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Baldwin indicted again on manslaughter charge By Phaedra Haywood

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The on-again, off-again criminal prosecution of Alec Baldwin is on again. A Santa Fe grand jury has indicted the actor and producer on a count of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the October 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Hutchins died after being struck by a bullet that came from a gun held by Baldwin during a rehearsal for the ﬁlm Rust at the Bonanza Creek Ranch out-

side Santa Fe. Baldwin is the ﬁlm’s star and producer. The same bullet wounded director Joel Souza, striking him in the shoulder after it exited her body. The fourth-degree Alec Baldwin felony charge carries a basic sentence of 18 months. Baldwin is charged under two theories: involuntary manslaughter by negligent use of a ﬁrearm or involuntary

manslaughter “without due caution or circumspection,” according to the indictment ﬁled Friday in state District Court in Santa Fe. This is the second time Baldwin has been criminally charged in connection with the incident. The same charges — ﬁled against him in January 2023 by District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies — were dismissed in April by special prosecutors Kari T. Morrissey and Jason Lewis, citing a need for further investigation. Baldwin’s attorneys, Luke Nikas and

Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel, said in an email Friday, “We look forward to our day in court.” By most accounts, Hutchins’ death was caused by the mistaken commingling of live rounds and dummy ammunition on the set, which the prosecution characterized early in the case as reckless negligence that justiﬁed criminal charges against assistant director David Halls, Baldwin and the ﬁlm’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Halls pleaded no contest in March to a charge of negligent use of a deadly

weapon as part of a deal that called for him to serve six months of probation. Gutierrez-Reed is scheduled to go to trial next month. The state dismissed the original involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin in April “without prejudice,” meaning it could be reﬁled. The on-again, off-again nature of the criminal case against Baldwin seems to be connected in part to shifting theories about the condition of the gun Baldwin Please see story on Page A-4

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Auditors still fault city over issues with payroll, delays in federal grants

track to resolving its ongoing audit issues. City Manager John Blair said in a By Carina Julig statement he cjulig@sfnewmexican.com “couldn’t be more proud of The city of Santa Fe’s audit John Blair our Finance for the 2022 fiscal year shows Department” it resolved some of its proband those who “fixed the longlems from previous years, but standing issues the City’s faced several continued — including with completing timely financial issues with its internal financial audits.” reporting system and its process for tracking expenditures from Finance Director Emily Oster federal grants. said the audit report is “good The audit report, submitted to news” for the city. the State Auditor’s Office in early “Two audits in less than six December, about a year past its months is really fast, and the due date, was published on the results are encouraging,” she said. state agency’s website Thursday. The two significant deficien“We’re just glad that they got it cies cited in the report involved in, and we’re looking forward to the payroll process and delays in getting their 2023 [audit] in,” said submitting financial and perforChristopher Hall, a spokesman mance reports for federal grants for the Office of the State Auditor. on a timely basis. An independent firm listed 17 During testing of the payroll findings in the audit, including process, the report said, one out two significant deficiencies and of 25 timesheets had not been six material weaknesses. That approved because the supervisor compares with 22 findings in the was not available at the time, city’s 2021 audit and 21 in 2020. which could result in fraudulent From 2021 to 2022, 10 of the find- payroll activity. ings were resolved, and 12 were The city said it is working carried over. with the Human Services and The 2022 audit was dubbed Information Technology departunmodified, or “clean,” which ments to ensure all timecards means the auditing firm believes have a backup approver and that the financial statements submitrepeated failures to comply will ted by the city are accurate. come with disciplinary action. The city lauded the opinion in When it comes to federal a Friday afternoon news release, awards, the audit said the city in which officials said the finddoes not have sufficient controls ings show the city is improving Please see story on Page A-4 from previous years and is on

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Sean Baity holds a cardboard sign in the median of St. Francis Drive near Cerrillos Road on Thursday. “It’s a matter of free speech and peaceful protest,” said the 45-year-old California-born painter, who has been in New Mexico about a year. “All you’re doing is protesting that you don’t have a home and money.”

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ori Sena stood in the median of Paseo de Peralta late Thursday morning, holding out a cardboard sign that read, “Help us, please.” She occasionally stepped toward drivers who stopped at the light on St. Francis Drive and held money out their windows for her. Sena was hoping to get enough money to buy food for herself, her husband and her dog, Reina. Typically, they can get by on $20 to $50 per day, according to the 40-year-old, who grew up just around the corner on Alto Street. If she gets a little extra, Sena said, they sometimes stay in a motel.

Lori Sena’s dog, Reina, stands beside her owner as Sena asks passing drivers for money so she can buy food for them and Sena’s husband. Reina not only provides Sena with companionship but also protection while she is out asking for donations.

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“It’s been harder and harder,” she said. “... People can be very mean.” Sena is one of many New Mexicans who would be affected by a statewide crackdown on panhandling Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham proposed and urged lawmakers to consider earlier this week during her annual State of the State address. The governor referred to panhandling as a safety risk. “We have one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the entire country and a

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Obituaries Ernest Montoya, 88, Santa Fe, Jan. 12 Lisa Michelle Murphy, 62, Santa Fe, Jan. 6 Loyhannah Walker, Santa Fe, Jan. 5 PAGE A-8

WOME N’S MARCH IN SANTA FE

No march? No matter, movement leaders say By Gabrielle Porter

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Not everybody making their ﬁrst foray into political organizing winds up with a 10,000- to 15,000-person event on their hands. That’s what happened to Lindsay Conover. Seven years ago, riding a wave of progressive frustration after former President Donald Trump’s 2016 election, she organized the ﬁrst Santa Fe Women’s March, held

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the day after his Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration, joining demonstrators who turned out by the millions for similar marches across the country, including in Washington, D.C. Based on followers on the event’s Facebook page, Conover thought 3,000 or 4,000 people might show up to march around the city before rallying outside the Roundhouse. But that chilly morning, nearly ﬁve times

that number turned out, many donning pink hats and waving signs with messages supporting civil rights. “I just was overwhelmed at the turnout, quite frankly,” Conover said of the local event. Marchers said in particular they were Please see story on Page A-4

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IN BRIEF Japan lands unmanned spacecraft on moon; 5th country to get there TOKYO — Japan became the ﬁfth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday. However, space officials said they need more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, achieved its mission priority of making a pinpoint landing. They also said the craft’s solar panel had failed to generate power, which could shorten its activity on the moon. Space officials believe the SLIM’s small rovers were launched as planned and data was being transmitted back to Earth. However, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science said SLIM’s solar battery wasn’t generating power and it had only a few more hours of battery life. Japan follows the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India in reaching the moon.

Ala. inmate asks court to block first execution by nitrogen hypoxia MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An attorney for an Alabama inmate set to be the nation’s ﬁrst person ever put to death by nitrogen gas asked a federal appeals court Friday to block the upcoming execution using “untested methods.” Kenneth Smith, 58, is scheduled to be executed by the never-used method Thursday at a south Alabama prison. A respirator-type mask will be placed on his face to replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen — depriving him of the oxygen. Three states — Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi — have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but no state has previously attempted to use it. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday afternoon in Smith’s bid to stop the execution from going forward. The three-judge panel heard diverging descriptions of the humaneness and potential risks of the proposed execution method. The panel did not indicate when it will rule.

Prosecutors seek jail time for ex-Trump adviser in contempt case Federal prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to sentence former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to six months behind bars for contempt of Congress, saying he put allegiance to former president Donald Trump over the rule of law. Navarro, 74, was found guilty in September of two contempt charges for refusing to produce documents or testify after receiving a subpoena from a House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. A former trade and pandemic adviser who served throughout Trump’s term, Navarro claimed credit for hatching a scheme with longtime Trump political adviser Stephen K. Bannon to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race. Prosecutors also earlier requested a sixmonth sentence for Bannon. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set sentencing for Thursday.

N. Korea says it tested unmanned underwater nuclear weapon SEOUL — North Korea claimed Friday to have conducted a test of an “underwater nuclear weapons system,” escalating concerns Kim Jong Un is girding for war. The official Korean Central News Agency reported the test was carried out in response to joint military drills between the United States, South Korea and Japan, which it said were “seriously threatening the security” of the North. North Korea claimed it tested a “Haeil 5-23” system it has been developing in the East Sea, or Sea of Japan, according to KCNA. This appears to be a new model of the unmanned, nuclear-capable underwater attack drone called “Haeil,” or “tsunami,” that North Korea claimed to have twice tested last year. North Korea is developing a variety of nuclear-capable weapons as it builds up its arsenal, but analysts have said it is unclear whether its underwater system is ready for deployment and it probably adds little to its existing military capabilities. New Mexican wire services

74,000 people, mostly in public service jobs, will benefit from latest effort By Erica L. Green

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FEMA changes disaster relief programs Immediate payments would help evacuees cover urgent needs By Christopher Flavelle The New York Times

WASHINGTON he Biden administration is overhauling the country’s disaster assistance programs, expanding aid for survivors of hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes and making it easier to access. The shift, announced Friday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, comes amid a growing number of climate-related disasters. It follows years of criticism surrounding the agency’s aid programs, which experts have said are insufficient, too hard to access and disproportionately benefit wealthier and white Americans. “Survivors deserve better,” said Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator. “We’re connecting people with the help that they need on their worst day.” The changes include wider access to an immediate $750 payment after evacuating a home and for other urgent needs, more housing assistance for people who can’t return home right away, easier access to money to repair and improve homes, and reduced paperwork. Those changes would especially help renters and people with low incomes, according to Frank Matranga, who runs the agency’s aid programs for disaster survivors. And because people in those groups are more likely to be people of color, the changes should reduce the racial inequity in federal disaster aid, he said. About 1 million Americans each year receive some sort of direct aid from FEMA, according to the agency. In addition to the $750 payment per household, FEMA said it would create a new program, called Displacement Assistance, to help people who need to stay in hotels, or with friends or family. Weather-related disasters pushed more than 3.3 million American adults out of their homes in 2022, census data shows. Of those, at least 1.2 million were displaced for a month or longer. FEMA is also ending one of its most criticized rules, which requires disaster survivors seeking assistance to first apply for, and be rejected for, a loan from the Small Business

Administration, regardless of whether they own a small business. “We heard that survivors found it confusing and challenging to apply for an SBA loan,” Criswell said. FEMA said it would also make it easier for people whose homes had been damaged to get money to rebuild. And if a home requires upgrades for people with disabilities — for example, adding a ramp to the front door — FEMA would pay for those changes. In another change, disaster survivors who are self-employed and whose tools are lost or damaged would be able to get money to replace that equipment. The agency is also streamlining existing programs. Disaster survivors who miss the agency’s application deadlines will no longer need to provide documents showing why their application was late. And it will be easier for people who are turned down by FEMA to appeal, the agency said. The changes are expected to take effect by the end of March. Samantha Montano, a professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a critic of FEMA’s approach to disaster aid, welcomed the news. “These changes address many of the common issues disaster survivors across the country have long cited as complicating or preventing their ability to recover,” Montano said. She said additional reforms were needed to improve U.S. disaster recovery programs, including greater investment from state and local governments. FEMA said it expected the new policies to increase federal disaster costs by $512 million a year. That comes as the agency has already seen its disaster spending increase signiﬁcantly. Between 1992 and 2004, FEMA spent an average of about $5 billion annually from its disaster fund, federal data show. Between 2005 and 2021, the average amount was about $12.5 billion annually. Despite the Biden administration’s record spending to protect communities from weather shocks, the toll from disasters around the United States is all but certain to keep growing because global emissions continue to rise, triggering more extreme weather, and because Americans keep building homes in vulnerable places like coastlines and ﬁre-prone areas.

Uvalde families renew demands for criminal charges By Acacia Coronado and Jake Bleiberg The Associated Press

UVALDE, Texas — Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. “I’m very surprised that no one has ended up in prison,” said Velma Lisa

Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of the two teachers killed in the May 24, 2022, shooting. “It’s sort of a slap in the face that all we get is a review. ... We deserve justice.” The release of the nearly 600-page report Thursday — roughly 20 months after the shooting — leaves a criminal investigation by Uvalde County prosecutors as one the last unﬁnished reviews by authorities into the attack at Robb Elementary School. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed inside two fourth-grade classrooms,

while highly armed police officers waited in the hallways for more than hour before going inside to confront the gunman. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the police response “a failure that should not have happened.” But the report is deliberately silent on the question that still burns in the minds of many victims’ families: Will anyone responsible for the failures be charged with a crime? Since the shooting, at least ﬁve officers have lost their jobs, including two

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday canceled nearly $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 people, the latest effort by the administration to deliver piecemeal relief after the Supreme Court struck down his more ambitious loan cancellation plan last year. Most of the people who will benefit from the latest round are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others in public service who qualify for relief under existing programs that have been plagued by bureaucratic and other problems for years. “My administration is able to deliver relief to these borrowers — and millions more — because of fixes we made to broken student loan programs that were preventing borrowers from getting relief they were entitled to under the law,” Biden said in a statement. His promise to forgive student loans is a sticking point for crucial voting blocs, particularly young people, and for Black borrowers, who disproportionately shoulder the most student loan debt. More than 43 million people across the country owe about $1.6 trillion in federal loans for college, according to government data. The Biden administration has canceled more than $136 billion in student loan debt for more than 3.7 million people as the White House finds workarounds after the Supreme Court decision in June. That more ambitious plan would have canceled up to $400 billion in student debt for about 43 million borrowers. But the court ruled Biden had overstepped his authority with the plan. The president said Friday his administration was “continuing to pursue an alternative path to deliver student debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible.” In October, the Biden administration forgave $9 billion in loans for about 125,000 borrowers working in public service jobs and those with permanent disabilities. In December, it wiped out nearly $5 billion in debt for 80,300 borrowers. The administration also started a program known as SAVE that would reduce monthly payments and shorten the life of loans for millions of borrowers. The Education Department announced this month it would fast-track relief for some borrowers in the program who have less than $12,000 in loans. Biden’s efforts to wipe out debts through policy changes have consistently polled favorably among Americans. But Republicans who oppose loan forgiveness characterize the policies as an unfair burden on taxpayers. “It’s clear that the Biden administration needs a good old-fashioned dose of fiscal common sense — all it knows how to do is spend like a drunken sailor,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Debt-relief advocates say the Biden administration should be commended for canceling historic levels of student loan debt but called for even more aggressive policies. Braxton Brewington, press secretary for the Debt Collective, an advocacy group working to cancel student loan debt, said the administration’s measures were “a reminder that despite the Supreme Court ruling, there are powers at the Biden administration’s disposal and they use them — but sparingly.” “At this rate, we’re still going to have a student debt crisis,” Brewington said.

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In Israel, divisions emerging over war A general on the war cabinet uses a TV interview to urge country to seek an extended cease-fire By Roni Caryn Rabin, Thomas Fuller, Aaron Boxerman and Anushka Patil The New York Times

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ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired attorney Nathan Wade to lead the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump and 18 others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, allegations of a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade are raising questions about his past work and qualiﬁcations and threaten to taint one of four criminal cases against the former president. She has defended her hiring of Wade — who has little prosecutorial experience — and has not directly denied a romantic relationship. The claim surfaced last week in a motion ﬁled by a defense attorney representing a former Trump campaign staffer, who did not provide concrete proof. The lawyer is seeking to get the indictment tossed and to remove Willis and Wade from the case. The district attorney’s relative silence for over a week has allowed Trump and other critics to exploit the claims as the former president vies to win back the White House. But while it’s created a political storm, the legal implications are less clear. “It’s certainly a huge political problem, it is certainly scandalous and salacious, if true,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor who is following the case. But he questioned whether it affects prosecutors’ ability to handle the case professionally. “Where is the line between an ethical lapse or a political misjudgment and something that kind of taints this office?” he asked. Outside of any effect on this case, Willis, an elected Democrat,

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is up for reelection this year, and this could become a campaign issue depending on how she ultimately responds. The motion filed last week by lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, who represents former Trump campaign staffer and onetime White House aide Michael Roman, alleges Willis paid Wade large sums and benefitted personally when he, in turn, used his earnings to take her to Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean. Wade has been paid more than $650,000 at a rate of $250 an hour since his hiring, according to records Merchant cited. Wade did not respond to an email seeking comment. The judge has scheduled a Feb. 15 hearing on the matter. Wade’s wife has subpoenaed Willis for a deposition in the divorce case. In a filing Thursday seeking to quash that subpoena, a lawyer for Willis accused Joycelyn Wade of trying to obstruct and interfere with the criminal election interference case.

After nearly 15 weeks of war, sharp divisions within Israel over the path forward in the Gaza Strip are increasingly coming into the open. A member of Israel’s war cabinet — a general who lost a son in the conﬂict — urged the country to pursue an extended cease-ﬁre with Hamas to free the remaining hostages, a rebuke of the “total victory” being pursued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He spoke in a television interview. And in a sign of the growing exasperation among parts of the Israeli public over the government’s failure to free the hostages, relatives

were taken hostage Oct. 7, and about 130 people remain captives in Gaza. “We didn’t topple Hamas,” Eisenkot told Uvda, an Israeli news program, in a prerecorded interview. “The situation in Gaza is such that the war aims have yet to be achieved.” Eisenkot’s views carry weight in Israel in part because of the personal price he has paid in the war: His 25-year-old son, Master Sgt. Gal Meir Eisenkot, was killed while ﬁghting in Gaza last month. Throughout the hourlong broadcast, he appeared to come down on the side of making a deal to liberate the hostages, even if Israel had to accept an extended truce with Hamas. He lamented that a weeklong cease-ﬁre in November, during which groups of hostages were released daily in exchange for imprisoned Palestinians, had lapsed because he said reaching a similar arrangement a second time would be difficult.

Biden, Netanyahu talk amid signs of strain By Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ﬁnally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the ﬁghting in Gaza ends. Biden and his top aides have all but smothered Netanyahu with robust support, even in the face of global condemnation over the mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian suffering in Gaza as the Israelis have carried out military operations in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

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and supporters of the captives partially blocked traffic on a major highway in Tel Aviv before dawn Friday, prompting police to brieﬂy detain seven for having “participated in disorderly conduct and unlawful behavior.” Israel’s emergency governing coalition is under intense and competing pressures as the war drags on. Right-wing politicians are urging the military to act more aggressively in Gaza, even while Israel is contending with outrage across the globe over the carnage and decimation of so much of the territory. At the same time, the families of hostages are urging concessions to secure their return. Divisions between Israel and its closest ally, the United States, are also increasingly on display. Netanyahu on Thursday appeared to rule out a long-stated goal of U.S. foreign policy: a post-

war peace process that would lead to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state. “Israel must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan,” Netanyahu said at a news conference Thursday, referring to an area including occupied territory that Palestinians hope will one day become their independent state. “This truth I tell to our American friends, and I put the brakes on the attempt to coerce us to a reality that would endanger the state of Israel,” he added. The Israeli official who criticized the prosecution of the war, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, a retired military chief of staff, has laid bare some of the persistent tensions within the wartime government. Eisenkot said Israel’s leaders must deﬁne a vision for how to wind down the war in Gaza. Only a deal with Hamas would secure the release of the hostages, he said, adding that Israel had so far failed in its stated aim of destroying Hamas. More than 240 people

But the leaders’ relationship has increasingly shown signs of strain as Netanyahu has repeatedly rebuffed Biden’s calls for Palestinian sovereignty, gumming up what the U.S. president believes is the key to unlocking a durable peace in the Middle East — the oft-cited, elusive two-state solution. Neither side shows signs of budging. Friday’s phone call came one day after Netanyahu said he has told U.S. officials in plain terms he will not support a Palestinian

state as part of any postwar plan. Biden, for his part, in Friday’s call reaffirmed his commitment to work toward helping the Palestinians move toward statehood. “As we’re talking about post-conﬂict Gaza ... you can’t do that without also talking about the aspirations of the Palestinian people and what that needs to look like for them,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. The leaders spoke frequently in the ﬁrst weeks of the war. But the regular cadence of calls between

Biden and Netanyahu, who have had a hot-and-cold relationship for over three decades, has slowed considerably. Their 30- to 40-minute call Friday was their ﬁrst conversation since Dec. 23. The chasm between Biden, a center-left Democrat, and Netanyahu, who leads the most conservative government in Israel’s history, has expanded as pressure mounts for the United States to press Israel to wind down a war that has already killed nearly 25,000 Palestinians.

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situation where drivers and their children as passengers are at increased risk,” Lujan Grisham said in her speech Tuesday at the Roundhouse. “It’s not tenable, and we can do something about it.” While advocates say they agree panhandlers in the roadway or on a narrow median can become a safety issue, several said they have concerns about the details of a statewide measure, especially when it comes to the ways people might be punished for continuing to panhandle. “Generally, we’re all pretty concerned that the end goal here is to incarcerate people who are unhoused,” said Nayomi Valdez, director of public policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. The statewide organization and local chapters have successfully challenged a number of municipal panhandling statutes in court. “That’s not a solution,” Valdez said of the proposed ban, “and in fact, that will cause deeper harm and long-term harm.”

