that seemed to be lacking in previous comments following a deadly shootout Saturday between rival motorcycle gangs on the resort town’s crowded Main Street The violence left three men dead and five injured
River
Mayor Linda Calhoun said the town will no longer promote its decades-old celebration to motorcyclists
“I think it’s safe to say that we’ve seen the last Red River Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally, Calhoun told around 300 people who gathered Wednesday afternoon in the Red River Conference Center She spoke with a sense of finality
It also brought an abrupt end to the town’s long-planned 41st Memorial Day rally which had drawn more than 20000 bikers to the town and up to 50,000 to the surrounding Enchanted Circle
“Some of the ideas we’re just talking about now is to rebrand the event with no reference to motorcycles,” Calhoun said We ll focus the event on families and veterans”
With clock ticking, Senate still must OK suspension of borrowing limit until 2025
By Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane and Rachel Siegel The Washington PostWASHINGTON
The House voted Wednesday night to pass a painstakingly negotiated bill to suspend the debt ceiling, limit federal spending and avert a catastrophic US government default securing a major win for the GOP and the White House that seemed elusive just days ago
The deal brokered over the weekend by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif , and President Joe Biden was an enormous test for the narrow Republican House majority, their leader’s shaky hold over his party and a White House that had long refused to compromise on the debt ceiling at all At times, talks unraveled; at others, McCarthy and Biden projected confidence that they could strike a deal and stave off an unprecedented default on the nation’s debt
In the end, they got a 314-117 bipartisan vote for passage of a 99-page bill that now heads to the Senate where
Counts in case of drive-by attacks against lawmakers include election interference
By Morgan Lee By Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican com
With dark clouds overhead and brisk gusts in his face, Manuel Chavez lowered himself into an L-shaped position at the edge of a 50-foot-high tower He began rappelling down the wooden wall running into some trouble on the way Chavez, 17, didn t keep his brake hand behind him, causing him to slide down the rope and slip out of out the tight position required for a controlled descent Chavez corrected himself enough with the help of a cadre shouting instructions from the tower to reach the ground safely, albeit a bit shaken Scary he said of his first rappelling experience I thought I was going to die” Chavez was one of 52 teens who spent Wednesday going through the New Mexico National Guard s confidence course and simulated shooting range as part of the 22-week residential phase in the Guard’s 17-month
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A failed political candidate has been indicted on federal charges including election interference in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque according to a grand jury indictment that was unsealed Wednesday
The indictment filed in US District Court in Albuquerque takes aim at former Republican candidate Solomon Pena and two alleged accomplices with additional conspiracy and weapons-related charges in connection with the shootings in December 2022 and January of this year on the homes of four Democratic officials including the current state House speaker
The attacks came amid a surge of threats and acts of intimidation against election workers and public officials across the country after former President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden has approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine that totals up to $300 million and includes additional munitions for drones and an array of other weapons It comes as Russia has continued to pummel Ukraine’s capital and unmanned aircraft have targeted Moscow US officials also said there is no suggestion US -made drones or munitions were used in Tuesday strikes on Moscow, which the Kremlin blamed on Ukraine but Kyiv has not acknowledged The Biden administration has said it has made clear to Ukraine that US -made weapons should not be used for attacks inside Russian territory
CAIRO Sudan’s military suspended its participation in talks with a paramilitary force it s been battling for weeks for control of the northeastern African country a military spokesman said Wednesday
The development was a blow to the United States and Saudi Arabia who have been mediating between the two sides The conflict has plunged Sudan into chaos
Brig Nabil Abdalla, a spokesperson for the Sudanese armed forces, told The Associated Press the move is a protest against the Rapid Support Forces’ “repeated violations” of the humanitarian cease-fire, including their continued occupation of hospitals and other civilian infrastructure in the capital Khartoum
Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted in mid-April between the military, led by Gen Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the RSF commanded by Gen Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo The fighting has killed at least 866 civilians and wounded thousands more
Sirens and chaos rattle Seoul after false evacuation alarm triggered
After two year of gargantuan gains, top executive pay up 09% but it would still take workers 186 years to hit total
By Alexandra Olson The Associated PressAfter ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just 09% last year, to a median of $14 8 million according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar That means half the CEOs in the survey made more and half made less It was the smallest increase since 2015
Still that’s unlikely to quell mounting criticism CEO pay has become excessively high and the imbalance between company bosses and rank-and-file workers too wide Discontent over that gap has helped fuel labor unrest, and even some institutional investors have pushed back against a few of the most eye-popping packages
The smaller increase came after CEO pay soared 17% in 2021, when boards rewarded top executives handsomely for steering their companies through the pandemic-induced recession
SEOUL, South Korea
The emergency siren began wailing at 6:32 a m Several minutes later personal cellphones around Seoul were screeching with a government alert urging residents to prepare to evacuate
For a half an hour Wednesday morning confusion and panic swept across this city of 10 million as news spread North Korea had fired a rocket Then, the next wave of messages hit: The Souths home ministry issued a notice saying the earlier alert was a “false alarm”
The confusion began after North Korea launched a planned rocket from the northwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula Two minutes after the liftoff South Korea issued an alert on Baekryeongdo, an island near the northwestern border with the North, but officials were investigating why the same alert was also issued to Seoul
OKLAHOMA CITY
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Wednesday two state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional but the procedure remains illegal in the state in nearly all cases except life-threatening situations
In a 6-3 ruling, the high court said the two bans are unconstitutional because they require a medical emergency” before a doctor can perform an abortion The court said this language conflicts with a previous ruling it issued in March that determined the Oklahoma Constitution provides an “inherent right of a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy when necessary to preserve her life”
Oklahoma s 1910 law, which makes it a felony crime punishable by up to five years in prison for anyone to perform an abortion or help a woman obtain an abortion unless it is necessary to preserve her life, remains legal
New Mexican wire services
Eric Deshawn Lerma felt waves of anxiety when he sat down to tally the new costs in his routine since Amazon’s return to the office this spring Theres parking There’s fuel There’s lunch They add up to at least $200 extra a month, all to support a policy whose justification he can’t fully understand after three years in which he and his teammates have done their jobs from home
Still, when Lerma heard some of his colleagues were organizing a walkout to protest the return-to-office policy, which asks employees to come in at least three days a week he initially wavered on whether to participate After all he realizes thousands of Amazon workers have no flexibility to work from home Their jobs require them to go into warehouses to do physically taxing labor each day
He ultimately decided though to join virtually While warehouse workers have much harsher working conditions than I do” he said I should still be able to reserve the right to protect my autonomy as an employee”
Thousands of corporate employees, across industries who remain adamant they do not want to return to the office are now confronting a tension: How do their demands compare with those of the millions of workers whose jobs have never permitted them the ease of remote work? And can a corporate employees advocacy be of use to workers including those trying to unionize, outside the corporate sphere?
This tension follows a pandemic that exacerbated the divide between white-collar workers who could do their jobs from the safety of their homes and workers who often could not and were exposed to higher COVID-19 risks
At Amazon, more than 1,000 people walked off the job Wednesday for one hour during lunchtime, according to organizers They were protesting the company’s return-to-office rule, among other issues including layoffs and the company’s impact on the climate Weeks
earlier, employees voiced their frustrations with the RTO policy in a Remote Advocacy channel, with more than 30,000 members, on the Slack workplace messaging system
The company has more than 350,000 corporate and tech employees globally More than 800 in Seattle and 1,600 globally had pledged to participate in the walkout The vast majority of Amazons more than 1 million workers including those who formed a union at a Staten Island, NY, warehouse, have been working in person throughout the pandemic Apple, where employees issued open letters protesting in-person work, and the Gap have encountered a similar dynamic At Starbucks, more than 70 named employees along with others who remained anonymous, released a petition this year urging the company to permit them to keep working remotely Members of the union representing Starbucks baristas have been supportive of these corporate workers even though most of the company’s roughly 250,000 US employees cannot work from home
Indeed, many workers in warehouses and stores have been quick to show support for their corporate colleagues, noting they have nothing to gain from seeing office workers lose out on the flexibility the pandemic proved was possible
“The work that we’re doing is in two separate fields said Anna Ortega 23 who is active in Inland Empire Amazon Workers United, a group of warehouse workers, and has been working at an Amazon facility in San Bernardino, Calif , for almost two years It s just showing us that Amazon has a problem with workers and listening to us
To Sarah Pappin, 32, a Starbucks shift supervisor in Seattle what corporate employees are asking for is directly related to what store employees are demanding, such as increased COVID-19 safety protections
“Even jobs that you might think of as dream jobs can be exploited, she said I think there is a growing understanding that we’re all workers”
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The United States had 10 1 million job openings in April, a big jump after three months of declines the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, reflecting a strong labor market despite mass layoffs, a banking crisis and widespread uncertainty in the economy
The report indicated the labor market could be getting hot again a notable reversal of a cooling trend over the past year Employers added half a million job openings between March and April, after steady declines policymakers had pointed to as a sign the labor market had come off its scorching highs from earlier last year
The surprise gain in job openings
combined with quits remaining steady, shows surprising vitality in the labor market,” Robert Frick, corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union said in a statement “This report should move the recession goal posts further down the field”
The report also puts more of a spotlight on the May jobs report due to come out Friday It’s the most up-todate snapshot on the labor market and is monitored closely by policymakers who are trying to curb rising prices by cooling the labor market
Other indicators in Wednesday’s report also signaled the labor market isn’t slowing down as much as expected The number of job openings per unemployed worker, a ratio the Federal Reserve has monitored closely
as an indicator of labor market tightness rose to 1 9 jobs per unemployed worker, up from 1 6 the previous month And even as reports of mass terminations at companies such as Meta, Lyft and Deloitte captured headlines layoffs dropped by 1% to 1.6 million Indeed, some of the largest declines in layoffs in April were in the interest-rate-sensitive industries of construction and information, which includes tech “Layoffs in tech are getting more attention because of where they are said Elise Gould, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute “Obviously they are damaging for people who lost their jobs but it hasn t been as damaging as the numbers would suggest
Health care, construction, trade and transportation were among the industries that posted more job openings in April
The report also showed some signs of a gradual return to pre-pandemic norms in the labor market The rate of workers quitting their jobs, which has been elevated giving workers more leverage as they switched jobs, fell again to 24% almost returning to its pre-pandemic level Job openings fell in manufacturing leisure and hospitality and the information sector
Economists urge caution in reading too much into the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly reports due to volatility in the data and reports from outside sources that suggest labor market has cooled more than BLS reports indicate
Many of the compensation packages were approved early in 2022 but even a small raise might seem lavish in retrospect against the backdrop of a year in which stock markets tanked to their worst performance since 2008 inflation erased wage gains, fears of a recession grew and tech giants began laying off workers
“I’m not surprised that after two record years in a row, pay hikes cooled somewhat” said Sarah Anderson who directs the Global Economy Project at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies What we shouldn t lose sight of is that CEO pay is still off the charts by historical measures She said even a small hike last year was “outrageous”
In contrast to recent years, CEO pay gains were lower than the 5 1% increase in wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers through 2022
Still worker pay failed to keep up with inflation, which was sitting at 64% at the end of last year And the pay disparity between CEOs and rank-and-file workers which has been widening for years, narrowed only slightly ThemedianpayforworkersatcompaniesincludedintheAPsurveywas$77178 up1 3%from$76,160thepreviousyear Thatmeansitwouldtakethatworker186 yearstomakewhataCEOmakingthe medianpayearnedjustlastyear
The timing of some of the biggest pay packages struck a discordant note against the backdrop of difficult times for their industries
Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai ranked No 1 in the survey this year with a package valued at nearly $226 million Pichai received a total compensation package 15 times higher than this year’s median CEO pay just before Google laid off tens of thousands of workers The company’s total shareholder returns fell 39% last year
StephenMcMurtry aGooglesoftware engineerandmemberoftheAlphabet WorkersUnion-CWA saidhewasnot impressedwhenPichaitoldemployees shortlyafterthelayoffsexecutiveswould takesignificantbonuscutsin2023because bonusesareasmallpartofexecutives primarilystock-basedcompensation”
The clear disparity between executive rewards and our jobless former coworkers erodes trust and further underscores the need for transparency” McMurtry said
With Supreme Court seemingly on verge of ending policy, higher ed seeks ways to avoid losing years of progress for minorities
By Collin BinkleyThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON As an alternative to affirmative action colleges from California to Florida have tried a range of strategies to achieve the diversity they say is essential to their campuses Many have given greater preference to low-income families Others started admitting top students from every community in their state
But after years of experimentation often prompted by state-level bans on considering race in admissions theres no clear solution In states requiring race-neutral policies, many colleges have seen enrollment drops among Black and Hispanic students, especially at selective colleges that historically have been mostly white
Now, as the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action colleges nationwide could soon face the same test, with some bracing for setbacks that could erase decades of progress on campus diversity A ruling is expected by the end of June
At Amherst College officials have estimated going entirely race-neutral would reduce Black Hispanic and Indigenous populations by half
“We fully expect it would be a significant decrease in our population said Matthew McGann, Amherst’s director of admission
Facing a conservative Supreme Court that appeared skeptical from the start colleges have been preparing for a rollback Some are considering adding more essays to get a better picture of an applicant’s background
Others are planning to boost recruiting in racially diverse areas, or admit more transfer students from community colleges
The court took up affirmative action in response to challenges at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Lower courts upheld admission systems at both schools rejecting claims the schools discriminated against white and Asian-American applicants
Meanwhile other schools have been taking lessons from colleges that don’t consider race Nine states previously banned affirmative action, starting with California in 1996 and most recently Idaho in 2020
After Michigan voters rejected it in 2006 the University of Michigan shifted attention to low-income students
It sent graduates to work as counselors in low-income high schools It started offering college prep in Detroit and Grand Rapids
It offered full scholarships for low-income Michigan residents More recently it started
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VATICAN CITY
The former monastery on a quiet residential street in Rome once sheltered Jews fearing deportation during World War II Purchased by the Vatican in 2021 as a dormitory for foreign nuns studying at Rome’s pontifical universities, the building now stands empty, a collateral victim of the latest financial scandal to hit the Holy See
investments to church-run farming initiatives in Africa MISIF LLC is known as an impact investing fund because it seeks to do social good as well as provide a financial return
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Odia Kaba works from home May 23 in Ypsilanti, Mich. Growing up in Ann Arbor, there was an expectation she would attend the University of Michigan Kaba began at Eastern Michigan University with plans to transfer to the larger school, but her sister’s negative experience as a Black student at Michigan kept her at the more diverse EMU
accepting fewer early admission applications which are more likely to come from white students
Despite those efforts, the university offers itself as a cautionary tale The share of Black and Hispanic undergraduates hasn’t fully rebounded from a falloff after 2006
And while Hispanic enrollments have been increasing Black enrollments continued to slide, going from 8% of undergraduates in 2006 to 4% now
The campus is drawing more low-income students but that hasn’t translated to racial diversity, said Erica Sanders, the director of undergraduate admissions at Michigan
Socioeconomic status is not a proxy for race,” Sanders said
At the same time some of Michigan’s less selective colleges have fared better At nearby Eastern Michigan University the number of students of color increased, reflecting demographic shifts in the state It illustrates what experts say is a chilling effect seen most acutely at selective colleges students of color see fewer of their peers at places like Ann Arbor prompting them to choose campuses that appear more welcoming
Growing up in Ann Arbor, there was an expectation Odia Kaba would attend the University of Michigan When her application was deferred, she started at Eastern Michigan with plans to transfer to Ann Arbor her sophomore year
By then, Kaba was getting daily texts from her sister who attended U-M describing the microaggressions she faced as a Black student on campus Rooms went silent when
she walked in She was ignored in group projects She felt alone and suffocated
“Why would I go to U of M?” Kaba 22 remembers thinking I’m just going to be stuck with people that don’t look like me can’t relate to me, and with no way to escape it” Kaba stayed at Eastern Michigan and graduated with a degree in quantitative economics this year Even though it’s a mostly white campus Kaba said she found pockets of diversity that helped make her comfortable “I’m in economics which is a white male-dominated space But I can walk out of the classroom and be surrounded by my people, and I just feel safe, she said Opponents of affirmative action say some states have fared well without it After Oklahoma outlawed the practice in 2012, the state’s flagship university saw “no long-term severe decline” in minority enrollments, the state’s attorney general told the Supreme Court
Still, many colleges expect racial diversity could take a hit If affirmative action is struck down, colleges fear they will unknowingly admit fewer students of color In the long run, it can be self-perpetuating if numbers fall, the campus can appear less attractive to future students of color
