Santa Fe New Mexican, May 30, 2014

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High court punished gov.’s pick for judge

Man pleads in murder case 19-year-old agrees to testify against co-defendant accused of killing man over a PlayStation. LOCAL news, B-1

Rio Arriba Magistrate Martin suspended from practicing law for more than a year By Milan Simonich

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Big bid on Clippers

The man appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez earlier this month as a Rio Arriba County magistrate was suspended from practicing law for more than a year and faces

Former Microsoft CEO wins bid for team. sPOrTs, B-5

Can engineer OK Aamodt issue? Attorneys say lawmakers’ approval needed in waterrights case. PAge B-1

a formal reprimand from the state Supreme Court for not properly representing a client. Martinez, a Republican, selected Democrat Rudy Martin for the judgeship. The governor’s spokesman, Enrique Knell, said Thursday that Martin was the best possible

choice among a field of only four applicants. “The governor can only choose between those who apply, and of the two finalists both had positive and negative aspects to their résumé, background and body of work,” Knell said in an email. Martin, 62, now is one of four candidates who will be on the Democratic primary election ballot on Tuesday. Two of

the others also had sought the appointment from the governor. The New Mexico Supreme Court in May 1999 suspended Martin from practicing law after a chiropractic clinic complained he had not paid it for work on an injury case that was settled 18 months earlier. In an interview, Martin said a former employee in his law office was supposed

Emails: LANL warned about dangerous mix

State says program will cover most fall tuition aid

Governor reports having over 10 times that of all opponents combined By Steve Terrell

Students will receive average funding for their type of college

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Republican Gov. Susana Martinez continues her commanding lead in campaign fundraising, dwarfing the totals of the five Democrats who want to replace her. According to campaign finance reports filed Thursday with the Secretary of State’s Office, the incumbent reported raising $403,307 in the last three weeks. Though she is unopposed in next Tuesday’s primary, Martinez reported she had spent $325,536 during that period. And perhaps most troubling of all for Democrats, she has just shy of $4.3 million left in the bank — more than 10 times the combined amount of all the Democrats running for governor. The reports filed Thursday are the last batch due before the June 3 primary. Candidates for all state and county offices were required to submit financial reports. Among the Democrats, Gary King, the state attorney general, basically

By Barry Massey

The Associated Press

There’s enough money in New Mexico’s lottery-financed scholarship program to cover average tuition costs in the fall semester for eligible college students, the state Higher Education Department announced Thursday. In a letter to universities and colleges, the department outlined what’s happening to scholarships based on changes enacted by the Legislature earlier this year to shore up the popular assistance program’s finances. The scholarships used to cover 100 percent of tuition. But with the changes, students will receive the average tuition for the type of college they’re attending or full tuition at their school if it’s lower than the average. The department estimated tuition averages $2,519 a semester at the three research universities in the upcoming 2014-15 school year, almost $1,571 for

Toxic waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory stacked in Panel 7 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, shown May 10, is damaged after what some experts believe was a chemical reaction in a drum mixed with an absorbent substance similar to kitty litter. The state Environment Department released documents this week showing that another substance could be to blame. COURTESY THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT

By Patrick Malone

The New Mexican

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os Alamos National Laboratory last year gave a federal contractor permission to switch the neutralizing agents it mixed with nuclear waste before shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad for underground storage. The request came despite explicit warnings from the manufacturer that its product to neutralize pH levels is chemically incompatible with metallic nitrates and strong oxidizers.

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Research, teens suggest later school start times could boost well-being by helping students get a better night’s sleep.

chose to mix with the radioactive waste easily should have been identified as potentially volatile. The contractor even included the manufacturer’s warnings about the chemicals in its 2013 requests to LANL for the change. Jim Conca, a geochemist who worked at LANL for years, said the documents indicate LANL did not thoroughly vet EnergySolutions’ request to change neutralizers by consulting first with the lab’s chemists.

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President Barack Obama called for more and better research into the effects and treatment of concussions in youth athletes, though without direct authority over youth sports leagues, his ability to make changes is limited. sPOrTs, B-7

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The waste, a legacy from decades of nuclear weapons research at LANL, fit both of those descriptions. Nonetheless, the lab approved the change to the new neutralizer, according to documents made public this week by the New Mexico Environment Department. The documents raise new questions about oversight of the nuclear waste shipments as federal investigators continue to look into what caused a radiation leak in February that shut down WIPP. Outside chemists say the substance that the contractor, EnergySolutions,

Obama holds summit on youth concussions

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Martinez continues to draw big bucks; Dems lag

Lab was cautioned against chemical used in waste drums

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to pay the clinic. Martin said he was grievously sick at the time with chronic fatigue syndrome, which kept him bedridden. Even so, he said, he accepted responsibility for the breakdown and took the punishment the state Supreme Court specified. His health improved sufficiently for the court to rein-

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Autopsy shows APD officers shot homeless man three times, once in the lower back.

Today A thunderstorm in spots. High 82, low 54. PAge A-8

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