcia works in the county manager’s office and has overseen a number of key county projects in his nearly three decades on the payroll there. (JAG)

a majority of votes in all but nine of the state’s 33 counties, would be the first woman to hold the post. She pledged on the campaign trail to take immediate steps to require the capture of methane in oil and gas development on state lands, even if the state Legislature won’t do it for the whole of New Mexico. She sat on the House budget committee and is familiar with the work she’ll need to do as the land commissioner. Before Election Day, she told SFR she was confident she had the chops to win the final battle. “I have a history of standing up to well-funded opposition and can come out well,” she said. “I have a strong ground game.” (JAG) Aaron Cantú, Roan Lee Plunket, Eva Rosenfeld and Alex De Vore contributed reporting.

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FOREST STEWARDS GUILD | E. CADIENTE

Crews Cut Forest closure also forces cancellation of some trail work plans BY ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

ildfire danger closed the Santa Fe and Cibola national forests to the public, so some youth trail crews are looking at the potential to instead spend the summer building picnic tables and staffing road blockades instead of maintaining trails and restoring wildlife habitat. Trail work planned by the Fat Tire Society on upper portions of the Winsor Trail was similarly derailed. So far, a total of seven projects have been affected this month, according to Bruce Hill, public affairs officer for the Santa Fe National Forest. Some day-long projects could be rescheduled for July or August, while longer wilderness-based projects may not make it back on the calendar this year. The Forest Stewards Guild’s youth crews program, run in partnership with the US Forest Service, has hired 16- to 19-year-olds to complete conservation projects for two decades. This summer, they had 41 crew members in training for work to limit erosion, repair fences and maintain wildlife water sources when the news came out that the national forests would be closing. The closure went into effect at 8 am Friday June 1. Forest Supervisor James Melonas cited widespread noncompliance with a ban on campfires and record-setting conditions for fire danger as cause for banning public access to the forest until monsoon storms bring sufficient rain to lower fire danger. The markers to predict the risk that a fire will take off and burn hot and fast have reached historic levels,

Crews working to improve the Big Tesuque Trail put what they learned into action.

matching years of notable fires like 2011, the year of the Pacheco and Las Conchas fires, and 2002, when the Ponil Complex fire burned 92,000 acres near Cimarron. Fuel moisture levels are at or below 5 percent. This closure marks the first since 2013. Each of the six Forest Stewards Guild youth crews goes to a different National Forest ranger district, leaving six district rangers to decide how to redirect these crews, says Eytan Krasilovsky of the Forest Stewards Guild. Those crews now may find themselves staffing road blocks, shadowing patrols, maintaining the flagging tape and signs, or otherwise informing the public that the gates are closed. “Their work plans really vary, but it’s definitely affecting them and they’re more limited now in what they can do,” Krasilovsky says, “until the rains come.” The crew based in the Santa Fe National Forest’s Española Ranger District was able to get an exception to continue work as planned—which is a relief, says Dakota Wagner, a North Carolina college student working as the crew trainer. “Being outside and connecting with the outdoors in a way where you’re taking

responsibility for it is really important,” she says. “A lot of people, I think, take for granted the natural spaces that we have, and they don’t realize all the work that goes into keeping those spaces clean or just available for people to use.” That sentiment feels especially poignant given that the public was shut out after national forest personnel counted 84 abandoned campfires over Memorial Day weekend. The closure canceled Santa Fe Fat Tire Society volunteers’ plans to repair an eroded half-mile portion of the Winsor Trail near the Norski trails for National Trails Day on Saturday June 2, and another project on a different section of the trail says club president Brent Bonwell. The mountain biking club’s trail crew volunteers cumulatively log an annual average of more than 2,000 hours of work, Bonwell says, adding that that’s the equivalent to a full-time employee. The work done to clear downed trees from trails in a burn area drives home a clear message about the closure. “The trees that were killed in the Pacheco Fire, the wind just brought them down like pick-up sticks,” he says. Already,

they sawed through up to 500 trees in an effort to re-open trails damaged in that fire, then an April windstorm brought hundreds more down. Wildfire-caused deadfall and badly eroded trails can take years to restore, Bonwell points out. “It’s much better to have the forest closed for a few weeks than to have it burn and have a tremendous amount of work to do recovering from the fire,” he says. “So we’d like to be out there, but we understand the need for the closure.” Meanwhile, the state’s largest wildfire burning now is the Ute Park Fire, between Eagle Nest and Cimarron. It has topped 36,000 acres and was 25 percent contained as of Monday evening. Santa Fe National Forest staff have also responded to at least two small fires. The agency reported a half-acre fire near the Glorieta Lookout had been held to a few smoldering areas in the ponderosa pines and grass, while a one-acre fire east of the Gorham Scout Camp near Chimayó reported Monday evening was 0 percent contained at roughly noon Tuesday.

