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Kinship care climbs in N.M. Report: Number of children raised by family members grew 20% from ’17 to ’23 despite declines nationally

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About 36,000 children across New Mexico — 8% of all kids in the state — are raised by their grandparents or other relatives rather than their parents, a new study found.

It’s a family dynamic — uniquely common in the state — that brings both joy and strain to households. Grandparents suddenly become parents again

and must navigate the legal complexities of guardianship, adjust to a different lifestyle and financially support a child, often while living on a fixed income.

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Big windfall for New Mexico General Electric says turbine order for SunZia clean energy project breaks company records

Despite staff objections over demolition of historic buildings, review board votes 5-0 to approve development

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The city of Santa Fe’s Historic Districts Review Board unanimously approved a request late Tuesday night for a new 56,000-square-foot Georgia O’Keeffe Museum downtown, despite objections from Historic Preservation Division staff.

The 5-0 vote came after a nearly fourhour public hearing that ended with one board member calling a staff report “kind of a hit job” on the high-profile project after it had received positive feedback from the board during two previous informational sessions.

The report found design and other exceptions were required for approval of the museum project at 123 and 135 Grant Ave., the site of the museum’s Education Annex and a former Safeway grocery store.

“In my view, and, certainly, in the view of many of the public, we are extraordinarily lucky to be the home city for the only museum in the world that is dedicated to a singular female Please see story on Page A-4

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A worker atop a wind turbine at the Borderland Wind Project in Western New Mexico. GE Vernova is set to build 674 turbines that will be used for the SunZia Wind Project in Central New Mexico, which is expected to be the largest wind farm in the Western Hemisphere when it comes online in 2026.

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ALBUQUERQUE business to be spun off by General Electric will build hundreds of turbines for what will be the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere, part of a massive equipment order and long-term service agreement with the global renewable-energy giant Pattern Energy.

GE Vernova officials announced the agreement Tuesday, saying it is the largest onshore wind turbine order received by the company, both in quantity and in the amount of

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Construction is in full swing on SunZia, using American-made turbine components and creating thousands of good-paying new jobs.” Hunter Armistead, Pattern Energy CEO electricity that the 674 turbines will eventually generate when the SunZia Wind Project comes online in 2026.

Construction already is underway on the SunZia wind farm and an associated multibillion-dollar transmission line that will funnel power to populated markets in the Western United States. Pattern Energy just weeks ago announced it had closed on $11 billion

in financing for the projects.

Backers see SunZia — described as an energy infrastructure undertaking larger than that of the Hoover Dam — as a pivotal project. The venture has attracted significant financial capital and stands to boost the percentage of the nation’s electricity that comes from renewable sources amid escalating state and federal energy mandates.

Still, some Native American tribes and environmentalists worry about the location of a 50-mile segment of the transmission line where it will pass through Arizona’s San Pedro Valley. The federal government already had approved the siting, but tribal leaders said there should have been more consultation.

In December, the U.S. Energy Department reported the private sector over the past three years has announced investments of more than $180 billion in new or expanded clean energy manufacturing projects across the nation, including spending on development of larger, higher

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counsel Jack Smith — their queries to him were not quite as aggressive. The panel adjourned the hearing after about an hour and 15 minutes and reserved judgment for another day.

The case is expected to eventually reach the Supreme Court. Its pace and outcome will be central in deciding when — or even whether — Trump will go to trial in the election interference case, which is unfolding in U.S. District Court

Radioactive contaminants were detected on a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee’s skin while leaving a room that was supposed to have been decontaminated, according to a government watchdog’s report.

The room is among the work areas in the plutonium facility being “decontaminated and decommissioned.”

In this case, crews are removing the support systems of the sealed compartments known as glove boxes, used to handle radioactive materials, to prepare for new equipment. The old components have some degree of radioactive contamination.

It’s part of the lab’s effort to ready the facility for a yearly production of 30 nuclear bomb cores, or pits, to modernize the arsenal and equip two new warheads being developed.

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IN BRIEF Tornadoes in South add to severe U.S. weather as blizzard hits Plains Several powerful storms were disrupting life around the United States on Tuesday, closing schools, snarling traffic and cutting power across swaths of the Pacific Northwest, the Plains, the Midwest, the South and the East Coast.

Severe thunderstorms and apparent tornadoes ripped across the Florida Panhandle early Tuesday, downing power lines and trees and damaging buildings. There have been at least 10 reports of tornadoes in the South, according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. At least three deaths were reported.

Blizzard conditions persisted in the High Plains through the Upper Midwest on Tuesday, with potentially more on the way by the end of the week. And A potent cold front continued to affect the Pacific Northwest, bringing several feet of heavy snow and blizzard conditions across the Cascades. Heavy snow will also continue to blanket the Northern Rockies.

Millions to lose affordable internet unless Congress extends subsidies Millions of households will lose discounts on their internet bills in the coming months if Congress does not act to extend an affordable-internet program.

The Federal Communications Commission says it will begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program this week if it cannot secure more funding from Congress.

Launched at the end of 2021, the ACP allowed some 23 million low-income households to receive discounts on their internet bills of up to $30 a month — or up to $75 a month on qualifying tribal lands.

The FCC said the $14.2 billion that Congress appropriated for the program will run out in April. The program — which the FCC calls the country’s largest internet affordability program ever — will be shut down unless funding is renewed. FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel sent letters dated Monday to congressional leaders seeking $6 billion to continue the program through the end of 2024.

U.S. citizen arrested in Russia amid negotiations for two other prisoners MOSCOW — A U.S. citizen has been arrested on drug charges in Russia, officials said Tuesday, a move that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine.

The arrest of Robert Woodland Romanov was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts. It said the Ostankino District Court ruled Saturday to keep him in custody for two months on charges of preparing to get involved in illegal drug trafficking pending an official investigation. It didn’t offer any details of the accusations.

The news about the arrest come as Washington has sought to win the release of jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich. The State Department said last month it had put multiple offers on the table but they had been rejected by the Russian government.

Amazon debuts video-streaming feature that rivals Apple AirPlay Amazon introduced a new feature that mimics Apple’s AirPlay while working across different platforms, setting the stage for iPhone and Android users to wirelessly stream video to its TV hardware.

The feature, called Matter Casting, is part of a push by Amazon to create interoperable services — an alternative to the propriety technology developed by Apple and Google. It will make it easier for iOS and Android phones to send video to Amazon devices, such as its Fire TV boxes and sticks, as well as the Echo Show 15 smart display.

For years, Apple’s AirPlay and Google’s Cast have offered this capability, letting users enjoy video from their phones on a large TV screen. But those systems don’t always work smoothly across platforms. Amazon also was at a disadvantage because it doesn’t have its own smartphone.

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Residents of a riverside community in Brazil near the Amazon carry food and containers of drinking water from an aid distribution site in October amid a record drought in the area. Climate change was responsible for the increasing extreme weather events around the globe.

Experts: World blew past heat record last year Europe climate agency says 2023 nearly hit agreed Paris warming limit

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arth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

The European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. That’s barely below the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) limit the world hoped to stay within in the 2015 Paris climate accord to avoid the most severe effects of warming.

And January 2024 is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree threshold, Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said. Scientists have repeatedly said Earth would need to average 1.5 degrees of warming over two or three decades to be a technical breach of the threshold.

The 1.5 degree goal “has to be [kept] alive because lives are at risk and choices have to be made,” Burgess said. “And these choices don’t impact you and I, but they impact our children and our grandchildren.”

The record heat made life miserable and sometimes deadly in Europe, North America, China and many other places last year. But scientists say a warming climate is also to blame for more extreme weather events, like the lengthy drought that devastated the Horn of Africa, the torrential downpours that wiped out dams and killed thousands in Libya and the Canada wildfires that fouled the air from North America to Europe.

In a separate Tuesday press event, international climate scientists who calculate global warming’s role in extreme weather, the group’s leader, Imperial College climate scientist Friederike Otto said “we definitely see in our analysis the strong impact of it being the hottest year.”

The World Weather Attribution team only looks at events that affect at least 1 million people or kill more than 100 people. But Otto said her team was overwhelmed with more than 160 of those in 2023, and could only conduct 14 studies, many of them on killer heat waves. “Basically

every heat wave that is occurring today has been made more likely and is hotter because of human-induced climate change,” she said.

Antarctic sea ice hit record low levels in 2023 and broke eight monthly records for low sea ice, Copernicus reported.

Copernicus calculated the global average temperature for 2023 was about one-sixth of a degree Celsius warmer than the old record, set in 2016. While that seems a small amount in global record-keeping, it’s an exceptionally large margin for the new record, Burgess said.

Earth’s average temperature for 2023 was 14.98 degrees Celsius, Copernicus calculated.

“It was record-breaking for seven months.

We had the warmest June, July, August, September, October, November, December,” Burgess said. “It wasn’t just a season or a month that was exceptional. It was exceptional for over half the year.”

There are several factors that made 2023 the warmest year on record, but by far the biggest factor was the ever-increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that trap heat, Burgess said. Those gases come from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Other factors including the natural El Niño — a temporary warming of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide — other natural oscillations in the Arctic, southern and Indian oceans, increased solar activity and the 2022 eruption of an undersea volcano that sent water vapor into the atmosphere, Burgess said.

Malte Meinshausen, a University of Melbourne climate scientist, said about 1.3 degrees Celsius of the warming comes from greenhouse gases, with another 0.1 degrees Celsius from Niño and the rest being smaller causes.

Copernicus records only go back to 1940 and are based on a combination of observations and forecast models. Other groups, including the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office and Berkeley Earth go back to the mid-1800s and will announce their calculations for 2023 on Friday, with expectations of record-breaking marks.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency and the University of Alabama Huntsville global dataset also found record heat in their calculations.

World Bank warns of ‘wasted’ decade because of crises

By Alan Rappeport

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WASHINGTON — The global economy is at risk of a “wasted” decade and the weakest stretch of growth in 30 years, the World Bank warned Tuesday, saying a sluggish recovery from the pandemic and crippling wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are expected to weigh heavily on output.

In its semiannual Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank projected the growth in world output will slow further in 2024, declining to 2.4% from 2.6%. Although the global economy has been surprisingly resilient, the report warned its forecasts were subject to heightened uncertainty

because of the two wars, a diminished Chinese economy and the increasing risks of natural disasters caused by global warming.

The converging crises in recent years have put the world economy on track for the weakest half-decade in 30 years.

“Without a major course correction, the 2020s will go down as a decade of wasted opportunity,” said Indermit Gill, the World Bank Group’s chief economist.

Global growth is projected to slow for the third straight year in 2024.

Developing countries are bearing the brunt of the slowdown, with high borrowing costs and anemic trade volumes weighing on their economies.

Although policymakers have made progress in bringing inflation down from its 2022 high, the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas is threatening to become a broader conflict that could spur a new bout of price increases by causing the cost of oil and food to spike.

“The recent conflict in the Middle East, coming on top of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, has heightened geopolitical risks,” the report said. “Conflict escalation could lead to surging energy prices, with broader implications for global activity and inflation.”

The recent drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia have already affected

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Millions of gig workers, janitors, home-care workers, construction workers and truckers could be considered employees rather than independent contractors under a final rule announced Tuesday by the Labor Department.

The rule effectively expands the reach of federal labor laws that require employers to extend certain benefits and protections to workers classified as employees.

Those include the right to the minimum wage, overtime pay, unemployment insurance and Social Security benefits — which employers are not required to provide to independent contractors.

The rule will “help create a level playing field for businesses, protect workers from being denied the right to fair pay and affirm the vital role true independent contractors play in our economy by allowing them to thrive,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told reporters on a call Monday.

The rule is to be published Wednesday and would take effect March 11, officials said.

Backed by labor advocates, the rule is expected to face an onslaught of legal challenges from companies. It has faced extensive criticism from businesses and industry groups, including those representing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other ride-share and delivery platforms. But labor officials say they have carefully considered possible litigation and are confident the rule would withstand a court challenge.

The new rule rescinds a Trump-era rule from 2021 that made it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors, marking one of the most expansive regulatory actions taken by the Biden Labor Department so far.

It revives a test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor who is self-employed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The review considers six factors, including how much control an employer has over working conditions, a worker’s financial investment in their job and any opportunities a worker has for turning a profit.

The measure is a win for Su, who has faced an uphill battle in securing confirmation in the Senate. Industry groups have fiercely opposed her, especially her position about who qualifies as an independent contractor. In California, where she served as labor commissioner, she oversaw changes making it harder to classify workers as independent contractors.

The Biden administration launched a second attempt to nominate Su as labor secretary on Monday, though her path forward remains uncertain.

The law also gives individual workers the right to sue if they believe they’ve been misclassified.

Jessica Looman, the Labor Department’s administrator of the wage and hour division, told reporters the division, which enforces the independent contractor rule, would focus on protecting “the most vulnerable, essential workers.”

Nicole Moore, a Lyft driver and president of Rideshare Drivers United, an advocacy organization for Uber and Lyft drivers in California, said she is excited to see the new rule’s impact on gig workers.

“This is absolutely what needs to happen in the jobs where basically an algorithm is our boss,” Moore said.

“Anytime the company wants to profit more, they cut our pay. A lot of the rides right now pay us less than the cost of operating our vehicles.”

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Austin’s NASA delays moon launches Stopgap bill probable leave leads Plans to have astronauts orbit moon to fund government late in 2024, land in fall of 2025 to probe House, Senate leaders each pushed back by about a year agreed to framework of policy Monday, but little hope

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Defense secretary was hospitalized last week for prostate cancer; officials were not aware of December diagnosis

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WASHINGTON — The White House ordered Cabinet secretaries Tuesday to keep President Joe Biden’s staff informed when they may not be able to perform their duties after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for several days last week without telling Lloyd Austin the president or his staff.

In a memo, Jeffrey Zients, the White House chief of staff, directed Cabinet officers to evaluate their current policies for delegating authority when a secretary is incapacitated and to forward those procedures to the White House for review. In the meantime, Zients made clear White House officials expected to be kept up to date about developments such as major medical issues.

“Notify the Offices of Cabinet Affairs and White House Chief of Staff in the event of a delegation of authority or potential delegation,” Zients wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The New York Times. “This notification should occur when agencies anticipate or are preparing for a delegation of authority and again when the delegation occurs.” He added that he wanted any such notification in writing.

The directive by Zients came just before Austin’s doctors publicly disclosed the secretary’s hospitalization stemmed from complications from prostate cancer surgery. The Pentagon had previously declined to specify what forced the secretary to be taken by ambulance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., last week, failing to explain the nature of his condition even to the White House.

While doctors in their new statement disclosed Austin first received the prostate cancer diagnosis in “early December,” aides to the president said neither Biden nor anyone else at the White House knew about the diagnosis until Tuesday morning when finally told by the Pentagon, at which point Zients informed Biden.

White House spokesperson John Kirby said Biden’s “first and foremost concern is the secretary’s health” and the president still had “full faith and confidence” in Austin and would keep him until the end of his term.

But Kirby acknowledged concerns with the secrecy. “It’s not good,” he told reporters at a briefing. “It’s certainly not good, which is why we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

The White House memo to the Cabinet reflected the sense of consternation in the West Wing that the nation’s top defense official could be in the intensive care unit for so long without the president or other major national security officials being aware of it. Even Austin’s deputy secretary, who would be called upon to act in a crisis in his absence, was not told at first.

Biden has signaled he does not plan to fire Austin because of the incident despite calls by some Republicans to do so, but people close to the White House described a deep frustration and bafflement among some in the president’s team. Austin, a reserved retired general, does not have a particularly intimate relationship with Biden or his team, but he is generally well liked and respected, making the situation all the more upsetting to them.

Kirby confirmed the White House was not told of the Dec. 22 procedure either, even though it involved Austin being put under general anesthesia.

Austin resumed his duties Friday from his hospital bed and “has received operational updates and has provided necessary guidance” from there, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said in a statement Monday, but it was not clear when he would be released. The Pentagon said the secretary “is recovering and is in good spirits.”

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday.

The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around the moon late this year but pushed the flight to September 2025. The first human moon landing in more than 50 years also got bumped, from 2025 to September 2026. NASA cited safety concerns with its own spacecraft, as well as development issues with the moonsuits and landers coming from private industry.

“Safety is our top priority,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. The delays will “give Artemis teams more time to work through the challenges.”

The news came barely an hour after a Pittsburgh company abandoned its own attempt to land its spacecraft on the moon because of a mission-ending fuel leak.

Launched Monday as part of NASA’s commercial lunar program, Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine lander was supposed to serve as a scout for the astronauts. A Houston company will give it a shot with its own lander next month.

NASA is relying heavily on private companies for its Artemis moon-landing program for astronauts, named after the mythological twin sister of Apollo.

SpaceX’s Starship mega rocket will be needed to get the first Artemis moonwalkers from lunar orbit down to the surface and back up. But the nearly 400-foot rocket has launched from Texas only twice, exploding both times over the Gulf of Mexico. A third test flight is planned for February.

The longer it takes to get Starship into orbit around Earth, first with satellites and then crews, the longer NASA will have to wait to attempt its

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A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft in June 2022 as it is prepared for launch. On Tuesday, NASA said it was delaying its plan to send astronauts around the moon a year to late 2025.

first moon landing with astronauts since 1972.

The Government Accountability Office warned in November that NASA was likely looking at 2027 for its first astronaut moon landing, citing Elon Musk’s Starship as one of the many technical challenges. Another potential hurdle: the development of moonwalking suits by Houston’s Axiom Space.

“We need them all to be ready and all to be successful in order for that very complicated mission to come together,” said Amit Kshatriya, NASA’s deputy associate administrator. He added even with the delay, a 2026 moon landing represents “a very aggressive schedule.”

NASA has only one Artemis moonshot under its belt so far. In a test flight of its new moon rocket in 2022, the space agency sent an empty Orion capsule into lunar orbit and returned it to Earth. To engineers’ surprise, some charred material came off the capsule’s heat shield during reentry. Later, testing of another capsule uncovered a design flaw in the life-support electronics, and separate battery issues popped up.

It’s the same kind of capsule that will carry astronauts to and from the moon.

Blinken pushes Israel to ease violence ber of countries in the region,” Blinken told Israeli President The Washington Post Isaac Herzog ahead of their meeting at a Tel Aviv hotel. “I JERUSALEM — Secretary of want to share some of what I’ve State Antony Blinken pushed heard from those leaders with top Israeli leaders in back-tothe president as well as with the back meetings Tuesday to limit prime minister and the Cabinet civilian casualties in Gaza, avoid later today.” all-out war with Hezbollah miliWhile wide gaps remain tants in Lebanon and get serious among players in the region, about planning for what comes the secretary is pushing govafter the fighting finally ends, ernments to see the crisis as a said U.S. officials. potential inflection point in the Blinken, the top diplomat of decades-long conflict. He told Israel’s most vital ally, is preIsraeli officials Monday ending senting a plan for Gaza’s future the war would give it a chance to to Israeli leaders based on his improve ties with Arab neighbors, meetings with leaders in Saudi relations that were notably Arabia, the United Arab Emirwarming before the Oct. 7 attacks ates, Qatar, Jordan, Greece and by Hamas. And he has touted Turkey before arriving in Israel. postwar rebuilding, with nonIn meetings with Israel’s Hamas Palestinians at the center, president, prime minister, defense minister and emergency as a possible pathway to a future war cabinet, Blinken is pressing Palestinian state.

Blinken, however, has not Israel to reduce the scale of offered details on how the civilian casualties in the Gaza United States would overcome war — already one of the century’s most destructive conflicts the sticking points that have bedeviled every previous U.S. — where about 23,000 people have been killed to date, accord- administration in forging a path to a Palestinian state. ing to Gaza health officials.

The two-day diplomatic blitz, But the gaps between the Israelis and Arab leaders remain capping Blinken’s fourth Middle East swing in three months, vast as far-right members of the Netanyahu government call comes amid mixed signals from Israel about the pace of easing for the mass displacement of the fight in Gaza. civilians from Gaza and have dismissed American calls for Military officials have a “revamped and revitalized” announced troop drawdowns in Palestinian Authority to play a the northern part of the enclave, role in postwar Gaza. allowing some residents to “I’ve just come from a numventure back to their ravaged

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neighborhoods. Israel said it will turn to more targeted raids there.

But fighting continues to rage in southern and central Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials have said there will be no end to hostilities for months.

Almost 250 Gazans were killed in the 24 hours before Blinken’s arrival, according to Palestinian health authorities. Nearby Israeli attacks Monday forced refugees to flee the last functioning hospital in central Gaza, a region packed with tens of thousands of displaced civilians.

Congress may need to pass a temporary government funding bill before a looming deadline to prevent a partial shutdown — even though leaders announced a spending deal over the weekend meant to keep the government open.

Funding for roughly 20% of the federal government — including for essential programs such as some veterans assistance, and food and drug safety services — expires Jan. 19, and money for the rest of the government runs out shortly after that, on Feb. 2.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday agreed to spend $1.66 trillion in the 2024 fiscal year, which ends in September.

But that agreement left mere days to pass several spending bills, each worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Those measures will face steep opposition from far-right House Republicans who have demanded budget cuts and called the Johnson-Schumer deal a “total failure.” Any delays could push the government into at least a partial shutdown, if Congress cannot act before the deadlines.

