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A little. After ﬂirting with the half-million-dollar mark though most of 2023, median home prices on the south side — where most of the city’s homes are sold — remained below $500,000 as the year ended, according to statistics

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Santa Fe home prices, which have soared into the stratosphere for the past few years, are moving a little closer to earth.

provided by the Santa Fe Association of Realtors. The median home price dropped from $490,000 in the third quarter to $480,000 in the fourth quarter in the sector of the city west of St. Francis Drive between Alameda Street and Interstate 25. That large area includes the city’s south side, a sector that accounts for nearly one-third of all home sales in Santa Fe County. Overall, the median price on the

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President Joe Biden has described as “indiscriminate bombing” and reduce the devastating civilian death toll. The events come amid growing concerns about the war’s economic toll in Israel and the gradual return of protests and domestic political intrigue. While few analysts see an end to the violence in Gaza, they detect an evolution. “We are on to Stage 3,” said Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, referring to the phase of warfare expected to follow the initial response to the October attacks and the sustained air and ground war inside the enclave. “I

State regulators Wednesday handed down orders for a massive rate case that left New Mexico’s largest electric utility on the hook for some of its controversial energy investments in recent years. New electricity rates will soon go into effect for Public Service Company of New Mexico’s more than half-million customers in the state — possibly as soon as the next billing cycle — but it remained unclear Wednesday how the Public Regulation Commission’s decision would affect power bills. The commission adopted many recommendations from agency staff, issued in December after weeks of hearings. The full recommendations would have resulted in an overall 3% decrease in the average monthly bill. Commission spokesman Patrick Rodriguez said calculations on average customer costs under the new order were not available Wednesday. However, he added, the amount PNM can recover from ratepayers will be lower than the amount the company had requested. PNM had requested an overall average increase of about 9.7% in its base rates but predicted the average monthly bill would increase by only 75 cents. A highlight of the commission’s order, for several stakeholder groups, was that it prevents PNM from collecting millions of dollars tied to the Four Corners Power Plant. The commission found the company acted with “imprudence” when it decided to invest in the plant a decade ago. The order also sets a lower rate of return for the company, implements a time-of-use rate pilot program and requires the utility to return funds it overcollected from ratepayers related to the company’s shares in the Palo Verde Generating Station, a nuclear plant in Arizona. Public Regulation Commissioners James Ellison and Gabriel Aguilera voted Wednesday to approve new rates for PNM, ruling on a case the company submitted in December 2022. PNM officials said they were still reviewing the commission’s order, filed Wednesday evening, and declined to comment. The commissioners discussed and voted on the case during a public meeting Wednesday, but they alluded to lengthy closed-door deliberations with staff a day earlier. While the Attorney General’s Office and other groups called for the commission to order a more significant “remedy” for PNM’s imprudent investment in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant, the commissioners approved a plan that says the company can’t collect about $85 million related to its investments in the plant. The calculation was proposed by expert witnesses from the Sierra Club, which celebrated the commission’s decision on Four Corners. “Today, the commission recognized that PNM failed to do its due diligence

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Families of victims of two explosions gather Wednesday in the courtyard of a hospital in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran. The bombs exploded Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian ofﬁcials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

placed in bags along the road toward a cemetery in the city of Kerman, and exploded as a huge procession of people made their way there to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Soleimani’s death. The architect of the axis of regional militias backed by Iran’s hard-line government, he was killed in an American drone strike. The attack in Iran on Wednesday led to ﬁnger-pointing, confusion and speculation after no group took responsibility. Many Iranians, already disenchanted by their leaders, were out-

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pair of explosions on Wednesday at a memorial for Iran’s former top general, Qassem Soleimani, killed at least 103 people and wounded an additional 211, according to Iranian officials, sowing fear in a country where domestic unrest and the prospect of a spiraling regional war have left many on edge. Iranian officials told state media that a pair of bombs had been

raged that the authorities had failed to provide adequate security for an event attended by thousands of people. Officials in the government blamed the two countries Tehran has long cast as archenemies, Israel and the United States. International intelligence experts and analysts said the attack bore the hallmarks of terrorist groups, not of Israel. Iranian officials said the roadside bombs appeared to have been detonated via remote control. “I heard the explosion 25 meters Please see story on Page A-4

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south side increased 2.2% from the end of 2022 from $469,500. That’s not great news for homebuyers but far better than the wild, two-year surge from $400,000 in the ﬁrst quarter of 2022, association data shows. Across the city of Santa Fe, the median price sunk 8.3% from the fourth quarter of 2022 — from $599,750 to $550,000. Those numbers largely

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Nearly two years after the Legislature approved the legal production, use and sale of cannabis in New Mexico, lawmakers are grappling with an unforeseen problem. The FBI is not authorizing national criminal background checks on licensed cannabis operators as required by the state’s Cannabis Regulation Act, signed into law in April 2021. And while it’s not yet clear if that is causing serious problems within the industry — the state Department of Public Safety is conducting background checks on New Mexico applicants — an Albuquerque lawmaker wants to provide some cleanup language in state law so federal checks can begin, particularly on out-ofstate applicants. Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, said she and other cannabis advocates are asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide guidance on how best to get approval for the state Regulation and Licensing Department, which oversees the cannabis industry, to conduct national background checks. “We have submitted proposed language to FBI lawyers, and we are hoping and praying we get some response,” she said. “That’s kind of all we can do. We can’t force them to do the checks. We’re doing our best to work with them and adjust our language however they want it. They just need to tell us.” Otherwise, Duhigg and Rep. Tara Lujan, D-Santa Fe, said the state cannot fully vet out-of-state applicants who want to start marijuana businesses here. The inability to determine whether out-of-state applicants have criminal records puts “the industry at risk” said Lujan, who unsuccessfully introduced a bill to address the issue in the 2023 legislative session. “We cannot get a full, comprehensive national background check on those applicants,” Lujan said. Duhigg said if lawmakers do not hear from the FBI on how to best approach the problem by the time the session begins on Jan. 16, it’s unlikely they will

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JERUSALEM — When a pair of drone-ﬁred missiles slammed into an apartment building in south Beirut on Tuesday, killing a top militant leader and his lieutenants, it appeared to mark a shift in Israel’s war against Hamas. For three months, Israel has pressed a full-scale military invasion of Gaza, leveling much of the strip and killing more than 22,000 people in its pursuit of the militants who planned and carried out the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. To date, it had not acted on another stated war aim: targeting the heads of Hamas “wherever they are.” Crosswords B-6, B-9

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Now, as the conﬂict enters its fourth month, Israel has apparently made good on that threat, risking a wider war along its border with Lebanon even as it begins to draw down troops in Gaza for the ﬁrst time. Military leaders said the partial withdrawal was possible now that attacks have weakened Hamas in the north and that it would allow thousands of reservists to return home and go back to work. It also comes after months of pressure from Washington to pull back from what

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SUZU, Japan — Japanese rescuers searched urgently through rubble for survivors Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister called a race against time after powerful earthquakes killed at least 73 people in western Japan. Fifteen people were listed as officially missing and possibly trapped under collapsed buildings. Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas were shaken by more aftershocks on Wednesday, adding to the dozens that followed Monday’s magnitude 7.6 temblor.

Bomb threats force evacuations in half-dozen state capitols

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Bomb threats were reported in at least a half-dozen state capitols Wednesday morning, forcing evacuations from statehouse buildings and interrupting court proceedings, according to officials and local news outlets. Security threats were reported in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana on Wednesday. Representatives for the FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Texas appeals court strikes down key Biden abortion access proposal A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a long-standing national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. The federal law “does not mandate any speciﬁc type of medical treatment, let alone abortion,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit concluded, faulting the Biden administration’s interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The White House and federal health officials have invoked EMTALA — the 1986 law that requires hospitals and physicians to treat emergency medical conditions or risk ﬁnes, civil lawsuits and being blacklisted from federal health programs — in the wake of two dozen states banning the procedure. The 5th Circuit is widely seen as one of the most conservative courts in the country and has repeatedly sided with antiabortion advocates.

Maurice Hines, who led tap-dancing revival with brother, dead at 80 Maurice Hines, a high-wattage song-and-dance man who rose to stardom as a child in a tap-dancing act with his brother, Gregory, then performed on and off Broadway, including in shows he directed and choreographed, died Friday in Englewood, N.J. He was 80. His death was conﬁrmed by his cousin Richard Nurse. No speciﬁc cause was given. The Hines brothers inherited a tapdance tradition on the wane and, decades later, had a lot to do with bringing it back into the public consciousness. The Hines brothers folded more and more comedy and singing into their act, inspired by Maurice Sammy Davis Jr., a role model with whom Hines they performed. Their father, a drummer, later joined them, and as Hines, Hines and Dad, they toured the country, appeared often on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and, in 1968, recorded an album, Pandemonium! New Mexican wire services

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey Epstein, speaks in New York in 2020. Some previously sealed court records in her case against the ﬁnancier, who had a ranch south of Santa Fe, were made public Wednesday but provided little new information.

New Epstein docs have little fresh information Rumors persisted that ‘clients’ of accused sex trafficker would be listed By Michael R. Sisak, Rebecca Boone and David B. Caruso The Associated Press

NEW YORK mid great hype, a new batch of previously secret court documents was unsealed late Wednesday related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating the documents amounted to a list of rich and powerful men who were Epstein’s “clients” or “co-conspirators.” There was no such list. The first 40 documents in the court-ordered release largely consisted of already public material revealed through nearly two decades of newspaper stories, TV documentaries, interviews, legal cases and books about the Epstein scandal. Still, the records — including transcripts of interviews with some Epstein’s victims and old police reports — contained reminders Epstein, who owned a sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe, surrounded himself with famous and powerful figures, including a few who have also been accused of misconduct. There were mentions of Epstein’s past friendship with Bill Clinton — who is not accused of any wrongdoing — and of Britain’s Prince Andrew, who previously settled a lawsuit accusing him of having sex with a 17-yearold girl who traveled with Epstein. Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg testified in a newly released deposition she once met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Beach, Fla., home, but that nothing untoward happened with the late pop icon. The documents being unsealed are related to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of dozens of women who sued Epstein for abusing them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin

Islands and New Mexico. This suit was against Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term for helping recruit and abuse Epstein’s victims. Epstein, a millionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars, killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Giuffre’s lawsuit was settled in 2017, but the court had kept some documents blacked-out or sealed because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein’s victims and others whose names had come up during the legal battle. More documents were to be released in coming days. Among newly unsealed records were court memos in which Giuffre’s lawyers complained some women who had worked for Epstein were proving difficult to serve with subpoenas, as was Epstein himself. Two of those women had invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when questioned in other lawsuits about whether they had helped procure young women for Epstein to abuse. Maxwell, in her deposition, chaffed at being asked about Giuffre’s allegations she had arranged for her to have sexual encounters with Prince Andrew. One former member of Epstein’s domestic staff said in a deposition he felt uncomfortable with the number of young women showing up at the house and felt threatened by Maxwell to stay quiet after he quit. Other documents included legal arguments over whether Giuffre should be allowed more time to depose potential witnesses, including Clinton. Giuffre never alleged he was involved in illegal behavior, but her attorneys said the former president was a “key person who can provide information about his close relationship” with Maxwell and Epstein. Maxwell’s attorneys countered Clinton testimony was not relevant, and Giuffre’s attorneys didn’t diligently try to subpoena him to testify.

Kennel club welcomes new breed: Lancashire heeler By Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press

NEW YORK — It’s small in stature, big on activity and known for a “smile,” and it’s ready to compete with 200 other dog breeds. Say hello to the Lancashire heeler, the latest breed recognized by the American Kennel Club. The organization announced Wednesday the rare herding breed is now eligible for thousands of U.S. dog shows, including the prominent Westminster Kennel Club show. With long bodies and short coats that are often black and tan, the solidly built dogs are shaped a bit like a downsized corgi, standing around 1 foot at the shoulder and weighing up to about 17 pounds. Historically, they were farm helpers that could both drive cattle and rout rats, and today they participate in an array of canine sports and pursuits.

“They’re gritty little dogs, and they’re very intelligent little dogs,” says Patricia Blankenship of Flora, Miss., who has bred them for over a decade. “It’s an enjoyable little breed to be around.” Their official description — or breed standard, in dog-world parlance — calls for them to be “courageous, happy, affectionate to owner,” and owners say contented heelers sometimes pull back their lips in a “smile.” They’re “extremely versatile,” participating in everything from scent work to dock diving contests, says United States Lancashire Heeler Club President Sheryl Bradbury. But she advises a Lancashire heeler “has to have a job,” whether it’s an organized dog sport or simply walks and fetch with its owners. The dogs beneﬁt from meeting various people and canines, added Bradbury, who breeds them in Plattsmouth, Neb. Lancashire heelers go back centuries

in the United Kingdom, where they’re now deemed a “vulnerable native breed” at risk of dying out in their homeland. Britain’s Kennel Club has added an average of just 121 Lancashire heelers annually to its registry in recent years, and the American Kennel Club says only about 5,000 exist worldwide. Founded in 1884, the AKC is the United States’ oldest purebred dog registry and functions like a league for many canine competitions, including sports open to mixed-breeds and purebreds. But only the 201 recognized breeds vie for the traditional “best in show” trophies at Westminster and elsewhere. To get recognized, a breed must count at least 300 pedigreed dogs, distributed through at least 20 states, and fanciers must agree on a breed standard. Recognition is voluntary, and some breeds’ aﬁcionados approach other kennel clubs or none at all.

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Prices climbed rapidly in 2021 and 2022, straining American household budgets and chipping away at President Joe Biden’s approval rating. But inflation cooled in late 2023, a spurt of progress that happened more quickly than economists had expected and that stoked hopes of a gentle economic landing. Now, the question is whether the good news can persist into 2024. As forecasters try to guess what will happen next, many are looking closely at where the recent slowdown has come from. The details suggest a combination of weaker goods prices — things such as apparel and used cars — and moderating costs for services including travel has helped to drive the cool-down, even as rent increases take time to fade. Taken together, the trends suggest further drops could be in store, but they also hint a few lingering risks loom. What’s happening in America right now is what economists call “disinflation”: When you compare prices today with prices a year ago, the pace of increase has slowed notably. At their peak in the summer of 2022, consumer prices were increasing at a 9.1% yearly pace. As of November, it was just 3.1%. Still, disinflation does not mean that prices are falling outright. Price levels have generally not reversed the big run-up that happened just after the pandemic. In short, prices are still climbing, just not as quickly. The surprisingly quick cool-down started as travel prices began to decelerate, said Omair Sharif, founder of Inflation Insights. When it came to airfares in particular, the story was supply. Demand was still strong, but after years of limited capacity, available flights and seats had finally caught up. That combined with cheaper jet fuel to send fares lower. The next change that lowered inflation came from goods prices. After jumping for two years, prices for products such as furniture, apparel and used cars began to climb much more slowly — or even to fall. But one source of long-awaited disinflation has yet to show up fully: a slowdown in rental inflation. Private-sector data tracking new rents soared early in the pandemic but then slowed sharply. Many economists think that pullback will eventually feed into official inflation data as renters renew their leases or start new ones. Because a bigger rent cool-down remains possible and goods price increases could keep slowing, many economists expect overall consumer price inflation to fall closer to the Fed’s goal by the end of 2024. There is even a risk that it could slip below 2%, some think. “It’s a scenario that deserves some discussion,” said Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist and founding partner at MacroPolicy Perspectives. “I don’t think it’s the most likely scenario, but the risks are more balanced.”

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Evacuation of fiery crash a ‘miracle’ Trump asks federal Experts praise crew, passengers after all 379 make it off burning plane in 20 minutes By Victoria Bisset, Helier Cheung and Naomi Schanen The Washington Post

A Japan Airlines passenger jet and a coast guard plane collided on an airport runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, killing five of the six people on board the coast guard aircraft. The Airbus A350 went up in flames. But all 379 people on board, including 12 crew members, were able to escape — with one passenger describing it as a “miracle.” Japanese officials are still investigating the cause of the incident, but flight safety experts say the role of the flight crew, improvements in plane safety designs and — crucially — the way the passengers reacted would all have been key to helping them evacuate safely. “I think the crew did a fabulous job,” Ed Galea, a professor and leader of the Fire Safety Engineering Group at London’s University of Greenwich, said in an interview Wednesday. He noted the crew members were operating under particularly difficult conditions because the plane was nose-down on the tarmac, meaning passengers leaving from the rear probably had to walk up a steep angle, while those using the front exits were walking down a slope. Yet the evacuation was completed within 20 minutes, according to Japan Airlines’ managing executive officer. A flight attendant for an international airline headquartered in

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A Japan Airlines plane burns on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday in Tokyo after it collided with a coast guard plane. Five from the coast guard craft were killed, but all 379 passengers aboard the Japan Airlines plane were evacuated.

Asia, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, described the incident as a “model for a perfect evacuation.” Having both “well-trained crew and well-behaved passengers” is essential to successfully evacuating an aircraft in an emergency situation, he said. Eyewitnesses described experienced ﬂight attendants directing relatively calm passengers. “When the plane stopped, in less than one minute, the cabin was full of smoke,” Aruto Iwama told Reuters news agency. “There was screaming, but most people were calm and stayed in their seats, sitting and waiting. I think that’s why we were able to escape so smoothly.” Another passenger, Satoshi Yamake, told Reuters “the ﬂight attendants told us to stay calm and instructed us to get off the plane.” Just 10 to 15 minutes after the passengers had moved

away from the plane, he said, the whole aircraft was engulfed in flames. “I heard an explosion about 10 minutes after we all got off the plane. I don’t think we would have made it if we evacuated later,” said Tsubasa Sawada, 28, according to Reuters. “All I can say is that it was a miracle.” The fact it was a domestic Japanese flight may have made the evacuation process simpler, the flight attendant told The Washington Post; most of the passengers would have shared the same language, making it easy to understand and comply with instructions. Japanese passengers are also likely to be well-trained for hazard and evacuation because of the preparation for natural disasters common in the country. An Australian official told Sky News Australia there were about a dozen of that country’s citizens on the commercial flight as well.

“It is absolutely not common for passengers to comply with instructions, though some countries do better than some of the others, mostly based on ... their sense of crisis awareness,” the flight attendant said. But flight safety experts say a “really significant” factor that helped the evacuation is relevant to passengers from all countries — that people appeared to have left without taking their luggage. In most accidents, especially those in Europe and the United States, Galea said, passengers try to take their luggage with them. In footage of this flight, Galea said, “I didn’t see a single person with their luggage, not a single person.” From the available footage, Galea said, it also appears only some of the cabin doors were opened, indicating the flight crew took the key step of ensuring there was no fire around the exits passengers were using. Some of the exits in a 1985 plane disaster in Britain that claimed the lives of 55 people were opened near flames. One clip appeared to show a crew member at the back of the aircraft, which was dark and full of smoke, using a flashlight to direct passengers to the exit. The cabin crew members are “highly trained professionals,” Galea said. “The primary purpose for [them] being on the aircraft is not to serve your drinks. It’s to help you evacuate. It’s for safety.” A major aspect of the evacuation’s success would have been the annual training on safety measures airlines around the world give to their crews. “It appears to be an absolute textbook evacuation,” aviation safety consultant Adrian Young said.

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Biden to give Jan. 6 speech as part of ramp-up President will begin framing race as a fight for democracy with remarks at Revolutionary War site By Matt Viser

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday to give remarks on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as his campaign attempts — at the start of the election year — to take a more aggressive posture toward Donald Trump and center the election around a ﬁght for democracy. Biden will speak near a site where a group of militias gathered to form a coalition to ﬁght for democracy — and where George Washington established headquarters during the Revolutionary War — as a way to invoke the core theme of his presidential campaign some 250 years later. On Monday, Biden is scheduled to visit Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine people were fatally shot by a white supremacist in 2015. The two events — as well as a trip to South Carolina by Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday — signal a reinvigorated campaign from the likely Democratic ticket just as Republicans begin their nomination process with the Iowa caucuses Jan. 15. It

also comes at a moment when anxious Democrats have worried about Biden’s low approval ratings, his age and the lack of an alternative for the party. “Our message is clear and as simple: We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told reporters Tuesday. Senior aides to Biden’s campaign outlined several new efforts to start the year, including ads that will begin running centered on Biden’s speech Saturday and an attempt to illustrate in a more stark way the choices voters will face in November. Biden has in recent weeks started speaking more directly about Trump, but often during fundraisers that are not seen by average voters. His campaign is choosing to escalate that message more directly in a symbolic setting on the anniversary of the insurrection, as a way to draw the contrast. “On January 6, 2021, we witnessed a very different vision of America, one deﬁned by revenge, retribution and a rebuke of our very democracy,” Rodriguez said. “It was the ﬁrst time in our nation’s history that a president tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.” Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director, highlighted some of Trump’s recent rhetoric and his vow to seek retribution from his political opponents if he

wins the 2024 election. “He’s promising to rule as a dictator and use the government to exact retribution on his political enemies, all while he and his MAGA supporters encouraged and applaud political violence across the country,” he said. Trump’s campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles on Tuesday released a memo outlining their view of the presidential race. They blamed Biden for legal indictments of Trump, and for judicial decisions to declare Trump ineligible for the ballot. “Please make no mistake: Joe Biden and his allies are a real and compelling threat to our Democracy,” they wrote. “In fact, in a way never seen before in our history, they are waging a war against it.” Biden’s trip to South Carolina also is an effort to address a concern among some Democrats, as support from Black voters drops. It has been a key constituency for the Democratic Party, and for Biden’s 2020 presidential primary campaign. “Whether it is white supremacists descending on the historic American city of Charlottesville, the assault on our nation’s capital on January 6, or a white supremacist murdering churchgoers at Mother Emanuel nearly nine years ago, America’s worried about the rise in political violence and determined to stand against it,” said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.

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has already used the Colorado State’s Supreme Court proceedings as justiﬁcation for ruled GOP front-runner unlawfully striking President for president ineligible Trump from that state’s ballot.” Richard L. Hasen, a law profesfor his role in Capitol riot sor at the University of CaliforBy Adam Liptak

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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to keep him on the primary ballot in Colorado, appealing an explosive ruling from the state Supreme Court declaring him ineligible based on his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. That ruling, Trump’s lawyers wrote, marked “the ﬁrst time in the history of the United States that the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate.” Trump’s appeal adds to the growing pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to act, given the number of challenges to Trump’s eligibility and the need for a nationwide resolution of the question as the primaries approach. “The issues presented in this petition are of exceptional importance and urgently require this court’s prompt resolution,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. Trump’s petition followed a similar one last week from the Colorado Republican Party. The six voters who had prevailed in the Colorado Supreme Court ﬁled a motion urging the justices to put the case on an exceptionally fast track. The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled on requests to expedite its consideration of the case. It is likely to act on them in the coming days. The Colorado case is one of several involving or affecting Trump on the Supreme Court’s docket or on the horizon. After an appeals court rules on whether he has absolute immunity from prosecution, the justices may consider that question. And they will rule on the scope of a central charge in the federal election-interference case in a decision expected by June. In a ruling last week, an election official in Maine agreed with the Colorado court Trump was ineligible for another term. Trump appealed the decision from Maine to a state court there Tuesday. Both rulings are on hold while appeals move forward, giving the U.S. Supreme Court some breathing room. Trump’s lawyers said the two rulings so far required the U.S. Supreme Court to act. “The Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide,” they wrote. “Indeed, the Maine secretary of state, in an administrative proceeding,

nia, Los Angeles, said the petition was “a strong legal document” that “raises some serious, difficult questions.” He added: “This is not to say that Trump has presented slamdunk arguments that he should win; rather, these are arguments that merit consideration by the Supreme Court.” The case turns on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Adopted after the Civil War, it bars those who had taken an oath “to support the Constitution of the United States” from holding office if they then “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” Congress can remove the prohibition, the provision says, but only by a two-thirds vote in each chamber. Trump’s petition attacked the ruling on many grounds. It said the events culminating in the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6 were not an insurrection. “’Insurrection’ as understood at the time of the passage of the 14th Amendment meant the taking up of arms and waging war upon the United States,” the petition said, noting the amendment had been adopted after “the United States had undergone a horrific civil war in which over 600,000 combatants died, and the very survival of the nation was in doubt.” “By contrast,” it added, “the United States has a long history of political protests that have turned violent.” Even if the events culminating in the Capitol riot could be called an insurrection, the petition said, Trump himself had not “engaged in insurrection.” The petition also said Section 3 did not apply to him because he had not taken the relevant kind of oath. And it said the presidency was not one of the offices from which oath-breaking officials were barred. Trump’s lawyers said Section 3 disqualified people subject to it from holding office — not from seeking it. If the candidate were elected, the petition said, Congress could remove that disqualification before the candidate’s term began. The petition also argued judges may not act unless Congress does. “Congress — not a state court — is the proper body to resolve questions concerning a presidential candidate’s eligibility,” it said. More broadly, Trump’s petition said voters rather than judges should assess whether his conduct disqualified him from a second term.