That s a problem, colleges say, because racial diversity benefits the entire campus exposing students to other worldviews and preparing them for a diverse workforce
We need to make sure we re sending the message that we’re committed to diversity, independent of what the court does said Doug Christiansen, dean of admissions at Vanderbilt University
Masterson, of ‘That ’70s Show,’ faces 30 years in prison on two counts
By Michael LevensonThe New York Times
A jury in Los Angeles on
Wednesday convicted Danny Masterson the actor best known for his role on the sitcom That ’70s Show of having raped two women in a case that drew widespread attention because of accusations the Church of Scientology had tried to discourage his accusers
The jury deadlocked on a charge Masterson had raped a third woman, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said
The mixed verdict came after a jury deadlocked on all three charges in November resulting in a mistrial The retrial lasted more than a month and jurors deliberated for more than a week before finding him guilty of two counts of rape by force or fear
Masterson, 47, was taken into custody after the verdict He will face up to 30 years to life in state prison when he is sentenced Aug 4, the district attorney s office said
Prosecutors said that Masterson, who played Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show from 1998 to 2006, raped three women at his home in the Hollywood Hills between 2001 and 2003 He was charged in 2020 and had pleaded not guilty
A spokesperson for Mastersons legal team said the lawyers had
no immediate comment after the verdict Wednesday
The case was closely watched in part because of accusations by two of the women the Church of Scientology, to which they and Masterson belonged, had discouraged them from reporting the rapes to law enforcement, according to court documents The church has strongly denied that it pressures victims
Although both trials centered on the same allegations Judge
Charlaine F Olmedo of Los Angeles Superior Court allowed prosecutors to tell jurors directly in the second trial Masterson had drugged his three accusers, The Associated Press reported Prosecutors only suggested the possibility of drugging in the first trial as they presented testimony the women felt disoriented and
confused after Masterson gave them alcoholic drinks Masterson’s lawyer, Philip Cohen had argued the womens stories were inconsistent and there was no physical evidence of drugging and “no evidence of force or violence the AP reported I am experiencing a complex array of emotions relief exhaustion, strength, sadness knowing that my abuser Danny Masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behavior” one of Mastersons accusers, who was identified in court documents only as N Trout, said in a statement released by a public relations firm for lawyers who are representing her in a lawsuit against Masterson and the Church of Scientology
Pope Francis has asked aides to get to the bottom of how at least $17 million including money to refurbish the dorm, was transferred from the Vatican’s USbased missionary fundraising coffers into an impact investing vehicle run by a priest, The Associated Press has learned Two years later, the US fundraiser says the money is gone and the monastery is shuttered Its renovation is tied up in bureaucratic red tape, while the nuns studying in Rome are still housed at a convent a 90-minute commute away
The story of what happened to the money is one that has vexed Vatican officials on both sides of the Atlantic all the more because the transfers appear entirely legal But they have nevertheless prompted the new leadership of the Vatican’s missionary fundraising operation in the US , The Pontifical Mission Societies to replace the staff and board of directors who approved them and overhaul its bylaws and statutes to make sure nothing like this ever happens again
And for now, the organization known as TPMS-US has written off $102 million of the total transferred as a loss since “there is no timeline and no guarantee of investment return according to its latest audited financial statement
The money was transferred from TPMS-US into a New Yorkbased non-profit, Missio Corp , and its private equity fund MISIF LLC, both of which were created by the Rev Andrew Small while he was the national director of TPMS-US Both financial vehicles aim to raise capital to provide low-interest loans and
The bulk of the money was transferred to Small s new initiatives in 2021, right before Small ended his 10-year tenure at TPMS-US Small, a British-born Oblate of the Mary Immaculate priest remains CEO of Missio Corp , while now serving on a temporary basis as the No 2 at the Vaticans child protection advisory board In a series of emailed responses to AP questions, Small strongly defended the money transfers as fully approved and in the best interest of the church and TPMS-US He provided letters from grateful bishops and nuns in Africa who have benefited from Missio Corp’s low-interest loans, as well as letters from two Vatican cardinals expressing interest in his impact investing initiatives
But the transfers have, at least temporarily reduced the endowment fund of TPMS-US by a quarter and seemingly diverted money raised in the pope’s name away from Vatican-approved charities and works in Africa, Asia and Latin America The loss is thus the latest financial headache for the Holy See which for decades has been beset by episodes of loss-making investments, opaque accounting methods porous budgets and conflicts of interest that have undermined its financial reputation
“The Holy See is aware of the situation and is currently looking into the details of the events” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement to AP
Because the TPMS-US board approved the transfers, any litigation to get it back is implausible But according to officials at TPMS-US it remains unclear if the board was fully informed about the transfers and the Vaticans view of them, especially concerns expressed by the then-prefect of the Vatican’s missionary office, Cardinal Fernando Filoni
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Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified material have a recording of Trump from 2021 discussing a sensitive military document he had kept after leaving the White House, two people briefed on the matter said
The recording, in which Trump also indicated he knew the document was secret, could undermine his repeated claim that he had already declassified material that remained in his possession after he left office Prosecutors are scrutinizing whether Trump obstructed efforts by federal officials to retrieve documents he took with him after leaving office and whether he violated laws governing the handling of classified material
Youth Challenge Academy
Based in Roswell, the academy aims to offer education and life skills to at-risk kids, age 16 to 18, so they can become productive citizens who can better shape their own futures
The demanding, quasi-military residential training is a key piece of the program
The teens, who come from all over New Mexico and neighboring states live in military barracks at the academy in Roswell and so are fittingly called cadets
The boys and girls work toward passing the high school equivalency test and can earn college credits through vocational training at Eastern New Mexico University
After they complete the live-in portion they enter a 12-month post-residential phase in which mentors work to keep them on track
They are put through the confidence course at the tail end of their residence
This course originally built for those reentering the military after years in civilian life features an array of wooden and rope obstacles similar to what new enlistees must surmount during basic training
In one section, cadets crawled on their bellies under wire squares leaped up and vaulted over a row of log hurdles
Many struggled on a rope-climbing exercise, prompting a cadre to bark in mock exasperation
Most did well climbing up Jacob’s
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All of the shooting victims were members of the Bandidos and Waterdogs “outlaw” motorcycle gangs New Mexico State Police said
So far only one man is facing a charge tied to the shooting
State police said early Sunday 30-year-old Jacob Castillo of Rio Rancho a member of the Waterdogs who was wounded by gunfire, had been charged with an open count of murder and would be booked into the Taos County jail when he was released from a hospital
However state police still had not filed charges in court against Castillo by Wednesday afternoon
State police Chief Tim Johnson gave a detailed account of actions the agency took ahead of the rally after learning a rivalry was brewing between the two gangs he said had begun over a photo But the agency has not released reports detailing how the violence unfolded or the role Castillo is alleged to have
played
Those killed in Saturday’s shooting were identified as Anthony Silva, 26, of Los Lunas reputed to be a chapter leader of the Bandidos; Randy Sanchez, 46 of Albuquerque a member of the Waterdogs; and Damian Breaux, 46, of Socorro a member of the Bandidos
Two men, one of them injured by a gunshot and both identified as members of the Bandidos, were charged by state police with unrelated crimes as authorities investigated the shooting
Court documents in their cases say the gun violence was triggered by a wedding photo that showed members of the Waterdogs attending a celebration with members of another motorcycle gang that has a rivalry with the Bandidos
The Bandidos Gang was apparently aggravated at the Waterdogs for associating with the [Mongols] in territory which the Bandidos considered their territory,” prosecutors wrote in court motions seeking pretrial detention of the two men: Christopher Garcia, 41, of Rankin Texas and Matthew Jackson 39
The tape was made in a meeting Trump held in July 2021 with people helping his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, write a memoir of his 10 months in the White House according to the people briefed on the matter The meeting was held at Trump’s club at Bedminster, NJ, where he spends summers
Until now the focus of the documents investigation has been largely on material Trump kept with him at Mara-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida rather than in New Jersey Meadows did not attend the meeting, but at least two of Trumps aides did One, Margo Martin, routinely taped the interviews he gave for books being written about him that year
On the recording, Trump began railing about his hand-picked chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, who was described in media accounts at the time as having guarded against
Trump’s striking Iran in the final days of the presidency, according to the people briefed on the matter Trump then began referencing a document that he had with him saying that it had been compiled by Milley and was related to attacking Iran the people briefed on the matter said Among other comments he mentioned his classification abilities during the discussion, one person briefed on the matter said Trump can be heard handling paper on the tape although it is not clear whether it was the document in question
The Justice Department obtained the recording in recent months, a potentially key piece in a mountain of evidence that prosecutors have amassed under special counsel Jack Smith since he was appointed in November to oversee the federal investigations into Trump Martin was asked about the recording
during a grand jury appearance according to two people briefed on the matter
Steven Cheung a spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement that leaks from radical partisans behind this political persecution are designed to inflame tensions and continue the media’s harassment of President Trump and his supporters” He accused prosecutors of interfering with the 2024 election through the investigation which began in early 2022 In total the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from Trump since he left office They include a first batch of documents returned in January 2022 to the National Archives, another set provided by Trumps aides to the Justice Department that June, material seized by the FBI in the search of Mar-a-Lago in August and a handful found in additional searches late last year
program but rather to benefit the state by instilling solid core values to teens struggling in school
“If we got nobody in the military and they all turned out to be, like, hardworking citizens and got jobs with happy lives, that’s good for New Mexico,”
Aguilar said
The girls went through the obstacle course in the morning and did simulated shooting in the afternoon As with a real rifle range they lay prone in a line while aiming and pulling the trigger The targets though were on an electronic screen Sariah Ferguson, 18, of Artesia, said she found the entire challenge course exhilarating Scaling Jacobs Ladder was tough, but she came away feeling more confidence in herself, she said
“It was scary at first,” Ferguson said But you get used to it You get the rhythm”
Ferguson said she wants to join the Coast Guard
Malorie Matta, 18, said she was afraid through much of the course but wasn’t going to let anyone know it She really enjoyed the simulated shooting exercise, she said
“It makes me want to join the military, the Farmington teen said
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and his allies spread false claims about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election
US Attorney Alexander Uballez highlighted that the shootings targeted the homes of two county commissioners shortly after their certification of the 2022 election
Pena targeted several of these public officials because, in their official capacity, they certified the election, which he lost,” Uballez said at a news conference In America, voters pick their leaders and would-be leaders don t get to pick which voters they heed, which rules apply to them, or which laws to follow
No one was injured in the shootings But in one case bullets passed through the bedroom of a state senator s 10-year-old daughter
The new indictment outlines smartphone communications including text messages by Pena in the days following the Nov 8 election that pinpoint the locations of officials’ homes, allege election-rigging and confide to a politically ally about plans to press the attack
Text messages in the indictment show the 40-year-old candidate bristling with outrage as Bernalillo County commissioners certified the results of the midterm election and his own overwhelming defeat as candidate for a seat in the state House of Representatives Federal authorities say Pena hired others to conduct the shootings and carried out at least one shooting himself
nearly
Ladder a giant wooden frame with long crossbeams and wide gaps After they reached the sixth rung, they descended a few rungs and then fell backward onto a 3-foot-thick styrofoam crash pad
Don t look down, just fall! a male cadet shouted at a hesitant classmate
And then there was the rappelling tower Sawyer Moore, 17, had no trouble with it because he has rappelled while rock climbing
Moore, who lives in Boulder, Colo , enjoyed all the obstacles He was disappointed the cadets weren’t allowed to
climb to the top of Jacobs Ladder “I love heights,” Moore said “I said, Dang, I thought we were going to go all the way up’ ” Moore said he plans to join the Navy
In fact, all the cadets who were asked said they were going to enlist
But Brig Gen Miguel Aguilar, adjutant general of the state, said only seven or eight out of a class of 50 typically end up joining the military Aguilar said the academy, although run by the National Guard is not intended to be a military recruiting
Princess Luquez 17 who came from Douglas, Ariz , for the program, said the toughest challenge for her was overcoming a fear of heights
On one lofty obstacle she cried and froze for two minutes
“I made it” she said
She has discovered she likes a military environment and has her eye on the Navy
Aguilar said it’s stunning to watch how the cadets change from the first week to the end
“The change in their complexion and in their eyes he said “It s an amazing transformation”
Hours before the first shooting Dec 4, 2022, Pena texted a Republican political ally, who also lost a bid for state representative, to say that we have to act I m continuing my study of election rigging The enemy will eventually break Amid the shootings, Pena later texted one of several unnamed conspirators in the indictment to say, It is our duty as Statesmen and Patriots to stop the oligarchs from taking over our country
Elizabeth Honce a defense attorney for Pena, said her client maintains his innocence Pena has been held without bail since his January arrest on charges in state District Court related to the shootings Those charges will be dismissed in deference to the federal indictment as Pena is transferred to federal custody, authorities said Federal charges were also filed against 22-year-old Jose Louise Trujillo and 41-year-old Demetrio Trujillo on allegations that they assisted Pena in obtaining vehicles and firearms and that they pulled the trigger themselves to fire bullets into the homes of the victims Jose Trujillo was arrested in January on an outstanding warrant in a car with a stash of more than 800 fentanyl pills and two firearms, leading to a break in the investigation as officers traced at least one gun to bullet casings found the same day at one of the shootings Authorities say Demetrio Trujillo was arrested Wednesday, while they declined to comment directly on whether several unnamed accomplices in the indictment would be charged John Anderson, an attorney for Jose Trujillo declined to comment Wednesday
Police have described Pena as the instigator of a politically motivated conspiracy leading to shootings at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators Charges against the three defendants include the use of an automatic weapon
The motion incorrectly named the rival gang as Mongrels rather than Mongols, a spokeswoman from the District Attorney’s Office confirmed
Garcia is charged with possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence while Jackson faces counts of carrying a firearm in a liquor establishment and possession of methamphetamine
A criminal complaint for Jackson says
a bystander told a state police sergeant he was seen holding bloody clothing
The officer held Jackson for questioning and discovered a bloody shirt, belt and shoes the complaint says
It provides no further details about the garments
It remained unclear why state police have delayed filing charges against Castillo
State police Lt Mark Soriano said Castillo would be charged after he is medically cleared from the hospital
“As soon as he is released he will be served the warrant, the charges will be filed on him and he will be taken from
the hospital and he will be relinquished to the detention center, where he ll be watched” Soriano said He referred further questions about charges to the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s Office District Attorney Marcus Montoya said he has been in communication with state police over the past few days, and his office has come to an agreement with the agency on a path forward when it comes to charging Castillo
He added it is ultimately state polices discretion when to file the charges
There could be dozens of reasons to delay filing charges for an injured suspect who is undergoing treatment, Montoya said “It’s just this case fits where it’s practical to go ahead and wait until we know his medical condition and his clearance, he added FBI Supervisory Special Agent Terrance Frank didn’t comment directly on whether Castillo might also face federal charges in connection with the Saturday shootout
“Our office will continue to support [state polices] efforts in holding those responsible accountable and bringing them to justice, Frank wrote in an email State police said no law enforcement officers fired their weapons during the shootout, which officials initially indicated was a series of shootings in the town Taos County Undersheriff Jerry Hogrefe said the initial shootout on Main Street was followed by additional reports of gunfire
“There were two other events not long after he said First one was about 30 minutes afterwards on the west end of town It was reported that one person on a black motorcycle was heading westbound firing a handgun at random
We responded in seconds but did not locate that person Then there was a third event probably 35 to 40 minutes later of a drive-by shooting in Questa
No one was located New Mexican reporter Nathan Lederman contributed to this story
The shootings began Dec 4, when eight rounds were fired at the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa Days later state Rep Javier Martínez’s home was targeted On Dec 11 more than a dozen rounds were fired at the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley, police said Martínez became the Democratic state House speaker in January
The final related shooting targeting state Sen Linda Lopez s home, unfolded in the midnight hour of Jan 3 Police said more than a dozen shots were fired including three that Lopez said passed through the bedroom of her sleeping daughter
Following the shootings, New Mexico state lawmakers this year enacted legislation that provides felony sanctions for intimidation of election regulators and allows some public officials to keep their home address off government websites
Recent assaults on politicians or their households include the hammer-wielding attack on the husband of them-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in October at the couple’s San Francisco home In July, a man clutching a pointed weapon assaulted Republican candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin a congressman at the time onstage at a speaking event
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The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis
This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California State Farm, announced that it would stop selling coverage to homeowners That s not just in wildfire zones but everywhere in the state Insurance companies tired of losing money, are raising rates, restricting coverage or pulling out of some areas altogether making it more expensive for people to live in their homes
“Risk has a price,” said Roy Wright, the former official in charge of insurance at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and now head of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety a research group “We’re just now seeing it”
