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The ever-rising cost of hitting the slopes Darren Wilson
The price of single-day lift tickets tops $100 at some Colorado resorts, squeezing out the middle class, but industry leaders say skiing is cheaper than you think.
UVA vows to fight campus rape problem
TRAVEL, C-2
Fate of miners’ remains found in century-old wreck unclear. PAGE A-2
Emergency meeting appears to signal a crossroads for prestigious university after reports of gang rape at a campus fraternity. PAGE A-3
Cargo of ‘corpse ship’ poses dilemma
Santa Fe schools tackle poor reading skills with creative ideas
Officer cleared by grand jury defends actions in interview.
POLICE SHOOTING
Protesters return to streets in Ferguson
Study finds drop of undocumented immigrants in N.M.; experts blame economy By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
Missouri governor calls in more troops, tightens security after unrest By Tom Foreman Jr. and Jim Salter The Associated Press
FERGUSON, Mo. — Protesters returned to the riot-scarred streets of Ferguson on Tuesday, a day after crowds looted businesses and set fire to buildings in a night of rage against a grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who killed Michael Brown. But with hundreds of additional National Guard troops assisting police, the latest demonstrations had little of the chaos and destruction that erupted after Monday’s announcement. Most clashes were relatively minor, although a squad car was set on fire, and police released some tear gas. Meanwhile, officer Darren Wilson broke his long public silence, insisting on national television that he could not have done anything differently in the confrontation with Brown. In the aftermath of Monday’s violence, Missouri governor Jay Nixon sent a large contingent of extra National Guard troops, ordering the initial force of 700 to be increased to 2,200 in hopes that their presence would help local law enforcement keep order in the St. Louis suburb. “Lives and property must be protected,” Nixon said. “This community deserves to have peace.”
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INSIDE u Views of justice in Ferguson case differ depending on race. PAGE A-5
Lack of jobs stalls northern migration
History teacher Michael Nation leads a study skills class Monday at Capshaw Middle School. The school is tackling an old problem — poor reading skills — with creative solutions such as study classes, mentors and coaches, that engage students. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Finding a hook for books By Robert Nott The New Mexican
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ewer than half of the 13,000 students in the Santa Fe school district read at grade level, a problem that has plagued school officials for years, even as the district has slowly improved, nearly equaling the statewide average. But one middle school this past year jumped 10 percentage points, the largest increase in the district. How Capshaw Middle School went from 49.4 percent reading proficiency to 59.7 in its most recent Standards Based Assessment results was a study in tackling an old problem in a new way. Last year when new principal Laura Jeffery arrived at the school, she brought teachers and school leaders together and asked them to look for creative solutions. Step one in the plan they developed was to begin assessing their students’ reading on a weekly basis. Reading coaches and tutors were brought in immediately to help students who were struggling. The school then carved 30 minutes
New Mexico is one of 14 states in which the population of undocumented immigrants declined between 2009 and 2012, according to a new study released last week. New Mexico lost 20,000 “unauthorized” immigrants, falling from 90,000 to 70,000 during that time period, according to a study by the Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C.,-based research institute. Most experts attribute the loss to the decline in jobs that draw people north of the border, among other factors. The report says the number of unauthorized immigrants rose in seven states and decreased in 14, including New Mexico. But overall the total undocumented immigrant population had leveled off to 11.2 million in 2012, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2009. The research center attributes the losses in most of the states where the numbers declined to the drop in the population of undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Six of those states are in the West. In six of the seven states where populations grew in this time period the increase was attributed to a rise in
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Julia Rodriguez, 13, reads The Boy King, a play about King Tutankhanmun, during a study skills class Monday at Capshaw Middle School. The study skills class is an effort to fight flagging reading proficiency rates in Santa Fe Public Schools.
out of each day to devote to extra instructional time in reading and writing for all of its 380 students. Every teacher, including the arts specialist and the physical education instructor, lent a hand. “If we want to be effective, this has
to be a joint effort,” Jefferey said. The Capshaw initiative is one of many at schools across the city that are a part of a new districtwide emphasis on increasing proficiency
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New EPA rules rein in smog By Coral Davenport The New York Times
Honda admits failing to report deaths, injuries from air bags By Tom Krisher The Associted Press
DETROIT — Honda is admitting that it failed to report more than 1,700 injury and death claims about its vehicles to U.S. safety regulators, a violation of federal law. The Japanese automaker, in statements issued Monday, also said it became aware of the omissions in 2011, yet it took about three years to take action. The company said it filed documents detailing the lapses on Monday with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which had demanded an explanation on Nov. 3. The agency said at the time that Honda may have failed to report incidents related to air bags made by Takata Corp. as well as other defective
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parts. Honda has recalled more than 5 million vehicles in the U.S. since 2008 to fix a potentially fatal defect in air bags made by Japanese auto supplier Takata. The air bag inflators can rupture after a crash and injure occupants with shards of metal. Honda blamed the lapses on inadvertent data entry and computer programming errors, as well as a misinterpretation of the federal TREAD act, a law passed in 2000 requiring faster reporting of deaths, injuries and safety defects by automakers. Under the law, automakers must report each quarter any claims they receive alleging that defective vehicles or parts caused a death or injury. But Honda said it did not report
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Crosswords C-5, C-9
Lotteries A-2
Demons prevail Santa Fe High tops Rio Grande in season opener.
Obituaries Sandra K. Oriel, 84, Santa Fe, Nov. 22 Joseph Anthony Padilla, 49, Nov. 20 Albert Romero, 68, Santa Fe, Nov. 23 Brandon C. Trujillo, 43, Ohkay Owingeh, Nov. 17 PAGE B-2
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Today Sunny, warmer. High 52, low 26. PAGE A-8
Opinion A-7
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to release Wednesday a contentious and longdelayed environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smogcausing pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death. The sweeping regulation, which would aim at smog from power plants and factories across the country, particularly in the Midwest, would be the latest in a series of Environmental Protection Agency controls on air pollution that wafts from smokestacks and tailpipes. Such regulations, released under the authority of the Clean Air Act, have become a hallmark of President Barack Obama’s administration. Environmentalists and public health advocates have praised the EPA rules as a powerful environmental legacy. Republicans, manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry have sharply criticized them as an example of costly government overreach.
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Sports B-5
Time Out C-9
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