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‘May you walk with great power’: Jedi knights going Navajo
Manuelito Wheeler, the director of the Navajo Nation Museum, has a good feeling about a new project to dub the first Star Wars movie in the Navajo language. He reached out to Lucasfilm Ltd. with the plan, as a way to help preserve the language. PAge A-4
In the spotlight to get out of sun ‘Ask This Old House’ TV crew rolls in to help local homeowners escape the heat without losing views
Show host Kevin O’Connor interviews Dauna and Walt Howerton about their need for more shade, while cameraman Jay Maurer films the scene.
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New tack on gun laws: Ballot
Advocates of expanded checks to dodge politics, take issue to voters By Mike Baker
The Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. — After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking the issue directly to voters. While advocates generally prefer that new gun laws be passed through the legislative process, especially at the national level, they are also concerned about how much sway the National Rifle Association has with lawmakers. Washington Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a Democrat who had sponsored unsuccessful legislation on background checks at the state level, said a winning ballot initiative would make a statement with broad implications. “It’s more powerful if the voters do it — as opposed to our doing it,” Pedersen said. “And it would make it easier for the Legislature to do even more.”
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Ask This Old House director Thomas Draudt gives homeowner Walt Howerton instructions during a film shoot Thursday. The TV program was filming an episode on an exterior shade installation project at Howerton’s home off Old Santa Fe Trail. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Anne Constable The New Mexican
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alt and Dauna Howerton bought their 1960s, ranch-style house off Old Santa Fe Trail in 2012, when they moved back to the area after a decade in Austin, Texas. Their previous home in New Mexico was a 100-year-old adobe in the Española Valley. But this time, they were looking for something different. They found it in a spacious, 3,000-square-foot house of wood and brick, with a redwood deck on three sides and views of the Jemez Mountains. They liked almost everything about the home
— including its corner toilets — but after they moved in, they found they were unable to use the large, west-facing deck in the afternoon and early evening, when the sun was hammering down. And the living room, which also faces west, would get unbearably hot. “It gets hotter and hotter when the sun is going down, and you can’t even see outside,” Dauna Howerton said. The Howertons found a solution to their sun dilemma last week, when a crew from Ask This Old House arrived to film an exterior improvement project at their home. The installation would provide enough shade to make the space comfortable — without blocking their mountain views. But it was the corner toilets that had prompted
the couple to contact the program. They were trying to find parts to complete repairs. Last summer, Dauna Howerton sent a question about the toilets — and a few other questions, along with a photo of the home’s exterior — to the website of the show, an 11-year-old spinoff of This Old House, which tackles smaller jobs that bug homeowners. The website gets about 5,000 requests per day for information about home-improvement projects and tries to answer those that might have wide interest. And sometimes show’s crew will make house calls.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Caught on the wrong side of reform
Today Partly cloudy. High 81, low 45. PAge A-12
By Elliot Spagat
The Associated Press
Obituaries Ronnie Martinez, Santa Fe, April 23 Luciana “Luci” Lansrud-Lope, PAge A-10
Index
Deportee’s story shows overhaul in the works leaves many in shadows
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SAN DIEGO — Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home, but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the U.S. immigration system that would grant legal status to millions.
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Gonzalez was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, from Santa Barbara in December, one of nearly 2 million removals from the United States since Barack Obama was first elected president. “I have nobody here,” said Gonzalez, who serves breakfasts in a Tijuana migrant shelter while nursing a foot that fractured in 10 places when he jumped the border fence in a failed attempt to rejoin his mother, two brothers and extended family in California. “The United States is all I know.” While a Senate bill introduced earlier this month
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Carlos Jair Gonzalez, 29, left, gives guidance to a newcomer at the Padre Chava migrant shelter in Tijuana on April 18. Gonzalez was deported last December. ALEX COSSIO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows, not everyone would benefit. They include anyone who arrived after Dec. 31, 2011,
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those with gay partners legally in the U.S., siblings of U.S. citizens and many deportees such as Gonzalez.
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Doctors test one-price program for surgeries By Jackie Crosby
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
MINNEAPOLIS — Dr. Richard Golden describes himself as an “avid but poor athlete.” His bum knee, however, was making it too painful to jog, downhill ski or play golf. This winter, the 62-year-old Excelsior, Minn., resident decided to stop putting off surgery and signed up for a new program through Twin Cities Orthopedics that aims to make getting a new knee as uncomplicated as buying a carton of milk. Golden was quoted an upfront price of $21,000 that covered the entire operation — including surgery, medication, post-op recovery and unlimited physical therapy appointments. And it came on a
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Pasapick Art of the Mimbres: What Is Its Meaning? A Southwest Seminars lecture with anthropology professor Pat Gilman, 6 p.m., Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, $12 at the door, 466-2775.
Two sections, 24 pages 164th year, No. 119 Publication No. 596-440