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Speed SUVs temporarily pulled from city streets

No across-the-board raises for state workers under governor’s plan By Steve Terrell and Robert Nott The New Mexican

Unlike the budget New Mexico legislators proposed last week, the spending plan unveiled Monday by Gov. Susana Martinez wouldn’t fund across-the-board raises for state employees.

Instead, the governor’s $6.07 billion budget would boost pay for slightly less than a third of the state workforce, including state police, corrections officers, health care workers, social workers, engineers and computer staff. New teachers also would get higher pay under the budget Martinez will advocate during the legislative session that convenes Jan. 21 in Santa Fe. “Small, across-the-board increases do nothing to reform our broken salary compensation sys-

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tem,” Martinez said at a news conference Monday. “They just shift the broken system upward a little bit. By reforming our pay classifications, we make ourselves more competitive by providing employ-

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Police say vehicles will be back by month’s end after officials, company reach new deal By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

The city’s unmanned speed-enforcement SUVs have become a common sight on Santa Fe streets in recent years, but drivers will get a reprieve from the watchful camera lenses until the end of January. Police Department spokeswoman Celina Westervelt said the city’s contract with Redflex Traffic Systems for the equipment and ticket processing has expired, and the vehicles won’t be on the streets until both parties reach a new deal. She said the negotiation process could take up to a month. City officials have repeatedly asserted that the SUVs represent a safety program, not a money-making operation. The New Mexican has reported that a speeding ticket issued as a result of the unmanned surveillance costs $100 but only nets the city between $12 and $18. Half of the ticket revenue goes to the state, another portion goes to Redflex and the city receives the remainder. The Arizona-based company operates the SUVs and pays for all costs.

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City Councilor Patti Bushee listens while Javier Gonzales speaks during a mayoral candidate forum Monday night at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Bushee grills Gonzales over role in ‘hold harmless’ phase-out in first candidate forum By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

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ayoral hopeful and longtime City Councilor Patti Bushee won’t let opponent Javier Gonzales be held harmless over his support of a legislative tax deal that she says hurts Santa Fe and other governments across New Mexico. While the two candidates were cordial and generally agreed on most issues raised during the first mayoral forum of the campaign Monday, Bushee repeatedly pounded Gonzales, former state Democratic Party chairman, over

his role in the Legislature’s decision to phase out the so-called “hold harmless” distributions. In 2004, the Legislature eliminated grossreceipts taxes on food and medicine. Initially, the state reimbursed local governments under a “hold harmless” provision. But last year, state lawmakers decided to phase out those payments through 2030, starting in 2015. The city of Santa Fe expects to take a $750,000 hit next year, Bushee said. “I raised the issue of this hold harmless because it’s important. It’s important to the cities and counties in New Mexico,” Bushee

Hospital reports spike in flu patients 19 test positive for virus in Santa Fe as H1N1 strain spreads across state By Patrick Malone

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Ten people were hospitalized in Santa Fe over the weekend with confirmed cases of influenza as the disease continues to spread across New Mexico and worry public health officials. In the 72 hours leading up to Monday afternoon, 19 patients treated at Christus St. Vincent Medical Center in Santa Fe tested positive for influenza, including the 10 who were admitted, according to hospital

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spokesman Arturo Delgado. “There are people getting hospitalized, including some in the [intensive care units] being ventilated,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, a medical epidemiologist with the New Mexico Department of Health. Smelser said the impact is statewide, but he did not have a specific number Monday of hospitalizations in New Mexico. No fatalities from the flu have been reported so far in 2014, but flu deaths are likely, if not inevitable, Smelser said. A national resurgence in the spread of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly known as swine flu, has taken hold in New Mexico and other states. While the greatest concern in any flu epidemic remains its

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potential health consequences for infants, senior citizens and people with chronic illnesses, populations typically less affected by the flu have been hit hardest by this year’s prevailing strain. More than half of the known flu hospitalizations statewide during the current outbreak have been of patients between the ages of 18 and 64, according to Smelser. “Typically, that population doesn’t

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told an estimated crowd of 130. “If we’re going to deliver services, really the compromise that was created with this last-minute corporate tax giveaway really harmed our ability to deliver those services.” Gonzales told the crowd gathered at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center that Bushee mischaracterized his actions. “I was not an advocate for the city losing their hold harmless clause. What I supported was Peter Wirth and Brian Egolf’s efforts to close the corporate loophole against Wal-Mart,

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Obituaries Steven Ray Hollis, Dec. 22 Ernest Gonzales, Santa Fe, Jan. 4 Dr. Richard Kenneth Money Jr., Dec. 2 Gerald L. Trujillo Sr., Albuquerque, Jan. 2

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Dish Network Corp. has unveiled a new digital recorder system that can record eight TV shows at once and can be controlled by voice. In a stunt worthy of the annual gadget show, International CES, Dish executive Vivek Khemka also showed off how its Hopper digital video recorder can be set to record shows using Google’s high-tech eyewear, Google Glass. The eight-show system involves Dish’s Hopper DVR and a new Super Joey add-on box for separate rooms. The catch is that four of those shows have to be from the broadcast networks ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. Dish also unveiled partnerships with LG Corp. and Sony Corp. so that Hopper users can watch recorded shows in a second room without needing a Joey. Instead, the system uses an app on a smart TV or PlayStation game console. On Monday, Dish also unveiled Joey boxes that can run wirelessly with the help of a router that sits next to the Hopper. Previously, Joey boxes had to be connected by separate coaxial cables. Now they just need power outlets. For a $12 monthly fee, TV subscribers can rent Dish’s Hopper, which can send all of a subscriber’s live and recorded shows to mobile phones and tablets. Joey box rentals for separate TVs cost up to $7 a month.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Janet Napolitano is ready for the Sochi Winter Olympics focus to turn from concerns about security and the threats of terrorism to all of the special athletes involved. Yet Napolitano, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and current president of the University of California system, fully understands the daunting task of organizing an event of this magnitude — especially in the wake of two suicide bombings last week in the city of Volgograd, 400 miles from Sochi. She is set to lead the U.S. delegation next month to the Sochi Games, selected by President Barack Obama. “Obviously, the recent bombings are a deplorable act of terrorism and are to be condemned as terrorism,” Napolitano said Monday. “At a certain point, we’re going to be able to start talking about the performance of our athletes, not the security lead up. Won’t that be nice.”

Bangladesh leaders contend for power DHAKA, Bangladesh — For two decades, the “Battling Begums” have been at the forefront of this South Asian nation’s politics, vying for power and trading insults in a poisonous rivalry. Now the longstanding enmity between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, both of whom earn the honorific “begum” for Muslim women of rank, is once again at the heart of the country’s latest political crisis. Some observers say the rivalry is standing in the way of progress and

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Liz Cheney drops her Senate bid WASHINGTON — Liz Cheney, citing “serious health issues” in her family, is ending her campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Wyoming. A statement Monday by the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney does not specify whose health has become problematic or the nature of the issue, but implies that one of her children is involved.

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The announcement comes nearly six months after Cheney, 47, picked a surprise fight within the Republican Party by challenging three-term incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi., 69, citing the need for a “new generation” of leaders to fight for conservative principles. Now, Cheney is citing family issues of a different sort for ending her campaign. “Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances I have decided to discontinue my campaign,” she said in the statement reported widely Monday. “My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign and their health and wellbeing will always be my overriding priority.” New Mexican wire services

of upcoming elections through its deep ties to Iraq’s major Shiite factions, which have dominated government offices and security forces since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Iran’s arch-foe Saddam Hussein in 2003. Iraqi government troops have surrounded Fallujah, which was overrun by fighters from al-Qaida’s Iraq branch last week. The city is just 40 miles west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. It is located in the vast Sunni-dominated and largely desert province of Anbar, which borders Syria, where al-Qaida-linked groups are among the most formidable fighters among the rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad. Al-Maliki did not say how he expects Fallujah residents and progovernment tribesmen to push out the militants. In his message, broadcast over state TV, he also urged Iraqi troops to avoid targeting residential areas.

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WASHINGTON — No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America’s couples who become pregnant while dating. Soon-to-bereleased government figures show a major cultural shift since the days of “shotgun weddings” aimed at avoiding family embarrassment. With marriage on the decline, the shift is helping redefine the traditional notion of family. “The emergence of cohabitation as an acceptable context for childbearing has changed the family-formation landscape,” said Christina GibsonDavis, a sociology professor at Duke University. “Individuals still value the idea of a two-parent family but no longer consider it necessary for the parents to be married.” In all, the share of unmarried couples who opted to have “shotgun cohabitations” — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed “shotgun marriages” for the first time over the past decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend was affirmed by three demographers who conducted separate research on the topic. It’s the latest demographic tipping point as cohabitations turn mainstream — a far cry from the days when the father of a pregnant daughter might use coercion, such as a shotgun, to make sure the boyfriend followed through on a wedding. The numbers are based on the government’s National Survey of Family Growth, typically issued every four years. Demographers say the cohabiting trend among new parents is likely to continue. Social stigma regarding out-of-wedlock births is loosening, and economic factors play a role. Cohabiting mothers are spurring increases in out-of-wedlock births, now at a high of 41 percent. In all, about 60 percent of all births during the 2000s were to married mothers, compared to 24 percent to cohabiting mothers and 16 percent to non-cohabiting mothers. That was the first time that cohabiting births exceeded births from single mothers who weren’t living with their child’s father. Since the early 1990s, the share of out-of-wedlock, cohabiting births has grown from 11 percent to 24 percent, while those to noncohabiting, single mothers has remained steady at 16 percent. Sometimes referred to as the “poor person’s marriage,” cohabitation is growing fastest among high school graduates with children. Between the 1997-2001 and 2002-2009 periods, it grew from 23 percent to 32 percent, according to Sheela Kennedy, a researcher at the University of Minnesota.

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to focus on how to nurture growth withWASHINGTON — The out putting it Senate confirmed Janet Yelinto overdrive, len on Monday as the first which could woman to lead the Federal risk fueling Reserve, elevating an advocate inflation. of fighting unemployment and “The big Janet a backer of the central bank’s debate will be Yellen efforts to spur the economy when the Fed with low interest rates and should tighten and how much, massive bond purchases. rather than when to step on the Yellen, 67, will replace Ben gas pedal and how hard,” preBernanke, who is stepping dicted Bill Cheney, chief econodown after serving as chairmist for John Hancock Financial man for eight years dominated Services, who envisions a growby the Great Recession and the ing economy this year. Fed’s efforts to combat it. Under Bernanke, the Fed has Senators confirmed her by driven short-term interest rates 56-26, with numerous absences down to near zero and flushed caused by airline flight delays money into the economy with forced by arctic temperatures huge bond purchases, which in much of the country. All it has just started to ease. Yel45 voting Democrats were len, a strong Bernanke ally, has joined by 11 Republicans in supported those policies and supporting Yellen, while is expected to continue them 26 Republicans voted “no.” until concrete signs emerge of Vice chairwoman of the Fed sustained improvement of the since 2010, Yellen begins her economy and job market. four-year term as leader of the In a written statement, Presicentury-old bank on Feb. 1. dent Barack Obama said Yellen’s With the economy rebounding approval means “the American people will have a fierce chamfrom the depths of the recespion” who will protect them. sion but only modestly so far, “I am confident that Janet will many economists expect her The Associated Press

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Dangerous temps push across U.S. behind another winter wallop: more than a foot of snow and The Associated Press high winds that made traveling treacherous. Several deaths since MINNEAPOLIS — The cold- Saturday were blamed on the est, most dangerous blast of snow, ice and cold, including a polar air in decades gripped the 1-year-old boy who was in a car Midwest and pushed toward the that collided with a snowplow East and South on Monday, closMonday in Missouri and three ing schools and day care centers, fatal accidents in Michigan. grounding flights and forcing On the East Coast, temperapeople to pull their hoods and tures in the 40s and 50s Monday scarves tight to protect exposed skin from nearly instant frostbite. helped melt piles of snow from Many across the nation’s mid- a storm last week, raising the risk that roads would freeze section went into virtual hiberover as the cold air moved in nation, while others dared to venture out in temperatures that Monday night, said Bob Oravec from the Weather Prediction plunged well below zero. Center in College Park, Md. “I’m going to try to make it two More than 3,700 flights blocks without turning into crying man,” said Brooks Grace, who were canceled by late Monday was out to do some banking and afternoon. Airline officials said shopping in Minneapolis, where de-icing fluid was freezing, fuel was pumping sluggishly, and temperatures reached 23 below with wind chills of minus 48. “It’s ramp workers were having difficulty loading and unloading lugnot cold — it’s painful.” gage. JetBlue Airways stopped The mercury also dropped all flights to and from New York into negative territory in Miland Boston on Monday. Southwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, which set a record for the date at west ground to a halt in Chicago earlier in the day, but by the minus 16. Wind chills across the region were 40 below and colder. evening, flights resumed in “a trickle,” a spokesman said. Records also fell in Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana. Forecasters said 187 million people in all could feel the effects of the “polar vortex” by the time it spread across the country Monday night and Tuesday. Record lows were possible in the East and South, with highs in the single digits expected Tuesday in Georgia and Alabama. Subzero wind chills were forecast up and down the coast, including minus 10 in Atlanta and minus 12 in Baltimore. For a big swath of the Midwest, the subzero cold moved in By Rick Callahan and Steve Karnowski

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stand up for American workers, protect consumers, foster the stability of our financial system and help keep our economy growing for years to come,” Obama said. Lobbyists for the banking and financial services sectors issued statements pledging to work with Yellen. Both industries have led a fight to water down restrictions imposed by Obama’s 2010 law overhauling how the nation’s financial system is regulated. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Yellen previously headed the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, chaired President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and has been an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Yellen, who as an academic has focused on unemployment and its causes, is considered a “dove” who wants the Fed more focused on creating jobs because unemployment is high and inflation is low. “Hawks” on these issues prefer a stronger emphasis

on preventing inflation. In brief debate on her nomination, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, lauded Yellen, who was one of the first to warn in 2007 of a housing bubble that could burst and damage the entire economy. “She understands how risky financial practices deep inside the largest Wall Street banks can have a terrible and terrifying impact on American families,” Brown said. But Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, criticized Yellen for supporting the Fed’s “easy money” policies of low interest rates and bond purchases. “No one can deny that the risks are real and could be devastating” if those policies continue for too long, Grassley said. Yellen’s GOP critics have said the Fed has inflated stock and real estate prices by pumping money into the markets, creating investment bubbles that could burst and wound the economy anew.

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https://mbc.box.com/s/ qsr3hkf6hx8pxrbg26xq 3. Project Scope: A new 2 story, 34,000 sf new classroom building for Santa Fe Community College. 4. Pre-bid Meetings: on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 2:00 PM MDT at the college campus in the board room. 5. Pre-bid RFI Deadline: 10 days prior to bid date. Submit your questions to canvik@mccarthy.com Subcontractor Qualification Requirements 1. Bid Form and Front End Documents: All bidders are required to use the bid form to submit their bid and comply with the Front End Documents. 2. Minimum Wage: All bidders must comply with the New Mexico State minimum wage rates (Part of Project Manual). 3. Bid Bond: Bid Bonds are required for any proposals of $125,000 or greater (except for material supply only bid the limit is $500,000). 4. Insurance: Reference insurance requirements as listed in the Front End Documents for work category specific insurance requirements. 5. All proposers must have current NM License at time of bid. 6. All proposers must have current NM Department of Labor Work Force Solution number. 7. All proposers are required to submit prequalification information by the bid time. If you are not prequalified with McCarthy NM please utilize the following link to provide the required information: https://prequalification. mccarthy.com. Please do not leave any boxes blank or your application will not be processed. Any information you do not wish to provide, please enter $0 or NA in the boxes. If you have any questions while filling out the McCarthy prequalification please e-mail Kristin Kerr at kkerr@mccarthy. com. McCarthy NM reserves the right to disqualify any proposal based on any of the following factors: financial standing, prior experience, safety rating (EMR), prior performance, schedule adherence, key team member credentials, bid proposal form completeness, prequalification status or any other factor deemed material by McCarthy, NM.

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Strengthening Santa Fe’s Creative Economy

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Speed: SUVs have proved controversial since program began in ’09 Continued from Page A-1 Since the program’s beginnings in 2009, the SUVs have stirred controversy. Perhaps the most notorious expression of displeasure with the program came in April 2012, when a man wearing a nightshirt fired multiple gunshots at one of the unmanned vehicles in the middle of the night, knocking the SUV out of commission

for several months. In September 2012, the city increased the size of its fleet — from two SUVs to three — to monitor more traffic areas. In October 2012, the city started deploying the speed SUVs daily, instead of just Monday through Friday. Redflex, owned by an Australian company, also operates throughout the United States and Canada.

Speed SUVs are only permitted to park along city streets, not those maintained by the state, which means major roadways such as St. Francis Drive, Cerrillos Road and St. Michael’s Drive haven’t been scrutinized by the enforcement vehicles. Additionally, the SUVs require at least 150 feet of straight road for the camera to read speeds correctly, although the program coordinator said

operators prefer about 300 feet. Roads also must be wide enough so that an SUV can be parked without impeding vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Private property owners can volunteer to let the SUVs park on their property. During the school year, operators park two of the city’s SUVs in school zones in the morning and afternoon, and they relocate the vehicles at other times. The third vehicle stays in the

same place all day. Operators don’t move the SUVs around on weekends. Citations issued from unmanned radar-and-camera setups don’t affect a motorist’s driving record or insurance. However, unpaid tickets are reported to a collection agency. Contact Chris Quintana at 986-3093 or cquintana@sfnewmexican.com.

Flu: Health experts recommend vaccine Continued from Page A-1 get vaccinated as much,” Smelser said. The universal message trumpeted by public health organizations during the outbreak is to get vaccinated. “It’s not too late to get a vaccine,” said Dr. Wendy Johnson, medical director for La Familia Medical Center in Santa Fe, which focuses on health care for the uninsured. Flu shots are available from local pharmacies, La Familia and other health care providers. Smelser said there is an ample supply of vaccination doses in New Mexico, and that the vaccine’s makeup is particularly effective for combating the strain worming its way across the state. To avoid contracting or spreading the flu, the American Red Cross recommends covering one’s nose and mouth with a tissue when sneezing or coughing. When a tissue isn’t

available, aim for your elbow, not your hand. Wash hands often, particularly after coughing or sneezing. Avoid touching the eyes, nose or mouth. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. For those who exhibit flu-like symptoms — high fever, runny or stuffy nose, coughing, headaches, aches and pains, diarrhea or vomiting — Johnson recommends seeing a health care provider immediately. Medications that can ease the illness are most effective when administered during the first 48 hours. She also recommends plenty of sleep and fluids. Johnson also warned people with flu-like symptoms to be considerate of those who are not sick and avoid exposing them to illness. “Don’t try to be a hero and go to work,” she said. “Call in sick.” Contact Patrick Malone at 986-3017 or pmalone@ sfnewmexican.com.

Forum: Candidates quick on their feet Continued from Page A-1 to make sure that we had incentives to expand our film economy,” Gonzales said, referring to the state senator and state representative, respectively. “I did not like parts of the provision, of that corporate tax cut that took away the hold harmless. But what I did like about it is that what Peter fought for for so many years got accomplished,” he said. “He created a level playing field for small businesses that were having to lose out to the corporate loopholes of Wal-Mart. And Brian’s efforts to make sure that we were able to expand our film economy, so let’s be clear about that.” Gonzales said he was in the best position to remedy the situation. “We need an individual who can go back, who has relationships with the Legislature and restore the hold harmless so that Santa Fe isn’t harmed the way Councilor Bushee is talking about, which will happen,” he said. “We need to be able to correct that issue.” The forum, sponsored by the Santa Fe Neighborhood Network, is the first in a series before the March 4 election. The third mayoral candidate, City Councilor Bill Dimas, has said he won’t attend any of the forums. Dimas said questions are often planted and that forums aren’t the best way to communicate with voters. Bushee, a businesswoman who has served on the City Council for two decades, portrayed herself as the experienced candidate who is ready to hit the ground running. “I’m the best-qualified candidate to be your next mayor,” she said. Gonzales, a former county commissioner and regent at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, portrayed himself as someone who would tackle issues from a regional perspecFrom left, mayoral candidates Javier Gonzales and Patti Bushee participate in a forum at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center on Monday. JANE PHILLIPS THE NEW MEXICAN

The candidates answered a wide range of questions, from whether they supported the proposed charter amendments to create a strong mayor form of government — they do — to how they would address public safety issues and involve youth. tive and work with diverse groups. The two candidates answered a wide range of questions, from whether they supported the proposed charter amendments to create a strong mayor form of government — they do — to how they would address public safety issues and involve youth. Both candidates were quick on their feet. The only pause came from Gonzales when the pair were asked about potential conflicts of interest. Gonzales said he could think of two: his family’s radio station, which the city pays for advertising, and his job as vice president of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Rosemont Realty. “The important thing to that is disclosure and making sure that there’s a process to address those issues,” he said, “and certainly I would be prepared to do that if I get the opportunity to be mayor of Santa Fe.”

Gov. Susana Martinez announced her $6.07 billion budget proposal Monday at Acequia Madre Elementary School. The budget includes $14.2 million for pay increases for state workers, and pay for beginning teachers also would rise to $33,000 from $30,000. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Budget: $2.94B for educational reforms Continued from Page A-1 ees with the right-size pay increase, and it makes it easier to hire and retain new workers.” Her budget includes $14.2 million for pay increases for state workers in what she says are “positions that are traditionally the hardest to recruit and retain.” Pay for beginning teachers also would rise to $33,000 from $30,000. The proposal calls for stipends to reward the state’s top-performing teachers — a plan that is opposed by teachers unions because the raises are based partly on how much student test scores improve. The amount the governor proposes is just a fraction of the $103 million for raises proposed by the Legislative Finance Committee, nearly half of which would be used for a 1.5 percent bump in pay for all employees. The committee’s proposal also includes money for even higher raises for many workers, including state police. Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, D-Santa Fe, who chairs the committee, said he wasn’t happy with Martinez’s proposal. “The rest of the employees are left behind,” he said. Martinez, meanwhile, criticized the lawmakers’ proposed budget for not providing enough for education reforms she wants. “New funding for educational reform is virtually nonexistent” in the Legislative Finance Committee budget, she said. As she did last year, Martinez chose a local school — in this case, Acequia Madre Elementary, which received a B under Martinez’s new A-F school grading system — to announce her proposed budget. The lion’s share of her remarks dealt

with education. Roughly $2.94 billion (44 percent) of her $6.07 billion budget is targeted at educational reforms. Education, under the Martinez budget, would get $100 million in new funding. That includes $15.5 million for the governor’s “New Mexico Reads to Lead” plan, which supports early-childhood reading initiatives to identify and help students in kindergarten through third grade who are having trouble with reading. For the past few years, Martinez has pushed for legislative support for such initiatives, including mandatory retention for third-graders who can’t read at grade level. Another $9 million of that education money is earmarked toward improving student achievement in schools with grades of C, D or F. In the past two years, the governor only funneled that money into D and F schools. Martinez also wants to allocate $36 million in pre-kindergarten and earlygrades programs — an increase of $5 million over last year’s funding, she noted — as well as $2.5 million to recruit math and science teachers in communities that need them, plus $1.5 million to expand so-called “parent portals,” which allow parents to follow their children’s academic standing online. The governor also said she wants to increase state funding for textbooks and instructional materials to $30 million from $21 million. Martinez also is pushing for $11 million from the state’s general fund to shore up the state’s flagging lottery scholarship program, which uses lottery revenue to offer full college tuition to eligible New Mexico students, through the spring of 2014. Lottery revenues for the program have

Budget highlights Here are highlights of budget proposals released Monday by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez for the upcoming 30-day session of the Legislature. u Almost $2.7 billion for public schools in the fiscal year starting next July. That’s a nearly $100 million or 3.9 percent increase. The Legislative Finance Committee has recommended a 5.6 percent or $143 million increase, which includes more than $60 million for pay raises for teachers and other educational workers. The governor’s budget doesn’t allocate money for across-the-board pay raises for educators. However, Martinez recommended nearly $6.5 million to boost the starting salary for teachers to $33,000 from $30,000, and the governor proposed nearly $12 million for meritbased pay for teachers and principals.

u Nearly $817 million for colleges and universities, an increase of about $21 million or 2.6 percent. The legislative panel proposed a 5.1 percent increase for higher education. u About $917 million for Medicaid, which provides health care for the needy. That’s a reduction of slightly more than 1 percent or nearly $12 million from this year. The administration projects a state aid savings for the program next year because the federal government is providing additional money as New Mexico expands eligibility to cover more low-income adults. The administration took some of the projected Medicaid savings and directed it for proposed increases in reimbursements for nursing homes and additional behavioral health services. The LFC has recommended $905 million for Medicaid, about a

stalled at about $40 million a year, while there is about $60 million in student demand for the scholarships. Every year, the fund covers tuition for about 13,000 students who attend any of the state’s 25 public colleges. But beyond the fix for next semester, she said, general fund money shouldn’t be used to keep the scholarship program going. However, Varela later commented, “Why not use general fund dollars? These laws are not etched in stone.” Martinez’s budget calls for $2 million for new water research as well as $450,000 to establish two funds designed to help communities and provide technical assistance to prevent emergencies. Martinez previously has proposed spending $112 million — about 60 percent of the state’s capital outlay funds — on water infrastructure. The governor’s budget includes $20 million for back pay to state workers because of a court ruling last year in a dispute that began during former Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration. Martinez, a Republican who is seeking re-election this year, stressed several times during the news conference the need to work with the Democrat-controlled Legislature in a bipartisan fashion. She said she and lawmakers from both parties want to improve education, diversify the state economy and improve water infrastructure. “I believe we can come to agreement,” she said. “We have good relationships with each other. We are professionals. … We have done it before.” Contact Steve Terrell at 986-3037 or sterrell@sfnewmexican.com. Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@ sfnewmexican.com.

2.7 percent reduction. u $14.2 million targeted pay raises for certain hardto-fill jobs in state government, including $4.5 million for state police and the rest for other positions, including prison guards, social workers and information technology employees. The LFC has recommended nearly $103 million for salary increases, including a minimum 1.5 percent for all workers in state agencies, courts, public schools and colleges. The legislative panel proposed money for additional raises to be made at the discretion of agencies and schools, and for certain jobs such as state police, judges, district attorneys, social workers and educational assistants in schools. u $16 million to shore up a lottery-financed college scholarship program to avoid cuts for students in the spring semester. The LFC proposed $11 million. The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition for New

Mexico high school graduates who attend a public college or university in the state and maintain a certain grade point average. The program is running short of money because tuition increases and demand for scholarships are growing faster than lottery revenue. Lawmakers are expected to consider changes to the program to keep it solvent in the future. Among the proposals is to provide students with a flat dollar amount for scholarships rather than linking the awards to tuition. The governor said Monday she opposed using general tax money in the future to keep the program solvent and hoped lawmakers would revamp the program to keep costs within yearly lottery revenues. u Nearly $2.6 million for tax incentives to encourage investment in startup and technology companies. The Associated Press

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Waiting game

Fans brave cold for best ‘Game of Thrones’ seats at Jean Cocteau Cinema

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Martinez won’t seek gay marriage amendment By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Author George R.R. Martin walks by the Jean Cocteau Cinema, where people were lined up all day Monday to see the first three episodes of Game of Thrones. Free Monday screenings will continue through March, with two to three episodes shown weekly.

Stratton Garrett, who, like Girard, watched the series and then read the books. he temperature was in the The Jean Cocteau theater has single digits when Santa about 125 seats, and it was firstFeans Britton Girard and come, first-served for Monday’s his mother, Robin Davidscreening. According to Girard, son, showed up outside the Jean Davidson and Garrett, the box Cocteau Cinema on Montezuma office was not going to open until Avenue at 7:30 a.m. Monday. 5 p.m., but they wanted to make They wanted to be the first sure they got first pick of those in line to get tickets for the seats. 7 p.m. screening of three episodes By 4 p.m., about 25 people were of HBO’s popular series Game in line for the event. of Thrones, which is based on Martin has arranged with HBO the books by Santa Fe resident to screen the entire series of the George R.R. Martin. Martin, who three-season show on Mondays purchased the Jean Cocteau last through March 24. Martin has spring, planned to be on hand said he plans to set up some to introduce the series and meet Skype interviews with Game of fans. Thrones actors as part of the Jean “To hear [Martin] speak about Cocteau screenings. the show is a unique opportuThe first of Martin’s medieval nity,” said Girard, who got turned sci-fi books was published in the onto the books after seeing a few mid-1990s. It has since grown into episodes of the series. His mother a cultural enterprise that includes has never read the books. “I just fan sites, games and the television watch the show,” she said. series. The final episode of the Both were bundled up in layers third season drew about 5.4 milof clothing. “I’m basically wearing lion viewers. a blanket,” Girard said. Since taking over the Jean Martin heard about the early Cocteau last spring, Martin has birds and sent some aides over worked to schedule an eclectic to bring them hot coffee, doughmix of films, from classic sci-fi nuts and free Game of Thrones films (1956’s Forbidden Planet) to blankets. Joining Girard and Abbott and Costello comedies to new independent and foreign Davidson at about 11:30 a.m. was

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

Robin Davidson and her son, Britton Girard, 24, were the first two people to line up Monday for free tickets to the Game of Thrones marathon at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. The pair arrived at 7:30 a.m. and met author George R.R. Martin, who got them blankets, coffee and doughnuts while they waited. The next set of people arrived between 11:30 a.m. and noon. By 4 p.m., about 25 people were waiting. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

releases — as well as 1930s-era Busby Berkeley musicals, including Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney. The Jean Cocteau Cinema originally opened in the mid-1970s as an independent art house, and the Tranx Lux theater chain bought it in the mid-1980s. Tranx

Lux closed it in 2006, and Martin reopened it in August 2013. Though it still sports a 35 mm projector, about 90 percent of its cinematic offerings are shown on digital video. Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

Sen. suggests postponing Skandera vote Committee head: Confirmation hearing too time consuming By Milan Simonich

The New Mexican

Hanna Skandera has waited three years for the state Senate to vote on whether she should be confirmed or rejected as secretary of public education in New Mexico. In an unusual suggestion, state Sen. John Arthur Smith says the wisest course the Senate could take at this stage is to push back Skandera’s confirmation vote for yet another year. “We’re in session for only 30 days,” Smith said of the legislative session that convenes Jan. 21. “Do we want to take a lot of that time on a confirmation hearing when someone is in the last year of a term?” Smith, D-Deming, heads the Senate Finance Committee. He said experience has taught him that a few contentious issues can consume much of a legislative session that should be devoted to fine-tuning the state budget. He said critical time would be saved

by delaying a vote on Skandera until 2015. But Sen. Linda Lopez already has received enormous criticism for not scheduling a vote on Skandera in the past three legislative sessions, two of which lasted 60 days. Republican Gov. Susana Martinez selected Skandera to head the public education system in January 2011. Martinez was one of many who last year criticized Lopez for inaction on Skandera’s confirmation. Now Lopez is one of five Democrats running for governor. She promised late last year that she would hold a vote in 2014 on Skandera’s nomination, but Lopez could not be reached for comment on Smith’s recent suggestion for another delay. Lopez is chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, which means she decides when nominees for cabinet positions receive confirmation hearings. Lopez, D-Albuquerque, launched Skandera’s hearing last February. But after 10 hours of testimony across three days, Lopez halted the hearing, saying she wanted to gather more details on Skandera’s performance.

