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New Hampshire Director of Family Representation office — in operation for six months — asked race today likely employees, contractors to lobby for budget but didn’t tell them to disclose roles final chance to slow Trump

By Daniel J. Chacón

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If race not competitive in open primary of moderate-heavy state, former president would likely lock up rematch with Biden

By Reid J. Epstein and Jazmine Ulloa The New York Times

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Nikki Haley raced across New Hampshire on Monday to hustle for voters in what may amount to her last, best chance to prevent or at least delay a 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

In the final day of campaigning before Tuesday’s first-inthe-nation primary election, Haley and Trump embodied the increasingly lopsided nature of a race in which the former president has methodically drained the political life out of his rivals. His latest victim was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who on Sunday ended his campaign with a desultory video in which he endorsed Trump.

While Haley dashed to half a dozen events in New Hampshire, Trump began the day in New York City for an

The executive director of a new and little-known state agency is facing an ethics complaint after using her government email to encourage employees to lobby legislators on the office’s behalf but without specifically instructing them to disclose their roles.

Beth Gillia, head of the New Mexico Office of Family Representation and Advocacy, sent an email Sunday urging “interested parties,” including both state and contract employees, to contact members of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee in support of the agency’s budget and a proposed tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition. Proceeds of the pro-

posed tax would benefit the agency.

“We need Commission Members and interested Parties to take an active role in supporting and promoting the Office of Family Representation and Advocacy,” she wrote in an attachment with talking points.

The agency, overseen by a 13-member commission, was created by the Legislature in 2022

to provide legal representation to children and parents involved in abuse and neglect cases. The office’s official start date was July 2023. Gillia was hired as the agency’s executive director six months prior, in January 2023.

Maralyn Beck, founder of the New Mexico Child First Network, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of children in the state’s foster care system, contacted Gillia and the commission’s chairperson Please see story on Page A-5

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks to patrons during a brewery campaign event Monday in Manchester, N.H. Early polling after Ron DeSantis’ exit from the race still shows Donald Trump holding a sizeable lead over Haley as voting begins.

Haley gets desired one-on-one match, still faces long odds

By Lisa Lerer, Jazmine Ulloa and Michael C. Bender The New York Times

With only about 48 hours left to campaign in the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley finally got the two-person race she wanted.

It might not live up to her expectations.

For months, it has been an article of faith among Haley’s supporters and a coalition of anti-Trump Republicans the only way to defeat Donald Trump was to winnow the field to a one-on-one contest and consolidate support among his opponents.

That wishcasting became reality on Sunday afternoon, when Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida ended his White House bid.

And yet, as the race reached the final day, there was little sign that DeSantis’ departure would transform Haley’s Please see story on Page A-4

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Ennedith Lopez with Youth United for Climate Crisis Action addresses the crowd Monday at the Capitol rally to oppose the governor’s water supply proposal. The state announced Monday it is pushing ahead with the plan to purchase treated brackish wastewater from the oil and gas industry for industrial use. Environmental advocates call it a giveaway for the polluting industry.

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he New Mexico Environment Department is pushing ahead with a proposal to tap brackish water and hydraulic fracturing wastewater for industrial use amid opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups that call it a giveaway to the oil and gas industry.

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Energy Secretary James Kenney told lawmakers Monday the department “kicked off” the process last week by issuing a request for information that closes March 31. The department then plans to issue a request for

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He was reclassified Nov. 11 from a full-time employee to a temporary worker, according to a personnel action form from the Human Resources Department.

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IN BRIEF Georgia judge unseals divorce file of lead prosecutor in Trump trial MARIETTA, Ga. — An Atlanta-area judge ordered the unsealing of the divorce file of Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Wade has been accused of having a romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis, prompting calls for both lawyers to be removed from the case.

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson granted a motion from Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for one of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, to unseal records in the divorce case.

Merchant claims the records will back up her client’s allegations about Willis and Wade.

In an emergency hearing Monday, Thompson also stayed a subpoena for Willis to be deposed in the divorce case until after Nathan Wade is deposed Jan. 31. Joycelyn Mayfield Wade, Wade’s estranged wife, is seeking to depose Willis in the divorce case, describing her as Nathan Wade’s “paramour” and someone who can provide insight about his finances.

U.S. identifies Navy SEALs who died trying to seize Iranian arms Two Navy SEALs declared dead over the weekend after a mishap in the Arabian Sea earlier this month were identified Monday as Christopher J. Chambers, 37, and Nathan Gage Ingram, 27.

The pair went missing in rough seas during a nighttime ship-boarding mission that, despite the incident, resulted in the seizure of Iranian-made missile components, U.S. military officials have said.

The weapons, according to U.S. Central Command, were intended to resupply Yemen’s Houthi separatists. Since November, the group has attacked dozens of merchant vessels off the Arabian peninsula, disrupting commercial shipping in the region and setting off an aggressive campaign by the United States and other countries to thwart the assaults and degrade the Houthis’ arsenal.

When the accident occurred Jan. 11, Chambers and Ingram were attempting to board a suspected smuggling boat off the coast of Somalia. One fell from a ladder, the other dove into the sea after him and both were quickly swept away, officials have said.

Landslide buries 47 people in China amid freezing temperatures, snow BEIJING — A landslide buried 47 people Monday in a remote village in mountainous southwestern China, state media said. Hours later, two survivors were rescued amid freezing temperatures and falling snow.

The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province.

By evening, nine bodies had been retrieved and about 500 people had been evacuated from the area.

Rescue crews continued to try to find victims who were buried in about 18 homes, officials said.

‘Los Angeles Times’ owner weighs deep cuts, further stoking tensions Los Angeles Times journalists gathered Thursday at Flora, a rooftop bar not far from the paper’s headquarters, to toast their departing editor, Kevin Merida.

Talk was focused on why Merida, the paper’s editor for nearly three years, had decided to suddenly leave — and about the prospect of deep layoffs discussed in emergency meetings earlier that day, according to four attendees.

In the days since, internal negotiations between the company and the employee union have included talk of about 100 job cuts, or about 20% of the newsroom, according to two of the people, who also have knowledge about the discussions. It has put journalists at the Times at odds with their owner, biotechnology billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. Those relations reached a nadir Friday when employees walked off the job in the newsroom’s first union-organized work stoppage in the 142-year history of the newspaper.

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Demonstrators picket outside the California State University Northridge campus Monday.

About 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and other workers at the California State University system have started a weeklong strike for higher wages and other benefits.

Largest-ever faculty strike begins in Cal State system Walkouts hit all 23 campuses as union members demand better pay

By Soumya Karlamangla

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SAN JOSE, Calif. n the largest university faculty strike in U.S. history, thousands of professors and lecturers throughout the California State University System were among those who walked off the job Monday to demand higher compensation, a protest that was expected to cancel most classes early in the academic period.

The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, began a five-day strike that will affect nearly 460,000 students who attend the nation’s largest four-year public university system. Walkouts began at all 23 CSU campuses.

The strike reflects two national trends in labor, said Ken Jacobs, co-chairperson of the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education: an increase in large-scale strikes, such as those Hollywood actors and writers and members of the United Automobile Workers staged last year, and a rise in education walkouts in particular.

Los Angeles school employees staged a huge walkout in March, and Oakland educators went on strike for nearly two weeks in May. In December 2022, graduate student workers and researchers at the University of California system, the state’s other four-year university system, stopped working for nearly six weeks to protest low wages.

It is rarer for university faculty to go on strike, though 9,000 full-time faculty members, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates and counselors at Rutgers University did so in April.

Jacobs said the unrest among faculty reflected universities’ growing reliance on part-time instructors and others who have very low starting pay.

Workers across industries are grappling with wages that have not kept pace with high inflation, as well as the rising cost of housing and other living expenses, especially in California.

“Given that Cal State is the largest university system in the country, this is a very

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significant strike,” Jacobs said. “We’re starting off this year looking a lot like last year.”

CSU leaders and the faculty association have been negotiating since May, and the union announced this month it planned to hold a five-day strike after university officials offered raises of 5%. The union is seeking pay increases of 12%.

University leaders said the system already spends 75% of its operating budget on staff compensation and cannot afford to increase salaries at that level.

The California State University Board of Trustees last year approved 6% annual tuition increases over five years because system officials said they could not balance their budget otherwise.

“If we were to agree to the increase that these unions are demanding, we would have to make severe cuts to programs,” Leora Freedman, the university system’s vice chancellor for human resources, said in a news conference Friday. “We would have to lay off employees — this would jeopardize our educational mission.” She added the system had recently agreed on 5% pay increases with six other labor unions.

The union also wants to increase the salary floor for full-time employees to $64,360 from $54,360 and is seeking other changes, including caps on class sizes and an expansion of paid parental leave.

“That is where we stand,” the union’s president, Charles Toombs, said. “We know that a systemwide strike in the CSU is going to be historic.”

On Monday morning at San Jose State University, union members in red ponchos demonstrated in the rain, chanting “overeducated and under-compensated,” as well as, “Get up, get down, San Jose’s a union town.”

Ray Buyco, a senior lecturer in the history department, said he was fighting for faculty members who make far below the cost of living in pricey Silicon Valley. The average annual salary for a full-time lecturer at the university is $54,000, he said.

Hazel Kelly, a spokesperson for the university system, said that all campuses would remain open during the strike and that university leaders would try to limit disruptions to students.

FAA urges door plug checks on second Boeing model

By Leo Sands The Washington Post

The Federal Aviation Administration is recommending airlines inspect the door plugs on a second type of Boeing plane after one blew out midflight in another model and caused an emergency landing.

The FAA suggested airlines check the bolts on mid-cabin door plugs on Boeing’s 737-900ER model “as soon as possible” to ensure they are adequately secured, as an “added layer of safety.”

“The Boeing 737-900ER is not part of the newer Max fleet but has the same door plug design,” the agency said.

A door plug refers to an exit that is sealed with a panel, rather than used as a door.

Earlier this month, aviation authorities grounded about 171 of Boeing’s 737 Max 9 aircraft after the door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight blew out minutes after takeoff, leaving a gaping hole beside a row of seats.

The plug fell some 16,000 feet into a backyard below in Portland, Ore.

Sunday’s safety recommendation marked the latest in a string of updates issued by the FAA in the aftermath of the Jan. 5 incident, which the agency has previously said “should have never happened and it cannot happen again.” As well as grounding the Max aircraft, federal officials have increased their oversight of Boeing’s production process and launched a probe into potential flaws, including the role of a key supplier.

“We fully support the FAA and our customers in this action,” Boeing

spokeswoman Jessica Kowal said in a statement early Monday.

Since its first flight in 2006, the 737-900ER has recorded more than 11 million hours of operation and completed 3.9 million flight cycles, with no issues arising relating to its door plug, according to the FAA. In its announcement, the FAA said: “Some operators have conducted additional inspections on the 737-900ER mid-exit door plugs and have noted findings with bolts during the maintenance inspections.”

WASHINGTON — Low approval ratings and rock-bottom consumer confidence figures have dogged President Joe Biden for months now, a worrying sign for the White House as the country enters a presidential election year. But recent data suggests the tide is beginning to turn.

Americans are feeling more confident about the economy than they have in years, by some measures. They increasingly expect inflation to continue its descent, preliminary data indicates, and they think interest rates will soon moderate.

Returning optimism, if it persists, could bolster Biden’s chances as he pushes for reelection — and spell trouble for former President Donald Trump, who is the front-runner for the Republican nomination and has been blasting the Democratic incumbent’s economic record.

But political scientists, consumer sentiment experts and economists alike said it was too early for Democrats to take a victory lap around the latest economic data and confidence figures.

Plenty of economic risks remain that could derail the apparent progress In fact, models that try to predict election outcomes based on economic data currently point to a tossup come November.

“We’re still very early in the election cycle, from the perspective of economic factors,” said Joanne Hsu, who heads one of the most frequently cited sentiment indexes as director of consumer surveys at the University of Michigan.

“A lot can happen.”

The University of Michigan’s preliminary survey for January showed an unexpected surge in consumer sentiment: The index climbed to its highest level since July 2021, before inflation surged.

While the confidence measure could be revised — and is still slightly below its long-run trend — it has been recovering quickly across age, income, education and geographic groups over the past two months.

Recovering confidence could help Biden, said Neil Dutta, an economist at Renaissance Macro, especially if consumer sentiment continues to pick up this year, as he expects.

If sentiment simply hovered at today’s levels, he said, the simple historical relationship between consumer confidence readings and incumbent vote share would give Biden about 49% of the vote.

But the job market is strong, gas prices are moderate and the stock market just hit a record, all of which could drive further improvement.

Ray Fair, an economist at Yale University, has for decades produced the most closely followed model of how the economy feeds into election outcomes.

His model uses hard economic data — growth and inflation — to predict votes.

Its latest update suggested Democrats face a 50-50 chance of winning the White House in November and similar odds in the House.

Why is the race predicted to be so close under this model at a time when economic growth is solid? It boils down to inflation. Voters tend to have long memories when it comes to price increases, Fair said.

They think about how much prices have increased over the course of a president’s tenure, not just the latest inflation reading.

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EU envoys call on Israel to consider negotiating for Palestinian state

By Melanie Lidman and Wafaa Shurafa The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Dozens of family members of hostages held

by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament Monday, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release, as European foreign ministers joined growing international calls for Israel to negotiate on the creation of a Palestinian state after the war.

The developments showed the increasing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has dug in on both fronts. He has insisted to the Israeli public pursuing the offensive in Gaza is the only way to bring the hostages home.

He has also rejected the United States’ vision for a postwar resolution, saying he will never allow a Palestinian state.

The dispute over Gaza’s future pits Israel against its top ally and much of the international community. It also poses a major obstacle to plans for postwar governance or reconstruction of the coastal territory, large parts of which have been left unlivable

by Israeli bombardment.

In southern Gaza, Israeli strikes and shelling intensified in and around the city of Khan Younis, sending Palestinian families fleeing south in pickups

and donkey carts loaded with possessions.

In the city, which has been a battle zone for weeks, people dug graves for the dead inside the yard of Al-Nasser Hospital as staff struggled to deal with dozens of newly killed and wounded, including children.

Health care workers said strikes hit at least four schools sheltering displaced people on the city’s western edges, including two inside a coastal strip Israel had declared a safe zone.

Gaza’s internet and phone networks collapsed Monday for the 10th time during the war.

The repeated blackouts severely hamper distribution of aid that’s essential for the survival of the territory’s population of 2.3 million, U.N. officials said. The loss of service also prevents Palestinians from communicating.

Netanyahu has vowed to continue the offensive until “complete victory” over Hamas and to return all remaining hostages after the Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel that triggered the war. In that attack, some 1,200 people were killed and Hamas and other militants abducted around 250 people.

Israelis are increasingly divided on the question of whether it’s possible to do either.

Around 100 hostages were freed under a weeklong cease-fire deal in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

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A demonstrator holds up her hands with “Time is running out” written in Hebrew during a protest outside the Israeli parliament calling for the release of hostages being held by Hamas.

confirmed dead. Hamas has said it will free more captives only in exchange for an end to the war and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.

Netanyahu has ruled out such an agreement, but anger is rising among hostages’ families. Relatives and other protesters set up a tent camp outside Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, vowing to remain until a deal is reached.

On Monday, dozens of family members of the hostages stormed into a gathering of the Knesset’s finance committee, holding up signs and yelling, “You won’t sit here while they are dying there!”

