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New details emerge of Shepard’s spending Western New Mexico president spent $111,000 on flowers and wrote $123,000 in checks to himself over last five years

By Joshua Bowling Searchlight New Mexico

As two state agencies begin scrutinizing the Western New Mexico University president’s spending on international travel, extravagant purchases and sojourns at five-star resorts, a review of financial records and interviews with current and former employees now

suggest those expenses were just the tip of the iceberg.

Joseph Shepard’s spending has also been lavished on costly wine, $111,000 in floral arrangements and more than $123,000 in checks made out to himself in just the last five years.

The new details emerge as Shepard comes under heightened scrutiny for his spending habits and those of his

wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame.

On Jan. 5, the New Mexico Higher Education Department issued highly critical preliminary findings following a review of Western’s finances. The move came on the heels of the Office of the State Auditor announcing it would bring in a third-party accountant to audit the school’s books.

Both agencies began looking at Western’s finances after Searchlight New Mexico published an investigation into Shepard’s spending in early December.

Shepard has consistently defended the expenses as critical to the university’s future and its fundraising efforts.

He has denied any wrongdoing, saying he, Plame and top university officials have always abided by university policy.

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agency’s Santa Fe office during a reception attended by local and state officials, including Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza and state Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard.

The new name, Torrez said, is derived from little-known language in New Mexico law that authorizes

Española police shot and injured a man Tuesday evening after he ran from a traffic stop and fired at them, according to New Mexico State Police.

Brandon Archuleta, 29, of Española was airlifted to a hospital in Albuquerque for treatment of his injuries, which are believed to be “non-life-threatening,” according to a news release from state police, who are investigating the incident.

Archuleta faces a string of felony charges Brandon Archuleta — including four counts of aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon — after the incident, during which Española police Chief Mizel Garcia wrote “multiple shots were exchanged” between Archuleta and the officers.

Neither of the officers involved was injured in the incident, which occurred at about 8 p.m. in Española, state police wrote.

Police are seeking another man, Derick Salazar, 33, who was with Archuleta during the incident and ran off, according to the release.

Española police initially pulled over the two men on Railroad Avenue for a traffic violation, the release states. The officer noticed a “large machete” in the car and found Salazar had an active arrest warrant for a burglary charge from 2020, police wrote.

Police used an electronic stun gun on Salazar while he was still in the vehicle after he refused to get out, but it was “unsuccessful,” the release said.

Archuleta then drove off, state police wrote, and police pursued them to the nearby intersection of Angel Duran Drive and Prince Drive.

The two men stopped the car and ran off, with two Española police officers chasing after them, the release states.

State police wrote Archuleta pulled out a gun and fired at least one round at the Española officers. Both officers then fired at least one round each, striking Archuleta, the release states.

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Basin that spans Southeast New Mexico fueling boost in U.S. production, despite calls of climate and health danger

By Scott Wyland

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The Permian Basin and southeast New Mexico will remain a hub of brisk oil production, keeping the U.S. a top fossil fuel leader in the coming decades, a national industry group said Wednesday with predictions that contradict urgent calls for a shift to renewable energy.

The nation is in the midst of a record oil and gas boom, producing a surplus it is exporting to fill overseas supply gaps caused partly by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and despite Biden administration policies that are unfavorable to industry, American Petroleum Institute executives told reporters on a conference call.

At the heart of ballooning production is the Permian Basin, the country’s most oil-rich shale patch — stretching from Southeast New Mexico to Texas to form the cornerstone of the nation’s energy future, said Mike Sommers, the institute’s CEO. “We expect that the Permian Basin is going to continue to be the most prolific basin in the United States for years and

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Attorney General Raúl Torrez talks briefly with State Rep. Cynthia Borrego, D-Albuquerque, and Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber during Wednesday’s news conference announcing his office is changing its name to the New Mexico Department of Justice. The new department’s seal can be seen on the lectern and medallion behind him.

The rebranding, Torrez said, is part of a larger transformation he has sought for the entity that for decades has been known as the state Attorney General’s Office. He said it should signal to New Mexicans his intention to “think broadly and lend our voice to big national issues” as well as civil rights issues throughout the state.

Torrez made the announcement Wednesday afternoon from the

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ould an Office of the Attorney General by any other name be more effective?

State Attorney General Raúl Torrez has announced a new name for the agency he has led for a little more than a year: the New Mexico Department of Justice.

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“The shot! The shot!” he groaned, just before he hit the ground and blacked out.

In the emergency room of a nearby hospital in southern New Jersey, doctors tried to revive him with a defibrillator.

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IN BRIEF Republicans push ahead with Hunter Biden contempt charge WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday took the first step toward holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena. They advanced the charge to a full House vote just hours after the president’s son sparked a momentary political frenzy by appearing in the front row for part of the debate.

The House Oversight and Judiciary committees each passed contempt charges against the younger Biden with unanimous Republican support and all Democrats opposed. The action sets up a House vote on recommending criminal charges against a member of President Joe Biden’s family as the GOP moves into the final stages of an impeachment inquiry into the president himself.

If the House votes to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, it will be up to the Department of Justice, specifically the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to decide whether to prosecute.

More storms on the way after much of nation hit with severe weather CONCORD, N.H. — Drenching rains, flooding and fierce winds stranded vehicles, shuttered schools and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in the Northeast, the swan song of a bout of violent weather that battered most of the United States. Forecasters warned Wednesday that more misery was not far behind.

The storm hit the Northeast on Tuesday night and moved out Wednesday after toppling trees, downing power lines, and forcing water rescues on flooded or washed-out roads.

Wind gusts reached as high as 95 mph in Maine, and blustery weather continued Wednesday. Philadelphia, which sits on the Delaware River upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, experienced its highest storm surge on record.

Another storm could bring heavy rain and high winds to the Northeast from Friday night into Saturday, forecasters said.

The region’s woes followed a day of tornadoes and deadly accidents in the South and blizzards in the Midwest and Northwest. In some parts of the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, more than 2 feet of snow fell.

Nearly 700 flights were canceled across the country Wednesday, according to FlightAware.com.

Somali fighters kill 1, capture 5 after U.N. chopper’s emergency landing MOGADISHU, Somalia — Fighters with al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate al-Shabab attacked a United Nations helicopter that made an emergency landing Wednesday in territory controlled by the extremists in Somalia, killing one passenger and abducting five others, officials said.

The minister of internal security of Galmudug state in central Somalia, Mohamed Abdi Aden Gaboobe, told The Associated Press by phone that the helicopter made the landing due to engine failure in Xindheere village. He said six foreigners and one Somali national were on board and one was shot dead while trying to escape. One was missing.

Al-Shabab did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.

SAG Awards nominate ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ snub DiCaprio NEW YORK — The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday heaped nominations on Oppenheimer, Barbie and American Fiction, while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor.

As they were at the Golden Globes, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were again the lead nominees. Each film picked up four nods including best ensemble. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were nominated for their performances in Barbie, while Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt received nods for Oppenheimer.

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction got the biggest momentum boost, landing three nods: best ensemble, Jeffrey Wright for best male actor and Sterling K. Brown for supporting male actor.

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Police on Wednesday present to the media arrested men who were identified as the previous day’s attackers on the TC Televisión station, at police headquarters in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Authorities say 13 attackers were arrested and would be charged with terrorism.

‘The world I knew before is gone’ Ecuadorians split on president’s new measure to combat drug gangs

By Annie Correal, Genevieve Glatsky and José María León Cabrera The New York Times

BOGOTA, Colombia sense of dread took hold in Ecuador on Wednesday, with the streets empty, classes canceled and many people afraid to leave their homes after the disappearance of two gang leaders on Monday set off prison riots, police kidnappings and the on-air storming of a TV station.

Even for a country accustomed to violence, the events that have rocked Ecuador this week were shocking.

“I feel like the world I knew before is gone,” said María Ortega, a schoolteacher in Guayaquil, a sprawling coastal city. “You can know how things start, but not how they’ll end.”

It began with violence erupting in prisons across the South American country as soldiers surged into a penal compound in Guayaquil after the disappearance of a powerful gang leader, Adolfo Macías, from his cell. Inmates took prison guards captive, and dozens of detainees escaped, including another prominent gang leader.

The violence soon spilled over into cities and towns, where drug gangs run rampant.

Explosions were reported, police officers were kidnapped, hospitals were seized and cars set on fire. People scrambled to get home, jumping on the back of trucks as bus service stopped in Guayaquil, and the police and armed people exchanged gunfire, including near a school.

By the end of a bloody day, at least 11 people had died throughout the country, according to authorities, including a well-known musician, Diego Gallardo, 31, who was in his car on the way to pick up his son from school when he was hit by a stray bullet.

The unrest peaked Tuesday afternoon when armed men briefly took over TC Televisión in Guayaquil during a live broadcast, taking anchors and staff hostage and demanding to deliver a message to the government not to interfere “with the mafias.”

Not long after, the country’s president, Daniel Noboa, declared an “internal armed conflict” and directed the military to “neutralize” the country’s two dozen gangs, which the

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government labeled “terrorist organizations.”

Noboa framed the declaration as a watershed moment.

“We are fighting for the peace of the nation,” the president said Wednesday in a radio speech to the nation, “fighting also against terrorist groups that today are made up of 20,000 people. They want me to call them groups of organized crime because it is easier. When they are terrorists, and when we live in a state of conflict, of war, other laws apply.”

In Ecuador, the presidential declaration was widely seen as a turning point in the crisis that has subsumed the once-peaceful nation over the past two years, as the country of nearly 18 million has been dominated by an increasingly powerful narco-trafficking industry.

International drug cartels from as far as Albania have joined forces with local prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history.

Homicide rates have soared to record levels.

Noboa signaled the start of a new fight to push back against the gangs and to bring peace back to Ecuador.

“We are not going to let society die slowly,” he said.

The commander of Ecuador’s armed forces, Jaime Vela Erazo, said criminal groups, which he called terrorists, had become military targets. He made clear the government’s intention to apply a heavy hand.

“We will not back down or negotiate,” he said in a statement. “Good, justice and order cannot ask for permission or bow their heads to terrorists.”

But many were divided over what the government’s move might mean, with some expressing support and calling it a muchneeded step to crack down on gang violence, and others viewing it as a slippery slope to a militarized state that targets innocent civilians.

“The declaration of internal conflict worries me enormously,” said Katherine Casanova, a 28-year-old social worker who said her family had recently been attacked by armed men near Guayaquil. “Although in the midst of pain I want to cling to something that makes me feel a modicum of security, I fear the repercussions of declaring an internal conflict, of militarizing. It will probably be my people who, once more, are among the dead.”

Regulators approve new type of fund, boosting crypto

By David Yaffe-Bellany The New York Times

Federal regulators on Wednesday approved a new financial product that tracks the price of bitcoin, a landmark moment for the cryptocurrency industry that proponents hope will increase investment in the technology.

The Securities and Exchange Commission authorized 11 applications by financial firms to offer exchange-traded funds tied to bitcoin, a potentially simpler way for people to invest in digital assets on traditional platforms such as

the Nasdaq. Some of the largest financial companies in the world, including the asset managers BlackRock and Fidelity, were approved to offer the products, known as ETFs, which could begin trading as soon as Thursday.

The approval was hailed as a sign that mainstream financial institutions remain willing to use digital currencies even after 18 months of market crashes and high-profile bankruptcies. Since the fall, bitcoin’s price has surged more than 60%, as traders bet that SEC’s backing of the new crypto products would give the industry an imprimatur

of regulatory legitimacy, drawing fresh investment from professional wealth managers and amateur traders.

The price of bitcoin shot up Tuesday after a post appeared on the SEC’s official X account announcing the approval of the ETFs, but dropped swiftly when Gary Gensler, the SEC chair, said the agency’s account had been hacked.

The industry had to wait only until Wednesday, when the SEC authorized the products in a regulatory filing. The long-awaited announcement brings a pillar of the mainstream finance system into the experimental world of crypto.

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Congressional lawmakers are closing in on a deal that would partially revive President Joe Biden’s expanded tax credit for lower-income families in exchange for extending tax incentives favored by business interests, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The higher child tax credit for lower-income families took effect in 2021 but expired that same year amid GOP opposition. Since then, Democrats have sought to bring back the higher credit, which they say pulled millions of lower-income families out of poverty.

The emerging three-year, roughly $80 billion deal with Republicans would ensure that more of the poorest families — who are traditionally excluded from the credit because they don’t owe any income tax — would qualify for at least some federal assistance. The deal would also affect some provisions from former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cut that benefit corporate America, including one that incentivizes business investments.

The deal is being brokered by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason T. Smith, R-Mo., the heads of Congress’s key tax writing committees. Some provisions remain in flux. And its path to passage is uncertain, because other lawmakers could mount significant opposition to the agreement.

“My agenda is pretty straightforward,” Wyden said Tuesday. “I want to get the biggest tax cut for families, for working families, and the biggest relief under the child tax cut that’s possible and, and help as many families as we can.”

Added Smith on Tuesday: “Things are progressing really, really well.”

Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said Wednesday that he was “hopeful” that negotiators were nearing a final agreement, though the two sides had not yet completed negotiations.

“I’m very committed to trying to get a resolution to the tax policies,” he said.

As part of Biden’s 2021 stimulus package, known as the American Rescue Plan, Democrats approved an expansion of the existing child tax credit. That law both increased the amount the credit offered and extended eligibility for it to millions of poor families who did not previously earn enough to quality. But after pulling millions of children out of poverty, the provision expired amid resistance to extending it from GOP lawmakers and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The expanded child tax credit kept 3 million children out of poverty, according to research conducted by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. The poverty rate for children during the final month of expanded child tax credit payments under the American Rescue Plan Act was 12.1%, the center reported. The month after it expired, the child poverty rate jumped to 17%. It stood at 17.8% in November, the last month for which data is available.

It is unclear exactly how much money families could expect to see from the proposed expansion.

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Alaska Airlines cancels hundreds of flights amid inspections the airline said on its website.

The Associated Press United Airlines, the only other U.S. carrier that operates the Alaska Airlines is canceling Max 9, had canceled 167 flights through Saturday all flights on because of the grounding order.

Boeing 737 Max 9 planes like The Federal Aviation Adminthe one that suffered an in-flight istration grounded all Max 9s in blowout of a fuselage panel last the United States on Saturday, week as it waits for new instructhe day after a panel called a door tions from Boeing and federal offi- plug blew off an Alaska Airlines cials on how to inspect the fleet. jet over Oregon, leaving a hole The development came as in the side of the plane. The plug signs indicate some travelers replaces extra doors that are used might try to avoid flying on Max on Max 9s that are outfitted with 9 jetliners — at least temporarily. more seats than Alaska uses.

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines The pilots of flight 1282 were said Wednesday that it would can- able to return to Portland, Ore., cel 110 to 150 flights a day while the and make a safe emergency Max 9 planes remain grounded. By landing. No serious injuries were late afternoon, Alaska had canceled reported. about 125 flights — one-fifth of its Investigators with the National schedule for the day.

Transportation Safety Board said “We hope this action provides this week they have not found guests with a little more certainty, four bolts used to help secure the and we are working around 63-pound door plug, and they are the clock to reaccommodate not certain whether the bolts were impacted guests on other flights,” missing before the plane took off

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Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9 that made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a part of the fuselage broke off mid-flight Friday, is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Ore., on Saturday.

or broke during the flight.

The FAA approved inspection and repair guidelines developed

by Boeing on Monday. However, on Tuesday the agency ordered Boeing to revise the instructions based on “feedback received in response.”

The order to revise the guidelines came after Alaska and United reported finding loose bolts and other problems in the panel doors of an unspecified number of other Max 9s that they had begun to inspect.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun said a Boeing engineer was present during some of the Alaska checks, “and yes, he used that term, loose bolt.”

Asked how the plane was allowed to fly in the first place,

Calhoun said on CNBC, “Because a quality escape occurred.”

Boeing said Wednesday it was updating inspection procedures based on comments from FAA and the airlines, and the FAA repeated an earlier pledge to let safety determine when the planes fly again. Neither would say how long that might take.

The door plugs are installed by Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, but investigators have not said which company’s employees last worked on the plug on the ill-fated Alaska plane.

Earlier this week, Calhoun told employees at the 737 factory in Renton, Wash., that the company was “acknowledging our mistake … and that this event can never happen again.”

U.N. to investigate alleged Hamas sex crimes Patten “plans on briefing the media on the basis of the findings of her visit upon return to New York,” said Géraldine Boezio, a spokesperson for her office.

On Wednesday, a Hamas spokesperson, Basem Naim, said that “in principle” it welcomed “any neutral, fair, transparent and professional investigation” so long as the process involved “investigating both sides and building its judgment on genuine” evidence. The statement insisted that evidence of sexual assault should come from “biological samples” obtained through forensic examinations.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — The United Nations’ special representative on sexual violence in conflict has accepted Israel’s invitation to investigate allegations of sex crimes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, a spokesperson for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.

The U.N. official, Pramila Patten, is expected to come to Israel within weeks and has been granted investigative authority by the Foreign Ministry, said the spokesperson, Lior Haiat.

mercial vessels” in the Red Sea, according to a statement from The New York Times Brown’s spokesperson.

The United Nations Security The United States and its Council on Wednesday passed allies are weighing how to stop a resolution that called for an attacks on commercial ships in immediate halt to the attacks. the Red Sea after American and Russia, China, Mozambique and British officials said Wednesday Algeria abstained in the vote. that their navies had intercepted The attacks have forced some one of the largest barrages yet of the world’s largest shipping of drones and missiles fired companies to reroute vessels from an area controlled by the traveling to and from Europe via Houthis, an Iranian-backed the Suez Canal. Some vessels group in Yemen. are now traveling around Africa, The attacks, which the Houthis which can add an extra two say will go on until Israel ends its weeks and higher costs. campaign against Hamas in the So far, the United States has Gaza Strip, are threatening marheld back from hitting Houthi itime traffic in one of the world’s bases in Yemen, in large part most crucial shipping lanes. because it does not want to They have also raised concerns undermine a fragile truce in in the Middle East, Europe and Yemen’s civil war, military the United States about the prosofficials said. Pentagon officials pect of the war in Gaza spreading have drawn up plans for striking to new fronts, and with new com- missile and drone bases in batants. On his latest tour through Yemen, as well as facilities the region, U.S. Secretary of State that harbor the fast boats the Antony Blinken on Wednesday Houthis use to attack ships. warned of repercussions for the At the same time, the Biden Yemeni-based militants while still administration has said it will trying to prevent the conflict from hold the Houthis responsible for growing. the attacks, a warning that sug“What I can tell you is that, as gested the government may be we made clear, and many other considering retaliatory strikes in countries made clear, there’ll be Yemen. consequences for the Houthis’ “We’re going to do everyactions,” Blinken said at a news thing we have to do to protect conference in Manama, Bahrain, shipping in the Red Sea,” the though he declined to say what U.S. National Security Council the Biden administration was spokesperson, said at a news considering. conference Wednesday. Like the British Defense Secretary secretary of state, Kirby did not Grant Shapps delivered a similar describe what the White House message, hinting at further action was considering, saying instead as he described the missile it would coordinate with allies barrage Tuesday as the largest and that “the United States does perpetrated by the Houthis since not seek conflict.” the start of the war in Gaza.

Blinken, speaking Wednesday “This cannot continue and during the latest stop on his cannot be allowed to continue,” tour through the Middle East, Shapps said in remarks to Britsaid the United States and other ish media. “If this doesn’t stop, nations had repeatedly made then action will be taken. So I’m clear to Iran that its support for afraid that the simplest thing is the Houthis’ actions had to stop. to say, ‘Watch this space.’ ” The United States and a dozen Gen. Charles Brown, the chair allies issued an ultimatum to the of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Houthis last week to cease their spoke Wednesday with his Brit- near-daily attacks. “Last night ish counterpart, Adm. Sir Tony proved they really are not listening,” Shapps said, referring to the Radakin, about “the ongoing latest Houthi barrage. illegal Houthi attacks on comBy Eric Schmitt, Thomas Fuller and Edward Wong

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By Adam Sella

In cases of widespread sexual violence during a war, experts say it is not unusual to have limited forensic evidence. Adil Haque, a Rutgers University law professor and war crimes expert, said: “Armed conflict is so chaotic.

People are more focused on their safety than on building a criminal case down the road.”

Very often, he said, sex crime cases will be prosecuted years later on the basis of testimony from victims and witnesses. “The eyewitness might not even know the name of the victim,” he added.

“But if they can testify as, ‘I saw a woman being raped by this armed

group,’ that can be enough.”

Last month, The New York Times published an investigation that uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

In response to the Times investigation, Hamas said in a statement that the group’s leaders “categorically deny such allegations” and called them a part of Israel’s attempt to justify the killing of Palestinian civilians.

It said it would welcome any international inquiries into the allegations.

Video appears to show unprovoked shooting of 3 Palestinians, killing 1

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BEIT RIMA, West Bank — Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a central square when he is suddenly shot and drops to the ground. Two others rushing to his aid are also hit, leaving a 17-year-old dead, moments before Israeli military jeeps roll in.

An Associated Press review of the video and interviews with the two wounded survivors showed Israeli soldiers opened fire on the three when they did not appear to pose a threat. One of the wounded Palestinians was shot a second time after he got up and tried to hop away.

The fatal shooting in the village of Beit Rima last week is the latest in a series of incidents in which soldiers appeared to fire without provocation, a trend Palestinians say has worsened since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza three months ago.

The Israeli military said troops

entered Beit Rima overnight Thursday into Friday as part of a “counter-terrorism operation.” It said troops fired at suspects who threw explosives and firebombs at them.

The video, obtained by the AP from a local smoke shop, does not show anyone throwing explosives.

After reviewing the footage, a military spokesperson said soldiers reported that one of the Palestinians — visible kneeling in front of an object just outside the frame — was igniting a Molotov cocktail when he was shot.

The video, however, shows that the first shot does not hit the kneeling man, but rather another Palestinian man, Nader Rimawi.

Nader told the AP the object was a stack of cardboard boxes and scraps of paper that 17-year-old Osaid Rimawi had gathered and was preparing to light to keep the men warm.

Other videos of the shooting posted to social media and reviewed by AP appear consistent with Nader’s description of

the object Osaid was preparing to light. It is possible videos taken from other angles could further illuminate what happened.

In interviews with the AP, the wounded village residents denied having thrown explosives and said the shootings were unprovoked.

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Haley, DeSantis hostile in last debate Two remaining GOP candidates go at each other’s records, stay quiet on Trump

By Meg Kinnard, Steve Peoples and Michelle L. Price

The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — In their most hostile encounter yet, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis attacked each other early and often in Wednesday’s Republican primary debate rather than focus on Donald Trump, the absent front-runner, as both tried to demonstrate they were the strongest alternative to the former president.

DeSantis and Haley called each other liars and insulted each other’s records and character in the opening minutes of the debate. They seemed to relish the chance to go head to head without their lower-polling rivals interrupting, as in past debates. The two Republicans instead drilled into each other’s policy ideas and directed viewers to dueling fact-checking websites their campaigns set up.

The one-on-one format displayed their sharp differences over issues ranging from foreign policy to abortion less than a week before the Republican primary process begins in Iowa. But it was unclear whether the debate could reshape a race that’s been dominated by Trump, who had the stage to himself at a separate Fox News event in Des

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Former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley looks at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during the CNN Republican presidential debate Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa. Frontrunner Donald Trump did not attend, hosting his own Fox event.

Moines where he was seldom challenged and teased the audience about whom he’d pick as his running mate.

Standing at lecterns an arm’s length apart, DeSantis and Haley fired off detailed critiques and sarcastic quips from the beginning.

“You’re so desperate. You’re just so desperate,” the former U.N. ambassador interrupted DeSantis at one point.

The Florida governor in turn said Haley’s “got this problem with ballistic podiatry, shooting herself in the foot every other day.”

In one of her most brutal critiques, Haley ridiculed DeSantis for the turmoil within his political operation, with several rounds of personnel changes and new strategies

along with the millions spent on his behalf.