That means lawmakers may need to enact a stopgap spending measure, known as a continuing resolution or CR, Senate leaders of both parties said Tuesday.

“We are all working nonstop right now to get this done, but we are obviously crunched for time,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Appropriations Committee, told reporters.

“They have a top-line agreement, Schumer and the speaker.

In the meantime, we need to prevent a government shutdown,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said.

“The obvious question is how long does the CR need to be?

That will be up to the majority leader and the speaker, to determine the length of the CR.” At the Senate’s usual plodding pace, passing a single spending bill takes a week, at best — let alone the four that must pass by next Friday to prevent a partial shutdown. Lawmakers still need to allocate funds among the 12 appropriations — or long-term financing — bills. Then they need to draft the legislative texts, a cumbersome legalistic process, and members need time to review the measures. In the Senate, each bill needs support from at least 60 members in a process that could require as many as 30 hours of debate to dodge a filibuster.

That process takes far less time in the House, where leaders can exert more control over the floor and ram legislation through rapidly.

But Johnson, who’s only held the speakership since late October, has also struggled to corral his raucous Republican conference. He’s especially tussled recently with the volatile and archconservative House Freedom Caucus, which ousted his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., over spending issues.

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grandchildren has been the subject of studies and task forces, advisory councils and proposed legislation.

Despite attention to the issue, it’s becoming increasingly common in New Mexico while declining elsewhere.

A new report set for release Wednesday by the LANL Foundation found the number of children in New Mexico raised by grandparents or other family members increased 20% from 2017 to 2023, or about 6,000 kids, even as numbers decreased nationwide.

Researchers, who examined census data, framed the upcoming 2024 legislative session as the time to do something about the growing number of kids in kinship care — those raised by aunts and uncles, older siblings, grandparents or even great-grandparents. They recommend policy changes to provide additional services to kinship care families and ensure easier access to services.

While previous attempts to improve services for children in kinship care largely have failed in past legislative sessions, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 — which would set aside large sums of money for grandparents raising grandchildren and other services for seniors — indicates this might be the year for change.

“As we’re going into this legislative session, I can’t think of a better use of dedicating a portion of our increased state revenues to supporting these families,” said Catherine Guy, one of the report’s authors and an independent consultant for the LANL Foundation.

She was referring to record-high projected recurring state revenues of nearly $13 billion, including about $3.5 billion in so-called new money, largely from oil and gas operations. The governor and Legislative Finance Committee released separate spending plans of more than $10 billion last week for the next fiscal year.

One caveat of the LANL Foundation’s study: It likely undercounts the number of children in the state who are raised by family members other than parents.

Guy said the true number is probably higher because formal data collection processes — which gather information provided by child welfare agencies and self-reported by households — may not capture the informal agreements among family members that result in a close relative caring for a child.

Still, the report tells a clear story, Guy said. “This is an issue of critical importance in New Mexico in a unique way.”

The LANL Foundation report recommends policy changes with a goal of knitting together a network of services for kinship care families, said Kersti Tyson, director of research and evaluation at the foundation and an author of the report.

while escorting carpenters into the room, because guidelines only require someone to don full protective gear when a crew is doing work that could release contaminants, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said in a December report.

The report noted a room is supposed to be decontaminated to enable a person to enter in a lab coat. But a radioactive substance — described as a particle — was missed.

An alarm sounded as the employee’s hands and feet were scanned at the exit, the report said. Personnel found one hand was affected and decontaminated it.

The room had several “contamination spreads” and instances of personnel having their protective gear contaminated in the previous several weeks, the most likely sources of the lingering radioactivity, the report said.

In an email, lab spokesman Steven Horak wrote contamination spreading in a room is not normal, because engineered controls — such as air filtering and containment systems — as well as permit guidelines are designed to quell it at the source.

“But PPE [personal protective equipment] and the immediate work area may become contaminated below the radiological work permit’s suspension limits,” Horak wrote.

Neither the safety board’s report nor Horak’s email indicated whether the room’s previous contamination remained within the permit’s allowable limits.

The worker’s skin being contaminated triggered the safety board’s report, Horak wrote, adding workers’ protective equipment getting contaminated during this type of project is tracked but not reported.

The report described two other incidents the day before in the facility’s basement, suggesting airborne radioactive contamination.

A worker’s protective gear was contaminated. The next day a crew, accompanied by a radiological technician, inspected waste bags as the possible cause but found no leak or damage.

Contamination was detected on three of the workers’ gear during body scans, with air-monitor alarms sounding as they left the basement.

Nuclear safety advocates said the larger concern is the increased frequency that employees are being contaminated through mishaps or even normal workdays as the lab pushes to make pits that can detonate warheads.

“This is not a one-off. This is a pattern,” said Dan Hirsch, retired director of environment and nuclear policy programs at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “This suggests the lab does not have sufficient controls to undertake the extraordinarily hazardous, new operations of pit production. They are having repeated contamination events, which shouldn’t be occurring.”

The lab had a string of glove box mishaps in 2023 that well surpassed the number logged in previous one-year periods.

In a recent incident, a sealed compartment caught on fire while workers were pulverizing 40-year-old legacy materials.

No workers were contaminated or breathed in radioactive toxins, but a

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Vickie Luviano holds the last letter 5-year-old Ezra wrote for his father in prison. A new report set for release Wednesday by the LANL Foundation found the number of children in New Mexico raised by grandparents or other family members increased 20% from 2017 to 2023, or about 6,000 kids.

TAKEAWAYS ◆ A new report by the LANL Foundation found 36,000 children in New Mexico are raised by grandparents or other relatives, a figure that has increased since 2017 despite national trends in the opposite direction. ◆ The foundation’s researchers recommended a series of policy changes — including stipends, legal aid and expanded kinship navigation services — to create an accessible network of services for grandparents and relatives raising children. ◆ Policy changes geared toward grandparents raising children, which have largely failed in past years, may pop up again during the 2024 legislative session, which begins Jan. 16. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive budget recommendation for fiscal year 2025 sets aside large sums for grandparents raising grandchildren and other services for seniors.

First, the report recommends improving outreach and engagement to kinship guardians and appropriations of funding to help families access a range of resources, from legal aid to health care, housing and food aid.

One crucial change it suggests: Shifting services that connect kinship families with resources away from the long-troubled state Children, Youth and Families Department. This might encourage more families to take advantage the help, the report says.

In addition to the child welfare agency’s ongoing staffing woes and lackluster performance when it comes to protecting kids from repeat maltreatment, many grandparents raising grandchildren avoid contacting CYFD due to fear and stigmas, Guy said.

She believes families might be more amenable to accessing services through the state’s Aging and Long-Term Services Department or Human Services Department.

“These grandparents touch lots of agencies, and it can be a bit of a maze navigating those agencies,” Guy said.

“But the notion is that maybe Aging and Long-Term Services is a more welcoming door through which grandparents and kin can enter the system.”

The report also recommends legislative appropriations to provide families

with legal assistance and monthly stipends, similar to those provided to foster families.

“Now, people are just at the place of: What we need to move into is action, not pulling together another study group,” Tyson said. “I think that there is consensus across that, both legislatively and in the executive branch.”

Along with proposing big increases for education and public safety, Lujan Grisham included a $17.2 million line item in her proposed executive budget to provide incentives to grandparents and other relatives raising children, one of several recommendations intended to bolster child well-being.

The governor’s spending plan includes other appropriations that could assist kinship families, such as $20.8 million to increase federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from $25 per month to $125 per month for elderly and disabled people — a category that would cover a lot of grandparents.

It’s cause for hope, Tyson said.

“We were excited to see that this is in the governor’s budget, and it’s on the radar of our executive branch,” she said. “I think that, through the different levels of advocacy that have happened over the different years, it’s definitely on legislators’ minds as well.”

ceptual level,” Lamboy said. “My charge and staff’s charge is to look at the code and make sure that we apply the code.”

Many residents spoke in favor of the Continued from Page A-1 O’Keeffe Museum at the hearing, in particular for its design. artist, and that institution has chosen Jaime Clements, president and CEO of to double down and invest further in the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe,” Anthony Guida said. called the design refined, elegant and “What’s the city’s angle behind want“absolutely luscious in its simplicity.” ing to defeat this project?” he asked.

A handful of people spoke in opposiThe board ultimately approved the tion, including Santa Fe native Ray Herproject as submitted and didn’t require rera, who said the proposed museum is any exceptions. “totally inappropriate” at that location.

Heather Lamboy, the city’s assistant “Putting this monstrosity next to the planning and land use director, said the [Otero-Bergere House] is really a slap question isn’t whether she or the staff like the project, which has been years in in the face to our community,” he said.

“We are losing the true structure of the making.

Santa Fe by allowing this construction “It’s whether it meets code,” she said. to be built in the downtown district. …

The $75 million expansion, near the Just because this building is being built current O’Keeffe Museum on Johnson with adobe — give me a break.”

Street, includes a large adobe building Meanwhile, the city postponed action and nearly an acre of green space. on a separate downtown land use case Museum Director Cody Hartley said that also has generated opposition. in an interview in late October the The board was scheduled to consider museum has long needed more space a series of requests to demolish six propto “showcase, conserve, repair and erties on South Capitol Street and Don store” its collection.

“At the beginning, we mentioned that Gaspar Avenue to make room for a largethis is a really great project in concept,” scale state government office building across the street from the Roundhouse.

Lamboy told the Historic Districts The applicant failed to conduct a Review Board. “It is a great project. public outreach process first, Lamboy What our charge is to do is to look at told the board. the historic districts ordinance from The New Mexico General Services several points of view, and those points Department is requesting the demoliof view include the preservation of existing historic resources, the mainte- tions. JenkinsGavin, a Santa Fe-based nance of streetscapes and the style. The development management firm, is repreboard may have disagreed with us, and senting the department before the board.

“I asked [the applicant] back in Octothat’s fine.” ber whether there was a public outAt previous sessions on the project, staff wasn’t reviewing the code but pro- reach that was done with preservation groups and other community members viding general information, she said. as is required,” Lamboy said.

“My charge is not to review a case based on feedback at a very high con“At that time, the applicant said that

they would check with the state,” she continued. “To date, none of that outreach has happened, so that is why the city is postponing … those cases indefinitely, until which time we can assure that the public outreach has taken place.”

The state of New Mexico is seeking approval to demolish the six properties, some of them historic homes, to construct a 200,000-square-foot, multistory office building that would be nearly the same size as the state Capitol.

JenkinsGavin also represented the O’Keeffe Museum in its request before the board.

The city’s case manager on the museum proposal, Paul Duran, said staff didn’t believe the design of the proposed 32-foot-tall building meets the city’s standards.

He called the building “massive” and described it as “mass over mass.”

“There’s a lot of solid block flat surfaces, and that is alarming to staff in the Historic Preservation Division,” he said.

“It’s dense, thick, solid.”

Most of the people who spoke during the hearing disagreed.

“It beautifully reflects Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensibilities and not only reinforces historic characteristics of downtown Santa Fe but strengthens them with the use of true adobe,” Clements said, referring to plans for the exterior to be built primarily with mud bricks.

“This design is a perfect fit for place and purpose,” he added. “It needs no embellishment.”

Artist Jerry West echoed the sentiment, saying it would be a “real thrill” to see a building made of adobe.

“Lots of details I don’t know about this building, but I’m very encouraged to see that we’re moving in that direction and a really authentic adobe structure,” he said.

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in judgment over official actions that a president had taken while in office.

Henderson pointed out that until Trump was indicted, courts had never Continued from Page A-1 had to consider the criminal liability of ex-presidents for things they did in office. in Washington. It could also go a long Henderson also seemed less than way in determining the timing of the convinced by Sauer’s argument that three other criminal trials that Trump is Trump was acting in his role as presifacing in the months ahead. dent and upholding his constitutional In one tough moment for Trump, duty to preserve the integrity of the who was present for the hearing but did election when he sought to overturn his not speak, Judge Karen Henderson, the loss to President Joe Biden. sole Republican appointee on the panel, “I think it’s paradoxical to say that his pushed back on an argument made by his constitutional duty to ‘take care that the lawyer, D. John Sauer, that for more than laws be faithfully executed’ allows him 200 years American courts had never sat to violate criminal law,” Henderson said.

At one point, Judge Florence Pan presented Sauer with an hypothetical situation, asking if a president could be criminally charged for ordering SEAL Team 6 — an elite commando unit — to assassinate a political rival.

Sauer said that a prosecution would be possible in that situation only if the president had first been found guilty in an impeachment proceeding.

When Pearce addressed the court on behalf of the special counsel’s office, he seized on Pan’s example. Pearce said it was a terrifying prospect that a president could use the military to kill a rival and then escape criminal liability by simply resigning before he could be impeached.

TAKEAWAYS ◆ Radioactive contaminants were detected on a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee’s skin while leaving a room that was supposed to have been decontaminated ◆ The affected employee was wearing a lab coat and booties for protection while escorting carpenters into the room because guidelines allow it when a room is fully decontaminated and no dismantling of equipment is taking place. In this case, a radioactive particle was missed. ◆ Nuclear safety advocates said the larger concern is the increased frequency that employees are being contaminated through mishaps or even normal workdays as the lab pushes to make pits that can detonate warheads.

section of the facility was shut down for 10 days.

A week later, a worker lost control of a container inside a glove box, causing it to slam against the window. It shattered the outer leaded glass used as radiation shielding. Nasal swabs indicated the worker might have inhaled airborne contaminants, so the employee was given an examination known as a bioassay.

Earlier in the year, the lab recorded five glove box breaches in four weeks.

Horak has said worker safety remains the highest priority regardless of the pace of the work. With all abnormal events, including the latest ones, managers meet with personnel to discuss what went wrong and how controls can be improved to be more effective, he wrote in an email.

But one anti-nuclear activist contends more lapses are likely to happen with the lab being pressed to pursue pit manufacturing while doing daily operations in a facility growing busier and more crowded.

“They’re under pressure — that’s a big part of this,” said Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group.

“There’s too much going on in this facility.”

Decontaminating a room is a painstaking process that is more likely to be rushed with the push to get the decommissioning work done, Mello said, which means radioactive particles can be missed, as was the case here.

The lab should not try to normalize events that potentially imperil workers just because they’re happening more often, Mello said. “Personal contamination and airborne contamination should never be accepted or normalized.”

Horak insisted the plutonium facility is one of the safest places in the country because of the redundant safety measures in place to protect the work force and the community.

“We have ongoing programs to ensure the safe handling of materials,” Horak wrote.

But Hirsch argued the plain truth is a worker with almost no protective gear was let inside a room that was presumed to be decontaminated and wasn’t — resulting in a risk to the person’s health.

And this is just the latest incident in a short period, he said.

“I could see one of these events every few months,” Hirsch said. “You had multiple ones in a week.”

Big windfall for New Mexico good-paying new jobs — a big win for the growing clean energy economy,” capacity wind turbines. GE has been Armistead said in a statement. among the companies to take advantage GE Vernova will tap its factory in Penof tax credits included in the federal sacola, Fla., for the large order, as well as Inflation Reduction Act. tower manufacturing operations in New However, after years of record growth, Mexico, Colorado and Texas. Overall, 15 the industry group American Clean suppliers are on board for providing the Power expects less land-based wind to necessary parts to make each turbine. be added in the U.S. by year’s end — Vic Abate, president and CEO of the about enough to power 2.7 million to 3 company’s wind business, called the million homes. venture historic.

While companies are taking advan“This project demonstrates GE Vernotage of government incentives now, it va’s ability to deliver on our workhorse can take years to bring projects online, strategy in onshore wind — producing the industry group said. fewer variants in large quantities at scale The SunZia Wind Project will span to drive quality and reliability across three counties in rural New Mexico. the fleet for our customers,” he said in a Crews already are constructing the statement. concrete platforms that will support the In all, the company has more than turbines, and developers expect the first 55,000 turbines installed worldwide. turbines to rise this autumn.

The company has been working with Pattern Energy CEO Hunter ArmiPattern Energy for the past 18 months on stead said the project will serve as a site layouts that are designed to maxibackbone for a cleaner, more reliable mize the performance of the turbines in central New Mexico and to ensure the grid for customers across the western supply chain can keep up with manufacU.S. The company already has signed turing demands. long-term power purchase agreements GE Vernova consultants also have with Shell Energy North America and the University of California for a portion been working on interconnection with the transmission line, and the company’s of the electricity that will be generated. financial arm provided a tax equity loan “Construction is in full swing on commitment that helped to solidify SunZia, using American-made turbine financing for the project. components and creating thousands of Continued from Page A-1

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Trump warns of ‘bedlam’ after hearing New Hampshire

polls show Haley is narrowing gap

By Isaac Arnsdorf

The Washington Post

Republican polling leader Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest if the criminal charges against him cause him to lose the 2024 election.

Speaking to reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump’s lawyers said he should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election, Trump claimed without evidence that he was being prosecuted because of polls showing him leading President Joe Biden. He warned that if the charges succeed in damaging his candidacy, the result would be “bedlam.”

“I think they feel this is the way they’re going to try and win, and that’s not the way it goes,” Trump said. “It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing.

It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”

The former president did not take questions and walked away as a Washington Post reporter asked him to rule out violence by his supporters.

Trump’s comments came three days after the third anniversary of his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol, inspired by Trump’s false insistence that the 2020 election was stolen.

Over the years, Trump has increasingly defended the riot and embraced people charged in the attack. On Saturday, he called them “hostages” and demanded their release.

His repeated evasions of ruling out political violence come amid a rising menace of threats and attacks throughout American politics. Biden on Friday condemned Trump for refusing to reject violence.

“Trump won’t do what an American president must do; he refuses to denounce political violence,” Biden said. “So hear me clearly, I will say what Donald Trump won’t: Political violence is never acceptable in the United States — never, never, never. It has no place in the democracy. None.”

The specter of violence also came up during the court argument itself. One of the three

By Maggie Astor

The New York Times

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the Waldorf Astoria following his appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Speaking about the criminal case against him, he said, “I think they feel this is the way they’re going to try and win, and that’s not the way it goes. It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent.”

judges on the panel, Florence Y. Pan, asked, “Could a president order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?” D. John Sauer, a lawyer for Trump, said a president could be prosecuted for such an action only if Congress first impeached and convicted him.

The lawyer representing special counsel Jack Smith argued that Trump’s view of immunity would mean an “extraordinarily frightening future.”

If that’s the case, Justice Department lawyer James Pearce asked, “what kind of world are we living in?”

Trump defended his lawyer’s arguments in his own remarks.

“As a president, you have to have immunity,” he said. “If it’s during the time [in office], you have absolute immunity.”

Without immunity, Trump said, Biden or former President Barack Obama could be prosecuted for actions as president such as the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, border policy changes or drone strikes. Trump has repeatedly threatened to retaliate by prose-

cuting Biden and his family if he returns to office.

“Joe would be ripe for indictment,” Trump said in a video posted to social media late Monday. “He has to be careful because that can happen to him also.”

In his remarks Tuesday, Trump repeated a years-old allegation that Biden, as vice president, withheld $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine to pressure the country to remove a prosecutor who was investigating a company whose board included Biden’s son Hunter. In reality, Joe Biden leveraged the aid to push out the prosecutor because he wasn’t aggressively pursuing corruption.

Trump also repeated false claims about the 2020 election, and afterward an aide passed out copies of a report that he published online last week and his lawyers cited in a court filing.

The report contained allegations that were not new and had already been disproved.

Trump’s presence in court Tuesday was voluntary, and advisers said he chose to attend

because he believes he gets better treatment from the legal system and better media coverage when he shows up in person.

People close to the former president also said he wanted to go on offense against Smith, part of his campaign’s efforts to portray the charges as political.

The appeals court will determine whether Trump’s trial can proceed in March as scheduled, as his legal team tries to delay the case and the three others he’s facing until after the November election. If Trump loses the appeal, he is likely to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has already agreed to review whether states can disqualify Trump from appearing on primary ballots under the 14th Amendment’s ban on government officials who “engaged in insurrection.”

The Smith indictment does not accuse Trump of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot but alleges that he and co-conspirators tried to exploit the violence to delay the formal certification of Trump’s electoral defeat.

Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins don’t think they’re idle threats.”

Trump’s election subversion case in D.C., according to a Members of the Wisconsin The Washington Post person familiar with the matter Supreme Court were hit with a and a Chutkan family member, wave of threats — many of them Rusty Bowers, a former speaker who spoke on the condition of misogynistic and antisemitic — of the Arizona House of Repreanonymity because the incident after they ruled 4-3 in December sentatives who played a pivotal is being investigated.

2020 to uphold Joe Biden’s vicrole in resisting efforts to overturn Attorney General Merrick Gar- tory over Trump. the 2020 presidential election, land on Friday called the wave The court has continued to drove into his neighborhood east of threats against government receive threats in the years since, of Phoenix the day after Christworkers and public servants a including one Thursday that mas to a spine-chilling scene. “deeply disturbing spike.” came into the court clerk’s office.