In parts of eastern Kentucky ravaged by storms last summer, the price of flood insurance is set to quadruple In Louisiana the top insurance official says the market is in crisis, and is offering millions of dollars in subsidies to try to draw insurers to the state
And in much of Florida homeowners are increasingly struggling to buy storm coverage Most big insurers have pulled out of the state already, sending homeowners to smaller private companies that are straining to stay in business a possible glimpse into California s future if more big insurers leave State Farm, which insures more homeowners in California than any other company, said it would stop accepting applications for most types of new
insurance policies in the state because of “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure”
The company said that while it recognized the work of California officials to reduce losses from wildfires, it had to stop writing new policies to improve the company’s financial strength”
A State Farm spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment
Insurance rates in California jumped after wildfires became more devastating than anyone had anticipated A series of fires that broke out in 2017 many ignited by sparks from failing utility equipment, exploded in size with the effects of
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lawmakers will rush to enact the legislation before Monday when the US will no longer be able to pay its bills
No one got everything they wanted Many liberal Democrats opposed the bill, objecting to curbs on government spending and to new work requirements for some recipients of federal food stamps and family welfare benefits
Far-right Republicans also slammed the agreement for not securing more aggressive spending cuts And some GOP members cast doubt on McCarthy’s fitness to lead, underscoring the fractures within the party since McCarthy won the speakership earlier this year after 15 rounds of voting and multiple concessions
Washingtons spending addiction is both irresponsible and just wrong, McCarthy said as the House neared a vote “So let’s stop it I ll be honest, tonight s bill doesn’t stop it But for the first time, we begin to turn the ship
This shouldn t be our last
The debt ceiling caps the amount the US government can borrow The current level is $31 4 trillion, and the Treasury Department has been using what it calls “extraordinary measures” since January to shuffle money around in the federal budget to avoid needing to take on more debt The deal would suspend the limit until Jan 2, 2025 The Congressional Budget Office says the proposal will reduce the deficit by $1 5 trillion over the next 10 years
Negotiators from both parties claimed victory
“We have hit our credit card limit as a nation said Louisian Rep Garret Graves, a key representative for the GOP in talks with the White House “We
don t have the ability to pay the monthly payment And so we’re in a quandary We ve got to figure out how we’re going to raise that credit card limit And just like you would do with your own family, you would have a conversation Mr Speaker with your child, and you would say, ‘Hey, how did you get yourself in this situation? We’ve got to fix it’”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, said Biden and his party had rescued the economy from GOP threats to tank it over spending
“President Biden understood despite the hostage-taking situation that you unnecessarily thrust the country into, that we had an obligation a responsibility to avoid a catastrophic default,”
Jeffries said That s exactly what President Biden and Democrats have been able to do
Biden hailed the vote in a statement late Wednesday
“This budget agreement is a bipartisan compromise Neither side got everything it wanted he said “I have been clear that the only path forward is a bipartisan compromise that can earn the support of both parties This agreement meets that test”
The bill got the support of a majority of the majority” in the final House vote, satisfying an informal Republican guideline against passing legislation mostly on the strength of Democratic support
Timing for the Senate to act is unclear Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has said lawmakers may need to be in Washington through the weekend to get the legislation passed before Monday, when the Treasury Department has warned that the United States will no longer be able to pay all of its bills
Speaking on the Senate floor
would provide windstorm coverage for homeowners who couldn’t find private insurance
For a while it mostly worked Then came Hurricane Irma
The 2017 hurricane which made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm before moving up the coast didn t cause a particularly great amount of damage But it was the first in a series of storms, culminating in Hurricane Ian last October that broke the model insurers had relied on: One bad year of claims followed by a few quiet years to build back their reserves
Since Irma almost every year has been bad
Private insurers began to struggle to pay their claims; some went out of business Those that survived increased their rates significantly
insurers began leaving following Hurricane Katrina in 2005
Then starting with Hurricane Laura in 2020, a series of storms pummeled the state Nine insurance companies failed; people began rushing into the state’s own version of Florida s Citizens plan
The state’s insurance market “is in crisis, Louisiana s insurance commissioner, James J Donelon said in an interview
In December, Louisiana had to increase premiums for coverage provided by its Citizens plan by 63%, to an average of $4 700 a year In March it borrowed $500 million from the bond market to pay the claims of homeowners who had been abandoned when their private insurers failed Donelon said
The state recently agreed to new subsidies for private insurers essentially paying them to do business in the state Donelon said he hoped that the subsidies would stabilize the market
climate change
Some homeowners lost their insurance entirely because insurers refused to cover homes in vulnerable areas California’s woes resemble a slow-motion version of what Florida experienced after Hurricane Andrew devastated Miami in 1992 The losses bankrupted some insurers and caused most national carriers to pull out of the state
In response, Florida established a complicated system: a market based on small insurance companies backed up by Citizens Property Insurance Corp , a state-mandated company that
Wednesday morning Schumer said there was “no margin for error” on passage: Any needless delay, any last-minute brinkmanship at this point would be an unacceptable risk”
The Senate spent Wednesday working to be ready to debate the bill as soon as the House passed it Several members in both parties want the chamber to consider amendments, but leaders said they don’t expect any to be adopted
The bipartisan 241-187 afternoon vote in the House for the rule allowing Wednesday night’s action was unusual, because the minority party almost never supports such measures Because Republicans didn’t have 218 of their own members to approve the rule Democrats worked to provide enough of their own to keep the bill moving along
“House Democrats are going to make sure the country doesn’t default Period Full stop Jeffries told reporters after a party caucus meeting
On the left liberal members of Congress were dismayed that the deal imposes new work requirements for certain federal programs and irritated that Biden had to negotiate with McCarthy at all over the debt ceiling, the legal cap on how much the government can borrow
And the debt ceiling drama has exposed deep opposition toward McCarthy from some far-right Republicans including those who say he is not fit to be speaker
After the vote Rep Andy Biggs, R-Ariz , a far-right lawmaker who has expressed concerns about McCarthy’s leadership, was dismayed that more Democrats voted for the bill than Republicans
We were told theyd never put a bill on the floor that would take more Democrats than ours to pass” Biggs said
But McCarthy pointed to the overwhelming support from GOP members in response: “I said I’d get two-thirds What s two-thirds of our conference?”
More people have left the private market for Citizens, which recently became the states largest insurance provider according to Michael Peltier, a spokesperson But Citizens won t cover homes with a replacement cost of more than $700000 or $1 million in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys
That leaves those homeowners with no choice but private coverage and in parts of the state that coverage is getting harder to find, Peltier said Florida despite its challenges has an important advantage: A steady of influx of residents who remain, for now, willing and able to pay the rising cost of living there In Louisiana, the rising cost of insurance has become, for some communities, a threat to their existence
Like Florida after Andrew, Louisiana’s insurance market started to buckle after
But Jesse Keenan a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and an expert in climate adaptation and finance said the state’s insurance market would be hard to turn around The high cost of insurance has begun to affect home prices he said
In the past, it would have been possible for some communities those where homes are passed down from generation to generation with no mortgages required and no banks demanding insurance to go without insurance altogether But as climate change makes storms more intense, thats no longer an option
“There’s just not enough wealth in those low-income communities to continue to rebuild, storm after storm,” Keenan said
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Immediately after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif , reached an elusive agreement with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling on Saturday, the speaker emerged from his office and called a little-known congresswoman about a once obscure energy project
“We got Mountain Valley Pipeline done McCarthy told Rep Carol Miller, R-WVa , according to people familiar with the conversation
The speaker was referring to a controversial gas pipeline that the debt limit deal sought to fasttrack Its inclusion shocked many in Washington including several lawmakers, aides and lobbyists
Yet the phone call, which has not been reported previously, capped a week of behind-thescenes negotiations among House Republicans, White House officials and others over the 303-mile pipeline which would carry natural gas across West Virginia and Virginia over the opposition of local residents and climate activists Sen Joe Manchin D-WVa a swing vote in the evenly divided Senate has been one of the most vocal supporters of the pipeline But House Republicans and
their aides also played a key role in securing language in the debt ceiling deal to expedite the project s completion, according to people close to the talks many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private deliberations
To make the stars align, House Republicans had to enlist Manchin in communications with the White House the people said The resulting deal included many players but demonstrated how industry lobbyists can influence legislation and help certain politicians in the mix White House officials agreed to include the language to honor a promise they made to Manchin last summer To secure Manchin’s support for Democrats’ landmark climate law dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, party leaders agreed to pass a follow-up bill that would speed up the nations permitting process for energy infrastructure including by expediting the Mountain Valley project
The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a joint venture between some of the largest gas companies in Appalachia and the nations most valuable power company NextEra Energy
Its largest investor is Equitrans Midstream, which has a 48 1% ownership interest and will
operate the pipeline
The weeklong scramble to boost the project began May 23 a day when Republicans accused Biden of “a lack of urgency” in the debt ceiling talks a claim the White House rejected On that day, Equitrans CEO Thomas Karam met with staffers for Miller about including the favorable provisions in the debt ceiling deal the people close to the talks said The same day Lance West a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute and Manchins former chief of staff, also huddled with Miller staffers about the MVP West characterized his negotiating role as minimal, saying he regularly meets with lawmakers as the top lobbyist for the oil and gas industry s main trade association I m just a man in a lobbying job like any other” he said “I meet with everybody about permitting reform”
Natalie Cox, a spokeswoman for Equitrans declined to confirm the meeting but said in an email that the company is “grateful for the full support of the White House, as well as the strong leadership of Democratic and Republican legislators for recognizing the Mountain Valley Pipeline as a critical energy infrastructure project
GAZA CITY Gaza Strip
As the Khoswan family slept, the Israeli military dropped three GBU-39 bombs into their sixth-floor apartment One of the bombs exploded just outside the parents’ bedroom leaving the apartment looking as if a tornado had swept through killing three family members
But they were not the stated target of the attack earlier this month
By Ralph Vartabedian
The New York Times
RICHLAND, Wash
From 1950 to 1990, the US Energy Department produced an average of four nuclear bombs every day turning them out of hastily built factories with few environmental safeguards that left behind a vast legacy of toxic radioactive waste
Nowhere were the problems greater than at the Hanford Site in Washington state, where engineers sent to clean up the mess after the Cold War discovered 54 million gallons of highly radioactive sludge left from producing the plutonium in America s atomic bombs, including the one dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in 1945
Cleaning out the underground tanks that were leaching poisonous waste toward the Columbia River just 6 miles away and somehow stabilizing it for permanent disposal presented one of the most complex chemical problems ever encountered Engineers thought they had solved it years ago with an elaborate plan to pump out the sludge, embed it in glass and deposit it deep in the mountains of the Nevada desert
But construction of a five-story, 137000-square-foot chemical treatment plant for the task was halted in 2012 after an expenditure of $4 billion when it was found to be riddled with safety defects The naked superstructure of the plant has stood in mothballs for 11 years, a potent symbol of the nation’s failure nearly 80 years after World War II, to deal decisively with the atomic era’s deadliest legacy
The cleanup at Hanford is now at an inflection point The Energy Department has been in closed-door negotiations with state officials and the US Environmental
ZVECAN, Kosovo International efforts to defuse a crisis in Kosovo intensified Wednesday as ethnic Serbs held more protests in a northern town where recent clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers sparked fears of renewed conflict in the troubled region
Hundreds of Serbs repeated at a rally their demand for the with-
Protection Agency, trying to revamp the plan But many fear the most likely compromises, which could be announced in the coming months, will put the speed and quality of the cleanup at risk
The government now appears to be seriously evaluating the need to leave thousands of gallons of leftover waste buried forever in Hanford’s shallow underground tanks, according to some of those familiar with the negotiations, and protect some of the waste not in impenetrable glass but in a concrete grout casing that would almost certainly decay thousands of years before the toxic materials that it is designed to hold at bay
“The Energy Department is coming to a big crossroads,” said Thomas Grumbly, a former assistant secretary at the department who oversaw the early days of the project during the Clinton administration Successive energy secretaries over the last 30 years, he said, have slammed their heads against the wall” to come up with a technology and budget that would make the problem go away not only at Hanford but also at other nuclear weapons sites around the country Hanford some 580 square miles of shrub-steppe desert in south-central Washington state is the largest and most contaminated of all the weapons production sites too polluted to ever be returned to public use
The search for a solution has dragged on so long that there is pressure to produce some result for all the massive spending even if it does not meet past expectations That could mark a dramatic retreat from long-standing promises to nearby residents who experienced thyroid reproductive and nervous system tumors linked by researchers to exposure during the era of plutonium production the government would adhere to the highest possible cleanup standards
drawal from northern Kosovo of the special police and ethnic Albanian officials who were elected to mayor’s offices in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs The crowd then spread a huge Serbian flag outside the city hall in the town of Zvecan
The rising tensions have fueled concern about another war like the 1998-99 fighting in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives, left more than 1 million people homeless and resulted in a NATO peacekeeping mission that has lasted
The negotiations between federal and state officials have involved stretching out the cleanup schedule and using grout instead of glass to stabilize about half of the low-level radioactive waste taken from the site, as well as thousands of gallons of waste stuck in the tanks when the rest of the high-level waste is removed
The potential for a compromise that would allow some of that waste to remain in the bottom of the tanks has set off sharp disagreements among experts Some say using grout to encase it would be a scientifically safe economical solution Critics warn that the waste could outlive the grout and seep out again in future centuries
Energy Department officials say any plan adopted will be sufficient to render the site safe for future generations and that any waste left behind would pose no threat to human health
Brian Vance, a former Navy submarine captain who is the department s site manager at Hanford, said the original expectations ran into formidable scientific and financial obstacles He said engineers were trying to find a solution that was both safe and possible
“If you think about the decisions made in the 1990s the project plan was quite a bit different,” he said It required unproven technology that was easy to make on the drawing board, but hard to make as you progress and see the realities
Grumbly said he presented the Clinton administration years ago with budget estimates of hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up former nuclear weapons sites around the country Officials at the Office of Management and Budget told him to never show them publicly” he recalled “They have underprioritized it” he said of the federal government, noting even now the Biden administration had not nominated an assistant secretary to oversee the cleanup
nearly a quarter of a century
Working to avert any escalation, European Union officials met with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti on the sidelines of a conference in Bratislava, Slovakia Kurti suggested Russia may have a hand in the latest flare-up, pointing to protesters who “do graffiti with letter Z and show admiration for “despotic” Russian President Vladimir Putin and for the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russia is a close Serbian ally, although Belgrade populist
The Israeli military had dropped the bombs into their home to assassinate a commander of the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad who lived in the apartment below Jamal Khoswan, a dentist; Mirvat Khoswan a pharmacist; and their son, a 19-year-old dental student were killed in the strike as well as the Islamic Jihad commander who lived downstairs Tareq Izzeldeen, and two of his children: a girl 11 and a boy 9
“Commanders have been targeted before, Menna Khoswan, 16, said this month at a memorial service for her father at the hospital where he served as chair of the board But to target the commander and those around him, honestly, this is something we didn’t expect”
Israel says it conducts precision strikes” aimed at taking out armed groups’ commanders or operation sites and it does not target civilians But the airstrikes are often conducted in heavily populated areas, and many Palestinians in Gaza say they amount to a collective punishment aimed at making them fearful about whom their neighbors might be
Israel also destroys entire residential buildings or towers if it believes an armed group has an office or apartment there, although it usually issues an evacuation warning beforehand
Menna s parents and brother were among at least 12 civilians killed by Israeli strikes during five days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad this month, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights Israel says nine civilians were killed in the strikes
Six senior leaders of the armed group Israel said had been responsible for rocket attacks on Israel were killed before a cease-fire was reached May 13 The Israeli military said Islamic Jihad had launched nearly 1,500 rockets indiscriminately toward Israel over the course of several days Two people were killed in Israel including an Israeli woman and a Palestinian worker from Gaza
Members of the Khoswan family say they knew an Islamic Jihad commander lived in the apartment below them and worried he could be the target of an Israeli strike Israel has designated Islamic Jihad as a terrorist organization as have countries including the United States and Japan and has regularly targeted its leaders and fighters
Yet the Khoswans never thought their apartment would be hit while they were inside Menna said, describing the shock of being awakened by the explosions ripping through her home
The Israeli military said it had twice postponed the assassinations of the three Islamic Jihad commanders to ensure suitable operational conditions and minimize civilian casualties But the military did not respond to questions about why it had targeted the three Islamic Jihad commanders May 9 while they were at home or why it had launched the three bombs targeting the Islamic Jihad commander through the Khoswan home