“Why should we think you can manage or do anything in this country?” Haley asked.

DeSantis accused Haley of being beholden to big donors and of flip-flopping on conservative issues.

“We don’t need another mealy-mouthed politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear just to try to get your vote, then to get into office and to do her donors’ bidding,” DeSantis said of Haley.

One rare point of agreement was that Trump should have been onstage too.

When asked about Trump’s comments in 2022 calling for the “termination” of parts of the Constitution over his lie

that the 2020 election was stolen, Haley was blunter than DeSantis about critiquing the president she once worked for.

“That election, Trump lost it.

Biden won the election,” Haley said.

She also said the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters “was a terrible day and I think President Trump will have to answer for it.”

DeSantis, who has been suggesting the party will need to nominate someone other than Trump because of his legal challenges, predicted the former president would likely end up being convicted for the criminal charges he faces for his efforts to overturn the election.

“I don’t think he gets through that,” DeSantis said of one of Trump’s trials. “So what are we going to do as Republicans?”

Wednesday’s debate was especially important for Haley, a politician long known for her disciplined approach to messaging. That reputation has been tested recently after a series of gaffes, including her failure to mention slavery as the root cause of the Civil War and a quip that New Hampshire voters will have a chance to “correct” the results that emerge from Iowa.

DeSantis has bet his campaign on Iowa’s caucuses and has vowed to win them despite trailing badly in most state polls. He has visited all of Iowa’s 99 counties and has the endorsement of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Christie exits GOP race without endorsement

By Nick Corasaniti

The New York Times

Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday, but he undermined his effort to stop Donald Trump when he sweepingly dismissed his Republican rivals during a hot-mic moment.

Minutes before his announcement in Windham, N.H., Christie could be heard on the event’s livestream, saying, “She’s going to get smoked, and you and I both know it,” in a reference to Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor. “She’s not up to this.” He added of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, “DeSantis called me, petrified.”

Trump immediately seized on the remarks, writing on Truth Social that Christie’s comments about Haley, who appears to be the most significant obstacle to a Trump victory in New Hampshire, were a “very truthful statement.”

In his speech, Christie did not endorse any of his rivals, nor did he address their prospects against Trump, dashing the hopes of Republican moderates his exit would unify remaining members of the party who oppose Trump.

In fact, Christie denounced his opponents’ long-running public deference to the former president and offered no positive remarks about their candidacies.

“I would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win,” he said. “And I feel no differently today, because this is a fight for the soul of our party and the soul of our country.”

Tianeptine

His departure, which came after mounting pressure from within his party, effectively ends a phase of the Republican presidential contest, removing from the field its most aggressive Trump critic. He was Chris Christie the only prominent contender who declared Trump was unfit for office — an argument that all but doomed his candidacy from the start.

Nonetheless, Christie used the final moments of his campaign to unleash one last extended criticism of Trump, eviscerating his policies, lamenting the direction in which he has taken the country and asserting he did not have the nation’s best interests at heart.

“Imagine just for a moment if 9/11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk,” Christie said. “The first thing he would have done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would have put himself first, before this country.”

His speech doubled as a dark warning for a party — and a country — that the former governor portrayed as veering dangerously off course, criticizing “the hate and the division and the selfishness of what our party has become under Donald Trump.”

Christie also acknowledged regret for his actions after Trump defeated him in the

can cause similar effects to opioids, leading to really harmful outcomes.”

At least nine states have Continued from Page A-1 banned or severely restricted tianeptine, including Florida, the car. It was labeled Neptune’s Michigan and Ohio. In late Fix. Eric had bought it at a local November, the FDA issued smoke shop. a nationwide alert about “What the hell is that?” a Neptune’s Fix specifically and doctor asked. tianeptine in general, telling Neptune’s Fix features an people not to take it and warningredient called tianeptine — ing it had been associated with popularly known as gas-station overdoses and deaths. heroin.

Tianeptine, which also Often sold as a dietary appears as a concentrated powsupplement and promoted by der or an ingredient in products retailers as a mood booster and such as Tianaa, Zaza and Pegafocus aid, tianeptine is among sus, “is illegally sold with claims a growing, unregulated class of to improve brain function and potentially addictive products treat anxiety, depression, pain, available in gas stations, conveopioid use disorder and other nience stores and smoke shops conditions,” the agency’s warnand across the internet. They ing said. typically include synthetic pharThe FDA loosely oversees maceuticals and plant-derived dietary supplements, an substances. expanding universe of some Some, such as kratom and 50,000 products that includes phenibut, can be addictive and, minerals, vitamins and comin rare cases, fatal. They often pounds like melatonin. But originate in other countries, the agency does not evaluate including Indonesia and Russia, supplements for safety or effecwhere they are commonly used, tiveness; it can only forbid maneven prescribed, for mood ufacturers to market them as management. But the Food and medical treatments. It requires Drug Administration has not product labels making health approved them as medicines in claims to list ingredients and the United States. include boilerplate disclaimers, “Tianeptine is an emerging such as noting the product has threat,” said Kaitlyn Brown, not been reviewed by the FDA. clinical managing director of The agency does not review America’s Poison Centers, those labels before a product is which represents and collects released. data from 55 centers nationwide.

Because the FDA’s enforce“We have people who are able ment powers are limited by law, many products with to get a substance that’s not tianeptine have long skirted well regulated, that has abuse potential and that, in high doses, labeling requirements. Although

2016 primary race. Soon afterward, Christie shocked the political establishment by endorsing Trump, becoming the first significant former candidate to back him as his march to the nomination picked up pace.

“For all the people who have been in this race, who have put their own personal ambition ahead of what’s right, they will ultimately have to answer the same questions that I had to answer after my decision in 2016,” he said. “Those questions don’t ever leave. In fact, they’re really stubborn.

They stay.”

Despite Christie’s withering criticisms of his rivals, his decision could turn the primary election in New Hampshire on Jan. 23 into a two-person race between Trump and Haley. Her positions on foreign policy, national security and the rule of law broadly overlap with Christie’s, and she will hope to consolidate never-Trump Republicans and independents behind her.

After Christie’s speech, Haley praised him as “a friend for many years,” commending him in a statement “on a hardfought campaign” but making no reference to the hot-mic comments. “I will fight to earn every vote,” she said.

Recent polls have shown Haley narrowing the gap against Trump in New Hampshire, and her backing combined with Christie’s support has sometimes equaled or bettered the former president’s. A CNN/ University of New Hampshire poll released Tuesday found Trump with 39% support, Haley with 32% and Christie with 12%.

the FDA has explicitly said, for example, that tianeptine does not qualify as a dietary supplement, the labels of some brands, like Tianaa, still make that claim.

“There are now at least a dozen different products that are foreign drugs being openly marketed as dietary supplements right under the FDA’s eyes, without them being able to stop the sales,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who studies the regulation of supplements.

Tianeptine is a drug developed by French researchers in the 1960s as an antidepressant.

It is approved in low doses for that use in many European, Asian and Latin American countries.

But at higher doses, it also works much as an opioid does, delivering short-lived euphoria.

In the United States, many people take tianeptine under the widespread, mistaken belief that it is a safe alternative to street opioids like fentanyl or heroin, or even a way to taper off using them. On social media sites such as Reddit, its merits are hotly debated, with more than 5,000 people subscribing to a “Quitting Tianeptine” forum.

“People develop a tolerance very quickly, and so they rapidly start advancing the dosing,” said Dawn Sollee, a clinical toxicologist and director of the Poison Control Center in Jacksonville, Fla. “They will set alarms to wake themselves every two hours to take tianeptine pills so they do not go into withdrawal.

And then they have to keep taking more and more just to stay functional.”

Expenses can mount swiftly, along with dangers. At a convenience store in Montclair, N.J., recently, 15 capsules of Tianaa Red cost $34. A bottle of Neptune’s Fix, which comes in lemon, tropical, cherry or chocolate-vanilla flavor, runs about $16.

Determining the number of cases of tianeptine abuse is challenging, because hospitals do not test for it. Reports to poison-control centers are voluntary, typically made by a worried relative, so officials say the numbers represent a drastic undercount.

But case reports are increasing. In 2013, only four cases of tianeptine exposure were reported nationwide. In 2023, 391 cases were reported, according to America’s Poison Centers.

Similarly to many illicit drugs, tianeptine is often sloppily mixed with unlabeled ingredients, such as potent synthetic cannabis compounds. That is one reason overdose symptoms appear to range widely, poison-control medical directors said, including clamminess, nausea, low blood pressure and unconsciousness as well as seizures and severe stomach cramps.

Sometimes naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, can be effective in reviving patients, they said — and sometimes not. At least four deaths have been associated with tianeptine.

Shooting

and an arrest warrant against Archuleta, but the documents in the case were not public as of Wednesday afternoon.

A clerk at the Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court said all of the documents in the case, including an order from Judge Alexandra Naranjo, were sealed, and the court could not disclose any information, including the reason the case was sealed.

After Archuleta is treated for his injuries and released from the hospital, he will be booked into jail on the charges, state police wrote.

After shootings by police officers from other agencies, state police are typically tasked with investigating and turning the case over to the district attorney, who then reviews the investigation and issues a determination on whether the use of force was justified.

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A state police spokesman declined to name the officers who were involved in the shooting.

Archuleta was charged Wednesday in Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court with four counts of aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, aggravated fleeing from police, possession of a controlled substance and harboring or aiding a felon.

The criminal case against Archuleta was sealed by a court order Wednesday morning. State police obtained a search warrant

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Two drilling rigs sit in Eddy County in 2020. American Petroleum Institute executives said the Permian Basin — which stretches from Southeast New Mexico to Texas — is the cornerstone of the nation’s energy future in a conference call Wednesday.

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even decades to come,” Sommers said.

The market surge since the coronavirus pandemic-driven downturn in 2020 has ratcheted New Mexico’s oil production to 658 million barrels in the 2023 fiscal year from 531 million barrels the previous year. That upswing nudged state tax revenues to $12.7 billion, compared to about $8.4 billion two years ago.

But conservationists contend rising oil production also means increased pollutants that can harm the climate and public health, posing the greatest threat to disadvantaged communities near oil fields.

While touting the country’s record oil production — 13.2 million barrels a day compared to 5 million in 2008 — the institute’s executives spent much of the call complaining about what they say are the White House’s shortsighted policies.

The U.S. reached this production zenith through decades of bipartisan effort, and now the administration threatens to undermine U.S. energy security and independence from foreign suppliers by issuing few leases on public lands and implementing restrictive offshore leasing, Sommers said.

In all, new federal acres leased for oil development have dropped by about 96% while Biden has been president, Sommers said.

Most of the current oil extraction is either happening on private lands or through the public land leases from prior administrations, he said.

Officials under President Joe Biden have blocked drilling on nearly a half-million acres on federal lands in Alaska, nearly twice as much acreage as they approved nationwide for oil activities, Sommers said.

Sommers also bashed new leasing fees and restrictions established through the Inflation Reduction Act. There also are reports the administration is considering a ban on liquefied natural gas exports to certain countries, he said.

He said he’s concerned Biden isn’t stockpiling leases as previous presidents have done. The current backlog of leases won’t run out today or tomorrow, but they could be gone several years from now, Sommers said.

One environmental advocate called the institute’s contentions “absurd.”

“Leasing has not stopped under the Biden administration and is mandated under the Inflation Reduction Act,” said Josh Axelrod, senior policy advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Operators aren’t pursuing leases on speculation as they had in the past, Axelrod said. Before, they would apply for leases they’d never use to pad their assets, he added.

The inflation reduction law roughly doubled the per-acre leasing fees to $3 for the first two years, $5 for the next six years, and then $15 after that to discourage companies from sitting on a drilling project indefinitely.

It takes five or more years from the time a lease is approved to when an operator uses it to drill,

TAKEAWAYS ◆ The American Petroleum Institute touted the country’s record oil production, much of it happening in the Permian Basin that stretches across southeast New Mexico and into Texas. ◆ Institute officials complained Biden administration’s policies, such as restricting leasing, are unfavorable to industry and must be changed to protect America’s energy security and independence. ◆ Officials acknowledged climate change is real, but think developing new technologies, carbon capture and new products such as liquefied natural gas are the solutions. Environmentalists disagree, saying the only real solution is transitioning to renewable energy.

he said, which means companies are just now tapping leases from the era of former President Donald Trump. These won’t run out for many years, he added.

The industry’s hopes that it can keep production ramped up this high for decades is not plausible, given how demand for petroleum will continue to fall as more people buy electric vehicles and use solar, wind and geothermal energy for heating, Axelrod said.

It would create a glut that would make oil prices plunge — something the industry never wants — or, worse yet, the market could collapse, similar to 2015, he said.

When asked how maintaining high oil production indefinitely would fit into efforts to reduce climate-warming greenhouse emissions, Sommers said the industry was already pursuing climate solutions.

Those solutions include producing more liquefied natural gas to replace coal, establishing more carbon-capturing systems, developing better technology to reduce emissions and investing more into hydrogen, he said.

But one conservationist dismissed all those measures as fake remedies aimed at allowing the industry to keep extracting and polluting.

Scientists have determined 2023 was the hottest year on record, driven in large part by heavy fossil fuel emissions over many decades, so it’s time for the industry to get on board with real solutions — namely transitioning to cleaner energy, said Camilla Feibelman, director of Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter.

Feibelman said it’s common for industry to suggest repackaging oil and gas extraction in technologies that aren’t proven and aren’t cost-efficient.

There are ways to capture and reduce emissions through technology, but with the enormous extraction happening in the Permian, it’s hardly denting the pollution and won’t get the region to net zero emissions, Feibelman said.

“At the end of the day, a fossil fuel is a fossil fuel,” she said.

“What we need to do is move toward renewable energy.”

But Sommers, echoing other industry advocates, said fossil fuel is here to stay, contending political leaders like Biden should return to the energy policies the country has had for the past 40 years.

“We have to go back to the bipartisan consensus of building that energy independence,” Sommers said.

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By Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess The New York Times

NEW YORK — Donald Trump backed down from delivering his own closing argument in his civil fraud trial after refusing to abide by a judge’s restrictions — including that he not give “a campaign speech” — in the latest clash between Trump’s political aims and American legal norms.

Trump, who considers himself his own best spokesperson, had planned to address the court during closing arguments Thursday. But one of his lawyers called limits imposed by the judge, Arthur Engoron, unacceptable.

The judge said in a recent email exchange with Trump’s lawyers that while he was predisposed to allow Trump to speak, the former president would be limited to discussing the facts of the case and the relevant law, and barred from attacking the judge, the judge’s staff members or New York’s attorney general, whose suit against Trump led to the trial.

Those conditions may have nullified Trump’s purpose in speaking. As he mounts another run for the White House while

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Education Department Acting Secretary Patricia Trujillo made clear, several trips and purchases appear to have violated state guidelines and university policies. Among eight sternly worded concerns, Trujillo targeted Shepard’s purchases of high-end furniture.

“During times when the effects of inflation and a tuition increase are affecting students, the university is generating negative media publicity for overly lavish furniture purchases that question the fiduciary integrity of current leadership,” Trujillo wrote.

She urged university leaders to consider an end to international travel until they perform a cost-benefit analysis on the last five years’ worth of trips.

Financial records from the nonprofit WNMU Foundation and interviews with current and former employees indicate previous accounts of Shepard’s spending have likely been gross undercounts. The foundation’s stated mission is to raise funds “for scholarships, capital improvements, programs and other activities” in support of the university. But Searchlight’s review of records shows that in the last five years, Shepard has spent more than $230,000 of the foundation’s donated money on floral arrangements and checks made out to himself.

Shepard and Plame did not directly respond to questions from Searchlight. University Vice President for Compliance and Communications Julie Morales responded to questions on their behalf.

“The university president has a discretionary fund and a flower budget of $80,000 per year of non-taxpayer/non-public funds to support the mission of the university and of the foundation for events and purchases,” Morales wrote in an email. “Over the years, the president has been reimbursed from non-taxpayer funds for his personal expenses that he has made on behalf of the university.” Those reimbursements “are approved by the foundation,” she stated.

Seven employees speak out on spending In recent years, Shepard has made trips to Zambia and Europe on what he has described as student recruitment efforts.

While overseas, employees said, Shepard and Plame reportedly indulged in expensive tastes. In interviews, seven current and former university employees, each with firsthand knowledge of the president’s office, the board of regents or the university foundation, described exorbitant purchases and costly renovations to Shepard’s on-campus home, which is owned by the university.

The employees spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they feared they would lose their jobs for speaking to the press.

Three recalled a trip to Greece and Spain, during which Shepard arranged to ship back a trove of imported wine. The employees estimated the wine cost as much as $800 per bottle and said Shepard ordered so much of it that it could not fit in his house.

(According to Morales, the wine was not bought with taxpayer money.)

One of the employees also alleged the foundation has been relegated to a “presidential piggy bank” and Shepard and Plame,

facing the civil trial and four criminal indictments, Trump has sought to transform his legal liabilities into political assets, casting his accusers as enemies of democracy and their cases as a coordinated witch hunt.

Sensing Trump wanted to bring his campaign to the courtroom, Engoron — whom the former president has repeatedly attacked — warned he would promptly shut Trump down if he attempted to do so again.

“If Mr. Trump violates any of these rules, I will not hesitate to cut him off in midsentence and admonish him,” Engoron, a Democrat, wrote in an email late last week.

“If he continues to violate the rules, I will end his closing argument and prevent him from making any further statements in the courtroom.”

Engoron, who has already imposed a limited gag order preventing Trump and his lawyers from attacking court employees, threatened a fine of at least $50,000 if the former president violated it. The judge also warned that he would “remove him from the courtroom forthwith.”

A lawyer for Trump, Christopher Kise, declined to agree, saying the conditions were “fraught with ambiguities” and that barring

Trump from attacking the Democratic attorney general, Letitia James, was “simply untenable.”

After several more exchanges, Engoron wrote in an email Wednesday that he assumed that Trump would not agree to the limits, “and that, therefore, he will not be speaking in court tomorrow.”

Trump, who had planned to testify in his own defense last month but canceled the day before, is still expected to attend the closing arguments Thursday. Engoron’s decision may inject considerable tension into the proceedings, during which lawyers for Trump and James will give an overview of their respective cases.

James has argued that Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth to receive favorable treatment from banks and insurers, and is asking that the former president be fined $370 million and permanently barred from doing business in New York. Trump’s lawyers have argued that the evidence failed to connect the former president to the annual financial statements in which his net worth was listed, and that the banks profited from their relationship with him.

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Employees of the newly rebranded New Mexico Department of Justice and others listen to Attorney General Raúl Torrez announce the name change Wednesday at the Villagra Building.

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Torrez’s office against technol“What we’re trying to demonogy firm Meta — alleging the strate to people is that there’s a company’s platforms Facebook clear connection between the and Instagram enable the sexual things we’re grappling with exploitation of children — is an here locally and the things other example of the kind of work the communities across the country new state Department of Justice are dealing with,” he said. “We is going to focus on, Torrez said. tend to think of them in isolation Early in 2023, Torrez sometimes, and we shouldn’t.” announced his intention to Torrez’s office contracted with create a division of the departWashington, D.C.-based law ment focused on civil rights that firm Motley Rice for the Meta would focus on protecting the litigation, but in the next four rights of vulnerable people such to five years, he said, he aims to as children and the elderly. be able to file the same kinds of The name change marks “a sig- lawsuits — using criminal-style nificant visual transformation,” a investigations for civil proceednews release from the department ings — using only internal staff said Wednesday, that includes a attorneys and investigators. revamped website and logo.

Torrez’s office requested from During Wednesday’s event, the Legislature a budget increase Torrez pulled away a gold cloth of about $1 million for the next fisto reveal his department’s new cal year, which he said would be seal: a pillar in the shape of the a nominal increase compared to state of New Mexico. the requests of some other state Torrez said during an interagencies. Part of that would go view he wants constituents toward hiring 12 new employees to feel invited to call upon his to focus on background work that, department for help with issues he said, would greatly increase such as consumer complaints the capacity of his department. and government accountability.

Among his requests for new The new Department of Jusstaffers are civil investigators to tice has — just as the previously focus on cases like environmental named Office of the Attorney and consumer violations, special General did — investigators and investigators for issues like human attorneys to focus on consumer trafficking and personnel to help complaints, internet crimes support public engagement. against children, elder abuse, “What we find is that we have utility regulation and oversight lawyers in the building who do of government compliance with have capacity to do the work, but the people in the community state transparency laws. don’t know about it,” he said.

“I don’t think everyday citi“That has to change.” zens had a clear sense that [the

card — essentially a credit card — must not exceed $20,000. But Joseph Shepard’s travel expenses, according to Western New Mexico financial records show Shepard’s University receipts: nearly $28,000 in purchases at January-March 2023: Shepard spent $12,000 to rent a private Seret & Sons, the Santa Fe furnihome in Santa Fe rather than stay at La Fonda on the Plaza, which offers ture store where he purchased reduced rates to lawmakers. In his letter to the Higher Education Department, Shepard described this as a financial cost-saver, as it was “less than three custom sofas, a side table $200 per night after factoring in a reimbursement from a person who also and a spread of cushions and shared a portion of the house.” His letter did not specify who that person pillows, was spread out among was. several transactions, largely over November 2022: WNMU Vice President of External Affairs Magdaleno the course of a month and a half Manzanarez spent $1,038.54 — nearly five times the university’s out-ofin the summer of 2020. state per diem — on a one-night stay and breakfast at a five-star resort in The required purchase Scottsdale, Ariz. approval was not signed until June 2021: Shepard spent $1,683.40 for himself and four guests, 16 days after the furniture was including his chief of staff, two regents and a WNMU vice president, to spend one night at the five-star Wellington Hotel and Spa in Madrid, bought and paid for, the Higher Spain. (At the time, the federal government’s travel guidelines, a standard Education Department said in its that many civic employees rely on, set a maximum lodging rate of $261 January letter to Shepard. per night in Madrid.)

The department also said June-July 2019: There were three transactions — for $1,800, Plame’s possession of a university $1,491.58 and $3,265.84 — for Shepard and six guests at Latitude 15 in credit card appears to be in Lusaka, Zambia, which touts a “private members’ club” called The Other violation of state procurement Side. (At the time, federal guidelines set a maximum lodging rate of $190 card policies. Shepard previously per night in Lusaka.) told Searchlight that Plame has a university credit card and can file who bears the title of university ing. Its graduation rate — 31%, for reimbursement when using first lady, live extravagantly off according to the National Center her personal credit card on behalf of donor and taxpayer dollars. for Education Statistics — trails of the university, “just like any While the president’s house has other New Mexico universities. employee would.” He later told had a number of renovations, The rate is 52% at the University Searchlight that Plame was not a including the installation of of New Mexico’s main campus university employee. opulent water features, campus and 51% at New Mexico State It remains to be seen what will buildings have fallen into disreUniversity’s main campus. come of the state’s probes. But pair with leaky roofs, bursting In his response to the Higher as the investigations play out pipes and faulty elevators, several Education Department, Shepard and the 2024 legislative session employees said. did not deny Searchlight’s findlooms, lawmakers have made it “It’s what they call ‘the Westings about his spending, travel or clear the optics matter. ern way,’ ” said Brenda Findley, the use of university employees “Being seen as a poor steward the university’s former vice pres- to clean his home; regarding conwhen there are hundreds of milident of business affairs who in cerns about university employees lions of new dollars flowing into 2023 settled a whistleblower law- ironing his linens, he wrote, it higher education is a sure way suit against the board of regents. is “the university’s obligation for folks across the state to make In the suit, she alleged “various to maintain the house,” which a judgment,” Rep. Nathan Small, improprieties with regard to the includes custodial services. vice chairman of the Legislative expenditure of public funds by All this spending comes on top Finance Committee, told Shepard Dr. Shepard.” Shepard has denied of a lucrative compensation packat the December hearing. “Why the allegations. age: a $365,000 salary, a $50,000 are we investing that much “A person who comes in and annual bonus, a $2,000 monthly largesse when they don’t see sees what’s happening at Western car allowance and 100%-covered stewardship?” has two courses: One is to say, health care.