“These are our children!” they shouted. Some had to be physically restrained, and at least one

Harris slams Trump in fiery message on abortion rights medication and emergency The Washington Post abortions at hospitals.

BIG BEND, Wis. — Vice President President Kamala Harris framed Joe Biden, the fight for abortion access Harris and in searing terms in this battletheir spouses ground state Monday afternoon, will attend a highlighting what she called “the Kamala Harris joint campaign horrific reality that women are rally Tuesday facing every single day” since the focused on abortion access.

Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Biden on Monday convened Wade 18 months ago. two dozen senior officials in the Harris also left little doubt her White House for a meeting of his remarks were aimed at former reproductive health task force, President Donald Trump. where he was joined by several physicians who have practiced in “As we face this crisis and states with abortion bans. as we are clear-eyed about the The Biden campaign also harm, let us also understand posted an online ad Monday that who is responsible, shall we?” alternates clips of Trump boastshe said. “The former president handpicked three Supreme Court ing of his role in overturning Roe v. Wade with testimonials justices because he intended from women whose complicated for them to overturn Roe. He pregnancies were made more intended for them to take away traumatic due to state restrictions your freedoms. And it is a decion abortion. sion he brags about.”

Biden used brief remarks at the Harris’ remarks on the 51st beginning of the White House anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the meeting to blast what he called Supreme Court case granting a “outrageous” policies that punish constitutional right to an abordoctors and pregnant women for tion, came as the Biden adminisabortions. tration is trying to mobilize the He called out Republican state Democratic base around the fight legislators for enacting abortion for reproductive freedom. Her restrictions on the state level appearance was part of a fulland blasted GOP members of court press on abortion rights Congress for putting forward being unleashed by the Biden abortion restrictions that would team this week, as the administration announced a string of new apply nationwide. steps Monday intended to ensure “Even if you live in a state access to contraception, abortion where the extremist Republicans

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are not running the show, your right to choose, your right to privacy would still be at risk” under federal abortion laws proposed by the GOP, he said. “Folks, this is what it looks like when the right to privacy is under attack.”

In addition to doctors impacted by state restrictions on abortion, the meeting featured a wide range of high-ranking officials across Biden’s Cabinet and government, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

While Trump has not called for a nationwide abortion ban and has shied away from the more forceful rhetoric on abortion embraced by some Republican leaders, he has been quick to take credit for the 2022 decision that overturned Roe. It came only after he cemented a conservative majority on the Supreme Court by appointing three justices to the nine-member bench.

“For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it,” he said at a Fox News town hall this month. “I’m proud to have done it.”

The onslaught by the Biden team is notable in part because the president personally has shown discomfort when it comes to offering a full-throated embrace of abortion rights, an area where his private faith as a Catholic may be at odds with Democrats’ public position.

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ership: we will not hesitate to defend lives and the free flow of The Associated Press commerce in one of the world’s most critical waterways in the WASHINGTON — The U.S. face of continued threats.” and British militaries bombed Britain’s Ministry of Defense multiple targets in eight locaconfirmed four Royal Air Force tions used by the Iranian-backed Typhoon jets struck “multiple Houthis in Yemen on Monday targets at two military sites in night, the second time the the vicinity of Sanaa airfield” two allies have conducted with precision-guided bombs. coordinated retaliatory strikes The strikes, said Defense on an array of the rebels’ misSecretary Grant Shapps, were sile-launching capabilities. “aimed at degrading Houthi According to officials, the capabilities” and would “deal U.S. and U.K. used warship- and another blow to their ... ability to submarine-launched Tomahawk threaten global trade.” missiles and fighter jets to One senior U.S. military destroy Houthi missile storage official told reporters the strikes sites, drones and launchers. dropped between 25 and 30 The officials, who spoke on munitions and hit multiple condition of anonymity to distargets in each location, addcuss a military operation, said ing the U.S. “observed good Australia, Bahrain, Canada and impacts and effects” at all sites, the Netherlands contributed including the destruction of to the mission, including with more advanced weapons in the intelligence and surveillance. underground storage facility.

The official said it was the first In a joint statement, the six time such advanced weapons allied nations said the strikes were targeted. specifically targeted a Houthi underground storage site and The official also said fighter locations associated with the jets from the aircraft carrier Houthis’ missile and air surveil- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conlance capabilities. They added, ducted the airstrikes, and other “Our aim remains to de-escalate ships involved included the USS tensions and restore stability in Gravely and USS Mason, both the Red Sea, but let us reiterate destroyers, and the USS Philipour warning to Houthi leadpine Sea, a cruiser.

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Israel’s offensive has killed at least 25,295 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 60,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says around two-thirds of those killed were women and children.

At a meeting in Brussels, European Union foreign ministers added their voices to the calls for a Palestinian state, saying it was the only way to achieve peace.

French Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne said Netanyahu’s rejection of statehood was “worrying. There will be a need for a Palestinian state with security guarantees for all.”

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Trump campaign events turn into running-mate auditions

By Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

MANCHESTER, N.H. — As she addressed a crushing crowd of volunteers and media at Donald Trump’s New Hampshire headquarters on Saturday, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik received a welcome chant.

“VP! VP! VP!” one man shouted across the room.

While vice presidential candidates typically aren’t picked until after a candidate has locked down the nomination, Trump’s decisive win in last week’s Iowa caucuses and the departure of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from the race have only heightened what had already been a widespread sense of inevitability he will be the Republican nominee.

That has given the campaign trail stops by Stefanik and other Republicans the feel of a public tryout reminiscent of Trump’s days as a reality TV host.

Many Republicans covet a spot on the presidential ticket with Trump as a chance to serve in a high-profile role that has elevated many ambitious politicians from relative obscurity.

That interest comes despite the fate of Trump’s first vice president, Mike Pence. For four years, Pence was Trump’s most loyal defender, advocating for him at every turn. But in the final months of their administration, Trump turned on Pence, casting him as disloyal for refusing to go along with his unconstitutional effort to block President Joe Biden’s win.

Pence’s role in certifying the 2020 election not only threatened his life during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol but also sidelined his political career. He would end his own bid for this year’s GOP presiden-

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House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks at Team Trump New Hampshire headquarters on Saturday in Manchester, N.H. Stefanik is a possible choice to be Trump’s vice president should he win the GOP nomination. “I’m proud to be one of his strongest supporters, particularly at key moments,” Stefanik said when asked if she would serve in the role.

tial nomination in October after failing to get traction. Many of Trump’s supporters still believe the former president’s lies about the election and view Pence as a traitor.

The Trump campaign has held several events in both Iowa and New Hampshire with high-profile surrogates.

Beyond serving as opportunities to display their loyalty and star power to Trump’s team, the events serve as a reward for volunteers as well as a recruiting tool that brings in new faces, senior Trump officials said.

Stefanik joined Trump on stage at his Friday night rally in New Hampshire and stopped by his campaign headquarters the next morning to thank volunteers and make calls. In both appearances, she stressed she was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump’s comeback bid.

“I’m proud to be one of his strongest supporters, particularly at key moments,” she told reporters. Asked if she would consider being his running mate, Stefanik said, “Of course I’d be honored, I’ve said that for a year, to serve in a future Trump administration in any capacity.”

Others who have appeared in Iowa and New Hampshire on Trump’s behalf include Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Lake was at a rally Sunday night taking pictures with supporters and holding a baby in the crowd.

Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared with Trump on stage in New Hampshire a day after dropping out of the race, also drawing “VP” chants from the crowd as he delivered a fiery speech.

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optional court appearance in his civil defamation trial that ended up being postponed.

He had no public appearances planned until the evening, when he was to hold a rally in Laconia, N.H., with three vanquished opponents-turned-supporters: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, Vivek Ramaswamy and Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota.

Haley — whose starriest endorsement by a onetime Republican presidential competitor came over the weekend from former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson — insisted there was still hope for her cause.

“America doesn’t do coronations,” Haley said at her first event of the day, in Franklin, N.H. “We believe in choices. We believe in democracy, and we believe in freedom.

I have said I love the live-free-or-die state, but you know what? I want to make it a livefree-or-die country.”

Yet polls show Trump inching closer to the crown. He led Haley by 57% to 38% in a tracking survey released Monday by Suffolk University, The Boston Globe and Boston’s NBC10 television station. An outcome like that in moderate New Hampshire, which long appeared to be a golden chance for a Haley triumph, could effectively end the nomination race.

The Florida governor’s grudging endorsement of a rival who had bullied him with derisive nicknames for months only seemed to add to an aura of inevitability around the former president. If anti-Trump Republicans had once imagined Haley’s rivals coalescing behind her in a show of force to rid their party of the former president, instead the

opposite has happened.

Still, Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokesperson for Haley’s campaign, said Monday morning it had raised $500,000 since DeSantis dropped out Sunday afternoon.

Haley pleaded with New Hampshire voters Monday to change the primary’s direction, casting herself as an outsider taking on Trump and the political establishment rallying behind him.

Underscoring the one-on-one contest, she said in Franklin: “Do we want more of the same or do we want a new generational leader?”

Trump, having declared the primary nearly over during a rally Sunday night in Rochester, N.H., said during a recorded interview that was shown Monday on Newsmax he would not call for Haley to exit the race if she did not win New Hampshire.

“I don’t ask people to drop out,” Trump said. “They drop out of their own volition.”

But he added: “Perhaps she should.

Maybe she’ll drop out on Tuesday.”

In a demonstration of his political muscle, Trump on Monday announced an endorsement from Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., whose 2022 primary campaign he opposed and Haley supported.

Mace was merely the latest South Carolinian to throw public support behind Trump as the state’s primary approaches Feb. 24: In addition to Scott, Gov. Henry McMaster and several state lawmakers flew north to appear with Trump at rallies in New Hampshire.

In an ominous sign of the deceptive role that technology could play in the rest of this year’s campaign, New Hampshire

officials also sought to bat back a robocall some Democrats received from a voice doctored to sound like Biden’s that urged them not to vote in Tuesday’s primary and to “save” their vote for the general election in November.

The state attorney general’s office called the messages “an unlawful attempt to disrupt the New Hampshire presidential primary election and to suppress New Hampshire voters” and urged voters to ignore them.

Haley’s final sprint had the feeling of the last competitive days of the 2020 Democratic primary contest, when Biden gained an insurmountable lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in delegates and backing from voters. But while that occurred after Super Tuesday in early March nearly four years ago, the consolidation of Republican support behind Trump has come after just 110,000 votes in Iowa’s caucuses and before New Hampshire has delivered its verdict.

As in that Democratic primary race, the defeated candidates this year have largely lined up behind a man they have concluded will be their party’s nominee, while a lone factional candidate is insisting that a path forward still exists.

Voters who came to see Haley on Monday said they were hopeful that with DeSantis out of the race, his support would swing to her.

“He was clogging the candidacy. We don’t need extra people,” Sandy Adams, a retired school psychologist who backed Trump in 2016 and 2020, said after Haley poured beers for patrons with her most influential New Hampshire supporter, Gov. Chris Sununu, at T-Bones Great American Eatery in Concord. “She’s ready, she is right, she is what America needs.”

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chances of winning.

Haley quickly learned the role of last woman standing against Trump meant serving as the last target for a party racing to line up behind the former president.

Two former rivals in the race — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, and DeSantis — both endorsed the former president.

The head of the party’s Senate campaign arm proclaimed Trump to be the “presumptive nominee.” And Trump’s campaign strategists vowed she would be “absolutely embarrassed and demolished” in her home state of South Carolina, the next big prize on the calendar.

Campaigning across New Hampshire on Sunday, Haley and her supporters celebrated the DeSantis campaign’s demise.

“Can you hear that sound?” she asked more than 1,000 gathered in a high school gymnasium in Exeter, N.H., her best-attended event in the state. “That’s the sound of a two-person race.”

Thirty-five miles north, in Rochester, N.H., Trump told his crowd to expect a victory so decisive it would effectively end the primary. “That should wrap

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Nikki Haley campaigns in Derry, N.H., on Sunday. Haley is the last woman standing in the Republicans’ presidential race, but she faces a tough challenge in toppling Donald Trump.

it up,” he said.

Haley’s supporters in the state said they were feeling that pressure. Some worried aloud she had pulled punches with Trump for so long that her aggressiveness in the primary’s final weekend would be inadequate to persuade flinty New Hampshire voters that she had enough fight in her to win against the brawling former president.

One Republican activist backing Haley said he kept his lawn sign in his garage because Trump’s victory felt inevitable.

Another Haley backer, Fergus Cullen, a former chair of the

And at the same rally where Stefanik spoke, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, Trump’s former rival in the presidential race, announced his enthusiastic endorsement in what sounded like his own audition.

“We need Donald Trump!” said Scott, leading the crowd in an impassioned call-and-response full of the fervor many of his own campaign appearances seemed to lack. Trump stood behind him grinning.

Trump, too, has been stoking the speculation, saying during a recent Fox News town hall that he already knows “who it’s going to be.” He told Fox News host Bret Baier over the weekend ”there’s probably a 25% chance” he would ultimately pick the person he had in mind, adding: “The person that I think I like is a very good person, pretty standard. I think people won’t be that surprised.”

Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser, declined to address vice presidential prospects or speculation about potential running mates. But he said those who have campaigned on Trump’s behalf in Iowa and New Hampshire “have drawn massive crowds and have all done a fantastic job of energizing voters to turn out for President Trump. So we’re very happy and very excited with both the jobs that they’ve all done but as well, the reception that they’ve all received,” he said.

Trump has been talking through potential choices since well before he formally launched his campaign, throwing out names, peppering friends and Mar-a-Lago members for feedback, and keeping a close eye on those jockeying for the post.

In those conversations, he has often indicated his interest in

New Hampshire Republican Party, described his support for the former governor as unenthusiastic. He said he could not bring himself to defend Haley on social media or lean on friends and family to vote for her.

“Too little, too late,” Cullen said about Haley’s prospects.

“She had to inspire and engage unaffiliated voters, and I just haven’t seen her doing what she needs to do to reach that audience and turn them out in the numbers that she needs.”

Haley’s performance Tuesday is likely to determine the future of her campaign — and possibly her

political career. Anything short of a victory or narrow defeat would put pressure on her to drop out rather than face three weeks of punishing ads from the Trump campaign in her home state, where she is already behind.

Her best shot at survival is high turnout from New Hampshire’s independent voters, who make up 40% of the state’s electorate, while Republicans account for about 30%.

The New Hampshire secretary of state has been predicting record high turnout on Tuesday, a scenario that both campaigns were claiming would bolster their chances of success.

Haley’s donors and allies argued DeSantis’ departure could reel in more donations and help her sharpen the contrast between herself and the former president.

But some longtime political operatives in the state suggested there might not be enough anti-Trump Republicans and moderate independents to make the numbers work.

“Haley has consolidated the non-Trump vote, but overtaking him is the Rubik’s Cube no one has been able to figure out yet,” said Matt Mowers, a former Republican House candidate from New Hampshire who was endorsed by both Trump and Haley.

selecting a woman. Allies also say that while loyalty — and having a dependable attack dog who can effectively defend him — is paramount, Trump is also cognizant that he would enter a second term as a lame duck president and wouldn’t want a second-in-command who might overshadow him with immediate 2028 speculation.

Among those considered high on the list is Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership who has seen her profile rise after her aggressive questioning of a trio of university presidents over antisemitism set in motion two of their resignations.

Mindful that aggressively angling for the job risked backfiring, the once-Trump critic has tried to position herself as a trusted ally of the former president, defending him in both of his impeachments and filing an ethics complaint in New York against the judge hearing his civil fraud case.