Smith’s idea for another delay did not interest Sen. Mark Moores, who serves with Lopez on the Rules CommitHanna tee. Skandera “It’s time that we vote,” said Moores, R-Albuquerque. “We’ve already spent a lot of hours on this, so I think we can do it timely.” Sen. Bill O’Neill, D-Albuquerque, said he saw no point in waiting any longer on Skandera’s confirmation. “The public really wants us to act,” he said. More than 160 people testified about Skandera during last year’s hearing. They were about evenly split as to whether she should be confirmed. Skandera, 40, has never been a classroom teacher or principal. Her critics have included numerous teachers who said she doesn’t understand the challenges or problems they face each day. Before coming to New Mexico, Skandera held jobs in the educa-

tion departments of California and Florida during Republican administrations. But her supporters include Arne Duncan, who is President Obama’s secretary of education. Duncan has praised Skandera as a strong leader for better schools. A state Senate vote on Skandera could be close and contentious. Democrats control the Senate 25-17. Skandera would need the votes of all the Republicans, plus at least four Democrats, to be confirmed. A 21-21 tie on her nomination would be broken by Republican Lt. Gov. John Sanchez, who would vote for Skandera. Larry Behrens, a spokesman for the Public Education Department, said that, after all these years, a vote on Skandera could be speedy. “We obviously think the secretary can and should be confirmed this session if certain legislators set their political agendas aside,” Behrens said. “The confirmation could happen quite quickly, just as it could’ve been held three years ago.” Contact Milan Simonich at 986-3080 or msimonich@ sfnewmexican.com.

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Gov. Susana Martinez said at a news conference Monday that she won’t push for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in New Mexico in the upcoming legislative session. Martinez said many times last summer — when several county clerks across the state began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples — that she believed state voters should decide the issue by way of a ballot question on whether to amend the state constitution. “I think what I said before was that yes, the people should have decided on it, but the Supreme Court has decided,” the governor said Monday when asked by a reporter about the issue. “And it’s now the law of the land.” Asked whether that meant she wouldn’t push for the Legislature to pass a measure like Sen. Bill Sharer’s Senate Joint Resolution 6, Martinez responded, “It’s the law of the land. The Supreme Court has spoken.” Sharer’s measure would put on the general election ballot a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. Proposed amendments to the constitution aren’t subject to a governor’s veto. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled last month that it violates the state constitution to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. Immediately following the decision, county clerks across the state began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. The court rejected the main argument by a group of lawmakers, including Sharer, that the state has an interest in not allowing gays to marry because children do better when raised by a mother and a father. Eight counties, including Santa Fe County, had been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for several months. Some, like Santa Fe, did so at the order of state district judges. But some county clerks, such as Doña Ana’s County’s Lynn Ellins, did so on their own interpretation of state law, which didn’t expressly prohibit or allow gay marriage. On the day of the high court’s Dec. 19 decision, Martinez released a statement that seemed to imply that there are more important issues for the state to deal with. “While there will surely be intense debate about this decision moving forward, I encourage New Mexicans to continue to respect one another in their discourse, as this is an important issue for many New Mexicans on both sides,” the statement said. “As we move forward, I am hopeful that we will not be divided, as we must come together to tackle very pressing issues, like reforming education and growing our economy, in the weeks and months ahead.”

Meat plant’s lawyer plans suit against AG By Milan Simonich The New Mexican

The lawyer for a proposed horse-slaughter plant filed notice Monday that he intends to sue New Mexico Attorney General Gary King for malicious abuse of the court system. Blair Dunn sent a letter to the state government saying that he will sue King for harassing the slaughterhouse with the substantial resources of his taxpayer-funded office. Written notice is required before a lawsuit can be brought against the state, Dunn said. Dunn represents Valley Meat Co., a business near Roswell that plans to slaughter horses and ship the meat to international markets. King last month filed a lawsuit in state court to stop the company from opening. He said Valley Meat poses environmental and health risks to state residents. Dunn said political gain, not the public interest, motivated King to sue the company. King is one of five Democrats running for governor, and he hopes to use the horse-slaughter case to generate campaign contributions, Dunn said. King’s press secretary, Phil Sisneros, said Dunn’s allegations had no merit. “We’ve taken a very strong stand against the horseslaughtering plant. The lawsuit [by Dunn] is an attempt to intimidate this office from protecting the state’s interests,” Sisneros said in an interview. King’s legal team recently told a judge that the food chain could be contaminated if the horse-slaughter plant goes into operation. Dunn said the U.S. Department of Agriculture has regulatory authority over meat-packing plants, and it would make sure the public was safe. Dunn said King has no jurisdiction in the horse-slaughter case, but was harassing the company through the courts. In a separate notice, Dunn told the state he also intended to sue King for defamation. That complaint will include Sisneros and the Attorney General’s Office as a whole. Dunn, 31, said King’s staff had attacked his professional ability and libeled him. “Mr. Sisneros has made public statements to members of the press that were intentionally defamatory and were made with the intention to harm Mr. Dunn’s growing reputation as a young, capable and dedicated attorney,” said Dunn’s lawyer, Martin Threet. Threet said King had sanctioned Sisneros’ comments against Dunn. A hearing on King’s lawsuit against the horseslaughter plant is scheduled for Jan. 13 in Santa Fe.

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Driver shot by cop still in hospital A 72-year-old wrong-way driver who fled from state police on Interstate 25 near Las Vegas, N.M., and later was shot by New Mexico State Police was in stable condition Monday at University Hospital in Albuquerque, police said.

A state police news release said the injuries to Albert Urban of Hamburg, N.Y., were not lifethreatening. Police planned to monitor the suspect while he receives medical care and eventually book him into the San Miguel County jail. Urban faces two counts of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer and a count of aggravated fleeing from a law enforcement officer. The release stated that Urban’s bond was set at $100,000 cash. The statement said state

officers received a tip at about 10:40 p.m. Saturday that a motorist about 20 miles south of Las Vegas was driving north in Interstate 25’s southbound lanes. Officers located Urban’s vehicle and tried to pull him over, then unsuccessfully tried to stop Urban’s vehicle using a spike strip, the release stated. State officers forced Urban to stop with a maneuver in which officers use the nose of a patrol car to knock a fleeing vehicle out of control. Following the maneuver, Urban drove his

vehicle “aggressively towards one of the officers,” the statement said, and police responded by firing at the vehicle shortly before midnight, a state police spokesperson said.

County: Revelers used cab program Santa Fe County officials say more than 250 people took advantage of $1 cab rides between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as part of the

county’s anti-DWI program. The Chauffeur and Designated Driver, or CADDy, program seeks to encourage safety on the streets by offering subsidized one-way cab rides from 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m Friday and Saturday nights and certain holidays. The program is targeted toward people headed home from restaurants, bars or other drinking spots. Peter Olson, a DWI prevention specialist with the county, said in an email Monday that 269 people took 147 cab rides

home on the New Year’s holiday. On a typical night from July to December, about 223 took advantage of the program. Effective Jan. 3, the county increased the cost of a ride under the program to $5 for one or two passengers and $10 for three or more riders. The DWI program covers up to a $25 cab fare, after which the rider has to cover the remaining costs. Tips for the cab driver aren’t included. Staff and wire services

Man indicted in kidnapping case Funeral services and memorials By Phaedra Haywood

The woman escaped and called police, A 21-year-old hearingwho arrested impaired man accused of Catron near assaulting and attempting to his home abduct a woman outside a in Eldorado downtown bar in December about three has been indicted on charges hours later. of kidnapping, aggravated bat- Ryan Catron Catron is tery and resisting evading or being held at obstructing a police officer. the Santa Fe County jail in lieu New Mexico State Police of posting a $100,000 bond. called in a helicopter to help Catron also has drunkenthem track Ryan Catron at his driving charges pending Eldorado home after the Dec. 1 against him in relation to an incident in which he allegedly October incident in which a asked a 26-year-old woman bartender at Cheeks accused outside the El Paseo Bar and him of stalking her. Grill on Galisteo Street for a Catron also has been accused ride to his own vehicle a few of child solicitation in Indiana in blocks away, then choked her relation to an incident in which he allegedly gave alcohol and and tried to force her into his car, according to police reports. marijuana to a 12-year-old and The New Mexican

a 13-year-old last May, according to Santa Fe New Mexican archives. District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer has signed an extradition warrant that orders Catron to be transported back to Indiana to face those charges after his New Mexico cases have been settled. Catron’s lawyer, public defender Matt Swessinger filed a motion Friday asking the judge to waive the deadline for pleading not guilty by reason of insanity on the grounds that discovery in the case is not likely to be completed by Catron’s scheduled arraignment Jan. 10 and “because a 20-day deadline for pleading this defense is not practicable for an attorney carrying a public defender’s standard caseload,” according to court documents.

Event to address problems facing creative workforce creative workforce in Santa Fe have expressed to us through the survey,” said Kris Swedin, Santa Fe is losing its young director of community action workers because the city lacks for Creative Santa Fe. affordable housing, according The survey, which was to an online survey sponsored posted online from May by Creative Santa Fe, a nonuntil August, also found that profit that promotes the city’s 49 percent of the people polled creative industries. would qualify for the affordCreative Santa Fe and Art able housing program in Santa Space, a national nonprofit arts Fe County, Swedin said. Any organization, will present the homebuyer whose income is full results of the three-month at or below the area’s median survey of Santa Fe County income can apply to purchase musicians, artists, writers and a home in the through the other creative people during a county’s affordable housing free public event Wednesday program. at the New Mexico History “The need for affordable livMuseum’s auditorium. ing [and] workspace is high in A preliminary release of the Santa Fe County,” said David survey results showed 80 perGriscom, the manager of Santa cent of those who participated Fe County’s Economic Develin the online poll and plan to opment Department, in a news move out of Santa Fe said they release. would reconsider if the city Swedin said the point of had more affordable housing or Wednesday’s event is to raise workspace available. awareness in the community “We have found that it about the need for more affordis a problem based on the able housing and workspace for people who work in creresponses that people in the By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

If yOU GO What: Santa Fe Arts and Creativity Center survey results Where: New Mexico History Museum auditorium, 113 Lincoln Ave. When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

he got the bill at the store and then fled. Police took the counterfeit bill as evidence. u A man in the 3300 block of Cerrillos Road reported that between 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday someone stole a bottle of Lortab, a prescription painkiller, from his home. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u County deputies arrested Jennifer McCarthy, 48, of Santa Fe on a charge of battery against a household member following an argument Saturday at a home on Aventura Road. The victim told deputies McCarthy pointed a handgun at his head, but he was able to wrest it away from her. McCarthy was released Sunday on a $5,000 surety bond. u Someone stole a purse containing jewelry, a wallet and cash on Buffalo Thunder Trail sometime Sunday. u County deputies arrested a 17-year-old male on a charge of distribution of a controlled substance Sunday following a traffic stop at Agua Fría Street and Jemez Road. u Christopher Chino, 31, of Rio Rancho was arrested Sunday

Richard was born June 5, 1947, died peacefully on December 2, 2013. Rick is survived by his love, Angela Powers; his stepmother, Clara Money; brothers John Money (wife, Flo), Donald Money (wife, Kathy), Robert Money (wife Rebecca), Michael Money (wife Margaret); sisters Carol Lushbough (husband John), Valerie Hand (husband Daniel), Veronica Allander (husband Krag), Helen Quintana (husband Ray), Mary Money-Gallegos (husband Ronald). Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Española, New Mexico. STEVEN RAY HOLLIS "GRANDPA" 11/5/58 ~ 12/22/13

ERNEST GONZALES Ernest J. Gonzales passed into Our Lord’s Arms on January 4, 2014 surrounded by his loving family. Ernest was born on September 17, 1940 in Taos, NM to Rafaelita and Armando Gonzales. He grew up and attended school in Taos, NM. He met his sweetheart Fabie and they married on February 11, 1961. Ernest and Fabie moved to Santa Fe where they started their family and raised their four children: Steve, Joseph, Edward and Annette. Ernest worked for the Highway Department and retired in 1988 with 30 years of service. Ernest and Fabie are devout parishioners of St. John’s the Baptist Catholic Church and involved in many ministries. Ernest was a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus, Santa Fe Assembly #685 and a Charter Member of the St. John’s Council #13699. Ernest and Fabie traveled to many destinations upon retirement and lived a very fulfilled life. On September 4, 2013 Ernest was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor which rapidly declined his health. On January 4, 2014 Ernest lost his battle with the illness and went to our Heavenly Father. Ernest is preceded in death by infant Grandson Jerome Baca, parents Armando and Rafaelita Gonzales, and father and mother inlaw Marcos and Matilde Ortiz. Ernest is survived by wife Fabie, sons Steve wife Bernadette, Joseph wife Dolores, Edward wife Libby and daughter Annette Gonzales Baca. Grandchildren: Joseph, Leonard (Felicia), Steven, Marcos, Michael, Kathleen Gonzales and Justin Baca (Ashley). Brothers: Faustin (Flora) Gonzales, Bobby (Charlene) Gonzales; Sisters: Bea (Manuel) Romero, Susan (Alfred) Cordova, Celia (Joey) Fernandez, Angie (Elias) Valencia and many relatives and close friends. All services will be held at St. John’s Catholic Church. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 5:15 pm with a rosary following at 6:00 pm. Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 10:00 am with burial following at Rosario Cemetery. Serving as the Pallbearers will be his Grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, Memorial Contributions may be made to St. John’s Catholic Church: Building Fund, Soup Kitchen or Knight’s of Columbus Council #13699.

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ative fields. “The idea here is to keep creative people in our community, so they’re not all moving out,” Swedin said, “and so they can have affordable space so that they are able to spend more time working on their art-making and their creative activities, which will increase their income.” Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u Someone stole two TVs and a Nintendo Wii from a home in the 500 block of Silva Street between noon Thursday and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. u A woman reported that her niece stole 40 movies, three pairs of earrings, two necklaces and various articles of clothing from her home in the 200 block of Villa Alegre Street sometime Friday. u An Apple laptop and cash were stolen from the United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso Road, between 2 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday. u A man reported Friday that he recently started renting a home in the 400 block of Kathryn Place after paying $2,500. But he was forced to move out when he found that the man who rented him the home didn’t own the house or have the authority to rent it. u An employee at Subway, 3251 Cerrillos Road, reported that someone tried to buy a bag of chips using a counterfeit $20 bill at 9:58 a.m. Saturday. The clerk realized the bill was fake, but the suspect claimed

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on charges of battery against a household member in the 3100 block of Jemez Road. County deputies initially responded to a report of a woman screaming in the area, and they reported that Chino had struck a victim “numerous times.”

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Steve is survived by many friends, his kind giving heart will be dearly missed. Thanks to all who were there in his time of need and for your blessings and donations. RIP Grandpa

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DWI arrests u County deputies arrested Jeanette Benavidez, 54, of Santa Fe on a charge of drunken driving Sunday after they spotted her driving the wrong way on N.M. 502. u Rachelle Connor, 26, 1303 Rufina Lane Apt. 3, was arrested at 1:39 a.m. Monday on charges of drunken driving and driving without a license at Cerrillos Road and Camino Carlos Rey. u Matthew Gurule, 26, 11 Rancho Sin Vacas Road, was arrested at 2:16 a.m. Monday on charges of drunken driving and driving with a revoked license in the 4000 block of Cerrillos Road.

Speed SUVs u Mobile speed-enforcement vehicles are not out today as the city renegotiates its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems.

Gerald L. Trujillo Sr. "Jerry Man", born on January 12, 1958 in Albuquerque, NM and went home to be with the Lord Thursday, January 2, 2014. He lived in Albuquerque all his life until he met the love of his life, his beloved wife Teresa and moved to La Cienega, NM. Jerry was a devoted son, brother, husband, grandfather and friend. He was an avid carpenter, fisherman and hunter. He also enjoyed carving and woodwork. Jerry was always there to lend a helping hand. His biggest accomplishment was his children. Gerald is survived by his mother, Florence; sons, Gerald Marcos and wife, Veronica, Gerald Jr. and Christopher; daughter, Connierey; the love his life his wife, Teresa; brothers, Daniel and wife, Ida, Martin and wife, Leticia, David and wife, Annabelle, Terry and wife, Celeste; sisters, Deborah, Karen and husband, Jesse; grandchildren, Gabriel, Michael, Dominic, Joseph, Alyssa as well as many nephews, nieces, other family members and friends who loved and will miss him. A Funeral Service will be held at New Beginnings Church of God, 3601 Montgomery Blvd. NE(Corner of Montgomery and Carlisle) on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 10 am. Immediately following services, interment will take place at San Jose Church Cemetery, 136 Camino San Jose in La Cienega. Pallbearers will be his children and Richard Hollingshead, Steve Vallejos and Steve Salazar. Arrangements by Direct Funeral Services, 2919 4th St. NW ABQ. 343-8008. THANKS FROM THE FAMILY OF JERRY DALTON

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Marsha and Melissa Dalton and the rest of the Dalton family, would like to thank all who attended the memorial for their support and for the wonderful food, donations and flowers. Special thanks to Billy and Daisy, paramedics with the Glorieta Pass Fire Department; to Gina and Vanessa, Jerry’s caring nurses at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in the ICU and care and comfort unit; to neighbors Sybil Naumer, Christie Harslem and Patty Waldygo for all their help. We couldn’t have done it without you. And finally a very special thanks to Dan Johnson for officiating and giving a beautiful eulogy and service. Thank you all so much for your care and compassion during this difficult time. Jerry will be missed very much.

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Supreme Court blocks gay marriage in Utah Decision to halt unions stays while appeals court reviews ruling By Brady McCombs and Mark Sherman

The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Gay couples in Utah were thrown into legal limbo Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt to same-sex marriages in the state, turning jubilation to doubt just weeks after a judge’s ruling sent more than a thousand couples rushing to get married. The justices did not rule on the merits of the case or on same-sex marriage bans in general, leaving both

sides confident they’ll ultimately win. The decision stays in effect while the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers the long-term question of whether gay couples have a right to wed in Utah. For those couples who just got married — or were planning their nuptials — the latest twist in the legal battle clouds what was seen as a cause for celebration. “It feels like we are second-class citizens during the stay,” said Moudi Sbeity, who is waiting to get married until the legal process plays out. “There’s also the fear of the unknown of what might come next.” Sbeity and partner Derek Kitchen are among three couples who brought the Utah lawsuit that led to the sur-

prise Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, who said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated gay and lesbian couples’ constitutional rights. State officials praised Monday’s decision to put a hold on things, saying it should have come earlier. Two previous courts turned down their request for a stay. “Clearly, the stay should have been granted with the original District Court decision in order to have avoided the uncertainty created by this unprecedented change,” Gov. Gary Herbert said. The Supreme Court’s unsigned order did not indicate anyone dissented from the decision to halt samesex marriages in Utah. Justice Sonia

Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from Utah and the five other states in the 10th Circuit, turned the matter over to the entire court. Many believe the Supreme Court will settle the issue for good. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said the court’s decision indicates an interest in Utah’s case, and he hopes the justices issue a final answer. Others doubt the high court will step in any time soon. In June, the justices decided not to weigh in on the constitutionality of defining marriage as being between a man and woman, relying instead on a technical legal argument to resolve the issue in California and clear the way for same-sex marriage in the state. The ruling Monday doesn’t neces-

sarily give any indication of how the justices would rule on the issue, said Douglas NeJaime, a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. He believes justices want the issue to work its way through normal legal channels before they weigh in. Meanwhile, the state is trying to determine whether the marriages that have already taken place are still valid Marriage licenses issued in 2008 in California prior to the passage of the state’s same-sex marriage ban were eventually upheld by the state supreme court. But marriages licenses issued in San Francisco in 2004 after mayor Gavin Newsom told city officials to grant them were later invalidated by the state supreme court.

U.S. sees four straight years of declining health costs Report: ‘Obamacare’ had ‘minimal impact’ on overall spending By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

A newborn baby cries Dec. 30 while being held by a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Mofid Children’s Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Having curbed birth rates for two decades, Iran is once again promoting a baby boom to help make up for its graying population. EBRAHIM NOROOZI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iran fights falling birth rate Officials pushing baby boom to combat aging population By Ali Akbar Dareini

The Associated Press

EHRAN, Iran — In Iran, free condoms and government-backed vasectomies are out, replaced by sermons praising larger families and discussions of even offering gold coins to the families of newborns. Having successfully curbed birth rates for two decades, Iran now is promoting a baby boom to help make up for its graying population. But experts say it is difficult to encourage Iranians to have more children in a mismanaged economy hit by Western sanctions and 36 percent inflation. “A gold coin won’t change couples’ calculations,” said Mohammad Jalal Abbasi, head of Demographics Department at Tehran University. “Many young Iranians prefer to continue their studies, not marry. Lack of financial ability to buy a house and meet expenses are among other reasons why the youth postpone marriage or have no interest in raising many children.” Iran’s birthrate reached a peak of 3.6 children per couple after its 1979 Islamic Revolution, among the world’s highest at the time.

By 1990, experts estimated Iran could be home to 140 million people if the rate was left unchecked. To combat the rise, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed birth control, while then-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made controlling the birth rate a part of his development plans. Mass-produced condoms reached Iranians, as a month’s supply of birth control cost the equivalent of 10 cents in 1992. The birth rate dropped precipitously, now reportedly standing at 1.8 children per couple with a population of some 77 million people. Experts now say that drive might have been too successful, estimating that Iran’s population growth could reach zero in the next 20 years if the trend is not reversed. Fearing that population decline, the machinery of state in Iran has changed course entirely. Khamenei, who has final say over all matters of state, now says Iran should have a population of 150 million people or more. “If we move forward like this, we will be a country of elderly people in a not-too-distant future. Why do some couples prefer to have one or two children? Why do couples avoid having children? The reasons need to be studied,” the ayatollah recently said. “There was an imitation of Western life and we inherited this.” Sermons now urge worshippers to raise

more children for Iran’s future. Mahdi Sedqazar, who performed vasectomies at his government-sponsored Martyr Jafari clinic in central Tehran for a decade, now focuses on preventing AIDS and promoting factory workers’ health. “Vasectomy operations have totally stopped. They were eliminated eight months ago,” Sedqazar said. “The budget on population curbs has been halted.” Some blame a drop in marriages and a rise in divorce for the falling birth rate. Others point to Iran’s economy, battered by Western sanctions over its contested nuclear program. Inflation stands at 36 percent, President Hassan Rouhani recently said. Unemployment officially stands at 12 percent, though some private experts suggest nearly one in three working-age Iranians is out of work. “Unemployment, a lack of housing and job insecurity are the top most important reasons for decrease in fertility rate,” Abbasi said. As part of a plan to encourage Iranians to have more children, the Iranian parliament approved a bill that allows the government to increase maternity leaves to nine months from six months and to give fathers a twoweek leave. Iran’s constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, made it a law in July. Government officials also have discussed offering gold coins to newborns.

Senate delays vote on unemployment bill By David Espo

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate plunged into an election-year session Monday that promises to be long on political maneuvering and less so on accomplishment, beginning with a slow-motion struggle over legislation to renew lapsed jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. “I’m optimistic, cautiously optimistic, that the new year will bring a renewed spirit of cooperation to this chamber,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in the first remarks of the year on the Senate floor. Within moments, he pivoted, accusing Republicans of “never ending obstruction” to President

Barack Obama’s proposals over the past five years. A test vote on the unemployment bill — the year’s first showdown — was postponed at the last minute until Tuesday morning at the behest of Republicans, who noted that more than a dozen lawmakers had been unable to return to Washington because of bad weather. Even then the rhetoric was heated. “It’s transparent this is a political exercise,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, moments before Reid agreed to the delay. Democratic supporters of the three-month extension of jobless benefits said they were close to the 60 votes needed to advance the White House-backed bill.

Their chances hinged on securing backing from at least four Republicans in addition to Sen. Dean Heller of high-unemployment Nevada, a co-sponsor. The bill would restore between 14 weeks and 47 weeks of benefits to an estimated 1.3 million long-term jobless affected when the program expired on Dec. 28. Payments, which average about $256 weekly, will be cut off to thousands more in the coming weeks as their initial 28 weeks’ worth of unemployment benefits expire. The bill is the first on the Senate’s agenda for the year and part of a heaping portion of leftovers from 2013. House and Senate lawmakers

are negotiating privately over legislation to keep the government operating normally when current funding expires Jan. 15. Agreement is expected quickly, since the two sides and the White House reached agreement on an overall spending cap before adjourning for the holidays. A separate set of talks is on legislation to replace expired farm and feeding programs. And just ahead is a requirement to raise the nation’s debt limit. The House is scheduled to return from its year-end break on Tuesday, and already, majority Republicans have served notice they will continue to challenge Democrats over the health care program known as “Obamacare.”

WASHINGTON — Even as his health care law divided the nation, President Barack Obama’s first term saw historically low growth in health costs, government experts said in a new report Monday. The White House called it vindication of the president’s health care policies, but it’s too early to say if the four-year trend that continued through 2012 is a lasting turnaround that Obama can claim as part of his legacy. For the second year in a row, the U.S. economy grew faster in 2012 than did national health care spending, according to nonpartisan economic experts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s an important statistic. In most years, health care spending grows more rapidly than the economy, like bills that rise faster than your paycheck. That cost pressure steadily undermines employer insurance as well as government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. But the pattern slowed starting in 2009, and then appears to have reversed ever so slightly and tenuously. “Have we turned the corner in a sustainable way? That’s still an open question,” said economist Robert Reischauer, who serves as a public trustee overseeing Medicare and Social Security financing. “But I am more optimistic than I have ever been that fundamental changes are under way.” For example, even though baby boomers are joining Medicare in record numbers, that program’s costs are basically stable when measured on a per-patient basis, Reischauer noted. Nonetheless, America still spends a whole lot. Monday’s report found that the nation’s health care tab reached $2.8 trillion in 2012, the latest year available. Health care accounted for 17.2 percent of the economy, down from 17.3 percent in 2011. Total spending averaged $8,915 for every man, woman and child, well above the level in other advanced economies. But more spending doesn’t equate to better health. By many health measures, other countries are ahead. Also, the per-capita dollar amount doesn’t tell the full story. In any given year, most of the spending goes for the sickest patients, a small fraction of the population. The report said Obama’s health care law had only had a “minimal impact” on overall spending. It contributed less than 0.1 percent to rising costs from 2010-12, the authors said. That will change this year when the law’s big coverage expansion for the uninsured is expected to increase U.S. health spending by about 6 percent. Whether that starts a return to the old pattern of faster growth remains to be seen. The White House does not believe that will happen. “There will be a temporary, one-year increase as those folks are brought into the system, but there is very reason to believe that the trend of slowing growth rates per beneficiary will continue into the future,” said Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. “It’s increasingly clear as each year of data comes out and the slowdown persists that there is also something structural going on, and the Affordable Care Act is contributing,” he added. The report said it’s too early to discern where things might be headed next. In the past, health care spending has stabilized two to three years after an economic recession, only to resume its upward track as consumers regain confidence. More evidence is needed before concluding that there’s been a structural break in the relationship between the health sector and the overall economy, the authors said in an article published in the journal Health Affairs. Below the topline figures, spending grew faster in some areas and more slowly in others, making it more difficult to piece the puzzle together. Spending for hospital care and doctors’ services grew more rapidly. So did out-of-pocket spending by individuals. That reflects the trend of employers increasing annual deductibles and copayments to shift a greater share of medical costs directly on to employees and their families. Spending on prescription drugs barely increased, reflecting an unusual circumstance in which patent protection expired for major drugs like Lipitor, Plavix and Singulair. Generic drugs accounted for an ever-increasing share of prescriptions.