‘Oh my god, this is so wrong; “Western New Mexico Univerwe need to fix it,’ ” Findley told sity has consistently followed the Searchlight. “The other one is to university’s procurement code say, ‘Wow, there’s an opportunity and travel policy as well as been NMLS #957935 here to really rape this system.’ ” transparent with its transactions,” Shepard wrote to the Higher Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), also known as a reverse Harsh questions, Education Department. At mortgage, is an FHA-insured loan that lets homeowners age 62+ tap into their low graduation rates December’s legislative hearing, home equity—to help cover bills and everyday expenses, eliminate monthly Some New Mexico lawmakers he told lawmakers the nature of mortgage payments*, and much more. his accommodations varies, addhave also begun to call Shepard’s ing he couldn’t recall if one hotel lifestyle into question. At a LegContact John Ruybalid, your local Reverse Mortgage Specialist. islative Finance Committee hear- in Zambia even had a concrete floor. ing last month, Sen. Siah Correa (551) 264-5493 (505) 690-1029 But records show Shepard Hemphill, whose district includes and his traveling companions Silver City, subjected Shepard to jruybalid@longbridge-financial.com NMLS #201470 a lengthy line of questioning over rarely lodged in such modest *As with any mortgage, you must meet your loan obligations, keeping current with property taxes, insurance and keeping your home in good condition. the tens of thousands of taxpayer accommodations. In fact, many This material has not been reviewed, approved or issued by HUD, FHA or any government agency. The company is not affiliated with or acting on trips have exceeded the $215 per dollars he spent on furniture, behalf of or at the direction of HUD/FHA or any other government agency. ©2023 Longbridge Financial, LLC NMLS# 957935. 1 International Blvd., Suite 900, Mahwah, New Jersey 07495. 1-855-523-4326. For licensing information, go to: www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. For additional Longbridge diem rates established by state international travel and five-star licensing and disclosures, please visit: https://longbridge-financial.com/licensing. Not all products and options are available in all states. law for out-of-state travel. And Terms subject to change without notice. Certain conditions and fees apply. This is not a loan commitment. All loans subject to resorts. approval. Branch Office: 1 International Blvd, Suite 900 Mahwah, NJ 07495. NMLS #957935. in her January letter to Shepard, “Our job is to ensure there’s the Higher Education secretary no misuse of taxpayer money expressed concern Western’s on behalf of students and their regents brought family members families, especially when they’re along on costly overseas travels. experiencing a 3 percent increase When reached by phone, Westin tuition,” Hemphill said at the ern’s Board of Regents Chairhearing, where Shepard, as chair of the Council of University Presi- woman Mary Hotvedt would not comment on the concerns and dents, was requesting nearly allegations in the January letter. $400 million in increased higher According to the university’s education funding across the state.

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Paid family leave advocates back with overhauled bill Most employers, employees would pay into fund to cover wages when time off needed

By Robert Nott

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Lawmakers and advocates for a statewide program offering paid family and medical leave for workers hope an overhauled bill in this year’s legislative session will assuage concerns in the business community and gain enough support to cross the finish line.

Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, said at a news conference Wednesday lawmakers are putting together

a “stronger bill, better bill,” with changes that could increase its chances of success.

Many small-business owners spoke against a similar Senate proposal that died in a House committee last year. Senate Bill 11 was one of numerous failed efforts dating back about 20 years, largely due to fears that extended paid leave for a worker to care for a family member or spend time with a newborn would disrupt business operations.

Some people also raised concerns about the costs to workers and employers. The plan would require both to pay into a fund

that would help cover a portion of a worker’s wages for up to 12 weeks of leave.

Proponents of the 2023 bill vowed to try again.

“We said we would bring the bill back, so here we are,” Stewart said at the state Capitol.

The bill has one key new provision, written in response to a fiscal impact report on SB 11 questioning whether the fund would remain solvent. It would require the Please see story on Page A-7

Policy advocate Tracy McDaniel, with Southwest Women’s Law Center, speaks in support of a proposed paid family leave bill during a news conference Wednesday at the Capitol. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Ex-sheriff planning Senate campaign

City hires contractor to manage golf course Indigo Sports wins deal, planning to make Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe solvent

Gonzales announces switch to Republican Party; was named in federal indictment

By Carina Julig

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The Santa Fe City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a four-year, $11.5 million contract with Indigo Sports LLC to operate the Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe golf course.

“I’m very excited about this contract. We’ve been working on it for a little while and we feel this is going to be in the best interests of the city,” Parks and Open Space Director Melissa McDonald told councilors.

Operations of the course on Caja del Rio Road and its food service will be taken over by Indigo Sports, a subsidiary of Troon Golf, in February. The company manages hundreds of golf courses nationwide, including the Sandia Golf Club in Albuquerque.

The contract, which calls for payment of up to $3.2 million in the first year and $2.8 million in the following three years, will run through January 2028. Mayor Alan Webber said the city has no plans to sell the course to a private company after the contract expires.

Golf Course & Sports Complex Manager Jonathan Weiss said at Wednesday’s meeting Indigo Sports was chosen out of three applicants that responded to a request for proposals, and the company projects the course will be solvent by the end of the fouryear contract.

The contract includes provisions for 10 free benefit tournaments for local nonprofits, internships and mentoring opportunities for Santa Fe youth and preferential rates for local golfers, according to city documents.

The city will continue to be responsible for irrigating the course, now being done with potable water due to ongoing issues with tainted effluent from the city’s wastewater treatment plant, as well as capital improvements over $50,000.

The course will be inspected monthly by the city’s golf course manager.

Councilor Michael Garcia asked what will happen to city employees at the course.

McDonald said four of the 10 workers will be moved over to other roles in parks and Please see story on Page A-8

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Friday IAIA MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING Center for Lifelong Education Commons, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 800-804-6422 Readings by and questions and answers with Kim Blaeser and Deborah Taffa; 4:30-6 p.m.; no charge; iaia.edu.

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Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, speaks about local lawmakers’ expectations for the Legislature’s 30day session on Wednesday at a Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce event at Hotel Santa Fe.

Several gun safety measures on agenda for 30-day session Santa Fe County lawmakers unveil expected measures to be discussed in Legislature this year

By Daniel J. Chacón

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embers of Santa Fe County’s legislative delegation and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s economic development adviser offered the local business community a preview Wednesday of what promises to be a whirlwind 30-day session, with billions of dollars in new revenue at play.

Each session takes a life of its own, and predictions don’t always pan out.

But local legislative delegates hold key posts in the Democrat-controlled Legislature, lending credence to what they — and one of the governor’s top advisers — say New Mexicans can expect when lawmakers converge in the Capitol next week.

The list is long: ◆ A slew of gun violence prevention bills already stirring steadfast opposition, including a proposed ban on assault weapons and a 14-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms. ◆ A cannabis cleanup bill. ◆ A $500 million housing package, half of which would be for direct assistance to renters, homeowners and people experiencing homelessness. ◆ A tax package that includes proposed reductions to the personal income tax. ◆ Another “big discussion” about increasing New Mexico’s liquor excise tax.

JOHANNA HOGELL-DARSEE AND SCOTT DARSEE First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., 505-982-8544 Medieval, Scandinavian and Celtic ballads; 5:30 p.m., doors 5:15 p.m.; donations accepted.

‘METAMORPHOSIS’ Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Aerial dancer Talia Pura’s performance based on the life cycle of butterflies; 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday; $25; blueraventheatre.com.

Design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com

Just months after being named in a federal indictment, former Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales announced Wednesday he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Martin Heinrich.

Gonzales talked about both a party switch from Democrat to Republican and his intent to run for the Senate during a Fox News interview Manny Wednesday morning.

Gonzales In a news release, Gonzales said he was leaving the Democratic Party due to what he called a “divergence from the values that resonate with our local community.”

The Democratic Party of New Mexico fired back, accusing Gonzales of jumping into the race for selfish reasons.

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Snow, ‘frigid wind chills,’ cold are expected today

any topic, 30-day sessions are focused on the state budget. The governor’s approval is required to place any other issues on the agenda.

The requests are apparently piling on.

“I’ve heard [the Governor’s Office has had] over 300 requests for messages,” Wirth said. “My sense in talking to the governor, I think she does want to keep the agenda, you know, contained — quote unquote.

“I’ve heard that a lot over the years,” he quipped, generating a few laughs.

Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, called 30-day sessions “immensely tough.”

“I mean, time is of the essence,” she said in an interview. “Every second counts.”

Alex Greenberg, the governor’s

Gusty winds, snow and potentially dangerous wind chills are expected across Northern New Mexico on Thursday.

The minimum temperatures for Santa Fe are forecasted to drop from 18 degrees Thursday to 5 on Friday before climbing to 12 on Saturday and 21 on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. Weather forecasters also expect “frigid wind chills” late Thursday night into Friday morning, the weather service wrote in a news release Wednesday. Wind chills “in the single digits and even below zero” increase the risk for hypothermia and frostbite, the release said.

Santa Fe will likely see from less than 1 inch up to 3 inches of snow through Thursday evening, according to graphics from the weather service.

Snowstorms may start in the northwest mountains Wednesday evening before expanding Thursday. Forecasters expect 3.7 inches of snow accumulation in Taos, 5.1 inches in Cuba, 5.6 inches, in Red River and 8.9 inches in Chama.

Bandelier National Monument will be closed Thursday due to the storm.

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George Gundrey, owner of Tomasita’s Santa Fe New Mexican Restaurant, listens to Wirth speak Wednesday at a Legislature preview event.

But the focus will be on passing a $10 billion-plus budget that includes a whopping $3.5 billion in so-called new money, which is the difference between the current budget and expected revenues in the next fiscal year.

“That’s really the priority,” Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, a Santa Fe Democrat who has served in the Legislature for two decades, told a sold-out crowd at the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative preview event at Hotel Santa Fe. “Between the two tax committees [in each chamber of the Legislature], we’ve got to somehow find consensus on the amount of money, what goes in there, get [the proposed spending plan] through both chambers and all the committees in 30 days, so it’s going to be exciting,” he said.

Unlike 60-day sessions, in which all lawmakers can introduce bills on

Saturday CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road Traditional folk dance; music by The Virginia Creepers; beginners lesson 7 p.m.; dance 7:30 p.m.; $10; folkmads.org.

SANTA FE CHESS CLUB Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 All ages beginners lesson; 2-4 p.m.; no charge.

CHATTER NORTH Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail

Violinists Elizabeth Young and David Felberg, violist Isabel Hagen, and cellist Felix Fan; 10:30 a.m.; $5-$17; chatterabq.org/ boxoffice.

Sunday SANTA FE FREE THINKERS FORUM Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Road Debra Oliver of Common Ground Mediation Services and Mary Ellen Gonzales of Unitarian Universalist Congregation discuss the benefits of restorative justice; 8:30 a.m.; no charge; 505-438-6265; meetup.com/freethinkersforum; available to view online.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM FAMILY FUN DAY Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 Meet in the lobby to pick up day passes and activity schedules for this free, hands-on art program; 10:30 a.m.2:30 p.m.

POETS@HERE SERIES HERE Gallery, 213 E. Marcy St., 562-243-6148 Valerie Martinez and Tommy Archuleta read their poems of transformation; 2 p.m.

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Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, speaks in support of a new paid family leave bill, which she is co-sponsoring, during a news conference Wednesday at the Capitol. The 30-day legislative session starts Tuesday.

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Department of Workforce Solutions to issue an actuary study on the plan’s fiscal feasibility by the start of 2025.

Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, a co-sponsor of both SB 11 and the new bill, said in an interview Wednesday lawmakers have responded to many of the business community’s concerns, and she believes the actuary study will be a “big calmer down” measure.

Another new provision would allow spouses of military members to take part in the plan.

Workers would be permitted to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave per year for a range of reasons, such as childbirth, bereavement for the loss of a child, medical care, care of a relative with an illness or a situation involving domestic abuse.

They would earn the state’s minimum wage, $12 per hour, plus about two-thirds of their regular pay over that amount.

A person who earns $18 per hour, for instance, would be paid around $16 per hour during the period of leave.

Like the 2023 bill, the new measure would require employers and employees to pay into the fund quarterly through payroll deductions. Employees would pay $272 per year, or $5 for every $1,000 of wages, while employers would pay $218 per year for each employee, based on the mean wage of workers, or $4 for every $1,000 of wages per year.

Employers with less than five employees would not have to pay into the fund, but their employees would — and bosses would have to honor their right to take paid family and medical leave.

The fund would be launched with a $36 million allocation.

If both chambers of the Legislature approve the bill and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs it into law, employees and employers would begin paying into the fund Jan. 1, 2026, and workers could begin benefitting from it in 2027.

Business owners decried SB 11 last year, arguing they were struggling to recruit workers and had to pay higher wages just

TAKEAWAYS ◆ Lawmakers and advocates for a statewide Paid Family Leave and Medical Act announced new legislation on a proposed program. Previous efforts have failed. ◆ Most Employees and employers would pay into a fund quarterly through payroll deductions.

Employees would pay $272 per year, or $5 for every $1,000 of wages per year, while employers would pay $218 per year for each employee, or $4 for every $1,000 of wages. ◆ Employers with less than five employees do not have to pay into the fund, but their employees do and would be eligible to benefit from the fund.

to keep people on staff in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Some said they would probably have to close or move to another state if the measure took effect.

Some past critics of a Paid Family and Medical Leave Act said they continue to have concerns but were hesitant to speak in depth about the issue because they had not yet reviewed the new proposal.

Terri Cole, president and CEO of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, offered pointed remarks. She wrote in an email Wednesday her organization remains concerned and opposed to “last session’s mandatory leave proposal.”

Among other concerns, she wrote, “We are a state that prides itself on its authenticity and strong local feel. We love and depend on our small employers, and this highly disruptive, mandatory leave proposal would hurt them most. We cannot overstate just how hard it would be to manage a small business under circumstances where so much leave, under such loose conditions, could be taken with such frequency by its employees.”

Rob Black, CEO of the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, said he was heartened by the inclusion of an actuary study on the plan. He’s looking forward to reviewing the proposed changes, he said, because “we don’t believe the SB 11 approach makes sense.”

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line for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

When completed, the 14-mile power line would stretch from the lab through forests and the Caja del Rio to a substation. The line is deemed necessary to supplement the lab’s two existing power lines that are expected to reach capacity by 2027.

The environmental study was done to gauge the effects the power line, first announced in 2021, might have on the landscape, wildlife, ecosystems, Indigenous cultural sites and recreation areas.

Man arrested in shooting at Edgewood Walmart An Edgewood man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded another man in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Edgewood.

Police accuse John Elliott Fulford, 18, of shooting a man in the arm Jan. 3 while attempting to steal his vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.

Fulford was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Santa Fe County jail. He faces

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charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated burglary.

The victim told police he had left Walmart store on the evening of Jan. 3 and opened the passenger door of his pickup after seeing someone inside, an arrest John Elliott warrant affidavit states.

Fulford After he confronted the man, the victim said, the man pulled out a “snub-nosed handgun” and shot him once in the arm.

The shooting suspect, later identified as Fulford, then got out of the truck and ran away, the affidavit says.

Police reviewed Walmart’s surveillance video of the parking lot and released images of the shooting suspect.

Multiple tipsters connected Fulford to the incident and to the surveillance images, the affidavit states.

An arraignment on the charges against Fulford was scheduled for Wednesday.

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economic development adviser, said public safety and housing will be among Lujan Grisham’s key priorities.

“Gun control is going to be multifaceted, have multiple bills coming through this legislative session,” he said. “In addition, pretrial detention will be considered during the legislative session, as well as some enhanced penalties, specifically for felons in possession of a gun, so public safety’s going to be a really recurring theme throughout this legislative session.”

The governor’s proposed $10.5 billion budget, which is slightly higher than the budget proposal submitted by lawmakers on the Legislative Finance Committee, includes $2 billion in one-time, or nonrecurring, spending, Greenberg said.

Greenberg noted, as did lawmakers serving on budget committees, New Mexico’s budget surpluses are hitting a plateau.

But while other states are facing budget deficits, “New Mexico has a real opportunity to invest now, grow the pie of our possible economic development and really generational opportunities to make life different for New Mexicans going forward,” he said.

Greenberg also said a cleancar tax credit will “definitely” be on the governor’s call, and a geothermal tax credit is under

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Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, who serves as vice chairwoman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said the state has been “very fortunate” to continue to have an influx of money. But those days are numbered, she said. Rodriguez spoke Wednesday at a Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce event.

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five of which are science and technology related, he said. ◆ The Santa Fe Chamber of Com“I think this year, organically, merce hosted its annual legislative there’s going to be a lot of movepreview event Wednesday, when ment within that sustainable local lawmakers gave the business community a glimpse of what to green energy cluster,” Greenberg expect during the upcoming 30-day said. session.

Rep. Reena Szczepanski, who serves as majority whip in the ◆ The legislative session, which begins at noon Tuesday, is focused state House of Representatives, on the state budget. But lawmaksaid the House will focus on ers are poised to consider myriad “solutions for public safety,” from pieces of legislation, including a substance abuse treatment to law slew of gun violence prevention enforcement recruitment and measures. retention. ◆ Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s “The biggest challenge ... is economic development adviser really how to spend this incredisaid public safety and housing will ble revenue that we have in a way be among the governor’s top prithat will reap benefits for New orities.

Mexicans for generations,” she consideration. New Mexico has said. “nine key targeted industries,” Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, a Santa

Fe Democrat who serves as vice chairwoman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said the state has been “very fortunate” to continue to have an influx of money. But those days are numbered, she said.

“One of our responsibilities ... is to find a way to judiciously appropriate these funds in a way where we can ensure we can meet today’s needs but also save for the future,” Rodriguez said.

“I don’t know if you remember a few years ago, we had a terrible situation,” she said. “The revenues fell to zero and, literally, we were scraping crumbs from the departments’ budgets.”

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The Legislature’s focus will be on passing a $10 billion-plus budget that includes a whopping $3.5 billion in so-called new money.

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.

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

Remember your loved ones on their Birthday, Holiday and Anniversary with a personalized Memorial.

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◆ The council approved a $200,000 budget adjustment for six data servers at the ITT disaster recovery site. ◆ The council approved a purchase of 26 vehicles from Chalmer’s Ford for the Santa Fe Police Department for $1.3 million, along with radios for the vehicles for $190,000. ◆ Councilor Signe Lindell was reappointed as mayor pro tem and Councilor Carol RomeroWirth was reappointed as parliamentarian. Councilors were also appointed to new committees, including Alma Castro to the Public Works and Utilities Committee and Quality of Life Committee and Pilar Faulkner to the Finance Committee and Quality of Life Committee.

world and the contract will be a boon to the city.

“People travel around to play at these golf courses, and they’re not going to be disappointed in ours,” she said.

Councilor Michael Garcia said he hopes Indigo Sports will prioritize hiring locally.

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◆ Councilor Amanda Chavez introduced a resolution to commit Santa Fe to being a “more age-friendly city” and to joining the AARP Age Friendly States and Communities Network. The resolution is scheduled for a final council vote Feb. 28.

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◆ Several councilors delivered emotional remembrances of longtime First National Bank Manager and former Planning Commissioner Jay Toya, who died recently. “He was just such a positive, open, welcome person,” Councilor Jamie Cassutt said.

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◆ Finance Director Emily Oster told Santa Fe city councilors at their meeting Wednesday the city is working through comments from the New Mexico Auditor’s Office on its audit fiscal year 2022 and is planning to submit the final version early next week. It will be reviewed by the state again and then publicly released.

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City hires contractor to manage golf course recreation or public works to fill vacancies, and six will be transferred to spots at the Municipal Recreation Complex that are usually filled by temporary workers.

“We have quite a few vacancies, so it’s not too difficult for parks to absorb these folks,” she said.

McDonald said the employees were notified of the change and seem to be happy with their new assignments.

They will also have the opportunity to apply for a job with the contractor if they would like to keep working at the golf course, she added.

Garcia said he hopes Indigo Sports will prioritize hiring locally.

“I know it’s not part of this contract to have a local preference, but if we can encourage them to hire local, I think that would show some support for our community,” he said.

The golf course manager role, now filled by Weiss, will continue to be a city position.

Louis DeMella, vice president of the union representing city employees, said he initially was concerned about a union members losing jobs but said the workers were all reassigned.

“My membership is just being diverted to other parts of the Parks Department, since the need is so great,” he said.

According to data provided by the city in July, the Recreation Department had a staff vacancy rate of 28.87%, the Municipal Recreation Complex a rate of 28.57% and parks, trails and watershed a rate of 27.14%.

Councilor Signe Lindell, a golfer, said Indigo Sports is highly regarded in the golf

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A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation

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The following water statistics of January 9th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.986 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.821 City Wells: 0.234 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 6.041 Total consumption: 6.307 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.73 Reservoir storage: 249.14 Estimated reservoir capacity: 19.50%

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Study: Climate change impacts snow Snowpack declines have broad impact

By Delger Erdenesanaa

The New York Times

Changing snow patterns have far-reaching consequences, from water shortages to shuttered ski resorts. A new study confirms human-caused climate change has affected snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, including clear declines of snowpack in 31 river basins.

What’s more, the researchers found when a region warms to an average temperature of 17 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 8 degrees Celsius, over a winter, it appears to reach a tipping point at which snow starts to melt away quickly.

“Beyond that threshold, we kind of see everybody go off a cliff,” said Justin Mankin, a professor of geography at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College and co-author of the study, which was published Wednesday

in Nature.

Declines in snowpack, the total mass of snow on the ground, have serious implications for places that depend on spring snow melt as a water source.

Large storms this week across the United States dumped a lot of snow, but the snow may not last through winter. In the short term, climate change can create deeper snow from blizzards because of increased precipitation, but, with warmer temperatures, this snow is likely going to melt faster and may not stick around as snowpack.

The researchers studied data from more than 160 river basins to review how much snow was left in March each year from 1981 to 2020. In about 20% of these areas, they found clear declines of snowpack that could be attributed to human-caused climate change.

The Northeast and Southwest of the United States are among the regions losing snowpack the fastest, along with

Ex-sheriff planning Senate campaign Continued from Page A-6

“This latest power grab attempt by Manny Gonzales shows that he has no shame — not for his mounting legal troubles, nor his previous campaign ethics violations,” Democratic Party spokesman Daniel Garcia said in a statement, referring to allegations Gonzales was involved in an illegal weapons scheme.

Prosecutors accused Gonzales and his former undersheriff of signing “false documents to help gun dealers illegally obtain machine guns,” according to Source NM, which also reported the pair have not been charged with any crimes. The indictment, which was filed in Maryland, did charge several others with crimes, including an Albuquer-

que gun store owner.

“We trust that New Mexican voters will see right through Manny’s media circus announcement, which proves that he’s willing to run for public office regardless of party or values as long as he gets some time in the limelight,” Garcia said.

A spokesman for Gonzales’ campaign didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.

Gonzales served as sheriff in New Mexico’s most populous county for two terms and mounted an unsuccessful campaign for Albuquerque mayor, losing to incumbent Tim Keller.

Few Republicans have signaled interest in taking on Heinrich, with only little-known Ben Ralph Luna in the race.

The Republican Party of New

much of Europe.

These changes haven’t been even or linear around the world.

Even as temperatures warm, places that were colder to begin with may not exceed the freezing point of water (32 degrees F or 0 degrees C) enough during the winter to lose much snowpack.

But after an area hits a winter average of 17 degrees F, the losses accelerate exponentially.

“Each degree of warming beyond this cliff is taking more and more,” said Alexander Gottlieb, a doctoral student in Mankin’s group and the study’s lead author.

In much of the American West, snowpack has historically acted as a frozen reservoir that stores water during winter and releases it in spring and summer, when demand is highest. When snow doesn’t accumulate during the winter, droughts during the summer can be exacerbated.

In the Northeast, snow is less important for water supply, but it’s a foundation for winter recreation, tourism and culture.

