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THE 2024 SESSION

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Proposals by governor and Legislature not far apart, but disagreements on key details

Governor’s address will be focus of Day 1, but plenty of tips for rest of 30-day sprint

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walks out onto a chamber floor in the state Capitol.

“I always found it exciting,” she said.

“You have to be very conscious of words and their meanings and make sure you’ve got the right ones,” Maison said of the work. “It’s one of the things I find fun — finding precisely the right word.”

Maison is one of 17 bill writers who work for the Legislative

From a numbers standpoint, separate spending plans put forth by the executive and legislative branches of state government for the upcoming fiscal year aren’t that far off.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is proposing a record high $10.5 billion budget, while lawmakers are recommending a slightly slimmer $10.1 billion spending plan amid a revenue bonanza fueled in large part by the oil and gas industry.

Directionally, both budget recommendations are similar as they focus on health care, housing and how to improve schools through literacy initiatives and extended learning time.

But the devil is in the details.

“There, in fact, is a great deal of common purpose, a common focus, and also there are some important differences,” Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces, said Monday, the eve of the 30-day legislative session, which is focused primarily on passing a state budget.

The Legislature, which convenes Tuesday at noon, is also poised to consider hundreds of pieces of legislation, including a slew of contentious gun violence prevention measures.

Small, who serves as chairman of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee and vice chairman of the interim Legislative Finance Committee, said one of the biggest differences between the lawmakers’ spending plan and the governor’s is the proposed creation of a $300 million government accountability trust fund.

As explained by lawmakers, the fund would essentially be used to finance pilot projects to ensure they deliver

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This year’s 30-day legislative session begins at noon Tuesday at the state Capitol. Here are things to know if you plan to attend on Day 1 (or Day 30): Who’s center stage? In a day filled with pomp but only some circumstance, the spotlight on the first day shines on a governor’s State of the State address, during which he or she outlines accomplishments and lays out plans for both the session and the remainder of the year. Typically, governors give these presentations in the House of Representatives’ chamber and start anywhere from one to two hours after lawmakers gavel the session into order at noon.

Sometimes, at least under Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the fun comes when she goes off script.

Where can I park? There is a free multistoried parking structure just behind the state Capitol. The entrance is off Galisteo Street, and it’s easy to find. Note: On opening day, the lot is generally full by 9 a.m.

Can I bring my dog or gun? No to dogs, unless they are assistance dogs.

No to guns or any other kind of weapon; lawmakers voted to prohibit people from bringing them in (except for law enforcement personnel) several years ago. Depending on what time you get to the Capitol, expect a long line as visitors

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Jonelle Maison thumbs through a stack of bills she’s drafting for the upcoming session earlier this month at the state Capitol. Maison — who has been proofreading and drafting bills for the Legislature for 50 years with the Legislative Council Service — is “an institution within the legislative institution,” the group’s director said.

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Bill drafter’s 50 years behind scenes at Roundhouse made legislators look good bartender — when the Roundhouse opportunity emerged.

“I was ecstatic,” Maison said. “I’m very competitive, and we all knew we were going to have a special session. I wanted to be the one to stay and work for it.”

As she prepared this month for the start of her 50th session, Maison, who has risen through the ranks to bill drafter, said she still feels the thrill of being a part of the legislative process each time she

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hortly after moving to Santa Fe from Florida in 1974, Jonelle Maison was hired as a bill proofreader for what would be the 1975 legislative session.

She hasn’t missed a session in the half-century since.

She had worked several other jobs — bookkeeper, waitress,

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Trump wins decisively; DeSantis second

City hopes to create a standard Santa Fe style

Former president has 51% of vote with nearly all counted; Fla. gov. narrowly beats Haley

Comms department releases internal style guide it hopes will bring consistency to its image

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DES MOINES — Donald Trump romped to a decisive victory Monday night in the frigid Iowa caucuses, cementing his formidable grip over the Republican Party and pushing the nation closer to a historic modern rematch with President Joe Biden.

With nearly 85% of the vote tallied, Trump was leading with 51% Monday night — more than his next two rivals combined.

His wide advantage put him on pace to shatter the previous margin of victory in the Republican caucuses, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis narrowly edging out former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for second place.

Trump’s victory came a little more than a year after he announced his 2024 bid to little fanfare and some doubts about his ability to consolidate his party behind him, following his 2020 loss to Biden and his incitement of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump’s strong finish in the caucuses underscored his dominance over his party’s base in a presidential contest expected to play out as much in the courtroom as the campaign trail. The former president faces 91 charges across four criminal cases,

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Former President Donald Trump eats pizza with firefighters at the Waukee Fire Department in Iowa on Sunday as he wears a “Trump Caucus Captain” hat. The Trump ground effort was reported to have been much stronger in the 2024 race than in 2016.

and right after the caucuses, he will head to New York where he plans to take part Tuesday in one of the several civil and criminal cases pending against him.

His win also affirmed the enduring appeal, at least among the Republican base, for Trump to return to power to exact revenge on his political opponents,

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pursue a more extreme agenda, and root out career bureaucrats he dismisses as the “deep state.” The former president has continued to push false claims about the 2020 election, as well as use ominous and threatening rhetoric historians have compared to authoritarian regimes.

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Spanish flamenco singer and guitarist Juan José Alba recently released a single titled “Santa Fe Style,” accompanied by a music video filmed at Diablo Canyon Recreation Area.

But what actually constitutes Santa Fe style?

When it comes to city government, there’s now an official answer.

The city of Santa Fe’s communications department has created an internal style guide, with the goal of making city government’s branding more consistent across its many departments and more identifiable for the public.

The effort includes a more selective use of the city’s official seal for items like governmental proclamations and communications, with a simplified shield icon employed for other uses, such as social media profile pictures, trash receptacles and city vehicles.

“This way, we make sure the seal is always used the best way it should be,” said communications manager Michaela Beggins.

The ultimate goal of brand standardization is to build trust and foster confidence in city government, according to the new style guide.

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Austin released from hospital; won’t return to Pentagon at once Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday, the Pentagon said, ending a two-week hospitalization he had kept secret for days after developing serious complications from surgery to treat prostate cancer.

Austin, 70, said in a statement he was grateful for the care he received and thanked well-wishers and the medical personnel who tended to him. It was not immediately clear how long he may be away from the Pentagon.

Austin’s doctors, John Maddox and Gregory Chesnut, said in a statement the defense chief continues to recover well and, following medical advice, “will recuperate and perform his duties remotely for a period of time.” The statement noted he has “full access to required secure communications capabilities” at his home, where he will undergo physical therapy and “regular follow up.”

Rent strike by 65 households challenges landlords under city’s ‘Union at Home’ law

Judge says Trump can wait a week to testify in defamation trial NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump can wait a week to testify at a New York defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury concluded he sexually abused a columnist in the 1990s, a federal judge said Sunday.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued a one-page order saying Trump could testify Jan. 22 even if the trial that starts Tuesday is otherwise over by Thursday. Trump plans to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law Thursday.

A jury to be chosen Tuesday will hear evidence pertaining to $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in punitive damages requested by attorneys for former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll, 80, won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation judgment in May from a civil jury that heard her testify Trump attacked her sexually in the dressing room of a luxury department store in midtown Manhattan in spring 1996. Trump did not attend that trial.

Boeing vows to fix quality control after incident on 737 Max 9 Boeing said Monday it would make changes to quality control processes after one of its 737 Max 9 jets lost a portion of its body during a nearly catastrophic Alaska Airlines flight this month.

The aircraft manufacturer said it would add additional inspections at its own factory and at that of an important supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, which installs the plug for unused exit doors, one of which blew out of the Max 9 midflight.

Both companies will also open their factories to more scrutiny by the airlines that fly the 737 by inviting them to conduct more inspections of the manufacturing process, starting with those that fly the Max 9. And Boeing will bring in an outside party to review its quality control program and suggest improvements.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 5 was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., after a door plug blew off, without any serious injuries to people on board.

At Ebenezer Baptist Church, King memorial service turns political ATLANTA — Communities across the nation celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday with acts of service, prayer services and parades. But with the November presidential election as a backdrop, some events took an overtly political turn.

In King’s hometown of Atlanta, several speakers at the 56th annual commemorative service at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King served as pastor, touched on the divisive partisan climate in the United States.

Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who served on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, had harsh words for former President Donald Trump, whom she did not mention by name.

“A former president refuses to acknowledge that he lost, and he has convinced millions that our elections and our democracy no longer work,” she said. “He threatens the foundations of our nation and everything Dr. King persevered to save.”

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the longtime senior pastor of Ebenezer, told the audience, “You better stand up and vote!” to rousing applause. “If your vote didn’t count, why are folks trying so hard to keep you from voting? Stand and use your voice. Stand up and use your vote. Speak up!”

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Carol Burnett, left, presents Quinta Brunson with the outstanding lead actress in a comedy series award for Abbott Elementary on Monday during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Brunson is the first Black woman to win the award since 1981.

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LOS ANGELES uccession won best drama series, The Bear won best comedy, and both dominated the acting awards at Monday night’s Emmys, while Quinta Brunson scored an emotional and historic win for Abbott Elementary.

Succession, the HBO saga of a squabbling wealthy family and its maladjusted media empire, won its third best drama series prize for its fourth and final season, along with a best actor in a drama award for Kieran Culkin and best actress in a drama for Sarah Snook.

The Bear, the FX dramedy about another contentious family and a struggling restaurant at the center of the life of a talented chef, won best comedy series for its first season. The Emmys also heaped honors on its acting cast, including Jeremy Allen White as best actor in a comedy, best supporting actress in a comedy for Ayo Edebiri and best supporting actor in a comedy for Ebon-Moss Bachrach. All three were first-time nominees.

“This is a show about family and found family and real family,” Edebiri said from the stage as she accepted the first trophy of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Brunson won best actress in a comedy at the Emmy Awards for the show she created, Abbott Elementary, becoming the first Black woman to win the award in more than 40 years and the first from a network show to win it in more than a decade.

“I love making Abbott Elementary so much, and I am so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy,” Brunson said during her acceptance on the Fox telecast, fighting back tears.

Succession won six Emmys overall, including best supporting actor for Matthew Macfadyen.

Beef won best limited series, while Steven Yeun and Ali Wong became the first Asian Americans to win in their categories — Yeun for best actor in a limited series and Wong for best actress. Creator Lee Sung won Emmys

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for writing and directing. It had eight Emmys overall after three wins at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Brunson had won a writing Emmy for Abbott Elementary, her mockumentary about a predominantly Black and chronically underfunded grade school in Philadelphia, but Monday’s was her first for acting. Isabel Sanford of The Jeffersons was the only previous Black woman to win the category, in 1981.

The first hour of the show held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day saw three Black women win major awards: Brunson, Edebiri and Niecy Nash-Betts, who won best supporting actress in a limited series for Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

On the Netflix show, Nash-Betts played a neighbor of the serial killer whose complaints to authorities about his behavior go unheeded.

“I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard and over-policed,” she said.

The show was held on the holiday because of a four-month delay over Hollywood’s writers and actors strikes.

The tweaked awards calendar made for some oddities. Edebiri and White won their Emmy for the show’s first season eight days after winning Golden Globes for the second season.

Culkin outshined the older brother and the father to win the final lead actor Emmy for Succession.

Culkin had twice been nominated for best supporting actor for Succession, without a win.

But in the final season, in which his character, Roman Roy, goes from sideline wisecracker to emotional disaster at the center of the show’s drama, he was put in the lead category and won over castmates Brian Cox, who played his father, and Jeremy Strong, who played his older brother.

Emotions ran high from the start of the ceremony. The first presenter, Christina Applegate, who said in 2021 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, got a standing ovation as she came out using a cane to present the award and was tearful as she announced the winners.

Cold advisory for 150M in U.S. as storm pushes south

By Carolyn Thompson, Matthew Brown and Valerie Gonzalez The Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S. on Monday, promising the coldest temperatures ever for Iowa’s presidential nominating contest, holding up travelers and testing the mettle of NFL fans in Buffalo for a playoff game that was delayed a day by wind-whipped snow.

About 150 million Americans were

under a wind chill warning or advisory for dangerous cold and wind, said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Md., as an Arctic air mass spilled south and eastward across the U.S. Saco, Mont., dropped to minus-51 degrees Sunday morning.

Subzero lows reached into Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and parts of Indiana, Taylor said.

The storm was blamed for at least four weekend deaths around Portland, Ore., including two people who died of

suspected hypothermia. Another man was killed after a tree fell on his house and a woman died in a fire that spread from an open-flame stove after a tree fell onto an RV. In Utah, where almost 4 feet of snow fell in the mountains over a 24-hour period, a snowmobiler was struck and killed Sunday night by a semitrailer about 70 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

Across the Deep South, freeze warnings covered large parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

In Mississippi, forecasters warned of a “long duration freeze” and said temperatures in some locations would remain below freezing until Thursday.

The lowest temperatures Tuesday night will be in the single digits above zero in the northern part of the state, according to the weather service’s Jackson office.

Highs weren’t expected to rise above 15 or 20 degrees across Oklahoma, Arkansas, northern Texas and western Tennessee, the weather service’s Taylor said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Autoworkers in Detroit. Actors and screenwriters in Hollywood. Teachers in Portland, Ore. During a wave of labor unrest over the past year in which more than 500,000 American workers went on strike, a small group of San Franciscans has brought a similar vein of activism to a different arena: their homes.

Tenants in 65 San Francisco households have been on a rent strike, some for nearly eight months, withholding their monthly payments over a host of issues they say have made their living conditions difficult.

A handful of rent strikes have occurred in New York City and Los Angeles. But activists, with renewed fervor, are now trying to organize tenants around the nation, saying corporations, rather than mom-and-pop landlords, are increasingly buying up apartments and neglecting the units.

“Most tenants these days don’t know their landlords. They’re nameless, faceless LLCs,” said Tara Raghuveer, director of the Homes Guarantee campaign, which is working to establish tenant unions like the one in San Francisco.

“Naming and shaming doesn’t work.

Rent strikes will become an even more necessary tactic.”

San Francisco has one of the highest concentrations of renters in the nation, about two-thirds of households, similar to the share in New York City.

In 2022, city leaders passed Union at Home, the first legislation of its kind in the U.S. It lays out a path for tenants to form their own associations and requires landlords to bargain with them, just as an employer must meet with unionized workers.

Within a year, tenants in 55 San Francisco buildings formed their own associations calling for a range of improvements, including quicker repairs, lower charges for utilities and translation of materials for renters who do not speak English. Most of the associations have not initiated a strike.

Luisa Rodriguez, 38, immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in 2020 with two children, now 9 and 18, and had a third child in San Francisco.

The family lives in a small studio apartment on the sixth floor of their building that rents for $1,600 a month.

Rodriguez, who works as a cook, has not paid her landlord since June.

Striking tenants pay their rent to a fund being held in trust until the strike is resolved.

Rodriguez and her children sleep together in two beds pushed against one wall to put as much distance as possible between them and a space where mold has continually appeared.

She showed copies of letters from a doctor at the San Francisco Health Network that told her landlord, “The mold is endangering the health of your tenants,” and asked for immediate action.

Veritas Investments, which owns the building where the Rodriguez family lives, said workers repaired the damage.

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday as authorities in the enclave reported the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed 24,000.

While the U.N. agency chiefs did not directly point a finger at Israel, they said aid delivery is hobbled by the opening of too few border crossings, a slow vetting process for trucks and goods going into Gaza, and continuing fighting throughout the territory — all of which Israel plays a deciding factor in.

Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has prompted unprecedented destruction in the tiny coastal enclave and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe that has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population and pushed more than a quarter into starvation, according to the U.N. It has also stoked regional tensions, with Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen carrying out strikes in support of the Palestinians.

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Adam Rasgon The New York Times

Hamas said Monday two of the hostages captured Oct. 7 had been killed in Israeli airstrikes and released images that appeared to show their bodies, but the Israeli military cast doubt on the claim.

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, chief spokesman for the Israeli military, said at a news briefing at least one of the hostages was not killed by its forces. “That’s a Hamas lie,” he said. He did not address the fate of the other hostage.

The claim of the deaths, in a video from Hamas’ military wing, came after messages from the group promising news Monday about the fate of three hostages — the two it said were killed and a third it said was injured.

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The Red Sea, which connects A ballistic missile fired by to the Mediterranean through the Houthi militants struck a U.S.Suez Canal, is one of the world’s owned container ship off the most important shipping routes. coast of Yemen on Monday, About 12% of all global trade U.S. Central Command said in a passes through the Red Sea and statement. There were no injuries Suez Canal, according to the U.S. and no “significant damage” to Naval Institute. the ship, which was continuing The Houthis have controlled its journey, according to the a large swath of Yemen since statement. deposing the central government The strike on the ship, the in 2014. The group has said its M/V Gibraltar Eagle, occurred attacks in the Red Sea are aimed two hours after another ballistic at ending Israel’s siege and offenmissile fired toward the southern sive in the Gaza Strip.

Red Sea “failed in flight” and “We consider all American missed its target, the statement and British ships and warships said. participating in the aggression The twin attacks showed the against our country as hostile tarHouthis’ intention and apparent gets,” Houthi military spokesman, ability to continue their assaults Yayha Saree said Monday. The on commercial shipping, days Houthis would continue mariHATEM ALI FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS time attacks “until the aggression A Palestinian made homeless by Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip arrives at a tent camp in Rafah, after the United States and Britain began conducting airstrikes stops and the siege on Gaza is southern Gaza, on Sunday. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced, the U.N. says. lifted.” against the group aimed at The Washington Post

In Gaza, civilians have grown desperate.

Video shared online by Al Jazeera showed hundreds of people rushing toward what appeared to be an aid truck in what the news outlet said was Gaza City. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the video, and it wasn’t clear when it was filmed.

The World Food Program, UNICEF and the World Health Organization said Monday new entry routes need to be opened to Gaza, more trucks need to be allowed in each day, and aid workers and those seeking aid need to be allowed to move around safely.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said U.N. agencies and their partners “cannot effectively deliver humanitarian aid while Gaza is under such heavy, widespread and unrelenting bombardment.”

He said the deaths of 152 U.N.

staffers in Gaza since the start of the war is “the largest single loss of life in the history of our organization.”

The Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Monday the bodies of 132 people killed in Israeli strikes were brought to Gaza hospitals over the past day, raising the death toll from the start of the war to 24,100.

The ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between fighters and noncombatants in its tally, says two-thirds of those killed in the war were women and children.

Israel says its forces have killed roughly 8,000 militants, without providing evidence.

Israel blames Hamas for the high Palestinian death toll, saying its fighters make use of civilian buildings, and launch attacks from densely populated urban areas.

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ment has condemned such messages as psychological warfare.

The video included clips, apparently recorded earlier, of the two hostages it claimed were killed, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, speaking while looking into a camera, and then video apparently showing their bodies.

It included narration by the hostage who reportedly survived,

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Noa Argamani, 26, who told of her companions’ deaths and described being wounded herself.

It was not possible to determine when or where any scenes in the video were recorded.

Rights groups and international law experts say any hostage video is, by definition, made under duress, and can constitute a war crime.

city, Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a current focus of the ground offensive, as well as in northern Gaza, where the Israeli military says it continues to expand its control.

A day after the White House said it was time for Israel to curtail its military offensive, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the intense offensive in southern Gaza will be scaled back once Israel takes military control of the area.

In Israel, a woman was killed and 12 other people were wounded in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in a suburb of Tel Aviv police said was carried out by at least two Palestinians.

They were later arrested. The suspects stole three different cars and attempted to run down pedestrians, police said.

Hamas praised the attack, but neither it nor other Palestinian armed groups claimed responsibility for it.

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Santa Fe New Mexicann reporter

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

Poll: Nearly two-thirds of caucus-goers don’t view Biden’s win as legitimate

By Marianne Levine The Washington Post

Preliminary Iowa Republican caucus entrance polls Monday highlighted the grip former President Donald Trump maintains on Republican voters and the extent to which his false claims the 2020 election was rigged have dominated the GOP electorate.

Nearly two-thirds of Iowa caucus-goers said President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the presidential election in 2020, according to results from network entrance polls conducted by Edison Research.

Those numbers come as Trump has made false claims surrounding the 2020 election a key part of his stump speech and his bid for a return to the White House. During a campaign

event in Indianola, Iowa, this weekend ahead of his caucus victory Monday night, Trump declared “radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election of 2020 and we are not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024.”

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and challenges to myriad election-related issues have been repudiated more than 60 times in court.

Since 2020, Trump has routinely claimed Biden did not win the election or that the election was rigged. Weeks after his loss, Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to halt the final counting of the electoral college votes confirming Biden’s win. Trump’s actions related to Jan. 6 and his

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Thirty-one minutes after the caucuses began, and with only a small slice of votes counted, the Associated Press called the race for Trump. The early decision infuriated DeSantis’s campaign, with officials alleging the media was interfering with the caucus process. In some precincts, voters were still listening to speeches from campaign representatives, and had not even written down their preferred candidate yet.

At the Trump campaign victory party in Des Moines, the ballroom remained largely silent when the race was called for Trump — because no one was there to cheer.

Neither the former president nor any of his supporters had arrived yet. The bartender staffing the cash bar was also not there yet, and bowls of popcorn remained untouched on empty tables.

Speaking roughly two hours after officially winning the caucuses, Trump offered a uncharacteristically unifying message.

“We want to come together,” a subdued Trump told his supporters. “Whether it’s Republican or Democrat, liberal, conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we’re witnessing.”

Monday’s caucuses were the coldest in history, with temperatures falling below zero as Iowans trudged to schools, churches and community centers across the state to register their choices. In the days leading up to the contests, candidates were forced to cancel events because of hazardous conditions, prompting questions about turnout and which candidates might suffer if voters decided to stay home.

Edison Research estimated turnout would be around 120,000 Iowans — a drop from more than 186,000 in 2016, the last time there was an open Republican presidential race.

Trump’s win put him well-ahead of the previous historic victory margin in a contested Iowa caucuses — then-Kansas Sen. Bob Dole’s roughly 13-point margin here in 1988 — but behind his own outsize boasts of finishing as many as 60 points ahead of the field.