During a recent appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Stefanik referred to those imprisoned for crimes committed on Jan. 6 as “hostages.”

At a roadside country western saloon last week in the small town of Kingston, Vance, the senator from Ohio, offered a robust endorsement of Trump to a small crowd seated on bar tables nestled between whiskey barrels.

Vance once called himself a “never-Trump guy” and labeled Trump an “idiot.” But like so much of his party, he has rallied to Trump’s side. He says the two are now “very close” and talk “all the time.” And while he said he would “help out however I can” if he was offered the vice presidential ticket, he said Trump would also need allies in Congress.

“I think that’s the best place for me is to actually be an advocate of the agenda in the United States Senate. But certainly if the president asked, I would have to think about. I want to help him out in however I can,” he said.

Vance said he wouldn’t pretend to give Trump advice on the decision, but Nikki Haley, Trump’s last remaining major Republican rival, would be a poor choice. “Stefanik’s great.

Kristi Noem’s great. I think all these people are great. Tim Scott’s a very, very good dude and would make a great vice president,” he said.

Trump has already effectively ruled out Haley. He said at a rally in Concord last week that his former U.N. ambassador is “not presidential timber.”

Haley is staunchly opposed by many in Trump’s “MAGA” base, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., who said he would go to “great lengths” to prevent her from being offered the job.

Other potential contenders mentioned by Trump allies include Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his former press secretary; Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn; North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who recently endorsed Trump after dropping his own White House bid; Florida Rep. Byron Donalds; and Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Susan Ingrahm-Kelly, 64, from Bedford, N.H., visited Trump’s campaign headquarters to see Stefanik in person Saturday and raved about the congresswoman’s questioning of Ivy League presidents.

“Oh, I think she’s fabulous!” she said. “I absolutely love what she did, this whole thing with the Harvard.”

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Golfers use the driving range in June 2021 at Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe. The manager of the golf course, Jonathan Weiss, was downgraded to a temporary, part-time position with the city in November, shortly before the scheduled transfer of the municipal facility to a private company.

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in hours. His title, as manager of the golf course and MRC, did not change; nor did his hourly pay rate of $47.83.

City Parks and Open Space Director Melissa McDonald, who oversees Weiss’ position, said she was not comfortable discussing personnel issues and directed questions on the change to City Manager John Blair.

Blair also declined to comment, noting it was a matter of city policy.

“We don’t discuss personnel matters, so I won’t get into any specifics regarding Mr. Weiss,” he wrote in an email. “I can tell you that the properties continue to be managed by Mr. Weiss and Director McDonald.”

Weiss did not respond to a request for comment.

Weiss and McDonald both attended the Jan. 10 City Council meeting where councilors unanimously voted to approve a contract for Marty Sanchez to be managed by Indigo Sports beginning in February.

The golf course manager position will remain with the city, McDonald said at the meeting.

In a later interview, she said Indigo Sports will be responsible for running the course and its restaurant but the manager will ensure the contract is fulfilled to the city’s standards, including conducting inspections of the field and having regular meetings with the operator.

“And hopefully if we get this MRC expansion, that’s going to be a growing responsibility, so we’re excited about that,” she said.

The city is requesting $12 million in state capital outlay from the New Mexico Legislature for an expansion to the MRC soccer fields, something youth sports advocates are pushing for as well.

City officials could not

immediately answer whether the golf course and sports complex manager position would continue to be full time. City spokesman Bernie Toon said the city will be taking a comprehensive look at the issue after Indigo Sports’ golf course manager is brought on board next month.

“When he comes in, we’re going to sort of take a soup-tonuts look at the staff there and make any adjustments that we think he has on his first impressions,” Toon said.

Asked who has been managing the course and the MRC in the last several months, while Weiss has been working limited hours, McDonald noted winter is a slow season for the golf course.

“I actually also oversee Jonathan’s work, so a lot of the oversight is also under me,” she said.

One city employee, who asked their name not be published due to fears of retaliation, said the golf course has been lacking oversight since Weiss’ job changed.

The employee had not seen Weiss since mid-November and had seen McDonald only several times since then. The department has not been given a reason for Weiss’ absence, which has been a source of confusion, the employee said.

In an email, the employee wrote the lack of communication has made golf course workers feel “disconnected and disrespected.”

“When employees inquired about the manager’s whereabouts, the response ‘it’s none of your business’ was dismissively echoed back, exemplifying a concerning trend,” the employee wrote. “This evasive reply has become unfortunately common, creating an environment where employees feel hesitant to openly ask questions, even when explicitly told they can.”

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

LEGISLATURE

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Bill to aid rural and tribal health councils moves forward

By Robert Nott

rnott@sfnewmexican.com

Some call them the lifeline of tribal and rural communities, worthy of millions of dollars in investment.

They are the state’s rural and tribal health councils, which serve as health hubs in tribal and rural communities — helping to fight the pandemic, addressing behavioral and mental health needs and ensuring residents

have access to other medical care. They also coordinate vaccination clinics and mobile health unit visits in areas that aren’t served by a hospital.

Members of the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee gave advocates for the councils a win Monday when they unanimously agreed to approve a bill providing $6.6 million to support them.

The funding is key to the survival of the 42 outlets, said Valeria Alarcón,

executive director of the New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils, because a grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support the councils’ public health initiatives during the pandemic will run out in May. The state provides the councils with about $15,000 each, she told the committee members, and they can’t make things work on that limited budget.

If the drop in federal funding is not

replaced by more state funding, she said, it could lead to the loss of staff at about half of the councils.

That will lead to a “major ripple effect in the lives of our community members who are facing barriers every day,” she said.

If House Bill 67 wins legislative approval and is signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, about $6 million would provide roughly $143,000 a year to each of the councils.

The funding can be used for salaries, travel and supplies, plus community education and communications, according to the bill.

Another $600,000 from the bill would allow the state Department of Health to contract with a nonprofit to provide training, technical assistance and other support. It also would help develop a system to evaluate the councils’ effectiveness.

DIFFERENT TYPE OF SPIN AT THE CAPITOL

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Sally DeRadke of Albuquerque holds her son, Kurt, 2, at a rally while they listen to Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, speak in support of a paid family and medical leave proposal Monday at the Capitol. The proposal — designated House Bill 6 in this year’s session — would require both employers and employees to pay into a fund that would help cover a portion of a worker’s wages for up to 12 weeks of leave.

LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP Days remaining in session: 24 One more rally: Dozens of

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Eloy Gonzales plays guitar as Carlos Menchaca and Andrea Lozano with the National Institute of Flamenco perform at the Capitol as part of Monday’s Tourism Day. The dance institute was one of 24 participants at the Capitol for the festivities — which were meant to celebrate and advocate for tourism in New Mexico — with the Santa Fe Opera, the International Folk Art Market, Tourism Santa Fe, El Rancho de las Golondrinas and the Santa Fe Tour Guides Association also in attendance.

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selections, provided the appropriation came through,” he said, referring to a request from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to the Legislature to appropriate $500 million in severance tax bonds to make her “strategic water supply” proposal a reality.

“The strategic water supply is a concept ... to create less reliance on our freshwater and preserve freshwater resources” while allowing the state to grow the economy, Kenney said. The plan would make treated brackish water available for use in manufacturing and construction.

“We’re at a crossroads in how do we preserve freshwater for our communities and keep that as the highest and greatest use” while providing water for industries, he said.

Under the governor’s proposal, the state would purchase the treated water while the private sector would develop all the infrastructure.

“There’s no cost to the state on the infrastructure side,” Kenney said.

The plan to buy what’s known as “produced water” from fracking has unleashed a flood of criticism toward the governor.

A report released ahead of Kenney’s presentation to the Senate Finance Committee asserts Lujan Grisham has “gone out of her way to court the oil and gas industry.”

The report analyzed campaign finance reports and other public records “to illuminate the paths of influence and association that lie behind the governor’s produced water plan.”

According to the report, Lujan Grisham has received at least $1.38 million in campaign contributions from energy-related interests, 64% of which “came from entities primarily engaged in or associated with oil and gas production.”

“This is about a payback to her campaign contributors,” said Mariel Nanasi, executive director of the Santa Fe-based nonprofit New Energy Economy. “It’s the worst in pay-to-play.”

Nanasi called the governor’s proposal a “crazy scheme” that relies on unproven technology.

“It’s like she’s trying to build the Taj Mahal on an EPA superfund swamp site for her campaign

supporters of a proposed statewide program offering paid family and medical leave for workers gathered at the Capitol to once again build support for House Bill 6, which would require both employers and employees to pay into a fund that would help cover a portion of a worker’s wages for up to 12 weeks of leave.

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

Advocates previously held a news conference on the bill before this year’s 30-day legislative session began.

Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, one of the sponsors of HB 6, told Monday’s assembly at the Rotunda that as more states around the country adopt paid leave laws, “Why not New Mexicans?” HB 6 is scheduled to be heard in the House Health and Human Services Committee, though it had not yet been scheduled as of Monday afternoon.

Funds for firefighters OK’d: Supporters of a fund to

recruit and retain firefighters had reason for happiness after members of the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee voted 8-1 to approve House Bill 88.

The bill would appropriate $35 million to the state Department of Finance and Administration to create the fund and establish guidelines for distributing the money to state and local fire departments. The leg-

ABOVE: New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney speaks to the Senate Finance Committee in support of the governor’s water supply proposal Monday. Kenney said the state would only purchase the treated brackish water — the infrastructure for its conversion would be provided by private industry.

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RIGHT: Major aquifers, or groundwater basins, containing brackish water in New Mexico.

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contributors and selling it as a flowering promise for our grandchildren,” Nanasi said during a news conference outside the Roundhouse with other opponents of the governor’s proposal.

Maddy Hayden, a spokeswoman for the governor, wrote in an email the Lujan Grisham administration “continues to build out clean, renewable energy sources at historic rates.”

Hayden rejected Nanasi’s assertion the governor’s plan is a bailout for the oil and gas industry, which Nanasi and others say is leading the push for a hydrogen economy that Lujan Grisham has championed.

“Processes to manufacture and produce power, as well as alternative fuel vehicles, rely heavily on water, which is exactly the purpose of the Strategic Water Supply,” Hayden wrote. “As we continue to build out the clean energy economy, we add good-paying jobs that support the transition away from

fossil fuels, including in frontline communities.”

The governor’s proposal, she added, is critical to those efforts, “as well as efforts to ensure that as the clean energy economy flourishes, freshwater resources are preserved for other uses including agriculture (which encompasses around 75% of water use) and municipal/domestic use (which encompasses around 20% of water use).”

Nanasi said during the news conference the governor’s plan is

intended to help oil and gas producers, particularly in the Permian Basin, “solve their enormous problem with wastewater disposal and allow for continued extraction ... bleeding New Mexico dry.”

Frederick Bermudez, a spokesman for the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, declined to respond to Nanasi’s remarks.

“Water is New Mexico’s most precious resource,” he said. “The state’s oil and gas industry is committed to preserving water and using it as efficiently as possible.”

and vice chairperson via email less than two hours after Gillia’s email went out.

Beck wrote Gillia’s email had been forwarded to her “several times” from recipients of the original email who felt an ethics complaint should be filed “for encouraging state and contract employees to lobby” on the agency’s behalf without disclosing their relationship to the agency.

“It is unclear in the lobbying document … if you want your employees and paid staff to reach out to HAFC on behalf of themselves personally or in their official and state-funded positions,” Beck wrote. “There is also the concern that if a contract employee reaches out to HAFC on behalf of OFRA, can they bill for that time and get paid for doing so?”

Beck concluded by writing she will be filing a formal complaint with the State Ethics Commission, which was copied in her email to Gillia, and also sharing her concerns

islation could include volunteer firefighters who are certified — a plus when it comes to attracting more firefighters, advocates for the bill said.

The bill next heads to the House Appropriations and Finance Committee.

“We need this to recruit the next generation of firefighters,” said Sen. Leo Jaramillo, D-Española, one of the bill’s sponsors. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has voiced a desire to allocate funds for hiring and retaining firefighters, law enforcement officers and other public safety employees this year.

Dignity, not detention: A number of state lawmakers from both legislative chambers introduced a bill that would ban Intergovernmental Service Agreements in an effort to end immigration detention. Senate Bill 145 — which did not show up on the legislative website as of Monday — would prohibit local governments from entering into agreements for local immigration detention centers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A similar effort failed during last year’s legislative session.

The New Mexico Dream Team, which describes itself as a statewide network “committed to create power for multigenerational, undocumented, and mixed status families through trainings and leadership development” issued a news release on the effort Monday, contending detained migrants in three New Mexico facilities have reported violations of their human rights and safety.

Quote of the day: “I want to begin by thanking Ski New Mexico for the passes they give us every year. I was just hounded by a group of lobbyists who handed this to me. It’s personalized, too — ‘Senator Siah Correa Hemphill’ — so thank you.” — Sen. Crystal Brantley, R-Elephant Butte, who is often mistaken for the Silver City Democrat, during a Senate floor session.

The New Mexican

with members of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee.

“Politics has no business in child welfare, and this is disappointing,” Beck said. “I hope our legislators take this seriously and ask hard questions about the future of this agency and its impact on our most vulnerable children and families in New Mexico.”

In a statement, Gillia defended her actions.

“As Director of a new state agency dedicated to providing the highest quality legal representation to children and parents involved in the child and family welfare system, I am statutorily responsible for representing and advocating for the office and its clients,” Gillia said. “This includes advocacy to ensure that the Office of Family Representation and Advocacy is adequately funded to perform the services envisioned by the Legislature when it created the Office, which includes communicating by email with individuals who have voluntarily subscribed to our email list.”

Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

INDIA

N. Korea’s Hindu temple opens on site of razed mosque missiles a Analysts: Pomp-filled display extent to which new worry illustrates line between religion, state has eroded under PM Modi for Kyiv Officials raising concerns North’s latest weapons could allow Russia to overwhelm air defenses

By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes The New York Times

BERLIN — When Russia turned to Kim Jong Un of North Korea to help it through its war with Ukraine, it came with a big shopping list that included 1 million rounds of artillery to shoot at Ukrainian troops dug into trenches across the south and east, and dozens of North Korea’s newest, barely tested missiles.

Now, those weapons are beginning to show up, deeply worrying U.S. and European officials who say they fear the North’s ammunition could prove important on the battlefield at a huge moment of vulnerability for Ukraine.

While many of the North Korean artillery rounds are proving to be duds — some appear to have been manufactured decades ago — they are giving the Russians something to fire at Ukrainian forces, who are rationing their own dwindling supply. European nations promised Ukraine a huge resupply, but for now seem to have been able to scrounge up only 300,000 or so artillery shells.

But it is the missiles that raise the most concern, from the Pentagon to NATO’s headquarters in Brussels. In interviews, a range of officials said they fear the Russians hope to use missiles to overwhelm Western air defenses.

While so far, the number of missiles transferred is small, likely fewer than 50, U.S. and European officials believe there could be far more to come.

And unlike with the artillery rounds, North Korea is not shipping its older equipment. An analysis by Conflict Armament Research, an organization that has documented the arms used in Russia’s war in Ukraine, showed the missiles being provided to Russia are more recent in their design. And U.S. officials say the missiles are proving as accurate as Russia’s home-built equipment. Three barrages of North Korean-made missiles targeted Ukrainian positions around the new year, U.S. officials say, and they believe more were used on the battlefield Sunday.