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Sides exchange hundreds of prisoners The Associated Press

Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian authorities said 230 Ukrainian prisoners of war returned home in the ﬁrst exchange in almost ﬁve months. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 248 Russian servicemen have been freed under the deal sponsored by the United Arab Emirates. The UAE’s Foreign Ministry attributed the successful swap to the “strong friendly relations between the UAE and both the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine, which were supported by sustained calls at the highest levels.” The UAE has maintained close economic ties with Moscow despite Western sanctions and pressure on Russia after it launched its invasion in 2022. Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, said it was the 49th prisoner exchange during the war. Some of the Ukrainians had been held since 2022. Among them were some of those who fought in milestone battles for Ukraine’s Snake Island and the

Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Russian officials offered no other details of the exchange. Also Wednesday, Russia said it shot down 12 missiles fired at one of its southern regions bordering Ukraine, as Kyiv’s forces seek to embarrass the Kremlin and puncture President Vladimir Putin’s argument life is going on as normal despite the fighting. The situation in the border city of Belgorod, which came under two rounds of shelling Wednesday morning, “remains tense,” said regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on Telegram. “Air defense systems worked,” he said, promising more details about possible damage after inspecting the area later in the day, part of a New Year’s holiday week in Russia. Ukraine fired two Tochka-U

missiles and seven rockets at the region late Tuesday, followed by six Tochka-U missiles and six Vilkha rockets Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Russian side of the frontier has come under increasingly frequent attack in recent days. Belgorod, with a population of about 340,000, is the biggest Russian city near the border. Hitting the area and disrupting city life is a dramatic way for Ukraine to show it can strike back against Russia, whose military outnumbers and outguns Kyiv’s forces.

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Santa Fe home prices settling down

Fourth-quarter city and county median home prices

COUNTY NORTHEAST Q4 2022: $1,295,000 Q4 2023: $720,700 Change: -44.3% ▼

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were driven by a 12.2% decline in million-dollar homes in the South Capitol area across to St. John’s College and along Zia Road to St. Francis Drive. With soaring interest rates, 2023 was a jolting ride in the Santa Fe real estate world, with some neighborhoods seeing prices plummet 40% and 44% and others seeing gains of 2%, 3% and 9%. Overall, though, the scorching home price increases of the last three years settled down last year. The median sales price across Santa Fe County changed just slightly from the end of 2022 to the end of this year, dropping from $674,000 to $670,000. But the median rose as high as $720,000 and fell as low as $595,000 during the course of the year. “The inventory is going low but the price is holding ﬁrm,” said Joshua Maes, president of the Santa Fe Association of Realtors board and an agent at Sotheby’s International Realty Santa Fe. “If you have a property in the $500,000 range, you still get numerous offers. It’s still a vigorous market.” Nationwide, the median existing-home price in November was $387,600, a 4% increase from the previous November. The housing affordability index has now dropped year-over-year every quarter since the second quarter of 2020 — the period when the coronavirus pandemic started. The index for the fourth quarter was 33, just a shade higher than the record low 31 in the third quarter. This means the median household income is only 33% of what is necessary to qualify for a home loan for a median-priced home. But price is almost relative as Santa Fe keeps hovering around record-low home availability.

COUNTY NORTHWEST Q4 2022: $1,461,409 Q4 2023: $1,292,500 Change: -11.6% ▼

CITY NORTHWEST Q4 2022: $734,000 Q4 2023: $734,325 Change: 0% —

CITY NORTHEAST Q4 2022: $1,325,428 Q4 2023: $1,371,000 Change: +3.4% ▲ CITY SOUTHEAST (N) Q4 2022: $1,225,000 Q4 2023: $1,075,000 Change: -12.2% ▼

CITY SOUTHWEST Q4 2022: $469,500 Q4 2023: $480,000 Change: +2.2% ▲

CITY SOUTHEAST (S) Q4 2022: $921,565 Q4 2023: $554,000 Change: -39.9% ▼

COUNTY SOUTHEAST Q4 2022: $682,690 Q4 2023: $750,000 Change: +9.9% ▲ COUNTY SOUTHWEST Q4 2022: $593,777 Q4 2023: $578,951 Change: -2.5% ▼

The fourth quarter saw the second-fewest new listings at 345 since records have been kept. The number of closed sales in the fourth quarter — 293 — was the lowest since the tail end of the 2008-13 recession, Realtors’ data shows. “We had a lot of buyers sit aside because of the high interest rates,” Maes said. The inventory of homes for sale — the number of homes available at

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the end of the quarter — has been in similar territory, between 200 and 400, since the end of 2020 after peaking at more than 2,000 in 2008. The inventory has gradually decreased ever since, staying below 1,000 since 2016. Maes said Santa Fe is still playing catchup for 15 years of lagging home starts. “We weren’t building enough homes, and the population was still growing,” Maes said. “There wasn’t enough

inventory being built [from 2008 to 2013]. That is still the case now.” Maes is optimistic for 2024, with signals interest rates could come down and the presidential election looming. “I think we’re going to see more inventory,” he said. “Some sellers are going to realize we’re going to have to sell. Buyers are starting to come out again. It’s a win-win for buyers and sellers. Interest rates are going to start making sense again.”

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away from me,” a male witness to the bombing told the local Rah-e-Arman-eKerman News Agency. “On the ground, there were all women and children like withered ﬂowers.” Videos posted on social media and veriﬁed by The New York Times show people screaming and running away as smoke rises southwest of the cemetery. Videos also show civilians carrying injured people on stretchers and ambulances driving through the crowds that had gathered along a road near the site. “God help us — everyone is killed,” some of the wounded, bloodied in the attack, can be heard screaming. Soleimani, the most powerful Iranian commander at the head of the foreign-facing arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was considered a hero by some in Iran and in other parts of the region for building an axis of allied militias to defend Iran’s interests across the Middle East and counter the United States and Israel, as well as for helping to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. In the United States, he was regarded as a force behind international terrorism campaigns, and President Donald Trump said his killing in January 2020 was ordered “to stop a war” because Soleimani had been plotting attacks on American diplomats and military personnel. Wednesday’s attacks come at a time of heightened anxiety in Iran and across the region. For years, Sunni terrorist organizations including the Islamic State group have conducted attacks on civilians across the Middle East, from Iraq to Lebanon to Afghanistan, but in Iran, there have been only a handful over the past 20 years. Then on Oct. 7, the Iranian-backed group then in control of the Gaza Strip, Hamas, led an attack on Israel that killed an estimated 1,200 people, and the Israeli military invaded. The war has laid ruin to Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and killed more than 20,000 people, the majority of them women and children, according to health officials there. Two other Iranian allies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, have opened multiple fronts against Israel, disrupting international shipping and escalating the threat of a regional war. So far, Iran has not gotten directly involved in the war. In late December, Israel assassinated a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander who was in charge of procuring weapons for Hezbollah and Syrian militants. Then on Tuesday, a senior Hamas official who was a close liaison with Iran and Hezbollah was killed in a Beirut suburb dominated by Hezbollah. In the aftermath of the attack in Kerman, two people closely affiliated with

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Mourners gather in Tehran in January 2020 after the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who led the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ powerful Quds Force. A pair of explosions Wednesday in the cemetery where Suleimani is buried killed more than 100 people, according to Iranian ofﬁcials.

the Revolutionary Guard and familiar with internal debates among Iranian decision makers say, the country’s military and political leaders quickly decided to hold Israel responsible for the bombings. Even if a terrorist or opposition group claims responsibility for the attacks, they said, Iran would insist Israel had a hand in it. That assessment contrasted sharply with the analysis by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to three U.S. officials. Early assessments indicate that Israel was not involved, the officials said. It was also not in keeping with Israel’s usual methods when striking Iran, said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at Crisis Group. While Israel has regularly carried out covert operations in Iran, they have been targeted against speciﬁc individuals, like Iranian scientists or officials, or at nuclear or weapons facilities. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement blaming the attack on Iran’s “malicious and criminal enemies,” though he stopped short of naming any group or country. Khamenei vowed that Iran’s enemies should know that “this tragedy will have a strong response.” Both Iran’s president and the deputy head of Parliament were more pointed in their accusations. “We tell the criminal America and Zionist regime that you will pay a very high price for the crimes you have committed and will regret it,” President Ebrahim Raisi said. The deputy Parliament head, Mojataba Zolnouri, said that it was “clear from the style of the attacks that it is the Zionist regime,” and that “the Islamic Republic holds the right to response, but will determine the time, date and place of revenge itself.” The calls for retribution notwithstanding, the two people familiar with Iran’s internal discussions said that Khamenei has been more cautious,

instructing military commanders to pursue “strategic patience” and avoid getting Iran into a direct military confrontation with the United States at all costs. The people said he had ordered the military to limit retaliation to covert operations against Israel or proxy militia attacks on U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq. Khamenei, they said, views the recent assassinations of an Iranian commander in Syria, the Hamas official in Beirut and the attacks in Kerman as a coordinated campaign by Israel to distract from the international outrage over the war in Gaza. Analysts said there were numerous possibilities for who might have attacked the cemetery, including Sunni Muslim terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group or Iranian separatist groups. But whoever was behind the bombing, its human cost “has not been seen on this scale inside Iran,” said Sanam Vakil, deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House. Just before the explosions in Kerman, videos showed a dense crowd of thousands were walking along a road lined with food and drink stalls and ﬂags as a prayer played from speakers. Then a huge blast rocked the area. The air ﬁlled with screams, and people scattered in all directions, videos showed. “Unfortunately many of the injured people are in critical condition,” said Babak Yektaparast, the spokesperson for the country’s emergency relief operations. He said all medical facilities in the province of Kerman were on standby to treat patients and emergency airplanes were being deployed for medical evacuations to hospitals in Tehran, the capital. Iran declared a national day of mourning for Thursday and emergency officials issued a call for blood donations.

Iran’s interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, told state television that most of the casualties were from the second explosion, which followed the first by minutes and occurred as crowds gathered to help the wounded. A second delayed explosion is a common tactic among terrorist groups. Vahidi said the city of Kerman was now under the control of security and military. Although terrorist attacks in Iran are rare, they are not unheard-of. In 2017, the Islamic State group launched twin attacks in Tehran, killing 12 people in strikes on Parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini. In August and October of 2022, Islamic State gunmen raided a religious shrine in the city of Shiraz, opening fire on people praying and killing dozens. The explosions on Wednesday came four years to the week after the American drone strike killed Soleimani, the longtime commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s powerful Quds Force, at Baghdad airport. In life, Soleimani was hailed in Iran and in parts of the wider region as a hero for building and arming a network of proxy militias to counter the influence of the United States and Israel across the Middle East. To this day, he continues to enjoy near-mythic status among pro-government Iranians. His funeral in 2020 drew more than 1 million mourners, according to official estimates. Every year, on the anniversary of his assassination, some Iranians hold processions and ceremonies in his honor. On Wednesday, some Iranians on social media were blaming the government and local security officials for failing to secure such a high-profile event. During the funeral ceremony for Soleimani in 2020, a stampede along the same road as the explosions killed 60 people.

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push for any changes this year. But she added she does not want any changes that would do away with the requirement to obtain a federal background check. “We want to strive toward achieving that federal background check,” Duhigg said. “Even if we can’t get this language right this year, maybe before next year the FBI will respond so we can come back and amend the language then.” A spokeswoman for the FBI said she was unable to respond to written questions until Thursday. Background checks in the marijuana industry screen people convicted of felony offenses, such as fraud, embezzlement and trafficking controlled substances — or using a minor in trafficking. The state said it has been working since 2021 to get clarification on how to best get FBI approval to conduct background checks. Andrea Brown, spokeswoman for the state Regulation and Licensing Department, wrote in an email her agency’s attorney first reached out to the FBI that year requesting “language clarification.” The effort was unsuccessful, she said in a follow-up interview. She said the department’s Cannabis Control Division “also reached out to the [state] Department of Public Safety before the holidays for language input and to request that they [DPS] send it to the FBI for review.” The issue of ensuring proper criminal background checks are being conducted in the industry also came up during the 2023 legislative session when Lujan and Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell, introduced a bill to address the problem. However, the head of one of the state’s largest cannabis retailers said the background check issue has not resulted in major problems for the industry. “It hasn’t added up to any more problems unless we have somebody who used a minor to distribute or they embezzled or committed fraud. ... It’s not a nightmarish situation,” said Duke Rodriguez, president and CEO of New Mexico Top Organics-Ultra Health. Herman Lovato, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, said each state agency must ensure any legislative language created to obtain permission to run national criminal background checks adheres to federal law. Those agencies that get authorization may then “have access to federal criminal justice information” and run their own background checks, he said. He said it is possible some state agencies, like the Children, Youth and Families Department, may get approval to conduct federal background checks while others might not. Any agency that does not receive the FBI’s approval — including the Regulation and Licensing Department — cannot go through another state agency to try to conduct national background checks, he said. He said he could not say whether the fact that cannabis is still illegal on the federal level is playing a role in the situation. To date, New Mexico has approved about 1,600 recreational cannabis licenses, Brown said. But it’s possible more state criminal background checks have been run, because some of those businesses may have several owners or oversee several facilities.

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before reinvesting in Four Corners after 2016, when there were clear signs that coal is a costly and deadly fuel,” Matthew Gerhart, an attorney with the Sierra Club, said in a statement. The Attorney General’s Office argued during the rate case for a larger recovery disallowance, stating in a ﬁling with the commission a disallowance for “the full measure of harm” to ratepayers would have been about $240 million. Ellison on Wednesday called the commission’s decision on the Four Corners plant “a meaningful and measured remedy” for ratepayers. PNM’s decision a decade ago to invest nearly $150 million in life-extending capital expenditures for the Four Corners plant without a current cost-beneﬁt analysis was “unacceptable,” Ellison said. “I view this as a case that PNM was negligent in its decision-making process,” Ellison said. “At the same time, it’s not clear to me that an updated analysis would have changed the decision that they made.” Ellison said he believed the disallowance “sends the signal that we do expect major resource decisions to be taken seriously and for timely and thorough analysis to be done.” The commissioners also found the utility overcollected from customers for costs related to its energy generation leases at the Palo Verde Generating Station and subsequently required the company to return $38 million to ratepayers as a bill credit over the next two years.

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Attacks heighten fears of wider war for Mideast, U.S. By Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper and David E. Sanger

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — American, Israeli and Lebanese officials insist few parties want Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip to become a wider conﬂict that engulfs the Middle East. But the assassination of a top leader of Hamas in Lebanon on Tuesday, and the deaths of scores of people in mysterious twin explosions in Iran on Wednesday, threatened to bring the Middle East — and the United States — closer to the brink of a regional war, which the Biden administration has tried to stave off since Hamas’ deadly attacks against Israel on Oct. 7. Just hours after the bombs went off in Iran, the United States and 12 of its allies issued a written warning to another militia group in the region, the Houthis of Yemen, who have been mounting near-daily missile, drone and seaborne attacks on commercial vessels. So far the United States has held back from retaliating against Houthi bases in Yemen, in large part because it does not want to undermine a fragile truce in Yemen’s civil war. But now Biden officials are signaling that their patience is running out. “Let our message now be clear: We call for the immediate end of these illegal attacks and release of unlawfully detained vessels and crews,” White House officials said in a statement issued on Wednesday, a day after shipping giant Maersk announced it would pause operations in the Red Sea. “The Houthis,” the statement continued, “will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to

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A Hezbollah civil defense worker searches for human remains inside a burned car Wednesday near an apartment building where an Israeli strike a day earlier killed top Hamas political leader Saleh Arouri, in a southern suburb of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold.

threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways.” The warning — also signed by Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands — stopped short of threatening military strikes. Over the weekend, the U.S. Navy sank three Houthi boats, killing all the crew members, when they fired on U.S. helicopters coming to aid a Maersk cargo ship. On Monday, Iran’s navy announced the deployment of a flotilla of warships to the waterway. On the same day, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian of Iran expressed “gratitude and appreci-

ation” to a Houthi official visiting Tehran for the group’s support for Hamas, the government-run IRNA news agency reported. A senior Iranian official said dispatching the warships, which join an Iranian spy ship already in the region, was meant to signal that Iran is supporting the Houthis and to raise the stakes. But the official said Iran has no plans for the warships to engage in a confrontation with U.S. naval vessels in the waterway. President Joe Biden has said he wants to avoid direct military attacks on the Houthis to avoid escalating a Middle East conﬂict. “We remain incredibly concerned, as we have been from the outset of this

In Lebanon, Israel makes good on threat to hit Hamas’ leaders were killed in the strike. “There is a carrier there, we think we’re moving into a new hope it is enough,” said one of the mode, something closer to what Israeli officials, referring to the the U.S. has been advocating presence of a U.S. carrier group from the beginning.” in the eastern Mediterranean. Israel’s military has said for Nasrallah warned of “a months it is ready to fight a tworesponse and punishment” in front war, having massed troops a speech Wednesday, but gave and tanks along the Lebanese few clues about how his fighters border and evacuated at least would respond. 70,000 residents. IDF units have Israeli residents in the northern frequently exchanged fire with port city of Haifa were advised to Hezbollah, the Iranian-aligned have plans for sheltering during Lebanese militant group, yet the an attack. Military analysts said strikes and counterstrikes had the drawdown of troops in Gaza never approached Beirut — until would likely allow for more Tuesday. resources to go toward Lebanon. Israel declined to confirm or “We are highly prepared for deny any role in the assassination any scenario,” Israel Defense of Saleh Arouri, an exiled Hamas Forces spokesman Rear Adm. official who acted as a liaison Daniel Hagari said after Arouri’s with Iran and Hezbollah. But he killing. was on their list. On Tuesday in Eilon, a kibbutz “Without doubt, this was the one mile south of the Lebanese most significant assassination of border, Israeli artillery was any senior Hamas official since launched every few minutes the war began on October 7,” toward what the IDF said were Palestinian affairs expert Avi “terrorist targets.” Hezbollah Issacharoff wrote in the Yedioth antitank missiles were interAhronoth newspaper Wednesday. cepted — and sometimes fell — While Israel says it has killed a in the emptied villages. number of Hamas commanders Across the north, local secuand officials inside of Gaza, Yahya rity squads have been training Sinwar, believed to be the masfor what they believe is an termind of the Oct. 7 attacks, and impending war. Dotan Razili, a other top leaders, are still at large. resident of Eilon who is serving Lebanese and international as a reserve soldier there, said officials scrambled Wednesday to the evacuations have allowed the tamp down Hezbollah’s expected IDF to operate freely in the area, retaliation. To date, the group has firing from agricultural fields. resisted entreaties from Hamas “We are getting drawn into a to fully enter the war. Israeli offi- war we didn’t ask for,” he said. cials, speaking on the condition The assassination in Lebanon of anonymity because they were was widely hailed in Israel, not authorized to discuss the although some advocates for the matter publicly, said they were estimated 133 Israelis still held hoping Hezbollah leader Hasan captive in Gaza said they worried Nasrallah would show restraint that the attack would derail talks given that none of his officers for another hostage exchange. Continued from Page A-1

conflict, about the risk of the conflict spreading into other fronts,” Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, told reporters Wednesday. Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, has pledged that Tuesday’s killing of Saleh Arouri, the Hamas leader, in a Beirut suburb, would not pass without a response. A key ally to Hamas, Hezbollah exercises de facto control over Beirut’s southern suburbs where the explosion occurred and has been engaged in escalating clashes with Israeli forces for months. The circumstances surrounding the blasts at a memorial for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Kerman, Iran, were murkier. While Iran was quick to blame Israel, European and American officials said they doubted the Israelis conducted the strike: Most of their actions against Iran have been highly targeted, from taking out the chief architect of Iran’s nuclear program to blowing up specific nuclear and missile facilities. Three senior American officials and one senior European official said on Wednesday that the Islamic State group or another terrorist group was a possible perpetrator. While there is some intelligence that points to Islamic State involvement in the attack, the officials cautioned the assessment is preliminary and no final conclusions have been drawn. “It is entirely possible that one of the Israeli proxy groups let an attack get out of hand,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who writes often about Iran, said on Wednesday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, issued a statement on Wednesday blaming the attack on the

for most of last year, but were put on hold after Oct. 7, have made a return. On Saturday, crowds in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem chanted for new elections amid pent-up “The [government] is currently anger at Netanyahu, who is motivated by a sense of revenge,” widely blamed for failing to prevent the Hamas attacks and Carmit Palti-Katzir, whose has seen his support plummet in brother Elad is being held as a public polling. hostage, said in an interview on “We’re seeing a new phase, Israeli radio. “But I’m saying, people are coming back onto for God’s sake, there are living the streets,” said Gayil Talshir, people there.” a political scientist at Hebrew The IDF said last week it was University. “Now the people at pulling up to five brigades from the northern Gaza Strip, marking the front of the protests are the a potential shift from widespread families of hostages, the families of killed soldiers, the reservists.” bombing to more targeted Splits are increasingly visible raids by troops based outside the enclave. Yet Israeli officials have said repeatedly that the fighting was likely to continue for months. The sound of bombs and shelling echoed through the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis Wednesday, where eyewitnesses told The Washington Post that fighting remained as intense as ever. Ambulances raced back and forth throughout the day carrying the dead and wounded, according to Hussam Kurdieh, a displaced civilian from Gaza City who is sheltering at Nasser Hospital. “People here have grown accustomed to the grim spectacle of bombardment,” he said. “However, the daily struggle revolves more around securing food, water, and essential necessities.” In Israel, though, the war no longer feels so all-consuming, and citizens have begun to find room for broader political debates. On Monday, the country’s High Court reversed a vote by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to strip the court of key judicial review powers, a ruling celebrated by his critics as a win for Israeli democracy. And the anti-government protests that rocked the country

nation’s “malicious and criminal enemies,” but stopped short of naming any group or country. Khamenei vowed that Iran’s enemies should know that “this tragedy will have a strong response.” Two people familiar with Iran’s internal discussions said that the ayatollah had instructed Iranian military commanders to pursue “strategic patience” and avoid getting Iran into a direct military confrontation with the United States. Several American officials said it was too soon to predict whether any kind of wider war would erupt. Israel, the officials said, would not have struck Arouri without some belief that they could do so without escalating the conflict on the Lebanon border. But with the explosions, whatever the cause, coming so quickly after the assassination, there was little doubt that the risk of a spreading conflict was once more front of mind in the United States and Europe. Israeli officials would not comment on whether their forces had targeted Arouri, but Lebanese and American officials ascribed the attack to Israel. In the wake of the strike, Biden administration officials made plans to step up diplomatic efforts with officials in Lebanon as part of an effort to pressure Hezbollah not to escalate the conflict. In coming days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the Middle East, where containing potential escalation will be one of his foremost goals. “The chances of a regional war in the Middle East go up from 15% to as high as 30%,” said retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO commander. “Still relatively low, but higher than before, and certainly uncomfortably high.”

within the emergency war cabinet in which Netanyahu shares power with his political rival, former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, among others. Gantz, along with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, have declined to appear with Netanyahu at some recent news conferences. Both have expressed more openness to the ideas pushed by Biden for a postwar government in Gaza that relies on a restored Palestinian Authority, a notion that Netanyahu and the more extremist members of his coalition have dismissed. Gantz, whose popularity has soared, has said that politics and investigations into the failures of

Oct. 7 should wait until the war eases. As some troops withdraw from Gaza, political observers are watching closely for any sign that he might be ready to make a move. Gantz could trigger new elections by persuading ﬁve members of the coalition, many of whom have criticized Netanyahu, to join a no-conﬁdence vote. “The minute Gantz felt like he could leave the war cabinet, that snowball would start rolling,” Talshir said. “That is beginning to feel more possible as the situation in Gaza stabilizing.” “Of course,” she added, “if we have a second front with Hezbollah, it would all change again.”

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Johnson suggests he could use looming government funding deadline as leverage for hard-line policies

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Speaker holds firm on border Logging devouring By Valerie Gonzalez and Stephen Groves

EAGLE PASS, Texas — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border to demand hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden’s emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine. He expressed serious doubts about whether he would support a bipartisan compromise. The trip to Eagle Pass, Texas, came as the Senate engages in delicate negotiations in hopes of striking a deal on border policies that could unlock Senate GOP support for Biden’s $110 billion package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. security priorities. But Johnson, R-La., told The Associated Press during the border tour he was holding ﬁrmly to the policies of a bill passed by House Republicans in May without a single Democratic vote. The bill, HR 2, would revive many of the policies pursued by former President Donald Trump, build more of the border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum-seekers. Democrats called the legislation “cruel” and “anti-immigrant,” and Biden promised a veto. “If it looks like HR 2, we’ll talk about it,” Johnson said of any border legislation that emerges from the Senate. With the number of illegal crossings into the United States topping 10,000 on several days last month, Eagle Pass has been at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, his nearly $10 billion initiative that has tested the federal government’s authority over immigration and elevated the political ﬁght over the issue. The GOP House members touted their event as the largest congressional border trip ever.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, center left, and Texas Department of Public Safety Chief Steve McCraw, center right, lead a GOP tour of the Texas-Mexico border Wednesday in Eagle Pass, Texas.