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OPINIONS E-XTRA

THE NEW MEXICAN Tuesday, January 7, 2014

e-Voices Our Web readers speak out: Sierra Club endorsement ignites war of words, Dec. 30 If there were a line on the ballot for ‘none of the “ above’ that, if carried, would require another election without the current candidates, it would be a really interesting option.” R.O.

Amazing that Patti Bushee still has so much sup“ port in this city. Look at her reaction to the news of

this endorsement folks. She acts like a spoiled child when things do not go her way. If she wants to point out records, then why don’t we take a look at hers? She has been on the City Council since I was a child. What has she done to solve the problems Santa Fe is facing right now? She has had her chance to make this city a better place to raise a family, and has failed miserably. It’s time for a change in leadership. I’m not so sure [Javier] Gonzales or [Bill] Dimas is the answer, but I do know that Bushee is deﬁnitely not the leader Santa Fe needs right now.” D.M.

It sounds like the Sierra Club process is less than “ transparent. It also sounds like the committee did not

give much weight to past actions but was listening to a line of crud. It also makes it seems that Patti Bushee did not lead while on the council. That is correct. She was marginalized and treated like [poorly] by many of the current and former members. Yet she was able to get some important legislation passed … who is the better leader? In my opinion, not the one backed by the unions or the Democratic hierarchy.” S.B.

LOOKING IN: ELIZABETH B. WYDRA

High court should follow Constitution

his time of year, most of us are reflecting on making resolutions for the new year. Over at One First Street, perhaps the Supreme Court’s justices are doing the same. But while the rest of us are vowing to get to the gym more often or eat more kale, the justices should focus on one simple resolution for 2014: Follow the Constitution. The very first case the court will hear in the New Year is NLRB v. Noel Canning, in which the justices will face an unprecedented argument that would narrow the president’s constitutional authority to make “recess appointments” to fill executive and judicial branch positions when the Senate is unavailable to give its “advice and consent” to nominations. The case has become a conservative cause célèbre — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has even been granted argument time to present the position of Senate Republicans to the court. The argument pressed in Canning, seeking to invalidate two of President Barack Obama’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board, would go against constitutional practice that dates back to our nation’s first president, George Washington, and accepted understanding of the Constitution’s text. In 2014, the Supreme Court will also decide challenges brought, as part of the ongoing conservative effort to gut “Obamacare,” by secular, for-profit corporations

and their owners to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employer-sponsored health plans include no-cost, FDAapproved contraceptives. Not once, in the more than 200 years that the First Amendment guarantee of religious free exercise, has this right been understood to countenance such claims. The court shouldn’t start now. There are also important rulings to come on questions of campaign finance, the scope of the treaty power, and environmental law and federalism. In all of these cases, the justices should resolve to follow the text and history of the Constitution. Looking back, the justices had a mixed record on this score in 2013. Consider voting rights. In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote an opinion for the majority of the court striking down Arizona’s requirement that an eligible voter provide additional, documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections, because the state requirement conflicted with a federal law aimed at encouraging Americans to exercise the right to vote. In an originalist showdown with Clarence Thomas, Justice Scalia pointed to the text of the Constitution — specifically, the Elections Clause — to demonstrate that Congress has broad power to protect the right to vote in federal elections. At a time when states are engaging in voter-suppression

efforts, Justice Scalia’s reaffirmation of sweeping congressional power under the Elections Clause is a big deal. Unfortunately, the majority in Shelby County v. Holder seemed to forget about the text and history of the Constitution as quickly as most Americans forget about their gym membership come Feb. 1. The justices did a better job honoring the Constitution’s guarantee of equality in their ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act. This ringing endorsement of the Constitution’s ideal of equal rights for all was a stellar way to end the 2012-13 Supreme Court term. While 2013 was a mixed bag in terms of constitutional fidelity at the high court, implicit in any New Year’s resolution is the idea that one can always do better. And the court will have plenty of opportunities to follow the text and history of the Constitution in 2014. Let’s just hope that by June, when the court will likely announce decisions in the term’s most high-profile cases, the justices’ resolution to follow our founding charter doesn’t go the way of many Americans’ promises to finally lose those last five pounds. The implications of allowing our Constitution to gather dust in the corner are far more serious than allowing that new treadmill to turn into a coat rack. Elizabeth B. Wydra is chief counsel at Constitutional Accountability Center.

Ms. Bushee, your words reﬂect your character. “ Saying the Sierra Club’s endorsement of Gonzales

was an ‘undeserved Christmas gift’ sounds very junior high and unprofessional. That comment alone proves the Sierra Club made the right decision. Being a leader is more than knowing and supporting issues. It’s about character.” N.R. Wire theft disrupts local business, power, Dec. 31

Yes, who is buying the copper? If there was no “ place to fence it, the thefts would end.” S.S. Copper wire theft in Hawaii left highways dark for “ months; miles of copper were stolen. What’s needed is a statewide registry of sellers of copper: car license tag, copy of driver’s license, digital photo of the seller.” J.W.

Our View: Horse slaughter — back again? Jan. 2 This may be a ﬁne business for other parts of the “ world, but America’s ties to the horse — especially

the West — should make this horriﬁc to all. The few jobs created by Valley Meat Co. in Roswell will be offset by the many dollars lost by visitors who refuse to spend any money coming to New Mexico. The Tourism Department needs to start working on a new campaign; ‘New Mexico True’ will have a very hard sell to tourists who love horses. And the governor can forget about the studios who come to ﬁlm Westerns. More business for Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah, I suppose.” J.B.

So what is the solution to horse starvation and “ population control? A creative solution would help the state reputation immensely, and be the right thing to do.” S.B.

Dimas takes pass on candidate forums, Jan. 4 Thinking on your feet and articulating your posi“ tion in a public forum is the cornerstone of running

for office. However, special interest groups can have an agenda that could blind side a candidate, but that’s where a candidate can possibly sway voters by enlightening the audience with their position on issues and platform. When are the debates scheduled? I hope that Mr. [Bill] Dimas will participate in a debate — if any exists.” R.J.

Mr. Dimas has made the right decision not to “ participate with these type of public forums because they are rigged for failure and everybody knows it! If you have resided in this community for over 30 years plus, then you would understand and agree on why Dimas decided not to participate from the misconceived notion of what a ‘democratic process’ really is prior to an election taking place.” F.C.

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LOOKING IN: ELLIOT J. MONTGOMERY

Minimum wage is essential for workers

ach time the federal or state minimum wage is due for an increase, Republicans, Libertarians and conservatives alike generally argue that a raise in the minimum wage will artificially increase prices. Some will further argue that the government should not be involved in wage setting, while the free market shall dictate the wage. As has been broadcast routinely throughout the cable news outlets, many of these minimum wage workers are considered inherently lazy, inept and not deserving of a higher wage. If they should desire a higher earning they should vote with their feet and search for a better job rather than voice their concerns through strikes and complaints. Let’s break this argument down. For starters, no creditable study has proven a correlation between a decrease in employment with a direct increase in the minimum wage. Furthermore, an increase in minimum wage accounts for a small share of production costs even if the entire cost is passed onto the consumer. Also, two thirds of the minimum wage workers work for multinational corporations like WalMart. These same multinational corpora-

tions pay much higher minimum wages in other countries already and are still very profitable. Wal-Mart pays $10.25 in Canada! However, to argue that those earning the minimum wage are indolent and solely bear the burden of their own economic situation, and to believe in-market self-regulation where unfair businesses will inevitably fail because virtuous consumers will discontinue doing business with them, falls short of reality. Ideally yes, as many Libertarians would argue, despotic businesses would eventually disappear because virtuous consumers will seek businesses with better practices, and thus the system corrects itself. However this is not observed. Instead, we find that the behavior of consumers is more complex. Consumers seek businesses for an array of reasons, some shop for what is affordable to them, some shop for products that are both optimal in quality and optimal in savings, and others just shop for what is cheap. We must ask ourselves then, in an ideal system with no lawful wage standard, should we trust businesses to be fair, or will they take advantage of the situation and pay less to increase their profits? If history has taught

us anything, the answer is obvious. Let us be aware that nowhere in the U.S. can anyone survive on the minimum wage without some sort of eventual government assistance. Very often minimum wage jobs do not come with guaranteed earned paid sick leave nor provided with employer health insurance. The same conservatives want to see fewer individuals enrolled in these so-called “entitlement programs.” But in fact, taxpayers are subsidizing the remaining cost of living of these minimum wage workers, something their employer should be doing. That’s right! Of course they don’t want to raise the minimum wage — they’d rather have you taxpayers pay the remaining cost. Imagine if the original minimum wage of 25 cents an hour was never raised — you’d live in squalor. Finally, let this resonate in your head, these same corporate conglomerates are still making record-breaking profits. Yes, record-breaking. Elliot J. Montgomery is a recent graduate from the University of Arizona in civil engineering now working and living in New Mexico.

LOOKING IN: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Defacing de Vargas sculpture a political act?

do not know who defaced the Don Diego de Vargas sculpture in December. Others besides itinerants and bored teens should be considered. The damage to the sculpture, like the damage to the Cross of the Martyrs, might be a political and historical statement against the missionaries’ and governors’ crimes. From first contact in 1540, the Spanish governors and missionaries demanded food, clothing and

land from the pueblo people and were responsible for cultural genocide. Poem Swentzell

St. Louis, Mo.

Free speech vs. hate Regarding the much-publicized Duck Dynasty TV reality show’s free-speech argument, I conclude that there is a differ-

ence between free speech and hate speech. Free speech allows the tolerance to speak one’s mind. Hate speech disallows tolerance by promoting prejudice, bigotry and sometimes, violence. It’s very clear which one the Duck Dynasty engages in. Free speech may indirectly hurt some people, but hate speech intentionally hurts others. TV stations and advertisers who promote this are complicit in condoning hate, bigotry, sex-

ism and racism. I feel that this is contrary to America’s value of equal rights for all. The price of freedom is responsibility, and true freedom has the responsibility to include tolerance, compassion, equality and safety. Otherwise, exactly what are the values of freedom that Americans have been fighting for? Sharlene White

Oceanside, Calif.

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U.S. should let NSA do its work I t’s time we all came to our senses about the National Security Agency. If it is true, as many allege, that the United States went a little nuts in its all-out pursuit of al-Qaida after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it is equally true that we are going a little nuts again in our dogged pursuit of the post-Snowden NSA. Those who advocate sharply limiting the agency’s activities ought to consider that its work is the very foundation of U.S. intelligence. I don’t mean to diminish the role of other intelligence agencies, and I say this as a 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency who is CIA through and through. But in most cases, the NSA is the starting point for determining what holes need to be filled through other means of intelligence-collection. That’s because its information on foreign developments is so comprehensive and generally so reliable. It is the core of intelligence support to U.S. troops in battle. Any efforts to “rein in” the agency must allow for the possibility that change risks serious damage to U.S. security and the country’s ability to navigate in an increasingly uncertain world. The presumption that the NSA “spies” on Americans should also be challenged. In my experience, NSA analysts err on the side of caution before touching any data having to do with U.S. citizens. In 2010, at the request of thenDirector of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, I chaired a panel investigating the intelligence community’s failure to be aware of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a commercial plane over Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. The overall report remains classified, but I can say that the government lost vital time because of the extraordinary care the NSA and others took in handling any data involving a “U.S. person.” (Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, was recruited and trained by the late Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen based in Yemen.) Regarding outrage over the NSA’s collection of tele-

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C phone calling records, or metadata, I don’t know why anyone would have greater confidence in this information being held by private companies. And given the perceived threat to privacy, it’s astonishing how little attention has been paid to the Senate commerce committee’s recent report on companies that gather personal informationon hundreds of millions of Americans and sell it to marketers, often highlighting people with financial vulnerability. Some companies group the data into categories including “rural and barely making it,” “retiring on empty” and “credit crunched: city families.” The aim is often to sell financially risky products to transient consumers with low incomes, the report found. That’s a real scandal — and a universe away from the NSA’s ethical standards and congressional oversight. The NSA, of course, is not perfect. But it is less a victim of its actions — the independent commission appointed by President Barack Obama found no illegality or abuses — than of the broad distrust of government that has taken root in the United States in recent decades. Studies by Pew and others show distrust of government around

80 percent, an all-time high. This distrust is the only logical explanation I see for fear of data being held by “the government” — and it’s not a circumstance the NSA created. Although our society lauds, in almost a Stepford Wives-like fashion, the merits of “transparency,” it lacks a collective, mature understanding of how intelligence works, how it integrates with foreign policy and how it contributes to the national welfare. Meanwhile, prurient interest in the details of leaked intelligence skyrockets, and people devour material that is not evidence of abuse but merely fascinating — and even more fascinating to U.S. adversaries. So what makes sense going forward? Clearly, the widespread perception that there is at least the “potential for abuse” when the government holds information even as limited as telephone call metadata must be addressed. The recent presidential commission recommended adding a public privacy advocate to the deliberation process of courts that approve warrants — one proposal that would do no harm. But as the administration contemplates reform, it must reject any ideas that add time and process between the moment the NSA picks up

a lead overseas and the time it can cross-check records to determine whether there is a domestic dimension to overseas plotting. As our debate continues, the terrorist threat is not receding but transforming. The core leadership of al-Qaida has been degraded and remains under pressure, but robust al-Qaida affiliates have multiplied. With the decline of central government authority in the Middle East and North Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring and the war in Syria, terrorists have the largest havens and areas for operational planning in a decade. If anything, the atomization of the movement has made the job of intelligence more labor-intensive, more detailoriented and more demanding. Now is not the time to give up any tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. The writer teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He served for 32 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, including as deputy director of intelligence from 1997 to 2000, deputy director of the agency from 2000 to 2004 and acting director of the agency from July to September 2004.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Community college ex-president should move on

Inside dreams

nce again the City Different is, well, different. Former Santa Fe Community College president Ana Guzmán has filed a request for arbitration to reclaim her job and back pay. As a part-time student at SFCC, I have watched the “fight” being waged with some concern. Guzmán’s loyalties are clearly with her own future and not with SFCC. If her concerns were with the college, she would have accepted the decision, and let the college begin the process of looking for a new president. I have been hearing negative comments from staff and students for months. While prolonging the fight may suit Guzmán’s purposes, it is distracting and harmful to the college and the student body. The article stated Ms. Guzmán has filed a complaint in court under the state Whistleblower Act (“Guzmán to fight firing with whistle-blower complaint,” Jan. 2). I have always thought that the purposed of the act was to protect employees from retaliation from supervisors and not to defend that overbearing actions of an ousted president.

Regarding former SFCC President Ana Guzmán’s “glowing” recommendations from her former college personnel, a cautionary tale: I am a retired university academic. At one time, my new department head turned out to be a two-faced, chauvinistic, dishonest bully. Virtually all of his subordinates hated and feared him, two to the point of waking during the night with panic attacks. One courageous subordinate, having more than 20 years in that department, went to our boss’s superior to tell her what was going on. Having seen only our boss’s charming side, she accused his assistant of lying. Eventually, our boss became a finalist for a position on another campus. We discussed what we would say. We unanimously decided that we would lie and make our boss sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. He didn’t get the position. He remained to fire two highly evaluated subordinates who wouldn’t kowtow and to force several others out. Beware glowing recommendations.

In 1962, I was uncertain if engineering studies were for me, so my father sent me to the psychoanalyst, and my passion for the study of human nature and my fascination with dreams began. I have studied Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and others, but I consider Jung my teacher. Jung believed that when it comes to dream interpretation there are no rules to follow. As an engineer, a scientist, I thought to myself: “There is a simple way to verify this. From now on I will enter every dream that I analyze into a database.” Today, 10 years later, this database reveals extraordinary patterns and rules that promise to change the way we understand our inner voice. The language of dreams is finally decoded. No vagueness or uncertainty, everything is precise and to the point. Empirical evidence also shows that our dreams’ common goal is to help us reach our full potential. They are always uplifting, even nightmares are most useful when you understand the language.

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ampaign strategies, obviously, are up to the candidates. But it’s hard to understand a strategy that includes avoiding large groups of voters — and that’s what Santa Fe mayoral candidate and City Councilor Bill Dimas has decided to do. Because he believes that candidate forums are primarily special interest in nature, Dimas will skip them. All of them. Instead, he will concentrate on meeting voters one-on-one and in small groups. He even included his personal number (920-4645) in his newspaper advertisement announcing his decision to bypass forums. Voters are invited to call him directly. In past years, Dimas says, he did participate in forums. This includes two successful runs for City Council and three countywide elections for magistrate. However, he writes, “I have found from past experience in forums that the questions from the audience are often ‘planted’ softball questions for the favorite candidate or ambush questions for the opposition.” What’s more, he thinks some in the race are trying to turn the election into a partisan battle, and he doesn’t want any part of that. (One opponent, Javier Gonzales, is a former state Democratic Party chairman, and another opponent, City Councilor Patti Bushee, also has been involved in Democratic Party politics. Of course, to run for magistrate, Dimas had to declare a party; he was elected as a Democrat. It’s difficult to find partisanship in an all-Democratic field.) It’s also hard to see how the Santa Fe Neighborhood Network has a partisan bone in the race. Its forum for the mayoral candidates took place Monday night. The League of Women Voters, which will hold candidate forums in February, also doesn’t rank up there on the partisanship scale. In other words, Dimas is skipping forums for little reason. As we said in 2012 after then-candidate and now state Rep. Carl Trujillo pulled out of candidate forums, voters are better served when candidates debate in public arenas. Anyone who wants to serve as mayor needs to show up and discuss the issues with the other candidates. (Of course, avoiding debates worked for Trujillo, who defeated his opponent, Mayor David Coss, to win election to the state Legislature.) A side-by-side comparison helps voters gauge candidates, though. Let’s say, for example, that attack questions are planted by the other candidates’ supporters. That’s going to happen during discussions of city business on hotly contested elections. How will a mayor-to-be respond when being publicly attacked or cornered? Can he or she keep cool under a barrage of unpleasant questioning? One of former Mayor Sam Pick’s best qualities was his ability to turn an attack around — he might have been seething, but Pick was generally able to get a laugh out of the most unpleasant questions. Once a person becomes mayor, it’s impossible to opt out of ambushes. Instead of a vigorous, three-way debate, what we will have are questions-and-answers featuring only Bushee and Gonzales. We need all three candidates on the stage, presenting their views and vision for Santa Fe so that voters can better compare and contrast. Electing a mayor is an important decision. Voters need as much knowledge of the candidates as possible. The decision by Dimas to sit out the forums might be good campaign strategy — Bushee and Gonzales can beat up on each other while Dimas floats above the fray. What it’s not is good for voters.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 7, 1914: In February 1913, W.H. Claybrook of St. Vrain, N.M., wrote the land office that his brother, Arthur A. Claybrook, who filed on a homestead in Stanley, N.M., had been found dead in the railroad yards at Bakersfield, Calif., and that the heirs wished to prove up and obtain title to the homestead. Proof was submitted and patent issued by the government to the heirs of the deceased entryman in October. Now the heirs write the land office that the entryman has been located alive in Wisoya, Calif., and want to know what to do with the patent. Jan. 7, 1989: Airline passenger service to Santa Fe and scores of other small airports nationwide is imperiled by a proposal to cut federal subsidies to carriers. Department of Transportation officials say they’ll decide this month which routes will lose funding, effective March 1, so that $6.6 million can be trimmed from the Essential Air Service program.

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A drawing from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s children’s tale The Little Prince, which is the subject of a major exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York on the 70th anniversary of the book’s publication. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘The Little Prince’ is focus of exhibit By Ula Ilnytzky

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NEW YORK ntoine de Saint-Exupery crafted The Little Prince in New York City, mentioning Rockefeller Center and Long Island in one draft of the beloved children’s tale — references he ultimately deleted. That page is contained in the French author’s original handwritten manuscript, which is the subject of a major exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum celebrating the book’s 1943 publication. The Little Prince: A New York Story, which opens Jan. 24, features 35 of his original watercolors and 25 pages from his heavily revised 140-page text, written in Saint-Exupery’s tiny script. Some visitors may be surprised to learn that The Little Prince, which has been translated into more than 250 languages and dialects, was written and first published in New York. “It’s well documented that he wrote the book here, but it’s not well known to the general public,” said Christine Nelson, curator of literary and historical manuscripts at the Morgan. “Because the manuscript brings you back to the moment of creation, we wanted to set the exhibition in the place and time of creation,” she said. “It focuses on the emergence of this work in New York during the war. He was writing it just within miles of where this exhibition is being shown.” Saint-Exupery, a French aviator and best-selling author, didn’t live to see his book published in France after the war. He died while piloting a reconnaissance flight in 1944,

Newsmakers ‘Saturday Night Live’ hires black woman

Sasheer Zamata

NEW YORK — Saturday Night Live is adding a black woman to its cast after being criticized for a lack of diversity. NBC said Monday that Sasheer Zamata will join the show later this month. She is a recent University of Virginia graduate who has worked for the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy group in New York City. SNL hasn’t had a black woman among its regular cast members since the biracial Maya Rudolph left in 2007.

‘Downton’ draws record audience for Season 4

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NEW YORK — Downton Abbey drew a record-breaking audience for Sunday’s muchanticipated season premiere. PBS and WGBHTV announced Monday that the fourthseason debut of the lush British miniseries attracted 10.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National data. Downton Abbey airs on the Masterpiece anthology, which is presented on PBS by WGBH Boston. Stars include Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Maggie Smith. The Associated Press

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7 p.m. on PBS American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook In the early 1900s, it was easy to get away with murder in New York. Poisons were in every medicine cabinet, and coroners were political appointees — often corrupt and usually incompetent. That changed in 1918, when the city hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris. He and chief toxicologist Alexander Gettler used their knowledge to bring countless killers to justice. Some of their most memorable cases are revisited here. 8 p.m. on CBS Intelligence Josh Holloway (Lost) stars in this new drama series as an intelligence operative with a little something extra: a supercomputer microchip in his brain that allows him instant access to the global information grid. Marg Helgenberger (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) plays his boss. 8 p.m. on HIST American Restoration The season opens with a pair of new episodes starting with “Armed and Rusty.” Business is booming, and Rick needs help. He takes on a new guy, Chris, and puts him to work restoring a Dale Drake scooter that arrived in pieces. When a suit of armor comes in for restora-

weeks before the liberation of Paris. The Little Prince tells the adventures of a boy who hails from a tiny asteroid no larger than a house. On his way to Earth, he visits other planets and meets a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter and a geographer. On Earth, he encounters a fox who teaches him: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Saint-Exupery came to New York after France fell to Germany in 1940. He spent two years living near Central Park and Manhattan’s East Side and renting a summer home on Long Island’s North Shore. Frequently, he wrote at the Park Avenue home of his close friend Silvia (Hamilton) Reinhardt. He entrusted his handwritten manuscript to her before he rejoined his squadron in North Africa. The Morgan acquired the manuscript from her in 1968, the museum said. SaintExupery’s French publisher, Gallimard, has just published a facsimile of the working manuscript. The exhibition also features a silver identity bracelet that Saint-Exupery was wearing when he was killed. It is on loan from Saint-Exupery’s Paris estate. The bracelet, never before exhibited in the U.S., “was recovered in 1998 after it was snagged in a fisherman’s net and bears the author’s name and the New York address of his American publisher” Reynal & Hitchcock, said Olivier d’Agay, the estate’s director. The exhibition helps “reinforce the bonds of friendship between the French and the Americans through one of the most beloved books of all time,” he added. The exhibition runs through April 27.

tion work, the guys visit a Renaissance fair to get an idea of what the finished product should look like. 8 p.m. TBS Cougar Town Jules (Courteney Cox) tries to be cool with the fact that Travis and Laurie (Dan Byrd, Busy Philipps) are dating, although the rest of the gang admits to feeling weird about it. Penny Can has gone global, and Andy and Bobby (Ian Gomez, Brian Van Holt) have money to burn. When Bobby starts spending like mad, Grayson (Josh Hopkins) reminds him about all those bar tabs he never paid in the season premiere, “All or Nothin’.” 9 p.m. on ABC Killer Women Tricia Helfer, pictured, stars in this new crime drama as Molly Parker, a Texas Ranger who, as one of the few women in this elite law enforcement outfit, knows better than her colleagues what motivates female criminals. Alex Fernandez, Marc Blucas, Marta Milans and Michael Trucco also star.

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3:00 p.m. KOAT The Ellen DeGeneres Show Courteney Cox; Timothy Olyphant; Sara Bareilles performs; guest DJ Loni Love. KRQE Dr. Phil KTFQ Laura KWBQ The Bill Cunningham Show Guests confront loved ones about their relationships. KLUZ El Gordo y la Flaca KASY Jerry Springer CNN The Situation Room FNC The Five MSNBC The Ed Show 4:00 p.m. KOAT The Dr. Oz Show Ayurveda; a threeday detox; dehydration; home beauty treatments; Aarti Sequeira. KTEL Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste KASY The Steve Wilkos Show FNC Special Report With Bret Baier 5:00 p.m. KASA Steve Harvey

KCHF The 700 Club KASY Maury FNC On the Record With Greta Van Susteren 6:00 p.m. CNN Anderson Cooper 360 FNC The O’Reilly Factor 7:00 p.m. CNN Piers Morgan Live MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 8:00 p.m. CNN AC 360 Later E! E! News FNC Hannity 9:00 p.m. FNC The O’Reilly Factor TBS Conan 9:30 p.m. MTV Wolf Watch Tyler Posey and Dylan O’Brien discuss Teen Wolf. 10:00 p.m.KASA The Arsenio Hall Show KTEL Al Rojo Vivo 10:30 p.m. TBS Conan 10:34 p.m. KOB The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Mark Wahlberg; Jeff Foxworthy;

Salaam Remi and Akon. 10:35 p.m. KRQE Late Show With David Letterman Actor Joel McHale; sportscaster Marv Albert. 11:00 p.m. KNME Charlie Rose KOAT Jimmy Kimmel Live CNN Anderson Cooper 360 FNC Hannity 11:30 p.m. KASA Dish Nation 11:37 p.m. KRQE The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Don Cheadle; Ivana Milicevic; Jake Bugg performs. 12:00 a.m. CNN AC 360 Later 12:02 a.m. KOAT Nightline 12:06 a.m. KOB Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Ryan Seacrest; Gabrielle Union; John Newman performs. 12:30 a.m. E! E! News 1:06 a.m. KOB Last Call With Carson Daly Matt Piedmont; White Denim performs; Matthew Broussard.

