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Rio Arriba residents still split on Rodella Some call recently convicted sheriff a ‘political prisoner’
for attacking a driver half his size and threatening him with a silver pistol. The sheriff’s supporters say the punishment is excessive. Rodella’s critics say prison time is what he deserves. There’s also another Tommy camp when it comes to Rodella Rodella: People who are only lukewarm toward him say he was targeted by federal prosecutors because of a political vendetta. “I am not crazy about our sheriff. He has made a lot of mistakes,” Felipe Martinez, a
By Milan Simonich The New Mexican
The jury is in on Sheriff Tommy Rodella of Rio Arriba County. In contrast, the public he served — and abused in at least one instance — remains very much divided about Rodella after the federal government’s successful prosecution of him last week for violating the civil rights of a motorist. Rodella, 52, faces up to 17 years in prison
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former Rio Arriba County commissioner, said in an interview Saturday. “Yet Tommy Rodella has become a political prisoner, if you will.” Martinez says he didn’t vote for Rodella in the 2010 election. But Martinez eventually became a political supporter of Rodella for one reason. He says the sheriff stood up to the U.S. Forest Service and its heavyhanded tactics against Rio Arriba County residents. After Rodella took a principled stand on behalf of people who had used historic lands for generations, the U.S. Attorney’s
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Newly ‘authenticated’ photo rekindles hype over the famous outlaw
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Forensic artist Lois Gibson made Ray John de Aragon’s photo, which they believe is Billy the Kid, transparent and laid it on top of the known tintype image of the Kid. “Everything matches,” she said.
Report shows challenges behind Obama pledge to cut pollution By Joby Warrick
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears to be losing ground in its efforts to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, according to new government figures that show pollution levels rising again after several years of gradual decline. Data released last week by the Energy Department show American factories and power plants putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the first six months of 2014 compared with the same period in each of the past two years. The figures confirm a reversal first seen in 2013, when the trend of steadily falling emissions abruptly halted. The higher emissions are primarily a reflection of a rebounding economy, as American businesses burned more gas and oil to meet higher demand. But the shift also underscores the challenge confronting the Obama administration as it seeks to honor a pledge to sharply cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases by the end of the decade. The release of the new emissions figures comes just days after President Barack Obama stood before a United Nations climate summit to highlight U.S. progress in reducing levels of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for warming the planet. “The United States has reduced our total carbon pollution by more than any other nation on Earth, but we have to do more,” the president told world leaders at U.N. headquarters in New York.
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Ray John de Aragon’s photo, which he says was passed down to him from his father.
63 percent photo, 37 percent tintype
By Anne Constable The New Mexican
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or a good quarter of a century, there’s been a cottage industry in photos purportedly of William H. Bonney, aka the outlaw Billy the Kid. But after William Koch, a billionaire best known for his conservative political activism, paid $2.3 million for the only authenticated portrait of the Kid in 2011 at a Denver auction, the stakes got higher, the market hotter. Brian Lebel, who sold the tintype to Koch at his Old West Show and Auction, said he gets offered four or five a month, and “they come from all over.” As recently as June, Lebel, who now lives in Santa Fe, sold a copy of the famous image for $18,000.
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Texas artist Buckeye Blake said that since the record sale, “People think any item pertaining to Billy the Kid is all of a sudden worth a fortune, and they start digging out old photographs that aren’t even close.” The continuing hype around the Kid might be one reason why some historians are skeptical that a new photo recently “authenticated” by a Houston forensic artist is really that of the gunslinger and rustler who was shot to death by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 after escaping from jail.
Tracing an image’s history The photo belongs to Ray John de Aragon, an arts program coordinator for
Known image of the Kid, a tintype purchased by William Koch for $2.3 million in 2011
the Los Lunas schools, who said it was in an album he inherited from his father. But if it’s authentic, said University of New Mexico historian Paul Andrew Hutton, it would be “a piece of the true cross.” Some historians are declining comment, but privately many are skeptical that the man in the baggy suit is really the famed outlaw. The Koch tintype, believed to have been made in 1879 or 1880 by an unidentified photographer, shows the Kid in a dark hat, sweater, vest and boots with a rifle in one hand and a Colt revolver holstered on the other hip. Its provenance is considered impeccable. After the Kid’s death, one of his
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Tribute to a lifetime of brilliance Nobel Prize winner and Santa Fe Institute co-founder Gell-Mann receives prestigious Helmholtz Award
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By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Physicist Murray Gell-Mann’s brilliant mind has exasperated less-gifted classmates, wowed colleagues and terrified students for decades. He earned the Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for laying out in elegant, geometric fashion the relationships between subatomic particles. Later he described and named quarks, a kind of building block for particles that make up matter. Gell-Mann, 85, who co-founded the Santa Fe Institute, earned another accolade Thursday for the scientific
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work he produced over a lifetime from his endlessly inquisitive mind. He received the Helmholtz Award from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a medal presented biennially since 1892 to people who have made vital contributions to the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences or medicine. The medal honors Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, a 19thcentury physician and scientist. “Prof. Gell-Mann is one of the most important physicists of the first half of the 19th century. He has also
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Physicist Murray Gell-Mann holds the Helmholtz Award, which was presented to him last week at the Santa Fe Institute. INSIGHTFOTO
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