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Stanley Crawford’s involvement in the dispute began in 2014, when a lawyer convinced him to file a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce that asked it to review the trade practices of Zhengzhou Harmoni Spice Co. Ltd.,

Few people today regard the American vice presidency the way John Nance Garner did when he described the job as one that “isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit,” probably a softened version of his actual words.

Yet modern-day politicians would rather talk about arcane parts of the tax code than publicly acknowledge speculation that they’re being mentioned as vice presidential timber. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from Albuquerque, is one of them.

Heinrich, who endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton back in 2014, is among a couple of dozen names Martin that often surface when politiHeinrich cal writers and commentators discuss the best bets to become Clinton’s running mate this summer.

Along with Heinrich, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and the Castro twins of Texas, Congressman Joaquin and Cabinet Secretary Julián of Housing and Urban Development, figure in many of the discussions, none of them more scientific than a coin flip.

Heinrich, 44, a first-term senator, last week was good-natured in deflecting most questions about whether he could be part of the Democrats’ presidential ticket this year.

“I’m in the Draft-Castro-for-VP Club,” Heinrich said during a visit to Santa Fe Community College.

Which Castro twin was he talking about?

“Anyone that’s not me,” Heinrich said.

But now that Clinton has built an imposing lead in her competition with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, Heinrich stands to receive even more attention.

“He’s certainly highly qualified and would be an attractive addition to the ticket,” said Fred Harris, a former national and New Mexico Democratic Party chairman, who was one of two finalists that Hubert Humphrey considered as his running mate in 1968. Humphrey chose Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, passing over Harris, then a 37-year-old senator from Oklahoma.

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Local farmer Avrum Katz, right, discusses garlic with customers Austin Massey of Santa Fe, center, and Len Otto of Boring, Ore., at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on Saturday. Katz helped form the New Mexico Garlic Growers Coalition, which opposes attempts to game the United States’ ‘anti-dumping’ laws. The laws are intended to keep importers from bringing foreign goods into the U.S. below fair-market values.

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tanley Crawford and his wife, RoseMary, are accustomed to visitors at their Dixon farm.

A guesthouse on the 2.6-acre property offers a retreat yearround for travelers who leave with praise for its rustic charm and the couple’s hospitality.

Stanley Crawford But Bernardo Matias Perez was not interested in a vacation when he turned up at their farm last winter.

A private investigator retired from the FBI after a career battling Mexican drug cartels and Puerto Rican terrorists, Perez had been dispatched to snoop around the

Katz argues imports have a tangible impact on the business of small farmers. Often, he says, farmers market customers ask why his garlic is so much more expensive than garlic sold in supermarkets.

Crawfords’ property by a major agricultural importer based in the U.S. and China.

The visit was the surest signal yet of just how deeply the Crawfords and their tiny farm had become entangled in an international trade war over a crop not typically associated with New Mexico: garlic.

InCEntIvE to HELp a RaRE bIRd tHRIvE Lesser prairie chicken loses endangered status, but willdlife agencies’ management plan encourages ranchers to help pro otect species By rebecca Moss the new Mexican

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or more than a decade, crowds would flock to th he grasslands of southeast-ern New Mexico in early y spring to watch the mating dance of the lesser prairie chicken. Th he rotund, brown-and-white stripeed male birds would puff out theirr breasts, cock their horns like eaars — angry golden feathers spiked d along their brows like battle paiint — and rise low in the air, calling g out to females.

These birds, considered a barometer for the health of the grasslands they inh nhabit, h once blank nketed k the Southwest. But in the last century, climate change, agriculture and industrial development have caused their populations to shrink nk k by 97 percent, leaving just 29,000 birds across fii states last year. five Since 2013 13, 3 the lesser prairie chicken festival als l in Eastern New Mexico have been can anceled n indefinitely: Too few birds remain.

The annual lesser prairie chicken count got underway this

month h, with helicopters scoping outt the birds’ mating nests, or lekss, to estimate population numbeers, which have fluctuated fll drasticcally in the past few years.

A 50 0 percent drop in 2014 got the birrd listed as a threatened speciess under the Endangered Speciees Act. But last year, the remain ning population grew by 25 perccent. Oil and gas groups began to file fii lawsuits, saying the birrd’s protections — which imposee land-use restrictions on

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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, said that if elected, he might halt purchases of oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies unless they commit ground troops to the fight against the Islamic State or “substantially reimburse” the United States for combating the militant group, which threatens their stability.

“If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection,” Trump said during a 100-minute interview on foreign policy, spread over two phone calls, “I don’t think it would be around.”

He also said he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for their protection against North Korea and China.

If the United States “keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they’re going to want to have that anyway, with or without me discussing it,” Trump said.

And he said he would be willing to withdraw U.S. forces from both Japan

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Russian airstrikes try to wrest Palmyra from ISIS

NATION&WORLD Obama’s visit sets stage for American influx into Cuba

Militant Islamic group and al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front are excluded from cease-fire

Trip ends taboo on traveling to island nation and doing business there

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If the president can take his family to Cuba, other Americans will want to follow. And if blue-chip companies such as Google and Starwood are opening there for business, so will other companies.

More important than any diplomatic negotiation during President Barack Obama’s historic visit, are images from his visit that the administration says solidify public perceptions of the changed relationship with Cuba: Obama, the first lady and their daughters among palm trees and vintage cars, taking in a baseball game and touring colonial cultural sites.

The visit for most Americans will end the taboo on a country that was long legally off-limits to most U.S. citizens and demolish remaining psychological barriers to travel to the island and do business there, said Rep. Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican who was part of the U.S. delegation with the president in Cuba last week.

It hasn’t removed — though it may yet erode — resistance from many other Republican lawmakers and some Cuban exiles to removing one of the last remnants of a hostile relationship: the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba imposed more than a halfcentury ago. While the thaw will continue after he leaves office, the president has acknowledged the embargo most likely will as well.

The official purpose of Obama’s trip, which included a stop in Argentina, was to reset the U.S. relationship with Latin America and, in the president’s words, to “bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” There was a heavy dose of symbolism as well.

Residents of Latin America, where U.S. isolation of Cuba has been a constant irritant, saw Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro chatting amiably during a baseball game. At public appearances, Obama delivered tough criticism on human rights abuses without using a confrontational tone.

In Buenos Aires, Obama stood side by side with Argentine President Mauricio Macri Thursday to pay tribute to the thousands of victims of what is known as the Dirty War and said he regrets that the U.S. was too slow to speak out about the abuses of Argentina’s military government in the 1970s and 1980s.

The night before, at a state dinner hosted by Macri, Obama was persuaded to engage in a brief tango with a female entertainer.

Some of those symbolic gestures, particularly coming after the terrorist attack in Brussels, drew criticism.

“Baseball games and tangos, that’s inconsistent with the seriousness of the day,” Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.

Obama shrugged off the criticism. He said allowing terrorists to disrupt the work of building U.S. relationships in the world plays into their hands.

The easy rapport Obama showed with Cuban President Raul Castro and the respectful treatment the U.S. president accorded his counterpart amplifies the impact of Obama’s opening to Cuba, said Jonathan Hansen, a senior lecturer of Latin American studies at Harvard University and a biographer of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Raul’s brother.

In the U.S., the psychological shift that the trip accelerates, and a parallel one among corporate leaders, will render Obama’s opening to Cuba irreversible, Sen. Sanford said. It also builds an expanding constituency for dropping the embargo, he said.

The visit’s potential impact is all the more powerful coming just as the Obama administration has all but eliminated the bureaucratic obstacles to travel.

Though the U.S. embargo law still only permits travel to Cuba for certain purposes such as journalism, education or people-to-people exchanges, Americans no longer need to provide detailed itineraries or go through cumbersome processes.

Instead, travelers simply check a box on a form indicating the purpose of their trip at the airport as they depart the U.S.

EASTER VIGIL BAPTISM Pope Francis baptizes Hee Kim Stella of South Korea during an Easter vigil service Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. After a bleak week in Europe, Francis said in his homily the hope that Easter brings is a lesson for the Christian faithful to cast aside the pessimism that can ‘imprison’ people inside themselves. GREGORIO BORGIA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Catholic priests open Easter foot-washing ritual to women WASHINGTON — In her 50th Easter season as a nun, Sister Antonia Sanchez participated in something new.

For the past 49 years, since she joined the order of Religious Mary Immaculate at age 16, Sanchez has watched priests wash the feet of men on Holy Thursday. Last week, Sanchez was before the altar herself at the nation’s preeminent Catholic shrine.

She was the one removing her shoes and socks. And then the pope’s representative to America washed her feet.

This was the first Easter since Pope Francis decreed in January that priests can include women in the foot-washing ritual, one of the most moving rites of the holiest week on the church’s calendar. The change had already happened in some churches, but since Francis made it official, it is now spreading worldwide.

Rising GOP star in West Virginia fights for coal against EPA CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Patrick Morrisey, the West Virginia attorney general taking on President Barack Obama’s clean power plan, is no stranger to the hot seat: He parlayed a love of tennis as a young adult into becoming a line judge at the U.S. Open and other tournaments.

Fast forward to 2016. The 48-year-old transplanted New Jersey native is challenging the Obama administration’s calls, joined by several mostly Republican states in suing to try to overturn federal greenhouse gas rules. He says taking the heat on the courts taught him to stay cool in court years later.

Elected in 2012, West Virginia’s first GOP attorney general in eight decades has made fighting “federal overreach” his mantra. He’s leading a coalition of attorneys general that won a U.S. Supreme Court stay last month against Obama’s clean power plan.

That plan against climate change focuses particularly on cutting pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Welcomed by many, it’s blasted by critics as a possible knockout blow to the coal industry.

Anti-vaccine film pulled from Tribeca Film Festival lineup Facing a storm of criticism over its plan to show a documentary about the widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday pulled the film from its schedule next month.

The film, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, was directed and co-written by Andrew Wakefield,

the author of a study that was published in the British medical journal The Lancet and then retracted in 2010. Wakefield’s medical license was revoked over his failure to disclose financial conflicts of interest and ethics violations.

When the festival’s plan to show the film was made public Tuesday, filmmakers and medical experts were vocal in their condemnation of it.

Documentarian Penny Lane posted an open letter Thursday in Filmmaker Magazine telling the festival that the screening “threatens the credibility of not just the other filmmakers in your doc slate, but the field in general.”

Doctors and infectious disease experts also spoke out. “Unless the Tribeca Film Festival plans to definitively unmask Andrew Wakefield, it will be yet another disheartening chapter where a scientific fraud continues to occupy a spotlight,” Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said in an interview Friday.

As the criticism mounted Friday, festival founder Robert De Niro defended the film, saying that he and his wife, Grace Hightower, have a child with autism and that “we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined.”

Easter delivery: Cargo ship arrives at space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The six astronauts at the International Space Station got an early Easter treat this weekend with the arrival of a supply ship full of fresh food and experiments.

Saturday’s delivery came via Orbital ATK’s Cygnus capsule, named after the swan constellation.

The cargo carrier rocketed away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday.

NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra used the station’s big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the two craft soared 250 miles above the Indian Ocean. “Excellent work, gentlemen,” Mission Control radioed. Four hours later, the capsule was bolted firmly to the complex.

It’s the first of three shipments coming up in quick succession. A Russian cargo ship will lift off Thursday, followed by a SpaceX supply run April 8. NASA has turned to private industry to keep the space station stocked.

The newly arrived Cygnus holds nearly 8,000 pounds of groceries, equipment and research.

Among the newfangled science: robotic grippers modeled after geckos’ feet and the ingredients for a large-scale, controlled fire.

A 3-D printer is packed inside as well; anyone will be able to order prints, for a price, from the Made In Space company. Virginia-based Orbital ATK hints Easter eggs may also be on board.

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BEIRUT — Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian airstrikes have seized three neighborhoods inside Palmyra, a town with famed Roman-era ruins that fell to the Islamic State group last May, state media reported Saturday.

Russian jets carried out 40 air sorties near Palmyra in the past day, hitting 158 targets and killing over 100 militants, Russia’s defense ministry said.

Syrian troops and allied militiamen have taken up positions in the three neighborhoods that are part of the modern town, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group.

Palmyra, affectionately known as the “bride of the desert,” used to attract tens of thousands of tourists every year. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, drove out government forces in a matter of days and demolished some of the bestknown monuments in the UNESCO world heritage site. The extremists believe ancient ruins promote idolatry.

The militants also demolished the town’s infamous Tadmur prison, where thousands of Syrian government opponents were reported to have been tortured.

Retaking the town would be a major victory for President Bashar Assad’s government, which has made steady gains in recent months against ISIS and other insurgents.

Syria’s government has been assisted in large part by Russia’s air campaign.

Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the surprise pullout of some Russian warplanes from Syria, but said that strikes against the Islamic State group and the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front will continue. Those groups have been excluded from a Russian- and U.S.-brokered cease-fire that began on Feb. 27 and has largely held.

The battle for Palmyra, now entering its fourth week according to the Observatory, has not been easy. Government forces lost at least 18 soldiers on Friday alone, including a major general, the Observatory and ISIS-affiliated media sites reported.

The Observatory’s figures indicate at least 56 soldiers have died in fighting this week.

Footage broadcast on Lebanese stations aligned with the Syrian government showed smoke rising over Palmyra’s skyline, as tanks and helicopters fired at positions inside the town. ISIS began evacuating civilians this week to other parts of its territories in Syria.

The fate of the archaeological site was not clear. Activists citing sources among advancing government forces said the two sides were fighting over the area, while the Observatory said government forces had retaken the site. Syrian state media made no mention of the area.

The head of Syria’s antiquities and museums authority described the condition of the remaining monuments — including the grand amphitheater, the market place, public baths and a long colonnade — as “excellent,” with only minor damage, based on footage captured by a drone and broadcast on Russian television Friday.

Maamoun Abdulkarim, head of the government’s antiquities and museums department, said civil servants are prepared to assess the monuments and plan for restoration “as soon as we are given the green light from the Syrian army.”

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Dots not connected in bombings Belgian authorities slow to act on warnings of suspicious activities

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Belgium charges 3 more suspects in deadly attacks 24 of 31 people killed have been identified

By Lorne Cook and David Keyton The Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors announced they have charged three men with terror offenses over the suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway, as organizers canceled a solidarity rally at the government’s request because police are too strapped to cope.

At a news conference in Brussels Saturday, officials confirmed that 24 of the 31 people killed in the attacks Tuesday had been identified, and a doctor who had served in Afghanistan said he and his colleagues have been shocked by the extreme burns suffered by some of the 270 people wounded.

Federal prosecutors said a man identified as Faycal C., who was arrested Thursday, has been charged with “involvement in a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder.”

Belgian media say he is Faycal Cheffou, the man in the light vest and hat pictured on security video with two men who blew themselves up at the airport.

Cheffou is described as a local activist known to police for trying to rally asylum-seekers and homeless people to radical Islam.

Prosecutors would not confirm the Belgian media reports. A police raid was conducted at his home but no arms or explosives were found, they said.

Two other suspects detained Thursday and identified as Raba N. and Aboubakar A. were charged with “involvement in the activities of a terrorist group.”

In addition, a man named as Abderamane A. who was taken into custody Friday after he was shot by police at a Brussels tram stop is being held for at least 24 more hours.

In Italy on Sunday, police said they arrested an Algerian wanted

by Belgium for facilitating travel of illegal migrants in connection with the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.

Authorities believe both the Brussels attacks and the Paris bombings that killed 130 people were plotted from Belgium.

The suicide bombings during Tuesday’s peak morning travel time at the Brussels Airport and a city subway station killed 31 people, officials confirmed Saturday.

That toll is likely to rise as some body parts have still not been identified, they said.

Brussels prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch told The Associated Press that 24 of the victims have been identified and 11 of them were foreigners. One was a former Belgian ambassador to the United States, Andre Adam.

Of the 270 wounded, 93 are being treated at a Brussels military hospital. A doctor there said Saturday that 15 people are in a serious burns unit, five of them in intensive care.

Dr. Serge Jennes said he had treated similar injuries during his service in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, but said he and his colleagues were shocked to see such injuries on women and children.

“I’ve never seen this before in my 20 years at the center for burns,” Jennes said. “Injuries linked to the blowback from the blast, which can mutilate.”