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SPORTS

BCS CHAMPIONSHIP

UNM MEN’S BASKETBALL

Lobos to focus on closing games

Team giving up more points than during last season

than last year’s pace. They are also giving up about By Will Webber 13 more The New Mexican points per game, a Kendall ALBUQUERQUE — total that Williams They’ve won 10 of their includes first 13 games and are off to unusually large amounts a solid start in conference play, yet one thing is gnaw- of points in the waning moments of games. Teams ing hard at The University like Cincinnati, Grand Canof New Mexico men’s basyon, New Mexico State, ketball team. Charleston Southern and, It has everything to do most recently, Colorado with closing games out. After being told his team State, had huge runs in the closing moments to keep had just given up 25 points what became UNM wins in the final six minutes of relatively close until the last weekend’s win over end. Colorado State in The Pit, Neal said it’s a lack Lobos head coach Craig of focus and defensive Neal said that alone is the most troubling thing facing intensity, something some his team right now. people may attribute to let“What I just told our guys ting up before the game is is when you get up 13, that’s decided. when we gotta put teams “That’s probably our away,” he said. “To win biggest focus right now; championships you gotta closing,” said senior guard guard.” Kendall Williams. “Not Falling in step with the even closing close games, increased scoring this seait’s closing games when son — no doubt a direct we’re ahead at that margin. result of rules changes to We’ve always been a good promote offense and limit team that has closed close defensive contact — the games, but being able to put Lobos are averaging about See LoBos, Page B-3 10 more points per game

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Unsurpassed

No. 1 Florida State beats No. 2 Auburn; Winston named offensive MVP

NFL COMMENTARY

Are you ready for some frostbite? Green Bay, where the mercury K, so they’re not registered who we thought 5 degrees they were. at kickoff, Every time you see that with a big snowflake in the middle wind chill of this year’s Super Bowl of minusColin logo, it suggests the easiest 10. The Kaepernick way to pick the last team 49ers were standing is to draw a line expected through teams from warm- to lean heavily on their weather climes and then ground game, if only to hold round up the usual coldmistakes to a minimum. weather suspects. Instead, they wound up The NFL’s opening play- throwing the ball as many off weekend changed that. times as they ran it, 30 each. Neither New Orleans nor After Phil Dawson’s San Francisco had won a game-winning kick as time game in the cold since 2000 expired gave San Francisco — applying the 32-degree the win, 49ers coach Jim benchmark — and San Harbaugh seemed almost Diego hadn’t even played bothered at questions about the minimum 10 games in throwing the ball around. those conditions required He didn’t point out that his to make the list. They not quarterback was the one only managed to win; all wearing short sleeves — three did so on the road Colin Kaepernick was born against teams — Philadelin Milwaukee — with plenty phia, Green Bay and Cincin- of cold-weather experience. nati, respectively — that Or conversely that Michael ranked Nos. 2-4 on that Crabtree, the receiver Kaesame list, and trailed only pernick threw to most often, always-formidable New was born in Texas and England, which wins in bad played his high school and weather an eye-popping college ball there. 80 percent of the time. Toughness, Harbaugh said The biggest weather finally, wasn’t about where challenge, though not the biggest upset, came in Please see nfL, Page B-3

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The Associated Press

Florida State’s Kelvin Benjamin catches the game-winning touchdown pass during the second half of the BCS National Championship game against Auburn on Monday in Pasadena, Calif. CHRIS CARLSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

was near perfect when the Seminoles (14-0) 2 Auburn 31 needed it most, going PASADENA, Calif. 6 for 7 for 77 yards on the ameis Winston and Florida State faced game-winning 80 yard drive. A pass interferdown adversity for the first time this ence penalty on Auburn’s Chris Davis gave season, and showed they could take Florida State a first-and-goal at the 2 and on a punch if that’s what it took to win a the next play Winston hit his big receiver, national championship. Benjamin, for the touchdown in traffic. The Heisman Trophy winner threw a There was no miracle finish this time for 2-yard touchdown pass to Kelvin Benjamin the turnaround Tigers. They tossed the ball with 13 seconds left and No. 1 Florida State around on one final play, but it ended with beat No. 2 Auburn 34-31 to win the BCS Florida State jumping on a fumble, and the championship game on Monday night. Seminoles sprinting onto the field under a “There’s a lot of heart and guts down in storm of garnet and gold confetti. Tallahassee, too,” coach Jimbo Fisher said. Tre Mason had given Auburn (12-2) a The Bowl Championship Series went out with a bang, with one of the best champion- 31-27 lead with a 37-yard touchdown run with 1:19 left after Kermit Whitfield had put ship games in its 16-year history. And the Southeastern Conference’s seven-year win- Florida State in the lead for the first time ning streak in college football’s biggest game since the first quarter with a 100-yard kickoff return to make it 27-24 with 4:31 left. was snapped. Mason ran for 195 yards and Nick MarWinston struggled much of the night but By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press

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shall threw two touchdown passes for the Tigers. “I told them in the locker room, we put together the biggest turnaround in the history of college football. We were on the brink of making it one of those magical seasons,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. Winston was 20 for 35 for 237 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdown passes. Florida State hadn’t been challenged like this all season, winning by an average of 42 points. The redshirt freshman, who turned 20 Monday, told his teammates: “I said ‘Guys, we didn’t come here for no reason.’ I said ‘Y’all, this is ours, man.’ ” The Seminoles were down 21-3 in the first half, and wobbling, but never fell over. And now Florida State is national champion for the first time since 1999, the first team to win it after being down at halftime. Winston was jumpy against a strong

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People love to hate BCS, but it wasn’t dull By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press

The Bowl Championship Series produced frustration, anger, resentment — and some indelible memories. No. 1 Florida State and No. 2 Auburn played the final BCS championship game Monday in the Rose Bowl. Next year the College Football Playoff takes over the postseason. So as college football fans say goodbye to the system many love to hate, let’s look back at

some of championship game moments, plays and performances that will live on long after the BCS has been buried. Vince’s masterpiece: The best BCS championship game also had its most memorable single performance. Southern California came into the Rose Bowl after the 2005 season with two Heisman Trophy winners (Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush), consecutive national titles and 34 straight victories. Texas had Vince Young. Advantage, Longhorns. Actually, Mack Brown’s

team was loaded, too, but Young was the difference. USC just couldn’t stop him. Young passed for 267 yards, ran for 200 and scored three touchdowns, including the game-winner on an 8-yard dash with 19 seconds left to make it 41-38. Late flag: Miami was already celebrating its second straight BCS championship and an overtime victory against Ohio State in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl — and then the flag flew. Line judge Terry Porter called pass interference on Hurricanes defensive

back Glenn Sharpe on a fourthdown throw from Craig Krenzel to Chris Gamble. With new life, the Buckeyes tied the game at 24, took the lead on Maurice Clarett’s touchdown in the second overtime and stopped the Hurricanes to win it 31-24. Miami’s 34-game winning streak was snapped and the 2002 Hurricanes go down as the most talented team in the BCS era to lose the championship game. Dyer is not down: The 2011

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WINTER OLYMPICS

Sochi Games: The good and the bad By Stephen Wilson The Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, takes part in a friendly hockey match Saturday between the Stars of the NHL 1 and the Stars of the NHL 2 teams at The Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi, southern Russia. ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/RIA-NOVOSTI

LONDON — Tuesday marks the 1-month countdown to the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a defining moment on the world stage for Russia and Vladimir Putin. These games are among the most contentious in Olympic history, embroiled in controversy over terrorist threats, human rights, gay rights, cost overruns, corruption and environmental

damage. But is it all doom and gloom for Putin’s pet project? Before the Olympic cauldron is lit on Feb. 7, it’s time for a look at the good and the bad for Russia’s first Winter Games. The negatives: Terror threat: The two bombings in Volgograd — which killed 34 people in suicide attacks on the rail station and a trolley bus — have escalated the security alarm. Sochi is located on the edge of the Caucasus region,

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where insurgents are seeking to create an Islamic state. Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has urged his fighters to attack the Sochi Olympics, which he described as “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.” Gay rights: The Russian law banning gay “propaganda” has caused a furious backlash in the West and tarnished the country’s international reputation heading into the Olympics. While Russia has promised there will be no discrimination

at the games, critics continue to bash the law. The IOC has been assailed for not pushing Russia to repeal the legislation. Some athletes are planning to make their views known in Sochi, either by speaking out or carrying or wearing symbols promoting gay rights. Human rights: Russia’s human rights record remains under scrutiny. With the games approaching, Putin has launched a charm offensive of sorts — pardoning

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THE NEW MEXICAN Tuesday, January 7, 2014

FOOTBALL Football

NFl PlayoFFs Wild-card Playoffs

saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20

Divisional Playoffs

saturday, Jan. 11 New Orleans at Seattle, 2:35 p.m. (FOX) Indianpolis at New England, 6:15 p.m. (CBS) sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco at Carolina, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) San Diego at Denver, 2:40 p.m. (CBS)

Conference Championships

sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 1 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

Pro bowl

sunday, Jan. 26 at Honolulu: TBD, 5:30 p.m. (NBC)

super bowl

sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

sunday 49ers 23, Packers 20

san Francisco 6 7 0 10—23 Green bay 0 10 0 10—20 First Quarter SF—FG Dawson 22, 9:00. SF—FG Dawson 25, 2:17. second Quarter GB—Nelson 5 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 5:50. SF—Gore 10 run (Dawson kick), 2:48. GB—FG Crosby 34, :00. Fourth Quarter GB—Kuhn 1 run (Crosby kick), 12:06. SF—V.Davis 28 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 10:31. GB—FG Crosby 24, 5:06. SF—FG Dawson 33, :00. A—77,525. sF Gb First downs 22 18 Total Net Yards 381 281 Rushes-yards 30-167 31-124 Passing 214 157 Punt Returns 2-20 0-0 Kickoff Returns 3-78 5-105 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-17 Comp-Att-Int 16-30-1 17-26-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-13 4-20 Punts 3-36.7 5-39.4 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 2-10 3-20 Time of Possession 29:06 30:54 INDIVIDUal statIstICs RUSHING—San Francisco, Kaepernick 7-98, Gore 20-66, Hunter 2-4, Patton 1-(minus 1). Green Bay, Lacy 21-81, Starks 5-29, Rodgers 2-11, Kuhn 2-2, Cobb 1-1. PASSING—San Francisco, Kaepernick 16-30-1-227. Green Bay, Rodgers 17-26-0-177. RECEIVING—San Francisco, Crabtree 8-125, Boldin 3-38, V.Davis 2-37, Gore 1-11, Dixon 1-10, Celek 1-6. Green Bay, Nelson 7-62, Cobb 2-51, J.Jones 2-20, Kuhn 2-16, Lacy 2-7, Starks 1-13, Quarless 1-8. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NFl biggest Postseason Comebacks

The largest comebacks in NFL postseason history: 32 — Buffalo vs. Houston, Jan. 3, 1993, wild card (trailed 35-3, won 41-38, OT) 28 — Indianapolis vs. Kansas City, Jan. 4, 2014, wild card (trailed 38-10, won 45-44) 24 — San Francisco vs. NY Giants, Jan. 5, 2003, wild card (trailed 38-14, won 39-38) 20 — Detroit at San Francisco, Dec. 22, 1957, divisional playoff (trailed 27-7, won 31-27)

NCaa Fbs bowls

Monday’s Game bCs National Championship at Pasadena, Calif. Florida State 34, Auburn 31 saturday, Jan. 18 East-West shrine Classic at st. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFlPa Collegiate bowl at los angeles American vs. National, 4 p.m. (ESPN2) saturday, Jan. 25 senior bowl at Mobile, ala. South vs. North, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

No. 1 Florida st. 34, No. 2 auburn 31

auburn 7 14 0 10—31 Florida st. 3 7 3 21—34 First Quarter FSU—FG Aguayo 35, 9:53. Aub—Mason 12 pass from Marshall (Parkey kick), 3:07. second Quarter Aub—Ray 50 pass from Marshall (Parkey kick), 13:48. Aub—Marshall 4 run (Parkey kick), 5:01. FSU—Freeman 3 run (Aguayo kick), 1:28. third Quarter FSU—FG Aguayo 41, 6:05. Fourth Quarter FSU—Abram 11 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), 10:55. Aub—FG Parkey 22, 4:42. FSU—Whitfield 100 kickoff return (Aguayo kick), 4:31. Aub—Mason 37 run (Parkey kick), 1:19. FSU—Benjamin 2 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), :13. A—94,208. aub FsU First downs 25 19 Rushes-yards 53-232 31-148 Passing 217 237 Comp-Att-Int 14-27-1 20-35-0 Return Yards 36 4 Punts-Avg. 6-43.2 6-42.8 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 5-38 8-60 Time of Possession 33:41 26:19 INDIVIDUal statIstICs RUSHING—Auburn, Mason 34-195, Marshall 16-45, Artis-Payne 1-1, Grant 1-(minus 3), Louis 1-(minus 6). Florida St., Freeman 11-73, Winston 11-26, K.Williams 5-25, Wilder Jr. 3-21, Abram 1-3. PASSING—Auburn, Marshall 14-27-1217. Florida St., Winston 20-35-0-237. RECEIVING—Auburn, Coates 4-61, Bray 3-4, Louis 2-28, Uzomah 2-8, Ray 1-50, Mason 1-42, M.Davis 1-26, Marshall 0-(minus 2). Florida St., Greene 9-147, Benjamin 4-54, Freeman 3-21, Shaw 2-4, Abram 1-11, K.Williams 1-0.

bCs Championship Results

year-Result (Rank in parentheses) 2013-(1) Florida St 34 (2) Auburn 31 2012-(2) Alabama 42 (1) N.Dame 14 2011-(2) Alabama 21 (1) LSU 0 2010-(1) Auburn 22 (2) Oregon 19 2009-(1) Alabama 37 (2) Texas 21

TRANSACTIONS tRaNsaCtIoNs

Football National Football league

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WR Cobi Hamilton, C T.J. Johnson, DE David King, CB Onterio McCalebb, LB Bruce Taylor and C Scott Wedige to reserve/future contracts. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed DE Fili Moala and CB Greg Toler on injured reserve. Agreed to terms with WR Deion Branch. Signed WR Josh Lenz from the practice squad. Released DT Christian Tupou from the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Fired offensive coordinator Mike Sherman. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed LB Brandon Spikes on injured reserve.

timberwolves 126, 76ers 95

BASKETBALL baskEtball

Nba Eastern Conference

atlantic Toronto Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia New York southeast Miami Atlanta Washington Charlotte Orlando Central Indiana Chicago Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee

W 16 13 13 12 11 W 26 18 14 15 10 W 27 14 14 11 7

l 16 21 21 22 22 l 8 17 17 20 24 l 6 18 20 23 26

Pct .500 .382 .382 .353 .333 Pct .765 .514 .452 .429 .294 Pct .818 .438 .412 .324 .212

Western Conference

Gb — 4 4 5 51/2 Gb — 81/2 101/2 111/2 16 Gb — 121/2 131/2 161/2 20

southwest W l Pct Gb San Antonio 26 8 .765 — Houston 22 13 .629 41/2 Dallas 19 15 .559 7 New Orleans 15 17 .469 10 Memphis 15 18 .455 101/2 Northwest W l Pct Gb Oklahoma City 27 7 .794 — Portland 26 8 .765 1 Minnesota 17 17 .500 10 Denver 16 17 .485 101/2 Utah 11 25 .306 17 Pacific W l Pct Gb L.A. Clippers 24 13 .649 — Golden State 23 13 .639 1/2 Phoenix 20 12 .625 11/2 L.A. Lakers 14 20 .412 81/2 Sacramento 10 22 .313 111/2 Monday’s Games Minnesota 126, Philadelphia 95 Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 86 L.A. Clippers 101, Orlando 81 sunday’s Games Memphis 112, Detroit 84 Golden State 112, Washington 96 Indiana 82, Cleveland 78 Miami 102, Toronto 97 Oklahoma City 119, Boston 96 New York 92, Dallas 80 Denver 137, L.A. Lakers 115 tuesday’s Games Toronto at Indiana, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Washington at Charlotte, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at New York, 5:30 p.m. Phoenix at Chicago, 6 p.m. Golden State at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Memphis, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Denver, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Nets 91, Hawks 86

atlaNta (86) Carroll 4-9 2-2 10, Millsap 4-12 6-6 16, Antic 2-6 2-2 8, Teague 5-15 5-7 16, Korver 1-5 4-4 7, Brand 4-5 2-2 10, Martin 0-0 0-0 0, L.Williams 1-6 2-2 5, Mack 2-5 0-0 5, Scott 4-7 1-1 9. Totals 27-70 24-26 86. bRooklyN (91) Anderson 4-12 4-6 14, Pierce 3-9 2-3 9, Garnett 1-2 2-2 4, Livingston 6-11 0-0 12, Johnson 10-22 2-2 23, Blatche 1-3 1-1 3, Kirilenko 1-3 6-10 8, Teletovic 6-12 0-0 16, Terry 0-5 0-0 0, Evans 1-1 0-2 2. Totals 33-80 17-26 91. atlanta 21 31 15 19—86 brooklyn 27 19 26 19—91 3-Point Goals—Atlanta 8-24 (Millsap 2-3, Antic 2-5, Mack 1-2, Korver 1-3, L.Williams 1-4, Teague 1-4, Scott 0-1, Carroll 0-2), Brooklyn 8-27 (Teletovic 4-9, Anderson 2-5, Pierce 1-4, Johnson 1-5, Terry 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 45 (Brand, Korver, Carroll 7), Brooklyn 56 (Garnett 10). Assists—Atlanta 21 (Korver 6), Brooklyn 17 (Kirilenko, Johnson 4). Total Fouls—Atlanta 23, Brooklyn 25. Technicals—Atlanta Coach Budenholzer, Brooklyn defensive three second. A—15,326 (17,732).

MINNEsota (126) Brewer 5-8 2-3 15, Love 7-12 8-10 26, Pekovic 7-15 2-2 16, Rubio 2-8 0-0 4, Martin 5-10 5-5 18, Cunningham 5-9 0-0 10, Shved 4-12 1-1 10, Hummel 1-5 0-0 3, Turiaf 0-1 0-0 0, Barea 5-12 0-0 13, Dieng 1-2 0-2 2, Price 4-6 0-0 9. Totals 46-100 18-23 126. PHIlaDElPHIa (95) Turner 5-9 3-4 13, Young 9-16 0-1 20, Hawes 3-6 0-0 7, Carter-Williams 6-13 0-1 13, Thompson 4-8 1-1 9, Anderson 5-6 2-2 14, Allen 0-2 0-0 0, Williams 2-5 3-4 8, Davies 1-4 0-0 2, Orton 2-4 1-1 5, Brown 1-7 1-2 4. Totals 38-80 11-16 95. Minnesota 32 38 35 21—126 Philadelphia 29 25 20 21—95 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 16-26 (Love 4-7, Brewer 3-3, Martin 3-4, Barea 3-4, Price 1-2, Hummel 1-3, Shved 1-3), Philadelphia 8-18 (Anderson 2-2, Young 2-4, Williams 1-1, Hawes 1-3, Carter-Williams 1-3, Brown 1-3, Turner 0-1, Thompson 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Minnesota 62 (Pekovic 14), Philadelphia 44 (Anderson 7). Assists—Minnesota 28 (Rubio 8), Philadelphia 26 (Carter-Williams 7). Total Fouls—Minnesota 14, Philadelphia 22. A—10,736 (20,328).

COLLEGE CollEGE

NCaa Men’s aP top 25 Poll

Rec Pts Pvs 1. Arizona (60) 15-0 1,620 1 2. Syracuse (5) 14-0 1,550 2 3. Ohio St. 15-0 1,470 3 4. Wisconsin 15-0 1,427 4 5. Michigan St. 13-1 1,378 5 6. Wichita St. 15-0 1,203 8 7. Baylor 12-1 1,169 9 8. Villanova 13-1 1,141 11 9. Iowa St. 13-0 1,076 13 10. Florida 11-2 1,052 12 11. Oklahoma St. 12-2 934 6 12. Louisville 13-2 825 14 13. San Diego St. 12-1 823 21 14. Kentucky 10-3 808 15 15. Colorado 13-2 752 20 16. Duke 11-3 745 7 17. Oregon 13-1 715 10 18. Kansas 9-4 367 16 19. UMass 12-1 364 23 20. Iowa 12-3 261 22 21. Missouri 12-1 247 25 22. Gonzaga 14-2 241 24 23. Illinois 13-2 178 — 24. Memphis 10-3 126 18 25. Kansas St. 11-3 112 — Others receiving votes: Cincinnati 103, Creighton 82, North Carolina 79, UCLA 79, Pittsburgh 44, Harvard 41, UConn 41, Saint Louis 19, Oklahoma 15, Michigan 11, George Washington 9, SMU 9, Notre Dame 3, Xavier 3, Toledo 2, Arkansas 1.

Men’s top 25

Monday’s Games No games scheduled. tuesday’s Games No. 2 Syracuse at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. No. 3 Ohio St at No. 5 Mich St, 7 p.m. No. 7 Baylor at No. 9 Iowa St, 5 p.m. No. 16 Duke vs. Georgia Tech, 5 p.m. No. 25 Kansas State at TCU, 6 p.m.

Men’s Division I

Monday’s Games soUtHWEst West Virginia 89, Texas Tech 86, OT Southern U. 79, Texas Southern 71 Prairie View 70, Alcorn St. 67, OT East Marist 65, Canisius 62 Pittsburgh 79, Maryland 59 Quinnipiac 86, Iona 74

Women’s top 25

Monday’s Games No games scheduled. tuesday’s Game No. 1 UConn vs. Houston, 5 p.m. Wednesday’s Games No. 7 Baylor at West Virginia, 5 p.m. No. 11 Iowa St vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m. No. 15 Okla St at Kansas St, 6 p.m. No. 24 San Diego at Portland, 8 p.m.

Women’s aP top 25 Poll 1. UConn (36) 2. Notre Dame 3. Duke 4. Stanford 5. Louisville 6. Maryland 7. Baylor 8. Tennessee 9. Kentucky 10. South Carolina 11. Iowa St. 12. LSU 13. North Carolina 14. Penn St. 15. Oklahoma St. 16. Nebraska 17. Colorado 18. Florida St. 19. California 20. NC State 21. Purdue 22. Indiana 23. Arizona St. 24. San Diego 25. Georgia

Auburn pass rush, led by Dee Ford. He was sacked four times. The Seminoles cut it to 21-10 with a late touchdown in the second quarter and chipped into Auburn’s lead with a 41-yard field goal by Roberto Aguayo with 6:05 left in the third. Meanwhile, Florida State had found some answers to Auburn’s spread offense. A holding penalty that wiped out a long pass also helped keep the Tigers scoreless in the third quarter, and the Seminoles began the fourth with P.J. Williams intercepting Marshall’s pass and setting up Florida State at its 38.

When Winston tossed in the flats to Chad Abram, who hurdled over a tackler on the way to an 11-yard touchdown the lead was 21-19. Florida State was considering going for two to tie, but Devonta Freeman was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and that pushed the extra point back 15 yards and forced the Seminoles to kick and make it 21-20. Auburn responded with its best drive since the second quarter, mixing runs by Mason and Marshall with one big pass to Ricardo Louis. But it stalled at the 6 and Cody Parkey added a 22-yard field goal to make it 24-20 with 4:42 left. During Winston’s recordbreaking season, filled with

blowouts and fourth quarters spent watching from the sideline, he never faced a situation in which he had to drive his team to a winning score. Now he had a chance to add that last line to his remarkable resume — until Whitfield handled it for him. Whitfield broke through a seam around the 30 and hit the sideline at full speed. Fisher ran down the other sideline yelling “Go! Go!” with Winston chasing behind pumping his arms and slapping his coach on the back. Florida State was on top, but Auburn was not done. Mason and Marshall went to work, driving Auburn into Florida State territory, and Auburn’s Heisman finalist,

championship game between Auburn and Oregon was expected to be a high-scoring affair, but it was tied at 19 with 2:33 left after an Oregon field goal. The Tigers had been carried by Cam Newton all season, but it was freshman Michael Dyer who made the play of the game. On the final drive, Dyer seemed to be stopped for a short gain, but he rolled over Oregon’s Eddie Pleasant, barely keeping his arms and legs off the turf, paused, realized the play was not blown dead and took off for 37 yards. Five plays later, Wes Bynum kicked a 19-yard field goal to make Auburn champs. Key injuries: Ohio State speedster Ted Ginn Jr. returned

the opening kickoff of the 2007 championship game against Florida 93 yards for a touchdown. Great start for the Buckeyes, right? Well, Ginn injured his foot while celebrating with his teammates and didn’t play the rest of the game. It might not have mattered considering Florida went on to win 41-14, but it was a huge loss for the Buckeyes. Texas got five plays out of star quarterback Colt McCoy in the 2010 national championship game against Alabama. McCoy took a shot from Alabama defensive tackle Marcell Dareus and left with an injured shoulder. The Longhorns turned to freshman Garrett Gilbert, who pulled Texas close in the second half, but Alabama pulled away for a 37-21 victory. Longhorns

fans can’t help but wonder: What if? Blowouts: Five times the BCS championship game has been decided by at least 21 points. Sure beatdowns don’t make for interesting secondhalf viewing, but some of these performances have to be appreciated. Miami jumped out to a 34-point lead in the first half and crushed Nebraska 37-14. Ken Dorsey and Andre Johnson hooked up for two TD passes. USC set a championship game record for points, pummeling Oklahoma 55-19 in the 2005 Orange Bowl. Matt Leinart threw five touchdown passes and the Trojans smothered Adrian Peterson. Last year, Alabama hammered Notre Dame and Manti Te’o, scoring on its first three drives and going up

Pv 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 5 6 13 14 16 10 15 11 18 12 21 23 — 17 — 24 — 19

NHl Eastern Conference

atlantic GP Boston 42 Montreal 44 Tampa Bay 42 Detroit 43 Toronto 43 Ottawa 44 Florida 43 Buffalo 42 Metro GP Pittsburgh 44 Philadelphia 42 Washington 42 Carolina 43 N.Y. Rangers 44 New Jersey 43 Columbus 43 N.Y. Islanders 44

W 28 25 25 19 21 19 16 12 W 31 21 20 18 21 17 19 15

l ol Pts GF Ga 12 2 58 124 89 14 5 55 114 103 13 4 54 119 100 14 10 48 114 121 17 5 47 119 127 18 7 45 126 141 21 6 38 102 136 26 4 28 74 118 l ol Pts GF Ga 12 1 63 142 103 17 4 46 111 116 16 6 46 128 128 16 9 45 105 124 20 3 45 108 119 18 8 42 101 110 20 4 42 117 126 22 7 37 119 146

Western Conference

Central GP W l ol Pts GF Ga Chicago 45 29 7 9 67 167 124 St. Louis 41 29 7 5 63 150 95 Colorado 42 26 12 4 56 123 108 Minnesota 44 22 17 5 49 106 113 Dallas 42 20 15 7 47 123 131 Winnipeg 45 19 21 5 43 123 135 Nashville 43 18 19 6 42 102 129 Pacific GP W l ol Pts GF Ga Anaheim 44 31 8 5 67 146 111 San Jose 43 27 10 6 60 142 111 Los Angeles 43 26 13 4 56 113 89 Vancouver 44 23 13 8 54 117 108 Phoenix 41 20 12 9 49 123 127 Calgary 42 15 21 6 36 100 131 Edmonton 45 14 26 5 33 117 156 Monday’s Games Columbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO N.Y. Islanders 7, Dallas 3 Montreal 2, Florida 1 Calgary 4, Colorado 3 tuesday’s Games Carolina at Buffalo, 5 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m. San Jose at Nashville, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Calgary at Phoenix, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Boston at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Islanders 7, stars 3

Dallas 2 1 0—3 N.y. Islanders 0 4 3—7 First Period—1, Dallas, Ja.Benn 15, 5:01. 2, Dallas, Cole 11 (Chiasson, Peverley), 13:48. second Period—3, N.Y. Islanders, Strome 1 (Vanek, Tavares), 1:41 (pp). 4, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 18 (Vanek), 7:29. 5, N.Y. Islanders, Regin 2 (Bailey, Hickey), 9:29. 6, Dallas, Nichushkin 9 (Peverley, Whitney), 15:28 (pp). 7, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 4 (Cizikas, de Haan), 19:32.

Mason, finished it off by bowling over Florida State safety Jalen Ramsey on the way to the end zone. Auburn billed itself as a team of destiny, having gone from 3-9 to SEC champs under first-year coach Malzahn — with the help of some miraculous finishes. But for much of the first half team destiny, the 10-point underdog, was dominating. For maybe the first time this season, Winston looked rattled. After completing three of his first four passes, he went 1 for 7, including a simple short throw that sailed high and missed its target by at least 10 yards. Fisher could be seen yelling to his coaches that they needed to calm down Winston.

BCS: Young in 2006 Rose Bowl stands out Continued from Page B-1

Pts 900 842 826 810 737 722 671 641 602 538 525 505 464 411 385 328 307 281 186 164 145 140 103 91 88

HOCKEY HoCkEy

Unsurpassed: Final game in BCS format Continued from Page B-1

Rec 15-0 13-0 14-1 13-1 15-1 13-1 12-1 12-2 13-2 14-1 13-0 12-2 12-3 10-3 12-1 11-2 11-2 13-1 10-3 14-1 10-3 14-0 12-2 15-0 12-3

35-0 in the third quarter. The Crimson Tide rolled 42-14 to a second straight title. Performances: Young’s 2006 Rose Bowl stands alone, but others are notable. Florida State beat Virginia Tech 46-29 in the 2000 Sugar Bowl, but Hokies quarterback Michael Vick was brilliant. The redshirt freshman ran for 97 yards, passed for 225, accounted for two touchdowns and had several Wow! plays. Tim Tebow passed for 231 yards, ran for 109 and helped Florida beat Oklahoma for the 2008 championship. And Clarett made what might be the single most memorable play in a title game, stripping Miami’s Sean Taylor of the ball after Taylor had intercepted a pass in the end zone.

third Period—8, N.Y. Islanders, Strait 2 (Tavares, de Haan), 1:24. 9, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 19 (Nielsen, MacDonald), 6:19 (pp). 10, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 20 (MacDonald, Cizikas), 16:53 (pp). shots on Goal—Dallas 10-7-6—23. N.Y. Islanders 14-11-18—43. Goalies—Dallas, Lehtonen. N.Y. Islanders, Nabokov, Poulin. a—11,111 (16,170). t—2:37.

Canadiens 2, Panthers 1

Florida 1 0 0—1 Montreal 1 1 0—2 First Period—1, Montreal, Desharnais 6 (Pacioretty, Gallagher), 6:23. 2, Florida, Bergenheim 10 (Barkov, Boyes), 17:09. second Period—3, Montreal, Gionta 7 (Plekanec), 15:46. third Period—None. shots on Goal—Florida 5-6-16—27. Montreal 13-12-10—35. Power-play—Fla 0 of 2; Mtl 0 of 2. Goalies—Florida, T.Thomas 10-11-2 (35 shots-33 saves). Montreal, Price 20-11-4 (27-26). a—21,273. t—2:30.

Flames 4, avalanche 3

Calgary 1 2 1—4 Colorado 2 0 1—3 First Period—1, Calgary, Monahan 12 (Stempniak, Wideman), 1:08. 2, Colorado, MacKinnon 13 (Stastny, Benoit), 7:17 (pp). 3, Colorado, MacKinnon 14 (Stastny, Barrie), 14:32 (pp). second Period—4, Calgary, Colborne 4 (Galiardi, O’Brien), 15:10. 5, Calgary, Hudler 12 (Giordano, Backlund), 17:38. third Period—6, Colorado, Stastny 12 (Landeskog, Hejda), 9:33. 7, Calgary, Cammalleri 13 (Hudler, Colborne), 16:30 (pp). shots on Goal—Calgary 4-7-8—19. Colorado 7-10-8—25. Power-play—Cal 1 of 3; Col 2 of 4. Goalies—Calgary, Ramo 7-7-3 (25 shots-22 saves). Colorado, Giguere 7-4-0 (19-15). a—12,027. t—2:28.

blue Jackets 4, Rangers 3, so

Columbus 1 2 0 0—4 N.y. Rangers 1 0 2 0—3 Columbus won shootout 2-0 First Period—1, Columbus, Dubinsky 8 (Horton, Wisniewski), 17:07. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 8 (Del Zotto, Kreider), 19:07 (pp). second Period—3, Columbus, Atkinson 11, 1:01. 4, Columbus, Wisniewski 3 (Dubinsky, Foligno), 16:47. third Period—5, N.Y. Rangers, Boyle 3 (D.Moore, J.Moore), 4:53. 6, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 9 (Richards, Callahan), 6:55 (pp). overtime—None. shootout—Columbus 2 (Letestu G, Johansen G), N.Y. Rangers 0 (Zuccarello NG, Nash NG). shots on Goal—Columbus 10-10-136—39. N.Y. Rangers 16-15-11-1—43. Goalies—Columbus, Bobrovsky. N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist. a—18,006 (18,006). t—2:40.