His home, nestled off a dirt While some on the right have The court had been dominated road in an unincorporated slice been affected, many targets share for years by conservatives, but of the desert, was surrounded by a common attribute: They have following an election last year, sheriff’s deputies. An unknown done or said something that has it has a liberal majority that has caller had reported that there was earned Trump’s ire. begun to rule on key political a pipe bomb inside and that a questions, including state legislaExperts say that acts of physiwoman had been murdered. tive redistricting. cal violence toward officials and After searching the house and Karofsky, who is part of that politicians since the attack on the questioning Bowers’s wife and U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob narrow majority, said she views grandson, according to Bowers the threats as an attempt to on Jan. 6, 2021, remain relatively and authorities, sheriff’s deputies rare. But they caution that the intimidate judges into changing determined that neither claim possibility of harm being inflicted their rulings. was true. on public servants is already “I think mostly radical people The incident of swatting, a undermining the health of U.S. on the right … are trying to exert prank call to emergency services democracy because the intiminfluence on the judiciary in an designed to draw a law enforceidation risks influencing their anti-democratic fashion,” she ment response, wasn’t just a decision-making. said. “It is through intimidation. terrifying moment for Bowers Officials who have been tarIt is through threats. It is through and his family. It was one of many geted say they fear that threats violence.” violent threats and acts of intimi- could, at any time, tip over into On Wednesday, bomb threats dation that have defined the lives physical violence. forced evacuations, closures or of various government officials “I am really worried that there stepped-up security measures since the 2020 election. And now is going to be a tragedy,” Wisat more than a dozen state they are casting a shadow over consin Supreme Court Justice Jill capitols, in Connecticut, Georgia, the 2024 campaign as Americans Karofsky said in an interview. “I Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, prepare to vote in a primary seabelieve people when they say that Mississippi, Montana, Wisconson that kicks off this month. sin, Hawaii, Maine, Oklahoma, they want to hurt us or kill us. I Those on the receiving end span the range of America’s democratic system, including members of Wondering about the value of your Congress, state officials, local property in today’s market? leaders and judges. While some are Give me a call today, prominent, others have relatively I bet I have good news for you! low-profile roles. The intensity has accelerated in recent weeks.

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Illinois, Idaho, South Dakota, Alabama, Alaska, Maryland and Arizona. The FBI said it had no information to indicate that the threats were credible.

“This is just a small snapshot of a larger trend that has included threats of violence against those who administer elections, ensure our safe travel, teach our children, report the news, represent their constituents and keep our communities safe,” Garland told reporters Friday. “These threats of violence are unacceptable. They threaten our fabric of democracy.”

Two new polls in New Hampshire show the Republican race narrowing there, in one case drastically, with two weeks to go before the state holds its primary.

A CNN/University of New Hampshire poll released Tuesday found a gap of just 7 percentage points between former President Donald Trump, at 39%, and Nikki Haley, at 32%. That is a much narrower margin than CNN found in its last New Hampshire poll in November, when Trump led Haley by 22 points.

At the same time, a USA Today/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll also released Tuesday found Trump ahead by 20 points: 46% to Haley’s 26%. That, too, is a significant improvement for Haley from the last edition of the same poll in October, which showed Trump leading by 30 points — but it paints a very different picture of the result, underscoring both the uncertainty of polling and the volatility of the race.

The other candidates were far behind in both polls. The CNN poll found Chris Christie at 12%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 8% and Ron DeSantis at 5%. USA Today found Christie at 12%, DeSantis at 8% and Ramaswamy at 2%.

Although Haley is also fighting hard in Iowa, which will hold its caucuses Monday, New Hampshire is particularly important for her because its more moderate

Republican electorate — and the fact that independents can vote in the primary — make it the most fertile ground for opponents of Trump. The state’s governor, Chris Sununu, endorsed her last month.

Haley’s campaign is hoping that, if she can squeeze ahead of DeSantis in Iowa — where he has generally been polling in second behind Trump — and then perform strongly in New Hampshire, she can drive DeSantis out and establish herself as the single viable alternative to Trump as the race turns to her home state, South Carolina.

On the Democratic side, both polls Tuesday found President Joe Biden miles ahead of two challengers, Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, even though his name will not be on the ballot because the Democratic primary in New Hampshire is being held earlier than the party authorized. His supporters are organizing a write-in campaign. The CNN poll showed him at 69%, and the USA Today poll at 64%, with Phillips and Williamson in single digits.

The USA Today poll also showed that Democrats and independents in New Hampshire view the future of democracy as the most important issue facing the country — above the typical political driver of the economy.

Republican voters viewed immigration and border security as the most important issue.

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Ecuador live TV set seized Intruders arrested while attacks escalate around South American nation

By Allen Panchana and Gonzalo Solano The Associated Press

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a decree declaring the violence-plagued country had entered an “internal armed conflict.”

The men armed with pistols and what looked like sticks of dynamite entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil during a news program airing live in thousands of homes across the nation and shouted that they had bombs.

Noises similar to gunshots could be heard.

No one was killed in the attack, and authorities later said all the masked intruders had been arrested, 13 in all, and would be charged with terrorism.

Authorities have not said who was behind the television station occupation, or a series of other attacks that have shaken the South American country recently, but they follow the apparent escapes from prison of two of Ecuador’s most powerful drug gang leaders.

Alina Manrique, the head of news for TC Television, said she was in the control room at TC Television, across from the studio, when the masked men burst into the building. One of them pointed a gun at her head and told her to get on the floor, Manrique said.

The incident was aired live, although the station’s signal was cut off after about 15 minutes.

Manrique said some of the assailants ran from the studio and tried to hide when they realized they were surrounded by police.

“I am still in shock” Manrique told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “Everything has collapsed. ... All I know is that its time to leave this country and go very far away.”

Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks, including the abductions of several police officers, in the wake of a notorious gang leader’s apparent weekend escape from prison.

President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a national state of emergency, a measure that lets authorities suspend people’s rights and mobilize the military in places like prisons.

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Animal rights activists attend a protest rally supporting the government-led bill banning dog meat Tuesday at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea.

South Korea approves ban on sale of dog meat Producers planning to challenge restriction, which was hailed by animal welfare groups

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s parliament Tuesday passed a landmark ban on production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country’s international image.

Some angry dog farmers said they plan to challenge the bill’s constitutionality and hold protest rallies, a sign of continued heated debate over the ban.

After a three-year grace period, the bill would make slaughtering, breeding and sales of dog meat for human consumption illegal from 2027 and punishable by two to three years in prison.

It doesn’t provide any penalties for eating dog meat.

Dog meat consumption, a centuries-old practice on the Korean Peninsula, is neither explicitly banned nor legalized in South Korea.

It has long been viewed as a source of stamina on hot summer days.

Recent surveys show more than half of South Koreans want dog meat banned and a majority no longer eat it. But 1 in every 3 South Koreans still opposes a ban even though they don’t consume it.

The National Assembly passed the bill by a 208-0 vote.

It will become law after being endorsed by the Cabinet Council and signed by President Yoon Suk Yeol, considered formalities since his government supports the ban.

“This law is aimed at contributing to realizing the values of animal rights, which pursue respect for life and a harmonious co-existence between humans and animals,” the legislation says.

The bill offers assistance to dog farmers and others in the industry in shutting down their businesses and shifting to alternatives.

Details are to be worked out among government officials, farmers, experts and animal rights activists.

Dozens of animal rights activists gathered at the National Assembly to celebrate the bill’s passage.

They carried large photos of dogs, chanted slogans and held placards reading “Dog meat-free Korea is coming.”

Humane Society International called the legislation’s passage “history in the making.”

“I never thought I would see in my lifetime a ban on the cruel dog meat industry in South Korea, but this historic win for animals is testament to the passion and determination of our animal protection movement,” said JungAh Chae, executive director of HSI’s Korea office.

Dogs are also eaten in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea and in some African countries. But South Korea’s

dog meat industry has drawn more attention because of the country’s reputation as a cultural and economic powerhouse.

It’s also the only nation with industrial-scale dog farms. Most farms in South Korea raise about 500 dogs. One visited by The Associated Press in July had about 7,000.

Farmers were extremely upset by the bill’s passage.

“This is a clear case of state violence as they are infringing on our freedom to choose our occupation. We can’t just sit by idly,” said Son Won Hak, a farmer and former leader of a farmers’ association.

Son said dog farmers will file a petition with the Constitutional Court of Korea and hold demonstrations. He said farmers will meet on Wednesday to discuss other steps.

There is no reliable official data on the size of South Korea’s dog meat industry. Activists and farmers say hundreds of thousands of dogs are slaughtered for meat each year.

The anti-dog meat campaign received a huge boost from the country’s first lady, Kim Keon Hee, who has repeatedly expressed her support for a prohibition. She has become the subject of withering criticism and crude insults during demonstrations by farmers.

The legislation doesn’t clearly specify how dog farmers and others in the industry will be supported. Agriculture Minister Song Mi-ryung said Tuesday the government will try to formulate reasonable assistance programs for them.

France has first openly gay prime minister

By Roger Cohen

The New York Times

PARIS — In a typically bold bid to revitalize his second term, President Emmanuel Macron named Gabriel Attal, 34, as his new prime minister, replacing Élisabeth Borne, 62, who made no secret of the fact she was unhappy to be forced out.

Gabriel Attal Attal, who was previously education minister and has occupied several government positions since Macron was elected in 2017, becomes France’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister. A recent Ipsos-Le Point opinion poll suggested he is France’s most popular politician, albeit with an approval rating of just 40%.

Macron, whose second term has been marked by protracted conflict over a pensions bill raising the legal retirement age to 64 from 62 and by a restrictive immigration bill that pleased the right, made clear he saw in Attal a leader in his own disruptive image.

“I know that I can count on your energy and your commitment to push through the project of civic rearmament and regeneration that I have announced,” Macron said in a message addressed to Attal on X, formerly known as Twitter. “In loyalty to the spirit of 2017: transcendence and boldness.”

Macron was 39 when he sundered the French political system that year to become the youngest

the interior minister, whose presidential ambitions are no secret.

But for Macron, who is term-limited, it would place a protégé in the succession mix.

“My aim will be to keep control of our destiny and unleash our French potential,” Attal said after his appointment.

Standing in the bitter cold at a ceremony alongside Borne, in the courtyard of the prime minister’s residence, Attal said his youth

president in French history.

Attal, a loyal ally of the president since he joined Macron’s campaign in 2016, will be 38 by the time of the next presidential election in April 2027, and would likely become a presidential candidate if his tenure in office is successful.

This prospect holds no attraction for an ambitious older French political guard, including Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, and Gérald Darmanin,

— and Macron’s — symbolized “boldness and movement.” But he also acknowledged many in France were skeptical of their representatives.

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Investigators know the The process of inspecting sequence of events that led to Max 9s and returning them to the blowout Friday night, but service has been slower than they don’t know the cause. At Alaska and United had hoped. question is whether bolts used The Federal Aviation Administo help secure the panel, called tration grounded all Max 9s in a door plug, were installed. A the United States on Saturday National Transportation Safety until they could be inspected, Board investigator says the bolts but Boeing didn’t provide have not been recovered and the inspection instructions until agency won’t know if they were Monday. even in place until the door plug On Tuesday, the FAA said is examined. those instructions were being Adding to Boeing’s problems, revised “because of feedback,” Alaska Airlines and United and it extended the grounding Airlines — the two U.S. carriers of the planes. that fly the Max 9 — reported “The safety of the flying pubfinding loose bolts and other lic, not speed, will determine hardware in other panels, the timeline for returning the suggesting quality issues with Boeing 737-9 Max to service,” the door plugs are not limited to the FAA said in a statement. one plane.

However, the inspection The plugs are installed in delays threw airline schedules Max 9 fuselages by subcontrac- into turmoil. tor Spirit AeroSystems, which United said it canceled was spun off by Boeing in 2005. another 170 flights Tuesday Spirit has a history of manufacbecause of the grounding. turing problems, many uncovAlaska had scrubbed more than ered in a U.S. House probe 100 flights by early afternoon of two fatal crashes involving on the West Coast, although it Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. was not clear if all cancellations “The focus needs to turn to were due to the Max 9 probSpirit,” said former Congresslems. The part that failed on man Peter DeFazio, who chaired the Alaska flight is installed on the investigating committee. some Boeing jets when airliners “Boeing has been happy with don’t have enough seats to the crappy stuff from Spirit require more emergency exits.

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SFHS principal leaving Jan. 31 Vincent resigning after only 13 months on job The New Mexican

After just 13 months on the job, Principal David Vincent will no longer head Santa Fe High School, an unexpected change of leadership that took district officials by surprise.

Vincent’s last day on the job will be Jan. 31, Santa Fe Public Schools

spokesman Cody Dynarski wrote in an email.

Vincent, a former assistant principal at Santa Fe High, former teacher David Vincent at Capital High School and longtime Texas school administrator, became principal of the district’s largest school last school

in December 2022.

He took on the job after the resignation of former Principal Renee Salazar-Garcia, who also held the position for just over a year.

“Though David Vincent’s resignation came as a surprise, we wish him the best in his future endeavors,” Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez said in a statement.

“He has served the Santa Fe High School community well, supported teachers across the

spectrum and advanced student learning.”

The search for Santa Fe High’s next principal is underway, Chavez added, and the district anticipates a “smooth transition” over the next 30 days.

Until a permanent successor is hired, Jak Lain, a longtime district employee who served as principal of El Camino Real Academy for eight years, will become Santa Fe High’s interim principal.

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Israel Sushman of Eldorado cleans his short-term rental room Oct. 16. On Tuesday, Santa Fe County commissioners put some restrictions on non-owneroccupied rentals.

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Lydia Ausberry of Santa Fe talks to her children, Angelina Ausberry, 5, and Carlo Ausberry, 7 months, about a new sculpture by artist Hernan Gomez Chavez called Huehueteotl, or Old God, on Tuesday at the Southside Branch Library.

God of fire statue warms library Work depicting pre-Columbian deity on display at Southside Branch

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hen the alebrije sculpture that stood near the entrance of the Southside Branch Library for eight months was taken down in December, the facility’s manager, Ann McGinley, hinted a new Mexican art piece could be coming in the near future.

That piece is Huehueteotl, a clay statue of an Aztec god by Santa Fe artist Hernan Gomez Chavez, who created it during a residency in Puebla, Mexico, over the summer.

Gomez Chavez is also the creator of Un Pueblo Sin Piernas pero Que Camina, (A nation without legs that continues to move [or walk forward]), which was installed outside the library in 2022 as part of Santa Fe’s Art in Public Places program.

Librarian Aaron Oestig said Huehueteotl, or Old God, depicts a pre-Columbian deity adopted by several cultures, including the Aztecs, which considered him the god of fire. The residency was through the Arquetopia Foundation and sponsored

Santa Fe County commissioners on Tuesday established caps on some short-term rental properties as they voted 4-1 in favor of an ordinance over a year in the making.

The new regulations do not limit the numbers of vacation rentals on properties where the owner lives but will restrict the number of non-owner-occupied rentals in 35 communities across the county.

The limits — set at either 3% or 7% of the housing available in a community, based on existing short-term rentals and the community’s character — will allow the number to at least double in most places.

“We recognize that the short-term rentals aren’t a big issue at the moment, but if our goal is to set some guardrails so that it doesn’t affect affordable housing, then the guardrails need to be close enough to what is actually [existing] to have some meaning,” said Commissioner Hank Hughes, who was elected chairman Tuesday. Hughes advocated for lower limits.

In his community of Eldorado, the county has permitted 18 short-term rentals on properties that are not occupied by owners, a number that could grow to 95 under the new ordinance.

“The people who own short-term rentals may have one opinion, but the other 93% don’t want to live next to one, don’t want one in their neighborhood, think it’s a terrible

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to wait a year was for the best, in part because he was much more prepared.

“It kind of forced me to slow down,” he said.

Gomez Chavez said using the traditional techniques made for a very different process than he was accustomed to, including an

As Public Service Company of New Mexico’s half-million customers await numbers to explain how state regulators’ recent decision in a complex rate case will affect their monthly bills, one thing is certain: The electric utility already has its sights set on another rate hike.

PNM, the state’s largest electric utility, announced it would request another rate increase this year, to take effect sometime in 2025.

In a recent news release following a ruling from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, the company’s executives announced they were evaluating options for their next steps, which might include appealing some aspects of the PRC’s decision.

The coming rate case “should be a much simpler one,” focused on renewable energy investments, PNM spokesman Ray Sandoval said in an interview.

State regulators ruled on the utility’s 2022 rate case Jan. 3, denying many of PNM’s requests to recoup controversial investments and tweaking the rate design among different

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A sculpture by artist Gomez Chavez on display through Jan. 20 at the Southside Branch Library.

by the city’s Arts and Culture Department, he said.

The residency focused on learning pre-Columbian ceramics techniques, including learning how to work with natural clay and to fire sculptures outdoors. Gomez Chavez said the medium was a departure from his usual work. He initially was encouraged to make a

smaller piece but had entered the residency with the intention of making this.

Sidelined for a time after tearing a pectoral muscle in 2022, Gomez Chavez took a clay class at Santa Fe Community College, where he learned many basic techniques. Though he had to delay the residency due to the injury, he said he thinks having

County Commission elects new leadership Hughes also announces bid to seek reelection

By Maya Hilty

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In the first move of what will be a year of change for the Santa Fe County Commission, the panel Monday elected Hank Hughes to serve as its chairman for 2024.

The commission will undergo a makeover after the November election, with Commissioners Anna Hansen and Anna Hamilton term-limited, leaving their seats up

for grabs.

The terms of Commissioners Camilla Bustamante in District 3 and Justin Greene in District 1 do not expire until Hank Hughes 2026.

Commissioners unanimously voted Bustamante as vice chair and Hughes as chairman at a County Commission meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Hughes succeeds Hansen, who served as chair of the commission

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for 2023, and has had other stints in the position during her tenure.

Hughes, 66, was appointed to the commission by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2020 to succeed Ed Moreno, who was retiring.

Hughes won the seat later that year.

Hughes, who lives in Eldorado, served as executive director of Santa Fe’s St. Elizabeth Shelters & Supportive Housing before he co-founded the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness in 2000.

He served as the organization’s

executive director until retiring in early 2023.

He also served as past president and vice president of Santa Fe Search and Rescue.

“I have always had a concern for the most vulnerable among us, and I will continue to advocate for County programs that help those with disabilities and those who live in poverty,” Hughes said in a news release announcing his intent to run for another term, adding he will continue to work toward more affordable housing in the county.

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IN BRIEF Two Mile Pond event is Thursday A planned community meeting to discuss the status of Two Mile Pond that was canceled in November due to inclement weather has been rescheduled to Thursday evening.

The meeting is set for 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive.

City staff will provide a presentation on the status of Two Mile Pond — a small reservoir and wetlands along the Santa Fe River off Upper Canyon Road on the city’s northeast side — and updates on the next steps. A question-and-answer session will follow, according to a city news release.

Attendance is limited to 35 people due to the size of the meeting room. Participants can register online in advance at tinyurl.com/5amyu7j2.

The city is pursuing an expanded hydrological study and ecological monitoring plan to collect more data on the pond, which the Water Division reduced to about half its former size to prevent stagnation after a river diversion that fed running water into the pond was removed.

The changes were met with consternation by nearby residents and other Santa Feans, who have lobbied for the pond to be restored. The studies, which could take years, will determine the scope of the city’s options for the habitat.

Professor’s family settles over death TUCSON, Ariz. — The family of a University of Arizona professor who was fatally shot on campus in the fall of 2022 has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with the school, attorneys for the man’s wife and sons said Tuesday.

A statement by the law firm representing Kathleen Meixner, wife of professor Thomas Meixner, and their two sons, said that the family agreed not to sue the university. The family in March filed a claim against the university seeking $9 million.

In addition. the agreement includes “nonmonetary commitments that affirm the university’s continuing support for the well-being of those most affected by these events,” the university and the Arizona Board of Regents said in a statement. It added, the family would continue to have a voice in the planning and implementation of safety measure.

Thomas Meixner was shot Oct. 5, 2022, inside the building where he headed the school’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.

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Man pleads guilty in drive-by shootings intent to distribute. Federal and local prosecutors allege the attacks were orchestrated by former Republican candidate Solomon Peña with the involvement of Trujillo and a third man. Peña

By Morgan Lee maintains his innocence.

The Associated Press The attacks on the homes of four Democratic officials, includOne of three defendants has ing the House speaker, took place pleaded guilty to federal charges in December 2022 and January in connection with a series of 2023 amid a surge of threats and drive-by shootings at the homes of acts of intimidation against elecstate and local lawmakers in Albu- tions workers and public officials querque after the 2022 election, across the country after former according to federal court filings President Donald Trump and his made public Tuesday. allies spread false claims about the Jose Louise Trujillo pleaded outcome of the 2020 presidential guilty at a Monday hearing to election. charges of conspiracy, election Trujillo, 22, is due to be seninterference, illegal use of a firearm tenced in April. His attorney, John and fentanyl possession with the Anderson, declined to comment

on the plea agreement beyond what is in the court records.

Alexander Uballez, the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque, has said the shootings targeted the homes of two county commissioners shortly after because of their certification of the 2022 election, in which Peña lost his bid to serve in the state Legislature.

No one was injured, but in one case bullets passed through the bedroom of a state senator’s 10-year-old daughter.

Trujillo will remain in custody pending sentencing, Uballez and FBI Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda said Tuesday in a statement, which also outlined accusations Trujillo was paid by Peña in efforts to pressure Bernalillo County commissioners to refuse to

certify local election results.

Demetrio Trujillo, Jose’s father, also faces federal charges alleging he and and his son helped Peña obtain vehicles and firearms and they also fired on victims’ homes.

Peña and Demetrio Trujillo, who maintains his innocence, are scheduled to stand trial in June.