In a sign of the tensions in the Belgian capital and the way security services are stretched across the country, Belgium’s interior minister appealed to residents

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not to march Sunday in Brussels in solidarity with the victims.

“We understand fully the emotions,” Interior Minister Jan Jambon told reporters. “We understand that everyone wants to express these feelings.”

But, he said, “we invite the citizens not to have this demonstration.”

Organizers quickly granted his request, postponing the march.

Brussels airport officials, meanwhile, began to assess the damage caused by twin explosions at the Zaventem airport departure terminal.

Authorities have wrapped up their investigation of the crime scene at the airport, and engineers were let in to check the building’s structural safety and information technology systems — and to see whether any damage can be repaired quickly.

Brussels Airport, which handles 23.5 million passengers annually, said it would be Tuesday at the earliest before flights resume. About 600 flights a day are being canceled or diverted.

BRUSSELS — The stench of chemicals emanating from the sixth-floor apartment made the owner of the building gag. Other odd happenings at the mostly empty housing block in northern Brussels prompted an anxious resident in the area to alert the police. A taxi driver who picked up three young men at the block smelled a noxious odor leaking from their curiously heavy luggage as he drove them to Brussels Airport.

But not until 7:58 a.m. Tuesday did these and other strange and, at least in retrospect, alarming dots come together to form a clear picture of what had been going on for more than two months in the dilapidated but spacious top-floor apartment at 4 Max Roos St. in the Brussels borough of Schaerbeek.

It was then that two homemade bombs — confected from malodorous and highly volatile chemicals in the living room of the apartment — exploded in the check-in area of the airport, followed an hour later by another at a busy subway station. The attacks killed 31 people.

A third bomb was found unexploded at the airport, but the two that were detonated blew holes in the roof and maimed scores of people as they waited to check their baggage. On Saturday, the airport was still closed, a huge and macabre crime scene instead of a global crossroads and the main entry point to the “capital of Europe,” a city that houses the headquarters of the European Union and NATO. Acting with uncharacteristic — and still unexplained — swiftness, Belgian security forces sealed off the area around the

apartment in Schaerbeek within 90 minutes of the airport attack.

The authorities attributed their speedy reaction to a tip-off from the taxi driver.

But the driver was said to have alerted the police only after a photograph of the suspects in the attacks was released hours later, raising questions about whether the police had perhaps already had the building in their sights but, for some reason, had not moved in and smashed through the front door to the sixth-floor apartment until it was too late.

“There were investigations before and after the events” of Tuesday, Alexandrino Rodrigues, the owner of the building, said in an interview, suggesting that the police had suspicions before the attacks and had not entirely ignored the report from a concerned neighbor. “You can’t catch a rabbit without knowing where it lives,” he added.

A small, idiosyncratic and proudly placid country, Belgium has none of the long and bloody entanglements in Muslim lands that have made the United States and neighboring France such obvious targets for global jihad.

Yet with its large communities of often poor and poorly integrated Muslim immigrants and its own deeply rooted divisions of language, geography and politics, Belgium finds itself at the center of Europe’s struggle with terrorism and a glaring example of the obstacles blocking the way.

How the lengthy preparations for the attacks — by militants who either were or should have been on the authorities’ radar and, in some cases, with ties to the November attacks in Paris — could go undetected has stirred dismay and anger from politicians and also the public, as well as from allies in Europe and beyond.

“Why such repeated dysfunctions?” Marco Van Hees, a member of the Belgian Parliament, asked the Interior minister and

Belgium has none of the long and bloody entanglements in Muslim lands that have made the United States and France such obvious targets for global jihad. two other ministers who were summoned on Friday to explain the failure. “We are certainly not dealing here with just a glitch, a little bug, but a deep structural problem.”

That Belgium has a serious problem with jihadi militancy has been clear for years, particularly since January of last year, when the police raided a terrorist hideaway in the eastern town of Verviers and foiled what the authorities said was a major plot.

That success, however, masked rather than solved the problem, which exploded with brutal horror in Paris, when jihadi militants, many of them Belgians, killed 131 people with bombs made in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, the same area that would later house the bombmaking workshop.

How was it possible, members of Parliament asked, that two of the suicide bombers in the Brussels attacks, Ibrahim el-Bakraoui and his younger brother Khalid, both residents on Max Roos Street since the beginning of the year, had managed to go undetected for so long? And all this despite a record of violent crime in Belgium and, in the case of the older brother, a clear warning from Turkey in June that he was on his way back to Europe after being arrested as a suspected terrorist while on his way to Syria?

And was it really true, the lawmakers demanded, that the authorities had received a precise tip in December about the possible whereabouts of Salah Abdeslam, the only known survivor among the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks, who was finally captured in Brussels on March 18? He was

found at the address cited in the December tip-off, which had not been acted on because it had not been passed up the police chain of command.

Jan Jambon, the interior minister, told legislators he could not comment because an inquiry was underway into who had known what and when about the possible location of Abdeslam, who until his capture on March 18 had been Europe’s most wanted man. At the hearing Friday, questions were also raised about whether the Brussels attacks could have been avoided if Abdeslam had been subjected to extensive and tough questioning immediately after his arrest. Instead, he was questioned a full day later, and then only about the Paris attacks.

Insisting he was only a bit player in Belgium’s jihadist network, he gave no information about any impending attack, the authorities said.

The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office issued a statement Friday saying that Abdeslam, who was shot in the leg during his arrest, was not questioned immediately because of his need for medical treatment.

In a sign the Belgian authorities had the el-Bakraoui brothers in their sights before they carried out their attacks, interrogators presented Abdeslam with photographs of the siblings after his capture and asked if he knew them. According to excerpts from the March 19 interrogation obtained by Le Monde, Abdeslam firmly denied knowing the men who three days later would subject Brussels to its bloodiest attack since World War II. The Belgians dropped the matter.

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By Amy Chozick

The New York Times

Sen. Bernie Sanders handily defeated Hillary Clinton in the Washington state and Alaska caucuses Saturday, infusing his underdog campaign with critical momentum and bolstering his argument that the race for the Democratic nomination is not a foregone conclusion.

Sanders found a welcome tableau in the largely white and liberal

electorates of the Pacific Northwest, where just days after routing Clinton in Idaho he repeated the feat in Washington. With a handful of precincts still reporting, he was leading Clinton by more than 40 percentage points. He performed even better in Alaska, winning 82 percent of the vote.

Washington, with 101 delegates in play, was a vital state for Sanders, whose prospects of capturing the nomination dimmed after double-digit losses to Clinton across

the South and weak showings in delegate-rich Ohio, Florida and North Carolina this month.

At a rally in Madison, Wis., Sanders assured more than 8,000 supporters that his victories had cleared a viable path to the nomination.

Noting the “huge” voter turnout — in Washington, Democratic Party officials estimated more than 200,000 people participated, close to the record set in 2008 — he told the crowd, “We are making

significant inroads into Secretary Clinton’s lead.”

The victories in Washington and Alaska, which awarded 16 delegates, slightly narrow the gulf with Clinton in the quest for the 2,382 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Clinton had roughly 280 more so-called pledged delegates, who are awarded based on voting, and 440 more superdelegates — party leaders and elected officials — than Sanders.

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and South Korea if they did not substantially increase their contributions to the costs of housing and feeding those troops. “Not happily, but the answer is yes,” he said.

Trump also said he would seek to renegotiate many fundamental treaties with U.S. allies, possibly including a 56-year-old security pact with Japan, which he described as one-sided.

In Trump’s worldview, the United States has become a diluted power, and the main mechanism by which he would re-establish its central role in the world is economic bargaining. He approached almost every current international conflict through the prism of a negotiation, even when he was imprecise about the strategic goals he sought. He again faulted the Obama administration’s handling of the negotiations with Iran last year — “It would have been so much better if they had walked away a few times,” he said — but offered only one new idea about how he would change its content: Ban Iran’s trade with North Korea.

Trump struck similar themes when he discussed the future of NATO, which he called “unfair, economically, to us,” and said he was open to an alternative organization focused on counterterrorism. He argued that the best way to halt China’s placement of military airfields and anti-aircraft batteries on reclaimed islands in the South China Sea was to threaten its access to U.S. markets.

“We have tremendous economic power over China,” he argued. “And that’s the power of trade.” He did not mention Beijing’s capability for economic retaliation.

Trump’s views, as he explained

them, fit nowhere into the recent history of the Republican Party: He is not in the internationalist camp of President George H.W. Bush, nor does he favor George W. Bush’s call to make it the United States’ mission to spread democracy around the world. He agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might best be summed up as “America First.”

Trump explained his thoughts in concrete and easily digestible terms, but they appeared to reflect little consideration for potential consequences. Much the same way he treats political rivals and interviewers, he personalized how he would engage foreign nations, suggesting his approach would depend partly on “how friendly they’ve been toward us,” not just on national interests or alliances.

At no point did he express any belief that U.S. forces deployed on military bases around the world were by themselves valuable to the United States, though Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades argued that they are essential to deterring military adventurism, protecting commerce and gathering intelligence.

Like Richard Nixon, Trump emphasized the importance of “unpredictability” for a U.S. president, arguing that the country’s traditions of democracy and openness had made its actions too easy for adversaries and allies alike to foresee.

“I wouldn’t want them to know what my real thinking is,” he said of how far he was willing to take the confrontation over the islands in the South China Sea, which are remote and uninhabited but extend China’s control over a major maritime thoroughfare.

But, he added, “I would use trade, absolutely, as a bargaining chip.”

Until recently, Trump’s foreign

policy pronouncements have largely come through slogans: “Take the oil,” “Build a wall” and ban Muslim immigrants, at least temporarily. But as he has pulled closer to capturing the nomination, he has been called on to elaborate.

Pressed about his call to “take the oil” controlled by the Islamic State in the Middle East, Trump acknowledged that this would require deploying ground troops, something he does not favor.

“We should’ve taken it, and we would’ve had it,” he said, referring to the years in which the United States occupied Iraq. “Now we have to destroy the oil.”

He did not rule out spying on U.S. allies, including leaders like Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, whose cellphone was apparently a target of the National Security Agency. Obama said the United States would no longer target her phone but made no such commitments about the rest of Germany, or Europe.

“I’m not sure that I would want to be talking about that,” Trump said. “You understand what I mean by that.”

Trump was not impressed with Merkel’s handling of the migrant crisis, however: “Germany is being destroyed by Merkel’s naiveté, or worse,” he said. He suggested that Germany and the Gulf nations should pay for the “safe zones” he wants to set up in Syria for refugees, and for protecting them once built.

Throughout the two conversations, Trump painted a bleak picture of the United States as a diminished force in the world, an opinion he has held since the late 1980s, when he placed ads in The New York Times and other newspapers calling for Japan and Saudi Arabia to spend more money on

their own defense.

Trump’s new threat to cut off oil purchases from the Saudis was part of a broader complaint about the United States’ Arab allies, which many in the Obama administration share: that they frequently look to the United States to police the Middle East, without putting their own troops at risk.

“We defend everybody,” Trump said. “When in doubt, come to the United States. We’ll defend you.

In some cases free of charge.”

But his rationale for abandoning the region was that “the reason we’re in the Middle East is for oil, and all of a sudden we’re finding out that there’s less reason to be there now.” He made no mention of the risks of withdrawal — that it would encourage Iran to dominate the Gulf, that the presence of U.S. troops is part of Israel’s defense, and that U.S. air and naval bases in the region are key collection points for intelligence and bases for drones and Special Operations forces.

In criticizing the Iran nuclear deal, Trump expressed particular outrage at how the roughly $150 billion released to Iran (by his estimate; the number is in dispute) was being spent. “Did you notice they’re buying from everybody but the United States?” he said.

Told that sanctions under United States law still bar most U.S. companies from doing business with Iran, Trump said: “So, how stupid is that? We give them the money and we now say, ‘Go buy Airbus instead of Boeing,’ right?”

But Trump, who has been pushed to demonstrate a basic command of international affairs, insisted that voters should not doubt his foreign policy fluency.

“I do know my subject,” he said.

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businesses and landowners — are unnecessary.

In September, a federal judge in Texas issued a ruling in one of those cases in favor of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, finding the bird’s listing as a threatened species was “arbitrary” and “capricious.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service appealed the ruling, but it was upheld late last month by federal appeals court Judge Robert Junell.

The Fish and Wildlife Service says it is unlikely the lesser prairie chicken will regain its federal protections. Junell’s decision, the agency says, was not based on evidence that the bird isn’t a threatened species — but on how the protection efforts are carried out.

The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, a consortium of state wildlife agencies conducting the aerial bird count, has created a management plan for the prairie chicken that encourages ranchers and other landowners to preserve or re-establish habitat. Through a program developed by the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service, ranchers, universities, businesses and nonprofits worked together in 2010 to create ranching practices that protect the bird.

The plan was endorsed by the Fish and Wildlife Service in 2013.

Bill Van Pelt, the interim program manager for the lesser prairie chicken at the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, said that allowed the group to “put the flesh on the skeleton” of the program, allowing it to hire staff and begin working with state agencies to create conservation programs.

Ranchers who participate in the conservation effort can apply for financial incentives, and many have taken advantage.

“Landowner participation has just been tremendous,” Van Pelt said, adding that 59 private landowners, across 275,000 acres, have

put in applications to participate in the program. Dozens of other businesses and organizations across five states are also partners.

So far, Van Pelt said, the effort has protected 101,000 acres in two years, and the group has plans to rehabilitate an additional 7,000 acres of prairie chicken habitat. His organization also is establishing an endowment to fund the program in the future.

“We have always said that the plan is robust enough that the management of the chicken can occur whether it is listed [as endangered] or not,” he said.

The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, a partner in the conservation program, made similar comments in a recent email, saying the federal ruling would not affect restoration efforts for the bird in the state.

Farmers, ranchers and fossil fuel producers — even those who have signed on to help with the voluntary conservation program — have opposed the bird’s listing as a protected species, saying it creates broad regulations that hurt revenues and jobs. In 2013, more than 100 New Mexicans from these industries, led by Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce of Southern New Mexico, rallied to oppose protections for the bird.

“We really don’t have a problem with trying to actually help the recovery of the lesser prairie chicken or restrictions that are beneficial to the species,” said Raye Miller, president of Regeneration Energy Corp., an oil and gas producer in Artesia.

Objections, he said, came from “restrictions [that] are broadly applied and impose a significant burden to us as operators. We are not sure there is any benefit at all to the species.”

Miller said state regulations imposed in the last several years have restricted the hours that oil and gas producers can drill, excavate or repair wells during the lesser prairie chicken’s mating

season, from March to June. In part, these restrictions are imposed because noise has been found to usurp the bird’s mating calls.

Earlier this month, restrictions caused Miller’s drilling project to take two days longer and cost $38,000 more than it would have if his company could have drilled around the clock, as it does at other times of the year, he said.

“If there were chickens in that area … we could see the restrictions were having some benefit,” he said, but said his crew has yet to spot a lesser prairie chicken in the area.

One operator earlier this month excitedly claimed the first sighting, Miller said, but it turned out the Texas transplant had just photographed a large roadrunner.

Miller said the Bureau of Land Management has established what he refers to as “chicken ranches” in Chaves County that have successfully allowed the bird’s population to expand, but in many areas, he contends, federal regulations far overreach the bird’s habitat.

Lesser prairie chickens are not a migratory bird, and their habitats rarely change — meaning if Miller doesn’t see a chicken near his oil rigs now, he isn’t likely to see one in future. The birds create generational patterns in the area where they mate, with new offspring hatching and remaining — if they survive. Attempts to relocate populations have failed: The birds die attempting to migrate back to their old home.

If a prairie is overgrazed by cattle or flattened by construction for a road or wind farm, for example, the birds lose the tall grass they use to hide from predators. If their lek, the nest where they mate, is destroyed, they are unable to establish new mating grounds.

Their territorial behavior is complicated by the fact that 95 percent of their remaining habitat is on private land.

Research shows the birds have lost 80 percent of their range

since the 1800s.

“The chicken is in real trouble unless we remember the land and remember the wildlife in our land use and economic development decisions,” said Jay Lininger, a senior scientist with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, an organization dedicated to environmental conservation.

Without the federal listing, he said, “There is no guarantee [industries] can work together and not drive the chicken to extinction.”