They traveled in two large buses beneath an international bridge in Eagle Pass where just two weeks ago illegal crossings prompted a large federal response that included closing railroad traffic and creating a large field for processing migrants. By Wednesday, the field sat empty with only stakes in the ground and orange fencing. At a news conference, Johnson suggested he could use a looming government funding deadline as further leverage. “If President Biden wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national security, it better begin with defending America’s national security,” he said. Johnson added: “We want to get the border closed and secured first.” Biden has expressed willingness to make policy compromises as the historic number of migrants crossing the border is an increasing challenge for his 2024 reelection campaign. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House staff have been involved in the Senate negotiations. “We’ve got to do something,”

Biden told reporters Tuesday night. He said Congress should approve his national security proposal because it also includes money for managing the inﬂux of migrants. “They ought to give me the money I need to protect the border,” he said. Administration officials have criticized Johnson’s trip as a political ploy that will do little to solve the problem. White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Republicans were compromising national security by threatening to shut down the government and delaying approval of funding for additional border security. “When they’re at the border, they’re going to see the magnitude of the problem and why we have said now for about three decades, their broken immigration system is in desperate need of legislative reform,” Mayorkas told CNN on Wednesday. “So we are focused on the solutions, and we hope that they will return to Washington and focus on the solutions as well.” House Republicans also contend that Mayorkas’ management of the border has amounted to a dereliction of his duties and

Trump’s vows to deport millions undone by his record — and one family’s story By Adriana Gomez Licon The Associated Press

Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The U.S.-born child and her mother were forced to go to Mexico along with hundreds of thousands of other people. Their deportations were part of a U.S. government effort that was known in official papers and the media as “Operation Wetback.” The term “wetback,” which was used to describe Mexicans who swam or waded across the Rio Grande, is considered a racial slur. Donald Trump has lauded the Eisenhower-era raids without using their name since he ﬁrst ran for president and is now promising voters he would begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, exceeding the 1950s. He has escalated his verbal attacks on immigrants as he seeks a second term, telling supporters twice in recent weeks that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” People affected by “Operation Wetback” and historians on immigration argue Trump is using fragments of history and rhetoric for political reasons while discounting his own administration’s failures to carry out mass deportations, even as it separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border and enacted sweeping restrictions on asylum. “Families were divided by misapplied immigration policies and discriminatory immigration policies speciﬁcally geared toward Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, Latinos,” said Joaquin Sanchez, Noelia’s son, who is now an immigration attorney in Chicago. “These are the types of policies that my family has witnessed for generations.” “Operation Wetback” coincided with a guest worker program that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of largely Mexican farmworkers. Noelia Sanchez, who was born in Missouri, and her mother were able

vegetation and are required to replant the land or demonstrate that the forest will naturally OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada regenerate. has long promoted itself globally But, scientists say, without the as a model for protecting one of thick bark of older trees, younger the country’s most vital natural trees are more vulnerable to resources: the world’s largest wildfire, and logging companies swath of boreal forest, which is typically replant species more crucial to fighting climate change. suitable for the timber industry But a new study using nearly rather than those resistant to fire. a half-century of data from the “The Canadian government provinces of Ontario and Quebec claims to have managed the forest — two of the country’s main according to the principles of commercial logging regions — sustainable forest management,” reveals that harvesting trees has said Brendan Mackey, the study’s inflicted severe damage on the lead author and a professor and boreal forest that will be difficult director of a climate research to reverse. group at Griffith University in Researchers led by a group Brisbane, Australia. “But its notion from Griffith University in Austra- of sustainability is really tied to lia found that since 1976, logging maintaining and maximizing in the two provinces has caused wood production and ensuring the removal of 35.4 million acres of the regeneration of commercially boreal forest, an area roughly the desirable trees. That has a lot of size of New York state. implications for biodiversity.” While nearly 56 million acres Canadian officials did not of well-established trees at least a directly address questions about century old remain in the region, the study’s findings, providing logging has shattered this forest, only a written statement broadly leaving behind a patchwork of citing the country’s efforts to isolated stands of trees that has preserve the boreal forest. created a landscape less able to That policy focuses on “consupport wildlife, according to servation, recreation, habitat, the study. And it has made the water quality, economic developland more susceptible to wildfire, ment and the relationship Indigscientists say. enous peoples have with the land Though Canada claims to and forests,” said the statement hold logging companies to high from Carolyn Svonkin, a spokesstandards, scientists involved in person for Canada’s minister of the peer-reviewed study, which energy and natural resources. was published in the academic Peter Wood, a lecturer on forest journal Land, said their findresources management at the ings show the country allows University of British Columbia in unsustainable practices that have Vancouver, who was not involved deeply degraded the forest. in the study, called its findings Scientists not involved in the “shocking,” adding that they highstudy said it provides a groundlight “what is at stake as we focus breaking understanding about our logging on some of these what decades of commercial older and more intact areas.’’ logging have done to the boreal The enormous and ecologiforest, which refers to northern cally vital boreal forest extends woodlands made up mainly of through North America, northern evergreen trees. Europe and Siberia, but the largest portion is in Canada. “This is the first time that we have this kind of a clear view for Beyond being an important two of the largest provinces in natural habitat for many animals Canada,” said Christian Messier, and plants, the boreal forest a forest ecology professor at Uni- locks up huge amounts of cliversité du Québec à Montréal, mate-warming carbon dioxide. who was not involved in the The world’s boreal forests are study. “I think the approach, the estimated to collectively hold 703 methodology, was the most novel gigatons of carbon in trees and aspect of this paper.” soil. The world’s tropical forests, Under Canada’s forestry standards, logging companies can by comparison, store about 375 gigatons of carbon. clear vast areas of all trees and By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai

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Noelia Sanchez, center, and her mother, Aurora Sandoval, make tamales together at the family home last month in Chicago. When she was 1, Sanchez and her mother were forced to go to Mexico along with hundreds of thousands of other people.

to get their papers in about a year and return to settle in Chicago. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a military-style campaign in the summer of 1954 seeking to remove Mexican immigrants who were in the country illegally. The operation followed several other deportation efforts of the 1940s and 1950s. Scholars have challenged the 1 million arrests reported under that summer operation, saying they had included ﬁgures from previous years and that the number for that entire year was actually much smaller, about 250,000. The government relied on scare tactics to prompt people to self-deport so they could have another chance to return to the U.S. Experts have highlighted it was no coincidence the deportation drive happened as farmers were looking for guest workers under the Bracero program that began in the 1940s, aimed at allowing Mexican farmworkers to enter the country and work in the U.S. legally. The program excluded women and children, driving some families to enter the country illegally to remain together. Adam Goodman, a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote in his book The Deportation Machine that organizations such as the ACLU contacted immigration authorities in Chicago and ultimately advised immigrants who were in the coun-

try illegally to return to Mexico. Those groups sent a news release with a brochure to all newspapers in Illinois to give the deportation campaign more publicity. “It was a terror campaign that was designed to scare people from the country,” said UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández. “It was really a PR campaign designed to terrorize communities into self-deporting.” Trump often labels immigration as dangerous in his speeches, suggesting people crossing the border are criminals who are trying to invade the U.S. and bring diseases. Speaking in Ankeny, Iowa, in September, he said, “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” He invoked the same operation in 2015 when he was first running for president. But his administration did not deport millions during his fouryear presidency as he promised before and after becoming president. Just as in the 1950s, the U.S. government was limited in how many deportations it could carry out at one time. According to the Migration Policy Institute, the Trump administration deported about one-third as many immigrants in the country illegally from the interior during its first four fiscal years as the administration of President Barack Obama during the same time frame.

they are moving ahead with rare impeachment proceedings against a Cabinet member, with a first committee hearing on the matter scheduled for next week. Mayorkas told MSNBC he would cooperate with an inquiry. During parts of December, border crossings in Eagle Pass, as well as other locations, swamped the resources of Customs and Border Protection officials. Authorities closed cargo rail crossings in Eagle Pass and El Paso for five days and shut down border crossings in the Arizona city of Lukeville. Authorities say the numbers of migrants eased over the December holidays as part of a seasonal pattern. The border crossings are reopening, and arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico fell to about 2,500 on Monday, from more than 10,000 on several days in December, officials said. “We need to fix the border. There’s virtually unanimous agreement among Democrats and Republicans about that,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. He added: “Everyone’s going to have to give something to get this done.”

Border crossings to reopen today LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — A border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, authorities said, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant inﬂux. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was also reopening a pedestrian border crossing in San Diego on Thursday and resuming full operations at a bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, and a crossing in Nogales, Ariz. The moves reﬂect a drop in illegal crossings from December highs, authorities said. Troy Miller, acting CBP commissioner, said last month that crossings had reached “unprecedented” heights, topping 10,000 on several days. While remote, the Lukeville crossing is used to travel to Puerto Peñasco, or Rocky Point, a resort area on Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. The Associated Press

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Eeyou Istchee territory in Quebec, Canada, in 2022. The boreal forest is considered crucial because it locks up vast amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide in trees and soil.

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COMING SUN. 1/7/24 It’s a new year and everyone’s hoping for mucho prospero in the months ahead. To see what might be coming, we asked some of the city’s top realtors and builders and others what they see for Santa Fe’s future. We also asked one of last year’s favorite roomies, Chef Johnny Vee, for tips on entertaining at home. Which he gladly oﬀered up. In addition, this month’s favorite roomer is artist Joanne LeFrak, who, ironically, unlike Chef Johnny, spends most of her me-time in her kitchen. (Go ﬁgure.) Elsewhere, Saguna Severson talks with La Fonda ambassador and woman about town Jenny Kimball, and Ylise Kessler takes stock of AI in art. And this month’s cover home is . . . just . . . well, beyond.

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Group’s leader wins round in eviction battle at apartment complex residents say needs repairs By Nicholas Gilmore

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Monica Mendez chuckled as she read over a website promoting Las Lomas Apartments in Española. The complex, she read, “offers all the rewards and comforts of high-class living.” Living at Las Lomas since 2019, she has faced “one thing after another,” Mendez said — from broken promises to broken appliances to surprise fees. She has broken down and cried several times. Her apartment is ﬁlled with

duct tape. It’s stuck to the refrigerator and ﬂoors, holding together and hiding things that need to be ﬁxed. Mendez is a member of a recently formed tenants union with more than 20 residents at the complex. After a small legal victory for its leader last month — Santa Fe County Magistrate Morgan Wood dismissed an eviction case against Dylan Schwaegel on Dec. 21, citing “serious concerns” about utility charges and late fees — the group is setting its sights on more substantial demands in the

new year. Alianza Tenant Union, created in 2023, says a decline in quality at Las Lomas has been accompanied by steep increases in rent and other fees. Mendez notes a swimming pool and a weight room have been unavailable to residents for years, and a laundry room that had been closed has reopened — but only during weekday business hours. Requests for repairs and replacements in apartment units languish for months or years, she and other residents have said, and management has deemed work orders complete without making any improvements. “It’s just a shame those of us

who have been living here as long as we have, have not been treated with respect,” Mendez said. “It’s like we don’t matter.” Las Lomas manager Mary Lewis has declined to comment on the tenants union or its allegations and did not return recent phone calls seeking comment. In late October, the complex sought to evict residents from ﬁve units, including Schwaegel. Wood dismissed Schwaegel’s case without prejudice, noting the complex could reﬁle its eviction petition with more documentation. Schwaegel said in an interview he was “glad the judge saw

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ABOVE: Josh Quintana of Santa Fe takes his daughter, Aurora, 1, sledding Tuesday at the Big Tesuque trailhead. More snow is forecast for the area with a storm expected Thursday to dump 4 to 6 inches. More storms may follow through early next week. See the forecast on A-10.

Democrats again pushing to pass green amendment If approved, voters in November would have say on environmental measure By Scott Wyland

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Santa Fe seeking applicants for midtown board By Carina Julig

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The city of Santa Fe is seeking ﬁve members to serve on the new Midtown Metropolitan Redevelopment Commission. The volunteer commission will advise the city on the development and management of properties included in the Midtown Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency and may approve leases consistent with plans adopted by the City Council, according to city documents. Commissioners are appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council. The city is seeking applicants who have experience in “commercial property development, affordable housing development, community planning,

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A Santa Fe man has filed a lawsuit against the city after it denied his request to see emergency management plans for flooding and fire in the Upper Canyon Road neighborhood. Richard Ellenberg alleges in his lawsuit his request was denied because the city believes the information could put it at risk for terrorism, adding officials unlawfully cited an exception to the state Inspection of Public Records Act for sensitive information. Under the law, government agencies are exempt from releasing tactical response plans “which could reveal specific vulnerabilities, risk assessments or tactical emergency security procedures that could be used to facilitate the planning or execution of a terrorist attack.” Ellenberg, who lives in the Upper Canyon Road neighborhood and is an officer in the Canyon Neighborhood Association, submitted a detailed records request in May asking for the city’s policies and procedures for flood control, wildfire risk and other natural disaster management. He said he was driven to make the request due to concerns over how his neighborhood, which is downstream of the city’s two reservoirs, could be at risk of flood when they are near or at capacity. Records custodians provided him with some of the documents he requested in August but cited the IPRA terrorism exception for withholding others, according to the complaint. In an interview, Ellenberg said he doesn’t understand how that exemption applies to his request. “If they’ve got plans for someone launching missiles at the dam, I don’t need to know that,” he said. “I just want to know about natural disasters.” The complaint asks the judge to require the city to provide him with the documents and argues its interpretation of the exception is overly broad. “Informing home and store owners in the Santa Fe River Canyon about what they should do in case of flooding and fires and what the City is doing to prevent floods and fires is obviously a matter of the utmost public concern, and all or most of the information in these plans will be of no aid to any would-be terrorist,” the complaint said. Ellenberg said part of his desire to know about the plans is based on what he views as conflict of interest in the city’s water management — between the responsibility to store as much water as possible in the McClure and Nichols reservoirs and the responsibility to protect people

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RIGHT: Kambrie Johnson, 15, of Cedar Creek Lake, Texas, launches herself while sledding Tuesday.

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banking/financial services, and representing marginalized communities” and who reflect the diversity of Santa Fe, according to a news release. The commission will meet in person and/or on Zoom “as needed,” likely on a Karen Iverson monthly basis. The commissioners initially will be selected to serve staggered terms, with two serving three-year terms, two serving two-year terms and one serving a one-year term, the release said. After that, future commissioners will be appointed to five-year terms. Those interested can apply on the city’s Pri-

FIRST FRIDAY DRAWING IN THE GALLERIES New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 Beginning drawing lessons; basic materials provided or bring your own pencils; 5-7 p.m.; free admission; nmartmuseum. org/events.

ATALAYA STRING QUARTET First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., 505-982-8544 Music of Shostakovich and Haydn; 5:30 p.m., doors 5:15 p.m.;

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meGov portal at santafe.primegov.com/public/ committees. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 31. For more details, contact Lee Logston at 505955-6914 or lrlogston@santafenm.gov. The commission will be overseen by Karen Iverson, who was hired in November as director of the Midtown Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency. Iverson will be delivering a presentation hosted by the Urban Land Institute regarding the city’s plans for the midtown campus later in January. “The Future of Midtown Santa Fe” is scheduled from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at Sunset Terrace, 112 W. San Francisco St. The event is free but registration is required. Register online at tinyurl.com/ykrpbjtj.

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Saturday CHATTER NORTH Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Music of Prokofiev (Overture on Hebrew Themes, Opus 34), Samuel Carl Adams (Études), and Magnus Lindberg (Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano); 10:30 a.m., spoken word performance by Gigi Bella follows; $5-$17; chatterabq.org/boxoffice.

Some Democratic lawmakers hope their persistence in trying to push through a green amendment will pay off in the upcoming legislative session and allow voters to decide in November whether to make a clean, healthy environment a constitutional right in New Mexico. The sponsors of the proposed amendment think a fourth attempt at passage could see success, even if the 2024 session is only 30 days, creating a narrow funnel that allows only a fraction of competing bills and measures to pass. In the past three sessions, a green amendment stalled for various reasons, despite Democrats having a lopsided majority in both chambers. The measure has had strong Democratic backing — though far from absolute — and zero Republicans supporting it. Advocates say it will compel officials to enforce current laws and enable them to draw on constitutional authority when regulations don’t adequately cover speciﬁc threats to the environment or public health. Opponents argue it could lead to government overreach that would hurt the state’s industries — including oil and gas, agriculture, timber and mining — and the communities that depend on the jobs in those sectors. State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, one of the sponsors, said people need this additional leverage to prod state leaders — including lawmakers — into doing a better job

THE MET: LIVE IN HD Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., 505-988-1234 Verdi’s Nabucco, with baritone George Gagnidze and soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as his vengeful daughter; 11 a.m.; $22-$28; lensic.org.

PUBLIC GARDEN TOURS Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-471-9103 Weekly docent-guided walks through the Orchard Gardens, the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands ethnobotanical section, and the

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Piñon-Juniper Woodland; 1-2 p.m. Saturdays; adults $12, ages 7-17 $5.

Sunday SUNDAY FUNDAY Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, 505-476-1269 A first Sunday of the month series; this session: beading with a loom and other art activities; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; free to New Mexico residents.

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downstream from flooding. His request also asked about fire evacuation plans, which he said the neighborhood has been unsuccessfully trying to obtain for a number of years. “Part of emergency planning is you let everyone know what the plan is,” Ellenberg said. “Keeping all those plans secret doesn’t seem to advance that end. For all we know, they don’t have plans.” Ellenberg met with Mayor Alan Webber and a senior assistant city attorney to discuss his concerns, and said Webber appeared to be understanding. But after no progress was made on getting him the information, he decided to file the lawsuit. City Attorney Erin McSherry said the request could endanger the city’s water supply if all the documents had been released in full. “Do you want your water to be safe? Or to be full of toxins?” she asked rhetorically. Members of McSherry’s staff as well as employees from the public utilities department reviewed the documents in question, she said. “I wasn’t part of the redaction process, but this was a very careful review as to which parts would put the city at risk,” she said.

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through this pretty quickly and dismissed it right off the bat.” Still, he said many issues he and other residents have with Las Lomas management remain unresolved. Four tenants lost their eviction cases in November and December. The complex alleges they owe between $6,000 and $8,200 each, according to petitions, while Schwaegel owes just over $700. One of the evicted tenants was Mendez’s 28-year-old daughter, Anna Labadie. “I really couldn’t help her in the way I would have liked,” Mendez said. “During her hearing, I was there and I just felt so frustrated for her, because I couldn’t do anything, and she couldn’t represent herself the way she needed to.” Labadie — a home caregiver — hit hard times during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Mendez said, and again recently, when she lacked clients and could not make full rent payments. Mendez said she attempted to make a $1,500 payment on her daughter’s balance in recent months but the

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McClure Reservoir in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed in 2021. A Santa Fe resident is suing the city for access to emergency management plans for ﬂooding should one of the city’s two reservoirs overﬂow. The city denied some access, citing risk of terrorism.

She noted Ellenberg had ﬁled a similar request in 2020 and been provided with documents in that case as well. Ellenberg said the documents he received were “not at all responsive to the question.” Records requests that would put the city at risk are not common, McSherry said. She said city staff members cannot articulate in detail why it would be unsafe to release the relevant documents without giving

away too much information, adding the city likely will ask the judge for an in-camera review, a procedure in which a judge reviews sensitive documents to determine whether they should be made public. Melanie Majors, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, said after reviewing the lawsuit she did not believe the city was justiﬁed in withholding the information.

“It’s clear the exception the city cited doesn’t apply to these documents,” she said. Majors said she did not know if municipalities using this exemption to withhold public records is a frequent occurrence but noted a lack of compliance with open records laws is widespread in New Mexico. “If the city wants to be transparent and accountable, they should release these documents,” Majors said.

complex declined it. Schwaegel also said the complex’s management has been unwilling to work out payment plans with tenants and has refused to accept funds from housing aid programs to cover debts. “That suggests to me that their strategy is to try to force people out whenever they get the chance,” Schwaegel said. In response to an eviction filing in October, Debra Viera filed pages of email correspondence with Las Lomas’ management from recent years. Throughout the summer months of 2020 and 2021, Viera pleaded with the property manager — then employed by Premier Real Estate LLC — to replace her air conditioning unit, her emails show. She wrote she had waited for years, with assurances the unit would be replaced, while her rent continued to increase. “My apartment is unbearable with no air,” she wrote. “Stays over 90 degrees all through the night.” Schwaegel and other tenants have filed consumer complaints with the state Attorney General’s Office against the complex and its parent company, Cornerstone Residential. The residents have requested an investigation of the complex and California-based utility billing company Multifamily Utility Co. After the complex began using the billing company in July, Schwaegel’s utility charges more

than tripled each month, according to a ledger of his account at the complex, which he provided to the court. The Attorney General’s Office is reviewing the complaints, spokeswoman Lauren Rodriguez said. The right to organize tenants unions, enshrined in the New Mexico Uniform Owner Resident Relations Act, is not a new concept, said Cathy Garcia of the nonproﬁt Chainbreaker Collective. “This is a right that has always been on the books,” she said. “It’s just that no one ever thought we really needed to use it.” The Santa Fe-based group has helped establish organizing committees, or unions, at Las Palomas Apartments and the Country Club Gardens Mobile Home Park in Santa Fe in the last year, enabling residents to work together to address problems with a landlord, such as rent increases or maintenance. “It’s one thing to be able to show up to a City Council meeting with a sign, but the really hard part of organizing is sitting down and talking to your neighbor,” Garcia said. “Folks have to be able to trust each other to talk about what is a very challenging, vulnerable and sometimes humiliating thing, which is, ‘I don’t have enough money for rent,’ or ‘I have cockroaches in my apartment.’ ” The economic blows from the pandemic created “a new receptive audience” for the

group’s tenant organizing, Garcia said, which can be seen in local political results as well. She pointed to a Santa Fe City Council District 3 precinct where Chainbreaker has been active in recent years, saying its election turnout in November, when voters decided on an excise tax on sales of high-end homes, was 50 voters, compared to the 2009 municipal election turnout of five voters. In recent years, the portion of people in the U.S. who are “rent-burdened” — paying more than 30% of their income on housing — reached a majority for the first time in the last year, according to a January 2023 report from Moody’s Analytics. Since the end of a pandemic-related statewide moratorium on evictions in 2022, eviction filings have returned to, and even surpassed, pre-pandemic levels. Santa Fe County filings have continued to rise in recent months, even as cases have decreased statewide. The county saw at least 71 eviction filings in December, a 40% increase from the number of cases filed in December 2022 and 11% higher than the number filed in December 2019. Garcia said she is seeing more interest in political action on housing affordability and tenant rights. “That conversation being elevated more and more is also due to organizers, not just in the city or state, but nationwide,” she said.

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at protecting the environment. “Our Legislature is not doing right by our environment,” said Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque. One example is Texas, hardly a model of green stewardship, which requires companies to show they’re using the best pollution control technology when applying for permits. New Mexico has no such laws, Sedillo Lopez said. New Mexico could be the fourth state to adopt a green amendment, joining New York, Montana and Pennsylvania. Three other states have environmental provisions in their constitutions, but the green amendment differs in that it is placed in the bill of rights, giving citizens more leverage to sue governments for failing to protect the environment. This measure again will have Senate and House versions to double its chances of success. As with the past two attempts, about two dozen Democratic lawmakers are co-sponsoring it. As a proposed amendment, it won’t require Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s approval in order to be taken up in a 30-day session. If it passes both chambers, it will go before voters in the fall election, and not to the governor to sign or veto. Although the measure

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bypasses the governor, it would beneﬁt by having her support, Sedillo Lopez said. The Governor’s Office didn’t respond Wednesday to a request to comment on what Lujan Grisham thought of a green amendment. Sedillo Lopez said the governor’s staffers once told her she won’t get involved in legislation over which she has no control. In this case, the governor’s detachment is unfortunate, she said. Republican legislators contend giving people more power to sue would trigger a ﬂood of litigation, creating legal logjams in an already strained court system. “My issues are it getting tied up in lawsuits,” Rep. Stefani Lord, R-Sandia Park, said at a legislative Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee hearing in December. “I feel it’s taking away what we’re trying to do for our people to legislate and handing it over just to the judges and lawyers.” Lord said she also was concerned with letting voters decide on whether to amend the constitution when she alleged many are likely to base their choice on what they saw in a political commercial. One Democratic lawmaker on the committee echoed GOP concerns about litigation preempting the Legislature’s power under the amendment.

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Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, left, speaks to about 30 people in support of a green amendment for New Mexico during the 2022 legislative session outside the Capitol on Environment Day. Democrats have failed to pass the environmental measure in the past three sessions but plan to bring it forward again in 2024.

TAKEAWAYS u State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez and some other Democratic lawmakers are again sponsoring a green amendment that would make having a clean, healthy environment a constitutional right in New Mexico. u If a proposed amendment gets

through the Legislature, it would be put in front of voters in November to decide, rather than going to the governor to approve or veto. u The provision would go into the state’s bill of rights, giving residents more power to sue the government for failing to protect the environment. It has stalled in three previous legislative sessions.

“We have the potential as policy makers to have that role taken away from us ... through litigation, where we would be directed, not by our constituents necessarily, but by courts in this state in the name of enforcing this provision,” said Rep. Christine Chandler, D-Los Alamos. Chandler said she, like most everyone else, wants to safeguard the environment, but she doesn’t think lawsuits are the preferred method to accomplish

that. Making it easier for people to sue the Legislature would be disruptive, she added. But Sedillo Lopez dismissed predictions a green amendment will spur willy-nilly litigation, contending some in the Legislature are afraid of losing authority and being held to account — all the more reason to pass the amendment, she said. “I don’t know why legislators are afraid of being told that they’re not doing their duty,” Sedillo Lopez said.

A woman walking on Interstate 25 was killed Tuesday evening near Santa Fe in a hit-and-run, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Denise Womack-Avila said emergency dispatchers received a call at 9:03 p.m. about the accident, which occurred just north of Eldorado on the southbound side of the interstate. The sheriff’s office did not release the identity of the woman. Deputies have not identiﬁed the car or driver involved. Womack-Avila said an investigation into the incident is ongoing. She encouraged anyone with information to contact the sheriff’s office at 505-428-3720.

Ariz. rancher rejects shooting plea deal NOGALES, Ariz. — A March 21 trial date was set Wednesday for an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border last year. George Alan Kelly rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors that would have reduced charges to one count of negligent homicide if he pleaded guilty, the Arizona Republic reported. Kelly’s trial in Santa Cruz County Superior Court is expected to last three weeks, the newspaper said. Kelly, 75, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea of Nogales, Mexico. Authorities said Kelly shot at a group of unarmed migrants who were walking through his nearly 170-acre cattle ranch in the Kino Springs area, and Cuen-Buitimea was among them. According to prosecutors, Kelly recklessly ﬁred an AK-47 riﬂe toward the migrants, who were about 100 yards away from him. But Kelly’s lawyer said her client shot into the air above the migrants, and he feared for his and his wife’s safety and the property. The other migrants weren’t injured and managed to escape

Cause of deadly house fire unknown BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. — The cause of a house fire in northwestern Arizona that left five children dead last month is still unknown and could take months to determine, authorities said Tuesday. Bullhead City police said the analysis of the fire debris is being conducted in a federal laboratory by chemists and electrical engineers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The father of four of the children left them and a young relative at home for about 21/2 hours on Dec. 16 so he could buy Christmas gifts and groceries returned to find the charred remains of the family’s home. Authorities haven’t released the man’s name and will not say if he is facing any charges in the fatal fire in a close-knit community near the Colorado River and the Nevada border.