Closed: Bandelier National Monument backcountry trails, Cibola National Forest, Departments of Defense and Energy lands, Hyde Memorial State Park, Los Alamos County property, select Pecos National Historical Park trails and areas, Santa Fe National Forest, Valles Caldera National Preserve backcountry Open: The city-owned Dale Ball Trail system, St. John’s Trailhead at the base of the Forest Service’s Atalaya Trail (though Atalaya Trail is managed by the Forest Service and closed), La Piedra Open Space Trail, and Dorothy Stewart Trail System. State forests are open but under fire restrictions that prohibit all campfires and open burning.

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June 8–9 • 5–8pm • Art+Walk+Food=Fun Friday: Canyon Road Galleries Saturday: Downtown Galleries

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Tickets: $35 each • Good for both nights

EASY WAYS TO BUY TICKETS to the popular walking & eating tour of Santa Fe’s best art galleries & restaurants. 1. @ ARTsmart: 1201 Parkway Drive 2. @ Ventana Fine Art: 400 Canyon Road 3. @ Participating Galleries 4. @ Will-Call/Ticket Booth 6/8 - 3pm: 400 Canyon Road 5. @ Will-Call/Ticket Booth 6/9 - 3pm: 102 E. Water Street. 6. @ ARTsmartNM.org AND 7. by phone: 505-992-2787

Proceeds for ARTsmart’s Visual Art Programs Underwritten by Gallery 901

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THEY’RE BAAAAAAACK Have you ever noticed the strange connection between Santa Fe and Los Angeles’ Ozomatli? We just can’t seem to get enough. Like, they play here a lot. We get it, though—this town loves combinations of things, and Ozo’s deft and seamless merging of classic Latin sounds, hip-hop, funk and even reggae makes them the kind of band people struggle to describe well, but that gets the people dancing. Expect horns, sexy bass lines, killer lyricism and a head-bobbing spectacle honed over years of shows and albums, but also a band that’s remained on the fringe throughout its career. Ozo does what it wants when it wants. Local funk act The Sticky kicks things off and, since the show is part of the Interplanetary Festival, it’s free. (ADV)

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Interplanetary Festival: Ozomatli with The Sticky: 7 pm Thursday June 7. Free. The Railyard, Market and Alcaldesa Streets, 414-8544.

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EVENT SAT/9 STORIED When numerous local organizations like the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Art Institute join forces with This American Life‘s Ira freaking Glass for an event celebrating the power of storytelling, you do your best to get on board. Presented as a sort of celebration and dissection, The Art of Change finds Glass collaborating with the local orgs and SFAI Equal Justice resident artists Quenna Lené Barrett, Jackie Munro and Nicole Romero. Glass and company delve into the ideas, mechanics and even shortfalls of storytelling, weaving local and not-so-local projects together into a one-of-a-kind event. Tickets will go fast. (ADV) The Art of Change: Ira Glass & Storycatchers Theatre: 6:30 pm Saturday June 9. $15-$30. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234.

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EVENT SUN/10 AS THE POET SAYS… When it’s at its best, poetry takes the simplest, most understandable images and ideas and molds them into heartbreaking revelations and shiver-inducing connections. Daniel Bohnhorst (who won SFR’s poetry contest in 2011, by the way) seems to be on to something in this regard: A meadow, a tent, a stick of butter each take otherworldly forms as his thoughts fractal out into musings on society, war, violence or love that are at once accessible and mind-blowing. Bohnhorst reads his poetry this weekend at 5. Gallery—and, by the way, Max Baseman of 5. is taking over SFR’s Instagram feed this weekend (@sfreporter), so follow along. (Charlotte Jusinski) Daniel Bohnhorst Poetry Reading: 5 pm Sunday June 10. Free. 5. Gallery, 2351 Fox Road.