‘Free speech and peaceful protest’ Efforts to ban or limit panhandling are nothing new in New Mexico or around the country. The ACLU has argued, however, against those they say violate First Amendment rights. “People have a constitutional right to stand in public spaces and to solicit donations ... regardless of whether they’re looking for money to buy their next meal or ... firefighters out trying to fill the boot,” Valdez said. Sean Baity, who was soliciting donations Thursday from the median of St. Francis Drive near Cerrillos Road, said he views panhandling as a protest of sorts. “It’s a matter of free speech and peaceful protest,” said the 45-year-old, California-born painter, who has been in New Mexico about a year. “All you’re doing is protesting that you don’t have a home and money.” Local leaders in recent years have cast the issue primarily as a safety risk, especially against the backdrop of New Mexico’s dismal pedestrian fatality rate — the highest in the nation in 2022, according to a Governors Highway Safety Association study, with 4.4 deaths per 100,000 people. Albuquerque city leaders went through several rounds of revisions and court battles in recent years before ultimately landing on the city’s current iteration of a panhandling ordinance: a measure that, among other things, prohibits people from occupying medians less than 4 feet wide on roads with a speed limit of 30 mph or faster. A statute now on the books in Española takes a similar approach, restricting solicitors from standing on medians that are narrower than 3 feet wide. And Santa Fe forbids panhandling “in an aggressive manner” or in certain locations, including on private property. While no bill for a statewide measure has been introduced following Lujan Grisham’s speech, a Governor’s Office spokeswoman said the proposal would be modeled after Española’s, noting it “did withstand judicial scrutiny.” “Panhandling on our streets, espe-

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Lori Sena, 40, stands at St. Francis Drive and Paseo de Peralta on Thursday holding a sign reading, “Help us, please.” Sena, who grew up on Alto Street, has been living on the city’s streets off and on for about 10 years.

cially in narrow medians at busy intersections, creates a dangerous situation for both panhandlers and drivers,” spokeswoman Maddy Hayden wrote in an email Thursday. “... In addition to protecting New Mexicans, a statewide law would provide a clear standard of safety for law enforcement who have jurisdiction in multiple municipalities, counties or statewide.”

‘Putting themselves at risk’ Korina Lopez, executive director of the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place in Santa Fe, said she “absolutely” understands the physical dangers panhandling presents. “Sometimes it’s scary if people aren’t paying attention and they’re in a really narrow median,” she said, adding she often hears of people getting hit by cars while in the median, though she said she doesn’t know if they were panhandling at the time. “... Even if they’re collecting money, they’re kind of putting themselves at risk with the traffic.” Nechay Gustobov, who has lived without a permanent house for decades in the Santa Fe area and is a member of the city’s Lived Experience Advisory Board, said panhandling isn’t just a risk because of cars. “Traffic does become a major issue for safety, but it’s also the weather,” Gustobov said. “It’s a good chance of them getting hypothermia. ... In summer, you can be standing there and be dehydrated.” Valdez said she agrees the trend of rising pedestrian deaths is concerning. But, she added, “I don’t think it’s completely fair or accurate to attribute that to panhandling per se. We have a distracted driver problem in this country. ... People are driving really fast. They’re on their phone.” Lopez, Gustobov and Valdez all said despite those risks, they’re worried a crackdown on panhandling could mean driving already vulnerable people into the criminal justice system. That could include fines and jail time as a punishment. “Typically, people are panhandling because they don’t have regular income,” Lopez said. “It’s kind of like a Catch-22, where they’re panhandling to make money, and then you get the fine, so you’re going to have to earn the money to pay the fine; if not you’ll end up with a warrant. ... It becomes this weird cycle.” Gustobov noted some people panhandle because they think it’s easier than finding a job, but many do it because they are not capable, physically or mentally, of working. He doesn’t think a crackdown on panhandling will change behavior. “They can go to jail; they can get out of jail. They can get a fine,” he said. “The attitude is: ‘Big deal. So it’s against the law to panhandle. I’m

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concerned about the erosion of rights for women, immigrants, Muslims and LGBTQ+ people under the Trump administration. The outpouring of energy surprised many in its size and scale — including Conover herself. “There were kids and elderly and women and men,” Conover said. “... [It brought] just a huge sense of community that I’d never experienced in Santa Fe before, that we were all out there for the same reasons and that there were so many of us out there together.” Additional women’s marches were held in Santa Fe in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, with dwindling numbers each time. In 2022, it went virtual. The video shows about 150 viewers. This is the second year with no Women’s March in New Mexico’s capital city even though it’s a presidential election year that again feature’s Trump. Conover and those who organized or participated in subsequent events say they don’t view that as negative or even a sign that progressives have grown complacent under the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden. Instead, they said, they believe many people redirected their outrage over Trump’s election and fears about the state of the world into getting involved directly into policymaking, into running for office or into ﬁnding another way to get involved at the community level. “I think a lot of that energy has moved from marching and making sure that our voices are heard and we are seen,” said Jamie Cassutt, a Santa Fe city councilor ﬁrst elected in 2019. “But what’s more important is actually having the power to make those decisions.” State Rep. Reena Szczepanski, D-Santa Fe, said she, too, saw many women move from marching in

going to do it anyway.’ ... Punishing people because they’re panhandling is not a long-term solution.” Valdez said she believes trying to push through a statewide statute on panhandling could be a waste of taxpayer funds if it ends up posing a constitutional threat that’s later challenged. She pointed to cities like Albuquerque that spent considerable time and money ﬁghting challenges in court. “That money could be going toward housing people ... toward building a behavioral health pipeline,” Valdez said. “That money could be going toward a whole number of things that actually get at the root cause of homelessness.”

‘Like dominoes’ Panhandling wasn’t Sena’s plan for her life. She hoped at one point to go to college or to learn automotive repair. She had a job she enjoyed for years as a cashier at a carwash. Then her mom died, and Sena took over raising her siblings. Later, she said, she got ovarian cancer and couldn’t work anymore. “It just [was] like dominoes,” said Sena, adding that, all told, she’s been homeless for about 10 years. “It went from losing my apartment to my savings to losing my car. ... This is where we got stuck at.” Sena said she would like to go back to work. She’s applied for jobs, but her lack of an address has been an issue for employers. She said she’s on good terms with her old boss at the carwash, and she might try to go back to work there. But, Sena said, it’s also hard to go to work every day when she doesn’t have somewhere to live and to shower — and housing is more expensive than ever. “With the rent going up to, geez louise, $2,000 for a one-bedroom, two-bedroom house?” Sena said. “It’s ridiculous.” Sena said she and her husband put their names down on a list for one of the Pallet shelters the city is installing, but they haven’t heard back. If she’s restricted from panhandling, she said, it will be difficult to get enough money to eat. She also thinks cities will see other problems start to increase as people get more desperate. “Guaranteed, the crime is going to go up. People are going to start getting into cars more and breaking into houses and robbing people,” Sena said. “It’s not all of us. ... [But] it’s going to get bad. It’s going to get worse than it already is.” She said leaders considering a crackdown on panhandling should consider her experiences of becoming homeless and trying to survive. “Walk a mile in my shoes, and let’s see if you can do it,” Sena said. “I give you guys three days.”

2017 into other civic roles. “I think one of the interesting things that happened after President Trump was elected in 2016 … was women started looking at all the ways they could be involved,” said Szczepanski, who took office last year. “Some of the organizations that formed in the immediate aftermath are still having this tremendous impact.” In the years that followed Trump’s inauguration, he made good on many of his supporters’ hopes and opponents’ fears, while maintaining the incendiary rhetoric that was the hallmark of his campaign. He dismantled housing discrimination rules and rolled back protections for the LGBTQ+ community. Perhaps most notably, he reshaped the U.S. Supreme Court with the appointment of three conservative justices. The court later overturned the long-standing Roe v. Wade ruling recognizing the constitutional right to abortion — a major victory for conservatives that prompted spontaneous protests across the country.

‘Inspired to get involved’ According to Conover, the events of 2016 and the 2017 Women’s March ultimately set her on the path of being more aware of and involved in civic issues in her own backyard in Santa Fe. At the time, the astrological counselor and musician had never been politically active. But in 2016, as then-presidential candidate Trump whipped up crowds with his ﬁery rhetoric, “I started paying attention,” she said. After Trump’s unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton that November, Conover said she was distraught, concerned about the way Trump spoke about political enemies, women and various minority groups. “I couldn’t believe that this was happening, that Trump was our president ,and we had put a man into power who had said so many horrible things,” Conover said.

was holding in the scene — described by a forensics examiner as a Italian-made “facsimile” of a Colt 1873 single-action revolver — and whether he pulled the gun’s trigger prior to it discharging a live round. Baldwin has said he didn’t pull the trigger. The matter has been further complicated by reports the gun was damaged during testing. A source close to the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The New Mexican in April the dismissal was related to “new evidence” that centered on the revolver. The weapon had at some point been fitted with a new hammer, calling into question whether it could have fired without the trigger being pulled, the source said. In a June motion filed in the case against Gutierrez-Reed, prosecutors wrote charges against Baldwin had been dismissed without prejudice “because a possible malfunction of the gun significantly affects causation with regard to Baldwin. ... If it is determined that the gun did not malfunction, charges against Mr. Baldwin will proceed.” The state wrote then that special prosecutors anticipated making a “final charging decision” with regard to Baldwin “within the next 60 days.” But that timeframe elapsed without Baldwin being charged. In October, the special prosecu-

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in place to ensure reports are being submitted on time, something independent auditing firms have flagged in the past. As in the 2021 audit, submitted to the state in June following an 18-month delay, the city said in the 2022 report it already has implemented many of the processes to correct the problems cited. The city hired a grants manager in fall 2022 who is working to establish a system for accurately tracking grant funding and expenditures, a years-long problem, the report said. Another repeated issue — a practice of not adhering to a monthly or quarterly accounting process — also has been addressed, the city said, and a month-end close process was implemented in fiscal year 2023. Other findings noted in the audit include the following: ◆ Less pledged collateral for a deposit at Guadalupe Credit Union than required by state statute. ◆ Not adjusting year-end payable balances to the Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency and Buckman Direct Diversion Project. ◆ Using the emergency procurement method for consulting services that did not meet state standards for what constitutes an emergency. The report also said the city budgeted deficits in excess of available cash balances in a number of funds, including a deficit of almost $8 million for city street projects and more than $2.2 million for parks and trails. One of the findings noted former finance director Mary McCoy, who left the position in April 2022, was still listed as a signatory on a city account with Guadalupe Credit Union. The city’s response to many of the findings, none of which it disputed, noted the finance office experienced “major staffing shortages” over the past several years “due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a shortage of workers with budget expertise,” the city stated in the report. “It was very difficult for the Budget Director to monitor all Funds during this period.”

She turned to the internet to commiserate with fellow progressives and saw some people were planning to hold demonstrations in their cities, including in D.C., the day after Trump’s inauguration. Organizers hoped to send a message to the new president that “civil liberties must be protected.” Conover got swept up in the idea. “I just felt inspired to get involved in it,” she said. Conover started planning a local event. Conover said another pair of women organized the second Santa Fe Women’s March, and she once again joined marchers and gave a speech. Ultimately, however, she found herself wanting to channel her energy to something more long-term and proactive. Today, Conover said, she’s spending time volunteering with the S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative, which aims to help resolve homelessness locally. The thought, she said, was, “OK, let’s get to work. How are we going to continue to try to make physical changes, physical differences in our communities?” Szczepanski said she thinks many people, particularly women, experienced that drive to do more as a direct result of the march. “The march is one day,” she said. “But then what happens the other 364 days of the years?” Szczepanski pointed to massive numbers of women who ran for office and were elected following Trump’s election. Vox reported in 2018 a record-shattering 529 women filed to run for Congress that year, compared with 312 women in 2016. In 2021, New Mexico’s own House of Representatives for the first time had women in a majority of seats, 37-33. Cassutt, who said Trump’s presidency was a major motivator for her running for office, said her election in 2019 represented the first time in Santa Fe’s history women held a majority on the council. “You have just seen this influx of women — of young women, of women who have young children — who have moved into policymaking positions of

tors announced additional facts had come to light that the state believed showed Baldwin could have “criminal culpability” in Hutchins’ death and Souza’s wounding and said they intended to present the evidence to a grand jury “within the next two months.” Morrissey and Lewis did not respond to a call seeking information Friday about whether Baldwin will be arrested or booked on the charge, or be arraigned and released with conditions to await trial. The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office requested $635,000 from the state Board of Finance in August 2022, saying in an emergency funding request it anticipated charging four people in connection with the shooting and needed the money to fund their prosecution. “Experts in ﬁrearms, the handling of ﬁrearms on movie sets and safety protocols on movie sets, must be retained immediately,” Carmack-Altwies wrote in the request, adding that if she had to fund the prosecution out of her office’s general fund, there would not be enough money to pay her employees, hire expert witnesses in other cases and cover everyday expenses. The state Board of Finance awarded the District Attorney’s office $317,000, about half the money requested. Legislators later authorized her office to spend another $360,000 pursuing the cases, according to District Attorney’s Office spokesman Nathan Lederman. Lederman wrote in an email Friday about $164,925 of the $317,000 had been spent, and about $152,824 had been “returned/reverted” to the state.

The city’s remaining overdue audit, for the 2023 fiscal year, is expected to be complete by May 15. City officials previously had said the audit would be submitted by the Dec. 15 deadline but later pushed the date back several months. The overdue audit is preventing the city from accessing capital outlay allocated by the Legislature due to an executive order requiring local governments and other agencies to be in compliance with audit rules before accessing grants. Oster said the city’s external auditor, Carr, Riggs & Ingram, will present the findings to the city’s Audit Committee on Jan. 25 and to the Finance Committee and the full City Council the week of Jan. 29. “I’m thankful for the city staff team that worked their tails off to get this audit submitted,” City Councilor Michael Garcia said, but added the findings are concerning. “We are not in the clear yet,” he said. He also said he continues to have transparency concerns regarding how the city handles news relating to the audit process. City councilors were notified by the city manager Friday morning the audit had been published, he said, but were asked not to spread that information until the city sent out a news release later in the day. City officials have emphasized to Santa Fe-area legislators they will be back in compliance with the rule before the next fiscal year begins July 1 and have asked them to secure funding for infrastructure projects in the current, 30-day session. At least one lawmaker, Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, has signaled a reticence to do so. In an opinion column recently published in The New Mexican, Serrato wrote she needs the city to set a date for two projects she funded in previous sessions before she can appropriate more. Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, who is married to City Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, said he saw Serrato’s column but had not spoken to her about her concerns. Based on the results of the recently released audits, Wirth said he is comfortable supporting capital outlay for the city in this session. “I’m confident the city is on the right track,” he said.

power,” Cassutt said.

A march’s uncertain future Some Women’s March events are going forward this weekend in New Mexico and elsewhere — even in solidly red Portales on the Texas border. But will there be another civil rights demonstration on the history-making scale of the first Women’s March? The world is certainly as divided and restive as it was in 2017, if not more so. Since then, there was the coronavirus pandemic, which coincided with the summer of Black Lives Matter marches in 2020. There was the Jan. 6, 2021, demonstration that ended with Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. Earlier this week, Trump shellacked his opponents in the Iowa caucuses, while Biden’s approval ratings remain low. Meanwhile, issues like abortion are moving from the federal to the state and local levels. That prompted the group Eastern New Mexico Rising to organize Portales’ first Women’s March last year. Victoria Robledo, a member of the group, told Eastern New Mexico News it has given people in the conservative community a safe haven to express their concerns and advocate for their rights. “It’s easy to feel powerless when you’re only one person. But as a group we can find strength,” she said. “It’s a really interesting moment in American history, where ... in my lifetime, I feel it’s one of the first moments there has been such a different set of conditions for folks to live in depending on what state you live in,” said Szczepanski, adding as a parent she doesn’t view the younger generation as complacent in any way. Szczepanski said she doesn’t know if the Santa Fe’s Women’s March, or something like it, will ever return. “Boy, I hope so,” she said. “A public demonstration of that size serves a very important role in terms of raising awareness. It served its purpose in getting the attention of the nation.”

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Robust red-flag law delivered 1,800 guns to N.Y. police in ’23

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shotgun to a gas station. Research has shown such laws are associated with a decrease in the rate of firearm suicides, which account for more than half of the nation’s gun deaths. In Connecticut — the first state to pass a red-flag law — researchers estimated one suicide was averted for every 10 or 11 gun removals. The laws have also been used hundreds of times in cases of people threatening mass shootings, a recent study found. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has hailed the redflag push as a way to prevent violence. In her annual address to lawmakers on Jan. 9, she said the gun-control legislation enacted by the state is “a model for the rest of the nation.” Gun rights groups, however, have called the expanded use of the red-flag law overzealous and unconstitutional. Such groups won a major victory last year when the Supreme Court struck down a century-old New York law governing who could carry a concealed weapon. So far, the court seems inclined to uphold laws that remove guns from those considered dangerous. New York is one of 21 states that have passed red-flag laws, the majority of them within in the last six years. The measures typically allow law enforcement and family members to petition a court to temporarily take guns away from someone at risk of harming themselves or others. During the time the order is in effect — usually a year — the person is also barred from buying weapons. “It’s a very tailored intervention,” said April Zeoli, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who studies red-flag laws. Researchers say the impact of the laws has been weakened by inconsistent application. Some jurisdictions, such as the city of San Diego, have embraced the law as a tool, using it often. Meanwhile, in states such as Nevada and New Mexico, fewer than 30% of counties have issued such orders, according to the research arm of Everytown for Gun Safety.

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Haley primed to secure 2nd place as DeSantis focuses on S. Carolina

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WASHINGTON — The race for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations will converge in New Hampshire on Tuesday in the ﬁrst primary election of the season — though on the Democratic side, the contest may count only for bragging rights. The Republican primary will test former President Donald Trump’s front-runner status in a state he carried by a comfortable margin in the 2016 primary but has a considerably more moderate electorate than the one that delivered him a big win in the Iowa caucuses. It will also be a test for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who wants to establish herself as the main alternative to Trump. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who edged Haley for second place in Iowa, is focusing his efforts on South Carolina after two scheduled New Hampshire debates were canceled. Trump has had a consistent lead in the polls, with Haley, a former South Carolina governor, appearing to be in the strongest position among his rivals. In the Democratic primary, President Joe Biden won’t appear on the ballot because the contest violates the national party rules he pushed for, but supporters

Tina Guilford, town clerk of Derry, N.H., left, and Lynne Gagnon, deputy town clerk, prepare sample ballots while testing vote-counting machines Tuesday at the Derry Municipal Center.

have mounted a write-in campaign on his behalf. The Biden campaign has not endorsed the write-in effort. Among the Democratic candidates whose names will appear on the ballot are U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson. The New Hampshire presidential primaries will be held Tuesday. The last polls in the state close at 8 p.m. — 6 p.m. Mountain time. In tiny Dixville Notch, which has only a handful of residents, polls open at midnight ET and close a few minutes later once all voters have cast a ballot. The Republican primary ballot will list the names of 24 candidates, including DeSantis, Haley and Trump. The ballot includes the names of candidates who have dropped out, including Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy. The Democratic ballot will list the names of 21 candidates, including Phillips and Williamson. Registered party members may vote only in their party’s primary. Independent or unaffiliated voters may vote in either primary. New voters may register on primary day at a polling site, but

the deadline to change party affiliation for voters who are already registered was in October. Seventeen-year-olds who will turn 18 by the November general election may vote in the primary. For Republicans, statewide primary results will be used to determine how many of New Hampshire’s 22 Republican National Convention delegates each candidate has won. Delegates are allocated to candidates in proportion to their share of the statewide vote, though a candidate must receive at least 10% of the vote to qualify for delegates. Any unallocated delegates are awarded to the statewide winner. Unlike some other states, New Hampshire Republican delegates are not allocated by congressional district. For Democrats, no delegates will be allocated based on the results of the primary, according to the Democratic National Committee, which governs the nomination process. Trump won a competitive New Hampshire primary in 2016 with 35% of the vote, more than double the showing of his nearest competitor, then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich. He did best in the state’s heavily Republican areas, outper-

forming Kasich by a nearly 4-1 ratio. Trump fared less well in the state’s heavily Democratic areas, though he still ﬁnished slightly ahead of Kasich in those parts of the state. In Iowa, Haley performed best in the state’s more Democratic-friendly areas, but she ﬁnished with more votes than the former president in only one county. To be competitive against Trump in New Hampshire, she’ll need to beat Trump outright in the state’s Democratic strongholds. If Trump posts big margins in these areas, including in Concord and Portsmouth, he’s likely on his way to a decisive win statewide. There is no automatic recount in New Hampshire presidential primaries, but any candidate who receives at least 9% of votes cast may request a recount for a fee. The fee is refunded if the person who requested it is declared the winner. As of Dec. 28, there were about 873,000 registered voters in New Hampshire. Registered Republicans make up 31% of voters, compared with 30% for Democrats. Independents or unaffiliated voters comprise 39%.

Trump mocks Haley’s first name, Nimarata ATLANTA — Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president using race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals. In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, S.C., as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996. Trump, himself the son, grandson and twice the husband of immigrants, called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn’t have what it takes.” The attack came four days before the New Hampshire primary, in which Haley is trying to establish herself as the only viable Trump alternative in the Republicans’ 2024 nominating contest. Trump’s post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley’s given ﬁrst name — though he’s misspelled it “Nimrada” — and falsely

asserted she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972. The attacks echo Trump’s “birther” rhetoric against former President Barack Obama. Trump spent years pushing the conspiracy theory the nation’s ﬁrst Black president was born in Kenya and not a “natural born” U.S. citizen as required by the Constitution. Haley has dismissed Trump’s latest attacks as proof that she threatens his bid for a third consecutive nomination. “I’ll let people decide what he means by his attacks,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump’s false assertions her heritage disqualiﬁes her from the Oval Office. “What we know is, look, he’s clearly insecure if he goes and does these temper tantrums, if he’s spending millions of dollars on TV.” Trump’s campaign did not immediately reply to an inquiry about his comments. Since Monday’s Iowa caucuses — which Trump won by 30 points over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who placed second — Haley has aimed to portray the rest of the GOP primary battle as a two-way race between Trump and herself despite her narrow

third-place ﬁnish. Haley’s campaign is aiming for a stronger showing in New Hampshire, hoping for a springboard into her home-state South Carolina, which holds the South’s ﬁrst presidential primary next month.

Trump also criticizes his other remaining rival, DeSantis, but his preferred pejoratives for the Florida governor, “Ron DeSanctimonious” or “Ron DeSanctus,” has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. DeSantis is white.

