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Sheriff’s office IDs one of teen shooting victims
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18-year-old named; younger girl’s info withheld because of age
White House critical of Ebola quarantines
By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Under pressure, New York revises its policy to quarantine health care workers from virus-stricken nations, but New Jersey’s strict rule remains in effect. PAGE A-3
Venancio Cisneros
A politician by any other name …
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has identified an 18-year-old Santa Fe man found dead in a vehicle of apparent gunshot wounds, along with his 13-year-old girlfriend, as Venancio Cisneros and said both deaths are being treated as homicides.
Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Adan Mendoza said detectives knew Cisneros, whose body was found in a car with the girl’s Saturday morning in a residential neighborhood off N.M. 14. The girl, whose name was not released due to her age, was a frequent runaway from her
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The bodies of two teenagers were found Saturday in a car on East Ramada Way, a small residential road off Valle Vista Boulevard. The sheriff’s office has publicly identified 18-year-old Venancio Cisneros as one of the victims. CHRIS QUINTANA/THE NEW MEXICAN
N.M. ranked 25th for energy-efficiency efforts
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ickie Perea sure acts like a politician. But she runs away from that description while running for office. Perea served one term on the Albuquerque City Council in the 1990s after a long career as a city employee. In the 17 years since, Perea has lost elections for mayor of Albuquerque, secretary of state and the state Senate. Gov. Susana Milan Martinez resurSimonich rected Perea from Ringside Seat the graveyard of failed candidates by appointing her last year to fill a vacancy in the state House of Representatives. Perea, a Republican from Belen, replaced the late Rep. Stephen Easley, D-Santa Fe. Perea is the incumbent by political appointment, not someone elected by the voters of House District 50. Even so, she uses the word politician as a slur against others, especially her opponent in the November election. “We can’t trust politician Matthew McQueen,” Perea, 68, says in one direct-mail advertisement. McQueen, 47, an attorney from Galisteo, is running for public office for the first time. “Vote no on Matthew McQueen. He’s not honest,” Perea says in her mailer without offering any evidence against him. Alley fighters don’t worry about low blows. Then Perea calls herself “an honest leader.” She wouldn’t want voters to consider her a dishonest candidate because she’s treating her five campaigns for political office as a memory lapse. Perea, a former Democrat, is following this year’s trite formula. GOP candidates and the political organizations helping them are running remarkably similar ads, all of them disparaging politicians. Martinez, in her sixth campaign for
Pot farm found on forest land ‘eradicated’ Several agencies join in hunt for grow suspects By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Instructor Paul Motsinger, site supervisor at the Santa Fe Community College YouthBuild project, watches 19-year-old Edgar Saenz while he works on a 1,260-square-foot home Wednesday. The youth building the house are using green building standards and are targeting a Home Energy Rating System score of 60. Santa Fe recently was ranked 25th in the nation for policies and codes promoting energy efficiency. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
State scores high for some incentives, dinged in other areas By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
national advocacy group has ranked New Mexico 25th among all states for policies and codes promoting energy efficiency. Renewable energy advocates say that’s not too bad for a state that seems to often fall near the bottom of rankings, but they believe New Mexico should be in the top 10 when it comes to energy-efficiency measures. “I think it’s good. Even if we’re 25th, this is a list that
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means something at this time,” said Claudia Pavel, director of marketing for the Santa Fe-based company SolarLogic. “It is great to see that New Mexico is not 46th or 48th, like we are in other areas, such as education.” The nonprofit American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy ranks states and the largest cities every year based on their efforts to promote reduced energy use through utility programs, building codes, transportation policies and
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TOP 10 ENERGY-EFFICIENT STATES 1. Massachusetts
6. Connecticut
2. California
7. New York
3. Oregon, Vermont and Rhode Island — tied for third
8. Washington 9. Maryland 10. Minnesota
Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies found and eradicated about 100 marijuana plants growing in the Santa Fe National Forest over the weekend north of Interstate 25 and N.M. 3 near El Valle after Las Vegas, N.M., police were tipped off to drug activity in the area. Las Vegas police Deputy Chief Eugene Garcia confirmed that a tip from the public led two officers on a hunt for possible drug growers off a U.S. Forest Service road at about 2 p.m. Friday. “About six miles in, they found a Mexican national,” Garcia said. The officers identified themselves to the person, and the suspect fired shots, Garcia said. The suspect then ran away, and the officers, who were not injured, called for backup. “They weren’t sure if they were being fired on or just being warned to stay away,” Garcia said. State police, San Miguel County sheriff’s deputies, the U.S. Forest Service and the state Office of Emergency Management assisted in the hunt for at least four suspects, Garcia said. A state police helicopter also joined the search. Officers set up a roadblock on N.M. 3 along the frontage road north of Interstate 25 from Friday afternoon until about 9 that evening, which kept dozens of people from reaching their homes in the area for a few hours. Garcia said three Mexican nationals were found walking a road in the
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LEAST ENERGY-EFFICIENT STATES 40. Indiana and Kansas 46. West Virginia 42. South Carolina and Nebraska
47. Alaska and Mississippi
44. Louisiana and Missouri
49. South Dakota
Today Plenty of sunshine. High 68, low 35.
50. Wyoming
SOURCE: AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY EFFICIENT ECONOMY
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Arrival of the fittest: How life evolves so rapidly ABOUT THE SERIES The Santa Fe Institute is a private, nonprofit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, where top researchers from around the world gather to study and understand the theoretical foundations and patterns underlying the complex systems that are most critical to human society — economies, ecosystems, conflict, disease, human social institutions and the global condition. This column is part of a series written by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and published in The New Mexican.
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almost 4 billion years ago. Not just fish, but any organism alive today, from the most humble bacteria to humans, is packed to the rafters with molecular innovations undreamed of by evolution’s great pioneer Charles Darwin. And while Darwin recognized how natural selection allowed innovations to spread once they had originated, his theory remained silent about their origins, and he humbly admitted as much. The early 20th-century Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries put it best when he said that “natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the
Obituaries Doris Budrow DeGroot, 92, Santa Fe, Oct. 2 PAGE A-8
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