Gottlieb and Mankin combined existing snowpack, temperature and precipitation data to reconstruct snowpack patterns over the past 40 years.

While direct measurements of snowpack are available for some places, to cover larger areas scientists have to fill in the blanks with calculated estimates.

The researchers also modeled snowpack in a hypothetical world without climate change to see if taking global warming out of the equation would yield different results. In 31 of the river basins they studied, or about 20% of the total, it did, meaning the influence of climate change is clear in those places.

“There are these handful of basins where we see this really clear signal,” Gottlieb said. By and large, these river basins have warmed beyond the 17 degrees F tipping point that the researchers identified. Because humans tend to live in places with milder climates, these warmer regions are the ones with the biggest populations.

Mexico said any of its GOP candidates would represent New Mexicans in Washington better than Heinrich.

“While Maryland resident Martin Heinrich spends his time trying to ban gas stoves and cheerleading for President Biden’s failed policies, Republicans are eager to get to work putting New Mexico on a good and prosperous path,” party Chairman Steve Pearce said in a statement. “Republicans will secure the border, revive the economy, restore quality education, and get tough on criminals while preserving the rights of law-abiding citizens.”

During his Fox News interview, Gonzales said he never sees New Mexico at the forefront of solutions.

“I offer that alternative to having solutions, to having a collaborative vision of how that can be secured and working collaboratively with both sides of the aisle to get something done, and not settling for just

the same old excuses by career politicians,” he said.

In 2020, Gonzales faced withering criticism from Democratic lawmakers after he welcomed a Trump administration initiative that placed federal officers in Albuquerque to help deal with the city’s crime wave. After Gonzales traveled to Washington to meet with the president, Heinrich called for the sheriff’s resignation, contending Gonzales was “inviting the president’s storm troopers into Albuquerque.”

Heinrich’s reelection campaign wrote in a statement that New Mexico’s senior senator “remains committed to investing in the brighter future the people of our state deserve.” This, the campaign wrote, “stands in direct contrast to Manny Gonzales, who, like his hero and role model Donald Trump, is running for office to avoid his legal troubles.”

Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.

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Giving in area is needed throughout the year

T

he glow of holiday giving tends to fade as the decorations are put away and the new year gets going.

Holding on to the spirit of giving should be part of planning for every new year, though.

Remember what volunteer Joe Dudziak said during a recent night at the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place: “During Christmas and Turkey Day, there’s a lot of people that give: We get a lot of clothes; we get a lot of gifts to give out to the homeless.

“What the community needs to realize, I think, is that this is needed all year round,” added Dudziak, a longtime shelter volunteer who operates Chaplain Joe’s Street Ministry.

He sees the needs firsthand, whether at the shelter or in the streets.

And he is absolutely correct: Need occurs all year long.

Perhaps serving in person at a shelter doesn’t work for you, whether because of time pressures or inclination. Money is welcome year-round, and shelters also need food to feed their overnight guests. A group of friends, a family, a community organization or religious group — all can bond in service by signing up to take food. A warm, tasty meal helps so much after people spend a long day on the streets.

St. Elizabeth Shelter also welcomes individuals who want to volunteer, whether making or serving food, helping run the front desk, maintaining the property or otherwise keeping the place going. This help is greatly appreciated at all times of year.

If people aren’t your thing, the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Human Society welcomes individuals who will visit the animals, walk the dogs and otherwise help out. The

Española Humane or Felines & Friends also are can use more hands on deck.

Maybe you want to see children thrive.

Santa Fe Public Schools needs volunteer tutors and other adults to support teachers and children. You can go through training and become a Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer and advocate for children or youth in the foster system. Sign up to be a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Mexico; those relationships change lives for both the “Big” and “Little.”

For both children and adults, hunger is always concerning.

The Food Depot is preparing for one of the area’s favorite fundraising events — the Souper Bowl, scheduled Jan. 27 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. This is an opportunity to assist a worthy organization by buying a ticket to attend and having

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Defense secretary isn’t allowed to go AWOL

Views from the web

Rodriguez, member of 1978 Santa Fe High championship basketball team, dies at 63, Jan. 2

Thank you for sharing such “ a beautiful story on my uncle

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Ron. I knew he was a superstar on the court, and he was an even better uncle to have around and laugh with.

He built a beautiful pond in my grandma’s backyard that I’ll always be in awe of and showing to my friends. I’m gonna miss his big hugs, his huge heart and the love he had for his whole family.”

Samantha Fabela Ronnie had the heart of a “ champion. It was a privilege

covering his athletic success at Santa Fe High and College of Santa Fe during my time at The New Mexican. My condolences to the Rodriguez family. RIP, Ronnie.”

Walter K. Lopez

“ It was my honor to have “ known Ronnie, and what

A Santa Fe sports legend.”

Tommy Trujillo

has been noted in earlier comments is absolutely true — he was a quiet, fierce competitor, but when the game was over, he was a friend. He will be missed by many.” John Smallwood

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 11, 1924: Bond of the Bernalillo county treasurer was reduced from $345,000 to $100,000 by formal action of the county commissioners Wednesday with renewal of the bond the first morning. The reduction is effective January.

Jan. 11, 1949: John Simms’ election last night as speaker of the house was more of an upset than most realize.

He prevailed with a vote of 19 to 16 after the heavy artillery boys of the state administration had worked for weeks amassing what they thought were 23 votes for their man, Theo Rozzell.

Jan. 11, 1974: The Santa Fe school board’s decision to start school one hour later has raised more community furor than their original move to start school in the dark.

Beginning yesterday, Santa Fe public school students began and ended their classes an hour later. Most schools now start about 9:30 a.m.

“We had many more people call in opposition to the change than the number who called opposing the decision to go with daylight saving time,” Superintendent Philip Bebo said.

Jan. 11, 1999: Scully was not just a family pet. The exotic bird could sing the theme song from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and when his owners came home from work, he would say “Poor Scully” to remind them that he had been alone all day.

Max, a mustache parakeet, had less of a vocabulary, but he said he name of his owner’s son, Tarquin, over and over. He was equally adored by the Palance Wilding family.

When the two birds were stolen from the family’s home in November, the theft left a big hole in their hearts, they say.

a lot of fun in the bargain.

The food bank distributed more than 12.5 million pounds of food last year. That’s possible because of volunteers, who donate 2,000 or more hours a month, a payroll savings of some $685,000 a year. This is a place that always can use extra hands to do its essential work.

Volunteers are the heart of so many causes in town that improve the human condition.

Arts organizations, environmental groups, healthy living initiatives and so many other outreach activities that function because good people step up to help. Time, talent and treasure — whatever you have to offer, the many organizations that rely on volunteers will welcome your gifts.

Because, as Chaplain Joe said so well: “This is needed all year round.”

LE T TERS T O THE EDIT OR

Diplomacy bridges views

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arlos James Aragon’s beautifully written op-ed (“Art of diplomacy: Skill folks in N.M. know all too well,” Dec. 30) begins: “The art of diplomacy is like the ability to differentiate among gradients of light in the sky.” Unfortunately, in popular media, the work of diplomats is all to often portrayed as shallow conversations at glitzy receptions.

As Aragon argues, nothing could be further from the truth. Through often tedious negotiation and hard-to-reach compromise, diplomacy is about finding solutions that bridge conflicting views. And it is usually conducted in difficult and dangerous places like Beirut, where Aragon honors New Mexico by serving as a diplomat.

Mark L. Asquino

Santa Fe

A domestic enemy “We appeal to Americans to set aside their political differences, grievances and party affiliations and to contemplate — as families, as parishes, as councils and clubs and as individuals — the real magnitude of the choice they will make in November.” So warned the editorial board of The New York Times recently. Speak out now in terms of the real dividing line, not Democrat against Republican, but Americans against Trump.

Tell the U.S. Supreme Court to see Trump as an insidious domestic enemy, coming to that highest tribunal, wearing the guise of court pleadings.

Mike Kiley

Albuquerque

Yes, but ...

Regarding the letter (“No more box,” Letters to the Editor, Jan. 10): Changing out sculptures atop the plywood box in the Plaza is a great idea, with one major exception.

“Invite rotating artists to place a sculpture of their choosing to fit the pedestal. Every six months the sculpture would be auctioned off.” Do these artists provide the materials, do the work, the installation, and get nothing but fun and marketing potential? If this would ever be a viable option, artists need to be paid and paid well.

Pam Trueblood

Santa Fe

Evergreen My prayer is for a majestic evergreen to be planted in the heart of the Plaza. When I walk around my neighborhood, I see history in the absolutely huge trees in Young Park. I

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hear the breeze blowing through and smell the fragrance of a great evergreen on Brae Street and one on Monterey. A beautiful tree to compliment the gorgeous family of trees already in the plaza, a beneficence to everyone and everything.

William Sinadinos

Santa Fe

True cause It’s a shame Suzanne Schutze’s college professor miseducated her on the question of the Civil War and slavery (“Beyond slavery,” Letters to the Editor, Jan. 6). Embargoes on cotton? Only after the war had already started. States’ rights? Sure. But the one that mattered most to the South was the right to own other people, and to extend it throughout the Union. The Confederacy itself had no qualms about the centrality of slavery — it’s enshrined in Article IV of its constitution.

Confederate States of America Vice President Alexander Stephens, addressing an applauding crowd, said, “the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition” was “the cornerstone” on which the Confederacy rested. Perhaps that professor would have given Stephens a zero, too, along with a nice underlined “100” for Nikki Haley.

Howard Korder

Santa Fe

Curbside service I was dismayed to hear that to dispose of our Christmas trees we have to take them to the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station or to Gen. Franklin Miles Park. I’ve spoken to a few people and they agree with me: Where we have lived before, the city sets dates for collection and then roams through neighborhoods to pick up the tree at curbside. So, I emailed the mayor about this lack of service, and he politely referred me to another department. The essence is that a department will pick up Christmas trees at a person’s home for a fee of $50.

I’m sorry, but isn’t our government here to help? They don’t pull weeds in the summer, the roads need patching or repaving, the box in the Plaza awaits a decision, trash all over needs collecting and the Canyon Road Christmas Eve Farolito Walk resulted in an icy, dangerous road and dangerously dark spots. Now the city is too busy to pick up our trees. I’m trying to have faith in this city, but it gets harder and harder.

Patricia Fordney

Santa Fe

decade ago, I wrote a book with the subtitle The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder. I’ve been wrong about a thing or two (or three) over the years. I wish I had been wrong about this.

Disorder comes in two varieties: disorder within a system (like a coup or revolution inside a sovereign state) or of the system itself (like the de facto collapse of the state system throughout parts of Africa and the Middle East). The former may be devastating, but it is usually containable. The latter can sometimes be a matter of quiet erosion before it becomes one of outright collapse. But its consequences are hard to predict, difficult to control and sometimes epochal in scope.

We are living in an era of dissolving systems. The Biden administration struggles to gain control over illegal immigration at the southern border. It’s failing.

Beijing is gradually seizing control of the South China Sea, over which one-fifth of the world’s trade passes. Nothing stops it.

Iran is enriching uranium to near weapons grade. The world barely notices. Ukraine is running out of munitions. Congress is too divided to help save an ally.

Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel and Houthi attacks on international shipping risk a much broader Middle East war, potentially involving the United States. We seem to be careening toward it without brakes.

For each of these crises, you can point to a separate cause.

The collapse of governance in much of the developing world.

The power of drug cartels in South America and terrorist militias in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The increasingly close alliance between Iran, Russia and China, forming a new axis of resentment, repression and revanchism.

But there’s a deeper cause: the fading away of Pax Americana — the idea that the United States has a duty, rooted in values and interests, to police the global commons, defend embattled allies, deter anti-American dictatorships and punish major violations of international order, like Iraq’s seizure of Kuwait or Russia’s invasions of Ukraine.

The thought that Washington should be the world’s cop is now considered, on a bipartisan basis, to be an idea whose time has passed. The Trumpian right wants an America that’s out only for itself; the progressive left wants to delegate the job to multilateral organizations like the United Nations.

But reality is that the world doesn’t police itself, and an unpoliced world is pandemonium. I suspect we are much closer to that world — months, possibly — than most Americans appreciate. What happens when Ukraine runs out of shells or when a Hezbollah rocket hits an Israeli school?

This is the context for the strange, but telling, story of

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s unannounced medical absence — at first described only as for “complications from an elective procedure” — that landed him in Walter Reed’s intensive care unit while the president, the national security adviser, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the deputy defense secretary (who was on vacation) were left unawares.

Walter Reed officials announced Tuesday that Austin had prostate cancer surgery Dec. 22 and he returned Jan. 1 because of complications. His stay appears to have been much longer than first reported. We should all wish Austin a speedy recovery.

Nonetheless, the dereliction of duty here is so serious it ought to require Austin’s immediate resignation.

The job of secretary of defense is to be on the job. Imagine if the Houthis had put a hole in an American ship, requiring an immediate response. Hours could have been lost while combatant commanders tried to get direction from the Pentagon.

What’s astonishing here isn’t that Austin neglected to inform his staff or the White House. It’s the nonchalance with which the administration is treating the incident. Austin has described it as a matter of poor communication and promised to do better. The president says he has no plans to let go of his secretary. If this were, say, the defense minister of New Zealand, nobody would care. (Sorry, New Zealand.) But the fallacy of abandoning Pax Americana is that we don’t have the option of transforming ourselves into a larger version of New Zealand: faraway and inoffensive. A world we seek to turn our back on is likelier to stab us in the back than it is to turn its back on us.

That’s why we have to preserve, and police, a global order.

Joe Biden understands this in his bones. But most progressives in the Democratic Party don’t, nor do the MAGA neo-isolationists who share the, “Come home, America,” mentality with the progressives. And the president’s cautious execution of foreign policy hasn’t helped.

The dilatory arming of Ukraine allowed Russia to harden its defenses in the occupied territories. The refusal to get serious about border security has given isolationist Republicans political capital they don’t deserve. Pinprick attacks against Iranian proxies aren’t going to deter Tehran from its regional or nuclear ambitions. Failing to dismiss the secretary of defense sends a signal of unseriousness Americans may not notice but our adversaries do.

The challenge of global order is that, hard as it is to preserve, it is harder and usually bloodier to piece together once lost. It bears repeating that we are much closer to losing it than most realize.

This commentary originally appeared in The New York Times.

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lmost three years ago, a cat and her 1-day-old kittens were transferred from Roswell to Felines & Friends. In August 2022, another cat and her 4-day-old kittens were also transferred to Felines & Friends from Artesia. Named Roza and Althea by Felines & TO HELP Friends volunteers, both of the mothers were less u Apply to adopt, foster than 1 year old when or volunteer they gave birth. All but or donate at one of their kittens, FandFnm.org.

Alocasia, was quickly adopted. Alocasia, now 17 months old, remains in the care of Felines & Friends as a feline infectious peritonitis survivor.

Many free-roaming cats are not spayed and can get pregnant at 6 months old, sometimes younger. Many of those litters do not survive, but if they do, they grow up unspayed to repeat the cycle.

Should free-roaming cats be surrendered to a rescue or shelter? While some feel that free-roaming cats are better off left where they are, many of these are abandoned, friendly or orphaned kittens in need of safe shelter, food, care and placement into a home.

Returning a kitten born to free-roaming parents back to the environment it was rescued from does not necessarily mean the best life for the kitten.

Most kittens raised in foster care can live safer, happier lives if they are rescued before they are 3 months old.

Outdoor cats also tend to live shorter lives and face many hardships indoor cats do not.

Over the past year, Felines & Friends volunteers and fosters have seen what abandoned and stray cats must endure before finding forever homes.

Given the opportunity for second chances, many abandoned or stray cats’ lives have turned out so much differently than how they started.

What became of the two mothers, Roza and Althea?

Roza, a Maine coon mix, was wary of people but slowly began warming up to treats from volunteers at Felines & Friends. When Althea, another Maine coon arrived, the two were soon found snuggled together in bed and grooming one another. The pair spent the next year together at Felines & Friends, napping and quietly playing with one another.

Several adopters, seeking a Maine coon, applied for either Roza or Althea before realizing they were not just fluffy lap cats.

Then one day, Roza and Althea’s luck changed. The Dobeshes came along.

Mandana and Duane Dobesh had rescued semi-feral cats before. They didn’t apply for Roza and Althea because they were two pretty, fluffy cats. They applied because they wanted to give a less-adoptable bonded pair a loving home together.

The Dobeshes asked Felines & Friends to give them a chance, and the two girls went home with the couple for a trial.

Althea blossomed almost immediately while Roza remained wary. Duane knew not to push Roza and knew she

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would come around when ready.

And she did. After a month in their new home, both cats settled in nicely, welcoming the Dobeshes’ care and affection.

Had Roza and Althea remained where they started, they and their kittens could well have been euthanized for space.

With enough time and patience to overcome the trauma they endured, both were given a second chance.

Shelters and rescues everywhere are overwhelmed, as the population of cats in need continues to grow. Organizations that help cats can’t do it alone.

They need our help.

Felines & Friends does not receive government funding.

One hundred percent of its expenses are covered by donations, fees and foundation grants. Felines & Friends houses some cats awaiting adoption at Santa Fe Cats and relies on foster homes for cats and kittens who are not on display at their adoption centers in Petco and Teca Tu. How can we help Felines & Friends give more cats and kittens a second chance?

Consider adopting or fostering a litter, a cat who needs medical care, a scared cat readjusting to home life or a surrendered senior kitty.

Volunteer to provide kitty care at a Felines & Friends location.

Join an adoptions team to help find adoptable cats and kittens a home.

Assist with Felines & Friends community trap-neuter-return efforts.

Tracks Dew Paws Rescue: Bosley and Ansley are 9-week-old puppies in desperate need of a foster or two. Both have their first DHPP vaccine, and once they have their second, they can be adopted.

Call 505-412-9096 or email infodewpaws@gmail.com for more information.

Española Humane: Lulu is lovely and lively cat with the most luminous whiskers.

This 4-year-old tuxedo is tenderhearted, loves to cuddles and is playfully mischievousness. She is very social, has excellent grooming and litterbox habits, and her brain is as agile as her body: Lulu has learned how to open doors in her foster home.

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She attaches quickly to people.

Apply for Lulu to schedule a meet and greet at her Santa Fe foster home.

A litter of three black labradors are available at Ojo Santa Fe spa’s Puppy Patch. Jelly Bean has the most kissable ears and endearing eyes that beam right into a person’s heart.

She is 2 months old, spayed, microchipped and vaccinated, and comes with six months of free heartworm prevention. Apply to schedule an appointment at the resort.

Visit espanolahumane.org or call 505753-8662.

Felines & Friends: Three-year-old tabby Bobby is super affectionate and playful. He loves attention, head rubs and giant pets. Bobby has a lot of energy but can nip when overstimulated. He needs a home with a very playful female cat who loves to wrestle, or possibly a dog that respects cats.

Brown-and-white tabby-calico Whitley was rescued with her siblings Whitlam, Whitman and Whilma. Now 5 months old, lovable and sweet Whitley was raised with her siblings in foster care. She likes to sleep next to her foster mom and enjoys the company of older cats. Whitley and her lap cat brother Whitlam are at Petco.

Kittens will be available for adoption from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Teca Tu. Complete an adoption application at FandFnm.org.

Cats and kittens have been microchipped, spayed or neutered and vaccinated. Most have been socialized in foster homes.

The Horse Shelter: Wanda is a 21-year-old dark brown mare who has had extensive groundwork training.

Wanda has a sweet personality but can occasionally be reactive if stressed or worried. She is halter trained, leads and stands for a veterinarian. Wanda gets along well with both mares and geldings and is available for adoption as a nonriding companion horse. Call 505-577-4041 or visit thehorseshelter.org to see her groundwork video and more information.

The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Six-year-old Marlin has been at the shelter since October.

The dog was in rough condition and very shy. The behavior team has made great strides with Marlin, and he needs a quiet home where he can just be himself.

Three-year-old Hero thrives on human companionship. The dog stands tall and strong and needs to be the only pet in a home.

The animal shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road, is open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. For more information, call 505983-4309, ext. 1610.

ave you ever looked at all that’s happening worldwide and wondered what it might be like in 20 years? It’s an exercise that might exhaust you and let you know if you are a pessimist or an optimist or a little of both.

So much is changing so quickly that it can seem a fool’s errand to peer into the future. On the other hand, emerging trends will radically reshape how we live if they continue.

And it is the same with dogs. Over the past 20 years, our understanding of dogs has evolved, and as we look into the future, that evolution seems sure to continue.

To help us imagine the future of dogs, I assembled a panel (well, I talked to them on the phone) of three people whose lives and work are devoted to dogs. The first is Maggie Marton, an Indiana dog blogger at Ohmydogblog.com. The next is Murad Kirdar of Pet Chat, a weekly radio show on KTRC, and a pet whisperer.

And finally, Bridget Lindquist, executive director of Española Humane.

Here is the gist of our conversations.

First is a meta-change in how we perceive the animal world. Most of us grew up with the idea people were apart and above the animal kingdom, and we had dominion over all other beings. Now, we are beginning to understand we live in a world of sentience, astonishing intelligence and adaptation wherever we look in the world. We may be stewards of nature now, but we are also part of the natural world, not separate from it. As this awareness becomes commonsense, it will radically change how we think about and care for the natural world.

Over the next 20 years, be prepared for some rattling and shaking of longheld truths.

How we think of dogs, of course, is part and parcel of this shift. Think back 20 years. The role of the household dog was a watchdog, hunting dog and pet often consigned to a backyard, a doghouse and sometimes tied up.

(Never tie up a dog for long periods of time.)

Now, more dog gaurdians consider their dogs family members — a significant shift in thinking. Dogs sleep on beds, couches or orthopedic dog beds.

People dress them in dog coats and even boots for walking in the mud and snow.

If you watch commercials for dog food on TV, there are a lot of dog food commercials, you will note we are rapidly moving away from kibble-based

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food and switching to fresh food.

Many folks are cooking dinners for their dogs.

I asked my friends where this trend will take us in the coming years.

First, some data.

Right now, people spend upward of $1 billion a year on pets. According to petkeen.com, that number will grow by 2027. Just the dog walking industry (hired dog walkers) is already close to $1 billion a year. Increased spending on dogs is not just a function of more dogs but also how much we care for our dogs.

Given this explosive growth, the panel imagined a world where dogs would play a more prominent and accepted role in our culture. More people will take their dogs everywhere they go. Shops, stores, cafes and airlines will be welcoming of well-behaved canines. (Our dogs have some work to do.) Many stores will have dog greeters. What better way to welcome a shopper than a wagging tail?

A troubling related trend, because we are going through an epidemic of loneliness and demographic changes (individuals getting married later in life, deferring having children, working from home), is dogs are becoming a primary source of companionship instead of people. As Marton pointed out, achieving the American dream has become more complicated, yet everyone needs and wants companionship. Living with a dog can make life easier.

Finally, people, communities and governments will increasingly focus on what dogs need to be healthy. For example, Deltona, Fla., passed a law that requires daily exercise for dogs.

This trend will continue, and there will be pressure for more open spaces to walk dogs, and more dog parks, so dogs can regularly achieve the Holy Grail: time running around off-leash.

Next month: Imagining shelters in 2034.

Hersch Wilson’s latest book, Dog Lessons: Learning the Important Stuff from Our Best Friends, is available at Collected Works in Santa Fe, bookstores everywhere, and online.

PET PIC TO O CO L D TO G O OUTDOO RS Margie Kintz’s dog Paco says, “On a 9-degree morning, I am not brushing my hair and I am not going out there!” Have a photos to share? Email it to bbarker@sfnewmexican.com. All photos should be at least 4 inches wide at 300 dpi. Submissions will be printed once a week as space is available.

‘Pet Chat’ discusses disease in older cats Hyperthyroidism is a common disease in middle-aged and older cats, but do people know what it is, how it’s caused and how to treat it?

This week on Pet Chat with Murad & Bobbi, veterinarian Dawn Nolan from VCA Veterinary Care Animal Hospital and Referral Center shares her expertise on the feline disease, and

how radioactive iodine therapy is an effective treatment.

