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City revises surveillance camera plans
Benefit to help restore Pecos River set for July 20. PAge A-7
New sites, power sources among proposed changes
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Man reunites with 8-foot Burmese python found last week under the hood of a truck. PAge A-7
Man survives strike Lightning survivor has no memory of deadly bolt. PAge A-8
Departures force SFO to recast two roles
By Daniel J. Chacón
The city of Santa Fe wants to expand its video surveillance program, despite running into problems on a $253,000 project to install 38 cameras at parking lots, parks and trailheads. Plans call for issuing a request for proposals to add 104 cameras and recording equipment at four additional
locations, including 46 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center downtown and 18 at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center on Rodeo Road. The planned request comes after the City Council approved a contract last year with Chavez Security Inc. to install 38 surveillance cameras at seven parking lots and a dozen parks and trailheads.
After the contract was initiated, the project ran into a series of problems regarding selected sites and power and network availability, prompting the city to drop or delay installation at some locations and add others. “I saw a problem immediately,” Peso Chavez, a former city councilor who owns the security company, said Monday. “I had to go in and redesign this whole thing to make it work,” he said. “I didn’t charge the city for this, but it
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Star of ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ pulls out; soprano with allergies exits ‘Pasquale’
cost me Lord knows how much time and money on this thing with my design. But it works. That’s the important thing.” While surveillance cameras have generated resistance because of the “Big Brother” aspect of government monitoring, public and privately owned cameras have become more commonplace and are used frequently as a tool by law enforcement. “There’s nothing better than video
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3 Santa Fe legislators sit atop new environment scorecard Dem Phil Griego receives another poor mark from Conservation Voters
By James M. Keller
By Steve Terrell
The New Mexican
The Santa Fe Opera’s general director, Charles MacKay, announced cast changes Monday. The most momentous is the withdrawal of Hong Kong-based tenor Warren Mok from the American stage premiere of Huang Ruo’s opera Dr. Sun Yat-sen, scheduled to open in less than Warren two weeks, on July Mok 26, and run for four performances through Aug. 14. Mok has been central to the piece’s history to date. An opera producer and director as well as a singer,
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Get out your flux capacitor for talk on time travel By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
Isaac Ortega of the city’s Parks Division places a sign in the middle of Old Santa Fe Trail on Monday morning alerting motorized traffic to the closure of the street where it meets the Plaza. In addition to signs, crews installed 15 large planters to block traffic on southbound Lincoln Avenue and northbound Old Santa Fe Trail. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN Pedestrians cross Lincoln Avenue at East San Francisco Street to the Santa Fe Plaza on Monday. Eastbound San Francisco Street is the only street open to vehicle traffic through Sept. 8, the Monday following Fiesta weekend.
Three Santa Fe lawmakers scored perfect ratings for votes on environmental issues in a new scorecard published by a politically active statewide environmentalist group. State Rep. Brian Egolf as well as Sens. Peter Wirth and Nancy Rodriguez got grades of 100 from Conservation Voters New Mexico. All three Democrats represent Santa Fe districts. Meanwhile, Rep. Debbie Rodella, D-Española, was close with a score of 93 percent. Once again, the Santa Fe area legislator rated lowest by the group was Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose, who scored 21 for his votes. Though Republicans in this Legislature routinely rate significantly lower in Conservation Voters scorecards, Griego was ranked lower than most senators on the GOP side of the aisle. The scores were based on votes taken on a variety of bills related to the environment during the past two
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Today Afternoon thunderstorms. High 82, low 59.
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If you knew your grandfather was going to be an evil despot and you traveled back in time to kill him, what would happen? One theory holds that if you kill him in the past, you won’t exist in the future — a paradox that bedevils time travel theorists and screen writers. Seth Lloyd, a mechanical engineering professor and self-labeled quantum mechanic, holds with the second fundamental time travel theory that says no matter what you did, you wouldn’t be able to kill your grandfather in the past, and so you would always exist in the future. He says recent research with photons by his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides some evidence. If Lloyd is right, there’s no way to kill the evil despotic grandfather and prevent him from wreaking havoc,
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IF yOu gO What: Santa Fe Institute lecture on time travel by Seth Lloyd What: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Where: James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road Cost: Free
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American companies increasingly looking overseas for tax bill relief Feds worry about lost revenue that will result By Tom Murphy
The Associated Press
A growing number of U.S. companies are looking to trim their tax bills by combining operations with foreign businesses in a trend that may eventually cost the federal government billions of dollars in revenue. Generic drugmaker Mylan Inc. said Monday it will become part of a new company organized in the Netherlands in a $5.3 billion deal to acquire some of Abbott Laboratories’ generic-drugs business. The deal is expected to lower Mylan’s tax rate to about 20 percent to 21 percent in the first full year and to the high teens after that.
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The Canonsburg, Pennsylvaniacompany’s deal follows a path explored by several other U.S. drugmakers in recent months. AbbVie Inc. has entered talks with Shire Plc. over a roughly $53.68 billion deal that would lead to a lower tax rate and a company organized on the British island of Jersey. But drugmakers aren’t the only companies looking overseas for better tax deals. Last month, U.S. medical device maker Medtronic Inc. said that it had agreed to buy Ireland-based competitor Covidien for $42.9 billion in cash and stock. The combined company would have executive offices in Ireland, which has a 12.5 percent corporate income tax rate. And drugstore chain Walgreen Co. — which bills itself as “America’s premier pharmacy” — also is considering a similar move with
Lotteries A-2
Opinions A-10
Sports B-1
Swiss health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots. These tax-lowering overseas deals, which are called inversions, have raised concerns among some U.S. lawmakers over the potential for lost tax revenue. But business experts say U.S. companies that find the right deal have to consider inversions due to the heavy tax burden they face back home. At 35 percent, the United States has the highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world. By contrast, the European Union has an average tax rate of 21 percent, said Donald Goldman, a professor at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. In addition to the higher rate, the United States also taxes the income companies earn overseas once
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Santa Fe Bandstand on The Plaza Instrumental post-rock band As In We, 6-7 p.m.; funk and rock band The Strange, 7:158:45 p.m., no charge, summer schedule available online at santafebandstand.org. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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