ART OPENING FRI/8

A Breath of Fresh Art GalleryFRITZ energizes the Santa Fe scene Probably the first things that come to mind when you think of Santa Fe art are Canyon Road and traditional Native American-inspired sculptures and imagery. Maybe those classic New Mexico landscapes, too. Think again. GalleryFRITZ holds its grand opening this Friday and aims to create an entirely new and engaging narrative in contemporary art. More than 17 artists, working with such diverse mediums as ceramics, African textiles, recycled steel, wool felt, linen and sugar sacks, have contributed to the first exhibit, and the results are spectacular. Sales director George Brugnone was warm and chatty as she showed me around the gallery—and for once I didn’t feel intrusive, as I often have at other art venues. As someone who usually doesn’t understand the supposed deep meanings behind contemporary art, I found myself fascinated by nearly everything I saw. Governor’s Arts Award-winner and veteran artist Paul Shapiro, whose landscapes can be recognized by his broad brushstrokes, has composed something entirely different from his

usual body of work this time. While “fishing in heaven,” a term he uses for meditation, Shapiro came up with the idea of using acrylic paint on linen. He thus created soapy-looking swirls on black backgrounds that leave one to ponder just what they are. Paula Castillo, whose work can also be seen at the New Mexico Museum of Art, has rendered what looks like a pair of pants comprised of small steel circles, and an intricate headdress-like object. I was sorely tempted to reach out and touch it—and had to resist the urge again on the second floor, where Gary Goldberg has converted photographs into felted images the size of large rugs. My personal favorite: a landscape viewed from above, done in shades of gray. Of course, there’s plenty more to see at GalleryFRITZ, so if you’ve grown familiar with Santa Fe galleries, take heart—this new space manages to be humorous, intriguing, and yes, even fun. (Roan Lee-Plunket) GALLERY FRITZ GRAND OPENING 7 pm Friday June 8. Free. 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-1888

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Friday, June 8

12:20–12:40 Opening remarks David Krakauer 12:50–1:20 Panel: Sandboxes to Think and Play With Shawn Douglas & Chaim Gingold 1:35–2:10 Concert: The Illegal Aliens 1:45–2:15 Presentation: Earth Primer creator Chaim Gingold 2:30–3:00 Panel: Autonomous Ecosystems Jen Dunne, Kate Greene, Mark Nelson, & David Stout 3:00–3:45 Presentation: Molly Lavik of Arch Mission 3:15–3:45 Panel: Planetary Policy & Regulation Linda Sheehan & Jeff Ubois 4:00–4:50 Concert: DJ Tomas O’Halloran 4:00–5:00 Presentation: A WISC Fellow’s Presentation Shay Youngblood 5:10–5:40 Panel: Time Design Stefani Crabtree, Martine Rothblatt, & Van Savage 5:45-6:20 Book signing: Martine Rothblatt Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality 5:55–6:25 Panel: Motion & Energy Technology Neal Stephenson, Brendan Tracey, & Pete Worden 6:00–8:10 Screening: Forbidden Planet (ticket required) Introduced by Jonah Nolan. Jean Cocteau 6:30-7:05 Book signing: Neal Stephenson The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. and Seveneves 6:35–7:05 Keynote: Pete Worden The Search for Life in the Universe 7:00–9:40 Screening: The Fifth Element (ticket required) Introduced by Scott Ross. Violet Crown 7:05–8:00 Concert: The Sticky 8:30–10:00 Concert: Ozomatli Co-presented by SFI and AMP Concerts