The Texas court ruling gives the oil and gas industry leverage to “evade regulation,” he said.

Bethany Cotton, a wildlife director for Santa Fe-based WildEarth Guardians, agreed that the species needs the protection that the law provides. “We are seeing a lot of political interference from industry and states that are hostile from protecting species,” she said.

Cotton also criticized the Fish and Wildlife Service, saying the agency had failed to protect the lesser prairie chicken for years.

Debra Bills, a field supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Arlington, Texas, said the agency’s budget constraints limit its ability to adequately manage threatened wildlife, and there are hundreds of species waiting for protections.

“So much of what we do is influenced by staff and funding,” she said.

The agency is in the process of removing the lesser prairie chicken from the federal endangered species list to comply with Judge Junell’s ruling. For now, the bird will have to rely on volunteer conservation efforts.

The fear, Bills said, is that without the federal law on the bird’s side, those efforts won’t last long.

“Will it be sustainable over time?” she wondered. “We will have to wait and see, won’t we?

We hope it is.”

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Harris said he doubts that Clinton is giving any immediate consideration to a running mate. “It’s kind of bad luck to be thinking about it before you have the nomination,” he said.

Others are not hesitant to discuss the possibilities, floating names and, in some cases, even ranking the possible contenders.

David Mixner, a longtime civil rights champion and Democratic strategist, listed Heinrich as a possibility for vice president four months ago, even before Clinton started running away in the race for delegates.

“The senator is strikingly handsome, intelligent, progressive, [has] strong environmental credentials and speaks fluent Spanish. … A fresh face in a sea of older candidates,” Mixner wrote in a blog on Towleroad.com, operated by Andy Towle of New York City.

An obscure blog called Democratcafe.com ranked Heinrich as first on a list of 15 possible running mates for Clinton. “Voters would feel more soothed in this regard with a younger, more vigorous and energetic running mate for Hillary,” it said.

Heinrich also made a list of possible running mates for Clinton on a website called Willhillarywin.com. It rated the chance of Clinton choosing Heinrich as “low.” Then, in a cliché-riddled squib, it described Heinrich as “a young, highly personable rising star within the Democratic Party.”

Joel Goldstein, a scholar on the vice presidency and a law professor at St. Louis University, said in an interview that Heinrich’s youth may not be a plus. “He’s a first-term senator from a relatively small state.

He’s only been in Congress seven years [four in the House of Representatives and three in the Senate]. That’s less than the standard,” Goldstein said.

But Goldstein also said such standards have meant little in recent times. John Edwards of North Carolina was a firstterm senator in 2004 when Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry selected him as his running mate.

John McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, chose Sarah Palin, who had been Alaska’s governor for less than two years.

Both those tickets lost.

Edwards did no harm to Kerry, nor did he inspire voters in 2004. (Edwards, who was married, later was caught in a sex scandal that wrecked him politically.)

As for Palin, she took a beating for her ignorance of government and history.

In one instance that raised questions about McCain’s judgment in picking an inexperienced governor, a network interviewer in 2008 asked Palin: “What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state [Alaska] give you?”

Palin replied: “They’re our next-door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”

Columnist Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post wrote later that Palin was an attractive, earnest, confident candidate “who is clearly out of her league.”

Palin’s presence on a national ticket became a cautionary tale.

Bert Johnson, an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College in Vermont, Sanders’ home state, said one factor now stands above all others when a presidential nominee chooses a running mate: “You don’t want someone who’s going to do harm,” Johnson said by phone from his campus.

A nominee also will consider regional diversity, demographic diversity and how to shore up constituencies when making his or her choice for vice president, Johnson said.

For that reason, Heinrich cannot be discounted. “He’s someone from a region that Hillary Clinton has to be thinking carefully about right now,” Johnson said.

The Fiscal Times, a website of news and opinion, listed Heinrich as one of 18 possibilities for Clinton’s running mate. Its nutshell description of Heinrich said: “Pros: young, Southwestern. Cons: inexperienced.”

Heinrich last week said he doesn’t want to be vice president. “I love what I’m doing,” he said of being a senator. A husband, father, outdoorsman and hunter, Heinrich said his life would never be the same if he ascended to vice president. “Who wants to be stuck with Secret Service agents for the rest of your life?” he said.

Even so, he said, an offer to be on the national ticket would be hard to turn down.

Historically, that has been the case. Al Gore, after failing in presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992, said he wouldn’t take the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket. But he accepted when Bill Clinton offered it to him in ’92. After eight years as vice president, Gore was positioned to run again for president in 2000. Gore lost to Republican George W. Bush, son of the president Bill Clinton unseated. The senior Bush also was a vice president, under Ronald Reagan.

The youngest president in American history, Teddy Roosevelt, ascended from the vice presidency. Roosevelt was just 42 when he succeeded President William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901 in Buffalo, N.Y. Heinrich, a mechanical engineer, has had a rapid rise in politics. Thirteen years ago, he ran for a seat on the Albuquerque City Council. In a field of six candidates, Heinrich took nearly 40 percent of the vote to win easily.

Then he pounced twice when openings occurred in Congress.

In 2008, Republican U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson gave up her Albuquerque-based seat to run for the Senate.

Heinrich jumped into the race for Wilson’s old position and won.

Eric Griego, a former state senator and Albuquerque city councilor, said he weighed whether to run for Congress in the 2008 Democratic primary, but Heinrich showed no such hesitation. Griego once remembered that, while he was still evaluating his options, Heinrich plunged in and then competed with tenacity.

Heinrich won re-election to the House in 2010, a big year for Republicans nationally and in New Mexico. Heinrich narrowly defeated Republican Jon Barela by 7,800 votes that year.

At that stage, Heinrich appeared to have solidified his seat in the House for the long term. Then 30-year U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, also a Democrat, announced that he would not seek re-election in 2012.

Heinrich again moved quickly, establishing a hustling campaign organization that blitzed Hector Balderas, then the state auditor, in the Senate primary election. Heinrich faced Wilson in the general election, a race where his charisma was on full display.

Before a debate with Wilson in Las Cruces, everstudious Heinrich entered the auditorium 20 minutes early to pore over his notes.

Resounding cheers greeted him. Heinrich politely acknowledged the crowd, which treated him like a star player entering a stadium, not a politician getting ready to discuss public policy. Then he returned to his notes.

He defeated Wilson by a decisive 6 percentage points, more than 40,000 votes.

John Nance Garner, a Texan known as Cactus Jack, was one of three vice presidents who served with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Garner is remembered mostly for his disparaging words about the vice presidency. But the office also can be a gateway to the top, a fact that escapes no one trying to forecast who will end up on the national tickets.

Harris said Hillary Clinton might want a running mate from the West, given her natural strength in the Northeast and parts of the South. That opens the way for conversation and speculation about the Castro twins, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Heinrich. The talk will only intensify until she makes her choice.

Contact Milan Simonich at 505-986-3080 or msimonich@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow his Ringside Seat column at santafenewmexican.com.

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a major exporter of Chinese garlic to the U.S. The petition accused Harmoni of colluding with some of America’s largest garlic growers to keep cheap Chinese garlic flowing into the U.S., squeezing out small farmers like Crawford.

The dispute intensified after another local garlic grower, Avrum Katz, joined with Crawford.

Together, they formed the New Mexico Garlic Growers Coalition in what has become a crusade against what they claim is a scheme to game the United States’ “anti-dumping” laws, which are intended to keep importers from bringing foreign goods into the U.S. below fair-market values.

Harmoni’s California-based parent company, Harmoni International Spice Inc., fired back, hiring Perez to investigate the farmers’ involvement in the trade case. In January, the company filed a far-reaching lawsuit under the Racketeers Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, a law usually associated with organized crime. The lawsuit accuses a veteran trade lawyer of recruiting Crawford and Katz as pawns in an international conspiracy led by corrupt Chinese companies to bring down Harmoni and upend America’s garlic market.

“They’re really trying to do us in,” said Crawford, who is also an author and former president of the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

Farmer Avrum Katz and the coalition he created with fellow New Mexico farmer Stanley Crawford contends that as some garlic growers have decreased production, they increasingly have gotten into the business of distributing cheaper Chinese garlic, capitalizing on Harmoni’s low deposit rate.

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deposit of $4.71 for every kilogram they brought in, or about $122,000 for a typical 40-foot container.

The deposit would be returned if customs officials determined the companies were playing fair.

The deposits, which amounted to more than double the market rate for garlic in the U.S., effectively acted as an import barrier.

Imports of fresh garlic from China plummeted to 1 million pounds in 2000.

But not every company shipping garlic was required to pay the same deposits.

An unlikely setting Importers could obtain a lower The Crawfords’ farm, set in the rate by submitting to a review, giving the U.S. Department of lush Embudo River Valley about Commerce a look at their sales, 34 miles south of Taos, seems an unlikely battleground for a trans- costs and pricing practices.

Regulators awarded Harmoni pacific trade dispute over garlic.

Far from the vast California gar- a zero-deposit rate in 2004. It has lic fields of Gilroy and the San Joa- not been reviewed since.

A coalition of major garlic farms, quin Valley, the Crawfords have known as the Fresh Garlic Producbeen farming this little stretch of land they call the El Bosque Garlic ers Association, petition the federal government annually to review Farm since the 1970s. They sell their goods at small, local farmers the rates for several importers. But markets, hardly players in interna- Hume’s firm asserts in Commerce filings that the association has tional trade.

The season before Perez’s visit, excluded Harmoni from its review requests for years, ensuring that the Crawfords planted approximately 400 pounds of seed, according to an affidavit written

by Perez that detailed his surveillance visits.

The quaintness is part of El Bosque’s charm. Stanley Crawford’s time tilling its soil inspired his 1992 book, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm. A gardening columnist for The New York Times profiled the Crawfords in 2011 as she sought “secrets for a better harvest back east.”

While Crawford may have been unknown to major players in the garlic industry, the lawyer who visited him two years ago was not.

A seasoned trade lawyer, Robert T. Hume stayed at the guesthouse at El Bosque in 2014 and struck up a conversation with the Crawfords.

The topic: Chinese garlic.

Hume shared his theory about how Harmoni — a company Crawford had never heard of — was exploiting favorable trade terms to bring cheap Chinese-grown garlic into the United States. Harmoni, he told them, was the only Chinese garlic importer not required to pay cash deposits when bringing its crops into the country.

The deposits were intended to prevent foreign producers from “dumping” products on the U.S. market at predatory prices.

Hume also accused Harmoni of colluding with some of America’s largest garlic producers, who regularly fought against unfair trade deals but seemed unwilling to challenge Harmoni. There was a good reason, Hume told the Crawfords. The companies were Harmoni’s clients.

Fair trade The Tariff Act of 1930 allows those involved in businesses harmed by unfair foreign competition to petition federal regulators for relief from imports that are sold at prices below fair market value. If regulators find imports of a particular product are being dumped on the market, they can require importers to post a bond for each shipment.

That is exactly what happened with imports of Chinese garlic during the mid-1990s.

Imports of garlic from China surged from about 6 millions pounds in 1991 to 63.5 million pounds in 1994, a tenfold increase.

U.S. garlic growers accused the Chinese producers of dumping cheap garlic onto the market, making it impossible for the Americans to compete.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission agreed after undertaking their own investigations at the garlic industry’s urging.

In 1994, the federal government required companies bringing fresh garlic from China to pay a cash

federal regulators would not scrutinize its rate.

According to Harmoni’s own lawsuit against the New Mexico farmers, one of the association’s largest members is a Harmoni client.

Hume and his firm allege that Harmoni and the association have colluded to ensure a stream of cheap garlic for Harmoni’s American clients. In its lawsuit, Harmoni called the allegations baseless.

The company and members of the association could not be reached for comment for this story.

The allegations come as America’s garlic market is transforming. Domestic production is declining. The International Trade Commission noted in 2012 that 13 companies left the industry between 2001 and 2005.

In a filing with the Commerce Department last month, the New Mexico coalition contended that as some members of the association have decreased production of their own crops, they increasingly have gotten into the business of distributing cheaper Chinese garlic, capitalizing on Harmoni’s low deposit rate to the disadvantage of

smaller producers.

“The rich get richer and everyone else, including other domestic interested parties and consumers, are suffering as a result of this monopolistic practice,” the coalition said in the filing.

A coalition Hume acknowledges that he convinced Crawford to use his standing as a garlic farmer to demand a review of Harmoni’s zero-deposit rate. Hume said he would represent Crawford pro bono and even relocated from Ojai, Calif., to the Taos area. He hired a young attorney from the Española Valley fresh out of The University of New Mexico Law School to help out.

Hume and Crawford also approached Katz, a former schoolteacher who grew garlic on his Boxcar Farm, just down the road from Crawford in the Peñasco Valley. Like Crawford, Katz sold his crops at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

Katz was not aware of the Commerce Department review process before he was

approached by Crawford and Hume in 2014, but he knew garlic was flowing into the country at a low price.

When Crawford filed an initial petition in 2014, which he later withdrew, Katz did not join in.

But after doing some research and considering the issue, Katz signed on, filing a petition in 2015 with Crawford under the banner of the New Mexico Garlic Growers Coalition.

“It’s the right side of the issue,” he said. “Why shouldn’t Harmoni’s rate get reviewed?”

Within days, Perez, the private investigator, visited Katz’s stand at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

“Less than a minute after he opened his mouth, my wife and I knew he was a private investigator for Harmoni,” Katz wrote in a declaration in Harmoni’s lawsuit.

“Never in 18 years of selling at farmers markets have we had someone stand at our booth taking up space, asking dumb questions for a solid hour, before walking away without buying anything,” he recounted in the filing.

“It was an obvious attempt to intimidate us,” he added.

Katz said feared he would be sued because of his involvement in the rate review case. He even came close to withdrawing. He already had drawn up papers to do so when a man in a Lexus drove up to the end of his road after a snowstorm in January and served him with notice of the RICO lawsuit.

Katz said the lawsuit only proved to him how important Harmoni’s favorable trade terms are to the company, and to what lengths it will go to stop a Commerce Department review. It steeled his resolve to stay in the case.

‘Cats’ paws’ Harmoni’s lawyers argue Katz and Crawford are little more than hobby farmers catering to an upscale clientele, and because they do not compete with Harmoni, they lack standing to demand a

review of its deposit rate.

Katz argues imports have a tangible impact on the business of small farmers. Often, he says, customers at farmers markets ask why his garlic is so much more expensive than the variety sold in supermarkets.

Harmoni’s lawsuit accuses Hume of orchestrating the entire petition effort on behalf of some of Harmoni’s Chinese competitors, which have set up a $1.6 million war chest to help Hume destroy Harmoni’s business, according to the suit. The lawsuit also claims Hume, through an associated law firm in China, has helped Harmoni’s competitors evade U.S. import laws.

The suit also suggests Crawford and Katz might be getting paid to act as “cats’ paws” for the Chinese companies, which do not have standing to petition the Commerce Department.

Crawford and Katz say they’re not getting any money for their efforts. Hume in an interview acknowledged representing some of the Chinese companies named in the lawsuit but denied any wrongdoing, and said he was not getting paid to help Crawford and Katz file their petitions.

“I’ve been at this for 40 years, and I think it’s the principle,” Hume said. “They’re gaming the system.”

Lawyers for Harmoni last month offered to drop Crawford and Katz from the lawsuit on condition that they drop their petition. They refused. Hume, meanwhile, has hired a California public relations firm to help generate media interest in the farmers’ case as a sort of David and Goliath tale.

How the whole dispute has exploded into accusations of international conspiracy has made Katz and Crawford wonder if they are being used. But even if they are, they believe in the cause.

“I’m an American citizen,” Katz said. “I have the right to petition my government.”

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Sanders plans to hammer Clinton in New York campaign Potentially ugly primary threatens front-runner’s attempt to build bridges

By Philip Rucker

The Washington Post

In a mathematical squeeze to make up ground in the Democratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders is preparing to ratchet up his attacks on Hillary Clinton ahead of a New York showdown that could establish how easily the party can pull itself back together for the general election.

The Empire State’s April 19 primary looms as potentially determinative: A win by Clinton, who is favored, would further narrow Sanders’ path, while a loss in the state she represented as a senator would embarrass her and hand Sanders a rationale to continue campaigning until the final votes are cast in June.