Trump’s Iowa win, long expected by his

efforts to overturn the election are now the focus of a federal investigation. Trump has been indicted in that case, as well as three other criminal cases since leaving office, and faces 91 charges.

According to the entrance poll results, of the voters who did not believe Biden won the election, about 7 in 10 supported Trump. About 2 in 10 supported Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. On the flip side, of the voters who believed Biden won the 2020 election, the majority backed former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, followed by DeSantis and Trump.

Both Haley and DeSantis have said that Trump lost the 2020 election.

Trump’s legal issues don’t appear to be damaging his

opponents, left in its wake a pitched battle between DeSantis, Florida’s governor, and Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador under Trump.

DeSantis narrowly muscled ahead of Haley to take second.

Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy ended his campaign Monday night after a disappointing fourth-place finish, throwing his support behind Trump.

DeSantis — who launched his campaign last May, only to plummet in the polls — had largely staked his 2024 fortunes on a strong finish in Iowa, where he had the support of Kim Reynolds, the state’s Republican governor, and influential evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats.

Trump has openly clashed with Reynolds and Vander Plaats, and his win served as yet another powerful reminder the base of the party is now often at odds with Republican leaders who dare to criticize Trump.

DeSantis plans to fly Monday evening to Haley’s home state of South Carolina, heading there first before New Hampshire — whose primary is next Tuesday — in a sign he is not willing to cede last-candidate-standing-against-Trump status to her.

DeSantis has fallen into the single-digits in polls of the New Hampshire race, where Haley stands alone in second place to Trump.

After a slow start, Haley steadily crawled ahead in the polls. By the time the much-anticipated Des Moines Register/NBC News/ Mediacom poll came out Saturday night, Haley had overtaken DeSantis for second place, with 20% support in the poll to his 16%.

Haley and her team hoped to use the Iowa results to try to cast her in a two-way race with Trump, but the tight battle with DeSantis stymied her goal of slingshotting to the top of the next primary matchup.

She heads to New Hampshire on Tuesday, a state where she is expected to perform well and where polls show her climbing closer to Trump. The result in New Hampshire may depend significantly on the degree of participation of undeclared voters, among whom Haley performs best.

From there, the Republican nominating contest shifts to South Carolina, where she was twice elected governor and where her team argues she has home state advantage.

The Trump campaign, however, as well as some longtime South Carolina Republicans, say Haley is hardly the assured winner of

standing among Republican primary voters. The entrance polls also revealed the extensive loyalty Trump has among the GOP base in Iowa. The poll found that more than 6 in 10 voters would still consider Trump fit to be president, even if he was convicted of a crime, while about a third said he would no longer be fit to be president. That number holds significance given the overlap between Trump’s court dates and his campaign schedule.

The entrance polls from Monday night found that Trump won about 7 in 10 of those caucus-goers who said he would still be fit to serve even if he were convicted. Of the roughly one-third who felt Trump would not be fit for office if convicted of a crime, about half backed Haley.

the state’s primary Feb. 24, and that Trump could easily best her on her home turf.

Beyond the 2024 stakes, Trump’s Iowa victory also holds outsize symbolic importance for the former president and his team.

In 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas narrowly edged Trump out for first place here, a loss that, despite becoming the Republican nominee, Trump has never forgotten.

Members of his 2016 campaign later recalled, only half-jokingly, descending into Des Moines on Trump’s private jet as aides frantically googled, “What is a caucus?”

The 2016 operation had almost no on-theground organization in Iowa, and eight years later, Trump vowed not to repeat the same mistakes.

This time, despite still spending far less time on the ground in the state than many of his rivals, the Trump operation was far more disciplined and prepared than in 2016.

They had over 1,800 caucus captains — a captain for every caucus site, as well as the top 1,000 precincts, said a Trump adviser, who added the team conducted over 300 caucus captain trainings.

As a blizzard bore down on the state, the Trump campaign deployed staff to take pictures of the parking lots at some caucus sites, to ensure they were accessible and not socked in by snow, the Trump adviser said.

The operation also enlisted farmers on their supporter list in two rural counties to clear gravel roads that were still snow-logged, and was regularly in touch with the board of supervisors and the mayors in both areas to ensure the districts had the necessary resources to ensure safe travel, this person added.

Across the country, more than 1,000 miles away, Biden spent Monday volunteering at a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia as he observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But his campaign sent several top allies to Des Moines to rail against the Republican field.

“Tonight’s contest is simply a question of whether you like your MAGA Trump agenda wrapped in the original packaging or with high heels or with lifts in their boots,” said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, needling Haley, who often brings up her footwear choice, and DeSantis, who has been widely mocked for seeming to wear height boosters in his shoes.

The officials also touted Biden’s massive fundraising haul after they announced Monday the reelection effort raised $97 million in the last three months of 2023.

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New brand guidelines from the city of Santa Fe showing proper and improper uses of the city’s official logo. The guidelines are intended to create a more consistent aesthetic across departments.

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style guide for a long time, which to her knowledge the city has not had before. She emphasized the effort is not a rebrand, but an attempt to cut down on the “huge array of logos” on display across different city departments and divisions.

“We aren’t doing away with anything, just trying to build consistency,” she said.

The 19-page document, publicly available on the city’s communications web page, details guidelines for how the city’s logos should be displayed and formatted, including exceptions and variations.

Along with the city logos it includes information about the city’s typefaces and its brand colors — gray, gold, blue and red — which Beggins said are drawn from elements of Santa Fe’s natural landscape.

The city’s primary logo, one familiar to longtime Santa Feans, features a shield in the center of the city’s seal with the words “City of Santa Fe.” The seal draws on a number of historic elements from the city’s colonial past, including the original Spanish founding name of the city: “La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís.”

The shield in the center of the seal includes elements of the flags of the three countries that have claimed ownership of the city: Spain, Mexico and the United States. Below, it lists the years the three countries took control: 1610 (Spain), 1821 (Mexico) and 1846 (United States).

One group that goes unmentioned are the Indigenous Tewa communities, which are believed to have resided in and around Santa Fe since roughly the year 900.

The style guide states the city seal is to be used for official city documents, and the full-color seal should be used only with the communications department’s approval.

The guidelines are intended to make the seal “the highest level of our branding,” Beggins said.

Local historians said they did not know when Santa Fe’s seal first came into use but noted it does not

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The city of Santa Fe’s simplified logo, as seen on the city’s official Instagram profile. Communications director Michaela Beggins said the shield icon will used for things such as the city’s social media profile pictures, trash cans and city vehicles, while the full seal will be reserved for more elevated uses.

date back to the city’s inception.

“The crest doesn’t go back to colonial times,” said state historian Rob Martinez.

In 2020, the seal was tweaked after a New Mexican reporter noticed an accent mark in one of the words was placed above the wrong letter. It’s unclear when the error was introduced.

The style guide includes 10 accepted department-specific logos, including the Water Division, which is the city shield inside a water droplet, the Santa Fe Police Department, which includes a police badge and elongated Zia symbol, and the Santa Fe Fire Department, which displays the city shield inside the shape of two crossed fire axes.

Beggins said the shift to more consistency isn’t expected to happen immediately. The communications department is working to update things like websites, business cards and profile pages, while logos on items such as vehicles and trash carts will be phased in as older models are replaced.

“Really what we’re asking is: When new things are being purchased, [inform] my team about it so we can sign off on the brand standards,” she said.

Beggins said a consistent style should make it immediately obvious when something is from the city.

“Going forward, we want to make sure things are unified, consistent, and recognizable as [coming from] the city of Santa Fe,” she said.

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Council Service, researching and drafting the vast majority of bills, resolutions and other measures lawmakers will consider.

Maison has become part of the architecture of the Roundhouse.

She has not only worked as a bill proofer, editor and drafter — a position she reached in 1981 — but also has served short stints as a legislative analyst for both the Administrative Office of the Courts and the House Appropriations and Finance Committee.

Over the decades, she has seen the Legislature through highs and lows and everything in between.

She has worked in the Legislative Council Service under several directors, including the late, “legendary” Clay Buchanan — who shaped the agency in his almost three decades of leadership — as well as Paula Tackett and current Director Raúl Burciaga.

Burciaga called Maison “an institution within the legislative institution.”

He wrote in a recent email she has trained countless drafters and staff attorneys in drafting legislation with her “unmatched” knowledge on the history and background of many sections of state law.

Maison has the ability to recall where a provision of law can be found within the 13 hard-copy volumes of New Mexico Statutes Annotated, Burciaga wrote, most often without resorting to an online keyword search.

“She has incredible stamina,” he wrote, “and has rarely taken a

Maison sorts through closed bills, memorials and amendments from former legislative sessions in the bill clerk’s room at the Capitol in January. Legislative Council Service Director Raúl Burciaga said Maison has the ability to recall where a provision of law can be found within the 13 hard-copy volumes of New Mexico Statutes Annotated, most often without resorting to an online keyword search. PHOTOS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Jonelle Maison stands at the railing overlooking the Rotunda at the Capitol last month. After finding her career in the legislative branch of state government, Maison said she never looked back.

“It’s that I am part of it,” Maison said. “When I walk out on that floor, I belong.”

day off during session.”

Part of the thrill of drafting legislation is that it offers constant opportunities to learn something new, Maison said.

“You’re not doing the same thing every day. Every day always has the chance of being exciting — it’s not that it always is, but it has the chance,” she said.

Maison considers herself a “generalist.” She has drafted bills pertaining to public school licensing, vehicles, executive branch reorganization, appropriations, higher education funding

and many other areas of law.

She finds the process of researching and writing a wellcrafted bill fulfilling, she said, whether or not it eventually becomes law — and either way, she will learn something new.

She was born in Hawaii and spent most of her childhood in Georgia. She earned a degree in sociology from Florida Technological University, with a focus on “group behavior” and “deviant behavior,” she said.

“It’s stood me in good stead here,” she joked. “I probably

shouldn’t say that.”

After she found a career in the legislative branch of state government, Maison said she never looked back.

“It’s that I am part of it,” Maison said. “When I walk out on that floor, I belong.”

The most exciting day for her in the Legislature came in 1992, when the House of Representatives voted to censure Albuquerque Democrat Ron Olguin.

Olguin was later convicted in state court of soliciting a bribe in exchange for his work to help

pass funding for a criminal counseling program.

Staffers were then prohibited from observing proceedings from the gallery, Maison said, but she watched from the press box as then-House Speaker Raymond Sanchez asked the sergeant-atarms to bring Olguin to the well.

Maison reenacted Sanchez slamming a large gavel three times (“Wham! Wham! Wham!”) before reading the resolution to censure Olguin.

“There were just chills,” she said. “It was the most dramatic moment I’ve seen in 50 years.”

Maison — along with other staffers at the Legislative Council Service — is required by law to remain neutral on legislation. She said she is not neutral, however, about the constitutional powers of the legislative branch.

Burciaga wrote Maison has been “a staunch defender of the legislative institution,” reminding lawmakers, lobbyists, staff and others of the need to “zealously guard the Legislature against encroachment from the other branches of government.”

“It should be noted that she is strongly nonpartisan,” Burciaga added, “but she is biased when it comes to preserving and protecting the legislative branch.”

Maison said she and other bill drafters see themselves as “defenders of the legislative branch” who occasionally must work to prevent lawmakers from shifting the branch’s constitutional powers, even as they are sometimes used as scapegoats in the process.

“Our job is to make [legislators] look good,” she said, “but it’s also to protect the branch.”

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

LEGISLATURE

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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Education funding plans differ on raises, literacy program Governor’s Office, committees also apart on allocation for free school lunches

By Margaret O’Hara

mohara@sfnewmexican.com

A challenging task awaits New Mexico lawmakers in the next 30 days: Reconciling three very different spending plans for K-12 public education.

Schools are expected to receive at least $4 billion from the state in fiscal year 2025 — the single largest chunk of what is likely to be a record-high budget of more than $10 billion.

Even the most conservative education proposal would allocate an increase over the current year of $200 million.

But how money for schools should be spent varies widely in the plans introduced by the Legislative Finance Committee, the Legislative Education Study Committee and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office — with significant differences in salary increases for teachers and other

school workers, statewide literacy initiatives and cost estimates for universal free meals.

“Just keeping it all straight in your head is hard enough,” said Rep. Joy Garratt, D-Albuquerque, a member of the House Education Committee.

The Legislative Education Study Committee, which adopted its budget proposal Monday, recommends the biggest pay hike for educators: a 6% raise, at a cost of $190 million. The Legislative Finance Committee is offering up 2% raises plus a 2% cost-of-living adjustment — totaling about $125 million — while the executive budget includes pay increases of 3%, at a cost of $94 million.

The raises would be the latest in a series of salary increases for New Mexico teachers. The Legislature in 2022 increased the base pay to $50,000, $60,000 and $70,000 annually, depending on which type of license a teacher holds within the state’s threetiered system, and offered 6% raises, on average, for all educators in 2023.

The three spending plans

Study: New Mexico’s dropouts most likely to leave early in high school

By Robert Nott

rnott@sfnewmexican.com

New Mexico has made progress in boosting its high school graduation rates in the last few years but remains near the bottom in national rankings.

Lawmakers heard news Monday of an alarming trend that could derail the gains: Students are more likely to drop out early in their high school experience, with over two-thirds of dropouts leaving in the ninth or tenth grades.

That will affect their ability to find work, says a new report by the Legislative Finance Committee, because “jobs available now and into the future will require higher levels of education.”

Citing a study by the Georgetown University Center on Education that found 72% of jobs will require at least a secondary education by 2031, the report notes the greatest growth in job demand is likely to be in the “STEM, healthcare and business services — all industries that typically require more than a high school diploma.”

Adding to the problem, chronic absenteeism among New Mexico students rose from 16% in 2019-20 to 41% in 2021-22 before dropping slightly to 39% in 2022-23. The spike is likely to have a negative effect on the statewide graduation rate in coming years, LFC analysts told lawmakers.

“Ninth and tenth graders are becoming the most chronically absent,” said John Valdez, a program evaluator for the LFC. “That’s problematic for the graduation rate in coming years.

It’s not yet dipping, but the cohort of students who could graduate — or not — in 2024, 2025 and beyond have been more chronically absent than their predecessors.”

The state’s graduation rate has moved up nearly 7 percentage points to 76.2% in 2022 from 69.3% in 2014 — when the LFC last evaluated the issue.

The nationwide graduation rate is about 87%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Lawmakers said they want state officials to find a solution to the problem by answering one question: Why? “In order to fix the problem, we have to understand why they’re gone. Not just that they’re gone, but why they’re gone,” said Rep. Jack Chatfield, R-Mosquero.

Proficiency rates are another challenge, the LFC report says: Based on 2022 data, just 34% of

ninth graders are proficient in English language arts and 25% are proficient in math.

The report says academic proficiency remains a meaningful indicator of potential graduation: “Of all students, those who eventually graduated were about twice as likely to have been proficient in ninth-grade testing.”

Several lawmakers questioned whether more needs to be done to prepare students for middle school and high school so they feel more confident about their academic skills by ninth grade.

The report cites programs that are effective when it comes to keeping students in schools, including the Advancement Via Individual Determination college preparatory program at Capital High School — better known as AVID — along with community school initiatives and career technical education.

Rep. Brian Baca, R-Los Lunas, said lawmakers should “look for more funds for engagement at middle school.”

“Whatever that hook may be, CTE or fine art or athletics, it has to be properly funded because we want our kids in schools, and whatever gets them in those doors helps,” he added.

Valdez said LFC analysts visited several schools around the state to learn more about graduation rates and why students drop out. While he said no formal study has been conducted on the issue, counselors, teachers and principals said some students have to take jobs to help support their families.

Some students spoke of mental health issues that kept them from attending school regularly, and many said they could not find a “hook” to keep them engaged in school, he said.

Sen. William Burt, R-Alamogordo, said more research has to be done to determine why students stop going to school.

“I’m hoping the [Public Education Department] or somebody within the state — even if it’s behavioral health — is planning to talk to some of these students,” he said.

The LFC report recommends the Public Education Department invest in efforts to address chronic absenteeism and improve proficiency rates.

That might play the biggest role in building a student’s confidence to stay the course and graduate, said Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup.

Otherwise, he noted, students say to themselves, “Why should I go to school? I’m failing.”

TAKEAWAYS ◆ New Mexico’s graduation rate has moved up nearly 7 percentage points since 2014 — from 69.3% to 76.2% in 2022. ◆ Unfortunately, it’s likely to drop in the next few years because of chronic absenteeism rates among ninth and 10th graders, who are more likely to drop out than their older schoolmates, according to a Legislative Finance Committee report released Monday. ◆ The report recommends the state Public Education Department invest in efforts to improve graduation rates by addressing chronic absenteeism and improving proficiency rates among students.

TAKEAWAYS ◆ Lawmakers will have to reconcile three very different public school budget proposals in the session that begins Tuesday. ◆ Stemming from the Legislative Finance Committee, the Legislative Education Study Committee and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office, the three spending plans indicate a lack of consensus on salary increases for educators, statewide literacy initiatives and estimates for the state’s cost of free school meals. ◆ The Legislative Education Study Committee supports 6% raises for educators and other school workers — including bus drivers — while the Legislative Finance Committee planned for 2% raises and a 2% cost-of-living adjustment. The governor’s spending plan includes an increase of 3%.

proposed salary increases at the same levels — 6%, 4% and 3% — for transportation staff and other workers.

Santa Fe Public Schools has been clamoring for pay raises for bus drivers since November, when the district had to pause bus routes due to lack of staff.

The LESC backs a bill to increase minimum salaries for some of the lowest-paid school employees, including education assistants, nutrition workers and secretaries. Endorsed by the committee in December, the bill would require minimum pay of $30,000 per year or $15 per hour for full-time public school

employees. It comes with an appropriation of nearly $25 million, which is accounted for in the LESC’s budget proposal but not in the governor’s or the LFC’s.

Rep. Susan Herrera, D-Embudo, took issue with the governor and LFC for leaving out funds to raise the minimum pay. During the LESC meeting Monday, she and other lawmakers asked why a line item endorsed by the interim education committee would be omitted from the powerful finance committee’s overall spending plan for the state and questioned the LFC’s tight grip on the purse strings.

“Money should follow policy — not policy follows money, and that happens way too often,” said Herrera, a member of the House Education Committee.

The three budgets also divide when it comes to funding for literacy initiatives.

New Mexico has been working for years to improve abysmal student reading proficiency rates by implementing a teaching technique called structured literacy, in which teachers explicitly and systematically instruct students on elements essential to reading. The Public Education Department plans to continue training in structured literacy for all elementary school teachers — an effort that began a few years ago — and has requested funding to train fifth grade and middle school teachers in the technique in fiscal year 2025.

Lujan Grisham announced in September her plans to request a one-time appropriation of $30 million to start a structured literacy institute to focus on teacher training. Her budget recommendation and the LESC’s both include the $30 million.

The governor’s budget includes an additional $5 million for literacy initiatives in middle schools and high schools.

The LFC, however, doesn’t seem to buy into plans for a literacy institute: Its plan allocates just $3 million to continue structured literacy initiatives.

Each budget allocates funds for universal school meals, an initiative that resulted from legislation approved in 2023.

While the legislative committees included a little over $20 million to feed New Mexico’s K-12 students breakfast and lunch every day, the Governor’s Office anticipated a cost of nearly $44 million.

Lujan Grisham’s cost outlook might be the one that would most accurately cover the costs.

LESC Director Gwen Perea Warniment told lawmakers Monday the free meal initiative led to an increase in the number of schools and students participating in meal programs, pushing up the overall cost.

“Their number might be right,” she said.

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have to first go through a security checkpoint at both the east and west entrances.

What if my stomach starts growling?

The What the Truck catering service runs The Capitol Cafe from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. weekdays. The cafe is located on the west side of the main, ground-floor level.

Where can I find legislation that lawmakers have filed? Visit nmlegis. gov and click on the Legislation link for bills introduced by members of the House of Representatives. It will provide options for finding a House bill based on number, sponsor or topic.

For bills introduced by members of the Senate, go to the main webpage and look for the box near the bottom of the page that says Index of 2024 Senate Prefiles. These are listed in order of being introduced and are not as easy to search or navigate as the House bills. Incidentally, lawmakers have until Jan. 31 to introduce bills.

What if I want to watch this shindig from home? Visit nmlegis.gov and click on the Webcast link. The Legislature is pretty good at streaming events live.

I’m sure everything starts on time, including the governor’s State of the State address, committee hearings and chamber floor hearings, right? You gotta be kidding. OK, the answer is: Sometimes, but not usually. If you are following a particular bill in a particular committee or floor hearing, do not assume that just because it is at the top of the agenda it will be heard first. Likewise, if your bill of interest is

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Yolanda Sena with the Sergeant-at-Arms Office works on a materials distribution list Friday in the House of Representatives at the Capitol. This year’s 30-day session begins at noon today, with the governor’s State of the State address taking center stage.

listed as the fifth on the agenda, be ready for it to be moved up or down the list at a legislator’s whim. And there are any number of reasons a bill might not get heard at all — perhaps the sponsor asked for a delay or the committee chair moved it back a day or the committee ran out of time to consider it.

It’s politics, right? So where’s the complaint department? The Capitol doesn’t really have one, but it does have a reception desk, a lost and found office, a mailroom and sometimes a shoeshine guy.

Plus, there’s a collection of art on the walls

throughout the building, which attracts tourists and art lovers. Our experience has been that everyone who works there, from the security detail to the cleaning crew to the food folks to the sergeants-at-arms and legislative aids, are pretty darned nice.

When does this year’s session end? At noon Feb. 15. And no, there is no provision for it to go into overtime, though the governor or the Legislature as a body can call for special sessions to address unresolved business, as has been done in the past with such issues as redistricting and legalizing cannabis.

ment in housing in state history.”