The unusual phone calls began last year. So many guns were being seized by the New York State Police, several evidence custodians told a union official, space to store them was running out. The guns were tagged and arranged neatly, lined up on shelves or in cabinets. “People were saying, ‘Where the heck are we going to put all this?’” recalled Timothy Dymond, the president of the New York State Police Investigators Association. The packed evidence rooms were a direct result of one of the most ambitious experiments ever attempted with red-flag laws, a relatively new tool states are deploying to combat gun violence. Such laws are used to prevent people at risk of harming themselves or others from possessing or buying firearms. In New York, the state’s civil court judges approved more than 4,300 final orders under the law last year, up from 222 in 2021. At least 1,800 guns were removed by the state police and local law enforcement agencies in 2023. New York’s approach was driven by the nation’s rising gun deaths. After a massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022, in which a white gunman shot 10 Black shoppers to death, New York strengthened its red-flag law in a manner unlike any other state, making it a requirement rather than an option for law enforcement authorities to pursue such orders. Last year, the law was used to respond to an array of possible dangers, from suicide to mass violence: a student who brought a gun to school and allegedly talked about shooting a teacher; a teenager who police said brandished a gun on a school bus; a man who threatened to shoot up a supermarket with his father’s gun; a woman experiencing delusions who brought a S OP U 1- ND EN -4 A P Y M

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Slew of DWIs ‘Very good’ marks amid safety issues dismissed as agents target APD officers L OS AL AM OS NATIONAL L AB

LANL contractor receives best yearly evaluation since 2018 as lab still grappling with radiation exposures

By Scott Wyland

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Los Alamos National Laboratory’s primary contractor earned a “very good” score for 2023 on a federal performance review but still was bedeviled by worker safety problems, ﬂawed planning and incidents that disrupted operations. Triad National Security LLC earned 89% of the highest possible score on the yearly report card —

its best showing since taking over lab operations in 2018 — resulting in the contractor receiving $24.4 million in bonus fees. Combined with its regular ﬁxed fees, Triad will be paid about $48.78 million, a bump from last year’s $47 million, according to the summary report, and the most money it has ever gotten in a year under this contract. The lab’s federal parent agency mostly gave a glowing assessment but noted that despite making

improvements in workplace safety and health, the lab still grappled with employees being exposed to radiation and radioactive materials being improperly controlled. The National Nuclear Security Administration, the Energy Department branch that oversees the country’s arsenal, released the summaries Friday for ﬁve national labs and two other federal sites involved in nuclear weapons programs. The agency offers little commentary on the ratings in the summary. It plans to make the full reports with redactions available in an electronic reading room by

Feb. 26. An anti-nuclear activist contends the scorecard is the latest example of the agency doing soft grading because it doesn’t want to irk a contractor on which it heavily depends. “We don’t think the higher grades given this year by NNSA reﬂect better performance by Triad, but rather looser grading,” Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group’s executive director, wrote in an email. “Triad has recurring safety problems, which even this soft evaluation recognizes. In fact it is hard to reconcile all the

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The 152 dropped cases come amid suspensions in city’s drunken-driving unit, FBI raid of prominent defense attorney By Nicholas Gilmore

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Several Albuquerque police officers have been placed on administrative leave amid an ongoing federal investigation that has prompted the dismissal of more than 150 drunken driving cases over two days. Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Gilbert Gallegos confirmed the department has, for several months, been cooperating with an FBI investigation involving several officers. “Due to the sensitive nature of the investigation, some officers have been placed on administrative leave, and others will be temporarily reassigned within the department,” Gallegos wrote in a statement. Gallegos declined to answer questions about which officers were placed on leave and whether the leave was paid or unpaid. The 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s office had dismissed 152 drunken driving charges related to the federal probe as of Friday afternoon, spokeswoman Nancy Laflin said. “We did this in deference to an ongoing federal investigation,” Laflin wrote in a statement. “Please refer any and all inquiries to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.” The district attorney’s office dismissed 144 charges of driving while intoxicated on Thursday, along with eight more on Friday. Most of the cases that were dismissed in recent days had been filed by three Albuquerque police officers: Harvey Johnson, Honorio Alba, Jr. and Joshua Montano, according to a review of criminal complaints in the cases that were dismissed. The three officers work in the department’s DWI unit, responding to calls in which drivers suspected of drunken driving are asked to perform field sobriety and breathalyzer tests. They also issue citations. Gallegos did not respond to an email asking about the current status of the three officers at the agency. Neither Johnson, Alba, Jr. nor Montano could be reached by phone Friday. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Tessa Duberry declined to confirm or deny any details about the investigation, but she did confirm “federal law enforcement activity” at an Albuquerque police officer’s home in Los Lunas, writing in a statement it was “done with the full cooperation of the Albuquerque Police Department.” The office of a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Please see story on Page A-8

ABOVE: A costumed group poses while attending opening night of the Albuquerque Comic Con on Friday at the Albuquerque Convention Center. They are, clockwise: Michele Duran as Sailor Pluto; Isaiah Sanchez as Scorpion; Isabella Sanchez as Sailor Neptune; Lucas Sanchez as Subzero; Rebecca Sanchez as Wolverine; and Kris Sandoval as Old Man Logan.

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Senate GOP blasts House bill limiting oil, gas production

Tomaz Cervantes, dressed as the Duke of Albuquerque, rides the escalator up to the second ﬂoor of the Albuquerque Convention Center during the opening night Friday at Comic Con. The event continues from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, go to albuquer quecomiccon.com.

Republicans claim legislation that would restrict where new wells can be located ‘is designed to destroy New Mexico’ By Robert Nott

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N.M. Dems call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war State party’s statement condemns ‘terrorist’ group Hamas, laments plight of displaced Palestinians

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By Nathan Brown and Nicholas Gilmore nbrown@sfnewmexican.com ngilmore@sfnewmexican.com

The New Mexico Democratic Party’s executive committee has come out in favor of a “bilateral cease-ﬁre” in the Israel-Hamas war. The committee voted unanimously Thursday to approve a statement that condemns Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, as “a terrorist organization [that] should be dismantled” and endorses Israel’s right to defend itself. It also laments the deaths and displacement of Palestinian civilians, calling for humanitarian aid, a negotiated cease-ﬁre “that

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People take part in a rally in November in Santa Fe calling for a ceaseﬁre in the Israel-Hamas war. The New Mexico Democratic Party’s executive committee voted unanimously to approve a statement in support of “the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts at negotiating peace.”

includes the release of all hostages” and support for “the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts at negotiating peace.”

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

The action came the same day a Democratic New Mexico congresswoman made a similar call. It also comes after a cease-ﬁre

resolution proposed by the state party’s central committee stalled. The executive committee’s statement calls for guarantees that U.S. military aid to Israel “conforms to U.S. law and does not target civilian populations.” And it encourages both Israelis and Palestinians “to change their current leadership, electing fresh governmental leaders who will work for a true, lasting peace.” “We assert our dedication to lasting peace and the cessation of armed conﬂict everywhere,” the statement said. “We also continue to denounce racism, antisemitism, and hate speech in the region and here at home.” Fighting began Oct. 7 when Please see story on Page A-7

A Senate Finance Committee hearing about an agency budget turned testy Friday as legislators ripped into the potential effects of a House bill dealing with New Mexico’s oil and gas industry. During Friday’s meeting, Republican Sens. William Sharer of Farmington and Sen. Crystal Diamond Brantley of Elephant Butte put up a spirited defense of the industry in response to proposed legislation that would require all new wells to placed at least 2,250 feet — not quite a half-mile — from a health care and correctional facilities, multifamily residential buildings, homes and schools. There is also a clause to set new wells back from natural bodies of water by Bill Sharer either 300 or 660 feet. What was supposed to be a hearing focusing on the budget of the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department quickly turned into an interrogation on how the proposed changes — which could go into effect later this year and include some exceptions — would affect the future of the oil and gas industry, which provides about 40% of the state’s revenues. The roughly 45-minute back-and-forth between the two senators and Dylan Fuge, acting Cabinet secretary for the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, focused on a single point of the 25-page House Bill 133. The byplay provided an opening salvo in what may well be a longer legislative battle over changes to oil and gas industry practices. Many lawmakers have said oil and gas is responsible for the roughly $13 billion windfall the state is now working with to craft a budget. Sharer, whose combative style can suddenly segue Please see story on Page A-7

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Advocates push for Newspapers stolen after reporting rape story independent group to draw state maps COL OR AD O

By Amy Beth Hanson The Associated Press

Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday. Mike Wiggins vowed to get to the bottom of it, posting Thursday on X, formerly Twitter: “If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably. We’ll find out who did this. And another press run is imminent.” The newspaper posted the story on social media and removed its website paywall so people could read about the felony sexual assault charges filed against three men, including a relative of the police chief, for

LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP Days remaining in session: 26 Government ethics: The State Ethics Commission advocated Friday for the “swift passage” of a bill that would amend the Governmental Conduct Act, New Mexico’s primary statute on government ethics, conflicts of interest and corruption. House Bill 8, which Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham approved for consideration during the session, would increase the maximum civil penalties for ethics violations, now set at $250, and regulate prohibited political activity by government officials and employees, similar to the federal Hatch Act. “These amendments are essential updates that will maintain public trust in government and ensure the highest standards of integrity

actions that allegedly occurred at a May 2023 party in Ouray where drugs and alcohol were used, according to court records. The suspects were ages 17, 18 and 19 at the time, and the person who reported the rapes was 17, records said. By Thursday evening, someone had returned a garbage bag full of newspapers to the Plaindealer, and supporters had donated about $2,000 to the paper, something Wiggins called “extremely heartening and humbling.” About 250 newspapers ﬁlled the racks Friday morning in Ouray County, a mountainous area in southwestern Colorado that is home to about 5,000 people. The Plaindealer is published on Thursdays and delivered to racks late Wednesday. The rack price for the weekly newspaper is $1, so someone spent $12 opening racks and removing all the newspapers, Wiggins said. They missed one newspaper rack at

in government,” a news release states. “The New Mexico State Ethics Commission is committed to supporting these necessary reforms and calls for bipartisan support in the Legislature.” Message making: During 30-day sessions, the focus is on drafting a state budget for the coming fiscal year. The governor must approve the introduction of any other proposed legislation to the agenda. As of Friday, Lujan Grisham’s office had posted more than 50 messages approving requests to put bills on this year’s agenda. Several are related to crime and gun safety, initiatives she and some lawmakers are prioritizing this session. Just because the governor approves a bill for consideration does not mean it will get a hearing or make it over the finish line before the session ends. Visit governor.state.nm.us/

a coffee shop, so about 200 papers were stolen. Wiggins was glad that the racks themselves weren’t damaged. He believed the person who returned the newspapers was the person who took them and that only one person was involved in the theft. Wiggins declined to identify the person, but he did report that information to police. Officers also had surveillance video of some of the thefts, Wiggins said. Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood did not return a phone message from The Associated Press on Friday seeking comment. The newspaper plans to have a story in next Thursday’s edition about the theft of the papers and possibly a column explaining why they took it so seriously and reprinted the paper, Wiggins said. “It’s strange to be writing about ourselves,” Wiggins said. “We work very hard to make sure we are not the story.”

about-the-governor/legislative-messages for a list of her messages. A whisper to a scream: Friday was awfully quiet at the state Capitol, as just two committees met and many lawmakers no doubt headed home early to enjoy a three-day weekend before this year’s 30-day session picks up steam next week. But come Monday, expect lawmakers to begin working their way through dozens of bills. As of Friday, 315 piece of legislation, including memorials and resolutions, had been filed, according to the Legislature’s website, nmlegis. gov. Lawmakers have until Jan. 31 to file bills. Among the committee hearings scheduled Monday is an organizational meeting of the House Education Committee at 8:30 a.m. The House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee will also meet at 8:30 a.m. and

hear, among other initiatives, House Bill 67, which would allocate $6 million to tribal and rural health councils, and House Bill 111, which would appropriate $1.5 billion to build a wall along the Mexico-New Mexico border. There will be other House and Senate meetings throughout the week. Visit the legislative website and click on the “What’s Happening” link for an updated list. Note: committee hearings can be rescheduled or moved to a different room than planned, so check the list often. Quote of the day: “It’s amazing how an election cycle will bring everyone to common ground sometimes.” — Rep. Jim Townsend, R-Artesia, talking about how Republican and Democratic lawmakers might be more likely to cooperate to address issues like crime during an election year.

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into recitations of poetry and references to American history, charged the legislation “is designed to destroy New Mexico,” though it was unclear if he was talking about the setback proposal or the entire bill. “One-hundred thousand people will lose their jobs. The economy of New Mexico will be destroyed.” Fuge said the proposal is not intended to kill off the fossil fuel industry, adding as oil wells age, their emissions often get worse and threaten the health of people and the nearby environment. “Wells are like people: They’re all different,” Fuge said. “Some are near water bodies that are ﬁne and there’s another one in the San Juan Basin where the disposal pit is right next to an arroyo, and the pit is about to collapse into the arroyo.” He said the exception clause in the provision could allow every new well operator to sidestep the proposed rule if their operations meet the bill’s requirements. “We do not believe there is a well that will be impacted. There may be wells that require an exception,” he said. “You could build it right next to the school if standards were met for exception. I would not advise that.” Brantley said the measure sends a bad

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Oil rigs stand in the Loco Hills ﬁeld in Eddy County near Artesia. A proposal to provide spacing guidelines for oil wells drew ﬁre Friday from some GOP members of the Senate.

message to new and longtime oil and gas operators in the state who may be adhering to all state environmental laws to keep the industry as clean as possible. “With one sweep, we’re going to blanket the industry by saying, ‘You’re all bad apples. You’re all dirty,’” she said. HB 133 is one of several bills related to changing or cleaning up the oil and gas industry in a state that is focused on reduc-

ing all carbon emissions by 2045. Besides new rules for oil well placements, House Bill 133 calls for increased ﬁnes and higher royalty payments, among other measures. The bill was scheduled to be heard in the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Saturday in the state Capitol, along with two other related bills.

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Hamas militants stormed from the Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns, killing more than 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians, and taking about 240 people hostages. Israel has responded with a bombing campaign and invasion of the Gaza Strip that has so far killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, the majority also civilians, and displaced most of the population of Gaza. The war has laid bare a divide between the pro-Israel views of the Biden administration and its allies and more pro-Palestinian views on the left. Republicans have been mostly supportive of Israel; to give one example, three Republican state senators introduced a memorial into the Senate on Thursday condemning Hamas and expressing “unwavering support to the state and people of Israel.” Jeffrey Haas, a Jewish activist and founder of Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine who has helped lead weekly demonstrations against Israel’s actions in the war, said the executive committee’s statement was “a step forward” but also looked like an

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As we continue to stand by Israel’s right to defend itself, we must remain steadfast in our commitment to protecting innocent civilians.”

what the state executive committee is backing. “These efforts must ensure an end to the violence that has devastated these communities, the release of all remaining hostages, and ensure the safety, security and self-determination of both the Israeli and PalestinU.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico ian people,” her statement said. Samia Assed, a Palestinattempt to “appease both sides.” to put together a report for Conian-American state Democratic “The way it describes the gress on whether Israel has comcentral committee member, preliminary events is somewhat mitted human rights violations. introduced a cease-fire resoluIt failed overwhelmingly on an focused on the violence against tion in October that, unlike the 11-72 vote. Israelis as opposed to Palestinexecutive committee’s stateians — a detailed horrific view “The American people ment, also calls for a pause on of one and sort of a statistical deserve transparency on how military aid to Israel. The vote view of another,” Haas said in an Israel is deploying U.S. aid in on Assed’s resolution, which was interview Friday. “It’s good that Gaza,” Heinrich wrote in an supposed to wrap up in early they’re using the word ‘ceaseemail Friday. January, has been stalled due to fire,’ which seems to have been “As we continue to stand by outside the vocabulary of many Israel’s right to defend itself, we “a complaint regarding the timeline and process of considering” Democratic officials.” must remain steadfast in our Many New Mexico Democommitment to protecting inno- it, a party spokesman said earlier this month. crats have been striking a middle cent civilians,” he continued. In an email Friday, party ground, condemning Hamas “That means ensuring our weapons are used only in accordance spokeswoman Bushra Elfarissi while also calling on Israel explained the party’s executive with U.S. law, international to do more to reduce civilian humanitarian law, and the law of committee and central commitcasualties. tee follow different processes, armed conflict.” Earlier this week, however, and the executive committee’s On Thursday, U.S. Rep. U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and cease-fire statement has no Melanie Stansbury, whose 1st Ben Ray Luján were two of just bearing on the fate of Assed’s Congressional District covers nine Democrats to vote in favor resolution. most of the Albuquerque area, of a resolution proposed by Staff writer Maya Hilty conput out a statement in favor of a Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders “bilateral cease-fire” similar to requiring the State Department tributed to this report.

Joint resolution introduced by New Mexico lawmakers would put measure for political district line-drawing commission on state ballot By Marjorie Childress New Mexico In Depth

A coalition of advocates and civic groups, and some lawmakers, want voters to decide this November if an independent commission should take the job of drawing political district lines out of the hands of the state legislators who control the process now. A joint resolution sponsored by Sens. Leo Jaramillo, D-Española, and Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, would place the idea on the ballot during this fall’s statewide election. “I heard from New Mexicans from before I won the Senate about how they thought a commission should be the one helping decide the district lines to make it fair for every New Mexican and every voting district,” Jaramillo said. Rep. Natalie Figueroa, who has championed the idea over several years, said there’s “a very direct conﬂict of interest in the legislators drawing their own boundaries for their own districts.” In order for the public to have faith in democracy, the Albuquerque Democrat said, there needs to be no question that lawmakers might create maps in a way that intentionally protects their own ability to get elected in the future. Political maps are generally redrawn every 10 years, after the U.S. Census. In 2019, in a New Mexico In Depth report on redistricting, experts said New Mexico’s redistricting system offered few constraints on how lawmakers choose to draw district boundaries. After that report was produced, lawmakers created an independent committee to gather input statewide, and then create a series of maps to inform the Legislature’s redistricting process. The Legislature ultimately adopted maps drawn by legislators, and not those recommended by the independent committee. But by many accounts, the maps the committee created improved the redistricting process in New Mexico, with some lawmakers saying they provided a starting point for them. A 2022 evaluation of the maps lawmakers adopted, co-authored by University of New Mexico political science professor Gabe Sanchez, found lawmakers did gerrymander the maps to draw safe district boundaries for incumbents of both political parties. “Although the enacted maps may not have been drawn to advantage one party over the other,” the authors wrote, “our ﬁndings suggest that they

IN BRIEF State police: Gun, drugs found on S.F. man after chase A Santa Fe man was arrested with drugs, money and a loaded handgun earlier this month after a chase on Interstate 25, New Mexico State Police said Friday. A state police officer tried to stop a vehicle traveling south near the Santo Domingo exit around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 8, state police said in a news release. The vehicle was “traveling at an excessive speed on a temporary spare tire and was failing to stay in one lane,” police said. Police said the driver — later identiﬁed as Diego Jose Talamante, 31, of Santa Fe — weaved on and off the interstate at speeds in excess of 100 mph before getting off the interstate on La Bajada and driving onto Waldo Canyon Road. Talamante soon lost control of the car on the snowy road, slid into a dirt berm, got out of the car and kept running, police said. The officer caught Talamante when he was trying to crawl under a fence, police said, discharging an electronic stun gun as he took Talamante into custody. Police said a search after Talamante’s arrest found a loaded handgun, 72 grams of meth, 68 grams of fentanyl, 35 naloxone strips and $3,519.75 in cash. He was booked into the Santa Fe County jail on three counts of

appear to have been drawn to keep incumbent parties in their districts and safe from partisan competition.” Figueroa introduced a similar resolution in the House in 2022 and 2023, where it died in committee without reaching the floor for a vote. This year, Figueroa said, “we needed to start it on the Senate side to hear from legislators more about their concerns, and where they stand, if we’re going to build something that works for New Mexico. We need input.” Because the ballot question would be passed by lawmakers in the form of a legislative resolution to amend the state constitution, it doesn’t need the governor’s approval to be heard during this year’s short 30-day session, where crafting the state budget is the top priority, nor would it be subject to her veto pen. The proposal envisions nine commissioners who reflect the demographics and geography of New Mexico and who are not elected officials. The mechanics for creating the commission call for the Secretary of State to gather applications from across New Mexico, from which 120 people would be randomly selected. Legislative leaders could remove 12 names from consideration. From the resulting pool, six would be randomly selected, with those six then electing three more. The resolution details the resulting commission be evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans and independents, and as much as possible reflect the ethnic, gender, and geographic diversity of the state. Figueroa described the proposal as a “hybrid” random selection process since three commissioners would be elected by the six who were already appointed by the random drawing. That would allow the commissioners to select people needed to ensure demographic and geographic balance or to provide expertise, she said. Figueroa said one other state — Wisconsin — uses a similar independent redistricting commission. The Wisconsin commission is fully selected through a random drawing, she said. The idea is likely to face intense opposition among lawmakers from both parties, some of whom argue they are elected to do such consequential work and should be held accountable for it. Another argument that percolates among Democrats is more practical. Democrats control the Legislature, with robust majorities in both the House and the Senate, and an independent commission would mean giving up some of the power that accompanies being the majority party. drug trafficking, three counts of drug distribution, felon in possession of a firearm, aggravated fleeing of a police Diego Jose officer, resisting, Talamante evading or obstructing an officer and multiple traffic violations. He was still in jail as of Friday evening, according to jail records.