Clinton had enjoyed a lead of roughly 300 in pledged delegates.

In one of the most successful days of his campaign, the senator from Vermont easily won in Alaska and Washington state and was well positioned to carry Hawaii as well.

To capitalize on his fresh momentum, Sanders plans an aggressive push in New York, modeled after his come-frombehind victory a few weeks ago in Michigan. He intends to barnstorm the state as if he were running for governor. His advisers, spoiling for a brawl, have commissioned polls to show which contrasts with Clinton — from Wall Street to fracking — could do the most damage to her at home.

“We’ll be the underdog, but being the underdog in New York is not the worst situation in politics,” said Tad Devine, the chief strategist for Sanders. “We’re going to make a real run for it.”

The intensified and scrappy approach by Sanders comes as Clinton is eager to pivot to the general election. Clinton keenly understands the imperative to unite Democrats for the fall campaign and, believing that the

nomination is nearly locked up, wants to spend the spring building bridges to the Sanders wing.

A potentially ugly primary in New York threatens to derail those efforts. Clinton’s advisers are all but urging Sanders to lay off his attacks.

“We’re going to run to win delegates and run to win the primary,” Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in an interview Friday. “We intend to win this thing with a majority of pledged delegates. Sen. Sanders is going to have to make up his mind about what he wants to do and what kind of campaign he wants to run.”

Podesta noted that Sanders took a more negative turn in the Midwestern states that voted on March 15 — Illinois, Ohio and Missouri — and lost all three. “It didn’t work,” he said.

Clinton, her aides and her allies in recent weeks have avoided sharply attacking Sanders, wary of saying or doing anything that would make it more difficult to engineer an eventual coming together.

In particular, the Clinton forces have been careful not to be seen as pushing Sanders to quit the race. A group of pro-Clinton senators recently considered writing an open letter to Sanders saying the time had come for him to end his campaign. But when two Clinton allies, Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York and Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland caught wind of the idea, they persuaded their colleagues to nix it, according to two people familiar with the letter.

Assuming that Clinton stays

on course to secure the nomination, her team sees wooing the Sanders coalition as a pressing mission, especially young people and independents, to ensure that they don’t sit out the November election altogether. Key would be whether and how soon Clinton wins Sanders’s endorsement — and how enthusiastic he is in giving it. Clinton’s vocal support for then-Sen. Barack Obama following their divisive 2008 primary helped unite Democrats.

Two popular Democrats currently on the sidelines — President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — could help bring the two sides together. David Axelrod, a former Obama adviser, pointed to a third unifying figure: Donald Trump.

He noted that Warren last week fired off a flurry of tweets attacking Trump, which he read as an important signal.

“She was sending a message to Democrats that there are bigger things at stake here,” Axelrod said, adding: “There probably is going to be a very vivid choice in the general election and one that very much unifies Democrats.”

With that in mind, the Clinton team has been trying to foster trust with the Sanders base. Long lines at Arizona polling places Tuesday led Sanders supporters to speculate online that the Clinton campaign was in cahoots with the Democratic National Committee in creating obstacles for them to vote.

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“If we’re going to have a serious shot at the nomination, we’re going to have to defeat her in Wisconsin,” Devine said.

Sanders then hopes to slingshot into New York, which will award a whopping 247 delegates — second only to California.

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Nicolaus Copernicus Elementary School, where 16 of 19 water fountains and coolers were found to have lead contamination above permissible levels, is shown in in Jersey City, N.J. The Flint, Mich., water crisis has cast attention on lead in the water system, but in schools from Jersey City to Los Angeles, such problems have dragged on for years. KIRSTEN luCE/THE NEW YoRK TIMES

Many schools still face lead in water Federal rules largely exempt districts from addressing problems

By Michael Wines, Patrick McGeehan and John Schwartz

The New York Times

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Anxious parents may wonder how a major school system like Newark’s could overlook lead in the drinking water of 30 schools and 17,000 students.

The answer: It was easy. They had to look only a few miles away, at the century-old classrooms of the schools here, across the Hackensack River.

The Jersey City Public Schools district discovered lead contamination in eight schools’ drinking fountains in 2006, and in more schools in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

But not until 2013 did officials finally chart a comprehensive attack on lead, which by then had struck all but six schools.

This winter’s crisis in Flint, Mich., has cast new attention on lead in water supplies. But problems with lead in school water supplies have dragged on for years — aggravated by ancient buildings and plumbing, prolonged by official neglect and tight budgets, and enabled by a gaping loophole in federal rules that largely exempts schools from responsibility for the purity of their water.

Children are at greatest risk from lead exposure, and school is where they spend much of their early lives.

But cash-starved school administrators may see a choice between spending money on teachers or on plumbing as no choice at all.

“They feel it’s almost better not to sample, because you’re better off not knowing,” Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech University civil engineering professor who has fought for lead safety nationwide, said in an interview.

The problem is persistent and widespread. Baltimore’s public schools switched entirely to bottled water in 2007 because ripping out the lead plumbing would have been impractical.

Sebring, Ohio, found elevated lead levels in August after workers had stopped adding an anticorrosion chemical to the water supply.

The Los Angeles Unified School District allotted $19.8 million in September to retrofit or remove its 48,000 drinking fountains to erase a small but tenacious lead threat. Ithaca, N.Y., schools switched temporarily to bottled water in January after water tests found elevated lead levels at two schools.

Congress could easily have cracked down on lead in schools.

In fact, it once did. The 1988 Lead Contamination Control Act required schools to scrap leadlined water coolers, test drinking water and remedy any contamination they found. But a federal appeals court struck down part of the law affecting schools in 1996. And while some states have devised their own lead-testing rules, federal lawmakers have yet to revisit the issue.

The only regulation left is a 1991 rule by the federal Environmental Protection Agency requiring periodic tests for lead and copper by most public water systems, whether the supplier is a big utility or a well in a trailer park or campground.

But although schools and day care centers are the main sources of water for children on most weekdays, only the few schools that operate their own wells fall under the rule. The vast majority of schools use treated water from utilities.

And while the utilities test their water, virtually all lead con-

tamination occurs inside schools — in lead pipes, water-cooler coils and linings, and in leadedmetal fountains and taps.

“If you’re a mom-and-pop coffee shop in Sparta, N.J., and have a private well, you’re required to certify every quarter,” said Robert Barrett, chief executive of Aqua Pro-Tech Laboratories, a New Jersey environmental testing laboratory. “But if you’re a school, you don’t have to do anything.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says children whose blood lead content exceeds 5 micrograms per deciliter — 50 parts per billion, or less than a millionth of an ounce in a pint — should see a doctor.

High blood lead levels can stunt a child’s mental development and damage a range of organs. But even smaller amounts can affect children’s intellectual development, and the agency says no level of lead is safe.

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Hampikian said there has to be “a compelling public safety issue” and judge’s approval before calling on companies to turn over genetic information.

By Paul Elias “In this case, there is a killerThe Associated Press rapist still out there and a man in prison for murder claiming innoSAN FRANCISCO — Invescence,” Hampikian said. tigators are broadening their The donor was Michael Usry DNA searches beyond governSr., a contractor living near Jackment databases and demanding son, Miss. genetic information from comTen years earlier, thinking he panies that do ancestry research was helping further the Morfor their customers. mon Church’s deep interest in Two major companies that genetic research, Usry donated Michael Usry Sr. holds a portrait of his then-19-year-old son, research family lineage for his DNA to a nonprofit scienMichael Jr., in Clinton, Miss.

Usry said his son became a suspect fees around $200 say that over tific organization conducting a in a murder and rape case because of DNA Usry donated to a the last two years, they have hereditary study. The Sorenson genealogical research effort. RogElIo V. SolIS/THE ASSoCIATEd PRESS received law enforcement Molecular Genealogy Foundademands for genetic information Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic murder of Angie Dodge. tion was launched by billionaire stored in their DNA databases.

In 1998, Christopher Tapp was Utah businessman James LeVoy DNA. Ancestry.com and competitor sentenced to life in prison for Law enforcement agencies Sorenson with the backing of the 23andme report a total of five across the country have access to Dodge’s murder and rape, but church. The foundation’s goal requests from law agencies for growing state and national data- he’s appealing his conviction say- was finding a “genetic blueprint” the genetic material of six indiing his confession was coerced. bases with millions of genetic for humans, and it amassed more viduals in their growing dataPolice are still working the case samples of convicted offenders than 100,000 samples when bases of hundreds of thousands. at the insistence of Dodge’s and arrestees.

Ancestry acquired the database Ancestry.com turned over one mother and others because the Investigators compare DNA in 2007. person’s data for an investigaonly DNA found on her body found at crime scenes against Usry was not the right age for tion into the murder and rape was not Tapp’s and investigators the 20-something suspect investhe genetic samples in the govof an 18-year-old woman in believe another suspect also was tigators were seeking. But his ernment databases. They look Idaho Falls, Idaho. 23andme has involved. at 13 distinct locations in a DNA son was the approximate age and received four other court orders sample, seeking exact matches Idaho Falls police sent the had connections to the Idaho but persuaded investigators to at each location to pair a suspect DNA sample to Ancestry.com Falls area. withdraw the requests. in 2014 to process. Ancestry with genetic material at the Police showed up at Michael The companies say law emailed the results to the police crime scene.

Usry Jr.’s doorstep in New enforcement demands for without naming anyone in the Ancestry.com and 23andme Orleans in December 2014, genetic information are rare. company’s database, which was officials say their databases armed with a warrant for his But privacy advocates and only partially accessible to the won’t be useful to most crimiDNA. experts are concerned that public. The results, however, nal investigations because they The younger Usry, a filmgenetic information turned established a close, though not analyze regions of DNA differmaker, was interrogated for six over for medical, family history exact, match. Believing the killer hours and finally gave blood ent from the locations forensic research or other highly personal experts explore. Still, that hasn’t could be a relative of the DNA for a DNA sample. For the next reasons could be misused by donor, police obtained a warrant month, he remained under susstopped investigators stumped investigators — and that the few on cold cases from contacting to compel the company to turn picion until his DNA was deterknown cases could be the start over the donor’s name. the companies for help. mined not to match the samples of a trend.

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African-American story to be told With racial issues a hot topic, facility is bound to be controversial

By Graham Bowley The New York Times

WASHINGTON — When the National Museum of African American History and Culture was conceived in 2003, Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois; the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, and Zimmerman’s acquittal, was years in the future; and Bill Cosby was a symbol of family decency.

Now, as the museum prepares to open here in September, the nation’s first black president is nearing the end of his second term, Cosby is accused of being a sexual predator and Americans are engaged in the most charged conversation about race in decades.

As events have complicated the museum’s original mission to be a “healing place,” curators have rushed to catch up with history — documenting the rallies in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray — while wrestling with how to tell it. How far to go in depicting the cruelty of slavery and the pain of segregation? How to tell the awful story of Emmett Till? And where does this story end — with the accomplishments of Obama or with scenes of unrest and violence?

“What’s included, what’s not included, that’s a really, really huge responsibility,” said Kellie Carter Jackson, a scholar of 19th-century African-American history at Hunter College. “It’s probably one of the most difficult tasks in curatorial history.”

And there will be controversies. In an exhibit devoted to entertainment pioneers, for example, Cosby is included without mention of the dozens of women who say he sexually assaulted them. And the museum has decided to end its historical narrative not only with Obama but also with the injustice and unrest that define the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Lonnie Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, poses on the National Mall in Washington. MATT roTH/THE NEW York TIMES

going to please everybody,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, 63, the museum’s director, who is African-American. “Did we talk too much about religion and not enough about schools? Did we talk about class? Or what are we saying about gender?”

Like the Vietnam Memorial, the 9/11 Memorial Museum and other institutions built to record painful history, this museum has a challenging mandate — to commemorate, celebrate, provoke and heal. And in an effort to strike the right balance, the curatorial team (now counting 15) led

by Bunch has spent more than a decade building the collection, conducting focus groups and consulting authorities like John Hope Franklin, Taylor Branch, Colin L. Powell and Oprah Winfrey.

As they grappled with questions about the institution’s soul and mission, the curators were clear the museum should have relevance beyond a black audience. “The American story is profoundly African-American,” said Paul Gardullo, a curator.

“You don’t get America without African America; you don’t get our struggle for equality. And you don’t get jazz. You don’t get rock ’n’ roll.”

Throughout the process of soliciting and weighing opinions,

Bunch said, a key decision was how to treat slavery. “There were those who said, ‘It has to be about what they had done to us,’ ” he recalled. “There were those who felt that we had to de-emphasize it.” In the end, he chose balance and resiliency.

“We wanted to make sure you felt the pain of slavery, but you also pondered what it meant when one group of people did this to another group,” he said.

“Slavery was not the only way to define people. They had a strength that I wish I had.”

The building on the National Mall was designed by the Tanzanian-born architect David Adjaye to evoke a crown motif from ancient Yoruban sculpture, or alternatively women’s hands raised to the sky in prayer. It is planned so the historical journey begins below ground, in an exhibit called Slavery and Freedom, featuring an auction block where people were sold and a cramped pinewood cabin where slaves were housed on Edisto Island in South Carolina.

In striving for a fuller picture, the museum will include uplifting stories, like those about free black pioneers who farmed the Midwest in the 19th century. “It’s not only enslaved people,” said Michèle Gates Moresi, a curator at the museum, “but free blacks,

and white people who didn’t enslave people.”

The tone of depictions was also a concern: How viscerally should the museum present the violence of slavery? So while shackles and a whip are shown, the exhibit on slave ships does not try to recreate the wretched conditions. Instead, visitors will see a few remnants — a pulley block used to hoist a sail or cargo and a piece of a hull from a Portuguese slave ship that sank off the coast of South Africa in 1794, taking 212 of the 500 slaves shackled on board to their deaths.

The curators say that, even when depicting the worst oppression, they have tried to emphasize individual stories of the people who suffered.

From the Slavery and Freedom exhibit, visitors will walk up a ramp on a historical journey.

At the next stop, Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968, they will file past the metal coffin of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy savagely killed in Mississippi in 1955. Bunch and his curators debated whether the coffin, which was offered by his family, and a photograph of his disfigured face were too ghoulishly sensational a way of presenting the raw brutality of his death.

He said they had been guided somewhat by the actions of Mamie Till Mobley, the boy’s mother, who decided at the funeral to leave the coffin open so the world could see what had been done to her son.

Emmett’s body was exhumed from a Chicago cemetery in 2005 during an investigation into his murder and reburied in a new coffin. The curators expect the original coffin to be an emotionally wrenching point in the exhibits. Docents are being trained to help visitors cope with their emotions and to handle visitors who disagree strongly with particular displays.

There is also a space for what the museum is calling the “contemplative court,” where people can sit and remove themselves from — and come to terms with — what they have seen.

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By Edwin Kinzeka Moki

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YAOUNDE, Cameroon — A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic extremists nearly two years ago, authorities said Saturday.

If confirmed, the development would mark the first news of the missing Chibok girls in many months. It has long been feared that some are being used by their Boko Haram abductors to carry out such attacks given the growing number of young female suicide bombers.

The girl is about 15 years old and turned herself in before detonating her explosives, said Idrissou Yacoubou, the leader of a self-defense group in Limani, Cameroon.

“The girl looked tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured and could not give us more details about her stay in the forest and how her other mates were treated,” he said.

Cameroon has ordered investigations to determine the authenticity of the 15-year-old’s declarations, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the Far North region. Cameroonian authorities declined to identify her by name

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The office of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria’s military did not respond to questions sent on a public holiday. Authorities said Saturday that along with the 15-year-old, two other young women came with explosive belts — one was arrested and the other managed to flee back across the border into Nigeria.

In Chibok, a community leader said by telephone that the girl’s age could correspond to that of a 14-year-old who was the youngest among 276 girls abducted in the early hours of April 15 from a government boarding school.

Dozens of the girls managed to escape on their own within hours, but 219 remain missing.

The plight of the abducted girls drew international attention and prompted the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media.

Dozens of them were last seen in a Boko Haram video with extremist leader Abubakar Shekau who boasted they had converted to Islam and threatening to sell them off or marry them to his fighters.

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By Ian Lovett

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LOS ANGELES — When the University of California’s Board of Regents unanimously adopted a statement condemning antiSemitism on its campuses, it became the first public university system to do so since the push for economic boycotts of Israel emerged on campuses across the nation.