The funding would be split evenly between the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority’s Continued from Page A-1 Housing Trust Fund and the New Mexico Finance Authority’s results before the Legislature Opportunity Enterprise Fund commits to making them part of to provide direct assistance for the state’s recurring funding. renters, homeowners and people Small called the proposed experiencing homelessness, fund a new and innovative idea. as well as a loan program that “We are really focused on provides financing for building effective implementation, on and renovation projects. making sure that money is budSen. George Muñoz, a Gallup geted in the ways where it can Democrat who chairs the LFC and best help New Mexicans make the Senate Finance Committee, the most impact,” he said. said the recurring spending in the Wayne Propst, secretary of LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN governor’s budget would require the New Mexico Department of Robert Chavez with the Capitol’s IT Department sets up a compainful budget cuts in the future.

Finance and Administration, said puter Friday in the office of Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces.

Maddy Hayden, a spokesthe executive branch at this point Small, who serves as chairman of the House Appropriations woman for Lujan Grisham, said has more questions than answers and Finance Committee and vice chairman of the Legislative the Governor’s Office disagrees Finance Committee, said there are details to be ironed out beabout the proposed fund. with the contention. tween the governor’s and the legislature’s budget proposals.

“It is a significant change to “There is no evidence that the way the state does its budget, budget cuts will be required,” fill or for retention. back out is very difficult.” the most significant change I’ve she wrote in an email.

The new fund would allow the ◆ Medicaid provider reimseen in my 19 years or so in state “In fact, the LFC’s own analysis bursement rates would be higher committee to avoid saying no to a government,” he said. projects steady revenue growth under the governor’s proposed new request outright and instead Propst questioned whether a for the foreseeable future, albeit budget than the LFC’s. say, “ ‘Maybe, but you’re going to short session was the right time at lower levels than the past few ◆ Lawmakers would receive have to prove it because we’re to consider such a big change years,” she wrote. “The LFC’s going to give you four years’ worth less funding for capital outlay in and noted there were no hearrecurring, non-recurring capital their districts under the goverings on the proposal “during the of funding. Go show that this is outlay and proposed tax package nor’s spending plan, a proposal worthwhile to build into the ageninterim to kind of flesh out how cy’s base budget,’ ” Sallee said. already creating strife. While the are all within the range of the exactly it would work.”

Other key distinctions governor’s proposal calls for each Executive’s budget. ... Plus, the Lawmakers meet for 60 days Executive Budget maintains between the two spending plans: chamber of the Legislature and in odd-numbered years and 30 ◆ The governor is proposing the executive branch to split $350 higher reserves at 34.2%.” days in even-numbered years, Lawmakers and Propst said a $500 million tax package, while million three ways and which some say limits how $500 million for statewide capital they expect the two branches of lawmakers are proposing much they can get done. $200 million in tax cuts. outlay, the LFC proposal calls for government to reach a comproCharles Sallee, director of the mise. ◆ The governor’s spending a three-way split of $525 million.

Legislative Finance Committee, “Whether you’re talking about plan calls for 3% across-the“We certainly have some said the $300 million would be things that we would like to have capital outlay, whether you’re “for four years’ worth of spending board pay increases and 14% talking about a tax package, funded that they don’t,” Propst for a variety of different projects.” hikes for New Mexico State whether you’re talking about Police officers, which some said. “In particular, we have a Sallee noted some agencies recurring or nonrecurring lawmakers worry will drive up very large housing package, requested big increases in their spending, the overall differences vacancy rates at smaller law which is $500 million of nonrebudgets. in terms of dollar amounts are Once a new initiative is added enforcement agencies. The LFC curring funding.” not that different, and I think In her executive budget recis proposing 2% across-theto an agency’s base budget, he there’s some commonality in ommendation, Lujan Grisham said, “one of the concerns is that board pay increases and then priorities as well,” Propst said. if it’s not effective or not effecproviding agencies an additional called the proposed housing tively implemented, getting that 2% for positions that are hard to package “the most robust invest“I think we’ll get there.”

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Iranian warheads Fish case could weaken regulators recovered in SEAL Lawsuits over at-sea monitoring requirement mission gone awry threaten doctrine that U. S . SUPREME COUR T

defers authority to government agencies

By Alex Horton

The Washington Post

By Ann E. Marimow

The Washington Post

CAPE MAY, N.J. — A slender, silvery fish, sold for bait and canned as sardines, has the potential to play an outsize role in weakening the power of federal agencies to regulate vast areas of American life — overturning long-standing Supreme Court precedent in the process.

But the case before the high court this week is not really about the herring.

For 40 years, courts have generally deferred to the judgment of federal agencies when it comes to turning laws passed by Congress into detailed regulations designed to protect the environment, consumers and the workplace.

They did so because of the precedent set in 1984 in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which requires judges to defer to the reasonable interpretation of federal agency officials charged with administering ambiguous federal laws.

But as the court has moved to the right in recent years, the conservative majority has been less likely to invoke that ruling, which outside groups have long seen as giving unaccountable bureaucrats too much power.

Now, the high court is reviewing a pair of challenges to federal rules requiring commercial fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors — cases that could lead to the demise of Chevron, much as the 2022 Dobbs ruling overturned the historic Roe v.

Wade ruling and eliminated the nationwide right to abortion.

The cases brought by Atlantic herring fishermen in New Jersey and Rhode Island will be argued Wednesday before a court remade by the addition of three justices nominated by President Donald Trump, whose administration put a premium on judges skeptical of federal government power.

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A Lund’s Fisheries fishing vessel heads out to sea for a day of fishing last year. The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing federal rules requiring commercial fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors.

Both lawsuits are backed by conservative legal organizations — the Cause of Action Institute and New Civil Liberties Alliance — that have received millions of dollars from the Koch network, founded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch and his late brother, David Koch.

The framework, known as “Chevron deference,” may sound like a boring academic exercise, says William & Mary law professor Allison Orr Larsen, who specializes in administrative law. But the question of how much flexibility to give federal agencies to implement laws passed by Congress has enormous implications.

“There’s a lot of money and practical consequences attached to those legal ambiguities,” Larsen said. “It’s ultimately a question about who decides. Is it an agency who decides or a court?”

Supporters of Chevron, including environmental groups, labor and civil rights organizations and the Biden administration, say Congress often writes broad statutes to give government experts the leeway to address emerging

complex problems. Overturning or scaling back the legal precedent, they say, will hamstring federal agencies and shift power to the courts and Congress.

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who is defending the precedent, told the justices in court filings that overruling Chevron “would be a convulsive shock to the legal system.”

David Doniger, senior strategic director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the effort to undo Chevron a “brazen attempt by the right to hobble modern government and destroy its capacity to address the modern world’s problems at the scale, speed and number they come at us.” The government, he said, will be paralyzed if Congress is forced to make technical, scientific policy decisions.

Opponents of Chevron, in contrast, say the framework unfairly tips the scales in favor of government agencies in litigation challenging burdensome regulations.

Philip Hamburger, a Columbia Law School professor and founder of the alliance representing the Rhode Island

fisherman, called it “scandalous” and unconstitutional to require judges to systematically favor one powerful party — government agencies — over any other.

“Chevron is an embarrassment, and the court should get rid of it,” Hamburger said, adding it is the duty of judges to exercise independent judgment without deference.

While lower courts have relied on the Chevron framework in tens of thousands of cases evaluating federal rules and orders, the approach has fallen out of favor in the last decade with conservatives on the Supreme Court.

Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, who is representing the New Jersey fishermen, said in his court filing that it’s time to officially call it quits at all levels of the judiciary.

“The question is less whether this Court should overrule Chevron and more whether it should let lower courts and citizens in on the news,” he wrote.

“The reality is that Chevron has already proven itself unworkable, and its corrosive effects on our separation of powers have lingered long enough.”

American military personnel recovered Iranian-made missile warheads and related components during a ship-boarding mission near Somalia last week that disrupted the weapons’ suspected transit to militants in Yemen but left two elite Navy SEALs lost at sea, U.S. officials said Monday.

A massive search-and-rescue operation is ongoing in the Gulf of Aden, where the incident occurred Thursday. The SEALs moved to board the vessel, described by one official as a dhow lacking proper identification, amid suspicions that there were arms on board.

As The Washington Post and other media previously reported, Thursday’s operation took place in rough seas. When one of the SEALs slipped from a ladder while attempting to climb aboard the dhow, the second, having witnessed their comrade fall into the water, dove in to help, officials have said. Both were swept away by the powerful swells. Neither has been publicly identified.

As rescue operations began, other troops carried out a search of the boat, which had a crew of about a dozen, the official said.

They were taken into custody, along with the weapons components, and the boat was sunk, the official said. This person, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military mission.

The Associated Press first reported those and other details of last week’s weapons seizure.

The episode has underscored a persistent challenge facing the Biden administration and its international partners as they vow to hold Yemen’s Houthis — and the militant group’s chief backer, Iran — accountable for a steep rise in attacks that have significantly disrupted commercial shipping in the region. U.S. and British forces

struck dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen last week, hoping to discourage additional attacks, but the Pentagon acknowledged afterward that the group will probably remain a threat.

The Houthis have said their actions are in protest of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The Biden administration has not ruled out future military action in Yemen but has sought to tread carefully, fearful that an overreaction could engulf the Middle East in violence.

U.S. forces in the region reported separately Monday that an American-owned container ship was hit with a ballistic missile in the Houthis’ latest alleged provocation. The ship sustained no “significant damage,” and its crew was uninjured, officials said in a statement. A missile launched from Yemen earlier in the day came down before it reached the coast.

Senior U.S. officials blame Tehran for having “aided and abetted” the crisis, which has principally affected commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea. The Houthis, officials contend, would be incapable of threatening these shipping routes without Iran’s technological and intelligence support.

The missile warheads and other components intercepted last week originated from Iran and were bound for transfer to another boat off the Somali coast before continuing on to Yemen, one official said.

The SEALs launched their mission from the USS Lewis B. Puller, which acts as a floating base, and headed toward the dhow in a smaller craft, this person said. The dhow’s crew lacked official paperwork, which allowed the U.S. boarding team to search the vessel.

Though it has been days since the two SEALs went missing, the Pentagon remains hopeful that they will be found alive.

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chapter’ of seismic European politics are veering to the right ‘New activity as lava hits town

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A volcanologist at the University of Iceland, Thorvaldur Thordarson, said Monday that the threat to the peninsula, where about 31,000 residents live in several towns, would not end soon.

“This new chapter on the Reykjanes Peninsula will last for a long time,” he said, adding, “A large, populated area is at stake.”

The scorching orange stream of lava that poured out of a fissure Sunday, descending on Grindavik, has left a question mark over when residents there might return.

Iceland’s prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, said Monday that the evacuation of Grindavik’s residents — who represent 1% of Iceland’s total population of about 370,000 — is a major task and that authorities had to start thinking about “long-term solutions.”

“It was one of the biggest natural disasters we have seen in recent times,” Jakobsdottir said in a phone call. “The events are part of a larger picture, which will be with us for the future to come.”

Fannar Jónasson, mayor of Grindavik, said that officials were monitoring the volcanic activity day by day and building action plans.

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for Wilders,” said Sint Willebrord resident Walter de Jong, 80. A lifelong baker, De Jong said he was forced to close his business last year because of rising costs and stringent government rules.

The decline in Dutch living standards has coincided with rising immigration. Two decades ago, the Netherlands had a net outflow of migrants, but by 2022, that had swung to an influx of 224,000 in a nation of 17.5 million.

The Netherlands has also been hit hard by a cost-of-living crisis affecting everything from the price of health care to food.

The income needed to buy a first home has risen far faster than earnings, according to a 2022 study by the Dutch lender Rabobank.

“Housing is a policy failure,” said Tom Theuns of Leiden University. “And then you have a populist who says, ‘OK, the reason is: Asylum seekers are given priority.’

Even if this is a lie, this is how immigration becomes linked via racist messaging. It’s scapegoating.”

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politics,’ ” said Rem Korteweg, senior research fellow at the Clingendael think tank in The Hague.

In some European nations, the shift to the right has begun to gnaw at the foundations of democracy.

In Hungary and Serbia, recent elections were free but not fair, democracy experts say, because the ruling parties captured the media, the courts and the electoral authorities.

Support for Wilders’ Party for Freedom more than doubled since the last Dutch election in 2021. With 23% of the vote, Wilders stands a good chance of leading any future governing coalition.

For a quarter century, voters across the Netherlands have grown increasingly disgruntled as successive governments — despite high levels of taxation — were unable to stop the erosion of cradle-to-grave benefits citizens had come to expect for things like education, health care and pensions.

“It is as if people are being forced to vote

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Geert Wilders, center, leader of the Party for Freedom, casts his ballot in The Hague, Netherlands, last year. Voters across the Netherlands have moved far to the right politically. The shift has been triggered by economic and cultural anxieties.

HUSAVIK, Iceland — Living in a country that straddles two tectonic plates and has 130 or so volcanoes, Icelanders are no strangers to earthquakes and eruptions.

But a lava stream that flowed into the southwestern town of Grindavik on Sunday, burning three homes — the first time in about 50 years that a residential area had been affected — was further proof that a threatening new phase of seismic activity had started in the area, according to Iceland’s president.

“A daunting period of upheaval has begun on the Reykjanes Peninsula,” the president, Gudni Johannesson, said in a televised address Sunday night, referring to the area that includes Grindavik. “What we all hoped would not happen has come to pass.”

Since 2020, scientists have seen signs of increased volcanic activity on the Reykjanes Peninsula, which had been dormant for 800 years, and they have detected tens of thousands of earthquakes in recent months. In response to a potential eruption, Iceland has built defensive barriers around a geothermal power plant, which supplies hot water to the area, and around other potentially vulnerable sites nearby.

Grindavik, a fishing town of 3,600 people, was evacuated in November after strong seismic activity was recorded on the peninsula, then again in December, when a stream of lava erupted in a remote valley north of Grin-

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SINT WILLEBRORD, The Netherlands — “Everyone is welcome,” reads the sign at the church door in this quiet Dutch village, where neighbors greet each other from tidy porches overlooking manicured lawns.

But that declaration of tolerance seems oddly out of place.

Triggered by economic and cultural anxieties that have whipped up fears about immigrants, people here and throughout the Netherlands have veered far to the right politically. It’s an extreme example of a trend being felt across the continent that could tilt the outcome of this year’s European Union parliamentary election.

In Sint Willebrord, which has few immigrants among its 9,300 residents, almost 3 in 4 voters chose a virulently anti-migrant, anti-Muslim party in an election last year that shattered the Netherlands’ image as a welcoming, moderate country.

The Party for Freedom, led by a firebrand named Geert Wilders, received nearly a quarter of all the votes — in a country where less than 5% of the people are Muslim — with slogans such as “no Islamic schools, Qurans or mosques” and “no open borders and mass immigration we cannot afford.”

Voters across Europe are increasingly empowering leaders like Wilders who promise to restrict immigration and, in some cases, constrain democratic freedoms: of religion, of expression, of the right to protest.

These forces have bubbled up to varying degrees one country at a time, including in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and Austria. But before long, experts worry, they could dramatically reshape the continent from the top down.

In June, voters in the 27 member states of the European Union will elect their next Parliament for a five-year term. Analysts say that far-right parties are primed to gain seats — and more influence over EU policies affecting everything from civil rights to gender issues to immigration.

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Report: Another employee’s skin contaminated In second incident in as many weeks, hydraulic fluid found on forearm of worker wearing protective gear

By Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.com

A Los Alamos National Laboratory worker’s skin was contaminated by radioactive residue while disassembling old equipment despite wearing full protective gear, a government watchdog reported.

It’s the second lab employee in as

many weeks to have their skin contaminated in a work area where sealed compartments, known as glove boxes, are being dismantled so new machinery can be installed.

Overhauling and replacing glove boxes, which are used to handle radioactive materials, are part of the lab’s effort to ready the plutonium facility to make 30 nuclear bomb cores, or pits, per year.

In the latest incident, contaminants were detected on the forearm of a worker who wore two sets of Tyvek coveralls and a battery-powered respirator while removing components from a legacy glove box, according to

the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’s Dec. 15 report.

The report described the glove box’s enclosure as highly contaminated with a hydraulic fluid spill.

Technicians were unable to decontaminate the employee with the available methods at the worksite, so the worker was taken to the occupational medicine clinic for decontamination, the report said.

“The decontamination of skin is managed very closely at the lab to prevent any damage or irritation of the skin that could provide a pathway for the contamination to enter the body,” lab spokesman Steven Horak wrote in an

email. “In this case, the infrastructure at the facility does not support personnel decontamination that requires washing and rinsing.”

In the previous week, a radioactive particle contaminated the skin of an employee who wore booties and a lab coat for protection while escorting carpenters into a work room. The light protective wear was allowed because the room was supposed to have been fully decontaminated.

There is generally a three- to fourweek lag in the safety board’s report being posted after an incident.

In the most recent incident, neither the safety board nor Horak offered an

explanation of how the radioactivity penetrated the coveralls.

Both acknowledged the need to rethink how to suit up workers to better protect them as they do hazardous tasks, but both also noted simply adding more layers isn’t the solution because the material holds in heat.

“While the protection level is high, it comes with the downside of being hot for the workers to work in,” Horak wrote. “We have to balance worker safety and heat stress.”

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State considers bond reforms as effort to plug wells progresses

N.M. History Museum exhibit pays homage to railroad that spearheaded S.F. tourism industry

Officials say N.M. is ‘making a difference’ on deserted sites, but more upfront money from producers would help future cleanups

By Scott Wyland

swyland@sfnewmexican.com

An infusion of federal money is helping New Mexico make progress in plugging orphaned oil wells scattered across the Permian and San Juan basins, but regulators say it will be important for the state to require more upfront financial assurance from drillers to cover cleanup of defunct wells.

“Orphaned” is the term generally used for wells scrapped by operators who go bankrupt or out of business.

The state becomes responsible for plugging those wells and restoring the contaminated sites when they are on state or private lands, and it works with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to plug abandoned wells on federal sites.

The deserted wells are considered an environmental hazard because they can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and enable toxins to seep into groundwater.

The state Oil Conservation Division received $25 million in late 2022 through the federal infrastructure law, and it could receive $142 million more in various federal funds in the coming decade to tackle orphaned wells.

It’s part of the $4.7 billion the federal government plans to dish out to clean up about 130,000 orphaned wells across the country.

The $25 million the agency received has enabled it to plug 134 wells as of early December — more than three times what it previously had accomplished in a year.

Before, the state relied on a reclamation fund, which operators pay into through a severance tax.

By plugging the wells, the state has removed 4,800 tons of carbon dioxide emitted in a year, the equivalent of taking 1,000 cars off the road, Dylan Fuge, the division’s acting director, said in a December legislative hearing.

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ABOVE: Jessica Braga visits an exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum earlier this month called 18 Miles and That’s As Far As It Got: The Lamy Branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The exhibit’s centerpiece is the 32- by 11-foot recreation of the village of Lamy, circa 1940s. TOP: A model train passes by a model of the Lamy depot as it comes in for a stop. The display is part of the 18 Miles exhibit.

By Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com

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here was just one problem when railroad executive Cyrus K. Holliday came up with the idea to build the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway back in the 1800s.

The train, which originated in the Midwest and eventually made its way to California, didn’t come to Santa Fe — despite the fact that Santa Fe was in its name.

Rather, it stopped at the little village of Lamy, about 18 miles southeast of the city.

Some have speculated the railroad estimated it would cost too much to run the line from Lamy to Santa Fe and then down to Albuquerque. In their book History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, authors Keith L. Bryant Jr. and Fred W. Frailey suggest the railroad originally wanted a stop in Santa Fe to pick up the potential trade there but by the late 1870s when the tracks were being laid in New Mexico, “The trade

to Santa Fe was no longer significant,” they wrote. Even the stagecoach line, they wrote, had reduced service to the city, which was at the end of its glory days as the last stop on the Santa Fe Trail.

Such were the vagaries of the ambitious scheme of Holliday to help lead westward expansion with the railroad, a vehicle to bring people, goods, mail, news and Manifest Destiny west. Bypassing Santa Fe and Please see story on Page A-9

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Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren speaks in Fort Defiance, Ariz, last year. “The lack of VA care in the Navajo Nation is not reflective of the continuous contributions the Navajo people have provided to this country,” Nygren said last week.

Design and headlines: Nick Baca, nbaca@sfnewmexican.com

WASHINGTON — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has called on lawmakers to put U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical and benefits centers on the reservation to help deliver services that he said Indigenous veterans have earned but often cannot access.

“The lack of VA care in the Navajo Nation is not reflective of the continuous contributions the Navajo people have provided to this country,” Nygren said last week in testimony to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

“Our veterans have earned the right to accessibility, quality care and benefits for their service and sacrifice. It is for these reasons I ask Congress to work with my

Lunsford, who is charged with shooting man suspected of stealing during scuffle, says his removal violates board’s own rules

By Phaedra Haywood

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administration to bring a full-service VA medical center to the Navajo Nation,” he said.

Nygren was one of several witnesses from around the country testifying on the challenges the VA faces in delivering services to the millions of veterans who the department said live in rural areas.

Witnesses cited similar problems that they said hinder the delivery of services to vets in remote areas, including scarce VA resources that are made more inaccessible by a lack of transportation and poor broadband service, among other issues.

“We’ve got 27,000 square miles, almost half a million people who live in some very remote areas,” Nygren said after the hearing. “A

A Las Cruces police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the 2022 shooting death of a man accused of stealing a beer from a gas station is appealing the suspension of his law enforcement certification.

A grand jury indicted Brad Lunsford on the fourth-degree felony charge last month, charging him with killing Presley Eze during a scuffle after the clerk reported Eze had taken a beer without paying and was drinking it in a vehicle with two friends.

Lunsford and another officer forcibly removed Eze from the vehicle in order to detain him, according to reports at the time. In a statement, Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Eze gained possession of another officer’s Taser during the altercation, though the weapon never deployed.

“In response,” Torrez said in his statement, “Officer Lunsford immediately drew his service weapon and shot Eze on the back, left side of his head, at point-blank range.”

In October, Torrez announced his office intended to charge Lunsford.

