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After leak at WIPP, officials deny lab’s requests for further extensions to remove hazardous waste
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State regulators have denied several requests in recent weeks from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy to delay hazardous waste cleanup deadlines set under a consent order and is now
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considering penalties against the lab. It is the first time in at least three years the department has denied LANL’s request for extensions and comes on the heels of the discovery that a container that leaked radiation at the nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad in February came from Los Alamos.
The lab and the Department of Energy have had state deadlines to clean up both radioactive aboveground and buried hazardous-waste sites scattered around LANL property that are threatening groundwater. Lab officials have said they didn’t have the funding to do all the cleanup at once. State officials have been allowing them to focus funding and efforts on removing the above-ground radioactive waste to reduce the risk of a wildfire burning it and to meet a
Initiatives to decriminalize pot may not fit on tickets By Howard Houghton
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War introduced chemical weapons, brought more women into workforce By Steve Erlanger The New York Times
From left, newlyweds David Eachus and Christine Ruth of Northfield, N.J., enjoy their dinner in celebration of the Santa Fe Opera’s 58th season. The couple are visiting the opera for the first time as part of their honeymoon. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN
ZONNEBEKE, Belgium — To walk the orderly rows of headstones in the elegant graveyards that hold the dead of World War I is to feel both awe and distance. With the death of the last veterans, World War I, which began 100 years ago, has moved from memory to history. But its resonance has not faded — on land and geography, people and nations, and on the causes and consequences of modern war. The memorial here at Tyne Cot, near Ypres and the muddy killing ground of Passchendaele, is the largest British Commonwealth cemetery in the world. Nearly 12,000 soldiers are buried here — some 8,400 of them identified only as “A Soldier of the Great War, Known Unto God.” Despite the immensity of this space, the soldiers represent only a tiny portion of the 8.5 million or more from both sides who died, and that number a fraction of the 20 million who were severely wounded. In Europe’s first total war, called the Great War until the second one came along, 7 million civilians also died. Yet the establishment of these grave sites and monuments, here and in villages all over the Western Front, is more than a reminder of the scale of the killing. World War I also began a tradition of memorializing ordinary
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ozens of people took part in the Santa Fe Opera’s annual tailgating ritual Friday evening with costumes, elaborate meals and good cheer. Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales was on hand for the opera’s second Opening Night Tailgate Costume Party, which kicked off the 58th season with Bizet’s Carmen. This weekend’s performances include Carmen and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, both in new productions. By the time the season ends, on Aug. 23, the company will have given 47 performances of five main-stage presentations, which also include Beethoven’s Fidelio, a double bill of Mozart’s The Impresario and Stravinsky’s Le rossignol, and Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-sen. For more information about the operas, check out Pasatiempo online at www.pasatiempomag azine.com. Watch for reviews of all the performances in The New Mexican. The review of Carmen will be published Sunday. For more photos of Friday’s tailgating party, visit http://tinyurl. com/lenqznl.
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ABOVE: From left, Stan Koslewicz and his wife, Amy Anderson, make their way past other tailgaters Friday. LUKE E. MONTAVON THE NEW MEXICAN
LEFT: Tom Maquire serves paella to Eva Borins on Friday. JANE PHILLIPS THE NEW MEXICAN
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Georgia schools resist arming teachers By Kathleen Foody
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia school leaders are turning down a new option to arm teachers, arguing that it doesn’t make kids any safer and creates more problems than state lawmakers intended to solve. A string of attacks at schools and colleges in California, Oregon and Washington state hasn’t swayed education officials who say bluntly that
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Despite new law, more weapons won’t curb violence, educators say
Monday deadline. But investigators discovered a breached container at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was from LANL and shut down shipments from LANL to the underground storage facility and to a temporary storage facility in Texas. The lab and DOE said they would be unable to get the remaining few dozen containers of waste off lab property by the Monday deadline. Now the state has decided to stop
they don’t believe guns belong in schools. “We could give [teachers] all the training in the world as to how to a shoot a gun, but knowing when to shoot poses a major problem,” said Steve Smith, superintendent of the Bibb County School District. “The folks we work with day in and day out don’t have that.” The provision was part of a sweeping law that expands where Georgians can legally carry guns. It takes effect Tuesday and also includes bars and churches. GOP lawmakers pushed the bill through during an election year in the largely pro-gun state, giving each district the option of arming teachers
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or staff — but requiring them to set training standards. The provisions were similar to a program that drew no interest from South Dakota school districts, and education officials said no districts in Georgia are pursuing it so far either. The new law pulled Georgia education leaders into a Second Amendment discussion they say they never wanted. School officials were quick to express their support for people who legally carry guns. But they were wary at the idea of weapons inside school buildings, despite the recent attack by an Oregon teen who killed a student
Groups pushing ballot initiatives aimed at reducing penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in Santa Fe and Albuquerque will kick off petition drives on Saturday. But questions remain about whether the issue can be added to the November general election ballot. A spokesman for the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, which coordinates statewide elections, said Friday the municipal governments might have to hold their own, separate elections if organizers gather enough signatures of registered voters to force referendums. “It appears unlikely that the Office of Secretary of State will be able to add a lengthy municipal question to the general election ballot in either Santa Fe or Bernalillo counties,” spokesman Ken Ortiz said in an email. In addition to various state and local contests, he said, the number of constitutional amendments and judicial retention questions “is creating a very long ballot with contests and questions on the front and back of the ballot.” Whether the marijuana reform proposals make it onto the Nov. 4 ballot could affect not only how soon voters in the two communities get to weigh in, but the cost of settling the matter. Some experts say it also could affect turnout among younger, more liberal voters in the general election, which will decide who serves as governor for the next four years, among other issues. “It appears that adding the ordinance as proposed, and including all of the language required by the Albuquerque and Santa Fe city charters, would create a two-page ballot,” Ortiz wrote. “Having a two-page ballot
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santa Fe Pride Parade The Pride on the Plaza kick-off parade runs along Old Santa Fe Trail from the Capitol to the Plaza at 11 a.m., entertainment follows, santafehra.org.
eagle serpent studios open house View Nocona Burgess’ figurative paintings during the artist’s annual event, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 33 Craftsman Road, off Richards Avenue.
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