Jose Trujillo was arrested on an outstanding warrant. According to authorities, in his car with him he had more than 800 fentanyl pills and two firearms, leading to a break in the investigation as officers traced at least one gun to bullet casings found at one of the shootings. Following the shootings, state lawmakers enacted legislation that provides felony sanctions for intimidation of election regulators.

PNM to seek new hike

The company’s plan to take another whack at a rate increase comes after scrutiny of years of investments by environmental and consumer advocates who have claimed the utility has overearned, particularly on its assets related to coal energy.

The company was approved to recover $15.3 million more in electricity rates in 2024, a ruling that came in nearly $50 million less than PNM’s request.

A staff recommendation from the Public Regulation Commission in December had proposed allowing the utility to recover only $6.1 million more, which would have resulted in a decrease in average monthly residential electric bills.

Commissioners ruled the company had acted with “imprudence” by investing in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant in 2016 and

disallowed recovery from ratepayers of almost $85 million tied to the plant. They also ruled PNM would have to return to customers more than $38 million associated with leased capacity at the Palo Verde Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Arizona, over two years.

Commissioners also set the company’s return on equity at 9.26%, down from PNM’s previous return of 9.575%. The utility had requested a new return on equity of 10.25%.

The commission’s ruling on the rate case was more generous to PNM than the staff recommendation, but it isn’t yet clear whether the decision will result in lower average monthly bills.

The utility is required to calculate the effects of the ruling on bills and file the results with the commission by Wednesday.

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classes of customers. The exact effects for various ratepayers are not yet certain.

The result of the case was a disappointment for PNM, Sandoval said, adding the company held costs down during the coronavirus pandemic and during the subsequent period of inflation. The 2022 rate case was the first the company had filed since 2016.

The PRC’s decision came just after another blow to the utility: Connecticut-based power company Avangrid announced it was terminating its plans for a longsought merger with PNM. Avangrid and PNM had an appeal pending in the state

Supreme Court of previous PRC members’ rejection of the merger request. The companies had hoped the effort would move forward under an overhauled commission that took office last year.

A new rate case for PNM would “be driven by renewables,” Sandoval said, seeking to cover investments in battery storage, solar power and new transmission lines.

“In order for us to do this transition and do it right, you have to invest in capital,” Sandoval said, adding the utility plans to be 70% carbon-free by the end of the year. “As we’re looking at 2025, the investments we’re going to be making in the grid are going to be yet again substantial.”

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS RONALD RIGGS BALL Ronald Riggs Ball, born May 20, 1940, in Colby, KS, passed from this life to be with the Lord on November 23, 2023. Surrounded by his loving family, he passed in comfort and with dignity according to his wishes in his home in Santa Fe, NM. Ron devoted his life to providing for his family. He deeply desired to offer his wife, Jean, and his three children the best life he possibly could. He was a hard and dedicated worker, entrepreneur, investor, and saver. He grew up in Boulder, CO, and told a story about the first time he got a paycheck when he was eight years old, which spurred his ambition to succeed.

Ron started his career with Safeway grocery stores in Denver, Colorado, where he managed several stores in the Denver area in the late sixties and early seventies. In 1974, the family moved to Santa Fe, NM, where Ron’s wife, Jean Egenhofer, was born and raised. Here, Ron nurtured his desire for investing and entrepreneurship. While working for Safeway in Santa Fe, he also started selling real estate and looking for “fixer-uppers” to invest in.

Ron was a Realtor from 1976 through the early 2000s, initially working with Barker Realty, then brokering his own agencies, Coronado Investment Realty and Ball Realty. He earned his Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) and Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designations. He was on the Board of Directors for the Santa Fe Board of Realtors from 1985–1989 and held several offices, including Board President in 1989. He also served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee, MLS Chairman, Chairman of the Grievance Committee, and served on the Professional Standards Committee for the Santa Fe Board of Realtors. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Realtors Association of New Mexico, serving as the State Board Services Chairman and the State MLS Chairman. He was exofficial Director of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and served on the Community Advisory Board for the New Mexico Federal Savings and Loan.

Ron was active with the Boy Scouts as a volunteer leader and a member of the Order of the Arrow. Ron was also a proud and active member of the Scottish and York Rite Masonic organizations, a Shriner inducted in Denver and Santa Fe, and held the designation of 50-year member.

Ron attained his goals toward success and supported his family with the best life! He loved his family dearly. A lifelong learner, Ron encouraged the best formal education possible for his children and grandchildren. He also loved to share his lifetime of personal wisdom with family and friends. Ron loved people and loved being surrounded by friends and family. He and Jean traveled the world together for many years, often with family and friends, visiting six continents and scores of countries, and toured the U.S. in their motor home.

When Ron’s wife of 60 years passed unexpectedly in the summer of 2022, Ron was deeply grieved.

Later in life, he referred to her as his guardian angel. He found solace in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe and attended multiple events each week for the last year of his life.

He was preceded in death by his devoted wife of sixty years, Jean Ann Egenhofer Ball, his parents Harold F. Ball and Virginia M. Brown, both of Denver, CO, and his brother Fred Ball. He is survived by his three children and their spouses, Tim and Mary Ann Ball of Elizabeth, CO; Susan and Andy Ortiz of Santa Fe; and Chris and Amy Ball of Chapin, SC; eight grandchildren, Jessica, Justin (Leah), Ryan, Steven, Matthew, Andy, Nicholas (Kaylie), and Brian; five great-grandchildren; and his sister Tami Kessler (Drew) of Denver.

A service will be held on Friday, January 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM. All are welcome to attend.

MARIA VALDEZ MARIA C. (GRACE) HURTADO VALDEZ, also known by close family as Chelda, age 84, a resident of Nambé, NM, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on January 2, 2024. She was born on July 9, 1939, in Santa Fe, NM to George and Pablita Tapia Hurtado who preceded her in death. Grace is also preceded in death by her husband Esquipula N. Valdez; grandsons John Anthony Valdez and Danny Ray Ortiz; greatgrandson Jordan Valdez; brother Ray Hurtado; sister Margaret Quintana; nephew Marcos Hurtado; grandparents Reymundo and Atocha Hurtado, and Jose Guadalupe and Margarita Tapia; in-laws Felipe and Ursusina Maestas Valdez; brothers-in-law Joe Saiz and Robert Ortiz; brothers and sisters-in-law Pablo and Molly Valdez, Ramon and Augustina Valdez, Felipe A. and Bernie Valdez; and many other relatives.

Grace is survived by her daughters JoAnn Lopez (Leopoldo) and Maria Valdez (Daniel Cardiel); sons Manuel G. Valdez (Elsie), George Valdez, Leroy Valdez, Chris Valdez, John Valdez, Roman Valdez (Isabelle Duran), and Joseph Phillip Valdez (Francine); sisters Susie Saiz, Bernadette Ortiz, and Irma Gonzalez (Rene); brother-in-law Dennis Quintana; aunt Maria Duran; twenty-three grandchildren; thirty-two great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild on the way; numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, other loving relatives, friends, and many others throughout the community who considered her their second mom.

A public visitation will be held on Monday, January 15, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. at the Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Catholic Church in Nambé, NM, with a rosary to follow at 6:00 p.m. The mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. at the Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Catholic Church, with the burial to follow at Nambé Catholic Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers for Grace will be her sons. Honorary pallbearers will be her daughters, godson Manny Saiz, and all of her grandchildren.

Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to: Shriners Hospitals for Children 2900 Rocky Point Drive Tampa, FL 33607 US OR https://www.shrinerschildrens.org

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BENJAMIN REYNALDO “PAPA” CARDENAS May 5, 1943–January 3, 2024 Ben was born in Dawson, NM, on May 5, 1943, and went to be with his loving Savior, Jesus Christ, on January 3, 2024. Ben served in the New Mexico Army National Guard for 34 years, retiring as a decorated major in 1984. He was a beloved member of the Santa Fe and Taos communities and a hard-working Taos rancher with his dear brother-in-law, Andy Martinez, for over 60 years.

He is survived by his most beloved wife, Eleanor; loving children, Barbara Wolf (husband David) and Thomas (wife Rosalyn); adoring grandchildren, Danielle, Ryan, Benjamin, Caleb, and Bethany, with their spouses; and loving friends and family, including siblings, Dolores, Andy, Rosie, Patsy, Richard, John, Manuel, and Andy Martinez, with their spouses; and children whom he loved dearly.

He was preceded in death by his loving sister, Anna. The world has lost the most incredible man with the most joyous laugh, and he will be missed dearly. The military memorial service will be on Friday, January 12, at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at 9:00 a.m., followed by a memorial service and reception at the Santa Fe Women’s Club at 10:30 a.m.

Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

KERRY EVAN LEWIS 1-10-1988 – 7-10-2009

UNM ENGINEERING STUDENT KILLED By betrayal and corruption But living on in Lucky 7 LIFE IS A GIFT PASS IT ON

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rue public servants are a treasure, their dedication and hard work something to be appreciated by all who benefit.

Sometimes that public appreciation comes after they are gone, as it will for two New Mexicans who recently died.

Both served their communities in government: Mary Jane Garcia as a longtime state senator from Doña Ana County, and Jimmie Martinez, as a member of the Santa Fe City Council and Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education. Their impact will be felt long into the future.

Garcia, 87, was a trailblazer, serving as an elected state senator and eventually majority whip at a time when women were elected to few positions of power. She remained in the Senate for 24 years, fighting for the protection of children and families, introducing and passing Megan’s Law, the Deadly Child Abuse Act, the Family Violence Act and the Missing Children’s Act. Martinez, 82, worked at the local level.

He won his first term on the school board with the backing of the National Education Association’s local chapter — he supported collective bargaining while his opponent did not. That’s because Martinez came to public service with the perspective of a working man; he owned a gas station but also worked as a clerk at Safeway. In his view, workers deserved the power to bargain.

Just as firmly, Martinez believed strongly that education was a path to a better future.

That’s why, at 58, Martinez took the time to earn his college degree.

Garcia was born in the village of Doña Ana and served in the Legislature from 1988 to 2012. At that time, the Roundhouse didn’t have a women’s bathroom set aside for the use of female lawmakers as it did for male senators and representatives.

Undaunted, she went to work, at one point sponsoring legislation that eventually outlawed the practice of cockfighting in New Mexico in 2007 — a fight that took almost two decades.

She persisted.

Martinez also knew the value of digging in, particularly in being an early backer of what became known as the Santa Fe Living Wage Ordinance. He had moved from the school board to the City Council by then — for a time, he served on both — and remained committed to the idea that workers should earn decent wages. Passed in 2003, the ordinance to increase basic wages went into place in 2004, but only after the city won a lawsuit and an appeal. It was not an easy battle.

Both used their time as elected officials to improve the lot of the people who gave them the job. They worked hard despite opposition and, occasionally, ridicule. The bill to ban cockfighting, for example, was treated as a joke in the early days of Garcia’s crusade. The boys in the Senate loved emphasizing the first syllable.

Current District 36 Sen. Jeff Steinborn said, “New Mexico has lost one of its great public servants in Mary Jane Garcia.” In

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New, reelected Santa Fe city councilors ready to learn, work, Jan. 6 Sam Pick is so right. “ Trash, potholes and

weeds, in that order.

And by the way, let’s not debate whether particular potholes are the responsibility of the feds, the state or the city. Just invite everyone concerned to a nice lunch and get commitments. Start with Old Pecos Trail, north of its intersection with St. Michael’s.”

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Sam [Pick] has always “ believed in the basic job

description of city government.” Patrick Walker

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 10, 1924: The recent snow storms, piling up the frozen moisture nor use in the summer, are a source of great satisfaction to New Mexicans who still remember the awful drought of 1922, with its numerous echoes of bank and cattle ranch failures.

Jan. 10, 1949: Rep. John Simms Jr. went after support for speaker of the house today armed with a statement of “no opposition” from Governor Mabry.

At the same time men prominent in the governor’s organization — State Democratic Chairman Bryan Johnson, Corporation Commissioner Dan Sedillo, State Liquor Director Tom Montoya, Revenue Commissioner Victor Salazar — were putting on a nut-cracker squeeze to beat Simms and install Rep. Theo Rozell of Clovis.

Jan. 10, 1974: Edward L. “Gonzo” Gonzales was appointed to the City Council last night with a legal question of his eligibility to hold office apparently still unresolved.

Gonzales was appointed under and interpretation of state law that could have far-reaching effects in city elections by freeing more than 2,000 state employees against serving on the council.

Or, as Gonzales himself suggested, he could be faced fairly soon with an attorney general’s opinion that would require his resignation.

Jan. 10, 1999: The Santa Fe City Council will vote next week on a resolution that would seek to prohibit the use of city resources to identify or apprehend illegal immigrants.

Sponsors have backed away from a controversial earlier draft of the resolution that would have labeled the city an immigrant “safety zone.” And while many see the measure as mostly symbolic, some hope it will raise community awareness of immigrants’ local contributions and experiences with discrimination.

announcing her death, Doña Ana County stated her “legacy will forever be etched in the fabric of our community.”

As for Martinez, a tribute on his online obituary page sums him up, including both the bluster and the focus that was part and parcel of the man. It described a day Martinez stopped at a soccer game. “Immediately,” the contributor wrote, “He gave the refs a piece of his mind for some bad calls.

He then turned to the bench and told us to continue our education and not be settling for a minimum wage job. He did not know any of us and yet was not afraid to tell us how it was. I saw him several years later and told him I graduated college. He gave me an ‘atta boy’ and a punch to the gut.”

The tribute ended like this: “I’m so sorry for your loss. I don’t think you all realize the impact he had on so many people in the Santa Fe community.”

Impact. That’s the legacy of these true public servants. New Mexico and Santa Fe are grateful.

LE T TERS T O THE EDIT OR

Do you love animals? Show it by supporting the shelter M uch is made of Santa Fe’s love of pets. This paper has a weekly column, Rescue Report, spotlighting homeless animals. We even have Pet Chat, a local radio program. Despite Santa Fe being known as a pet-loving city, Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society is frequently overwhelmed by homeless animals, especially since COVID-19.

It is a no-kill shelter, so that explains part of this ongoing situation. But what is the biggest reason?

Shelter life is very stressful and confusing for animals; I see that because I volunteer at the shelter and have for 25 years. It is not easy or inexpensive for staff to tend to the food, sheltering, clean up, water, exercise, and the medical and emotional needs of these animals.

The disconnect between pride in being an animalloving community and the reality at the animal shelter needs to be bridged. Please step up. Call 505-983-4309.

Spay. Neuter. Adopt. Volunteer. Foster. Donate.

Lyn deMartin

Santa Fe

No more box A new year has begun, and the Plaza plywood box continues to be an eyesore for residents and visitors alike in the City Different. One idea to finally fix this situation would be to invite rotating artists to place a sculpture of their choosing to fit the pedestal. Every six months the sculpture would be auctioned off, with proceeds going to one of our many local charities.

The auctioning of the old piece and the unveiling of the new piece would become a new biannual artistic dazzle. Lots of fun and marketing potential. No more eye-sore of an ugly plywood box. Local artists would get tremendous exposure to their work while promoting engaging dialogues about their creations. How attractive any of the sculptural works might be would be a matter of interpretation. Still, the answer to criticism would be simple: “Hey, chill, it will be replaced in six months.” Think of all the positive differences for the city that would result.

Michel Perreault

Santa Fe

Off-limits After the 2022 midterm elections, 2 in 5 voters reported worrying about threats of violence and intimidation at polling places. These fears affect voter turnout and make it difficult to hire poll workers. Even the strongest proponents of gun rights on the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged there are certain places — such as polling places — where guns simply do not belong.

Currently in New Mexico, it is a felony to use force or to threaten force to intimidate a poll worker or voter.

Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

But that law does not prohibit a person from carrying a firearm into a polling place, a much more subtle but equally chilling form of intimidation. A bill is expected to be introduced in the legislative session that would allow on-duty law enforcement officers and authorized security guards to carry firearms but would prohibit others from carrying loaded or unloaded firearms within 100 feet of a polling place while voting is in progress.

This bill deserves our legislators’ support.

Kris Michaelis

Santa Fe

Commendable aspirations We are writing in response to the unfair and inaccurate coverage attacking Joe Shepard, the president of Western New Mexico University, and his wife, Valerie Plame. As supporters of WNMU, we know them to be hardworking, honest, ethical and assets to the university. It is important to note, the WNMU Board of Regents wrote an opinion piece (“WNMU regents back their president,” My View, Dec. 28) defending the couple for their good work for the university and the local community. The Board of Regents oversees the budget and evaluates the performance of Shepard and the university annually. Shepard has requested an independent audit of the expenditures of his office to prove he has acted within approved guidelines. It is unfortunate that reputations are being unduly tarnished. We commend Shepard’s aspirations to make WNMU the best institution it can be.

David Perez and Gay Dillingham

Santa Fe

He should resign Recently, Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, resigned because of apparent academic misconduct and plagiarism. Before that, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the ex-president of Stanford University, resigned because of falsified data in several research papers that he published.

Not to be outdone, Searchlight New Mexico recently found that Joseph Shepard, the president of Western New Mexico University, apparently used more than $100,000 in university funds to benefit himself, his wife and several university regents. He should do the honorable thing and resign, after he returns the funds. However, he has many friends in high places.

The state Auditor’s Office has opened an investigation into these indiscretions, but that is no guarantee that he will be held accountable. It is unfortunate that public outcry can’t push him to leave WNMU. Mark Donnell

Silver City

as 2023 a good year? I suppose it depends on what we mean by the word. A good year must be part of a good life, yet the question of what makes a life good, meaningful and whole is an increasingly challenging one — implicating as it does all the big categories: religion, family, love and politics.

What makes it harder is that these categories increasingly blend together, for better and worse.

Over the holidays, I was home in Pennsylvania with my parents and brother. Visiting the place where I grew up, along with the unhurried pace of the days, lends itself to a certain kind of remembrance. You can let your memories unspool with help from the people there and better view the sweep of life. Some families avoid talking about the past or of emotions that either indict or favor it.

Our family is different. We like remembering, and we like thought experiments. Could my brother and I have turned out differently? Could we have ended up more religious? What would have happened had I gotten married in, say, my 20s? Presumably, the rest of my life would have turned out differently. Marriage — if it’s with the right person, a big if — is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction. And if it’s with someone who shares your religious practice, it can also make you more religious (which in turn can also make you happier).

As my parents have grown older, they have had more time to consider how they raised my brother and me, and whether they found the right balance of strictness and latitude. It was an experiment for them and so many others in how to raise children who could become American while staying recognizably Muslim — and to do this in a society that was rapidly secularizating. As I get older, influenced no doubt by my parents’ worries, I wonder what alternative versions of me might have looked like and whether I would I have liked them.

I can imagine being both more religious and religiously conservative, but I suspect it would have required an upbringing that was less encouraging of education, ambition and intellectual curiosity. It doesn’t work this way for everyone, but I have often felt a certain tension between the comfort of religious rules and ritual, and the excitement and wide-openness that comes with the removal of constraint. I got older. The more I learned, the more I knew. And the more I knew, the more I had doubts about what I had known before.

This trade-off might have been worth it, but it was a trade-off, nonetheless. Once you are exposed to the secular world — a world where personal autonomy and experience eclipse tradition — it becomes harder to return, even if you wish to. Modern liberalism is alluring, even if it might not always be good for us. As the political scientist Patrick Deneen notes in Why Liberalism Failed, by dismantling traditional structures, liberalism encourages “privatism.” The individual becomes society’s most important unit, and the state’s role is somehow both reduced and expanded to the task of removing limitations on the individual’s ability to pursue their personal desires. This ability — fairly novel in human history — can prove overwhelming.

As the hold of religion weakens, it becomes harder to understand whether our choices have been the right ones. Our standards and judgments no longer refer to traditions; they become self-referential. This sense of endless choice injects into our lives an undercurrent of nearly perpetual panic, of never knowing whether we’re living as we should. Yet we become so used to our freedom to choose that we insist on retaining it regardless of the consequences.

In other words, we are trapped. If spiritual or religious traditions have largely disappeared from our lives, we can work consciously and deliberately to reintroduce them or strengthen the ones that we have held on to. I hope to do some of this in the coming year.

Constraints can be liberating. But no matter what we choose, we make a choice. This is a weight but also a blessing. Because in the end, the choice is ours alone.

Shadi Hamid is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. He is also a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary and the author of several books.

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he brought clay from Mexico with him in order to do more work on it. He also hopes to do an iron cast of the same figure this year.

The statue will be on display at the library through Jan. 20, after which Gomez Chavez will be taking it with him to residencies he is participating in this spring.

He said he’s glad it’s having a chance to be displayed at the library.

“It’s good that’s in the place where a lot of people will see it,” he said. “To me, that’s what’s important.”

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Jan. 10, 1949 - Snow was reported at San Diego for the first and only time since 1882. Snow was noted even on some of the beaches in parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Burbank reported 4.7 inches and Long Beach and Laguna Beach received one inch of snow.

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Hernan Gomez Chavez was selected to receive one of Santa Fe’s 2024 Art is the Solution grants, announced Tuesday. This year’s grants focused on the theme of structural inequity in Santa Fe, and Gomez Chavez will offer free art classes to people at the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place.

The project will culminate in an art exhibit at the Santa Fe Community Gallery, where artists will have the opportunity to sell their work.