State Department of Public Safety Deputy Secretary Benjamin Baker sent Lunsford a letter in October notifying him his police officer certification was suspended “effective immediately.” Lunsford was allowed to contest the suspension within 15 days.

Lunsford’s attorney, Luis Robles, wrote the Law Enforcement Certification Board later that month contesting the suspension. He argued in part the move violated state law and the board’s own rules, depriving Lunsford of his right

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Las Cruces officer accused in killing appeals suspension

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he wrote. There also are different protective gear options that include a variety of materials and fabrics, he added.

An anti-nuclear watchdog group said worker-safety incidents are nothing new at the lab, but they are growing more frequent as the lab pursues pit production.

“These nuclear safety incidents are just never-ending,” said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico.

Coghlan argued they are made worse because the lab and its parent agency, the U.S. Energy Department, have sought to reduce oversight.

Federal agencies under

the Trump administration sought to crimp the safety board’s access, and the agencies continue to resist doing a full nationwide review of the sites — including the lab — that will be involved in bolstering nuclear weapons, Coghlan said.

The lab is putting workers at risk in a pursuit that is unnecessary, Coghlan argued. The lab doesn’t need to manufacture any more pits because there are enough leftover from the Cold War to modernize the nuclear stockpile, he said, noting credible research indicates a pit can last 100 years.

Officials from the lab and the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nation’s arsenal, insist new pits are needed to modernize the weapons

◆ It’s the second lab employee in as many weeks to have their skin contaminated in a work area where sealed compartments, known as glove boxes, are being dismantled so new machinery can be installed. ◆ Contaminants were detected on the forearm of a worker who wore two sets of Tyvek coveralls and a battery-powered respirator. Technicians were unable to decontaminate the employee with the available methods at the worksite. The worker was taken to the occupational medicine clinic for decontamination.

because the legacy devices have become unreliable.

The lab’s workforce has swelled to more than 17,000 people, and its budget for modernizing the plutonium facility has grown to almost $1.8 billion as part of the effort to ramp up pit production.

Coghlan said those trends have led to the facility becoming crowded with too

many activities going on at once — increasing the likelihood of dangerous mishaps.

But Horak insisted managers consider safety paramount and are always look at why something went awry and how to improve preventive measures.

“Safety is always our priority, regardless of the pace of work,” Horak wrote.

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from the East who came in to modernize Santa Fe were hit “inPeople the face with the fact that tourists came here to see a traditional, non-USA-centric authenticity.” Patricia Perea with the New Mexico History Museum

Call for VA services on reservation lot of these veterans have to travel a lot of hours just to get services in either Phoenix, Albuquerque or Salt Lake City.”

The warm reception advocates got from lawmakers was in stark contrast to the treatment of VA administrators, who spent the first part of last week’s three-hour hearing touting the progress they said they agency has made in delivering services.

VA Under Secretary for Health Shereef Elnahal said that 25,000 rural veterans were among the more than 100,000 vets added to department rolls since 2022 under the PACT (Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics) Act. “In addition to better staffing in rural areas, the VA meets the needs of even more rural veterans by providing telehealth services, mobile clinics, and transportation services,” Elnahal said. “During the fiscal year 2023, the VA delivered more telehealth services than in any fiscal year before including

more than 2.9 million episodes of care delivered to more than 770,000 rural veterans.”

But many lawmakers on the panel were like Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, who told the VA officials to “color me unimpressed.”

“It’s very apparent to me when I talk to veterans in my community that the Mission Act is not being implemented by the VA,” Miller-Meeks said, referring to the law that requires the department to deliver care to veterans in a certain time frame.

“That became readily apparent when we had out hearing on residential mental health and substance abuse disorder where the VA didn’t even think residential mental health and substance abuse feel into the parameters of the mission,” she said.

While they had complaints for the VA administrators, lawmakers were more likely to offer the advocates suggestions for potential solutions.

“Have we given thought to a possible joint facility with the

VA and the IHS (Indian Health Service) so that the Navajo people could benefit from the economy of scale and to make it a much fuller array of services?” asked Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif. “The best way to justify that would be to open it up to both the IHS beneficiaries as well as VA beneficiaries.”

Nygren said that sounded like a “great idea.”

After the hearing, Nygren said a VA medical center would help “the physical, mental and emotional health of our veterans” while a VA benefits center “is a great way for our veterans to really start utilizing some of the benefits that the VA does have to offer.”

“It would be nice to have another Navajo person be able to sit down with them and talk to them and walk them through everything because sometimes, it can be a lot of culture shock when you’ve got to travel to these other places and you’re not sitting across the table from someone that looks like you,” Nygren said.

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to due process, because the officer had been suspended without being convicted and before he’d been notified a suspension was contemplated or had been heard by the panel.

Robles argued those points at the board’s Dec. 13 meeting, according to minutes. Board members discussed the matter in executive session before voting to uphold the suspension.

Robles filed an appeal on Lunsford’s behalf Friday in state District Court. A hearing has not yet been set.

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◆ A Los Alamos National Laboratory worker’s skin was contaminated by radioactive residue while disassembling old equipment despite the person wearing full protective gear.

The spur line brought attention to the city and invariably helped it grow, just What: The New Mexico History Museum building a depot at Lamy made more as the main branch of the line did for presents 18 Miles and That’s As Far As It sense when it came to connecting much of the rest of the state. Bryant and Got: The Lamy Branch of the Atchison, Raton to Albuquerque and then to Frailey’s book makes it clear the entry of Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

California — the route Amtrak still the railroad line into New Mexico “draWhere: The New Mexico History uses today.

Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. matically changed the local economy” But Santa Fe’s leaders were not When: Through January 2025. of many cities. The locomotive, they happy with the intent to bypass the Info: Visit nmhistorymuseum.org or call wrote, “became a symbol of progress in (505) 476-5200. city. They had their own grandiose New Mexico and signified the end of a scheme of using the railroad to bring way of life as it tamed the vast reaches in building materials, trade goods and, ments they knew here in Santa Fe. of the ‘Land of Enchantment.’ ” most importantly, tourists.

What happened instead, Perea said.

While many towns saw labor comSo they raised money for the projwas that tourists became enraptured munities develop around the creation ect through a bond initiative to help not with a California or New York-im- of the railroad tracks — workers lived transform the quiet little Southwestand spent money along the line in posed sense of architectural style but ern city into what would be called such cities as Gallup and Raton — that with the culture and traditions of the the City Beautiful by 1912, when New was less true in Santa Fe, Perea said.

Pueblo people who lived nearby.

Mexico achieved statehood. (It’s now “It was about bringing the train “People from the East who came in known as the City Different.) through,” she said. to modernize Santa Fe were hit in the In doing so, the railroad spur line The first Atchison, Topeka and face with the fact that tourists came opened Santa Fe up to a tourism trade Santa Fe train arrived in Santa Fe in here to see a traditional, non-USAthat still brings billions of dollars to February 1880. The train served the centric authenticity,” she said. Efforts the state and lots of gawkers who want city for well over a century, until to experience the arts, culture, people to impose mission-style or Greek in 1991, the successor to the AtchiRevival-style architecture did not grab and history of the region. visitors as much as the historic Pueblo son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway The New Mexico History Museum announced it was closing the spur. look, she said. is paying homage to the spur line with The Santa Fe Southern Railway The model train structure takes up the exhibition 18 Miles and That’s As formed to buy the right of way, buildings the majority of the museum exhibiFar As It Got: The Lamy Branch of the and equipment for the short-line operAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, tion, which includes photos, railroad ation. The next year, it began running maps and postcards hanging on the which runs through January 2025. passenger excursion trains to Lamy.

“It was a balance of bringing in econ- wall nearby. So far, it has been a hit Those kept running through fall 2012, with children of all ages, Perea said. omy, business and — what will really when money ran out. Nearly a decade bring tourists in — Santa Fe style,” said During the holidays, shortly after the later a group of investors, including show opened, she watched as kinderPatricia Perea, instructional coordinanovelist and screenwriter George R.R. garten-age children tussled with each tor for the museum, in an interview.

Martin, purchased it to create Sky other to press the button that sets the Standing by a 32-by-11-foot rectrain to whistling and chugging along. Railway, an entertainment-aimed tourist reation of the village of Lamy circa jaunt replete with live theatrical perforIndeed, several adults who visited 1940s, with a model train that, at the mances, music and other amenities to the exhibition on a recent weekday push of a button, takes off on a little keep people amused on the trip from afternoon could not stop themselves jaunt around the place, Perea said Santa Fe to Lamy and back. that initially the Santa Fe town fathers from pressing the button.

To Perea, it makes sense the spur As she watched the train move envisioned people coming to see line is once again drawing in visitors around the model railroad tracks, Santa Fe as an “Anytown, USA.” who want to see something “uniquely Perea said she hopes the exhibition After all, by the late 1800s many of Santa Fe. the town’s leaders were from the East makes people appreciate “the signifi“People are here for the same reacance of the train in creating this city Coast or Europe, so it made sense to son — tourism,” she said. and who comes to this city.” them to try to recreate the environ-

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“It’s a suspension with no end date,” Robles said in a phone interview Monday. “The board doesn’t have the authority to do this under state law. We’ll be asking for a preliminary injunction to stop the board from doing what it did.”

Eze, 36, was a married father of a 3-year old boy who had been living in El Paso while installing solar panels in the region, his parents said in a recent phone interview. Eze was an American-born son of Nigerian immigrants, born and raised in Connecticut, and had been planning to move his family back to that state. An attorney for the family has called the killing racially motivated.

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Radiological control technicians simulate work in a glove box training facility in at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2021. Overhauling and replacing glove boxes, which are used to handle radioactive materials, are part of the lab’s effort to ready the plutonium facility to make 30 nuclear bomb cores, or pits, per year.

Gov. adds housing policy adviser to administration

will work closely with Amy Whitfield, an adviser on issues related to homelessness and housing insecurity.

“Access to affordable housing is a Gov Michelle Lujan Grisham has named Santa Fe affordable housing advocate Dan- priority for my administration and is topiel Werwath to join the administration as a of-mind for many New Mexicans,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “I am excited housing policy adviser. to bring Daniel and his expertise to our Werwath has served as executive director of New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing and housing team to advance priorities that was acting executive director of the Hous- build a more stable housing environment in our state.” ing Trust and Tierra Contenta Corp. In a news release, the Governor’s Office said he The New Mexican

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Although there are relatively few individual orphaned wells that could be deemed “super emitters,” the wells collectively can create significant pollution, Fuge told the legislative Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee.

“So, we are making a difference,” Fuge said.

Still, the agency has barely dented the estimated 1,700 orphaned wells on state and private lands. In 2022, it listed more than 5,000 other wells as inactive, a condition industry watchdogs say often leads to the sites becoming orphaned.

Plugging a well typically costs an average of $125,000, and remediation — which involves restoring a site — can range from $35,000 to millions of dollars, depending on how extensively the site is contaminated or damaged, Fuge said.

The total cost of plugging New Mexico’s orphaned wells, including future ones, will be about $600 million by 2050, he said, noting the estimate doesn’t include remediation because those costs vary.

The agency can pursue an order to compel an operator to plug a well that has been inactive for 12 to 15 months, Fuge said. It also can go after operators for more money to cover the costs to plug and remediate wells they left behind.

The trouble is those operators often are insolvent or have declared bankruptcy, making it nearly impossible to collect money, Fuge said.

That’s why state regulators seek to reform bonding in this year’s legislative session so drillers pay more upfront to ensure there’s adequate money to cover plugging costs if

TAKEAWAYS ◆ The $25 million in federal infrastructure money the state Oil Conservation Division has received has enabled it to plug 134 wells as of December, more than three times what it previously had accomplished in a year. ◆ The state could receive $142 million more in various federal funds in the coming decade to tackle orphaned wells. ◆ State regulators seek to reform bonding in this year’s legislative session so drillers pay more upfront to ensure there’s adequate money in store to cover plugging costs if they walk away from their wells.

they walk away from their wells, he said.

The proposed bonding reform is part of a coordinated effort by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to update the nearly 90-year-old Oil and Gas Act. Critics say blanket bonding is especially low, with operators paying $250,000 to cover 100-plus wells, a fraction of potential cleanup costs. State regulators propose raising the ceiling to $10 million.

At the legislative hearing, Rep. Debra Sariñana, D-Albuquerque, said the burden shouldn’t be on the state to clean up after a multibillion-dollar industry.

“I don’t know why we should have to clean this up,” Sariñana said.

State Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, said if remediation costs are thrown in, the price for dealing with orphaned wells could swell to more than $1 billion dollars by 2050 — all the more reason to increase bonding requirements to make companies pay their fair share.

“Hopefully that’s a priority with the division to not stick that bill with taxpayers and as much as possible to get industry pay their bill,” Steinborn said. “It’s another one of those areas where I hope that we as a Legislature step up to the plate.”

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS LISA MICHELLE MURPHY Lisa Michelle Murphy, age 62, lost her battle with cancer on January 6th, 2024, at her home in Santa Fe. She was born on January 27, 1961, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent much of her youth in Utah and Montana.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ronald Allen, and her half-brother, Jay Allen McCoy. Lisa is survived by her mother, Carolyn Taylor; her husband, Peter Murphy; her children, Brooke Roberts, Tyler Roberts, and Lauren Roberts; her grandchildren, Miles Swanson, Avery Roberts, and Austin Roberts; her siblings, Mitch Allen, Mary Allen Fetcinko, and Ron Allen; as well as her aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.

Lisa earned her bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University and was an accomplished business owner and esthetician who established Santa Fe Lash and Beauty Bar, a company that won numerous Best of Santa Fe awards.

She was a kind, warm, and giving person who was loved by many, including her co-workers and clients. A Celebration of Life reception for Lisa will be held Friday, February 9, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the McGee Memorial Chapel, 1320 Luisa St., Santa Fe, NM.

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TIBURCIO H. ROYBAL (TIBO) PECOS, NM - Tibo was born on March 14, 1939, and was called home on Monday, January 8, 2024, surrounded by his loving family at the age of 84.

Family and friends may visit Rivera Family Funeral Home on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., where a rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. A second rosary will be recited on Thursday, January 18, at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Pecos, followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. Interment to follow at St.

Anthony’s Cemetery.

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Session priorities? Folks would like better roads

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ew Mexicans disagree on a lot, but it appears one issue unites them.

Urban and rural, rich and poor, professional types or blue-collar, young and old, male and female — when The New Mexican asked individuals from all 33 counties their priorities for the legislative session, one answer was repeated by residents across the state: Do a better job of repairing and maintaining the roads.

As Marie Chioda said: “We have such a disaster in road infrastructure in McKinley County.”

Fort Sumner Mayor Louie Gallegos from DeBaca County said: “The majority of our community travels to Clovis, which is 65 miles away, and some of the roads and bridges need to be redone.”

Rancher Blaine Atwood of Catron County was blunt: “What I’d like to see more than anything is get our dang roads worked on out here.”

Erika Valdez of Hidalgo County had this to say: “I-40 from Albuquerque to the Arizona border is a scary road to be on. We always

have to replace axles and hubs. As soon as you cross the state line into Arizona — and Texas — the roads level out and stay level.”

Richard Randels, a rancher from Quay County, also singled out Interstate 40: “It’s dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.”

Roads weren’t the only issue the 33 individuals interviewed discussed. But they were mentioned by people across the state — bad roads affect everyone — and maintaining roads and bridges, unlike other challenges the state faces, is universally popular.

With the other issues, solutions vary depending on political party and perspective.

New Mexico residents worry about public safety. They would like the state to do more to solve the crisis of homelessness. They want better education for children. They are concerned about border security. And they want the state to spend their tax dollars prudently and save some of the $3.5 billion expected surplus for a day when revenues decline. When it’s spent, many would like to see significant dollars go toward infrastructure repair.

Governor and lawmakers, keep funding

repairs for crumbling infrastructure, and broadcast the planned projects far and wide so people know relief is coming. The Department of Transportation has developed its New Mexico 2045 Plan, outlining the 25-year transportation vision for the state. It’s clear from driving the roads around New Mexico — and listening to what people are saying — that the state should take greater advantage of federal infrastructure dollars and the current budget surplus to concentrate on improving state roads and highways. A successful road improvement plan would unite all of New Mexico.

As that is carried out, lawmakers can continue to wrangle over their different approaches to ending homelessness or reducing crime. They also could tackle a few specific issues brought up by readers.

Kim Miller of Union County wants the state to authorize and fund a state meat inspection program. This is important because without an in-state inspection program, ranchers like Miller have to send most of their meat out of state to be processed. That’s inefficient. Having a meat inspector in-state would boost the

economy and make realizing a robust regional food hub more likely.

Two commenters — Michael Shyne of Otero County and Pat Lyons of Curry County — want more appreciation from the state for New Mexico’s military bases. Specifically, Lyons — a former state senator and Public Regulation Commission member — wants the Legislature to set aside $10 million per base to support their needs, including repaving roads, improving the entryways to facilities and otherwise boosting them.

“Anything to help them cut their expenses and keep them from ending up on a closing list for bases,” he said. “That’d be a big hurt to any community in which that happens.”

With calls from several respondents to keep investing in rural and small-town New Mexico, whether fixing abandoned buildings or attracting solar manufacturing, it’s clear New Mexico doesn’t need any more “big hurts.” Government, residents seem to be saying, should do no harm — and that includes to the tens of thousands of cars and trucks that take to New Mexico roads and highways every day.

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What New Mexicans want from the session: Better roads, better schools, fiscal responsibility, Jan. 13 I would like to see attention paid to citizen safety: less guns and drugs on the streets and more attention to reckless drivers. Help for the homeless. Also, continuing to push for advancing renewable energy efforts and improving education by paying our teachers a fair wage.”

Terrye Mola I want: less crime, fewer guns, better schools and a secure border (which is not in our control).” Sabine Strohem The roads and schools are horrible in Santa Fe, and city growth is chaotic.”

Michael Sherrill Money for education without parental involvement is a waste. Haven’t we proved that yet? Yes. Better roads benefit us all even if we never use them. The farm raising our food does. Easy priority for safety!” Mark Coble

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 16, 1924: That Earnest A. Johnson, lawyer of Santa Fe, who died here recently of what is thought to have been an attack of acute indigestion, left an estate which may reach $25,000 in value, was ascertained today. ... While many people considered Earnest A. Johnson a recluse, as he lived alone since his sister’s death, it will surprise them to know that Mr. Johnston was more of a “mixer” than was generally believed. He was a friend not only of Ashby Davis but of John Sloan, the New York artist, and was a member of the jolly party which motored to Lamy to attend a farewell dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Sloan early in the fall.

Jan. 16, 1974: Apparently concerned with waning public confidence in governmental bodies, both chambers of the New Mexico legislature moved today to open up committee votes on legislation to public access.

In previous years, controversial legislation was often voted upon in secret by the various committees. This has been particularly true of the general appropriations bill, which traditionally is acted upon by a joint Senate-House committee in secret session.

The House today received a recommendation from several legislators, among them Rep. James Koch, D-Santa Fe, which would require committees to keep a record of the vote on the final report of the committee on each bill, memorial or resolution.

Jan. 16, 1999: Three groups of private developers and the city of Santa Fe submitted bids Friday for the old St. Vincent Hospital property on East Palace Avenue downtown.

The offers present a wide range of proposals, leaving no obvious high bidder for the 4.8-acre piece of Santa Fe’s downtown historic center.

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Red-light running threatens safety

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e read state Rep. Reena Szczepanski wrote the House will focus on “ ‘solutions for public safety,’ from substance abuse treatment to law enforcement recruitment and retention” (“Several gun safety measures on agenda for 30-day session,” Jan. 11).

We ask Rep. Szczepanski to consider enlarging the law enforcement focus to include ticketing vehicles running red lights all over Santa Fe (and we’re pretty sure all over New Mexico). Even if Santa Fe doesn’t have enough officers to wait at lights to stop these individuals and write tickets, we believe cameras at most intersections — here as in many other states — could be enabled to take a picture of the vehicle as it passes late through the intersection. The registered owner would be mailed a citation.

Nearly half of the states — Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington — permit cameras at intersections to do just that.

Introducing enforcement of red-light scofflaws should make those they threaten with their behavior safer, and the expense would be borne entirely by those who should bear it. Please introduce legislation to do just that.

Josephine and Matthew Geyer

Santa Fe

sists of: 1) a misrepresentation of fact, 2) either knowledge of the falsity of the representation or recklessness on the part of the party making the misrepresentation, 3) intent to deceive and to induce reliance on the misrepresentation, and 4) detrimental reliance on the misrepresentation.” So why aren’t the fake electors being charged? Lack of fortitude, perhaps?

Stephen Dubinsky

Santa Fe

Protecting children The hypocrisy in Rep. Stefani Lord’s piece (“The fentanyl crisis is preying on our kids,” My View, Jan. 13) had me laughing aloud, then feeling utterly disgusted. If one were to replace the word “fentanyl” with “guns,” the letter would ring true as well. Yet Lord and her fellow Republicans in this state resist every effort to “awaken to the crisis and unite in [our] response.”

Rep. Lord, you have been an utter failure in recognizing when and where we are “at a crossroads” and championing “children’s fate.” You would have appeared far less foolish had you allowed a member of the House whose record demonstrates a true dedication to the values you profess.

Jonathan Lathrop

Los Alamos

What’s wrong Excellent piece by Jack Hicks (“Can we avoid a twotiered society?” My View, Jan. 13) that pretty much summarizes what is wrong with America: the Republican Party.

Thomas Falacienski

Santa Fe

How to block Trump I deplore the Democratic Party’s (and President Joe Biden’s in particular) stance on abortion, but I also deplore former President Donald Trump. Democrats could change their registration to Republican for primaries and vote for someone other than Trump. They could then vote for whomever they wish in the general election, and/or change their registration back to Democrat at any time.

That might be a foolproof way of ensuring Trump is not again elected to the presidency.