RFK Jr. gains Utah access to ballot SALT LAKE CITY — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has filed to run as a 2024 presidential candidate in Utah after meeting the 1,000-signature requirement needed to appear on the ballot, marking the first state where the independent candidate and prominent anti-vaccine activist has qualified. Flanked by volunteers at a campaign event Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Kennedy announced he had filed for candidacy in the state that morning. Utah is the first state where his campaign submitted signatures and qualified for ballot access, campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear said. Kennedy criticized barriers to ballot access for candidates not backed by a major party, saying requirements in some states make it almost impossible to challenge the “chokehold” Republicans and Democrats have over politics. “This process is forcing us to build our army now,” he said. “And we’re going to have a better army on the street and in the trenches in November 2024.” Staff and wire reports

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS CLARENCE E. GALLEGOS December 6, 2023

Santa Fe - Clarence E. Gallegos, 61, lifelong resident of Santa Fe, passed away on December 6, 2023. Clarence was an outgoing, humorous individual who possessed a forgiving and generous nature. He was always willing to lend a helping hand to family, friends, and neighbors alike. He adored and spoiled all pets. After graduating from Santa Fe High, Clarence served several years with the National Guard. He then dedicated himself to public service as an officer with the SF Detention Center, Los Alamos Police Department, and ultimately retired as a Sergeant with the Santa Fe Police Department. Even after retirement, he continued to serve others by driving elderly citizens to appointments and errands and providing security at St. Vincent medical facilities. Clarence enjoyed traveling, fishing, and working on home remodeling projects. He loved driving his classic Camaro and restoring his truck. Clarence is survived by his son, Jeffrey, grandson, Isaiah. mother, Angie Yardis, and siblings Raymond, Lorraine Franklin (Jon), and Teri Gallegos Hoover (Robert). Additionally, he leaves behind nieces: Antoinette Candelaria, Stephanie Cortez, Alyssa Hoover, nephews: Raymond and Nicko, and many great nieces and nephews. His father, Clarence S., and grandparents, Eleanor & Carlos Ortega and Mary & Esequiel Gallegos, preceded him in death. Special appreciation to the caregivers that helped him and brought humor to his day: Issa, Mark, Diane, Angel and Cesar.Clarence will be deeply missed by all who knew him. Services will be held at 10am, Monday, January 8th at St. Anne Church. Clarence will then be laid to rest at Memorial Gardens. LLOYD JOHN QUINTANA

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Less trash-filled New Mexico takes all of us

bserving a politician doing something good, more or less secretly, is a boon in our cynical times. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, no shrinking violet, regularly picks up trash wherever she finds it and keeps trash bags in her state-issued vehicle so she’s prepared. We know this not because of a news release from the Governor’s Office. The New Mexican Editor Phill Casaus was waiting to get a table at Atrisco recently; he caught the guv red-handed. Lujan Grisham says she doesn’t merely want to set a quiet example. She plans to get behind cleaning up New Mexico this year, much like former Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican, did with his Toss no Más bike rides across the state in the 1990s. To both, it’s a nonpartisan issue, one that can be solved by changes to policy and improvements in personal behavior. Maybe the former governor can be wooed out of retirement to lead one more bike ride. This problem is big enough for everyone to get on board. And cheers to Lujan Grisham, often accused of loving the spotlight. Pressed on

the subject, she says she’s on a mission to create a less trashy New Mexico and plans to back it up with the support of state government. Good. This newspaper long has been a champion for clean, well-landscaped public spaces. That’s not because trash is the most important issue in the world, although it matters. What we believe is that a city strewn with trash; one with weeds evident in medians, yards and parks; one that can’t always efficiently handle emptying garbage cans in public spaces, is one that will fail at other tasks. The same holds true for the state as a whole. Riding down Interstate 25 or Interstate 40 and seeing trash blowing or dumped garbage leaves a bad impression — note we didn’t say wrong impression. It can be safely said that too many New Mexicans don’t mind leaving a trail of debris as they walk or drive through life. Visitors might help increase the mess, but it is the local disregard for our rivers, roads, parks, forests and neighborhoods that is truly shocking. The trash leaves this impres-

sion: Residents of a state who often brag about their connection to the land too often are careless and crass. A governor and her bully pulpit can change the game because creating a cleaner New Mexico is a solvable problem in the near term, unlike creating world peace or eliminating gun violence. Nevertheless, it’s a challenge. Just this week, walking past Kearny Elementary School in mid-Santa Fe, more than half a dozen miniature liquor bottles were tossed in the gutter in the street by the school. Unless they got picked up by a neighborhood good Samaritan, that was one of the first things kids going to school saw Wednesday. This scene is repeated all over Santa Fe and the state. We have written about solutions in the past. Better coordination among cities, counties and the state will be key. Six states have passed extended producer responsibility packing laws to require less packaging at the source, which in turn reduces trash. New Mexico could consider such measures in a long legislative session. Simple initiatives, such as putting out enough trash cans

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 4, 1924: Carl Magee, Albuquerque newspaper publisher, went to trial on a criminal libel charge yesterday afternoon in district court before Judge Holloman, with the number of ballots cast in the famous “scratched Santa Fe county ticket” looming as a big interrogation point. Jan. 4, 1949: WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — Rep. A.M. Fernandez (D-NM) has introduced a bill to give full state citizenship rights to residents of New Mexico’s Los Alamos atomic project. It was one of the first measures placed before Congress yesterday. Jan. 4, 1974: The first Indian woman ever chosen for the position of governor of a pueblo was elected here New Year Day. Betty Duran, the new governor and a life-long native of Pojoaque, heads an all female tribal council. Serving as the Lt. Governor will be Josie Romero, and as Secretary-Treasurer Ruby Gutierrez. Mrs. Duran has been on the tribal council since 1969. The lieutenant governor is also serving her first term and like the governor, has been involved with tribal government since 1969. Mrs. Duran was elected governor by a majority vote, defeating two other female candidates. Voting was restricted to male residents 18 years of age and over and female residents 21 years and over. Jan. 4, 1999: Tammy Jean Lange goes barreling south down N.M. 14 in a beat-up old pickup truck, her curly hair almost as wild as she is, and pulls up to the guardrail along her very own graveyard ghost town. From the highway motorists can see her plot of land — a glittering river of glass running through a miniature city built mostly of bones and other people’s trash. “If it ain’t dead or broken, I can’t use it,” Lange says. “I think I give whole new meaning to the word ‘recycled.’ ”

around town, plus ensuring private businesses have them — and regularly empty them — helps. Going to schools, scout groups, teen groups, clubs for kids and civic organizations will help raise awareness of the environmental degradation trash causes. But it’s also a message that must filter to the everyday actions of each New Mexico citizen, because littering — and picking up litter — is a matter of personal choice. Or, if you prefer, personal responsibility. It’s also an environmental issue, particularly dangerous in rural areas including the much-mistreated Caja del Rio. The state’s authority can help here by assisting counties with better trash management so people don’t feel compelled to dump old couches or fridges. Add free dumping days at landfills across the state and, eventually, higher fines for litterbugs. Again, coordination will be key. The bright spot: Cleaning up New Mexico is a problem we can solve. Perhaps not by having Gov. Lujan Grisham picking up one piece of trash at a time, but she’s hit upon a theme anyone can join — regardless of party, regardless of politics. Join in.

LE T TERS T O THE EDIT OR

Two letters a gift to readers

want to thank two people who whose letters to The New Mexican restored my faith in democracy, and made me grateful I live in a city with brave, caring and thoughtful people. First, Albert Reed (“Keep better watch on college president’s spending,” Letters to the Editor, Dec. 16), who I am sure spoke for many horriﬁed by the excessive spending at Western New Mexico State University. He then offered a plan to make the college work for New Mexico students, and not the thoroughly corrupted President Joe Shepard, Valerie Plame and their complicit friends. Second, Antonio Peru generously paid for the Concerned Citizens of New Mexico’s recent full-page open letter to Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Even though removing Donald Trump from the ballot isn’t being considered in New Mexico, it was so uplifting to read the letter and think we might join other states in securing democracy for the country. Both letters were like a gift. Elissa Heyman

Santa Fe

Shared anguish People of conscience everywhere are anguished about the suffering of the Israeli and Palestinian people. People whose conscience is skewed may feel anguish only for the suffering of one side in this bloody conﬂict. They may think the other side deserves it. The shocking barbarity of Hamas’ initial assault on the Israelis caused Netanyahu to overreact; many innocent Palestinian lives have since been lost in the blistering attacks Israel has imposed on Gaza. Many of the Israeli hostages taken Oct. 7 have been found dead. Hamas builds its headquarters under hospitals

and schools, then rages that Israel bombs hospitals and schools. The founding documents of both Hamas and Hezbollah state their purpose is to obliterate Israel, to obliterate the Jews. How does one split those inﬁnitives? Judy Mellow

Santa Fe

Alonzo Lopez

Santa Fe

Side by side In response to the request to print the Christmas messages from President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump side by side, here it is: Biden said, “May you ﬁnd peace in this silent night. And warmth from those surrounding you.” Trump’s Christmas post to his political opponents was, “May they rot in hell.” Nancy Nickell

Santa Fe

Forgive this year Being a Third Order Secular Franciscan and sinner, I have to often remind myself of an excerpt from the St. Francis of Assisi prayer, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love.” Sometimes seen as an opposite of love, hate is an intense negative emotional response toward certain people, things or ideas, usually related to opposition to something. Today’s world is full of love but also hate. The holidays can be joyful but also sad. The “prince of darkness” wants division and sadness. Therefore, wearing our armor and combat boots are necessary in ﬁghting the evil of hate that occurs in personal relationships, families, politics, etc. As difficult as it may be, a message for all of us is “to love the people who hate

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us and remember too, that if we hate in return, the one who suffers is us.” Forgiveness is divine. It is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. As for me, a New Year’s resolution for 2024 will be to forgive those who may have hurt me and, in return, ask for forgiveness if I have hurt them.

End of discussion There is one number that closes the case against the AES Rancho Viejo Solar project: a million gallons of water per year. In New Mexico, water is life. For those of us to struggle every day to conserve water, this is a slap in the face. Take the project somewhere else that has water to spare. Thanks to David Coulson for his article (“Solar energy project privatizes proﬁt and socializes risk,” My View, Dec. 30). Mark Friedman

Santa Fe

Fire warning About the AES solar energy project proposed for Rancho Viejo. I could have written the piece by David Coulson (“Solar energy project privatizes profit and socializes risk,” My View, Dec. 30). I agree with everything he wrote and would like to point out again the danger of fire so close to so many homes. Those batteries are a real risk for a devastating fire. I know what I am talking about. I worked for a solar company in New York City and am an engineer. There is a saying: “Don’t play with fire.” Don’t even think of installing this project. Roland Pabst

Santa Fe

lmost four years have passed since COVID-19 struck. In America, the pandemic killed well over 1 million people and left millions more with lingering health problems. Much of normal life came to a halt, partly because of official lockdowns but largely because fear of infection kept people home. The big question in the years that followed was whether America would ever fully recover from that shock. In 2023 we got the answer: yes. Our economy and society have, in fact, healed remarkably well. The big question is when, if ever, the public will be ready to accept the good news. In the short run, of course, the pandemic had severe economic and social effects, in many ways wider and deeper than almost anyone expected. Employment fell by 25 million in a matter of weeks. Huge government aid limited families’ financial hardship, but maintaining Americans’ purchasing power in the face of a disrupted economy meant that demand often exceeded supply, and the result was overstretched supply chains and a burst of inflation. At the same time, the pandemic reduced social interactions and left many people feeling isolated. The psychological toll is hard to measure, but the weakening of social ties contributed to a range of negative trends, including a surge in violent crime. It was easy to imagine that the pandemic experience would leave long-term scars — that long COVID and early retirements would leave us with a permanently reduced labor force, that getting inflation down would require years of high unemployment, that the crime surge heralded a sustained breakdown in public order. But none of that happened. You may have heard about the good economic news. Labor force participation — the share of adults in today’s workforce — is actually slightly higher than the Congressional Budget Office predicted before the pandemic. Measures of underlying inflation have fallen more or less back to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target even though unemployment is near a 50-year low. Adjusted for inflation, most workers’ wages have gone up. For some reason I’ve heard less about the crime news, but it’s also remarkably good. FBI data shows that violent crime has subsided: It’s already back to 2019 levels and appears to be falling further. Homicides probably aren’t quite back to 2019 levels, but they’re plummeting. None of this undoes the COVID death toll or the serious learning loss suffered by millions of students. But overall, both our economy and our society are in far better shape at this point than most people would have predicted in the early days of the pandemic — or than most Americans are willing to admit. For if America’s resilience in the face of the pandemic shock has been remarkable, so has the pessimism of the public. By now, anyone who writes about the economic situation has become accustomed to mail and social media posts (which often begin, “You moron”) insisting the official statistics on low unemployment and inflation are misleading if not outright lies. No, the consumer price index doesn’t ignore food and energy, although some analytical measures do; no, grocery prices aren’t still soaring. So whatever Americans may say to pollsters, they’re behaving as if they live in a prosperous, fairly safe (by historical standards) country — the country portrayed by official statistics, although not by opinion polls. (Disclaimer: Yes, we have vast inequality and social injustice. But this is no more true now than it was in earlier years, when Americans were far more optimistic.) The big question, of course, is whether grim narratives will prevail over relatively sunny reality in the 2024 election. There are hints in survey data that the good economic news is starting to break through, but I don’t know of any comparable hints on crime. In any case, what you need to know is that America responded remarkably well to the economic and social challenges of a deadly pandemic. By most measures, we’re a nation on the mend. Let’s hope we don’t lose our democracy before people realize that. Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times. SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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After Yuval Sharon became the artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater in 2020, the company renamed itself the Detroit Opera — perhaps the most visible among moves that have led to a remarkable streak of successes based on a new, ambitious approach. The house has placed itself at the center of operatic conversation with productions like a drive-thru Götterdämmerung and a virtual-reality Walküre. It has broken fundraising records, drawn ﬁrst-time ticket buyers by the thousands and collaborated more with companies elsewhere. Robert O’Hara’s staging of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Metropolitan Opera in November began life a year and a half earlier in Michigan; the Met asked Detroit if it could join the production, not the other way around. Sharon receives most of the plaudits for the rise in Detroit’s fortunes, but little of its advance would have been possible without the courage and acumen of Wayne Brown. One of the few Black leaders in the ﬁeld, Brown served as the Detroit Opera’s president and CEO from 2014 until he retired in 2023. “Wayne has always been wonderful to deal with,” said Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met. “One doesn’t think necessarily of Detroit as a center of opera production or creativity, but by hiring Yuval he has accomplished that. He has changed that impression of Detroit.” Brown, 75, is a veteran executive with almost half a century of varied experience, from stints

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at regional symphony orchestras to a spell from 1997 to 2014 as the director of music and opera at the National Endowment for the Arts. Even upon his retirement, his enthusiasm for the process of putting on a show remains infectious. “The fascination is about making sure that those connections can be made,” Brown said. “It’s not just about transaction; it’s about, how does one ﬁnd that sweet spot where the art and the audiences align?” Brown is widely admired in the ﬁeld for being a leader different from the norm, and one reluctant to take the spotlight. “He’s been a uniter of people,” said Deborah Borda, the former head of the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, who has known Brown since the 1970s. “He has a very quiet strength. He has a kind word for all, which is quite unusual in our business. I think he’s regarded as somewhat Solomonic.” Davóne Tines, a bass-baritone who was an artist-in-residence at the Detroit Opera in 2021 and 2022, said Brown’s support for creativity was an example, especially as “a young Black creator whose career began in arts administration.” “Someone in the position of the CEO or the top executive of an opera company, you may have presuppositions about what that sort of person might be,” Tines said. “He’s a man of incredible gravity and conducts himself with a dignity that’s very inspiring. It’s wonderful to see that balance with how genuinely curious he is.” Brown’s musical life began with learning the violin in fourth grade, and later the

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Study: Treatment showing promise against Alzheimer’s Drugs seep directly into brain to target plaque By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press

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Wayne Brown, who served as the Detroit Opera’s president and chief executive, transformed the venue.

cello. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he joined the men’s glee club, and was its president. “Increasingly, it became not just performance” that mattered, he said, “but performance with context, the whole notion of making it work.” Shortly before Brown graduated from college, the dean of the music school asked if he would be interested in a job with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which was looking for an assistant administrator. “I said sure,” he recalled. “I mean, I didn’t know what it was.” He was quickly promoted to assistant manager, and embarked on a career working for orchestras that later included tenures as executive director of the Springﬁeld Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts and, for a decade, the

Louisville Orchestra. Brown also brieﬂy worked as a producer for the Cultural Olympiad that took place during the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, a remit that included jazz, opera, chamber music and more. “Those were interesting opportunities,” he said, smiling. Borda recalled the tact with which Brown later convened the expert panels that advised the National Endowment for the Arts on its grants. “You had to go to Washington, D.C., for four days, you had to review literally a hundred applications, and listen to them, to do a good job,” she said. Brown made a burdensome process more meaningful. “When Wayne was there, I think he asked me almost every year, and I would go. After Wayne, I didn’t do it anymore.”

WASHINGTON — Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer’s drugs seep inside the brain faster — by temporarily breaching its protective shield. The novel experiment was a ﬁrst attempt in just three patients. But in spots in the brain where the new technology took aim, it enhanced removal of Alzheimer’s trademark brain-clogging plaque, researchers reported Wednesday. “Our goal is to give patients a head start,” by boosting some new Alzheimer’s treatments that take a long time to work, said Dr. Ali Rezai of West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, who led the study. At issue is what’s called the blood-brain barrier, a protective lining in blood vessels that prevents germs and other damaging substances from leaching into brain from the bloodstream. But it also can block drugs for Alzheimer’s, tumors and other neurologic diseases, requiring higher doses for longer periods for enough to reach their target inside the brain. Now scientists are using a technology called focused ultrasound to jiggle temporary openings in that shield. They inject microscopic bubbles into the bloodstream. Next, they beam sound waves through a helmetlike device to a precise brain area. The pulses of energy vibrate the microbubbles, which loosen gaps in the barrier enough for medications to slip in. Prior small studies have found the technology can safely poke tiny holes that seal in 48 hours. Now Rezai’s team has gone a step further — administering an Alzheimer’s drug at the same time.

Some new Alzheimer’s drugs, on the market or in the pipeline, promise to modestly slow worsening of the mind-robbing disease. They’re designed to clear away a sticky protein called beta-amyloid that builds up in certain brain regions. But they require IV infusions every few weeks for at least 18 months. “Why not try to clear the plaques within a few months?” Rezai said, his rationale for the proof-of-concept study. His team gave three patients with mild Alzheimer’s monthly doses of one such drug, Aduhelm, for six months. Right after each IV, researchers aimed the focused ultrasound on a speciﬁc amyloid-clogged part of each patient’s brain, opening the blood brain-barrier so more of that day’s dose might enter that spot. PET scans show patients’ amyloid levels before and after the six months of medication. There was about 32% greater plaque reduction in spots where the blood-brain barrier was breached compared to the same region on the brain’s opposite side, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. This pilot study is too tiny to draw any conclusions, cautioned Dr. Eliezer Masliah of the National Institute on Aging. Still, “it’s very exciting, compelling data,” added Masliah, who wasn’t involved with the research. “It opens the door for more extensive, larger studies deﬁnitely.” Rezai will begin another small test of a similar but better proven drug named Leqembi. Eventually large studies would be needed to tell if combining focused ultrasound with Alzheimer’s drugs makes a real difference for patients. Masliah said it’s also important to closely check whether speedier plaque reduction might increase the risk of a rare but worrisome side effect of these new drugs — bleeding and swelling in the brain.

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49ers have rare quartet of 1K-yard players; Dolphins, Lions could join ﬁfth-best total in franchise history. It is the second time he has eclipsed 2,000 yards from scrimmage after doing it with Carolina in 2019. He joins Erik Dickerson and Marshall Faulk as the only players to do it with two franchises. San Francisco also has a 4,000-yard passer, with Brock Purdy setting a franchise record with 4,280 — two more than Jeff Garcia’s total in 2000. Of the previous teams with four 1,000-yard players, only the Colts, Falcons and Oilers also had a 4,000yard passer. The Dolphins can join that group if rookie De’Von Achane gains 64 yards next week to join teammates Tyreek Hill, Raheem Mostert and Jaylen Waddle with at least 1,000. Tua Tagovailoa already has more than 4,000 yards passing. The Lions also have an outside shot at it but would

By Josh Dubow

The Associated Press

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Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy celebrates Monday after an overtime win over Alabama at the Rose Bowl semiﬁnal in Pasadena, Calif.

Michigan succeeding through scandal

The San Francisco 49ers and their deep group of playmakers accomplished a rare feat. They soon could have company from the Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions. Tight end George Kittle became the latest Niners player to eclipse 1,000 yards from scrimmage this season, joining Christian McCaffrey, Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel. That made San Francisco the sixth team ever to have four players hit that mark in one season, joining the 2020 Carolina Panthers, the 2004 Indianapolis Colts, 1995 Atlanta Falcons, 1990 Houston Oilers and 1989 Washington. McCaffrey leads the way with 2,023 yards for the

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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown scores a touchdown as Dallas Cowboys cornerback Stephon Gilmore tries to stop him during the second half of Saturday’s game in Arlington, Texas. The Cowboys won 20-19.

need rookie Sam LaPorta to get 136 yards to join Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery with at least 1,000 yards from scrimmage. Jared Goff already has hit the 4,000-yard mark in passing. Please see story on Page B-4

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‘Get the party started’ Trio of girls teams ranked among Class 2A girls basketball’s best give bracket added zest

Sign-stealing investigation hangs over Wolverines; QB says it masks work of players who ‘did things the right way’ By Eric Olson

The Associated Press

The sign-stealing scandal that has hung over Michigan’s season has overshadowed the work the team has put in to go unbeaten and reach the College Football Playoff championship game, quarterback J.J. McCarthy said Wednesday. Michigan plays Washington for the national title Monday in Houston as the NCAA continues to investigate allegations that the Wolverines, over three years extending into this season, had a staff member do in-person advance scouting against NCAA rules and used video equipment to pick off future opponents’ play-call signs from the sideline. Asked during a CFP media teleconference about the possibility of the NCAA ordering Michigan to vacate wins, McCarthy said it would be unfortunate for the players not to be recognized for what they’ve achieved. “But at the end of the day,” he said, “it’s not going to change the amount of accomplishment and the amount of pride for being on this football team and just everything that we accomplished because we know what we put in, we know the work that we’ve put in, and we know that we did things the right way as players.” Please see story on Page B-4

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Mesa Vista seniors Isabella Boies, left, and Kylie Torrez, right, battle for the ball with Peñasco’s Haylie Martinez during a game at last year’s Northern Rio Grande Tournament in Española. The two District 5-2A foes will likely face each other again at this year’s tournament, which begins today.

By James Barron

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o use in waiting for the ﬁreworks to come this weekend. Jesse Boies said to just get it started. Boies, the head girls basketball coach at Mesa Vista, knows he will run into the Peñasco Panthers at some point during the 74th Northern Rio Grande Tournament, which begins Thursday in Española Valley’s Edward Medina Gymnasium. He was just hoping it would be on Saturday, and hopefully for the tournament title.

Instead, the two District 5-2A foes are facing a semifinal showdown for the second straight year — provided the Lady Trojans beat No. 8 Escalante in their first-round game and Peñasco bests Mora in the 4-5 matchup. “We might as well get the party started,” Boies said. The girls side of this year’s bracket will have plenty of intrigue, as three of Class 2A’s top five teams, according to MaxPreps.com’s rankings, will be at the tournament. Mesa Vista sits at No. 2, while the Questa Wildcats are No. 4 and Peñasco fifth.

Add in Dulce, which sits in the seventh spot, and the NRG will likely live up to its reputation as the best small-school tournament in the state. Panthers head coach Mandy Montoya said that has been the case for the last several years. “It’s been Mesa Vista, but for a couple of years, it was Escalante,” Montoya said. “It was us and Escalante playing ﬁve times a year. The names just change and you can’t control that.” Peñasco and Mesa Vista look to continue their grudge match from last season, which saw the

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A teenage swimmer and his mother pose Dec. 22 at a park near their home about 40 miles north of Denver. Another teen accused the swimmer of slapping him on the butt in a locker room in 2021. Police investigated and dismissed the case in a matter of weeks, but the U.S. Center for SafeSport has had an investigation going for more than 20 months, which has cast a shadow over the teenager’s promising swimming future.