In South Korea, officials and analysts say the Ukraine war is giving the North something it desperately needs: a testing ground to see how its new missile arsenal, designed for a conflict with South Korea and the United States, fares against Western-designed air defenses.

For now, the air defenses are holding. Last Tuesday, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the top U.S. commander in Europe, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin he believed the Ukrainian military had enough air defenses to survive the winter, two senior U.S. officials said.

But if North Korea increases its missile shipments, and Congress fails to pass additional aid, that calculation could change.

By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi and Biswajeet Banerjee

The Associated Press

AYODHYA, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a controversial Hindu temple Monday that was built on the ruins of a razed historic mosque — a political triumph for the populist leader who is seeking to transform the country from a secular democracy into a Hindu state.

The temple, dedicated to Hinduism’s Lord Ram, sits on a site in the northern city of Ayodhya where Hindu mobs tore down a mosque three decades ago. Its fraught history is still an open wound for many Muslims, who have increasingly come under attack by Hindu nationalist groups. Some see the temple as the biggest example yet of the rise of Hindu supremacy under Modi’s tenure.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu nationalist groups have portrayed the temple’s consecration as central to their vision of reclaiming Hindu pride, which they say was suppressed during centuries of Mogul rule and British colonialism. He and his party hope that opening the temple — which millions of Hindus who worship the deity had demanded — will help catapult the prime

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Thousands attend the opening of a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Ram, in Ayodhya, India, on Monday. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has portrayed the temple’s consecration as central to its vision of reclaiming Hindu pride.

minister to a record third successive term in elections expected this spring.

But with the temple still under construction, critics accuse Modi of a hurried opening to woo voters.

And analysts say the pomp-filled display led by the government marks a key moment in India’s history, showing the extent to which the line between religion and state has eroded under Modi. That distinction was seen by India’s founding

fathers as crucial to maintaining the country’s communal cohesion.

On Monday, the prime minister, dressed in a traditional kurta tunic, led the opening ceremony as Hindu priests chanted hymns inside the temple’s inner sanctum, where a 4.3-foot stone sculpture of Lord Ram was installed last week. A priest blew a conch to mark the temple’s opening, and Modi placed a lotus flower in front of the black stone statue, decked

in intricate gold ornaments and holding a golden bow and arrow. He later prostrated before it.

Nearly 7,500 people, including elite industrialists, politicians and movie stars, witnessed the ritual on a giant screen outside the temple as a military helicopter showered flower petals.

“Our Lord Ram has arrived after centuries of wait,” Modi said in a speech after the ceremony, receiving resounding applause from thousands of attendees.

He said the temple was built after “countless sacrifices” and is testament to a rising India “breaking the shackles of slave mentality.”

“Jan. 22, 2024, is not merely a date but marks the dawn of a new era,” Modi said.

Modi’s government turned the event into a national occasion by organizing live screenings across the country and closing offices for half a day. Saffron flags — the color of Hinduism — adorned the streets of various cities where government party workers had gone door to door handing out religious pamphlets.

Television news channels ran nonstop coverage of the event. Some movie theaters broadcast it live with complimentary popcorn. Many states declared the day a public holiday. In a rare step, stock and money markets were closed for the day.

“Ram Rajya [rule] begins,” a TV news headline said. Ram Rajya is a Sanskrit phrase that means just and ethical governance in Hinduism but has also been used

by Hindu nationalists to signify Hindu domination in an officially secular India.

Over 1 million rally in Germany against rising far-right party to police figures, in Berlin on Sunday, about 100,000 people gathered on the lawns of the BERLIN — Demonstrations Reichstag, which houses Germaagainst the far-right Alternative ny’s lower house of parliament. for Germany party swept the Placards at the protests country this weekend, strength- stressed Germany’s particular ening calls to ban the party, responsibility to stand up to the after a report that AfD members far right, given the country’s had discussed plans for mass dark history under Nazi rule, deportations. which led to the Holocaust.

The report appears to have “Never again is now” and “Now served as a wake-up call for we can see what we would have Germans opposed to the group, done in our grandparents’ posiwhose popularity has surged in tion,” read some banners. recent months, and an estimated The protests were prompted 1.4 million people hit the streets by an investigative report over the weekend. earlier in January revealing In Hamburg and Munich, ral- that AfD members met with lies had to be dispersed because far-right extremists in Potsdam significantly more people than in November to discuss a expected attended. Images from “remigration” plan for when across the country showed the AfD might come to power. masses of people braving According to the report by the bitter temperatures to fill city nonprofit research institute squares and avenues. According Correctiv, Martin Sellner, leader

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of the Austrian Identitarian Movement, proposed a “master plan” that would “reverse the settlement of foreigners.” The focus would be asylum-seekers, nonGermans with residency rights and “non-assimilated” German citizens, the report said.

The idea of sending people to a “model state” in North Africa also was reportedly discussed — similar to a 1940 Nazi plan to deport millions of Jews to Madagascar.

With less than six months to go until Germans head to the polls in European parliamentary election, the AfD continues to maintain its monthslong hold on second position in national polls. At around 22%, the party

is behind the conservative opposition, the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, known as the CDU/CSU, by only single digits.

The approval ratings of the center-left governing coalition, meanwhile, have plummeted to record lows amid higher costs of living, a budget crisis and the debate over migration.

Protests over the past week have underlined the sense of urgency among many voters to have the AfD banned before regional elections in the fall. In September, voters will head to the polls in three eastern states where the AfD is polling as the strongest party.

Asked last week whether the

Interior Ministry was surprised by the Correctiv report, a ministry spokeswoman told journalists that “we cannot comment on intelligence here.” The country’s domestic intelligence “has its eye on these things,” Britta Beylage-Haarmann said.

In the wake of the report, comparisons were immediately drawn to the 1942 Wannsee Conference, also in Potsdam, at which senior Nazi officials formulated the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”

Leading legal organizations in Germany strongly condemned the plans detailed in the report, warning that the November meeting should not turn out to be a “second Wannsee Conference.”

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Despite stark statistics when compared nationally, advocates optimistic policy changes could turn tide

By Margaret O’Hara

mohara@sfnewmexican.com

New data reaffirms what families, advocates and policymakers long have known: It’s hard to be a kid in New Mexico.

The nonprofit New Mexico Voices for Children on Monday released its 2023 Kids Count Data Book, a report that lays bare major health concerns for children and teens, including rising death rates — to 43 per 100,000 people under 18 in 2021 — and an increased prevalence of child abuse.

This year’s Data Book, largely based on child welfare figures collected in 2021 and 2022, also delves into something new: the health impacts of environmental contaminants. It indicates New

Mexico children suffer from asthma, a health condition often linked to pollution, at rates more than double the national averages in some areas.

There are reasons for optimism, said Emily Wildau, a research and policy analyst with the organization, during a news conference Monday morning.

Key policy changes — including expanding accessibility to higher education, paid sick leave, child care assistance and K-12 education funding — are starting to bear fruit, leading to lower child poverty rates, teen birth rates and the number of family heads lacking a high school diploma, she said.

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31-year-old Albuquerque man is facing two counts of contributing to delinquency of minor, interference with protective custody

By Nicholas Gilmore

ngilmore@sfnewmexican.com

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Amy Castro, pre-K teacher at the Kids Campus, reads to her students last year at the Santa Fe Community College. About 13 of every 1,000 children in New Mexico experienced child abuse or neglect between July 2022 and June 2023, higher than 11 in the previous fiscal year.

A former employee of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department has been accused of housing runaway foster teens for months at his home in Albuquerque and providing them with marijuana and tobacco products.

Pedro Martinez, 31, was arraigned Saturday on four felony charges in Bernalillo County Magistrate Court: two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of interference with protective custody.

A spokeswoman for the department confirmed Martinez — who had worked as an investigator with the Child Protective Services Division — is no longer employed by the agency, but she declined to give the date of his departure.

Two brothers ages 14 and 17 told police they had stayed at Martinez’s residence in recent months, and he had given them marijuana and nicotine, according to an arrest warrant affidavit for Martinez.

Police began investigating Martinez after another employee at the department reported her suspicions one or more youth in state custody were staying at Martinez’s home.

Martinez had been served with a “letter of reprimand” from the agency in October 2023 alleging he had violated the department’s policies by using the social media platform Snapchat to communicate with youth while on and off the clock, the affidavit states.

The fellow employee told police she had looked through an Apple watch that belonged to Martinez and found contacts for four “CYFD youth that were listed as runaways,” Please see story on Page A-8

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Chimayó residents wait for mail service at a mobile unit in the parking lot of the village’s community center in October. A fire destroyed the village’s post office in February, forcing residents to go to Santa Cruz for their mail until the mobile unit became active. However, residents have requested a return to full service at the Santa Cruz office until a permanent solution is available.

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he fix is out.

The U.S. Postal Service has gotten rid of the temporary trailers it had placed in Chimayó last fall after the community’s post office was destroyed in a fire in February 2023.

The mobile units, set up in the La Arboleda Senior Center parking lot in October, allowed Chimayó residents to get their mail a little closer to home, rather than having to schlep nearly six miles down the road to the Santa Cruz post office.

For now, however, the Postal Service is returning to its initial course of action — moving all Chimayó business to Santa Cruz — at

the request of the communities’ residents, the agency said in a news release late last week.

The temporary trailers were too small to allow service of anything other than letters and small packages. Larger packages still had to be picked up in Santa Cruz, making it necessary for some residents to visit both sites in a single day.

“It was a very inconvenient situation for people, who would pretty much have to go to two places to do their postal projects,” said Sue Farrington, a 50-year resident of Chimayó who relies on access to a post office box because she lives in an area without delivery service.

U.S. Postal Service spokesman Rod Spurgeon said community members requested the move in a Dec. 8 community meeting organized by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández. Mail service went back to Santa Cruz last month, and the

trailers were removed last week.

Meanwhile, the Chimayó post office appears to still be in limbo.

The property’s owner, Tom Workman of Arizona, has not begun cleanup at the site, which he said was underinsured.

While Workman has not filed a complaint against the U.S. Postal Service, he has petitioned in federal court to be allowed to depose Chimayó post office workers, a request opposed by postal service attorneys. A federal judge this month recommended Workman’s petition be denied, in part because he didn’t show why he hasn’t filed a lawsuit and gained access to information he needs through the discovery, or evidence-sharing, process.

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“ I would like a post office in Chimayó. I think most of us would.”

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Mail trailers return to sender

By Gabrielle Porter

Only issue remaining in $8B merger deal that fell apart earlier this month concerns legality of PRC $10K discovery sanction A question of whether sanctions issued by state utility regulators against Public Service Company of New Mexico and Avangrid were justified during a 2021 proceeding is all that remains of the utility companies’ appeal to the state Supreme Court in a now-defunct merger.

The court Monday partially dismissed the merger appeal while retaining jurisdiction over a question in the case: whether a $10,000 discovery sanction issued by the state Public Regulation Commission against the joint applicants was fair and proper.

Connecticut-based Avangrid for years sought to acquire PNM in a merger deal that was worth more than $8 billion.

The deal was unanimously rejected by former regulators in December 2021 after a monthslong proceeding, and the two companies appealed the commission’s decision to the state Supreme Court, which has yet to issue a ruling on the appeal.

After Avangrid called off the merger earlier this month, both companies requested the court to dismiss the appeal.

However, attorneys for PNM asked the court to issue a ruling on the $10,000 discovery sanction leveled against the utilities by the commission in 2021 along with the company’s Jan. 8 request for partial dismissal of the case.

The commission’s sanction pertained to Avangrid’s response to a commission order in January 2021 to provide violations and fines from the utility and its subsidiaries. A commission hearing examiner called Avangrid’s response to the order “incomplete and evasive” while pointing out several cases the company did not provide.

50-year Chimayó resident Sue Farrington

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Warmer temps continue Ski Santa Fe repairs Tesuque Peak chairlift with possible snow Friday

By Scott Wyland

By Scott Wyland

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The Santa Fe area will further break from the cold snap that for many days coated roads, hills and other surfaces with icy patches.

The area will see highs in the low 40s for most of the week, with a fair chance of snow greeting commuters Friday morning in Santa Fe and Albuquerque as a storm system begins passing through the region Thursday night.

The snowstorm might require the National Weather Service to issue advisories for parts of Northern and Western New Mexico, meteorologist Michael Anand said at the agency’s

weekly briefing Monday.

“It’s still too early to determine how impactful that Thursday-night-heading-into-Friday storm system will be,” Anand said.

“Something to keep an eye on.”

Santa Fe is forecast over the next several days to get average highs of 43 and lows a bit below freezing, which are slightly cooler than normal but balmy compared with the temperatures that didn’t rise above freezing for much of January.

Tuesday might be damp, but that’s more likely to be rain rather than snow south of Santa Fe, Anand said.

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Skiiers ride the triple chair to the top of the mountain last month at Ski Santa Fe. The Tesuque Peak lift that malfunctioned Saturday is set to reopen today after repairs.

The lift that malfunctioned Saturday when one chair slipped backward into another with passengers in the seats is scheduled to reopen Tuesday after undergoing repairs and inspections, a Ski Santa Fe resort manager said.

A chair that held three riders wasn’t reassembled properly after routine maintenance, causing it to lose its grip on the Tesuque Peak triple lift and slide back into a chair with three other passengers.

The entire lift was stopped while the six people were lowered by ropes 30 feet to the ground, said Ben Abruzzo, Ski Santa Fe’s general manager.

“Everyone was checked out, and at this point it appears there were no injuries,” Abruzzo said.

The lift was restarted to carry the remaining patrons to the station, then shut off so crews could do the necessary work, he said.

The mishap was traced back to when 20% of the chairs were disassembled last summer as part of regular maintenance, Abruzzo said. A worker didn’t reassemble one chair correctly, resulting in the chair losing tension on the lift’s suspension device and sliding backward, he said.

Oddly, the mistake wasn’t caught during a test that checks the tension, Abruzzo said.

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Tribes, groups ask court to block SunZia Opponents to $10B energy project say it cuts through culturally significant land

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Ken Ritter The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-powered electricity to customers as far away as California.

A 32-page lawsuit filed Jan. 17 in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz., accuses the U.S. Interior Department and Bureau of Land Management of refusing for nearly 15 years to recognize “overwhelming evidence of the cultural significance” of the remote San Pedro Valley to Native American tribes including the Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni and Western Apache.

The suit was filed shortly after Pattern Energy received approval to transmit electricity generated by its SunZia Transmission wind farm in Central New Mexico through the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson and north of Interstate 10.

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New access roads and tower pad sites west of the San Pedro River, near Redrock Canyon, in Arizona as part of the SunZia Wind and Transmission energy project.

The lawsuit calls the valley “one of the most intact, prehistoric and historical … landscapes in southern Arizona,” and asks the court to issue restraining orders or permanent injunctions to halt construction.

“The San Pedro Valley will be irreparably harmed if construction proceeds,” it says.

SunZia Wind and Transmission and government representatives did not respond Monday to emailed messages. They are expected to respond in court.

The project has been touted

as the biggest U.S. electricity infrastructure undertaking since the Hoover Dam. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the Tohono O’odham Nation, the San Carlos Apache Reservation and the nonprofit organizations Center for Biological Diversity and Archaeology Southwest.

“The case for protecting this landscape is clear,” Archaeology Southwest said in a statement that calls the San Pedro “Arizona’s last free-flowing river,” and the valley the embodiment of a “unique and timely story of

social and ecological sustainability across more than 12,000 years of cultural and environmental change.”