But the measure — an attempt to combat hostility toward Jewish students amid this growing opposition to Israel — softened a proposed flat-out condemnation of anti-Zionism, or opposition to the creation of a Jewish state.

And it seems unlikely to quell battles that have rocked campuses here and across the nation.

Even as the measure was unanimously approved by the university’s governing body Thursday, objections were raised from across the political spectrum.

Pro-Palestinian groups complained that it was designed to stifle opposition to Israeli policies.

Academics worried that it would impinge on free speech.

And Jewish organizations, while praising the measure as an important first step, said it did not go far enough in addressing hostility they said Jews have faced on University of California campuses.

In the end, the board of regents dropped from the final resolution a direct condemnation of anti-Zionism, language that had prompted an explosive debate about free speech in one of the country’s most vaunted public university systems.

Instead, the final language simply read: “Anti-Semitism, antiSemitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.”

No penalties were outlined for those who violate the policy.

Still, Dima Khalidi, the director of Palestine Legal, an advocacy group based in Oakland, Calif., said that pro-Israeli groups had “succeeded in convincing the regents that Palestine advocacy is inherently anti-Semitic, and should be condemned.”

She said the regents’ action was even more troubling, given the intense scrutiny that Muslims are facing in the current climate.

“It’s very clear that they have as a goal a restriction of political speech criticizing Israel and its policies,” she said.

But Norman J. Pattiz, a regent who helped write the measure, argued that a resolution specifically addressing anti-Semitism was necessary because of what he suggested was a double standard: While attacks on immigrants or Muslims are usually quickly condemned by the universities, he said, “it seems to be different for the Jewish community.”

“When I was a kid — I’m 73 years old now — when people wanted to attack me, they called me a dirty Jew,” Pattiz said.

“Today, you don’t hear that as much as you hear things like ‘Zionist pig.’ ” Across the country, the growing calls to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — a movement known as BDS— has led to emotional battles on one campus after another.

Following student votes on

divestment on several campuses, swastikas have been painted on the doors of Jewish fraternities.

But supporters of Palestinians say accusations of anti-Semitism are being used to silence any opposition to Israel.

Some of the most bitter fighting has taken place in the University of California system, where nearly all of the student government councils have approved divestment proposals. No universities have actually divested.

The regents said that they felt their report, “Principles Against Intolerance,” was needed to help ease hostility against Jewish students that has arisen on campuses amid the growing opposition to Israel over the country’s treatment of Palestinians.

“Expressions of anti-Semitism are more coded and difficult to identify,” the report said. “In particular, opposition to Zionism is often expressed in ways that are not simply statements of disagreement over politics and policy, but also assertions of prejudice and intolerance toward Jewish people and culture.”

At the Berkeley campus, anti-Semitic graffiti — “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber” — appeared on the wall of a bathroom in a university building.

At the University of California, Los Angeles, one student was questioned about how she could be impartial on a judicial board, given that she was “very active in the Jewish community.”

“BDS is in virtually all of its aspects anti-Semitic,” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a Hebrew lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and one of the founders of the Amcha Initiative, a group that combats anti-Semitism on campuses. She said students now faced “classic anti-Semitism merged with a new anti-Zionism.

These things are so intertwined. Students who are not even openly supportive of the Jewish state are being targeted because of their perceived support.”

She added that the university was the first to recognize “that there are forms of anti-Zionism that are anti-Semitic. That’s huge.”

Pattiz added that the compromise statement clearly distinguished between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

But many did not agree, saying that the regents were effectively trying to quiet a debate about Israel and Palestine that had been going on for generations.

“This is the culmination of a campaign on behalf of pro-Israel organizations to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism,” said Tallie Ben Daniel, an academic council coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace, which supports the BDS movement. “There are people who see any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. That erases the very real moral problems that people have with the policies of Israel.”

Omar Zahzah, a graduate student of Palestinian descent at UCLA, said any condemnation of anti-Zionism had personal implications for him: His relatives were displaced during the 1948 war that helped establish the modern Jewish state, and he wanted to continue to tell his family’s story.

“Campuses remain a hotbed of repression for this type of discussion, even as debates about Palestine are becoming a mainstream issue,” Zahzah said.

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“I have come today to support my country,” said Ali al-Hamdani, 30, a farmer who came from Hamdan, a nearby district. “It has been exactly a year since this barbaric war started, and we have been suffering from all kinds of oppression by the Saudis whether economically or politically.”

A second demonstration, organized by the Houthis, was scheduled for the afternoon.

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Last week, the warring sides agreed to a U.N.-brokered cease-fire that is scheduled to take hold April 10.

Red Sea, pits the government, supported largely by Saudi-led airstrikes, against the rebel Houthis and forces loyal to former SANAA, Yemen — Tens of thousands pro- president Ali Abdullah Saleh. tested in the Yemeni capital Saturday on the The Houthis seized control of Sanaa, anniversary of a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coaliYemen’s largest city and its capital, in the fall tion’s entrance into a civil war that has killed of 2014, prompting the government to flee. thousands and strengthened the Islamic Today, the U.S.-backed government, led by State and al-Qaida in this strategic Middle Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has been largely East nation. relegated to the southern port city of Aden.

As coalition jets roared overhead, the The Saudi-led coalition airstrikes started demonstrators carried the Yemeni flag and chanted “end the siege,” while others vowed in March of last year, turning the rebellion into a full-blown civil war. “to fight the Saudi aggression and its agents On Saturday morning, many protesters until their last man.”

The conflict in this nation, which straddles carried pictures of Saleh, who gave a speech to his supporters condemning the Saudi the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and borders key oil shipping routes in the intervention. But the former president also

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Police: Fight ends man’s drunken journey Wayward college student in jail after allegedly breaking into house, falling asleep in child’s room

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

A college student from Massachusetts ended up in jail Saturday morning after he mistakenly wandered into the wrong house, fell asleep in a child’s room and then got into a fistfight with the girl’s father when he was awakened, police say.

Capt. Jerome Sanchez of the Santa Fe Police Department said

Garrett Curran, 22, of Bolton, Mass., was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering, criminal trespass and child abuse following the early-morning fracas.

Sanchez said Curran, who was in Santa Fe on a college assignment, was “really intoxicated” when he forced open a door in a home in the 200 block of Rosario Boulevard sometime around 3 a.m. Saturday.

“For whatever reason, he thought this was his own home,”

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Sanchez said.

Curran then wandered into a room where a 7-year-old girl was sleeping and fell asleep at the foot of her bed. She woke up and told her father about the intruder.

When the man roused Curran awake, Curran “decided to fight with the father,” Sanchez said.

The father managed to hold Curran down until police arrived at the scene at around 3:45 a.m.

Neither the father nor the girl was hurt in the incident, Sanchez said, but a photo of Curran on the Santa Fe County jail website shows he may have suffered a few blows

to the face in the fracas.

Because Curran engaged in the fight with the father while the girl was present, Sanchez said, police are charging him with child abuse.

Curran gave little information to officers when they showed up at the house, Sanchez said. “He did not want to talk.”

Curran does not have a criminal record, the officer said. He didn’t know what college Curran was attending or how long he was staying in Santa Fe. Contact Robert Nott at 505-9863021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

Embattled former state senator set to make first court appearance in April

By Steve Terrell

The New Mexican

Cerrillos Station in Cerrillos is a new community gathering place in the old mining town that offers food and drink as well as a gallery, working studios and bike rentals.

Entrepreneurs want to draw tourists with new saloon, electric bike rentals

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Two more District Court judges in Santa Fe have removed themselves from former state Sen. Phil Griego’s criminal fraud case. However, the latest judge assigned to the case has done what no other judge has done: schedule a hearing.

First District Court Judge Sarah Singleton scheduled a first appearance for Griego on April 4. The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office has charged him with 10 criminal counts, including fraud, bribery and tampering with public records in a 2014 real estate deal involving state-owned property near the Capitol complex.

Phil Griego Singleton was assigned to the case Friday after two other state District Court judges, Raymond Ortiz and Francis Mathew, recused themselves. Ortiz and Mathew were the sixth and seventh judges to voluntarily take themselves off the case since the attorney general filed the charges in late February.

Previously, judges Sylvia LaMar, T. Glenn Ellington, Jennifer Attrep, Matthew Wilson and Mary Marlowe Sommer took themselves off the case.

Although Singleton scheduled a hearing, it’s not entirely clear whether she will stay on the case. Both the prosecution and defense have the right to remove a judge. James Hallinan, a spokesman for Attorney General Hector Balderas, said his office can’t comment on ongoing cases.

Griego’s lawyer, Tom Clark, couldn’t be reached for comment Saturday.

None of the judges has given a reason why they have recused themselves.

Last week, Clark told The Associated Press that the reason is mostly likely “small-town politics.” Griego is a localborn politician from a well-established family who served Please see GRIEGO, Page C-6

Todd Brown, who owns the Casa Grande Trading Post with his wife, Patricia, is the unofficial historian for the town of Cerrillos, and said the new businesses planned for the main street will give visitors a reason to stay longer and indulge in the mining culture and unique history of the community. Bruce Krasnow/The new Mexican

Making Cerrillos a capital town again

By Bruce Krasnow

The New Mexican

CERRILLOS he old tunnel in the basement of a landmark building here is sealed off with dirt, but there was a day when it led under the street to a saloon that flourished during Prohibition.

It was one of a dozen saloons and hotels that remained from the precious mineral boom in the 1880s. Men came from across the Midwest and East to chase the gold, zinc, silver and turquoise in the Cerrillos Hills.

But don’t tell Barbara Briggs, who has spent a year renovating the 1893 building where the tunnel ended, that the golden days for the town of Cerrillos are over. She and other new investors, one planning to rent electric bicycles, another to open a business called the Black-

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bird Saloon, are hoping to again imbibe visitors with the town’s colorful history.

“It will be a boost to the whole

community to have a quality business, but also a historic one,” said Briggs, who lives off Gold Mine Road. “The village doesn’t want

Veterans find solace, support at SFCC center National organization gives top honors to community college, leader for efforts

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

a lot of new buildings. We don’t want to duplicate what tourists have in Madrid.”

Cerrillos sits along N.M. 14, a stretch from Santa Fe to Interstate 40 dubbed the Turquoise Trail, in honor of the precious metals that boosted the area. “Cerrillos was once seriously considered as the capital of New Mexico,” according to a sign in the village.

Today, hundreds of cars might drive through Cerrillos as they take the loop from Albuquerque through the Sandia Mountains to Madrid and up into Santa Fe. Madrid is one town that has cultivated its own sense of place for tourists who stop at the Mine Shaft Tavern and Museum, another eatery or visit glass studios, shops and artisans.

Cerrillos has not been as much of a destination, its main attraction

After leaving the Navy, Gregory Scargall spent 10 years in a booze- and pot-fueled state of isolation, losing his wife, his kids and his self-respect along the way. He glued himself to a bar stool and didn’t even try to reacclimate into a society that, he felt, could not understand him.

After he hit rock bottom, his faith in God, he said, led him to enroll in classes at Santa Fe Community College, where he found there were other veterans in need of support. He became an advocate for veterans on campus, catching the eye of Carmen Gonzales, the school’s vice president of student success. About two and half years ago, not long after he became a student at SFCC, Gonzales appointed him as the head of the new Veterans Resource Center, part of the school’s effort to help veterans adjust to college.

Scargall knows the hurdles that veterans — particularly those who have experienced combat — have to clear when returning to the uncertainties of civilian life, Gonzales said.

Earlier this year, the nonprofit Student Veterans of America, with about 1,330 chapters nationwide, named Scargall as its Student Veterans of America Advisor of the Year and also gave SFCC’s Veterans Resource Center top honors for having the best business plan of any such center

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Daughter’s death spurs passion to help others

By Cynthia Miller The New Mexican

K Kristena Prater

daughter Tessa Horan, who seemed to be a born humanitarian. “I didn’t have the awareness that she did,” Prater, 66, said on a recent morning, sipping tea in the small kitchen of the modest home she now rents on East Zia Road. For Prater, everything changed 10 years ago

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ristena Prater was once a self-proclaimed consumer. She liked glamour. She was working as a freelance writer and owned a large home filled with an art collection and fine furniture.

She contrasts her old self with her

last month, the day her daughter died in a shark attack off the South Pacific island nation of Tonga while serving in the Peace Corps.

Her daughter’s death, at the age of 24, shocked Prater into making major life changes. She sold her home and her art, Please see SPOTLIGHT, Page C-6

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Tessa Horan, pictured in this undated photo, died 10 years ago when she was attacked by a shark. Her mother, Kristena Prater, says her daughter seemed to be a born humanitarian.

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ERNEST BEAUBIEN ABREU Ernest Beaubien Abreu, 82, passed away surrounded by his loving family on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in Las Vegas, NM. Ernest was born to Ernest Darl Abreu and Eva Olona Abreu on August 7, 1933 in Springer, NM. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Mary Louise Wildenstein Abreu, her brother Rudy, and her sister Frances Neatherlin. He is also survived by his eight children: Jim (Pam), Ernest Charles, Bob (Sylvia), Don (Ida), John, Rick (Denise), Loretta, and Michael (Michelle). All are of Las Vegas, NM except Bob in Rio Rancho and Michael in Alexandria, VA. Ernest has 21 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and one greatgreat-grandchild and numerous other family members. Ernest is also survived by his only brother, Edward Leland Abreu of Taos and Leland’s children Edward, Arthur, Celina, Katrina and Nina and their children and grandchildren. He is a direct descendent of Santiago Abreu II, Governor of New Mexico in 1832-33, and Jesus Gil Abreu and wife Petra Beaubien Abreu, who owned the famous Abreu Ranch in Rayado, NM on the Santa Fe Trail near Cimarron. Ernest spent his young life in Springer, NM surrounded by his father’s and mother’s extended family of Abreu, Olona, Gutierrez, Rivera, Aguilar, Vigil, Padilla, Valdez, Lovato, Clouthier, Brown, Caldwell, Webster, Beaubien, Maxwell, and Salazar cousins. In the 1930s he lived in Terrero, NM and Jerome, AZ when his dad worked in the mines. The family moved to Las Vegas, NM in 1942 when his father found work with the railroad. The family lived in different places in LV, including a family farm south of town where they raised crops, had a milk cow, horses, rabbits and chickens. They swam in the local swimming hole "La Guitara" when he was a kid. Ernie rode his horse to school in town while they lived there. In 1961 Ernie bought the old Lucero home on Moreno Street where the family has lived ever since. Ernest was in the initial freshman class of boys at West Las Vegas High School when it was founded in 1947. WLVHS admitted girls the following year and his future wife, Mary Louise Wildenstein, attended then. They met at a dance party for high school students at the Highlands Golf Course Clubhouse. Ernie was the fullback on the first undefeated WLV football team in 1950 and also played basketball, baseball and ran track. When WLVHS was temporarily closed in 1951, he attended Immaculate Conception High School and graduated from there along with his brother, Leland.

After high school, while working at a local gas station, Ernie was told by his former high school coach Gillie Lopez that he had obtained Ernie a football scholarship at Highlands University, so he could afford to go to college - the first in his family. Gillie promised Ernie a job as soon as he finished school. Ernie finished college in 3 years. At Highlands he played football, basketball and baseball. He graduated in 1954 and started working at the reopened WLVHS as a teacher and coach - the first year of a 36-year career in education. He completed all his schoolwork and athletics at Highlands while he was married, working, and had the first 2 of his 8 children. Ernie taught history and driver’s education, was head football coach, and assisted with other sports at West Las Vegas. He coached football for six years and had many great athletes and teams while running the famous "single wing" offense. He coached the North for the 1960 North-South All-Star football game in Albuquerque and was always proud that the North won that game 20-0, with two of his WLV players on the team, Mabry Vigil and Robert Lopez. Then the Christian Brothers at St. Michaels High School recruited Ernie to coach. He taught and coached in Santa Fe from 1961 to 1965 and they won their first football State Championship in 1964 running the single wing offense beating St. Mary’s of Albuquerque, 12-6. He also was the basketball assistant to Dick Shelley who coached the "Mighty Midgets" of St. Mike’s. Again, he coached many great players and teams and made many friends in Santa Fe. He was especially close to the Christian Brothers: Brother Abel, Abdon, Brendan Abel, and Bernard. Ernie was asked to return to WLV in 1965 as an administrator and eventually became interim Superintendent.