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PGa toUR tournament of Champions

Monday at kapalua Resort, the Plantation Course, kapalua, Hawaii; Purse: $5.7 million; yardage: 7,452; Par 73 Z.Johnson, $1,140,000 67-66-74-66—273 J.Spieth, $665,000 66-70-69-69—274 K.Streelman, $382,000 67-71-70-67—275 W.Simpson, $382,000 66-71-68-70—275 J.Dufner $276,000 67-72-69-69—277 B.Horschel, $198,750 72-72-68-66—278 Matt Kuchar, $198,750 68-68-75-67—278 Adam Scott, $198,750 70-70-69-69—278 D.Johnson, $198,750 70-66-69-73—278 Ryan Moore, $170,000 67-71-72-69—279 H.English, $155,000 70-71-70-69—280 B.Snedeker, $155,000 70-69-69-72—280 Brian Gay, $130,000 70-76-65-70—281 W.Austin, $130,000 72-70-68-71—281 G.Woodland, $130,000 71-70-67-73—281 M.Thompson, $100,250 66-71-73-72—282

Sochi: 12 new events to debut Continued from Page B-1 former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and granting amnesty for Pussy Riot band members and Greenpeace activists. He has even rescinded an order banning any demonstrations in or around the games. Putin’s politics: Putin’s prickly relations with the West have soured any “feel-good” factor about the Olympics. Tensions with the U.S. and President Barack Obama grew after Putin granted temporary asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Putin’s policies on Syria and Iran, and Russia’s backsliding on democratic reforms have antagonized Western leaders. For the first time since 2000, the U.S. delegation to the Olympics will not include a president, vice president or first lady. Weather worries: Sochi is a subtropical resort on the Black Sea. Temperatures on the coast, where the indoor ice events will be held, will be mild. That’s fine, but there is uncertainty over conditions in the mountains for the snow events. While there is already a good layer of snow in place, a spell of warm or wet weather could cause problems. As a precaution, organizers have stored up 450,000 cubic meters of snow. Also worth noting: flooding and avalanches are common in the region. Record cost: $51 billion. That’s the overall price tag for the games, by far the most expensive in history,

summer or winter, and more than three times the budget of the 2012 London Games. The cost includes the long-term investment in roads, tunnels, railways and ski facilities. Everything has been built from scratch as Russia seeks to turn Sochi into a year-round tourist destination. So what’s the good news then? Yes, there are things to look forward to. Here’s a sampling: New sports: Twelve new events are on the sports program in Sochi, with women’s ski jumping perhaps the biggest attraction. Female jumpers are making their debut after being rejected for inclusion in Vancouver four years ago. In a nod to the young X Games generation, the IOC has also added ski halfpipe and ski and snowboard slopestyle events. Snowboard star Shaun White, aka the Flying Tomato, will unveil a new trick — a frontside double-cork 1440. It’s a variation of the Double McTwist 1260 he nailed at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Hockey fever: The NHL players are back. Hockey is the sport Russia really cares about and the host nation will be out to make amends after the disaster in Vancouver. The Russians failed to medal in hockey, knocked out in the quarterfinals by Canada. It was symbolic of Russia’s worst overall showing at a Winter Games, winning only 15 medals and finishing 11th in the table.

SPORTS GOLF TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

Zach Johnson opens new year with win ics this time, The Associated Press not like last month in CaliKAPALUA, Hawaii — Zach fornia in the Johnson is taking his place World Chalamong the big boys in golf with lenge when he two of the shortest clubs in his holed a shot bag. from the drop On a Plantation Course at Zach Johnson zone — with Kapalua that should be paradise a wedge — on for the game’s longest hitters, the final hole Johnson chipped in for his and wound up beating Tiger opening birdie and then hit four Woods in a playoff. Kapalua exquisite wedge shots on the was mainly about chipping and back nine Monday to rally from putting, and Johnson is among two shots behind, close with a the best. 7-under 66 and win the Tourna“Getting the ball in the fairment of Champions. way and giving my wedges a “I just picked it apart,” Johnchance was crucial,” he said. son said. “It’s about plotting my way, putThat was pivotal on the ting myself in a yardage spot back nine, where five players that I know is going to give me had a chance to win. Johnson an opportunity.” ran off four birdies in a fiveJohnson, starting his 11th hole stretch, all of them with season on the PGA Tour, won a wedge in his hand, none of for the 11th time in his career. the shots particularly easy. He Since his rookie season in 2004, wound up with a one-shot win only Woods, Phil Mickelson over Jordan Spieth, the perfect and Vijay Singh have won more way to start a new year. on the PGA Tour. It also was Especially after he ended the Johnson’s third win in his last old one with a win. six starts, dating to the BMW Johnson didn’t need any hero- Championship outside Chicago By Doug Ferguson

in September that qualified him for this winners-only tournament in Kapalua. Spieth had a one-shot lead going into the back nine and thought only of making three birdies. He started way too late, losing three good birdie chances in the soft, middle portion of the back nine and then finishing with two birdies that only gave him a runner-up finish. He closed with a 70. “I was very pleased with the finish, being able to birdie the last two holes and at least have somewhat of a chance on 18,” said Spieth, who had a 100-foot eagle putt just off the front of the green to force a playoff. “But ultimately, 14, 15, 16 really kind of hit me hard in the middle of the back nine.” He made par on all of them, twice missing putts from about 6 feet. That’s where Johnson thrived. He caught Spieth for the lead with a wedge from 83 yards to about 2 feet for birdie on No. 12. Johnson laid back with a 3-wood on the 14th hole and hit

wedge to about 8 feet below the hole for birdie and the outright lead. Perhaps the most daunting shot came on the par-5 15th, up a steep slope to a green with a false front. The grain from the fairway and on the green was against him. “If you just missed it a little bit, it’s come back at you,” he said. “I hit a great shot.” He followed that with a wedge to 5 feet and a tough, downhill putt that broke sharply toward the ocean that he made for his final birdie. Webb Simpson, tied with Spieth and defending champion Dustin Johnson to start the final round, never caught up and closed with a 70. Simpson tied for third with Kevin Streelman, who had a 67. Jason Dufner was four strokes back in fifth after a 69. Dustin Johnson made three bogeys before making his first birdie. He shot 73 and tied for sixth. Spieth was playing in the final group for the first time and looked poised as ever.

Lobos: UNM shoots 74.8 percent from line Continued from Page B-1 all these teams away.” Williams said the players are aware of it. They also know that letting their guard down can be dangerous as the season moves forward in the Mountain West Conference schedule. “Unfortunately we kind of took a step backwards and let them creep back in,” Williams said after the Colorado State game. “It’s just something we need to work on. It’s a mental thing. It’s just something we’re going to have to keep on being aware of throughout the season.” He also said the fix is as simple as learning from those charged with calling the shots. “You just get back to the lab, you look at what happened over the course of that stretch,” Williams said. “The coaches are obviously going to dissect it; they always do a great job of doing that.” Magic number: The Lobos are 9-0 this season when shooting 40 percent or better

from the field. They are 29-1 in their last 30 games when reaching that benchmark. The lone loss was an 89-88 loss to Air Force in which they shot 58.6 percent from the floor. Dating back to the 2010-11 season, they are 53-2 in those games. Hot ticket: Through seven home games, the Lobos are averaging 15,072 fans — more than 97 percent of The Pit’s capacity. That’s a slight increase from last season in which they drew an average of 15,021 in 16 home dates. Career scoring: Williams needs 24 points to pass Mel Daniels for 10th place on UNM’s all-time scoring list. With 1,514 points in 116 career games, Williams has averaged 13.1 points in his time with the Lobos. Daniels averaged 19.9 in just 77 games. In ninth place is Willie Long with 1,542 points. At his current pace, Williams could move into the top five on the all-time list with nearly 1,800 points. The career leader is Charles “Spider” Smith. The former Miami Heat first-round

draft pick scored 1,993 points for the Lobos between 1993-97. Plenty of charity at the stripe: UNM opponents are shooting a robust 76.7 percent from the free throw line this season. That is currently the fourth-best percentage in the country — or fourth worst — depending the point of view. Of the 351 teams in Division I, the Lobos’ free throw defense ranks 348th. UNM is shooting 74.8 percent from the line, putting in line with one of the best seasons in team history. Only the 1997-98 team was better (75.7). Rankings: San Diego State’s win at Kansas over the weekend vaulted the Aztecs to No. 13 in The Associated Press top 25 poll, released Monday. They are the only MWC team currently in the national rankings. SDSU also own’s the league top spot in the latest Ratings Percentage Index. At 18th overall, the Aztecs are followed by UNM (No. 28) and Boise State (No. 44) in the top 50. UNM’s next opponent, Wyoming, sits at 101st.

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Today on TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5 p.m. on ESPN — Tennessee at LSU 5 p.m. on ESPN2 — Baylor at Iowa St. 7 p.m. on ESPN — Ohio St. at Michigan St. 7 p.m. on FS1 — Creighton at DePaul NBA BASKETBALL 6 p.m. on WGN — Phoenix at Chicago NHL HOCKEY 5:30 p.m. on NBCSN — Philadelphia at New Jersey

PREP SCHEDULE This week’s varsity schedule for Northern New Mexico high schools. For additions or changes, call 986-3060 or email sports@sfnewmexican.com

Today Boys Basketball — Desert Academy vs. Tse’ Yi’ Gai, 5:30 p.m. (at St. Michael’s Driscoll Center) Pecos at Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m. Moriarty at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Taos at Española Valley, 7 p.m. Los Alamos at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m. Santa Fe Preparatory at McCurdy 7 p.m. East Mountain at Monte del Sol, 7 p.m. (at Christian Life) Girls Basketball — Desert Academy vs. Tse’ Yi’ Gai, 4 p.m. (at St. Michael’s Driscoll Center) East Mountain at Monte del Sol, 5:30 p.m. (at Christian Life) Clayton at Taos, 5:30 p.m. Santa Fe Preparatory at McCurdy, 6:30 p.m. St. Michael’s at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m. Santa Fe Indian School at Los Lunas, 7 p.m. Moriarty at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Boys Basketball — Santa Fe Waldorf vs. Desert Academy, 6:30 p.m. (at Fort Marcy) St. Michael’s at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball — Santa Fe Waldorf vs. Desert Academy, 5 p.m. (at Fort Marcy) Aztec at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Wrestling — Santa Fe High at Albuquerque St. Pius X Quad, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday Boys Basketball — Mora at Clayton, 6 p.m. Vaughn at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 6:30 p.m. Valencia at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Clovis at Española Valley, 7 p.m. Moriarty at Capital, 7 p.m. Socorro at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. Springer at Pecos, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball — Santa Fe High at Sandia Preparatory Tournament in Albuquerque, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Estancia Tournament, pairings TBA Mora at Clayton, 4:30 p.m. Vaughn at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 5 p.m. Springer at Pecos, 5:30 p.m. Las Vegas Robertson at Bernalillo, 7 p.m. Peñasco at Dulce, 7 p.m.

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NFL: Broncos and Patriots likely AFC foes Continued from Page B-1 you grew up or played before. “People talk about cold weather, and it would be tough to catch balls. … Michael Crabtree catches everything. It’s unbelievable,” Harbaugh began. “In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics’ sunny scenes, he’s catching the football. “If my life depended on it,” he added a moment later, “and somebody had to catch the ball, I’d enlist Michael Crabtree to do it.” And until this weekend, if Harbaugh and most others had to choose someone to throw it in similar conditions, the Saints’ Drew Brees and the Chargers’ Philip Rivers likely wouldn’t be the first names that come to mind. And to be honest, neither did more with his arm than was necessary. Brees handed the ball off

plenty in Philadelphia, and the 10-minute edge in time of possession, coupled with a lastgasp field goal by Shayne Graham proved decisive in sealing New Orleans’ first-ever playoff win on the road. Rivers threw even less, just 16 passes in all, and let his defense capitalize on turnovers by Cincinnati QB Andy Dalton. He admitted afterward playing that conservatively didn’t sit well, but also that he learned playing in lousy weather demanded it. “The way our defense was playing, as long as we didn’t have a disaster and we made plays when they were there,” he admitted afterward, “we were going to win this game.” If nothing else, it should prepare the brash quarterback and his teammates heading to Denver next week, where the weather could be fierce and the temptation to get into a shootout with the Broncos’ Peyton

Manning will be even fiercer. Manning is 0-3 in playoff games in the cold, so he, too, is likely to be tempted. “We will be confident,” Rivers said. “We’ve got to be careful we’re not overconfident.” That won’t be a problem for Brees. His Saints head to Seattle, where they figure to get a relative break from the weather, but not from memories of a devastating playoff loss there three years ago, plus a 34-7 beating by the Seahawks less than a month ago. “It’s loud, it’s crazy, they’ve got a good thing going there,” Brees said. “Obviously, they’ve only lost one game there in the last two years. But having been there less than a month ago, I think that serves us well, what to expect, how to prepare for it. “But we’re going to need our best game, that’s for sure.” Ditto for the Colts, who leave the comfort of their dome

behind and travel to New England. Quarterback Andrew Luck brought Indianapolis back from a 28-point, third-quarter deficit to beat Kansas City, a trick that won plenty of praise from Patriots coach Bill Belichick. “I think they’ve shown a lot of mental toughness. That game was about as good as it gets. To be that far behind in the third quarter, it didn’t look too good for them and all [of] the sudden, in a hurry, you could feel them coming back, or at least I could.” Yet for all the surprises, mild and otherwise, over the weekend, New England and Denver figure to play for the AFC Championship. On the NFC side, look for Seattle, which plays well in all kinds of weather. And the best guess here is that if you run into fans buying up as many gloves and hats as they can, they’ll be from San Francisco.

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Jackie Martinez had 15 points with Kayla Herrera adding 10 as the Santa Fe High girls basketball team rolled to a 48-21 rout of Pojoaque Valley in a SFHS 48 nondistrict game Monday night at Ben Luján Pojoaque 21 Gymnasium. The Demonettes (11-1) led 10-5 after one quarter and carried a nine-point edge into halftime. The Elkettes remained within a relatively safe distance until Santa Fe High used a 17-8 run in the fourth quarter to put the game away. Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage chipped in with nine points for the Demonettes. Veronica Dominguez had seven points to lead Pojoaque. Santa Fe High heads to a tournament

later this week at Albuquerque’s Sandia Preparatory. The Demonettes had a game against Aztec, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday night in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium, but head coach Elmer Chavez said a scheduling conflict may prevent that game from taking place.

It is the second straight year Nelms has had to fill a basketball vacancy after the season opener. She promoted assistant coach Ann Stewart to the head coaching job of the girls’ program last season after Tarah Logan unexpectedly stepped down early in the 2012-13 campaign. Dominguez was 12-56 in his two-plus seasons, going 3-13 in District 2AAAA. He was 10-18 in his first season but dropped to 1-26 Hilltoppers coach resigns a year ago. The Hilltoppers were 1-12 through this Los Alamos athletic director Vicki Nelms released a statement on Monday saying the past weekend. They head to Pojoaque Valley on Tuesday, having lost 40 of their last school’s boys basketball head coach had 42 games overall. stepped down for personal reasons. Fil Dominguez, who was in his third Mike Kluk has been named the interim season as the Hilltoppers’ head coach, head coach. A varsity assistant and the informed the school that he was resigning head coach of the Los Alamos junior varto devote more time to his career and a sick sity, he will take over the varsity program member of his family. for the remainder of the season.

Boys Basketball — Las Vegas Robertson, Santa Fe Indian School and West Las Vegas at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Taos at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Peñasco at McCurdy, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball — Santa Fe High at Sandia Preparatory Tournament in Albuquerque, pairings TBA Taos at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Estancia Tournament, pairings TBA Santa Fe Preparatory at Dulce, 5 p.m. Navajo Preparatory at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m. Albuquerque St. Pius at Los Alamos, 7 p.m. Thoreau at Española Valley, 7 p.m. Lovington at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m. Wrestling — Tierra Encantada, St. Michael’s, Capital at Al Salazar Tournament at St. Michael’s, noon

Saturday Boys Basketball — Las Vegas Robertson, Santa Fe Indian School and West Las Vegas at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Escalante at Peñasco, 2:30 p.m. Coronado at Santa Fe Preparatory, 3:30 p.m. Questa at Dulce, 3:30 p.m. Los Lunas at Los Alamos, 5 p.m. Shiprock at Taos, 6 p.m. Clayton at Pecos, 6 p.m. Albuquerque Academy at Capital, 7 p.m. McCurdy at Monte del Sol, 7 p.m. (at Christian Life) Girls Basketball — Santa Fe High at Sandia Preparatory Tournament in Albuquerque, pairings TBA Taos at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Estancia Tournament, pairings TBA Escalante at Peñasco, 1 p.m. Academy for Technology and the Classics at Desert Academy, 2 p.m. (at Christian Life) Questa at Dulce, 2 p.m. Lovington at Las Vegas Robertson, 3:30 p.m. Clayton at Pecos, 4:30 p.m. McCurdy at Monte del Sol, 5:30 p.m. (at Christian Life) Wrestling — Santa Fe High, West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson at Moriarty Pinto Duals, 8 a.m. Los Alamos at Albuquerque Academy Invite, 8 a.m. Taos at Rocky Mountain Invite in Pagosa Springs, Colo., 9 a.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Volleyball u The Genoveva Chavez Community Center will hold a junior volleyball league for youth ages 7 to 16. The league has an 8-match season with a single-elimination tournament. Registration is open through Jan. 21 at the Chavez Center front desk, and cost is $50 per player. For more information, call James Rivera at 955-4075.

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Johnson, Nets win 3rd straight

Tavares hat trick lifts Isles to win over Dallas Stars The Associated Press

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Islanders captain John Tavares scored a hat trick and added an assist to Isles 7 help propel Stars 3 New York to a 7-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Monday night. Highly touted Islanders rookie center Ryan Strome scored the first goal of his NHL career. With the Islanders on the power play early in the second period trailing 2-0, Strome got his squad on the board by putting a wrist shot past Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen — one of four Islanders goals in the period. That goal opened the floodgates for the Islanders, who went on to score six goals over a 24:38 span. Peter Regin, Brock Nelson, and Brian Strait also scored for New York.

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NEW YORK — Joe Johnson snapped out of a slump with 23 points against his former team, and the Brooklyn Nets matched a season high with their third Nets 91 straight victory by beating the Atlanta Hawks 91-86 on Hawks 86 Monday night. Mirza Teletovic scored 16 points and Alan Anderson added 14 starting in place of the injured Deron Williams as the Nets moved to 2-0 on four-game homestand that finishes with visits from Golden State on Wednesday and Miami on Friday. Despite yet another injury to a key player, the Nets look ready to test themselves against those powerful teams after matching their three consecutive victories from Dec. 7-12. Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, who lost their third in a row to equal their worst stretch of the season. Jeff Teague also had 16 but shot 5 of 15 from the field. Williams missed his 12th game this season after his ankle swelled Sunday. He had an MRI exam Monday that revealed the injury and will be re-evaluated Tuesday. But the Nets got solid guard play from Shaun Livingston, who scored 12, and more importantly some clutch play from Johnson, who had been held in single digits in five straight games for the first time in 11 years. He finished 10 of 22, making the go-ahead 3-pointer with 6:21 remaining. The Hawks rebounded from a dreadful start to the second half to grab a 78-77 lead on DeMarre Carroll’s dunk with 6:38 left in the game. Johnson answered with a 3-pointer on the next possession, Livingston had a steal and dunk, and Johnson nailed another jumper to cap the run of seven straight points and make it 84-78 with 3:37 to go.

BLUe JAcKets 4, rAngers 3 (so) In New York, Sergei Bobrovsky made 40 saves through overtime and two more in the shootout in his first action in over a month, and Brandon Dubinsky had a goal and assist against his former team in Columbus’ victory over New York. Bobrovsky stopped Mats Zuccarello and Rick Nash in the tiebreaker, and Mark Letestu and Ryan Johansen scored against Henrik Lundqvist to win it. Nash had tied it with his second power-play goal of the night, and ninth tally this season, at 6:55 of the third period as David Savard served a penalty for delay of game.

Hawks guard Louis Williams, center, passes, but Nets forward Kevin Garnett, left, blocks the pass with Nets guard Alan Anderson defending in the first half of Monday’s game at the Barclays Center in New York. KATHY WILLENS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

timBerwoLVes 126, 76ers 95 In Philadelphia, Kevin Love scored 16 of his 26 points in a dominant third quarter and Nikola Pekovic had 16 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves to a win over the 76ers. Kevin Martin scored 18 points and Corey Brewer had 15 to help the Timberwolves move back to .500 (17-17). Minnesota made 16 of 26 3-pointers. Thaddeus Young scored 20 points for the Sixers, who snapped a four-game winning streak. The Sixers had won the final four games of a six-game road trip.

The Timberwolves ended any threat of Philadelphia extending its streak in a hurry. They led by 16 at the half and Love hit a pair of 3s in the third to build a 31-point lead. cLippers 101, mAgic 81 In Los Angeles, Darren Collison scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half and had seven assists in his second start at point guard since Chris Paul’s injury, leading the Los Angeles Clippers to a rout of the Magic.

Paul, who separated his right shoulder in Friday’s win at Dallas and is expected to be sidelined for at least six weeks, sat behind the Clippers’ bench in a suit and tie while Collison orchestrated things without a hitch against the last-place team in the Southeast Division. The Clippers enjoyed one of their best defensive efforts of the season, after surrendering 70 first-half points in each of their previous two games against Dallas and San Antonio — both on the road.

Defenseman James Wisniewski also had a goal and assist, and Cam Atkinson scored on a second-period breakaway to help the Blue Jackets win for the second time in five games. Brian Boyle cut the deficit to 3-2 at 4:53 of the third, and Lundqvist made 36 saves through overtime for New York, which had won three of four on the road before returning home. fLAmes 4, AVALAncHe 3 In Denver, Jiri Hudler and Joe Colborne had a goal and assist each, and Mike Cammalleri scored a power-play goal at 16:30 of the third period to lift Calgary over Colorado. Sean Monahan also scored and Karri Ramo stopped 22 shots for the Flames, who broke out of an offensive slump to end a four-game skid. Calgary came into the game having been shutout in three of its last four games. The Flames’ only goal since Dec. 23 came in a 4-1 loss to Philadelphia. cAnADiens 2, pAntHers 1 In Montreal, Brian Gionta scored the winner in the second period and Carey Price stopped 26 shots to lead Montreal over Florida. David Desharnais also had a goal for Montreal. Sean Bergenheim scored for the Panthers and Tim Thomas made 33 saves. The win was Montreal’s first against Florida this season. The Panthers beat the Habs twice last month.

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Home sales in Santa Fe rise 23 percent

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he Santa Fe Association of Realtors will announce the details at its media breakfast Jan. 16, but the news is now official: 2012 was the best year for residential home sales since 2007. Alan Ball, an agent with Keller Williams Santa Fe who keeps monthly sales data, reports residential sales hit 1,641 last year — up 23 percent from 2011. But as we’ve reported here all year, that does not mean all is well with the sellers. Due to distressed short sales and foreclosures, the average sales prices dropped 6 percent in 2012 to $421,577. But the year ended with a bang as December saw 150 sales — and the fourth quarter itself saw three strong months in a row, and that despite the fiscal uncertainties coming from Washington, D.C.

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Solar professionals from Consolidated Solar Technology are conducting a pair of free informational solar seminars on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Body of Santa Fe, 333 W. Cordova Road. Several aspects of solar integration will be discussed in these informal presentations that will include a question-and-answer session with Patricia Mattioli and Katie Kelly from Consolidated Solar Technologies. The seminars are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Space is limited. Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP with Tommy Trujillo at 274-3246 or via email, ttrujillo@gocstsolar.com.

Filing by Jan. 30 Following the January tax law changes made by Congress under

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The National Association of the Remodeling industry’s fourth-quarter Remodeling Business Pulse data of current and future remodeling business conditions has experienced significant growth across all indicators, with forecasting in the next three months hitting its all-time highest level. The significantly positive results have a lot to do with homeowner security, remodelers say. “Remodelers are indicating major growth in the future, with many saying that clients are feeling more stable in their financial future and their employment situations; therefore, they are spending more freely on remodeling needs,” says Tom O’Grady, association chairman and a builder in Drexel Hill, Pa. Growth indicators in the last quarter of 2012 are as follows: u Current business conditions up 2.1 percent since last quarter u Number of inquiries up 3.9 percent since last quarter u Requests for bids up 3.7 percent since last quarter u Conversion of bids to jobs up 3.5 percent since last quarter u Value of jobs sold is up 4.3 percent since last quarter Still, according to the data, expectations for 2013 are even brighter. Two-thirds of remodelers forecasted the next three months positively, and the rating jumped 13.1 percent from last quarter. Drivers of this positive outlook continue to be postponement of projects (81 percent reporting) and the improvement of home prices (51 percent reporting). “Now that the election is over, consumer confidence is starting to grow and so has remodelers’ confidence,” O’Grady says. “NARI members are looking forward to having a well-deserved, productive year ahead.”

At Santa Fe Homebrew Supply, 3-foot-tall plastic containers house both local and international grain for all-grain brewing.

more like a brewery. Three-foot-tall plastic containers house both local and international grain for all-grain brewing, and a couple of freezers hold several varieties of green and earthy-smelling hops, another common ingredient in beer making. Nordby can tell which grain will create a chocolate porter or which hops will make a beer more bitter with an ease that comes from years of familiarity with his craft. But it wasn’t always that way for him. The shop was a gamble, Nordby said, especially given that he didn’t have a lot of brewing experience when he began the venture. Nordby said that he had a passion for the craft, but he did it on a small level

— he used to brew in his apartment. But about five years ago, he said, he noticed Santa Fe didn’t have a local brew supply store, so he and a couple of friends financed the store. “We just didn’t know any better,” he said. Part of his success came from an advertising campaign that consumed about 25 percent of his initial budget. From there, people started talking about the shop, which he said kept him in business. His wife also had another child during that five-year period, so he hired some part-time help to keep the doors open during times when he was away. But because the store earnings went to employees, Nordby said, his

the American Taxpayer Relief Act, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it plans to open the 2013 filing season and begin processing individual income tax returns on Jan. 30. The IRS will begin accepting tax returns on that date after updating forms and completing programming and testing of its processing systems. This will reflect the bulk of the late tax law changes enacted Jan. 2. The announcement means that the vast majority of tax filers — more than 120 million households — should be able to start filing tax returns starting Jan 30. The IRS estimates that remaining households will be able to start filing in late February or into March because of the need for more extensive form and processing systems changes. This group includes people claiming residential energy credits, depreciation of property or general business credits. Most of those in this group file more complex tax returns and typically file closer to the April 15 deadline or obtain an extension.