During the five days of fighting this month, Israeli strikes destroyed 103 homes, and more than 2,800 others were damaged, according to Gaza’s public works department Amnesty International has previously said Israel’s pattern of attacks on residential homes in Gaza displayed a disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians and could amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity Israel has long accused Palestinian armed groups in Gaza of hiding among civilians and using them as human shields Because the armed groups are homegrown they live side by side among the people, and their command centers are spread throughout Gaza Leaders and members of the groups say that Israel’s airstrikes are aimed at hurting the civilian population to undermine public support for them The groups have wide support among Palestinians for their resistance to the Israeli occupation
Since the 2021 war, Hamas says it has begun moving its offices away from important infrastructure such as hospitals and schools Khaled al-Batsh, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, said his groups members lived in their own communities in the tiny enclave that is home to more than 2 3 million people Where should we go? Should we flee Palestine? Can we go set up a military base in Colorado?” he said “They target the civilians so they can pit people against us”
leaders claim to be seeking European Union membership
The confrontation first unfolded last week after ethnic Albanian officials entered municipal buildings to take office with an escort of Kosovo police
When Serbs tried to block the officials, Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse them In Zvecan on Monday, angry Serbs again clashed first with the police and later with NATO-led troops who tried to secure the area
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WASHINGTON On a day of high drama at an international climate change conference early in his administration President Barack Obama confronted a senior Chinese official who offered what the US delegation considered a weak commitment Obama dismissed the offer Not good enough
The Chinese official erupted “What do you mean that s not good enough? Why isn’t that good enough?” he demanded He referred to a past conversation with John Kerry, then a Democratic senator from Massachusetts “I talked to Sen Kerry, and Sen Kerry said that was good enough Obama looked at him evenly “Well,” he replied Sen Kerry is not president of the United States” That moment of sharp relief, a clash with an intransigent foreign apparatchik by a young American president feeling his
own way comes to life in a new oral his-
tory project on the Obama administration to be released Wednesday Six years after Obama left office the project by Incite a social science research institute at Columbia University, has assembled perhaps the most extensive collection of interviews from the era to date
Researchers interviewed 470 Obama administration veterans critics activists and others who were in the thick of major events back then, including Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama, amassing a total of 1,100 hours of recordings Transcripts of the interviews are being released in batches over the next three years, starting with a first set of 17 made public Wednesday, focused on climate change a central issue then that continues to shape the national debate today
“There will be hundreds of new insights that come from this study, many of which will change our understanding
of the Obama presidency and the period from 2008 to 2016 more generally,” said Peter Bearman, founding director of Incite and the principal investigator for the Obama oral history project
What makes Obama s presidency distinctive is the way it resonated around the world in the “Obama moment,” as Evan McCormick, who led the foreign policy part of the project put it “One thing that becomes clear in our interviews is that the moment of great hope and expectation ushered in by the election of the first Black president was a global one, he said Oral histories of past presidencies have become valuable resources for historians and researchers in recent decades The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has conducted such projects going back to Jimmy Carter s presidency The Columbia project was organized with the support of the Obama Foundation
The first tranche of interviews does not include those of the former president first lady or other major recognizable figures from the Obama era Instead, it is tightly focused on one issue that the researchers deemed vital to his presidency, a wonk’s feast of policy discussion rather than a broader look at Obama himself or his overall eight years in power Still some flavor of his management behind the scenes comes through even in these limited initial interviews As he sucked down his favorite Fiji water, Obama would tease scientists and engineers “I stayed away from you all in school, he would say I m a lawyer
I don t like math I don t do math And when Steven Chu his Nobel Prize-winning physicist-turned-energy secretary, showed up with 30 slides when five would have sufficed an exasperated president would say, “Steve, we’ve got it We ve got it We don t need to look at any more of those
The focus on climate change in the first set of interviews also highlighted the larger trade-offs Obama made among competing priorities The transcripts make clear for instance how he made health care his top legislative goal at the start of his tenure in 2009, perhaps dooming chances for the sweeping climate change measure he would eventually advocate
At one point, as he was expending all of his influence to pass the Affordable Care Act he ruefully explained his calculations on timing to Chu “Look, I know I said energy and health care, but next year” he said “Energy is next”
By the time he turned his attention more fully to a clean energy plan in the form of a cap-and-trade system that would create market incentives to reduce greenhouse emissions Obamas political capital had been drained The bill he pushed made it through the House but not the Democratic-controlled Senate
Mayor breaks ties, keeps ‘fee in lieu’ of affordable housing
By Nicholas Gilmore ngilmore@sfnewmexican comThe fee in lieu of affordable housing will remain in place at the city-owned midtown campus
In a razor-thin vote by the Santa Fe City Council, led by Mayor Alan Webber’s no, the governing body by a 5-4 vote Wednesday night rejected a resolution that would have banned the optional fee for developers to pay rather than build housing units at below-mar-
ket rates as the site undergoes a longplanned massive redevelopment
A change to the city s housing policy in 2016 allowed developers to pay a fee rather than build a certain number of units offered at rates considered affordable While city officials have said the change led to a surge in construction at a time when Santa Fe faced a severe housing shortage, critics contend the fee option doesn’t solve another crisis: the lack of homes many working residents
can afford to buy or rent Councilors sharply divided over the proposal introduced by Councilors Michael Garcia and Renee Villarreal to ban the fee option for redevelopment of the 64-acre former college campus on St Michael’s Drive and require developers to instead offer 15% of their new housing units at affordable rates
The Finance Committee voted against recommending approval Councilors Signe Lindell, Carol Romero-Wirth Amanda Chavez and Jamie Cassutt voted the proposal down Wednesday, along with the mayor
Councilors Lee Garcia and Chris Rivera sided with Villarreal and Michael Garcia
Michael Garcia argued in favor of the measure, pointing out droves of residents” have been forced out of Santa Fe in recent years due to rising housing costs Garcia said the city’s ownership of the property will lead to a different result in development than the city saw prior to
The Santa Fe Police Department recently completed a 30-day operation that brought increased patrols to the Plaza and Railyard areas though its impact remains uncertain to some area businesses and regulars
Spurred by complaints about crime and vagrants, the department in April said officers would be focusing on complaints of disorderly conduct and illegal camping, among other community issues during a monthlong operation But some area regulars said police patrols from Operation Santa Fe Junction were not omnipresent and weren’t sure if issues were solved Cruz Hermosillo who has worked as a private security guard in the Railyard since January said he didn t notice additional officers in the area
They ve said that they re going to put cops here but I mean I haven’t really seen them that often, Hermosillo said
Santa Fe police Capt Anthony Tapia wrote in an email 121 additional patrol hours were logged by officers during the operation, which ran from April 19 to May 19
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He added, 11 arrests were made during that period
“Operations like these are difficult to gauge success as the ultimate goal is to have the absence of activity (i e calls for service)
Personally it is always successful when you complete proactive efforts in addition to normal police patrols Tapia wrote
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Ashley Pond Park, 2200 Trinity Dr Folk singer Eryn Bent s band 6 p m ; Americana band the Coffis Brothers 8 p m ; no charge; tinyurl com/3x6ayzbk
Saturday ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE WALKS Arroyo Hondo Open Space Loop Santa Fe Conservation Trust s free urban-trek series Celebrate National Trails Day and Take a Kid
Hiking Day with a nature-themed scavenger hunt and ice cream; 9-11 a m (park at Old Agua Fría Road East Trailhead, off Old Santa Fe Trail); 505-989-7019, sfct org/ vamonos
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Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St , 575-758-9826, Taos
Free museum admission and opening of the Harwood Museum of Art Centennial exhibit art-making activities and performances by Garry Blackchild Taos Chamber Music Group Taos Opera Institute and others; 11 a m -4 p m ; harwoodmuseum org/events
SHAWN PATRICK BOYD Big Adventure Comics 328-G S Guadalupe St 505-9928783 The local author signs copies of his debut series Winona Forever; noon-6 p m
2016, when housing construction stalled
“Because the city owns the property, this gives us the extra flexibility to work with the developer over the sale price or the lease price Garcia said He referred to claims the resolution would result in stalled development “scare tactics”
Webber called the proposed measure a “policy straitjacket” and “the equivalent of unilateral disarmament in trying to achieve our affordable housing goals
State utility regulators Wednesday dismissed four complaints from solar power project developers over the monthslong process of assessing and selecting bids for New Mexico’s upcoming community solar program
Two other complaints about the process including one filed Tuesday remain to be resolved by the three-member state Public Regulation Commission
Some developers have alleged InClime a company hired to administer the community solar program and select proposals based on a scoring system, allotted some points for projects in a way that was inconsistent with community solar rules adopted by the commission in 2022
After a developer filed a complaint in early May arguing a bid had been scored unfairly commissioners ordered InClime to rescore the project proposals
The amended scores included changes that were arbitrary and capricious” alleges a complaint filed Tuesday by New Mexico Solar Group
OneEnergy Renewables CEO Tobin Booth said Wednesday the process feels “unfair” and “obscured”
I m hugely disappointed that they set out a scoring mechanism provided our scores and then they decided to change our scores,” Booth said
Booth said it wasn t clear to him why InClime changed the scoring from a sliding scale to “all or no points” in some categories, such as “innovative commitment” and community partnerships
“They basically neutered those three areas of the
Groginsky urges lawmakers to continue pandemic-era federal funding to aid kids
By Margaret O’Hara mohara@sfnewmexican comElizabeth Groginsky New Mexico’s top official of services for the state’s youngest children and funding to support them appeared in Washington, DC , on Wednesday urging senators to approve new investments in child care to replace disappearing COVID-19 relief Groginsky, the Cabinet secretary of the state Early Childhood Education and Care Department testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, noting federal pandemic aid buoyed the early childhood sector by offsetting high costs for parents expanding options and increasing wages for child care workers
New Mexico is proof of the enormous impact that a significant federal investment can have on children, families
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Herb & lavender products, sheep shearing, spinning and weaving, fiber arts marketplace horno bread baking crafts for children; 10 a m -4 p m Saturday and Sunday; $8 discounts available; golondrinas org
Sunday MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200
Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy/a Community Conversation; Ghhúunayúkat/To Keep Them
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TUCUMCARI A jogger had encountered the pack of five dogs shortly before they fatally mauled 64-year-old Stanley Hartt, and two men approached the bloody scene when Hartt still was alive but they were unable to save him
A New Mexico State Police report obtained through a public records request offers more details of the fatal February attack in Tucumcari in which Hartt, a resident of the small city, died of blood loss
Mary Olimpia Montoya 51 and her son Kristopher Jaquaris Morris, 27, both of Tucumcari, were charged with involuntary manslaughter and a count of having a dangerous dog that caused a death
The dogs had escaped Montoya’s backyard through a broken fence, the report says
Former Mesalands Community College athletic director Paul Moss said he was jogging when he saw five dogs coming over a hill toward him around 8:30 p m Feb 1, the state police report says
He waved a bag at the dogs to deter them from approaching Moss said adding the dogs passed him and continued
down the road, where he said he saw in the darkness what appeared to be a man
Mr Moss stated the male turned east as Mr Moss continued to jog” the report states Once Mr Moss was down the road he could hear as he described moaning and groaning coming from the east” Moss told police he retrieved two pieces of metal from the college and walked to where he heard the moaning
He saw a pack of dogs and he began to hit the ground with the metal The dogs initially began to walk toward Moss but returned to biting and dragging “either a person or dog Moss said he could not see well because the area was dark He ran back to the college in search of help Moss and Robert Mahanna then drove to the scene in a pickup
They were able to scare the dogs away and that’s when they observed a severely injured male,” the report states
Mahanna who works at the college’s foundry as a metal casting instructor, said when Moss came to the foundry building to get help, Moss told him he could hear a man yelling who was being attacked by dogs
When Mahanna and Moss reached the scene, Mahanna said “debris was
everywhere and he called 911 when he realized there was a man lying there
During this time, the dogs were still near the area and starting to return Mr Mahanna was honking the horn on his truck successfully scaring the dogs away, the report stated Mahanna noted there was no lighting on the street
“When looking at the gentleman he stated there was slight movement coming from him along with groaning in pain,” the report stated “Mr Mahanna said the gentleman was on his stomach
Mahanna was able to see a pretty bad’ injury on one of the legs of the gentleman and informed emergency communications that an ambulance was necessary
By the time emergency medical workers arrived, however, Hartt had died
Police observed blood trails indicating Hartt had been attacked down the street before he fell face down
The state Office of the Medical Investigator examined Hartt s body at the scene Flesh had been torn away in several areas and there were bite marks throughout his body, the report states
Evidence indicated the dogs began attacking his legs first, though he tried to
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PORTALES A Portales man hopes to collect 180000 signatures statewide on a petition aimed at preventing new laws from taking effect June 18 including the state’s protections for abortion access
Logan Brown a Portales High School science teacher and parent, said the petitions are targeting six laws
“Four of the laws either directly or indirectly deal with abortion or transgenderism; the other two laws affect our elections, election integrity, Brown said “House Bill 7 is telling local governing bodies they cannot restrict access to reproductive health care and gender affirming health care
Senate Bill 13 essentially protects providers of abortion/transgender services” he added The petition drive comes as a state district judge in Lea County
has granted the state’s request for a stay on a lawsuit filed by the city of Eunice challenging HB 7
The Attorney General’s Office said in a news release Wednesday the lawsuit will remain on hold until the state Supreme Court issues an opinion on Attorney General Raúl Torrez s petition seeking to block several local governments from enacting ordinances restricting access to abortion
Torrez lauded the judges decision
The new laws Brown hopes to challenge were passed this year by the heavily Democratic state Legislature; all of them were opposed by most Republican lawmakers Brown said he believes the threat posed by some of the laws include an infringement on parental rights
health clinics so they are funded by the federal government, thus removing local control and tying such facilities to federal control”
Roosevelt County Democratic Party Chairman Tate Turnbaugh, a proponent of the laws Brown is trying to fight noted in an email a troubling suicide rate for teens, especially those who identify as LGBTQ Brown also opposes House Bill 207, which he said “infringes on freedom of religion and freedom of assembly It classifies any business that is open to the public a public contractor that may not discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation That’s a problem because that opens churches to litigation”
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“Because of the viciousness and number of dogs, Mr Hartt was overcome by the animals and was killed on the roadway, the report states
One of the dogs later identified as a pitbull mix named Zina, was fatally shot the night of the attack by a Quay County sheriff s deputy to prevent any other attacks to the public” the report states
The other dogs were captured and impounded at the city kennel as evidence
A sheriff s deputy followed one of the dogs to Montoya and Morris’ home, where Montoya identified photos of the dogs involved the attack as hers
Montoya said Zina and the other dogs jumped or broke through their backyard fence, which officers reported was in severe disrepair” She said Zina had bitten two other people and would growl at people walking by the residence
Montoya pleaded not guilty last week to the charges against her
She and Morris could face up to six years in prison and a maximum $5000 fine for their third-degree felony dangerous-dog charge, the most serious count they face Morris arraignment is scheduled June 14
A year after tying the knot, Gov Michelle Lujan Grisham and Manny Cordova traveled to the Virgin Islands on Wednesday to celebrate their honeymoon and first wedding anniversary Lujan Grisham is expected to return to New Mexico on June 16 the Governor’s Office said in a news release
Lt Gov Howie Morales will assume the role of the governor while Lujan Grisham is out of state Lujan Grisham and Cordova whom she affectionately calls
“the First Manny” were married in Washington, DC , in May 2022 during a small private ceremony officiated by Vice President Kamala Harris Lujan Grisham and Cordova, a small-business owner had postponed getting married as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
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[request for proposals]” he said
Booth’s company had signed on to one of the complaints that was dismissed by commissioners Wednesday
Commissioner Patrick O Connell defended the commission’s handling of complaints which he said was in line with the agency’s rule for the program
“The commission has been consistent so far in preferring the rule over the [request for proposals], and I m OK with that because I know there was a very robust stakeholder process in developing the rule” he said O’Connell pointed out some complaints take issue with the original scoring method, while others object to the newly calculated scores
Commissioner James Ellison noted the states first round of solicitation for community solar projects was competitive with a 12% acceptance rate calculated by megawatts
The commission approved 45 of the 408 projects proposed, according to a list the agency released May 22
Ellison said the commission would take into account all the issues brought up during the first round of bids to “have a smoother process in the second round”
The death of a man early Friday at the Penitentiary of New Mexico south of Santa Fe was a suicide, according to New Mexico State Police State police Lt Mark Soriano, a spokesman for the agency wrote in an email Wednesday officers responded to a report of a death at the prison around 6:40 a m Friday They found an inmate, Alejandro Valdez 33 of Albuquerque had taken his own life by hanging Valdez was pronounced dead by the state Office of the Medical Investigator, Soriano wrote
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections confirmed the mans death Tuesday Administrative Data Operations Analyst Anisa Griego-Quintana said however she couldn’t provide details about when or how the person died
If you or someone you know is experiencing severe depression or has thoughts of suicide, call one of the following hotlines, staffed 24 hours a day, to get help:
Turnbaugh’s response: “Why would a church be so worried about litigation? Is he saying that churches and places of worship are turning people away because of the way God created them?