In 1971 he went to Mora for 10 years as Superintendent. While there he obtained money to build a new Elementary, Middle, and High School, a new gymnasium, and a swimming pool. He returned to WLV for a couple of years as Superintendent, and then went to Wagon Mound as Assistant Superintendent and Principal.

He then became the second Executive Director of the Northeast Regional Education Cooperative in 1985. He retired from there in 1990 after 36 years of service. In retirement, Ernie continued his lifelong passion for hunting and fishing (he was an expert hunter), stayed at his cabin at Morphy Lake, had regular family barbecues, visited with old friends and family all over New Mexico, and went to the casinos, where he frequently won. He continued playing basketball and was a member of the "Sharpshooters" Senior Olympic Basketball team from Santa Fe that won the State Championships for 10 years straight from 1990 to 2000. They participated in the National Senior Olympics 5 times in various places like Florida, Louisiana and Arizona. He got to play with his longtime family, team-mates and friends Leland Abreu, Pete Alarid, Leo Segura, Don Lithgow, Bobbie Rodriguez, Ray Martinez, and Billy Lucero and others. They had all lost a step or two, but they could shoot your lights out - and then tease you about it. In recent years Ernie was honored by being invited to the Class of 1962, 50-year class reunions for both West Las Vegas and St. Michaels. He relished meeting and reminiscing with his old students and athletes. He also attended the 2015 Homecoming at St. Mike’s celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the 1964-65 State Championship Team where he was presented a Championship ring by his athletes. He enjoyed attending games of his favorite teams, including the WLV Dons, St. Mike’s Horsemen, Mora Rangers and the Robertson Cardinals. He had played for, taught and coached the Dons and three of his sons and his daughter graduated from WLV and played for them. He taught and coached the Horsemen and two of his sons attended school and played ball there. He was Superintendent in Mora and four of his sons graduated from and played there. Many of his grandchildren played for the Dons and Cardinals and graduated from WLV and ELV. He supported them all and was proud of them equally. He really was a WLV Don at heart, but he cheered for all his old schools, mainly at the NM State Basketball Tournament, which he recently attended and enjoyed immensely. He left a lasting legacy and taught many important lessons to young people. Former students and players always told him that he had changed their lives. Ernie loved his family. He always had time for his children, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He managed to keep track of who was where, what special events were coming up, what they were working on, and what they had achieved. He cheered them on, supported their dreams, and shared his wisdom and advice. He was a winner. Ernie Abreu will be missed. Services are April 2, 2016 at 10:00 am with Rosary and Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Las Vegas, NM. His ashes will be interred at a later date at the Abreu Family Cemetery in Rayado, NM. Please visit Rogers Mortuary website: www.rogersmortuarynm.com to sign the online register book. Arrangements are under the direction of Rogers Mortuary 600 Reynolds Avenue Las Vegas, NM. 1-800-479-3511 or 505-425-3511.

FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS CORINA M. MARTINEZ MARCH 25, 1925 - MARCH 18, 2016 We say farewell to our beloved "Mom-O" beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great-great grandmother. Corina passed away in the peace of her home with loving family by her side.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Martin F. Martinez our beloved Pop-O, parents Alfredo D. Martinez and Lorenza Martinez, daughter Eloyda (Linda) Batista, grandson Steve Martinez and granddaughter Patricia Lash: Brothers Eloy A. Martinez, Alfredo Martinez and Sister Aurora Felix.

Corina is survived by her sons; Martin A Martinez; Michael F. Martinez, wife Wendy; Esteban Martinez, wife Carolyn; Daughters; Rosella Quintana and Elinora Martinez. Mom-O is also survived by Brothers: Juan Martinez, wife MaryJane, Joe "Jerry" Martinez, wife Louise, Leo Martinez, wife Rose Ellen, Jimmy Martinez, wife Florine; Sisters: Anita Aldeis, Norma Perry, husband Jim; Grandchildren: Gina Merchain husband Frank, Consuelo McCash, husband Aaron, Andrea Batista, fiancé Ronald Clement, Wendy Michelle (Weda) Prabhu, husband Raj, Shari Quintana, Allen Quintana, Sara Quintana, Tom Martinez wife Gail, Maria Humphrey, Jeanine Iverson, Andrea Reider and Ahna Graham; Great grandchildren: David Ryan, Nicholas Lash, Adam Merchain, Shantal Merchain, Logan McCash, Michael A. Batista, LoraAnn Lovato, husband Gilbert, Alyssa Quintana, Teresa Quintana, Jacob Quintana, Steven Martinez, Tomas Martinez, Amber Martinez, Bryahna Reider, Jaidynn Reider, Jordan Mucher, Sydney Mucher; Great, great grandchildren: Fabian Ryan, Felicia Ryan, Amaya Batista, Landyn Lovato and LileeAna Grace Lovato.

Survivors include many other loved nephews, nieces, great nephews and nieces, great, great nieces and nephews, and cousins, in-laws and friends, all of whom she loved dearly.

We will all miss her infections laughter (and there was so much laughter, always), her love of profanity (she was known as "Auntie Bad Word"), her great cooking, her amazing sense of humor, and her never ending unconditional love. She often gave us a hard time but always said it was to teach us to be strong in life. Perhaps now without her in our lives as well as without Pop-O, those lessons will come to fruition.

Corina was born in Cerrillos NM and raised in Santa Fe. She married Martin F. Martinez in 1941. They first lived in Dawson NM and moved to Santa Fe in 1946 where she was a housewife and raised six children. As a wife of a World War II Veteran, she had great love and respect for our nation and all of our Veterans. She was an avid bowler and served as an officer of the Santa Fe Bowling Association. Corina had a love of gardening and taking road trips with her beloved Pop-O to see the family. The grandchildren will forever remember those infamous road trips; all packed in a station wagon! Those were the days. We are proud and honored, and most of all blessed to have had such a kind, strong, and colorful woman in our lives. For our family it is truly and sadly the end of an era. We have been blessed to have had these gifts in our lives and will forever hold her close in our hearts as we learn to live without the thread that stitched us together.

The family would like to extend a VERY special THANK YOU to Elinora Martinez who spent the better part of her life devoted to the care and happiness of both Mom-O and Pop-O; additional thanks go out to family members LoraAnn Lovato, Andrea Batista, Michael Batista, Ronald Clement, Veronica "Carla" Martinez, Jacob Brito, Robert "Beto" Martinez and Carmela Aldeis,; to Presbyterian Hospice Services, to Dr. Kurt Kasteindeck, to staff at Christus St.Vincents; friends and other family members for their contributions in Mom-O’s time of need.

Pallbearers are Grandsons; Tom Martinez, Allen Quintana, Raj Prabhu, Ronald Clement; Great Grandsons; Michael A Batista, Gilbert Lovato; Nephews; Jacob Brito, Robert "Beto" Martinez.

A Viewing will be held Monday, March 28th at 5 p.m. followed by a Rosary at 6 p.m. at Rivera Family Funeral Home Kiva Chapel of Light. A Funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, March 29th at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Cathedral. Burial at the National Cemetery at 12:45 p.m. followed by a reception at St. Anne’s Church, all are welcome.

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AGAPITO VALENCIA 6/11/1923 - 3/13/2016 Agapito passed away nearly a year after his wife of 69 years, Antonia Valencia.

His heart was broken and he literally passed away with that broken heart. Together they built a home in Pecos and had 12 children, Bernadette, Roderick, Patricia, Joseph, William, Georgia, Elena, Geraldine, Lucinda, Ursula, Michael, and John. He was a devoted husband that made sure his family was well fed, clothed, and sheltered; a true provider.

On a personal basis he was a hard worker who was a strong man with strong opinions. He was honorable and honest, and would settle up on the spot and tell it like it was.

He was liked by most, and respected by all. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the US Navy. After the war, he worked as a cement mason before changing careers to that of a corrections officer with the NM State Penitentiary, working there for nearly 30 years before retiring as the Sr. Captain for that facility. He said he was fortunate and lucky to be in the right place during both the war and during critical situations at the State Pen to avoid harm.

He was a capable builder, rancher, and farmer, who built his houses and farmed his land.

My father was also gracious and would have asked to thank the staff at the Del Corazon Hospice. He would have wanted to thank Lisa Gonzales, who has served as his care taker for him and my mother for the better part of four years; Uncle Paul Ortiz, his last living sibling, who checked in and followed a similar path as a correction officer; Juan and Linda Valencia who maintained close contact with my father; Manuel Koroneos who served with him as a correctional officer, and his family; Robert and Berna Baca for providing weekly at home religious services; Father Vincent Dominguez and Dr. Mark G. Seredowych. Special thanks to our extended family, Frank (Pancho) and Diana Sena. There were many other friends and colleagues; too numerous to mention. Thank you all on behalf of my father.

Finally, to my pops, I will surely miss you. You were my best friend and mentor. Your slate is clean and you owe no one, your promises were kept. Mom was taken care of and you slipped away in your own home. Thank you for waiting for me. Thank you for knowing who was there and who invoiced you and knowing the truth. Please pass our regards to mom, your Antonia (2/20/2015), your Mike (2/20/1981) and your Lucinda (4/29/1974) who are waiting for you there on the other side. Sincerely, your son, John A. Valencia.

Memorial/Joint Services will be held on Tuesday night at 7:00 PM, and the Funeral mass will be on Wednesday at 11:00 AM St. Anthony’s parish in Pecos NM. ROBERT "BOB" ARCHULETA Robert "Bob" Archuleta went to be with our Heavenly Father on March 22nd, 2016. Robert was surrounded by family and passed at home. Robert is proceeded in death by his parents Joseph and Connie Archuleta, Brother Joe Archuleta (Nelda) and Brother Mike Archuleta.

Bob is survived by his Wife Yolanda, Daughters Denise Archuleta (Charles), Kimberly Archuleta, Stephanie Garcia (Gilbert) and Leslie Ortiz. Sister Marcia Hammon (Bill), Missy and Madi, Brother Leo Archuleta (Margarita), Brother Susano Archuleta, Sister Selena Gutierrez (Ralph), Grandchildren Joseph Archuleta, Melissa (Cordero), Carolyn, David and Irene Garcia, Jerrett and Raven Jimenez, Samantha Maes and Holly Ortiz, Reyes and Marissa, great grandchildren Jennifer and EmmaMari Garcia. Bob also had many cherished nieces, nephews and cousins.

Robert was born and raised in Herlong, California but spent most of his life in New Mexico. He was a talented tile contractor and has multiple masterpieces in many homes. He enjoyed tinkering in his yard, painting, watching birds, hanging with his dogs and cruising his ’55 Chevy Bel-Air and was a Classic Cruiser.

Robert had many friends from over the years but spent most of his time with family. Robert will be greatly missed.

A rosary will be held on Tuesday, March 29th at 7 p.m. and a Celebration of his life will be on Wednesday, March 30 at 10 a.m. Memorial Gardens, 417 E. Rodeo Road. Special thanks to Father Rob, nursing staff and doctors at St. Vincent Hospital and MaryEllen with pulmonary rehab and the SF New Mexican.

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CELINE M. GABALDON Celine M. Gabaldon died on March 16, 2016.

Preceded in death by her parents Santiago and Lucy Gabaldon. She is survived by siblings, Arturo M. Gabaldon (Jane), Cecilia Trujillo (Patricio), Anna Tupler and James Robert Gabaldon (Carol).

She retired from the Santa Fe Public School Transportation Department as a bus driver and school aide in the handicap section. She loved the kids as her own and made many lasting friendships.

A rosary will be recited on Tuesday, March 29, 216 at 7:00 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Cristo Rey Church on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 10:00 am.

Berardinelli Family Funeral Service 1399 Luisa Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 984-8600 Please sign our guestbook for the family at: www.berardinellifuneralhome.com LAWRENCE NEWMAN Larry Newman, 76, passed away on March 16, 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A long-time resident of New York, Larry, together with close friend, Bill Stein, founded Newman-Stein, Inc., a successful consumer research firm.

Larry enjoyed sports, theatre, ballet, opera and the diverse cultural bustle of New York City. He was an insatiable and extensive reader, a passionate and eclectic music lover, a world traveler, and before there were "foodies," Larry became an accomplished culinarian. But most importantly, Larry was kind and generous.

Survived by his wife, Sandy, of 48 years, he will be missed.

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Joy S. Weber passed away on March 13, 2016 at her Santa Fe, NM home, surrounded by family and friends. Joy was born in Trenton, NJ on June 24, 1927 and grew up in Great Neck, Long Island. She lived in Great Neck and Jackson Heights, Queens before settling in Santa Fe, NM 30 years ago. Joy was a staunch advocate for her father, the artist Max Weber and spent her life working to promote and preserve his legacy. His work is represented by the Gerald Peters Gallery in both New York City and Santa Fe. Joy’s vast knowledge of 20th century art was put to good use as a longtime volunteer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and as a docent at the O’Keefe Museum. She was a generous supporter of numerous charities and cared deeply about helping those less fortunate. Joy was passionate about classical music and opera in particular as well as nature, politics and her beloved Corgis. Joy was a talented artist in her own right and enjoyed painting for a number of years. She is survived by her brother, Maynard Weber, of Virginia, cousins Ilene V. Fishman of Montclair, NJ, Fred Fishman of San Francisco, CA, Solna K (Kandi) Wasser of Dade City, FL and Elena Lamb, her dear and devoted friend of the last 50 years, of Santa Fe. In lieu of flowers, the family requests any donations to be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

CHRISTINE HAGMAN ROSS Christine Hagman Ross resident of Belen, NM, passed away on Friday, March 18, 2016. Christine was born in Santa Fe on March 23, 1937. She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin and Lucille Hagman; husband John Ross, sons Douglas and Terry Ross, brothers Eugene, Glenn and Paul Hagman. She is survived by daughters Kalah Ross (Steve Gladwell), and Linda Terzian (Randy), son Charles Ross (Cheryl), grandchildren John Brecheisen and Rachel Steubing (Max), Brian Terzian, and 3 great-grandchildren; brothers Ben Hagman (Carolyn), Melvin Hagman (Ernestine), sisters Joan Shuldiski, Elaine Smith (Jim), Estelle Romero and Anna Reese (Don) as well as many nephews and nieces.

Christine was a devoted daughter and excellent cook and seamstress. She was also an avid gardener, her efforts producing an abundant crop of colorful blooms. A loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she will be greatly missed. Arrangements are pending.

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State asks UNM Health Sciences Center to help with Medicaid costs The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — The state won’t be relying on The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center and its $200 million in reserves for help covering Medicaid funding.

UNM refused a request last month to give $50 million to New Mexico’s Human Services Department to help with Medicaid, university officials said.

University officials heard the request at a meeting in midFebruary, UNM Executive Vice President David Harris told the Albuquerque Journal. However, the state indicated it could not guarantee repayment. Health Sciences Chancellor Paul Roth, who was among those at the meeting, said he wanted to help but couldn’t do anything immediately, according to Harris.

Roswell girl arrested for torching home ROSWELL — A 14-year-old Roswell girl is being charged with deliberately burning down her home.

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Roth declined to comment about the meeting between UNM and the state and deferred questions to Harris.

It is not unusual for the state to turn to its largest university for help. “It’s important to understand this is not the first time this has ever occurred,” Harris said of the state asking UNM for financial assistance.

Documents obtained by the newspaper show the Health Science Center agreed last year to transfer $5.8 million in funds.

Human Services Department spokesman Kyler Nerison confirmed the meeting with the university. “HSC declined the request and the discussion ended,” Nerison said.

During the legislative session, Human Services officials projected the department was

$86 million short of the funds needed for the next 15 months.

When taking into account that the federal government matches between $3 and $4 for every dollar the state uses on Medicaid, the gap rises to $417 million.

Enrollment in Medicaid expansion in New Mexico has exceeded expectations. About 850,000 have enrolled since early March, according to the state.

In an earlier draft of a House budget bill, the UNM Hospital had agreed to transfer $20 million to the state for Medicaid expenses. But the bill didn’t specify from which agency the money would be drawn. Health Sciences Center spokesman Billy Sparks said the money has not been transferred or included in the Human Services Department budget.

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Police say they had been fighting about the girl skipping school. The stepmother and her two sons then went outside.

