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San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. Terry Aguilar questions whether this driveway on pueblo land off County Road 84 is legal. The pueblo says it owns the road and several spurs, and it has told Santa Fe County and two El Rancho residents to negotiate easements or face trespassing fines. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican 4-C C oun t y Road 8
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MINNEAPOLIS — The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor’s corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham’s central Iowa farm cast a shadow over their organic vegetable business. They say the costs from the incident and resulting loss of organic certification on their asparagus patch for three years will reach about $74,000, and they’re now working with the sprayer’s insurance company. “We’re a certified organic farm — except for our asparagus,” Melissa Dunham lamented. Pesticide drift is a serious concern for organic farmers and they’ve come up with several defenses, such as buffer strips. Twelve states are part of a registry of farms that tips off aerial and ground sprayers to areas they need to avoid. The aerial spraying industry and pesticide manufacturers, meanwhile, say they’ve made big strides in controlling drift through pilot education and new technologies.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will delay taking executive action on immigration until after the midterm elections, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats who feared that acting now could doom his party’s chances this fall, White House officials said Saturday. The decision is a reversal of Obama’s vow to issue broad directives to overhaul the immigration system soon after summer’s end, and sparked swift anger from immigration advocates. The president made the promise on June 30, standing in the Rose Garden, where he angrily denounced Republican obstruction and said he would use the power of his office to protect immigrant families from the threat of deportation. “Because of the Republicans’ extreme politicization of this issue, the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-
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Questions about rights of way generate confusion, frustration By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
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s a teenager in the early 1980s, Janet Hererra drove the county roads around her hometown of El Rancho, a small community stretched along both sides of the Pojoaque River north of Santa Fe. Now she drives the same Santa Fe County roads to reach N.M. 502 and her job
at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At least she thought they were county roads. That’s how they were labeled on maps. Everyone knew the county maintained them. But Herrera and her neighbors found out a few months ago that San Ildefonso Pueblo believes County Road 84 and several spur roads belong to the pueblo. The pueblo has told the county and two El Rancho
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residents to negotiate easements or face trespassing fines. Questions about rights of way cloud the titles to El Rancho properties and are making it hard for some people to sell their homes. Some residents fear the pueblo could prevent them from accessing their homes. This isn’t the only issue rattling the community of about 1,000 people.
Janine Anton, 57, Santa Fe, July 24 Gunther Aron, Aug. 27 Halit Celebcigil, 93, Sept. 2 Polly Martinez, 83, Santa Fe, Aug. 16 Ruth N. Pennycock, Santa Fe, Aug. 27 Charles Sanders, Sept. 1 Thomas Sena, July 14 Grace Ann Rodriguez, 79, Sept. 2 Frank F. Varela, 81, Albuquerque
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Longtime Ken Burns collaborator has ties to Santa Fe Producer, editor will take part in upcoming preview, discussion of new Roosevelt series By Anne Constable The New Mexican
Paul Barnes, a freelance film editor living in Manhattan in the 1980s, loved visiting the Statue of Liberty in
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taries like he does,” Barnes said, and “I kind of hounded his office to get an interview.” He sent Burns a copy of his own film, No Maps on My Taps, about three African American tap dancers, and met with Burns’ producer, Buddy Squires, with whom he “hit it off.” He finally got a call from Burns inviting him to work on Statue of Liberty.
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