Pet Chat, hosted by Murad Kirdar, community engagement director at Española Humane, and Bobbi Heller, executive director of Feline & Friends, airs 9 a.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday on KTRC 1260 AM and 103.7 FM. The show also streams at SantaFe.com.

Email the hosts at petchat@santafe. com.

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Will the real Horsemen please stand up?

‘One of the greatest’ Alabama’s Saban retiring after seven national titles, most in major college football history

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ith most teams at or near the halfway point of the high school basketball season, one of the bigger head-scratchers is the defending Class 3A boys state champion Horsemen. Entering next week’s final run of nondistrict games, St. Michael’s remains one of the tougher puzzles to solve.

As one fan said after watching the Horsemen get drilled at home by Bosque School in the opening round of the recent Horsemen Shootout, “We keep waiting for this team to turn it around and, you know, maybe they never will.”

Maybe.

Maybe not.

We’ve seen this movie before and the absolute bomb that rolled off the opening credits turned into a blockbuster by season’s end — twice. The team from two years ago had a memorable 0-10 start and was sitting at 0-2 in district play three weeks into January. It bounced back to reach the state championship game and finish with a winning record.

Last year’s team was 5-4 after a loss to Pecos in the Stu Clark Tournament, then rattled off a 22-game win streak to capture the state title.

As of this moment, the Horsemen are 7-6 heading into challenging games next week against 5A’s Rio Rancho and Albuquerque High, and a road game at 4A power Grants.

Five of the team’s six losses are to opponents with a winning record; of the seven wins, only one (Pecos) is against a sub-.500 team. What’s more, the Horsemen have not been particularly good in the losses with an average margin of defeat of 17.3 points. The seven wins — by an average of 17.7.

This is a hard time to figure out.

Who’s the leader? Who’s the scorer?

Who’s the unshakable emotional backbone and who is the steady locker room presence?

The inconsistency can be chalked up to youth. The Horsemen have just two seniors in Lucas Gurule and Santiago Sandoval. Five of the 13 varsity players are freshmen or sophomores, with the lone ninth grader (Ryan Hunt) recently Please see story on Page B-3

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban leaves the field after the Crimson Tide beat Ohio State in the College Football Playoff championship in January 2021 in Miami Gardens, Fla. Saban, the stern coach who won seven national championships and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse that included six of those titles in just 17 seasons, announced his retirement Wednesday. He finishes with a career head coaching record of 297-71-1.

By John Zenor

The Associated Press

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ick Saban’s coaching reign has come to an end. His dominance over college football, however, will forever linger in the lore of the sport.

Saban, who won seven national championships — more than any other major college football coach — and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse that shattered an Associated Press poll record for most consecutive seasons at No. 1, announced his retirement Wednesday.

“The University of Alabama has

Please see story on Page B-5

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Head coaching record (Toledo, Michigan State, LSU, Alabama): 297-71-1 (.806 winning percentage, 28 seasons) National championships: 2003 (LSU), 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020 (Alabama) Conference championships: Mid-American (1), Southeastern (11) AP Coach of the Year: Twice (2003, 2008) NFL: Miami Dolphins (head coach 2005-06, 15-17 record); Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator (1991-94) First-round NFL picks coached: (at Alabama, through 2023): 44

Carroll out as head coach of Seahawks after 14 seasons

By Tim Booth

The Associated Press

The NCAA president talked of gaining fans, dealing with legal wagering and a proposal to create a new tier of Division I where athletes would be paid by their schools. PAGE B-5

17 seasons at Alabama. He won his first with LSU in 2003. His Tide teams were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll in a remarkable 15 straight seasons, breaking the old record of seven held by Miami.

Saban’s wife, Terry, posted about their “incredible run” at Alabama on the Facebook page for Nick’s Kids Foundation.

“We hope that the Saban legacy will be about helping others and making a positive difference in people’s lives as well as the winning tradition on the field,” Terry Saban wrote.

Saban’s retirement ends a career that has helped launch or relaunch the head

NFL

72-year-old led team to 2 NFC championships, only Super Bowl title

new Division I tier?

been a very special place to Terry and me,” Saban said in a statement. “It is not just about how many games we won and lost, but it’s about the legacy and how we went about it. We always tried to do it the right way.”

The 72-year-old Saban restored a Crimson Tide program once ruled by Paul “Bear” Bryant to the top of college football after taking over in 2007. As he stacked his wins, Saban’s celebrity status reached royalty levels in the state of Alabama.

For a time, he was the sport’s overlord and there was little that could be done to stop him.

Saban won six of his titles during his

RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll’s mantra was “always compete” — it was the title of his book, after all.

And he did right up to the point where the ownership of the Seattle Seahawks decided it was time for a new voice to be in charge following 14 seasons.

After bringing the Seahawks two NFC championships and the team’s only Super Bowl title,

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Former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll becomes emotional Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in Renton, Wash., while speaking during a media availability after it was announced he will not return as head coach next season. Carroll will remain with the organization as an adviser.

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Carroll will no longer be the head coach in Seattle following the longest stretch of success in franchise history.

The decision seems less a firing and more a separation, but one the 72-year-old Carroll was at least somewhat forced to accept following discussions with ownership.

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The Kentucky men’s basketball team celebrates winning the 1951 NCAA championship in Minneapolis as it displays the team trophy and individual plaques. At center right is coach Adolph Rupp.

WONDROUS WILDCATS Kentucky is the all-time No. 1 team through 75 storied years of AP Top 25 polls

By Dave Skretta

The Associated Press

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ustained excellence is difficult to achieve in any sport.

It takes hiring the right coaches, year after year. A constant stream of great players to replace those that depart. It takes luck, to be sure, but also passionate fans, elite facilities, proper marketing and the flexibility to adapt to the times.

In college basketball, those that get the mixture right just

might land atop the AP Top 25.

Since The Associated Press began ranking teams in January 1949, when Saint Louis was installed at No. 1, many schools have laid claim to the crown.

Some fell by the wayside, replaced by others that climbed the venerable poll. But through the vast changes that have transformed college basketball, and more than 1,200 polls that have tried to make sense of it all, one thing has remained constant: Kentucky is usually somewhere

near the top.

To celebrate this month’s 75th anniversary of the Top 25, the AP reviewed every poll to determine the all-time No. 1 and the Wildcats — the winningest program in college basketball — narrowly edged North Carolina for the top of the heap.

“When I got here,” current Kentucky coach John Calipari recalled, “it was just knowing that it matters in this state. The fans are incredibly engaged.

There were people who knew more about our recruiting than I did. That’s when you realize this is different.”

It’s been that way ever since

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

CHET MAGNUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Adolph Rupp, the Kansas-born farm boy who became the Baron of the Bluegrass, built the Wildcats into a perennial power over

42 seasons starting in 1930.

They eventually supplanted Saint Louis at No. 1 that first season and have rarely strayed too

far over the past 75 years.

So when teams were awarded points based on where they landed on each ballot, just as they are in the weekly rankings today, Kentucky ended up No. 1 with 17,852 points through last season.

The Tar Heels had 17,268, while Duke, Kansas and UCLA were next.

“They all have an awesome following. They all recruit excellence. But it all goes back to the players,” said current St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, who Please see story on Page B-3 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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SCOREBOARD

Thursday, January 11, 2024

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. CBSSN — Hofstra at Northeastern 5 p.m. ESPN2 — FAU at Tulane 5 p.m. ESPNU — UMBC at Vermont 5 p.m. FS1 — Michigan at Maryland 7 p.m. CBSSN — Louisiana Tech at Middle Tennessee St. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — UCLA at Utah 7 p.m. ESPNU — Radford at Longwood 7 p.m. FS1 — Michigan St. at Illinois 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Gonzaga at Santa Clara 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Stanford at Oregon St. 9 p.m. ESPNU — Portland at Saint Mary’s (Cal) 9 p.m. FS1 — Arizona St. at Washington COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 4 p.m. ACCN — Louisville at Pittsburgh 4 p.m. BTN — Rutgers at Ohio St. 5 p.m. SECN — Florida at Tennessee 6 p.m. ACCN — Miami at Virginia Tech 6 p.m. BTN — Illinois at Nebraska 7 p.m. SECN — Mississippi St. at Arkansas COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. PAC-12N — Harvard at Southern Cal FIGURE SKATING 9 a.m. E! — European Championships: Women’s Short Program,

Kaunas, Lithuania 11 a.m. E! — European Championships: Pairs Free Skate, Kaunas, Lithuania GOLF 5 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Sony Open In Hawaii, First Round, Wai’alae Country Club, Honolulu 12:30 a.m. Friday GOLF — DP World Tour: The Dubai Invitational, Second Round, Dubai Creek Resort, Dubai, United Arab Emirates NBA Noon NBATV — Brooklyn vs.

Cleveland, Paris 5:30 p.m. TNT — Boston at Milwaukee 8 p.m. TNT — Phoenix at L.A. Lakers NHL 5 p.m. ESPN — Toronto at N.Y. Islanders SOCCER (MEN’S) 11:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Spanish Super Cup: FC Barcelona vs. CA Osasuna, Semifinal, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia TENNIS 4 a.m. TENNIS — Adelaide-ATP/ WTA, Auckland-ATP & Hobart-WTA Quarterfinals; Kooyong Classic Day 2 5 p.m. TENNIS — Adelaide-ATP/ WTA, Auckland-ATP & Hobart-WTA Semifinals; Kooyong Classic Day 3 4 a.m. Friday TENNIS — Adelaide-ATP/WTA, Auckland-ATP & Hobart-WTA Semifinals; Kooyong Classic Day 3

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST y-Buffalo x-Miami e-N.Y. Jets e-New England

11 11 7 4

L

6 6 10 13

T

PCT

y-Houston e-Indianapolis e-Jacksonville e-Tennessee

10 9 9 6

W

L

T

PCT

*-Baltimore x-Cleveland x-Pittsburgh e-Cincinnati

13 11 10 9

SOUTH

NORTH

WEST

W

W

0 0 0 0

7 8 8 11

L

0 0 0 0

T

4 6 7 8

W

.765 .647 .588 .529

L

T

PCT

L

T

PCT

L

T

PCT

T

PCT

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

11 8 8 5

6 9 9 12

y-Dallas x-Philadelphia e-N.Y. Giants e-Washington

12 11 6 4

W

5 6 11 13

W

0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

SOUTH

e-New Orleans y-Tampa Bay e-Atlanta e-Carolina

NORTH

y-Detroit x-Green Bay e-Chicago e-Minnesota

WEST

9 9 7 2

W

0 0 0 0

8 8 10 15

L

12 9 7 7

5 8 10 10

W

.588 .529 .529 .353

PCT

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

L

T

PF

.647 .647 .412 .235

451 496 268 236

PF

377 396 377 305

PF

483 396 304 366

PF

.647 .471 .471 .294

.706 .647 .353 .235 .529 .529 .412 .118

371 357 332 346

PF

509 433 266 329

PF

402 348 321 236

PF

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

311 391 355 366 353 415 371 367 280 362 324 384

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

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

294 413 331 398

315 428 407 518

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

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

327 325 373 416

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

AFC

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

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

AWAY

PCT

PF

PA

HOME

AWAY

SUNDAY’S GAMES

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

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)

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL No. 1 Purdue (14-2) did not play. Next: vs. Penn St., Saturday.

No. 2 Houston (14-1) did not play. Next: at TCU, Saturday.

No. 3 Kansas (13-2) lost to UCF 65-60. Next: vs.

No. 9 Oklahoma, Saturday.

No. 4 UConn (14-2) beat Xavier 80-75. Next: vs.

Georgetown, Sunday.

No. 5 Tennessee (11-4) lost to Mississippi St. 7772. Next: at Georgia, Saturday.

No. 6 Kentucky (12-2) did not play. Next: at Texas A&M, Saturday.

No. 7 North Carolina (12-3) beat NC State 67-54.

Next: vs. Syracuse, Saturday.

No. 8 Arizona (12-3) did not play. Next: at Washington St., Saturday.

No. 9 Oklahoma (13-2) lost to TCU 80-71. Next: at No. 3 Kansas, Saturday.

No. 10 Illinois (11-3) did not play. Next: vs. Michigan St., Thursday.

No. 11 Marquette (11-5) lost to Butler 69-62.

Next: vs. Villanova, Monday.

No. 11 Duke (12-3) did not play. Next: vs. Georgia Tech, Saturday.

No. 13 Memphis (14-2) beat UTSA 107-101, OT. Next: at Wichita St., Sunday.

No. 14 Baylor (13-2) did not play. Next: vs. Cincinnati, Saturday.

No. 15 Wisconsin (12-3) beat Ohio St. 71-60.

Next: vs. Northwestern, Saturday.

No. 16 Auburn (13-2) did not play. Next: vs. LSU,

NFC

AFC

AFC

NFC

AFC

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

DIV

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

NFC

DIV

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

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

NFC

DIV

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

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

NFC

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

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

DIV

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

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

AFC

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

DIV

DIV

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

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

NFC

DIV

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

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

Saturday.

No. 17 Colorado St. (13-3) did not play. Next: vs.

Air Force, Tuesday.

No. 18 BYU (12-3) did not play. Next: at UCF, Saturday.

No. 19 San Diego St. (14-2) did not play. Next: at New Mexico, Saturday.

No. 20 Utah St. (15-1) did not play. Next: at UNLV, Saturday.

No. 21 Clemson (11-4) lost to Virginia Tech 87-72.

Next: vs. Boston College, Saturday.

No. 22 Creighton (12-4) did not play. Next: vs. St. John’s, Saturday.

No. 23 Gonzaga (11-4) did not play. Next: at Santa Clara, Thursday.

No. 24 FAU (11-4) did not play. Next: at Tulane, Thursday.

No. 25 Texas (12-3) did not play. Next: at West Virginia, Saturday.

CONFERENCE USA Jacksonville St. Sam Houston St. New Mexico St. W. Kentucky Liberty Louisiana Tech UTEP Middle Tennessee FIU

W L 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

PCT W

L PCT

0 1.000 10 7 0 1.000 9 8 0 1.000 7 9 1 .500 12 4 2 .000 11 6 1 .000 10 6 1 .000 9 7 0 .000 6 9 1 .000 5 11

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

.588 .529 .438 .750 .647 .625 .563 .400 .313

Jacksonville St. 61, Liberty 51 Sam Houston St. 78, W. Kentucky 74

THURSDAY’S GAMES

New Mexico St. at FIU, 5 p.m.

Louisiana Tech at Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Jacksonville St. at W. Kentucky, 3 p.m.

UTEP at FIU, 4 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Middle Tennessee, 4 p.m.

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE Utah St. San Diego St. Nevada Boise St. UNLV Colorado St. New Mexico Wyoming Air Force Fresno St. San Jose St.

W 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

FRIDAY’S GAMES

L 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 3

PCT

1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .333 .333 .333 .000 .000 .000

W

15 14 15 11 8 13 13 8 7 7 7

L 1 2 1 4 6 3 3 8 7 8 9

Boise St. at Nevada, 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

San Diego St. at New Mexico, noon Utah St. at UNLV, 1 p.m.

Fresno St. at Wyoming, 2 p.m.

San Jose St. at Air Force, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES EAST

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

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 Conference 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, consola-

tion: 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

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

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

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

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

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

HOME

SATURDAY’S GAMES

NFC

AFC

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

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

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

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

PA

Pittsburgh 17, Baltimore 10 Houston 23, Indianapolis 19

AFC

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

DIV

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

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

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

395 350 379 362

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

NFC

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

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

461 383 360 344

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

AFC

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

.706 .529 .412 .412

*-San Francisco 12 5 0 .706 491 298 x-L.A. Rams 10 7 0 .588 404 377 e-Seattle 9 8 0 .529 364 402 e-Arizona 4 13 0 .235 330 455 e-Eliminated from playoffs; x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division; *-clinched home-field advantage

AP TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

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

PREP SCHEDULE

Adelphi 103, Franklin Pierce 76 Albertus Magnus 74, Mitchell 69 Alfred St. 80, Pitt.-Bradford 78 Alvernia 89, Messiah 85, OT Baruch 103, John Jay 93 Bethany (WV) 90, Franciscan 82 Boston U. 72, American 68 Brooklyn College 60, Hunter 54 Bucknell 86, Lehigh 80 Cabrini 78, Neumann 66 California (Pa.) 77, Seton Hill 64 Catholic 81, Juniata 59 Chicago St. 75, Fairleigh Dickinson 74 Christopher Newport 87, Marymount 71 City College (NY) 91, York College (NY) 51 Clarion 84, Pitt.-Johnstown 74 Colby Sawyer 71, Elms 70 Concord 80, WV Wesleyan 69 DeSales 71, Kings (Pa.) 65 Dean 77, New England Coll. 64 Delaware Valley 75, FDU-Florham 61 East Carolina 73, Temple 62 East Stroudsburg 120, Goldey-Beacom 92

PCT .938 .875 .938 .733 .571 .813 .813 .500 .500 .467 .438

Elizabethtown 76, Goucher 64 Fairmont St. 84, Wheeling Jesuit 82 Farmingdale St. 104, Purchast 74 Gannon 117, Edinboro 96 Geneva 79, Thiel 74 Grove City 71, Allegheny 68 Gwynedd-Mercy 97, Centenary (NJ) 80 Hood 76, Albright 61 Indiana (Pa.) 66, Mercyhurst 54 La Roche 74, Pitt.-Greensburg 63 Lafayette 69, Colgate 64 Lancaster Bible 94, Penn College 86 Lasell 72, Emmanuel 66 Lehman 92, Medgar Evers 54 Lock Haven 78, Kutztown 72 Loyola (Md.) 71, Army 65 Mansfield 85, Bloomsburg 84, OT Marshall 79, Georgia Southern 74 Marywood 83, Immaculata 75 Mass. College 80, Bridgewater (Mass.) 76 Millersville 93, Shippensburg 83 Misericordia 76, Lebanon Valley 66 Mount St. Vincent 88, Manhattanville 67 NJ City 77, Rutgers-Camden 64 Navy 80, Holy Cross 70 Northwestern 76, Penn St. 72 Norwich 79, Rivier 62 Pace 66, Assumption 47 Penn St.-Abington 68, Gallaudet 62 Penn State-Altoona 98, Carlow 92, OT Penn State-Erie 71, Hilbert 55 Pratt 54, Merchant Marine 53 Queens (NY) 84, Molloy 75 Ramapo 72, William Paterson 60 Regis College 84, Fitchburg St. 68 Rowan 98, Montclair St. 88, OT S. Connecticut 78, New Haven 74, OT S. New Hampshire 77, American International 64 SUNY Maritime 67, St. Joseph’s (LI) 63 Saint Joseph (Conn.) 92, Anna Maria 72 Saint Joseph’s (Maine) 72, Johnson & Wales (RI) 67 Salem St. 86, Framingham St. 73 Sarah Lawrence 77, Mount St. Mary 73 St. Anselm 75, St. Rose 71 St. John’s 75, Providence 73 St. Mary’s (Md.) 84, Penn St.-Berks 68 St. Michael’s 80, Bentley 75 St. Vincent 83, Chatham 66 Stevens Tech 85, Arcadia 63 Stevenson 72, York (Pa.) 65 Stockton 85, Kean 80 Syracuse 69, Boston College 59 UMass 81, La Salle 65 West Chester 82, Shepherd 72 West Liberty 126, Frostburg St. 79 Westminster (Pa.) 71, Washington & Jefferson 69, OT Widener 100, Eastern 83 Worcester St. 86, Westfield St. 78 Wright St. 101, Robert Morris 76

SOUTH

Anderson (SC) 94, Limestone 84 Augusta 73, Clayton St. 61 Averett 65, Shenandoah 58 Belmont 67, Illinois St. 60 Belmont Abbey 83, North Greenville 70 Carson-Newman 105, Emory & Henry 77 Charleston Southern 86, Gardner-Webb 74 Charlotte 84, Tulsa 76 Coker 120, Mars Hill 99 Converse 84, Southern Wesleyan 54 Davis & Elkins 92, Glenville St. 75 Eckerd 78, Florida Tech 71 Emmanuel 79, Young Harris 68 Florida Southern 100, St. Leo 98 Francis Marion 93, Barton 91 Furman 82, The Citadel 68 Georgia 76, Arkansas 66 Georgia Southwestern 82, Columbus St. 53 Guilford 68, Randolph 47 Hampden-Sydney 78, Bridgewater (Va.) 57 High Point 84, UNC-Asheville 79 Jacksonville St. 61, Liberty 51 Kennesaw St. 88, Stetson 70 Lander 88, Uscb Sand Sharks 65 Lincoln Memorial 94, Virginia-Wise 73 Louisville 80, Miami 71 Lynn 83, Barry 78 Memphis 107, UTSA 101, OT Mississippi 103, Florida 85 Mississippi St. 77, Tennessee 72 Newberry 71, Lenoir-Rhyne 66 North Carolina 67, NC State 54 North Georgia 92, Georgia College 82 Nova Southeastern 108, Rollins 64 Queens (NC) 78, Florida Gulf Coast 75 Roanoke 85, Lynchburg 73 SC-Aiken 97, Flagler 95 Troy 79, Louisiana-Lafayette 73 UCF 65, Kansas 60 UNC-Pembroke 73, Chowan 64 Va. Wesleyan 68, E. Mennonite 53 Virginia Tech 87, Clemson 72 W. Carolina 80, ETSU 66 Washington & Lee 85, Ferrum 79 West Georgia 86, Delta St. 65 Wingate 93, Catawba 90, OT Winthrop 81, Presbyterian 71 Wofford 74, Mercer 73

MIDWEST

Albion 65, Olivet 64 Aurora 79, Edgewood 67 Benedictine (Ill.) 69, Concordia (Wis.) 59 Bluffton 80, Defiance 77 Bradley 86, Evansville 50 Butler 69, Marquette 62 Calvin 71, Adrian 65 Carroll (Wis.) 86, Elmhurst 83, OT Carthage 75, Wheaton College (IL) 58 Cent. Missouri 82, Washburn 71 Cent. Oklahoma 72, Northeastern St. 67 Coe 63, Dubuque 59 Cornell (Iowa) 63, Monmouth (Ill.) 52 Dominican 67, Illinois Tech 62 Drake 89, Indiana St. 78 Eureka 71, Fontbonne 64 Franklin 62, Mount St. Joseph 56 Green Bay 68, IUPUI 58

Grinnell 108, Beloit 93 Gustavus Adolphus 88, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 68 Hamline 77, St. Scholastica 68 Heidelberg 75, Capital 69 Hope 73, Kalamazoo 55 Illinois Wesleyan 72, Millikin 50 John Carroll 96, Mount Union 61 Loras 86, Luther 59 Macalester 87, Carleton 72 Manchester 84, Anderson (Ind.) 82 Milwaukee Engineering 86, Concordia (Ill.) 75 Murray St. 77, Missouri St. 53 N. Iowa 67, Ill.-Chicago 59 Nebraska Wesleyan 88, Central College 82 North Park 84, North Central College 79 Oakland 70, N. Kentucky 65, OT Oberlin 69, Kenyon 44 Ohio Northern 86, Baldwin Wallace 64 Ohio Wesleyan 69, Wabash 65 Otterbein 86, Marietta 70 Ripon 80, Lake Forest 62 Rose-Hulman 72, Earlham 71 S. Illinois 77, Valparaiso 68 Saint Louis 88, Saint Joseph’s 85 St. Cloud St. 86, Concordia (St.P.) 56 St. John’s (Minn.) 83, Bethel (Minn.) 67 St. Norbert 59, Rockford 44 St. Olaf 66, Concordia (Moor.) 58 Transylvania 108, Hanover 102, 2OT Trine 83, Alma 71 UConn 80, Xavier 75 W. Virginia St. 73, Notre Dame (Ohio) 66 Webster 78, Blackburn 68 Wilmington (Ohio) 87, Muskingum 83, OT Wis. Lutheran 97, Lakeland 86 Wis.-La Crosse 77, Wis.-Stout 69 Wis.-Platteville 77, Wis.-Oshkosh 66 Wis.-River Falls 86, Wis.-Eau Claire 83, 2OT Wisconsin 71, Ohio St. 60 Wittenberg 71, Denison 68, OT Wooster 104, Hiram 48 Youngstown St. 93, Fort Wayne 85

ON THE SLOPES New Mexico ski area conditions as of Wednesday: Angel Fire — 29-inch base; 44 of 82 trails, 64% open; 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Pajarito — 24-inch base; Thu/ Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Red River — 30-36-inch base; 41 of 64 trails, 64% open; 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sipapu — 30-34-inch base; 44 of 44 trails, 100% open; 6 of 6 lifts, Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Ski Apache — Reopens Thursday; 15-20-inch base; Thu/Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.4 p.m.

