Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 19, 2014

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Shelter opens doors to overnight guests as weather cools Local News, C-1

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Report details blunders in effort to control Ebola

Union OKs hospital deal

The World Health Organization finds there was not one pivotal blunder, but a series, that boosted the virus. Page A-8

Nurses and support staff at Santa Fe’s only general hospital overwhelmingly ratify a contract, ending months of acrimonious negotiations that centered on staffing standards at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Local News, C-1

Bishops scrap welcome to gays

Restrictions create obstacles for budding local industry, patients States issue vertical IDs primarily to make it easier to determine the age of the cardholder. The ID is still valid after the cardholder turns 21, but many local businesses won’t serve alcohol to vertical ID holders, just to be safe.

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Vertical ID bans leave some young drinkers dry

Synod concludes with signs of split at Vatican By Nicole Winfield and Daniela Petroff The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families. The bishops approved a final report covering a host of issues related to Catholic family life, acknowledging there were “positive elements” in civil heterosexual unions outside the church and even in cases when men and women were living together outside marriage. They also said the church must respect Catholics in their moral evaluation of “methods used to regulate births,” a seemingly significant deviation from church teaching barring any

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

After a recent two-day motorcycle ride in Colorado, Jay Bennett stopped in Taos on his way back to Santa Fe and ordered what he said was a delicious local amber ale. That night, he and his girlfriend went out to dinner in Santa Fe at La Choza on Alarid Street. He wanted another beer. But instead of getting an IPA, Bennett got a shot of reality. Even though Bennett is 22, he said, the bartender wouldn’t accept his Washington state-issued identification card because it’s vertical instead of horizontal. It’s not the first time this has happened to him, and he’s not alone. Others have reported that other Santa Fe

Patient care coordinator Garrett Thompson helps a customer at NewMexiCann Natural Medicine on Wednesday. Photos by Jane Phillips/The New Mexican

By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

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Today Scattered thunderstorms. High 69, low 43. Page D-6

Obituaries

Dorotha Helen Gosling, 84, Linda S. Bell, 75, Santa Fe, Oct. 10 Las Cruces, Oct. 15 Stella Ortiz, 93, Arthur (Arturo) Santa Fe, Oct. 16 Carolyn Well, Carrillo, Oct. 14 Santa Fe, Oct. 13 Flavio Garcia, Oct. 17 Page C-2

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A client pays cash Wednesday for medical marijuana at NewMexiCann Natural Medicine in Santa Fe. The company, and other businesses like it around the state, could generate about $20 million in sales this year, but there’s no place to put the cash since banks began refusing deposits from cannabis businesses a few months ago.

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or the first time since opening his medical cannabis business, Len Goodman feels like a drug dealer. Goodman and his wife, Susan, are owners of NewMexiCann, a state-licensed provider of medical marijuana to some 1,300 customers. With one location in Santa Fe, they soon hope to expand here and open a shop in Taos. But as of this week, they have no bank to service their business or their customers. Len Goodman said his patrons cannot use credit cards, so they must pay with cash or a check. His 23 employees are paid with dollar bills stuffed in envelopes, and he has to shuffle money off-site several times a day to seven different safes at undisclosed locations. All vendors — such as a janitorial service — have been pre-paid until the end of the year.

‘Personally, I would have been very worried and saddened … if everyone had been in agreement or silent in a false and acquiescent peace,’ Pope Francis told the synod after Saturday’s vote.

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Indian schools struggle with decay, poverty Similarities at many of 183 sites overseen by feds include decrepit facilities, low student performance By Kimberly Hefling The Associated Press

WINSLOW, Ariz. — On a desert outpost miles from the closest paved road, Navajo students at the Little Singer Community School gleefully

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taste traditional fry bread during the school’s heritage week. “It reminds us of the Native American people a long time ago,” says a smiling 9-year-old, Arissa Chee. The cheer comes in the midst of dire surroundings: Little Singer, like

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so many of the 183 Indian schools overseen by the federal government, is verging on decrepit. The school, which serves 81 students, consists of a cluster of rundown classroom buildings containing asbestos, radon, mice, mold and flimsy outside door locks. The newest building, a large, white monolithic dome that is nearly 20 years old, houses the gym. On a recent day, students carried

chairs above their heads while they changed classes, so they would have a place to sit. These are schools, says Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department is responsible for them, “that you or I would not feel good sending our kids to, and I don’t feel good sending Indian kids there, either.”

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