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side of his shop. He said his sales, undeniably, are slower at Hillside Market, but the larger commission share he gets for his sales means business about evens out. Hillside faces other challenges, too, and the biggest might be location. Off Old Las Vegas Highway, it By John Woosley seems far removed from the heart of Director, New Mexico District Office, U.S. Small Business Santa Fe shopping, though Sjostrand Administration said the drive from downtown Santa erome Garcia completed 23 years of military Fe only takes five to 10 minutes. service, multiple overseas tours and one comStill, she admitted some people bat deployment before retiring in Las Cruces think it’s a long way to drive. just before the economy collapsed in late 2008. “We’re definitely trying to make Garcia and his wife, Michele, proceeded with plans it a destination,” she said. To that to start their own business and launched Southwest end, Sjostrand offers her space to By Bruce Krasnow General Construction in February 2009. nonprofit groups hosting events. The New Mexican SGC is a service disabled veteran-owned small conThe nonprofits get 10 percent of the tracting business that builds and maintains airfields, By Bruce Krasnow sales, and she gets a larger customer he AARP free tax preparaJeweler Kaye Martin of Santa Fe sets upincome her display at Hillside Marrailroads, roads and buildings in New Mexico and the The New Mexican ket. The market’s retail store goods some base. The CSA functions similarly tionboasts will begin Feb.from 1 at both the45 vendors. Southwest. It also builds fences, drills wells, maintains because people have to drive out Santa Fe Community College and grounds and conducts environmental remediation. anta Fe has landed on Travel + Leisur the Pasatiempo Senior Center, according instead of the larger items, which creative outlet. So, she started taking to Hillside Market to pick up their Garcia, a civil engineer, earned his general contracmagazine’s list for “America’s Best tax aide coordinator vegetables. can be harder to hawk.to Peter Doniger,art classes and started for selling some tor’s license before starting the business. He and his Girlfriend Getaways.” AARP in how Santa Fe.of her work, but she said she’s not “They have given us customers, Notably, artists don’t choose wife completed numerous business training programs It joins Austin, Texas; Maui, Hawaii; The hours at SFCC be from 9 a.m. to and we have given them customers,” their artwork’s displayed. Sjostrand afterwill gallery recognition. offered by the Small Business Administration and Charleston, S.C.; Scottsdale, Ariz., and other 5 p.m. Monday Fridays Tisha said. creates the various vignettes in the through “I don’t thinkand my work will ever secured certifications in the 8(a) Business Developcities where BFFs can walk, stroll and spend 9 a.m. to 1 to p.m. Saturday. Hours at the she said. “And store, and that’s fine, according Hillside Market was founded by hang in a museum,” ment Program. By 2012, the Garcias had 12 contracts time without the guys. “Girls’ getaways, senior center,to664that’s Alta Vista St.,of aremy 9 a.m. Tucker. In fact, she said she strove Tisha, her current partner, Pam Fennot part aspiration. If with seven federal agencies and had built a team to while focused on fun and celebration, don’t to 1process p.m. Monday through Friday. remove herself from the as that’s your goal, “We thendo Hillside Marnel, and Tisha’s former husband, handle the growing workload. have to be one big drinking fest like guys’ It is allbe first much as possible. Shenot saidtake sheappointments. didn’t ket may not thecome, place for you.” Kate Sjostrand, who underwent For two consecutive years, the U.S. Small Business trips often are,” writes Terry Ward. first served,” want to be part of a co-op, she just he says. She said she has seen her sales transgender surgery. In fact, all three Administration has helped train thousands of aspiring monitor Of Santa Fe, Ward writes, “InAthis town showing the 16 security camera feeds can be seen as Brian Hunt, a pharmacist at Del Norte Pharmacy, prepares a prewanted a place to sell her art. The gradually scription u u u increase since she started members live together in the same entrepreneurs like the Garcias and put more than that has drawn artists and healers to the for a patient Friday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN member dynamic allowed her to displaying her goods at Hillside house. And, no, Tisha said, it’s not $30 billion a year into the hands of small-business foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains for Happy birthdayMarket, wishes which are in order straddle that line. isn’t the case for all weird. owners. In the fiscal year that ended in September, decades, you can head out on the artisanal Thornburg Developing World Anderson had for the Tucker choreographed dance for artists. Painter Robert “I actually couldn’t imagine doing SBA loan programs posted the second-largest dollar chocolate trail, stopping at Kakawa Chocomutualwork fund,on which turned 3 on 30 years in New York (THDAX) before moving Canyon Road for about volume ever, surpassed only by the previous fiscal this with anyone else,” Tisha said. late House for Mesoamerican chocolate 31. As fund enough to Santa Fe. She knewDec. she and hera result, 14 the years, buthas moved his show space year, which enjoyed loan incentives enabled by the elixirs and at ChocolateSmith, where dark longevity to receive a Morningstar ratContact Chris Quintana at husband didn’t want to live in New to Hillside Market after his landlord Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. chocolate is the specialty. You can get paming — and itahas been assigned a five-star York forever, but she still wanted said he could no longer paint outcquintana@sfnewmexican.com. In New Mexico, 316 loans provided $149.6 million in pered at the Ten Thousand Waves Mounhonor, the highest. capital to small businesses through the agency’s 7(a), tain Spa, inspired by traditional Japanese Managed by Lewis Kaufman, the 504 and microloan programs. hot springs resorts; the communal soaking emerging market fund is part of the offerIn the past year, SBA began streamlining and simtub is women only and clothing optional.” ings by the Santa Fe-based Thornburg plifying many loan programs to broaden participation Investment Management, but it’s ceruuu by lenders. Its updated processing systems allow tainly not for everyone: It lost 15 percent 80 percent of loan applications to be processed The annual report from Atlas, the giant in 2011 before roaring back with a 22.7 perago, and additional measures, By Chris Quintana into in 2012, and since then HerSince then, Lovett said that he’s online. These changes and other incentives prompted moving and transportation company, that cent gain in 2012. The New Mexican such as 24-hour security surveilrand said she has several silent installed more outside lighting in 1,300 lenders nationwide to return to SBA lending. tracks who goes and comes from each William Rocco don’t need to upsize your living space, or save the lance, are required. alarms in place that summon “Leverage”Morningstar’s is using borrowed assetsSamuel to raise your By Michael D. Loftin addition to pricey security equipThe results speak for themselves: state shows immigration to New Mexico writes: “This fundhave has crushed thewhat compe- money for retirement or the kids’ college. It’s your harmacies in and around For The New Mexican “We have 16 cameras, and the police. She also purchased own return, since you only to pay back ment such as alarms that go off u The Certified Development Company (504) loan has slowed but that the state still has more tition thus From its inception the city of Santa Fe face it’s not a cheap camera system a stronger front door and addiyou borrow, plus anyfar. interest, while you geton to keep money. It’s up to you. when windows are broken. Roybillion Rogosin plays the piano as students at the Santa Fe C-A-M-P studios prepare for a performance of Les Misérables. C-A-M-P stands for program extended 9,471 loans, supporting $15.1 people coming here than leaving. In 2012, Dec. 16, 2009, through Oct. 1, 2012, it has house is first and foremost a home. already face rising costs either,” she said in an phone tional heavy duty locks to protect OK, there’s that little voice saying wait a minute, Creative all the profits. “It’s the cost of doing busiin small business lending. New Mexico accounted forArts, Music and Performance. PHOTOS BY ERIKA SERRANO-PEREZ/THE NEW MEXICAN there were 746 inbound trips, compared posted 10.4 percent annualized return, It is where you sleep, eat, raise your for prescription drugs and interview Thursday. “But all of the store. I actually paid more than $950 a month on my How does thata work for an individual homeness these days,” Lovett said in a 51 of those loans, totaling $67.4 million. with 646 exits, and there have been more which ranks in the top 3 percent of the children, take shelter from the storm, and falling payouts from Medicare the costs have gone up substanTom Lovett, owner of Nambe mortgage, and over five years it was $57,000 that I buyer? Suppose you buy a house for $200,000 and phone interview Thursday. u SBA revamped its CAPLines program, which inbound trips to New Mexico every year in but they also must diversified emerging-markets category and hopefully grow old and happy. and Medicaid, tially.” Drugs since 2010, said someone Lovett also said that he has pay the mortgage faithfully for five years. Then, out plunked down for the old house, not $20,000. provides working lines of credit to small businesses the past decade. But the largest contend difference is more than 7 percentage points better That was forgotten by buyers, banks and the govwith the threat of robShe said she doesn’t have a spe- had broken into his store Septem- begun to cut back on the amount The voice is easily answered. Of your payment, of the blue, you get a great job offer a few hundred such as manufacturers and government contractors. was in 2004, when the state sawbery 536 more than the group norm.” ernment in the run-ups to the late 1980s and midor fraud. cific person to watch the feeds ber 2011. Along with the loss of of narcotic painkillers — such as miles awayRocco and decided to sell your home andfunds one-third on average went directly toward your Loans jumped 400 percent in one year — from inbound trips than exits. adds, “Other international 2000s housing bubbles. It was ignored by the Wall Brianna Harrand, manager of all the time, but the archives are medications, he said he and his ownership of the house, while the rest was interest oxycodone, a prescription narmove. at Thornburg have earned good long108 loans and $118 million in fiscal year 2011 to The top-five inbound states of 2012 Street financial speculators who turned mortgages the Santa Fe branch of Del Norte readily available should an inciwife also had to file mountains of cotic — he keeps in store. This you paid to the bank. If yourterm home gainedusing only the about 2 percent in 532 loans and $410 million in 2012. Here in New Mexwere: results same or similar into investment “vehicles” that took no notice of Pharmacy, said robberies have dent arise. Think of the interest as rent, and think of the paperwork documenting the loss value each year that you owned it, at has the end of five 1. District of Columbia approaches. And Kaufman a sizable the people paying the underlying loans. increased compared with 10 years Please see cost, Page C-4 Please see sBA, Page C-4 Her store was last broken principal as savings. Could you have rented that of narcotics. years it would be worth almost $221,000. Mean2. Oregon and strong support team.” Today, the early signs of a healthy housing marwhile, you would have paid about $20,000 in mort- house, or even an adequate apartment, for $650 or 3. Nevada ket are returning after the crash. Once again, it is $650 a month? Not likely. uuu 4. North Carolina becoming normal to buy a home with the expecta- gage principal over the period. And could you have found a bank savings When you sell, youof walk away with $41,000Santa — 5. South Carolina Speaking long-term investing, tion that it is a sound investment in the future. account that would turn a little more than $300 a ofis the house minus the amount remaining To see the information, visit www. Money Journal, month put away over five years — $20,000, give or also home to Green House prices are increasing in many parts of the the valueFe FRANCE on the loan. Youfounder only invested $20,000, so youFeigenhave atlasvanlines.com/migration-patterns/ Cliff where and publisher country, and even with only modest appreciation, take — into $41,000? effectively doubled fiveofyears, even pdf/2012_Migration_Patterns.pdf. has your beenmoney namedinone the “Top baum homeowners can find their equity — that share of Sure. If you believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth though the house gained only 10 percent in value. Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Fairy, too. a home’s value not beholden to the bank — grows uuu Congratulations. it to the financial Trust Behavior” You’ve for 2013made by the group much faster than their investment in in the house. But leveraged appreciation is not financial makeBy Chris Quintana Ashley Leach, an economist with the big leagues, enjoying “leveraged appreciation” UNEMPLOYMENT SANTA FE Across America , a group that highlights believe. It’s for real. And while, as we all now know, What that means to the homebuyer is the type The New Mexican state Department of Workforce Solutions, on your investment. you did business it safely, while ethical and And trustworthy leaders. home values don’t always go up, they are begin2012 2011 of financial return usually reserved only for hedge has put together an analysis of the top Nov. 4.7% Nov. 5.2% the course ourthat research, buying equity in an of asset was at we the fund managers and private equity firms using other patiently“During ileen Rogosin danced with community of Nechin, just across By Alan Katz ning to rise once again. A penny saved via buying a occupational growth areas by education have met with and spoken to hundreds of home just might turn into two pennies earned. same time a home for you and your family. people’s money to make a lot for themselves. Elvis Presley. Roy Rogosin Bloomberg News the border, has been engaged in a UNEMPLOYMENT LOS ALAMOS level expected in New Mexico between thought leaders, across a variety profesWith that $41,000, you can perhaps put aof down The fat cats would call it “arbitrage,” or playing conducted Johnny Mathis. war of words with the government 2012 2011 now and 2020. disciplines who,home whenfor their efforts paymentsional on a bigger and better your fam- Michael P. Lofton is executive director of PARIS — A court’s rejection the difference between what an asset is worth at Now, the Rogosins are in over his decision. Nov. 3.2% Nov. 2.8% “As students and job seekers assess the Francois Hollande’s are combined, create of President Homewise. one point in time versus what it’s worth at another. ily in your new location,help maybe buy trustworthy a car if you Santa Fe starting an interdisciplinary His plan was described as types of work they are interested they millionaire tax shows organizations,” the group writes. 75 in, percent studio for the arts called Santa Fe “pathetic” by Prime Minister Jeancan begin to match their interests For online readers, the list is here — thewith limits on his ability to tap HOTEL/MOTEL OCCUPANCY RATES C-A-M-P studios. Marc Ayrault. Depardieu, who occupations. There are also times, www.trustacrossamerica.com/offeringshighhowearners, even as the ruling is After careers that took them all 2012 (year to date) 2011 (year to date) gained fame in the United States ever, when a job seeker is not currently thought-leaders-2013.shtml. unlikely to attract investors and over the world, the two said that Nov. 1 61.4% Nov. 1 62.1% playing a cigarette-smoking, wineexpanding his/her educational level, and back to France. Feigenbaum started Green Money Jourexecutives they thought they would settle swilling French bon vivant in the LODGERS TAXES is looking for work. Knowing which occunal in 1992 in Spokane, Wash., and relo“For investors and entrepredown in the City Different. 1990 movie Green Card, replied in 2012 pations provide the greatest employment cated to Santa Fe in 2000. Green Money neurs, it shows that France can’t “But we still have some years left,” a letter published in the Journal du September $608,861 4 percent increase Eileen Rogosin said during an interopportunities for their specific be skillconfiscatory, level Journal has a worldwide readership and that there are Dimanche this month. Depardieu from 2011 positions can help in guiding them to some covers sustainable business and investing. rules that have to be followed,” view at the studio off Wagon Road. wrote that he is leaving “because that may be a best bet for employment,” He also blogs and has a website; visit www says Laurent Dubois, a professor at Starting a school and managing GROSS-RECEIPTS TAXES you consider that success, creativshe writes. greenmoneyjournal.com for more informathe Institute of Political Studies in performing art businesses is nothing ity, talent, anything different, are 2012 2011 For those with less than a high-school tion. Paris. Still, “the government won’t new for the duo. Eileen Rogosin said Nov. $7 million Nov. $7.1 million grounds for sanction.” degree, the job of health care aide will see drop the idea, and the commentary she started a similar children’s proBillionaire Bernard Arnault, chief uuu the most growth as the demandfrom will swell the highest levels of governgram in Maine, where Roy Rogosin executive officer of LVMH Moet French President Francois Hollande appears in a taped address to The Inn of the Five Graces, 150 E. more than 50 percent as baby boomers age. Eileen Rogosin works with students rehearsing for Les Misérables. ment is anti-rich, and that’s a red managed Hennessy Louis Vuitton, filed an wish his nation a happy New Year’s. Hollande wasn’t happy when A recent Weekend Gas Watch from AAA New Mexico two theater houses. De Vargas St., has been named best small The average wage is about $20,000 flag.”a year. Both Rogosins said that starting application for Belgian nationality a court struck down his 75 percent tax on millionaires, one of his indicated the average price of a gallon of unleaded hotel in the United Stated by TripAdvisor, For those with a high-school degree, Thejobs tax, one of Hollande’s camover main campaign promises. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in September. While he promised regular in the Santa Fe area was $3.05 though thedoes seem daunting, but that it a travel website that solicits reader comrelated to heavy machinery andpaign truckpromises, drivhad become a to continue paying taxes in France, price is higher at some stations. The price inhelps to be a little insane. ments. “The stay of a lifetime. You will ers will see 20 percent growth with focalwages point of discontent among The Constitutional Court ruled ing on how earnings are divided “I have always been unemployArnault’s action prompted fierce Albuquerque was $2.98 and in Las Cruces $3.04. never be treated better, or be more thorreaching $39,000. entrepreneurs and other wealth on Dec. 29 that Hollande’s among their members, counter to able,” Roy Rogosin said. “We have Santa Fe C-A-M-P Studios criticism from Hollande and his oughly spoiled, than you will be at the Inn, For those with more education, the some of whom have quit creators, 75 percent band wasn’t acceptable the rule of equal tax treatment, the supporters. had to start our own things.” 4001 Office Court Drive NEW CONTRACTS one visitor reported. teaching fields will remain a stable source French shores as a result. The rulbecause it applied to individuals, Paris-based court said. 946-0488 That chemistry and humor is The Dec. 29 ruling, which also Owned by the Seret family, the hotel of jobs as well as physical therapy, Nonresidential (year to date) c-a-m-p.net ingwhere comes as the president seeks to when French income taxes are genActor Gerard Depardieu, apparent in everything the couple lowered maximum tax rates on 2012 $77.6 million 2011 $98.6 million appeals to repeat and regular travelers salaries can reach $70,000 a year, cutaccording the public deficit to 3 percent erally based on household revenue. France’s highest-profile tax exile, does. stock options, a form of retirewho have come to Santa Fe for years and to the analysis. of gross domestic product next As a result, two households with said the ruling changes nothing, Le ment benefit, and bearer bonds, They talk fast, tweak each other’s Residential the Rogosins whenever she gets the are looking for the real destination itself, The report is available at the year DWSfrom a projected 4.5 percent “The goal’s incidental to the protrust someone, but they have triedthe same total income could end Parisien reported Sunday. Deparideas or interrupt as need be. Amid 2012 $34.0 million 2011 $13.3 million chance, including Saturday when something distinctive and different, said website, http://164.64.37.28/Portals/0/DM/ cess,” Roy Rogosin said. “We’re not and-true experience.” this year. up paying different rates dependdieu, who is moving to the Belgian See tAx, Page C-4 the banter, the husband and wife she was auditioning for Rosogins’ general manager Sharif Seret. The hotel LMI/lmrnov12.pdf. interested in growing them to be Duran said that she first met the said a studio requires good word also won the best in the Southwest honor production of Les Misérables. She stars.” Rogosins through St. John’s College, of mouth and willing parents, both Contact Bruce Krasnow at by Condé Nast Traveler. Rates in the low was among other applicants, all who And though stardom may not be where the husband serves as the which take a while to build. brucek@sfnewmexican.com. season begin at $340 a night. the couple’s interest, they have men- sang praises of the duo. artist-in-residence. She now works The couple’s credentials, though, Here is the link — www.tripadvisor. Ottersberg also had previously tored many Broadway performers, closely with the couple as a piano will help speed that process. Eileen com/TravelersChoice-Hotels-cSmall. including Book of Mormon stand-by met the Rogosins at Monte Del Sol, teacher. Rogosin started as one of the origiwhere Roy Rogosin still teaches. Stephen Mark Lukas. As far as services provided go, the nal Mouseketeers, danced under Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@ He also taught at the New Mexico Additionally, the couple started a Rogosins cover the gamut of performballet legend George Balanchine in sfnewmexican.com. School for the Arts in its first year. performing arts camp in the Berking arts including voice work, acting the New York Ballet and worked shire Mountains of Massachusetts. Eileen Rogosin said the school classes and dance lessons. Classes alongside Elvis Presley on the 1965 generally cost $55 for a month’s worth That camp has been going strong has about 30 students from Santa Fe, film Harum Scarum. for 27 years, and the Rogosins have Los Alamos and even Rio Rancho, Roy Rosogin conducted sympho- of weekly sessions. They also probrought that camp idea to Santa vide adult acting classes and private nies on Broadway and at the Kenwhich she said is a good start given Fe, specifically at the Greer Garson lessons. The building is a work in nedy Center, worked with Johnny the studio has only been open since Wednesday, Jan. 23 Theatre Center at the Santa Fe Uni- October. For the future, they plan to progress, but the wide-open rooms Mathis and Michael Legrand and Developing the simple financial skills will allow for plenty of activity, Eileen versity of Art and Design. created soundtracks for many expand the school — then maybe needed to ensure prosperity, plan an effecThe workshops also bring in Rogosin said. movies, including National Lamretire again. tive income-expanding strategy and set would-be students, such as Gabby The two also said multiple times poon’s Vacation. Of course, that list “We really want to build somethe foundation for a stronger client or cusOttersberg, 16, who described camp that they were more interested in is nowhere near comprehensive. tomer base will be taught by Joan Sotkin thing that will take care of itself,” as “week of doing everything you the process of learning rather than Regardless, the duo’s work draws of Prosperity Place. Santa Fe Chamber of Roy Rogosin said. Commerce, 1644 St. Michael’s Drive, love.” just putting on a show every few people in, Isabella Duran said. 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., chamber members Contact Chris Quintana at The New Mexico School for the “I was definitely intrigued by their months, as is the case with some free/nonmembers $10; 670-0401. cquintana@sfnewmexican.com. Arts student has since worked with credentials,” Duran said. “It’s hard to dance studios. The New Mexican

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Crooks target businesses with creative scams Union, offering a superficially plausible reason for the overpayment. When the phony check bounces, the seller is liable for the entire amount. While this scam usually targets individuals, businesses also can fall prey. To protect themselves, businesses should accept only easily verifiable payment methods. Scams directed at businesses often exploit new technology to commit classic crimes. Some crooks use bogus checks they design on a computer and print out at home. Others steal checks from the mail — especially mail left in unlocked mailboxes or even overstuffed curbside mailboxes — and use them to make purchases or get cash before the bank alerts the victim that her account is overdrawn. Some thieves “wash” the checks, removing the intended recipient’s name and substituting their own. Stolen checks also can become templates

Wednesday, Jan. 9 Brown bag lunch, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, 11:45-1:15 p.m. “Ethics in Business and Government,” Leon Young of Leon Young and Associates, 1644 St. Michael’s Drive. Register at www.santafechamber. com or 988-3279. Free for members, $10 for nonmebers. Bring your lunch; the chamber will provide beverages.

for new checks bearing the account holder’s account number and information. Even a deposit slip provides enough information for a scammer to use the routing number and account number to divert money from the account holder’s account to an account of his making. When phony checks are used at a business, both the actual account holder and the business are victims. For this reason, many merchants are rejecting checks from people they don’t know and accepting payment only by credit card, debit card or cash. Other common scams involve tampering with merchandise to obtain refunds or to get big-ticket items for small-ticket prices. One ploy is to swap a price tag or bar code from an inexpensive commodity and place it on an expensive one, hoping an inattentive or distracted cashier doesn’t notice the

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Entrepreneurial workshop WESST-Santa Fe will be hosting a New Mexico Angels Women’s entrepreneurial education workshop from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Santa Fe Business Incubator. The workshop will feature speaking on how to ensure a company stands out in the marketplace.

switcheroo. Or the scammer can attempt to attach the big-ticket bar code to something she bought earlier and returned it to the store for a refund. Checkout clerks and returns department employees should be trained to compare bar code data against the item being returned or purchased. Crimes like this can devastate a business, especially a small one with limited resources. To riff off the cautionary adage, “seller beware.” Los Alamos National Bank uses encryption and multiple layers of security to protect customers from banking fraud. For more information about LANB, visit www.lanb.com. Finance New Mexico is a public service initiative to assist individuals and businesses with obtaining skills and funding resources for their business or idea. To learn more, go to www.FinanceNewMexico.org.

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2012 priciest year for gas According to the AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch, 2012 proved to be the year with the most expensive annual New Mexico statewide average on record. The annual average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in 2012 was $3.46. The previous annual record was $3.38 in 2011. The New Mexican

allery space is at a premium in Santa Fe, but Hillside Market has added grocery and restaurant services to compete in a competitive art market. Located off Old Las Vegas Highway, the market contains three distinct areas: the garden, which also serves as a pickup location for Beneficial Farms, a Community Supported Agriculture collective; the coffee shop; and the retail store, which has approximately 45 vendors. Hillside Market first came to life in June. Back then, it was undeveloped and, according to owner Tisha Sjostrand, didn’t present an appealing sight to potential customers. Since then, it’s slowly filled with the boutique store staples such as paintings, furniture and jewelry, but it also features eclectic show items such as painted vinyl records and cartoon movie stills. Sjostrand’s model requires that vendors pay a monthly fee in addition to 15 percent of their sales. All the goods have a serial number that’s part of one system. Vendors also have enough access to the system so they can track their sales. She said that artists can set their own price. Many artists, such as JoAnne Tucker, focus on creating small, functional art pieces like coasters or postcards that are easier to sell

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Roy, Eileen Rogosin bring years of arts experience to their Santa Fe interdisciplinary studio

As far as services provided go, the Rogosins cover the gamut of performing arts, including voice work, acting classes and dance lessons.

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Ten Thousand Waves was cited as a reason Santa Fe is on Travel + Leisure magazine’s list for ‘America’s Best Girlfriend Getaways.’ NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

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u The Hotel Group has named Barry Baxter general manager of its DoubleTree by Hilton in Santa Fe, 4048 Cerrillos Road. In this role, Baxter is responsible for hotel management and will oversee overall operations, including

A recent gasoline survey by AAA New Mexico indicated the average price of a gallon of unleaded regular in the Santa Fe area was $2.94, although the price is higher at some stations. The price was $2.91 in Albuquerque and $3.02 in Las Cruces.

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ith the rise of the new McDonald’s on a Cerrillos Road portion of the 550-acre Las Soleras property, there is speculation about what else might be coming to the city’s new south side. James Siebert, the planning and design consultant working for property owners John J. Mahoney and Skip Skarsgard, said there soon will be a new fire station on the site, and negotiations are moving forward with Taco Bell. In addition to McDonald’s, a State Employees Credit Union branch and a Murphy gas station and convenience store are now open along Cerrillos Road across from the Wal-Mart Supercenter. Heather Lamboy, the city planner reviewing the project, adds there have been meetings about an 8,800-square-foot commercial center that would host smaller tenants and accommodate a mix of office and commercial space. That would be sited along I-25 next to Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe. Of course, the big question is what Presbyterian Healthcare Services will do with its 40-acre parcel, which sits in the middle of the project. Beckner Road is now finished and extends east to the border of the Presbyterian property, Siebert said. Presbyterian, a nonprofit that writes insurance and provides direct patient care, just opened a new hospital in Rio Rancho, and its corporate energy is focused on making that a success. And Siebert thinks the provider would likely start with an urgent care center, then phase into a hospital, depending on the economics. A spokeswoman for Presbyterian said they are not prepared to discuss their Santa Fe plans at this time. So what would New Mexican readers like to see in the way of a fast-food franchise on the site — something that would be new to Santa Fe? Send me a quick email and I’ll publish the responses. Personally, I’m holding out for a Popeyes. uuu

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to worry about, such as having government “knuckleheads” drive straight toward a fiscal cliff, seemed of little concern to the students. After some discussion about the potential benefits of driving over the “cliff”, i.e., forcing ourselves to deal with the mounting problem of their generation’s wages going towards supporting my generation of soon-to-retire

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The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the Santa Fe County was 4.9 percent in November, unchanged The Santa Fe Professional BusiThe Santa Fe Association of Realfrom Monday October and down 5.7 percent ness Women’s Young Professional tors has announced theLupe awarding of clears snow Cassidy’s Landscaping employee Estralle from the from DeVargas Center parking lot. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN in November 2011, according to the state Program is seeking candidates more than $7,500 to support local Department of Workforce Solutions. through Feb. 1, 2013. community services. Over the month, total nonfarm employYoung professional women or The Community Services Comment for the county rose by 200 jobs, men may be self-nominated, nomimittee received 24 requests totaling with the public sector and private sector nated by an organization, employer more than $24,000 in community employment each up 100 jobs. or colleague. Nominees will also be funding needs. In addition, construction and informaeligible to attend a special ProfesSFAR awarded a total of $7,520 tion each gained 100 jobs. sional Development program. to area community service organiIn the government sector, local governCandidates must be between the ment added 100 jobs. ages of 25 and 35; have been employed zations that include the Adventist Over the year Santa Fe’s MSA enployAcademy of Santa Fe, Bienvenidos in business or their professions with ment expanded by 700 jobs and thanks to Outreach, Boys & Girls Clubs of at least one complete year of full-time the growth in the hospitality and tourism Santa Fe, Cancer Institute Foundawork experience in her/his career sector, Santa Fe has recorded consecutive Solscapes owner Zandra Werenko “I try to13take care of contracted concern isn’t on waiting By Chris Quintana tion, Earth Care International, Food area; be outstanding in scholastic months of positive over-the-year job growth. Robert New Mexicanfor Santa Fe, IMPACT Personal businesses,” Southwest’s for the snow, but finding people said she has contracts as well, but work, community service;The be living, Martinez said. “We try to be loyal to that most people aren’t eager to sign available to operate the trucks in working, training or seeking continu- Safety, Las Cumbres Community Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@ ittle precipitation makes a our customers first.” 10- toof12-hour shifts at a moment’s on, especially given the sporadic ing education in Santa Fe County; and Services, Literacy Volunteers sfnewmexican.com. dry season for snow-removal notice. Apodoca added Martinez said that just because that he also weather in the past year. She does support the mission of SFPBW. Santathroughout Fe, Music Education Commitcompanies the has men who do hand-shoveling for it snows doesn’t mean his plows go more plowing on the north side of The individual selected will city, buttee of Santa Fe Symphony, Parent most business ownstAte gAs prices out. Often, he said, people will just sidewalks and similar areas inaccestown, she said. represent SFPBW at the state conInvolvement Committee, Santa Fe ers rely on alternative services to get sible let the snow melt, and customers by machinery. Werenko offers similar plowing program ference in April. The localthem Symphony, SER Jobs AE for Snow RemovalAruns recent gasoline survey by AAAwon’t New Mexico throughYouth the winters. generally call until 2 inches or services, and she added that she spewill be 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at AE indicated the averagemore price accumulate. of a gallon of This season, he Progress, Villa Therese Catholic Consider Snow Removal, eight trucks with blades and salt cifically uses a salt that is less abrasive La Posada. For nomination informaunleaded regular in the Santa Fe area was Clinic, ThetoFood YouthA blade costs which shifts employees snowDepot and said, has been dry. graders. $6,000 and tion, contact Amanda Lupardus, to plants and animals. It does cost $2.95, although the price is higher at some removal from Shelters. its partner company He added that he doesn’t go door- more, but because it snows infrea salt grader runs $5,000. Most of SFPBW chairwoman, at 455-5333 or stations. The price was $2.86 in Albuquerque in construction, Insulite Skylights. to-door seeking out jobs, and instead his business comes from contracts, alupardus@dncu.org.com. “The other business is based onThe New Mexican and $2.99 in Las Cruces. quently in Santa Fe, the costs level will let people reach out to him which means businesses around out. construction, so when it snows, the when his services are needed. the city can expect Apodoca’s She said she also supplements the construction stops, and vice versa,” Martinez, though, is used to dry crew to show up at the first signs dry season with seasonal plant care, manager Erik Apodoca said. seasons as Southwest has been in of snow. He said that business has been business for 45 years. He added that such as hand-watering evergreens, The crews work in twos, and and pest control, which also comes decent this year in spite of the he tries to save some funds during usually start by 2 or 3 a.m. across later in the year with dry winters. decreased snowfall. the summer in case of dry winters. the city. Apodoca said he does nonAnd while business has been slow That switch, however, requires Martinez added that his truck has contract labor as well, but call-ins all around, Martinez said the potenmore than just transferring personnel can expect a 30- to 45-minute wait almost fallen down steep embanktial for snowier months remains, from a construction site to a truck. ments while plowing, but that before someone arrives. though the whole season could be Apodoca said that different insurance, doesn’t deter him. Other companies such as Southa dud. pay rates and other clerical concerns west Pavement and Maintenance “It can be dangerous,” he said. “It’s hit-and-miss with this sort of must also be undertaken. “But hell, so can getting out of your and Solscapes have similar wait thing,” he said. bathtub.” times for call-in services. And he added that the biggest

In an age when many products sell in cyberspace and the buyer and seller never meet, creative crooks are finding new ways to defraud businesses — especially Web-based businesses and individuals selling items through online platforms. One scheme involves counterfeit versions of a time-honored currency — the cashier’s check. Scammers commit cashier’s check fraud using an authentic-looking cashier’s check to buy a product. The seller deposits the check, and her account is charged for the amount when the check bounces back to the bank as a fake. Another version of this scam involves checks written for more than the sales price. The “buyer” typically asks the seller to remit the excess funds via a wire transfer or Western

child policy on the price of iPods in the U.S. to the impact of the Olympic Games on the economies of places as diverse as Brazil and Vietnam. It is exciting, I told them, that young people graduating from high school the world over all read the same news at the same time, listen to the same music and follow the same fashion trends, and therein stands an investment opportunity. The risks that adults seem

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Some of the students were aware of the potential benefits of risk taking, either through entrepreneurial ventures such as franchises or starting their own “one person” retail stands. Very few of them seemed to be aware that the investment field that I work in has ample room for creativity. I did my best to impress upon them a need to be aware of what is going on around us on the entire planet, from the impact of China’s decades-old one-

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though they understood that it was an almost sure way to end up losing money. They thought earning a negative real rate of return, given inflation, was an acceptable way to go mostly because it was the only sure way to go. While they realized it was a bad option, many of these young people were so suspicious of the market-based alternatives that it gave them comfort to know they would only lose a little and not all of it.