Ski Santa Fe — 50-inch base; 88 of 89 trails, 99% open, 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Taos — 35-37-inch base; 79 of 110 trails, 72% open, 11 of 13 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

SOURCES: ONTHESNOW.COM; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPORTS BETTING LINE NFL SATURDAY FAVORITE

Cleveland at KANSAS CITY

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

2½ 3½

SUNDAY

FAVORITE

at BUFFALO at DALLAS at DETROIT

9½ 7 3

MONDAY FAVORITE

Philadelphia

O/U

2½ 4½ 10 7½ 3

2½

UNDERDOG

(44½) (44½)

at HOUSTON Miami

O/U

UNDERDOG

(36½) (50½) (51½)

Pittsburgh Green Bay L.A. Rams

O/U

3

UNDERDOG

(43½)

at TAMPA BAY

NBA THURSDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at CLEVELAND at MILWAUKEE at OKLAHOMA CITY New York at L.A. LAKERS

O/U

3 6 13 4 2

UNDERDOG

(225) (240) (233½) (232½) (237½)

Brooklyn Boston Portland at DALLAS Phoenix

COLLEGE BASKETBALL THURSDAY FAVORITE

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at MAINE at UMASS-LOWELL William & Mary at UNC WILMINGTON at BRYANT at CHARLESTON (SC) Florida Atlantic Delaware Drexel at CHATTANOOGA at TOWSON Hofstra at MARYLAND at GEORGIA STATE at JAMES MADISON Appalachian State at VERMONT at FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL Seattle U at UT ARLINGTON at SAMFORD at ORAL ROBERTS at OMAHA at UMKC at ST. THOMAS at UT MARTIN Morehead State at SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE at ARKANSAS STATE Southern Miss Jackson State at SIU-EDWARDSVILLE at ALABAMA A&M Eastern Kentucky at NORTH ALABAMA at UC DAVIS at GRAND CANYON at UTAH SFA at ILLINOIS Weber State Louisiana Tech at MONTANA at MONTANA STATE at LONGWOOD Gonzaga at PORTLAND STATE at UCSB at PEPPERDINE San Francisco at UC RIVERSIDE at UCSD at CAL BAPTIST at WASHINGTON Stanford at SAINT MARY’S (CA) UC Irvine

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SOUTHWEST

Embry-Riddle (AZ) 76, Palm Beach Atlantic 69 Sam Houston St. 78, W. Kentucky 74 TCU 80, Oklahoma 71

FAR WEST

Claremont Mudd 69, Occidental 67

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL AP TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (14-0) did not play. Next: at Missouri, Thursday.

No. 2 UCLA (14-0) did not play. Next: at No. 9 Southern Cal, Sunday.

No. 3 Iowa (16-1) beat Purdue 96-71. Next: vs.

No. 14 Indiana, Saturday.

No. 4 Baylor (14-1) lost to Kansas 87-66. Next: at Iowa St., Saturday.

No. 5 Colorado (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. California, Friday.

No. 6 NC State (14-1) did not play. Next: vs. Virginia, Thursday.

No. 7 LSU (15-1) did not play. Next: vs. Texas A&M, Thursday.

No. 8 Stanford (14-1) did not play. Next: at No. 19 Utah, Friday.

No. 9 Southern Cal (12-1) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 2 UCLA, Sunday.

No. 10 Texas (16-1) beat TCU 72-60. Next: at No. 12 Kansas St., Saturday.

No. 11 Virginia Tech (12-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Miami, Thursday.

No. 12 Kansas St. (16-1) beat Oklahoma 74-57.

Next: vs. No. 10 Texas, Saturday.

No. 13 UConn (13-3) beat Providence 85-41. Next: at St. John’s, Saturday.

No. 14 Indiana (14-1) beat Penn St. 75-67. Next: at No. 3 Iowa, Saturday.

No. 15 Louisville (13-2) did not play. Next: at Pittsburgh, Thursday.

No. 16 Gonzaga (14-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Santa Clara, Thursday.

No. 17 Ohio St. (11-3) did not play. Next: vs. Rutgers, Thursday.

No. 18 Notre Dame (10-3) did not play. Next: vs.

Boston College, Thursday.

No. 19 Utah (11-4) did not play. Next: vs. No. 8 Stanford, Friday.

No. 20 North Carolina (11-4) did not play. Next: at No. 21 Florida St., Thursday.

No. 21 Florida St. (12-4) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 20 North Carolina, Thursday.

No. 22 Creighton (12-3) beat Butler 89-53. Next: vs. Providence, Sunday.

No. 23 Marquette (14-2) did not play. Next: vs.

DePaul, Saturday.

No. 24 West Virginia (13-2) lost to Iowa St. 74-64.

Next: at UCF, Saturday.

No. 25 UNLV (13-1) beat San Jose St. 91-55. Next: at Air Force, Saturday.

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES EAST

American 91, Boston U. 87, 2OT Army 55, Loyola (Md.) 45 Colgate 58, Lafayette 46 Duquesne 71, George Washington 54 Holy Cross 69, Navy 54 La Salle 75, St. Bonaventure 71 Lehigh 69, Bucknell 63 UConn 85, Providence 41 Villanova 53, Georgetown 51, OT

SOUTH

Charleston Southern 83, Gardner-Webb 61 Chattanooga 66, Mercer 57 George Mason 79, Davidson 41 High Point 64, UNC-Asheville 50 Jacksonville St. 78, Liberty 63 Middle Tennessee 64, Louisiana Tech 61, OT Old Dominion 71, Coastal Carolina 57 Presbyterian 59, Winthrop 43 Radford 64, Longwood 59 Richmond 79, UMass 65 South Florida 68, Tulsa 52 Troy 90, Louisiana-Lafayette 44 UAB 73, East Carolina 64

THURSDAY’S GAMES

UTSA 73, FAU 60 VCU 57, Fordham 54 W. Kentucky 76, Sam Houston St. 60

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.

MIDWEST

Akron 70, Cent. Michigan 62 Ball St. 67, Buffalo 62 Bowling Green 69, E. Michigan 57 Chicago St. 105, Cougars 37 Cincinnati 64, UCF 63 Cleveland St. 74, Detroit 53 Creighton 89, Butler 53 Fort Wayne 79, Oakland 59 Illinois St. 76, S. Illinois 43 Indiana 75, Penn St. 67 Iowa 96, Purdue 71 Iowa St. 74, West Virginia 64 Kansas 87, Baylor 66 Kansas St. 74, Oklahoma 57 Kent St. 69, Miami (Ohio) 38 Loyola Chicago 61, Rhode Island 56 N. Illinois 67, Ohio 62 Northwestern 74, Wisconsin 69 Toledo 82, W. Michigan 55

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.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Houston at Boston, 5 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

New York at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

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

L.A. Lakers at Utah, 7:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Houston 79, BYU 69 Oklahoma St. 71, Texas Tech 58 Texas 72, TCU 60

FAR WEST

NHL

Air Force 75, Nevada 71 Colorado St. 61, Fresno St. 55 New Mexico 71, Utah St. 67 UNLV 91, San Jose St. 55 Wyoming 72, San Diego St. 55

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Vancouver Vegas Los Angeles Edmonton Seattle Calgary Anaheim San Jose

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia 3, Montreal 2, SO Minnesota at Dallas, late Vegas at Colorado, late

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.

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

AUS TR ALIAN OPE N

The Associated Press

Smaller things are getting Naomi Osaka’s attention now that she’s preparing for her Grand Slam comeback.

She’s focusing on being more in the moment. More patient.

More conscious of who may be watching her play her first major since 2022, and what kind of impression she’ll leave.

The first 15-day Australian Open, set to start Saturday night, has been hyped as the tournament of comebacks. And Osaka has top billing among the three former No. 1-ranked, former Australian Open champions returning to Melbourne Park for their first time as moms.

The attention on that returning trio — Osaka, Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki — intensified after another prominent storyline fizzled out when Rafael Nadal’s attempted comeback from a year-long injury layoff lasted three matches.

The 22-time major winner has a small tear in a muscle near his surgically repaired hip and flew home, leaving Novak Djokovic as the only remaining member of the so-called Big Three.

Osaka competed for the first time in more than a year last week; she became a mother in July when her daughter, Shai, was born.

The four-time major winner went 1-1 in Brisbane and found herself engaging more with other players, and more eager to acknowledge fans.

“A part of me felt like Shai was watching me,” she said.

“I wanted to do my best for her. Also, when I was signing autographs, I was more aware of kids. I see them differently now because now I’m a mom, too, and I can picture Shai being that age. Yeah, I think while I’m playing, I’m aware of it in the sense that I want to be a good role model for my daughter.”

The 26-year-old Osaka has a Japanese mother and a Haitian father. She was born in Japan and grew up in the U.S. With endorsements and prize money, she’s one of the wealthiest athletes in women’s sports.

In the past, she’s felt enormous pressure. Osaka was open about her issues with depression and anxiety when she withdrew from the French Open in 2021. She later took extended breaks from the game to protect her mental health.

She didn’t play elite-level tennis at all last year, but realized she really did miss it.

“Becoming a mom changed my mindset a lot,” she said.

“I think I’m a lot more openminded, a lot more patient. Also, I feel a lot stronger physically, but I think Shai definitely helped me with the way I view things.”

Osaka won her second U.S. Open title in 2020 and her second Australian Open title in 2021. Not long after, she said, “I closed myself off a lot.”

“I don’t think that was quite fair. ... When people give me positivity and joy, I feel like it’s fair to return it.”

In Brisbane, Osaka didn’t wear

Sony Open in Hawaii brings level of stress in reshaped PGA Tour model The Associated Press TERTIUS PICKARD/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Naomi Osaka of Japan plays a shot in her match against Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic during the Brisbane International on Jan. 3 in Brisbane, Australia. The first 15-day Australian Open sets to start Saturday night.

headphones around the tennis venue, a choice she described as “character development!”

“I feel like I’m more confident with who I am as a person,” she said. “Now I find myself interacting with people.”

Kerber, who had her Grand Slam breakthrough in Australia in 2016, withdrew from the 2022 U.S. Open because she was pregnant. Her daughter, Liana, was born in February; Kerber’s first win since in a competitive match was last week in Sydney as a member of Germany’s victorious United Cup team.

“For me to start my comeback like this, I mean, it couldn’t be better, to be honest,” she said. “It was a completely cold start for me. I had no idea where I am.”

One of her four losses was to top-ranked Iga Swiatek, one of the power players dominating the women’s game. Regardless, the feeling of being back “was amazing; what I really missed.”

Wozniacki won the Australian Open in 2018, ending a long drought in majors. She married former NBA player David Lee the following year, quit the tour in 2020 and had two children, Olivia and James.

She returned in time for last year’s U.S. Open, where she lost to eventual champion Coco Gauff in the round of 16.

She was given a wild-card

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cracking the starting lineup.

“Yes, you know, we are young, but that’s not an excuse,” coach Gerard Garcia told me after his team was routed in the Bosque game.

Neither is a lack of talent.

True, Adam Montoya graduated last spring. Anyone who watched him play knew that when the Horsemen needed a bucket, he was the guy with the ball in his hands.

This team needs someone to step into Montoya’s shoes. It has plenty of talent with Gurule, Sandoval, juniors Sabi Rios-Guevara and Reed Bass, plus just about anyone else Garcia throws in there. Each of them, from solid big man Donevan Ricker to backup guard Kamal Stith, contributes.

The problem, Garcia has said repeatedly, is energy. He and his staff have somehow had a hard time getting a team of 15-, 16- and 17-year-old kids to do what comes naturally to the athletically gifted teenage boy: Go full throttle until you’re told to stop. When the Horsemen do that, they roll.

When they don’t, it’s nights like the loss to Bosque or the one to Santa Fe Indian School or the one against Capital that happen over and over.

Looking ahead, things

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won national championships at both Kentucky and Louisville, which came in at No. 6 on the all-time list.

“At Kentucky,” Pitino said, “every year you can get a great player, from Dan Issel and Pat Riley on down.”

Arizona was seventh on the all-time list, followed by Indiana, Syracuse and Michigan State rounding out the top 10.

The list is not intended to crown the greatest college basketball program, because greatness can be measured in different ways: Duke has been the most dominant program over the past three decades; Kansas is considered the cradle of coaches, laying claim in part to not only Rupp and Calipari but North Carolina’s Dean Smith and current coach Bill Self; and UCLA has the most national championships with 11. Besides, the final AP poll each season is released before the NCAA Tournament.

Rather, the AP’s all-time Top 25 is a measure of sustained excellence as reflected by generations of voters, men

TODAY ON TV

By Doug Ferguson

entry for the Australian Open and warmed up in Auckland, New Zealand, last week, where she lost to another mom, Elina Svitolina.

There’ll be other mothers in the 128-player Australian Open women’s singles draw, including two-time champion Victoria Azarenka, who reached the semifinals last year while traveling with her son, Leo. She said a stereotype that you can’t be an elite athlete and have a family had been broken.

“It’s actually evolved more and more. The testament of that is how many players are feeling comfortable and confident coming back and continue being on tour,” Azarenka said. “I believe that we still have a lot more growth to do in that space.”

Three women have won major titles in the Open era after having children: Margaret Court in Australia in 1973, Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Wimbledon in 1980 and Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open in 2009.

Defending Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka beat Azarenka in the semifinals at Brisbane last week, and described her and Williams as inspirational for other athletes.

“Gives me belief,” Sabalenka said, “that maybe one day I can have a baby and come back and play on [a] high level.”

Will the real Horsemen please stand up?

Horsemen center Donevan Ricker, right, loses a rebound to Bosque center Leo Dettweiler on Friday at the Horsemen Shootout in Perez-Shelley Memorial Gymnasium.

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By John Pye

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and women who have covered the sport and attempted to order the most deserving teams on their weekly ballots.

Did voters get it right over all those years? Pitino thinks so, as do many coaches surveyed by the AP in recent months.

“The AP poll is the one that everybody has a lot of respect for,” said Tom Izzo, whose four decades as an assistant and head coach at Michigan State helped land the Spartans in the top 10.

“I think to do something like that means you’ve been consistent over 75 years.

And a lot of those years I wasn’t alive, but a lot of those years I was part of it.”

Kentucky has appeared in more than 75% of AP polls, while Duke has been No. 1 more than any other program.

“I think the poll got it right,” said ESPN analyst Dick Vitale, a longtime AP voter. “The voters take it seriously and make sure the most deserving teams are ranked. There’s a reason those teams are called the bluebloods, and this lends credence to that.”

won’t get any easier. District 2-3A is loaded. Lying in wait is a rugged home-and-home against top-ranked Robertson, second-ranked West Las Vegas and No. 4 SFIS, not to mention a dangerous Santa Fe Prep team that has lost three of its 10 games by a single point. There are no nights off between now and the end of the regular season in late February.

Where this team will be by then is anyone’s guess. If recent history tells us anything it’s that Garcia will figure things out and get the Horsemen on a parallel path with Robertson heading into the playoffs.

The thing is, history doesn’t always repeat itself. For a team whose own track record has set the bar so high that anything less than a deep playoff run is expected, simply making the state tournament is no longer good enough.

So, like that fan who headed toward the exits last week said: We keep waiting for this team to turn it around.

Given Garcia’s track record, no worries. Give it time. When it matters he’ll have this team humming. Until then, keep looking for that corner.

HONOLULU — Justin Rose is among 39 players at the Sony Open who started the new PGA Tour season last week at Kapalua, one of the eight signature events for the elite that offer $20 million in prize money and more FedEx Cup points than regular tournaments.

This is a bold new year filled with more riches and just as much uncertainty.

Still to be determined is how much of an advantage players like Rose, Russell Henley and Hideki Matsuyama have over players who at the moment have no access.

“Certainly helps,” British Open champion Brian Harman said. “Helps you build a schedule. But you still feel the pressure of trying to do well in the FedEx Cup, because even though I have a long exemption — which is great — if you’re not in the signature events it’s going to be a hard road to get back into them.”

Harman, who has a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour from his first major title last summer at Hoylake, finished in a five-way tie for fifth at The Sentry. That was worth 250 points in the FedEx Cup. That same finish at the Sony Open would be worth 93 points.

The objective for everyone is to finish among the top 50 in the FedEx Cup, which gets those players into the signature events. So it doesn’t look to be a fair fight except for one aspect that remains true to golf: Good play goes a long way.

For the likes of Harman and Rose, a pedestrian performance even in the biggest events isn’t going to help them all that much.

Chan Kim is on the other side. Kim, who grew up on Oahu and played at Arizona State, is a PGA Tour rookie at age 33 after a decade of playing primarily on the Japan Golf Tour and in Asia. He got his card as one of the top 30 on the Korn Ferry Tour points list.

He finished second, which all but assured a start at Waialae.

Others were not so fortunate.

The points difference was raised during rookie orientation over the weekend at Waialae. The newcomers know what they’re up against. So do veterans who didn’t make the postseason.

“But look, the guys playing the signature events are the best of the best. They deserve every bit to be playing these events,” Kim said. “But a win on any given week could change that for anybody. Couple top 10s and a win and next

Will Webber is the sports editor for The New Mexican. Contact him at wwebber@sfnewmexican. com.

Start to finish There have been 14 teams that were wire-to-wire No. 1, including Gonzaga during a 2020-21 season perhaps best remembered for the coronavirus pandemic. The Bulldogs’ perfect season ended against Baylor in the national title game.

Half of those wire-to-wire teams went on to win the title: Bill Russell and San Francisco in 1956; John Wooden’s teams at UCLA in 1967, ‘69, ‘72 and ‘73; Indiana in 1976, the last team to finish a season unbeaten; and the Duke team in 1992 that needed a heroic shot from Christian Laettner to beat Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament, then toppled Michigan for the title.

Three other wire-to-wire No. 1s had perfect seasons end in the tourney: Ohio State in 1961, UNLV in ‘91 and Kentucky in ‘15.

The numbers game There have been 206 teams in the poll, including 13 that have made a single appearance. The most recent was Old Dominion, which was ranked No. 25 on Jan. 1, 2015, lost to Western Kentucky and has yet to return.

UCLA holds the record for consecutive polls at 221, beginning the 1966-67 season at No. 1 and sticking around until a loss to USC on Jan. 12, 1980. The longest streak entering 2024 belonged to Gonzaga, whose run of 142 barely stayed alive when the Bulldogs fell 11 places to No. 24 in the poll released Jan. 1.

Remember me Eleven programs that made the Top 25 no longer play at college basketball’s highest level. Some of them, such as Wayne State and West Texas A&M, dropped to Division II. Beloit, New York and Hamline, which played the first recorded intercollegiate game in 1895, are among those that dropped to the Division III level.

Some are no longer around at all.

Texas-Pan American merged with Texas-Brownsville to create Texas-Rio Grande Valley, which does play Division I hoops. St. Francis (Brooklyn) ended all intercollegiate athletics last year due to financial concerns.

Special and superlative Given current conference configurations, the ACC had the most schools in

5 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Sony Open In Hawaii, First Round, Wai’alae Country Club, Honolulu

year you’re going to be in their position, anyway.”

At stake at the Sony Open, which starts Thursday along these Oahu shores, is a chance for five players to take part in the next signature event. The Sony starts a three-tournament “swing” with a separate points list. The leading five get into the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The Sony Open is the first full-field event of the year and a traditional starting point for the newcomers. The PGA Tour schedule is back to a calendar year, and it seemed to be a good time to have rookie orientation. The PGA Tour paid for their travel, and there was always the chance to stick around and play at Waialae.

But then so many veterans signed up for the Sony Open that only 14 of the top 30 from the Korn Ferry Tour got into the tournament on their priority ranking. Two had received sponsor exemptions, two others made it through the Monday qualifier and one got in as an alternate.

All of this makes the chill vibe in Hawaii feel a lot like real work.

“I think the season has become more cut-throat this year, given the elevated events and given the fact that some guys are not able to get into as many events as they maybe once were,” Rose said. “So I do feel like there’s a big emphasis on getting off to a good start.

There’s no time to lose, whether it be a rookie or anybody else in the field. I think everyone is probably pretty keen to get off to a good start.”

Chris Kirk is off to a great start by winning The Sentry.

Only one player since the FedEx Cup began in 2007 has failed to reach the season-ending Tour Championship after winning at Kapalua. Kirk picked up 700 FedEx Cup points and looks to build on that.

Harman has spent a career trying to get into the top 70 to qualify for invitationals like Bay Hill, the top 30 to get into the Tour Championship or even trying to make the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup teams.

It’s always something.

His British Open title gives him a five-year pass into the majors (longer for The Open) and the five-year PGA Tour exemption. It doesn’t guarantee a spot in the signature events in 2025.

Justin Rose hits from the third fairway during the pro-am round at the Sony Open on Wednesday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu.

MATT YORK ASSOCIATED PRESS

the all-time top 10 (four) and was tied with the Big Ten for the most in the Top 25 with seven apiece. The Big East was next with four, followed by the Big 12 with three.

Kansas and Michigan share the record for the biggest poll jump, going from out of the rankings to No. 4 the following week. The Jayhawks accomplished the feat on Nov. 27, 1990, while the Wolverines did it on Dec. 2, 2020.

Maryland is the highest-ranked team in the all-time poll never to reach the top spot in the AP Top 25, though the 16th-ranked Terrapins have spent 25 weeks at No. 2. Next on the list of never-No. 1s is Utah at No. 43 in the all-time poll.

No preseason No. 1 team has won the national championship since North Carolina in 2009. Kentucky in 2012 was the last No. 1 entering the NCAA Tournament to cut down the nets. Each of the last eight champions have been in the top 10, though.

Seven schools have spent a single glorious week at No. 1: Oklahoma State (1951), Wichita State (1964), South Carolina (1969), Georgia Tech (1985), Iowa (1987), Saint Joseph’s (2004) and Wisconsin (2007).

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McAfee: Rodgers’ appearances on his show are over for rest of this season

By Joe Reedy

The Associated Press

Aaron Rodgers’ Tuesday appearances on The Pat McAfee Show are over for the rest of this NFL season.

Or possibly longer.

McAfee announced at the beginning of his Wednesday show on ESPN that his fourth season of doing a weekly segment with the New York Jets quarterback had concluded.

As his staff applauded in the background, McAfee said a lot of people would be happy to hear that news, including himself.

“With the way it ended, it got real loud. I’m happy that that is not going to be in my mentions going forward, which is great news,” McAfee said. “We are very lucky to get a chance to chat with him and learn from him. Some of his thoughts and opinions though do [tick] off a lot of people, and I’m pumped that that is no longer going to be every single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the last few weeks.”

Rodgers implied during a Jan. 2 appearance on McAfee’s show that comic Jimmy 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.

That escalated a long-running feud between ABC’s latenight star and Rodgers. It also proved embarrassing for The Walt Disney Co., the parent company to both networks.

On Tuesday, Rodgers denied he implied the comic Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for earlier comments.

“Any type of name calling is ridiculous and I’m not calling him [a pedophile], and neither should you,” Rodgers said on the show Tuesday.

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 said. “You’re not helping 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

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his family in danger.

Rodgers suggested that people were reading too much into what he said, that he Pat McAfee was not stupid enough to accuse Kimmel of being a pedophile.

Kimmel made the first appearance of the year Aaron Monday on Rodgers his late-night show and laced 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.”