The valley represents a 50-mile stretch of the planned 550-mile conduit expected to carry electricity linking massive new wind farms in Central New Mexico with existing transmission lines in Arizona to serve populated areas as far away as California. The project has been called an important part of President Joe Biden’s goal for a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.

Work started in September in New Mexico after negotiations that spanned years and resulted in the approval from the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency with authority over vast parts of the U.S. West.

The route in New Mexico was modified after the U.S. Defense Department raised concerns about the effects of high-voltage lines on radar systems and military training operations.

Work halted briefly in November amid pleas by tribes to review environmental approvals for the San Pedro Valley, and resumed weeks later in what Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon M. Jose characterized as “a punch to the gut.”

Data: Abuse, early death plague N.M. kids higher rate than white kids.

The child and teen death rate is stretches into its second week, inextricably tied to gun violence, Wildau urged state lawmakers to which overtook car accidents prioritize families and equity, in as the leading cause of death particular a statewide paid famfor kids across the U.S. in 2020. ily and medical leave program; Dozens of New Mexico children continued investments in early die by gunfire each year, an issue childhood and K-12 education; that sparked a fiery exchange in a and increases in the state’s child recent legislative hearing. tax credit, which will go into Sen. Crystal Brantley, R-Eleffect this season. ephant Butte, who opposes “All of these common-sense some proposed gun control decisions ... not only prevented measures — a high priority for a significant decline in well-beGov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — ing for New Mexico kids and falsely asserted more kids in the families, but it also laid a strong state die from abuse and neglect foundation for us to continue under the watch of the state seeing improvements in many Children, Youth and Families indicators of child well-being in Department than by guns. the 2022 data,” Wildau said.

CYFD spokeswoman Caroline Still, there is bad news: New Sweeney wrote in an email Mexico children experience Department of Health data abuse and death at rates higher shows 40 children died by fire— sometimes much higher — arms in 2022, while there were than national averages. four deaths of children in CYFD The rate of 43 out of 100,000 care in 2022 and two in 2023. children and teens who die before “None of these deaths at reaching adulthood far outpaces CYFD were gun related,” the nationwide rate of 30 and Sweeney wrote. She added the has increased steadily over the number of child gun deaths for past decade. Hispanic and Native 2023 was not available.

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dren in New Mexico experienced child abuse or neglect between July 2022 and June 2023, higher than 11 in the previous fiscal year.

The report notes the most recent figure could be an undercount, likely due to the state’s very high rate of chronic absenteeism.

Nearly 2 in 5 New Mexico students miss more than 10% of class time. When children are absent from school so frequently, teachers and other adults might not notice signs of abuse or neglect, the report states.

Despite some of the state’s persistent challenges, Wildau said there’s reason to expect an improved New Mexico in the future.

The rate of students not graduating from high school on time decreased by 10% in the last decade to 23% during the 2019-20 school year. The number of young adults neither working nor in school has dropped, too, to its lowest rate in a decade, as have teen birth rates.

Child poverty rates have held steady at nearly a quarter of New Mexico kids.

That’s not nothing, Wildau said.

“We’ve seen some significant policy improvements in the past few years that point towards a bright future for the state,” she said. “If lawmakers continue putting kids and families first — particularly by continuing to invest in policies and programs that are only just beginning to show fruit — we expect to see more improvements in the coming years for New Mexico’s kids.”

Wildau argued lawmakers should focus on prioritizing children and families this legislative session with higher per-child tax credits, continued investments in education and paid family leave.

They should do it with an eye on equity, she added, because outcomes remain worse for children of color — 77% of all New Mexico children — in nearly every indicator.

“Equality of opportunity is not something that will just happen,” Wildau said. “It has to be a product of policies and programs that work together to create a foundation for all of New Mexico’s kids and families and communities [to] have an equal chance to strive for success.”

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according to the affidavit.

Police questioned Martinez earlier this month at his home, the affidavit states, and he admitted to housing two teen boys “on and off for the past two months.”

The 14-year-old told police he had stayed at Martinez’s home for about three months and that his older brother stayed there for about a week, the affidavit says.

Police wrote in the document the younger boy also alleged Martinez “would give them weed and nicotine all the time” and that two other juveniles had stayed at his residence concurrently.

Martinez was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Bernalillo County on Friday evening, and a judge’s order the next day allowed for his release.

Supreme Court because “We believe it is important to uphold the principle Avangrid paid the $10,000 sanction that utilities should not face sanctions “under protest,” its attorneys wrote for activities beyond their control.” in a brief for the merger appeal, and Joanie Griffin, a spokeswoman for requested the court vacate the sanction Avangrid, declined to say whether a from the record. court ruling on the sanctions would PNM attorneys wrote on Jan. 8 the affect Avangrid or its parent company, sanction penalized the utility “without any basis, and specifically without evi- Iberdrola of Spain.

“We can’t speculate as to whether a dence or notice and due process,” since it had jointly applied with Avangrid for Supreme Court decision might impact the merger but had nothing to do with Avangrid or not,” Griffin wrote in an email Monday. “But what is clear is the discovery process on which the that Avangrid and Iberdrola are no penalty was based. longer parties to the appeal.”

PNM spokesman Ray Sandoval A spokesman for the commission said in a state the utility is seeking a ruling on the sanction from the state did not return a request for comment.

Warmer temps with possible snow Friday Niño predictions.

Looking ahead into late forecast to move into the state February, storms are expected from the south over the weekto remain active throughout the end, warming temperatures to country, increasing the probabilthe seasonal average or a little ities of precipitation across the above it, he said. desert Southwest, Anand said.

Santa Fe’s temperatures could Meanwhile, El Niño, a Pacific reach the 50s by early next week, Ocean climate pattern that often according to weather data. causes wetter Southwest winThe extended outlook for ters, is fulfilling expectations by the next two weeks is warmadding to snowpack in regional er-than-average temperatures mountain ranges. This is a boon and precipitation across the to ski resorts and, if it continues, Southwest, again following the El will swell spring runoff to supply Continued from Page A-7

water to irrigators, pueblos and cities.

“Definitely exceeding what’s normal this time of year, and that’s really good news,” said Andrew Mangham, a Weather Service hydrologist.

Still, Mangham said he’d like the high-country snow increase in the northern mountains stretching into Colorado to bolster the spring runoff that will flow into New Mexico.

The Santa Fe ski basin received below-average snowfall

during November and the first weeks of December, prompting resort managers to crank up snowmaking efforts.

That’s changed in the past few weeks, with a series of storms dropping ample snow on the slopes, said Ben Abruzzo, Ski Santa Fe’s general manager.

Now they plan to produce snow mainly for the heavily trafficked areas, Abruzzo said.

“It was a slow, warm start for sure,” Abruzzo said. “We seemed to have turned a corner.”

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The New Mexico State Fire Marshal’s Office conducted an investigation into the fire but was not able to determine its source or ignition material, according to a report issued by the agency.

Workman said Monday he wants to ask postal workers more about how the fire started.

“It happened on their watch,” he said.

Workman said he agrees it is his responsibil-

ity to clean up the property, but said he will not start the process until his petition is resolved.

“As soon as the U.S. attorney allows us to question the postal employees regarding the involvement with the fire, then we can move forward,” Workman said, adding Postal Service officials are “the ones stopping this, not me.”

Asked whether he plans to file a lawsuit, Workman said that is “up to my attorney.”

The Postal Service, meanwhile, says it’s waiting on Workman.

“We’re currently waiting on the landlord’s

decision on next steps for the property,” Spurgeon wrote in an email Monday. “We’ll look at alternative options next month if next steps haven’t been initiated.”

Farrington said while she’s glad about the move back to Santa Cruz, she’s frustrated the Chimayó site still has not been cleaned up and that there’s no permanent solution.

“I would like a post office in Chimayó. I think most of us would,” Farrington said. “It’s a mess. It’s an eyesore, and it’s a danger to people. ... It’s ridiculous.”

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There was no immediate danger to students or staff, he added.

S.F. High, police investigate threat

Three waterlines west of city break

Santa Fe High School was placed on a brief lockdown Monday morning as law enforcement and school officials investigated an allegation a 15-year-old boy had brought a gun on campus.

Santa Fe police responded to a report of an incident at the school around 8:30 a.m., according to a news release issued Monday. The teen had gotten into an altercation with another student Friday and was accused of displaying the gun, according to the release.

School staff spoke with the teen Monday, and he abruptly left campus. Police said in the release they spotted his pickup in the 3000 block of Calle Princesa Juana and then found the teen, who told them he had obtained the firearm in December.

The lockdown was lifted by 10 a.m. Monday, Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez wrote in a message to The New Mexican.

About 200 Santa Fe County households were affected by three waterline ruptures Sunday evening west of Santa Fe. Two of the breaks occurred in the Aldea neighborhood, Santa Fe County spokeswoman Olivia Romo wrote in an email Monday.

One of the breaks, at Camino Barranca, disrupted water service for about 150 households, while another, at Plaza Nueva and Nuevo Milenio, affected about 25.

The causes of the line breaks were “undetermined,” Romo wrote, and county workers expected to restore water service by 10 p.m. Monday.

A third break, in the Las Campanas neighborhood, was repaired

by Monday afternoon, and water service was restored, Romo wrote, but workers were still testing water in the line to ensure it was safe to drink. That break disrupted service to about 25 households.

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glitches were missed, Abruzzo said.

They also conducted visual inspections on all 163 chairs on the lift, he said, adding combing through everything is what’s taking so long.

“Anything that looked odd we’re also taking apart and inspecting,” Abruzzo said. “That’s quite a few chairs.”

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As a precaution, crews disassembled, examined and then reassembled the same 20% of chairs that were previously worked on to ensure no other

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FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS JEROME ANTHONY GALLEGOS

OCTOBER 13, 1979 - JANUARY 13, 2024 Santa Fe - To know Jerome is to love him.

Jerome Anthony Gallegos, age 44, passed away on January 13, 2024, in Rio Rancho, NM. Born in Santa Fe to Loretta Romero and the late Jerry Gallegos, He resided in Santa Fe, both on the south and west sides, before relocating his family to Rio Rancho.

Jerome worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for 17 years. He later started his own company, All Time Transport.

He was happy with this achievement.

Jerome’s family meant the world to him. He cherished his three sons, Michael, Dante’, and Rome’, as well as his mother, Loretta.

JEROME WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED! He was preceded in death by his father, Jerry Gallegos, and his grandparents, Gilbert Max and Lourdes Romero, Juan Gallegos, and Celina Lopez. Uncles Robert Romero and Jimmy Paul Gonzales, and his cousins Ivan Trujillo and Alfred Espinoza. Also, the late Amanda Otero.

He is survived by his mother, Loretta Romero, and his sons, Michael Gallegos and Denae, Dante’ Gallegos, and Rome’ Gallegos, along with Rome’s mother, Deserae. He is also survived by his aunts and uncles: Maxine and Edwin Chavez, Gilbert Romero and Pam Bowker, Rick and Merna Romero, Darlene and Derrick Chee, Claudine and Chip Collignon, Pauline Lopez, and Sheila Romero. His closest cousins, Paul Robert and Vickie Gonzales, Cousins, Derrick James and Daiden Chee, Jayme and Ed Saxon, Ginger and Savanah Espinoza, Candice and Adam Alhanfoosh, Tamara and Gary Neville, Mariah and Raphael Marmor, Eric and Marianna Chavez, Eugene Chavez, Stephanie and Josh Duran, Junior, Lee Lopez, Michelle, Palmita, Tina, and numerous other aunts and uncles, cousins, and close friends who loved him dearly.

Pallbearers: Derrick and Daiden Chee, Eric and Eugene Chavez, Paul Gonzales, Junior, Mike Patterson, and Leno Salazar.

Honorary Pallbearers: Carlos Archuleta, Leanard Salazar, and Chris Salazar The rosary will be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Santa Fe on Thursday, January 25, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., with viewing at 6:00 p.m. The funeral will be on Friday, January 26, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at Rosario Cemetary.

Funeral arrangements are under the care of Berardinelli Funeral Services.

LEANDRO BENAVIDEZ Leandro Benavidez, 89, born September 3, 1934, was called home to be with our Lord on December 23, 2023, at his home in Tesuque.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Lucas and Cleotilde Benavidez; brothers Ernesto, Jacobo, Jose, Frank, David, and Eloy Benavidez; sisters Sara Padilla, Lucille Jimenez, and Nora Jimenez; as well as many other relatives.

Leandro is survived by his wife of 61 years, Julia, Sisters Inez Sena (Frank), Cordelia Benavidez, only surviving Uncle Julian Nieto, Aunt Nellie Griego, daughters Yvonne Benavidez, Frances (Garrett), grandchildren Francine (Eric), Xavier (Angelica), Shawn, and great-grandchildren, Izaiah, Xavier, Jeremiah, Lucas, and Ezekiel. He is also survived by his sisters-in-law, Jennie Martinez, Louisa Garcia, and Johnny Jimenez.

Services: Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 417 Agua Fria St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Rosary :10:00AM Mass:10:30AM Burial: Santa Fe National Cemetery 501 N Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501, Burial: 12:30 PM Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

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When it’s muddy, stay home or plow right through

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now and ice are a reality of the winter season in New Mexico. And where there’s snow and ice, mud is sure to follow.

In town, mud is less of a bother. Sidewalks and roads are paved. Many yards are covered in gravel; even in parks, where grass and dirt lend themselves to mud, people usually can find a paved trail on which to avoid the mess.

Where mud is a problem is in the country, where many roads are unpaved and dirt yards surround many homes. Mitigating mud — thus the need for “mud” rooms — is a fact of country life.

Mud needs more than mitigation, however.

Sometimes, people need to avoid mud completely — as in, avoid hiking on muddy trails or, at the least, know how to do as little damage as possible when getting outdoors.

This, by the way, also holds true during spring snowmelt and in summer monsoon seasons.

Hiking through mud isn’t just hard on boots. It can harm the environment. Movement along muddy trails, whether by foot or bicycle, can lead to erosion and the compaction of soil. Those, in turn, can cause damage that is expensive to repair.

Hikers who seek to avoid that muddy puddle will veer toward the edges of the trail; such avoidance can break down trail edges and harm nearby vegetation.

Repeated pressure of feet or wheels along the trail, pressing into the mud, can lead to path erosion. Over time, the trails become uneven and hard to traverse.

Soil compaction as opposed to erosion causes another problem. As the dirt becomes harder under the pressure of boots, it is less able to soak up precipitation.

That can cause flooding because the precipitation can’t be absorbed and the resulting water runoff will cause further erosion.

If you do decide to hike in the mud, the key is to stay on the trail and avoid damage along the sides. Do some research ahead of time — hikers often report trail conditions on social media. South-facing trails will dry more rapidly and can be attractive hikes even as the snow is melting. Other trails are built so they drain rapidly; again, that will reduce mud.

Carry trekking poles to help maintain balance.

Mud gets worse as the sun grows hotter, an incentive to hit the trails early. The ground will be firmer and hikers less likely to either cause damage or get bogged down.

A bonus of an early morning hike is the trails likely will be in the best condition of the day. Because ice might be present, use a traction aid on your boots to avoid slipping.

But remember — if you’re hiking and find mud, don’t try to avoid it. Go through the mud and the puddles.