Despite the complaints, PRC spokesman Patrick Rodriguez wrote in an email Wednesday the community solar program is moving forward
The next steps for organizations with awarded projects include paying project fees and beginning the application process for interconnection with their service area utility, he wrote
u National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 (800-273-TALK) u New Mexico Crisis and Access Line: 855-662-7474 (855NMCRISIS)
He cited Senate Bill 397, which he said requires public schools to have to have federally funded
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u For detailed information about suicide prevention, visit spur org easy feat these days” Gonzales said Gonzales said officers handled 45 disorderly conduct calls during the operation, including many initiated by the department s supplemental bike team
A barista at Sky Coffee who declined to give his name said he did not see additional officers patrolling the Railyard
He noted the small coffee shop was burglarized several times over the past few weeks, which led the store to stop accepting cash
Whoever was breaking in it was probably the same couple of people realized that there was nothing left to take here and so I guess we’ve kind of been off their radar,” he said
The barista added bringing safety to the Railyard District may not be a task fully suited to police
I think that s a Band-Aid that is, like, an answer to part of the problem but I think it s more of a systemic thing If you plug one hole they’re always going to come through another, he said It s not like a police presence or nonpresence or effective policing is really, like, helping or doing much to the problem”
But others said they ve seen an impact
Jon Gallegos who has worked at downtown staple Tia Sophia s for a little over a decade and now serves as the restaurant s general manager, said he noticed the impact of Operation Santa Fe Junction and saw more police cruisers driving by The best way to put it is, like, the homeless people that we have seen that we don t recognize theres been a lot less of them” Gallegos said He added, crime and vagrancy in the downtown area has increased since he
started working at Tia Sophia s and was exacerbated following the coronavirus pandemic “In the last two years it’s really we ve been hearing a lot more people [talk about] windows getting broken people breaking in, Gallegos said He later said: “At some point something s gonna have to be done because people are just gonna get fed up [and] they re not going to be able to operate Let’s face it downtown now is mostly tourism If we lose our businesses, we lose our tourists If they don’t feel safe we re all screwed Gonzales said Operation Santa Fe Junction was not extended past its 30-day window in order to address issues across the city He added, another operation has not been scheduled It would be foolish for us to focus a large amount of time an exorbitant
amount of time on one issue and then ignore the rest of the city,” he said “So what we want to try and do is spread the increased police presence throughout the city as equally as possible so that we can address these issues citywide and not just area specific, Gonzales said Korina Lopez executive director for the Interfaith Community Shelter at Petes Place, said she has worked with police during similar operations in the Cerrillos Road area and found the increased presence beneficial She said she believes police are not trying to tackle the city’s homelessness issue with operations like Santa Fe Junction but rather adjacent public safety concerns “I can’t really speak to them addressing homelessness, because that’s not I don’t think that’s their focus I think that they re a partner for us A partner is trying to maintain safety and address safety even when it comes to our more vulnerable population, which is our homeless population Lopez said
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and their communities,” Groginsky told the committee
Not all those in her Washington audience were as receptive to her message as those in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Las Cruces Some Senate Republicans argued federal money for child care was government overreach and data supporting the infusion of more funds is not yet complete Sens Markwayne Mullin R-Okla and Sen Bill Cassidy, R-La , said federal funding could mean the government would dictate curriculum to include transgender people or exclude faithbased programs
To me, it sounds like we re trying to move more toward socialism” Mullin said When you federalize an education system you’re standardizing what you’re going to be teaching our kids and taking parents out of the ability to have a say in it I have a lot of concerns about this”
Committee Democrats largely supported the idea of renewing federal investments in child care US Sen Ben Ray Luján referred to his own experience in preschool programs as building the
foundation for his seat in the Senate
New Mexicans have two more weeks to order free at-home COVID-19 tests through the Rockefeller Foundation’s Project Act, an initiative launched in early 2022 to get more people to test for the respiratory virus
The foundation provided an initial $745 million in partnership with a number of states, including New Mexico, to minimize the spread of the virus
The last day for household orders is June 15, according to a news release the state Department of Health issued Wednesday
All tests ordered by that date will be delivered by the end of June
Visit Project Act s at accesscovidtests org to order the test
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We have a child care crisis and we actually had a child care crisis before COVID,” said US Sen Patty Murray a Washington Democrat “ The pandemic actually opened up this conversation and allowed us to see the reality in this country where we aren t taking child care as a serious crisis”
Meanwhile, the American Rescue Plan Act passed in March 2021 provided nearly $15 billion for the block grants and nearly $24 billion in grants to stabilize child care providers by covering workforce costs rent personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies and other necessities to keep providers in business during the pandemic
Sanders said Groginsky outlined the benefits New Mexicans have seen as a result of pandemic-relief funding for early education
Elizabeth Groginsky
Local and state-administered education systems are quickly approaching a fiscal cliff of sorts: Federal COVID-19
relief funding will end in September 2024 at the latest Federal relief funding was crucial to ensuring preschool and day care providers weathered the pandemic, Groginsky said The federal CARES Act, passed in March 2020, offered $3 5 billion in Child Care and Development Block Grants, distributed to states and designed to help child care centers respond to the pandemic
Of those stabilization dollars $197 million went to New Mexico, where it was disbursed to more than 1 000 child care centers and family home facilities, according to US Department of Health and Human Services documents Losing that infusion of federal funding will be a challenge for providers and families alike particularly as child care remains unaffordable to many American families, said US Sen Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate committee Meanwhile, he added, child care workers are paid starvation wages “We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse if we got our priorities right why we should not be providing the highest quality of child care for the little ones and to ease problems for their parents,
She said federal money helped New Mexico expand child care assistance eligibility to families with incomes up to four times the poverty level boost capacity by 1,200 slots and help providers recruit and retain qualified staff
“Public investment and leadership makes a difference The relief funds equipped our state to reform our child care industry Groginsky said
Sen Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was a dissenter among the committees Republicans, asserting the federal government should ensure working parents get the child care they need to go to work
We have a role here We have a role Murkowski said “I perhaps might not have ever envisioned that, at the federal level, it was incumbent on us to weigh in here when it comes to child care and access to child care
But it is impacting our military security; it is impacting our economic security when you cannot get people to be able to return to work because there is no child care for them, she said
Few things are more precious to New Mexicans than clean water, something our increasingly arid state needs in abundance
That’s why a US Supreme Court ruling last week further weakening the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority is a matter of concern
In a 5-4 decision, the high court rolled back the EPA’s ability to restrict real estate developers, farmers and others from adversely affecting wetlands near rivers, lakes and streams
While the impact might be even greater in wetter parts of the country with more of those features, it gives us plenty of reason to worry
One reason the ruling is bad news for New Mexico is we’re one of three states that does not have its own permitting program for surface water quality, the kind of regulatory authority needed to help prevent industries and development projects from
Views from the web Impostor stole $35,000 while City Hall slept, May 31
“ This particular incident is not an audit issue It s a simple management problem of not having the proper processes in place for such a change to a vendor account Form(s) need to be filled out and information verified before a vendor bank account can be changed in the accounting system. It certainly appears that we’re not running city government like a properly run business ”
Paul Andrus Court files: Wedding celebration photo taken in rival biker gang’s area led to shootout, May 31
“ In the ‘olden days,’ tough guys would work it out with their fists not their guns I miss those days Craig O’Hare Money is Santa Fe High’s biggest obstacle in finding right coach, May 30
“ Albuquerque an appetizing place to live? Are you kidding me?”
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From The Santa Fe New Mexican: June 1, 1923: A delegation of over 500 is expected to attend the third meeting of the Montezuma assembly, which is to be held at the big college June 6 An elaborate program has been made up for the occasion and the address will be given by Dr
W C James June 1, 1973: The National Elks Club will have the opportunity to eliminate a discrimination clause in its bylaws before its New Mexico lodges are subject to an attorney general s ruling the state Liquor Control Department said Attorney General David Norvell ruled last month that the liquor control agency could suspend or revoke liquor licenses of any club which permitted racial discrimination June 1, 1998: A water fight between the mayor of Pecos and a San Miguel County commissioner is spilling over into state district court
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endangering drinking water streams and irrigation channels
The ruling came in a clash over what Congress intended in 1972 when an overwhelming bipartisan majority passed the Clean Water Act which regulators have used to make our nation’s waters far cleaner
For decades courts agreed Congress meant to extend the law s protection of “US waters” beyond traditional navigable waters to include the wetlands, intermittent streams and other tributaries that feed into rivers and lakes
However, the high court’s conservative majority has now decreed that the various kinds of pollution require a permit only if discharged into waters that are “relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water”
While science says water can move between a protected body of water and an adjacent area even if the two are not joined by a surface connection, the court majority
ruled that doesn’t matter under its interpretation of the Clean Water Act
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion relied on a dictionary definition But Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the minority in saying Congress had a more ambitious intent when passing the landmark law
Justice Elena Kagan who was also outvoted in the court s previous ruling limiting the EPA’s ability to fight climate change, said the majority again has appointed itself the “national decision maker on environmental policy”
Industry groups including The Fertilizer Institute and the American Farm Bureau Federation praised the ruling But that contrasted with many local reactions
In New Mexico, Brian Sweeney with Western Environmental Law Center said, “intermittent and ephemeral streams represent over 93% of all streams in the state These waters are often connected hydrologically and biologically to downstream
perennial streams and are critical to maintaining the health of these downstream waters by controlling flooding, filtering pollutants, supplying drinking water sources and providing habitat for aquatic life”
As might be expected Gov Michelle Lujan Grisham was “appalled” by the court decision She issued a statement saying her administration would immediately begin identifying “any regulatory gaps that we can fill at the state level”
We’ll see where that goes
The ruling also didn’t sit well with US Sen Martin Heinrich, D-NM “Our state’s surface waters are already scarce and threatened, he said We cannot afford to lose protections of those waters”
We are among those who would like to see our congressional delegation take the lead in working to restore federal protections
We have no expectation that would be an easy task in the current Congress
Iagree with City Councilor Michael Garcia that the city of Santa Fe has opportunities with respect to development of the midtown campus for housing because they own the land I also urge the city to be innovative on other fronts as well
Instead of prohibiting a fee in lieu of building affordable housing units those rates should be tied more closely to the actual economics Without going into the details of the current ordinance, it appears an average fee in lieu of $7500 per unit is a fraction of the value realized by the developers
COMMENTARY NOAH FELDMAN
Warning: The surgeon general has determined that social media is harmful to your mental health, at least if you re a teen
Ordinarily a sentence like that which isn t an unfair summary of US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent report on social media and youth mental health would strike terror in the heart of the industry targeted by the advisory Society typically outlaws minors from using products deemed unhealthy, such as cigarettes and alcohol
When it comes to social media however, the regulatory response to the surgeon general s report will have to be tempered in an entirely different way That s because of a little thing called the First Amendment The use of social media falls almost entirely into the category of expressive speech which makes bans (like Montana s prohibition on TikTok) and age limits (like the one proposed by a bipartisan group of senators) much tougher to pass
Before I analyze the legal difficulties associated with regulating teen use of social media let me make my regular disclosure that I advise social media companies like TikTok and Meta on issues related to free speech I m also a constitutional law professor And under existing constitutional doctrine, the government can t outlaw speech acts, even for teens, without going through a rigorous process of justification
The courts apply what is called strict scrutiny to any direct regulation of expressive speech In practice that means the government must show that it has a compelling interest a valid reason to restrict speech and also that the regulation adopted is narrowly tailored to achieve that goal
Put another way, the government must adopt the least restrictive means of achieving its compelling interest
That means that if Congress or a regulatory agency or a state wanted to
limit teens’ access to social media, the first step would be to assert the existence of a compelling interest And sure enough, protecting the mental health of young people is a compelling interest As the parent of teens, I can hardly think of a more important one
But the simple assertion of the interest is only the beginning of applying strict scrutiny Under the First Amendment, it’s not enough for the government to claim that regulating social media would help teens’ mental well-being The government would have to convince the Supreme Court that there is a narrow fit between the objective namely protecting mental health, and the means adopted, namely a regulation of social media use The surgeon general’s report highlights the difficulty of proving a close fit As the report makes clear the evidence collected so far points to a correlation between some kinds of online experiences, such as being harassed and bullied and bad outcomes like depression and anxiety A review of several studies also suggests a correlation relationship between social media use and body image-related disorders
Correlation however is not necessarily causation And the report, in a section labeled “known evidence gaps,” says “the relationship between social media and youth mental health is complex and potentially bidirectional meaning that the direction of causation can be difficult to ascertain
In plain language, depressed or anxious teens, or teens struggling with body image, might be more likely to spend time on social media
To be clear nowhere in the Supreme Court’s case law is it written that convincing scientific proof of causation is required to satisfy strict scrutiny The constitutional standard and the scientific standard are far from identical
But the two different standards do overlap conceptually speaking When
a court thinks that the government is regulating speech over inclusively or under inclusively, it strikes down the regulation That conclusion maps, more or less, onto the court’s understanding that the means adopted don t fit the objective because the means aren t targeting the cause of the problem with enough specificity
The upshot is not that teens access to social media can’t be regulated but that the constitutional burden for doing so is much higher than it is for cigarettes or alcohol The First Amendment protects speech; there is no fundamental constitutional right to smoke or drink
The more evidence that public health experts can gather to ascertain the causal relationship between social media use and mental health the stronger the case for regulation will become But that will be an uphill battle without clear and convincing evidence that social media is what s behind the rise in kids’ mental health problems
Right now, the surgeon general’s argument that social media is behind teen anxiety and depression feels powerfully intuitive Yet it is important to remember, too, that in the past, broad swaths of the public found it intuitively convincing that sexually suggestive films or comic books or rock music caused negative outcomes for kids
No doubt social media with its ubiquity, plays a meaningful role in shaping teens’ experiences At the same time, it is also worth contemplating the still-darker hard-to-accept possibility that other ills in our society contribute significantly to the current mental health epidemic Fixing those will take more than restricting teens’ access to social media
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently of The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery and the Refounding of America
At $500 per month per unit rate differential between affordable and market rates, the discounted value (at 6%) of buying off the affordable rate is approximately $25,000 over five years It is important to understand the product you are selling before you set the price Phil Rowe Santa Fe
As a teacher whos taken many students to the Santa Fe watershed, I saw areas thinned in the 1990s and burned since then to prevent the damage Tom Ribe luridly describes ( Is Santa Fe prepared for fire to wipe out watershed?” May 28) His op-ed is geared to frighten the public and advance US Forest Service plans for thinning and prescribed burns, many of which don t include the Santa Fe watershed
A large percentage of acreage leaving burn scars and causing flooding he describes were caused by escaped burns (Cerro Grande, Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon) Ribe’s frantic rush to move forward with the Forest Services plan to radically thin/burn our forest is likely to cause uncontrolled fire and flooding Combining alternative methods to reduce/ eliminate prescribed burns is more sensible, given effects of climate change Dismissing legitimate documented medical concerns of smoke from prescribed burns Ribe stunningly insensitively states, Some people don’t like smoke” Would he be so quick to say this if his or his family s health were endangered?
