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dents and parents of students at nearby Gonzales Community School. Concerns ranged from alleged health and safety hazards of the proposed tower, especially so close to a busy gas station and a major thoroughfare, to the design, aesthetics and impact on Santa Fe’s views with a structure said to be as tall as La Fonda on the Plaza. “I don’t understand why AT&T wants to put the 500 students at Gonzales in danger,” said Nolan Hall, 8, a fourthgrader at the school. “Isn’t it enough that I have seven standardized tests to have stress about? Isn’t it enough that
A new investigation by federal regulators into possible safety violations associated with a radiation leak detected in February at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad could have drastic consequences for the nation’s only belowground nuclear waste storage site and the contractor that manages it. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Enforcement notified WIPP and the contractor, Nuclear Waste Partnership, about the investigation in a letter dated June 16. It will focus on “the facts and circumstances associated with potential programmatic deficiencies in the nuclear safety, radiation protection, emergency management, quality assurance and worker safety and health programs” in light of the Feb. 14 radiation leak and a truck fire at WIPP mere days earlier, according to the letter. A separate investigation into the cause of the leak already has been commissioned by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Accident Investigation Board and is underway. If the latest probe uncovers that Nuclear Waste Partnership failed to protect the public and workers at WIPP, the immediate consequence could be fines and penalties, but even the lucrative contract the company holds could ultimately be jeopardized by the regulators’ findings, according to the head of a watchdog group that monitors WIPP. “It could have implications for the entire contract,” said Don Hancock, director of the nuclear waste safety
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Decree by Vatican officials first in history of Catholic Church in New Mexico By Anne Constable
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An Italian-born nun who took on Billy the Kid, corresponded with Thomas Edison and co-founded the first hospitals and schools in New Mexico has been nominated for sainthood. The board of CHI St. Joseph’s Children in Albuquerque approved a motion last year to petition for the canonization of Sister Blandina Segale, a nun of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. They presented their resolution to Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, who asked the Vatican for permission to “open the cause” for her beatification and possible canonization. The official decree granting permission from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints will be posted on the doors of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi at 3 p.m. Sunday during La Conquistadora/Our Lady of Peace vespers and procession to Rosario Chapel. This is the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in New
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People wait in line to speak at the Historic Districts Review Board meeting Tuesday at City Hall. The majority of speakers were opposed to AT&T’s proposal to build a cellphone tower on the corner of St. Francis Drive and Alameda Street. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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anta Fe’s Historic Districts Review Board flatly rejected a proposal Tuesday from AT&T to install a 64-foot cellphone tower next to a Burger King restaurant near the intersection of St. Francis Drive and Alameda Street. “Yes!” Nicole de Jurenev, president of the La Nueva Casa
Solana Neighborhood Association, which opposed the proposal, said immediately after the board’s unanimous vote. The issue of whether to allow a telecommunications tower near the north entrance of the city may not be over. Though no decision has been made, AT&T will “likely” file an appeal with the City Council, said Peter Dwyer, a former city attorney representing AT&T. “I’ll brief the client as best I can verbally on what transpired, and we’ll make a decision tomorrow,” he said. The board reached its decision after hearing nearly two hours of testimony, primarily in opposition, from area resi-
Smoking ban could burn military Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., questioned the discount prices for tobacco products sold within the Defense DepartWASHINGTON — Congressional ment. “We spend $1.6 billion a year efforts to limit or even stop men and on medical care of service members women in the military from smokfrom tobacco-related disease and loss ing cigarettes or using other tobacco of work,” he said. products could create a major morale Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of problem for front-line troops. the Joint Chiefs, responded, “We’ve The Joint Chiefs of Staff see it com- asked a lot of our men and women ing and hope to get out in front of it. in uniform, and we lead an uncomOn June 18, during the Senate mon life by choice. But all the things Appropriations defense subcommit- you’re talking about are legal, and tee hearing on the fiscal 2015 defense they are accessible, and anything that makes anything less convenient budget, the panel’s chairman, By Walter Pincus
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and more expensive for our men and women in uniform, given everything we’re asking them to do, I’ve got concerns about.” Dempsey concluded, “I want to make sure that you understand that the chiefs will need to have a voice on this because of the effect on the force.” Reducing smoking in the military has been a creeping campaign for almost 30 years, starting with congressional efforts in 1985 to raise
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