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A steel arch bridge amid a landscape known for its red rock formations has become the focus of a mental health and suicide prevention campaign after an increase in jumpers.

Four people died after jumping from the historic Midgely Bridge last year — twice as many as any other year in the past decade.

The parking lot next to the bridge now has a sign showing a hotline number for those contemplating suicide. The sign went up in September, and more are on the way.

City officials are urging the Arizona Department of Transportation to look into other options so that the site doesn’t gain the same notoriety of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco or the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in Northern New Mexico.

“What we’re trying to do is throw a lifeline,” Coconino County sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jim Driscoll said. “If someone is there thinking about it, maybe they’ll just stop and call the number. Maybe they just need someone to listen to them.”

The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is incorporated into Sedona’s logo. It spans a chasm off Oak Creek Canyon with a rock formation that resembles a

The Midgley Bridge in Sedona, Ariz., on the highway connecting Sedona and Flagstaff, has been the focus of a mental health awareness campaign. PAul DAvENPorT/THE ASSoCIATED PrESS

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Local officials have been talking about ways to stem the number of people who kill themselves at the bridge.

The Mental Health Coalition Verde Valley formed a suicide prevention task force for increased awareness of mental health issues and training on crisis situations. The mayor and the fire district in Sedona reached out to the state, which owns the bridge, and suggested fencing along it or netting between it and the rocky ground below.

“There has to be some recognition at the state level that there is an absolute opportunity to mitigate the impact, whether it be as far reaching as expanding spending

on mental health research or some sort of barrier device,” Sedona Fire Division Chief Ed Mezulis said.

Transportation spokesman Dustin Krugel said the department is committed to promoting safety but would have to consider the historical and structural limitations of the bridge in deciding what steps to take.

Barbara Litrell, facilitator at the Mental Health Coalition, said the group is working with the community to talk to school children, residents and organizations about the effects of mental illness and warnings signs for suicide.

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Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who stressed that the deal was not yet finalized, told The Associated Press the proposal would go before the Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last year.

Leno said the deal would avoid taking the issue to the ballot. One union-backed initiative has already qualified for the ballot and a second is also trying to qualify.

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and she started the Tessa Horan Foundation to continue her daughter’s aid work. “I won’t ever own anything again,” Prater said.

Instead, for the past 10 years she has been funneling her resources into efforts that “pay it forward.”

She recently returned from a trip to India, where she spent tireless hours at a home for abandoned girls and a small school for disabled youth. Her companions on the trip — all younger women — would try to slow her down, but there was so much work to do.

On this trip, she said, she wanted to do hands-on work.

Last summer, on her first trip to India, her foundation paid for the freedom of 17 girls in Nepal — ages 13 to 19 — who had been held by human traffickers. Most of them are now living in a safe house that the foundation is supporting. A few of the girls were taken to India, where the foundation is helping them build new lives.

It was plan that Boyd Willat, a Los Angeles businessman who had met Prater in India, called “preposterous” but also “really brave on her part.”

“She was buying these women from this unsavory person,” Willat, who is now a sponsor of the foundation, said in a phone interview Saturday. Prater had planned to bring all of the Nepalese teens into India, but Willat talked her into moving just a few, in a practice run, so they wouldn’t get trapped between the nations’ borders. “It can be dangerous as hell,” he said, calling Prater “one of the most courageous women I have ever met.”

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Kristena Prater of Santa Fe visits with children living in a tent camp on a beach in Goa, India. She recently returned from India, where her nonprofit Tessa Horan Foundation is supporting efforts that aid young people. CourTESy pHoTo

The foundation had previous experience rescuing trafficking victims. In 2008, Prater said, it purchased six girls in Nepal for $2,500 each, a far higher price than the $500 it paid per girl last summer. Since the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, child trafficking in the nation has surged — by up to 500 percent, according to some reports — and the value of a human life has dropped.

Tens of thousands of girls and women are reportedly trafficked across the border with India each year. They are among more than 20 million people worldwide who are victims of human trafficking, a multibillion-dollar criminal industry, according to the International Labor Organization.

Prater said she was inspired by her daughter to help as many as she can.

When her daughter was 18, she took a spiritual sojourn to India and Nepal to learn about Buddhism, Prater said. But what she discovered, she told her mother, was injustice rooted in poverty: She woke up one morning to the sounds of a family negotiating the price of a daughter they could no longer afford to feed.

Prater likes to keep busy with aid work in February, the month when her daughter’s death hits her hardest. This year, she worked with Srirupa Sen of Pecos, a Kolkata native who offers custom tours of India, to find sustainable aid projects in need of the Tessa Horan Foundation’s support. One was the

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Prater spent one day distributing apples and oranges to children living in makeshift camps in Goa on the shore of the Arabian Sea. She recalled how the children came running to her, about 80 of them, to accept the fruit.

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If all nine of the judges in the First Judicial District disqualify themselves — or are disqualified by any of the lawyers in the case — the chief justice of the state Supreme Court would appoint a judge from another district or a retired judge to handle the case.

Griego’s case centers on his role in the sale of a state-owned building on East De Vargas Street. Griego, who works in the title business, failed to disclose that he was a broker for the company that owns the Inn of the Five Graces. The company bought the building, which is adjacent to the inn, two years ago and paid Griego more than $50,000 in commissions for his services.

He has denied breaking any law.

The San Jose Democrat didn’t sponsor the legislation that authorized the sale, but he helped guide it though the Legislature.

He has maintained that he did not enter into a contract with the Inn of the Five Graces until about a month after the 2014 legislative session. However, prosecutors claim Griego already was working for the company months before the Legislature actually voted on the sale.

Griego resigned from the Senate last year following an ethics investigation that found him guilty of violating the state constitution.

Rainbow House, a rescue home in Goa for 52 girls, some orphaned and others who had been abandoned or abused by their families.

At the Rainbow House, they get food, a bed and an education. And they have a chance to imagine a future. “They talked about what their dreams are,” Prater said.

Sen also led Prater to another home that is making a difference, the Dayanilaya Special School in Karnataka, where kids and young adults with conditions such as autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy — some severely physically disabled as well as mentally disabled — can get an education or develop job skills, or even just learn to to smile.

market with gypsies from all over the world. … The international flavor draws thousands of people every Saturday evening, and the immensity is beyond what I have ever seen.”

Prater’s work in India isn’t finished. Sen is already thinking about the foundation’s next trip, perhaps in a year, when it will help the teen girls waiting in Nepal get across the border to India, to new lives.

“She’s an amazing woman,” Sen said of Prater. “To have somebody come in and just give. … She’s such a natural. … It’s heartwarming.”

But Prater says giving was something she learned from her daughter. “Tessa Horan is still having an impact, she said, “both locally and globally.”

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The community college has about 200 students who are military veterans.

“They may not have so many different challenges than other students — money, families, other obligations — but the military is very structured and college is not,” Gonzales said.

“Nobody is telling you to be there. And there are those who have PTSD or traumatic brain injuries or other issues stemming from their service that make it difficult for them to adjust to school. Greg understands them.

The veterans in that center love it and feel supported from him.”

The military is all about teamwork, Scargall said. “Most of the vets here are looking for camaraderie and a place where we can be understood.”

Philpatrick Gallegos, a onearmed former Air Force rescue medic and civilian firefighter, called the center “a godsend,” a place where veterans can “decompress and reflect on where we come from. Civilians don’t always understand us because … we have seen and done some crazy stuff that comes with being a veteran.”

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Konda said he wasted his premilitary college days goofing off.

Now, bolstered by the support of Scargall and the center, he is studying to become a social worker and help other veterans.

Gallegos is pursuing a general science degree.

Torres, an Air Force veteran who worked on aircraft weapons systems in the military, said he is

trying to earn a degree in engineering because “there’s not a lot of weapons systems on civilian aircraft for me to work on.”

Many veterans, like Torres, can’t easily transfer their military skills to civilian careers, and college is the only way they can move forward. “That certificate or associate degree they earn can go a long way in this state,” Scargall said.

Not every story at the Veterans Resource Center is a success story, Scargall said. Some veterans enroll in courses and then disappear without a reason. Some end up with a Billy Madison-type feeling of being too old to be thrust back in a classroom, trying to learn basic math and reading skills all over again.

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Patrick Torres said they had long dreamed of opening a place of their own outside of town, and Cerrillos offered the chance to reopen a rustic building deep in history.

“We’re aware of the history, not only of that building but what Cerrillos has, and we want to make our place as authentic and true as possible,” he said. “We’re taking our time to keep that old historic Western feel.”

Kelly Torres said the menu will be simple sandwiches, chicken and fresh, local items that appeal to the local outdoor culture. They hope to take advantage of hikers at the new state park, the bike tourists as well as those on horseback from Harold Grantham’s Broken Saddle Riding Co., which has guided trips through the Cerrillos Hills.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program awarded the project a $25,554 grant and recognized Briggs for the preservation work at a ceremony last week.

She said N.M. 14 has become a day trip for many visitors to Santa Fe and Albuquerque and is increasingly popular with motorcycle riders. Many come to Cerrillos now, take a few photos of the church and the adobe homes, then leave.

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“We’re trying to jump-start Cerrillos,” Todd Brown said. He and his wife still work two mining claims in the hills. His mining museum flows with history of the area, and he is responsible for building the historical database for the town at www.cerrillosnewmexico.com and placing informational plaques on buildings.

“There are still tunnels all under First Street from Prohibition,” he said. “I’m excited we’ll have two bars in Cerrillos. Once there were 15.”

Santa Fe County plans to repave the main street in Cerrillos this summer and has acquired land for a senior center, Brown said. That is in addition to the Cerrillos Hills State Park, the state’s newest public land acquisition, which recently opened a visitors center in town. The park hosts talks and lectures, and offers historical tours of the hills where mining thrived. The park is also open for self-guided hikes and day use all year.

Steve and Bonnie Gibons, owners of Cerrillos e-bike rentals, are even planning to rent 500-watt electric bikes to give history tours of the town and the surrounding landscapes. The bikes are on order, with rentals expected to begin in mid-April.

“We’re both history buffs, and we want to take people through the town, stop and show then the sites,” Steve Gibons said.

One of the stops for bike tourists might be lunch at the Blackbird Saloon, another restoration in the town by Patrick and

Mitchell also sold dry goods, crafts, assorted merchandise and cold drinks and ice cream to families as they drove the Turquoise Trail.

The Cerrillos Station retail business opened last week with crafts and artwork, as well as household goods. In coming weeks, Briggs is developing other parts of the building for services that would include art classes, massage, hair-styling, dance, senior yoga, children’s dance and Pilates.

“This was one of the first things people asked for,” Briggs said. “There’s no place to work out in the area.” She said many who live nearby are used to going to Santa Fe for basic needs but don’t want to go all the time.

She sees the business as a place for outdoor events in the summer and hopes to serve some 10,000 people who live along N.M. 14 south of Santa Fe. There will also be an outdoor seating area and sculpture garden.

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More to kid’s life than organized sports I realize the adults who run children’s sports Question: Are three hours of one sport programs are well-intentioned, but the children once a week too much for a 7-year-old? This in question are not deriving the full benefit of sport meets from 6 to 9 p.m. It is nearly 10 p.m. learning decision-making, problembefore the child is in bed (as opposed resolution and leadership skills. I to usual 8:30 bedtime). My husband maintain they aren’t even learning thinks it’s OK. He points out that our the true art of teamwork. All that son’s homework is not suffering, and went out the window when “involvehe’s not sleep deprived (though he’s ment” became a parenting buzzword. often grumpy the next morning).

Adults have turned what was once This activity takes place on Tuesfun into performance events. days, which has the potential to The alternative — which I’ve prebecome three nights of later-thanviously written about in this column hoped-for bedtimes due to church and in several of my books — is for Wednesday evenings and another John a minimum number of adults to activity Thursdays. I would appreciRosemond supervise children’s sports events, ate your thoughts on this.

Living With but for the kids to pick captains who Answer: Well, your husband Children pick teams (thus, team makeup is could well argue that you’ve asked always different) and for the children the wrong guy. Two reasons: First, I themselves to decide who plays what am completely against adult approposition and resolve disagreements. priation and micromanagement of activities Take it from a guy who played lots of that children once organized and “managed” “sandlot” sports when he was a youngster, the themselves; second, while I sometimes enjoy learning that takes place within that context watching a good college or professional is invaluable, both short and long term. I even sports matchup, I care not who wins. I liberbelieve that bullying would become much less ated myself from sports long ago and have no of a problem under those circumstances. regrets. I save lots of emotional and mental energy for far better purposes.

I also maintain that organized after-school

pursuits of whatever sort should not regularly preclude relaxed family meals, family activities and obligations, a child’s ability to do his or her homework without feeling rushed, chores or an adequate amount of sleep (which varies from child to child).

Then there’s the matter of your child’s thoughts on the subject. What does he think about all of this? Is he “invested” in this sport, or is he simply doing what his dad wants him to do? If given the opportunity to quit — which, believe me, does not doom a child to being a lifelong quitter — would he take it?

Having said all that, my best answer to your question is that when Mom and Dad disagree about a parenting issue and can’t find a compromise, the default position should always be “no.” That understanding, entered into by both parents willingly, saves lots of emotional energy. It means that one person “wins” sometimes, the other person at other times. Very civilized, if you ask me (which you did).

Visit family psychologist John Rosemond’s website at www.johnrosemond.com; readers may send him email at questions@rosemond.com; due to the volume of mail, not every question will be answered.

Don’t fret over screen time — treat it as a tool Organization offers media rating system for parents to help them choose what their children view

By Hayley Tsukayama the washington Post

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study last year found that teens spend nearly nine hours every day consuming media of some kind, whether it’s TV, music or video games. It’s a staggering amount of time, and the study hit a nerve with many who are concerned, even panicked, about whether all that screen time is creating a glassy-eyed generation of digital natives with stunted social and emotional skills.

The issue, of course, is a little more nuanced than that. And that’s what Common Sense Media, a Web-based media ratings resource for parents, is trying to get at with a new tool that gives parents better resources to judge what’s on their kids’ screens rather than simply monitoring how much time their children spend with gadgets. The group will now rate media not only by looking at violence levels and language, but also by examining what positive character traits kids can pick up from what they watch — making it easier for parents to look at screen time as a tool for development rather than as a thing to be feared.

“The truth is that both screen time and content matter,” said Jim Steyer, executive director at Common Sense Media, which also published the screen time study last year. “You want to limit the amount of screen time and choose good content. We’ve always said we wanted to get parents to the good stuff fast.” TV shows and films can

help shape kids’ lives, Steyer said.

It’s a media-saturated world, he said, and it’s become vitally important for parents to be able to understand what their kids are watching and to be able to talk to them about it.

To pick 11 traits from the entire range of human emotion, Common Sense looked to the education world and the process of “social emotional learning,” which schools have used to teach character traits and life skills. It also reached out to movie and television executives, as well as academics to determine what character traits might be good to include in the rubric. Then, in focus groups for parents, the group asked them what traits they thought were most important for their kids to glean from the shows and movies they watch.

The group’s researchers compiled all of that information before settling on the final 11 — integrity, compassion, gratitude, self-control, empathy, humility, teamwork, courage, curiosity, communication and perseverance — and rating more than 600 shows and films for the site.

When looking at what shows to rate, Common Sense Media was careful to take a realistic approach to what kids may actually want to watch, rather than simply sticking to educational programming or shows specifically designed to teach lessons. For example, the group’s ratings say that The Simpsons can be used teach kids lessons about self-control and the power of communication. SpongeBob SquarePants offers lessons about gratitude. Blackish is a good starting point to talk about humility and compassion.

The group has always thought of itself as being a sort of “nutrition labeling” for media, Steyer said, and this latest initiative expands that mandate. And while the ratings rubric is meant to be useful for parents, it can also be a tool for kids — particularly preteens and teenagers — who may want to talk

Family calendar Sunday, March 27 EASTER EGG HUNT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden hosts an Easter egg hunt with the Easter Bunny from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo. Adults, $3; children 12 and under are free, 505-417-9103.

Monday, March 28 NATURE PLAYTIMES: Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos to explore the natural world from 10 to 11 a.m. Each Playtime features a craft, story and outside activity; no charge; 3540 Orange St.; call 505-662-0460.