Elaine Gere

Santa Fe

Yes, it was fraud According to the definition, “In New Mexico, fraud con-

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Not downtown Please scrap any plan to build a state office building adjacent to the Roundhouse. That plan would require considerable funds just to destroy part of a historic neighborhood and would greatly contribute to downtown traffic congestion. Please explore the option of locating this office building in proximity to the Rail Runner N.M. 599 Station stop. Land acquisition costs would be much less, no homes would be destroyed and commuters from both north and south would welcome the easier access to this location. Feedback, anyone?

Kenneth Jacks

Santa Fe

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magine a New Mexico with better roads, faster internet and clean water.

Once-in-a-lifetime federal funding opportunities like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act can make this a reality, allocating billions of dollars to states, cities, towns and tribal governments to support clean energy, environmental justice, transportation and infrastructure projects over the next three years.

These unprecedented investments can fund critical state and local projects and create jobs. The state has an opportunity to unlock these benefits in this upcoming legislative session by passing the New Mexico Match Fund Act. Backed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and sponsored by Rep. Meredith Dixon, the Match Fund Act would allocate $100 million to the Department of Finance and Administration to support state and local entities to meet funding match requirements for these once-in-a-lifetime federal grants. While federal funding programs present great opportunities, requirements that applicants quickly identify local funds to “match” the federal grant can be a big barrier.

In addition, federal grant application and administration is often intensive and complex, making it difficult for state and local entities to access them. The Match Fund tackles these barriers head-on, enabling the finance department to award match funds to those entities on a rolling basis, rather than an annual or semi-annual basis. It also helps offset the costs of meeting purchase and contract standards and dedicates up to 5% of the award to critical capacity and technical assistance gaps, like grant writing and grant management. This means that state and local governments can focus on providing much-needed services to their communities rather than leave money on the table simply because of concerns about capacity and compliance.

But the Match Fund does more than just plug in the gaps; it catalyzes local economies and job creation. The return on investment from match funds can be exponential. The finance department recently awarded $7.5 million to entities in New Mexico, which has already resulted in $70 million in projects. An investment of $100 million into the New Mexico Match Fund could result in $500 million or more in infrastructure, water, transportation and clean energy projects throughout the state, including in small and rural communities.

By investing state funds to unlock federal funds, we can create a more connected and resilient New Mexico with more local job options, including good pay and opportunities to advance. That’s what the wind, solar, water sustainability, health care and technology industries offer our communities.

Join us in calling on our legislators to invest our surplus into communities of all sizes in all corners of New Mexico, building a brighter, more connected New Mexico for all by supporting the New Mexico Match Fund Act. Gabriel Pacyniak is a professor of law and primary faculty supervisor at the University of New Mexico Natural Resources and Environmental Law Clinic.

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Fresh off upset win over San Diego State, UNM to host No. 16 Utah State

By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE — Chatrooms, social media, call-in radio shows and letters to the editor have zero impact on Richard Pitino’s life.

The University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach made that abundantly clear after last weekend’s win over San Diego State before a packed house in The Pit. With thousands of fans still in the

building celebrating the Lobos’ biggest win of the season, he sat in the postgame press conference doing his best to keep his emotions in check.

“I have for two and a half years raved about our fans. Raved,” Pitino said. “I do not care one bit about their opinion on how we’re going to play. I love them, they are amazing. I love the media, you guys are all great. I don’t care one bit what you guys say and that’s not a disrespect to you guys; that’s my job, so I appreciate that people care.

I appreciate the work that you guys do but it’s going to have to be the coaching staff, myself, we’ve got to have a conviction.

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“Everybody gets criticized,” he continued. “Every coach. This is the business we have chosen. I’m not offended by it, but that is a coach’s No. 1 job is to, with all due respect, block it all out you know, and not get too high and not get too low.”

Good to know.

Even better considering the growing buzz around a Lobos program that will host its second straight nationally ranked opponent when Mountain West rival Utah State comes calling Tuesday night in The Pit. The Aggies (16-1, 4-0) own the country’s longest winning streak and now sit at No. 16 in the

TODAY ON TV No. 16 Utah State (16-1, 4-0 MWC) at New Mexico (14-3, 2-2), 8:30 p.m. in The Pit TV: FS1 Radio: KKOB 770 AM Live stats: GoLobos. com/mbbstats Lobos guard Donovan Dent blocks a shot by Aztecs guard Reese Waters during UNM’s 88-70 upset win over San Diego State on Saturday in The Pit. JIM WEBER NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

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Bucs send Eagles packing Mayfield throws for 337 yards and three touchdowns to lead Tampa Bay in rout of sputtering Philadelphia

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Naomi Osaka of Japan waves as she leaves Rod Laver Arena following her first-round loss to Caroline Garcia of France on Monday at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

Osaka’s comeback ends in 1st round

By John Pye

The Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Moments after her Grand Slam comeback ended in a first-round loss, Naomi Osaka walked back through the players’ tunnel where her name has a prominent place among recent Australian Open champions.

Three matches into her return from 15 months off the tour, and six months after the birth of her daughter, Shai, Osaka lost 6-4, 7-6 (2) to 16th-seeded Caroline Garcia in a tight encounter at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night.

“The competitive in me is really frustrated that I’m not winning these matches, of course,” Osaka told a postmatch news conference. “So I wouldn’t say, like, this comeback is how I thought because I’m delusional enough to think I could have won the tournament.”

She smiled, before adding: “I think my delusion is what allows me to win the tournaments.”

Osaka won the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020, and the Australian title in 2019 and ‘21. This was the first time she lost in the first round in Melbourne, where she made her debut in 2016.

She took time out from tennis for her own wellbeing after first-round exits at the French Open and U.S. Open in 2022.

She’s not planning any more breaks for now.

“Yeah, I think I just have to keep living day by day and training hard and playing a lot more matches,” she said.

“And hopefully my dreams will come true.”

The big-serving Garcia didn’t give Osaka a look at a breakpoint in the match. Most of the rallies were short — only three longer than nine shots.

The bulk were less than four. Most of the service holds were comfortable — except for Osaka’s one dropped game in the first set. That was all the difference.

“I have a lot of respect for Naomi as a person and as a player — 15 months she’s been away,” Garcia said. “I’m very

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin celebrates his touchdown catch as back judge Greg Steed signals in the end zone during Monday’s wildcard playoff game against the Eagles in Tampa, Fla. The Buccaneers won 32-9 to advance to an NFC divisional round matchup Sunday against the Lions.

By Fred Goodall

The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. ll Baker Mayfield and the resurgent Tampa Bay Buccaneers wanted was an opportunity to make some noise in the playoffs.

A strong finish to the regular season provided one. Their 32-9 wild-card playoff victory over Jalen Hurts and the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night guaranteed they’ll have another.

Mayfield threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns, and Tampa Bay’s defense never allowed Hurts and Philadelphia’s sputtering offense to get into a rhythm before a crowd of 63,397 at Raymond James Stadium.

The Bucs (10-8) won for the sixth time in seven games to advance to an NFC divisional round matchup on the road Sunday against the Detroit

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Lions (13-5), another team — like the Eagles — that stymied Mayfield during the regular season.

“We worked extremely hard to get a chance to be in the playoffs and we just wanted an opportunity.

Our guys came out and played really really well. ... Once again, the defense played lights out. We’re happy, but we’ve still got more to go,” Mayfield said.

“We were underdogs, we’re going to be underdogs next week, too,” coach Todd Bowles added.

“We understand that. We embrace it. We like it.”

David Moore scored on a 44-yard reception in the first quarter. Rookie Trey Palmer broke the game open with a 56-yard catch-and-run for a TD that put the Bucs up 25-9 late in the third quarter. Both receivers took advantage of a porous, poor-tackling Eagles secondary to make their way to the end zone.

Mayfield, the 2018 No. 1 overall draft pick who’s playing with his fourth team in less than two years, completed 22 of 36 passes without an interception.

He capped his first playoff appearance since the

2020 season with a 23-yard TD pass to Chris Godwin.

“We were a little out of sync. That starts with me,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t put them in good enough positions.”

Mayfield said the communication by the Bucs’ offense throughout the week made things feel comfortable during the game.

“Everybody was on the same page, knowing what we were going to do offensively, schematically,” Mayfield said. “Came out and attacked. Obviously, got to make a few more plays overall on offense, but we made more than enough to win tonight.”

It was a disappointing finish for Philadelphia (11-7), which lost to Kansas City in last year’s Super Bowl and then spent spent much of this season resembling a club focused and determined to get back to the title game.

Please see story on Page B-3

AFC WILD - C ARD PL AYOFFS BUFFALO 31, PIT TSBURGH 17

Allen, Bills dispatch Steelers in snow-delayed contest

Please see story on Page B-4

TODAY ON TV 10 a.m. ESPN2 — The Australian Open, first round, Melbourne, Australia (taped) 7 p.m. ESPN2 — The Australian Open, second round, Melbourne, Australia 1 a.m. Wednesday ESPN2 — The Australian Open, second round, Melbourne, Australia Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

By John Wawrow

The Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It made no difference to Josh Allen what day or time the Buffalo Bills faced the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The AFC wild-card playoff game could’ve been played Sunday as scheduled, in the midst of a lake-effect storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on the region, and the Bills were going be to ready.

They proved that Monday, when Allen threw three touchdown passes and scored on a franchise playoff-record

52-yard touchdown run as Buffalo beat Pittsburgh 31-17 in a game that was postponed by 271/2 hours.

“People keep saying that’s what we wanted. We had no call in that,” Allen said about the postponement. “We would have played yesterday, would have played Saturday would have played Friday, it wouldn’t have mattered. We would have come out here and played when we were told to play.”

The game turned into a celebration of the elements. Snow blanketed a majority of the seats inside Highmark Stadium Please see story on Page B-3

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen reacts to the crowd after scoring a touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the second quarter of Monday’s wild-card playoff game in Buffalo, N.Y. ADRIAN KRAUS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

SCOREBOARD

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

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

CHL HOCKEY 9:30 a.m. NHLN — Geneve-Servette at Lukko Rauma Noon NHLN — Vitkovice Ridera at Skelleftea AIK COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4 p.m. CBSSN — Samford at Western Carolina 4:30 p.m. FS1 — Butler at Xavier 5 p.m. ACCN — Wake Forest at NC State 5 p.m. ESPN — Florida at Tennessee 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Syracuse at Pittsburgh 5 p.m. SECN — Missouri at Alabama 6 p.m. CBSSN — Saint Louis at Dayton 6:30 p.m. FS1 — St. John’s at Seton Hall 7 p.m. ACCN — Georgia Tech at Clemson 7 p.m. BTN — Wisconsin at Penn St. 7 p.m. ESPN — Kansas at Oklahoma St. 7 p.m. ESPNU — Georgia at South Carolina

PREP BASKETBALL Corona 53, Chesterton 36

GIRLS

Alamo-Navajo 43, Evangel Christian 20 Carlsbad 31, Loving 24 Eunice 48, Dora 39 Jemez Valley 60, Tse Yi Gai 37 Mesilla Valley Christian 48, Cloudcroft 16 Vaughn 61, Chesterton 12

NFL PLAYOFFS WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 13 Houston 45, Cleveland 14 Kansas City 26, Miami 7

SUNDAY, JAN. 14

Green Bay 48, Dallas 32 Detroit 24, L.A. Rams 23 Pittsburgh at Buffalo, ppd. to Jan. 15

MONDAY, JAN. 15

Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 20

Houston at Baltimore, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN/ABC) Green Bay at San Franciso, 6 p.m. (FOX)

SUNDAY, JAN. 21

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. (NBC/Peacock) Kansas City at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m. (CBS/Paramount)

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY, JAN. 28

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, FEB. 11

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

0 10

9 6

0 9

0 7

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9 32

First Quarter TB: FG McLaughlin 28, 10:02. Drive: 13 plays, 65 yards, 4:58. Key Plays: Mayfield 15 pass to Otton; Mayfield 21 pass to M.Evans; Mayfield 3 pass to R.White on 3rd-and-3. Tampa Bay 3, Philadelphia 0.

TB: Moore 44 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 5:47. Drive: 4 plays, 79 yards, 1:20. Key Play: Mayfield 22 pass to Moore. Tampa Bay 10, Philadelphia 0.

Second Quarter TB: FG McLaughlin 54, 14:03. Drive: 10 plays, 40 yards, 5:19. Key Play: Mayfield 24 pass to Otton.

Tampa Bay 13, Philadelphia 0.

Phi: FG Elliott 47, 11:31. Drive: 8 plays, 45 yards, 2:32. Key Plays: Hurts 31 pass to D.Smith; Hurts 12 pass to D.Smith. Tampa Bay 13, Philadelphia 3.

TB: FG McLaughlin 48, 5:35. Drive: 14 plays, 45 yards, 5:56. Key Plays: Mayfield 9 run on 3rdand-6; Thompkins 10 run; R.White 7 run on 4thand-1. Tampa Bay 16, Philadelphia 3.

Phi: Goedert 5 pass from Hurts (run failed), 3:06.

Drive: 6 plays, 75 yards, 2:29. Key Plays: Hurts 14 pass to Jones; Hurts 55 pass to D.Smith. Tampa Bay 16, Philadelphia 9.

Third Quarter TB: safety, 2:18. Drive: 3 plays, -10 yards, 1:23.

Key Play: Hurts 10 pass to Goedert. Tampa Bay 18, Philadelphia 9.

TB: Palmer 56 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 1:19. Drive: 3 plays, 62 yards, 00:59. Key Play: Thompkins kick return to Tampa Bay 38.

Tampa Bay 25, Philadelphia 9.

Fourth Quarter TB: Godwin 23 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 5:42. Drive: 12 plays, 83 yards, 6:15. Key Plays: Mayfield 18 pass to Durham; Mayfield 5 pass to Otton on 3rd-and-4; Mayfield 19 pass to M.Evans; R.White 2 run on 3rd-and-1. Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9.

A: 63,397.

PHI

TB

FIRST DOWNS 13 23 Rushing 3 9 Passing 9 13 Penalty 1 1 THIRD DOWN EFF 0-9 6-14 FOURTH DOWN EFF 0-2 1-2 TOTAL NET YARDS 276 426 Total Plays 53 69 Avg Gain 5.2 6.2 NET YARDS RUSHING 42 119 Rushes 15 29 Avg per rush 2.8 4.103 NET YARDS PASSING 234 307 Sacked-Yds lost 3-16 4-30 Gross-Yds passing 250 337 Completed-Att. 25-35 22-36 Had Intercepted 0 0 Yards-Pass Play 6.158 7.675 KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB 4-3-3 7-6-6 PUNTS-Avg. 4-47.0 3-41.333 Punts blocked 0 0 FGs-PATs blocked 0-0 0-0 TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE 17 51 Punt Returns 1-0 2-24 Kickoff Returns 1-17 1-27 Interceptions 0-0 0-0 PENALTIES-Yds 6-54 5-25 FUMBLES-Lost 2-0 0-0 TIME OF POSSESSION 25:57 34:03 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Philadelphia, Swift 10-34, Hurts 1-5, Gainwell 4-3. Tampa Bay, R.White 18-72, Mayfield 2-16, Edmonds 7-12, Thompkins 1-10, Palmer 1-9.

PASSING: Philadelphia, Hurts 25-35-0-250. Tampa Bay, Mayfield 22-36-0-337.

RECEIVING: Philadelphia, D.Smith 8-148, Swift 4-32, Goedert 4-21, Jones 3-22, Watkins 3-12, Gainwell 2-10, Zaccheaus 1-5. Tampa Bay, Otton 8-89, Godwin 4-45, Evans 3-48, Moore 2-66, Palmer 1-56, Durham 1-18, Edmonds 1-8, Thompkins 1-4, R.White 1-3.

PUNT RETURNS: Philadelphia, Covey 1-0. Tampa Bay, Thompkins 2-24.

KICKOFF RETURNS: Philadelphia, B.Scott 1-17.

Tampa Bay, Thompkins 1-27.

TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS: Philadelphia, Morrow 7-3-0, Graham 5-0-1, Byard 5-0-0, Cunningham 4-5-0, Maddox 4-3-0, Slay 4-2-0, Sweat 3-1-1, Bradberry 2-1-0, Roby 2-1-0, Williams 2-0-1, N.Smith 1-3-.5, Carter 1-1-0, Davis 1-1-0, Ringo 1-1-0, Cox 0-2-.5, Reddick 0-1-0. Tampa Bay, Dean 9-1-0, David 5-0-0, Kancey 3-1-.5, Davis 3-1-0, McCollum 3-0-0, Winfield 3-0-0, Izien 2-0-0, O’Connor 2-0-0, Gaines 1-1-1, Vea 1-1-.5, Tryon-Shoyinka 1-0-1, Diaby 1-0-0, Gholston 1-0-0, Hall 1-0-0, Nelson 1-0-0, Britt 0-3-0, D.White 0-2-0.

INTERCEPTIONS: Philadelphia, None. Tampa Bay, None.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: None.

OFFICIALS: Referee Adrian Hill, Ump Duane Heydt, HL David Oliver, LJ Mark Stewart, FJ Mearl Robinson, SJ Lo Van Pham, BJ Greg Steed, Replay Roddy Ames.

BUFFALO 31, PITTSBURGH 17

PITTSBURGH BUFFALO

0 14

7 7

3 3

7 7

4:30 a.m. CBSSN — Olympic Qualifier: U.S vs. New Zealand, Pool B, Ranchi, India NBA 5:30 p.m. TNT — Denver at Philadelphia 8 p.m. TNT — Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers TENNIS 10 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, First Round, Melbourne, Australia (Taped) 7 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Second Round, Melbourne, Australia 1 a.m. Wednesday ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Second Round, Melbourne, Australia

PIT

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)

TAMPA BAY 32, PHILADELPHIA 9

FIELD HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)

1 run on 3rd-and-1; J.Allen 20 pass to Kincaid; J.Allen 10 pass to Diggs; J.Allen 12 pass to Diggs; J.Cook 12 run. Buffalo 7, Pittsburgh 0.

Buf: Kincaid 29 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 4:15. Drive: 1 play, 29 yards, 00:05. Buffalo 14, Pittsburgh 0.

Second Quarter Buf: J.Allen 52 run (Bass kick), 7:13. Drive: 8 plays, 80 yards, 3:51. Key Plays: Elam 0 interception return to Buffalo 20; J.Allen 8 pass to Diggs on 3rd-and-6. Buffalo 21, Pittsburgh 0.

Pit: D.Johnson 10 pass from Rudolph (Boswell kick), 1:43. Drive: 5 plays, 33 yards, 00:35. Key Play: Warren 10 run. Buffalo 21, Pittsburgh 7.

Third Quarter Pit: FG Boswell 40, 8:50. Drive: 9 plays, 43 yards, 4:34. Key Plays: Rudolph 19 pass to D.Johnson; Rudolph 13 pass to Pickens. Buffalo 21, Pittsburgh 10.

Buf: FG Bass 45, 1:32. Drive: 15 plays, 48 yards, 7:18. Key Plays: J.Cook 11 run; J.Allen 1 run on 4th-and-1; J.Allen 10 pass to Kincaid; J.Allen 12 pass to Diggs on 3rd-and-8; J.Allen 4 pass to Murray on 3rd-and-12. Buffalo 24, Pittsburgh 10.

Fourth Quarter Pit: Austin 7 pass from Rudolph (Boswell kick), 10:37. Drive: 13 plays, 75 yards, 6:00. Key Plays: Rudolph 19 pass to Pickens on 3rd-and-11; Pickens 15 run; Rudolph 11 pass to D.Johnson; Rudolph 8 pass to D.Johnson on 3rd-and-7. Buffalo 24, Pittsburgh 17.

Buf: Shakir 17 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 6:27.

Drive: 8 plays, 70 yards, 4:05. Key Plays: Isabella kick return to Buffalo 30; J.Allen 13 run. Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17.

A: 70,040.

BOYS

PHILADELPHIA TAMPA BAY

7 p.m. SECN — Texas A&M at Arkansas 8 p.m. CBSSN — UNLV at Boise St. 8:30 p.m. FS1 — Utah St. at New Mexico

— —

17 31

First Quarter Buf: Knox 9 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 7:02.

Drive: 10 plays, 80 yards, 5:33. Key Plays: J.Allen

BUF

FIRST DOWNS 22 24 Rushing 6 11 Passing 14 11 Penalty 2 2 THIRD DOWN EFF 5-11 5-12 FOURTH DOWN EFF 0-1 1-1 TOTAL NET YARDS 324 368 Total Plays 63 66 Avg Gain 5.1 5.6 NET YARDS RUSHING 106 179 Rushes 23 34 Avg per rush 4.609 5.265 NET YARDS PASSING 218 189 Sacked-Yds lost 1-11 2-14 Gross-Yds passing 229 203 Completed-Att. 22-39 21-30 Had Intercepted 1 0 Yards-Pass Play 5.45 5.906 KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB 4-3-3 6-4-4 PUNTS-Avg. 4-38.5 3-48.0 Punts blocked 0 0 FGs-PATs blocked 0-0 1-0 TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE 33 19 Punt Returns 1-12 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-21 1-19 Interceptions 0-0 1-0 PENALTIES-Yds 6-50 2-24 FUMBLES-Lost 2-1 0-0 TIME OF POSSESSION 26:41 33:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Pittsburgh, Warren 8-38, Harris 12-37, Rudolph 2-16, Pickens 1-15. Buffalo, Cook 18-79, J.Allen 8-74, Ty.Johnson 8-26.

PASSING: Pittsburgh, Rudolph 22-39-1-229. Buffalo, J.Allen 21-30-0-203.

RECEIVING: Pittsburgh, Freiermuth 5-76, Pickens 5-50, D.Johnson 4-48, Warren 2-16, Harris 2-15, A.Robinson 2-12, Austin 1-7, Co.Heyward 1-5.

Buffalo, Diggs 7-52, Cook 4-5, Kincaid 3-59, Shakir 3-31, Murray 2-13, Harty 1-34, Knox 1-9.

PUNT RETURNS: Pittsburgh, Austin 1-12. Buffalo, None.

KICKOFF RETURNS: Pittsburgh, Warren 1-21. Buffalo, Isabella 1-19.

TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS: Pittsburgh, Rowe 6-20, M.Fitzpatrick 5-5-0, Ca.Heyward 4-2-0, Peterson 4-0-0, Roberts 3-2-0, M.Robinson 3-2-0, Ogunjobi 2-3-0, Jack 2-2-0, Golden 2-1-1, Highsmith 2-1-1, Porter 2-0-0, Benton 1-4-0, Walker 1-2-0, Kazee 1-1-0, Adams 0-1-0, Wallace 0-1-0, A.Watts 0-1-0. Buffalo, Klein 7-4-0, Williams 4-3-0, Poyer 4-2-0, Bernard 3-1-0, Hyde 3-0-0, Rousseau 2-2-1, Lewis 2-1-0, Elam 1-4-0, Floyd 1-3-0, Ta.Johnson 1-1-0, Benford 1-0-0, Jackson 1-0-0, Oliver 1-0-0, Settle 1-0-0, Jones 0-2-0, Joseph 0-2-0, Lawson 0-1-0, Spector 0-1-0.

INTERCEPTIONS: Pittsburgh, None. Buffalo, Elam 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: Buffalo, Bass 49, Bass 27.

OFFICIALS: Referee Carl Cheffers, Ump Brandon Cruse, HL Mike Carr, LJ Tom Eaton, FJ Jabir Walker, SJ Boris Cheek, BJ Jonah Monroe, Replay Kevin Brown.

TAMPA BAY 32, PHILADELPHIA 9 PHILADELPHIA TAMPA BAY

0 10

9 6

0 9

0 7

— —

9 32

First Quarter TB: FG McLaughlin 28, 10:02.

TB: Moore 44 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 5:47.

Second Quarter TB: FG McLaughlin 54, 14:03.

Phi: FG Elliott 47, 11:31.

TB: FG McLaughlin 48, 5:35.

Phi: Goedert 5 pass from Hurts (run failed), 3:06.

Third Quarter TB: safety, 2:18.

TB: Palmer 56 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 1:19.

Fourth Quarter TB: Godwin 23 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 5:42.

A: 63,397.

PHI

TB

First downs 13 23 Total Net Yards 276 426 Rushes-yards 15-42 29-119 Passing 234 307 Punt Returns 1-0 2-24 Kickoff Returns 1-17 1-27 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 25-35-0 22-36-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-16 4-30 Punts 4-47.0 3-41.333 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-54 5-25 Time of Possession 25:57 34:03 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Philadelphia, Swift 10-34, Hurts 1-5, Gainwell 4-3. Tampa Bay, R.White 18-72, Mayfield 2-16, Edmonds 7-12, Thompkins 1-10, Palmer 1-9.

PASSING: Philadelphia, Hurts 25-35-0-250. Tampa Bay, Mayfield 22-36-0-337.

RECEIVING: Philadelphia, D.Smith 8-148, Swift 4-32, Goedert 4-21, Jones 3-22, Watkins 3-12, Gainwell 2-10, Zaccheaus 1-5. Tampa Bay, Otton 8-89, Godwin 4-45, Evans 3-48, Moore 2-66, Palmer 1-56, Durham 1-18, Edmonds 1-8, Thompkins 1-4, R.White 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: None.

BUFFALO 31, PITTSBURGH 17 PITTSBURGH BUFFALO

0 14

7 7

3 3

7 7

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First Quarter Buf: Knox 9 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 7:02.

Buf: Kincaid 29 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 4:15.

Second Quarter Buf: J.Allen 52 run (Bass kick), 7:13.

Pit: D.Johnson 10 pass from Rudolph (Boswell kick), 1:43.

Third Quarter Pit: FG Boswell 40, 8:50.

Buf: FG Bass 45, 1:32.

17 31

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

Tuesday Boys basketball — Capital at Valencia, 7 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Rio Rancho, 7 p.m.

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

Escalante at Academy for Technology and the Classics, 7 p.m.

Clayton at Santa Fe Prep, 5:30 p.m.

Los Alamos at Abq. Academy, 7 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Pecos, 7 p.m.

Cimarron at Mora, 7 p.m.

Abq. Bosque School at Las Vegas Robertson, 6 p.m.

Girls basketball — Española Valley at Capital, 7 p.m.

Escalante at Academy for Technology and the Classics, 5:30 p.m.

Abq. Hope Christian at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Los Alamos, 6:30 p.m.

Taos at Aztec, 7 p.m.

Cimarron at Mora, 5:30 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Clovis, 6 p.m.

Wednesday Boys basketball — Wagon Mound at Tierra Encantada (Christian Life), 5:30 p.m.

Aztec at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Cimarron at Questa, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — St. Michael’s at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 5 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Pecos, 7 p.m.

Thursday Boys basketball — Abq. Hope Christian Invitational: first round, Hot Springs vs. Taos, 1:30 p.m.

West Las Vegas vs. Abq. St. Pius X, 7:30 p.m.

Lion Classic at Santa Rosa: first round, Tularosa vs. Mora, 5 p.m.

Española Valley at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Capital at Grants, 5:30 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Abq. High, 7 p.m.

Jemez Valley at Tierra Encantada (Christian Life), 6:30 p.m.

Cuba at Peñasco, 6 p.m.

Abq. Evangel Christian at Mesa Vista, 5:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Abq. Hope Christian Invitational: first round, Taos vs.

Bloomfield, noon; West Las Vegas vs.

Abq. St. Pius X, 6 p.m.

Rio Rancho at Capital, 7 p.m.

Grants at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at Los Alamos, 6:30 p.m.

Miyamura at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Jemez Valley at Tierra Encantada (Christian Life), 5 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Abq. Hope Christian Invitational, semifinals/ consolation: Taos vs. Hope Christian/Shiprock, 7:30 p.m.(semifinal)/10:30 a.m.(consolation); West

Fourth Quarter Pit: Austin 7 pass from Rudolph (Boswell kick), 10:37.

Buf: Shakir 17 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 6:27.

A: 70,040.

PIT

BUF

First downs 22 24 Total Net Yards 324 368 Rushes-yards 23-106 34-179 Passing 218 189 Punt Returns 1-12 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-21 1-19 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-39-1 21-30-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-11 2-14 Punts 4-38.5 3-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-50 2-24 Time of Possession 26:41 33:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Pittsburgh, Warren 8-38, Harris 12-37, Rudolph 2-16, Pickens 1-15. Buffalo, Cook 18-79, J.Allen 8-74, Ty.Johnson 8-26.

PASSING: Pittsburgh, Rudolph 22-39-1-229. Buffalo, J.Allen 21-30-0-203.

RECEIVING: Pittsburgh, Freiermuth 5-76, Pickens 5-50, D.Johnson 4-48, Warren 2-16, Harris 2-15, A.Robinson 2-12, Austin 1-7, Co.Heyward 1-5.

Buffalo, Diggs 7-52, Cook 4-5, Kincaid 3-59, Shakir 3-31, Murray 2-13, Harty 1-34, Knox 1-9.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: Buffalo, Bass 49, Bass 27.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

W

L

PCT

GB

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

31 25 23 16 15

9 13 17 23 25

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

24 22 16 8 7

16 18 23 29 32

Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit

28 23 23 19 4

12 15 17 23 36

SOUTHWEST

W

L

PCT

GB

L

PCT

GB

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

W

W

L

L

WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

24 24 19 15 7

17 17 20 25 32

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

28 27 28 22 10

11 11 13 20 29

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

25 23 21 19 18

14 16 18 21 22

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

SUNDAY’S GAMES

.775 .658 .575 .410 .375

— 5 8 14½ 16

.600 .550 .410 .216 .179

— 2 7½ 14½ 16½

.700 .605 .575 .452 .100

— 4 5 10 24

PCT

PCT

L

.585 .585 .487 .375 .179

.718 .711 .683 .524 .256

PCT .641 .590 .538 .475 .450

Denver 117, Indiana 109 Miami 104, Charlotte 87 Minnesota 109, L.A. Clippers 105 Milwaukee 143, Sacramento 142, OT Phoenix 127, Portland 116

MONDAY’S GAMES

Phila. 124, Houston 115 Dallas 125, New Orleans 120 Detroit 129, Washington 117 Orlando 98, New York 94 Atlanta 109, San Antonio 99 Memphis 116, Golden State 107 Cleveland 109, Chicago 91 Boston 105, Toronto 96 Miami 96, Brooklyn 95, OT Utah 132, Indiana 105 Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, late

TUESDAY’S GAMES

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

Sacramento at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Houston at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Portland, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

GB

GB

— — 4 8½ 16

— ½ 1 7½ 18

GB — 2 4 6½ 7½

ON THE SLOPES

Las Vegas vs. Artesia/Bloomfield, 4:30 p.m.(semifinal/1:30 p.m.(consolation) Lion Classic at Santa Rosa, semifinal/ consolation: Mora vs. Estancia/Fort Sumner, 5 p.m.(semifinal)/2 p.m.(consolation) St. Michael’s at Grants, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Aztec, 7 p.m.

Dulce at Escalante, 7 p.m.

Pecos at Abq. Del Norte, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Abq. Hope Christian Invitational, semifinal/consolation: Taos vs. Hot Springs/Hope Christian, 6 p.m.(semifinal)/9 a.m.(consolation); West Las Vegas vs. Los Lunas/Artesia, 3 p.m.(semifinal)/ noon(consolation) Dulce at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Abq. Evangel Christian, 5:30 p.m.

Native American Community Academy at Mora, 5 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Tucumcari, 6:30 p.m.

Swimming and diving — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Santa Fe Prep, Taos at Abq. Academy Invitational, TBA Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital at Joe Vivian Classic: TBA St. Michael’s, Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos, Española Valley at Sartan Scuffle at Abq. St. Pius X, 3 p.m.

New Mexico ski area conditions as of Monday: Angel Fire — 31-inch base; 71 of 81 trails, 79% open; 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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

Pajarito — 28-inch base; 44 of 53 trails, 83% open; 4 of 6 lifts; 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.;

NFL SATURDAY FAVORITE

FAVORITE

FAVORITE

UNDERDOG

(227) (243) (236)

Denver Sacramento Oklahoma City

LINE

at WESTERN CAROLINA at XAVIER at CINCINNATI at AKRON at OHIO at PITTSBURGH Purdue at TOLEDO Bowling Green at INDIANA STATE at NC STATE at ALABAMA at DUQUESNE Ball State at SMU Kent State at DAYTON Charlotte Baylor St. John’s Wisconsin at COLORADO STATE Kansas at BYU at CLEMSON at SOUTH CAROLINA Texas A&M at FRESNO STATE at BOISE STATE at NEW MEXICO

UNDERDOG

1½ 5½ 2½ 13½ 10½ 6½ 9½ 13½ 1½ 12½ 1½ 14½ 3½ 1½ 13½ 4½ 14½ 3½ 2½ 1½ 6½ 15½ 6½ 4½ 11½ 4½ 2½ 1½ 5½ 4½

Samford Butler TCU Western Michigan Central Michigan Syracuse at INDIANA Buffalo at MIAMI (OH) Missouri State Wake Forest Missouri Richmond at EASTERN MICHIGAN Temple at NORTHERN ILLINOIS Saint Louis at RICE at KANSAS STATE at SETON HALL at PENN STATE Air Force at OKLAHOMA STATE Iowa State Georgia Tech Georgia at ARKANSAS San Jose State UNLV Utah State

NHL TUESDAY FAVORITE

LINE

Colorado at WASHINGTON at N.Y. RANGERS at DALLAS at WINNIPEG at CHICAGO at EDMONTON at CALGARY

2 2 1 0 0 0

1 1 1 3 2 2

.667 10 8 .667 7 11 .500 7 10 .000 11 7 .000 9 8 .000 6 11

MOUNTAIN-WEST CONFERENCE

PRV

1. UConn (39) 15-2 1542 4 2. Purdue (20) 15-2 1506 1 3. Kansas (3) 14-2 1426 3 4. North Carolina (1) 13-3 1407 7 5. Houston 14-2 1236 2 6. Tennessee 12-4 1147 5 7. Duke 13-3 1130 11 8. Kentucky 12-3 1123 6 9. Baylor 14-2 1055 14 10. Memphis 15-2 987 13 11. Wisconsin 13-3 948 15 12. Arizona 12-4 918 8 13. Auburn 14-2 905 16 14. Illinois 12-4 660 10 15. Oklahoma 13-3 633 9 16. Utah St. 16-1 541 20 17. Marquette 11-5 516 11 18. Creighton 13-4 433 22 19. TCU 13-3 293 20. BYU 13-3 270 18 21. Dayton 13-2 261 22. Mississippi 15-1 236 23. FAU 13-4 221 24 24. Iowa St. 13-3 195 25. Texas Tech 14-2 191 Others receiving votes: Colorado St. 169, San Diego St. 153, Seton Hall 89, Alabama 60, Grand Canyon 49, Clemson 38, Nevada 22, Boise St. 22, Texas 20, Oregon 17, St. John’s 15, New Mexico 14, NC State 8, Princeton 5, Gonzaga 5, Mississippi St. 3, South Carolina 2, Villanova 2, James Madison 1, McNeese St. 1.

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST

American 66, Loyola (Md.) 52 Boston College 63, Notre Dame 59 Brown 74, Harvard 72 Bryn Athyn 61, Notre Dame of Maryland Gators 56 CCSU 75, Merrimack 70 Cornell 77, Penn 60 Fairfield 88, Canisius 63 Fairleigh Dickinson 81, St. Francis (Pa.) 71 George Washington 75, George Mason 62 Howard 78, Morehouse 72 Princeton 76, Dartmouth 58 Sacred Heart 80, Le Moyne 73 Sage 75, Pratt 65 Saint Elizabeth 74, Clarks Summit 63 Saint Joseph’s 82, La Salle 62 Siena 93, Niagara 88 Trinity (Conn.) 88, Worcester St. 69 Wagner 64, Stonehill 54 Wells 78, Mount Aloysius 71 Yale 89, Columbia 70

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

W 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0

.556 .389 .412 .611 .529 .353

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

TUESDAY’S GAMES

PCT

1.000 1.000 .750 .667 .500 .500 .333 .333 .250 .000 .000

W

16 12 14 15 14 9 13 8 8 7 7

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

PCT .941 .750 .824 .882 .824 .529 .813 .533 .471 .467 .438

Air Force at Colorado St., 7 p.m.

UNLV at Boise St., 8 p.m.

San Jose St. at Fresno St., 8 p.m.

Utah St. at New Mexico, 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Nevada at San Diego St., 9 p.m.

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL AP TOP 25 POLL

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking.

RECORD

PTS

PRV

1. South Carolina (36) 15-0 900 1 2. Iowa 17-1 843 3 3. Colorado 15-1 814 5 4. NC State 15-1 777 6 5. UCLA 14-1 750 2 6. Southern Cal 13-1 744 9 7. Kansas St 17-1 692 12 8. Stanford 15-2 608 8 9. UConn 14-3 597 13 10. LSU 16-2 537 7 11. Texas 16-2 515 10 12. Baylor 14-2 492 4 13. Louisville 15-2 460 15 14. Virginia Tech 13-3 419 11 15. Florida St. 14-4 365 21 16. Indiana 14-2 351 14 17. Gonzaga 16-2 345 16 18. Ohio St. 13-3 336 17 19. Notre Dame 12-3 301 18 20. Utah 12-5 187 19 21. Creighton 13-3 144 22 22. Marquette 15-2 129 23 23. North Carolina 12-5 106 20 24. Iowa St. 12-4 80 25. UNLV 14-1 69 25 Others receiving votes: Oregon St. 59, West Virginia 29, Syracuse 25, Vanderbilt 8, Princeton 7, Auburn 5, Fairfield 4, Michigan St. 2.

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST

Columbia 88, Yale 52 Fairleigh Dickinson 64, St. Francis (Pa.) 54 Harvard 73, Brown 59 Le Moyne 60, Sacred Heart 56 Merrimack 71, CCSU 53 Penn 67, Cornell 54 Princeton 63, Dartmouth 40 Saint Joseph’s 64, La Salle 39 Stonehill 67, Wagner 44

SOUTH

Alabama St. 72, Alabama A&M 55 Albany St. (Ga.) 49, Savannah St. 48 Bethune-Cookman 83, Southern U. 81, OT Charleston (WV) 60, Virginia Union 53 Chicago St. 77, Stetson 70 Clark Atlanta 77, Allen 58 Edward Waters 102, Fort Valley St. 81 Grambling St. 65, Florida A&M 52 Livingstone 69, Lane 63 McNeese St. 88, Lamar 69 Miles 72, LeMoyne-Owen 62 NC A&T 81, Hampton 80 Nicholls 78, New Orleans 75 Norfolk St. 118, Va.-Lynchburg 73 Northwestern St. 69, Houston Christian 64 St. Augustines 86, Johnson C. Smith 72 Texas A&M-CC 73, SE Louisiana 68 Tuskegee 63, Central St. (Ohio) 57

SOUTH

Alabama A&M 66, Alabama St. 49 Grambling St. 88, Florida A&M 85, 3OT South Carolina 98, Kentucky 36 Southern U. 71, Bethune-Cookman 66

MIDWEST

LIU Brooklyn 66, Chicago St. 58

SOUTHWEST

MVSU 70, Texas Southern 69

TENNIS AUSTRALIAN OPEN TUESDAY

MIDWEST

Carleton 98, Bethel (Minn.) 74 Concordia (Moor.) 73, Augsburg 64 Iowa 86, Minnesota 77 Marquette 87, Villanova 74 Michigan 73, Ohio St. 65 St. John’s (Minn.) 73, Gustavus Adolphus 70 St. Olaf 66, St. Scholastica 58

At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: AUD38,923,200 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (AP) : Results Tuesday from Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):

SOUTHWEST

MEN’S SINGLES FIRST ROUND

Texas Southern 93, MVSU 61

FAR WEST

Occidental 72, Caltech 55

L PCT .556 .765 .667

UNDERDOG

-137 -200 -200 -137 -182 -122 -142 -164

Louisiana Tech 80, Liberty 76, OT

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking.

8 4 6

Green Bay

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

SUNDAY’S GAMES

PCT W

UNDERDOG

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O/U

4 4½ 5

TUESDAY

Jacksonville St. FIU New Mexico St. Liberty UTEP Middle Tennessee

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MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL

Sam Houston St. W. Kentucky Louisiana Tech

TODAY

9½

TUESDAY

Washington at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

CONFERENCE USA

OPEN

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Boys basketball — Taos, West Las Vegas at Abq. Hope Christian Invitational: TBA Mora at Lion Classic at Santa Rosa: TBA Capital at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Socorro, 5:30 p.m.

Academy for Technology and the Classics at Texico, 5 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Colorado School for the Deaf and Bind, 6:30 p.m.

Los Alamos at Miyamura, 4 p.m.

McCurdy at East Mountain, 2 p.m.

Jemez Valley at Mesa Vista, 7 p.m.

Shiprock Northwest at Coronado, 5:30 p.m.

Questa at Clayton, 4:30 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Abq. Sandia Prep, 2 p.m.

Girls basketball — Taos, West Las Vegas at Abq. Hope Christian Invitational: TBA Rio Rancho Cleveland at Santa Fe High, 5 p.m.

Academy for Technology and the Classics at Texico, 3:30 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Colorado School for the Deaf and Bind, 5 p.m.

McCurdy at East Mountain, 12:30 p.m.

Shiprock Northwest at Coronado, 4 p.m.

Questa at Clayton, 2:30 p.m.

Pecos at Native American Community Academy, 3 p.m.

Swimming and diving — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Santa Fe Prep, Taos at Abq. Academy Invitational, TBA Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital at Joe Vivian Classic: TBA St. Michael’s, Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos, Española Valley at Sartan Scuffle at Abq. St. Pius X, 9 a.m.

Tierra Encantada, Pecos, Las Vegas Robertson at Spencer Cole Invitational at West Las Vegas: TBA

PTS

SOURCES: ONTHESNOW.COM; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPORTS BETTING LINE

Saturday

RECORD

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 — 30-inch base; 32 of 55 trails, 58% open; 5 of 11 lifts; Thu/Fri:9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Ski Santa Fe — 52-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 — 44-inch base; 103 of 110 trails, 94% open, 11 of 13 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Jiri Lehecka (32), Czech Republic, def. Bernabe Zapata Miralles, Spain, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.

Cameron Norrie (19), Britain, def. Juan Pablo Varillas, Peru, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

Giulio Zeppieri, Italy, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Arthur Fils, France, def. Jiri Vesely, Czech Repub-

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lic, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3.

Alex Michelsen, United States, def. James McCabe, Australia, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Casper Ruud (11), Norway, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.

Arthur Cazaux, France, def. Laslo Djere, Serbia, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Tallon Griekspoor (28), Netherlands, def. Roman Safiullin, Russia, 2-6, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-5.

WOMEN’S SINGLES FIRST ROUND

Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Olivia Gadecki, Australia, 6-3, 6-1.

Daria Kasatkina (14), Russia, def. Peyton Stearns, United States, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, def. Lulu Sun, Switzerland, 6-1, 7-5.

Martina Trevisan, Italy, def. Renata Zarazua, Mexico, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Iga Swiatek (1), Poland, def. Sofia Kenin, United States, 7-6 (2), 6-2.

MEN’S DOUBLES FIRST ROUND

Adrian Mannarino and Quentin Halys, France, def. Julian Cash, Britain, and Robert Galloway, United States, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1.

Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni (6), Argentina, def. Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, and Pedro Cachin, Argentina, 6-2, 6-2.

Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, and Daniel Altmaier, Germany, def. Stefanos Tsitsipas and Petros Tsitsipas, Greece, 7-5, 7-5.

Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (13), France, def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, 6-4, 6-1.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES FIRST ROUND

Ana Bogdan, Romania, and Rebeka Masarova, Spain, def. Ulrikke Eikeri, Norway, and Catherine Harrison, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Florida Toronto Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

43 26 8 43 27 13 41 21 12 43 22 16 44 22 17 43 18 18 44 19 21 38 15 23

9 3 8 5 5 7 4 0

61 144 114 57 136 111 50 148 134 49 155 144 49 146 149 43 120 148 42 130 143 30 127 140

42 27 13 2 44 24 14 6 43 24 14 5 42 21 15 6 43 19 14 10 41 22 16 3 41 20 15 6 44 14 21 9

56 138 121 54 130 120 53 148 132 48 129 113 48 128 146 47 142 144 46 99 125 37 134 165

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

Vancouver Vegas Los Angeles Edmonton Seattle Calgary Anaheim San Jose

L OT PTS

GF GA

42 44 42 44 41 42 43 43

28 28 25 24 21 21 18 12

10 13 12 19 18 19 20 29

4 3 5 1 2 2 5 2

60 59 55 49 44 44 41 26

139 163 155 139 126 120 126 97

97 137 129 138 123 135 144 158

44 44 40 39 43 43 43 44

29 25 21 23 19 20 15 10

11 14 11 15 15 18 27 31

4 5 8 1 9 5 1 3

62 55 50 47 47 45 31 23

168 140 134 138 122 136 111 88

114 120 104 117 125 137 148 181

SUNDAY’S GAMES

L OT PTS

N.Y. Rangers 2, Washington 1 Detroit 4, Toronto 2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo 3, San Jose 0 Pittsburgh 3, Seattle 0 Columbus 4, Vancouver 3, SO Boston 3, New Jersey 0 Anaheim 5, Florida 4, OT Los Angeles 5, Carolina 2 Vegas 4, Nashville 1 Minnesota 5, N.Y. Islanders 0 Montreal 4, Colorado 3 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 2

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Washington, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Seattle at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

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

Arizona at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Detroit at Florida, 5 p.m.

Montreal at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

GF GA

SPORTS

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

SP OR T S TALK

What to do with dismal Dallas After another playoff failure by Cowboys, maybe a call to Belichick can save the franchise

By Rob Maaddi

The Associated Press

The Associated Press

SAM HODDE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott hangs his head while sitting on the bench during Sunday’s wild-card playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers in Arlington, Texas.

drought for America’s Team will reach 29 years.

Jones has to be contemplating a change.

He has a talented roster that features four firstteam All-Pros and five on the second team, including Prescott and Parsons.

Mike But everyone crumbled McCarthy under pressure against the Packers.

Prescott threw two interceptions, including a pick-6. Parsons had just one solo tackle and one quarterback hit, and the team had no sacks.

Simply put: Nobody on the Cowboys did their job.

Bill Belichick Belichick wouldn’t stand for that.

He built a dynasty in New England, winning six Super Bowls in 24 seasons by instilling a team-first culture.

Dallas desperately needs a heavy dose of his “do your job” philosophy.

Sure, Belichick couldn’t win after Tom Brady left the Patriots. But he would have Prescott and a strong supporting cast on both sides of the ball.

Coaching matters in the NFL. Matt LaFleur outsmarted McCarthy, Quinn and everyone on Dallas’ sideline. His game plan

was executed to perfection by Love and other young, inexperienced players.

After Dallas lost to Green Bay, the Detroit Lions advanced to the divisional round by beating the Rams 24-23 for their first playoff victory in 32 seasons and their second in 65 years.

They were energized by coach Dan Campbell, who took over one of the league’s worst franchises and built it into a winner in just three seasons.

“To be able to do something greater than yourself, it takes everybody around you doing their job and doing it at a high level and you got to be able to trust them,” Campbell said. “It’s special. It’s different than anything, man. It’s why you do what we do.

It’s not the money. It’s about the competition, the camaraderie, to be the best of the best collectively.”

The Lions were hoping to play the Cowboys next week in a rematch following a controversial home loss to Dallas in Week 17 that cost them the No. 2 seed. They get that second home game anyway because the Cowboys blew it. Detroit hosts the winner of the Monday night matchup between the Eagles and Buccaneers.

As for the Cowboys, the players will start another early vacation while Jones has to figure out the best path to another Lombardi trophy.

It could start with a phone call to Belichick.

Bucs send Eagles packing

LOS ANGELES — Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Caleb Williams has formally entered the NFL draft, leaving Southern California after two prolific seasons.

Williams made his long-anticipated announcement on social media Monday, the final day for underclassmen to enter the draft.

He is widely considered the favorite to be the No. 1 selection in the draft, which begins April 25. The Chicago Bears currently hold the top pick.

“I still have a lot to learn and I’m ready to do whatever it takes,” Williams wrote on his Instagram post announcing the decision. “As a kid, I said this is what I was going to do for the rest of my life, but I didn’t work this hard just to reach this point. I will continue my journey to make that little kid proud of the man I will be for many years to come. I’m excited for the future, and I am officially declaring for the NFL draft.”

Williams passed for 10,082 yards with 93 touchdowns and 14 interceptions during three collegiate seasons at Oklahoma and USC. He became the Trojans’ eighth Heisman Trophy winner in 2022 after following coach Lincoln Riley from Norman to the West Coast, and he put up another superlative statistical season last fall even while the Trojans struggled in an 8-5 season.

The Washington, D.C.-area

native is considered one of the top quarterback prospects to enter the NFL in recent seasons. With a strong arm, superb elusiveness and playmaking acumen, Williams led the Trojans to a massive one-year improvement and a Cotton Bowl berth during his Heisman season.

The Trojans were much worse in the just-completed season largely due to one of the worst defenses in college football, but Williams still showcased enough of his remarkable talent to remain the most desired quarterback in the nation.

Williams’ well-rounded skill set also includes the ability to rush for 21 touchdowns in the past two seasons at USC, even though he doesn’t see himself as a running quarterback.

The Bears will have the first chance to add Williams as the centerpiece of their roster, but Justin Fields has been their starter for most of the past three seasons since they drafted him No. 11 overall.

The second pick in the draft is held by Williams’ hometown Washington Commanders, and rebuilding New England is third.

Although Williams waited until the last day to declare for the draft, the Trojans have anticipated his departure for months. Williams didn’t play in the Holiday Bowl, where backup Miller Moss threw a bowl-record six touchdown passes and emerged as the surprising front-runner to replace Williams at USC in the fall.

receptions for 148 yards for the Eagles.

BIG DOM RETURNS Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro was back on the team’s sideline after he was barred for the final five games of the regular season after a sideline altercation with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw on Dec. 3. The Eagles were fined $100,000 for the incident.

DiSandro was permitted to travel and perform all other work duties during the sideline ban.

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The Eagles played without leading receiver A.J. Brown, who injured a knee in the regular-season finale. Hurts started despite dislocating the middle finger on his throwing hand the previous week, and was 25 of 35 for 250 yards and one TD before being replaced by backup Marcus Mariota in the final minute.

“The reality is we have to be better, and it starts with me,” Hurts said.

The Bucs, who lost to the Lions 20-6 in Week 6, regrouped following a stretch in which they lost six of seven games to go 5-1 over the last six weeks of the regular season to win their third straight NFC South title and clinch a franchise-record fourth consecutive playoff berth.

The Eagles entered Monday night looking for a solution to what ailed them during a stunning about-face that saw them go 1-5 down the stretch after a 10-1 start to the season that included a dominant 14-point victory over Tampa Bay in Week 3.

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Heisman winner Williams leaves USC, enters draft as likely No. 1 pick

By Greg Beacham

J

immy Johnson showed more passion on television for winning than any of the Dallas Cowboys did on the field.

Now, Jerry Jones could turn to another coaching icon to save his franchise.

Speculation about Bill Belichick has ramped up. He already is the odds-on favorite to be the next coach in Dallas even though Mike McCarthy hasn’t been fired.

After a dismal performance Sunday against Green Bay, that might be just a matter of time.

Dak Prescott, Micah Parsons and the rest of the NFC East champions didn’t show up for a wild-card game against Green Bay. The Cowboys became the first No. 2 seed to lose to a No. 7 seed since the NFL went to a 14-team playoff format in 2020.

It wasn’t even close. The Cowboys were embarrassed.

Jordan Love and the Packers destroyed Dan Quinn’s defense, dominating Dallas 48-32 in a game they led 27-0 and 48-16.

The Cowboys lost at home for the first time since the 2022 season opener, ending a 16-game winning streak.

Jones has to be out of patience after his team’s latest playoff failure. The 81-year-old owner looked stunned and angry as he watched from his suite. He said this collapse “seems like the most painful” playoff loss he has endured.

“This is beyond my comprehension,” Jones said.

The performance was far worse than the score indicated. The Cowboys came out flat and had little energy and no answers for Green Bay. Johnson, the Hall of Fame coach who led Dallas to two Super Bowl titles in the mid1990s and recently was inducted into the team’s ring of honor, was fired up during the halftime show on Fox. “You get your rear end in there and you play the way you know how to play,” a scowling Johnson shouted into the camera.

His message didn’t reach the ’Boys.

They were just as uninspired in the second half as they were in the first. The garbage-time points at the end only made it seem less lopsided.

Under McCarthy, the Cowboys are the first team to win 12 games in the regular season for three straight years and not advance to the conference championship. The Super Bowl

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Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams warms up for a Nov. 18 game against UCLA in Los Angeles. Williams has formally entered the NFL Draft as the likely No. 1 pick.

HONORARY CAPTAINS

PETER JONELEIT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts gets sacked by Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Greg Gaines, right, during a wild-card playoff game Monday in Tampa, Fla.

“The well ran dry a little the last six weeks,” Eagles tackle Lane Johnson said.

Philadelphia outgained the Bucs 472 yards to 174, running 78 plays to Tampa Bay’s 44 in the first meeting. With Mayfield getting off to a quick start against a porous, poor-tackling Eagles secondary, the Bucs gained 178 yards in the first quarter alone Monday night.

Chase McLaughlin kicked field goals of 28, 54 and 48 yards, the latter extending Tampa Bay’s

lead to 16-3 late in the second quarter. The Eagles cut into their deficit with Hurts using a 55-yard completion to DeVonta Smith to set up a 5-yard scoring pass to Dallas Goedert.

The score remained 16-9, though. Sirianni took Jake Elliott’s conversion kick off the board after the Bucs were penalized for offsides. The Eagles lined up to go for 2 points from the 1-yard line, but Tampa Bay stopped Hurts for no gain.

Smith finished with eight

Three members of the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as honorary team captains for the Buccaneers.

Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and Yolanda Renee King attended the game as special guests and participated in the pregame coin toss. It’s the first time members of the King family have participated in the commemoration of MLK Day at an NFL game.

INJURIES Eagles: WR Julio Jones left in the second quarter to be evaluated for a concussion and did not return. ...

CB Darius Slay, who returned after being sidelined for a month with a knee injury, was carted off with six minutes remaining. There was no immediate announcement on the nature of his injury.

Buccaneers: RB Rachaad White limped off the field in the second quarter, but returned and finished with 72 yards rushing on 18 attempts.

UConn hits No. 1 in AP Top 25 after upset-filled week; Gonzaga falls out Connecticut has followed last year’s run to the NCAA championship with its first No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll in nearly 15 years, while Gonzaga has fallen out of the AP Top 25 for the first time in eight years.

The Huskies moved to the top of the latest poll after a tumultuous and upset-filled week across the sport, which included five new teams entering the rankings Monday. UConn claimed 39 of 63 first-place votes to climb three spots and replace Purdue at the top after the Boilermakers’ loss at Nebraska dropped them to No. 2.

This marks the first time UConn has hit No. 1 in the AP Top 25 since spending four weeks there in the second half of the 2008-09 season, which ended with the Huskies reaching the Final Four.

Purdue claimed 20 first-place votes, followed by Kansas — the poll’s only team to stay in place from last week — holding three first-place votes despite a loss at UCF. There was also North Carolina’s three-spot jump to No. 4 after beating rival North Carolina State for its third Atlantic Coast Conference road win in as many tries and blowing out Syracuse at home. UNC even picked up a first-place vote.

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when the gates opened and was put to good use by fans, who tossed handfuls into the air like confetti to celebrate.

“We put on a show in the snow,” said left tackle Dion Dawkins. “We’re here.

We got one more week.”

The second-seeded Bills (12-6), who closed the regular season with five straight wins, advance to host Patrick Mahomes and the No. 3 seed Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round Sunday night. Buffalo and its fans have longed for a home playoff game against the Chiefs after their 2020 and ’21 seasons ended with playoff losses at Kansas City.

“We’re a step behind already,” Allen said, noting the Chiefs will have two more days of rest after beating Miami on Saturday. “It’s going to take a team effort. We know the type of team that they are, obviously the type of quarter-

back that they have in Pat over there.”

Buffalo led 21-0 before Pittsburgh scored on three straight possessions to get within 24-17. Allen then sealed the win, throwing a 17-yard touchdown pass to Khalil Shakir with 6:27 remaining.

Shakir caught the pass at the 10 over the middle, slipped Minkah Fitzpatrick’s tackle attempt with a spin move, and outraced the rest of the Steelers defenders into the end zone.

“Dude hit me and I was able to just stay up and make a play from there,” Shakir said. “But that comes down to [Allen] getting the ball, putting it right on the money and giving me an opportunity to make a play.”

Allen finished 21 of 30 for 203 yards and ran for 74 yards on eight carries, becoming the first quarterback in NFL playoff history to throw three or more TD passes while rushing for 70 or more yards and a score. He didn’t have a turnover for just the fourth time this season.

Mason Rudolph threw two touchdown passes with an interception in his first playoff start for the Steelers (10-8), but Pittsburgh was too inconsistent on either side of the ball to keep up with Allen and the Bills. The Steelers lost their fifth straight playoff game; the franchise’s most recent postseason victory was exactly seven years ago.

Missed tackles, two turnovers that led to 14 points for Buffalo and the Bills’ ability to bottle up the Steelers’ running attack contributed to the loss.

“I’m appreciative of the efforts. But it’s not mystical. We didn’t do what was required to win tonight,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “Can’t come into an environment like this with a playoff-caliber team and turn the ball over like that and expect to be competitive.”

Asked about his future in Pittsburgh after completing his 17th season — all of them with a record of .500 or better — Tomlin smirked and walked away.

“When we got it down to seven points, I thought we were going to make a run. It comes back to the defense,” veteran defensive tackle Cam Heyward said. “There were chances. We didn’t capitalize. That was probably the biggest outlier in the game.”

The elements didn’t play much of a factor. Though temperatures were in the teens, the skies were clear and there was only a slight breeze blowing in off Lake Erie.

The Bills asserted themselves at the start.

Allen’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Dawson Knox capped an 80-yard opening drive. After Buffalo linebacker Terrel Bernard recovered receiver George Pickens’ fumble at the Pittsburgh 29, Allen threw a TD pass to Dalton Kincaid on the next play.

Allen’s touchdown run came after cornerback Kaiir Elam intercepted Rudolph’s pass intended for Diontae

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Johnson in the end zone.

The Steelers finally capitalized on one of the Bills’ few errors of the half, when coach Sean McDermott elected to attempt a 49-yard field goal into the wind with a little more than two minutes left.

Montravius Adams blocked Tyler Bass’ low kick. The ball squirted some 20 yards into Bills territory and was recovered by Nick Herbig at Buffalo’s 33.

The Steelers scored five plays later on Rudolph’s 10-yard TD pass to Johnson.

The Bills overcame a rash of injuries to their defense. Bernard was ruled out after twisting his right ankle and starting nickelback Taron Johnson did not return after being evaluated for a concussion. The Bills began the game without cornerback Rasul Douglas (knee) and linebacker Tyrel Dodson (shoulder).

“We’ve got a resilient group,” Allen said of a team that was 6-6 after an overtime loss to Philadelphia on Nov. 26. “The veteran leadership that we have, I really think it’s unmatched in the league.”

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The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

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New Orleans 38/25

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Guadalajara 85/53 Mexico City 76/59

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Jan. 16, 1987 - A winter storm produced a total of 61 inches of snow at Rye, Colo. and wind gusts to 100 mph in Utah. The storm then spread heavy snow from the Texas panhandle to Indiana. Tulia, Texas received 16 inches of snow.

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both competitions.

Bonmatí won Monday over Spain teammate Jenni Hermoso and Colombia Lionel Messi star Linda Caicedo.

“It’s been an exceptional and unique year that I’ll remember all my life,” Bonmatí said in translated comments. “I owe this to the teams that I’ve played with. Without all of you, I wouldn’t be here.”

“The Best” awards represent FIFA’s version of the older, more prestigious Ballon d’Or prize.

The women’s eligibility period covered performances from Aug. 1, 2022 through the World Cup final in August.

Spain’s women won their first World Cup by beating England 1-0 in the final in Sydney, Australia.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was named best men’s coach, and England coach Sarina Wiegman took the women’s prize. Guardiola led City to a treble of titles: Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup. Messi secured the FIFA award for the eighth time in 15 years.

He had won it last year, too, after leading Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title.

Fans voted overwhelmingly for Messi, and journalists favored Haaland. The Man City striker had a slight edge in the votes from national team coaches. The national team captains leaned Messi.

The men’s award did not consider the World Cup, which ended 13 months ago. It recognized achievements from after the tournament through Aug. 20.

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Atlanta 34/16

Dallas 28/15

Hermosillo 76/55

Roswell 39 / 20

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New York 36/20

Detroit 12/1

Chicago 2/-1

Omaha 8/-1

Las Vegas 59/39

Los Angeles 69/50

Clovis 33 / 21

Ruidoso 47 / 29 Truth or Consequences 56 / 29

Boise 21/16

Boston 36/20

Minneapolis 6/-1

Billings 23/12

Las Vegas 41 / 22

Pecos 39 / 21

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Messi named FIFA’s best men’s player, edging Haaland in tiebreaker voting LONDON — Lionel Messi landed another prestigious award in soccer — barely.

The Argentina star needed a tiebreaker with Erling Haaland to win FIFA’s best men’s player prize Monday.

He has national team captains to thank.

The voting breakdown showed Messi and Haaland with 48 points each after voting by a global panel of national team coaches and captains, selected journalists, plus fans online. The tiebreaker was whoever had more first-place or “5-point” scores from the votes of national team captains.

That category was 107 to 64 for the Inter Miami forward.

Neither player showed up at the awards ceremony at Hammersmith Apollo theater in west London. Kylian Mbappé, the third finalist, skipped it too.

Messi had moved from Paris Saint-Germain to Inter Miami and led the David Beckham-owned team to a little-known Leagues Cup title — all while single-handedly elevating soccer’s relevance in the United States.

The 36-year-old Argentina star also topped Haaland and Mbappé for his eighth Ballon d’Or award last October.

World Cup champion Aitana Bonmatí showed up — and cleaned up. The 25-year-old Spain playmaker was named FIFA’s best women’s soccer player, building on her Ballon d’Or award last October, which followed a UEFA award in August.

And that was after she led Spain to World Cup glory and Barcelona to the Champions League title. She was named player of the tournament for

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The Associated Press

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By Ken Maguire

Partly Cloudy.

Sunday

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AIR QUALITY INDEX

POLLEN COUNTS

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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

0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous Source: www.airnow.gov

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.Monday's . . . . . . . . rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 .. . . . . . . . Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 ..

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Los Alamos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.72" ....

The following water statistics of January 14th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.981 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.946 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.034 Total production: 5.960 Total consumption: 7.051 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.73 Reservoir storage: 236.39 Estimated reservoir capacity: 18.50%

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WORLD CITIES City Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Bermuda Bogota Cairo Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Guatemala City Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nassau New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio Rome Seoul Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vienna

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Lobos face second straight ranked opponent San Diego State.

While Pitino admits the kneejerk reaction for fans is to push the panic button with every loss this time of year, he said staying the course and remaining cool are a big part of surviving the grind of an 18-game conference schedule.

“Somebody came up to me at my radio show and [said] you hanging in there?” he said. “And I said that I’ve endured a lot of one-game losing streaks in my career. I feel like we’re going to snap out of it. So, as I said before this is part of the job. It happens to everybody.”

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latest Associated Press Top 25 poll.

They have also won seven straight against UNM by an average of 18-plus points. Only Nevada has a longer streak against the Lobos (14-3, 2-2).

UNM’s last win against the UtAgs came almost four years ago. The current streak extends to the days before the COVID-19 bubble season where both of that year’s games were played in Lubbock, Texas.

Ending the skid will require another assist from the fans.

Pitino has lauded them time and again during his time at UNM, saying it’s as much a part of his team’s success as anything else.

With players transferring en masse every offseason, the arena the team plays in is its biggest recruiting tool.

“We all know it’s year to year, who knows who stays around?”

Pitino said. “I do know this: They play in that environment they’re going to want to stay.

Everybody talks about NIL, that is important. Not a lot of people get to play in front of that type of crowd.”

The win over San Diego State kept the Lobos undefeated at home and, more importantly,

IAN MAULE/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Utah State forward Great Osobor, right, shoots over UNLV forward Kalib Boone during Saturday’s game in Las Vegas, Nev.

alive in the MWC race. Home wins are expected, which puts a premium on every date the Lobos have in their own building.

Utah State has won two of its four league games on the road, including a victory last weekend at UNLV when the Aggies had a five-point possession with eight seconds left to escape with a one-point win.

They’re led by 6-foot-8 forward Great Osobor, who leads them in scoring (18.9)

and rebounding (9.6). His two free throws on that five-point possession are what made the difference in last weekend’s win.

He’ll be matched up with UNM’s two-headed low post starting tandem of J.T. Toppin and Nelly Junior Joseph.

Osobor has been named the MWC player of the week two straight weeks while Toppin has been named freshman of the week five times, including the most recent for his double-double effort with five blocks against

NOTES Utah State was one of the top 3-point shooting teams in the MWC the last few seasons. The Aggies come into Tuesday’s game with the lowest shooting percentage from the outside, making 32.5% of their attempts through 17 games. They also happen to have the best 3-point defense, allowing just 27.6% of opponents’ shots to find the bottom of the net. …

The Lobos lead the MWC in home attendance through two conference games (14,024) but are second for the entire season behind San Diego State (12,332 to 12,122). … The Lobos’ 14 blocked shots against San Diego State give them 76 through 17 games, an average of 4.47 per game.