‘Los Angeles Times’ guild stages a 1-day walkout over layoffs LOS ANGELES — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday to protest what it says are imminent layoffs, the ﬁrst newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history. The paper’s journalists and their supporters rallied in an L.A. civic center park, chanting and waving signs that read, “Don’t Cut Our Future.” The guild said members would also protest in other cities. The guild said in a statement that the Times is planning to lay off a “signiﬁcant” number of journalists, but that the union cannot specify the number because management has insisted on negotiating in meetings that are off the record. The guild also said the paper wants to gut seniority protections. Staff and wire reports

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serious deficiencies mentioned here with the ‘very good’ overall rating.” The grading period covers the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, so the evaluation doesn’t cover the series of radioactive incidents between October and January. Still, the lab had a string of incidents before that, including eight workers being exposed to toxic beryllium dust in September, a faulty ventilation seal causing a radioactive leak in August and five breaches of glove boxes — the sealed compartments used to handle radioactive materials — in a four-week period in spring 2023. Lab critics argue the frequency of mishaps related to handling radioactive materials has increased as the lab pursues production of 30 nuclear bomb cores, or pits, per year to modernize the arsenal and equip at least two new warheads being developed. The nuclear agency applauded the lab’s efforts to lay the groundwork for producing the pits. Lab teams made more prototypical test pits than expected, established a center to integrate various activities in the plutonium facility, also known as PF-4, and installed a new supercomputer, the report said. Employees also made progress on new explosive formulations. The lab augmented nuclear safety programs to support the growing weapons mission and conducted an analysis of radiological hazards to the public and environment, the report said. In the list of deficiencies, the report notes safety incidents disrupted operations. Sections of PF-4 were unavailable due to delays in resolving safety issues, the report said. There also were delays in executing work schedules “due to poor coordination of work activities,” the report said. Despite making some improvements, Triad still had problems overseeing many projects’ costs and scheduling, the report said. Also, the “production planning didn’t meet program needs.” “This calls into question exactly when and at what price LANL will begin to meet its required level of producing at least 30 plutonium pits per year,” Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, wrote in an email. “Sadly, none of that future production is to maintain the safety and reliability of the existing stockpile. It is for new nuclear weapons that will enable loading multiple warheads on new intercontinental ballistic missiles.” Coghlan noted the criticisms echoed the Government Accountability Office’s 2023 report, which said time and cost estimates to produce 30 pits per year are severely lacking and could make it difficult for federal managers to avoid cost overruns, delays and other problems. Both Mello and Coghlan criticized the nuclear agency for its practice of withholding the full reports and redacting portions of them. Mello argued transparency is vital in scrutinizing entities that receive enormous public funding. “The LANL contract is one of the largest contracts issued by the federal government,” Mello wrote. “Taxpayers have a right to know where their money is going and why. This two-page summary does not tell us that.”

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Northeast Albuquerque was also raided by federal agents Thursday, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Nearby residents said FBI agents broke into the law offices of Thomas Clear III with a crowbar and spent hours carrying out ﬁles and other items. The FBI is “working with the Albuquerque Police Department,” spokeswoman Margot Cravens said on Friday. She declined to conﬁrm or deny any details about any ongoing investigation.

not violate law when it told woman to wait in parking lot By Kimberlee Kruesi The Associated Press

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law when doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s strict ban. Jaci Statton, 26, was among several women last year who challenged abortion restrictions that went into effect in Republican-led states after the Supreme Court revoked the nationwide right to abortion in 2022. Rather than join a lawsuit, Statton ﬁled a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA. The complaint came a little more than a year after the Biden administration informed hospitals that they must provide abortion services if the mother’s life is at risk. At the time, President Joe Biden’s administration said EMTALA supersedes state abortion bans that don’t have adequate exceptions for medical emergencies. The Biden administration’s denial of Statton’s claim is the latest development in the ongoing scrutiny over how to apply EMTALA in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. It also underscores the uphill legal battle

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Dani Thayer, left, and Marina Lanae, right, both of Tulsa, Okla., hold pro-choice signs outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City last year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Friday an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law when doctors told a woman to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s strict ban.

reproductive rights advocates when pushing back against state abortion bans. According to the complaint, Statton learned she was pregnant in early 2023 and soon began experiencing severe pain and nausea. Doctors in Oklahoma eventually told her that she had a partial molar pregnancy, which left untreated could cause hemorrhaging, infection, and even death. “However, providers told Jaci that they could not provide an abortion until she

was actively crashing in front of them or on the verge of a heart attack,” the complaint stated. “In the meantime, the best that they could offer was to let Jaci sit in the parking lot so that she would be close to the hospital when her condition further deteriorated.” Abortion is illegal in almost every case in Oklahoma. However, in November, the state’s Supreme Court reiterated in a ruling that the state constitution guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion when

necessary to preserve her life. Ultimately, Statton and her husband traveled out of state to have an emergency abortion rather than wait for her health to deteriorate. In October, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — which operates under Health and Human Services — informed Statton that its investigation could not “confirm a violation” of the emergency care federal law. “We appreciate you bringing this matter to our attention,” the letter said. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents Statton, confirmed Friday that her complaint had been denied. The center did not disclose why it waited months to make the denial public. In December, an attorney for the center told The Associated Press that they had did not have any updates that they could release publicly. “EMTALA was created to protect every person’s right to receive stabilizing treatment for an emergency medical condition no matter which state they live in or what kind of stabilizing care they need,” said Rabia Muqaddam, a senior staff attorney with the center. “It is horrifying that patients in Jaci’s circumstances are being turned away.” The Supreme Court earlier this month allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a separate legal fight continues. The justices said they would hear arguments in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the Idaho law in hospital emergencies, based on a federal lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

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Man who built crashed plane recalls sale to young pilot By Christopher Weber The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-ﬂying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said they believe four people were aboard the single-engine Cozy Mark IV

when it went down in the evening just south of San Francisco. No survivors were found and only one body had been recovered from the waters near Half Moon Bay and identiﬁed as of Friday. The names of the pilot and two other passengers were not released. The plane was registered to an Oakland-based company called Winged Wallabies, Inc., according to Federal Aviation Administration records. There have been no official indications of what went wrong,

but a witness reported hearing an engine losing power and cutting out. Thane Ostroth, a retired dentist who began building the aircraft in 1999 and ﬂying it in 2008, said he sold the plane last year to a young, experienced and enthusiastic pilot from Australia for around $100,000, which is about what he estimated went into the project over the decades. Ostroth said the buyer, in his late 20s, knew a lot about planes. He landed the plane perfectly on

his ﬁrst test ﬂight, which is not easy to do. “I told him, ‘That was well done,’ ” Ostroth recalled. “He said, ‘Thank you. I’ll buy the plane.’ ” Authorities have not said whether the plane’s owner was among those on board. Ostroth said he heard about the crash in an online chat group for pilots and builders of Cozy aircraft, a class of planes constructed by individuals rather than mass-produced by companies. He said it was “traumatic” to

know the plane he had spent so much time on had crashed with people on board. Like commercial aircraft, all home-built planes are required by the FAA to be inspected annually for air worthiness. Cozy aircraft have the same safety record as commercially built planes of similar size, said aeronautical engineer Marc Zeitlin, who consults with the National Transportation Safety Board on crash investigations involving Cozy aircraft, including this one.

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ANDRES ROBERTO ANAYA 5/25/1992 – 1/20/2022

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Two years, son. Each year is harder, it seems. Not better, just different, and still gut wrenchingly painful. Our whole world shattered into tiny bits and pieces when you left us. Every day, when we wake up, we hope it’s a bad dream, but it is not. Your hugs, your voice, and your face will always be a part of us. As will your beautiful music, your beautiful art, and your silly jokes. These are the parts of you that will stay with us forever. We will always love and miss you. Mom, Dad, Paloma, and Layla

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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JULY 1, 1935 - JANUARY 12, 2024 Santa Fe - Ernest Montoya, born July 1, 1935, passed away peacefully on January 12, 2024, at age 88, in his Santa Fe home, surrounded by his loving family. Ernest lived a fulfilling life as a loving husband, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, master woodworker, and master gardener. At the age of 16, being the oldest son of nine children, Ernest stepped in to assume responsibility and support his siblings after his father and grandfather passed away. He learned and mastered his first life skill as a mason, a discipline that he would utilize throughout his life. He also utilized these skills to mentor his brother Anthony (Tony) in constructing his mother’s adobe home. After attending St. Michael’s and Santa Fe High School, he served in the U.S. Army and National Guard for over 37 years, retiring as Chief Warrant Officer 4. After retiring from the military, Ernest turned his passion to woodworking, becoming a self-taught cabinet and furniture artisan, with designs following his Spanish culture. Every member of his family has pieces of his work as heirlooms of his self-taught art. Ernest’s mastery is shown in his home, where he created handmade doors with custom trim and hand-carved inlays, produced in his own woodworking shop. Ernest only used the best lumber of oak, black walnut, Douglas fir, and cedar, which gave him the opportunity to visit his nephew at the Olguin Sawmill in Taos. His signature black walnut on oak inlay is noticed in every piece of furniture. His custom cabinetry was a labor of love and was displayed in many kitchens throughout New Mexico and Arizona. His other passion was the development of a piece of property that was passed down generationally to his family. Ernest worked on this same piece of land as a child, growing beans and keeping dairy cattle. During his retirement, Ernest dedicated himself to his land, furthering his interests in engineering, surveying, and real estate law, as well as his true passion, gardening, to become a successful land developer. His family, friends, and anyone who saw him on his land would say that he was happy and passionate about working there. Learning to grow vegetables in abundance, he spread the annual harvest across family and friends. Ernest was a Little League baseball coach for 10 years, serving as a mentor to his sons and many young players. He was also a devout Colorado Rockies fan. He had a passion for golf and played most courses throughout New Mexico, either with family members or when traveling with the National Guard. Ernest will be greatly missed and remembered as a supportive and generous family man who woke up with a purpose every day. He kindly took time to teach others his valuable trades. Ernest was preceded in death by his son, Fabian Montoya, and siblings, Isabelle Sanchez, Marcella Romero, and Michael Montoya, and together they are finding eternal peace in heaven. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 65 years, Anita Montoya; children, Annette Montoya, Anthony Montoya (Nichole), Paula Abbott (Chuck), and Joanna Montoya-Anaya (Ken); grandchildren, Deanna Sherred (Brian), Reuben Donnelly, Valarie Boddy, Cayla Montoya-Manzo, Jeremy Anaya, Sevilla Montoya, Olivia Montoya, Lucas Abbott, and Julia Montoya; great-grandchildren, Brayden and Hunter Sherred; and siblings, Cecelia Barrone, Victoria Romero, Rosina Romero, Anthony (Tony) Montoya, and Gilbert Montoya. A celebration of Ernest’s life will be held at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on Osage, Thursday, January 25, 2024, with a rosary service at 10:00 a.m. and mass at 11:00 a.m., followed by a burial at the National Cemetery with full military honors.

LOYHANNAH WALKER

JANUARY 10, 1936 - JANUARY 5, 2024 Santa Fe - Louhannah Walker, nee Mann, passed away at her home, surrounded by her family, on January 5, 2024. She was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Allene Mann; her husband, James Walker; and her sisters, Juanita Larsen and Allene Goldman. She is survived by her children, Kelly (Jim Altamirano) of Albuquerque, Jim of Santa Fe, and Allene (John Landgraf) of Santa Monica, CA; her brother and sister-in-law, Tom and Sadie Mann of Lincoln, NM; her grandchildren and great-grandson, as well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Louhannah was an organist, pianist, teacher, attorney, mother, and grandmother. She was much loved in life and will be much missed in death. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Christus St. Vincent Wound Center, Attn: Deb Caswell, 465 St. Michael’s Dr. Suite 101, Santa Fe, NM 87505. The family will host a celebration of Louhannah’s life this summer.

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s we welcome 2024, we have a moment to reﬂect on the triumphs of the past 12 months and plan for the future. Political instability worldwide has increased the need for a secure and reliable energy source in the U.S. and for our allies. We are thankful that the answers lie close to home, as southeastern New Mexico and the greater Permian Basin proved invaluable to the global energy market. However, keeping up with this demand requires a sustained investment in our community. By 2025, 40% of U.S. domestic production will come from our region, up 7% from our current output. By 2040, we’ll need an additional 190,900 jobs to keep pace. Fortunately, investment efforts are underway. 2024 marks the ﬁve-year anniversary of the Permian Strategic Partnership. Since our founding, we

have grown exponentially, including seven new members this year alone. These industry leaders and university systems united with a shared goal — investing in quality health care, education, roads and workforce development, which is what we, together with our community partners, have done. For health care, we’re focused on both physical and mental health. Medical workers are the backbone of our community, and the Permian Basin has been grappling with a shortage. In 2022, the partnership committed $10.6 million over ﬁve years to help ﬁll nursing and physician openings in the region by expanding enrollment in our nursing and premed programs to funnel into the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Family Medicine residency as well as the University of Texas Permian Basin nursing program. The Permian Strategic Partnership

invested about $2.3 million in the Permian Basin Counseling and Guidance center in Carlsbad. Since the center’s opening, more than 8,000 counseling sessions have been conducted with more than 900 unique clients, and the number of available licensed counselors has been expanded by providing supervision for clinicians working toward becoming fully licensed. Education efforts focus on introducing students to the energy industry. An internship program will be in its third year next summer; eight districts were served in 2023, with 10 planned for 2024. The program brought the industry to over 30 high-school students across New Mexico and provided a hands-on experience, with instruction from industry professionals on topics such as automation, drilling, safety and drone usage. The partnership also invested $10

million in the Career and Technical Education Center of Hobbs, and school administrators and teachers in Hobbs and Carlsbad have engaged with the Holdsworth Center on a development program to strengthen the leadership pipeline. Supplying lifesaving equipment to first responders has improved safety. The Permian Strategic Partnership has donated almost 2,000 pieces of equipment, from personal protective gear, safety vests and first-aid kits to radios, field lights and thermal imaging cameras, to 21 police and fire departments in Chaves, Eddy and Lea counties. Southeastern New Mexico is not the only part of the state that benefits from these investments. $5.8 billion, or 35%, of New Mexico’s state budget — including more than one-third of the total funding for the state’s schools — comes directly from the economic output of our region.

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And that’s up from $3 billion the previous year. People living In Eddy and Lea counties are just 9.3% of New Mexico’s population but generate more than a quarter of the state’s private sector gross product. As much as we have accomplished, our work is far from done. Our mission does not have an expiration date. The impact and prominence of the Permian Basin will only grow over the next decade. The leaders at the Permian Strategic Partnership are committed to continuing to work with leaders across our region to improve education, health care, safety and more for energy workers and their families well into the future. Don Evans is chairman and Tracee Bentley is CEO of the Permian Strategic Partnership, a collaboration between local communities and oil and gas companies operating in the Permian Basin.

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These angry days, try some breathing ‘Drill, baby, drill’ is not the right A

nger is abroad in the land. Former President Donald Trump sows hate for libs, and libs hate Trump. We are all angry. I used to watch Morning Joe on MSNBC. But recently it came to me that the show should be called “Morning Trump.” He was omnipresent; he might as well have had a dressing room. Joe Scarborough wouldn’t have a show without him. A typical Morning Joe segment would be introduced with some graphic image of Trump. Shouting Trump, snarling Trump, smirking Trump or that Trump with the Cheerios mouth, oh-so-round and laughable. But Devil-Trump was always present, and Joe would be ranting about him, angering up our blood, us libs. Cut to commercial, usually a drug to placate our anger, antidepressants a favorite. But any drug would do. Does Trump make your skin crawl? Here’s a drug for psoriasis. TV news as a commercial sales-aid. Nothing new. I was not immune. I could hate along with the best. But I am old, with miscellaneous ailments, some serious, cancer in remission; I knew that anger was not good for my body or my soul. I just didn’t know how to change. Until I fell and broke my hip, lessons awaiting. A repair from Dr. Isaac Kim, a great orthopedic surgeon at Christus St. Vincent Medical Center, and a stay at the compassionately curative Inpatient Rehab

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Center at Christus. Oh, their skill. Oh, their patience. Oh, my anger, a pervasive condition even without Joe and “Morning Trump,” just being 85 maybe, roads not taken. One day at the rehab center, I had an anxiety attack; the Ativan I was prescribed did not help. The rehab center is holistic, and the good people of the center saw that it was old, angry, anxious me that also needed rehab, along with my femur and its trochanter. Dr. Kim had said to

from Venezuela, and he now looked like a different person. He described the food he was served each day as “wet, or burned,” and always insufﬁcient. He also said he only had two shirts and two pairs of underwear. He had been unable to wash his clothes for weeks because detainees are required to pay for laundry. Though he has been working to help clean the facility, he had not consistently been paid. With no credit appearing on his account, he had no way to wash his clothes. I wish I could say his was an isolated case, but we hear story after story of treatment like this from the men arriving at our ministry. I urge my fellow New Mexicans to contact your representatives. Ask them to support the Dignity not Detention bill. Don’t allow these detention facilities to continue to operate in New Mexico. As a Christian, I have an obligation to tell the truth and to care for those who are imprisoned, who are hungry, who lack adequate clothing. I think the best way we can care for these migrants is to get out of business with the contractors violating their rights and lying to cover up the abuse.

id you hear former President Donald Trump say on television that he would “be a dictator for one day,” and “drill, baby, drill.” He would violate the constitution of the United States but just for one day. All voters should reject any American politician who wants to be a dictator for however long. Antidemocratic impulses are a repudiation of America’s entire constitutional history and a fantastic level of arrogance and contempt for democracy. The “drill, baby, drill” slogan is one that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin popularized in 2008. It refers to oil drilling on public lands; when Trump says this, it means much more. It relates to his wholesale rejection of climate change, science-based policy and his belief in coal and oil as the core of American energy permanently. Trump said, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” He and his fellow culture warriors ignore the extreme climate events caused by human air pollution. Polls show most Americans and most Republicans are concerned about climate change as a major international crisis. America is rapidly shutting down its coal-fired electrical plants and replacing them with wind, solar and natural gas plants (which need to close, too). We have begun to phase out petroleum-powered cars and trucks, which is critical if we are to slow the heating of the planet and the many disasters that heating is causing. Trump’s climate denialism is now a fringe and extreme view but one he thrusts forward. “Drill, baby, drill” implies, incorrectly, that America needs to drill public lands more than we do now. President Joe Biden has been addressing the climate crisis more than any previous president and has overseen the largest oil output from our public lands in history. The U.S. produces 13.2 million barrels of oil daily, more than any other country. Yet Biden is also pressing forward with solar, wind and nuclear power while transforming our transportation to electric cars and trucks. Climate scientists understand this transition is urgent. We cannot return to the filthy energy of the 1960s as Trump wishes. Overlying the nostalgia that forms the core of Trump’s political brand is his propensity to divide Americans and call those he disagrees with schoolyard names. Environmentalists, agency workers and scientists are “environmental lunatics” and “extremists.” Thus, Trump proclaims an energy policy based on ideology rather than evidence and the greater good. America stands at a critical crossroads. Global heating is not a joke. It is not something we can wish away with slogans and feel-good rallies and by condemning those who study the crisis. Climate change is a disease we have given to our planet. And like cancer or heart disease, a person might have, we need to address the disease urgently. People who ignore chronic diseases die in short order. While Trump has dominated the news media every day for years, his extreme views on the most critical issue of our times dominate my view of the man. We must address the other problems we face. Still, if we don’t deal with air pollution ruining our climate now, all the other problems like mass migrations (immigration), wars, food shortages and social unrest will get much worse because of climate change. The cost of dealing with disasters like flooding and fires will consume our national and state budgets. We need a president and politicians at all levels who understand the central importance of climate change to our country. Global heating is the first issue facing America in 2024.

The Rev. Mike Angell is the seventh rector of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church.

Tom Ribe is a conservationist, writer and outdoor educator who lives in Santa Fe.

think of the hip repair as rebar. Yes, but what about my angry soul? Was there rebar for it? There have been many days recently when I needed soul repair, given these times and the extent of my ancient anger. A healer at the rehab center suggested breathing. Yes, I would like that, I said. For quite a bit longer; I’m just ﬁguring out some stuff. No, mindful breathing she said, for the anger and anxiety. Rejecting the voice that said,

“woo-woo, woo-woo,” I learned a breathing technique. No more vodka, no more marijuana — they never really helped anyway. Just sitting quietly, mouth closed (something new for me) breathing through my old nose. Just try ﬁve minutes she said. And I did, and I am. It’s helping: anxiety and anger diminishing. But that’s just old me. No one else should try it. Trump needs our anger. So does Joe. Britt Leach lives in Santa Fe.

M Y VIEW MIKE ANGELL

Detention is not the way forward for migrants

erving as a priest with the people of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Albuquerque has meant working directly with migrants who would be impacted by the proposed Dignity not Detention bill. The bill, which will be debated this month in the Roundhouse, would end the systemic violation of civil and human rights happening in New Mexico in immigrant detention facilities. I want to share what I have seen and heard which makes me urge you to support ending immigrant detention. Earlier this summer, a group of volunteers and clergy were given an official tour of one of these facilities. On the tour, staff from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CoreCivic, the contractor running the facility, told my colleagues that migrants are treated well. They told us that detainees are given opportunities for recreation and a steady diet of nutritious food. I believe clergy and volunteers were lied to on this tour. Our church was invited because we have a ministry called “the Landing.” We partner with various state and local agencies to house migrants when they are released from deten-

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 20, 1949: All hope of a non-political school board election died last night when city Democrats overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to endorse non-partisan candidates and nominated Mrs. Dan Taichert and Albert Gonzales to run under the Democratic standard. District Judge David Carmody asked the 50 or so Democrats at

tion. We give asylum-seekers a safe place to sleep, warm home-cooked meals, and we help them ﬁnd transportation to reunite with family. Multiple times a month, we sit with men who have stayed at Otero, Cibola, and Torrance counties. The men often arrive very quiet, timid. The stories we hear from them, each and every time, are what tell us CoreCivic is lying. Recently, I went to Torrance County. I met with a man who is currently detained. He entered the United States at El Paso in the beginning of October to ask for asylum. At the border, he was separated from his wife and 7-year-old son with special needs. The day after he arrived, he told officials about the death threats he and his son received back in Venezuela. He recounted how his wife was beaten and violated by criminals. This man had been waiting in jail for over a month to ﬁnd out whether the stories he told would allow his asylum case to go forward. He knew his wife and son are at a shelter in another state, and he desperately wanted to go join them. While staying at Torrance County, this man had visibly lost weight. He showed me his ID

the meeting to “take our kids out of politics.” He suggested that the party endorse candidates selected by the parent-teachers association. But Mrs. Harold Humes, president of the Carlos Gilbert PTA, said the by-laws of that organization, national and local, forbid the endorsing of any candidate for any political party. County chairman A.L. Zinn said he”reflected the views of the state organization” when he told the meeting that “the time has come when schools should be taken out of partisan politics.” Jan. 20, 1974: The City of

Santa Fe’s suit against Santa Fe Estates asks for the return of 142 acres of land bought by a retired Texas and Santa Fe clergyman in 1950. What the city would do with the land, in the Bishop’s Lodge Road Area, is not spelled out in the suit. Jan. 20, 1999: Gov. Gary Johnson kept it short and sweet Tuesday, opening the 1999 legislative session with a brief speech that sounded familiar themes about education reform and less government while calling or more cooperation between himself and the Democrat-led Legislature.