Watchdog’s wheels turn slowly 13-year-old’s promising swimming career in limbo after he is accused of slapping teammate on the backside in 2021 By Eddie Pells

The Associated Press

DENVER he email, addressed to the 13-year-old swimmer from the U.S. Center for SafeSport, came out of the blue. “Between approximately 2019 and 2022, you allegedly engaged in a pattern of behavior which constitutes Sexual Misconduct,” it read, with both ﬁnal words capitalized. That was in April 2022. It took three months for the

eighth grader to learn what the accusations were: A claim he had slapped another teammate on the butt in a locker room 10 months earlier, in June 2021. More than 20 months later, the case remains open, even after local police in the town 40 miles north of Denver investigated and dismissed it within weeks. Now 16 and a high school sophomore, the teen’s promising swimming career has been plunged into uncertainty by the temporary sanctions imposed by SafeSport — and the hard-to-escape taint

of presumed guilt as the case drags on. “Their allegations are entirely untrue,” said the teen, whom The Associated Press is not identifying because he is a minor. “So my reaction, when I heard them, I was thrown off and confused. And then I was upset.” The SafeSport Center was established in 2017 to investigate and punish abuse in Olympic sports in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar gymnastics molestation cases that revealed ﬂaws in the way U.S. sports leaders

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handled sex-abuse cases. The center’s mandate extends well beyond the Olympics, however, reaching into the grassroots level of more than four dozen sports. The teen swimmer’s situation illustrates the impact of

that broad authority as its overtaxed investigative team takes on cases that often don’t involve elite athletes in the Olympic system or even directly entail sexual abuse or misconduct. The teen’s mother says most

of the family’s questions to SafeSport have taken days or weeks to be answered. Many of the responses, she said, are the equivalent of a shrug — they don’t know, or they’ll get back. “I think the guilty-until-proven-innocent aspect is what bothPlease see story on Page B-3 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. CBSSN — Stony Brook at Northeastern 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Cleveland St. at Wright St. 5 p.m. PEACOCK — Penn St. at Michigan St. 7 p.m. CBSSN — UTEP at New Mexico St. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — North Texas at Wichita St. 7 p.m. ESPNU — E. Illinois at UT-Martin 7 p.m. PAC-12N — Oregon at Washington 7 p.m. PEACOCK — Minnesota at Michigan 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Colorado at Arizona 9 p.m. CBSSN — Saint Mary’s (Cal) at San Diego 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Utah at Arizona St. 9 p.m. PAC-12N — Oregon St. at Washington St.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL (BOY’S) 3:30 p.m. ESPNU — Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.) vs. La Lumiere (Ind.) IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 7 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: Sweden vs. Czech Republic, Semifinal, Gothenburg, Sweden 11:30 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: U.S. vs. Finland, Semifinal, Gothenburg, Sweden NBA 5:30 p.m. TNT — Milwaukee at San Antonio 8 p.m. TNT — Denver at Golden State NHL 5 p.m. ESPN — Pittsburgh at Boston

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 4 p.m. ACCN — Notre Dame at Pittsburgh 5 p.m. BTN — Michigan at Indiana 5 p.m. SECN — South Carolina at Florida 6 p.m. ACCN — Duke at Louisville 7 p.m. BTN — Nebraska at Wisconsin 7 p.m. SECN — Missouri at LSU

TENNIS 4 a.m. TENNIS — United Cup Quarterfinals; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong Kong-ATP Early Rounds 4 p.m. TENNIS — United Cup Quarterfinals; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong Kong-ATP Quarterfinals 4 a.m. Friday TENNIS — United Cup Quarterfinals; Brisbane-ATP/ WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong KongATP Quarterfinals

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11 11 5 4

5 5 11 12

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

y-Detroit Green Bay e-Chicago Minnesota

WEST

8 8 7 2

11 8 7 7

*-San Francisco x-L.A. Rams Seattle e-Arizona

5 8 9 9

12 9 8 4

PCT

0 0 0 0

.625 .500 .438 .313

0 0 0 0

.688 .688 .313 .250

8 8 9 14

.813 .688 .563 .500

6 8 9 11

NORTH

.563 .563 .563 .313

0 0 0 0

10 8 7 5

SOUTH

.688 .625 .375 .250

y-Kansas City e-Denver e-Las Vegas e-L.A. Chargers

New Orleans Tampa Bay Atlanta e-Carolina

PCT

0 0 0 0

9 9 9 5

13 11 9 8

WEST

PCT

0 0 0 0

.500 .500 .438 .125

PCT

0 0 0 0

.688 .500 .438 .438

4 7 8 12

0 0 0 0

PCT

.750 .563 .500 .250

482 430 251 233

354 377 357 277

473 382 287 335

358 343 305 334

471 423 239 319

HOME

AWAY

HOME

AWAY

HOME

AWAY

HOME

AWAY

HOME

AWAY

370 297 352 349

7-1-0 7-2-0 4-5-0 1-7-0

334 392 343 347

6-3-0 4-4-0 4-5-0 4-4-0

263 331 314 370

6-2-0 8-1-0 5-4-0 5-3-0

282 386 317 385

305 401 397 480

5-4-0 5-4-0 5-3-0 2-6-0

8-0-0 6-2-0 3-4-0 1-6-0

AFC

4-4-0 3-4-0 2-5-0 3-5-0

3-4-0 5-3-0 5-2-0 1-7-0

7-1-0 3-4-0 4-3-0 3-5-0

7-4-0 6-5-0 3-8-0 4-7-0

AFC

6-5-0 7-4-0 6-5-0 3-8-0

AFC

8-3-0 8-3-0 6-5-0 3-8-0

AFC

5-2-0 3-4-0 2-6-0 3-5-0

8-3-0 5-6-0 5-6-0 3-8-0

AFC

3-5-0 5-3-0 2-7-0 3-6-0

3-2-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 2-3-0

NFC

3-2-0 2-3-0 3-2-0 2-3-0

NFC

5-0-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 5-0-0

NFC

2-3-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

NFC

8-3-0 7-4-0 4-7-0 2-9-0

4-5-0 4-4-0 2-6-0 0-9-0

3-2-0 2-3-0 3-2-0 1-4-0

5-6-0 6-5-0 4-7-0 1-10-0

3-2-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 1-4-0

HOME

AWAY

AFC

NFC

DIV

375 341 362 332

471 383 343 310

5-2-0 4-3-0 5-3-0 2-6-0

277 357 382 434

HOME

5-2-0 5-3-0 5-3-0 2-5-0

6-3-0 4-5-0 2-6-0 5-3-0

AWAY

7-2-0 4-4-0 3-5-0 2-7-0

4-1-0 2-3-0 1-4-0 1-4-0

AFC

2-3-0 2-3-0 2-3-0 1-4-0

7-4-0 6-5-0 6-5-0 6-5-0

NFC

10-1-0 7-4-0 6-5-0 3-8-0

Milwaukee at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 8 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m. New York at Washington, 5 p.m. Utah at Phila., 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Houston, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

BOWL SCORES, SCHEDULE

Rose Bowl College Football Playoff Semiﬁnal Pasadena, Calif. No. 1 Michigan 27, No. 5 Alabama 20, OT Allstate Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff Semiﬁnal New Orleans No. 2 Washington 37, No. 3 Texas 31

PREP BASKETBALL BOYS

Santa Rosa 79, Springer 55

GIRLS

MONDAY, JAN. 8

Kirtland Central 80, St. Pius X 55 St. Michael’s 44, Capital 32

CFP National Championship Houston No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 2 Washington, 5:30 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NBA PCT

PCT

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

20 19 14 8 6

14 14 19 24 27

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

24 19 19 15 3

10 14 15 21 31

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

WESTERN CONFERENCE

SOUTHWEST

— 4½ 5 10 21

PCT

9 10 11 19 24

L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers Golden State

21 19 18 17 16

12 13 16 18 17

Phila. 110, Chicago 97 New Orleans 112, Brooklyn 85 Oklahoma City 127, Boston 123 Memphis 106, San Antonio 98 Charlotte 111, Sacramento 104 Golden State 121, Orlando 115

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

.706 .576 .559 .417 .088

PCT

24 23 24 16 9

TUESDAY’S GAMES

— ½ 5½ 11 13½

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

.588 .576 .424 .250 .182

14 15 15 23 28

PACIFIC

— 3 7½ 12 12½

PCT

21 20 17 11 5

.788 .697 .559 .429 .412

New Orleans Dallas Houston Memphis San Antonio

NORTHWEST

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES EAST

7 10 15 20 20

Cleveland 140, Washington 101 Indiana 142, Milwaukee 130 Atlanta 141, Oklahoma City 138 New Orleans 117, Minnesota 106 Toronto 116, Memphis 111 Houston 112, Brooklyn 101 New York 116, Chicago 100 Dallas 126, Portland 97

DIV

5-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-5-0

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m. Utah at Boston, 5 p.m. New York at Phila., 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m. Portland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Miami at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Orlando at Denver, 7 p.m. Detroit at Golden State, 8 p.m. Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m. Toronto at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

3-2-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at New Orleans, 11 a.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 2:25 p.m. Denver at Las Vegas, 2:25 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 2:25 p.m. L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 2:25 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 6:20 p.m.

26 23 19 15 14

DIV

L.A. Clippers 131, Phoenix 122 Utah 154, Detroit 148, OT Miami 110, L.A. Lakers 96 Orlando at Sacramento, late

SUNDAY’S GAMES

.600 .571 .531 .324 .152

.727 .697 .686 .457 .273

.636 .594 .529 .486 .485

— 1 2½ 9½ 15

— 1 1 9 15

— 1½ 3½ 5 5

Thursday Boys basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: first round, McCurdy vs. Mesa Vista, 10 a.m.; Mora vs. Peñasco, 1 p.m.; Pecos vs. Questa, 4 p.m.; Dulce vs. Escalante, 7 p.m. Horsemen Shootout at St. Michael’s: round robin, Española Valley vs. Abq. Bosque School, 5:30 p.m.; Crownpoint vs. St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. Panther Invitational at Jal: first round, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Loving, 3:45 p.m. Cuba Invitational: round robin, Coronado vs. Cuba, 6:30 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Pojoaque Valley vs. Portales, 7 p.m.; Farwell (Texas) vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 2:30 p.m. Rio Rancho at Capital, 7 p.m. Abq. Sandia Prep at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: first round, Mora vs. Peñasco, 8:30 a.m.; Pecos vs. Questa, 11:30 a.m.; Dulce vs. McCurdy, 2:30 p.m.; Escalante vs. Mesa Vista, 5:30 p.m. Panther Invitational at Jal: round robin, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Loving, 2 p.m. Cuba Invitational, round robin, Coronado vs. Cuba, 5 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Carlsbad vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 4 p.m.; Pojoaque Valley vs. Portales, 5:30 p.m. Santa Fe High at Abq. Atrisco Heritage Academy, 7 p.m. West Las Vegas at Abq. Sandia Prep, 6:30 p.m. Taos at Aztec, 7 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: semifinals, Pecos/Questa winner vs. Peñasco/Mora winner, 4 p.m.; McCurdy/Mesa Vista winner vs. Dulce/Escalante winner, 7 p.m.; Pecos/Questa loser vs. Peñasco/ Mora loser, 10 a.m.; McCurdy/Mesa Vista loser vs. Dulce/Escalante loser, 1 p.m. Horsemen Shootout at St. Michael’s: Española Valley vs. Crownpoint, 5:30 p.m.; Abq. Bosque School vs. St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. Panther Invitational at Jal: semifinal/ consolation, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. New Mexico Military Institute/Eunice, 3:45 p.m.(semifinal)/2 p.m.(consolation)

Saturday Boys basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: championship, 7 p.m.; third place, 4 p.m.; fifth place, 1 p.m.; seventh place, 10 a.m. Horsemen Shootout at St. Michael’s: Abq. Bosque School vs. Crownpoint, 5:30 p.m.; Española Valley vs. St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. ATC at Panther Invitational at Jal: TBA Cuba Invitational: round robin, Coronado vs. Roy, 3:30 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Lovington vs. Pojoaque Valley, 2:45 p.m.; Las Vegas Robertson vs. Portales, 5:30 p.m. Clovis at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. West Las Vegas at Thoreau, 3 p.m. Girls basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: championship, 5:30 p.m.; third place, 2:30 p.m.; fifth place, 11:30 a.m.; seventh place, 8:30 a.m. Panther Invitational at Jal: round robin, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Eunice, 4 p.m. Cuba Invitational: round robin, Coronado vs. Roy, 2 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Carlsbad vs. Pojoaque Valley, 1 p.m.; Las Vegas Robertson vs. Portales, 4 p.m. West Las Vegas at Los Alamos, 2:30 p.m. Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital, Los Alamos, Española Valley, West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson at The Conflict at Cleveland (Rio Rancho Events Center), 9:30 a.m.

DIV

4-1-0 4-1-0 2-3-0 0-5-0

AWAY

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Boston Phila. New York Brooklyn Toronto

DIV

3-2-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 1-4-0

HOME

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 2:30 p.m. Houston at Indianapolis, 6:15 p.m.

ATLANTIC

DIV

3-2-0 3-2-0 4-1-0 0-5-0

e-Eliminated from playoffs x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division *-clinched home-ﬁeld advantage

EASTERN CONFERENCE

DIV

3-2-0 3-2-0 4-1-0 0-5-0

310 325 325 407

431 366 351 324

NFC

DIV

4-1-0 3-2-0 1-4-0 2-3-0

354 339 304 236

4-3-0 4-4-0 5-3-0 2-5-0

AFC

NFC

4-1-0 4-1-0 3-2-0 0-5-0

Subject to change. Check with schools regarding tickets and game times and dates. Send changes to sports@sfnewmexican.com.

Cuba Invitational: round robin, Coronado vs. Tohatchi, 3:30 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Pojoaque Valley vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 4 p.m. Wagon Mound at Tierra Encantada, 5 p.m. Belen at Los Alamos, 7 p.m. Taos vs. Bloomfield, 4 p.m. Girls basketball — Northern Rio Grande Tournament at Española Valley: semifinals, Mora/Peñasco winner vs. Escalante/Mesa Vista winner, 5:30 p.m.; McCurdy/Dulce winner vs. Pecos/Questa winner, 2:30 p.m.; consolation, Mora/Peñasco loser vs. Escalante/Mesa Vista loser, 11:30 a.m.; McCurdy/Dulce loser vs. Pecos/Questa loser, 8:30 a.m. Panther Invitational at Jal: round robin, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Jal, 5:30 p.m. Cuba Invitational: Bloomfield vs. Coronado, 2 p.m. Portales Shootout at Portales: round robin, Las Vegas Robertson vs. Pojoaque Valley, 2:30 p.m. Abq. Bosque School at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 6 p.m. Los Alamos at Belen, 6:30 p.m. Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital, Los Alamos, Española Valley, West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson at The Conflict at Cleveland (Rio Rancho Events Center), 10 a.m.

Adelphi 84, S. New Hampshire 81 Albright 66, Messiah 65 Alvernia 82, York (Pa.) 76, OT American 75, Lehigh 66 American International 67, St. Rose 66 Baruch 89, Brooklyn College 52 Bentley 80, Assumption 64 Bloomﬁeld 103, Dominican (NY) 96 Brandeis 76, Regis College 59 Bridgewater (Mass.) 96, Salem St. 82 Bryn Athyn 82, Rosemont 62 Bucknell 70, Holy Cross 58 Cabrini 87, Centenary (NJ) 62 Catholic 105, Lycoming 68 Clark 66, Babson 52 Clarks Summit 72, Notre Dame of Maryland Gators 66 Colgate 78, Loyola (Md.) 55 Daemen 71, Post (Conn.) 55 DeSales 69, Arcadia 50 East Stroudsburg 93, Edinboro 84 Eastern 80, Stevenson 74 Emory 86, Christopher Newport 70 Farmingdale St. 90, Merchant Marine 69 Felician 105, Bridgeport 85 Fordham 119, George Washington 113, 3OT Gannon 116, Mansﬁeld 75 Geneva 79, Westminster (Pa.) 66 George Mason 77, La Salle 62 Goldey-Beacom 79, Chestnut Hill 74 Goucher 62, Wilkes 61 Grove City 81, Washington & Jefferson 68 Hood 95, Widener 70 Hunter 82, Medgar Evers 68 Indiana (Pa.) 78, Shepherd 48 John Jay 69, York College (NY) 66 Juniata 72, Moravian 55 Keene St. 85, Castleton 72 Keystone 90, Cairn 84 Kings (Pa.) 80, FDU-Florham 72 La Roche 83, Wells 73 Lafayette 52, Army 47 Lancaster Bible 86, Haverford 69 Lehman 79, City College (NY) 70, OT Lock Haven 66, Clarion 65 Marymount 74, Immaculata 72 Mass. College 76, Fitchburg St. 71 Mercy 81, Cheyney Wolves 65 Mercyhurst 100, Bloomsburg 55 Millersville 78, Seton Hill 71 Misericordia 99, Delaware Valley 75 Mount Aloysius 81, Carlow 78 Navy 62, Boston U. 60

Neumann 80, Gwynedd-Mercy 78 New England Coll. 60, Eastern Nazarene 59 Norwich 82, Plymouth St. 81 Pace 67, Franklin Pierce 66, OT Penn St.-Abington 71, St. Joseph’s (NY) 67 Penn St.-Harrisburg 80, Muhlenberg 74 Penn State-Altoona 93, Alfred St. 85 Pitt.-Bradford 79, Penn State-Erie 64 Pitt.-Greensburg 75, Hilbert 67 Pitt.-Johnstown 94, Shippensburg 77 Rhode Island 78, Saint Joseph’s 74 Rowan 91, Swarthmore 86, OT Rutgers-Camden 122, Penn St.-Berks 78 S. Connecticut 86, St. Anselm 75 S. Maine 68, Mass.-Boston 60 SUNY Maritime 67, Mount St. Mary 53 Salisbury 62, St. Mary’s (Md.) 60 Salve Regina 85, MIT 73 Scranton 79, Elizabethtown 70 Seton Hall 61, Providence 57 Slippery Rock 97, Kutztown 77 Springﬁeld 71, Wheaton 61 St. Michael’s 78, New Haven 73 St. Vincent 86, Allegheny 74 Stevens Tech 70, Lebanon Valley 65 Thiel 90, Bethany (WV) 81 UMass 80, Duquesne 61 Villanova 66, Xavier 65 Virginia-Wise 99, Mars Hill 86 Waynesburg 76, Franciscan 61 West Chester 100, California (Pa.) 97 Western Connecticut Wolves 79, E. Connecticut 58 Westﬁeld St. 116, Framingham St. 79 Wilmington (DC) 92, Holy Family 74 Worcester Tech 73, Coast Guard 54 Yale 86, Howard 78, OT

SOUTH

Belmont Abbey 78, King (Tenn.) 75 Catawba 92, Coker 89 Chowan 89, Barton 73 Columbus St. 91, Georgia College 77 Dayton 72, Davidson 59 ETSU 80, Mercer 69 Embry-Riddle (AZ) 82, Tampa 79 Florida Southern 93, Nova Southeastern 82 Florida St. 82, Georgia Tech 71 Francis Marion 103, Mount Olive 102, 3OT Georgia Southwestern 73, Flagler 67 Guilford 72, Bridgewater (Va.) 62 Hampden-Sydney 60, Ferrum 52 High Point 85, Radford 71 Lander 84, SC-Aiken 76 Limestone 74, Lenoir-Rhyne 69 Lincoln Memorial 83, Carson-Newman 64 Louisiana Tech 96, Dallas Christian 55 Lynn 83, Eckerd 82 Marshall 68, Louisiana-Monroe 57 Mary Baldwin 70, Brevard 69 Mary Washington 63, Franklin & Marshall 46 Methodist 71, William Peace 70 Miami 95, Clemson 82 Middle Tennessee 84, Reinhardt 47 NC Central 112, Truett 70 NC Wesleyan 72, S. Virginia 64 North Georgia 78, Clayton St. 71 North Greenville 82, Southern Wesleyan 71 Palm Beach Atlantic 75, Florida Tech 74 Piedmont International 80, Randolph 66 Presbyterian 68, Charleston Southern 61 Randolph Macon 87, E. Mennonite 45 Roanoke 77, Averett 59 Rollins 77, Barry 75 Samford 89, Chattanooga 74 St. Bonaventure 89, VCU 78 Tulane 84, Rice 59 Tusculum 72, Emory & Henry 65 UNC-Asheville 95, SC-Upstate 67 UNC-Greensboro 79, Furman 68 Uscb Sand Sharks 114, Augusta 112 Va. Wesleyan 70, Shenandoah 58 Virginia 77, Louisville 53 W. Carolina 80, The Citadel 71 Washington & Lee 88, Lynchburg 73 Wingate 78, Newberry 66 Winthrop 68, Longwood 60, OT Wofford 87, VMI 85, OT Young Harris 76, Erskine 72

MIDWEST

Anderson (Ind.) 92, Hanover 80 Augsburg 62, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 55 Augustana (Ill.) 67, Wheaton College (IL) 64 Bradley 86, Valparaiso 61 Capital 84, Wilmington (Ohio) 75 Carleton 81, Hamline 69 Carthage 84, North Park 82, OT Concordia (Ill.) 79, Lakeland 67 Concordia (Wis.) 75, Marian 74 Denison 73, Wabash 65 Dominican 66, Aurora 62 Dubuque 81, Wartburg 64 E. Washington 93, South Dakota 79 Edgewood 85, Illinois Tech 70 Elmhurst 76, Millikin 62 Emporia St. 100, Newman 73 Fontbonne 94, Westminster (Mo.) 81 Franklin 64, Rose-Hulman 61 Gustavus Adolphus 88, Concordia (Moor.) 82 Ill.-Springﬁeld 79, Drury 75 Illinois College 80, Beloit 67 Indiana St. 87, Evansville 73 Indianapolis 86, Truman St. 48 John Carroll 86, Heidelberg 78 Knox 85, Lake Forest 78 Lewis 96, Missouri S&T 74 Loyola Chicago 80, Saint Louis 73 Manchester 87, Deﬁance 67

Marietta 88, Muskingum 82 Milwaukee Engineering 85, Rockford 64 Missouri-St. Louis 70, Maryville (Mo.) 62 Monmouth (Ill.) 72, Lawrence 53 Montana 96, N. Dakota St. 86 Mount St. Joseph 87, Bluffton 67 Mount Union 70, Baldwin Wallace 56 N. Colorado 97, North Dakota 87 N. Iowa 64, Missouri St. 62 NC State 54, Notre Dame 52 Nebraska 86, Indiana 70 Nebraska Wesleyan 97, Simpson 62 North Central College 68, Carroll (Wis.) 57 Oberlin 81, Hiram 59 Ohio Northern 81, Otterbein 67 Ohio St. 76, Rutgers 72 Ohio Wesleyan 66, DePauw 61 Omaha 81, N. Arizona 55 Rockhurst 80, Quincy 66 St. John’s (Minn.) 89, St. Olaf 74 St. Norbert 83, Wis. Lutheran 76 Transylvania 80, Earlham 57 Upper Iowa 97, McKendree 83 William Jewell 89, Southwest Baptist 74 Wis.-Platteville 74, Wis.-Eau Claire 69 Wis.-River Falls 71, Wis.-La Crosse 62 Wis.-Whitewater 62, Wis.-Oshkosh 53 Wooster 79, Kenyon 65

SPORTS BETTING LINE NFL SATURDAY FAVORITE

OPEN

Pittsburgh Houston

TODAY

4 1½

SUNDAY

FAVORITE

OPEN

at NEW ORLEANS at CINCINNATI at DETROIT Jacksonville Tampa Bay at NEW ENGLAND Seattle at GREEN BAY at L.A. CHARGERS Philadelphia at LAS VEGAS at SAN FRANCISCO Dallas Buffalo

O/U

4 1½

TODAY

3½ 3½ 3½ 3 4 1½ 3 2½ 3 7 2½ 3 13 3

UNDERDOG

(35½) (47½)

at BALTIMORE at INDIANAPOLIS

O/U

3 7 3½ 5½ 4½ 1½ 2½ 3 3½ 5½ 2½ 4 13½ 3

UNDERDOG

(42½) (37½) (45½) (39½) (37½) (30½) (47½) (44½) (35) (41½) (38½) (41½) (46½) (49½)

Atlanta Cleveland Minnesota at TENNESSEE at CAROLINA N.Y. Jets at ARIZONA Chicago Kansas City at N.Y. GIANTS Denver L.A. Rams at WASHINGTON at MIAMI

O/U

UNDERDOG

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MONDAY CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HOUSTON FAVORITE

OPEN

Michigan

4½

TODAY

4½

(55½)

Washington

NBA THURSDAY FAVORITE

LINE

Milwaukee Denver

O/U

9 3

UNDERDOG

(249½) (234½)

at SAN ANTONIO at GOLDEN STATE

COLLEGE BASKETBALL THURSDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at SACRED HEART SFA at BELLARMINE at FGCU at NORTHEASTERN at MICHIGAN STATE at SOUTH FLORIDA Cent. Conn. St. at NORTHERN KENTUCKY at HOFSTRA at WILLIAM & MARY Campbell at MOREHEAD STATE Towson Lipscomb at STETSON at DELAWARE at ROBERT MORRIS Green Bay at OAKLAND at MERRIMACK at TROY at WRIGHT STATE at DREXEL Wagner at UTAH VALLEY at TARLETON STATE Appalachian State at LITTLE ROCK James Madison at SOUTHERN MISS Memphis at TEXAS STATE at ARKANSAS STATE at WESTERN ILLINOIS Tennessee State Grand Canyon at UT MARTIN at NEW MEXICO STATE at MICHIGAN at WASHINGTON at WICHITA STATE at GONZAGA at ARIZONA at UC RIVERSIDE San Francisco at UCSB at UC IRVINE Hawaii Long Beach State at SEATTLE U Saint Mary’s (CA) at WASHINGTON STATE at LOYOLA MARYMOUNT Utah