Osaka’s comeback ends in first round Continued from Page B-1

glad to see her back. Six months after giving birth, she’s playing quite amazing already.

We have to watch out.”

Osaka was one of three past Australian Open champions who returned to play at Melbourne Park for the first time as moms, joining 2016 winner Angelique Kerber and 2018 champion Caroline Wozniacki.

The Australian Open started Sunday and will be played over 15 days for the first time, with the first round spread over three days in a bid to cut down on the late-finishing matches.

Still, it was 1:39 a.m. local time by the time Felix Auger-Aliassime closed out a 4-hour, 59-minute win over 2020 U.S. Open winner Dominic Thiem that finished 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 5-7, 6-3. That match was briefly held up in the fourth set by a bird landing on the court at Margaret Court Arena and having to be

chased off by a ball kid to laughter from the crowd. It then flew around the stadium briefly before play could continue.

For Auger-Aliassime, the win ended a run of first-round exits at three consecutive majors.

In the opening match on Rod Laver, U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff needed just 60 minutes to advance 6-3, 6-0 over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

The 19-year-old Gauff, who won her first major at the U.S. Open in September, said she had increased confidence in her serve thanks to some advice from Andy Roddick.

Fourth-seeded Gauff dropped just one point on her serve in the second set and credited Roddick, saying “he’s probably one of the best servers in history.”

Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova didn’t make it past the first round, losing 6-1, 6-2 to Dayana Yastremska and

struggling with a hip injury.

A third 16-year-old reached the second round, with Mirra Andreeva beating 29-year-old Bernarda Pera 7-5, 6-2 to set up a second-round match with sixth-seeded Ons Jabeur, a three-time runner-up at Grand Slams.

Alina Korneeva and Brenda Fruhvirtova, both also 16, advanced after their first Grand Slam main draw wins on Sunday.

“I’m really excited for this,” Andreeva said about playing Jabeur. “I said many times before that she’s the player that I was looking up to. I really like the way she plays. I’m sure it’s going to be a great match.”

Australia’s newest top-10 player, Alex de Minaur, advanced after past Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic retired from their match. De Minaur was leading 6-7 (6), 6-3, 2-0 when the big-serving Canadian retired with an injury.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF Inn of the Anasazi’s plans for pool advance The building permit is in hand to build a long-planned pool on the roof of the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in downtown Santa Fe, but construction won’t start until after the summer season, hotel management said.

The Anasazi applied for a building permit in June 2021, and it was finally issued more than two years later on Dec. 6, in large part because construction costs soared and hotel business was brisk enough that there was no rush for the pool. “We made the decision to move forward now,” said Lutz Arnhold, the inn’s managing director.

He said the permitting process was slow enough that construction prices increased and the original contractor withdrew. “We had to get contractors to rebid,” Arnhold said.

Arnhold estimates the cost of the rooftop pool at between $2 million and $3 million. The roof will have a small pool, “a little bit of a bar and a place to sit down and have a snack,” he said.

He estimates construction will take 10 months but could take as long as 12 to 14 months. The rooftop is not expected to be ready for guests until at least fall 2025.

Owner Brian Friedman came up with the rooftop pool idea soon after buying the inn in April 2019 and by the end of 2019, had submitted plans to the Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board.

State tax rules receive high grade on scorecard New Mexico was among the top six states in a national scorecard on state tax appeals and procedural requirements assembled by the Council on State Taxation.

New Mexico was awarded an A-minus grade along with Arizona and Virginia.

Illinois, Indiana and Montana received an A grade.

The council evaluated seven factors on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 the best. New Mexico’s highest number was a 2 for “even-handed statutes of limitations and interest rates.”

New Mexico received 0 or 1 for “payto-play and adequate time for appeal,” “independent tax dispute forum,” “corporate return due date and extensions,” “reporting of federal corporate tax changes,” “transparency in tax guidance and rulings” and “other fairness issues.”

“The findings in this report are very gratifying. We have worked hard in recent years to ensure that our tax code provides for even-handed treatment and that our administration offers the kind of consistency and clarity that makes voluntary compliance easier,” New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Secretary Stephanie Schardin Clarke said in a news release.

Locally owned mortuary opens on Siler, Agua Fría Medical examiner Ginene Trujillo opened Santa Fe Funerals & Cremations as a locally owned option in August at 1091 A1 Siler Road.

“We need to do something local, not corporate operated,” Trujillo said.

“There was a need for less expensive funerals and for somebody from here to serve the community.”

Trujillo said she has served about 35 to 40 families since opening.

Santa Fe Funerals & Cremations performs traditional services and offers cremation services with permanent resting places for the cremated remains.

Trujillo’s company also provides services for veterans.

Staff and wire reports

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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A gateway to film work New internship program aims to pave way to movie, TV production jobs

By Teya Vitu

tvitu@sfnewmexican.com

T

here are all the usual jobs in Santa Fe. Then there’s something different: the film industry.

Erratic, long hours; pressure, pressure, pressure; jumping from job to job to job.

People with a strong work ethic, the ability to show up to work on time, who demonstrate ability and initiative, and a knack for networking and relationship-building can get into the film industry in Santa Fe and potentially build a career.

People can walk up to a film production and potentially land a job, but better yet is to earn a degree or certificate from Santa Fe Community College.

The IATSE Local 480 union representing 2,000 New Mexico film and television technicians looks favorably on the SFCC Film and Digital Arts Department and the 150 or so students it is typically training to jump into the industry.

The union also looks favorably upon and was an active player in establishing a new film internship program developed by author George R.R. Martin’s Stagecoach Foundation.

“The internship would allow an individual to come on the job site and not be a liability,” said Jim Twocrow, an IATSE Local 480 executive board member. “If you make it for 30 days [on the job], you would be eligible for union membership.”

Stagecoach collaborated with IATSE, SFCC, Aspect Studios (in the former Shellaberger Tennis Center) and Garson Studios to build an internship program. Stagecoach and its partners are currently running the first 15 interns through the intense two-day classwork followed by 10 days with mentors on a live movie or TV set.

“The goal at the end of the day is folks need to learn what is expected to be in the industry and learn to network and make relationships,” said Elizabeth Kianu Stahmer, executive director of the Stagecoach Foundation. “They need to learn to work hard. We are helping people get a job and understand what it takes to get in a union and understand what SFCC offers.”

The classroom component includes résumé writing, union orientation and “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, self-awareness and self-care.

A second day tackles set safety on a soundstage at Aspect Studios, adjacent to the city-owned midtown campus.

“I had one person call me Monday [the day following the two-day classwork] to tell me they got picked up because of their new résumé,” Stahmer said.

The internship also stresses the terminology of the film industry, the language spoken on the set and how a new employee can fit in.

“The industry has a culture and language,” Stahmer said. “Being attuned to those things are what makes folks successful.”

ABOVE: Kelton Jones, dressed in the role of The Stranger, walks off set in April after a walkthrough for a scene for the psychological thriller Spiral into the Yellow Void at a Santa Fe home. A new internship gives job-seekers a crash course on working in Santa Fe’s film industry.

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LEFT: The first participants in the Stagecoach Foundation’s film industry internship learn about set safety from Milton Riess, chair of Santa Fe Community College Film and Digital Arts Department.

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SFCC Film and Digital Arts chair Milton Riess for the internship incorporates a pared-down version of his expansive curriculum that includes grip (all things mechanical), lighting, audio, camera training, screenwriting and directing.

“We’re the one-stop shop of getting your feet wet in the industry,” Riess said. “We try to mimic how it’s run on set. As much as we can, we focus on real-world training. They have to get to work on time. Thirty percent of students are the success stories, 70% fail.

They have to come in with that drive.”

Stagecoach is now staging its beta internships. The plan is to have three more internship sessions this year with

Proposed grocery chain merger challenged SEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Monday sued to block the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, two of the nation’s largest grocery chains.

In the suit filed in King County Superior Court, Ferguson argued that the $25 billion deal would harm consumers and raise prices. Kroger and Albertsons have more than 300 locations in the state, according to the suit.

In a statement Monday, Kroger said it was pushing back its timeline for closing the deal due to ongoing dialogue with regulators, including state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission. It now anticipates the closure may occur in the first half of its fiscal year, which ends in mid-August.

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Milton Riess, chair of the Film and Digital Arts Department at Santa Fe Community College, stands in front of a green screen last year. SFCC is one of the partners in the Stagecoach Foundation’s film internship program.

15 interns for each session. Stahmer expects the next session to be in the summer, based on shows being in production at Garson or Aspect studios. She recommends film internship prospects to monitor the Stagecoach newsletter, which can be obtained by signing up online at stagecoachfdn.org.

Aspect Studios builds the internships into the agreements it makes with production companies. The companies are expected to make staff available as mentors to interns. These interactions are a first step in networking — a key component to getting jobs and promotions.

“It’s a career made up of snippets of employment,” Twocrow said. “Movie productions will have as much as six months. You get 13 to 16 weeks of work for television shows. If you are an average member of the local, you work three, four months a year.”

Year-round employment, Twocrow said, likely would entail moving from production to production and working in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and possibly Las Cruces.

Aspect Studios welcomes the internship program.

“It is essential to have a large pool of qualified people so we can bring in major productions,” said Tom Wallis, stage manager at Aspect Studios. “It’s important that major productions can go to the IATSE pool and immediately pull 400 people.”

Phillip Gesue acquired the Shellaberger Tennis Center in November 2022 without any plans for the indoor center, which features two wings of courts off a central structure.

Soon thereafter, neighboring Garson Studios approached him.

“Amazon was interested in bringing a very large production to Santa Fe but

couldn’t find a space big enough,” Gesue said.

By spring, Amazon Prime Video was filming Outer Range on Aspect’s two soundstages.

“That got us interested in developing a production business,” Gesue said.

“There is a pretty latent film industry in Santa Fe.” The city entered into an exclusive negotiated agreement with Gesue in July for his PE Real Estate Holdings to redevelop, expand and operate Garson Studios. Gesue expects the sale to close in late spring or early summer.

Gesue intends to merge Garson under Aspect Studios and add three soundstages to the five now in place at the two studios. He wants to create an urban setting within his studio environment with retail, restaurants and a fourstory, 129-unit apartment structure, all of which could break ground as soon as spring, Gesue maintains.

“I would say the whole vision could be completed in a year,” he said.

Stagecoach’s film internship program falls right in line with Gesue’s vision.

“We put them directly in touch with a show that needs people,” he said.

“Even if you are well trained, you need the opportunity to fall in your lap.”

The Stagecoach Foundation was established seven years ago to create pathways for film industry jobs through free training in film skills. Stahmer saw the need for internships because there’s little career guidance once people finish the Stagecoach or SFCC training.

“Liz [Kianu Stahmer] puts her heart and soul into this to make sure Santa Feans have the opportunity to get into the film business,” said Santa Fe Film Office commissioner Jennifer LaBarTapia.

Santa Fe artist’s stained glass window to appear on HGTV show

By Teya Vitu

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An artistic transom window created by Santa Fe stained glass artist Theresa Cashman will appear on the HGTV show Rico to the Rescue at 7 p.m. Jan 24 and on numerous streaming services.

Cashman, owner of TLC Stained Glass, created a 10-foot-long-by-1-foot-high stained glass transom window for the home of a Ukrainian family near

Denver. Cashman believes the window is installed above double French doors to the backyard.

Rico to the Rescue follows contractor Rico Leon to “resolve conflicts between emotionally and financially stressed homeowners and their builders to turn renovation and construction nightmares into dream homes.”

In Episode 2 of Season 2, where Cashman’s window appears, a contractor vanishes midproject, and Leon and his team come to the rescue.

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“Believe it or not, I know host Rico,” Cashman said. “He’s a friend of mine from living in Denver.

He called me for this.”

Cashman was told she would be designing a transom window for a Ukrainian family with two parents and two children. She chose to depict “an abstract, geometric bison-looking animal” and four sunflowers for each family member.

Cashman became a glass artist as a hobbyist more than five years ago and apprenticed for a few

years in Denver before opening TLC Stained Glass in September 2021.

“I’m looking forward to a very busy year,” Cashman said about the exposure the HGTV show could bring. “Another artist they did this for had about 400 calls the next day.”

This episode will also air at 10 p.m. Jan. 24, 7 a.m.

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Mexico, to The Lodge the City of Santa Fe until further notice. at Santa Fe, 750 N. St. Copies of the Notice of Responses shall be Proposed Rulemaking Francis electronically submitDrive, Santa Fe, New and proposed rule are ted via Mexico. available by electronic cjminnich@santafenm download from the .gov and tocandelariaVirtual meeting inforDoIT website mation will be posted martinez@santafenm. https://www.doit.nm. gov no later than 5 on the City of Santa gov/category/latestP.M. Fe’s Weekly news/ or the New MST/MD /MDT T, F Frida riday y F Fe eb- Mexico Sunshine PorMeeting List at least MST seventy-two (72) ruary 16, 2024. Any ap- tal. received hours before the meet- plication after this deadline DoIT will hold a public ing at be accepted in-person/virtual hearsantafe.primegov.com may and/or considered at ing on the proposed /public/portal. the sole discretion of amendments on /s/Geralyn F. Cardenas the City. This solicita- Thursday, February 29, tion is for the purpose Interim City Clerk 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at of procuring the fol- the New Mexico State lowing: PUB: Jan. 16, 23, 2024 Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Room #311, LEGAL #92080 CITY OF SANT SANTA A FE Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Office of Affor Affordable dable Oral comments will be STATE OF NEW MEXICO Housing Application accepted at the in-perCOUNTY OF SANTA FE for Community DevelDevel- son/virtual hearing FIRST JUDICIAL opment Block Grant Grant from members of the DISTRICT (CDBG) public and any interested parties.

No. Attention is directed to D-101-PB-2023-00331 the fact that all appli- Interested Parties may cable Federal Laws, submit written comIN THE MATTER OF THE State Laws, Municipal ments by mail or via ESTATE OF YVONNE B. Ordinances, and the the DoIT website. WritMULL, Deceased. rules and regulations ten comments and of all authorities hav- proposals will be acNOTICE TO CREDITORS ing jurisdiction over cepted until 5:00 pm said term shall apply on February 15, 2024.

NOTICE IS HEREBY to the solicitation Comments may be GIVEN that Christina throughout. submitted online at M. Beckmann has Applications will be https://www.doit.nm. been appointed Per- accepted between gov/category/latestsonal Representative January 16 and Febru- news/ or by sending of this estate. All per- ary 16, 2024. The Com- original copies to: sons having claims munity Development against this estate are Commission will meet Renee Narvaiz, Departrequired to present March 4, 2024 to hear ment of Information their claims within applicant presenta- Technology four months of the tions and consider 715 Alta Vista St., date of the first publi- funding requests.

Santa Fe, NM 87505 cation of this Notice or Solicitation packets within sixty days of are available at the fol- Written comments the mailing or other lowing websites: suggesting changes or delivery of this notice, https://www.santafen alternatives to the prowhichever is later, or m.gov/bids_rfps posed amendments the claims will be for- https://www.santafen should provide justifiever barred. Claims m.gov/funding_oppor- cation for each sugmust be presented ei- tunities Questions gested change or ther to the Personal concerning this solici- alternative and inRepresentative, at tation may be directed clude all suggested Post Office Box 2168, to Cody Minnich, Proj- rule language necesAlbuquerque, NM ect Manager, Office sary to effectuate the 87103-2168, or filed of Affordable Housing suggested change or with the First Judicial a t alternative. Suggested District Court, County cjminnich@santafenm changes should be of Santa Fe, at PO Box .gov, Alexandra Ladd, provided in a redline 2268, Santa Fe, NM Director, Office of Af- format showing pro87504-2268. fordable Housing at posed deletions and agladd@santafenm.go additions.

Dated: January 3, 2024 v , and Toniette CandeMODRALL, SPERLING, laria-Martinez, Project Written comments ROEHL, HARRIS Specialist, Office of Af- must be received no & SISK, P.A. fordable Housing at to later than 5 p.m. (MDT) Marjorie A. Rogers t o c a n d e l a r i a - on February 15, 2024.

Attorneys for Personal martinez@santafenm. DoIT encourages the Representative gov. early submission of 500 Fourth St., NW, written comments.

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Notice of Board Mexico Council Orientation (“Council”), pursuant The Council and DoIT Paragraphs A and B of will consider all oral The Governing Board Section 9-27-6 NMSA comments and will reof Santa Fe Commu- 1978 and Paragraph C view all timely submitnity College (SFCC) of Section 63-9K-4 ted written comments will be in attendance NMSA 1978, proposes and responses. at a Board Orientation to amend 1.12.21 and Training Sess to NMAC, GRANT PRO- Pub: Jan 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, be held on Friday, Jan- GRAM RULES 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, Feb 1, uary 19, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. at the Santa Fe PURPOSE OF THE PRO- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Community College, POSED NEW RULE IS: 12, 13, 14, 15, 2024 President’s Confer- The purpose of these enceContinued...

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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 Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024: You are goal-oriented and spiritually inclined. You’re eager to learn and love to read. This year is about learning and teaching.

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Aries.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Today the Moon is in your sign, which gives you an advantage over the other signs.

However, it’s at odds with Mer-

cury and Mars. This means you might be annoyed with parents and bosses. Tonight: Listen.

ment. It could be in a public place or an elevator. Ask yourself, “Do I want this?” You might end up with egg on your face.

Tonight: Be respectful.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH You might be doing a slow boil about something because you’re irritated with someone, someone “different” or something related to legal or medical matters, and yet you can’t speak up. Tonight: Solitude.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Arguments about politics, religion or racial issues might arise today. This will benefit no one, because arguments rarely do. Why ruin your day? Steer clear of this. Tonight: Learn something.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH When interacting with friends or organizations today, you will have to display a bit of patience, because someone might disagree with you about handling a certain amount of money. Tonight: Friendships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HH Disputes about funding related to children, sports events, social outings or vacations might arise today. Tonight: Check your finances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HH This is the kind of day when you might have a public argu-

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You like to get along with others, which is why you are

a people-pleaser. Disharmony upsets you. Knowing this, avoid arguments with family and partners today. It will rob you of your peace of mind. Tonight: Avoid squabbles.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH Minor squabbles might take place at work today. They might be about a situation related to your pet, or medical or legal matters. Think about what your objective is and do what you can to achieve that. Ignore petty irritations that get in the way of things. Tonight: Patience.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Parents will have to be patient with their kids today to avoid arguments. Likewise, romantic partners should cut each other some slack to keep the peace. Tonight: Be easygoing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HH Grab some down time or solitude at home if you can swing this. You need some moments of privacy to pull your act together. Tonight: Cocoon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HH This is an emotional day for you. You might feel irritated with siblings, relatives or neighbors and want to speak up about it. Before you do this, ask yourself what will this accomplish. Tonight: Listen.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Money squabbles or arguments about possessions or something that you own might arise today. Very likely, this will be with someone younger, perhaps a friend or a member of a group. Be regal. Tonight: Check your belongings.

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Absence leaves a slow-healing wound Dear Annie: Our little girl died. She was ill for a relatively short period of time, terminally, and while she lived longer than expected, it will never have been enough.

In the couple of years of caring for her, and even after losing her, the people we thought would be there for us for support were not.

The grandparents were too busy tending to a sibling’s children and to their parents.

I’m being vague, I know.

We have never needed help until this happened, and we thought those close would want to sit with us and with our daughter through her short life. But instead, they didn’t. Barely even checked in.

When we relocated to be closer to our parents, we learned that, even still, our family was not a priority. So we moved back.

She passed away, and our lives feel forever changed, but we have anger inside of us and now it feels as though things can never be corrected.

We asked for support, and our sibling and parents chose to not show up in the ways we needed or wanted.

Due to this, the family feels very disjointed. I have no desire to be around them or to spend holidays with them or to give them back any precious time of our lives.

Am I wrong for my heartbreak?

— Heartbroken Dear Heartbroken: I am so sorry for your loss. Of course you are not wrong for your heartbreak. And though there is no excuse for your family’s lack of support, it is important to recognize that many people are uncomfortable with grief. They don’t know what to say or how to act around those who are suffering a loss as profound as yours.

Please know that there is life before your child dies and life after, and you have every right to feel heartbroken. Please seek grief support groups as soon as possible.

Dear Annie: I hate the area of the country I live in and wish to live in another part.

The issue is each time I move away, I get homesick, not for the place that I detest but for the people. The place I move to never seems like “home” even though I love it there. Therefore, I keep doing this repetitive cycle of moving away and moving back. I need to land somewhere and don’t know how to make it happen.

— Nomad Who Wants to Settle Dear Nomad: Home is where the heart is. That phrase has all sorts of meanings, but the way I look at it, if you fall in love with yourself, then wherever you go you will feel settled. As the mindfulness phrase goes, “Wherever you go, there you are.”

Once you feel more peaceful within, I have no doubt you will settle easier somewhere or be at peace with the fact that you enjoy the nomadic life.

Either way, it’s a win-win.

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: FILL IN THE BLANKS: LITERATURE TITLES Each three-word

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title is completed by one word. The name of the author is provided. (e.g., “Oryx and ___,”

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2024. There are 350 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 16, 27 B.C., Caesar Augustus was declared the first Emperor of the Roman Empire by the Senate.

by Margaret Atwood.

Answer: Crake.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. “Romeo and ____,” by William Shakespeare Answer________ 2. “Pride and ____,”

by Jane Austen

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____,” by Fyodor Dostoevsky Answer________ 5. “Sons and ____,”

by D.H. Lawrence Answer________ 6. “Dombey and ____,” by Charles Dickens Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. “Shadow and ___,” by Leigh Bardugo Answer________ 8. “Franny and

Answer________

_____,” by J.D.

3. “War and ____,”

Salinger

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Rules

Answer________ 9. “Gargantua and ____,” by Francois

• Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

• The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. “Crime and

Rabelais Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. Juliet. 2. Prejudice. 3. Peace. 4. Punishment. 5. Lovers.

6. Son. 7. Bone. 8. Zooey. 9. Pantagruel.

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2024 Ken Fisher

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