The other grant recipients include: u Alas de Agua Art Collective, for its Barrio Art School, a fiveweek summer intensive program teaching art and professional development skills to artists of color on the south side. u The Black Men Flower Project

by Robert Washington-Vaughns, which will include dance movement therapy classes and a public art project focusing on “vulnerability and somatic responses to trauma in black men,” according to a news release. u Blacks Seen and Unseen in Santa Fe by Kim Fowler, which will work with the Women of the Diaspora writing group to explore “how racism impacts Blacks in the form of public invisibility,” culminating in a staged reading. u No Name Cinema for 12 public film screenings between January and June with filmmakers in attendance for question-and-answer sessions.

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God of fire statue warms library outdoor firing which took only four hours — much faster than it would take to fire a piece in a gas or electric kiln. Using an actual fire also gives the work a more natural finish, similar to what a person may see on archaeological relics.

“You see some of these pieces in museums, and you still see the smoke from the fire that’s been patinated onto the surface,” he said.

As part of the agreement with the city, Gomez Chavez had to give a public talk about the sculpture after completing the residency. He chose the Southside Branch Library, a place with great meaning to him.

“I live on the south side, and the south side is very important to me,” Gomez Chavez said.

After the talk, he was approached by Oestig about having his work on display at the library after the alebrije was taken down. Gomez Chavez readily agreed.

With dimensions measured in inches instead of feet, Huehueteotl isn’t the head-turner the alebrije was. However, Oestig said it seems to be a hit with patrons.

“I’ve had several people come to the information desk asking about it,” he said.

Gomez Chavez drew inspiration for the piece from the short story The Lion and the Mirror by writer Subcomandante Marcos, spokesman and leader for the Zapatistas, a Mexican military and political organization.

Gomez Chavez said others have described the short story as an allegory about globalism or capitalism, but he views it as the inner turmoil organizations such as the Zapatistas go through when they struggle with infighting.

He said the statue is part of a planned larger installation he has yet to complete, drawing inspiration from the Zapatistas.

The piece is unfinished, and

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Mouse tidies up Englishman’s shed

By Isabella Kwai

The New York Times

There was something strange going on in Rodney Holbrook’s backyard shed.

For several months, someone — or something — had been apparently tidying up after the 75-year-old retiree. Every morning when he checked on his workbench, miscellaneous items had been cleared away and placed in a small box nearby.

At first, it was some bird food and nuts being moved around.

Then, a few screws he had left out mysteriously appeared in the box.

Holbrook, a passionate wildlife photographer who lives near the town of Builth Wells in Wales, had his suspicions over the identity of the meticulous helper — it certainly wasn’t his wife. To investigate, he set up a night-vision camera and caught

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idea, think we should outlaw them completely,” Hughes said.

“It’s clear that my community wants to preserve itself as a place where long-term residents live.”

Commissioner Justin Greene cast a vote against the ordinance over a regulation that limits a single person, married couple or entity to owning a maximum of two non-owner-occupied rentals.

Greene, who operates such a vacation rental in the city of Santa Fe, called operating shortterm rentals a “lifestyle choice” and raised concerns about making rules that would restrict families from retaining homes for future generations.

An Agua Fría village resident echoed that concern during public comment.

Commissioner Anna Hansen noted, however, families can

the mysterious visitor.

“Lo and behold, I got a video of the mouse,” he said. “Tidying up for me.”

In videos captured by Holbrook, a small mouse carries clothes pegs, cups and even cable ties to the box, with an enviable focus. A stick more than twice its length is no problem. A cork goes neatly into the pile, as do lids.

“I’m just awed by it, really,” said Holbrook, a retired postal worker. “Every day I take it all back out again — and it’s all back in.”

Holbrook has never actually seen the mouse scurrying about, though he has named it: “Welsh Tidy Mouse.” It’s not the first time he has encountered a “tidy mouse.” In 2019, Holbrook helped a friend near his hometown Bristol, England, capture footage of similar behavior from a mouse.

Of course, whether Welsh Tidy Mouse is intentionally decluttering is speculative. Holbrook believes the rodent may be trying to cover some nuts in the box to shield them from other rodents’ eyes.

That’s one possible explanation, according to Megan Jackson, a researcher at the University of Bristol who studies motivation using mice in labs.

Another is that the mouse is building some kind of nest.

“We know that mice have a really strong drive to forage,” she said. Searching for interesting things in the environment to bring back and hoard, she said, is “intrinsically mouse-y behavior.”

In her research, Jackson said she had created a similar situation in which lab mice were encouraged to forage nesting material and carry it back to a box.

“Mice are willing to put in a

COMMISSION OPPOSES LANL POWER LINE The Santa Fe County Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to send a letter to the National Nuclear Security Administration opposing a proposed 14-mile power line to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The power line would extend through the Caja del Rio, a 106,000-acre natural landscape of cultural and ecological importance, multiple commissioners and environmental leaders said Tuesday.

The County Commission recommended the National Nuclear Security Administration withdraw the power line project’s draft environmental assessment and conduct a new analysis, calling the assessment outdated, incomplete and, in some areas, inaccurate.

offer properties for rent to longterm residents and “still make money.”

A handful of members of the public implored commissioners to ban non-owner-occupied vacation rentals altogether, citing concerns such properties decrease the availability of work-

The environmental assessment inaccurately states Cochiti and Tesuque pueblos support the power line project, Jim James, legal counsel for Tesuque Pueblo, told commissioners Tuesday.

The analysis also needs to explore alternatives to the power line, commissioners said.

“There are so many things wrong with the [environmental assessment],” said Commissioner Anna Hansen, who brought the letter forward.

Commissioner Camilla Bustamante added LANL “should be respectful” to its neighbors, noting the Caja del Rio is an area many people are “working very hard to protect.”

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force housing. Other municipalities around the country have done so by instituting a primary residence requirement.

“Santa Fe is famous for the lack of affordable housing, workforce housing,” city resident Pat Lillis said. “Are profits for those that can afford to buy a second

lot of effort to work at something they find rewarding,” she said.

Whatever its mission, Welsh Tidy Mouse is disciplined: It has rarely missed a night of reorganizing the workbench since Holbrook noticed the behavior in October.

After it skipped one evening, it was back at it the next (perhaps it was a sick day?).

“I wish I had its motivation,” Jackson joked. “Mice are amazing, complex creatures. I think we can learn a lot from them.”

Since sharing his findings, Holbrook has been inundated with messages from those charmed by the Ratatouille-like deftness of the mouse in his shed. Some have suggested that Holbrook add some more entertaining objects for the mouse to organize — tiny furniture, for example.

“It’s brought a lot of joy to some people,” he said.

home more important than the loss of resident and workforce housing?”

Lillis added: “Every non-owner-occupied rental takes away a home from someone. That’s the truth. They replace and displace long-term rentals so desperately needed. ... Above all, our government should give our workforce and residents top priority.”

A few people also decried enabling outside entities to buy up housing stock around Santa Fe. “We need to think long-term on this issue,” Adam Johnson, executive director of the historic preservation-focused Old Santa Fe Association, told county commissioners.

There are now small numbers of short-term rentals in some communities, he noted, “but looking into five years, 10 years, 15 years from now, we don’t want to signal to outside investors, to other people who are not trying to find a home in Santa Fe, that this is where you can make an investment.

“I think that we should invest in our communities rather than catering to an investment class from the outside,” he said.

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Punchless Lobos foul out in road loss to Runnin’ Rebels

By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

The wheels were already starting to come off for the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team when Jaelen House picked up a costly technical foul during a dead-ball scrum in the second half of Tuesday night’s game in Las Vegas, Nev. They came completely off shortly thereafter.

UNLV turned a two-point lead at halftime into an 83-73 win at the Thomas & Mack Center, getting much of its

momentum after the House whistle.

The Runnin’ Rebels handed the Lobos (13-3, 1-2 Mountain West) their second straight road loss in conference play.

In both of them, House has been erratic — and Tuesday’s game was a prime example. With UNM down 52-44, an entry pass into Nelly Junior Joseph led to a tie-up with Joseph fighting for possession while lying on the floor, House raced in well after the whistle and shoved the Rebels’ Dedan Thomas Jr. with two officials standing in the middle of it.

It led to four quick points on that

possession, which ignited a 17-4 UNLV run that put the game out of reach.

The Rebels (8-6, 1-1) blistered UNM’s defense with 10 made 3s. The Lobos didn’t have any of their own until House finally made one with nine minutes remaining and UNLV leading by 21.

UNM managed to cut that deficit down to nine, but that’s when the Rebels turned to power forward Kalib Boone in the low post. He finished with a game-high 29 points on 11-for-16 shooting, decimating the Lobos’ big men with efficient scoring down the stretch.

“We’ve certainly got to do a better job

on the kid who scores 29 points, right?

That’s obvious,” UNM coach Richard Pitino said afterward. “We’re giving up 58% shooting in the second half. It’s going to be hard to beat anybody.”

The Rebels also turned the tables on the Lobos’ attacking defense, forcing 16 turnovers and outscoring UNM 26-8 on miscues. For reference, UNM outscored Wyoming 28-0 on turnovers in its previous game.

“Their pressure really bothered us,” Pitino said. “They were physical, they were aggressive, they had length. That certainly bothered us.”

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SATURDAY ON TV San Diego State (14-2, 3-0 MWC) at New Mexico (13-3, 1-2), noon in The Pit TV: CBS Radio: KKOB 770 AM Live stats: GoLobos.com/mbbstats

Only three Lobos reached double figures, led by 16 apiece from J.T. Toppin and House. Jamal Mashburn Jr. had 13, but guard Donovan Dent was held to three points in 28 minutes of playing time.

Please see story on Page B-3

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Hot-shooting Rio Rancho Cleveland drains Santa Fe High with 3s to advance

By James Barron

PHELAN M. EBENHACK/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

The Miami Marlins are in agreement with Yankees minor league manager and former New Mexico Lobo Rachel Balkovec to become their director of player development, according to a person familiar with the deal.

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be tossed.

With a chance to show they were sous chefs against Class 5A contender Rio Rancho Cleveland, the Demons made a concoction a line cook wouldn’t serve. On the other hand, the Storm looked like master chefs as they served a meal fit for a king in crafting a 79-46 win in the opening round of the APS Metro Championships at Bulldog City.

Cleveland drained 10 3-pointers, connected on 32 of 62 shots and held the Demons to a 13-for48 performance from the field.

The Storm also dominated the glass by an overwhelming 41-18 margin.

In short, Cleveland could do no wrong, and Santa Fe High could do almost no right.

“It’s pretty tough when a team shoots like that,” Demons senior guard Lukas Turner said. “We’re playing defense and they’re just making every shot. We just need to stay together and look toward the rest of the games in the tournament.”

It didn’t help that the Demons were without 6-foot-2 junior post Christian Herrera, who missed the game due to illness. His energy in the paint and ability to provide an inside presence were sorely needed, but even head coach Cisco Rivera admitted his presence alone wouldn’t have covered the 33-point margin.

However, he said the Demons were not aggressive enough against the Storms’ pressure, which led to the poor shooting night.

“We were trying to tell our guys to get downhill — blow by and get around their guards,” Rivera said. “We were just going side-to-side, we weren’t being very aggressive, shots weren’t falling. Whether it was a good shot or a bad shot, we couldn’t hit anything.”

After Sam Soveranez scored on a breakaway layup 24 seconds into the game, the icicles began Please see story on Page B-3

Marlins to add former Lobo to front office Team in agreement to hire Balkovec, who played softball at UNM, as director of player development

By Alanis Thames

The Associated Press

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Rio Rancho Cleveland’s Noah Padilla defends Santa Fe High’s Lukas Turner during the first quarter of Tuesday’s game in the APS Metro Championships at Bulldog City in Albuquerque. The Demons lost 79-46.

MIAMI — The Miami Marlins are in agreement with former University of New Mexico softball player Rachel Balkovec to become their director of player development, according to a person familiar with the deal.

The person confirmed an MLB.com report of Balkovec’s hiring to The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the deal.

Balkovec, 36, recently finished her second season as manager of the New York Yankees’ affiliate in Class A Tampa.

She debuted with the team in April 2022 with a win as the first woman to manage a Major League Baseball farm team.

Previously, Balkovec was the first woman to serve as a full-time minor league strength and conditioning coach, then the first to be a full-time hitting coach in the minors with the Yankees.

Before all that she was a Lobo, playing sparingly for UNM’s softball team in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. She began her college career at Creighton and transferred to New Mexico prior to her junior season.

A catcher, she played in 13 games in her first season with the Lobos and just one in 2008. She graduated from UNM a year later with a degree in exercise science.

In 2012 she earned a master’s degree Please see story on Page B-3

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Dallas’ McCarthy less chatty about Green Bay reunion replay Cowboys host Packers in Sunday wild-card matchup

By Schuyler Dixon

The Associated Press

Dallas coach Mike McCarthy thought he talked too much about his return to Green Bay last season when the Cowboys lost to the Packers.

With the stakes much higher for another reunion in a wild-card game at the home of the Cowboys on Sunday, McCarthy can use the benefit of hindsight.

“I regretted it,” said McCarthy, who coached up north for 12-plus seasons and won a Super Bowl on Dallas’ home field to cap the 2010 season. “That doesn’t

even need to come into our energy base.

I answered the questions honestly in here last year about my experience up there.

It just will not help us win. So if it doesn’t help us win a game, I’m not interested in it. I apologize.”

McCarthy didn’t completely shut down the questions, but was less-than-enthusiastic with the answers.

To his point, the Cowboys (12-5) are holding their highest seed at No. 2 in the NFC out of their fourth-year coach’s three consecutive trips to the playoffs. Dallas is a 71/2-point favorite over Green Bay (9-8), according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

SUNDAY ON TV 2:30 p.m. on Fox — No. 7 Packers at No. 2 Cowboys

The franchise hasn’t even reached an NFC championship game since the most recent of five Super Bowl titles to cap the 1995 season.

McCarthy went that far three other times, in addition to his title-winning season, with the Packers.

“I think the biggest thing is playoff time and we talked about it at the team meeting Please see story on Page B-4

Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy smiles as he walks off the field at the end of Sunday’s win over the Washington Commanders in Landover, Md. JESSICA RAPFOGEL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4:30 p.m. BTN — Northwestern at Penn St. 4:30 p.m. FS1 — Providence at St. John’s 5 p.m. ACCN — Louisville at Miami 5 p.m. CBSSN — Saint Joseph’s at Saint Louis 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Clemson at Virginia Tech 5 p.m. SECN — Tennessee at Mississippi St. 6 p.m. ESPN — North Carolina at NC State 6:30 p.m. BTN — Wisconsin at Ohio St. 6:30 p.m. FS1 — UConn at Xavier 7 p.m. ACCN — Boston College at Syracuse 7 p.m. CBSSN — Butler at Marquette 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Oklahoma at TCU 7 p.m. ESPNU — Arkansas at Georgia 7 p.m. SECN — Florida at Mississippi 8:30 p.m. FS1 — Washington St. at Southern Cal 9 p.m. ESPNU — Colorado at California COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 5 p.m. ESPNU — Oklahoma at Kansas State 6 p.m. PEACOCK — Iowa at Purdue COLLEGE WRESTLING 4 p.m. PAC-12N — Missouri at Stanford

FIGURE SKATING 11 a.m. E! — European Championships: Men’s Short Program, Kaunas, Lithuania

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

GOLF 12:30 a.m. Thursday GOLF — DP World Tour: The Dubai Invitational, First Round, Dubai Creek Resort, Dubai, United Arab Emirates IIHF HOCKEY (GIRL’S) 4 a.m. NHLN — Under-18 World Championship Group Stage: Sweden vs. U.S., Group B, Zug, Switzerland NBA 6:30 p.m. ABC — New Orleans at Golden State 8 p.m. ESPN — Denver at Utah NHL 5:30 p.m. TNT — Minnesota at Dallas 8 p.m. TNT — Vegas at Colorado SOCCER (MEN’S) 11:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Spanish Super Cup: Real Madrid vs.

Atlético Madrid, Semifinal, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia TENNIS 4 p.m. TENNIS — Adelaide-ATP/ WTA, Auckland-ATP & Hobart-WTA Quarterfinals; Kooyong Classic Day 2 4 a.m. Thursday TENNIS — Adelaide-ATP/WTA, Auckland-ATP & Hobart-WTA Quarterfinals; Kooyong Classic Day 2

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294 413 331 398

WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 13

Cleveland at Houston, 2:30 p.m. (NBC/Peacock) Miami at Kansas City, 6 p.m. (Peacock)

SUNDAY, JAN. 14

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 11 a.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Dallas, 2:30 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at Detroit, 6 p.m. (NBC/Peacock)

MONDAY, JAN. 15

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 6:15 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 20 AND SUNDAY, JAN. 21

NFC lowest remaining seed at San Franciso, TBD AFC lowest remaining seed at Baltimore, TBD NFC two remaining seeds at higher seed, TBD AFC two remaining seeds at higher seed, TBD

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY, JAN. 28

AFC AFC lowest remaining seed at AFC highest remaining seed, 1 p.m. (CBS) NFC NFC lowest remaining seed at NFC highest remaining seed, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, FEB. 11

At Las Vegas, Nev. TBD vs TBD, 4:30 p.m. (CBS)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 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

MONDAY, JAN. 8

CFP National Championship Houston No. 1 Michigan 34, No. 2 Washington 13

PREP BASKETBALL Albuquerque Academy 58, St. Pius X 47 Atrisco Heritage 73, Hope Christian 66 Bernalillo 74, Gallup 58 Capital 63, Los Alamos 38 Carlsbad 40, Artesia 36 Cimarron 71, Native American Community Academy 26 Cliff 52, Lordsburg 33 Escalante 72, Cuba 46 Grants 66, Wingate 40 Hagerman 72, Mescalero Apache 40 Highland 63, Hobbs 52 Kirtland Central 78, Crownpoint 41 Magdalena 86, Ramah 15 Mesa Vista 61, Santa Fe Prep 60 NMMI 65, Loving 60

AWAY

5-4-0 5-4-0 6-3-0 2-7-0

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

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

327 325 373 416

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

PA

4-5-0 5-4-0 2-7-0 3-6-0

HOME

PA

Cincinnati 31, Cleveland 14 Detroit 30, Minnesota 20 N.Y. Jets 17, New England 3 New Orleans 48, Atlanta 17 Tampa Bay 9, Carolina 0 Tennessee 28, Jacksonville 20 Dallas 38, Washington 10 Green Bay 17, Chicago 9 Kansas City 13, L.A. Chargers 12 L.A. Rams 21, San Francisco 20 Las Vegas 27, Denver 14 N.Y. Giants 27, Philadelphia 10 Seattle 21, Arizona 20 Buffalo 21, Miami 14

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

HOME

8-0-0 6-2-0 4-4-0 1-7-0

PF

SUNDAY’S GAMES

AWAY

HOME

PCT

Pittsburgh 17, Baltimore 10 Houston 23, Indianapolis 19

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

PA

315 428 407 518

395 350 379 362

491 404 364 330

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

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

280 362 324 384

461 383 360 344

.706 .588 .529 .235

7-2-0 7-2-0 4-5-0 1-8-0

353 415 371 367

.706 .529 .412 .412

SATURDAY’S GAMES

BOYS

PA

311 391 355 366

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

298 377 402 455

HOME

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

4-5-0 5-4-0 2-7-0 0-9-0

AWAY

AFC

7-5-0 7-5-0 4-8-0 4-8-0

AFC

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

AFC

8-4-0 8-4-0 7-5-0 4-8-0

AFC

9-3-0 5-7-0 6-6-0 3-9-0

AFC

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

AFC

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

AFC

NFC

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

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

9-3-0 7-5-0 5-7-0 2-10-0

NFC

6-6-0 7-5-0 4-8-0 1-11-0

NFC

DIV

4-2-0 4-2-0 2-4-0 2-4-0

DIV

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

DIV

3-3-0 3-3-0 5-1-0 1-5-0

DIV

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

DIV

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

DIV

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

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

4-2-0 4-2-0 2-4-0 2-4-0

AWAY

AFC

NFC

DIV

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

10-2-0 8-4-0 7-5-0 3-9-0

Thursday Boys basketball — Braves Invitational at Santa Fe Indian School: first round, Abq. Menaul vs. Santa Fe Prep, 8 a.m.; Mesa Vista vs. Abq. Sandia Prep, 11:30 a.m.; Moriarty vs.

McCurdy, 3 p.m.; Laguna-Acoma vs.

Santa Fe Indian School, 6:30 p.m.

Bean Valley Conference Tournament at Estancia: first round, Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep vs. Monte del Sol, 12:30 p.m.

Abq. Academy at Capital, 7 p.m.

Walatowa at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 6:30 p.m.

Pecos at Peñasco, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Lady Braves Invitational at Santa Fe Indian School: first round, Mesa Vista vs. Bernalillo, 9:45 a.m.; Laguna-Acoma vs. Cuba, 1:15 p.m.; Newcomb vs. McCurdy, 4:45 p.m.; Raton vs. Santa Fe Indian School, 8:15 p.m.

Bean Valley Conference Tournament at Estancia: first round, Monte del Sol vs. Santa Rosa, 3:30 p.m.

Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: first round, Las Vegas Robertson vs. Abq. Academy, 3:45 p.m.; Abq. Del Norte vs. St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Capital at Piedra Vista, 7 p.m.

