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Local nonprofits: Matching funds from giving day never materialized Statewide event brought in cash, as well as confusion about promises and incentives
By Anne Constable The New Mexican
Many Santa Feans who went online May 6 to give money to their favorite nonprofits expected that the funds would go a little further because of promises of matching funds.
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The Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute told its supporters that every dollar donated through Give Grande New Mexico “will be magnified through local and national matching funds.” The Railyard Stewards promised its donors that “each
local gift will be amplified with dollars from a national incentive pool of funds.” In an email it said, “New Mexico will also have its own, additional incentive prizes!” The Women’s International
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Resorts stoked for strong ski season
U.S. reviewing hostage policy
Following a string of lackluster years, ski resorts throughout the Southwest are looking to make a comeback. PAGE B-3
The Obama administration says the ban on paying ransom has not changed. PAGE A-3
Mauldin works for sale Family to auction drawings by Pulitzer-winning New Mexican
Feds plan to close facility for families by year’s end
Inmate to sue over 7 years of solitary New Mexico prisoner’s attorney might expand case to class action
By Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press
By Phaedra Haywood
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will close a temporary family immigration detention center in rural New Mexico by the end of the year, The Associated Press has learned. The government told some members of Congress about its plans Tuesday, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later confirmed the closure to the AP. The administration indicated the facility was no longer needed because they are expanding jails elsewhere. The Homeland Security Department opened the detention center at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia in late June amid a crush of tens of thousands of Central American families crossing the border illegally. The facility had space to jail about 700 people facing deportation. Since the facility was opened, a few hundred people have been deported to their home countries in Central America. In the advisory sent to Congress, ICE officials said newly apprehended families have not been sent to the
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He didn’t draw these “ from some office in New York. He drew them there — in the middle of it.” Nat Mauldin, on his father’s wartime cartoons
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Senate Democrats block Keystone XL pipeline Measure narrowly defeated in 59-41 vote By Coral Davenport and Ashley Parker The New York Times
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ALBUQUERQUE wo dozen original editorial cartoons created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and World War II veteran Bill Mauldin are set to hit the auction block for the first time this week. The drawings are part of a massive collection of cartoons Maudlin had stashed away in boxes and file cabinets over a decades-long career that started on the battlefield and included stints at the Chicago Sun-Times and other American newspapers and magazines. Mauldin is credited with using edgy humor and his Willie and Joe characters, fictional GIs who slogged their way through Italy and other parts of Europe, to lift the spirits of infantrymen by poking fun at
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An editorial cartoon drawn in 1951 by Bill Mauldin, top, features his wellknown soldier characters, Willie and Joe, ‘taking advantage of a lull in the action by cooking up a little something special.’ The one below, drawn in 1962 for the Chicago Sun-Times and Field Enterprises, questions U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia years before the big buildup of American troops in Vietnam. Both pieces are among two dozen original Mauldin drawings in an upcoming auction. HERITAGE AUCTIONS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Bill Mauldin in his Santa Fe studio in March 1986. Mauldin, who died in 2003, won two Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished service as a cartoonist. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
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officers and idealistic enlisted men who had yet to experience battle. A native New Mexican, Mauldin enlisted in the Army in 1940 and spent his share of time in muddy foxholes, being shot at day and night. There were two choices: Go crazy or relieve the tension with some sarcasm. “That was the thing about Dad. He didn’t draw these from some office in New York,” his son, Nat Mauldin, said of the wartime cartoons. “He drew them there — in the middle of it.” “They knew that this guy was three foxholes over,” the younger Mauldin said of his father’s fellow soldiers. “It’s incredible what he did for the morale of the infantrymen in the war. It was an enormous contribution.”
A Santa Fe attorney announced Tuesday that he’s preparing to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of an inmate at the Penitentiary of New Mexico who has been held in solitary confinement since 2007 — and he plans to expand the case to a civil rights class action to fight what many are calling abusive treatment of prisoners across the state and nation. “The time has come to abolish long-term solitary confinement in America,” attorney Jason FloresWilliams said in a statement. “It is a racist abomination that shocks the conscience and offends any contemporary standards of decency.” Flores-Williams’ client, Justin Hinzo, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2004 for second-degree murder in a slaying that occurred during a party brawl, the attorney said. In July 2007, Hinzo was placed in solitary confinement for allegedly having a weapon in his cell. “He has remained in solitary confinement since that time for a wide range of causes that have never been proven, the most recent being that he is being held for his own protection,” Flores-Williams said in the statement. He said Hinzo spends 23 hours a day in his cell, leaving only once for a 45-minute exercise period held “in a box mesh cage with no access to sunlight.” Hinzo is allowed to shower only once or twice per week, Flores Williams said, and his pain medication for degenerated discs in his back is often withheld as a way to control or punish him. He sleeps on a metal cot and is fed cold food through a slot in the door. For the past month, Flores-Williams said, Hinzo hasn’t left his cell at all because his unit has been on lockdown.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday evening rejected a move to approve the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, rebuffing their colleague, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who had hoped to muscle the legislation
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through in advance of her uphill runoff election fight back home. The battle over approving the pipeline, which will carry petroleum from the oil sands of Canada to the Gulf Coast, ultimately became a proxy war for the Louisiana Senate seat, where Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy are locked in fight for votes in their oil-rich state ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff election. Landrieu — who, if re-elected, will lose her coveted position as chairwoman of the energy committee
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when Republicans take the Senate majority next year — spent the past few days working furiously to round up Democratic support for her bill, which she had hoped would be her last, best chance of holding on to her Senate seat. The Senate vote to take up the measure was 59-41, one vote short of the filibuster-proof 60 votes she needed. And despite cajoling, persuading, browbeating and making an impassioned plea to her colleagues during a closed-door lunch — which
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one attendee described as “civilized but pretty contentious” — Landrieu, who has so often bulldozed her way to success through sheer force of will, came up just short. New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, both Democrats, voted against the measure.
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