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

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Famous Domenici name means little in 2024 horse race, Ringside Seat, Jan. 18 If her politics are anything like her father’s (i.e. fairly conservative, but not lunatic), I’m not sure she can win a Republican nomination in New Mexico. Trump only has to endorse his buddy (of late) Manny Gonzales, and it’ll be a ‘tomato can’ that’s the candidate.” David Thompson

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Why did Nella go to high “ school in Maryland, when her

father was supposed to live in the state he was representing as its senator?” Helen Lopez

The reality for anyone that “ serves in Congress is that they

split their time between their home state and D.C. Decisions have to be made about where the family (if there is one) will be primarily located, since switching back and forth between schools (in different states!) is not practical.” Donna Landwehr

Now let’s talk about Martin “ Heinrich and his connections

to New Mexico. The guy lives in Maryland and shows back up here every 6 years. He’s originally from Missouri.” James Ramirez

That is just nonsense. He was “ raised where his parents raised

him and came to New Mexico for graduate school. He has been here ever since. He has a house in Maryland because he works there. He lives in Albuquerque and has since he was a young adult.” John Cook SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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Jan. 20, 1943 - Strange vertical antics took place in the Black Hills of South Dakota. While the temperature at Deadwood was a frigid 16 degrees below zero, the town of Lead, just a mile and a half away, but 600 feet higher in elevation, reported a balmy 52 degree reading.

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Sunrise Today Sunday Monday

Mercury 7:11 a.m. 7:10 a.m. 7:10 a.m.

Rise Set

5:46 a.m. 3:32 p.m.

5:18 p.m. 5:19 p.m. 5:20 p.m.

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Mars

4:56 a.m. 2:46 p.m.

Rise Set

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Uranus

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Sunset Today Sunday Monday Today Sunday Monday

WIND TRACKER

Moonset Today Sunday Monday

8 p.m.

2 a.m. Sun.

Full Jan. 25

Last Q. Feb. 2

Venus

Jupiter

Moonrise

Weather (w): cl-cloudy, fg-fog, hz-haze, mc-mostly cloudy, pc-partly cloudy, r-rain, rs-rain & snow, s-sunny, sh-showers, sn-snow, ss-snow showers, t-thunderstorms

2 p.m.

Miami 73/58

Monterrey 56/43

Hobbs 39 / 25

STATE EXTREMES FRIDAY

8 a.m. Sat.

Washington D.C. 25/17

St. Louis 16/3

Hermosillo 78/59 La Paz 83/66

Alamogordo 55 / 36

New York 24/19

Detroit 19/14

Chicago 16/-1

Albuquerque 54/30 Phoenix 71/53

Roswell 42 / 28

Las Cruces 56 / 38

City

Boston 19/13

Minneapolis 10/-1 Omaha 2/-5

Las Vegas 63/50

Los Angeles 61/52

Clovis 37 / 22

Ruidoso 49 / 32

Boise 41/34

San Francisco 60/52

Las Vegas 47 / 23

Pecos 47 / 28

L Billings 39/28

Santa Fe 46 / 29

Los Alamos 44 / 30 Gallup G 5 / 25 53

Seattle 48/40

Clayton 37 / 24

AIR QUALITY INDEX

Source: www.airnow.gov

43 / 30

Humidity (Noon)

Wednesday

57%

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

Mostly Cloudy.

Tuesday

Wind: ESE 10 mph

WATER STATISTICS

.Friday's . . . . . . .rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 .. . . . . . . . Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 ..

Monday

Mostly Cloudy.

Humidity (Mid.)

Los Alamos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.72" ....

The following water statistics of January 18th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.962 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.441 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 7.403 Total consumption: 6.513 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.84 Reservoir storage: 225.47 Estimated reservoir capacity: 17.65%

Sunday

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Humidity (Noon)

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NATIONAL CITIES

7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE

Santa Fe Airport Temperatures .High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47°/23° ...... Normal . . . . . . . high/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45°/19° ...... . . . . . . .high Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63° . . . in . . 2000 .... . . . . . . .low Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -11° . . . . in . . 1943 .... Santa Fe Airport Precipitation .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.18" .... . . . . . . . month Normal . . . . . .to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.34" .... Year . . . . .to . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.18" .... Normal . . . . . . . year . . . . to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.34" .... .Last . . . year . . . . .to. .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.80" ....

THE WEATHER

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Saturn

New Feb. 9

First Q. Feb. 16

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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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Report: Greenland is losing more ice than we thought By Kasha Patel and Chris Mooney

The Washington Post

The Greenland ice sheet has lost 20% more ice than scientists previously thought, posing potential problems for ocean circulation patterns and sea level rise, according to a new study. Researchers had previously estimated the Greenland ice sheet lost about 5,000 gigatons of ice in recent decades, enough to cover Texas in a sheet 26 feet high. The new estimate adds 1,000 gigatons to that period, the equivalent of piling about ﬁve more feet of ice on top of that ﬁctitious Texas-sized sheet. The additional loss comes from an area previously unaccounted for in estimates: ice lost at a glacier’s edges, where it meets the water. Before this study, estimates primarily considered mass changes in the interior of the ice sheet, which are driven by melting on the surface and glaciers thinning from their base on the ice sheet. The study, released Wednesday in Nature, provides improved measurements of ice

loss and meltwater discharge in the ocean, which can advance sea level and ocean models. Loss from the edges of glaciers won’t directly affect sea level rise because they usually sit within deep fjords below sea level, but the freshwater melt could affect ocean circulation patterns in the Atlantic Ocean. “We can take a look at the glaciers we have now and see how they’re behaving,” said Michael Wood, a study co-author and glaciologist. “That will give us a sense of what the future might hold for future ice loss from Greenland.” The researchers tracked changes in 207 glaciers in Greenland (constituting 90% of the ice sheet’s mass) each month from 1985 to 2022. Analyzing more than 236,000 satellite images, they manually marked differences along the edges of glaciers and eventually trained algorithms to do the same. From the area measurements, the team could calculate the volume and mass of the changes in ice. Glaciers can lose ice in many ways. One change can happen when large ice chunks break off at the edge, known as calving.

They can also lose ice when it melts faster than it can form, causing the end of a glacier to retreat and move to higher elevations. Scientists found that a total of 1,034 gigatons of ice was lost across all glaciers because of this retreat and calving on their peripheries. The loss accelerated since January 2000, with the glaciers losing a total of 42 gigatons each year. It has shown no signs of slowing down. Most striking, nearly every glacier was shrinking — and in every corner of the ice sheet. “This is a signal that’s touching every part of Greenland,” said Chad Greene, the study’s lead author and a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “There’s basically no part of Greenland that’s safe from climate change.” Polar scientist Twila Moon, who was not involved in the research, said scientists have known the ice sheet is experiencing long-term retreat on the coasts, but she called the study “the most complete quantiﬁcation of that change published to date.” The research “emphasizes that

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Icebergs that broke off from a glacier in Greenland. A new study concludes the Greenland ice sheet lost 20% more ice in recent decades than previously thought.

we have to remain attentive to the extensive peripheral changes happening across Greenland,” said Moon, a researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The largest losses came from glaciers that experienced the biggest changes from season to season. Glaciers in Greenland accumulate mass and grow

throughout the winter, then experience ice loss throughout the summer. A number of factors play into the seasonal variations, including how much ocean water the glacier is in contact with, whether it has a steep or shallow bedrock slope, and how much meltwater it is receiving

upstream, Wood said. Unfortunately, some of the glaciers with wild swings from season to season also happen to be very large, posing signiﬁcant threats for global sea levels. Losing the most at its front, the Zachariae Isstrom glacier in northeast Greenland shed 160 gigatons over the past four decades. The glacier holds enough water to add more than 18 inches to the global sea level if it were to melt completely. West Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, said to have released the iceberg that is believed to have sunk the Titanic, lost 88 gigatons over the time period. One of the ice sheet’s fastest-moving glaciers, it was responsible for nearly 4% of sea level rise during the 20th century. The Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland, the ice sheet’s widest glacier that ends in the sea, lost 87 gigatons. If it melted completely, it could raise global sea level by 7 inches. “The rapid loss from the Greenland ice sheet started in the 1990s and is ongoing,” said physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo, who was not involved in the study.

In Indonesia, clearing peatland releases huge amounts of carbon Climate costs called devastating and potentially irreversible By Rebecca Tan

The Washington Post

BENTUK JAYA, Indonesia — Indonesia has been clearing tens of thousands of acres of densely vegetated peatland for farming, releasing massive amounts of carbon that had been sequestered below for centuries and destroying one of the Earth’s most effective means of storing greenhouse gases. The country is home to as much as half the planet’s tropical peatland, a unique ecosystem scientists say is vital to averting the worst results of climate change. Government leaders have made halting efforts to protect peatlands over the last two decades, but three years ago, when the pandemic disrupted food supply chains, officials launched an

ambitious land-clearance operation and in a push to expand the cultivation of crops and cut Indonesia’s reliance on expensive imports. By transforming 2,000 to 4,000 square miles of what environmental groups say is predominantly peatland into ﬁelds of rice, corn and cassava, the government projects it will achieve self-sufficiency in food. Laws protecting forests have been amended to allow for the ongoing project. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in November, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said his country wants to be a global supplier of agricultural products, feeding populations beyond its own. But disrupting the peatlands comes with devastating, likely irreversible costs for the climate, say environmental

experts and activists. “To restore these vast areas of peat forest being destroyed will take years and huge investments in labor and funds,” said David Taylor, a professor of tropical environmental change at the National University of Singapore who has researched peatlands in Asia and Africa. To do it on the timeline global leaders have set for the world to achieve net-zero emissions? “Near impossible,” Taylor said. Peatlands form in areas that are too wet for dead plants and animals to fully decompose. While peatlands make up just 3% of the Earth’s land, they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined, according to the United Nations. When peatlands are drained, layers of aged biomass that are exposed to oxygen-rich air decay at an accelerated rate, releasing carbon from bygone eras

into the atmosphere. Even worse, when the weather turns hot, unprotected peat dries out, becoming combustible. Already, environmental activists and villagers in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, say peatlands cleared by the government are fueling more-intense wildﬁres. Last year, according to data from Global Forest Watch, the number of ﬁre alerts across Central Kalimantan province exceeded those of the three previous years combined. Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether the Food Estate project will even succeed. Research shows tropical peatlands tend to be too acidic to grow crops. Indonesian environmental groups, including Pantau Gambut and WALHI, said they have documented widespread crop failures in areas targeted by the government’s project. Rice planted in some

peat-rich areas has had less than a third the yield of rice planted in mineral soil, according to the groups’ analysis. Rawanda Wandy Tuturoong, a high-ranking aide to Widodo, said the government is experimenting with ways to more effectively cultivate peatland but can’t afford to wait for a perfect solution. Global supply chains are under threat, he said, citing the coronavirus pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. “The challenge we have is real,” Tuturoong said in the capital, Jakarta. “This project needs to continue.” Activists in other countries point to Indonesia as a cautionary tale. In 2015, huge ﬁres across Indonesia’s degraded peatlands emitted more greenhouse gases than the entire European Union over several months, amounting to what the United Nations called “one of the worst environmental disasters of our century.”

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Lobos cannot afford to stumble in next 5 MWC games

t’s not quite win or go home time yet, but it’s close. The next five games for the University of New Mexico men’s basketball are must-win, starting with Saturday afternoon’s visit to last-place Air Force. There are some who might beg to differ, but the bottom line is this: Go 5-0 over the next three weeks or basically write off a Mountain West Conference regular season championship. In a league as top-heavy as the MWC, the recipe for finishing No. 1 is simple. Defend the home court, sweep the teams beneath you and steal a win or two against your top-tier rivals. As of Friday night, four Mountain West teams were ranked in the top 30 of the NET rankings and five in the top 50 of the KenPom ratings. Each metric is used by basketball bracketheads to decipher the good from the bad in what

TODAY ON TV What: New Mexico (15-3, 3-2 MWC) at Air Force (7-9, 0-4), 2 p.m. Where: Clune Arena, Colorado Springs, Colo. TV: CBS Sports Network Radio: KKOB 770 AM Live stats: GoLobos.com/mbbstats

Will Webberr

Commentarry

is a 362-team ﬁeld of Division I hoops. Only the top 68 make it to the NCAA Tournament, an event the Lobos haven’t been a part of since 2014. Given the power of the MWC, winning a regular season title would be one of the more impressive things UNM has accomplished in quite a while. At 15-3 overall and 3-2 in the MWC after consecutive home wins against nationally ranked teams, the Lobos play their next two on the road against the dregs of the conference. Air Force is the

UNM guard Jaelen House drags Donovan Dent away from ofﬁcial Randy Richardson on Tuesday against Utah State in the Pit. ERIC DRAPER/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

only team without a league win, and Wednesday’s trip to San Jose State is against a team whose only win is against Air Force. After that are challenging home games against Nevada and Boise State. From there, it’s the start of the back half of the 18-game regular season schedule, tipping off with a road game against Wyoming. UNM hasn’t gone undefeated at home since the 1996-97 season. The Lobos are 10-0 at home this season and have six games left in the Pit. Running Please see story on Page B-3

JOE VIVIAN INVITATIONAL

Silent treatment paying off Santa Fe High wrestler letting accomplishments on mat speak for him By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE ctions speak louder than words, so Elias Mendiola’s voice will stay silent — at least until February. The sophomore wrestling phenom at Santa Fe High prefers to let his performance on the mat talk for the record until he reaches the State Wrestling Championships. In what has become a superstition, Mendiola declined to speak to the media until then. As he breezed through the first three rounds of the Joe Vivian Invitational at Albuquerque Cibola on Friday afternoon, recording a pair of pins after a bye through the first round as the No. 2 seed in the 127-pound bracket, Mendiola’s performance is loud and clear in saying he is one of the best wrestlers in New Mexico in his weight class. After his pin of Albuquerque Academy’s Zachariah Sena only 28 seconds into the third period in the tournament’s quarterfinals, Mendiola is 22-2. His only defeats were to Las Vegas Robertson’s James Romero-Montoya in the season-opening tournament, Capital’s Jaguar Invitational, and to his Class 5A nemesis, Albuquerque Volcano Vista’s Jonathon Romero, at the Conflict at Cleveland two weeks ago. Santa Fe High head coach Joe Jiron said part of Mendiola’s silence is rooted in a family that prefers privacy over headlines. The other reason sounds more practical. “You don’t probably want to put any bulletin material or anything by saying something,” Jiron said. “I think that’s the kind of the deal.” Still, Mendiola’s success can’t be ignored. Jiron said the sophomore has the kind of savvy only someone from a wrestling family — he has two brothers who wrestled for the Demons — can possess. The coach pointed

GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Santa Fe High sophomore wrestler Elias Mendiola, left, wrestling at 127 pounds, takes down Los Lunas’ Anthony Scott during the second round of the Joe Vivian Invitational on Friday at Cibola High in Albuquerque. Mendiola won the match.

out Mendiola’s success stems from having an ability to counter what his opponent can do. “He has a very high wrestling IQ ,”

Jiron said. “He kind of knows he has a reaction to an action and an action for a reaction. And that’s kind of where he’s really gotten better at — in that

aspect of wrestling.” In his ﬁrst two matches at the Joe Vivian, Mendiola focused on getting more mat time. While he pinned Sena

and Los Lunas’ Anthony Scott, he wrestled in ﬁve out of six potential periods. That will be instrumental Please see story on Page B-3

Lions fans shaking off decades of futility

‘Sports Illustrated’ faces unclear future

A powerhouse in 1950s pre-Super Bowl era, Detroit snapped playoff drought with win

Publisher of once must-read magazine struggling financially, announces layoffs

By Larry Lage

By Joe reedy and David Bauder

NFL NFC DIVISIONAL ROUND

The Associated Press

DETROIT — Eminem stood alongside Pro Football Hall of Famers Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson before the Detroit Lions hosted a playoff game for the ﬁrst time in three decades, soaking up an electric atmosphere at Ford Field. “The energy in the building was amazing,” Johnson said in a telephone interview, taking a break from snowboarding in Utah. “You could

INSIDE

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u Niners’ Purdy will lean on last season’s playoff experience against Packers. PAGE B-4

feel it. I wish we could’ve had that kind of experience.” He’s not alone. Detroit was an NFL powerhouse a long time ago, winning three league titles from 1952 to 1957 in the pre-Super Bowl era, but the franchise had only one postseason win since. Please see story on Page B-4

TODAY ON TV

SUNDAY ON TV

2:30 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Houston at Baltimore 6:15 p.m. FOX — Green Bay at San Francisco

1 p.m. NBC — Tampa Bay at Detroit 4:30 p.m. CBS — Kansas City at Buffalo

PAUL SANCYA/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Lions fans celebrate a touchdown by running back David Montgomery on Sunday against the Rams in a wild-card playoff game in Detroit.

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com

The jobs of people who produce Sports Illustrated were in limbo Friday after the company that paid to maintain the iconic brand’s print and digital products told staff its license was revoked. In an email to employees Friday morning, Arena Group, which operates Sports Illustrated and related properties, said because of the revocation, “we will be laying off staff that work on the SI brand.” Authentic Brands Group owns the Sports Illustrated brand and had been licensing it to Arena. Authentic later said in a statement it intends to keep Sports Illustrated going. The company is negotiating with Arena and other publishing entities to determine who will do that, according to a person with knowledge of the talks who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about them. Until those negotiations are resolved, it’s unclear which journalists would actually do the work of making Sports Illustrated. It was not clear how many jobs were affected. Please see story on Page B-4 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 10 a.m. BTN — Penn St. at Ohio St. 10 a.m. CW — Virginia Tech at NC State 10 a.m. ESPN — Baylor at Texas 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Miami at Syracuse 10 a.m. ESPNU — Louisville at Wake Forest 10 a.m. FOX — Marquette at St. John’s 10 a.m. FS1 — Creighton at Seton Hall 10:30 a.m. USA — Rhode Island at Dayton 11 a.m. CBS — San Diego St. at Boise St. 11 a.m. SECN — South Carolina at Arkansas 11:30 a.m. CBSSN — Army at Navy Noon ESPN2 — Alabama at Tennessee Noon ESPNU — Iowa St. at TCU Noon FOX — Southern Cal at Arizona St. Noon FS1 — Purdue at Iowa 12:15 p.m. BTN — Northwestern at Nebraska 12:15 p.m. CW — North Carolina at Boston College 12:30 p.m. USA — Duquesne at Saint Joseph’s 1:30 p.m. SECN — Vanderbilt at Mississippi St. 2 p.m. ACCN — Clemson at Florida St. 2 p.m. CBSSN — New Mexico at Air Force 2 p.m. ESPN2 — UCLA at Arizona 2 p.m. ESPNU — Texas A&M at LSU 2 p.m. FS1 — DePaul at Butler 3 p.m. PAC-12N — Washington St. at California 4 p.m. ACCN — Virginia at Georgia Tech 4 p.m. CBSSN — Coll. of Charleston at UNC-Wilmington 4 p.m. ESPN2 — BYU at Texas Tech 4 p.m. ESPNU — Harvard at Penn 4 p.m. SECN — Georgia at Kentucky 5 p.m. PAC-12N — Oregon St. at Colorado 6 p.m. ACCN — Pittsburgh at Duke 6 p.m. CBSSN — S. Illinois at N. Iowa 6 p.m. ESPNU — Florida at Missouri 6 p.m. FS1 — UConn at Villanova 6:30 p.m. SECN — Mississippi at Auburn 7 p.m. PAC-12N — Washington at Stanford 8 p.m. CBSSN — Saint Mary’s (Cal) at San Francisco COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 9 a.m. CBSSN — Army at Navy 2 p.m. ESPNEWS — Columbia at Princeton 4 p.m. FS1 — San Jose St. at San Diego St. COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (WOMEN’S) 1 p.m. PAC-12N — California at Washington COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S) 6 p.m. BTN — Ohio St. at Minnesota

PREP BASKETBALL GIRLS

Amherst, Texas 30, Clovis Christian 26 Bloomfield 45, Hope Christian 34 Clovis 38, Organ Mountain 37 Corona 41, Alamo-Navajo 35 Elida 44, Floyd 19 Farmington 46, Hobbs 45 Fort Defiance Window Rock, Ariz. 42, Aztec 24 Fort Sumner 52, Reserve 36 La Cueva 63, Atrisco Heritage 38 Logan 43, Animas 34 Lordsburg 59, Hatch Valley 33 Los Lunas 57, West Las Vegas 25 Loving 34, Dexter 28 Mayfield 38, Carlsbad 24 Melrose 43, Capitan 24 Menaul 49, Tohajilee 47 Mora 33, Native American Community Academy 32 Mosquero/Roy 62, Clayton 28 Mountainair 76, Chesterton 26 Navajo Prep 61, Thoreau 24 Pine Hill 56, Maxwell 24 Robertson 45, Tucumcari 35 Santa Fe Indian 54, Dulce 39 Springer 45, Quemado 42 St. Pius X 57, Artesia 46 Wingate 47, Zuni 46