Walatowa at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 5 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Abq. Manzano, 7 p.m.

Pecos at Peñasco, 5:30 p.m.

Taos at Kirtland Central, 6 p.m.

Cimarron at Mora, 5:30 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Santa Fe High at the APS Metro Championships, consolation: TBA Santa Fe Prep, Mesa Vista, McCurdy at Braves Classic at Santa Fe Indian School: TBA Monte del Sol at Bean Valley Confer-

5-1-0 5-1-0 2-4-0 0-6-0

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Brooklyn at Cleveland, noon Boston at Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

New York at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Houston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Phila., 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Chicago, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 6 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Utah, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 8 p.m.

Toppin Joseph Dent House Mashburn Washington Amzil Baker Mushila

Animas 48, Cobre 25 Artesia 40, Carlsbad 33 Capital 36, Los Alamos 34 Centennial 53, Deming 35 Clovis 67, Lovington 55 Durango, Colo. 35, Bloomfield 32 Eldorado 58, Valley 28 Gallup 70, Atrisco Heritage 30 Grants 47, Thoreau 32 Hobbs 75, West Mesa 33 Jal 39, Dexter 28 Jemez Valley 39, McCurdy 29 Las Cruces 56, Roswell 46 Magdalena 68, Ramah 16 Mescalero Apache 60, Hagerman 26 Newcomb 46, Navajo Pine 9 Questa 48, Springer 32 Rehoboth 44, Cottonwood Classical 29 Reserve 49, Hozho 26 Rio Rancho 70, Highland 38 Robertson 67, Pojoaque 59 Silver 56, Socorro 27 Tatum 68, Gateway Christian 35

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

28 23 21 16 15

8 12 15 21 21

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

21 21 14 8 6

15 16 21 26 30

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

25 21 21 17 3

12 15 15 21 34

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

W

W

L

L

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST

W

UNLV

Ke.Boone Ka.Boone Rodriguez Thomas Webster Johnson Whaley Hicks Jones Nowell

TOTALS

PCT .676 .583 .583 .447 .081

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

23 22 19 18 17

13 14 18 19 19

L

.595 .595 .514 .361 .143

— — 3 8½ 16

.722 .686 .684 .474 .286

— 1½ 1 9 15½

.639 .611 .514 .486 .472

— 1 4½ 5½ 6

PCT

Oklahoma City 136, Washington 128 Chicago 119, Charlotte 112, OT Indiana 133, Boston 131 Miami 120, Houston 113 Utah 132, Milwaukee 116 L.A. Clippers 138, Phoenix 111 Minnesota 113, Orlando 92 Sacramento 131, Detroit 110 Portland at New York, late Memphis at Dallas, late Toronto at L.A. Lakers, late

— 3½ 3½ 8½ 22

GB

10 11 12 20 25

TUESDAY’S GAMES

GB

PCT

26 24 26 18 10

MONDAY’S GAMES

— ½ 6½ 12 15

GB

L

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

W

.583 .568 .400 .235 .167

GB

15 15 17 23 30

PACIFIC

— 4½ 7 12½ 13

PCT

22 22 18 13 5

W

GB

.778 .657 .583 .432 .417

PCT

Saturday Boys basketball — Santa Fe High at the APS Metro Championships, semifinals/consolation: TBA Santa Fe Prep, Mesa Vista, McCurdy at Braves Classic at Santa Fe Indian School: TBA Monte del Sol at Bean Valley Conference Tournament at Estancia: TBA Mora at Lion Classic at Santa Rosa: TBA Tierra Encantada at Abq. Chesterton Academy, 3:30 p.m.

Aztec at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Cimarron at Peñasco, 6:30 p.m.

Questa at Dulce, 5:30 p.m.

Pecos at Escalante, 6 p.m.

Coronado at Gallup Hozho Academy, 2:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Santa Fe High at APS Metro Championships, consolation: TBA McCurdy, Mesa Vista at Lady Braves Invitational at Santa Fe Indian School: TBA St. Michael’s, Las Vegas Robertson at Lady Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: TBA Taos at Capital, 2 p.m.

Springer at Santa Fe Prep, 6 p.m.

Academy for Technology and the Classics at Mora, 4 p.m.

Tierra Encantada at Abq. Chesterton Academy, 2 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Hot Springs, 2:30 p.m.

Los Alamos at Aztec, 4 p.m.

Cimarron at Peñasco, 5 p.m.

Coronado at Gallup Hozho Academy, 1 p.m.

Pecos at Escalante, 4:30 p.m.

Questa at Dulce, 4 p.m.

Wrestling — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, West Las Vegas at Pinto Duals at Moriarty, Capital, Tierra Encantada, Pojoaque Valley, Española Valley, Taos, Pecos, Las Vegas Robertson at Sammy Vivian Invitational at Socorro, 9 a.m.

Los Alamos at Doc Wright Invitational at Winslow, Ariz., TBA

CAPITAL

63 LOS ALAMOS

38

2-2 0-1 1-2 0-0 5-5 3-3 6-7 0-0 0-0

3-6 4-9 0-2 0-3 0-4 1-3 0-3 0-1 0-0

0 2 4 6 2 0 1 1 0

2 3 1 4 2 1 3 2 0

16 6 3 16 13 9 10 0 0

200 27-55 17-20 8-31 16 18 73

GB

MIN

FG M-A

29 5-11 28 11-16 32 5-11 38 4-8 24 0-0 17 0-3 14 2-6 9 2-2 7 0-1 2 0-0

FT REB M-A O-T A PF PTS 2-2 7-8 1-2 4-6 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0

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

5 2 0 7 1 3 1 1 0 0

3 4 1 2 1 1 4 0 2 1

200 29-58 15-19 5-23 20 19

17 29 13 14 0 0 5 5 0 0

83

Percentages: FG .500, FT .789.

3-Point Goals: 10-22, .455 (Ke.Boone 5-11, Thomas 2-3, Rodriguez 2-5, Hicks 1-1, Johnson 0-1, Whaley 0-1).

Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 6 (Jones 3, Ka.Boone, Ke.Boone, Rodriguez).

Turnovers: 9 (Thomas 3, Rodriguez 2, Ke.Boone, Nowell, Webster, Whaley).

Steals: 8 (Rodriguez 4, Thomas 2, Ka.Boone, Webster).

Technical Fouls: Rodriguez, 4:26 second.

What happened: The Elks showed what happens when they take care of the ball in a nondistrict game in Louis G. Sanchez Memorial Gymnasium. The Panthers only forced eight turnovers, and the dearth of transition opportunities showed. They failed to score for a 7-minute, 10-second stretch, which coincided with a 13-0 Pojoaque run to make the score 44-22 Elks in the third quarter. “It was a good defensive effort,” PECOS Elks head coach Ryan Cordova said. “We controlled the boards well and we only had eight turnovers. They stopped pressing us.”

Top players: Joziah Salazar had 14 points to lead the Elks, while Dalian Lopez and Serafin Mendez each added 10.

What’s next: Pojoaque (8-7) plays Aztec on Jan. 17. Pecos (9-6) plays at Peñasco on Thursday.

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What happened: The nondistrict game against the Trojans started ugly, and it ended in the same fashion. Mesa Vista pressed its way to a 24-14 lead after a quarter and led 35-27 at the half.

Prep used a 7-0 run midway through the third to tie the score at 37-all and even took a 52-51 lead with 5 minutes left in the game. Mesa Vista wing Jordan Gallegos’ three-point play ignited a 9-2 run that proved to be the difference.

SANTA FE Top players: Morgan Field led the Blue Griffins PREP with 17 points, while Mitch Grover added 16 and Van Anderson added 11. Jordan Gallegos scored 23 points to lead Mesa Vista, while Marco Martinez added 15 and Santiago Martinez scored 12.

What’s next: Both teams head to Santa Fe Indian School’s Braves Invite Thursday. Prep (5-5) plays Albuquerque Menaul at 8 a.m. Thursday, while Mesa Vista (5-4) takes on Albuquerque Sandia Prep at 11:30 a.m.

MESA VISTA

61

NEW MEXICO UNLV

38 40

TUESDAY’S SCORES EAST

35 43

60

— —

Girls basketball CAPITAL

36

73 83

Bridgeport 80, Staten Island 73 Brockport 79, Buffalo St. 75, OT Bryn Athyn 72, Keystone 63 Chestnut Hill 71, Holy Family 64, OT Clark 89, Emerson 83 Clarkson 104, Northern Vermont-Lyndon 56 Coast Guard 109, MIT 84 Cornell 91, Columbia 79 Curry 67, Gordon 66 Drew 78, Wilkes 75 Duke 75, Pittsburgh 53 Elmira 77, Houghton 75 Franklin & Marshall 88, Muhlenberg 67 Geneseo 79, Fredonia St. 75 Gettysburg 80, Haverford 50 Jefferson 76, Georgian Court 64 Johns Hopkins 75, Dickinson 51 Kansas St. 81, West Virginia 67 Keene St. 85, E. Connecticut 60 Maine-Augusta 80, Northern Vermont-Johnson 78 Maine-Presque Isle 83, Bates 69 Mass.-Dartmouth 90, Mass.-Boston 54 Miami (Ohio) 86, Buffalo 65 New Paltz 67, Cortland 61 Nichols 72, Endicott 67 Oswego St. 79, Oneonta 55 Plattsburgh 100, Potsdam 90 Plymouth St. 62, Castleton 57 Post (Conn.) 83, Felician 69 Roger Williams 74, Hartford 61 Rutgers 66, Indiana 57 SUNY-Delhi 70, Eastern Nazarene 57 SUNY-IT 75, SUNY-Cobleskill 67 Seton Hall 74, Georgetown 70 Skidmore 82, Vassar 71 Springfield 90, Babson 54

LOS ALAMOS

Akron 80, Ball St. 76 Bowling Green 83, Ohio 78 Cent. Michigan 80, E. Michigan 64 Creighton 84, DePaul 58 Iowa St. 57, Houston 53 Nebraska 88, Purdue 72 Richmond 58, Loyola Chicago 56 Texas 74, Cincinnati 73 Toledo 89, Kent St. 75 W. Michigan 95, N. Illinois 90, OT

34

SOUTHWEST FAR WEST

Boise St. 65, Colorado St. 58 Nevada 67, Air Force 54 UNLV 83, New Mexico 73 Utah St. 83, Wyoming 59

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S SCORES EAST

Marquette 75, Seton Hall 54

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT PTS GF GA 40 24 8 40 26 12 38 21 10 42 20 17 40 20 16 39 17 17 41 17 20 36 14 22

8 2 7 5 4 5 4 0

56 136 109 54 128 100 49 140 121 45 137 145 44 144 136 39 111 137 38 122 139 28 119 131

39 26 11 2 40 22 13 5 40 20 14 6 40 18 12 10 38 21 15 2 38 19 13 6 39 20 15 4 42 13 20 9

54 132 112 49 137 122 46 117 113 46 123 135 44 135 136 44 94 117 44 121 106 35 126 155

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

40 41 39 41 39 39 39 41

27 26 23 22 20 20 17 12

L OT PTS

9 12 11 18 17 18 18 27

4 3 5 1 2 1 4 2

58 55 51 45 42 41 38 26

L OT PTS

GF GA

137 152 142 129 118 110 116 95

94 130 120 130 117 125 127 153

GF GA

Vancouver 41 27 11 3 57 160 107 Vegas 40 23 12 5 51 133 112 Los Angeles 37 20 10 7 47 124 94 Edmonton 37 21 15 1 43 133 114 Seattle 40 17 14 9 43 111 117 Calgary 41 18 18 5 41 127 134 Anaheim 40 14 25 1 29 102 133 San Jose 41 9 29 3 21 81 171 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.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 1 Dallas 4, Minnesota 0 Colorado 4, Boston 3, SO

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Seattle 5, Buffalo 2 Toronto 7, San Jose 1 Tampa Bay 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Vancouver 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Winnipeg 5, Columbus 0 Florida 5, St. Louis 1 Anaheim 5, Nashville 3

What happened: The Elkettes went 18-for-23 from the free-throw line, but head coach Cindy Roybal wishes they hit 19. Jasmine Valdez had a chance to win the game as she had two free throws in the final seconds of regulation. She hit one to tie the score at 55-all, but the Lady Cardinals dominated the overtime session by a 12-4 count to win the nondistrict game in Michael Marr Gymnasium. Pojoaque head coach Cindy POJOAQUE Roybal said it was a far better effort than in last VALLEY week’s 56-38 loss at the Portales Shootout. The team was missing Valdez and Lauren Salazar, who missed the tournament because of injuries but returned for this game.

Top players: Salazar paced the Elkettes with 16 points.

What’s next: Pojoaque (5-9) plays at Albuquerque Manzano on Thursday. Robertson (6-5) heads to the Sundevils Invitational at Albuquerque Sandia Prep, playing Albuquerque Academy in the first round.

67

59

MIDWEST

Michigan St. 74, Maryland 69 Minnesota 82, Michigan 66 Saint Joseph’s 69, Saint Louis 57 St. John’s 60, Xavier 42 Temple 72, Wichita St. 49

ATLANTIC

What happened: The Lady Jaguars outscored the Lady Hilltoppers 12-8 in the third quarter to take a 23-20 lead, and it held up in a low-scoring nondistrict contest in Griffith Gymnasium. Capital wing Annica Montoya hit a free throw with 7 seconds left for the two-point lead, and Los Alamos guard Sofia Trujillo’s 3-pointer from the top of the key hit the back iron with 1 second left.

Top players: Montoya led the Lady Jaguars with nine points, while Madelaine Portillo and Briana Perez each had seven.

What’s next: Capital (3-8) plays at Piedra Vista on Thursday. Los Alamos (6-6) heads to Aztec on Saturday.

LAS VEGAS ROBERTSON

Baylor 81, BYU 72 Texas Tech 90, Oklahoma St. 73

Boston Florida Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

What happened: Just when the season hit the lowest point for the Jaguars, they are finding a pulse at the right time. Coming off a thrilling 72-66 win over Rio Rancho over the weekend, Capital held the Hilltoppers to just five points in the third quarter to turn a 34-24 halftime lead into a 49-29 advantage. The Jaguars did it with a balanced scoring attack, as nine players recorded a point in the second half.

Top players: Five players scored at least eight points, led by Elijah Rodriguez-Montaño’s 14. Jude Torres and Eli Dominguez each had nine. Ian Frazier scored nine points for Los Alamos.

What’s next: Capital (7-4) plays Albuquerque Academy at home Thursday. Los Alamos (3-7) plays host to Artesia on the same day.

POJOAQUE VALLEY

MIDWEST

Percentages: FG .491, FT .850.

3-Point Goals: 2-12, .167 (House 2-5, Amzil 0-1, Baker 0-1, Toppin 0-1, Mashburn 0-2, Washington 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 1 (Toppin).

Turnovers: 16 (House 3, Joseph 3, Washington 3, Dent 2, Toppin 2, Amzil, Mashburn, Mushila).

Steals: 5 (Washington 5).

Technical Fouls: House, 14:21 second.

L

Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

NORTHWEST

PCT

29 7-11 25 3-7 28 1-6 26 7-11 30 4-9 23 3-6 21 2-3 12 0-2 4 0-0

TOTALS

NBA L

44

Alabama 74, South Carolina 47 Auburn 66, Texas A&M 55 Claflin 71, Virginia Union 53 Elizabeth City St. 71, Shaw 65 Erskine 80, Warren Wilson 52 Florida St. 87, Wake Forest 82 Greensboro 69, S. Virginia 67 Kentucky 90, Missouri 77 Kentucky St. 97, Simmons College (Ky) Falcons 75 LSU 77, Vanderbilt 69 Maryville (Tenn.) 86, Berea 77 Nicholls 66, SE Louisiana 61 Notre Dame 75, Georgia Tech 68, OT Rhode Island 79, Davidson 74 VCU 54, George Mason 50

FG FT REB NEW MEXICO MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

GIRLS

W

76

SOUTH

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL

ATLANTIC

What happened: The Horsemen continued to make strides, dominating the Sundevils right from the start in jumping out to a 23-4 lead after a quarter of a nondistrict game Tuesday in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium. It was a 40-23 halftime score when St. Michael’s put the game away with a 24-7 scoring run to push the lead to 64-30. Horsemen head coach Gerard Garcia said hitting shots early in the game was crucial in ABQ. SANDIA setting the tone. “We need to hit our shots to get PREP off to a strong start,” Garcia said. “We need to hit shots to set up our defense. If we don’t do that, we can’t set up our defense and that’s where we struggle.”

Top players: Kamal Stith led a balanced scoring attack with 15 points, while Reed Bass added 12 and Lucas Gurule had 11. The trio of Ryan Hunt, Santiago Sandoval and Nick Angelley each had 10. Jacob Schierloh led Sandia Prep with 16.

What’s next: St. Michael’s (6-6) plays at Rio Rancho on Tuesday.

ST. MICHAEL’S

St. John Fisher 89, Keuka 70 Susquehanna 70, Lycoming 65 Swarthmore 75, McDaniel 65 Union (NY) 78, Bard 69 Ursinus 97, Washington College (Md.) 60 Utica 77, Nazareth 75, OT W. New England 76, Suffolk 50 Wentworth 86, New England 85 Western Connecticut Wolves 78, Rhode Island Coll. 66 Wheaton 75, Salve Regina 64 Wilson College 65, Valley Forge 53 Yale 80, Brown 70

Minnesota at Boston, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Phila. at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Chicago, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Utah, 8 p.m.

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

UNLV 83, NEW MEXICO 73

Newcomb 60, Navajo Pine 49 Organ Mountain 50, Los Lunas 44 Portales 57, Moriarty 28 Rehoboth 59, Zuni 38 Sandia 72, Rio Rancho 62 Santa Rosa 74, East Mountain 43 Shiprock 65, Bayfield, Colo. 56 Volcano Vista 73, Manzano 55 West Mesa 74, Cibola 63

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Boys basketball

DIV

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

6-3-0 4-5-0 2-7-0 5-4-0 7-2-0 5-4-0 4-5-0 2-7-0

Wednesday Boys basketball — APS Metro Championships, consolation at Abq. High: Santa Fe High vs. Abq. High, 5:30 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Coronado, 6:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — APS Metro Championships, consolation at Abq. Atrisco Heritage Academy: Santa Fe High vs.

Atrisco Heritage, 5:30 p.m New Mexico School for the Deaf at Coronado, 5 p.m.

PREP ROUNDUP

ence Tournament at Estancia: TBA Kirkland Central at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Sanford (Colo.) at Escalante, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Santa Fe High at APS Metro Championships, consolation: TBA McCurdy, Mesa Vista at Lady Braves Invitational at Santa Fe Indian School: TBA St. Michael’s, Las Vegas Robertson at Lady Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: TBA Española Valley at Clovis, 6 p.m.

Sanford (Colo.) at Escalante, 6 p.m.

Swimming and diving — Dual: Abq. Sandia Prep at Santa Fe Prep (Salvador Perez), 3 p.m.

Wrestling — Los Alamos at Doc Wright Invitational at Winslow, Ariz., TBA

The New Mexican Edmonton 2, Chicago 1 Calgary 6, Ottawa 3 Arizona 4, Boston 3, OT

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Vegas at Colorado, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Florida, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 5 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Boston at Vegas, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Nashville at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Minor League Baseball Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Promoted Sean Smith to general manager. Named Anthony Polito assistant general manager/stadium operations, Sean Mulhall group sales manager, Justice Lallier ticket sales manager and Augie Fortugno promotions manager.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Recalled G Jalen HoodSchifino and F Maxwell Lewis from the South Bay Lakers of the G League.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Assigned Fs Jae Crowder, Chris Livingston and G A.J. Green to the Wisconsin Herd of the G League.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed F Juan Toscano-Anderson to a 10-day contract.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed G Hamidou Di-

allo to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Daniel Arias, CB Darren Hall, S Verone McKinley III and OL Austen Pleasants to future contract for 2024.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed RB Robert Burns and DB Arnold Tarpley to futures contracts for 2024.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed P Corliss Waitman to a futures contract for 2024.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed OT Devin Cochran to a one-year contract extension.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived DB Tony Brown.

Signed DB Kendall Brooks, G Lewis Kidd and DB Michael Tutsie to futures contracts for 2024.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed TE Josh Pederson and WR Seth Williams to futures contracts for 2024.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Signed DE Brevin Allen, DTs Jerrod Clark and Basil Okoye, RB Elijah Dotson, QB Max Duggan, WR Simi Fehoke, DBS Matt Hankin and Chris Wilcox and G Brent Laing to futures contracts for 2024.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Waived DE Earnest Brown IV. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed OLB Justin Houston to a contract. Signed OLBs Bruce Irvin and Malik Reed to the practice squad. Placed LBs Jerome Baker, Cameron Goode and Andrew Van Ginkel on injured reserve.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed RB Myles Gaskin to a futures contract for 2024.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed FB Nick Bawden and DL Tanzel Smart to futures contracts for 2024.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed LB David Perales to the practice squad. Released S Nate Meadors and QB Trace McSorley from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DT Deadrin Senat to the practice squad. Released LB Vi Jones from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Waived TE Curtis Hodges.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ELKS — Released QB Taylor Cornelius and LB Adam Konar.

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Iowa State knocks off Houston, nation’s last undefeated team

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HOUSTON — After winning its first national championship in 26 years, Michigan heads into an uncertain future.