8½ 8½ 2½ 4½ 6½ 13½ 5½ 6½ 1½ 2½ 2½ 2½ 11½ 2½ 1½ 6½ 13½ 9½ 4½ 7½ 7½ 4½ 5½ 1½ 5½ 2½ 5½ 3½ 3½ 5½ 2½ 9½ 9½ 10½ 7½ 2½ 9½ 9½ 1½ 6½ 4½ 1½ 20½ 10½ 1½ 19½ 4½ 11½ 4½ 8½ 10½ 14½ 11½ 1½ 5½

UNDERDOG

Saint Francis (PA) at UT RIO GRANDE VALLEY Austin Peay Jacksonville Stony Brook Penn State Temple at STONEHILL Youngstown State Charleston (SC) Elon at N.C. A&T Tennessee Tech at MONMOUTH at EASTERN KENTUCKY North Florida Hampton IUPUI at DETROIT MERCY Milwaukee Fairleigh Dickinson Old Dominion Cleveland State UNC Wilmington at LIU Cal Baptist UT Arlington at SOUTH ALABAMA SIU-Edwardsville at LOUISIANA Georgia State at TULSA Coastal Carolina Georgia Southern Southeast Missouri State at SOUTHERN INDIANA at SOUTHERN UTAH Eastern Illinois UTEP Minnesota Oregon North Texas Pepperdine Colorado UC Davis at PACIFIC UCSD CSU Fullerton at CSU BAKERSFIELD at CAL POLY Utah Tech at SAN DIEGO Oregon State Santa Clara at ARIZONA STATE

NHL THURSDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at N.Y. RANGERS at BOSTON Buffalo at PHILADELPHIA Vancouver at DALLAS Tampa Bay at NASHVILLE New York at SEATTLE at VEGAS at LOS ANGELES Winnipeg

UNDERDOG

-400 -152 -134 -194 -137 -128 -140 -122 OFF -125 OFF -192 -245

Chicago Pittsburgh at MONTREAL Columbus at ST. LOUIS Colorado at MINNESOTA Calgary at ARIZONA Ottawa Florida Detroit at SAN JOSE

LINE

+310 +126 +112 +160 +114 +106 +116 +102 OFF +104 OFF +158 +198

SOUTHWEST

Cent. Arkansas 120, Champion Christian 54 Oklahoma St. 72, Chicago St. 53

FAR WEST

Denver 95, Idaho St. 82, OT Oral Roberts 82, Montana St. 76 Point Loma 68, Fresno Paciﬁc 60 Sacramento St. 67, UMKC 64 San Diego St. 74, Fresno St. 47 Southern Cal 82, California 74 St. Thomas (MN) 75, Idaho 67 Stanford 59, UCLA 53 Weber St. 75, S. Dakota St. 73 Whittier 83, La Verne 74

WOMEN WEDNESDAY’S SCORES EAST

American 68, Lehigh 65 Boston U. 62, Navy 51 Colgate 73, Loyola (Md.) 65 Fordham 65, St. Bonaventure 57 Holy Cross 69, Bucknell 54 Kent St. 73, Buffalo 64 Lafayette 68, Army 42 Md.-Eastern Shore 99, Lancaster Bible 37 Providence 72, DePaul 65 Saint Joseph’s 67, George Washington 47 St. John’s 57, Marquette 56 Villanova 50, Seton Hall 45 West Virginia 68, Cincinnati 53

SOUTH

Charleston Southern 61, Presbyterian 57 Charlotte 66, South Florida 61, OT Chattanooga 65, NC Central 59 Coastal Carolina 88, Southern Miss. 71 Morgan St. 68, CCSU 65 Oklahoma St. 68, UCF 61 Radford 65, High Point 61 Richmond 72, VCU 65 SC-Upstate 71, UNC-Asheville 44 UAB 65, Memphis 63 Winthrop 58, Longwood 53

MIDWEST

Ball St. 78, W. Michigan 56 Bowling Green 65, Cent. Michigan 64 E. Michigan 67, N. Illinois 49 Georgetown 60, Butler 55 Iowa St. 69, Kansas 61 Kansas St. 72, Houston 38 Loyola Chicago 74, Saint Louis 72 Maryland 72, Minnesota 64 Ohio 67, Akron 58 St. Thomas (MN) 70, Sacramento St. 52 Toledo 70, Miami (Ohio) 52 UConn 94, Creighton 50 UMKC 75, Portland St. 56 Youngstown St. 70, Oakland 63

SOUTHWEST

Baylor 71, TCU 50 Oral Roberts 81, N. Colorado 80, OT Rice 76, Wichita St. 64 Texas 74, Texas Tech 47 Texas A&M-CC 73, Houston Christian 49

FAR WEST

Air Force 71, San Diego St. 63, OT E. Washington 96, Omaha 82 Fresno St. 70, San Jose St. 67 Idaho 60, Denver 51 Montana 74, South Dakota 61 Montana St. 65, N. Dakota St. 45 Nevada 58, Boise St. 57 North Dakota 78, Idaho St. 72 Oklahoma 75, BYU 63 S. Dakota St. 110, N. Arizona 102, 2OT Wyoming 54, Utah St. 48

TENNIS WTA ASB CLASSIC THURSDAY

At ASB Tennis Centre Auckland, New Zealand Purse: $267,082 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND: Results Thursday from ASB Classic at ASB Tennis Centre (seedings in parentheses):

WOMEN’S SINGLES ROUND OF 16

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Petra Martic (7), Croatia, def. Yuan Yue, China, 6-2, 6-2. Coco Gauff (1), United States, def. Brenda Fruhvirtova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0. Varvara Gracheva (8), Russia, def. Lulu Sun, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-4.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Florida Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

36 23 7 37 23 12 36 19 10 39 18 16 38 18 16 37 16 16 38 15 19 33 14 19

6 2 7 5 4 5 4 0

52 118 92 48 111 94 45 129 119 41 127 135 40 137 131 37 106 128 34 111 132 28 114 118

36 25 10 1 38 21 13 4 37 17 10 10 37 19 13 5 36 20 14 2 36 18 12 6 36 18 14 4 39 12 19 8

51 122 101 46 130 118 44 114 124 43 111 104 42 127 128 42 88 108 40 110 97 32 120 144

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

N.Y. Rangers Carolina N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia New Jersey Washington Pittsburgh Columbus

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Colorado Winnipeg Dallas Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

38 36 36 38 36 36 36 37

24 23 22 21 19 18 16 11

L OT PTS

11 9 10 16 15 17 16 24

3 4 4 1 2 1 4 2

51 50 48 43 40 37 36 24

L OT PTS

GF GA

139 121 131 119 111 105 111 87

115 90 111 116 103 118 116 140

GF GA

Vancouver 37 24 10 3 51 142 96 Vegas 38 22 11 5 49 127 106 Los Angeles 34 20 9 5 45 116 83 Edmonton 35 19 15 1 39 128 112 Seattle 38 15 14 9 39 102 114 Calgary 37 16 16 5 37 110 121 Anaheim 37 13 23 1 27 94 124 San Jose 38 9 26 3 21 78 158 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Boston 4, Columbus 1 Carolina 6, N.Y. Rangers 1 Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3 Winnipeg 4, Tampa Bay 2 Calgary 3, Minnesota 1 Nashville 3, Chicago 0 Montreal 4, Dallas 3 Edmonton 5, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, OT Florida 4, Arizona 1 Vancouver 6, Ottawa 3 Toronto 3, Los Angeles 0 Detroit 5, San Jose 3

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

New Jersey 6, Washington 3 Toronto 2, Anaheim 1, OT

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m. Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Boston, 5 p.m. Calgary at Nashville, 6 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Vancouver at St. Louis, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 7 p.m. Florida at Vegas, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Seattle, 8 p.m. Detroit at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m. Chicago at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Calgary at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Florida at Colorado, 2 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 5 p.m. Toronto at San Jose, 5 p.m. Vancouver at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 6 p.m. St. Louis at Carolina, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Vegas, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Lucas Giolito on a one-year contract with an option for 2025. Designated RHP Mauricio Llovera for assignment. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with LHP Justin Bruihl on a minor league contract. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Acquired LHP Bryan Hudson from L.A. Dodgers in exchange for LHP Justin Chambers and a player to be named or cash. Activated SS Brice Turang. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Named Ruben Niebla pitching coach, Ben Fritz bullpen coach, Tim Leiper third base coach/infield & base running instructor, David Macias first base coach/outfield & base running instructor, Victor Rodriguez hitting coach, Mike McCoy assistant hitting coach, Pat O’Sullivan assistant hitting coach, Brian Esposito catching coach & game strategy assistant, Ryan Barba major league field coordinator, Peter Summerville game planning & coaching assistant, Heberto Andrade bullpen catcher & coaching assistant and Morgan Burkhart major league coaching assistant. Agreed to terms with RHP Woo-Suk Go on a two-year contract with a mutual option for 2026. Minor League Baseball Frontier League NEW ENGLAND KNOCKOUTS — Signed C/1B Brady West. OTTAWA TITANS — Signed RHP Thomas Bruss to a contract extension. Signed LHPs Evan Grills and Javier Reynoso. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed INF Tyler Depreta-Johnson. TRI-CITY VALLEYCATS — Signed INF Tyson Gingerich and OF Javeyon Williams. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed LT D.J. Humphries on injured reserve. Signed S Verone McKinley III to the practice squad. Released LB Caleb Johnson from the practice squad. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed DB Jeremy Lucien to the practice squad. Designated DB Ar’Darius Washington to return from injured reserve to practice. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR Collin Johnson to the active roster and LS Matt Overton to the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed G Rodger Saffold to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Reinstated DL Viliami Fehoko from injured reserve. Placed RB Deuce Vaughn on injured reserve. DETROIT LIONS — Released LB Bruce Irvin from the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Designated WR Christian Kirk to return from injured reserve to practice. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Designated DB Duke Shelley to return from injured reserve to practice. Signed WR Tyler Jensen and K Brett Maher. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Designated LB Jerome Baker to return from injured reserve to practice. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed LB Abraham Beauplan to the practice squad.

SPORTS

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Pacers use huge third quarter to beat Bucks for 5th straight win INDIANAPOLIS — Tyrese Haliburton had 31 points and 12 assists and the Indiana Pacers pulled away with a 47-point Pacers 142 third quarter, Bucks 130 beating Milwaukee 142130 on Wednesday night for their ﬁfth straight victory and second over the Bucks in three days. Bennedict Mathurin added 16 points for the Pacers. Indiana ended Milwaukee’s 15-game home winning streak Monday and is 4-1 against the Bucks this season. PELICANS 117, TIMBERWOLVES 106 In Minneapolis, Zion Williamson scored 27 points and New Orleans kept rolling with a victory over the West-leading Timberwolves. CJ McCollum added 24 points and Brandon Ingram had 19. The Pelicans pulled away in the second half for their fourth straight victory and ninth in 12 games.

HEAT 110, LAKERS 96 In Los Angeles, Tyler Herro scored 21 points, Duncan Robinson had 11 of his 13 points in the fourth

quarter and Miami beat the Lakers. Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 16 points, Nikola Jovic and Bam Adebayo scored 15 apiece AND Kevin Love had a season-high 14 rebounds along with 10 points. Miami was without Jimmy Butler for the sixth time in seven games because of irritation in his right foot.

MAVERICKS 126, TRAIL BLAZERS 97 In Dallas, Luka Doncic scored 30 of his 41 points in the first half, Kyrie Irving added 29 in his second game back from a bruised right heel and the Mavericks routed Portland. The All-Star pair went a combined 23 of 40 from the field before sitting out the fourth quarter. They were just 12 of 34 during a 37-point loss at Utah in Irving’s return after missing 12 games.

CLIPPERS 121, SUNS 122 In Phoenix, Paul George scored 33 points, Kawhi Leonard added 30 and Los Angeles beat the Suns for its fourth straight victory and 13th in 15 games. George shot 8 of 14 from the field, going 5 of 10 from 3-point range. James Harden had 22 points and 11 assists to help Los Angeles end Phoenix’s four-game winning streak.

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The Pacers’ Myles Turner shoots over the Milwaukee Bucks’ Brook Lopez during the ﬁrst half of Wednesday’s game in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 142-130 for their ﬁfth straight victory.

HAWKS 141, THUNDER 138 In Atlanta, Jalen Johnson scored a career-high 28 points and the Hawks held off Oklahoma to end the Thunder’s five-game winning streak. Atlanta opened the game with 11 straight points and never trailed. Trae Young had 24 points and 11 assists, one of four Hawks players who scored more than 20. Bogdan Bogdanovic added 23 points and Dejounte Murray had 22.

KNICKS 116, BULLS 100 In New York, Julius Randle scored 35 points, Jalen Brunson had 31 points and 13 assists and the Knicks beat Chicago. OG Anunoby and Donte DiVincenzo each scored 11 points for New York, and Isaiah Hartenstein had a career-high 20 rebounds along with 10 points.

CAVALIERS 140, WIZARDS 101 In Cleveland, Max Strus scored 24 points and the Cavaliers had their highest-scoring game and most lopsided victory of the season, routing Washington to open a

two-game set. Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points in 24 minutes to help Cleveland snapped a two-game losing streak. Caris LeVert added 21 points in 23 minutes, and Jarrett Allen had 17 points, 19 rebounds and seven assists. Kyle Kuzma scored 16 points for Washington.

points in a 21-6 run that gave the Hurricanes a nine-point lead with 10 minutes left. Joseph Girard III scored 18 points and PJ Hall scored 17 before fouling out for Clemson (11-2, 1-1). Chase Hunter scored 16 for the Tigers — who led by six at the half, by eight early in the second half. Miami pulled away in the second half, making 12 of 14 shots in an 11-minute stretch and shooting 21 for 28 in the ﬁnal 20 minutes. SETON HALL 61, NO. 23 PROVIDENCE 57 In Providence, R.I., Dre Davis scored 17 points

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teams split four games. The Lady Trojans won the first two matchups — including a thrilling 63-60 win in the NRG semifinals — before the Panthers turned the tables and won the final regular-season game and then upset Mesa Vista in the 5-2A semifinals. The newcomers to the favorites table are the Wildcats, who are 6-2 and seeded second in the tournament. Questa is led by a quartet of juniors and a talented sophomore in Alyce Lovato who gained invaluable experience during an 11-16 season in 202223. The Wildcats’ lone losses are to a 7-1 Jemez Valley quad that is ranked fourth in 1A, and Springer. Questa gets a tough opening-round game against a Pecos team that is 5-5, but four of the losses have come against 3A and 4A teams. Boies said he saw Questa at

a preseason scrimmage at Taos and saw a team with size and quickness. “They have some big girls, so it would be fun [if Mesa Vista plays Questa],” Boies said. Mesa Vista and Peñasco come in battle-tested, coming off tournaments against strong competition. The Panthers finished sixth at last week’s St. Michael’s Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament, losing to 4A Española Valley and Los Alamos. They also took fifth at Capital’s Al Armendariz Tournament, beating Pecos in the fifth-place game in the process. “We know we can play with anybody,” Montoya said. “And I think it’s exciting that our district is still very dominant.” Meanwhile, Mesa Vista won the Rumble in the Jungle Tournament in Aztec, beating Dulce 52-40 in the championship game after besting 3A Wingate and 4A Grants in the process. Boies

In Houston, Alperen Sengun scored 30 points, Fred VanVleet added 21 points and 10 assists and the Rockets sent Brooklyn to its fifth straight loss. VanVleet made 6 of 8 3-pointers and Houston finished 19 of 39 from long distance.

Schedule of games for the first round of the Northern Rio Grande Tournament, which starts Thursday in Española Valley’s Edward Medina Gymnasium. Teams were seeded based on their overall record.

BOYS No. 4 McCurdy vs. No. 5 Mesa Vista, 10 a.m. No. 2 Mora vs. No. 7 Peñasco, 1 p.m. No. 3 Pecos vs. No. 6 Questa, 4 p.m. No. 1 Escalante vs. No. 8 Dulce, 7 p.m.

GIRLS No. 4 Peñasco vs. No. 5 Mora, 8:30 a.m. No. 2 Questa vs. No. 7 Pecos, 11:30 a.m. No. 3 McCurdy vs. No. 6 Dulce, 2:30 p.m. No. 1 Mesa Vista vs. No. 8 Escalante, 5:30 p.m.

Grants,” Boies said. “We got to go out with the same mindset: We gotta stay hungry and play all four quarters.”

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ers me the most, because right now, he’s still [considered] guilty until the case is finalized,” she said. The slow-moving timeline fits into a common theme at an organization that operates on a $24 million annual budget, received around 7,000 complaints last year and has about 65 employees in its “response and resolution department.” Cases take too long because there are too many and too few people to handle them. “I asked if I could see a copy of the report. They said ‘Yes, eventually,’ ” the teen’s mom said. “I asked, ‘When?’ They said ‘When we’re done.’ I asked, ‘When’s that?’ They said, ‘We don’t know.’ ” “I scratch my head and wonder if they’re overwhelmed, if they just don’t have the staff to take care of all the complaints that are coming in. Or, are they incompetent?” she said. When the family reached out in November for an update, a SafeSport investigator told them he “could not provide a firm timeline” for resolving the case, the mother said.

The center’s spokesperson, Hilary Nemchik, told the AP she could not speak about specific cases, but “those types of responses are not consistent with the center’s values or our commitments to athletes and will certainly be reviewed.” Not until fall of 2023 was the teen able to register for a USA Swimming event, and then, only with restrictions: He had to be chaperoned on the pool deck and could not come into contact with his accuser. This reached a boiling point at a swim meet in November, when the swimmer’s mom, who has taken over duties as his full-time coach, briefly turned away from her son on the pool deck. He was then approached by a meet referee who notified him he was breaking the rules and wouldn’t be allowed to come back for the second day of the competition. That deprived the teen of swimming in his best event, where he had previously swam times that could’ve qualified him for a key junior national meet in December. Contacted by AP, Linda Eaton, the referee who removed the boy, would

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said both he and Montoya focus on playing tough competition to help prepare them for the district battles. “Our mindsets are the same,” Boies said. “We’re looking for the physicality to prepare us for March. We don’t care about the wins or the losses. As long as we get better every game.” One thing Boies feels the Lady Trojans learned earlier this year is how to handle big games. In a 56-44 loss to Española on Dec. 7, Boies said his team was focused on trying to prove it was as good as the Lady Sundevils, which led to them playing less focused. The Lady Trojans have played with better composure, which has shown during their six-game winning streak. He added he feels conﬁdent Mesa Vista will not let the moment get too big if it faces Peñasco in the tournament. “We should treat Peñasco the same way we treat Dulce and

SIDELINES

In Memphis, Tenn., Immanuel Quickley scored 26 points, Pascal Siakam added 24 and Toronto held on to beat the Grizzlies. Quickley was 8 of 18 from the field, hitting 5 of 8 3-pointers. Hecame to Toronto in a late-December trade that sent OG Anunoby to New York.

and Kadary Richmond added 16 points as Seton Hall defeated Providence. Save for a brief stretch in the second half, the Pirates (9-5, 2-1 Big East) held the lead over the final 28 minutes. Dylan Addae-Wusu finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds while Al-Amir Dawes also added 12 points. Josh Oduro led Providence (11-3, 2-1) with a game-high 23 points while Devin Carter had 10 points and 10 rebounds. Bryce Hopkins, the Friars’ second-leading scorer, needed to be helped off the court after going down near midcourt with 14:59 remaining. He did not return.

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Miami pulls out win over No. 16 Clemson CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Nijel Pack scored 20 of his 25 points in the second half, Matthew Cleveland and Norchad Omier each Miami 95 added 23 and Miami 16 Clemson 82 beat No. 16 Clemson 95-82 on Wednesday night to improve to 9-0 at home. Kyshawn George and Bensley Joseph each added 12 for the Hurricanes (11-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). Pack scored 13 of Miami’s

What happened: The Lady Horsemen kept their winning streak alive, thanks to an airtight defensive effort in the fourth quarter that held the Lady Jaguars to just two points Wednesday in a nondistrict game in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium. Capital, which trailed 26-21 at the half, outscored St. Michael’s 9-4 in the third quarter to pull within 31-30 on Annica Montoya’s 3-pointer with 2:34 left in quarter. The Lady CAPITAL Horsemen opened the fourth with six straight points, capped by an Elsie Odai putback. “Our energy was just much better,” St. Michael’s head coach Sonya Ruiz said. “They played with more intensity and energy, and that made a big difference.” Top players: Jada Lujan had a game-high 15 points, while Odai and Ceciliana Ruiz each added eight for the Lady Horsemen. Capital was led by Montoya’s nine points. What’s next: St. Michael’s (10-3) plays Albuquerque Del Norte in the opening round of the Albuquerque Sandia Prep Invitational on Jan. 11. Capital (2-8) plays at Los Alamos on Tuesday.

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not comment about the case. “I appreciate your efforts to understand a SafeSport concern,” she said in an email. “I suggest you talk to the people at the U.S. Center for SafeSport.” The SafeSport letter also alleged the swimmer engaged in “bullying behaviors.” The teen said he and the teammate who accused him and another boy who claimed to have witnessed the incident had previously exchanged accusations of bullying. His mom said those episodes were resolved by the schools and swim clubs the boys attended before SafeSport was involved. Reached by the AP, the accuser’s mother acknowledged she had ﬁled a report on behalf of her son but did not respond to a request for an interview. The accused swimmer’s mother said when SafeSport’s letter landed, so many months had passed since the boys had their falling out that “we had no idea what the accusations were, and we had no idea what was going on.” In fact, it wasn’t SafeSport, but the local police department that ﬁrst shed light when an investigator contacted the

Firefighters put out large fire at the home of Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill and his family are safe after fire rescue crews responded to a large fire at his South Florida home Wednesday afternoon. The house, which is located in Southwest Ranches about 30 miles northwest of Miami, was shown Wednesday afternoon on local station WSVN 7 News with a large amount of black smoke coming out of the roof as firefighters doused it with water. No injuries have been reported. Hill had been at Dolphins practice as Miami prepares for its regular-season finale against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night, but he left after being told about the fire.

Purdy, Tagovailoa selected to their 1st Pro Bowl as the starting quarterbacks Brock Purdy and Tua Tagovailoa were selected to their first Pro Bowl as the starting quarterbacks for their respective conferences. It’s the first time the two starting QBs are first-time picks since the 1999 season when Pro Football Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner were chosen. Purdy was one of nine players picked from the San Francisco 49ers, who clinched the NFC’s No. 1 seed. The 49ers had the most players selected. Baltimore and Dallas each have seven Pro Bowl players.

McIlroy eases off criticism of LIV Golf, says Rahm defection a smart move KAPALUA, Hawaii — Rory McIlroy is softening his stance against Saudi-funded LIV Golf. He said on the Stick to Football podcast he has accepted that LIV is part of golf now. McIlroy also said he has been too judgmental about players leaving. McIlroy has been the harshest critic of LIV Golf since it began in June 2022. Jon Rahm is the latest to defect. McIlroy says it was a smart business decision by the Masters champion. He says he suspects Rahm thinks the two sides will get together. McIlroy also suggested he helped instigate the PGA Tour meeting with the Saudis.

Prosecutors: Franco committed sexual exploitation, money laundering SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Dominican prosecutors have accused Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation and money laundering following allegations that the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a minor whose mother also faces the same charges. Prosecutors on Wednesday requested a judge hold Franco on an $86,000 bond, bar him from leaving the Dominican Republic and place him under house arrest. They noted that the money laundering charges stems from allegations that Franco made payments to the minor’s mother. The judge is scheduled to analyze the evidence that was collected during a monthslong investigation and issue a ruling Friday. Franco remains in jail for now.

accused teen and his family in early July 2022 to ask questions about the alleged episode. By October 2022, the police department had dismissed the case. Nemchik said the center’s policy is to make decisions free from inﬂuence of law enforcement, noting the center relies on a “lower standard of proof ... which at times allows it to act on cases law enforcement may not.” She said law enforcement’s shortcomings — for instance, a 2021 Justice Department report that found the FBI failed on multiple levels in its handling of the Nassar allegations — were part of the reason the center was created. Nemchik also defended the center’s mission to handle grassroots cases, saying that many of Nassar’s victims were club-level gymnasts who were not on the Olympic path. “The center is fully committed to its mission to end abuse in sport, which goes well beyond national teams and elite athletes,” she said. “Any proposal to limit athletes’ access to accountability runs counter to our mission.” But, she added, “the center needs more ﬁnancial resources to support the growing number of reports.” The 7,000 allegations received in 2023 mark around a 30% increase over 2022 and a

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nearly 350% increase over 2020. “At the rate we are seeing more reports coming in, I think we are kind of staring down a barrel right now of, like, what’s going to happen next?” SafeSport Center CEO Ju’Riese Colon said at a congressional hearing in September. The family’s best chance to put an end to the SafeSport case came in November 2022, when the center offered the teen an “informal resolution”: If he would admit to slapping the other boy, he could go back to swimming with a six-month probation. “We asked my son, ‘Are you OK with this?’ ” the mother said. “And he said ‘No, I’m not going to admit to something I didn’t do.’ ” While the teen’s sanctions have not kept him out of high school swimming, where he swam a full season his freshman year, the family worries the opportunities missed by not being able to swim in club meets could impact his future. The family also worries about whether the case — whether still pending or eventually resolved — will be something prospective college recruiters might see and wonder about. “It’s just really frustrating thinking that it’s still causing problems,” the teenager said.