Seeking to avoid puddles by taking to

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CO M M E N TA RY C H A R L ES M . B LOW

Rejecting food aid for kids is wrong — and cruel

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Governor’s call for panhandling crackdown raises concerns, Jan. 19

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Would this also prohibit people from selling newspapers on medians, for instance on Zia at the corner of St. Francis? They do the exact same thing that panhandlers do: They approach vehicles and engage in momentary contact. Presumably that would also be dangerous and should therefore also be illegal. Though making it illegal might be a violation of the First Amendment.” Rachel Thompson

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These are human “ beings. If this is the only

way they have to make money, why is it wrong?”

Pam Walker

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 23, 1924: The state health bureau’s weekly summary of reportable diseases shows 65 cases of measles reported last week in all counties. Chaves with 10, Colfax with 15 and McKinley with 14 cases, appear to have sizeable outbreaks.

Jan. 23, 1974: The House Transportation Committee approved today an emergency measure that would lower the maximum speed limit in New Mexico to 55 miles per hour, but included a crucial amendment until March 2.

The measure is required under recently passed federal legislation, which gave each state until March 3 to comply with the fuel conservation move.

Jan. 23, 1999: Municipal Judge Frances Gallegos said she wants to make it easier for those who have to go to court but aren’t get there during the week.

So, beginning Jan. 30, Municipal Court will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. the last Saturday of the month through March.

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State of the State protest courageous

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he irony of Rep. John Block’s comment calling climate and anti-war protesters “insurrectionists” for speaking out from the gallery during the governor’s State of the State address is rich (“Short session, big agenda,” Jan. 17). Young people exercising their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully and call for courageous leadership on issues impacting their lives is a far cry from an insurrection.

The representative’s comments expose the fascist tendencies of the GOP, who apparently think the United States should be ruled by their king and no one should be allowed to speak out against government. That’s downright un-American. I applaud the protesters for their courage to speak when their voices are so often drowned out by the oil and gas dollars blanketing the Roundhouse. Especially when the governor has the gall to call New Mexico a “clean energy state” while her administration has presided over the expansion of oil production from 531 million barrels to 658 million barrels in just the past year.

Saraswati Khalsa

Española

A binary choice Hamas’ attack of Oct. 7 was unforgivable. Still, I am outraged, and as a Jew, embarrassed, by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of innocent Palestinians. I believe it is wrong morally and politically. I’m disappointed that President Joe Biden is unconditionally supporting the Israeli government.

I empathize with state Democratic Party official Will Weir’s (“Colfax County Democratic Party

chairman withdraws support for Biden,” Jan. 17) withdrawal of support for Biden in the upcoming election. I know this comes from a place of helplessness and frustration, but I think this is big wrong and dangerous. We have a two-party system, and until we get ranked-choice voting, where you can “vote your conscience” and not in essence help the other guy, one of our two major parties’ candidates will run our country. If Islamophobic Donald Trump were in office, it would be worse for the Palestinians and foreign policy in general. Also worse for women, people of color, gun safety and, oh yes, democracy.

Leslie Lakind

Santa Fe

Not here Assault weapons have no place in a civil society.

Paula McClean

Santa Fe

Longer setbacks At present, New Mexico has no setback rules for oil and gas wells. House Bill 133 is a good start to correcting this. However, as a retired oil, gas and minerals director, I don’t believe 2,250 feet is nearly enough. The oil and gas industry has made great strides over the last two decades drilling horizontal wells. The longest lateral drilled in the United States today is 4.5 miles.

Rather than the proposed 2,250 feet setback in HB 133, let’s ask for 5,280 feet, or 1 mile.

Terry Warnell

Santa Fe

M Y VIEW DAWN BOULWARE

A clean fuel standard will protect the outdoors

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outer trail edges means you could end up widening the trail. Use rocks when possible — stepping on them can help avoid both mud and puddles. But in truth, when hiking after a snowfall — unless you find paved trails — your gear will get muddy.

Wearing gaiters and waterproof socks can help protect clothing and feet. Take plastic bags with you in your car or truck so that when you return, all muddy, you can put the boots in the bag and avoid spreading the muck. Take other shoes for a change. It’s going to be messy.

Mud is a fact of life. It’s up to humans to make sure that as we slog our way in nature, we do as little harm as possible. On many sunny, after-snow days, the best choice is to use urban, paved trails or go high in the mountains — try snowshoeing, skiing or snowboarding. Use the snow, in other words, and leave the mud behind. Nature will thank you.

ew Mexicans share an appreciation and love for the amazing outdoors in our state — in fact, it is why most of us choose to live here. At Taos Ski Valley, we are committed to helping everyone enjoy the mountains that we share to the fullest, while simultaneously learning how to be the best stewards of this place so that its beauty and benefits can be preserved for generations to come.

We have learned the energy we use for operating our resort has contributed to the climate changes that are imperiling the very environment we revere and celebrate every day.

This is why we committed to being Certified Carbon Neutral and have maintained that status since 2021. And, while we continue to take steps to reduce our carbon footprint even further, such as maximizing the efficiency of our buildings, providing transportation to our staff and electrifying our fleet, we cannot do this alone.

We are thankful to Kit Carson Electric Co-op’s leadership for investing in solar energy to provide us with renewable electricity. And we want to take this opportunity to thank our New Mexico state representative, Kristina Ortez, for sponsoring House Bill 41 in this legislative session, which provides authorization for a clean transportation fuel standard in New Mexico.

In New Mexico, transportation fuels are the largest source of air pollution and carbon emissions. New Mexicans consume almost twice the U.S. average per capita in fuel because of the distances we must travel. The clean transportation fuel standards will provide reliable, long-term support for decarbonizing transportation without using taxpayer funding.

The new standards will attract renewable fuel producers to our state that will, in turn, help make New Mexico a leader in low-carbon fuel

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

production. This legislation will also increase access to alternative and renewable fuels at the pump, which will hold down prices by providing New Mexicans with more options that are not tied to the very volatile crude oil market.

More important, while the economic reasons are compelling, the adoption of a clean transportation fuel standard will reduce air pollution across our state and will literally help New Mexicans breathe easier. We will also benefit by having cleaner skies while we enjoy our time outdoors.

We urge our fellow Certified B Corporation and outdoor recreation business colleagues and our fellow New Mexicans to give their full support to a New Mexico clean transportation fuel standard.

Dawn Boulware is the vice president of social and environmental responsibility for Taos Ski Valley.

ecently I read something that shocked me, even if it really shouldn’t have: Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.

Some of those states have some of the highest poverty rates in the country, including Mississippi, with the highest rate, and Louisiana, where I grew up, with the second-highest. When Louisiana rejected the lunch program, a Democrat was still the governor; on Jan. 8, a Republican took over.

According to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, seven of those states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Wyoming — are among those that have not fully extended Medicaid to the poor under the Affordable Care Act. Imagine withholding funding for food that would keep children healthy, while denying people medical care when they get sick.

The cruelty of it is almost incomprehensible, but I’m convinced this is all part of the punitive posture of so many of today’s Republicans — which in this case is meant to punish poverty, to intensify hardships: their version of an economic “scared straight” program.

I was a child who benefited from a summer lunch program.

In fact, I didn’t know of a child who went to my school who didn’t eat free or reduced-price lunches during the school year or participate in the free summer lunch program.

Most of the families I knew seemed to be in poverty or skating just above it, which was the case with my family, as my mother supported a household of six on a paltry teacher’s salary.

Constantly trying to better our lives and hers, she took evening and summer classes to earn certifications and an advanced degree — and that was when she wasn’t teaching night GED classes or summer school.

So, the free summer lunch program available to us was helpful to her. But it didn’t lift the burden completely.

Summer lunch programs were for just that: lunch. They didn’t provide breakfast, which only some families could provide during the school year. My family could afford that expense. I doubt every other family could.

Last month, Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska said his state would reject the new grocery aid funds in favor of the federal Summer Food Service Program and that his state was going to “take care of every one of these kids through the summer, feeding them,” but: “We just want to make sure that they’re out. They’re at church camps. They’re at schools. They’re at 4-H. And we’ll take care of them at all of the places that they’re at, so that they’re out amongst [other people] and not feeding a welfare system with food at home.”

In a small town like the one where I grew up, there were no summer enrichment programs. We had to keep ourselves busy as parents went off to work, most in neighboring communities.

In that way, the school cafeteria where summer lunch was served was more than just a place that served meals. It was also a congregational place where kids could socialize with other kids, where we could fight off loneliness and isolation.

Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, announcing in December that her state would reject the new funds, said, “An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

But it has been my experience that when people don’t have the money for healthy groceries, they’ll scrounge up just enough money for junk — anything filling — because hunger is a vicious beast from whom all want to steer clear.

My mother often told us about catching a ride every day to college, which for her was about 20 miles away. And because she couldn’t afford lunch like most other students, she would pack a honey bun. It wasn’t nutritious, but the high sugar content would make her feel full.

These are the choices poor people make, and giving them the greatest amount of flexibility to make choices for their families is not only smart policy, it also extends a modicum of respect.

But respect for the poor is anathema to some people.

And the decisions of these 15 states comes at a time when lower-income families are truly feeling the pinch.

During the coronavirus pandemic, many families received additional food aid, which was tremendously helpful. But now that it has been cut back, one 2023 report found, 4 in 10 families who had received that extra benefit are skipping meals. And what might seem to some like a minor scaling-back can have devastating consequences for a family.

The governors, mostly Republican, putting philosophy over food are displaying astonishing political callousness.

Charles M. Blow is a columnist for The New York Times.

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POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe .Severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3, . . . .Low ... .Allergens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper ......

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Source: https://pollen.com

TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

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The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

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Partly Cloudy.

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NEW MEXICO WEATHER Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

Taos 43 / 26

Farmington 47 / 32

Raton 45 / 26

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Pecos 44 / 27

Gallup G 4 / 24 41

San Francisco 61/49

Las Vegas 46 / 27

Albuquerque 48 / 34

Clovis 50 / 35

Ruidoso 42 / 29 Truth or Consequences 55 / 37

Sillver City 44 4 / 35

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The Northeast will see mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain and snow, highest temperature of 49 in Salisbury, Md. The Southeast will experience cloudy skies with scattered rain and isolated snow, highest temperature of 79 in Big Pine Key, Fla. In the Northwest there will be partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain and snow, highest temperature of 58 in Roseburg, Ore. The Southwest will see mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers, highest temperature of 72 in Brawley, Calif.

WEATHER HISTORY

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Alamogordo 59/37 mc 53/37 sh 54/32 sh Albuquerque 52/38 mc 48/34 sh 53/30 mc Angel Fire 38/21 mc 38/17 mc 36/18 mc Artesia 66/25 pc 52/34 sh 58/32 pc Carlsbad 66/29 pc 56/37 sh 60/35 pc Chama 43/24 mc 42/23 mc 41/20 rs Cimarron 38/21 mc 45/27 mc 46/26 mc Clayton 54/28 pc 46/29 mc 47/30 mc Cloudcroft 59/37 mc 35/23 ss 36/20 ss Clovis 62/24 pc 50/35 sh 52/31 mc Crownpoint 42/26 mc 39/29 rs 40/30 mc Deming 57/43 mc 55/37 sh 56/32 sh 42/31 mc 48/31 sh 49/26 mc Espan~ ola Farmington 46/36 ra 47/32 mc 46/29 mc Fort Sumner 61/31 pc 49/32 sh 53/30 mc Gallup 43/33 mc 41/24 rs 42/21 mc Grants 44/27 mc 41/25 sh 45/24 mc Hobbs 61/34 pc 52/39 sh 57/36 pc Las Cruces 58/39 mc 56/39 sh 57/34 sh

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Jan. 23, 1988 - Northeastern Colorado experienced its most severe windstorm in years. A wind gust to 92 mph was recorded at Boulder, Colo. before the anemometer blew away. In the mountains, a gust to 120 mph was reported at Mines Peak.

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AIR QUALITY INDEX

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Mostly Cloudy.

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

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

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WATER STATISTICS

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

The following water statistics of January 22nd are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.952 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 2.702 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 6.654 Total consumption: 6.395 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.56 Reservoir storage: 215.84 Estimated reservoir capacity: 16.89%

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7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE

Santa Fe Airport Temperatures .High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47°/32° ......

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‘Revolutionary’ way to feed world that’s very old Acclaimed $100M U.S. program aims at enticing African farmers to produce traditional crops

By Somini Sengupta The New York Times

Cary Fowler once helped build an Arctic vault to save the world’s great variety of crop seeds from extinction. Now, as the State Department’s global envoy for food security, he is trying to plant a new seed in U.S. foreign policy.

Instead of urging developing countries to grow only huge amounts of staple grains, like maize, as American policy has done for decades in Africa, Fowler is promoting a return to the great variety of traditional crops that people used to grow more of, like cowpeas, cassava and a range of millets.

He calls them “opportunity crops” because they’re sturdy and full of nutrients.

The effort is still in its infancy, with a relatively tiny budget of $100 million. But at a time when climate shocks and rising costs are aggravating food insecurity

ARLETTE BASHIZI/NEW YORK TIMES FILE PHOTO

Farmers dry a cassava crop in Kijumba, Uganda, last year. A new U.S. program is trying to promote a return to traditional crops like cowpeas, cassava and millets.

and raising the risks of political instability, the stakes are high.

Fowler’s boss, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos the idea could be “genuinely revolutionary.”

Traditional crops are more nourishing for people who eat them and for the soils in which they are grown, according to Fowler, and they are better at

withstanding the wild weather delivered by climate change. The problem, he says, is that they’ve been ignored by plant breeders.

His goal, through the new State Department initiative, is to increase the agricultural productivity of the most nutritious and climate-hardy among them.

The initial focus is on a half dozen crops in a half dozen countries in Africa.

“These crops have been grown for thousands of years in Africa, Fowler said in a recent interview. “They’re doing something right. They’re embedded in the culture. They really supply nutrition. If they have yield problems or other barriers to commercialization, frankly, by and large, it’s because we haven’t invested in them.”

Critics say that while a focus on crop diversity and soil health is welcome, breeding crops for the commercial market may do little to improve the health and well-being of small farmers in low-income countries. It’s still unclear who would produce the seeds, whether farmers would have to buy them, to what extent the new seeds need chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and whether genetically modified seeds would be included.

Fowler’s office said individual countries would set their own guidelines on what kinds of seeds would be permitted in their territories and how they would be procured.

“There are some interesting hints or nods in the right direction: the focus on crop diversity and

nutrition, Indigenous knowledge, a focus on neglected crops,” said Bill Moseley, a professor at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., who has worked on agriculture programs with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank. “What’s really important is that you think about a poor farmer and what are their constraints and how do you develop something that’s really useful for them.”

Fowler began by compiling a list of traditional crops that pack the most nutrition and then asked researchers to map which crops would grow well in the climates of the future. A handful of private companies have been recruited, including IBM to help map soils and Bayer to produce some of the seeds.

Fowler said that he wants to expand the range of crops that get attention and investment.

“We focused on traditional and Indigenous crops, because they haven’t gotten the focus ever before,” Fowler said. “This program is not about telling farmers when to grow or telling people what to eat. It’s about presenting options.”

Does consuming cannabis make you a nicer person?

New study suggests there could be connection between marijuana use and empathy

By Hannah Docter-Loeb The Washington Post

Some people may turn to weed for anxiety, sleep and creativity. New research suggests it could also make you a nicer person.

The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research, suggests there could be a connection between cannabis use and empathy.

A study of 85 regular cannabis users and 51 nonusers asked participants to complete a test that measures empathy.

Researchers also used brain imaging to study some of the subjects, analyzing a region of the brain that plays a central

role in mediating the empathic response.