Who stays, who goes and is a repeat possible in an expanded and loaded Big Ten that will include the Washington team the Wolverines beat 34-13 in the national championship game?

The biggest question after Michigan wrapped up a 15-0 season is the status of coach Jim Harbaugh. The ninth-year coach has led his alma mater to three straight Big Ten titles and College Football Playoff appearances and is the top target for NFL teams with head coach openings. Harbaugh has not commented about his intentions.

Several players also are considering whether to enter the NFL draft or return to school with NCAA sanctions possibly coming.

Third-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy is widely projected to be a late first-round pick if he decides to declare. Fourth-year running back Blake Corum strongly considered entering the draft a year ago and indicated Tuesday he would move on after being named offensive player of

the game Monday night.

Receiver Roman Wilson and four of the five starting offensive linemen also have decisions to make.

The Wolverines’ defense led the nation in fewest points and yards allowed per game and could lose as many as eight starters depending on how many choose to declare.

One who will return is second-year cornerback Will Johnson, the defensive player of the game Monday. He said there is enough talent waiting in the wings to make Michigan a factor again.

“We had a great group of guys that will be back next year that are super talented in my class, and other guys that will come back, too,” he said. “So I’m just ready to keep enjoying this while I can and get back to work whenever we get started again.”

Oddsmakers aren’t forecasting a repeat for the Wolverines.

FanDuel Sportsbook on Tuesday listed them as the fifth betting choice behind Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Texas.

“I definitely think the guys will run it back,” Corum said. “They know what it takes. They know what it’s like. And something Coach Harbaugh always says is don’t get a big head. And none of

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Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh celebrates with the trophy Monday after the Wolverines’ win in the College Football Playoff championship against Washington in Houston.

the guys on the team will have a big head after this win.”

Harbaugh repeated his postgame comment about why his players didn’t become distracted by off-field matters. Harbaugh twice served three-game suspensions, the first imposed by the school for recruiting violations and the second by the Big Ten for the sign-stealing scheme that hung over the program all season. The NCAA continues to investigate both cases.

“We knew we were innocent,” he said. “We stood tall, upright and innocent.”

Going 15-0, he said, was the result of “good old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeve hard work and teamwork.”

“It’s been a beautiful thing,” he said. “You’re chasing perfection, and it’s hard to be perfect. And it rarely comes around.”

Harbaugh also used what might have been his final news conference as Michigan’s coach to reiterate his belief that college athletes deserve to share in the

revenue they help generate.

“We’re all robbing the same train,” he said. “And the ones that are in the position to do the heavy lifting, the ones that risk life and limb out there on the football field are the players.

And not just football players, student-athletes. The organizations are fighting hard to keep all the money — the universities, the NCAA, the conferences. It’s long past time to let the student-athletes share in the ever-increasing revenues.”

Harbaugh said he would encourage college athletes to form a union if stakeholders aren’t willing to share the wealth voluntarily. He has suggested coaches, conferences and the NCAA take 5% or 10% of the money they make and put it in a pool to pay athletes.

Harbaugh drew laughs from reporters when he expressed his willingness to meet with NCAA officials to discuss the issue.

“I think they know my number,” he said.

Storm swamp Demons

House was one of five Lobos with two fouls at halftime. He finished the game with four, playing the final five-plus minutes after getting his fourth; the second time in as many MWC road games that he has struggled to remain on the floor due to foul trouble.

UNLV led 13-4 just five minutes into the game before the Lobos responded with a 19-8 run to take a lead. The Rebels answered that spurt with one of their own and led 40-38 at halftime. They never trailed in the second half.

“Second game in a row, really third game in a row coming out of halftime we just

NEBRASKA 88, NO. 1 PURDUE 72 In Lincoln, Neb., Keisei Tominaga scored 19 points to lead Nebraska, which opened an 11-point halftime lead then held off two second-half surges to upset No. 1 Purdue.

Nebraska (13-3, 3-2 Big Ten) last defeated a No. 1 team 41 years ago, when it beat Missouri 67-51. The Huskers last win over a No. 1 in Lincoln was a 74-73 victory over Michigan in 1962.

Nebraska built its halftime lead by holding Purdue scoreless for the final minutes of the first half, scoring 13 unanswered in a run that began with two 3-pointers by Tominaga and ended with seven straight from Sam Hoiberg.

In Lexington, Ky., Rob Dillingham scored 23 points off the bench, Tre Mitchell had 20 points and 14 rebounds, and Kentucky beat Missouri for its sixth consecutive victory.

Noah Carter had 20 points, Sean East II added 19 and Tamar Bates scored 18 for the Tigers, who lost for the fifth time in six games.

The Wildcats (12-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) led for all but a minute and stayed safely ahead thanks to key baskets that provided breathing room every time the Tigers crept within several possessions after halftime.

NO. 11 DUKE 75, PITTSBURGH 53 In Pittsburgh, Kyle Filipowski scored 26 points on 11 of 12 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds as Duke raced to a massive first-half lead and cruised past Pittsburgh for its seventh straight victory.

The Blue Devils (12-3, 3-1 ACC) made quick work of the Panthers (10-6, 1-3), overwhelming Pitt during the opening 20 minutes under a barrage of 3-pointers — including three from Filipowski — while building a 25-point lead that Pitt never came close to threatening.

NO. 15 BAYLOR 81, NO. 18 BYU 72 In Waco, Texas, Jalen Bridges scored 17 of his 25 points after halftime as Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit to beat BYU. Ja’Kobe Walter added 16 points for the Bears and Langston Love had 15, including a couple of second-half 3-pointers and two free throws with 54 seconds left after

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Rio Rancho Cleveland’s Bronson Cole, right, tries to block Santa Fe High’s Sam Soveranez during the second quarter of Tuesday’s game in the APS Metro Championships at Bulldog City in Albuquerque. The Demons lost 79-46.

saw in the fourth quarter, as the Demons became more aggressive and attacked the basket more often — even if it was with mostly second-string players.

The Demons will take on host Albuquerque High in the consolation bracket at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, while the Storm plays Albuquerque La Cueva at 7:15.

“We figured some things out there,” Rivera said. “I know it was a blowout but that breeds some confidence. It was just a learning experience.”

As any good chef knows to make a good omelet, one has to break some eggs.

And the Demons left a lot of shells on the floor.

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AMES, Iowa — Tamin Lipsey scored 14 points, freshman Milan Momcilovic made a baseline jumper with 30.2 seconds left and Iowa State beat No. 2 Houston 57-53 on Tuesday night to knock off the nation’s final unbeaten team.

Iowa State forward Hason Ward made two free throws with 1:20 remaining, but he was whistled for a lane violation on the second free throw to keep the lead at 53-51.

Houston’s Jamal Shead split a double team and made a jumper with 55.9 seconds left to tie it at 53-all.

After an Iowa State timeout, Momcilovic spun away from a double team and sank a jumper from a difficult angle for a 55-53 lead. He then hit a pair of free throws.

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to form on Santa Fe High’s rim. Twenty of the next 22 shots failed to draw twine, as the Demons (9-3) seemed hesitant to attack the rim. Even Turner, the 20-plus-points-pergame scorer, struggled to score as his lone bucket was an 18-foot jumper with 16 seconds left in the first half.

Cleveland led 42-16 by that point.

“We were just relying on our jump shot more than we should have,” said Soveranez, who led the Demons with 13 points. “It wasn’t there tonight. We need to attack the basket more.”

On the other sideline, the Storm (10-2) showed what nine days of preparation for the Demons can do for them. Coming off a tough 61-58 loss to Farmington in the championship game of the Hobbs Holiday Classic, Cleveland was looking for consistency in its play.

The championship game loss followed perhaps the team’s biggest win of the season, a 64-60 win over two-time reigning 5A champion Albuquerque Volcano Vista in the semifinals.

“You’re playing tough teams every game — Artesia, Volcano Vista, Farmington, that’s a tough stretch,” said Storm head coach Zack Cole, who coached the Demons until last season. “There are no cupcakes, so we were able to play at our peak versus Volcano, and then we were able to do it the next day.

That’s the challenge right now — to be consistent night in and night out.”

If it needed to start anywhere for the Storm, it was on the defensive end. Their combination of size, speed and aggressiveness forced Santa Fe High into tough shot after tough shot. Cole said the absence of Herrera could be seen because he can do a lot of little things that sometimes go unnoticed in the statbook.

“Christian is a piece where if you’re taking away the shooters, he’s that option inside with the slips, the curls and the cuts [to the basket],” Cole said. “I think they did miss that tonight in terms of having another option.”

Rivera countered that Cleveland was playing so well, his presence might have merely slowed the Storm surge instead of halting it.

However, he said Herrera’s health was more important than a game in January.

“I’m not gonna make the kid fight through it and possibly extend his sickness or even getting other guys sick,” Rivera said. “He needed to be home to get healthy.”

The goal for the rest of the tournament is to try to build on some good things Rivera

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Will they stay or will they go?

By Eric Olson

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didn’t have the pop that we did in the first half,” Pitino said. “I think we’ve played in conference three really good first halves but for whatever reason we’re not coming out, we’re not ready to go in the first four minutes.”

Keylan Boone, Kalib’s twin brother, did all of his damage from the outside. All five of his made buckets were from 3-point territory as he finished with 17 points and five assists.

Pitino said UNM will focus on getting more production out of its shooters in the future. The Lobos made only two 3s on 11 attempts. Keylan Boone took 11 attempts by himself.

“We’re not getting enough of them,” Pitino

said. “We’ve got guys who’ve got to shoot them, knock them down.”

NOTES The Lobos will play their next two games in The Pit, each of them against teams in the Top 25. It starts with Saturday’s game against No. 19 San Diego State and includes a visit next week from No. 20 Utah State. … San Diego State was the only road team to pick up a win in MWC play Tuesday night, holding off San Jose State 81-78 in a game that tipped off at 9 p.m. There have been only four road wins in conference play thus far. … Utah State, Nevada, San Diego State and Boise State are the only undefeated teams left after a week and a half in league play.

BYU coach Mark Pope was called for a technical foul.

Baylor (13-2, 2-0 Big 12) won its first conference game in the new Foster Pavilion, a week after christening the building with a 98-79 victory over Cornell.

NO. 16 AUBURN 66, TEXAS A&M 55 In Auburn, Ala., Jaylin Williams scored 22 points and Auburn didn’t give up a field goal in the final nine minutes to defeat Texas A&M. Williams’ 3-pointer from the top of the key beat the shot-clock with 52 seconds left and sealed an eighth straight win for the Tigers (13-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference).

BOISE STATE 65, NO. 17 COLORADO STATE 58 In Boise, Idaho, O’Mar Stanley scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Tyson Degenhart and Chibuzo Agbo added 13 points each to lead Boise State to a win over Colorado State.

The Broncos (11-4, 2-0 Mountain West Conference), who shot 39% from the field, built a 13-point lead with 5:56 left to play and survived a late rally by Colorado State. Boise State hit 17 of 23 free throws for the game.

NO. 19 SAN DIEGO STATE 81, SAN JOSE STATE 78 In San Jose, Calif., Jaedon LeDee had 31 points and 10 rebounds, and San Diego State held off San Jose State for its seventh straight win.

LeDee, the Mountain West’s leading scorer at 21.4 points per game, has scored at least 20 in four straight games.

Lamont Butler added 16 points and Micah Parrish had 13 for the Aztecs (14-2, 3-0 Mountain West).

NO. 20 UTAH STATE 83, WYOMING 59 In Logan, Utah, Great Osobor scored 20 points, Darius Brown II added 13 points and a season-high tying 11 assists and Utah State beat Wyoming to stretch the nation’s longest active win streak to 14 games.

Osobor, who made 9 of 11 from the field — including five dunks — and Brown, the 2022-23 Big Sky Conference defensive player of the year, transferred to Utah State from Montana State with coach Danny Sprinkle who left the Bobcats last April to take over the Aggies.

Utah State (15-1, 3-0 Mountain West Conference) is off to its best start under a first-year coach.

NO. 22 CREIGHTON 84, DEPAUL 58 In Chicago, Baylor Scheierman and Ryan Kalkbrenner each scored 20 points, and Creighton pounded DePaul for its third consecutive win.

Trey Alexander added 17 points for the Bluejays (12-4, 3-2 Big East), who appear to be back on track after a tough stretch of three losses in four games.

Scheierman went 6 for 9 from 3-point range and grabbed eight rebounds, and Kalkbrenner finished with nine boards and four blocked shots.

NO. 25 TEXAS 74, CINCINNATI 73 In Cincinnati, Dylan Disu scored a career-high 33 points and Max Abmas hit a go-ahead jumper with eight seconds remaining to help Texas beat Cincinnati.

Marlins to add former Lobo to front office Continued from Page B-1

in kinesiology from LSU and immediately became a candidate for a number of jobs within professional baseball.

She landed her first role in the professional ranks with the St. Louis Cardinals as a minor league strength and conditioning coach in 2012. Four years later she moved into the Houston Astros organization.

Hired in 2016 to become the Astros’ Latin American strength and conditioning coordinator, she parlayed that into a later role as the strength and conditioning coach at Double-A Corpus Christi.

Balkovec has worked extensively at the international level, becoming a skill acquisition coach with the Dutch national team and spending time in the Australian Baseball League.

She joined the Yankees organization as a minor league hitting coach in 2019 and led Tampa to a 122-136 record in two seasons in the Florida State League. Her debut as Tarpons’ skipper in 2022 was delayed a

few days when she was struck in the face by a batted ball at the Yankees’ player development complex in Florida, an accident that left her with a badly swollen eye and bruises on her face.

Over the years she has said she embraces her role as a role model to girls hoping to make headway in a traditionally male-dominated sport.

“Bias and stereotypes are going to be around forever,” she told Sports Illustrated in 2022. “But I do think we’ve made a ton of progress.”

The Marlins have made a series of front office moves since the 2023 season ended.

A month after parting ways with general manager Kim Ng, who led the organization for three seasons, the Marlins hired former Rays GM Peter Bendix as their new president of baseball operations. Ng was the first woman to become GM of a major league team.

Bendix got to work immediately, bringing in former San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler as an assistant GM.

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Rodgers denies implying Kimmel was tied to Epstein

By David Bauder and Dennis Waszak Jr.

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for his role in escalating their burgeoning feud.

Rodgers returned to ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday for his weekly appearance and addressed comments he made the week before that appeared to suggest Kimmel’s name might appear on a list of associates of Jeffrey Epstein, a millionaire accused of sex trafficking

involving underage victims before he died by suicide.

“Any type of name calling is ridiculous and I’m not calling him [a pedophile], and neither should you,” Rodgers said on Aaron the show Tuesday.

Rodgers The feud between ABC’s late-night star and Rodgers, who regularly appears on the daily ESPN show, has proven embarrassing for The Walt Disney Co., the parent company to both television networks.

Rodgers criticized Mike Foss, an

ESPN executive who oversees McAfee’s show, for saying that Rodgers had made “a dumb and factually inaccurate joke” about Kimmel.

“Mike, you’re not helping,” Rodgers Jimmy said. “You’re not helpKimmel ing because I just read earlier exactly what I said. This is the game plan of the media and this is what they do: They try to cancel, you know, and it’s not just me.”

Rodgers last week said a lot of people, “including Jimmy Kimmel,” are really

hoping that a list of Epstein’s associates doesn’t come out publicly. Kimmel, who has denied any association with Epstein, threatened Rodgers with a lawsuit for the comment and said the NFL star was putting his family in danger.

Rodgers suggested that people were reading too much into what he said, that he was not stupid enough to accuse Kimmel of being a pedophile.

Kimmel made the first appearance of the year Monday on his late-night show and lashed into Rodgers. He said he would accept an apology from Rodgers but didn’t expect one.

“A decent person would apologize,” Kimmel said. “But he probably won’t.”

Kimmel called Rodgers “hamster-brained” and said that he got two A’s on his report card — “they’re both in the name Aaron.”

“It might be time to revisit that concussion profile, Aaron,” Kimmel said.

Before addressing his specific comments, Rodgers had a lengthy preamble about his grudges against Kimmel, including jokes the comic has made about the quarterback’s anti-COVID-19 vaccination comments.

Even after that, he said he didn’t care what Kimmel said about him, “but as long as he understands what I actually said and that I’m not accusing him of being on a list ... I’m all for moving forward.”

‘Door is open’ to reconciliation Bieniemy’s future

uncertain while Commanders seek their next coach

Broncos’ brass indicates divorce with QB Wilson isn’t inevitable following his benching

By Arnie Stapleton

The Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. aybe Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos aren’t headed for a costly divorce, after all.

The possibility of working things out with their benched $242.6 million quarterback was the main message that emerged from the Broncos’ season-ending news conference Wednesday.

Coach Sean Payton said no decision has been made at QB but everyone will have clarity soon: “I spent a half hour with Russ yesterday and I told him I don’t think it’s going to be a long, drawn-out process. But it hasn’t been decided relative to what our plans are and that as soon as we know something that certainly he would be the first to know.”

Payton said there was indeed a scenario in which Wilson returns as his starting quarterback next season despite being benched after throwing for 28 touchdowns through 15 games.

“Yeah, otherwise it would have been like, ‘Hey, goodbye,’” Payton said. “So, we’ll look at all the scenarios and try to do what’s best for the Denver Broncos.”

General manager George Paton said the “door is open” to a reconciliation that would keep Wilson in Denver, adding, “I’ve talked to Russ. He’s open to returning.”

Wilson’s agent, Mark Rodgers, didn’t immediately return messages from The Associated Press afterward.

The Broncos are on the hook for Wilson’s $39 million salary in 2024 and they’d also have $85 million in dead cap charges over the next two years if they let him go.

“This would be extreme,” Paton said.

It would also be an NFL record, more than doubling the $40-plus million the Atlanta Falcons incurred in dead cap charges following QB Matt Ryan’s departure.

But CEO Greg Penner, who is the league’s richest owner, said the substantial financial fallout from a split with Wilson wouldn’t be the deciding factor in the team’s quarterback decision.

“Obviously, the financial part of it is a significant component in terms of how this works out in the future, but that’s not what

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Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson waits on the snap during the second half of a Dec. 24 game against the New England Patriots in Denver.

will drive this decision,” Penner said. “The decision will be driven on what’s in the best interests of this football team winning games.”

The Broncos (8-9) posted a losing record for a seventh straight season and extended their playoff drought to eight years in Payton’s first year as coach. He benched Wilson for the final two games and Jarrett Stidham went 1-1 with a pair of middling performances in his place.

After Wilson was benched, he said in an interview at his locker on Dec. 29 that the team approached him during the bye week following Denver’s biggest win in years, a 24-9 dispatch of the Chiefs in Week 8 that snapped a 16-game losing skid to Kansas City, and threatened to bench him if he didn’t adjust his $37 million injury guarantee in 2024.

He declined to change anything in the contract and remained the starter until he was benched following a loss to the Patriots on Christmas Eve in what the Broncos insist was a football move, not a financial one.

The Broncos didn’t respond publicly to Wilson’s comments about being threatened with his starting job until Wednesday’s news conference.

The owner, GM and head coach all

Titans fire Vrabel after back-to-back losing seasons said they wanted to keep Vrabel NASHVILLE, Tenn. — as their Tennessee Titans controlling coach. owner Amy Adams Strunk The wants a fresh approach to comTitans hired pete in the NFL, so she fired Carthon coach Mike Vrabel on Tuesday from San Mike Vrabel morning after six seasons and Francisco losing 18 of the past 24 games. where he Strunk said in a statement it spent six seasons. The Niners was a decision “as difficult as have made the playoffs three any I’ve made.” straight seasons and four of But she said she believes five, including reaching Super teams best positioned to win Bowl 54, and currently are the must be aligned and collaborate NFC’s No. 1 seed. across the board. The Titans Carthon said at a news started that shift a year ago, conference Tuesday he has a hiring Ran Carthon as the francouple of candidates already chise’s first Black general manfor his first head coaching ager and expanding its analytics search. The search process staff. More changes were needed starts immediately. to “fully achieve our vision.”

“We have to get it right, and Strunk said she assessed the I’m confident that we will,” team throughout the season in Carthon said. an interview released by the Carthon dispelled speculation team. The Titans went 7-10 in of friction between himself and 2022 and just finished a 6-11 Vrabel, saying the coach was season Sunday. part of every meeting on players.

“I thought it was time to Carthon also said Vrabel never make that change,” Strunk said. talked with him about wanting The announcement came more control over personnel. a day after the Titans cleaned “We’re not going to bring out their lockers with Vrabel players in here that the coaches not speaking to reporters. It don’t want to coach,” Carthon was the first time in the fransaid. chise’s 27 seasons in Tennessee The Titans now are the sixth the head coach did not talk NFL team at the moment lookto reporters since the team ing for a new coach, joining moved to the state from Texas. Atlanta and Washington who Several Titans, from rookie fired coaches Monday. The quarterback Will Levis to Raiders, the Chargers and Pantwo-time Pro Bowl defensive thers didn’t wait for the season lineman Jeffery Simmons, all to end before firing coaches.

