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Audit: Long waits for N.M. patients Vets seeking primary care were delayed an average of 45 days By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE — More than 1,000 veterans have been waiting three months or more
for initial medical appointments within the Veterans Affairs health care system in New Mexico, according to the findings of an audit released Monday. The wide-ranging audit covered hundreds of VA hospitals and clinics across the country, including the medical center in Albuquerque, where officials previously said more than 3,000 patients were assigned to a doc-
tor who didn’t actually see them. The audit found new patients seeking primary care within New Mexico’s VA system wait an average of 46 days, while those needing specialty care wait nearly two months. New patients seeking mental health care wait an average of 38 days. VA officials in Albuquerque were reviewing the audit. A spokesman had yet to comment
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on its findings, and it was unclear whether any veterans were put at risk by waiting. VA hospitals and clinics in other states had new patient waits three times the average wait in New Mexico, but veterans in Albuquerque and members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are still concerned about
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Recently recognized tribe sues to reopen casino Fort Sill Apaches fight 2009 ruling against bingo games in New Mexico By Milan Simonich The New Mexican
“If he was dabbling with dangerous firearms, we would have known,” said Roger Montoya, artistic director of Moving Arts Española, a nonprofit arts education organization where Villalpando was an instructor. “Because we were all very close to him.” Española police were called at about 10 a.m. to investigate a report of a suspicious person walking between a doughnut shop and a smoke shop. When police encountered the teenager, Española Public Safety Director Eric Garcia said, Villalpando pointed a handgun at the officers. After trying to talk Villalpando into putting the gun down, Officer Jerry Apodaca shot the teen, said Garcia, who will become Santa Fe’s new police chief Monday. Garcia also said the youth was carrying a knife.
The Fort Sill Apache tribe, which successfully sued Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration last spring to obtain recognition in New Mexico, is going back to court to fight for another long-standing cause. The tribe filed suit Monday against the National Indian Gaming Commission in hopes of reopening its casino in Southern New Mexico. In 2009, the gaming commission chairman ruled that the tribe was illegally running bingo games at its Apache Homelands Casino. Tribal Chairman Jeff Haozous said the finding was arbitrary, but the Fort Jeff Haozous Sill Apaches shuttered their casino because the commission threatened them with fines of up to $25,000 a day. “Facing this potentially devastating risk, the tribe agreed to close the operation while the agency conducted an expedited review of the case,” the tribe said in a statement accompanying its lawsuit. The Fort Sill Apaches said the National Indian Gaming Commission was supposed to complete the review in 2009 but never did. “We are asking the court to do what the NIGC promised to do five years ago — review our case in a reasonable amount of time,” Haozous said. A spokeswoman for the the gaming commission declined to comment on the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Fort Sill Apaches are successors of the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apache tribes, which warred with the U.S. Army when New Mexico was still a territory. In 1886, after Geronimo and other tribal leaders surrendered, the Apaches were forcibly removed from their homeland in southwestern New Mexico and
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From left, Adolfo Arroyo, 15, Marcos Gonzales, 15, and Amanda Gonzales, Marcos’ mother, light a candle Monday for Victor Villalpando, top, at a memorial at the corner of Corlett Road and Riverside Drive in Española. Villalpando was shot and killed by an Española police officer Sunday. Marcos Gonzales and Villalpando had been friends since they were toddlers. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Family and friends in disbelief that dance instructor would have gun, threaten officers By Uriel J. Garcia
The New Mexican
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o those who knew him, Victor Villalpando didn’t fit the profile of someone who would end up in the gun sight of a police officer. The 16-year-old El Rito teenager was a gymnastics instructor. He taught hip-hop, studied ballet and was looking forward to attending the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe for his sophomore year of high school.
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City of Santa Fe Arts Commission training workshops Free series for Santa Fe artists. This evening’s class: Artist as Entrepeneur: The Top Legal and Business Mistakes to Avoid as an Artist, with Talia Kosh, 6-7 p.m., Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery, 201 W. Marcy St. Contact Rod Lambert, 955-6705, rdlambert@ santafenm.gov.
But on Sunday morning, according to Española police, he pointed a handgun at two police officers after they were called to check on a suspicious person. One of the officers fired at Villalpando, killing him. State police have been called in to investigate and are reviewing surveillance footage from nearby businesses that might have captured images of the shooting. Friends, family and others who knew Villalpando said Monday they can’t believe he would have had a gun, much less pointed it at police.
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Supreme Court sends immigrants’ adult children to back of the line
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the vast majority of immigrant children who turn 21 while awaiting approval of their families’ visa applications must restart a process that takes years. The divided court deferred to the Obama administration’s reading of a law passed in 2002 that attempted to bring order to the immigration process, in which there are far more
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applications than available spots. The law is so ambiguous — one section “is through and through perplexing,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan — that it is best to leave interpretation to the Board of Immigration Appeals, she said. The federal agency has said that certain classes of applicants lose their favored status as children when they turn 21 — even if the process started years earlier. Kagan said the decision would primarily affect nieces, nephews and grandchildren of U.S. citizens
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and legal permanent residents who are trying to reunite their families. The decision does not touch on the recent migration of thousands of children traveling on their own across the Mexican border. The case required a deep dive into complex immigration law and divided the court in several ways. Kagan’s opinion was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Chief Justice John
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