BOYS

Alamo-Navajo 74, Corona 35 Atrisco Heritage 70, Valley 56 Bloomﬁeld 53, West Las Vegas 48 Clovis 57, Alamogordo 55 Cobre 53, Dexter 49 Elida 71, Floyd 35 Escalante 39, Dulce 35 Eunice 57, Hagerman 22 Fort Sumner 55, Tularosa 54 Goddard 47, Chaparral 44 Highland 85, Manzano 65 Hot Springs 74, Shiprock 72 La Cueva 82, Cibola 63 Logan 83, Quemado 31 Los Alamos 77, Aztec 63 Loving 51, Raton 42 Maxwell 44, Pine Hill 40 Melrose 72, Capitan 30 Mora 71, Estancia 28 Mountainair 75, Chesterton 26 NMMI 43, Jal 27 Organ Mountain 51, Carlsbad 45 Rio Rancho 69, Roswell 58 Roy Municipal Schools 64, Clayton 53 Springer 59, Hatch Valley 39 St. Michael’s 69, Grants 67 St. Pius X 60, Artesia 50 Valencia 49, Socorro 37

NFL PLAYOFFS WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS JAN. 13

Houston 45, Cleveland 14 Kansas City 26, Miami 7

JAN. 14

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

JAN. 15

Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS SATURDAY

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

SUNDAY

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

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS JAN. 28

AFC AFC lowest remaining seed at AFC highest re-

SCOREBOARD

Saturday, January 20, 2024

COLLEGE INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD 2:30 p.m. BTN — The Simmons-Harvey Invitational: Michigan, Michigan St., Minnesota, Penn St., and Purdue, Ann Arbor, Mich. GOLF 9 a.m. ESPNEWS — Latin America Amateur Championship: Third Round, Santa María Golf Club, Panama City Noon GOLF — LPGA Tour: The Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament Of Champions, Third Round, Lake Nona Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 1 p.m. NBC — LPGA Tour: The Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament Of Champions, Third Round, Lake Nona Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 2 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The American Express, Third Round, Pete Dye Stadium Course, La Quinta, Calif. 5 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: The Mitsubishi Electric Championship, Final Round, Hualalai GC, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Midnight GOLF — DP World Tour: The Hero Dubai Desert Classic, Final Round, The Majlis Course, Dubai, United Arab Emirates HORSE RACING 12:30 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 6 p.m. ESPN — UFC 297 Prelims: Undercard Bouts, Toronto NFL 2:30 p.m. ABC, ESPN — AFC Divisional Playoff: Houston at Baltimore 6:15 p.m. FOX — NFC Divisional Playoff: Green Bay at San Francisco NHL 11 a.m. NHLN — Colorado at Philadelphia 5 p.m. NHLN — Montreal at Boston SKIING 3 p.m. NBC — FIS: Alpine Skiing World Cup, Kitzbühel, Austria (Taped) SOCCER (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. USA — Premier League: Crystal Palace at Arsenal 6:20 a.m. FS2 — The French Cup: Laval at Nantes, Round of 32 9:20 a.m. FS2 — The French Cup: Monaco at Rodez, Round of 32 10:30 a.m. NBC — Premier League: Nottingham Forest at Brentford 1 p.m. TNT — International Friendly: U.S. vs. Slovenia, San Antonio 3:45 p.m. FS2 — CONMEBOL U-23 Olympic Qualifier 2024 Group Stage: Venezuela vs. Bolivia, Group A, Caracas, Venezuela TENNIS 5 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Third Round, Melbourne, Australia (Taped) 6 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Round of 16, Melbourne, Australia 1 a.m. Sunday ESPN2 — ATP/ WTA: The Australian Open, Round of 16, Melbourne, Australia maining seed, 1 p.m. (CBS) NFC NFC lowest remaining seed at NFC highest remaining seed, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

SUPER BOWL FEB. 11

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

AUSTRALIAN OPEN SATURDAY AT MELBOURNE PARK

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

MEN’S SINGLES THIRD ROUND

Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Tommy Paul (14), United States, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-0. Carlos Alcaraz (2), Spain, def. Juncheng Shang, China, 6-1, 6-1, 1-0, ret. Hubert Hurkacz (9), Poland, def. Ugo Humbert (21), France, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Arthur Cazaux, France, def. Tallon Griekspoor (28), Netherlands, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.

WOMEN’S SINGLES THIRD ROUND

Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, def. Emma Navarro (27), United States, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, def. Sloane Stephens, United States, 6-7 (8), 6-1, 6-4. Oceane Dodin, France, def. Clara Burel, France, 6-2, 6-4. Zheng Qinwen (12), China, def. Wang Yafan, China, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (8). Jasmine Paolini (26), Italy, def. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

MEN’S DOUBLES SECOND ROUND

Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez (10), El Salvador, def. N. Sriram Balaji, India, and Victor Vlad Cornea, Romania, 6-3, 6-3. Yannick Hanfmann and Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Jason Kubler and Rinky Hijikata (16), Australia, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Lloyd Glasspool (11), Britain, def. Albano Olivetti, France, and Andre Goransson, Sweden, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-2. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz (8), Germany, def. Sebastian Ofner, Austria, and Alexandre Muller, France, 6-2, 6-2. Zhang Zhizhen, China, and Tomas Machac, Czech Republic, def. Marton Fucsovics and Fabian Marozsan, Hungary, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Jack Withrow and Nathaniel Lammons (12), United States, def. Adrian Mannarino and Quentin Halys, France, walkover. Hugo Nys, Monaco, and Jan Zielinski (7), Poland, def. Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell, Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1. Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Adam Pavlasek, Czech Republic, def. Nicolas Barrientos, Colombia, and Rafael Matos, Brazil, 6-3, 7-6 (9).

WOMEN’S DOUBLES SECOND ROUND

Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia, France, def. Timea Babos and Anna Bondar, Hungary, 6-4, 6-2. Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo, China, def. Makoto Ninomiya and Eri Hozumi (16), Japan, 6-3, 6-2. Elixane Lechemia, France, and Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, def. Katarzyna Kawa, Poland, and Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, walkover. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Cristina Bucsa, Spain, def. Iryna Shymanovich, Belarus, and Elina Avanesyan, Russia, 6-1, 6-2.

MIXED DOUBLES SECOND ROUND

Neal Skupski, Britain, and Desirae Krawczyk (2), United States, def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, 6-2, 6-2. Jamie Murray, Britain, and Yana Sizikova, Russia,

PREP SCHEDULE Saturday 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

ON THE SLOPES

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

Sipapu — 30-34-inch

New Mexico ski area conditions as of Thursday: Angel Fire — 31-inch base; 71 of 81 trails, 85% open; 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Pajarito — 30-inch base; 53 of 53 trails, 100% open; 5 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.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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; 33 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; 86 of 86 trails, 100% open, 7 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Taos — 37-40-inch base; 103 of 110 trails, 94% open, 12 of 13 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. SOURCES: ONTHESNOW.COM; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PREP ROUNDUP Boys basketball What happened: The Horsemen got the win

ST. MICHAEL’S

they needed, overcoming 11 3-pointers by the host Pirates to hold on for a nondistrict win Friday night. Grants led by three at the half, but St. Michael’s used a 3-2 zone defense that was effective in slowing down the perimeter attack. “We had the energy tonight, especially in the second half,” Horsemen head coach Gerard Garcia said. Top players: Donevan Ricker led the St. Michael’s attack with 23 points, while Nick Angelley added 18 and Reed Bass scored 11. Grants’ (12-6) Boudy Melonas scored 14 points, while Noah Victorino had 12. What’s next: It’s on to District 2-3A play for the Horsemen (8-8), as they travel to Raton on Tuesday.

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What happened: The Demons got off to an

SANTA FE HIGH

uneven start, leading 14-2 in the first quarter of Thursday’s nondistrict game in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium. The Sundevils cut the lead to 14-8 at the end of the quarter. Santa Fe High got a big 3-pointer by Christian Herrera to end the half with a 29-17 lead, and the margin grew to 41-24 midway through the third. “We jump out to a lead and then we make bad decisions,” ESPAÑOLA Demons head coach Cisco Rivera said. “Christian VALLEY and the bench gave us the energy we needed, especially in the second half.” Top players: Herrera had 19 points in his first game back from a weeklong illness and Michael Abeyta added 13. What’s next: Santa Fe High (13-3) plays Albuquerque High on Tuesday. Española (6-12) play Pojoaque Valley on the same day.

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What happened: The Jaguars overcame a slow

CAPITAL

start Thursday, trailing the host Pirates 12-10 after a quarter, with an overwhelming second quarter. They scored 29 points to take a 39-25 lead at the half and never looked back. Top players: Eli Dominiguez had 21 points to lead Capital, while Santiago Bencomo added 20. Boudy Melonas led the Pirates with 15. What’s next: The Jaguars (10-5) have one more nondistrict game Saturday at Pojoaque Valley before starting District 5-5A play next week.

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SPORTS BETTING LINE NFL SATURDAY FAVORITE

at BALTIMORE at SAN FRANCISCO

SUNDAY

FAVORITE

at DETROIT at BUFFALO

OPEN

8½ 9½

OPEN

6 2½

TODAY

O/U

9½ 9½

UNDERDOG

(43½) (50½)

TODAY

Houston Green Bay

O/U

6½ 2½

UNDERDOG

(49½) (45½)

Tampa Bay Kansas City

NBA SATURDAY FAVORITE

Milwaukee Philadelphia at WASHINGTON Cleveland at NEW YORK at HOUSTON at MINNESOTA at CHICAGO

LINE

O/U

13 10½ 2 2½ 7½ 2½ 3 8

(241½) (229½) (241) (231½) (228½) (234) (229) (213½)

UNDERDOG

at DETROIT at CHARLOTTE San Antonio at ATLANTA Toronto Utah Oklahoma City Memphis

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SATURDAY FAVORITE

at WAKE FOREST San Diego State Citadel Denver at GARDNER-WEBB Loyola Chicago at OMAHA at NAVY at TENNESSEE at TCU at ARIZONA STATE UMass-Lowell Texas A&M at UTAH STATE at OHIO at TOWSON at UCSB Youngstown State Louisiana at ALCORN STATE Clemson New Mexico North Texas at DAVIDSON Kansas at BUTLER UIC at UTAH VALLEY at UAPB at NORTHERN ARIZONA at DELAWARE STATE at UNC GREENSBORO UT Arlington North Carolina Central Morgan State at HOWARD at ARIZONA Lamar Eastern Illinois at SE LOUISIANA at APPALACHIAN STATE Morehead State at WESTERN ILLINOIS at TEXAS A&M-CC SIU-Edwardsville at NEW ORLEANS at LIPSCOMB UC Irvine at LEHIGH at NORTH FLORIDA Louisiana Tech Washington State Arkansas State at AUSTIN PEAY at DRAKE at TEXAS TECH at UNC WILMINGTON Virginia at NEW MEXICO STATE at UTEP Montana at WEBER STATE at STANFORD Grand Canyon

LINE

UNDERDOG

14½ 1½ 10½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 5½ 5½ 4½ 3½ 2½ 5½ 2½ 13½ 12½ 7½ 7½ 10½ 1½ 1½ 2½ 10½ 1½ 1½ 10½ 16½ 2½ 8½ 5½ 1½ 6½ 7½ 2½ 2½ 2½ 2½ 17½ 7½ 1½ 6½ 15½ 9½ 2½ 4½ 7½ 6½ 8½ 2½ 1½ 4½ 3½ 1½ 1½ 9½ 17½ 2½ 2½ 1½ 6½ 1½ 4½ 14½ 1½ 5½

Louisville at BOISE STATE at VMI at NORTH DAKOTA Winthrop at FORDHAM UMKC Army Alabama Iowa State USC at BINGHAMTON at LSU Fresno State Eastern Michigan Campbell CSU Fullerton at DETROIT MERCY at SOUTH ALABAMA Texas Southern at FLORIDA STATE at AIR FORCE at CHARLOTTE Richmond at WEST VIRGINIA DePaul at VALPARAISO Utah Tech Florida A&M Sacramento State Maryland-Eastern Shore Wofford at ABILENE CHRISTIAN at SOUTH CAROLINA STATE at COPPIN STATE Norfolk State UCLA at HOUSTON CHRISTIAN at LINDENWOOD Texas A&M-Commerce Coastal Carolina at SOUTHERN INDIANA Tennessee State Nicholls State at SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE Northwestern State North Alabama at UC DAVIS American Queens at JACKSONVILLE STATE at CAL at TEXAS STATE Central Arkansas Evansville BYU Charleston (SC) at GEORGIA TECH Middle Tennessee Western Kentucky at MONTANA STATE Idaho Washington at SEATTLE U

Girls basketball What happened: The Rams used consecutive

RIO RANCHO

18-point quarters to take a 36-8 lead at the half of a nondistrict game Thursday in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. The lead grew to 48-15 after three quarters. Top players: Annica Montoya led the Jaguars with 11 points. What’s next: Capital (3-13) open District 5-5A play Wednesday at Albuquerque Rio Grande.

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18 Sport here What happened: The Lady Sundevils needed a

ESPAÑOLA VALLEY

half to warm up and scored 30 points in the second half to extend a 16-14 halftime lead. Top players: Aliya Rael Lopez had 16 points for Española. What’s next: The Lady Sundevils (10-8) plays Pojoaque Valley on Thursday to open District 2-4A play.

MIYAMURA

29 Chicago St. 131, East-West 55 Colo.-Colo. Springs 72, Metropolitan St. 68 Colorado Christian 82, Adams St. 81 Colorado Mesa 80, Black Hills St. 57 Colorado Mines 79, Regis 61 Fort Lewis 88, Chadron St. 72 S.D. Mines 84, Westminster (Utah) 75 Simon Fraser 89, Alaska 61 W. Colorado 79, CSU-Pueblo 72

WOMEN’S SCORES EAST

SOUTH

Milwaukee at Detroit, 1 p.m. Phila. at Charlotte, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Washington, 5 p.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Toronto at New York, 5:30 p.m. Memphis at Chicago, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Utah at Houston, 6 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL MEN’S SCORES EAST

Alfred 54, Keuka 53 Bard 69, Skidmore 50 Carnegie Mellon 70, Rochester 66 Case Western 90, Emory 86 Chicago 72, Brandeis 55 City College (NY) 85, Brooklyn College 45 Cortland 70, Fredonia St. 55 D’Youville 94, Mercy 69 Eastern Nazarene 70, SUNY-Canton 63 Fairﬁeld 76, St. Peter’s 67 Fairleigh Dickinson 76, Stonehill 69 Hunter 89, York College (NY) 74 Iona 70, Canisius 58 John Jay 80, Medgar Evers 78 Le Moyne 75, CCSU 73 Lesley 86, Thomas (Maine) 68 Maine-Presque Isle 77, Maine-Farmington 68 Mount St. Mary’s 65, Marist 48 NYU 65, Washington (Mo.) 64 New Paltz 74, Potsdam 52 Niagara 78, Rider 74 Northern Vermont-Lyndon 102, Maine Maritime 80 Plattsburgh 86, Oneonta 80 Queens (NY) 87, Roberts Wesleyan 76 Quinnipiac 82, Siena 70 RPI 82, Ithaca 66 Rochester 67, Clarkson 57 SUNY-Morrisville 88, Northern Vermont-Johnson 72

SOUTH

Austin 70, Centenary 59 Berry 74, Birmingham Southern 63 Centre 75, Hendrix 56 Oglethorpe 62, Millsaps 61 Roanoke 88, Regent 45 Sewanee 81, Rhodes 80, OT Trinity (FL) 87, Southwestern (Texas) 70 VCU 85, Saint Louis 61

MIDWEST

Akron 77, Kent St. 71 Augustana (SD) 98, Bemidji St. 77 Bethany Lutheran 69, Wis.-Superior 47 Cent. Michigan 65, Toledo 62 Crown (Minn.) 91, Northwestern (Minn.) 67 Martin Luther 78, Northland 65 Minn. St. (Moorhead) 62, Minn. Duluth 58 Minot St. 81, Minnesota St. 71 North Central 79, Minn.-Morris 71 Northern St. 94, Concordia (St.P.) 89, OT Sioux Falls 74, Minn.-Crookston 47 St. Cloud St. 79, Wayne St. (Neb.) 61 Winona St. 68, Mary 62 Wisconsin 91, Indiana 79 Xavier 92, Georgetown 91

SOUTHWEST

Dallas 86, St. Thomas (Texas) 85 Schreiner 90, Texas Lutheran 76

FAR WEST

Chaminade 71, Hawaii Paciﬁc 68

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Drexel 56, Hofstra 38 Elon 65, Monmouth (NJ) 60 Fairleigh Dickinson 61, Stonehill 50 LIU Brooklyn 72, St. Francis (Pa.) 64 Le Moyne 57, CCSU 44 Merrimack 72, Wagner 45 Stony Brook 81, Coll. of Charleston 71 Towson 83, Hampton 53 UNC-Wilmington 69, Campbell 58 William & Mary 78, Delaware 72, OT MIDWEST Drake 69, Belmont 65 Ill. Chicago 75, Bradley 68 Illinois St. 77, Valparaiso 68 Indiana St. 64, S. Illinois 63 Missouri St. 90, Evansville 55 N. Iowa 95, Murray St. 75

TRANSACTIONS

FAR WEST

Hawaii 68, Long Beach St. 55 Oregon St. 71, California 64 Stanford 88, Oregon 63 UCLA 76, Colorado 68 Utah 78, Southern Cal 58 Washington 62, Arizona 60 Washington St. 79, Arizona St. 64

NBA ATLANTIC

St. Francis (Pa.) 72, LIU 66 St. Lawrence 79, Hobart 52 St. Thomas Aquinas 92, Daemen 82 Union (NY) 86, Vassar 76 Utica 93, Elmira 72 Wagner 71, Merrimack 65

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte 124, San Antonio 120 Phila. 124, Orlando 109 Denver 102, Boston 100 Phoenix 123, New Orleans 109 Atlanta 109, Miami 108 Portland 118, Indiana 115 Brooklyn 130, L.A. Lakers 112 Dallas at Golden State, ppd

EASTERN CONFERENCE def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, and Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-2.

Oklahoma City 134, Utah 129 Minnesota 118, Memphis 103 Indiana 126, Sacramento 121

PCT

Boston Phila. New York Brooklyn Toronto

32 27 25 17 16

10 13 17 24 26

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

24 22 18 9 7

18 20 23 30 33

Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit

28 24 24 20 4

13 15 18 23 37

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST

— 3 4½ 9 24

PCT

30 28 29 22 12

11 13 14 21 29

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

26 23 23 21 18

14 18 18 22 22

THURSDAY’S GAMES

.683 .615 .571 .465 .098

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

— 2 5½ 13½ 16

18 18 21 26 34

PACIFIC

.571 .524 .439 .231 .175

PCT

25 24 19 15 7

— 4 7 14½ 16

New Orleans Dallas Houston Memphis San Antonio

NORTHWEST

.762 .675 .595 .415 .381

Chicago 116, Toronto 110 New York 113, Washington 109

.581 .571 .475 .366 .171

.732 .683 .674 .512 .293

PCT .650 .561 .561 .488 .450

— ½ 4½ 9 17 — 2 2 9 18

GB — 3½ 3½ 6½ 8

BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Named Sergio Santos manager (Charlotte), Curt Hasler assistant pitching coordinator, Alan Zinter hitting coordinator Pat Listach bench coach (Charlotte), R.C. Lichtenstein pitching coach (Charlotte) and Darius Day bench coach (Winston-Salem). NEW YORK YANKEES — Claimed INF/OF Diego Castillo off waivers from the New York Mets. Agreed to terms with RHP Luke Weaver on a oneyear contract. Designated OF Bubba Thompson and Jeter Downs for assignment. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Nathan Arends, Yohandri Contreras, Celso Lopez, Erick Matos, Hugo Meraz Trejo, Luis Plicet and Oliver Sirotti Vasquez, 3B Brayan Cota, SSs Samuel Gonzalez and Edgar Montero, Cs Azzael Pacheco and Alejandro Pereira, LHPs Jose Parra and Franco Zabaleta and OFs Jose Ramos and Sebastian Rojas on minor league contracts. National League MIAMI MARLINS — Named Bill Mueller assistant hitting coach and Jose Ceballos bullpen catcher. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with Cs Javier Acevedo and Jesus Lizardo, CFs Iverson Allen and Bralyn Brazoban, RHPs Adrian Aray, Angel Herrera, Randol Martinez, Irwin Ramirez, Jesus Tapia and Rubens Romero, OFs Andy Calixte, Phillandro Williams and Edward Florentino, SSs Adbiel Feliz, Kendrick Herrera, Frankeli Mesta, Michaell Ojeda, Anthony Sosa and Deshandro Tromp and LHPs Reinold Navarro and Angel Soriano to minor league contracts. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with DH Matt Carpenter on a one-year contract. Minor League Baseball NEW ENGLAND KNOCKOUTS — Signed INF Tommy McCarthy. OTTAWA TITANS — Named David Peterson assistant coach. TRI-CITY VALLEYCATS — Traded RHP Tanner Smith to Northern California (Pioneer League). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association INDIANA PACERS — Signed F James Johnson to a 10-day contract. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Reinstated WWR Devin Duvernay and CB Ar’Darius Washington from injured reserve. Re-signed RB Melvin Gordon to the practice squad. Elevated WR Dan Chisena and LB Josh Ross from the practice squad to the active roster.