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attempts at runs. I love running the ball, and I felt like it was just nothing but drop-back passes. I ASHBURN, Va. — Eric just want it to be more balanced, Bieniemy went to Washington to be completely honest with in part to run an offense under you.” a defensive-minded coach and Swing tackle Cornelius Lucas show what he could do away said it was “different” under from Andy Reid and Patrick Bieniemy compared with the Mahomes. previous couple of years under That defensive-minded coach former offensive coordinator is gone, and now it looks like Scott Turner, when he said Bieniemy’s calculated risk did Washington had a “completely not work out. balanced attack.” Tight end Following the firing of Ron Logan Thomas said, “We had Rivera and an inconsistent seaour ups and downs.” son that saw the Commanders “E.B. was the same person finish with the 24th-ranked every day,” left tackle Charles offense, Bieniemy’s future is Leno said. “You know what you uncertain. He remains employed were going to get out of him. by the team as ownership goes That’s really all I’ve got to say: He through the search for a head of was the same guy every day, so I football operations and a coach, have nothing to say about that.” though the most likely scenario Quarterback Sam Howell, is that Bieniemy goes elsewhere. who has worked closely with Asked what he thought of Bieniemy since offseason Bieniemy’s performance as workouts last spring, said it was offensive coordinator and if a pleasure and fun, calling him a he’d be considered for the head great person and a great coach. job — one that has eluded him Similarly, right tackle Andrew despite more than a dozen Wylie — who spent five seasons interviews around the NFL — with Bieniemy on the Chiefs controlling owner Josh Harris — said he has a great deal of implied the former Kansas City respect for the two-time Super assistant would be in the mix.

Bowl-winning coach.

“I’ve enjoyed working with “I’ve got so much love for that Eric and, obviously, he’s had man,” Wylie said. “He stayed success over the years,” Harris to his guns this year. He didn’t said. “If I could write the script, change. E.B. stayed the same [we would be] having our senior coach that I’ve known for the football operations executive in last five years. I commend him place and then approaching the for that.” coaching search with Eric and Rivera let slip during training others.” camp that some players had come Rivera last week said he still to him expressing concern about thinks Bieniemy can be a head Bieniemy’s coaching style, then coach in the league. apologized and tried to clarify “You never know what people those comments. But it was clear are thinking,” Rivera said. “I Bieniemy did rub some players think the biggest thing for Eric is the wrong way, and the results on the things that he’s learned. And the field — including an average hopefully he’ll take those things of fewer than 20 points a game for and continue to use them and a team that went 4-13 — were not help him grow. But we’ll see. what anyone had hoped.

I mean, you never know what “We didn’t have the season people are thinking or what we wanted, so I feel like he’ll people are looking for.” come back, shake back, do what Commanders players didn’t he needs to do to get right and seem to be looking for what he’ll be all right and we’ll be all Bieniemy gave them this season. right,” running back Antonio Questions about Bieniemy in Gibson said. “That’s just part of recent days brought varying the game.” degrees of compliments for Bieniemy last week in his final his consistency as a person but news conference of the season more criticism than praise from was unwilling to contemplate what might be next for him, sayinside the locker room. ing he could only live and coach “I wanted to run the ball in the moment. more,” right guard Sam Cosmi “I’ve had a great deal of fun,” said when asked generally about Bieniemy said. “It’s been a great playing for Bieniemy. “I felt like learning experience, not only for we weren’t balanced. I think them, but for me, as well.” we were 30th in the league in

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declined to characterize Paton’s interaction with Wilson’s agent as a threat to bench the quarterback if he didn’t adjust his contract.

“During the bye week I did reach out to Russ’s agent in a good faith and a creative attempt to adjust his contract,” Paton said.

“We couldn’t get a deal done and we moved on with our season. It didn’t come up again.

Fast forward, Week 17 Sean makes a change in the quarterback position. This was a football decision made by Sean in what he thought was in the best interest of the team. This was completely independent of any conversations I had with the agent.”

The head coach has said all along he wasn’t privy to the talks between management and Wilson’s agent.

Penner indicated he’ll let Payton and Paton figure out who will be under center for Denver in 2024, whether that’s Wilson, Stidham, a 2024 draft pick or another team’s castoff.

“As CEO, I definitely want to be briefed to know what’s going on. That being said, I entrust people to do their jobs and I don’t coach the football team, I don’t call the agents and have negotiations on player contracts,” Penner said. “Again, I believe the approach to Russell’s agent was done in a constructive way. And it just didn’t lead to an agreement.”

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[Monday], this is a time for all of us to be selfish,” McCarthy said.

“Because we’ve put so much into this season, getting ready for the season. We’re right where we need to be.”

His last playoff victory with the Packers turned out to be a 34-31 win at the Cowboys — keyed by Aaron Rodgers’ improbable completion to tight end Jared Cook in the final seconds — when Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott was a rookie during the 2016 season.

McCarthy, who turned 60 this season, was fired less than two years after that victory during a second consecutive losing season for Green Bay. The Packers made the playoffs nine times under McCarthy.

“Hell of a coach and I’m always appreciative of Mike,” said defensive tackle Kenny Clark, one of three currently healthy Packers who played for McCarthy. “He’s one of the guys that brought me here. I’ve got a lot of respect for him and him giving me a chance.”

The Cowboys had a two-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter of McCarthy’s return before Rodgers led Green Bay’s rally in a 31-28 victory.

It was the only loss in a seven-game stretch that put Dallas solidly in the playoff picture with a month to go last season. But it stung for McCarthy.

Now he’s doing everything to keep the focus on the players, which doesn’t surprise safety Jayron Kearse. He’s a former NFC North guy himself, starting his career in Minnesota before a sea-

son with Detroit.

“I’m pretty sure he’s not going to let that get in the way of the things that we need to do,” Kearse said.

“It’s not Mike McCarthy vs. Green Bay. It’s the Dallas Cowboys vs.

Green Bay. And that’s something that the players need to understand as well. We want to go out there and win this thing for coach, but let’s understand this is a team that’s in our way.”

McCarthy is 2-0 in Dallas-Green Bay playoff games. The Packers won during the 2014 season in what turned out to be Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo’s final playoff game.

The most significant moment was McCarthy’s decision to challenge Dez Bryant’s fourth down catch on a deep ball just shy of the Green Bay goal line. The catch was overturned, and the Packers ran off the final four minutes in a 26-21 divisional-round victory.

When he was introduced as the Dallas coach in 2020, McCarthy got the obligatory question, “Did Dez catch it?” Perhaps he was still half a Packers coach in that moment.

Closure came with the trip to Green Bay last season, and makes this replay a little easier.

“Personally, it helps me,” McCarthy said. “I think the biggest thing I got out of going back there was I got to see a lot of people I didn’t get to see at the end. We would’ve liked to have won the game, and at the end of the day, this is my team. I’m a Dallas Cowboy. This is our opportunity, and I just want to make sure I’m doing my part, and that’s supporting everything in winning this game.”

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oft, moist and very chocolatey, this brownie gets high marks. It comes together quickly, requires ingredients that are readily available and is so easy that even kids can make it. I’ve stenciled snowflakes of confectioners’ sugar on the ones in the photo, but decorate them any way you like or not at all — this little gem is fine solo.

Too much baking time will ruin your results, so watch carefully while it’s in the oven and remove it quickly.

COCOA BROWNIES Total time: 2 hours Make in an 8-by-8-inch shiny metal baking pan with 2-inch sides.

Works at any elevation.

12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted if lumpy ½ teaspoon instant coffee powder, optional 1¼ cups plus 2 tablespoons superfine granulated sugar, preferably Baker’s ¼ teaspoon salt 3 large eggs, room temperature 1¼ teaspoons vanilla extract ½ cup plus 1/3 cup bleached all-purpose flour, spoon and level Preparation: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees, with a rack in the middle position. Line the pan with nonstick or regular aluminum foil, extending the foil several inches past two opposing sides to use as handles when removing the brownies. Grease the regular foil and any exposed parts of the pan with a vegetable oil-flour spray.

Make the batter: Cut the butter into 12 pieces and melt them in a large saucepan over medium-low heat or in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave.

Remove the melted butter from the heat,

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add the cocoa and coffee (if using), and whisk until smooth. Stir in the sugar and the salt with a silicone spatula; the mixture will be very thick. Check the heat of the batter to make sure it isn’t so hot it will cook the eggs. If it is, set it aside until it cools a bit. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time, blending well after each addition.

Whisk in the vanilla with the last egg. Add the flour and gently fold with the silicone spatula only until it is no longer visible.

Bake: Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing and leveling it.

Bake until the top is set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with bits of moist brownie sticking to it. This usually takes about 30-35 minutes. Don’t overbake.

Cool and serve: Remove the pan to a cooling rack and cool completely in the pan. Cover and chill (or freeze). Remove the slab of brownies from the pan with the foil handles. It cuts most easily when chilled (defrost slightly if frozen); use a thin-bladed, sharp knife and push straight down, don’t saw, to get straight, smooth edges. Cut into small squares and serve as a cookie or in larger ones and serve, with ice cream, as dessert.

This recipe is a variation of one published in Fine Cooking Magazine.

Vera Dawson is a high-elevation baking instructor and author of three high-altitude cookbooks (available at Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe). Contact her at veradawson1@gmail.com.

These cocoa brownies come together quickly, require ingredients that are readily available and is so easy that even kids can make it.

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How to be a smarter, more adventurous wine drinker

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new year brings an opportunity for recalibration, rejuvenation and resuscitation. I don’t call them resolutions, because I still haven’t dropped those 20 pounds or written that book or even those thank-you notes.

And I still don’t drink enough riesling.

But I do like to jolt myself out of my routine and look for new ways to enjoy my favorite hobby. Here’s a few ideas.

When you travel for business or pleasure, check out the local wines or wineries. I’m the type who pesters a heartland sommelier for a glass of the local frontenac gris. Local wineries typically have trouble cracking the tight real estate of a restaurant wine list, but if enough customers ask about the local vino, sommeliers take notice.

Keeping on the local theme — visit a winery for the first time. I tend to revisit old favorites at the expense of the new.

Most of all, I want to encourage your sense of adventure. By all means enjoy your favorite wines, but once in a while, take a chance on something different recommended by your local wine retail specialist (this is a plug for the specialty wine store) or even your

local wine writer.

What will we see in wine this year?

As consumers continue to choose wines based on more than price and flavor, I suspect we’ll see innovative efforts to promote wines by minority and women winemakers. More wine will be in lighter bottles, because consumers are demanding it and because sustainability and organic certifications are driving wineries to reduce their carbon footprint. We should see more wine in clear glass (more easily recycled) and without capsules over the cork (wasteful and an unnecessary cost). We should see more good wine in alternative packaging such as boxes, cans and aluminum bottles.

We should see more transparency, as European Union requirements for ingredient labeling take effect. You might not see these on the labels, but scan that QR code if you’re interested in what just went into your glass.

And we will also see more wine alternatives and low-alcohol, zero alcohol or de-alcoholized wines as the industry continues to come to grips with its reputation for excess, and consumers pull back from pandemic bingeing and seek the wine experience without the buzz.

This ginger and chicken soup is inspired by a dish from northern India, butter chicken.

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ith frigid temperatures taking hold, I’m continually drawn to the warmth of soups and stews. Not only does a pot of soup usually last for multiple meals (unless cooking for a crowd), it is an easy way to serve up a hearty meal. This recipe for ginger and chicken soup is inspired by a dish from northern India, butter chicken. I wish I could remember where I originally learned this recipe. It’s been a family favorite for years, the list of ingredients scribbled in a notebook. To make it more into a soup here, I add lots of broth, and at the end of cooking, add broccoli, zucchini and raisins. This soup is wonderful on its own, but a couple of nights we paired it with steamed white rice.

You’ll notice this recipe calls for chicken broth. You can buy chicken broth, which will make the process faster, but this is a perfect time to make a stock with roasted or rotisserie chicken. If you want to make your own broth, break the cooked chicken into pieces and place into a large soup pot. Add 10 cups of water, a generous pinch of salt and bring this to a boil. If you have vegetable scraps, feel free to throw them into the pot. Reduce the heat to low and let it simmer for an hour. Transfer the chicken pieces to a large bowl with

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tongs and strain the remaining broth through a fine mesh strainer. Once the chicken is cool enough to handle, pick the chicken meat off the bones and reserve.

Believe it or not, this recipe can also be easily made vegetarian or vegan. Swap out the butter for olive oil, the chicken broth for vegetable broth, skip the chicken and add some more vegetables. The ginger, spices and cashews do much of the heavy lifting to create complex flavors and a decadent, silky texture. I added broccoli and zucchini, but feel free to experiment with other vegetables you love.

CHICKEN AND GINGER SOUP Makes: Around 12 servings; total time: 1 hour 4 tablespoons butter 1 large yellow onion, diced 4 garlic cloves, minced ¼ cup minced fresh ginger 2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 teaspoons ground coriander 2 teaspoons garam masala

1 tablespoon New Mexico red chile powder ½ cup roasted cashews 1 14-ounce can fire-roasted tomatoes 8 cups chicken broth, divided 4 cups cooked chicken 1 head of broccoli, florets and tender stem cut into pieces 1 large zucchini, diced ½ cup raisins Salt and pepper to taste Preparation: In a large soup pot over medium heat, add the butter. Once it’s melted, add the onion and ginger. Cook, stirring occasionally, for around 10 minutes. Add the cumin, coriander, garam masala, red chile powder and cashews.

Let cook for another 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and 4 cups of chicken broth.

Let this mixture come to a simmer until the cashews are just tender and turn off the heat. Carefully blend this mixture in a blender until smooth and return it to the pot. Add the remaining 4 cups of chicken broth, the cooked chicken, broccoli, zucchini and raisins, and let all of this simmer until the vegetables are tender. Season with salt and pepper as needed. Enjoy!

Marianne Sundquist is a chef, writer and co-founder of Stokli, celebrating nourishing goods from the high desert (stokli.com). Find her on Instagram @ marianne__sundquist and email her at marianne@stokli.com.

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ACROSS 1 Holy service 5 Hustle 9 “Hallelujah!” singers 14 Humorist Bombeck 15 Half a soft drink?

16 Hurried past 17 Harsh rule, metaphorically 19 Host 20 Honored 21 Hones, as a blade 22 Hobbyist’s purchase 24 Hummer’s interior?

25 “… has come ___ surprise” 27 “Have you ___ wool?”

28 Have a gander 29 Honda Civic competitor from Kia 33 Heavy D’s genre 34 Hybrid genre of country and 33-Across, pejoratively 35 Handle letters 36 Hammer sound 39 Herd at Yellowstone 40 Heehawing animal 41 Home to Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett

42 High-tech gaming tournament, briefly 43 Hagiography subjects: Abbr.

44 Hercule Poirot, e.g., for short 45 Hopping mad sort 47 “Hamilton” cast member Phillipa 48 Holler when the game is deadlocked 49 “Holy cow!”

52 Herr, here 53 Hard to believe, as a tale 54 Hardy’s “before” 55 “Hurrah!” at a stadium 56 Hard to believe 59 “Harvey” star James 62 Heat center of the 2000s 63 Hypocrite’s perch, perhaps 66 Health problem now largely eradicated in the U.S. 67 “Here’s an ___ …”

68 Hacks, say 69 Hall-of-Fame QB Bart 70 Hollywood’s Amanda 71 Hang on to

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DOWN 1 “Hasn’t impressed me much” 2 “Happy Days ___ Here Again” 3 Haughty intellectual 4 Hang on to 5 Hatch plans 6 Having a rough texture 7 Huge issue for some teens 8 Helter-skelter scrambles 9 Hoodless pullovers often worn with other layers 10 Hog part 11 Historically 12 “Hah!” 13 Hard drinks similar to bourbons

18 Haute couture name 22 Home to more than 20 million Pakistanis 23 How loose strings might end up 26 Having been sloshed out 30 “Hell, yes!”

31 High-priced perfume ingredient 32 H.S. student’s test result, on a scale of 1 to 5 36 Homemaker from Mayberry 37 Help 38 Hobby shop purchase with a large wood or plastic base

46 Helmet wearer’s potential embarrassment 49 “How Deep Is Your Love” singer Barry, Maurice or Robin 50 Huffy response to a threat 51 “Hooray!”

56 Hip dressers 57 Having gone to an extra period, for short 58 “House” actress Ward 60 Household detergent brand 61 Huge gem, slangily 64 Hotel room option: Abbr.

65 Helpful skill for guessers?

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your wealth or your possessions. Tonight: You’re noticed.

might encourage you to interact with others. Tonight: Cooperate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Some of you have ambitious ideas about travel plans. Others will use this same optimism and apply it to publishing, the media, medicine or the law. Tonight: Explore!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH This is an extremely productive day for you! You will impress bosses and VIPs. You also have lots of energy to make things happen. Tonight: Get organized.

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Capricorn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Today you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank in discussions with others related to shared property, inheritances, insurance issues and debt. You will be decisive. Tonight: Check your finances.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Accept all invitations to party and schmooze with others today. You won’t regret it. Make time to enjoy sports, social outings, plays, movies, the theater and fun activities with kids. Tonight: Play!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You have a lot of ambitious drive today. In addition to which, you have big ideas that could impact your earnings,

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH A partner or close friend, or perhaps someone you are introduced to, will be lively and impressive today. They

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You have ambitious ideas about how to make home improvements at this time. Fortunately, you have the financial

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024: You are direct and honest, and you speak your mind. This is the first year of the new nine-year cycle. Expect major changes!

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TODAY IN HISTORY

or practical support from others that you will need to make this happen. Tonight: Relax.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH This is a fast-paced day and a successful one for you because you’re optimistic and ready to share your ideas.

You will impress others. Tonight: Conversations!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH This is an excellent day at work or with whatever you do, because ultimately, you will probably boost your earnings.

Or you might reorganize and take better care of your possessions. Tonight: Check your belongings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Today the Moon is in your sign lined up with fiery

Mars in your sign, and they are both dancing with lucky Jupiter.

This means you’re PowerPoint on steroids! Think big! Tonight: You win!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You are effective in dealing with others today, especially people in group situations. This might arise with issues related to your family or your home. Or it could be your dealings with younger, creative people. Tonight: Solitude.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH This is a wonderful day to socially schmooze with others by enjoying good times with friends or being involved in groups, clubs, conventions or conferences. Your communication skills are tops today!

Tonight: Friendships.

SHEINWOLD’S BRIDGE

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2024. There are 356 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, Common Sense, which argued for American independence from British rule.

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Late husband’s family treats woman poorly Dear Annie: I’m a 39-year-old mom of four. My husband recently passed away, in April of this year.

His family was never very kind to me when he was alive, and they haven’t changed now that he’s gone. I’ve been dealing with their judgment and hostility. They find any little thing they can to criticize me and gossip about me. And I’m just wondering how to stop them from talking about my life when they have no idea what they’re talking about.

Please help!

— Mrs. Fed Up Dear Fed-Up: I am so sorry that your husband died and that your in-laws are making life harder for you. I’m going to pass along something that someone once shared with me: What other people think of you is none of your business. That’s not an admonishment. It’s a mantra. The more you can accept that, the lighter you’ll feel. Reach out to friends and family who shore you up rather than giving any weight to the opinions of people who would tear a widow down.

Dear Annie: For six years, I’ve been with a man — let’s call him “Ben.” We have one child together and one on the way. I’m frustrated because I do all of the housework even though we’re both employed. We divided up expenses. He pays for the house payment and the babysitter when we need one, and I pay for all of the utilities and groceries. I also do most of the childcare tasks.

I don’t feel like I should have to ask for him to get off his butt and help; I feel like he should naturally want to help and just do it. I’ve noticed that when we are around his family, he jumps to help them with anything in a split second. He seems like he would just rather be lazy, expecting me to do all the domestic work. I’d try talking to him about this, but he’s not a talk-about-your-feelings type of guy, more of a sort-your-own-laundry type of guy. In the past, anytime I’ve brought up anything remotely uncomfortable, he seems to register it as a threat and says something negative directed towards me and not at all helpful to resolving the issue.

Advice?

— Unheard Girlfriend Dear Unheard: I empathize with your hesitation, but to give up on honest communication is to give up on the relationship.

When you don’t feel you can express yourself, resentments will continue to pile up, like so many unwashed dishes.

Try finding a time when you’re both relaxed, and casually ask if he’ll help you make a list of priorities around the house.

This will help you both better understand which tasks the other feels are important, and it will give you the chance to talk it out and compromise in areas where your views differ. Approaching it with a spirit of collaboration is different that exhaustion or resentment. Hopefully, he won’t go into defensive mode. If he still shuts down, then you might ask him about attending couples’ counseling together.

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: “HOLE” Each answer is a single word that ends in “hole.” (e.g., A naturally occurring space in a wooden board. Answer: Knothole.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. A hole in the surface of a road, covered with a metal lid.

Answer________ 2. A hole in the ground that soldiers use as a shelter against the enemy.

Answer________ 3. A large, rough hole in the surface of a road.

Answer________

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GRADUATE LEVEL 4. A snug or cramped space or room.

Answer________

Rules • 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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5. A natural depression formed by the sudden collapse of the land surface.

Answer________ 6. A hole in the top of a whale’s head through which it breathes.

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Something left out of a legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it.

Answer________ 8. To classify someone in a particular group, especially without knowing much about them.

Answer________ 9. To detain in conversation as if by holding on to the outer garments.

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. Manhole. 2. Foxhole. 3. Pothole. 4. Cubbyhole.

5. Sinkhole. 6. Blowhole. 7. Loophole. 8. Pigeonhole.

9. Buttonhole.

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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