Tuesday, March 29 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 505-955-4863.

BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 505-955-6837.

Wednesday, March 30 BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 505-955-4863.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 505-955-2828.

IAIA BOOK SALE: Institute of American Indian Arts Library and Technology Building, IAIA campus, 83 Avan Nu Po Road.

Art, poetry, fiction and indigenous studies; 2 to 6 p.m. $1-$20.

Thursday, March 31 CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR: Readings from picture books for children up to age 5; 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St.; no charge, call 988-4226.

BOOKS AND BABIES: Children ages 6 months to 2 years can enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 505-9552828.

Friday, April 1 GARDEN SPROUTS: Stories and hands-on activities for children ages 3 to 5 with a caregiver from 9 to 10 a.m., weather permitting; sponsored by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and Railyard Stewards. Meet at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden on Museum Hill, 725 Camino Lejo; $5 suggested donation; free to members and children under 12.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 505-955-6837.

IAIA BOOK SALE: Institute of American Indian Arts Library and Technology Building, IAIA campus, 83 Avan Nu Po Road.

Art, poetry, fiction, and indigenous studies; 2 to 6 p.m. $1-$20.

Saturday, April 2 SPANISH/BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES: Children ages 6 months to 2 years can enjoy books, songs and finger games in Spanish and English from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 505-955-2828.

DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: La Sociedad Folklórica de Santa Fe is hosting 77th annual El Baile de los Cascarones from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. Tickets are on sale at the door for $15 a couple; $10 a person; and $2 for kids ages 6 to 18. To ask someone to dance, gently break a cascarón (hollowed eggshell filled with confetti) on a potential partner’s head. A variety of cascarones will be on sale at the dance. For more information, contact Gloria Kahn at 505-9837839 or Bernadette Lucero at 505-501-3126.

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A boy uses a Sesame Street app on his tablet. Common Sense Media, a Web-based media ratings system, has a new tool that gives parents better resources to judge what’s on their kids’ screens rather than simply monitoring how much time their children spend with gadgets. BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

to their parents about why they’re choosing the media they are. Or, if kids are choosing their own shows and films to watch already, it could give parents some insight into how to talk constructively about the things their kids are watching.

Steyer also hopes that this will encourage media makers in Hollywood and beyond to think about what character traits they’re highlighting in their storytelling. Talking to the entertainment industry while developing this tool, he said, underscored that many people making films and shows are also parents concerned about what messages their kids pick up from media.

In the future, Steyer said, he expects that the character rating

system will also extend to video games, another medium that Common Sense rates on its site for age-appropriateness. The group wanted to start with television and movies, he said, because of their broad reach and focus on storytelling. But he said he thinks video game ratings would be a logical next step as Common Sense Media looks to effect change in the entertainment world.

“We’ve worked for years with executives to highlight important issues for kids,” he said. “Now we have enough scale that we influence the industry, and show that we can reward movies and video games that promote positive social emotional learning.”

HUNTER EDUCATION CAMP: The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is offering a special hunter education camp where youth ages 11 to 17 can receive hands-on training and earn their hunter education certification. It will be conducted the weekend of April 29 to May 1 at the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron.

Lodging and meals are free, and all equipment is provided. Participants must complete and return the registration form available at www.wildlife.state.nm.us/education/hunter-education/ by 5 p.m. April 7 to be eligible. Participants will learn safe and responsible firearms handling, ethical hunting behaviors, conservation, wildlife identification and basic survival skills. Participants also can test their marksmanship skills with .22-caliber rifles and shotguns. To qualify for the camp, participants must have a Customer Identification Number account with the department, register with an adult and complete a homework requirement before attending. For more information, call 505-222-4731 or visit www. wildlife.state.nm.us/education/hunter-education.

TIME TREKKERS SUMMER CAMP: The New Mexico History Museum and the Santa Fe Children’s Museum are partnering for a weeklong summer camp that will take kids back to 1766. Children ages 9-12 will get daily doses of hands-on learning at the History Museum — making yucca bracelets and adobe bricks, trying on clothing styles worn 300 years ago, practicing calligraphy, hand-stitching their own book, playing old-time games and learning how history connects the past to the present. At the Children’s Museum, participants will learn about different kinds of 18th-century foods, bake in an horno, and explore traditional plants in the gardens. Time Trekkers takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 13–17. The cost is $125. Contact René Harris at rene.harris@state.nm.us, 505-476-5087; or Melanie LaBorwit at melanie.laborwit@state.nm.us, 505-476-5044.

Ongoing groups MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: Local chapter of the international MOMS Club offers support and activities for stay-at-home mothers. Visit santafemomsclub.weebly.com.

FIRST-TIME MOMS OVER 40: Support group to explore the complex physical, emotional and spiritual issues that come with raising children as mature women. Call 505-471-0928.

MANY MOTHERS: Provide in-home support to new mothers who are adjusting to the many changes a new baby brings.

Call 983-5984, email info@manymothers.org or visit www. manymothers.org.

2016 campaign circus sets stage to talk politics with children

By Sharon Holbrook

special to the washington Post

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ne recent night at dinner, we talked about the Ku Klux Klan and why we treasure our sacred American liberty of free speech, even when we don’t like that speech. Of course, with three elementary school kids, we also talked about the poop on the bathroom seat at school, Xbox games and, petulantly, why we weren’t having pizza for dinner.

Say what you will about the alarming aspects of this presidential race — and that’s not for this essay — but I’m loving being a parent of kids of a rational, conversational age this election year. Four years ago, my children were 6, 4 and 1.

We may still have been talking about poop and pizza back then, but we certainly weren’t discussing politics.

I confess that I have changed over the past couple decades of my life, as I slid from the heady intellectual atmosphere

of college into the prosaic but necessary details of adulthood. I grew to hate politics. I grew to hate politicians, too, and their power-brokering opportunism and phony promises. I didn’t have the patience for the nonsense, and so I checked out of most political news. Real life was busy enough, and it was easy to tune it all out.

In 2016, though, politics are everywhere and there’s so much to discuss.

We can’t ignore the extraordinarily polarized atmosphere in the United States and the extreme behaviors and political views in play this year. No one can. We went to Canada last weekend to visit my husband’s sick grandmother, and many times over, upon hearing that we are American, disbelieving folks wanted to know, “What’s going on with this election?”

I’ve been tickled, though, by the silver lining to this turmoil — every day serves up an interesting and surprisingly deep conversation with our curious elementary-schoolers. It was

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an endorsement of Donald Trump by white supremacist David Duke that led to a dinner table discussion of the KKK. “Can’t the president stop them?” my 5-year-old asks at the dinner table, when we tell the kids about lynchings and burning crosses and white-hooded rallies. She quite simply believes in the unlimited power of the presidency. But it’s more than that. She believes that good can prevail. I, on the other hand, had forgotten what it means to be an idealist.

My kids are hungry for ideals, and they’re pulling me back in. I’m finding I can’t afford to be disillusioned anymore.

When kids ask questions, parents try to answer. It’s part of the job description.

When they ask the big questions, we have to give the big answers, the ones that probe what we really believe and stand for, and what we hope our children will be.

This election has handed us a readymade opportunity to explore our civic values — a family philosophy class,

if you will. We already teach our kids about personal values like kindness, honesty, generosity and fidelity, hopefully by example as well as conversation, but we hadn’t spent much time on political values until now.

It’s a joy, and a thought-provoking one, to hear what my kids have to say about questions like, “If we believe in immigration and welcoming the stranger, but we also believe in fairness and following rules and laws, how should we treat illegal immigrants? What about their children? Does it matter how long they’ve been here, and does it matter how they behave once they’re here?”

Kids have a remarkable sense of justice and fresh viewpoints that are waking up my jaded ears.

It’s striking, thinking in four-year presidential terms, to see how far they’ve come since their toddler and preschool years, and to imagine four years ahead to a lively table with opinionated 14- 12- and 9-year-olds. I

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imagine we won’t always agree, but I can’t wait to hear their questions and opinions.

Then and now, none of us can have all the answers, but we do our best. In answer to the kindergartner’s question about the Ku Klux Klan, we explain that, yes, violence and vandalism are indeed illegal, but public rallies with hateful messages are not. My kids, used to our staid household rules about speaking to one another kindly, are a bit shocked that such ugliness could be allowed. I find myself vehemently defending free speech as a cornerstone of our democracy, and urging them to exercise their own free speech to combat ugliness wherever they meet it.

Somehow, it seems these kids have managed to unearth my old political fire. There’s too much at stake to remain quiet about our nation’s future, and so we are all finding our values and resolving to use our voices. Maybe free speech begins at home, at the dinner table.

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U2 to be honored as music innovators LOS ANGELES — U2 will be honored with the Innovator Award at this year’s iHeartRadio Music Awards for its impact on popular culture and commitment to social causes.

IHeartMedia announced Friday that the special honor will be given to the rock band during the awards show in Los Angeles on April 3. The show will air live on TBS, TNT and truTV, as well as on iHeartRadio stations and across the iHeartRadio digital music platform. The group, comprised of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., are celebrating 40 years together this year. U2 has also supported numerous charities and causes, including the ONE organization and the (RED) brand campaign, both co-founded by Bono. The band is also nominated in the best tour category.

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7 p.m. on CBS Madam Secretary Veteran television journalist Jane Pauley becomes the latest personality to portray herself on this show in the new episode “On the Clock.” She apparently brings her ”A” game, since she conducts what’s described as a “grueling” interview with Elizabeth (Tea Leoni) — who has other worries here, since a plane crash affects the peace talks she’s staging with the prime ministers of Israel and Pakistan. Henry (Tim Daly) tries to help find a terrorist.

9 p.m. on NBC Hollywood Game Night The title of the new episode “It’s My Jane in the Box” has to refer to series host Jane Lynch, who may be involved in the proceedings in a deeper way than usual as celebrities try to help civilian contestants win $25,000 through a series of party games. Participants include soccer icon Abby Wambach and two actors from producer Shonda Rhimes’ empire — Aja Naomi King and James Pickens Jr. 9 p.m. on PBS Masterpiece Classic The saga of the British department-store magnate enters its concluding round as “Mr. Selfridge Season 4” begins. Jeremy Piven returns in the title role as “Episode One” finds Harry Selfridge facing even more chal-

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The following water statistics of March 24 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.934 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 5.946 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 6.880 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: N.A., domestic: N.A. Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 41.8 percent of capacity; daily inflow 3.23 million gallons.

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed.

• Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited.

• Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle.

• Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

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Self-assured entrepreneur Jimmy Dillon (Sacha Dhawan) causes Harry a different kind of pain.

9 p.m. on ABC Quantico In flashback sequences, the members of a terror cell know exactly what their target is — the Quantico complex itself — in the new episode “Turn.” Miranda and Liam (Aunjanue Ellis, Josh Hopkins) ultimately end up directly in the line of fire. The story also plays out in the present as the enemies contact Alex (Priyanka Chopra), with Claire Haas (guest star Marcia Cross) placed in peril. Eliza Coupe (“Happy Endings”) also guest stars.

9 p.m. on CBS Elementary The disappearance of a doctor who’s a dedicated survivalist puzzles Holmes and Watson (Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu), as they try to determine whether he vanished of his own free will, in the new episode “Ready or Not.” The turn Holmes’ relationship with Fiona (guest star Betty Gilpin) takes causes him to display unusual behavior.

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City of Santa Fe HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD FIELD TRIP TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 at 12:00 NOON HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION, 2nd FLOOR CITY HALL HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD HEARING TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 at 5:30 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS A. CALL TO ORDER B. ROLL CALL C. APPROVAL OF AGENDA D. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: March 22, 2016 E. FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Case #H-16-006. 282 Calle Juanita.

Case #H-16-002B. 450 Camino Monte Vista.

Case #H-15-042. 355 East Palace Avenue.

Case #H-16-018. 128 and 128A Quintana Street.

Case #H-16-019. 1340 Canyon Road.

Case #H-16-021. 829 Allendale Street.

Case #H-16-022. 100 Pena Place.

Case #H-16-023A. 1067 ½ Camino San Acacio Case #H-16-023B. 1067 ½ Camino San Acacio Case #H-16-020. 618 East Alameda Street Units A&B. F. BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR G. COMMUNICATIONS H. ACTION ITEMS 1. Case #H-14-072. 637 Garcia Street. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Doug McDowell, agent for Helen and Bill Rogers, owners, proposes to amend a previous approval to construct a residential structure by constructing a 5’ high utility enclosure and increasing yardwall and fence heights to the maximum allowable height of 6’. (David Rasch).

2. Case #H-16-017. 587 Camino Del Monte Sol. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Craig Hoopes, agent for Josh Wilson, owner, proposes a preliminary height exception to 28’6” for an addition to a contributing residential structure where the maximum allowable height is 15’1” on a sloping site. (David Rasch).

3. Case #H-16-013. 164 East Houghton Street. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Andrew Lyons, agent for Gayle Langford, owner, proposes to construct a 2,459 sq. ft. residential structure to a height of 13’7” where the maximum allowable height is 17’ and coyote fences from 3’ to 6’ high with pedestrian gates on a vacant lot. (Sobia Sayeda).

4. Case #H-16-014. 718 Gregory Lane. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Jaime Beltran, agent for Jason Pike, owner, proposes to construct a 2,453 sq. ft. residential structure to a height of 14’7” where the maximum allowable height is 15’11” on a vacant lot. (Sobia Sayeda).

5. Case #H-08-096. 1150 Canyon Road. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Architectural Alliance, agent for Manderfield LLC, owner, proposes to remodel a primary elevation door on a contributing structure and construct walls and fences. An exception is requested to remove historic material (Section 14-5.2(D)(1)(a) and (D)(5)(a)(1)). (David Rasch).

6. Case #H-14-112. 904 Don Gaspar Avenue. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Stephen Beili, agent for Wendy Wilson and Douglas Turco, owners, propose to remodel a contributing residential structure by constructing an arbor, installing solar panels, exterior lighting, fountain and moss rock. An exception is requested to install publicly visible solar panels. Section 14-5.2(D)(3)(b). (David Rasch).

7. Case #H-12-036. 327 East De Vargas Street. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Scott Tobey, agent for Analco LLC, owner, proposes to remodel a significant residential structure by replacing non-histyoric windows, installing skylights, constructing a coyote fence and gates to the maximum allowable height of 66” on the street frontage otherwise to 96” high, stucco, screening, screen doors. (David Rasch).

8. Case #H-10-077. 1500 Cerro Gordo Road. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Eileen Fresquez, owner/agent, proposes to replace original metal casement windows on a non-contributing residential structure with aluminum-clad windows, construct a 240 sq. ft. portal to a height of 10’8” and a 6’ high coyote fence. (David Rasch).

9. Case #H-16-024. 714 Gregory Lane. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Jaime Beltrane, agent for WowWee LLC, owners, proposes to construct a 2,453 sq. ft. residential structure to a height of 14’ 7” where the maximum allowable height is 15’ 11”, a 3’ hugh stuccoed yardwall, and 6’ high coyote fences on a vacant lot. (David Rasch) 10. Case #H-16-025. 220 ½ McKenzie Street. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Architectural Alliance, agent for Adobe Abode Real Estate ltd., owners, proposes to construct a 214 sq. ft. 9’ 10” high addition, a 105 sq. ft. 8’ 3” high portal, add a window with divided lits and a double door to a contributing residential structure. (Nicole Ramirez Thomas).

11. Case #H-16-026. 1120 Paseo de Peralta. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Spears Horn Architects, agent for State of New Mexico, owner, proposes to construct a 96 sq. ft. elevator addition at 12’ high on a non-contributing non-residential structure. (David Rasch) 12. Case #H-16-027. 356 Hillside Avenue. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Jenkins Gavin Design and Development, agent for J.C. Bee, owner, proposes to construct a 223 sq. ft. portal to a height of 13’2” on a contributing residential structure. An exception is requested to place an addition at less than 10’ from a primary elevation. Section 14-5.2(D) (2)(d). (David Rasch).

I. MATTERS FROM THE BOARD J. ADJOURNMENT Cases on this agenda may be postponed to a later date by the Historic Districts Review Board at the noticed meeting. Please contact the Historic Preservation Division at 9556605 or check http://www.santafenm.gov/historic_districts_review_board_hearing_ packets for more information regarding cases on this agenda.