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Hospital to union: No more talks
Business matters Inside the Santa Fe economy Construction jobs lead new growth in all sectors of employment. BUSINESS, C-1
St. Vincent says sides are at impasse over staffing levels
Las Cruces writer dies at 69
By Staci Matlock
Charles Bowden, who wrote about the graphic violence in Juárez, passed away Saturday. PAGE A-7
Hospital administrators at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center have told the union representing nurses and support staff that they will not return to the bargaining table for contract talks. The nurses and other support staff were out picketing when the email notification arrived Friday evening. “We are at an impasse on staffing despite the Union’s protestations that it ‘has room for
The New Mexican
NATO eyes creating a military force to aid Eastern Europe
Retired nurse Frank Froschle, left, and his wife, MRI technician Lydia Froschle, right, speak with nurse Sharon Argenbright during a picnic Monday at Young Park. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Leaders expected to endorse new system to counter Russia and other threats. PAGE A-3
u President Obama proposes raising the minimum wage. u “Wage theft” claims increasing from hourly workers, PAGE A-4
Workers feel pinch in health coverage changes
Beetles, like fire, serve a purpose in forests, even if humans don’t like the results, says Richard Fagerland, a Santa Fe entomologist who heads the integrated pest management program. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
City expert says water fights bark beetles best
Employers shift plans to higher deductibles By Tara Siegel Bernard
Using bug spray on sick trees has no benefit
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Anita Maina was working on an arts and crafts project she found on Pinterest — creating a table out of wood and cork — when she ripped off a fingernail while removing staples from a piece of wood. “It is one of those things that really hurt, and I thought I should go to urgent care,” said Maina, 27. But she ultimately skipped the visit since she had not met the $6,000 deductible on her health plan, and she knew she probably did not have much left in her health savings account, a type of tax-advantaged savings vehicle that is often used with high-deductible plans to help defray out-of-pocket costs. Maina, an associate in a health and human services consulting agency, said her employer added the highdeductible plan earlier this year; although her monthly premiums are only $34, these plans require employees to pay for a greater share of their medical expenses up front, before the plan starts making payments. Next year, even more corporate workers are likely to be offered
By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
By Antonio Olivo The Washington Post
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — The National Guard troops arrived here last week, outfitted in body armor and carrying pistols to help bring more security to the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet they saw little activity after taking their positions in portable towers and Border Patrol vehicles along the dirt roads and levees that
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Massey, promising stability, is third leader of school since January By Robert Nott The New Mexican
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t’s 7:15 a.m. on a Monday, long before students will arrive on campus, and Santa Fe High School Principal Mary Massey is sitting at a conference room table surrounded by five of her top administrators. Her team discusses student attendance, a new safety plan for checking student and visitor ID cards, classroom walk-throughs to observe teachers and an update on federal Title I money. Massey wants her team to meet every week to stay on top of goals and coordinate priorities.
Massey, a 57-year-old Iowa native, is the fourth principal to lead the school in the last five years, and the third since January. The turnover has caused internal anxiety among the staff and added to the challenges the school faces, ranging from high poverty rates to subpar graduation rates. This summer, the school fell to a D from a B in the state’s A-F grading system. In addition to tackling those challenges, Massey hopes to bring something to the school it hasn’t had for years: stability. She has been with the school district for 20 years. She lives just a short walk from the school and she has no plans to leave.
Texas Guard fights border boredom Gov. Perry sent troops to stop illegal immigration
“I told my staff I’m not going anywhere,” she said. The meeting ends around 8:40 a.m., and Massey and her staff head out to help usher arriving students to their classrooms. The halls and exterior courtyards are filling with students and staffers. Some nod hello. Many students pass by Massey — who exudes a sense of quiet calm — seemingly unaware of who she is. One student stops and explains to Massey that she’s scheduled for a class she shouldn’t have to take. Massey politely tells her to check with her teacher and come back if
Bark beetles are back in New Mexico, and one expert is getting a lot of questions about what can be done to save trees. Grabbing a bottle of pesticide and spraying a beetle-infested tree isn’t likely to save it, said Richard Fagerland, an entomologist who heads the integrated pest management program for the city of Santa Fe. Fagerland said the dying trees once again browning up the New Mexico landscape are victims of both drought and bark beetles. Trees weakened by drought put out a pheromone that attracts beetles. “When a tree is healthy, it puts out one pheromone,” Fagerland said. “When the tree gets sick, it puts out a different one. As the tree dies, it puts out still another pheromone.” So spraying a healthy tree with a pesticide isn’t going to do anything to stop the beetles and can kill off beneficial bugs. “Spraying just enriches
Santa Fe High School’s new principal, Mary Massey, visits a classroom Aug. 25.
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movement,’ ” the email stated. “Basically the hospital said negotiations wouldn’t be productive. Suffice it to say, we’re upset and angry about this because we’re ready to get this contract resolved if they come back to the table,” said Fonda Osborn, a retired nurse and president of New Mexico District 1199 of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. The union represents about 368 direct care nurses and more than 100 support staff. Both sides have to stop making offers to each other, and a union complaint against the hospital for bad faith negotiations must be resolved, before an impasse can be declared.
overlooked the dense brush near the Rio Grande. Some found themselves fighting boredom, chatting with one another about their lives back home — where their jobs were altogether different than looking out for armed traffickers — and wondering how much longer they would be posted in the unforgiving desert heat. Others killed time any way they could during taxing 12-hour shifts watching the silent riverbank. “The music keeps me up,” said one soldier listening to old-school R&B
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A Hidalgo Police Department observation tower is staffed by Texas National Guard soldiers in Hidalgo, Texas.
Syncretism, photographs by Delilah Montoya; Cameraless, group show of photograms; The Photo Lab, mixed-media photographs from the museum collection; Alcove Shows 19171927, 107 W. Palace Ave., 4765072. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Cowboys face ‘uphill battle,’ Jones says The owner sees struggles from winless preseason team. PAGE B-1
Obituaries Jose “Paul” Garcia, 78, Santa Fe, Aug. 26 PAGE A-7
Today Partly sunny. High 88, low 55. PAGE A-10
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