The war of words between Kimmel and Rodgers also brought some tension between McAfee and ESPN. McAfee accused Norby Williamson, ESPN’s head of event and studio production, of trying to “sabotage” his program and claimed Williamson had no respect for him.

ESPN said it would handle McAfee’s comments internally.

McAfee said Wednesday those comments “obviously threw us in the fire as well,” but added that he stands by his words.

McAfee is in the first year of a five-year, $85 million agreement where ESPN licenses his self-produced show. That deal was announced last May and McAfee’s show debuted on ESPN last September.

ESPN announced last week that the show averaged 886,000 viewers across all platforms (ESPN, YouTube, TikTok).

It averages 332,000 alone on ESPN, a 20% increase since its Sept. 7 debut.

‘Bad guy’ Stafford QB spent 12 years trying and failing to end Lions’ long playoff victory drought; now he returns with Rams

By Greg Beacham

The Associated Press

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. atthew Stafford arrived in Detroit as a hotshot 21-year-old quarterback. He left three years ago as a grown man with a wife and four daughters all born in Michigan.

During the 12 years in between, he desperately tried to end the Lions’ decades-long playoff victory drought. The Lions failed, but he formed a bond with Detroit that remains a foundational part of his character.

Although Stafford grew up in Texas and has now made a comfortable home in Southern California, he came of age in the Motor City.

“It’s an amazing city,” Stafford said on a 60-degree Wednesday in January. “It’s an amazing group of fans. The organization does a heck of a job, and I know they’re going to be excited. It’s going to be a heck of an atmosphere. Probably one of the best we’ve played in a long time. It’s a group of people that from my experience love the Lions, want what’s best for them. And now they’re playing good football.”

On Sunday night, Stafford will finally get to play in his first postseason game in Detroit. He’ll do it in the horned helmet of the Los Angeles Rams, the team he led to a Super Bowl championship in his first season after leaving the Lions.

Stafford is now in position to play a major role in extending the Lions’ postseason misery when Detroit hosts a playoff game for the first time in 30 years. While Stafford still holds Detroit dear, he’ll understand if the city doesn’t feel the same way this weekend.

“I’m not a stranger to the situation, and understanding that I’m the bad guy coming to town,” Stafford said. “I’m on the other team, and they don’t want success from me.

So whatever happens, happens. I’m going to go experience it.”

Stafford played in three road playoff losses during his time with the Lions, and he hasn’t forgotten his frustration at being unable to end the Lions’ decades of disappointment.

“I had a lot of experiences there over 12 years,” Stafford said. “All my daughters were born there. My wife and I went through things there that the team and the city, the town, everybody supported. So I have nothing but great memories there. Obviously didn’t get it done on the field as much as I wish we could have, but the people that I was lucky enough to know and grow with are people that I’m still close with today and mean a lot to me.”

Stafford asked for a trade in early 2021 after the Lions embarked on yet another rebuild following three straight losing seasons.

Rams coach Sean McVay was dissatisfied

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with Jared Goff, his quarterback for the previous four seasons, and the teams reached a blockbuster deal.

Incredibly, this is the first playoff matchup in NFL history between two starting quarterbacks facing their former teams. Stafford already faced the Lions in 2021, leading the Rams to a narrow victory over Goff’s then-winless Lions at SoFi Stadium.

Stafford is still the leading passer in Lions franchise history with 45,109 yards and 282 TDs, but he is about to play at Ford Field for the first time since he left.

“I hope I don’t end up in the wrong [locker room],” Stafford said. “I do know it’s the same tunnel. ... There’s a lot leading up to it, I understand all that, but once the ball’s snapped, man, let’s go play football.”

Nearly all of the remaining Lions did not play with Stafford in Detroit and are downplaying the reunion of sorts, but defensive end Romeo Okwara is well aware everyone

Buffalo Bills fan killed near Miami Dolphins’ stadium during altercation after Sunday’s game, police say MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Police in South Florida say a man fatally shot a 30-year-old Buffalo Bills fan during an altercation near Hard Rock Stadium after the Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins in the final regular season game.

As Dylan Brody Isaacs and his friends were returning to their vehicle after the game Sunday night, they had an altercation

with the driver of another vehicle a few blocks from the stadium, Miami Gardens police said in a news release.

The driver pulled out a gun and fired shots at Isaacs, who died at the scene, police said.

The man then fled in an older model Honda Accord, which was located in Palm Beach County the next day. The vehicle was seized as part of the investigation. Detectives

else is talking about it.

“I know everyone is running away with that storyline this week,” said Okwara, a teammate of Stafford’s during his last three years in Detroit. “Love Stafford. He’s a great teammate, great friend. But this week, it’s just about us and trying to win the game.”

Most Lions fans were sorry to see Stafford leave after he requested a trade. Many kept rooting for him, and even wore Detroit Rams shirts that were made and seen around the Motor City.

Stafford’s second season in Los Angeles wasn’t nearly as cinematic as his first: He played in just nine games before being shut down with a bruised spinal cord while the Rams’ title defense fell apart. Stafford was forced to deny rumors he was considering retirement.

He has put together one of his most impressive seasons in his return, leading a Rams roster decidedly lacking in 2021 star power back to the postseason in defiance of practically every preseason projection.

He passed for 3,965 yards and 24 touchdowns despite missing 21/2 games for an injury and rest, and he was picked for the Pro Bowl for just the second time in his career.

Everything pales in comparison to Sunday night, when Stafford will step into Detroit’s bright lights for the playoff game he always wanted.

“It’ll be a tough place to play,” Stafford said. “It’ll be loud. It’ll be really tough for us to communicate as an offense, and we understand that. But those are the kind of fun experiences you want as a player in the NFL.”

have identified and interviewed a suspect, but that person’s name wasn’t immediately released.

The investigation is ongoing.

A GoFundMe page had raised nearly $90,000 as of Wednesday to cover the costs of a funeral for Isaacs and for transporting his body to Six Nations, the largest First Nation reserve in Canada. Isaacs lived in Hollywood, Fla., according to his Facebook page.

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Carroll will move into an undefined advisory role within the organization, according to Wednesday’s statement from owner Jody Allen.

But it’s clear that Carroll wanted to continue in the role he had and see if he could produce one more title team.

“I competed pretty hard to be the coach, just so you know,” Carroll said during an emotional farewell news conference. “I just wanted to make sure I stood up for all of our coaches and the players and the things that we had accomplished. Not just so we could be the coach still, but so we could continue to have a chance to be successful and keep the organization going. That’s what I was fighting for.

“In that regard, that’s what I was representing in our discussions,” Carroll continued. “And we got to a good part, good, clean spot where it made sense, and I went along with their intentions.”

With staff from throughout the facility, assistant coaches and a few current players filling the auditorium, Carroll spoke for more than 30 minutes through a mix of tears and laughter about a tenure that will be difficult for any coach to match in the future.

“I’m thrilled that we’ve had this run.

I really am. This level of consistency that we’ve demonstrated is such that it makes you proud,” Carroll said.

Carroll will step aside as the most successful coach in franchise history, but with an unsatisfactory conclusion after several seasons of middling results, including a 9-8 record and no playoff berth in his final season.

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Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy in February 2014 after the Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII in East Rutherford, N.J. Carroll is out after 14 seasons as the head coach of the Seahawks, responsible for two NFC championships and the only Super Bowl title in franchise history during his long tenure.

He’ll forever be lauded as the first coach to bring the Lombardi Trophy to Seattle with the Super Bowl 48 victory over Denver. Carroll finished with a 137-69-1 record in the regular season with the Seahawks. He led Seattle to five NFC West titles and 10 playoff victories.

But Carroll and the organization never fully recovered from what happened in the Super Bowl 49 and Russell Wilson’s goal line interception in the final seconds. The core that took Seattle to those title games eventually unraveled

and while Carroll tried several different reboots, the Seahawks never again found that level of talent and chemistry to experience another title and wash away the memories of that painful loss.

Seattle also plateaued toward the end of Carroll’s time, finishing with a losing record in 2021 followed by consecutive 9-8 seasons while falling short of becoming more of a contender in the NFC West.

The postseason was another problem.

Seattle has not advanced past the divisional round since the 2014 playoffs and

lost in the wild-card round in three of its past four postseason appearances.

“We lost our edge, really, the edge to be great, which was really how we ran the football and how we played defense.

It wasn’t as good as it needed to be,” Carroll said.

The future for Seattle will be under the watch of a different coach and with general manager John Schneider entirely in control of personnel.

One of the unique aspects of Seattle’s success was the marriage between Schneider and Carroll. It was Carroll that was hired first in January 2010 before bringing aboard Schneider as his running mate. It was Carroll that retained final control over personnel decisions.

Now, it’s flipped. Schneider will be making the call on the next coach and personnel.

“It’s why this happened,” Carroll said.

“You want to know? I want him to have this chance. It’s been 14 years he’s been sitting there waiting for his opportunity and he deserves it. And he’s great at what he does.”

Despite the lackluster final chapter, Carroll’s tenure in Seattle will be viewed as the most successful run since the franchise arrived in 1976. He ushered in a player-friendly environment built around allowing personalities to show within the defined structure of his system. Carroll preached competition, but made it fun along the way.

The Seahawks thrived under Carroll with the personalities of Marshawn Lynch, Doug Baldwin and Richard Sherman, for example. They plucked Wilson out of the third round and watched him help the team win a Super Bowl in his

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second season. Known for his defensive mind, Carroll created a defense that was the best of its era for multiple seasons and was at the foundation of those backto-back teams which won NFC titles.

Several players expressed their appreciation for Carroll on Wednesday, including Wilson. Geno Smith, Bobby Wagner, Noah Fant and Tyler Lockett were among the handful of players to show up in person.

“Coach Carroll is a stud. If I’m sitting up here being able to do that as long as he did ... that be impressive,” Rams coach Sean McVay said.

Seattle is the seventh NFL team at the moment looking for a new coach, joining Tennessee, Atlanta and Washington who have fired coaches since the regular season ended. The Raiders, the Chargers and Panthers didn’t wait for the season to end before firing coaches.

NFL teams can’t start in-person interviews until after the divisional round after owners voted in October to push those back a week to slow down the hiring process and try to increase diversity in hiring. They also cannot interview head coaching candidates employed by other NFL teams until Tuesday or Wednesday for any coach whose team is done or team has a playoff bye. Teams can start virtual interviews.

Any internal candidates or someone not currently employed by the NFL can interview in person.

Speculation will immediately turn to Dallas defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who served in the same role for the Seahawks during their two NFC championship seasons. Quinn was 43-42 with two playoff appearances and one memorable Super Bowl collapse in his five-plus seasons as the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.

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NCAA president talks gaining fans, gambling, new tier of Division I

Proposal to ban youth tackle football clears first hurdle

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

PHOENIX — NCAA President Charlie Baker addressed the membership Wednesday for the first time since taking over the job, laying out goals for growing the college sports fanbase, dealing with issues related to the rise of legal wagering and continuing the conversation he started with a proposal to create a new tier of Division I where athletes would be paid by their schools.

Baker, who started as NCAA president in March, gave his state of college sports address at a packed symphony hall in the Phoenix Convention center. The speech came a little more than a month after he sent a letter to more than 350 D-I member schools with a bold and potentially groundbreaking idea for a new subdivision at the very top of college sports.

“We have received excellent feedback on these proposals from student-athletes and all of you,” Baker said in his speech. “Some may quibble with the details, but they are glad we are finally talking about the elephant in the room.”

Baker also met with a small group of reporters Tuesday night to take questions about some of his top-line priorities.

Division I project Baker said there was “overwhelming interest” among membership in the idea of creating a new subdivision of Division I for schools with the largest budgets.

Baker’s idea would require schools in the new subdivision to pay athletes at least $30,000 per year through a trust fund.

“I worked in government for a long time and in government you set the table, right?” Baker said.

“You file a bill. You don’t expect

to get it back the same way you file it, you don’t think it’s written on a stone tablet. It’s a place to start.”

The formal NCAA process of examining Baker’s proposal and determining whether it can be turned into policy can start as soon as this week if the Division I board of directors decides to request that the council dig into it.

“But the big issue that hangs out there is this whole question about employment,” Baker said. “And there’s no doubt in my mind, a lot of these schools would do a lot more for their student-athletes if it was done under some framework that looked more like a contractual relationship and less like an employment one.”

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NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks Wednesday at his first state of college sports address at the association’s annual convention in Phoenix. It was the first such address for Baker, who started as NCAA president in March.

year was credible and aggressive enough that the team was given police protection. Baker declined to identify the team and the championship event.

Growing the fanbase

Baker said the NCAA needs to do a better job identifying and engaging with its fans online.

“It’s 2024 and most people who follow college sports, digitally online, and we have millions of people who come to our championships and we don’t know Sports betting hardly anything about them at Baker said the growth of legal all,” Baker said. sports betting, especially among He announced Wednesday college-aged people, is putting that the NCAA has hired Kraft increased stress on athletes.

Analytics Group to help build a He said the NCAA is trying database of college sports fans to modify “draconian” penalties that he hopes will reach 25 milcollege athletes face for breaking lion in a few years. rules regarding betting on sports “I want it to be flexible and while also trying to better monsophisticated enough that we’ll itor and address what he called know what teams you like, what ugly blowback on social media sports you like, where you live directed at athletes, coaches and if there’s a game of interest and officials — often linked to going on anywhere near you, wagering. we’re going to let you know,” The NCAA will partner with Baker said. “And we’ll also have a data science company called a hot link to where you can buy Signify, which also works with tickets and buy gear.” the NBA Players Association and Earlier in the day, the NCAA WNBA, to identify threats.

Division I Council approved a “Basically tracks ugly, nasty package of rules related to how stuff, that’s being directed at peo- athletes are compensated for ple who are participating in their their celebrity endorsement work tournaments and we’d use it the and proposed allowing schools same way,” Baker said. “And it can to be more involved with such shut it down or basically block transactions that now total in it. And in some cases even track the millions of dollars across the back to where it came from.” country.

Baker said a threat made to a The package is the NCAA’s team that was participating in attempt to bring transparency to an NCAA championship last the burgeoning name, image and

likeness market and add oversight of those who want to work with the athletes. The policy calls for creation of a database of deals that could be accessed by athletes and schools, a registry of companies and agents that want to work with athletes and recommendations for standardized components of a NIL contract.

Athletes would be encouraged to disclose their deals, but it would not be required.

The proposed NIL regulation, introduced in October, was expected to be adopted at this week’s NCAA convention and go into effect Aug. 1. Division I includes some 350 schools and nearly 200,000 athletes.

The NCAA lifted its ban on athletes earning money through sponsorship and endorsement deals in 2021, and the lack of detailed rules combined with a patchwork of state laws have created uncertainty for both athletes and schools. It also allowed booster-funded NIL collectives to become the predominant way for athletes to cash in on their status.

Baker’s proposal also included a push for all D-I schools to bring NIL activities in-house, which was already being considered by Division I. Under the council’s proposal, schools could facilitate deals and connect athletes with companies, but they would still be prohibited from using NIL payments as a recruiting inducement and directly paying an athletes for NIL. That proposal could be approved by this summer.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers who want to ban tackle football for kids under 12 to reduce brain injuries gained ground Wednesday in the Legislature but still face a very long field and a clock that is ticking.

Though it was a school day, dozens of children wearing football jerseys and their parents crowded into the hearing room and watched as the Assembly committee that regulates sports voted 5-2 to send the bill to the full chamber.

The full Assembly has only until the end of January to approve it. If they do, it goes to the Senate and then Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Heightened concern over concussions and the growing popularity of flag football are driving the effort to impose the ban, which opponents say would take away the ability for parents to decide their children’s activities, put California youth players behind those in other states and cut off some children from a source of exercise and an important after-school activity.

But advocates say the bill will protect kids from the risk of brain damage, which studies have shown increases the longer a person plays tackle football.

And they note children can still enjoy the sport through flag football, which is becoming more popular and even has support from the NFL. No state has banned tackle football for kids despite some attempts. State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty introduced a similar bill in 2018 that failed to pass.

Other proposals in New York and Illinois also failed to pass.

The debate comes as participation in high school tackle football has been declining in California. Participation

dropped more than 18% from 2015 to 2022, falling from a high of 103,725 players to 84,626 players, according to the California Interscholastic Federation’s participation survey. Participation then increased by 5% in 2023, up to 89,178 players.

But Ashley Bertram, a mother of three boys, ages 14, 12 and 7, said her boys have played both sports and that in her experience children get hurt more while playing flag football because the players don’t wear protective gear.

“Flag football is still a contact sport,” Bertram said. “If you think that just because a 7-yearold boy is running up to take a flag, that they’re not ramming into each other to do that, you’re out of your mind. We’re talking about boys.”

Bertram, who attended the hearing with her 7-year-old son, Bruce, said the bill is more about infringing on parental rights than football.

“In the state of California, I get to choose whether my child lives or dies in my womb. But I can’t decide what sport he plays?” she asked.

But several lawmakers who back the legislation say flag football is a safer option for kids.

“Football and organizational sports in general are clearly proven ways to keep kids out of trouble,” said Assemblymember Mike Gipson, chair of the state assembly’s committee in charge of regulating sports in California. “This bill is not taking away that ability, it is simply saying that we’re going to move from tackle football to flag football and we can still have the same learning experiences.”

If passed, the ban would be gradually phased in, prohibiting children under 6 starting in 2025, under 10 in 2027 and those under 12 in 2029. That provision wasn’t part of last year’s bill and was added Wednesday, perhaps making the bill more palatable to some lawmakers.

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coaching careers of Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Texas’ Steve Sarkisian and Mississippi’s Lane Kiffin.

He finished just shy of the top in his final season, leading the Tide from a shaky start to a Southeastern Conference championship and back into the College Football Playoff before falling in overtime to Michigan in a semifinal game at the Rose Bowl.

Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne called him “one of the greatest coaches of all time, in any sport.”

Saban led the Tide to nine SEC championships and won his first national title at Alabama with a 14-0 season in 2009. Titles came again in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020. He also won the SEC with LSU in 2001 and 2003.

After a 7-6 debut campaign in 2007, Saban won at least 10 games for his final 16 seasons.

It wasn’t until the rise of Dabo Swinney’s Clemson teams in the late 2010s and later Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs that any school could be considered a consistent threat to the Tide.

Saban has stepped away as the fabric of college football undergoes dramatic change. Colorado’s Deion Sanders, a coach who has sought to capitalize on the intervention of players profiting financially from their play on the field, said on social media that “College Football just lost the GOAT.” “WOW! I knew it would happen 1 day soon but not this soon,” he wrote. “The game has change so much that it chased the GOAT away. College football let’s hold up our mirrors and say HONESTLY what u see.”

Terry Saban addressed the changes to college football in her post, referencing her husband’s famed “process.”

“The rules for the game of football may change, but the ‘process’ will never go out of style: hard work, discipline, the relentless pursuit of a worthy goal, not cutting corners, and doing things the right way for the sake of constant personal improvement, not for the scoreboard,” she wrote.

Saban made a two-year foray into the NFL with the Miami Dolphins before returning to col-

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Coach Nick Saban celebrates with his team after winning the 2012 BCS National Championship against LSU in New Orleans.

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lege football to revive one of the nation’s most storied programs, which hadn’t won a national title in 15 years. Saban is 297-71-1 as a college head coach, with stops at Toledo, Michigan State and LSU. But Alabama is where he cemented his status as one of college football’s greatest coaches.

Saban coached Alabama’s first four Heisman Trophy winners and churned out numerous NFL players, going 206-29, a winning clip of 87.7%. His teams produced 44 first-round draft picks, including last year’s No. 1 quarterback Bryce Young.

During that span, he also adapted to the changing times of up-tempo offenses, churning out high-scoring teams after winning with some of the nation’s best defenses, along with the new NIL and transfer rules.

He led Toledo to a Mid-American Conference championship in 1990, his lone season as that program’s head coach. Saban worked as Bill Belichick’s defensive coordinator with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns for four seasons before becoming the first Michigan State coach to lead his first three teams

to bowl games.

“I think he’s the greatest coach in the history of football,” Michigan State basketball coach and longtime Saban friend Tom Izzo said in a telephone interview Wednesday night. “There are a lot of great coaches, but what he’s done and the consistency that he did it — in an era where so many people and things are coming at you — is remarkable.”

Saban’s latest team dealt with plenty of adversity early on, including a loss to Texas, but rebounded with the emergence of quarterback Jalen Milroe to upset then-No. 1 Georgia in the SEC championship game.

Saban didn’t sound like a coach looking to give up the job any time soon after the game. But it wasn’t a bad way to go, even without the title.

“This is one of the most amazing seasons in Alabama football history in terms of where this team came from, what they were able to accomplish and what they were able to do, winning the SEC championship, and really, really proud of this group,” he said.

“I just wish that I could have done more as a coach to help them be successful and help them finish, and all we can do now is learn from the lessons that sometimes failings bring to us.”

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey feels Saban isn’t done entirely with college football.

“Knowing Nick? He’s not walking away from the game.

He’s walking away from a role,” Sankey said.

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Sandoval County, New dollars). Bids offering less than the minimum Mexico will not be considered.

The Commissioner of Bidders are encourPublic Lands (“Com- aged to offer amounts missioner”) gives no- greater than the Minitice of a sealed bid mum Bid, with addiauction pursuant to tional amounts in of the New Mexico En- increments abling Act (36 Stat. $10,000.00.

557) and NMSA 1978, Sections 19-7-1 and 19- Sealed bids must be 7-2 to sell 44.5267 accompanied by a (plus/minus) acres MISCELLANEOUS of $3,000.00 non-refundstate trust lands (the able sale application “Land”) located in fee and deposits in the Sandoval County, New amounts set forth Mexico, more particu- below. Deposits must larly described as fol- be in the form specified in the Bid Informalows: tion Sheet (Exhibit “1” Tract 17 of Unit 17 as of the bid packet). the same is shown and Failure to include the designated on the plat sale application fee entitled “Paseo Gate- and required deposits way Parcel A, Tracts 1 will result in disqualifithru 9, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11 cation. In addition to thru 18, A and B-1A, a making the required BUILDING MATERIALS Replat of Portions of transaction cost deTract C in the Town of posit, the successful bidder willYbe required Alameda LARGE LUMBER PACK FOR SALE. Large Grant UnitTIPI SUPPL SUPPLY Seventeen house project was canceled due to etc.,” filed to pay all costs associin athe office of the ated with the auction family emergency. We have large TIPI The COVERS COVERS lumber pack for sale which wasClerk, NOMADICS deposits County San- and sale. originally $150K. We are offering unsuccessful doval the County, MOST New ofSIZES IN STOCK STOCKbidpack at $140K or best offer.

The pack ders beAINTED refunded.

Mexico on November PAINTED P AINTED ORwill UNP UNPAINTED can be viewed locally by appointment See the bid packet for 14, 2008 as Instrument L ODGEPOLE PINE and the lumber pack list can be additional information No. 2008033908; viewed upon request. Send requests TIPI andPOLES requirements reto: tazoline@gmail.com In addition to intended SIZESto16FT. 16FT . TO TO 36FT 36FT. Lrequired ONG garding the. LONG Being and the lumber pack we also have be part STdeposits.

OCK AT AT OUR approximately 125 standing dead of Lot IN3STOCK (34.9360 acres), part ofWAREHOUSE vigas.

Transaction Cost DeLot 4 (1.1106 acres), PLEASANT PLEAS ANT VIEW, VIEW , and part of Lot 2 posit: COLORADO ORADO Advertising public (8.4801 acres), Section COL auction (estimated) 32, Township 13 North, 970-560-1884 Range 3 East, N.M.P.M. WWW.$5,005.60 WWW .TIPISUPPL TIPISUPPLY Y.COM Advertising Section 19The Land is located in 7-9.1 public meeting $996.23 the Paseo Gateway UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS master plan area, Tract 17 appraisal and santafenewmexican.com/subscribe within the municipal appraisal review boundaries of the City $6,634.32 of Rio Rancho in San- Tract 17 survey doval County, west of $3,689.33 V. Sue Cleveland High Total Transaction Cost School, north of Paseo Deposit $16,325.48 Place an ad delToday!