Cannabis users scored higher on a part of the test that assessed emotional comprehension, or the ability to understand another’s emotional state. In the imaging section of the study, cannabis users had greater connectivity in areas associated with emotional and empathy-related regions.

Víctor Olalde-Mathie, an author of the paper and a neuroscientist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, said he was motivated to explore the link between cannabis and empathic ability because of the sparse research on tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis.

Olalde-Mathie believed cannabis users could demonstrate higher empathy because of the suggested anxiety-mediating effects of cannabis. “If you’re not so anxious, your physiological response and autonomic response is not so high,” he said. “You can

use your resources.”

While there is limited research on cannabis and empathy, a study published in 2022 on cannabis and pro-social behaviors also suggests potential positive effects of cannabis. In the study, 146 college students, who had varying amounts of THC in their urine, filled out a questionnaire that gauged measures of pro-social behaviors, empathy and morality.

People who use cannabis “tend to have enhanced sense of care for other people and be motivated to engage in the world in a way that is benign and selfless,” said Jacob Vigil, a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico and one of the study’s co-authors. Since completing the research, Vigil started a retail cannabis company.

Results of empathy research can vary depending on how it’s studied. A 2016 report used a technique called “event-

related potential” that assesses participant’s responses to a series of stimuli.

The researchers found that empathic processing was impaired in cannabis users compared to nonusers.

“They can focus in on the emotion but can’t empathize,” explained Lucy Troup, one of the study’s authors and a neuroscientist at the University of the West Scotland.

The mixed results suggest that it may be that individual and situational differences play a large role in how you react to cannabis. “We’re not all the same,” Troup said.

The recent research shows an association between cannabis use and empathy, but doesn’t prove cause and effect, said Carrie Cuttler, a psychology professor at Washington State University.

“We have no idea if it’s that the people who are more empathetic to begin with are more likely to use cannabis,” Cuttler said.

filmmaker Jewison dead at 97

By Hillel Italie The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and Moonstruck to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night, has died at age 97.

Norman Jewison, Jewison a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died “peacefully” Saturday, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson.

In Jewison’s autobiography This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, he noted that racism and injustice became his most common themes.

He drew upon his experiences in the American South for 1967’s In the Heat of the Night, starring Rod Steiger as a white racist sheriff and Sidney Poitier as a Black detective in Philadelphia.

Among those who encouraged Jewison while making In the Heat of the Night: Robert F. Kennedy, whom he met during a ski trip in Sun Valley, Idaho.

“I told him I made films, and he asked what kind I make,” he recalled in a 2011 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “So I told him that I was working on In the Heat of the Night, and that it’s about two cops: one a white sheriff from Mississippi and the other a black detective from Philadelphia. I told him it was a film about tolerance. So he listened and nodded and said, ‘You know, Norman, timing is everything. In politics, in art, in life itself.’ I never forgot that.”

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Title matchups set with some new and familiar faces Chiefs vs. Ravens in AFC; Lions vs. 49ers in NFC

SUNDAY ON TV AFC CHAMPIONSHIP 1 p.m. on CBS — Kansas City at Baltimore

By Rob Maaddi The Associated Press

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP 4:30 p.m. on Fox — Detroit at San Francisco

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are back in the AFC championship game for a sixth straight season, and probably taking Taylor Swift with them along with Travis Kelce’s older, shirtless brother.

Dan Campbell has the Detroit Lions one win away from the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance after securing a spot in the NFC title game on the

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrates after beating the Buffalo Bills in an AFC divisional playoff game Sunday in Orchard Park, N.Y. ADRIAN KRAUS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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three-year anniversary of his teeth-kicking, kneecap-biting introductory news conference.

The Chiefs and Lions advanced with tough, down-to-the-wire victories Sunday. Both teams moved on to face the No. 1 seed in their conference: the AFC’s Baltimore Ravens and the NFC’s San Francisco 49ers.

The NFL’s Final Four teams are set. It’ll be Chiefs-Ravens and Lions-49ers battling for the right to play for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

Mahomes made several brilliant plays in his first road playoff game — besides three Super Bowls — and outshined

Josh Allen in a 27-24 victory at Buffalo that was secured when Bills kicker Tyler Bass missed a 44-yard field goal wide right with 1:43 left.

Mahomes, the two-time NFL and Super Bowl MVP, tossed two touchdown passes to Travis Kelce while Swift and Brittany Mahomes hugged in a suite and bare-chested Eagles All-Pro center Jason Kelce celebrated by chugging beers in the row behind them.

Lamar Jackson and the Ravens (14-4) are waiting on the Chiefs (13-6) after routing the Houston Please see story on Page B-2

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Lobos ascendant

Collision with a fan raises court storming concerns

UNM enters national rankings after 2 straight wins over ranked foes

Iowa superstar Clark unhurt after being knocked down

By Eric Olson and Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press

The visual of one of the nation’s most popular athletes knocked to the floor after a fan who was staring at her phone collided with her while storming the court was a stark reminder of the dangers athletes face when crowds get out of control.

Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark was shaken up but not injured in the collision, which occurred Sunday as she headed toward the locker room with teammates following a 100-92 loss to then-No. 18 Ohio State in Columbus.

It was the second time in less than two weeks that fans have stormed the court at the end of a Big Ten game. It happened Jan. 9 in Lincoln when the Nebraska men knocked off then-No. 1 Purdue. Boilermakers coach Matt Painter said afterward game management personnel need to be better prepared to protect athletes caught up in the commotion.

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Lobos guard Jamal Mashburn Jr., center, shoots under pressure by Aztecs guard Miles Byrd, left, and forward Elijah Saunders on Jan. 13 during UNM’s 88-70 upset win over San Diego State in The Pit. As of Monday, the Lobos are ranked No. 25 in both the USA Today Coaches Poll and The Associated Press poll.

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Iowa guard Caitlin Clark gestures during Sunday’s game against Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio.

he spotlight just got a whole lot brighter for the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team.

Undefeated at home and winners of three straight games, the Lobos entered this week’s national rankings Monday. UNM (16-3 overall, 4-2 in the Mountain West) is ranked No. 25 in both the USA Today Coaches Poll and The Associated Press poll.

It’s the Lobos’ first appearance in the Top 25 this season. They were ranked for parts of last season after they started 14-0 and were the nation’s last unbeaten team.

Each of their last three wins have been by double digits, two of which came against ranked teams; San

Diego State and Utah State. The win against SDSU came in a nationally televised game on CBS and gave the team the kind of exposure it rarely gets.

Lobos guard Jamal Mashburn Jr. said any win over a team that played for the national championship the way San Diego State did last season gives everyone in the locker room a feeling that they’re not far off from having a magical run of their own.

“That’s definitely something that we think about like, man, that could have been us in that position,” he said.

Three MWC teams are in this week’s coaches’ poll, which is voted upon by a panel of coaches representing each Division I conference in the country; Utah State (17-2, 5-1) fell three spots to No. 20, Colorado State (15-3, 3-2) is No. 23 after being unranked last week, and UNM is 25th. San Diego State (15-4, 4-2) fell out of the poll but received enough votes to

WEDNESDAY ON TV No. 25 New Mexico (16-3, 4-2 MWC) at San Jose State (8-10, 1-4), 9 p.m.

Where: Provident Event Center, San Jose, Calif.

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be an unofficial No. 26.

Those same three schools are in the AP poll, which is compiled by a panel of 63 media members from across the country. Utah State dropped two spots to No. 18 this week. Colorado State, which handed UNM one of its two losses in conference play, jumped into the rankings at No. 24. San Diego State received enough votes to sit at an unofficial Please see story on Page B-3

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Beltré, Mauer, Helton on track for Hall of Fame election; Wagner close

By Ronald Blum

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton appeared on track to gain entry to baseball’s Hall of Fame when results are announced Tuesday, while Billy Wagner was likely to be right around the needed 75% threshold and Gary Sheffield was projected to fall short.

Just 270 players are in the Hall, 1.3% of the approximately 20,500 who have appeared in the major leagues, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. There are another 40 executives/pioneers, 23 managers and 10 umpires enshrined, raising the membership total to 343.

“These votes are literally life-changing,” said The Athletic’s Jayson Stark, who has cast ballots for three decades. “I try never to forget that. That’s why it’s a huge responsibility.”

Big Hall or small? Baseball’s most divisive debate is whether a player warrants inclusion in Cooperstown.

Stark used all 10 of his available slots on this year’s Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot. Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy checked just two, for Beltré and Mauer.

“I’m looking for someone who’s dominant at the position they played in the era in which they played,” said Shaughnessy, like Stark a Please see story on Page B-3

From left, the Texas Rangers’ Adrián Beltré in 2016; the Minnesota Twins’ Joe Mauer in 2018; and the Colorado Rockies’ Todd Helton in 2009. Beltré, Mauer and Helton appear to be on track to gain entry to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTOS Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

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

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4:30 p.m. FS1 — Butler at Georgetown 5 p.m. ACCN — Duke at Louisville 5 p.m. BTN — Wisconsin at Minnesota 5 p.m. CBSSN — Loyola of Chicago at VCU 5 p.m. ESPN — Texas at Oklahoma 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Florida St. at Syracuse 5 p.m. ESPNU — Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech 5 p.m. PEACOCK — Ohio St. at Nebraska 5 p.m. SECN — Kentucky at South Carolina 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Xavier at Creighton 7 p.m. ACCN — Boston College at Virginia Tech 7 p.m. CBSSN — Wyoming at San Diego St. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — TCU at Oklahoma St. 7 p.m. PEACOCK — Michigan at Purdue 7 p.m. SECN — Missouri at Texas A&M 8:30 p.m. FS1 — Boise St. at Fresno St. 9 p.m. CBSSN — Air Force at UNLV

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 7 p.m. BTN — Minnesota at Wisconsin MLB 2 p.m. MLBN — 2024 Hall of Fame Election Announcement

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

Tuesday

NBA 5:30 p.m. TNT — New York at Brooklyn 8 p.m. TNT — L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers SOCCER (MEN’S) 12:45 p.m. FS2 — CONMEBOL U-23 Olympic Qualifier 2024 Group Stage: Bolivia vs. Brazil, Group A, Caracas, Venezuela 3:45 p.m. FS2 — CONMEBOL U-23 Olympic Qualifier 2024 Group Stage: Ecuador vs. Venezuela, Group A, Caracas, Venezuela TENNIS 10 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Quarterfinals, Melbourne, Australia (Taped) 7 p.m. ESPN — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Quarterfinals, Melbourne, Australia 1:30 a.m. Wednesday ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: The Australian Open, Quarterfinals, Melbourne, Australia

Boys basketball — Abq. High at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Capital at Abq. Rio Grande, 7 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Raton. 6:30 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Abq. Menaul, 6:30 p.m.

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

Tierra Encantada at Native American Community Academy, 6:30 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Abq. Chesterton Academy, 7 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Moriarty at Los Alamos, 7 p.m.

McCurdy at Questa, 6:30 p.m.

Coronado at Abq. Legacy Academy, 6:30 p.m.

Alamosa (Colo.) at Taos, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Santa Fe Prep at Pecos, 7 p.m.

Academy of Technology and the Classics at Estancia, 5:30 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Abq. Menaul, 5 p.m.

Tierra Encantada at Native American Community Academy, 5 p.m.

Los Alamos at Rio Rancho, 7 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Abq. Chesterton Academy, 5 p.m.

McCurdy at Questa, 5 p.m.

Coronado at Abq. Legacy Academy, 5 p.m.

Wednesday NFL

sis, team’s records, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th and ranking in last week’s final poll:

WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 13

RECORD

Houston 45, Cleveland 14 Kansas City 26, Miami 7

SUNDAY, JAN. 14

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

MONDAY, JAN. 15

Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 20

Baltimore 34, Houston 10 San Francisco 24, Green Bay 21

SUNDAY, JAN. 21

Detroit 31, Tampa Bay 23 Kansas City 27, Buffalo 24

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY, JAN. 28

AFC Kansas City at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) NFC Detroit at San Francisco, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, FEB. 11

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

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

W

L

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

34 29 26 17 16

10 13 17 25 28

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

24 23 18 10 7

19 21 24 31 35

Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit

30 26 24 21 4

13 15 19 24 39

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W

L

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

W

L

W

L

PCT .773 .690 .605 .405 .364

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New Orleans Dallas Houston Memphis San Antonio

25 24 20 16 8

18 19 22 27 35

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

30 29 30 22 12

13 13 14 22 30

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

27 25 23 22 18

14 18 18 22 22

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

SUNDAY’S GAMES

L

L

— 4 7½ 16 18

GB

.558 .523 .429 .244 .167

— 1½ 5½ 13 16½

.698 .634 .558 .467 .093

— 3 6 10 26

PCT

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GB

PCT

.581 .558 .476 .372 .186

PCT

GB

GB

— 1 4½ 9 17

GB

.698 .690 .682 .500 .286

— ½ ½ 8½ 17½

.659 .581 .561 .500 .450

— 3 4 6½ 8½

PCT

GB

L.A. Clippers 125, Brooklyn 114 Denver 113, Washington 104 Orlando 105, Miami 87 Boston 116, Houston 107 Phoenix 117, Indiana 110 L.A. Lakers 134, Portland 110

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

W L PCT W 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 0

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

.750 .750 .750 .500 .500 .500 .400 .400 .000

L PCT

13 10 9 11 10 7 13 13 6

6 9 10 8 9 12 6 7 13

.684 .526 .474 .579 .526 .368 .684 .650 .316

Jacksonville St. at Middle Tennessee, 5:30 p.m.

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

W 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 0

L

PCT

1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5

.833 .800 .667 .667 .600 .600 .400 .400 .200 .200 .000

TUESDAY’S GAMES

W

17 13 16 15 15 10 15 9 8 8 7

L

2 5 3 4 3 8 4 8 10 10 10

PCT .895 .722 .842 .789 .833 .556 .789 .529 .444 .444 .412

Wyoming at San Diego St., 7 p.m.

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

Air Force at UNLV, 9 p.m.

Denver at Indiana, 5 p.m.

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

Portland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Golden State, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

THE AP TOP 25 POLL

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

PTS

PRV

1. UConn (44) 17-2 1508 1 2. Purdue (17) 17-2 1472 2 3. North Carolina 15-3 1391 4 4. Houston 16-2 1309 5 5. Tennessee 14-4 1237 6 6. Kentucky 14-3 1205 8 7. Kansas 15-3 1157 3 8. Auburn 16-2 1094 13 9. Arizona 14-4 1060 12 10. Illinois 14-4 862 14 11. Oklahoma 15-3 849 15 12. Duke 13-4 832 7 13. Wisconsin 14-4 801 11 14. Marquette 13-5 747 17 15. Baylor 14-4 645 9 16. Dayton 15-2 546 21 17. Creighton 14-5 505 18 18. Utah St. 17-2 381 16 19. Memphis 15-4 329 10 20. Texas Tech 15-3 304 25 21. BYU 14-4 294 20 22. FAU 15-4 290 23 23. Iowa St. 14-4 253 24 24. Colorado St. 15-3 214 25. New Mexico 16-3 177 Others receiving votes: Seton Hall 84, San Diego St. 64, Kansas St 39, Alabama 30, TCU 27, Mississippi 25, Princeton 21, Utah 20, Texas 16, Boise St. 9, Florida 6, Gonzaga 6, Grand Canyon 5, Michigan St. 3, Saint Mary’s 2, NC State 1, San Francisco 1, Indiana St 1, Samford 1, McNeese St. 1, Colorado 1.