SPORTS

Saturday, January 20, 2024

AUS TR ALIAN OPE N

Novak wins in Down Under 100th match TODAY ON TV

By John Pye

The Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — With 100 matches at the Australian Open and a record 24 titles across the four majors, Novak Djokovic is well placed to judge how he’s progressing at a Grand Slam. And he’s starting to feel better about his health and his game after winning in straight sets Friday for the first time this tournament with a 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (2) victory over Tomas Martin Etcheverry. With it, he improved to 92-8 at Melbourne Park, where he’s won the title 10 times and extended his winning streak to 31 matches. “I played better than I did in the first two rounds, so that’s a positive change, I guess,” he said. “Starting to feel better gamewise and physically, as well. It’s positive signs.” Only Roger Federer (117 matches and 102 wins) and Serena Williams (105 matches and 92 wins) have played more matches at the season’s first major. Djokovic has had a virus and been dealing with a sore right wrist. He lost sets in each of the first two rounds against 18-yearold Croatian qualifier Dino Primzic and Alexei Popyrin, when he challenged a heckler to

5 a.m. ESPN2 — Australian Open, third round (taped) 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16 1 a.m. Sunday ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a forehand return to Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Argentina during their third round match Friday at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

“say that to my face.” Against Etcheverry, he didn’t even face a breakpoint. Not that No. 30 seed didn’t challenge him, really going for his ground strokes and chasing down drop shots — to the point where he had to veer off court to avoid the net in the third set and nearly crashed into the umpire’s chair. As he got closer to victory, Djokovic started to put his index ﬁnger to his ear after each winner, urging more support from the crowd.

He closed with a pair of aces and said the win was “the best performance I had during this tournament.” Next up he faces 35-year-old Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who won a ﬁve-setter for the third straight round to advance 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 over U.S. Open semiﬁnalist Ben Shelton. Djokovic walked onto Rod Laver Arena when the match between lefthanders Mannarino and Shelton was going into the second set on the nearby Kia

Arena. He was in a post-match news conference when the result of that match was relayed to him. Noted. Djokovic beat Shelton in the U.S. Open semifinals one match before capturing his 24th Grand Slam singles title, and there was tension in the wake of it. He copied Shelton’s “Hang up the phone!” celebration gesture after that win and it has been a source of tension ever since. Reports in the French media last week had Djokovic confirming he mocked it in retaliation to some provocation. On Friday, he elaborated. Djokovic started out be saying he had no problem with Shelton’s overt confidence and recalled how he may have rankled one of the stars of the game earlier in his own career. “I know certainly Federer didn’t like the way I was behaving at the beginning,” he said. “I guess I wasn’t the favorite type of guy to some of the top guys because I was not afraid to say that I want to be the best player in the world.”

B-3

SIDELINES Pili’s 37 points helps No. 20 Utah defeat No. 6 USC 78-58 at home SALT LAKE CITY — Alissa Pili scored a season-high 37 points and had six rebounds to lead No. 20 Utah to a 78-58 victory over No. 6 Southern California on Friday night. Pili shot 13 of 16 from the field including 5 of 6 on 3 pointers. Matyson Wilke added 12 points off the bench. JuJu Watkins led USC with 24 points and McKenzie Forbes added 11. The Trojans (13-2, 3-2 Pac-12) struggled on offense, shooting 36% from the field and going 7 of 14 from the free throw line. Issy Palmer returned to action for Utah (13-5, 3-3) for the first time since being sidelined in mid-November with a knee injury. Palmer started at point guard for the first three games before getting injured in a loss to Baylor. The Utes overtook USC in the first quarter with stifling defense, holding the Trojans to just 31% shooting over that 10-minute stretch. Pili scored four of Utah’s first five second-quarter baskets, culminating in a 3-pointer and a layup off a steal that put the Utes up 32-20 midway through the quarter.

HORACE CORT/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Jack Burke makes a shot in 1952 during the Masters in Augusta, Ga. The oldest living Masters champion, who staged the greatest comeback ever at Augusta National for one of his two majors, died Friday. He was 100.

Jack Burke Jr. , oldest living Masters champion, dies at 100 in Houston

NA SC AR HALL OF FAME

Johnson, crew chief Knaus inducted By Steve Reed

The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson’s dreams first came true when he was given a motorcycle for Christmas at age 4. That was when he fell in love with racing. Johnson was honored for his career on Friday night when he and crew chief Chad Knaus, who he teamed up with to win a record-tying seven Cup championships, were inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The sport’s dominant duo, both first-ballot inductees, joined Donnie Allison, an original member of the “Alabama Gang,” in a celebration at the Charlotte Convention Center as part of the Class of 2024. Janet Guthrie, the first woman to race in both the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500, was inducted as the Landmark Award winner for contributions to NASCAR. “Some Hall of Famers said that the moment is going to get real. I think it just happened,” Johnson said, holding back tears. “This is the highest honor to stand alongside our sport’s greats in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.” Johnson won 83 Cup races — tied for sixth most in NASCAR history — in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet, all but two of them with Knaus as crew chief. Knaus, now the vice president of competition for Hendrick, was suspended for two of Johnson’s wins, including one in the Daytona 500. Their five straight Cup championships from 2006-10 stand as a NASCAR record. “We clicked right away with similar interests and everything to prove,” Johnson said. “We could read each other’s minds. ... His work ethic and ability to bring the best out in me was most impressive.”

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Santa Fe High sophomore Elias Mendiola uses an arm bar on Los Lunas’ Anthony Scott on Friday during the second round of the Joe Vivian Invitational at Cibola High in Albuquerque. “He’s a hard worker, a grinder,” wrestling coach Joe Jiron said. “He goes in the room and he puts the work in, and his work ethic is just really good.”

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down the road, as he faces tougher competition and learns how to wrestle late into matches. “We need to just make sure he’s improving his craft,” Jiron said. “We can do that by getting getting some of that time. Then again, we we want to finish [the matches], too, so we could get off the mat safely as well.” It there is a particular wrestler Mendiola knows he will have to beat to achieve his goal of winning a state title, it is Romero. When the two met in the Class 5A consolation semifinals at the state meet in 2023, Romero defeated Mendiola him with a takedown in overtime for a 6-4 win and tool third place. Mendiola placed fifth — quite the accomplishment for a freshman. Yet it left a lingering sour taste in his mouth. In his rematch against Romero at The Conflict, Mendiola found himself

down 5-0 after two periods as Romero recorded a takedown and a reversal while Mendiola incurred a 1-point penalty. Romero won 5-1 to claim the tournament title and get a leg-up on Mendiola on seeding for the regional and state meets next month. “After we watch film, we kind of found two positions that [Mendiola] kind of set himself up to not to be successful in,” Jiron said. “So, we kind of fix those two positions, and I think fixing those along with his own IQ and corrections are going to make everything OK. I think we’re going to be good.” Mendiola will not get a chance to take on Romero this weekend, as the Hawks senior opted to wrestle up a class at 133 pounds. Instead, he gets Volcano Vista’s state champion Anthony Lopez, who moved up from 121 to wrestle in this division. Lopez earned the top seed based on his overall résumé — a state champion

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the table would leave them with nine MWC wins, so let’s start there. The Mountain West has never had a regular season champion with more than four losses. It stands to reason a team would need to go no worse than 14-4 to ﬁnish ﬁrst. Sweeping the teams at the bottom of the league is paramount, meaning wins against Air Force, San Jose State, Fresno State and Wyoming are crucial. Unfortunately for the Lobos, they only face Fresno State and San Jose State once, thanks to the MWC’s imbalanced schedule that has a team playing eight

rivals home and away, with the remaining two games split between the teams they won’t see twice. This year it happens to be the Bulldogs and Spartans. Bad break for UNM, but nothing it can do. Winning those four would give the Lobos 13 wins. There’s work to be done. That means they’ll have to pick off one of the top teams on the road. Pick your poison among the remains: Utah State, San Diego State, Nevada, Boise State and Colorado State. Cross CSU and UNLV off the list since the Lobos already lost to both. Their loss at UNLV seemed damaging at

and Joe Vivian champion at 114 pounds last year, a three-time state placer in his career and a 22-5 record this season — and rolled to the semifinals with a pair of pins. Mendiola is the third seed, and will get Albuquerque Atrisco Heritage Academy’s Anastacio Martinez Saturday morning’s semifinal — an opponent Jiron said his wrestler has not seen. Regardless of who Mendiola faces Saturday, Jiron feels confident he will learn from his experiences and be ready for the next task, which will be a pair of District 5-5A dual matches against Albuquerque High and Manzano on Jan. 25. “He’s a hard worker, a grinder,” Jiron said. “He goes in the room and he puts the work in, and his work ethic is just really good.” In February, Mendiola should be ready to vocalize his own statement, but he’ll still rely on the mat to find the words for it.

the time, but the truth is, the Rebels will be a tough get in Las Vegas for most. It was not a bad loss, and certainly not a crippling one. Same, too, for CSU. The Rams were nationally ranked at the time. Bracketologists like ESPN’s Joe Lunardi are lukewarm on UNM. In his Friday post, he had the Lobos as the “ﬁrst team out” of his 68-team bracket despite their lofty numbers in the NET and KenPom. The only way around that is winning on the road and picking off a titan or two along the way. Until UNM proves it doesn’t need 15,000 people behind it to get wins, it’ll have to do it the hard way and get the job done without a sea of red in the stands. It starts Saturday. Nothing less than a “W” will do. Will Webber is the sports editor. Email him at wwebber@sfnewmexican.com.

Jack Burke Jr. loved to play golf as much as he enjoyed teaching it. In a golfing life that spanned just over a century, he delivered the largest comeback in Masters history, built the fabled Champions Golf Club in Houston and left everyone he met with homespun wisdom on golf and life. “Leisure time is dangerous. You might wind up inside a bottle of bourbon,” Burke once said about retirement. “You were put on this Earth to produce, so get with it.” Burke, who was the oldest living Masters champion, died Friday morning in Houston. He was 100, just 10 days short of his next birthday. “I went to see him last Friday, and he did what he did best, giving me golf lessons and life lessons,” PGA champion Hal Sutton said. “He lived a productive life. This is a celebration of his life more than anything.” Burke was a Marine during World War II. His induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000 was as much about his influence on golf as the two majors he won in 1956. And he was renowned for his sharp wit that never left him. “Why did golf give us 34 rules when God only gave us 10 commandments?” he said over dinner at his home in Houston in 2020. Burke won the Masters and the PGA Championship in 1956 when he was the PGA player of the year. He was best known for staging the greatest comeback in Masters history when he overcame an eight-shot deficit in the final round to beat Ken Venturi. In conditions so blustery only two players broke par, Burke posted a 1-under 71 for a one-shot victory over Venturi, who shot 80. Burke recalled a key putt on the 17th hole when the wind was so strong it had blown sand out of the bunker. “The wind grabbed that thing and kept blowing it down the hill, until it plunked dead in the middle of the hole. It was a miracle, the best break of my career. You better believe wind affects putts,” he said. “A golf ball weighs 1.62 ounces. Can a 20-mile-per-hour wind affect that ball as it rolls? You tell me.” Later that year, Burke defeated Ted Kroll, 3 and 2, to win the PGA Championship.

Florida is under NCAA investigation after a failed NIL deal with QB signee GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida is under NCAA investigation a year after a failed name, image and likeness deal worth more than $13 million with former signee Jaden Rashada. The Gators released the NCAA’s notice of inquiry Friday to The Associated Press and the Tampa Bay Times after the newspaper’s lawyers got involved. Both news agencies filed public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act last October. The NCAA’s letter, dated June 9, 2023, is addressed to school President Ben Sasse and states the NCAA enforcement staff has begun an investigation into the football program. Names of investigators were redacted, and Rashada was not mentioned. The NCAA asked the school not to conduct its own investigation and said it would notify the institution “soon regarding the projected timeline of the investigation.” “We have been and will continue to cooperate with the NCAA,” said Steve McClain, a senior associate athletics director at Florida. “We hold ourselves to high standards of excellence and integrity on and off the field. Because we follow NCAA policies about maintaining confidentiality, we are unable to offer additional comments.”

Burns shoots 61, leads at La Quinta with amateur Dunlap in the hunt LA QUINTA, Calif. — Sam Burns fired a career-low 61 on Friday to take a one-shot lead over Michael Kim and a twoshot lead on amateur Nick Dunlap after two rounds at The American Express. Dunlap, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion and only nonprofessional in the 156-man field, shot a 65 with six birdies on the front nine and another on the 18th to stay in contention in the Coachella Valley. The University of Alabama sophomore is playing on a sponsor’s exemption. Only seven amateurs have won on the PGA Tour since 1945. Phil Mickelson was the last one, doing it in Tucson, Ariz., in 1991. Burns was at 17-under 127 after his second straight impressive round, while Dunlap and South Korea’s K.H. Lee were 15 under. Burns scorched the Nicklaus Tournament course for seven birdies and two eagles, starting with an eagle on the fourth. He made a second eagle on the 11th and added four straight birdies from Nos. 13-16 to get in position for the third sub-60 round in this tournament’s history. He didn’t get them, but his two finishing pars resulted in the best round of his career. Burns shot 62 at the BMW Championship last season and at the Byron Nelson in 2021. The Associated Press

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NFL AFC DIVISIONAL ROUND

NFL NFC DIVISIONAL ROUND

Allen, Bills hoping home field finally helps against Chiefs

Niners’ Purdy builds on last season

By John Wawrow

The Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — As much respect Josh Allen has for friend and occasional offseason golf partner Patrick Mahomes, the Buffalo Bills quarterback still can’t forget when his Kansas City Chiefs rival got the last laugh at his expense. The two were teammates in a made-for-TV golf event in June 2022 when Mahomes was asked to describe Allen’s biggest fear. Pausing for a moment, Mahomes said, “A coin toss,” causing Allen to smile and lower his head. The Kansas City quarterback, of course, was referring to the Chiefs’ 42-36 overtime victory in a 2021 season AFC divisional-round game that Bills fans have dubbed “13 Seconds.” That’s the amount of time it took Mahomes to march the Chiefs 44 yards to set up a tying field goal as time expired, after which Kansas City won the coin toss and ended the game with a touchdown on the first overtime possession. On Sunday night, the Bills (12-6) and Chiefs (12-6) will meet in the playoffs for the third time in four years and once again in the divisional round, and the past is the last thing on Allen’s mind. “We don’t need to bring that up,” Allen said. “I’m sure people will bring up what I’m afraid of but, nah, I got a lot of respect for him and his game and who he is off the field.” At least two things have

changed since the last BillsChiefs playoff meeting. The Bills’ loss prompted the NFL to change its postseason overtime rules to ensure both teams get a possession. After having their 2020 and ’21 seasons end at Arrowhead Stadium with playoff losses, it’s the Bills’ turn to host the Chiefs in what will be Mahomes’ first playoff road game. It will also mark Mahomes’ first time experiencing the roar of fans at Highmark Stadium. His other game at Buffalo was played in an empty stadium due to pandemic restrictions in 2020. “Even though I know it’s going to be hostile and there are going to be people talking trash and everything like that, I’m excited for it because it’s one of the best environments in football,” Mahomes said. “And you want to do that when you grow up watching these games in the best environments and see what it’s like.” Although the teams had the same record in the regular season, Buffalo won the tiebreaker — and the right to host — with its 20-17 win at Kansas City last month. That was the first of six straight victories for the Bills, including Monday’s wild-card round victory over Pittsburgh. Snow isn’t in the forecast, though cold temperatures are, which shouldn’t affect either team. The Bills are accustomed to the cold, while the Chiefs beat visiting Miami last weekend with a game-time temperature of minus-4 Fahrenheit and wind chills that made it feel 20 degrees colder.

Second-year QB over playoff struggles, injury as Pack visits Bay Area By Josh Dubow

The Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Brock Purdy remembers the tension when he stepped on the field for the first time in the playoffs as a seventh-round rookie last season with only a handful of games of experience. Purdy returns to the postseason for the second time in his young career Saturday night when his San Francisco 49ers host the Green Bay Packers in a divisional round game. Purdy hopes to take the experience he gained last year to help him perform even better than he did in first try when an injury derailed his season. “This year, being more familiar with the offense, who I am and all that, it’s a little different,” he said Wednesday. “It’s good to sort of watch the games from last year and sort of remember the feeling and the emotions of playing in a playoff game. It’s good. It’s huge for me as a quarterback to go back to those moments and remember what it feels like.” The feeling last year was very good initially as Purdy threw for 332 yards and three TDs in a wild-card win against Seattle followed by an efficient, turnover-free performance the next week in a divisional round win over Dallas. But things took a bad turn the following week in Philadelphia when Purdy got hit hard on his throwing arm by Haason Reddick on the opening drive of the game. The hit led to a torn ligament in his elbow and essentially ended San Francisco’s hopes. Purdy was forced to return to the game in the second half after fourth-stringer Josh Johnson

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Brock Purdy became the ﬁrst Niners quarterback in more than 20 years to throw for more than 4,000 yards (4,280) or at least 30 TDs (31).

left with a concussion but was unable to throw the ball more than a few yards. That led to a 31-7 loss for San Francisco, followed by offseason surgery for Purdy, months of rehabilitation and loads of questions about whether he would be hampered by the injury or if his first-year success was a fluke. “It’s been a pretty quick year,” he said. “It feels like we were just in the playoffs, like we were just in Philly and all that. It’s gone fast.” Purdy answered those doubters and now is ready for another playoff run he hopes has a happier ending. He became the first Niners quarterback in more than 20 years to throw for more than 4,000 yards (4,280) or at least 30 TDs (31). He led the NFL with a 113 passer rating and his 9.6 yards

IN BRIEF Raiders ax interim tag, name Pierce as head coach ADRIAN KRAUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Bills quarterback Josh Allen runs for a touchdown against the Steelers in a wild-card game Monday in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Lions fans shaking off decades of futility in India and lives in suburban Detroit, didn’t know what a first Until Sunday’s victory. down was about a decade ago. The Lions beat the Matt The 41-year-old Patel has develStafford-led Los Angeles Rams oped her knowledge of the 24-23 in a wild-card game that game and affinity for the orgawhipped the crowd into so nization, thanks to interactions much of a frenzy the decibels on social media and in person were almost as loud as a jet as a season-ticket holder. engine. When she posted on social Detroit’s party might get media about having knee surkicked up a notch. gery, Lions players wished her The Lions are hosting Tampa a speedy recovery. When Patel Bay this Sunday, playing a secshared she had a miscarriage in ond home playoff game in one 2021, she heard from Campbell postseason for the first time in himself shortly after he was team history. hired. Singer Bob Seger, actor “He’s just a man of the peoJeff Daniels, actor, writer and ple,” she said. “His voice was producer Keegan-Michael almost cracking in that video, Key — all from Michigan — and it just really brought some are expected to attend the comfort to me.” divisional game along with NFL Mike McCord and millions Commissioner Roger Goodell more in Michigan have waited and one of the team’s biggest a long time for their favorite fans: Eminem. team to bring them joy. The rapper has expressed The 68-year-old McCord was himself and shared his fandom a toddler when his late father, recently on Instagram, saying Darris, a Pro Bowl defensive his New Year’s resolution was lineman, helped Detroit beat for the Lions to win the Super Cleveland at Briggs Stadium, Bowl and asking Stafford for a which was later known as Tiger favor. Stadium, for the NFL title in “Can you just let us have this 1957. one?” Eminem asked in a post McCord began attending last week. games six-plus decades Now, Eminem is playfully ago, and his family has had asking coach Dan Campbell to season-tickets for more than put him in the game. a half-century, passing the pas“I’m going to be there that sion for the Honolulu Blue and night,” Eminem said. “I will Silver down to his 36-year-old suit up, and I will score us the daughter, Riley. winning touchdown in the third “It’s been a long 50 years,” he quarter.” said. “We’ve been through thick If Detroit, which is favored and thin — mostly thin.” by almost a touchdown by The Lions hit rock bottom FanDuel Sportsbook, beats the in 2008, becoming the NFL’s Buccaneers it will move a step first 0-16 team, during the closer to reaching the Super worst nine-season stretch in Bowl for the first time. the league since World War II. While there are scores of During a particularly putrid long-suffering fans in the Motor stretch of futility, football City, it has also attracted some historians had to go back to the new ones and engaged with Dayton Triangles during the them in the digital age. 1920s to find a team that lost so Sweta Patel, who was born often. Continued from Page B-1

HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas Raiders players lobbied for Antonio Pierce to be the full-time head coach since he stepped in as the interim at midseason. On Friday, Pierce officially got the gig. The Raiders announced the hiring of Pierce as their new coach, crossing out the word “interim” in a post on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter. He’s the fourth interim coach the Raiders have elevated, joining Art Shell, Tom Cable and Marty Feldman. Pierce, 45, took over as interim coach on Halloween night after Josh McDaniels was ﬁred. The Raiders went 5-4 under his watch and the team went 8-9 overall. “Why wouldn’t we keep going the direction we’re going?” Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby said after a 27-14 victory over Denver on Jan. 7. “The fact we’ve come together and done something special in such a short time is hard to do. We’ve got a guy who’s played at the highest level, won a Super Bowl, he’s been a captain, and now he’s a great coach and he’s a leader.” Pierce also won over much of the fan base. The crowd chanted “AP!” as the game against the Broncos was winding down. “Can’t think of anyone more deserving,” Las Vegas tackle Jermaine Eluemunor posted on X. “The Raider way is the only way that needs to be in Vegas.” Pierce will be charged with restoring a championship pedigree to a once-iconic franchise that has missed the playoffs in 19 of the past 21 seasons. NFL hiring rules prohibited owner Mark

per attempt were the most in the NFL for a qualifying QB since Kurt Warner had 9.9 in 2000. “I think it’d be unfair to Brock Purdy and the way he’s played since he’s been there to say, ‘Oh, he’s just playing good because he’s got great players around him,’ ” Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry said. “It helps to have great pieces but any offense that has success, you instantly have to look at the triggerman. ... You talk about from an efficiency standpoint, ever since he’s taken control of that huddle since he got his ﬁrst start, the efficiency’s incredible.” Purdy had few slipups this season but one did come on a big stage late in the season when San Francisco took on Baltimore in a Christmas night showdown between the top two teams in the NFL. Purdy admitted the intensity

Davis from hiring Pierce outright. Davis had to interview at least two external minority and/or female candidates in person to satisfy the Rooney rule. He did that. The Raiders interviewed former Buffalo defensive Antonio coordinator Leslie Frazier. Pierce ESPN reported the club also interviewed former New Orleans Saints co-defensive coordinator Kris Richard. Pierce is the second Black coach to receive a head job during this hiring cycle. The New England Patriots promoted Jerod Mayo to replace Bill Belichick.