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

DAR T S

Teen loses World Darts Championship final to end stunning run By James Robson

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Luke Littler’s history-making run at the World Darts Championship ended Wednesday when the 16-year-old sensation was beaten 7-4 in the final by Luke Humphries. The unseeded Littler was on debut at the tournament and would have become the youngest-ever winner of darts’ biggest prize, but lost an epic match at the Alexandra Palace in London. At one point the teenager had the chance to take a 5-2 lead, only for world No. 1 Humphries to come back to win five straight sets, his first world title and $630,000 in prize money. “Honestly, I was thinking in the back of my mind, ‘Get this one now’ because he’s going to dominate world darts soon,” Humphries said after lifting the trophy. ”He’s an incredible talent. I had

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to win this one tonight, but he’s going to win plenty, I’m sure.” As runner-up, Littler won $250,000 in prize money and looks likely to contend for major titles for years to come after making history by becoming youngest ﬁnalist.

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KAPALUA, Hawaii — Scottie Scheffler has been voted PGA Tour player of the year over Masters champion Jon Rahm, a player vote that raises questions of whether Rahm was penalized for defecting to LIV Golf. Scheffler is the first backto-back winner since Tiger Woods in 2006-07. The world’s No. 1 player had the best statistical season since Woods by leading the tour in all the important categories from the tee to the green, along with scoring. He had the seventh-lowest adjust scoring average (68.63) in PGA Tour history — the top six belong to Woods — and finished out of the top 10 only six times in 23 tournaments from a season that began in September 2022. At one point, Scheffler went 18 consecutive starts where his worst finish was 12th. “Anything that you receive voted on by your peers is very special to me and being able to go home with this trophy two years in a row now is very special,” Scheffler said. “I think the body of work I put in last year ... I was very proud of that consistency.” What he lacked, compared with Rahm, was winning. Scheffler won The Players Championship and the Phoenix Open. Rahm, however, won four times, including his second major when he captured the Masters.

The PGA Tour said voting took place from Dec. 1 through Dec. 15. Rahm, who for 18 months Scottie had been Schefﬂer an ardent supporter of the tour, donned a LIV letterman’s jacket and announced he was joining the Saudi-funded rival league on Dec. 7. The tour said Scheffler received 38% of the vote in what was believed to be a tight race. It did not disclose the voting percentage received by Rahm, FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland, U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark or Rory McIlroy. The tour previously did not release any vote totals for the award. Now it withholds what percentage of players voted. In another close race, Eric Cole was voted rookie of the year over Ludvig Aberg of Sweden. The award comes 50 years after Cole’s mother, Laura Baugh, was the LPGA rookie of the year. Cole was the only player to reach the second round of the FedEx Cup playoffs. A longtime player in golf’s minor leagues, he made $5 million in his ﬁrst year on tour. Scheffler had hinted in the Bahamas last month that his vote might go toward Rahm because while consistency is key, “we play this game to win.”

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Coach Jim Harbaugh deflected a question about possible sanctions, saying he is focused on the game against Washington. “I don’t know if you want to live in rumorville or speculation, but we just don’t really have any room to be doing that at this point,” he said. “That’s done elsewhere.” The NCAA does not directly ban the stealing of signs, but there are rules against using electronic equipment to record an opponent’s signals and in-person, advanced scouting of future opponents in season. There are also rules against unsportsmanlike or unethical activities by coaches, and head coaches are generally considered to be responsible for violations that occur under them. The Big Ten suspended Harbaugh for the final three regular-season games for violating the conference’s sportsmanship policy. Harbaugh has denied having knowledge of sign-stealing activities. Michigan suspended Harbaugh for the first three games of the season amid allegations of recruiting violations. McCarthy estimated 80% of college football teams steal signs. “It’s just a thing about football,” he said. “It’s been around

three major titles in the space of two months and blasted his way to the ﬁnal with a 6-0 win against Scott Williams to extend an 18-game winning run. But there were still moments when Littler looked capable of completing one of the unlikeliest triumphs in sport. After an uneasy start, he twice came back from a set down to level the match at 2-2 before racing to a 4-2 lead. He missed a double to win a ﬁfth set and Humphries took charge from then on. Multiple champion Michael van Gerwen remains the youngest player to win the World Darts Championship after his victory in 2014 when he was 24. Jelle Klaasen was 21 when he won the now defunct British Darts Organisation world title in 2006. Littler, from Runcorn in northwest England, turns 17 later this month and still has time on his side to set a new record.

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Littler’s run has seen his fame rise as he’s made front-page headlines. He also moved up to 32 in the world ranking after taking the tournament by storm. “I’m happy, top 32, runner-up on my debut. Unbelievable,” he said. Littler won the world youth title

last year and was already earning a big reputation within the sport before this championship. But his performances took many by surprise after knocking out two former world champions in Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross to reach the ﬁnal. While his showmanship on the stage proved popular with rowdy crowds at the tournament, his easy-going nature off it has added to his charm. Speaking ahead of the ﬁnal, he said he would stick to his pre-match routine of eating a ham-and-cheese omelette, and then later a pizza. “You will never see a 16-year-old kid as down to earth as him — he’s just something else,” Humphries said. “He is one of the best players in the world, no doubt about that.” Humphries proved a challenge too far for Littler. The No. 3 seed had gone into the tournament on the back of winning

for years. We actually had to adapt because in 2020 or 2019 when Ohio State was stealing our signs — which is legal and they were doing it — we had to get up to the level that they were at, and we had to make it an even playing field.” McCarthy later clarified that comment to The Associated Press. “When I said we need to level the playing field, I meant in terms of how we change our own signs, how we develop our signs and how and when we distribute those changes when we know signs are likely to have been stolen,” he said. McCarthy and defensive lineman Mason Graham said they and their teammates put in significant time operating inside the rules to find clues about how opponents might react in different situations. “We do watch so much film and look for those little tendencies and spend like 10, 15 minutes on one clip alone just looking at all the little details,” McCarthy said, referring to the posture of linebackers or defensive linemen and differences in where cornerbacks and safeties are lined up. “You could say it’s all sign stealing, but there’s a lot more that goes into play, and a lot of stuff that gets masked, a lot of work that gets masked just because of the outside perception of what sign stealing is all about.”

Colts’ Steichen off to big start Coach’s new direction puts Indianapolis on cusp of playoffs in his first season at helm By Michael Marot

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INDIANAPOLIS he Indianapolis Colts hired firstyear coach Shane Steichen to take them in a new direction. He wasted no time hiring assistants the players could trust, installing an offense they could embrace and making sure his rookie quarterback knew the playbook while urging the backup to stay prepared. Now, they’re on the playoff precipice because Steichen never viewed his first head coaching job as a rebuilding project. He expected to win from the start, and the players believed him. “Shane made it very clear the expectations were very high,” center Ryan Kelly said. “Execution fuels emotion and we’ve had a lot of fun doing it. I think you’ve seen that through the postgame [videos] and all the interviews he does, and the way we play. It’s a combination of all those things and really believing that we can be whatever we want to be.” What they could be after Saturday, surprisingly, is playoff bound. A fourth straight home victory would give the Colts (9-7) another season sweep of Houston (9-7) and their first postseason appearance since 2020. A win, coupled with a Jacksonville loss at Tennessee on Sunday, would give Indy its first AFC South title and first home playoff game since 2014, as well as a chance at its first postseason win in five years. Outside of team headquarters, few saw this kind of turnaround coming after an abysmal 2022 season that included a constantly churning quarterback carrousel, a rare midseason coaching change and seven straight losses to finish a 4-12-1 season. “I think all of the trials and tribulations we went through last year, it prepared us for the highs and lows of this season,” linebacker Zaire Franklin said. “I just think that every time something happened, we just came closer together.” There were many times Indy’s season could have gotten derailed, but Steichen deftly navigated the ups and downs. 2021 All-Pro running back Jonathan Taylor missed seven games because of injuries, started the season mired in an ugly contract dispute and took only one official snap with rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson. Right tackle Braden Smith missed seven

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Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen, right, hugs Gardner Minshew following a Dec. 16 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Indianapolis.

games with an assortment of injuries, Kelly entered the concussion protocol twice and top receiver Michael Pittman Jr. also had a concussion after taking a big hit that led to a season-ending suspension for Pittsburgh safety Damontae Kazee. Seven players served suspensions. There also was the quarterback situation. Steichen selected Richardson as the opening day starter after one preseason game, an announcement that disappointed Gardner Minshew, who followed Steichen from Philadelphia so he could compete for the job. It didn’t take Minshew long to prove his worth. He relieved an injured Richardson in three of Indy’s first four games, won his first start, at Baltimore, and took over for good when Richardson suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in Week 5. Even after committing eight turnovers in Indy’s next three games, all losses, Minshew didn’t flinch, and Steichen didn’t fret. “He always gives us a chance to win and that’s what you want in your quarterback,” Steichen said when asked this week about Minshew. “Every time you step out, the players have a belief in him, the coaches have a belief in him and I think that’s where it starts.” Minshew rewarded their patience by winning four straight to get the Colts out of the division cellar and back in the playoff chase. And given the young roster, Minshew’s playoff experience from the past two seasons

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Impressive streaks The Kansas City Chiefs wrapped up their eighth straight AFC West title when they beat Cincinnati on Sunday. That’s the second-longest streak in NFL history, trailing only the 11 straight division titles won by New England from 2009-19. Kansas City’s nine straight playoff berths are tied with Indianapolis (2002-10) and Dallas (1975-83) for the second-longest streak, behind only the 11-year run for the Patriots. While the Chiefs have dominated the AFC West, no one has been able to do that in the NFC East. If the Cowboys win on Sunday or if the Eagles lose, it will mark the 19th straight season a team failed to repeat as division champions. Philadelphia was the last to do it in 2003-04. Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin extended his impressive streak of never having a losing record after the Steelers beat Seattle for their ninth win of the season. The Steelers have gone 20 straight seasons without a losing record — one shy of Dallas’

record set from 1965-85. Tomlin has been the coach for 17 of those seasons, trailing only Tom Landry (21 straight seasons) and Bill Belichick (19) for the longest streaks for a coach.

One-sided rivalry The New England Patriots end their season against their favorite opponent of late, aiming for a 16th straight win over the New York Jets. Only four teams have ever beaten an opponent 16 straight times in the regular season. Kansas City’s 16-game streak against Denver ended earlier this season. Washington had a 16-game winning streak over Detroit from 1968-97, San Francisco beat the Rams 17 times in a row from 1990-98 and Miami had 20 straight wins against Buffalo from 1970-79. If the Patriots lose, there will be more on the line than just the streak. It would also be the 178th loss of Belichick’s career, including the playoffs, which would tie Landry for the most ever. A loss on Sunday would also tie the record of 165 regular-season losses held by Jeff Fisher and

with Steichen and the Eagles allowed him to take on a more vocal late-season role. So when the Colts came out flat for the second time in three weeks, a Week 16 loss at Atlanta, Minshew spoke up about playing with urgency. Steichen reinforced Minshew’s message before and after last week’s victory over Las Vegas, which put the Colts in this win-and-in scenario. “I think his energy and confidence really come through,” Minshew said. “This past game, he was fired up. He was fired up in the locker room before the game. I think everybody fed off that and I think it showed out there on the field.” That has put Steichen in position to join an unusual Colts club — the fifth consecutive first-year, non-interim coach to lead Indy into the playoffs. Tony Dungy started the run with a fourwin improvement in 2002. Jim Caldwell won 14 games in 2009 following Dungy’s retirement. Chuck Pagano engineered a nine-win turnaround in 2012. If the Colts win Saturday night, Steichen would match Frank Reich’s six-win improvement from 2018, and nobody in this locker room doubts they can finish the job. “The message from Shane is it’s a big game, but it’s obviously the next game, right?” Kelly said. “So trust what we do, do the small things we’ve done all week, do them better than we’ve ever done them and trust what we do Saturday night.”

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Fabulous Flacco Joe Flacco’s journey from his couch to the Cleveland Browns’ huddle led to one of the most prolific months ever for a quarterback. Flacco made his debut for Cleveland on Dec. 3 after sitting out all season and threw for 1,616 yards and 13 TDs to help the Browns win four out of five games in December to clinch a playoff berth. Flacco threw more TD passes in December than the Jets (11), Titans (12) and Steelers (12) have all season. This marked just the fifth time in NFL history that a quarterback threw for at least 1,600 yards and 13 TDs in a calendar month, with Patrick Mahomes doing it in October 2018, Peyton Manning in November 2014 and December 2013, and Jim Kelly in September 1991. During Cleveland’s four-game winning streak, Flacco has thrown for at least 300 yards with two or more TDs in all of those games. The only other players to do that during a fourgame winning streak in a season since 2000 are Manning (twice), Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Kurt Warner.

High pick The Chicago Bears are the

recipients of the No. 1 pick in the draft for a second straight season — although this time they didn’t have to endure all the losses to get it. The Carolina Panthers clinched the worst record in the NFL less than 10 months after trading their 2024 first-round pick to Chicago as part of a package to move up from No. 9 to No. 1 in last year’s draft. The most recent time a team traded the pick that turned out to be No. 1 before the season came in 1983 when Cincinnati dealt quarterback Jack Thompson to Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers went 2-14 in 1983 and had to send the top pick in the 1984 draft to Cincinnati. The Bengals then traded that pick to New England. The Patriots drafted Irving Fryar No. 1. The same thing happened five years earlier when San Francisco traded the pick that turned out to be No. 1 overall to Buffalo for O.J. Simpson. The Bills used the pick on Tom Cousineau, who went to Canada instead of signing with Buffalo and then later was traded to Cleveland when he came back to the NFL. That 1979 draft worked out just fine for San Francisco even without the top pick. The Niners drafted Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana in the third round.

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n May, Daisy was 2 years old when she was rescued from the streets of Roswell. Pregnant and close to giving birth, Daisy was monitored and fed for a week by a rescue volunteer. Donna Leshne, founder of Dew Paws Rescue, was reluctant to rescue the expectant mother. “We resisted because really, we are not a mom- and puppies-focused rescue. Though we have taken moms and nursing pups over the years, it was usually because they had someplace else to go and we provided a bridge to the next step,” she said. Since April, Dew Paws Rescue has rescued nine pregnant or nursing dogs and 52 surviving puppies. Fourteen of these puppies have been placed in local homes while the remaining ones were transferred to Lifeline Puppy Rescue in Brighton, Colo. One litter is still nursing. Dew Paws Rescue has seen an increase in calls to rescue pregnant dogs, and sometimes a mother with her nursing litter. Why is this happening? Mattie Allen, Española Humane director of communications, explained. “Española Humane is proud to be a truly open admission shelter. That means we don’t turn away any owner or any pet from Rio Arriba County and the surrounding pueblos — we don’t limit admissions no matter how old, sick, injured or behaviorally challenged the pet may be,” she said. “We offer shelter, without asking a fee, because we believe the most humane approach is to never turn away an animal in need. “We are trying to get these homeless pets in to the shelter before they get pregnant and create more homeless, suffering animals. We are also working hard out in the community and neighborhoods to help families with their owned pets, helping with free spay and neuter appointments, free vaccines and free microchips,” Allen said. “We offer food and training advice or supplies when we can, anything to keep that pet healthy and with their family, and free from the burden of creating unwanted litters.” How can the community help? Free and low-cost spay and neuter surgeries need to be more accessible.

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Rescues tout spaying, neutering to avoid unwanted animals “We completed close to 7,000 free surgeries in 2023, and our goal is to do 40 surgeries per day in our space, four days per week, but our intake numbers into the shelter are still skyrocketing. We took in over 4,300 pets in 2023, which is almost one thousand more animals than 2022,” Allen said. “Our dog kennels are near or over capacity almost every day, and we just keep trying to come up with creative programs and solutions to get pets into foster care and into homes locally and across the country. If we had the space and the staff and the funding to offer even more surgeries, we would do as many as we can.” Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society also offers many free or low cost resources for spaying or neutering, including help from Community Assistance for Santa Fe Animals program for Santa Fe County residents. “Providing compassionate care for homeless animals is becoming increasingly more expensive, and every spay or neuter performed is ultimately a life-saving act,” said Pamela Weese Powell, director of philanthropy at the Santa Fe Humane Society. “Let’s keep animals out of the shelter and in loving homes. Spaying and neutering is the most cost effective way to achieve what we all want, a society that is truly humane.” As for the mother dogs rescued by Dew Paws Rescue, “Two moms have been adopted, two were spayed and returned to owner, and the remaining ﬁve wait for their forever homes,” satd Leshne. Daisy is one of the ﬁve. She weighs 50 pounds, is spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and is heartworm negative. Anyone interested in adopting or fostering Daisy may call 505-412-9096 or email infodewpaws@gmail.com for more information.

Tracks Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Gorgeous Mia is a 2-year-old German shepherd girl who is intelligent and friendly, loves to play ball, go for walks, hang out at a person’s

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feet and learns very quickly. Everest is a large pup who has a great disposition and is calm and cuddly. With walks, treats or a bit of peanut butter on a spoon, people could bribe him to do most anything. These and other pets are available at the animal shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s adoption hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. For more information, call 505-983-4309, ext. 1610. Española Humane: Precious is a boxer mix who is polite on leash and very gentle about taking treats. She is also great with other dogs and loves to play. Precious knows basic commands and likes to stick close to her people. She is incredibly affectionate and is good at reading and being respectful of other dogs. The 1-year-old, 63-pound dog loves to lean in and invade a person’s space. Precious is spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and come swith six months of free heartworm prevention. Her adoption fees is waived. Sunny is a charming cat who loves attention, but also enjoys alone time. He might enjoy some supervised outdoor time. Sunny is 4 years old, weighs 15 pounds, is neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. The shelter is open to walk-in adopters from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Felines & Friends: Dilute tortoiseshell Pop Tart is a curious, playful 8-month-old cat always up for playing inside and with toys. Her sister, Pretzel Bite, is a black kitten with white toes,

Daisy with one of her puppies. The then-2-year-old dog was rescued in May in Roswell close to giving birth. She is up for adoption from Dew Paws Rescue. She weighs 50 pounds and has been spayed and vaccinated.

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curious about everything and willing to explore. These girls love cat treats, wand toys and playing with their foster sisters Romy and Michele. Seven-month-old black-and-white Pinguino was found fending for himself. His foster mom said he is a great cuddler who loves to steal socks and place them around his foster home. This adventurous boy has been raised with other cats and dogs and eats dry kibble. Apply to adopt at FandFnm.org. The Horse Shelter: Bug is an adorable, 3-year-old smokey gray mare

who has been under saddle for a few months. She is a spirited and athletic girl with a lot of try and energy. Bug has been ridden in the arena and out on Bug trails and enjoys learning new things. Bug will need an experienced rider. Anyone interested in adopting Bug may visit thehorseshelter.org or call 505-577-4041.

Couple’s dog chews through $4K in cash Bank: Some canines like smell of greenbacks

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John Thompson’s dog Sampson, a Akbash mountain guard dog, loves to travel.

This week on Pet Chat with Murad and Bobbi, pet artist Hillary Vermont shares how she became one of Santa Fe’s iconic artists. Also, the team shares tips if you want a cat, but may be allergic. Pet Chat, hosted by Murad Kirdar, director of community engagement at Española Humane, and Bobbi Heller, executive director of Feline & Friends, airs 9 a.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday on KTRC 1260 AM and 103.7 FM. The show also streams at SantaFe.com. Email the hosts at petchat@santafe. com

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Clayton Law pulled $4,000 out of his joint savings account last month. He and his wife were having a fence installed at their home in Pittsburgh, and the workers asked to be paid in cash. After returning from the bank with a sealed envelope full of $100 and $50 bills, he set the money on a kitchen counter, intending to stash it away. But he never got the chance. Thirty minutes later, Law was stunned to find tiny pieces of chewed-up bills strewn across the floor. In a panic, he hollered for his wife, Carrie Law. “He was shouting, ‘Cecil ate $4,000!’ ” Carrie recalled about that Dec. 8 afternoon. “I ran in, thinking I had to have heard him wrong, but when I saw the mess, there was no doubt,” she said. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Cecil had really done it.” Cecil is a 7-year-old goldendoodle that has lived with the Laws since he was a puppy. For five years, he had the run of the house until the arrival of the Laws’ son, Rory, now 2. “Cecil’s a goofy guy and he’s very particular — you could leave a steak on the table, and he wouldn’t touch it because he’s not food motivated,” said Carrie, 33. “But apparently he is money motivated.” Cecil had not been interested in things on the counter in the past, nor had he torn up items that were up there. “He has never really done anything bad before, so we were more shocked than angry,” added Clayton, 34. “We couldn’t believe it. We looked at each other and said, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” While Cecil skulked away to take a nap on the living room sofa, the Laws called their veterinarian to see if they should bring him in to be checked out for eating the stack of cash.

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Cecil, at home in Pittsburgh, wouldn’t touch a steak left alone on the kitchen table, said Carrie Law. But money was another matter. RIGHT: The couple piece together damaged bills.

“Given his size of 100 pounds, we were told as long he was eating and drinking and going to the bathroom, he should be ﬁne,” Clayton said. “If he were a small dog, it would have been a different story.” He and Carrie then decided to salvage what they could. They gathered up the torn bills and were able to piece together about $1,500, Carrie said. She then called the bank and told a manager what had happened. “I felt like a kid who says, ‘The dog ate my homework,’ ” she said. “I was surprised when they said they’d seen similar things happen multiple times — that maybe dogs liked the particular smells on money.” The manager explained the bank would take back any bills that had been taped together with the full serial numbers visible on the front and back, Carrie added. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing also generally requires at least half of each bill is salvageable. “Cecil was sitting on the sofa full of $2,500, and we knew there was only way to get that money back,” Carrie said.

Late that first night, Cecil vomited up a couple of torn hundreds, Clayton said, but he and Carrie would have to be patient and summon their humor to retrieve the rest of the bills. Clayton intrepidly donned a mask and gloves, grabbed a bunch of plastic bags and accompanied Cecil on his backyard rounds over the next two days as the dog relieved himself. He and Carrie then sifted through the dog’s droppings and washed the torn bits of bills with dish soap in a utility sink. “I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,” Carrie said. “Here we were, waiting for the dog to go to the bathroom so we could get the rest,” Clayton added. “We had to laugh at the absurdity of it.” He and Carrie decided if they could find humor in the situation, others would, too. The Laws made a video with the photos they’d snapped of their dog’s $4,000 meal, then posted it on Instagram. “This is Cecil,” it begins. “He has never done anything bad in

his life until he ate $4,000.” The video of them washing money and patiently piecing it together like a jigsaw puzzle has been liked more than 175,000 times. After the Pittsburgh City Paper wrote about what happened, Carrie said she snuggled up next to Cecil and read the piece to him as a bedtime story. “We couldn’t be mad at him — he’s a very lovable dog,” she said. “People often tell us there’s a human trapped inside our dog.” She and Clayton were able to retrieve about $1,800 from Cecil’s backyard deposits, boosting their total to $3,550. Carrie said she plans to send the washed remnants they couldn’t piece together to the Treasury Department, in the hope they might get some of it back. If not, the Laws said it’s the price they must pay for a family story they can pass down to their son. “We’ve kept at least one of the torn-up bills so we can do a piece of artwork and frame it to commemorate the entire situation,” Carrie said. “Not that we’d ever forget,” she quickly added.

Pet adoptions planned at Lexus Meet kittens at “Happy New Year, Happy New Home,” an adoption event hosted by Lexus of Santa Fe and Felines and Friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the dealership. Cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated against rabies and common viruses. Most have been raised in foster homes. Apply to adopt at FandFnm.org.

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Sections 19-7-1 and 197-2 to sell 44.5267 (plus/minus) acres of state trust lands (the “Land”) located in Sandoval County, New Mexico, more particularly described as follows:

tention: Christopher Wolf, Special Project Analyst, by telephone at 505-827-5095, or by e-mail to cwolf@slo.state.nm.us . The bid packet also is posted on the State Land Office website, www.nmstatelands.or g. The bid packet is incorporated in this notice by reference and should be reviewed in detail before submitting a bid.

sfnm«classifieds Tract 17 of Unit 17 as the same is shown and designated on the plat PETS - SUPPLIES entitled “Paseo Gateway Parcel A, Tracts 1 thru 9, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11 thru 18, A and B-1A, a Replat of Portions of Tract C in the Town of Alameda Grant Unit Seventeen etc.,” filed in the office of the County Clerk, Sandoval County, New Mexico on November 14, 2008 as Instrument No. 2008033908;

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The Minimum Bid to purchase the Land is $3,921,000.00 (three million nine hundred twenty-one thousand dollars). Bids offering less than the minimum will not be considered. Bidders are encouraged to offer amounts greater than the Minimum Bid, with additional amounts in increments of $10,000.00.

