The Santa Fe New Mexican, July 23, 2014

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LANL trio named top scientists

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Three researchers on list of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” PAGE B-1

Two appeals courts issue conflicting rulings on federal subsidies. PAGE A-3

Doughnut chain to open Santa Fe location by December. PAGE B-1

Santa Fe Southern’s gourmet express New operator adds new cars and chef’s showmanship to restored railway service to Lamy. TA T STE, C-1

Study: Film subsidies pay off for New Mexico Report says movie, TV productions deliver economic boost to state Owners of San Francisco Plaza, on the corner of West San Francisco and Guadalupe streets, plan to tear down three of four buildings. CLYDE L MUELLER/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Panel OKs plan to raze downtown buildings

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Missing soldier, flight ban may aid Hamas By Sudarsan Raghavan, Anne Gearan and Ruth Eglash

Historic review board rejects portals, tower for new complex on site

A local developer on Tuesday night won approval from Santa Fe’s Historic Districts Review Board to demolish three downtown buildings, but the board rejected parts of the proposed design for a new commercial and residential complex on West San Francisco Street at Guadalupe Street. Developer Jeff Branch’s Columbus Capital will keep the oldest building on the site at San Francisco Plaza, 321-323 W. San Francisco St., which was built in the late 1800s. However, he plans to raze existing structures at 325 and 329 W. San Francisco St. and 109 Guadalupe Ave. A city staff analysis rated those buildings as “noncontributing” to the historic district. San Francisco Plaza, adjacent to the Eldorado Hotel, is home to several businesses, including Il Vicino, The Spanish Table, Thai Cafe and a Yoberry frozen yogurt shop. The new 14,000-square-foot complex there will include commercial spaces on the ground floor and four residential units on a second floor, set back from the parapets to make it

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From left, set background production assistant Michael Chochol of Albuquerque speaks with extras Sharron Lutheran of Albuquerque and John Hickey of Rio Rancho about their placement in a scene on the Santa Fe set of Longmire last month. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

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ne of New Mexico’s longrunning political controversies ended Tuesday when an independent company found that taxpayer subsidies for moviemakers and TV producers help the state’s economy. The study’s conclusion, three years in the making, had rival camps praising Hollywood, something that once seemed impossible. Gov. Susana Martinez wanted to cut state subsidies for the film and TV industry when she took office 3½ ½ years ago, saying so much money going to moviemakers was shortchanging critical needs. Her political adversaries, led by state Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, countered that movies and television shows are a clean, growing industry that deserves taxpayer support

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15,850 full-time jobs created by movie and television productions from mid-2009 through the first part of this year

$52,723 average annual salary of state residents working on film and TV productions

$1.53 billion total “economic output” from TV and movie productions

$8,519 Net cost in taxpayer incentives of each job created from productions

because it is putting thousands of people to work. Based on the study results released Tuesday by the New Mexico Film Office, Egolf’s assessment was more correct than Martinez’s. New Mexico’s tax incentives to attract moviemakers and television productions created about 15,850 fulltime jobs from mid-2009 through the first part of this year, the state-sponsored study says. The findings list the average annual salary of New Mexico residents workk ing on movie and TV productions at $52,723. Each job created from film productions came at a net cost of $8,519 in taxpayer incentives, according to the study by MNP LLP, an accounting firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In a statement Tuesday, Martinez said Hollywood is good for the state.

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JERUSALEM — A missing Israeli soldier and the cancellation of international flights to and from Israel on Tuesday could bolster Hamas, potentially shifting the dynamics of diplomatic efforts to bring about a cease-fire in the 2-week-old Gaza Strip conflict. If Hamas is holding the 21-yearold soldier, whom Israel on Tuesday identified as Sgt. Oron Shaul, or his remains, it could give the Palestinian militant group leverage for its political demands — or it could incite Israel to push deeper into the coastal enclave. And the suspension of flights by all American and some major European carriers reflected the group’s ability to affect Israel’s economy with its rockets, one of which struck within a mile of the international airport near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight ban. By Tuesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had phoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to appeal for a resumption of U.S. flights to Israel, underscoring fears here that the country might be labeled a war zone and suffer damage to its tourism, high-tech and investment sectors. A U.S. State Department statement said the ban was meant only to protect American citizens, in an apparent effort to prevent

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Congress at impasse on border crisis By Ashley Parker and Jeremy W W. Peters The New York Times

Driven by mayor’s backers, nonprofit seeks community input on issues Meeting on south side draws more than 80 By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

A new nonprofit pushing for greater civic involvement and increased voting in Santa Fe kicked off the first in a series of community conversations Tuesday on the city’s south side. More than 80 people packed into a meeting room at the Southside Branch Library for the event, more than twice the number that organizers expected. “This was a good start,” said Omar Hamid, the nonprofit’s director. “We’d like to keep it going.” The nonprofit, Santa Fe For-

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ward, was formed by some of Mayor Javier Gonzales’ closest confidants and grew out of community conversations that Gonzales had on the campaign trail. “Santa Fe Forward transitioned from a campaign theme to a movement and now an organization,” said Gonzales, who attended the gathering. He said he was not involved in organizing the nonprofit. The mayor’s community discussions during the campaign, which ranged from women’s issues to education and the environment, drew large crowds and helped Gonzales not only frame the issues but also gain supporters. “There was a sense that people were involved as they had not been before — working families,

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young people — so this was an effort to capture that energy and move it forward,” said Carol Oppenheimer, who served as Gonzales’ campaign co-chairwoman and is now the chairwoman of the nonprofit board. Hamid also worked on the mayor’s campaign. Other members of the board include Earl Potter, chairman of Gonzales’ transition team; Estevan Gonzales, the mayor’s brother; and Stephanie Gonzales, a former secretary of state who supported Gonzales in the mayor’s race. Stephanie Gonzales and Javier Gonzales are not related. Potter, an owner of the Five & Dime General Store downtown, said the nonprofit’s goal is to

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¡Viva la Cultura! Hispanic Cultural Festival ¡Viva la Historia!, a panel discussion followed by a lecture on Hispanic art and Spanish Market, 2-4 p.m. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, $20, call 982-2226, Ext. 109, for advance tickets.

Obituaries Patty Anaya, 53, July 10 Jacqueline Theo Joens Canzone Julia B. Vigil, 90, Santa Fe, July 21 PAGE B-2

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Today Partly sunny. High 88, low 61. PAGE A-6

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are deadlocked on a plan to deal with the surge in migrant children who are filling detention centers along the Mexican border, with both Democrats and Republicans saying Tuesday that it was increasingly unlikely they could reach an accord before Congress leaves town for a five-week recess at the end of the month. Senate Democrats’ plan, which they will formally introduce Wednesday, calls for roughly $2.7 billion to stem the crisis — nearly $1 billion less than President Barack Obama requested but enough, they said, to get through the end of the year. Republicans in the House and Senate rejected it out of hand, saying that it amounted to giving the president a blank check because it did not include any changes to immigration law to address the overall problem. The impasse was another measure of how the partisan gridlock that has gripped Capitol Hill has doomed almost any attempt at compromise.

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