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ust before Christmas, I traveled to one of Santa Fe’s established charter schools to speak to a group of high school seniors who are studying economics and how money works. I asked each of them how they would invest $1,000 in cash, given current circumstances. I was surprised at how many of the students opted to keep their hypothetical long-term investment funds in a bank savings account or CD; even

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ami Nordby doesn’t sell beer — he just sells all the materials a person needs to make it at Santa Fe Homebrew Supply. Nordby stocks wine-making, beercrafting and cheese-curdling materials, though the majority of his business comes from brewers. To that end, he stocks supplies for extract brewing, which he said can be easier but costs more on the ingredients end, and for all-grain-brewing, a more time-intensive process. He said that in the past, beermakers made up 85 percent of his total sales, though he said the recent crop of fruit in the state has sent more winemakers his way. And while he doesn’t have a product he’d call his best-seller, he said he does sell a lot of brewing starter kits and recipe packs that include every ingredient needed for a single batch. To that end, he can also help brewers come up with new recipes or order speciality items. “There are so many directions people can go,” Nordby said at his shop on Thursday. “Imagination is the only limit.” Nordby’s shop is split roughly into two sections: equipment in the storefront and ingredients in the back. In the front, giant glass containers rest on shelves alongside powdered chemicals. Smaller items such as spigots, beer caps and yeast line the smaller shelves. It’s the back of the shop that feels

inventory declined. He is back at work full time now, and Nordby said he’s working on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 replenishing his once-expansive stock. In the five years since he started, Nordby said that he’s learned a lot from customers who were experienced brewers, and now he can offer that accumulated knowledge to newbies. John Rowley said he is one of the customers who has benefited from Nordby’s knowledge. “He was a great resource for sure,” Rowley said. “He knows a lot, and he wants to help.” Rowely also is president of the Sangre de Cristo Craft Brewers, a group that Rowley said frequents Homebrew. And though it’s located on the south side of town, Santa Fe Homebrew Supply is still the closet supply store for small brewers in Santa Fe, Rowley said. Before Nordby set up shop in 2007, Santa Fe brewers drove to Albuquerque or farther for supplies. Rowley said that while stores in Albuquerque might have more esoteric supplies, he prefers to avoid the trip and support local business. Rowley also said he recommends Nordby’s store to new brewers. “We got a great thing going here; it’s a really supportive shop,” Rowley said. “I wouldn’t go to Albuquerque unless you absolutely have to. It’s almost too much, and it can be intimidating for a new brewer.”

The restoration project at La Fonda is well under way, and one of the challenges for Jennifer Kimball and her managers is to phase the project so it doesn’t impact visitors. To accomplish that, contractors try to start work at 9 a.m. on the first 100 rooms now under construction. As those rooms come back on line in April or May, the renovation moves to the next 80 rooms with the goal of having all the rooms completely modernized and ungraded by Indian Market weekend. Kimball is also proud that all of the 220 workers will remain employed during the nine-month project and that vacancy rates have not been impacted. Because of the lower supply of rooms, occupancy is close to 100 percent — of course, the $89 a night special La Fonda is offering during the remodeling doesn’t hurt with bargainconscious travelers. Majority ownership in La Fonda still rests with the four daughters of the late Sam and Ethel Ballen — Lois, Penina, Lenore and Marta Ballen.

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sales, revenue, food and beverage, and property management. Baxter brings experience in hotel management, staff development and leadership skills to The Hotel Group and the DoubleTree by Hilton — Santa Fe. Prior to this role, Baxter served as assistant general manager of the Hilton Garden Inn in Issaquah, Wash. and director of rooms for the Arctic Club Seattle, both properties managed by The Hotel Group. He also served as night manager at the Hilton Suites Phoenix in Arizona.

u Molina Healthcare, Inc. has named Patty Kehoe president of its subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of New

Mexico, Inc. As president, Kehoe will be responsible for the operational oversight of the New Mexico health plan as well as the implementation and execution of various strategic initiatives. Before taking on this role, she served as vice president of health care services, managing the health care services department, which included utilization review, care management and transition of care.

Born and raised in New Mexico, Kehoe is a registered nurse with a Master in Public Health from California College for Health Sciences and holds a certification in case management. She is active with the Lovelace Clinic Foundation Health Information Exchange board, Medically Fragile Case Management Advisory Council, the National Association for Healthcare Quality, the American Association of Managed Care Nurses and Wheels for the World. The New Mexican

Thursday, Jan. 24 Patricia Chavez, Community Ourtreach and Planning Specialis — U.S. Department of Labor, will be presenting common pitfalls and insights into the Fair Labor Standards Act. 9 to 11:30 a.m., Chamber of Commerce, 1644 St. Michael’s Drive. Free but seating is limited. Email: julianne. gutierrezor@sfcc.edu or call 428-1343.

stAte gAs prices A recent gasoline survey by AAA New Mexico indicated the average price of a gallon of unleaded regular in the Santa Fe area was $2.90, although the price is higher at some stations. The price was $2.86 in Albuquerque and $2.99 in Las Cruces.

The New York Times just published an interesting series, “United States of Subsidies,” looking at business incentives and their impact on the economy. The newspaper also has an interactive database by state that shows New Mexico spent $123 per capita on corporate incentives or 4 cents per dollar of the state budget, annually. Oil, gas and mining received the largest share, $163 million, while $47 million was allocated to the film industry; another $8 million went to railroads. The figures are annualized for the years 2004-08. The largest amount during this time went to Lions Gate Entertainment with $99 million in film incentives for the four-year period. The largest grant to a Santa Fe firm went to Simtable, $145,600 for job training. Other firms such as Deep Web Technologies, CleanAIR Systems, NASTRA Automotive, Wildflower International, Jackrabbit Systems, Flow Science, Divine Beauty and Galisteo Capital are on the list for smaller amounts, mostly for similar job-training initiatives. Go here to see the data: www. nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/01/us/ government-incentives.html#NM Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@ sfnewmexican.com.

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‘Life After Work’ Portfolio Asset Management will host an educational workshop called “Life After Work: Incorporating Income Into Lifestyle & Creating a Sustainable Income Stream in Retirement.” The workshop will take place 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St. Seating is limited; for reservations, call Kate Stalter at 490-6474.

Business people u Jonathan Wise is the new general manager at Inn of the Alameda. Wise brings more than 25 years of hospitality management expertise to the Santa Fe property.

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6-8 p.m. Toro Bar & Grill, 1465 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE, Rio Rancho 87124. Join area designers, developers, IT folks and others in tech for food, drink and casual conversation with The New Mexico Technology Council. Visit www.nm techcouncil.org for more info.

Thursday Dec. 13

5:30-8 p.m. The Energy, Technology, and Environment Business Association will hold its monthly meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel, 4048 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe with a mixer followed by dinner and a speaker. The speaker for this meeting is John H. Bemis, Cabinet secretary, New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Registration for the meeting is $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers. Register at www.eteba.org to register. For questions, call Chris Timm at 323-8355.

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Zia Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 41, 42, 43 Public Schools Administration Building, 610 Alta Vista Street Recinto Electoral 44 Wood Gormley, 141 E. Booth Street Recintos Electorales Consolidados 45, 46 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Recinto Electoral 48 Elks BPOE 460 Lodge, 1615 Old Pecos Trail Recinto Electoral 52 E. J. Martínez Elementary School, 401 West San Mateo Road Recinto Electoral 53 Pasatiempo Senior Center, 664 Alta Vista Street Recinto Electoral 55 Elks BPOE 460 Lodge, 1615 Old Pecos Trail DISTRITO #3 LUGAR DONDE VOTAR Recintos Electorales Consolidados 12, 67 Sweeney Elementary School, 4100 S. Meadows Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 31, 66 Salazar Elementary School, 1231 Apache Avenue Recinto Electoral 34 Salazar Elementary School, 1231 Apache Avenue Recintos Electorales Consolidados 62, 75 Ortiz Middle School, 4164 S. Meadows Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 64, 80 Sweeney Elementary School, 4100 S. Meadows Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 86, 89 Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive DISTRITO #4 LUGAR DONDE VOTAR Recinto Electoral 29 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 35, 74 Nava Elementary School, 2655 Siringo Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 38, 56 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 39, 49 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Recinto Electoral 50 Nava Elementary School, 2655 Siringo Road Recintos Electorales Consolidados 51, 76 Chaparral Elementary School, 2451Avenida Chaparral Recinto Electoral 77 Chaparral Elementary School, 2451Avenida Chaparral Recinto Electoral 78 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road RECINTO ELECTORAL DE VOTANTES EN AUSENCIA (Todos los Distritos) Oficina de la Escribana de la Municipalidad, Sala 215, Ayuntamiento 200 Lincoln Avenue RECINTO ELECTORAL DE VOTANTES POR ANTICIPADO (Todos los Distritos) Oficina de la Escribana de la Municipalidad, Sala 215, Ayuntamiento 200 Lincoln Avenue Apartado 5. VOTACION EN AUSENCIA. Votación en ausencia por correo empezará el martes, 28 de enero 2014 y cerrará a las 5:00 p.m. el viernes, 28 de febrero 2014. Pueden emitir boletas en ausencia personalmente a partir del martes, 28 de enero 2014 hasta las 5:00 p.m. el viernes, 28 de febrero 2014. La votación en ausencia se llevará a cabo en la oficina de la Escribana de la Municipalidad, durante horas laborables y los días laborables, de lunes a viernes. Solicitudes para obtener boleta en ausencia se puede obtener solamente de la oficina de la Escribana de la Municipalidad. Todas las solicitudes para obtener boleta en ausencia tienen que completarse y aceptarse por la Escribana de la Municipalidad antes de las 5:00 p.m. el viernes, 28 de febrero 2014. Después de las 5:00 p.m. el 28 de febrero 2014 todas las boletas en ausencia no usadas se destruirán públicamente por la Escribana de la Municipalidad. La Escribana de la Municipalidad aceptará boletas en ausencia completadas entregadas por correo o personalmente por el votante que emita la boleta en ausencia, su cuidador/a o un familiar cercano, hasta las 7:00 p.m. el 4 de marzo 2014. Apartado 6. VOTACIÓN POR ANTICIPADO. La votación por anticipado se llevará a cabo en la oficina de la Escribana de la Municipalidad, durante horas laborables y los días laborables de lunes a viernes. La votación por anticipado se llevará a cabo entre las 8:00 a.m. el miércoles, 12 de febrero 2014 y las 5:00 p.m., el viernes, 28 de febrero 2014. Todas las solicitudes para boletas de anticipado tienen que completarse y aceptarse por la Escribana de la Municipalidad antes de las 5:00 p.m. el viernes, 28 de febrero 2014. Después de las 5:00 p.m. el día 28 de febrero 2014 todas las boletas de anticipado no usadas se destruirán públicamente por la Escribana de la Municipalidad. Apartado 7. ESCUDRIÑO DE LOS RESULTADOS DE LA ELECCIÓN. La Escribana de la Municipalidad completará el escudriño de los resultados de la elección a más tardar las 5:00 p.m. el día 7 de marzo 2014 con el fin de certificar los resultados de la elección y para tomar cualquiera otra acción relacionada con la elección. ACEPTADA, APROBADA y ADOPTADA este día 11 de diciembre 2013.

DAVID COSS, ALCALDE DOY FE: YOLANDA Y. VIGIL ESCRIBANA DE LA MUNICIPALIDAD APROBADA RESPECTO A FORMA: KELLEY BRENNAN ABOGADA DE LA MUNICIPALIDAD INTERMEDIA

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CITY OF SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO RESOLUTION NO. 2013-108 INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Coss Councilor Ives A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF SANTA FE ON MARCH 4, 2014, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING IN FAVOR OR AGAINST AMENDMENTS TO THE SANTA FE MUNICIPAL CHARTER. Section 1. PURPOSE AND DATE OF ELECTION. A special municipal election shall be held in conjunction with the regular municipal election on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 for the purpose of voting in favor or against amendments to the Santa Fe Municipal Charter. Section 2. CHARTER AMENDMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED. The following proposed Charter amendments shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Santa Fe:

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CHARTER AMENDMENT 1 Water Protection and Conservation Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article II, Section 2.03, to include in the environmental protection policy statement a provision that would mandate the governing body to protect, preserve and enhance the city’s water resources through regulation, conservation and relating development to water availability. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r

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CHARTER AMENDMENT 3 Support for Local Business, the Local Economy and a Living Wage for All Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article II, to create a new Section 2.07 to establish a policy in support of local business, an enduring local entrepreneurial spirit and the rights of all to earn a living wage. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 4 Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article VI, Section 6.03, to include the establishment of an independent citizens’ redistricting commission who shall review and revise district boundaries at least every ten years following the decennial census and requiring that the governing body adopt an ordinance to establish a procedure for the appointment and deliberations of the commission. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 5 Campaign Contribution Limits Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article IV, to create a new Section 4.07, to mandate that the governing body shall have an ordinance that limits the amount of campaign contributions that can be accepted by candidates. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 6 Timely Disclosure of the Purpose of Tax Increases or Bond Measures Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article IV, to create a new Section 4.08, to mandate that the governing body shall have an ordinance that ensures that the city shall provide and disseminate in a timely manner the purposes of proposed expenditures for any tax increase or bond measure that requires ratification by the voters. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 7 Independent Audit Committee Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article IX, to create a new Section 9.04, to mandate that the governing body shall have an ordinance that establishes an independent audit committee. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 8 Mayor’s Voting Powers Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Article V, Section 5.01, to allow the mayor to have a vote on all matters that come before the governing body. Effective Date: May 5, 2014 In Favor Of r Against r CHARTER AMENDMENT 9 Governance: Full-time Mayor; Regulating the Relationships Between the Mayor, the City Councilors and the City Manager and Defining the Authority of Each Proposing to amend the Santa Fe Municipal Charter, Articles V, VI and VIII to: • Establish mayor as a full-time position whose salary shall be set by an independent salary commission to be established by city ordinance. Until such commission is created and sets the salary for mayor, the mayor’s salary shall be $74,000; • Give the mayor supervisory authority over the city manager, city attorney and city clerk and the authority to suspend and fire the city manager, city attorney and city clerk, without council approval; • Allow the city manager to be removed by a vote of six councilors at a regularly scheduled meeting; • Remove language that requires the mayor to perform other duties compatible with the nature of the office, as the governing body may from time to time require; • Require the mayor to work with city staff to prepare an annual budget for review and approval by the finance committee and the governing body; • Require the mayor to identify his/her legislative agenda for each upcoming year and require the governing body to consider and take action on the mayor’s legislative agenda; • Require that the city manager have the necessary administrative and managerial skills to manage the municipality and have the authority to hire and fire all city employees, except for the city attorney and city clerk; Effective Date: March 12, 2018 In Favor Of r Against r

Section 3. CLOSING OF REGISTRATION BOOKS. Only qualified electors of the City of Santa Fe may vote in the special municipal election. A qualified elector is any person whose affidavit of voter registration has been filed by the Santa Fe County Clerk on or before the twenty-eighth (28th) day prior to the election, who is registered to vote in a general election precinct established by the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners that is wholly or partly within the City of Santa Fe boundaries, and who is a resident of the City of Santa Fe. Registration books for this election will be closed at 5:00 p.m. on February 4, 2014. Section 4. POLLING PLACES AND CONSOLIDATION OF PRECINCTS. The following polling places shall be used for the conduct of the special municipal election and qualified electors of the City of Santa Fe may vote at the polling places listed below between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on March 4, 2014. DISTRICT #1 POLLING PLACE Consolidated Precincts 8, 30 Ft. Marcy Complex, 490 Bishops Lodge Road Consolidated Precincts 9, 28 Montezuma Lodge, 431 Paseo de Peralta Precinct 10 Ft. Marcy Complex, 490 Bishops Lodge Road Consolidated Precincts 11, 20 Gonzales Community School, 851 W. Alameda Consolidated Precincts 21, 83 Gonzales Community School, 851 W. Alameda Precinct 22 Montezuma Lodge, 431 Paseo de Peralta Precinct 24 Academy at Larragoite, 1604 Agua Fria Street Consolidated Precinct 25, 33 Aspen Community Magnet School, 450 La Madera Consolidated Precincts 26, 27 Tierra Encantada Charter School @ Alvord, 551 Alarid Street Precinct 32 Academy at Larragoite, 1604 Agua Fria Street DISTRICT #2 POLLING PLACE Consolidated Precincts 36, 47 Acequia Madre Elementary School, 700 Acequia Madre Consolidated Precincts 37, 54 Capshaw Middle School, 351 W. Zia Road Consolidated Precincts 41, 42, 43 Public Schools Administration Building, 610 Alta Vista Street Precinct 44 Wood Gormley, 141 E. Booth Street Consolidated Precincts 45, 46 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Precinct 48 Elks BPOE 460 Lodge, 1615 Old Pecos Trail Precinct 52 E.J. Martinez Elementary School, 401 W. San Mateo Road Precinct 53 Pasatiempo Senior Center, 664 Alta Vista Street Precinct 55 Elks BPOE 460 Lodge, 1615 Old Pecos Trail DISTRICT #3 POLLING PLACE Consolidated Precincts 12, 67 Sweeney Elementary School, 4100 S. Meadows Road Consolidated Precincts 31, 66 Salazar Elementary School, 1231 Apache Avenue Precinct 34 Salazar Elementary School, 1231 Apache Avenue Consolidated Precincts 62, 75 Ortiz Middle School, 4164 S. Meadows Road Consolidated Precincts 64, 80 Sweeney Elementary School, 4100 S. Meadows Road Consolidated Precincts 86, 89 Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive DISTRICT #4 POLLING PLACE Precinct 29 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Consolidated Precincts 35, 74 Nava Elementary School, 2655 Siringo Road Consolidated Precincts 38, 56 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Consolidated Precincts 39, 49 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road Precinct 50 Nava Elementary School, 2655 Siringo Road Consolidated Precincts 51, 76 Chaparral Elementary School, 2451 Avenida Chaparral Precinct 77 Chaparral Elementary School, 2451 Avenida Chaparral Precinct 78 Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road ABSENTEE VOTER PRECINCT (All Districts) Office of the City Clerk, Room 215, City Hall, 200 Lincoln Avenue EARLY VOTER PRECINCTS (All Districts) Office of the City Clerk, Room 215, City Hall, 200 Lincoln Avenue Section 5. ABSENTEE VOTING. Absentee voting by mail will begin on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 and close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 28, 2014. Absentee ballots may be cast in person beginning on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 28, 2014. Absentee voting will be conducted in the office of the City Clerk, during the regular hours and days of business, Monday through Friday. Applications for absentee ballots may be obtained only from the office of the City Clerk. All applications for absentee ballots must be completed and accepted by the City Clerk prior to 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2014. After 5:00 p.m. on February 28, 2014, all unused absentee ballots will be publicly destroyed by the City Clerk. The City Clerk will accept completed absentee ballots delivered by mail, or in person by the voter casting the absentee ballot, their caregiver or the voter’s immediate family, until 7:00 p.m. on March 4, 2014. Section 6. EARLY VOTING. Early voting will be conducted in the office of the City Clerk, during the regular hours and days of business, Monday through Friday. Early voting will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 and close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 28, 2014. All applications for early voting ballots must be completed and accepted by the City Clerk prior to 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2014. After 5:00 p.m. on February 28, 2014, all unused early voting ballots will be publicly destroyed by the City Clerk. Section 7. CANVASS OF THE ELECTION RESULTS. The City Clerk shall complete the canvass of the election results no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 7, 2014, to certify the results of the election and take any other necessary action relating to the election. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 11th day of December, 2013. ATTEST:

DAVID COSS, MAYOR

YOLANDA Y. VIGIL, CITY CLERK APPROVED AS TO FORM: KELLEY A. BRENNAN, INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

TIME OUT Horoscope

Crossword

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014: This year you face a lot of strong feelings, especially when you experience disruption or a forced decision. There is no room for hemming and hawing. Aries can be a hothead! ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You can’t deny a volatile element that runs through your day. Pressure builds because someone in authority makes heavy demands. Tonight: Beam in more of what you want. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH You might feel pressured and overwhelmed. A situation could become more out of control than you thought possible. Tonight: Try to be unavailable. Cocoon, if need be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You usually flex well with the unexpected. You might get an opportunity to test out that ability today. A friend could feel threatened by your devotion to someone else. Tonight: Out and about. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HH You might decide that you can’t depend on a higher-up to help you. This is an excellent decision, though it probably would be best not to announce it to the world. Tonight: Work late. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Keep your eye on the big picture, especially as others seem to be reactive and difficult. Tonight: Choose something that you don’t normally do. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Deal with a partner directly. An argument regarding your spending might seem inevitable, but if you chill out, you could find a compromise. Tonight: Share with a trusted friend.

Super Quiz Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: DAVID Each answer is a person named David. (e.g., Scottish philosopher (1711-1776). Answer: David Hume.) FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. He became prime minister of the U.K. in 2010. Answer________ 2. He has captained England’s football team 59 times. Answer________ 3. He once used the alter ego “Ziggy Stardust.” Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Noted for his interviews with Richard Nixon. Answer________

5. The first prime minister of Israel. Answer________ 6. Lead singer for the rock band Van Halen. Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. The British prime minister during World War I. Answer________ 8. Fox Mulder of The X-Files. Answer________ 9. Singer most famous for his work with Whitesnake. Answer________

ANSWERS:

1. David Cameron. 2. David Beckham. 3. David Bowie. 4. David Frost. 5. David Ben-Gurion. 6. David Lee Roth. 7. David Lloyd George. 8. David Duchovny. 9. David Coverdale.

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2013 Ken Fisher

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Reader bothered by friend’s lifestyle Dear Annie: When I was a freshman in high school, I became friends with “Agnes,” who was (like me) something of a social outcast. Agnes still considers me to be her best friend. That was 10 years ago. We have both grown up to be very different people. I am repelled by Agnes’ lifestyle of promiscuity and high-risk behaviors. Although she is free with praise and is loyal in an odd sort of way, she is incredibly narcissistic and often condescending. Add to that a volatile and sometimes violent temper, and she is a person I no longer want in my life. Still, we have a history. When she says I am “the only one who has stuck with her,” I feel a responsibility to maintain the friendship. I am also fond of her 5year-old son. I don’t want to be dishonest by pretending that her decisions, her manner and her lifestyle don’t bother me. It seems dishonorable. But if I tell her any of this, I know it will lead to a nasty confrontation. The truth about my feelings would crush her. She considers friendship and loyalty to be sacred and would take my disapproval as a betrayal of her trust. Should I tell her the truth for my sake or continue the deception for hers? — Conflicted Dear Conflicted: It depends on what you want. If your goal is not to see Agnes anymore, go ahead and let loose. People outgrow friendships all the time. You don’t have to maintain this one, although it means you would not be around to show her son what a stable person looks like. You also could slowly make yourself less available to Agnes so there is no confrontation at all while the relationship withers. But a true friend would tell Agnes gently and kindly that you are worried about her. In turn, Agnes, while not pleased, would accept your concern and not cut you out of her son’s life.

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might want to defer to someone who seems much surer of his or her position than you do. Nevertheless, if you are not careful, a major disagreement still might ensue. Tonight: Paint the town red. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH In your situation, actions count more than words. You often push yourself very hard without thought to the implications. Tonight: Choose a relaxing activity. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Allow your creativity to flourish, and you will gain as a result. Talk to others who have made a similar purchase before you act. Tonight: Ever playful. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Deal with a personal matter before it deals with you. Your sense of humor emerges with a contrary boss or older friend who challenges one of your loved ones. Tonight: Happily at home. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Communication remains vigorous, but it could take an interesting twist or turn. YTonight: Let off some steam. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Be aware of the cost of being spontaneous. You might have set yourself back without intending to. As a result, you will be more comfortable with what occurs. Tonight: Be lively. Jacqueline Bigar

Cryptoquip

Chess quiz

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2013 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

BLACK WINS THE ROOK Hint: First, simplify. Solution: 1. … Qxb5! 2. Rxb5 Ke4! (traps the rook) followed by … Nd6! (winning it).

Today in history Today is Tuesday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2014. There are 358 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 7, 1789, America held its first presidential election as voters chose electors who, a month later, selected George Washington to be the nation’s first chief executive.

Hocus Focus

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for two years, and we have been together for 16. This is my third marriage and his second. He is 61, and I am 58. I work out of the home, and he is now semi-retired. I would appreciate some help with cooking or cleaning, but he always says I wouldn’t be happy with the way he does it. I’ve told him this is a cop-out. I honestly do not care how well he does, only that there is effort and validation of my feelings. I’m exasperated. We get along great otherwise, but he is such a horse’s butt about this. Just yesterday, he made himself a sandwich for dinner and never even asked whether I wanted anything. He doesn’t pressure me to cook. I do it because I know he likes to have dinner and I enjoy cooking. But I would certainly never eat in front of him and not offer something. Am I being overly sensitive? Is it too much to ask for help with cleaning and cooking or to have my feelings taken seriously? — Hurt and Exasperated Dear Hurt: We think your husband is a little lazy and has been trained to be waited on. He needs to step up and be more of a full partner. Separate the household chores and assign specific tasks for each of you. If you enjoy cooking, you could do more of that, and he could do more cleaning. Ask what he’d prefer. If he doesn’t follow through, do NOT pick up after him. Or, if you can afford it, hire someone. Dear Annie: “Ms. Bit” said she was having trouble reaching certain body parts to clean them. I suggest she upgrade her toilet to a bidet toilet that provides a warm water bath and a drying fan for the parts in question. My elderly parents had one installed years ago, and it served them well. — A Fan of Being Clean

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Kate Stalter Your Finances

t’s become fashionable to dismiss New Year’s resolutions. As it’s still early enough in January, in my initial column for The New Mexican, I may as well jump into the pro- or anti-resolution fray. First, to briefly introduce myself: I’m a financial planner at New Mexico-based Portfolio Wealth Advisors. I have 15 years of experience in the financial services field. As it evolves, this column will offer actionable tips, but I’m not a fan of articles with headlines like “Seven financial resolutions for 2014.” May as well hit the snooze button.

Dismantling the wasteful machine of health care

Instead, I find that it’s more productive to challenge assumptions when it comes to personal finance. Your financial situation doesn’t boil down to a checklist of handy tips, or somebody’s forecast about the economy, the stock market or what the Federal Reserve may or may not do. Sure, it’s absolutely possible to build portfolios that withstand all market conditions; that’s what our firm does, very successfully. But your decisions affect your financial situation more than anything else. So I’ll be delving into psychology, personal responsi-

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bility, personal development and other topics as I address your finances. That brings me back to New Year’s resolutions. There are numerous sophisticatedsounding reasons to forgo the annual ritual. “Why set myself up for failure.” “Why wait for a new year to make changes or start new habits?” “Why should I expect to transform myself based on a calendar date?” Although those questions can be interpreted cynically, they’re actually pretty good things to ask yourself.