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Small breedBeing puppies Registered and intended to small breed be localpart NM puppies of Lotfor3 sale. Potty pad started. Payment (34.9360 acres), part of plan available. included. Lot 4Shots (1.1106 acres), Check out cmoes-puppies.com and part of Lot or2 text 575-308-3017. Cards/PayPal/ Sealed bids must be (8.4801 acres), Section CashApp/ApplePay all accepted

32, Township 13 North, accompanied by a Range 3 East, N.M.P.M. $3,000.00 non-refundable sale application The Land is located in fee and deposits in the the Paseo Gateway amounts set forth master plan area, below. Deposits must within the municipal be in the form speciboundaries of the City fied in the Bid Informaof Rio Rancho in San- tion Sheet (Exhibit “1” doval County, west of of the bid packet). V. Sue Cleveland High Failure to include the School, north of Paseo sale application fee delpups, Volcan and east of and required deposits French bulldog females $1500. BoulePotty trained.Loma HealthColorado guarantee. Utd will result in disqualifivard. old, loving and cation. In addition to on shots. 4 months playful. Great addition to your home. making the required 505-901-2094 505-929-3333. LEGAL #92009 The Land is offered transaction cost deNO-STRESS IN-HOME CA CAT CARE CARE “AS IS”; the Commis- posit, the successful Licensed & Professional Stephanie Garcia sioner does not make bidder will be required Reasonable Rates Richard, Commis- any representations or to pay all costs associTHE CAT CONCIERGE Call Judy sioner of Public Lands provide any war- ated with the auction Roberts Santa Fe 505-954-1878 State of New Mexico ranties regarding title and sale. The deposits thecatconciergesantafe.com to the Land or its con- of unsuccessful bidCOMMISSIONER OF dition or fitness for ders will be refunded. Chiweenie Puppies PUBLIC LANDS any purpose. The See the bid packet for For Sale! NOTICE OF SEALED BID Land is offered for a additional information PUBLIC AUCTION cash sale (i.e., full pay- and requirements reFOR SALE OF LAND ment in cash due at garding the required Land Sale LE-1421, closing) as a single deposits. 44.5267 (plus/minus) tract; bids for less acres than the entire tract Transaction Cost Dewill not be considered. posit: Advertising public Sandoval County, New Mexico Details regarding the auction (estimated) auction, potential sale, $5,005.60 The Commissioner of applicable rules, bid- Advertising Section 19Public Lands (“Com- ding instructions and 7-9.1 public meeting missioner”) gives no- forms are set forth in $996.23 tice of a sealed bid the bid packet, which Tract 17 appraisal and auction pursuant to can be obtained by appraisal review the New Mexico CLASSIFIEDS En- writing the State Land $6,634.32 abling Act (36 Stat. Office, P.O. Box 1148, Tract 17 survey GETSFe, NM 87504, At- $3,689.33 557) and NMSA 1978, Santa Sections 19-7-1 and 19tention: Christopher Total Transaction Cost RESULTS. 7-2 to sell 44.5267 Wolf, Special Project Deposit $16,325.48 (plus/minus) acres of Analyst, by telephone state trust lands (the at 505-827-5095, or by The sealed bid must 3 weeks, 2 males, 3 females. First located in e-mail “Land”) to be accompanied by shots, de-wormed and Sandoval trimmed County, New cwolf@slo.state.nm.us both CLASSIFIEDS a $16,325.48 nails, potty trained Call 516-909-8152 Call to place an ad also is transaction cost deMexico, more particu. The bid packet GETS larly described as fol- posted on the State posit and a performLand Office website, ance deposit in the RESULTS. lows: www.nmstatelands.or amount of $392,100.00, Tract 17 of Unit 17 as g. The bid packet is in- representing 10% of the same is shown and corporated in this no- the Minimum Bid. designated on the plat tice by reference and entitled “Paseo Gate- should be reviewed in Bids must conform Call to place an ad way Parcel A, Tracts 1 detail before submit- strictly to the requirements set forth in the thru 9, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11 ting a bid. bid packet and be subthru 18, A and B-1A, a Replat of Portions of The Minimum Bid to mitted in a sealed marked Tract C in the Town of purchase the Land is package (three “Land Sale No. LEPomeranian Puppies 4 Alameda sale Po- Grant Unit $3,921,000.00 meranian puppies beautiful, Seventeen etc.,” filed million nine hundred 1421.” toys and T-cups, males inand thefe-office of the twenty-one thousand males, rare exotic colors, reg- Clerk, San- dollars). Bids offering Sealed bids must be County istered and 1st vaccinations doval County, New less than the minimum submitted to the State received, long time reputable Mexico on November will not be considered. Land Office, 310 Old breeder. 1500.00 505-550-7319 14, 2008 as Instrument Bidders are encour- Santa Fe Trail, Santa No. 2008033908; aged to offer amounts Fe, NM, 87501 (courier greater than the Mini- service or personal deBeing and intended to mum Bid, with addi- livery) or P.O. Box 1148, UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS be part of Lot 3 tional amounts in Santa Fe, NM 87504santafenewmexican.com/subscribe (34.9360 acres), part of increments of 1148 (USPS postal mail), Attention: Lot 4 (1.1106 acres), $10,000.00. YORKSHIRE TERRIERS Christopher Wolf, Spepart of Lot 2 Teacup and standard size and AKC. Parti cial Projects Analyst. (8.4801 acres), Section Sealed bids must be and chocolate Yorkie babies. First Township 13 North, accompanied by a BIDS MUST BE REshots and deworming. 32, Beautiful NO LATER Range 315East, N.M.P.M. $3,000.00 non-refund- CEIVED colors. Male and female available. able sale application THAN 12:00 P.M. on years experience. $1500-$2000 with 1year health guarantee. Call/The textLand is located in fee and deposits in the February 29, 2024. the Paseo Gateway amounts set forth 505-239-8843. master plan area, below. Deposits must Sealed bids will be within the municipal be in the form speci- opened on March 1, boundaries of the City fied in the Bid Informa- 2024 at 9:30 a.m. at the of Rio Rancho in San- tion Sheet (Exhibit “1” New Mexico State doval County, west of of the bid packet). Land Office (Morgan V. Sue Cleveland High Failure to include the Hall), 310 Old Santa Fe School, north of Paseo sale application fee Trail, Santa Fe, New del Volcan and east of and required deposits Mexico 87501. Loma Colorado in disqualifiLEGALS LEGALS Boule- will result LEGALS LEGALS vard. cation. In addition to The Commissioner remaking the required serves the right to reThe Land is offered transaction cost de- ject all bids and LEGAL #92009 “AS IS”; the Commis- posit, the successful withdraw the Land Stephanie Garcia sioner does not make bidder will be required from sale or to reinitiRichard, Commis- any representations or to pay all costs associ- ate the process of ofany war- ated with the auction fering the Land for sioner of Public Lands provide ranties regarding title and sale. The deposits sale or exchange on State of New Mexico to the Land or its con- of unsuccessful bid- the same or different COMMISSIONER OF dition or fitness for ders will be refunded. terms at a future date. any purpose. The See the bid packet for The Commissioner’s PUBLIC LANDS NOTICE OF SEALED BID Land is offered for a additional information selection of a bid shall cash sale (i.e., full pay- and requirements re- not constitute or be PUBLIC AUCTION ment in cash due at garding the required evidence of a contract FOR SALE OF LAND between the CommisLand Sale LE-1421, closing) as a single deposits. sioner and the se44.5267 (plus/minus) tract; bids for less than the entire tract Transaction Cost De- lected bidder. The acres Commissioner will will not be considered. posit: Advertising public have no obligation to Sandoval County, New any bidder unless and Details regarding the auction (estimated) Mexico until the Commisauction, potential sale, $5,005.60 The Commissioner of applicable rules, bid- Advertising Section 19- sioner and that bidder execute a written Public Lands (“Com- ding instructions and 7-9.1 public meeting agreement for conmissioner”) gives no- forms are set forth in $996.23 tice of a sealed bid the bid packet, which Tract 17 appraisal and veyance of the Land. Closing shall occur no auction pursuant to can be obtained by appraisal review later than 90 days the New Mexico En- writing the State Land $6,634.32 after the selection of abling Act (36 Stat. Office, P.O. Box 1148, Tract 17 survey the winning bid. 557) and NMSA 1978, Santa Fe, NM 87504, At- $3,689.33 Sections 19-7-1 and 19- tention: Christopher Total Transaction Cost Upon satisfaction of all of the conditions 7-2 to sell 44.5267 Wolf, Special Project Deposit $16,325.48 for completing the (plus/minus) acres of Analyst, by telephone state trust lands (the at 505-827-5095, or by The sealed bid must sale, the Commisto be accompanied by sioner will convey the “Land”) located in e-mail a $16,325.48 Land subject to all Sandoval County, New cwolf@slo.state.nm.us both Mexico, more particu- . The bid packet also is transaction cost de- valid easements and larly described as fol- posted on the State posit and a perform- other encumbrances Land Office website, ance deposit in the shown in the records lows: www.nmstatelands.or amount of $392,100.00, of the State Land OfTract 17 of Unit 17 as g. The bid packet is in- representing 10% of fice and the Sandoval County Clerk’s Office. the same is shown and corporated in this no- the Minimum Bid. Bidders are responsidesignated on the plat tice by reference and entitled “Paseo Gate- should be reviewed in Bids must conform ble for verifying enway Parcel A, Tracts 1 detail before submit- strictly to the require- cumbrances and their ments set forth in the effect on the Land. The thru 9, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11 ting a bid. bid packet and be sub- Commissioner will furthru 18, A and B-1A, a Replat of Portions of The Minimum Bid to mitted in a sealed ther reserve to the marked State all minerals of Tract C in the Town of purchase the Land is package (three “Land Sale No. LE- whatsoever kind, geAlameda Grant Unit $3,921,000.00 othermal resources, Seventeen etc.,” filed million nine hundred 1421.” and certain water in the office of the twenty-one thousand County Clerk, San- dollars). Bids offering Sealed bids must be rights, together with doval County, New less than the minimum submitted to the State rights of access and Mexico on November will not be considered. Land Office, 310 Old surface use necessary 14, 2008 as Instrument Bidders are encour- Santa Fe Trail, Santa for or incident to exaged to offer amounts Fe, NM, 87501 (courier ploration for and exNo. 2008033908; greater than the Mini- service or personal de- traction and removal Being and intended to mum Bid, with addi- livery) or P.O. Box 1148, of such minerals, geotbe part of Lot 3 tional amounts in Santa Fe, NM 87504- hermal resources, and of 1148 (USPS postal water rights. Bidders (34.9360 acres), part of increments mail), Attention: may request that the Lot 4 (1.1106 acres), $10,000.00. Christopher Wolf, Spe- Commissioner enter and part of Lot 2 (8.4801 acres), Section Sealed bids must be cial Projects Analyst. into a surface non-dis32, Township 13 North, accompanied by a BIDS MUST BE RE- turbance agreement a separately NO LATER for Range 3 East, N.M.P.M. $3,000.00 non-refund- CEIVED able sale application THAN 12:00 P.M. on agreed upon fee. The Land is located in fee and deposits in the February 29, 2024. Disabled individuals the Paseo Gateway amounts set forth master plan area, below. Deposits must Sealed bids will be requiring aid to bid within the municipal be in the form speci- opened on March 1, may call (505) 827boundaries of the City fied in the Bid Informa- 2024 at 9:30 a.m. at the 5095; FAX 827-6157 or of Rio Rancho in San- tion Sheet (Exhibit “1” New Mexico State TTY (800) 659-8331. doval County, west of of the bid packet). Land Office (Morgan Upon request, this noV. Sue Cleveland High Failure to include the Hall), 310 Old Santa Fe tice may be available School, north of Paseo sale application fee Trail, Santa Fe, New in other formats. del Volcan and east of and required deposits Mexico 87501. Pub: Dec 21, 28, 2023, Loma Colorado Boule- will result in disqualification. In addition to The Commissioner re- Jan 4, 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, vard. making the required serves the right to re- 8, 15, 22, 2024 The Land is offered transaction cost de- ject all bids and the successful withdraw the Land To place a Legal Notice “AS Continued... IS”; the Commis- posit, Continued... Continued... sioner does not make bidder will be required from sale or to reinitiCall 986-3000 any representations or to pay all costs associ- ate the process of ofprovide any war- ated with the auction fering the Land for ranties regarding title and sale. The deposits sale or exchange on to the Land or its con- of unsuccessful bid- the same or different

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TITLE: NM Economic Development Department (EDD) Request for Proposals (RFP): EDD Legal Counsel.

Call 986-3000 to place your ad! LEGAL #92014 STATE OF NEW MEXICO STA COUNTY OF RIO ARRIBA ARRIBA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

PURPOSE: The purpose of the RFP is to solicit sealed proposals to establish a contract through competitive negotiations to select an offeror to provide professional legal services to the EDD and assist EDD General Counsel.

KATHLEEN MCGARRY ELLENWOOD DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

Marianne Griego to place legals call: 986-3000 | toll free: 800-873-3362 | email: legals@sfnewmexican.com P.O. Box 813 ISSUANCE: The RFP

LEGALS

No. 00179

Espanola, NM 87532 D-117-CV D-117-CV-2023- Pro Se PlaintitI

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MARIANNE GRIEGO GRIEGO Plaintiff, vs. LEGAL #92099 RICK BLEA, MARYELLEN YELLEN BLEA, JOE STATE OF NEW MEXICO MAR ABEYTA, ABEYT A, FIRST JUDICIAL EVA EV A ABEYT ABEYTA, A, EST ESTA ATE DISTRICT COURT OF L LOURDES OURDES SANTA FE COUNTY FRESQUEZ (Deceased), and No. ANDREW TRUJILL TRUJILLO O D-101-PB-2023-00333 Defendants. IN THE MATIER OF THE FOR SERVICE SERVICE ESTATE OF JAMES J. ORDER FOR OF PROCESS MANDROS, DECEASED. BY PUBLICA PUBLICATION IN A NEWSP NEW SPAPER APER NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by Lesley Mandros Bell and Steven Mandros Bell, Co-Personal Representatives, who have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the estate of the decedent. A probate has been opened in the First Judicial District Court at 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, NM, 87501. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the ﬁrst publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the attorney of the Co-Personal Representatives at the address listed below: Respectfully submitted, By: Slate Stern 1701 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505 Tel.: (505) 814-1517 Fax: (866) 848-8240 slate@slatestern.com www.slatestern.com Pub: Jan 4, 11, 18, 2024 LEGAL #92014 STATE OF NEW MEXICO STA COUNTY OF RIO ARRIBA ARRIBA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. 00179

D-117-CV D-117-CV-2023-

MARIANNE GRIEGO GRIEGO Plaintiff, vs. RICKContinued... BLEA, MARYELLEN MAR YELLEN BLEA, JOE ABEYTA, ABEYT A, EVA EV A ABEYT ABEYTA, A, EST ESTA ATE OF L LOURDES OURDES FRESQUEZ (Deceased),

Rick Blea LEGALS 119 County Road 116 Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant Maryellen Blea 119 County Road 116 Espanola, N:rvI 87532 Defendant Andrew Trujillo 119 County Road 16 Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant

Joe Abeyta 170 B Lower San Pedro Rd. Espanola, NM 87532 Plaintiff has filed a Defendant motion requesting that the Court approve Estate of Lourdes service of process Fresquez upon Defendant, An- (Deceased) 170 B drew Trujillo, by publi- Lower San Pedro cation in a newspaper Rd. of general circulation. Espanola, NM 87532 The Court finds that Defendant the Plaintiff has made diligent efforts to Pub.: Dec. 28, 2023 Jan make personal serv- 4, 11, 2024 ice, but has not been able to complete service of process at the last known address of LEGAL #92046 Defendant and through certified mail Bids can be and the Defendant has downloaded from our evaded service. website, The Court further finds w w w . g e n e r a l s e r that a newspaper of vices.state.nm.us/stat general circulation in epurchasing, QuesSanta Fe County is the tions? Call (505) 827Santa Fe New Mexican 0472. Sealed bids will and that this newspa- be publicly opened onper is one that is most line via Microsoft likely to give the De- Teams at 2:00 PM, fendant Andrew Tru- MST/MDT on dates injillo, notice of the dicated. Request for pendency of the ac- Proposals are due at tion. time indicated inside THEREFORE, IT IS RFP and are not HEREBY ORDERED that opened publicly. the Plaintiff serve h t t p s : / / t e a m s . m i process on Defendant crosoft.com/l/meetup Andrew Trujillo by - j o i n / 1 9 % 3 a m e e t publication once a i n g _ N D B m N m Q z M week for three consec- DUtNzNjYi00YzUyLTky utive weeks in the O G E t M T E 5 Z D Z i M Santa Fe New Mexican. GRhOGE2%40thread.v2 The Plaintiff shall file a /0?context=%7b%22Ti proof of service with a d%22%3a%2204aa6bf4 copy of the Affidavit of - d 4 3 6 - 4 2 6 f - b f a 4 Publication when 04b7a70e60ff%22%2c service has been com- %22Oid%22%3a%2217 pleted. 362856-1f15-4445-851cd0a4af6e7161%22%7d KATHLEEN MCGARRY ELLENWOOD 1/16/2024 DISTRICT COURT 40-80500-23-17075 JUDGE NMDOT Asphalt Concrete Open Graded Marianne Griego Friction Course D-3 P.O. Box 813 Espanola, NM 87532 1/22/2024 Pro Se PlaintitI 40-00000-23-00046 GSD RFI for Rick Blea On-Demand Remote 119 County Road 116 Interpreting (OPI and Espanola, NM 87532 VRI) and Document Defendant Translation

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Maryellen Blea 119 County Road 116 Espanola, N:rvI 87532 Defendant Andrew

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will be issued on January 4, 2024. Offerors interested in obtaining a copy may access and LEGALS LEGALS download the document from the EDD LEGAL #92093 website on January 4, 2024, at the following NOTICE TO CREDITORS: address: Estate of Mona R Schermerhorn, de- https://edd.newmexceased. Notice is ico.gov/about-us/pubhereby given that on lic-notices/ the 12th day of December, 2023, letters testa- PROCUREMENT MANmentary (or of AGER: administration as the Questions should be case may be) in re- addressed to the Prospect of the estate of curement Manager: Mona R Schermerhorn, who died September, Sara Gutierrez 23, 2023 in Albu- Deputy Division Direcquerque, NM, were is- tor, Economic Develsued to the opment Division undersigned, Kenneth NM Economic DevelD Parker, by the STATE opment Department OF NEW MEXICO IN Joseph Montoya BuildTHE PROBATE COURT ing SANTA FE COUNTY lo- PO Box 20003 cated at 100 Catron Santa Fe, NM 87504Street Santa Fe, NM 5003 87501. All persons, res- Email: sara.gutierident and non-resi- rez@edd.nm.gov dent, having claims, Phone: 505-231-4224 matured or unmatured, against the es- PRE-PROPOSAL CONtate are required to file FERENCE: the same with the A mandatory pre-proClerk of the above posal conference will named Court or the be held virtually on undersigned represen- Thursday, January 11, tative at 341 Creek Rd 2024, at 1:00 pm MST Boone NC 28607 on or via MS TEAMS. Virtual before the dates pre- conference details scribed in (1) or (2) available at the followotherwise their claims ing address: will be forever barred: (1) Four (4) months https://edd.newmexfrom the date of the ico.gov/about-us/pubfirst publication (or lic-notices/ posting of this notice) (2) Sixty (60) days PROPOSAL DUE DATE after the mailed re- AND TIME: Proposals ceipt of this notice. must be received by the Procurement ManPub: Jan 4, 11, 18, 2024 ager or her designee, no later than 12:00 pm LEGAL #92017 MDT on Friday, February 2, 2024. TITLE: NM Economic Development Depart- Proposals received ment (EDD) Request after this deadline will for Proposals (RFP): not be accepted. EDD Legal Counsel. Pub: Jan 4, 5, 8, 2024 PURPOSE: The purpose of the RFP is to solicit sealed proposals to establish a contract through competitive negotiations to select an offeror to provide professional legal services to the EDD and assist EDD General Counsel. Place Your

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ISSUANCE: The RFP will be issued on January 4, 2024. Offerors interested in obtaining a copy may access and download the document from the EDD website on January 4, 2024,Continued... at the following address: https://edd.newmexico.gov/about-us/public-notices/

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ACROSS 1 The class of ’26 in ’24, say 6 Its approval is often sought, in brief 9 Sit on the throne 14 Evidence that one is going into labor? 16 Result 17 Unlikely patron of a vegan restaurant 18 High-level advisers 19 Make do 20 Unfold, as a series of events 22 Beside 25 Sudden contraction 26 ___ Gorbachev, former Soviet first lady 29 Toddler on “Family Guy” 33 Astonishes 37 Clearing, as device storage 38 Fish in a dragon roll 39 Tanner’s applications 42 Org. in the Oscar-winning documentary “Citizenfour” 43 Armada ship 45 Unscripted comedy 47 French region known for its rieslings

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50 1978 Nobel Peace Prize recipient 51 Deserved comeuppance 54 Enterprise Holdings holding 57 Science fiction concept depicted three times in this puzzle 62 “Yo” 63 Big name in digital documents 64 War of words, in a sense 67 Opportunity on Mars, e.g. 68 Is yet to come 69 Zippers on a snowy day 70 Bartender’s serving, perhaps 71 Orchestra section DOWN 1 Word of distinction on a diploma 2 7’1” four-time N.B.A. champion 3 Cylinders like the 20,000+ housed in London’s Musical Museum 4 Not chilly, like chili 5 Forte and Strong once worked on it, for short

30 One getting into a cab, perhaps 31 “Not ___ many words” 32 Jennifer who wrote “A Visit From the Goon Squad” 33 Gaming company with the Yakuza franchise 34 Recover 35 ___ Seok-jin of K-pop’s BTS 36 Soaks (up) 40 Org. sued by the State of New York in 2020 41 Club mixer 44 Salt flat, once 46 ___-de-Marne (French department)

6 Bean in Egyptian cuisine 7 Bottom-of-thebarrel material 8 One who sells space or time, informally 9 Find another person to play 10 Chemical kickstarters 11 Aoki of golf 12 Wise guy 13 What Tupperware containers do, helpfully 15 Admit (to) 21 Sixth notes? 23 Scot’s refusal 24 ___ Scouts 27 ___ Paulo 28 Opera piece

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024: You are quick-witted and creative. Many of you are collectors. This is a year to work hard and take charge. MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Libra. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Today your ambition is aroused and your ability to communicate to others is excellent. A winning combination! With all

this helping you, reach for the stars! Tonight: You look good!

things done. Tonight: Get your rest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH This is a productive day for you, especially regarding discussions about shared property, taxes, debt and inheritances. Tonight: Explore!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH It’s a new year, and you’re inspired to be as productive as possible. Continue to work hard. Discussions about vacations, social outings and creative situations will go well today. Tonight: Work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH If you work in the entertainment world, the hospitality industry or with children, this is a productive day! It’s also an excellent day to plan social occasions and future vacations. Tonight: Check your finances. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH This is an excellent day for discussions about work, home, your health or anything to do with a pet. You’ll be proactive because you want to get

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Like everyone else, you’re in work mode this week; however, you also want to play! In fact, lucky Virgos might be sipping margaritas on a sandy beach. Tonight: Play! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Today the Moon is in your sign, which gives you an edge over all the other signs. Furthermore, the Moon is

dancing with Mercury, which enhances your ability to talk to others. Tonight: Home and family. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Because this is a busy, fast-paced week with errands, appointments, short trips plus increased reading and writing, why not take a backseat today? Tonight: Conversations! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH This is a lovely day for a heart-to-heart discussion with a friend, probably a female. In fact, if you share your hopes and dreams for the future, their feedback might help. Tonight: Protect your belongings. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Today you’re high-viz, which means people notice you

more than usual. In fact, some of them seem to know personal details about your private life. Like, what’s with that? Tonight: Exercise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Discussions with someone younger today will be lively! This person’s enthusiasm for something might influence you, especially in terms of travel or “getting away.” Tonight: Solitude. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH This is an excellent day to talk to bosses, parents, teachers or anyone in authority about taxes, debt, fines, levies, shared property or anything to do with the wealth and resources of someone else. Yes! Tonight: Be friendly.

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Ex-boyfriend wants reader and wife Dear Annie: My former boyfriend has a wife in the Philippines. He used to sometimes say, “Oh, stay with me, and we can keep sleeping together even when she moves to this country.” Why would someone say something like that? I have a difficult time figuring out what he really meant. — Perplexed Ex Dear Perplexed: I have a harder time understanding why you stuck around long enough for him to say that more than once. Clearly, he has no respect for you or for his wife. But the most important word in your letter is “former.” Thank goodness that he’s no longer your boyfriend. Pity to that woman if she’s still his wife. Dear Annie: You indicated that it was too late to send cards to our sailors and troops for Christmas. How’s about a little advance planning! Valentine’s Day is only about four weeks away. How can readers send cards to troops in celebration of that holiday? — Steve, USAF (retired) Dear Steve: This is a great idea. You can send valentines to deployed troops via Hugs for Soldiers. Please adhere to the following guidelines: —Do not send cards larger than 81/2 x 11 inches. —Do not use glitter or materials that easily break off. —Keep your messages positive. —Do not put individual valentines in sealed envelopes. Bundle cards and send in a single large envelope or box. Mail them to Hugs for Soldiers, P.O. Box 2887, Duluth, GA, 30096. For more tips, including instructions for shipping your cards via FedEx or UPS, visit www.hugs forsoldiers.org/valentine-cards. Dear Annie: This is in response to “Preferring Tradition.” I never liked when couples asked wedding guests to give cash instead of gifts, either. But my daughter and her husband ended up doing this. Many friends and relatives opted to give them gifts instead of cash. Well, my daughter and her now husband live in San Francisco, Calif., and the wedding was at home in the Midwest. They came by plane. The gifts had to go by mail, so it fell on Mom and Dad to box and mail all the gifts. We started to ship some, but the cost became so high that we instead decided to load up an SUV, take time off work and make a trip West. It was a real pain, boxing up glass. Now I think cash would have been nicer. — John K. Dear John K.: It was awfully generous of you and your wife to spend so much time and money on getting your daughter and son-in-law their presents. I hope that huge gift didn’t go unappreciated.

SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: WORDS INC. Each answer is a

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Answer________ 5. A single distinct event.

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Today is Thursday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2024. There are 362 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.

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something completely. Answer________

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. To become greater or larger. Answer________ 2. Money that someone gets from working. Answer________ 3. To put someone in prison.

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PH.D. LEVEL 7. Invested with bodily nature and form. Answer________ 8. Not pleasant weather. Answer________ 9. A sudden attack on an area controlled

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• Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. • The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. • Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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ANSWERS: 1. Increase. 2. Income. 3. Incarcerate. 4. Incite. 5. Incident. 6. Incinerate. 7. Incarnate. 8. Inclement. 9. Incursion. SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2024 Ken Fisher

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