11:00a–11:30 Panel: Living in Space Haym Benaroya, Ashton Eaton, Brian Ferguson, & Nina Lanza 11:45–12:30p Concert: Michael Garfield 12:00-1:00 Panel: Future Evolution of the Brain-Body on Earth & Space Stephen Auger, Mikey Sklar, & Benjamin Smarr 12:45–1:15 Panel: Origins of Life In Space Chris Kempes & Caleb Scharf 1:30–2:00 Panel: Intelligent Systems Vanessa Ferdinand, David Krakauer, Jonah Nolan, Graham Spencer, & Kurt Squire 2:15–3:15 Concert: Rob Schwimmer Theremin/The Incredible Haken Continuum 2:15–3:00 Presentation: Lunar Bases: Past & Future Haym Benaroya 3:00–3:30 Book signing: Haym Benaroya Building Habitats on the Moon 3:30–4:00 Panel: Social & Economic Engineering Cory Doctorow, Jessica Flack, Robert Gehorsam, & D.A. Wallach 3:30–4:15 Presentation: The Future of Human Exploration on Mars Zachary Gallegos 4:00–4:30 Book Signing: Cory Doctorow Walkaway and Information Doesn’t Want to be Free 4:00–6:00 Screening: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (ticket required) Jean Cocteau 4:15–4:45 Panel: Visualization & Designing the Impossible Seamus Blackley, Doug Church, Scott Ross, & Sasha Samochina 5:00–5:30 Presentation: A Virtual Journey to Mission:ISS Daisy Leak of Magnopus 5:45–6:15 Panel: The End of the World? Armin Ellis, Annalee Newitz, & Lauren Oliver 6:00–12:00a Opening Night of CURRENTS New Media El Museo Cultural 6:00–7:00 LASER talk by BioCultura Richard Lowenberg & Agnes Chavez Evoke Gallery 6:00–6:45 Presentation: Lecture by Space Advisor to the Floating Islands Project Gabriel Rothblatt 6:15–6:45 Book signing: Annalee Newitz Autonomous and Scatter, Adapt, & Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction 6:30–7:00 Closing Remarks: Imagining the InterPlanetary 7:15–8:00 Concert: JiHAE 8:00–11:00 Screening: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (ticket required)

VENUES Main Stage

Screening (venue listed)

Farmers Market Pavilion

Art Event (venue listed)

Water Tower

Introduced by Scott Ross. Violet Crown 8:30–10:30 Concert: Max Cooper Co-presented by SFI and Meow Wolf

INNOVATIONS & IDEAS EXPO 12:00–7:00 daily under the Railyard Farmers Market shade structure Santa Fe Institute’s

Inter planetary festival THE SANTA FE RAILYARD JUNE 7–8, 2018

Join space enthusiasts from around the planet for Santa Fe Institute’s first annual two-day celebration of human ingenuity, featuring SEAMUS

Arch Mission Archiving humanity’s most important information across time & space

Bradbury Science Museum Hands-on science demonstrations, including LANL’s solar death ray

Fractal Foundation Hands-on “fractivities” for artists of all ages

BLACKLEY, MAX COOPER, CORY DOCTOROW, JIHAE, ANNALEE NEWITZ, JONAH NOLAN, OZOMATLI, MARTINE ROTHBLATT, NEAL STEPHENSON, D.A. WALLACH, PETE WORDEN, and other luminaries of the artistic/

Awairness: One Nova Demo: Cosmological journey of the origins of life

CENTER (evening only) Conjured Futures Showcase: Projected Photographs

Magnopus: Mission:ISS Virtual reality tour of the International Space Station

Axle Contemporary Showcasing Stephen Auger’s IRIS installation

CyberHero League Demo of a globally sustainable game for change ¡explora! Table-top activities for discovery & lifelong STEAM learning

MAKE Santa Fe 3-D printing, high-powered rocketry, & laser cutting

Feynman Van Richard Feynman’s restored 1974 Dodge Tradesman

SimTable Demo of emergency evacuation optimization & live Railyard modeling

intellectual firmament.

Enjoy open-air concerts, lectures, panel discussions, special sci-fi film screenings, an InterPlanetary arts market, technology demos, immersive art experiences, food, and games centered around InterPlanetary topics!

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FUNDS FROM THE MILLER OMEGA PROGRAM POWER THE INTERPLANETARY PROJECT: CHANGING THE WORLD ONE PLANET AT A TIME

BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy Demo of a wellness device to improve circulation in zero gravity Biosphere 2 Special screening

Pajarito Environmental Education Center Hands-on kid-friendly activities

Tamarind Institute Digital lithography United Therapeutics Biotechnology & Creativity UNM Swarmathon Demo & hands-on play with autonomous robotics systems

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