Terri Blackman Santa Fe
Fear is the enemy of forest when it comes to formulating an effective fire policy (“Is Santa Fe prepared for fire to wipe out watershed?” May 28) Instead of closing roads to reduce human ignitions and preserving wilderness, we get rushed schemes from the Forest Service that result in devastating escaped fires
We need a federal fire policy that focuses on reducing fuels around homes and reservoirs not in remote and ecologically significant roadless terrain Locally, Santa Fe should focus on the threats of inevitable postfire flooding with zoning restrictions in the floodplain hardening the water filtration plant and improvements in at-risk infrastructure
With global heating all bets are off that current practices of clearing and burning vast stretches of the landscape will stave off catastrophe Wise action means doing what works Following the path of fear is like fiddling while Rome burns Sam Hitt president, Santa Fe Forest Coalition Santa Fe
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Garcia and Webber sparred on the issue with Garcia calling Webber’s arguments against the resolution bananas
Those opposed to the measure have noted the council adopted plans for the midtown redevelopment that commit to ensuring 30% of the housing units there are affordable That would result in the potential for about 330 units offered below market rates out of the 1,100 total units planned for the site
Affordable Housing Department Director Alexandra Ladd opposes the resolution She wrote in a recent staff memo such a move would “most likely disincentivize existing and new residential developers from participating in the redevelopment of Midtown
Speaking to councilors
Wednesday, Ladd said having the option to collect all or part of the fee at the midtown campus would allow the city to “be more flexible” and to leverage the funds for other “community benefits”
Lindell pointed out a letter signed by Homewise Inc , the Santa Fe Housing Action Coalition and other affordable housing advocates expressed opposition to the measure Lindell expressed fears the measure would slow down the redevelopment process at midtown Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth also spoke against the resolution saying she believed there was “a perception that developers are getting away with something”
Like, instead of building affordable housing they’re
going to pay a fee and that s bad,” she said, arguing the city needs to keep all tools available to make development at midtown financially feasible Villarreal noted the measure was recommended unanimously by the Community Development Commission and had support from the Old Santa Fe Association
She pointed out the 30% affordable housing limit passed in the city s midtown community development plan was an increase from an original figure of 20%
This is another attempt to try to make things affordable and to make sure we have affordable units built on the campus,” Villarreal said Democratic state Rep Tara Lujan spoke at the meeting immediately after the proposal failed, expressing her concern and saying she strongly supported the measure
When we frame things in terms of winners and losers, we need to be very careful, she said, adding, “we are getting support and information from developers and those who stand to make money off our taxpayers’ dollars” Councilors also approved a controversial rezoning for a plot on Botulph Road that drew residents in opposition Councilor Michael Garcia cast the sole vote against the zoning, which added a 1 41-acre lot on the southeastern side of the city to a district zoned for two residence per acre; previously it was zoned for one residence per acre
Former City Councilor Stephen Farber, who lives in the area spoke against the zoning change, along with other residents and a representative of the nearby Santa Fe Girls’ School who was concerned about the city’s wastewater
locate the permanent headquarters of US Space Command Colorado Springs, which is housing Space Command’s temporary headquarters, was the Air Force’s preferred location but Donald Trump in the final days of his presidency, selected
The Santa Fe City Council and mayor also approved the following items Wednesday:
u Allocations from the city s Affordable Housing Trust Fund totaling about $4 million for Homewise Inc The Life Link St Elizabeth Shelters Santa Fe Public Schools, Santa Fe Suites, the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, the Santa Fe Recovery Center and YouthWorks
u Construction services on West Alameda Street from GM Emulsion for $720 000
u Purchase of 100 emergency pallet shelters from Washington-based Pallet for about $1 5 million
u Approval of a June 17 auction to dispose of city property including 243 vehicles eight motorcycles and 48 pieces of equipment u Purchase of an aircraft rescue firefighting truck for the Santa Fe Fire Department and Santa Fe Regional Airport for about $1 4 million from Florida-based E-One Inc with state and city funding u A resolution approving the annual display of Hometown Heroes” banners honoring veterans along Cerrillos Road and St Francis Drive between Memorial Day and Veterans Day
services accommodating the school with more development on the line
They argued the rezoning would change the nature and character of the surrounding area which is mostly zoned for one residence per acre
When I was on the council and even today, there are semi-rural areas within the city limits and there are urban-type areas within the city limits, Farber said “Theres nothing that says there can’t be semi-rural type feel within the city of Santa Fe”
Alabama instead
While the Pentagon and White House have said the decisions are not directly linked Alabama has strict anti-abortion laws, and its Republican Sen Tommy Tuberville earlier this year announced he would hold up all military nominations until the Department of Defense rescinds a policy that would
By Marcia Dunn The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs on Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings and insisted it’s not hiding anything
The space agency televised the four-hour hearing featuring an independent panel of experts who vowed to be transparent
The team includes 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA including retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space
I want to emphasize this loud and proud: There is absolutely no convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life associated with unidentified objects,
NASA’s Dan Evans said after the meeting
Still hundreds of questions from the public that poured in ahead of time were skeptical and veered into conspiracy theories
NASA launched the study to probe what it calls UAPs short for unexplained anomalous phenomena in the sky, in space or under the sea
Optical illusions can explain some of this, said Kelly, a former Navy fighter pilot
He recalled a Tomcat flight off Virginia Beach years ago during which his radar intercept officer in the back seat was convinced
they’d flown past a UFO
“It turns out it was Bart Simpson, a balloon,” Kelly said “And in my experience, the sensors kind of have the same issues as the peoples eyeballs Evans pointed out that the livestream of the meeting led to considerable trolling That comes on top of “online abuse” directed toward several committee members Harassment detracts from the scientific process and reinforces the stigma surrounding the topic, said Evans, adding that NASA security is dealing with it. It’s precisely this rigorous, evidence-based approach that allows one to separate the fact from fiction” he said The group is looking at what unclassified information is available on the subject and how much more is needed to understand what s going on in the sky, according to astrophysicist David Spergel the committees chair who runs the Simons Foundation
No secret military data are included, such as anything surrounding the suspected spy balloons from China spotted flying over the US earlier this year
The meeting was held at at NASA headquarters in Washington with the public taking part remotely A final report is expected by the end of July
allow female service members to be reimbursed for travel costs if they have to go out of state for reproductive care Tuberville could not immediately be reached for comment
Other locations announced as new permanent homes for Space Force missions are in Florida and New Mexico The Space Force announce-
ment came as President Joe Biden left for Colorado Springs to speak during Thursday s commencement ceremony at the US Air Force Academy Colorado Democratic Sen Michael Bennet said he’ll be using the president’s visit as another opportunity to press for the command The Associated Press
State lawmaker suggests Lobos, Aggies players, fans must focus more on healthy sportsmanship in light of violence, fatal shooting
By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican comApotential halt or at least a scaling back to the annual men’s basketball rivalry between the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University isn t the worst thing in the world, said one prominent lawmaker Sen Moe Maestas, D-Albuquerque, said Wednesday that pumping the brakes on the Rio Grande Rivalry might be in order after a string of incidents led to discussions between the schools about changes to the annual home-andhome between the Lobos and Aggies UNM and NMSU have played one another twice a season nearly every year since the rivalry began Dec 22, 1904 They ve faced off 226 times and the Lobos have won 124 of them “I don’t think it’s coming to an end but I do think it’s a darn shame they might not be playing this year,”
Maestas said “Maybe a two-year homeand-home where they play a game in Albuquerque one year and Las Cruces the next is the best-case scenario Each school would get to host then after those two years they reevaluate where it stands and bring back the two games every year, keep it as one or just drop it
UNM and NMSU have already agreed to cut the women’s basketball rivalry to one game each season although Lobos coach Mike Bradbury has said the change has nothing to do with the incidents that seem to be pushing the narrative with the men
Tensions between the schools have always run hot when it comes to mens hoops A visit from the in-state rival tends to draw one of the biggest and most energetic crowds of the season for both schools
The teams didn t meet during the COVID-19 season of 2020-21 but enjoyed a celebrated return the following season The rivalry again went on hiatus last season when off-court issues made headlines
It began with an October brawl in the stands at a Lobos-Aggies football game in Las Cruces a fight that involved players from NMSU s mens basketball team
That fracas set the stage for a deadly shooting on the UNM campus in the early morning hours of Nov 19, where Aggies forward Mike Peake just
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DENVER
Nikola Jokic wasn t supposed to be here
Neither was Jimmy Butler, for that matter
Jokic was drafted behind 40 other players in 2014 Butler was drafted behind 29 others in 2011 Jokic grew up in Serbia not even thinking about the NBA Butler didn’t have the easiest upbringing in Texas, then went the junior college route at the start of his journey toward the pros Yet here they are in the NBA Finals
One of them will become a champion for the first time, with Jokic leading the Denver Nuggets and Butler leading the Miami Heat in a matchup that starts Thursday night in Denver, with the Nuggets heavily favored to win it all
This is going to be the hardest game of our life, and we know that,” Jokic said “We are prepared for that We are prepared for that So, I think there is no favorite Definitely, I think we are not favorites in this series I think they’re not either I think it s just the finals
The Nuggets in the finals for the first time had by far the easier road to the title round They climbed atop the Western Conference standings in mid-December and never fell from that perch, then lived up to that No 1 seed by going 12-3 in the West playoffs
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Strange as it seems the
baseball part in Wake Forest coach Tom Walter’s career often has been relegated to a secondary role
Walter has won more than 800 games in 27 seasons and is the rare coach to lead three schools to the NCAA Tournament Now consider he donated a kidney to one of his players 12 years ago an act that a decade later inspired the formation of a nonprofit organization focused on social justice
Or that when he was at New Orleans, he brought together his displaced players and moved them 1,100 miles away to New Mexico State for classes and fall practices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 That team went on to post the program’s first winning record in four years
Or maybe look at his George
Washington program in the early 2000s, which was underfunded and on the verge of being dropped as it played home games on a field 10 miles from campus
He met those challenges while holding his team together as the nations capital was reeling from the Sept 11 attacks and the terror of the DC sniper slayings
All that has led to Walter having what could be a once-in-acareer team The Demon Deacons (47-10) are the No 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and five of their players are projected to be taken in the first four rounds of the amateur draft
“They’ll be a great story a lot of people will be rooting for because it’s been so long since Wake Forest has been a nationally prominent baseball program said Paul Mainieri, the retired LSU coach who became friends with Walter during their time together in the Bayou State and recommended
him for the Deacons’ job in 2009
His team notwithstanding Walter himself is easy to root for When you think about all the things that happened along the way things that could have totally sidetracked a career and
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DENVER
They were No 8 seeds They barely got into the playoffs after up-and-down regular seasons They had to face the No 1 overall seeds in Round 1 of the postseason They had to win Game 7s in Boston just to keep their seasons alive They are Eastern Conference champions They are each four wins from a championship
This is the story of the Miami Heat and the Florida Panthers
And it could have an ending like none other
There’s never been a season where one city or one metro area, in this case has gotten to celebrate winning both the NBA title and the NHL’s Stanley Cup There have been nine previous tries; in two cases theres been an NHL title and no NBA crown, in three cases there’s been an NBA title and no NHL crown, and in the four other cases both teams have lost South Florida has a chance to change that Larry, meet Stanley Stanley meet Larry
“That would be insane If that would ever happen that would truly be unbelievable, said Florida star Matthew Tkachuk who had three game-winning goals for the Panthers in their East finals win over Carolina It s just great
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NBA Finals could ve featured glamour teams like the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, and conventional thinking before the NHL playoffs stated the dominant Boston Bruins and star-studded Edmonton Oilers were on a near-collision course to meet in the Stanley Cup Final
All four teams are out and what could’ve been enormous betting interest has largely waned
On the NBA side, No 8 seed Miami Heat will face an NBA Finals newcomer in the Denver Nuggets, an enormous minus-460 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook
Christian Cipollini, BetMGM trading manager said a Celtics-Lakers matchup would have created much more betting action, but the sportsbook was on the hook for many futures bets on those teams
A Celtics-Lakers series is nine times out of 10 going to be a losing series for the book
Cipollini said “Everyone bets the Lakers-Celtics Our Lakers money was bad We didn’t want the Lakers to go any farther than they did”
A Celtics appearance in the Finals however wouldn’t have been bad for all sportsbooks
David Lieberman who oversees NBA betting for Caesars, said the Celtics didn’t attract a lot of futures action, limiting the book’s liability Like BetMGM though, a Lakers championship would have proved a nightmare scenario
It would ve been quite the sweat if they had the chance to
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win it all Lieberman said The Stanley Cup Final matches up the last team into the Eastern Conference playoffs in the Florida Panthers against a Vegas Golden Knights team that, in six short years, is making their second championship appearance
Adding Las Vegas to the NHL was an initial betting boost for the league but that effect is less noticeable with the spread of legalized sports betting The Knights are minus-125 favorites, according to FanDuel
“People kind of fell off this Golden Knights bandwagon this season” Cipollini said “We take a little bit less bets than we have in the past When they started people were all over them”
Minnesota-based Alex B Smith one of the top NHL handicapping experts, said the Knights effect on elevating the league’s standing among bettors should not be minimized The NHL is noticeably behind the NFL and NBA in betting interest but is in the next tier, largely thanks to the Knights run to the 2018 Stanley Cup Final “Now it’s something they’re really watching and kind of follow, especially from a betting aspect, Smith said That started off of the back with that season of Vegas That season really kind of changed the way the betting landscape would open up and adapt”
Same but different
Smith said NHL bettors should be aware that many books offer bets on whether games will go into overtime or have a regulation draw which is the same thing Because bettors
tend to look for the prop bets offering whether a game will reach OT the other better-priced wager is often ignored
He took Saturday’s Game 1 at plus-320 to end in a regulation draw and said that prop can go as high as plus-345, while an overtime bet tends to be around plus-300 or plus-305
“You short yourself anywhere from 20 to 40 cents on a given day” Smith said “There’s literally no difference It’s just how it’s worded I don’t know how the books are allowed to do this”
South Florida success
First, it was Miami Hurricanes making college basketball s Final Four, and now that region’s NBA and NHL teams are playing for championships in those leagues
It would make sense for some kind of South Florida proposition bet to tap into the excitement there but sports betting is still not legal in that state Hard Rock Sportsbook is owned by the Seminoles tribe and had a monopoly in Florida but a federal judge tossed that agreement in 2021
The Vegas noneffect
When legalized sports betting was limited to Nevada during the Knights first Stanley Cup Final run, the lines were skewed
to Vegas because locals jumped in on the action “We’re in so many states now we have to go with what we think will be the right line for everyone” Lieberman said “Sometimes we’ll take a little more action on certain teams from certain states Like New York there are quite a few bettors there that bet with us, so some New York teams are usually popular on daily games or futures prices and stuff like that But, ultimately, we’re trying to put out the best odds and not worry as much about that”
History little guide
Comparing betting numbers on the NBA and NHL championships from year to year is tricky because legalized sports wagering has moved far beyond Nevada s state lines
The coronavirus pandemic also skewed the numbers because it forced both leagues to alter their playoff schedules to be in more direct competition with other sports I expect [the betting handle] to be slightly down,” Cipollini said But theres also perspective that we’ve gone into more than states so the numbers might tell me that it’s up from last year when really realistically it might not be”
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Like many a kid Peyton Stearns enjoyed participating in sports and tried her hand at plenty
“Soccer, gymnastics, basketball, tennis, whatever the 21-year-old American said Wednesday at the French Open after eliminating 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3
1-6, 6-2 to reach the third round at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time
Then Stearns paused before adding with a chuckle: Well, not so much tennis
By her own admission, she came to tennis relatively late for someone who would end up at its highest level, starting private lessons at age 8
It wasn t until about three or four years later the 2022 NCAA champion for the University of Texas explained, that she decided to focus on holding a racket
“Gymnastics was very structured I didn’t like that so much I liked to do what I want when I wanted,” said Stearns, who had never played in the French Opens main draw until this week and next faces No 9 seed Daria Kasatkina, a 2022 semifinalist I chose tennis because I loved that you can just hit the living daylights out of the ball So that s what she does, and did quite effectively against the 17th-seeded Ostapenko, outhitting a big hitter Stearns compiled more winners, 30-29 and leaving the field at Roland Garros with just one remaining woman who has won the title there: No 1 Iga Swiatek, the champion in
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2020 and 2022, who plays her second-round match Thursday Barbora Krejcikova the 2021 winner lost in the first round
“Sometimes I surprise myself with how lethal my ball comes off [the racket] sometimes for my opponents, and how it really puts them in trouble Stearns said Maybe I didn’t realize that earlier on, but playing against top players I realize that it is true It comes off pretty heavy and big, and that’s how I play Definitely helps with confidence Her victory over Ostapenko can be placed alongside a slew of other early upsets in Paris, where the sometimes-odd bounces of the red clay and the changing weather conditions can contribute to unexpected outcomes
No 5 seed Caroline Garcia of France was defeated by Anna Blinkova 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, and 18 of 32 seeded women already were gone before the second round was finished In the men’s bracket, No 2 seed Daniil Medvedev bowed out Tuesday against a qualifier ranked 127nd
“I feel like at Roland Garros it’s tricky with the clay, said No 3 Jessica Pegula, who advanced Wednesday when her opponent Camila Giorgi, stopped playing because of
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hours before a much-anticipated game that was close to being sold out in The Pit was involved in a fatal shooting that led to the death of UNM student Brandon Travis Travis and two other men allegedly lured Peake to campus with the plan to assault him for retribution stemming from the fight at the football game The schools canceled that day s game and later did the same for the teams’ return engagement Dec 3 in Las Cruces