Volcan and east of Loma Colorado Boule- The sealed bid must Call 986-3000 be accompanied by vard. both a $16,325.48 The Land is offered transaction cost deCOLLECTIBLES“AS IS”; the Commis- posit and a performsioner does not make ance deposit in the any representations or amount of $392,100.00, provide any war- representing 10% of ranties regarding title the Minimum Bid. to the Land or its conPersian for Tabriz wool must rug 12’ xconform 16’ fine Bids dition or fitness quality.The Previously owned, EXCELLENT strictly to the requireany purpose. condition.

Similar $15K $20K the Land is offered for a ments set forth innew. $6900 bid packet and be subcash sale (i.e., fullO.B.O. pay- 505-570-5624 ment in cash due at mitted in a sealed marked closing) as a single package TO Sale BUY No. LE“Land tract; bids for lessWANT than the entire tract 1421.” will not be considered.

CASH PAID PAID FOR FOR VINYL RECORDS RECORDS Sealed 45RPM bids must be Autographed Fender Squier electric 33RPM Albums/LPs, submitted to State regarding the guitar. Autographed by Details the memSingles/7”s, even 78s! Bringthe them to LandatOffice, 310 Old auction, potential sale, bers of the band Chicago. This guitar our NEW location 131 W. Water St was owned by former Governor, U.S. rules, Santa Fe Trail, Santa applicable bidin Santa Fe every weekday from Ambassador, Secretary ding of Energy NM,505-399-5060 87501 (courier instructions and 11AM to 4PMFe, or Call to Bill Richardson. $1400. 505.501.0222 service or personal deforms are set forth in schedule an appointment! the bid packet, which livery) or P.O. Box 1148, can be obtained by Santa Fe, NM 87504writing the State Land 1148 (USPS postal Attention: Office, P.O. Box 1148, mail), Santa Fe, NM 87504, At- Christopher Wolf, Spetention: Christopher cial Projects Analyst.

Wolf, Special Project BIDS MUST BE RENO LATER Analyst, by telephone CEIVED 12:00 P.M. on at 505-827-5095, LEGALS LEGALS or by THAN LEGALS e-mail to February 29, 2024. cwolf@slo.state.nm.us . The bid packet also is Sealed bids will be LEGAL #92009 posted on the State opened on March 1, Stephanie Garcia Land Office website, 2024 at 9:30 a.m. at the Richard, Commis- www.nmstatelands.or New Mexico State sioner of Public Lands g. The bid packet is in- Land Office (Morgan corporated in this no- Hall), 310 Old Santa Fe State of New Mexico tice by reference and Trail, Santa Fe, New COMMISSIONER OF should be reviewed in Mexico 87501. detail before submitPUBLIC LANDS The Commissioner reNOTICE OF SEALED BID ting a bid. serves the right to rePUBLIC AUCTION The Minimum Bid to ject all bids and FOR SALE OF LAND Land Sale LE-1421, purchase the Land is withdraw the Land (three from sale or to reiniti44.5267 (plus/minus) $3,921,000.00 million nine hundred ate the process of ofacres twenty-one thousand fering the Land for Sandoval County, New dollars). Bids offering sale or exchange on less than the minimum the same or different Mexico will not be considered. terms at a future date.

The Commissioner of Bidders are encour- The Commissioner’s Public Lands (“Com- aged to offer amounts selection of a bid shall missioner”) gives no- greater than the Mini- not constitute or be tice of a sealed bid mum Bid, with addi- evidence of a contract auction pursuant to tional amounts in between the Commisof sioner and the sethe New Mexico En- increments lected bidder. The abling Act (36 Stat. $10,000.00.

Commissioner will 557) and NMSA 1978, Sections 19-7-1 and 19- Sealed bids must be have no obligation to 7-2 to sell 44.5267 accompanied by a any bidder unless and (plus/minus) acres of $3,000.00 non-refund- until the Commisstate trust lands (the able sale application sioner and that bidder a written “Land”) located in fee and deposits in the execute Sandoval County, New amounts set forth agreement for conMexico, more particu- below. Deposits must veyance of the Land. larly described as fol- be in the form speci- Closing shall occur no fied in the Bid Informa- later than 90 days lows: tion Sheet (Exhibit “1” after the selection of Tract 17 of Unit 17 as of the bid packet). the winning bid. the same is shown and Failure to include the Upon satisfaction of designated on the plat sale application fee all of the conditions entitled “Paseo Gate- and required deposits for completing the way Parcel A, Tracts 1 will result in disqualifi- sale, the Commisthru 9, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11 cation. In addition to sioner will convey the thru 18, A and B-1A, a making the required Land subject to all Replat of Portions of transaction cost de- valid easements and Tract C in the Town of posit, the successful other encumbrances Alameda Grant Unit bidder will be required shown in the records Seventeen etc.,” filed to pay all costs associ- of the State Land Ofin the office of the ated with the auction fice and the Sandoval County Clerk, San- and sale. The deposits County Clerk’s Office. doval County, New of unsuccessful bid- Bidders are responsiMexico on November ders will be refunded. ble for verifying en14, 2008 as Instrument See the bid packet for cumbrances and their No. 2008033908; additional information effect on the Land. The and requirements re- Commissioner will furBeing and intended to garding the required ther reserve to the State all minerals of be part of Lot 3 deposits. whatsoever kind, ge(34.9360 acres), part of Lot 4 (1.1106 acres), Transaction Cost De- othermal resources, and certain water and part of Lot 2 posit: public rights, together with (8.4801 acres), Section Advertising rights of access and 32, Township 13 North, auction (estimated) surface use necessary Range 3 East, N.M.P.M. $5,005.60 Advertising Section 19- for or incident to exploration for and exThe Land is located in 7-9.1 public meeting traction and removal the Paseo Gateway $996.23 master plan area, Tract 17 appraisal and of such minerals, geothermal resources, and within the municipal appraisal review water rights. Bidders boundaries of the City $6,634.32 may request that the of Rio Rancho in San- Tract 17 survey Commissioner enter doval County, west of $3,689.33 V. Sue Cleveland High Total Transaction Cost into a surface non-disturbance agreement School, north of Paseo Deposit $16,325.48 for a separately del Volcan and east of Loma Colorado Boule- The sealed bid must agreed upon fee. be accompanied by vard. both a $16,325.48 Disabled individuals The Land is offered transaction cost de- requiring aid to bid “AS IS”; the Commis- posit and a perform- may call (505) 827sioner does not make ance deposit in the 5095; FAX 827-6157 or any representations or amount of $392,100.00, TTY (800) 659-8331. provide any war- representing 10% of Upon request, this notice may be available ranties regarding title the Minimum Bid. in other formats. to the Land or its condition or fitness for Bids must conform any purpose.

The strictly to the require- Pub: Dec 21, 28, 2023, Land is offered for a ments set forth in the Jan 4, 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, cash sale (i.e., full pay- bid packet and be sub- 8, 15, 22, 2024 ment in cash due at mitted in a sealed closing) as a single package marked LEGAL #92014 tract; bids for less “Land Sale No. LESTA ST ATE OF NEW MEXICO than the entire tract 1421.”

COUNTY OF will not be considered.

ARRIBA Sealed bids must be RIO ARRIBA Details regarding the submitted to the State FIRST JUDICIAL auction, potential sale, Land Office, 310 Old DISTRICT applicable rules, bid- Santa Fe Trail, Santa D-117-CV D-117-CV-2023ding instructions and Fe, NM, 87501 (courier No. forms are set forth in service or personal de- 00179 the bid packet, which livery) or P.O. Box 1148, GRIEGO can be obtained by Santa Fe, NM 87504- MARIANNE GRIEGO writing the State Land 1148 (USPS postal Plaintiff, Attention: vs.

Office, P.O. Box 1148, mail), BLEA, Santa Fe, NM 87504, At- Christopher Wolf, Spe- RICK MARYELLEN YELLEN BLEA, JOE tention: Christopher cial Projects Analyst. MAR ABEYTA, A, Wolf, Special Project BIDS MUST BE RE- ABEYT EVA A ABEYT ABEYTA, A, EST ESTA ATE Analyst, by telephone CEIVED NO LATER EV L LOURDES OURDES at 505-827-5095, or by THAN 12:00 P.M. on OF FRESQUEZ (Deceased), e-mail to February 29, 2024. and cwolf@slo.state.nm.us TRUJILLO O . The bid packet also is Sealed bids will be ANDREW TRUJILL posted on the State opened on March 1, Defendants.

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RICK BLEA, MARYELLEN MAR YELLEN BLEA, JOE ABEYTA, ABEYT A, EVA EV A ABEYT ABEYTA, A, EST ESTA ATE OF L LOURDES OURDES LEGALS FRESQUEZ (Deceased), and ANDREW TRUJILL TRUJILLO O Defendants.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS: Estate of Mona R Schermerhorn, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that on the 12th day of December, 2023, letters testamentary (or of LEGALS administration as the case may be) in respect of the estate of Mona R Schermerhorn, who died September, 23, 2023 in Albuquerque, NM, were issued to the undersigned, Kenneth D Parker, by the STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY located at 100 Catron Street Santa Fe, NM 87501. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above named Court or the undersigned representative at 341 Creek Rd Boone NC 28607 on or before the dates prescribed in (1) or (2) otherwise their claims will be forever barred: (1) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting of this notice) (2) Sixty (60) days after the mailed receipt of this notice.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by Lesley Mandros Bell and Steven Mandros Bell, Co-Personal Representatives, LEGAL #92114 who have been appointed Co-Personal STATE OF NEW MEXICO Representatives of the COUNTY OF SANTA FE estate of the dece- FIRST JUDICIAL dent.

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First Judicial District No. $29,500 Ron 505-577-4008 Court at 225 Mon- D-101-DM 2023-00748 tezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, NM, 87501. All per- Sarah A. Sanchez and sons having claims Anthony L. Sanchez against the estate of Petitioner(s) the decedent are required to present their IN THE MATTER OF claims within four (4) KINSHIP GUARDIANmonthsLEGALS after the date SHIP OF J.M.P (a) LEGALS of the first publication Child(ren) (use initials of any published no- only), and concerning tice to creditors or Sarai Palomino, Resixty (60) days after spondent(s). the date of mailing or other delivery of this NOTICE OF PENDENCY notice, whichever is OF ACTION later, or the claims will be forever barred. State of New Mexico Claims must be pre- to Sarai Palomino, Resented to the attorney spondent(s) of the Co-Personal Representatives at the Greetings: You are address listed below: hereby notified that Sarah A. Sanchez and Respectfully submit- Anthony L. Sanchez, ted, Petitioner(s), filed a By: Slate Stern Petition to Appoint 1701 Old Pecos Trail Kinship Guardian(s) Santa Fe, NM 87505 for Jessica Marie Tel.: (505) 814-1517 Palomino, born May Fax: (866) 848-8240 2023 in Espanola, New slate@slatestern.com Mexico to Sarai www.slatestern.com Palomino and unknown father, against Pub: Jan 4, 11, 18, 2024 you in the above entitled court and cause.

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ORDER FOR FOR SERVICE SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICA PUBLICATION IN A NEWSP NEW SPAPER APER Plaintiff has filed a motion requesting that the Court approve service of process upon Defendant, Andrew Trujillo, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

The Court finds that the Plaintiff has made diligent efforts to make personal service, but has not been able to complete service of process at the last known address of Defendant and through certified mail and the Defendant has evaded service.

The Court further finds that a newspaper of general circulation in Santa Fe County is the Santa Fe New Mexican and that this newspaper is one that is most likely to give the Defendant Andrew Trujillo, notice of the pendency of the action.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Plaintiff serve process on Defendant Andrew Trujillo by publication once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Santa Fe New Mexican.

The Plaintiff shall file a proof of service with a copy of the Affidavit of Publication when service has been completed.

KATHLEEN MCGARRY ELLENWOOD DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Marianne Griego P.O. Box 813 Espanola, NM 87532 Pro Se PlaintitI Rick Blea 119 County Road 116 Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant Maryellen Blea 119 County Road 116 Espanola, N:rvI 87532 Defendant Andrew Trujillo 119 County Road 16 Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant Joe Abeyta 170 B Lower San Pedro Rd. Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant Estate of Lourdes Fresquez (Deceased) 170 B Lower San Pedro Rd. Espanola, NM 87532 Defendant Pub.: Dec. 28, 2023 Jan 4, 11, 2024 LEGAL #92093 NOTICE TO CREDITORS: Estate of Mona R Schermerhorn, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that on the 12th day of December, 2023, letters testamentary (or of administration as the case may be) in respect of the estate of Mona R Schermerhorn, Continued... who died September, 23, 2023 in Albuquerque, NM, were issued to the undersigned, Kenneth

LEGALS LEGAL #92115 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SANDRA L. SHADWICK, DECEASED No. D-101-PB-2023-00329 NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that Zia Trust, Inc. has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Sandra L. Shadwick, Deceased (the “Estate”). All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims against the Estate must be presented to the Personal ReprePub: Jan 4, 11, 18, 2024 sentative of the Estate at the address shown To place a Legal Notice below, or filed in the above-referenced case Call 986-3000 in the First Judicial District Court of the LEGAL #92122 County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, STATE OF NEW MEXICO Judge Steve Herrera PROBATE COURT Judicial Complex, 225 SANTA FE COUNTY Montezuma Avenue (P.O. Box 2268), Santa No. 2023-0271 Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ZIA TRUST, INC. WILLIAM GRANT SULLIVAN, Deceased.

By: Teresa DeMenge Vice President & SenNOTICE TO CREDITORS ior Trust Officer c/o Patrick J. Dolan, EsTracy S. Turner has quire April, Dolan & been appointed Per- Koehler, P.C. sonal Representative 460 St. Michael’s Drive, of Estate of WILLIAM Suite 603 Santa Fe, GRANT SULLIVAN., de- New Mexico 87505 ceased. All persons Telephone No.: having claims against (505) 988-2900 this Estate are re- Facsimile No.: quired to present their (505) 988-2901 claims within four (4) months after the date Pub: Jan 11, 18, 25, 2024 of the first publication of any published no- LEGAL #92099 tice to creditors or sixty (60) days after STATE OF NEW MEXICO the date of mailing or FIRST JUDICIAL other delivery of this DISTRICT COURT notice, whichever is SANTA FE COUNTY later, or the claims will be forever barred. No. Claims must be pre- D-101-PB-2023-00333 sented to Tracy’s Turner at 6545 Arroyo IN THE MATIER OF THE Drive, Vierra, FL 32940, ESTATE OF JAMES J. or to Walk- i n Wills MANDROS, DECEASED. Carlisle, P.C. (Carlos A. Jauregui, Esq.) at 2000 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Carlisle Blvd. NE, Suite G, Albuquerque, NM NOTICE TO CREDITORS 87110, and may be NOTICE IS HEREBY filed with the Probate GIVEN by Lesley ManCourt of Santa Fe dros Bell and Steven County, New Mexico.

Mandros Bell, Co-Personal Representatives, Dated: January 8, 2024 who have been appointed Co-Personal Carlos A. Jauregui Representatives of the Attorney of Tracy’c estate of the deceTurner, dent. A probate has Personal Representa- been opened in the tive First Judicial District Court at 225 MonWalk-In Wills Carlisle, tezuma Ave., in Santa P.C. Fe, NM, 87501. All perBy: Carlos A. Jaurequi, sons having claims Esq. against the estate of 2000 Carlisle Blvd. NE the decedent are reSuite G quired to present their Albuquerque, New claims within four (4) Mexico 87110 months after the date (505) 903-7000 of the first publication Attorneys for Personal of any published noRepresentative tice to creditors or sixtyContinued...

(60) days after Pub: Jan 11, 18, 25, 2024 the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred.

LEGALS LEGAL #92118 Bids can be downloaded from our website, www.generalservices.state.nm.us /s t a t e p u r c h a s i n g , Questions? Call (505) 827-0472. Sealed bids will be publicly opened online via Microsoft Teams at 2:00 PM, MST/MDT on dates indicated. Request for Proposals are due at time indicated inside RFP and are not opened publ i c l y . https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup -join/19%3ameeting_NDBmNmQzMDUtNzNjYi00YzUyLTky OGEtMTE5ZDZiMGRhOGE2%40thread.v2 /0?context=%7b%22Ti d%22%3a%2204aa6bf4 -d436-426f-bfa404b7a70e60ff%22%2c %22Oid%22%3a%2217 362856-1f15-4445-851cd0a4af6e7161%22%7d

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in this cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last date of publiNo. cation, a judgment by D-101-PB-2023-00332 default will be entered 1/22/2024 IN THE MATTER OF THE against you.

45-00000-23-00034 ESTATE OF Name and address of GSD LOIS K. MANDROS, Petitioner or Peti- General Construction DECEASED. tioner’s attorney: A. Sanchez and 1/24/2024 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Sarah Anthony L. Sanchez 40-00000-23-00045 STATE OF NEW MEXICO FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF SANTA FE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by Lesley Mandros Bell and Steven Mandros Bell, Co-Personal Representatives, who have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the estate of the decedent. A probate has been opened in the First Judicial District Court at 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, NM, 87501.

All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the attorney of the Co-Personal Representatives at the address listed below: Respectfully submitted, By, Slate Stern 1701 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505 Tel.: (505) 814-1517 Fax: (866) 848-8240 slate@slatestern.com www.slatestern.com Pub: Jan 11, 18, 25, 2024 LEGAL #92114 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-DM 2023-00748 Sarah A. Sanchez and Anthony L. Sanchez Petitioner(s) IN THE MATTER OF KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF J.M.P (a) Child(ren) (use initials only), and concerning Sarai Palomino, Respondent(s).

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To place a Legal Notice Call 986-3000 LEGAL #92117

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NEW MEXICO FINANCE Pub: Jan 11, 2024 AUTHORITY BOARD LEGAL #92121 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING State of New Mexico First Judicial District Notice is hereby given Court of Santa Fe that a meeting of the County Board of Directors of the New Mexico Fi- In the matter of the esnance Authority will tate of Vernon Otto convene at 9:00 a.m. Nielsen, on Thursday, January Deceased 25, 2024. The meeting will be held in the No. Santa Fe County Com- D-101-PB-2023-00341 mission Chambers, 102 Grant Avenue, Notice to Creditors Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Anyone who has ques- Notice is now given tions regarding the that Marilyn J. Nielsen, meeting or needs spe- has been appointed cial accommodations the Personal Represhould contact NMFA sentative of the Estate staff at (505) 984-1454. of Vernon Otto Nielsen, deceased.

The agenda will be All persons having available seventy-two claims against this es(72) hours prior to the tate are required to meeting from the New present their claims Mexico Finance Au- within two (2) months thority, 207 Shelby after the date of the Street, Santa Fe, New first publication of this Mexico, and on the Notice, or the claims NMFA website, will be forever barred. www.nmfinance.com.

Claims must be filed Public documents, in- with the District Court cluding the agenda of Santa Fe County and minutes, can be P.O. Box 2268 provided in various ac- Santa Fe, New Mexico cessible formats. If 87504-2268 you are an individual with a disability in Pub: Jan 11, 18, 25, 2024 need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service, to attend or participate in the meeting, please contact the NMFA at (505) 984-1454 at least one week prior to the meeting or as soon as possible.

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27 Ride that might have a hot tub 28 “There was no other choice!”

30 According to 31 Org. that is often referred to by just its first letter

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024: You are intelligent and perceptive. You care about social justice, and you want to help others. This is a slower paced year.

MOON ALERT: The new moon is in Capricorn. Avoid shopping or important decisions from 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Capricorn into Aquarius.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Today’s new moon is the perfect opportunity for you to think about resolutions that

you might have considered for this new year. Tonight: Friends and groups.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Each new moon is an opportunity to make resolutions and set intentions. Today is an excellent day to ask yourself what further training or education you could get.

Tonight: You’re high-viz.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH The new moon today is a lovely opportunity to take care of paperwork and unfinished business related to shared property, inheritances, taxes, debt and all that red tape stuff you like to avoid. Tonight: Explore!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Today the new moon opposes your sign, and it will

where you live so you enjoy your home more. Tonight: Socialize!

again on Dec. 30 at the end of the year. Bookends for you.

Each new moon is the perfect opportunity to make resolutions. Tonight: Check finances.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH As this year begins, today is the perfect day to think about what you can do to improve your health. Tonight: Focus on friends and partners.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH The new moon today is the right day to consider how you balance work and play in your life. Both are necessary.

Tonight: Get organized.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH The new moon today is an excellent chance to think about how to improve your relations with family members, as well as how to improve

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH We need to be seen, and we need to see others.

We need to be heard, and we need to hear others. The new moon is a perfect time to think about how you communicate.

Tonight: Cocoon at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Today’s new moon takes place in one of your Money Houses, which begs the question, How are you handling your money? Tonight: Conversations!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Today’s new moon is in your sign, which is the perfect time to take a realistic look in the mirror and ask yourself

what you can do to change your appearance so that you create a better impression on your world. Tonight: Check your belongings.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH The new moon today is in a hidden part of your chart, which means this is an excellent day to think of how your childhood habits might trigger today’s behavior. Tonight: You win!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Today’s New Moon is the perfect time to think about your friends. Your friends are important because they can influence the way you think.

And the way you think is how you will make your choices, and your choices create your future.

Tonight: Solitude.

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Express gratitude for happiness Dear Annie: I recently had to go to a big-box store to purchase something that I couldn’t get online. The checkout lines on the grocery side of the store were six people deep, but if you looked beyond, to the other side of the store, there were no lines.

I’ve been trying to teach family and friends this lesson — to look beyond themselves — for some time.

Every Christmas, I get invited to a gathering so I won’t have to be alone. While I try to converse with guests, since I don’t have kids or grandkids to talk about, I wind up alone at the party anyway. No one wants to talk about books or world events.

Counselors tell me to volunteer or get involved in groups. When I moved back to the town I grew up in and tried to get involved, I was told, “You’re not from here; that’s not how we do things.” After 25 years, I am still not welcome. Their social groups were formed long ago, and new members are not welcome. They can’t see beyond.

Everyone has been writing gratitude journals all year — things they are thankful for, such as children, grandchildren, work and health. It’s hard to listen to what they are thankful for, as I have health issues, which makes it hard for me to get out, and I am alone most of the time. They are so focused on things they are going through or thankful for that they don’t see beyond. They don’t see what others go through every day.

Look beyond your world. What are others going through?

There is a second part of gratitude, which is to show gratitude to others. For 2024, thank others. Get away from social media, and make this the year you send that handwritten note or phone call to thank someone, even if it is for something that person helped you with years ago. Don’t include statements about you. Make it only about the other person’s act of kindness.

If needed, rewrite it so that only a positive statement is left.

Look beyond the closest checkout line.

Look beyond yourself. Others will appreciate it.

Finally, Annie, I want to thank you for including the words “I am sorry for what you are going through” in a lot of your responses. Being able to express that is a genuine trait few possess.

— Wishing for True Friends Dear Wishing for True Friends: You make a good point about “looking beyond,” but please, don’t be so hard on yourself or others. Seeing counselors helps enormously.

Try not to take it all so seriously. Make a special effort to reach out and offer friendship to new people. You might find, similar to your observation at the big-box store, a faster lane to health and happiness.

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: U.S. CITIES “S” Each answer is the name of a U.S. city

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largest city in Missouri.

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that begins with “S.”

infamous witch trials

(e.g., The city’s motto

of 1692.

is “Home of President Abraham Lincoln.”

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Springfield.)

Answer________ 6. The city is named for the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

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Bay.” Answer________

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seven hills.

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Answer________ 9. The city is named after its founder

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• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. It is the second-

Winfield Scott.

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. San Francisco. 2. Salt Lake City. 3. San Diego. 4. St. Louis. 5. Salem. 6. Sacramento. 7. Seattle. 8. Spokane.

9. Scottsdale.

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