Belichick completes second round with Falcons ATLANTA — Bill Belichick completed his second coaching interview with the Atlanta Falcons on Friday, moving closer to joining the franchise that endured its biggest disappointment with him on the opposite sideline. The Falcons also met virtually with Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, but all eyes were on Belichick amid reports he was the team’s top choice and had ﬂown to Atlanta on one of owner Arthur Blank’s private jets. If Belichick heads to the Falcons, a team that hasn’t had a winning season since 2017 and has never won a Super Bowl, it would be a stunning turn of events. Belichick was coach of the New England Patriots when they pulled off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, rallying from a 28-3 deﬁcit in the second half to beat the Falcons 34-28 in overtime after the 2016 season. Atlanta made the playoffs a year later but hasn’t been back since. Arthur Smith was

of that game got to him early, as he forced a pass into coverage in the end zone on the opening drive that led to an interception. He threw three more interceptions that game as the 49ers lost 33-19. Purdy said he learned from that experience but the Packers believe they saw an opening to defensive success too. “Just got to get pressure on him, know what I’m saying,” defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt said. “When he’s throwing that ball [with pressure], it’s just off rhythm. I watched it a lot on ﬁlm. When D-linemen just get pressure into him, he’s always throwing off or it’s behind them or it’s overthrown or short. There will be a lot of picks or stuff like that. So when you get pressure on him, it’s a guarantee we’ll get a turnover.”

fired just hours after this season’s final game — an ugly loss at New Orleans that capped his third straight 7-10 campaign. Belichick, whose six Super Bowl titles are more than any other coach, is coming off a 4-13 season — the worst of his career — that led to him parting ways with the Patriots less than two weeks ago. His final season in New England with marred by major issues at quarterback. Mac Jones was benched and Bailey Zappe struggled as well. The Falcons endured similar problems at the most prominent position on the field, switching back and forth between Desmond Ridder and Taylor Heinicke in a desperate bid by Smith to save his job. If Belichick comes to Atlanta, it would surely be with an understanding that Blank, CEO Rich McKay and general manager Terry Fontenot are willing to pursue an upgrade at quarterback. With a career record of 333-178, including the playoffs, Belichick clearly wants to keep coaching as he approaches the late Don Shula’s record of 347 victories. Belichick teamed with quarterback Tom Brady to capture a half-dozen rings over an 18-season span in what many consider the greatest dynasty in NFL history. For good measure, Belichick was a part of two more championship teams while working on the New York Giants’ staff under Bill Parcells. Belichick’s reputation took a big hit after Brady left the Patriots following the 2019 season — and won his seventh Super Bowl ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a rival of the Falcons in the NFC South. The Patriots have had only one winning season since then — a one-and-done playoff appearance in 2021 — while posting a record of 29-38. That’s not much better than Atlanta’s 25-42 mark over the same span. The Associated Press

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A George Mason University fan holds up a cover of Sports Illustrated at a rally to send the team off to the NCAA Tournament in 2006 in Fairfax, Va.

Sports Illustrated’s employee union said in a statement the layoffs initially announced by Arena would be a significant number, and possibly all, of the NewsGuild workers represented. “We have fought together as a union to maintain the standard of this storied publication that we love, and to make sure our workers are treated fairly for the value they bring to this company. It is a fight we will continue,” Mitch Goldich, NFL editor and unit chair, said in a statement. The guild’s statement also called for Authentic to “ensure the continued publication of SI and allow it to serve our audience in the way it has for nearly 70 years.” Authentic said it would do so, and “we are confident that going forward the brand will continue to evolve and grow in a way

that serves sports news readers, sports fans and consumers. We are committed to ensuring that the traditional ad-supported Sports Illustrated media pillar has best in class stewardship to preserve the complete integrity of the brand’s legacy.” In a statement Friday, Arena Group said it was negotiating with Authentic about the license, “with plans to sustain our commitment to delivering quality content throughout the ongoing discussions.” Arena admitted it had failed to make a quarterly payment of $3.75 million, and Authentic had put it on notice it intended to end the licensing agreement. As a result, Arena announced Thursday it would make a “signiﬁcant reduction” in its workforce of more than 100 people. Arena Group acquired publishing rights from Authentic in

2019 for at least 10 years. The group’s stewardship of Sports Illustrated has had many hurdles since then. In December, it ﬁred Chief Executive Officer Ross Levinsohn when the magazine’s alleged use of AI-generated stories drew backlash. Sports Illustrated has had a rough six years. It was acquired by Meredith Publishing in 2018 as part of the purchase of Time Inc., which started the magazine in 1954. Less than a year later, Meredith sold the magazine’s intellectual property to Authentic for $110 million. Authentic owns the intellectual property of many brands and stars, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali and Reebok. Once a weekly publication, Sports Illustrated was reduced to biweekly publishing in 2018 and became a monthly in 2020.

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N O N - D E N O M I N AT I O N A L

Celebration of Santa Fe

Advent Life Church

Advent Life Church invites you to join us in person on Saturdays. Advent Life Church is an inclusive community that believes the closer we are to Jesus, the closer we are to who we could be as human beings. Every week we come together to learn how to imitate Jesus in our everyday life. So, visit us! Whoever you are, whatever background, if you are tired, overwhelmed, lonely, or broken, come see us. Regular services - Saturday at 10 A.M., and 11 A.M. for everyone together. Find us on Facebook and YouTube by searching for Advent Life Church.

BAPTIST FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SANTA FE

Welcomes you to worship service is at 10:30 a.m., or go to our website www. fbcsantafe.com to learn about our broadcasts. We offer Bible studies for all ages at various weekly times. For more information visit our website. Reed Redus, Senior Pastor; Gregg Higgins, Associate Pastor of Worship; Chris Castorena, Associate Pastor of Family Ministry and Education.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE First Church Of Christ, Scientist

First Church of Christ,

Scientist Start your Sunday with insight and inspiration. Attend a Christian Science service to sing and pray together and gain a deeper Santa Fe understanding of the Bible. Find healing, security and stability, a sense of peace. You’ll leave inspired and refreshed, in the company of a community that cares. First Church of Christ Scientist, Santa Fe, 323 E. Cordova Rd. Sunday services, and Sunday School at 10 am, in church & on Zoom. Childcare available. Wednesday sharing 6:30 pm, in church & on Zoom Reading Room, Monday-Saturday, 10 am - 1 pm. ChristianscienceSantafe.com for more information.

E P I S C O PA L St. Bede’s Episcopal Church

CELEBRATING GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL/ Celebrando el amor de Dios para todos. We are a welcoming faith community as diverse as the many faces of Santa Fe. Sunday services at 8 a.m. (in English) 10:30 a.m. (in English with Children’s Chapel) and at 12:30 p.m. (in Spanish). Additional services offered Tuesday 6 p.m. (in Spanish), Healing Service Wednesday 12:15 p.m. (in English). Worship aides and other support information available on our web site. Visit www.stbedesantafe.org or call 505-982-1133 for more information.

The Church of the Holy Faith

We welcome all people into an ever-deepening relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Sunday morning services at 7:30 in the chapel (spoken Eucharist), 8:30 (spoken Eucharist with choir and congregational singing) and 11 (sung Eucharist with choir and congregational singing) in the church. 11 a.m. service streamed through Holy Faith’s YouTube channel. Tuesday Taizé service with Holy Eucharist at 6 p.m. Holy Eucharist also celebrated Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m. in the chapel. For more information, call 505-982-4447 or visit the website, holyfaithchurchsf.org.

JEWISH Temple Beth Shalom

Come as you are. We welcome your presence at Temple Beth Shalom. Our services are inspiring and innovative. For information about membership call us at 505-982-1376, info@sftbs.org, check our website for details, www.sftbs.org. Temple Beth Shalom is a diverse, welcoming Reform Jewish congregation. Shabbat services are Friday evenings at 6:30pm, once a month we have a family service that starts at 5:30 pm, please check our website. Saturday morning services at 10:30 am. Masks are encouraged.

METHODIST

Now in our 32nd year as a lively, inclusive, eclectic, creative spiritual community. Join us in the collective energy of All-Embracing Love. We meet in person each Sunday at 10:30am, in the NEA-NM bldg., 2007 Botulph Rd. Here you have the freedom to look within to discover your own Truth and connection with Spirit. Visit our website, www.thecelebration.org, where the talks of past guest speakers are posted as podcasts. The Celebration of Santa Fe, a Sunday Service Different.

The Light at Mission Viejo

We are the Light. Sunday service: 10:30 a.m., La Luz (Spanish service) at 3:00p.m., Bible studies Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., SOZO Youth Group (ages 12-18): Friday 6:30-10:00 p.m. For more information: 505-982-2080 or www.tlmv.org.

PRESBYTERIAN Christ Church Santa Fe (PCA)

Our Presbyterian church is located at Don Gaspar and Cordova Road. Our focus is on the historical truths of Jesus Christ, His Love and Redemptive Grace...and our contemporary response. SUNDAYS: Education hour for adults and children 8:45 am. In-person worship 10:00 am; livestreams via YouTube, Facebook, and christchurchsantafe.org . Pastor Greg Schneeberger will speak from Matthew 1:18-25, “The God Who Is With Us.” Gospel Journey for children online and in person at 10:15 am; professional nursery care up to age 4 available. WEDNESDAYS: prayer meeting at 7:30 am, public welcome. THURSDAYS children’s program on break until Feb 8. For more information 505-982-8817 or christchurchsantafe.org.

First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Avenue, is an inclusive and welcoming congregation which holds as its mission: actively engage society, nurture lives, cherish creation, and heal the world. We endeavor to grow the beloved community through our ministries and our mission and social justice initiatives. Sunday-Second Sunday of Advent: MorningSong at 8:30am, informal worship. Worship Service at 11am. Rev Dr. Harry Eberts, preaching at both. Adult Ed 9:35am: The Gospel of Peace by John Dear. Wednesday: Morning Prayer at 7:30am; join us for coffee and fellowship after. Celtic Evensong at 5:30pm; we follow the teachings of John Phillip Newell using resources from Iona Abbey. Communion is served. Friday: TGIF Concert Series 5:30pm: Flutiss X 4 Flute Quartet. Free admission, donations accepted. fpcsantafe.org. Masks encouraged, vaccines expected, social distancing appreciated.

R U S S I A N O RT H O D O X

St. Juliana of Lazarevo Russian Orthodox Church

St. Juliana of Lazarevo Russian Orthodox Church (3877 West Alameda, Santa Fe, NM) serves the Orthodox liturgy with Russian Music in English. Orthodoxy is the Faith of the Apostles, continuously transmitted by holy tradition. We are an old calendar parish of The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, serving Northern New Mexico. All are welcome to our services, for the God of all became Man on behalf of all and for all. Great Vespers Saturday evenings at 6:00, Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Sunday mornings at 9:15. For information contact Priest David at iereidavid@yahoo. com or call at (505) 310-2805.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

United Church of Santa Fe

“May This Be the Day.” United Church honors legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and poetry of Amanda Gorman in 8:30 Contemplative Communion and 10:00 Sanctuary Service (with Jazz Pianist Andy Kingston, Dir. of Music Bradley Ellingboe, Choir with Spirituals and Gospel Music. (Livestreamed: unitedchurchofsantafe.org). 10:00 Children’s Ministry engages our young ones with Rev. King’s Christian faith and God’s love for all people. 11:15 Forum hosts NM Immigrant Law Center prior to Thursday’s “Dignity, Not Detention” Roundhouse rally. Rev. Talitha Arnold, Pastor; 1804 Arroyo Chamiso (St. Michael’s Dr.) 505--988-3295. Love God, Neighbor, Creation!

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Please join us Sundays: Worship at 9:30 am, in person/online; 9:00-11:45 am Nursery with paid staff, pagers available for parent/guardians; 10:45 am Adult Ministries; Sunday Night Youth Group; Monday evening Bible Study with Pastor Matt Bridges on Zoom. Wednesday Soul Break (Taizé Service) at noon. Volunteer at our food pantry. Visit our website for more information. Follow us on Facebook. Stream us on YouTube. 1200 Old Pecos Trail • Santa Fe • SJUMCSantaFe.org • (505) 982-5397

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Looking for a supportive Spiritual Community for who you are and what is relevant today? We are an embracing, diverse, lively group dedicated to each other and practicing the Philosophy of The Science of Mind. Learn more at Everydaycsl.org. Live streaming: Zoom and Facebook: Everyday Center for Spiritual Living. Sundays, 10 AM MST. Tune in at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82294414869?pwd=K3QxQWltM2w1RXBpeDZkREVPbWNLZz09 or in person at Beit Tikva Synagogue, 2230 Old Pecos Trail, SF 87505. This Sunday, 01/14, Rev. Ann’s title is “WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT”. Special music is offered by JESSIE GARCIA.

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choose from? 29 Alternative to cooking oil 32 *****, say 33 Moved 34 Surfing hazards 35 Singer Bobby with a brave-sounding last name 36 Crushes that have lost their sparkle? 38 Companies 39 One subject to a religious ban from the 1521 Edict of Worms 40 Savoury pies 42 Buenos ___ 43 “Be prepared” 45 World Wildlife Fund and others, in brief 46 Winter accessory 47 “I ___!” 48 “That’s super” DOWN 1 Trash hauler 2 Musical effect that comes from the Italian for “to play on a harp” 3 Bookish

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4 “Did it start already?” 5 Time piece? 6 Audacious selfassurance 7 Isn’t 100% 8 Tiny messenger 9 Factory seconds, for short 10 Sentence with a lot of commas, perhaps 11 They’re impulsive 13 Situations involving multiple romantic partners 14 Courteous behavior, formally 16 Portmanteau for poly relationships

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH For the next four weeks, you’re in the spotlight! Moreover, this spotlight is flattering, and people will admire you even if you don’t do anything special. This gives you an advantage. Tonight: You’re admired.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024: You are charming, easygoing and have a flip sense of humor. This is a slower paced year. Focus on relationships that are kind and beneficial to you. MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. PST. After that, the Moon moves from Taurus into Gemini.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Without question, the next four weeks will be easier for you! Travel plans will appeal to you. You will enjoy studying and learning new information. Look for ways to expand your world! Tonight: Schmooze.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Today a subtle shift takes place that will encourage you

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taxes, debt, inheritances and insurance matters will grow. It’s time to get your ducks in a row so that you feel more organized about all this stuff. Tonight: Check your finances. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Because the Sun represents energy, and it is now as far away from you as it can get all year (in your chart), this means you’ll need more sleep. You will also have greater objectivity to see your role in your closest relationships. Tonight: Be friendly. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH In the next few weeks, you will work hard because you want results! Furthermore, you’ll want to work smart and be as efficient as possible. This will extend to your health. Tonight: You’re noticed.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Today the Sun moves into the most playful part of your chart to stay for the next four weeks, which means you intend to do exactly what you want. Tonight: Explore! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH For the next four weeks, you’ll have a stronger focus on home and family. You might be more involved with a parent. Tonight: Conversations. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Fasten your seatbelts, because your daily pace is accelerating with a busy schedule for the next four weeks! Short trips, errands, appointments, increased conversations with neighbors, siblings and relatives plus writing! Tonight: Money ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Today the Sun changes signs. You will feel this shift in the next four weeks as you give more thought to your values, your wealth, your assets and your possessions. Tonight: Improve health. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Today the Sun moves into your sign for four weeks, giving you a chance to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. Tonight: Socialize! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You’ll have opportunities to ponder your reality and what you want for your new year ahead in the next four weeks, because the Sun will be hiding in your chart. This will make you more reclusive as well. Tonight: Cocoon.

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Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2024. There are 346 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.

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Sister’s family cuts off dad for saying ‘no’ Dear Annie: My only sister, “Donna,” and her husband, “Otis,” moved out of state, leaving me as the sole caregiver to our 97-yearold father. Their adult daughter “Leah” did not move with them and stayed here locally not far from my father. My father lives near me and rents a small home in a senior community, which he enjoys, but has kept his old, empty, rundown home nearby. Although his empty home needs repair, it is in a very affluent area. Donna and Otis asked my father if they could repair his rundown home so Leah could move in. They never mentioned how much Leah would pay per month to live in it — or if she would pay anything at all — and said a rental agreement wasn’t necessary because she is family. My father initially said he would consider it, but I had a bad feeling about the whole idea. If my father were to fix it up, he should rent it out to help himself financially, as his monthly budget is tight. I never spoke to Donna about my concerns because it was our father’s decision, but I did tell my father to be careful and voiced my concerns to him. Otis said he could come out, stay in the house and give it the needed facelift, but first, my father had to fork over tens of thousands of dollars upfront. Otis, by the way, is not a contractor nor seems very skilled at home repairs. Otis also refused to give my father any itemized accounting of where any of the money would go. Without getting a 100% go ahead from my father, Otis came out and began demolishing the kitchen and bathroom fixtures and tossing my father’s personal items out without his permission. In the end, my father was very upset and decided to not have them do any work at all. Since then, Donna barely talks to our father. Although they come back every few months to see Leah and visit other relatives, staying for a few weeks at a time, they barely see my father once a year and only for an hour or two. They don’t contact me at all, never ever inquire about my father’s wellbeing or if I need any help with him when they are here. I personally haven’t heard from Donna, Otis or Leah since the whole house shenanigans occurred in 2021. I have continued to send birthday cards, holiday texts and emails to all of them because I wanted to do the right thing on my end. My question is, should I just stop trying to reach out to my sister and niece and just write them off? — Reach Out or Write Off Dear Reach Out or Write Off: Relationships, with family or otherwise, are a twoway street. Your sister, brother-in-law and niece have had more than enough opportunities to return your warm gestures and have either failed or purposely chosen not to do so. I hope they have a change of heart in the future — but for now, I advise that you save your efforts for those who actually deserve and reciprocate your love.

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to the bones? Answer________ 8. There are 118 of these listed in the Periodic Table. Answer________ 9. What is the tallest type of grass? Answer________ 10. What was the most famous invention of Alfred Nobel? Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 11. What is the rarest of the eight main blood types? Answer________ 12. What is the claim to fame of a sheep named Dolly? Answer________ 13. What is the claim to fame of a dog named Laika? Answer________ 14. What is the term for the branch of physics that deals with light and vision? Answer________ 15. What part of the body is affected by Bright’s disease? Answer________

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Airborne TV event: New series honors 8th Air Force, WWII fighters Through all of the ups and downs, changes and adaptations of the world, one thing seems pretty solid: humanity’s interest in the art and devastation of war. This interest may be reflected in the hobbies of Civil War re-enactors, one’s choice of literature or, as it turns out, one’s choice of televised entertainment. Luckily for the World War II enthusiasts out there, Apple TV+ releases a new series Friday, Jan. 26. Based on author and historian Donald L. Miller’s book, “Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany,”

the series, titled simply “Masters of the Air,” follows the 100th Bomb Group, an American airborne unit that helped defeat the Nazis during World War II. Nine action-packed episodes are to be released weekly until the March 15 finale, with the first two dropping on the streamer Jan. 26. Billed as — as British GQ writer Jack King wrote in his Nov. 9 article — the “spiritual sequel to ‘Band of Brothers,’” “Masters of the Air” is made possible by the HBO series’ producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, all of whom also collaborated behind the scenes on the 2010

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miniseries “The Pacific.” While not a direct sequel to either HBO miniseries, “Masters of the Air” promises to take viewers away from a literal bootson-the-ground look at the war machine and instead takes to the equally treacherous skies. There are plenty of recognizable faces for viewers to watch in awe, including “The Banshees of Inisherin” (2022) actor Barry Keoghan, who also starred in the popular 2017 war epic “Dunkirk”; “War and Peace” star Callum Turner; and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself, Austin Butler (“Elvis,” 2022). Also starring in all nine episodes of the series are Ben Radcliffe (“Anatomy of a Scandal”), Anthony Boyle (“Tetris,” 2023), Rafferty Law (“Repo Men,” 2010), David Shields (“The Crown”), Darragh Cowley (“The Essex Serpent”), Edward Ashley (“The Terror”), Elliot Warren (“The Batman,” 2022) and Nate Mann (“Licorice Pizza,” 2021). BBC’s newest Time Lord, “Doctor Who’s” Ncuti Gatwa, and Sawyer Spielberg (“Honeydew,” 2020) also appear in the series. Adapted from Miller’s novel by “Band of Brothers” and “The Last Vermeer” (2019) screenwriter John Orloff, “Master of the Air” flies viewers back in time to Europe during the Second World War, a time when

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the 8th Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group become known by its nickname, “The Bloody Hundredth.” And like most war films and series, the excitement and patriotism are featured alongside a healthy dose of grounded reflection and plenty of unthinkable devastation. Per the official Apple TV+ description, the series takes a pilot’s-seat approach to the carnage as the men “conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air.” While set largely in and over “the bucolic fields and villages of southeast England,” the nine-episode event is, in fact, based on a true story and visits “the harsh deprivations of a German prisoner

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