UNM has requested heightened security measures be in place at NMSU if and when the Lobos play in the Pan American Center again UNM upped its security measures at The Pit after November’s shooting
It came amid a 14-0 start that
vaulted the Lobos into the Top 25 and led to multiple games selling out the final two months of the season
It ended a seven-year streak without a capacity crowd in The Pit UNM went on to replace the two NMSU games with quality non-conference games against San Francisco (in Las Vegas, Nev) and at home against Oral Roberts
Maestas said fans from both in-state schools need to practice healthy sportsmanship particularly UNM The rivalry dates to a time before New Mexico was a state, carrying it through decades of high-level basketball from each program That Maestas said should be the basis of the Rio Grande Rivalry not animosity and fears that violence could take over I think both schools, but
It wasn’t quite the season opener Santa Fe was hoping for Three Fuego pitchers combined to surrender 16 hits and eight walks in a 15-10 loss Wednesday night in Trinidad Colo It was the Pecos League regular season opener for both clubs, and the managerial debut for Santa Fe skipper Tom Fitzgerald Anthony Williams started on the mound for the Fuego (0-1)
After working a scoreless first he got his club on the board with a two-run homer in the top of the second
The momentum didn’t last long
Trinidad scored four times in each of the next two frames, starting with a solo home run by Jake Urena to kickstart the Triggers’ offense An RBI triple moments later by Anton Wheeler broke a 2-all tie to provide a lead Trinidad would never relinquish Williams (0-1) lasted just three innings giving up eight runs on nine hits and two walks He did however go 2-for-2 at the dish Demetrius Rodriguez had
four hits for Santa Fe His night included an RBI single in the fourth a fielder’s choice to bring home another run in the fifth and a solo home run in the top of the ninth Ben Osborne also had three hits and scored a run for Santa Fe All but two Fuego starters had at least one hit Trinidad scored in five of its eight innings, opening an 8-2 lead early only to see Santa Fe trim it to 8-6 after five innings
That all changed in the sixth when the Triggers Peter Pena launched a three-run home run off Fuego reliever Alexander Williams Williams had worked two scoreless innings before Pena’s homer broke the game open Brian Reninbrough hit a three-run home run of his own in Santa Fes half of the seventh but it wasn’t nearly enough as the Fuego pitching staff couldn t stop Trinidad s offense
The teams will meet again Thursday at Trinidad s Central Park, then head to Santa Fe on Friday and Saturday for the Fuego opening homestand
DETROIT The Detroit Pistons have reached an agreement to hire former Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams, according to two people familiar with the situation
One of the people, speaking on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced, told The Associated Press on Wednesday night Williams agreed to a six-year contract Phoenix fired Williams two-plus weeks ago, two years after reaching the NBA Finals and a year after he won the leagues coach of the year honors
The 51-year-old Williams won 63% of his games over four regular seasons with the Suns, but Phoenix was eliminated in the Western Conference semifinals two years in a row after losing to Milwaukee in the 2021 NBA Finals
The Pistons would be thrilled to approach that level of success anytime soon under Williams
Detroit won an NBA-low 17 games last season, losing 30% or fewer games for the fourth straight season under Dwane Casey, who stepped down as coach with one year left on his contract to take a role in the front office
The Pistons did not have good fortune in the draft lottery, landing the No 5 pick overall for the second straight year and missing out on an opportunity to draft Victor Wembanyama
Detroit, a three-time NBA championship franchise, has earned a spot in the playoffs just twice in 14 years
knee pain after dropping the first set “You can see to me, it feels like a lot more upsets
Do not tell Stearns hers was a stunning result even though she is ranked 69th in her first full season on tour and carried a 0-1 career Slam record into this week
“I expected this out of myself Maybe not this early in my career I m ahead of what I projected myself doing,” she said, “but by no means cutting myself short She had her own little cheering section at Court 14, a group that included her mother, Denise Stearns’ coach her coach’s girlfriend and a friend, which helped So did Stearns’ boundless self-belief which she said allowed her to settle down amid some feelings she described as “crazy nerve-wracking, overwhelming all the emotions into one” Her tennis idol growing up was Maria Sharapova who won five Grand Slam titles and reached No 1 in the WTA rankings Sharapova was a powerful ball-striker who found her initial success on faster surfaces such as grass courts winning Wimbledon at age 17, and hard courts, her next major championships coming at the US Open and Australian Open But Sharapova eventually did collect two French Open titles later in her career That s not why Stearns came to be a fan, though My mom and I loved watching her because of her outfits” Stearns said with a snicker My moms a big shopper
really UNM, need to be cognizant of how we treat teams on road games,” he said “When [UNM] went to Notre Dame they treated us with nothing but grace their fans were great to us I mean, maybe it’s different when it s two big rivals but the point is we need to embrace that kind of thinking Lobo fans are not the worst, but they can be pretty bad to visiting teams too Paul Weir coached at both schools leading NMSU to an NCAA Tournament berth in 2017 before taking over at UNM Hes seen both sides of the rivalry and has a unique perspective on the passion that drives both fan bases He said Wednesday he wasn’t up to speed on the situation and wanted to get caught up on the details before making a statement He did say, however, that any halt to the annual home-andhome would be “unfortunate if it happens Aside from its longevity, the Rio Grande Rivalry is one of
the country’s last remaining home-and-home series between schools not affiliated with the same conference UNM had similar longstanding rivalries with Brigham Young UTEP Utah Arizona and Arizona State, each of which ended when UNM and those programs lost their conference affiliations BYU and Utah left the Mountain West in 2011 UTEP remained in the Western Athletic Conference when the MWC was founded in 1999 and Arizona and ASU both left the WAC in favor of what is now the Pac-12 in 1978
UNM is in the final stages of making its 2023-24 regular season schedule Teams typically release their nonconference slate in June or July meaning any stalls in negotiations between UNM and NMSU could result in the Lobos and Aggies not playing one another for a second straight year, and a third time in four seasons
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Wake Forest in the fall of 2010
He needed a transplant, but no one in his family was a match
Walter volunteered to be tested and offered Jordan one of his kidneys when he was found to be a suitable donor The transplant was performed Feb 7, 2011, and both men have had few if any complications
“We look at these players like they’re part of my family,” Walter said “When somebody in your family needs something you give it to them I tell people all the time it was the best decision I’ve ever made What I got in return is more valuable than what I gave”
Jordan ended up playing 124 games from 2011-15 He’s now a high school baseball coach and a teacher at a middle school about 15 minutes from the Wake Forest campus in Winston-Salem NC Had he not received Walter’s kidney, Jordan said it would be a “toss-up” whether he would be alive I would say for sure I wouldn’t have been able to play college baseball Jordan said, “and that was one of my dreams since I was 12
Walter who is white said he often was asked how it was medically possible for him to be able to donate an organ to Jordan who is Black Walter s response: “My blood and his blood are the same That s all that matters”
During the 2020 summer of racial unrest following the death of George Floyd, Walter and Jordan worked together to found the nonprofit Get In the Game The organization gives participants resources to address social justice through conversations and service projects It operates in schools and youth organizations throughout North Carolina as well as in Cleveland and Philadelphia
Walter’s Wake Forest teams also have raised hundreds of
thousands of dollars for charities and have had 100% player participation in community service for nine straight years The team took a service trip to the Dominican Republic in 2012
It is so awesome to see him having success” said Cincinnati Reds outfielder Stuart Fairchild who played at Wake Forest from 2015-17 I got an opportunity to play my freshman year with Kevin Jordan, the player who coach Walter donated his kidney to That s a testament to the kind of guy he is Hes always putting his players above everything else”
The Deacons are the most complete team in the nation, with a pitching staff that has a 2 72 ERA, an offense batting a combined 304 with 104 home runs and a defense that ranks in the top 30
They haven’t lost consecutive games and are the only team to come out of the regular season with fewer than 10 losses
“The thing that has been the most pleasing about being around this team is how much these guys care about each other and how much fun they have, Walter said They have great energy they care about the program, they are invested in winning”
With staff ace Rhett Lowder projected to be among the top 10 draft picks and slugger Brock Wilken expected to go late in the first round, Wake Forest has its best chance to make the College World Series since it won the national title in 1955
For all the twists and turns of Walter’s career Jordan said this is the type of season the coach richly deserves
“You can see he is continuously giving Jordan said “When you do good things, things work out Humanity could use his story a ton If the baseball gods are listening, I think Wake Forest should have a College World Series
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DESTIN, Fla When it comes to sports wagering information is a commodity and even a morsel of news that is not widely available can be valuable
As college sports experiences some of the negative consequences of ubiquitous legal betting on sporting events, could more transparency be among the potential safeguards?
If everybody s giving an injury report I have no problem giving an injury report, Georgia coach Kirby Smart said this week They do it in the NFL I was in the NFL
That s not a huge deal as long as it’s a level playing field”
A month highlighted by gambling-related firings and potential NCAA infractions in college sports motivated the Southeastern Conference to put extra emphasis on the issue at this week’s spring meetings
Commissioner Greg Sankey called on US Integrity, a company that works with professional sports leagues and college conferences including the SEC since 2018 to monitor events for gambling improprieties, to give multiple presentations to SEC coaches and administrators on Wednesday and Thursday
That was a late add to the agenda, Sankey said “We now have the issues emerging as it s become inculturated” he said “We don’t have a choice but to pay a high level of attention”
At Alabama, baseball coach Brad Bohannon was fired during an investigation by gaming officials in Ohio of suspicious bets on the Tide’s game against LSU in late April Bohannon was in contact with a Indiana man who was betting on the game at a sportsbook located at the Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati
The Tide’s starting pitcher was a late scratch because of an injury in that game
What we have done is we ve reported to the proper people and anything that we need to do to help cooperate and support those investigations we’ve done and will continue to do whatever we re asked, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said Wednesday
The same Indiana man Bert Neff of Mooresville, is also at the center of an investigation by the University of Cincinnati that led to two members of the
baseball staff being fired earlier this month
Conference leaders talk a lot about educating athletes and reinforcing the NCAA’s stringent rules against betting on most sports
An athlete that gambles on a sport the NCAA sponsors at any level from college to professional risks their eligibility
Sports wagering is now legal in 38 states including Iowa where more than 40 athletes at the universities of Iowa and Iowa State were identified in an investigation of potential illegal wagering
“We had coaches in that meeting room that were asking questions from a betting standpoint, gambling standpoint, what’s legal what’s not legal?”
South Carolina coach Shane Beamer said “So if we have questions about it and I have questions about it then surely our student-athletes do as well
Texas A&M coach Jimbo
Fisher said information can run wild on a college campus
The thing about college kids they’re a lot more vulnerable than pro [players] because they’re out going to class and who they talk to in a casual conversation It’s easy to get something [from them], Fisher said Fisher doesn t believe getting out in front of the leaks with an injury report would help much
“Because how bad is the hamstring? How bad is the knee? Is it probable? Is it questionable? Fisher said
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said: You re going to solve a few problems and create a lot more with that
LSU coach Brian Kelly said he thinks about how he can tighten the circle of people in the football building who have access to the team’s internal injury report
“Our injury report goes to over 25 different people I m not sure that I need that to go to 25 different people I think maybe that the injury report needs to come to the head coach and the head coach can make decisions on where that information goes to” Kelly said
Sankey said an injury report is not coming anytime soon in the SEC, nor does it address the vast potential problems of wide-spread, legalized gambling
By Steve Megargee The Associated PressGREEN BAY, Wis
The exit of four-time
MVP Aaron Rodgers has led to some debate among the Green Bay Packers regarding exactly what constitutes a rebuild
Most Packers insist they re not rebuilding even as they try to break in new starting quarterback Jordan Love after getting three decades of Hall of Fame-caliber quarterback production from Rodgers and his predecessor Brett Favre
“It’s the crutch that everyone wants to lean on outside of the facility not knowing what’s going on in here, wide receiver Christian Watson said Wednesday “It’s easy to say, ‘They lost Aaron It s going to be a down year or whatever’ I feel like that’s the easy route to take That’s not our mentality in here We re never trying to think of it as a rebuild or whatever people want to say it is Left tackle David Bakhtiari has no problem thinking of it that way
To me flat-out how I look at it it’s disrespectful to say you’re not rebuilding [after replacing] a Hall of Fame quarterback” Bakhtiari said “It was disrespectful to say you weren t rebuilding off of Brett Favre when you moved to Aaron” Bakhtiari and his teammates have similar goals though they’re using different methods to explain it
As far as Bakhtiari is concerned, going through a rebuild doesn t necessarily mean a team will have a losing season He cited a very recent example “We’re all batting 1 000 come the first game of the year and we’ll figure it out,” Bakhtiari said I think the Seahawks rebuilt off of Russell [Wilson] Look at how that turned out Seattle posted a 9-8 regular-season record and reached the playoffs last season after trading Wilson their nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback to the Denver Broncos The Seahawks improved upon their 7-10 finish in their last season with Wilson
The Packers went 8-9 last season to miss the playoffs and end a string of three straight NFC
North titles They have since allowed Rodgers and plenty of other veterans to depart while welcoming in a 13-man draft class Former Packers receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb are with Rodgers in New York
Kicker Mason Crosby, the Packers’ leading career scorer is unlikely to return after the Packers drafted Anders Carlson in the sixth round Tight end
Robert Tonyan signed with the Chicago Bears The Packers also seemingly are moving on from tight end Marcedes Lewis and safety Adrian Amos free agents who remain unsigned
All those departures explain the skepticism surrounding the Packers The over-under for wins
by the Packers this season is 7½ according to FanDuel Sportsbook That figure was at 10½ before the start of training camp last year
When you prove people wrong, it’s one of the best feelings in the world, running back Aaron Jones said earlier this month I think that s what we re going to do this year prove a lot of people wrong
Whether they embrace the word rebuild or dispute it, their mission remains the same
Our goal each and every year is to win the North make the playoffs and win a Super Bowl,” Watson said “Regardless of who’s leaving and who’s coming in that s our No 1 goal and I think that we’re attacking every single day with that mentality
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questions about if and how Russian athletes could return to their competitions ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics looked far from being resolved when sports governing bodies met Wednesday
Different sports have varying sporting political and logistical pressures, and there’s a lack of clarity about how to define neutral status for Russian and Belarusian athletes that is mandatory for their return on the field of play
“Every sport has its own idea We are far in my opinion to have a common position it is quite impossible,” Francesco Ricci Bitti, president of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations and a veteran of Olympic politics, said
The ASOIF annual meeting came two months after the International Olympic Committee gave detailed advice on how indi-
vidual athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus could be reintegrated as neutral athletes, despite those countries ongoing war on Ukraine
Exactly how that neutrality is being defined is not very much clearer now as key qualification events start for the Olympics that open in July next year
The IOC in March advised that some Russians and Belarusians could return in individual events but not team sports, if they had not actively supported the war in Ukraine, and are not contracted to military or national security agencies”
The IOC also suggested ASOIF and the winter sports umbrella group AIOWF could oversee creating a single independent panel” to run and “harmonize” the neutral status evaluations of hundreds of athletes, coaches and support staff
That idea was dismissed strongly and firmly” Ricci Bitti said as a conflict of interest for his umbrella group The Court of Arbitration for Sport is now involved in the process
IOC president Thomas Bach briefly attended Wednesday and said some governing bodies of the 32-sport Paris program who have ultimate control over their own events, had proven how Russian and Belarusians could continue to compete
You are doing so against the backdrop of the many traditional I may say naysayers who want to make people believe that it would never work,” Bach said He did not speak with reporters when leaving after his speech Bach and the IOC led calls within days of the invasion of Ukraine in February of last year to banish Russia from international sport, including to protect the security of athletes
As the war continued and the 2024 Olympics approached the IOC and Bach started to suggest it was discrimination to exclude all Russians and Belarusians If approved to compete, the IOC said, Russian and Belarusians would not be allowed to use their flag, anthem or uniforms in national colors
Miami a seven-time finalist now seeking a fourth title had about the rockiest path to the Rocky Mountains that a team could have The Heat had to rally in a play-in elimination game just to make the playoffs, knocked out No 1 overall seed Milwaukee in Round 1, rival New York in Round 2 and then just had to go win a Game 7 in Boston, after nearly wasting a 3-0 lead, to vanquish last season’s loss to the Celtics in the East finals
This is a special group, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said “This group has been able to overcome a lot of different things handle a lot of adversity, setbacks, things that have not gone the way we wanted them to go And instead of having that collapse our spirit, it allowed us to develop some fortitude and grit collectively, and give us something to rally around, which was each other
At 44-38 this season, Miami would tie the worst regular-season record ever by an NBA champion The Washington Bullets had that record and won the 1978 title There were 10 teams that finished this season with better records than Miami nine of them are no longer playing and 589 teams in NBA history that had better regular seasons than the 2022-23 Heat yet still didn’t win a title
They are improbable finalists
Their leader took an improbable path, too But after stints with Chicago Philadelphia and Minnesota didn t always go as planned Butler is now in the finals with Miami for a second time in four years “I would like to say that I’m never rattled I’m very calm,” Butler said “I’m very consistent in everything that I do, whether it’s before the game after the game, during the game, and I think when my guys look at me like that, they follow suit in every single way I love that about them because they’re never shook No matter what Its not about Jokic vs Butler; both have big-time players around them as well namely Jamal Murray for Denver and Bam Adebayo for Miami Jokic and Butler are the two leading scorers left in these playoffs; Jokic is averaging 299 points, 133 rebounds and 103 assists while Butler is averaging 28.5 per game including a playoff-high 56 to help oust the Bucks Jokic is a two-time MVP was in the conversation for a third in a row this year has seen about every defense imaginable and rarely blinks at any of them Play off him, he’ll shoot and score Play tight, he ll set up someone for an easier shot He’s as close to fundamental perfection as there might be in the league
cial true story and never thought he’d make the NBA when he arrived in the US “With Nikola it’s never about looking backward It s always about looking forward and challenging himself to become the best player that he can be” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said “Early on being the best player he could be was not necessarily about a skill set It was about maturing, growing up, handling adversity dealing with the referees, getting into the best shape of his life losing weight I think once that all happened, that kind of coincided with our rise”