We’re one week into 2014, and I’m confident that countless well-intentioned resolutions already sit abandoned in a dry arroyo somewhere. Resolutions fizzle because they are too vague, too grandiose or don’t have a time limit attached, among other reasons. I’m a junkie for personal development and productivity blogs and books. One author I follow is Michael Hyatt. He launched a program called “Best Year Ever,”

Final celebration

After 26 years of careful service, Christine’s Bridal and Formal Wear to close By Phaedra Haywood

n last month’s article, I talked about the benefits of retaking local control of the educational and health systems. Here are my ideas of how to do that and why New Mexico’s economy would benefit from reducing its dependency on government-mandated methods of obtaining health care through federally designated channels. While you may find many of these ideas overly simplistic, impractical, cruel or simply disagree with the philosophy expressed herein, I believe that given adequate resources, most Americans can and will figure out on their Rob Rikoon own what best Real Money serves themselves and their families. Practical necessities call us to take some drastic steps because these two basic building blocks of our society are failing us. The declining quality and increasing cost of both systems’ current operations are telling us that unless we try something radically different, health and education levels of the general population will inhibit rather than promote the welfare of us and our children for decades to come. Let’s start with the health system, because we all have to deal with it one way or another. No one is particularly happy with the way health care is now provided, unless you are so wealthy that you can ignore the whole insurance game. We have a three-tiered system in this country where the richest get the best, working folks get burgeoning hassles, higher prices and less service, and the poor use the emergency rooms at great expense to the rest of us. Given the political power vested in maintaining the status quo, the way things are going, health insurance companies will probably end up like the big banks: too important to the system to be allowed to fail. As we have largely offloaded the delivery of health care into the hands of corporations, the U.S. has fallen further behind most of its competitors in the global economy in terms of quality outcome per dollar spent. We spend a much larger portion of our national economic output (estimated to reach 20 percent within a few years) in delivering an inferior product to our citizens than just about any other industrialized nation. Here’s the first part of my solution: Take all the funds we pay in taxes budgeted for any kind of health services and divide it by the number of people in the country. Give everyone a health care debit card with a beginning balance of some portion of their personal allocation of national health care dollars, maybe half, and then let each person decide on their own who, where, when and how to spend it. The other portion of the national budget of health care dollars would then go to provide “free” preventative care, basic prescription and emergency services on a decentralized basis. What would have to change to accomplish this? First, allow anyone with a college or technical degree in the health field to treat the most common maladies, most of which do not require a medical doctor’s care. There are nurses, nurse practitioners, naturopaths and all kinds of other alternatively trained people in the health care business who can effec-

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Christine Trujillo has a wedding gown fitting session with Desirey Guranich of Pecos, as her mother, Daisy Guranich, looks on Thursday. Trujillo is closing her shop at DeVargas Center, Christine’s Bridal And Formal Wear, after nearly three decades in business. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

She made you feel like you were it, like the day you were “ shopping for was the most important day ever.” Lillian Martinez, a longtime customer on Christine Trujillo, owner of Christine’s Bridal and Formal Wear shop

f you call Christine’s Bridal and Formal Wear shop and ask for Christine, you’re likely to be told, “She’s with a bride right now, can I take a message?” Even last week, as she prepared to close her shop for good after 26 years in business, Christine Trujillo put attending to her brides first, which is probably why many will be sad to see her go. “She made you feel like you were it, like the day you were shopping for was the most important day ever,” said longtime customer Lillian Martinez, who purchased her wedding dress at Christine’s in 1997. “Whether there was a store full of people or you were the only one there. That’s what pulls on the heartstrings, her attentiveness. The way that nothing else was more important than you. She would pull stuff for you to try on, she would give her opinion as if she was a part of your family, your mom, someone you had known forever.” “She did my mom’s wedding, she did my prom, she did my wedding, my daughter’s first communion and my daughter’s junior prom,” Martinez said. “When we heard she was closing, my daughter looked at me and said, ‘Mom, who is going to do my senior prom?’ ” “It’s breaking my heart to see their reactions,” said Trujillo, who is closing because she wants to spend more time with her husband of nearly 40 years who has been having health problems. “One little gal came in and she was in tears!” Trujillo — then Christine Carinci — came to Santa Fe from New York in 1973 with “two crazy girls and a Karmann Ghia.” Within a year, she met her husband, William Trujillo. They married in her backyard. She wore a simple top and skirt she purchased from The Closet, which was then located next to Dairy Queen in the DeVargas Center, just steps away from the shop where she has spent the last several decades dressing Santa Fe brides. Trujillo estimates she dressed more than 1,000 brides since opening her bridal shop in 1987. It was located on Cerrillos Road for three years before moving to the DeVargas Center in 1990. She once dressed a wedding party of 27 people. The bride wanted everyone to “just wear red,” Trujillo remembers, but, “I said, ‘No, pick a company, pick a color, and pick five or six styles for them to choose from.’ ” Trujillo said she prefers more subtle color schemes for weddings, “otherwise it looks like prom,” but, she added, the bride is the one person she aims to please when styling a wedding party.

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FINANCE NEW MEXICO

Business success begins with a value proposition That isn’t as easy as it sounds. The history of U.S. commerce is littered with countless products whose invenTo stand out in a market saturated tors misjudged the market’s appetite with consumer products and get the or need. attention of consumers deluged with advertising appeals, an entrepreneur Getting a product or service to needs to offer a product or service market begins with a value proposiwith obvious benefits and unquestion- tion: a sober evaluation of who the able superiority over the competition. product is for, what need it will fulfill, For The New Mexican

Section editor: Bruce Krasnow, 986-3034, bkrasnow@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Brian Barker, bbarker@sfnewmexican.com

what dissatisfies consumers about the products currently being used to fulfill that need and how the new product is a marked improvement.

Essential elements A value proposition should make members of the target audience feel

upbeat about the benefits a product or service will bring them. That benefit is usually presented as the solution to a problem. For example, a house-sitting service solves the problem of home upkeep and security for a retired homeowner who prefers the

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

SANTA FE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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BUSINESS

RIBBON CUTTINGS

2014 Legislative Reception

Connecting business professionals to public policy decision makers. Santa fe Community Monday, January 27 Register at www.santafechamber.com Convention Center 5:00pm-7:30

LeGISLaTIve ReCepTION – JaNUaRy 27, 2014

Santa Fe Olive Oil celebrates new ownership with a Ribbon Cutting at 116 Don Gaspar Ave.

Santa Fe Art Collector celebrates their new location with a Ribbon Cutting at 217 Galisteo St.

The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce invites legislators, the governor, lobbyists, cabinet secretaries, and other policy makers to the annual Legislative Reception, as well as hundreds of business professionals from around New Mexico. Businesspeople will network, connect and discuss priorities for the Legislative session, and will be able to meet face-to-face with government influencers to voice their questions and concerns. Attendees will also enjoy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments from 25 of Santa Fe’s finest restaurants. The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce has been advocating for businesses since 1882 and supports its mission by creating opportunities like the Legislative Reception where members of the legislature get the chance to connect with business to determine the important issues. The Santa Fe Chamber of

Commerce has been hosting this event for over 20 years, bringing together as many as 600-800 attendees.

The 2014 Legislative Reception will be held January 27th at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center from 5:00pm to 7:30pm. This event is open to the public; to register visit www. santafechamber.com/events or call 505.988.3279. The title sponsor of the event is Wells Fargo. Other sponsors include: AT&T, Century Bank, Christus ST. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Hutton Broadcasting, Santafe.com, New Mexico Rail Runner, North Central Regional Transit District, Santa Fe Trails, PNM, Santa Fe New Mexican, Positive Energy, US Bank, New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union, Santa Fe Tobacco, New Mexico Gas Company and Thornburg Investment Management.

NeW MeMBeRS STaTe LeGISLaTORS MeeT WITh ChaMBeR MeMBeRS Thanks to all our new members who joined last month! a & B Insurance Services, Inc. Insurance Debbie Aranda (505) 982-8703 2209 Brothers Rd. #210 - Santa Fe

Lemus Landscaping celebrates with a Ribbon Cutting.

Four of Santa Fe’s local delegation met with Chamber members at the Hilton in December to give a preview of issues that they expect to be debated at the 2014 Legislative Session.

The 30 day session starts on January 21 and will focus on budget issues. Increased investment in Pre-K programs, tourism marketing, water projects, technology commercialization and jobs programs topped the delegations priority lists with education reform expected to be controversial once again.

Santa Fe Culinary Academy celebrates their one year anniversary with a Ribbon Cutting at 112 W San Francisco Street, Suite 300. The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Presents:

DUBAI: 8 DAYS MAY 15, 2014

$2999.00 per person based on double occupancy. Includes: air from Albuquerque, hotels, tours, some meals

Trip Orientation: 5:30pm – January 22, 2014 at the Chamber Office, 1644 St. Michael’s Drive For more information and to register contact

Valerie Alarid or Bridget Dixson at 505 988-3279 or valerie@santafechamber.com or

bridget@santafechamber.com

John & Jim Thomas Owners of El Pinto Restaurant & Salsa Co.

Financial Service With Integrity John and Jim Thomas, owners of El Pinto Restaurant and Salsa Co., appreciate their partnership with New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union. “We’ve worked with a lot of banks and bankers over the 50 years we’ve been in business and the integrity and sincerity of New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union is unmatched,” explained John Thomas. Twin brother Jim Thomas adds, “They are an active and adaptive partner with El Pinto, helping us expand jobs, manufacturing, and the love for green chile.” For more information about Business Services at New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union and to join “The Power of WE” visit nmefcu.org/business or call 505-467-6018.

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Members expressed support for meaningful education reform and conservative fiscal policies regarding proposed permanent fund changes. Increased tourism marketing funding continues to be a priority for the Chamber. Sen. Peter Wirth spoke of the need to outlaw texting while driving and Rep. Carl Trujillo expressed support for fine tuning the school funding formula. Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richards and Rep. Jim Trujillo spoke in support of permanent fund support for teachers pay raises. The Legislative Reception takes place on January 27 and all community members are invited to attend.

Alpine Village Suites Hotels - Motels - Resorts Barbara Cottam (800) 576-2666 100 Thunderbird Rd. Taos Ski Valley American Cancer Society Health & Well-Being Michael Radigan (505) 262-6012 10501 Montgomery Blvd., NE, Suite 300 – Albuquerque Candice & Company Real Estate Candice Jager (505) 988-2464 2300 Camino Rancho Siringo - Santa Fe Circle One Visionary Multi-Media Center Nonprofit Organizations Kasandra Clemente (505) 982-8001 Ian’s Garage Automotive Services Mr. Ian Clemmer (505) 471-6141 3201 Rufina Street, Unit A - Santa Fe Mediterrania Retail Marc Galante (505) 989-7548 222 Galisteo - Santa Fe Super 8 Motel Hotels - Motels - Resorts Carmen Gallegos (505) 471-8811 3358 Cerrillos Road - Santa Fe

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

SANTA FE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

BUSINESS MATTERS

New Year’s Wish List

At this time of year we often pause to take stock of the year past and plan for the year ahead. This contemplation has made me consider what might be possible and could be created in Santa Fe. These ideas are not easily turned into reality – funding, collaboration, politics all play a role. It’s more of a list of “what ifs” to stimulate conversation. So in that spirit, what if: 1. The Plaza was truly pedestrianized – no curbs, no motor vehicles, just outdoor cafes, benches, broadband and real community. 2. The Santa Fe Ski basin was open year round with bike trails, zip lines and other activities taking advantage of the existing infrastructure. 3. Our community came together to commit to a creative plan to retain and recruit younger people to Santa Fe. 4. The Railrunner tried a three-month trial free ride program to stimulate ridership and business. 5. Santa Fe committed to fast broadband access community wide as they do in Chattanooga, TN. Yes really. 6. All elected officials set an example of exemplary ethics practices that others could aspire to. 7. City buses had schedules that met the demand for low price, sober transportation. 8. Zoning regulations were relaxed to encourage mixed-use live/work space in every neighborhood along with coffee shops and tap rooms. 9. There was a collaboration between Santa Fe Indian School and technology companies to build “The Santa Fe Chamber is the best place in town to network with business leaders who are committed to improving our community.” Charlie Goodman Kokopelli Property Management “In business, it’s all too easy for us to get isolated in the craziness of day to day operations. The Chamber has given me a tremendous opportunity to share with, and learn from fellow, businesspeople. More importantly, the Chamber has given the Cowgirl an advocacy voice at all levels of local and regional government.“ Nicholas Ballas Cowgirl “We find that the efforts made to ensure all chamber members are aware of issues and items of importance are priceless! The networking events and opportunities are invaluable.” Pam Plaza Executive Director Kingston Residence

JANUARY 2014 CHAMBER CALENDAR

January 9th, 4:30pm Ribbon Cutting- Chalmers Capitol Ford Lincoln – Auto Park 4490 Cerrillos Rd. January 16th, 11:00am Ribbon Cutting- Santa Fe Council of International Relations – 413 Grant Ave, Suite D January 27th, 5:00pm Legislative Reception – Santa Fe Community Convention Center - 201 W Marcy Ave January 23rd, 5:30pm Business After Hours- Kingston Residence, 2400 Legacy Ct. January 29th, 11:45am Brown Bag Lunch - Attracting Your Perfect Customer – Chamber Office February 7th, 8:30am Business Over Breakfast - Santa Fe Culinary Academy

MEMBER PERSPECTIVES

As I said, none are easy, not all are popular and feathers may be ruffled, but let’s at least talk about how we might grow, prosper and embrace the inevitable change that is coming. Happy New Year! Simon Brackley President and CEO

Cremation is a rapidly growing choice for the families we serve. We are transforming our McGee facility on Luisa St. to a Cremation and Family Center. That means the processes; merchandising and public gathering places at the facility will further embrace those families who choose cremation as a means of final disposition. This will enhance our ability to meet and serve consumer driven preferences. We are also expanding our offerings in green burial RICK concepts. These decisions are consumer driven and will BERARdINEllI enable us to meet the changing environment of death care Berardinelli Family in Santa Fe. Funeral Service and

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A profile update email was sent out in late November, allowing members to update their profile information for the new 2014-2015 Business Directory. If you have not ARdITH updated your information or did not receive the email, EICHER please contact Michelle at accounts@santafechamber. Cancer Foundation com. for New Mexico Profile update information is due by January 15, 2014.

CFFNM is a local non-profit helping low-income New Mexican cancer patients access treatment by helping pay for travel expenses to Santa Fe. Over the last several years, we have seen a sharp increase in our services as the number of cancer patients has increased and their need is greater in this difficult economic climate. In 2014, we will add an additional “emergency fund” to cover things like car repairs that might prevent patients from getting to treatment. Please join us for our major fundraiser, the Sweetheart Auction, on 2/13/14! www.cffnm.org

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

Thank you to our members who renewed in December. We appreciate your support!

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a tech school and business park on the Cerrillos Do you have any plans to expand your business, services, Road property. products, etc., and if so, what? 10. We committed to a new attitude of exemplary Black Mesa Winery in Velarde is celebrating 20 years in customer service throughout the city to better business in 2014. Producing more than 30 wines under two serve locals and visitors. labels, Black Mesa Winery and Santa Fe Vineyards. We’ll 11. Small businesses could apply for business soon add another label, tentatively called “Alta Valley licenses online 24/7. Cellars”. It will focus on limited production singular grape 12. Santa Fe City and County shared a common varieties such as Aglianico, Petit Verdox, and Mourvedre. marketing campaign and funding to attract visiOur 800-member Wine Club has plans to grow past the tors. 1000 member mark in 2014. 56% of the members live out13. Richards Ave were extended to connect Rodeo JERRy BuRd of-state. We will be adding in-home wine-pairing dinners Rd and Cerrillos Rd and rezone the neighborBlack Mesa Winery for our best in-state members and their friends. hood to compensate affected homeowners. 14. We were to encourage graduating students from St John’s, SFUAD and other institutions to El Castillo Retirement Residences is adding spaces stay in Santa Fe after graduation. and services to benefit our residents and the Santa Fe 15. The community gave as much energy to celcommunity. We are opening our new Memory Center, ebrating success as it does to finger-pointing . The Garden, in January 2014. Also, we are renovating and 16. We reexamine the Railyard, what’s working? constructing new, large assisted living apartments, private what’s not? Parking, traffic, community space, nursing rooms, a café/cantina and a fitness center designed retail, markets, culture, revenue, security, trains? for an over 50 population as well as upgraded common 17. We celebrate local entrepreneurship as a posispaces. Every area incorporates a social component which tive force that creates prosperity, jobs, ideas, is extremely important for the health and welfare of seniors. AllEN J. JAHNER taxes and a stronger community. We offer our services to El Castillo residents and nonEl Castillo life Care 18. Voter turnout in local elections was 70%+. resident seniors. Community

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Stalter: Start by writing out your goals

Courtyard by Marriott presents first same-sex wedding expo The Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe is presenting its first LGBT Wedding Expo from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at the hotel, 3347 Cerrillos Road. The event will host 30 vendors offering resources in all areas of wedding expertise to assist attendees in planning every aspect of their special day. From the flowers, photography, decor and cuisine, the Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe wedding experts have brought together outstanding professionals in the community, all in one venue. In addition to the variety of vendors and live entertainment, a fashion show with the latest in bridal and formal wear will be held in the atrium from 3 to 4 p.m. Door prizes will be given away throughout the afternoon. There also will be tours available of the newly renovated property. With 7,500 square feet of meeting space, the Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe can accommodate any special event, large or small. Guests who RSVP by phone or email in advance may receive two free tickets to the event. The day of the event, tickets will be $5 at the door. All proceeds from these sales will be donated to the Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance. For more information, please contact Dominic Silva or Janelle Espinosa at 424-2453.

Public input sought on future of old district courthouse site Santa Fe County is asking residents to provide input on the old First Judicial Courthouse, located on Catron Street, by attending a town hall meeting. The public input meeting is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the County Commission Chambers, 102 Grant Ave. The old courthouse building was vacated in 2013 after Santa Fe County completed the new Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, located on Montezuma Avenue. The town hall will feature a short presentation outlining the various potential usage options, followed by an opportunity for the public to comment and provide input. The county has developed a feasibility analysis of various options for the use of the old First Judicial Courthouse property. One option is to develop the site with a one-stop county administrative building for constituents to conduct county business. Another option involves creating a one-stop county campus outside of the downtown area and selling the old courthouse site. All options being considered include ample parking for the public. Residents also can provide input by filling out a short five-question survey online. To access the survey, visit www. santafecountynm.gov and click on the link “Santa Fe County Citizen Survey — Old First Judicial Courthouse” located under “Hot Topics.”

High Country Gardens rolls out spring plant varieties, gardens For spring, High Country Gardens continues its tradition of introducing new plant varieties and new preplanned gardens that feature “plants for the Western garden and beyond.” “During the past 20 years, High Country Gardens has built a reputation and a strong national following for its unique and proprietary plant introductions,” said David Salman, chief horticulturist. “The plants we offer are easy-to-grow, beautiful and adaptable to a wide range of climates, cold hardiness and low-water conditions. High Country Gardens plants celebrate the concept that landscape and garden plants should reflect the natural beauty and growing conditions of each local climate.” The new plants and gardens for 2014 range from the “Habitat Hero” Birdwatcher Pre-Planned Garden (which was honored with a 2014 Green Thumb Award) to a new English lavender variety called “Munstead Violet” that boasts the darkest violet flowers of any lavender. All of the new plants and preplanned gardens for 2014 — and hundreds of perennial favorites — are available at www. HighCountryGardens.com.

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Convention center schedule Upcoming bookings at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center and expected attendance: Jan. 20 — New Mexico Association of Counties conference, 900 Jan. 25 — Contemporary Hispanic Market judging, 100 Jan. 26 — American Astronautical Society meeting, 1,000 Feb. 1 — Souper Bowl, 1,000 Feb. 3-9 — Keystone Symposia conference, 425 Feb. 11 — New Mexico Livestock Conference, 400 Feb. 13 — Cancer Foundation for New Mexico Sweetheart Auction, 1,000

December bankruptcy filings Chapter 7 u 13-13878 JG — Ernesto Mendez and Criceida L. De Mendez, Santa Fe. Liabilities $256,589.12; assets $192,942.91. u 13-13884 TG — Merit Bennett and Dori Bennett, Santa Fe. Liabilities and assets not available. u 13-13899 JG — Julian M. Duran and Yvonne Y. Duran, Santa Fe. Liabilities $70,667; assets $51,950. u 13-13906 JG — Dean M. Richardson and Ellen TK Richardson, Santa Fe. Liabilities $424,534.89; assets $611,032.23. u 13-13911 JG — Michael Estevan Montoya, Santa Fe. Assets and liabilities not available. u 13-13926 JG — Jeffrey P. Riley, Santa Fe. Liabilities $21,155.59; assets $30,905.30. u 13-13965 TG — Michael M. Finley and Theresa M. Finley, Santa Fe. Liabilities and assets not available. u 13-13969 JG — Sofia B. Sanchez, Santa Fe. Liabilities $125,040.18; assets $22,017.81. u 13-13971 TG — Leslie Ames, Santa Fe. Liabilities $38,153; assets $24,231.74. u 13-14010 JG — Brett Herbert Stults, Santa Fe. Liabilities $72,314; assets $20,725. u 13-14014 JG — Gabriella Roth, Santa Fe. Liabilities $375,872.80; assets $240,725. u 13-14021 TG — James L. Hetler, Santa Fe. Liabilities $119,538; assets $62,269. u 13-14075 TG — Andrew Valdez, Santa Fe. Liabilities $272,277; assets $45,125. u 13-14081 TG — Kelly L. Crespin, Santa Fe. Liabilities $473,504.45; assets $411,793.76. u 13-14112 TG — Samantha Ann Danehy, Santa Fe. Liabilities and assets not available. The New Mexican

Continued from Page C-1 which contains thought-provoking exercises to help people hone their intentions for a successful 2014. Hyatt was recently asked about the current propensity to downplay New Year’s resolutions. He responded that January offers a unique opportunity to ride a wave of optimism, to hit the reset button. Sure, you have 365 opportunities to make a fresh start, but in the month of January — particularly in the first couple of weeks — many of us feel a surge of optimism about new beginnings. That’s not always easy to find in late February or mid-November. Most of us who set intentions in January have at least one financial goal we’d like to achieve. It helps immensely if that goal is quantified. In other words, “I want to make more money” is too squishy. It’s one that will probably be relegated to failure by March. Better: “I want to increase my income by $10,000 this year” or, “I intend to max out my IRA contributions this year.” In real terms, that means contributing $5,500 if you are under 50, and an additional $1,000 if you have crossed the half-century mark. See the difference? Those goals are

measurable. You can devise an action plan. They can be chunked down into monthly amounts. We live in era in which it’s not only popular to dismiss New Year’s resolutions or goals, but also to be negative about our own future financial prospects. Much of the media thrives on sensationalistic and frightening content, designed to keep people coming back. Anybody remember the big debacle of late 2012, which was supposed to send the U.S. economy and markets into a tailspin? It was the fiscal cliff. Then, in 2013, came the debt-ceiling debate, which the handwringers told us would have the same effects. And let’s not forget the incessant nattering about the rampant hyperinflation that was sure to result from the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing. Hmmm, none of those doomsday scenarios turned out to be sure bets, did they? So what’s the takeaway? Make 2014 the year to take control of your financial future. You don’t need a list of tips to get started, and you don’t need anybody’s lofty-sounding economic forecast (which has little, if anything, to do with your situation).

Start by writing out your goals. You know what to do: Save more than you spend; salt away money for the future. If you’ve already done a good job on those, revisit your tax strategies and estate plans. Those are the basics, and it doesn’t help to get bogged down in the details. That’s a form of procrastination and can impede you from just getting started. And that’s the bottom line. I want to encourage you to pursue your financial goals this year. I know it’s not easy, and there are pitfalls along the way. Even if you feel discouraged by the lackluster economy over the past few years, ride January’s wave and commit yourself to a fresh start. I’ll continue the theme of financial goals in future columns. Pursuit of goals doesn’t end after you set an intention in January. And the goal of having income to live the life you want is what financial planning is all about. So for now, my best advice is: Just start. Kate Stalter is a columnist for TheStreet. com, Morningstar and Forbes. She is also a financial adviser with New Mexico-based Portfolio LLC. Contact her at kate@portfoliollc.com or 884-3445. Her column will publish monthly in The New Mexican.

Final: Shop tentatively set to close Jan. 14 Continued from Page C-1 “The only opinion that matters is what she sees in the mirror,” said Trujillo, who once embroidered the logo for the Texas Longhorns on the veil of a bride who was a particularly ardent fan of the football team. Trujillo said a bridal shop is different from other types of retail businesses because people don’t just come in, buy something and leave. “Sometimes it takes six months to a year” to dress a wedding party, Trujillo said. “Sometimes we’re more counselors than we are salespeople.” Once, Trujillo said, she had a bride break down crying in the dressing room because she had changed her mind about getting married. Another time, she dressed a bride who was only married for eight hours before having the wedding annulled. She’s even dressed the same woman for multiple weddings with different grooms and dressed brides who were marrying the men one of her other brides used to be married to

Christine Trujillo has a wedding gown fitting session with Desirey Guranich of Pecos. Trujillo said the bride is the one person she aims to please when styling a wedding party. ‘The only opinion that matters is what she sees in the mirror,’ she said. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

— that’s one reason she doesn’t post photos of her past brides in the shop anymore. Trujillo said one bride came in seeking a dress for her third wedding and said, “Christine, it didn’t work out again!” “I said, ‘It’s OK, we love repeat offenders,’ ” Trujillo joked.

On a lighter note, Trujillo recently had the privilege (she does consider what she does an honor) to dress a woman for her 23rd anniversary in the same year that she dressed the woman’s daughter for her wedding. Trujillo clearly cares about the women she’s helped outfit

for their most important occasions over the years — she calls them “my brides” — but she’s surprisingly unsentimental about marriage itself. “I always say, ‘Marriage is a good institution if you want to be institutionalized,’ ” she said last week, adding that she tells brides it’s more important to be together than it is to be married — and God doesn’t care if you get married in the church or in your backyard. Christine’s Bridal and Formal Wear is tentatively set to close Jan. 14, though it may remain open through the end of the month as Trujillo attempts to liquidate years of designer wedding gowns, formal dresses and tuxedos. She said most things in the shop will be marked down 30 percent to 70 percent in the last few weeks. The shop is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Contact Phaedra Haywood at 986-3068 or phaywood@ sfnewmexican.com.

Value: Measure longevity of product, service Continued from Page C-1 sun to the snow in winter. The value proposition is even easier for the business owner to generate if many people in the service area have the same need and other providers can’t be found at an affordable rate. What matters are the consumer’s perceptions of the tangible and intangible — the emotional or social — values of a product or service. It’s the reason why products that offer essentially identical functions or features can charge such different prices; some satisfy a consumer’s deeper needs, whether for status or confidence or ease of use, than others do.

Will it fly? After defining the problem a product or service will solve, the entrepreneur should identify what, if anything, about the offering is qualitatively different — even exceptional — and not just faster or cheaper than other products or services in the market. The creator of the pet rock sold simple gray stones, complete with a pet carrier and instruction manual, using the pitch that they were maintenance-free companions, unlike dogs or cats. The fad lasted less than a year, but it made its creator a millionaire — all because he had a value proposition for his novelty product. Entrepreneurs who want to be in busi-

ness longer than a year selling truly useful products or services must honestly appraise whether they’re offering a fundamental upgrade or innovation. If they are, the next test is a clear-eyed assessment of the market’s willingness to switch from what’s currently solving the problem to giving the new product a try. Once the value proposition for a product or service is articulated and evaluated objectively by its creator — and ideally vetted by an even more objective third party — that proposition should be central to product branding and marketing. To learn more, go to www.Finance NewMexico.org.

Rikoon: Dismantle health insurance system Continued from Page C-1 tively see most people most of the time. No medical malpractice insurance would be necessary because lawsuits against health care professionals, at least everyone who acts in good faith, would not be allowed except in cases of fraud, malfeasance or other criminal acts. No corporate lobbying should be allowed, as those costs are passed along in higher premiums to patients who have to pay increasing portions of their bills anyway. There would be no mandatory insurance for anyone since the money needed for health care would already be in their pockets or in a no-cost clinic. The progressive nature of our tax system would result in wealthier people paying more for the health system than others … too bad. The insurance companies would be taken out of the equation except in cases where people privately choose to prepay against their potential future illnesses — in a way, it would work like life insurance. At the other end of the spectrum, people with serious diseases or life-threatening injuries obviously need some kind of (catastrophic) care without regard to their financial status. This would be provided by the allocation of some of the general tax-collected revenue for health care to go

to similarly organized clinics for chronic or emergency service. Only the basic form of well-established practices would be offered, like dialysis, with as much of the recovery transferred back to the individual as medically possible. It is partially the bells and whistles of the latest in modern technology and the fear of lawsuits that drive the cost of medical care costs sky high for everyone. Elective surgery would be just that; people would be on their own. Chronic illnesses like diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia, all of which require ongoing care, would be provided at a base level to prevent huge sums of money being thrown down the tubes by the public through the current system. Individuals would have to figure out and pay for any above-baseline services. Our health care system is set up to delay death for as long as possible, even when doing so is incredibly cruel and wasteful. Some religious traditions call for this approach, while many ancient and honored ones do not. There is an appalling lack of information about alternative approaches and a paucity of assistance from trained counselors (hospice being a notable exception) available to most patients. Doctors and hospitals therefore end up applying stupendously intense or “heroic” efforts to prolong life by a few hours, days or

months, often with little positive effect on the quality of the patient’s life. End-of-life care consumes almost half of total annual spending on health care in the United States. Both preventative care and chronic/ emergency care can be funded with a small portion of the funds spent today if they were taken out of the current system and put in the hands of entrepreneurs. Why do we continue to subsidize the current broken system? With the dismantling of the health insurance system, the choice for a large majority of medical treatment could happen on a competitive basis. Doctors, nurses and medical technicians would be freed of bureaucratic meddling and allowed to deliver the great care and caring that motivated them to go into the field in the first place. The economic drag of a system based on fear of doing something wrong, as opposed to entrepreneurial efforts to do things right, would filter down into a primarily local industry. This would be good for our health and great for our local economy. Rob Rikoon is the founder and chief investment officer at The Rikoon Group, a Santa Fe-based registered investment advisory firm. He can be reached at Rob.rikoon@ rikoongroup.com.