The team that plays at the highest altitude in the NBA 5 280 feet above sea level has risen to its highest level yet Jokic is four wins from his first ring Butler is four wins from the ring he has been talking about getting all year, even when Miami’s record didn’t exactly suggest the Heat would be here
But here they are The West finals MVP in Jokic The East finals MVP in Butler The prize they want most is just four wins away
In a lot of ways, what they have done is unprecedented,” Miami forward Kevin Love said “Obviously, they operate in different ways to get the job done But still, all things considered, I think they re two very underappreciated stars and superstars in this league
how both fan bases have been able to root together”
It’ll continue to be that way
The NBA Finals start in Denver on Thursday night with the Heat taking on the Nuggets; the Stanley Cup Final starts in Las Vegas, Nev, on Saturday night with the Vegas Golden Knights taking on the Panthers There could be as many as 14 championship-series games involving the Heat and Panthers in a span of 19 days Starting Thursday there will be eight games in a span of 10 days no game for either sport June 2 no game for either sport June 6, and four games in a four-night span in South Florida starting June 7 And there’s never two games on the same night, either I know it s fun to watch, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said I m not sure what they re doing but it’s 5-on-5 right? I get that Theres a connection now between the two teams
Sometimes all a person needs to get through the day is a little patience and understanding from others
The same goes for rescued animals
When Buddy an American pit bull was picked up in March by Santa Fe County Animal Control he was a 1-yearold fearful stray The agency was able to find his owners but they needed to surrender Buddy
In April, Marilyn Johnson of Eldorado adopted Buddy Johnson gives credit to Lisa, her 8-year-old boxer mix for choosing Buddy Johnson and Lisa had been going to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society looking for a new family member The meet and greets with Lisa were a bit lackluster,” Johnson said However when they met Buddy “it was love at first sniff”
Three days after Buddy was adopted he ran away Johnson contacted CMM Lost Pets and Humans Trapping to get assistance on finding Buddy The CMM team set up signs about the lost dog, trail cameras and food stations to attract Buddy
Shortly after Eldorado residents and others began calling and texting Johnson with updates on where Buddy had been seen You don t realize how many people in the community care until this happens,” said Johnson
On the fifth day of Buddy s absence a neighbor called Johnson and said Buddy was seen at the end of the street where Johnson lives She opened her home’s front door and waited After a while, Buddy appeared and walked into the house and jumped up on the couch to rest
Two months after his adoption, Buddy has been adjusting to the house
Although he is still shy around most people he no longer hides in the pantry and has been exploring the house Lisa his new sister has helped him gain confidence Even though he is still considered a puppy Johnson is thankful Buddy is very mellow
Even though every dog is unique and will adjust differently, using the 3/3/3 Rule as a guide helps new dog owners through the adjustment period Johnsons advice to anyone thinking about adopting a shy animal: “Have patience It takes time, but in the end it s worth it”
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Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Luke is a lovable and energetic 2-year-old pooch He is friendly and happy never losing his zest for life Luke takes immense joy in running around and playing with his toys While Luke is a strong and energetic dog, he walks best with a harness and would be an ideal companion for a young adult who shares his passion for an active lifestyle
Cerbie is a lovely 1-year-old mixedbreed dog She is as sweet always ready to melt into a persons arms with snuggles and kisses Cerbie with her fur tuxedo, is the epitome of style Her ideal day involves casual adventures and plenty of cuddles She walks well on leash and gets along with other dogs
These dogs and other pets are available at the Santa Fe animal shelter 100 Caja del Rio Road The shelter’s adoption hours are from 11 a m to 5:30 p m daily Call 505-983-4309, ext 1610
Española Humane: Bryan is an adorable orange tabby who is the life of the shelter s lobby The 2-year-old, 8-pound cat loves being the first to greet people as they walk in the front door He is neutered vaccinated and microchipped and his adoption fee is waived
Mella is mellow and magnificent The sweet 3-yearold gal is relaxed and easygoing
Mella s adoption fee is waived, and she is spayed, vaccinated and microchipped and comes with six months of free heartworm prevention The shelter is open from 11 a m to 5 p m Monday through Saturday Call 505-753-8662 or visit espanolahumane org
The Associated Press
AUBURN Maine
A raccoon in Maine was euthanized and tested for rabies after a woman brought it into a pet store for a nail trim and some customers kissed it, wildlife authorities said
The raccoon tested negative for the disease, and there is no rabies risk to the public, Maine Department of Inland
Fisheries & Wildlife spokesperson Mark
Latti said Sunday However raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in the state, and bringing the wild animal into a pet store constituted an unnecessary risk to public health, Latti said
The woman who has not been identified by authorities, brought the raccoon into an Auburn pet store recently, the wildlife department said She was seeking to get the animal’s nails trimmed
CALENDAR
Friday ESPAÑOLA HUMANE
PetSmart 3561 Zafarano Drive
Adoption event 1-4 p m Visit espanolahumane org
Saturday ESPAÑOLA HUMANE
Petco 2006 Cerrillos Road
Adoption event 10 a m -3 p m
Visit espanolahumane org
SANTAFEANIMALSHELTER & HUMANE SOCIETY
Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St
Adoption event 9 a m -noon
Visit SFHumaneSociety org
Sunday ESPAÑOLA HUMANE
Santa Fe Railyard District
Adoption event noon-3 p m
Visit espanolahumane org
SANTAFEANIMALSHELTER & HUMANE SOCIETY
544 S Guadalupe
3/3/3 RULE
The rule is a guide for the adjustment period after adopting a dog
3 DAYS TO DECOMPRESS
u Feeling overwhelmed u May feel scared/unsure of what s going on
u Not comfortable enough to be himself
u May not want to eat or drink
u Shuts down and/or hides under furniture
u Tests the boundaries
3 WEEKS TO LEARN YOUR ROUTINE
u Starts settling in
u Feels more comfortable
u Realizes this could be his forever home
u Figures out his environment
u Gets into a routine
u Lets his guard down May begin to show his true personality
u Behavior issues may start to appear
3 MONTHS TO START TO FEEL AT HOME
u Finally feels completely comfortable in his home
u Begins to build trust and a true bond
u Gains a complete sense of security with his new family
u Gets into a routine
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Dew Paws Rescue: Nonna is a 2- to 3-year-old mixed-breed dog Nonna weighs under 40 pounds, and will be vaccinated and spayed She is good with other dogs, friendly with people and cats Call 505-412-9096 or go to infodewpaws@gmail com
Felines & Friends: Two-month-old Purrincess Leia Yowlda and Obi Wan Catnobi are being raised in foster care Leia is a lavender-point mix while sisters Yowlda and Obi Wan appear to be Russian blue and tabby These girls are still getting comfortable with new experiences, with Leia leading the way The kittens are ready for pre-adoption with another kitten or young cat playmate
Dilute calico Peapod is a 1-year-old mom raising her 8-week-old kittens Sugarsnap Pea and Sweetpea Peapod is shy but gentle and has been a doting mom to her friendly calico babies They are now ready for pre-adoption
Felines & Friends needs kitten fosters caregiver volunteers and adopters Apply at FandFnm org or visit cats at Petco and Teca Tu
The Horse Shelter: Nola is a 17-yearold bay thoroughbred-type mare who stands 15 hands high She is generally calm and responsive with volunteers They say she is a pleasure to work with Nola is easy to catch leads well and is ready for adoption as a well-mannered companion/nonriding horse Call 505577-4041 or go to thehorseshelterorg
which is a service the store does not provide to raccoons, the department said
Several people handled the animal and some kissed it, the wildlife department said The stores manager then asked the woman to leave and contacted the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the department said
The raccoon was tested for the disease which came back negative but necessitated euthanizing it, Latti said There is no nonlethal test for rabies in animals he said
Rabies is almost always fatal in people once symptoms appear, and potential sufferers need to seek treatment immediately Wildlife are best left alone, though animal control authorities can also be notified if the animals appear to be in distress Latti said “When they lose their fear of people they are more likely to become a nuisance or be run over by a vehicle” Latti said
The Associated Press AVON Conn A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery Wednesday when the bear showed up There are between 1,000 and 1,200 black bears living in Connecticut, the state environmental agency says with sightings last year in 158 of the state’s 169 towns and cities
Bakery owner Miriam Stephens wrote in an Instagram post she heard employee Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling there was a bear in the garage Williams told TV station WTNH she shouted to scare the bear off but it retreated and came back three times Williams said the bear charged at her so she backed out of the garage
and ran Surveillance video obtained by WTNH shows bakery workers walking around the side of the business to try to scare the bear, but then running away after it scares them
The video shows the bear dragging a container of cupcakes from the garage into the parking lot
Stephens said the bear ate 60 cupcakes
A baker finally got the bear to leave by honking a car horn, Williams said The four-footed thief was gone by the time police and officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection arrived.
No one was injured in the encounter one in a series of troubling interactions between black bears and humans in Connecticut
A 74-year-old woman suffered bites to her arms and legs last month when she was attacked by a bear while walking her dog in a Hartford suburb, the first such attack this year
A few tickets remain for The Horse Shelter s Cerrillos fundraiser and luncheon from 11 a m to 3 p m Sunday
There were two attacks last year including one in October where a 10-year-old boy was mauled in a backyard
“The frequency and severity of bear-human interactions is increasing,” DEEP spokesperson Paul Copleman said Friday
Statistics compiled by the department show that there were a record 67 reports of bears entering Connecticut homes in 2022 The previous record was 45 in 2020
On Friday a bear cub wandered into a neighborhood near downtown Hartford and climbed up a tree Residents were delighted and surprised, saying it was highly unusual for bears to come into the city Police, animal control officers and state environmental authorities responded, creating a scene for several hours
Authorities eventually tranquilized the young bear and planned to move it Its destination was not disclosed
has to rehome a pet, the hosts have tips to help keep the dog or cat out of a shelter Pet Chat airs 9 a m Saturday and 3 p m Sunday on 1260 AM and 103 7 FM The show also streams at SantaFe com Email the hosts at petchat@santafe com
Española Humane hosts vaccine clinic
The event at the rescue’s ranch will be held in an 8,000-squarefoot carpeted tent There will be a silent auction live auction and tours Ticket are $85 For more information, visit thehorse shelterorg or call 505-471-6179
A Santa Fe dog trainer is presenting a positive training class, which allows people to attend when and how often they want this week on Pet Chat with Murad & Bobbi
The pair speak to Shelley Bachicha owner of No-No FiFi Dog Training, as she introduces modular training classes Plus, listener emails and if an owner
A free and low-cost walk-in vaccine clinic will be from 10 a m to 2 p m June 8 at Española Humane, 108 Hamm Parkway, Española
Altered pets of residents in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties will receive free vaccinations, thanks to Petco Love’s national vaccination initiative No appointment is necessary Dogs must be on a leash and cats must be in carriers Vaccines for unaltered pets are $20 each
Vaccines include DAPPv canine and HCP feline vaccines Rabies vaccines are also available; free for altered pets and $20 for unaltered pets
The New Mexican
It’s about the color, and the composition. We’re looking for a PrePress Technician who has the skills of an artist. Someone who can turn files from our customers into a final printed product that sparkles.
If you have skill with the Adobe line of creative products, Mac and Windows operating systems and know what CMYK separations are, bring that knowledge to work for The New Mexican in our PrePress department. We don’t expect you to know everything, so we’ll work with you on mastering our processes and equipment.
The New Mexican, the news staple for northern New Mexico since 1849, has the largest printing facility in the state. Not only do we print our papers and publications, but we print for a number of customers – daily, weekly and monthly. So, we’re busy and we need your help.
This position is full-time, on-site and the shift is an early evening one with hours from 5:00 PM to 1:00 AM. We offer a wide variety of benefits and a work environment where you are important and appreciated.
Send us your resume’ and let’s set up a time to talk about the possibilities. http://www.sfnm.co/sfnmjobs. You can always email: hr@sfnewmexican.com.
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At The New Mexican we not only print our newspaper, we also print a number of other publications for companies around the state. It’s a busy place and this job is an important one. We offer two shifts – 4 tenhour shifts per week, day or night.
a New Mexico K-12 teaching license in social studies, with additional endorsements in bilingual education and TESOL certification considered a plus.
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You will need to be a mover and sometimes the papers need a shaker. So, if you are looking for a job that pays well, doesn’t require more than for you to come to work, learn and do the job, then this might be the right fit for you.
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Kathleen Trosclair, the plaintiff states that after diligent inquiry and search efforts, plaintiff has been unable to serve process on the above-named defendant personal and the following diligent efforts were made to locate and serve the abovenamed defendant personal with a summons and complaint:
Liliana M. Villalobos Deputy Court Clerk
Submitted by: Anita Felice Lopez All right reserved Petitioner, Pro Se Pub: May 25, June 1, 2023
LEGAL #91281
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00122
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GAIL MARY MANILDI PASCH, Deceased.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Gail Mary Manildi Pasch, Deceased. All persons having claims against this Estate are re-
LEGAL #91281 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
LEGAL #91295
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
Case No.: D-101-CV-2023-01089
LEGAL #91314
Dated:
LEGALS
Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00122 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GAIL MARY MANILDI PASCH, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Gail Mary Manildi Pasch, Deceased. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be presented to the Personal Representative, c/o Pregenzer Baysinger Wideman & Sale, PC, 460 St. Michael’s Drive, Suite 101, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County, 225 Montezuma, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504.
Dated: May 18, 2023.
/s/ John D. Pasch John D. Pasch 2033 Senda De Andres Santa Fe NM 87501 (505) 699-2438 Personal Representative
PREGENZER BAYSINGER WIDEMAN & SALE, PC
By:/s/ Stella Edens Pederson Stella Edens Pederson 460 St. Michael’s Drive, Suite 101 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: 505-872-0505 spederson@pbwslaw.com
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LEGAL #91300
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT SANTA FE COUNTY
NO: 2023-0096 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE GUTIERREZ, DECEASED
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY (WILL)
TO WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN:
Notice is now given that Ana Salsberry (name of personal representative) has been appointed to serve as the personal representative of the estate of ROSEMARIE GUTIERREZ, and has qualified as the personal representative of the estate of the decedent by filing with the court a statement of acceptance of the duties of that office.
The personal representative has all of the powers and authorities provided by law and specifically, by Section 45-3-715 NMSA 1978.
Issued this 23th day of May, 2023.
Clerk of the District
Court By: G Lujan
Deputy Clerk
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PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Tanya Camille Valdez, NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME
TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of NMSA
1978 Section 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3, et seq., Petitioner Tanya Camille Valdez, will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 01:20 pm on the 7th day of July, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Tanya Camille Valdez to Tanya Camille Baca.
KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk
By: Gloria Landin Deputy Court Clerk
Submitted by: Tanya Camille Valdez Petitioner, Pro Se
Pub: May 25, June 1, 2023
LEGAL #91314
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PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Tanya Camille Valdez, NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME
TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of NMSA 1978 Section 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3, et seq., Petitioner Tanya Camille Valdez, will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judi-
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Dear Annie: My one sister and I took care of our parents for the last 20 years due to their poor health and dementia We have another sister who always made promises to our parents to stop by and take them out to eat or make them some of their favorite food, but they hardly ever did that
What hurts is that this sibling really hurt our parents’ feelings Now she is on Facebook posting untruths about how she took care of our parents and was so devoted to them during the last years On birthdays and anniversaries she posts pictures but cuts everyone out except our parents They weren t even there at these events, but they post them as theirs with no mention of us! When we post stuff, we include all siblings
This is causing a strain and I feel it’s probably the end of a chance of a relationship with our sister I held no ill will toward them because not everyone has what it takes to take care of the sick and dying But it hurts that now they want to take all the credit and give us none, when we actually did it all for our parents How can I let go of the hurt and anger and just move on?
Resentful
Dear Resentful: The things that matter most in this scenario are 1. The fact that your parents were taken care of in their final days and 2 The fact that you can feel good about yourself knowing that you selflessly made their health one of your top priorities
The things that don’t matter in this scenario include: what your sister posts on Facebook whatever lies or half-truths she spreads to her friends, and the opinions of others. Focus on what’s important.
The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Thursday, June 1, 2023:
You are practical, attentive and give serious thought to what interests you. You’re also witty chatty and casual. This year is full of exciting change and increased personal freedom. Learn to be more flexible Let go of whatever has been holding you back. Seek out new opportunities! Trust your intuition.
MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today The Moon is in Scorpio
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHH This is a productive day Your communication skills are strong. Issues at home are harmonious Meanwhile you feel creative competitive and ready to tackle anything Tonight: Get information.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHHH You will be successful in improving your domestic scene in some way This requires your attention. Tonight: Patience
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH The Sun is in your sign and fiery Mars is in your House of Communications which means you can talk your way into or out of anything People will listen to you now This is why you will easily get your way and have sway over others Tonight: Work
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHH Even though your desire is to remain low-key (despite the fact that you re involved with younger people and are fairly busy), you re working hard to earn money and you are certainly spending it Tonight: Listen
LEO (July 23-Aug 22)
HHHH This is a productive day! Mars in your sign boosts your confidence and energy and the Sun helps you schmooze and get people on board with your ideas Tonight: Stay chill.
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HHH Today you feel you have a lot invested in what you want to say You want to address important issues that matter to you Go after what you want Tonight: Diplomacy
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HHHH Things will go your way today because the Moon is in your sign plus fiery Mars is at the top of your chart arousing your ambition. Tonight: Be understanding.
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If you have skill with the Adobe line of creative products, Mac and Windows operating systems and know what CMYK separations are, bring that knowledge to work for The New Mexican in our PrePress department We don’t expect you to know everything, so we’ll work with you on mastering our processes and equipment.
The New Mexican, the news staple for northern New Mexico since 1849, has the largest printing facility in the state. Not only do we print our papers and publications, but we print for a number of customers – daily weekly and monthly So, we’re busy and we need your help.
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