The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 men’s basketball poll, with first-place votes received in parenthe-

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL THE AP TOP 25 POLL

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

RECORD

PTS

PRV

1. South Carolina (35) 17-0 875 1 2. UCLA 15-1 833 5 3. Colorado 16-2 763 3 4. Kansas St 18-1 753 7 5. Iowa 18-2 729 2 6. Stanford 17-2 695 8 7. NC State 16-2 646 4 8. UConn 16-3 635 9 9. LSU 18-2 575 10 10. Texas 18-2 553 11 11. Southern Cal 13-3 515 6 12. Ohio St. 15-3 493 18 13. Baylor 15-2 480 12 14. Indiana 16-2 396 16 15. Notre Dame 14-3 331 19 16. Utah 13-5 328 20 17. Gonzaga 18-2 320 17 18. Louisville 16-3 315 13 19. Virginia Tech 14-4 272 14 20. North Carolina 14-5 243 23 21. Creighton 14-3 169 21 22. Syracuse 16-2 131 23. Florida St. 14-6 104 15 24. West Virginia 16-2 78 25. Oregon St. 15-3 43 Others receiving votes: Marquette 37, Princeton 21, Iowa St. 14, UNLV 12, Fairfield 8, Washington St 3, Miami 2, Green Bay 1, Richmond 1, Virginia 1.

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST

MONDAY’S GAMES

Lehigh 79, Colgate 61 Seton Hall 74, St. John’s 66, OT

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Dallas at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Vegas at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Florida, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Jelena Ostapenko (11), Latvia, def. Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia, France, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Erin Routliffe (4), New Zealand, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Cristina Bucsa, Spain, 7-5, 6-2.

Arizona at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Boston at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Detroit, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 7 p.m.

NHL

TRANSACTIONS

WOMEN’S DOUBLES QUARTERFINALS

Montana 77, Weber St. 62 Montana St. 77, Idaho St. 70

SOURCES: ONTHESNOW.COM; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boston 4, Winnipeg 1 New Jersey 6, Vegas 5, OT Florida 4, Nashville 1 Arizona 5, Pittsburgh 2 Chicago at Vancouver, late San Jose at Los Angeles, late

Zhang Zhizhen, China, and Tomas Machac, Czech Republic, def. Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Adam Pavlasek, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-1.

FAR WEST

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

Ski Apache — 30-inch base; 33 of 55 trails, 62% open; 3 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, 6 of 7 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Taos — 37-39-inch base; 100 of 110 trails, 91% open, 12 of 13 lifts; Mon-Fri: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat/Sun: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Dallas 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Anaheim 2 Toronto 3, Seattle 1

MEN’S DOUBLES QUARTERFINALS

Ark.-Pine Bluff 76, Bethune-Cookman 72 Houston Christian 88, New Orleans 80 Lamar 76, Texas A&M Commerce 65 McNeese St. 62, Texas A&M-CC 61 Nicholls 78, Incarnate Word 74, OT

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL

New Mexico ski area conditions as of Monday: Angel Fire — 31-inch base; 72 of 81 trails, 89% 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.

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

SOUTHWEST

Phila. at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Utah at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

ON THE SLOPES

TENNIS

Davenport 82, Saginaw Valley St. 81 Kansas 74, Cincinnati 69 Wis.-Superior 67, Marian 58

Boys basketball — Las Vegas Robertson at Santa Fe Prep, 7 p.m.

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

Coronado at Abq. Chesterton Academy, 3:30 p.m.

McCurdy at Peñasco, 4 p.m.

Escalante at Mesa Vista, 5:30 p.m.

Questa at Mora, 5 p.m.

Girls basketball — Los Lunas at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Abq. High at Capital, 2 p.m.

Abq. Oak Grove Classical at Santa Fe Prep, 2 p.m.

Abq. Menaul at Academy for Technology and the Classics, 2 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Taos, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Abq. St. Pius X, 1:30 p.m.

Moriarty at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

McCurdy at Peñasco, 2:30 p.m.

Escalante at Mesa Vista, 4 p.m.

Questa at Mora, 4 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Abq. Sandia Prep, 1 p.m.

Swimming and diving — Santa Fe High, Los Alamos, Taos at Santa Fe Prep Griffin Invitational (Genoveva Chavez), 10 a.m.

Wrestling — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Tierra Encantada, Los Alamos, Española Valley, Taos, Pecos at Pojoaque Valley Invitational, 11 a.m.

Cardinals Classic Duals at Las Vegas Robertson, 8 a.m.

about. You want something the city can be proud of. You can look at those guys and say, ‘Man, I can back that guy. I can back that team. I can resonate with those group of guys. They’re kind of salty. They don’t quit.

They play hard.’

“And so, I feel like we’ve done that. And I think these guys, they have a kinship with this city and this area, and they love it, man, and ultimately, that’s what you want. Now, a year from now, two years, we’ll be getting booed, maybe; that’s a whole other deal, though. But right now, life’s good, and I’m glad we could deliver that.”

As Campbell told his players during his postgame speech in the locker room, they have two more wins to go.

Getting the next one won’t be easy against the 49ers. Purdy led San Francisco to a 24-21 comeback win over seventh-seeded Green Bay on Saturday night, sending the 49ers (13-5) to the NFC title game for the third consecutive season.

The Niners had no chance in hostile Philadelphia last year after Purdy suffered a significant elbow injury in the first quarter.

They’ll have a friendly atmosphere at home as coach Kyle Shanahan tries again to take the team back to the Super Bowl following a loss to Mahomes and the Chiefs four years ago.

San Francisco opened as 7-point favorites while Baltimore is a 31/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

SPORTS BETTING LINE FAVORITE

AUSTRALIAN OPEN TUESDAY

MIDWEST

Saturday

Texans 34-10 Saturday. It’ll be the first AFC championship game played outside Kansas City since 2018.

Mahomes had a big smile on his face after the game as he ran off the field, dodging snowballs without a helmet protecting him.

“I love being in Arrowhead [Stadium] and playing in front of that crowd but when you’re on the road, it’s you vs. them,” Mahomes said. “It’s you vs. everybody in the stadium and you have to come together as a team and the guys do that.”

Earlier Sunday, Campbell, Jared Goff and the feisty Lions beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-23 to earn their second playoff win in the same season for the first time since 1957, the last year Detroit won the NFL title.

The Lions (14-5) took advantage of costly mistakes, including drops, a missed field goal and Baker Mayfield’s game-sealing interception to put away the Buccaneers.

Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle and a ferocious 49ers’ defense led by Fred Warner stand in Detroit’s way. The Lions have gone from 3-13-1 in Campbell’s first season in 2021 to the brink of a trip to Las Vegas, Nev. “Here, man, it’s harsh winters, auto industry, blue collar, things aren’t always easy,” Campbell said about giving Detroit’s long-suffering fans hope. “And I just think, that’s what we’re

at BALTIMORE at SAN FRANCISCO

Bethune-Cookman 73, Ark.-Pine Bluff 70 Kansas St. 58, Baylor 55 FAR WEST Idaho St. 62, Montana St. 53 Montana 87, Weber St. 55 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 73, Portland 67, OT Utah 94, UCLA 81, OT

Ala.-Huntsville 96, Auburn-Montgomery 83 Alcorn St. 90, Prairie View 78 Allen 63, Albany St. (Ga.) 58 Clark Atlanta 50, Savannah St. 49 Delta St. 104, Union (Tenn.) 101, 3OT Edward Waters 79, Morehouse 78 Florida A&M 81, MVSU 70 Jackson St. 73, Texas Southern 64 Johns Hopkins 72, Mary Washington 56 Kentucky St. 85, Miles 76 King (Tenn.) 82, Southern Wesleyan 66 North Carolina 85, Wake Forest 64 SE Louisiana 71, Northwestern St. 62 Spring Hill 89, LeMoyne-Owen 87 Tuskegee 48, Lane 46

Boys basketball — Santa Fe High at Los Lunas, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Abq. Evangel Christian, 7 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Taos, 7 p.m.

Española Valley at Moriarty, 7 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Raton, 7 p.m.

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

Socorro at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Swimming and diving — Santa Fe High, Los Alamos, Taos at Santa Fe Prep Griffin Invitational (Genoveva Chavez), 4 p.m.

Wrestling — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Tierra Encantada, Los Alamos, Española Valley, Taos, Pecos at Pojoaque Valley Invitational, 11 a.m.

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NFL

SOUTHWEST

SOUTH

Friday

Title matchups set with some new and familiar faces

SUNDAY

SOUTH

Colgate 60, Lehigh 57 Hofstra 80, Stony Brook 74 Md.-Eastern Shore 71, Queens (NY) 61 Rosemont 78, Keystone 76 Wesleyan (Conn.) 90, Yeshiva 56

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Thursday Boys basketball — Capital at Abq. High, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Native American Community Academy at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 6:30 p.m.

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

Florida A&M 62, MVSU 55 Jackson St. 75, Texas Southern 50 Mississippi St. 89, Florida 77 Norfolk St. 99, Mary Washington 43 Prairie View 61, Alcorn St. 55

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST

Cleveland 126, Orlando 99 Milwaukee 122, Detroit 113 Phila. 133, San Antonio 123 Memphis 108, Toronto 100 Charlotte 128, Minnesota 125 Boston 119, Dallas 110 Phoenix 115, Chicago 113 Atlanta at Sacramento, late

USA TODAY TOP 25 POLL

PVS

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

New Mexico at San Jose St., 9 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

RECORD

PTS

1. Connecticut (24) 17-2 791 1 2. Purdue (8) 17-2 769 2 3. North Carolina 15-3 734 3 4. Houston 16-2 678 5 5. Tennessee 14-4 671 7 6. Kentucky 14-3 609 10 6. Auburn 16-2 609 11 8. Kansas 15-3 576 4 9. Arizona 14-4 528 13 10. Wisconsin 14-4 480 8 11. Illinois 14-4 437 14 12. Duke 13-4 421 6 13. Oklahoma 15-3 401 16 14. Baylor 14-4 362 9 15. Marquette 13-5 360 18 16. Creighton 14-5 299 15 17. Dayton 15-2 277 23 18. Iowa State 14-4 220 20 19. Brigham Young 14-4 181 19 20. Utah State 17-2 176 17 21. Texas Tech 15-3 148 25 22. Memphis 15-4 130 12 23. Colorado State 15-3 119 NR 24. Florida Atlantic 15-4 101 NR 25. New Mexico 16-3 54 NR Dropped Out: No. 21 Mississippi (15-3); No. 22 TCU (13-5); No. 24 San Diego State (15-4).

Others receiving votes: Alabama (12-6) 43; San Diego State (15-4) 43; Seton Hall (13-6) 33; Gonzaga (13-5) 30; TCU (13-5) 26; Texas (13-5) 18; Clemson (13-5) 15; Kansas State (14-4) 14; Princeton (15-1) 13; Utah (14-5) 10; Saint Mary’s (146) 6; Boise State (13-5) 5; Grand Canyon (17-2) 4; Indiana State (16-3) 4; James Madison (17-2) 2; Mississippi (15-3) 2; Michigan State (12-7) 1.

Boys basketball — Las Vegas Robertson at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Rio Rancho, 7 p.m.

Abq. Sandia Prep at West Las Vegas, 6:30 p.m.

Pecos at Peñasco, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Santa Fe High at Abq. High, 7 p.m.

Capital at Abq. Rio Grande, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Pecos at Peñasco, 5:30 p.m.

Wrestling — Capital, Abq. High, Manzano at District 5-5A duals at Santa Fe High, 4 p.m.

Dual: Española Valley at Los Alamos, 4 p.m.

Mesa Vista at McCurdy, 7 p.m.

Peñasco at Mora, 7 p.m.

Escalante at Questa, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Jemez Valley at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 5:30 p.m.

Native American Community Academy at Monte del Sol, 5 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Moriarty, 5:30 p.m.

Mesa Vista at McCurdy, 5:30 p.m.

Peñasco at Mora, 5:30 p.m.

Escalante at Questa, 7 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Florida Toronto Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

46 29 8 46 28 14 45 23 14 46 24 17 47 24 18 46 19 20 46 20 22 42 17 24

9 4 8 5 5 7 4 1

67 162 121 60 146 121 54 161 148 53 162 151 53 157 155 45 129 165 44 134 146 35 143 154

46 29 15 2 47 25 16 6 45 25 15 5 45 24 18 3 46 20 15 11 44 22 16 6 44 21 17 6 45 14 22 9

60 150 132 56 142 133 55 154 139 51 156 159 51 136 156 50 106 130 48 133 121 37 135 169

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

45 47 46 47 45 44 46 46

30 30 27 25 23 22 20 14

L OT PTS

11 14 13 21 19 20 21 30

4 3 6 1 3 2 5 2

64 63 60 51 49 46 45 30

L OT PTS

GF GA

146 179 169 144 137 125 140 103

104 150 140 146 132 140 157 165

GF GA

Vancouver 46 31 11 4 66 176 119 Vegas 47 27 14 6 60 153 129 Edmonton 42 26 15 1 53 149 122 Los Angeles 43 22 13 8 52 138 112 Calgary 46 21 20 5 47 143 146 Seattle 46 19 18 9 47 127 137 Anaheim 46 15 30 1 31 116 160 San Jose 46 11 31 4 26 94 186 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Ottawa 5, Philadelphia 3 Minnesota 5, Carolina 2

BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with LHP Cionel Perez on a one-year contract. Acquired INF Tyler Nevin from Detroit for cash considerations.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with LHP Josh Hader on a five-year contract. Designated LHP Matt Gage for assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Named Shawn Schlechter hitting coach, Peter Larson and Dan Urbina pitching coaches, Stephen Hopkins strength and conditioning coach, Matt Tramp clubhouse manager and Lincoln Ficek and Alex Hughes coordinators of baseball technology for St. Paul (IL).

Named Corbin Day hitting coach, Yelson Perez hitting and development coach, Katie Lortie and Chase Thompson athletic trainers, Jacob Needham strength and conditioning coach and Chase Carder coordinator of baseball technology for Wichita (TL). Named C.J. Baker hitting coach, Jairo Rodriguez hitting and development coach Argenis Angulo pitching coach, Tyler Blair athletic trainer Blake Kretovics strength and conditioning coach and Jeremy Miranda coordinator of baseball technology for Cedar Rapids (ML).

Named Luis Reyes hitting coach, Ryan Ricci and Richard Salazar pitching coaches, Michael Ahmed hitting and development coach, Asja Morello lead athetic trainer, Morgan Leichtenberger assistant athletic trainer and Matt Anti strength and conditioning coach for Fort Myers (FSL).

Named Drew MacPhail director, player development, Brian Maloney director, minor league and high performance operations, Tommy Bergjans director, minor league pitching development, Amanda Daley director of player education, Frankie Padulo assistant director, player development, Josh Ruffin and Grey Wilburn assistant directors, player development research, Chad Raines analyst, pitching development and Nihar Maskara analyst, baseball research. (Player Development).

OPEN

TODAY

3½ 7

O/U

3½ 7

UNDERDOG

(44½) (50½)

Kansas City Detroit

NBA TUESDAY FAVORITE

Denver New York at OKLAHOMA CITY at NEW ORLEANS at L.A. CLIPPERS

LINE

O/U

3 4 14½ 6½ 8½

UNDERDOG

(242½) (223) (235) (238½) (230½)

at INDIANA at BROOKLYN Portland Utah L.A. Lakers

COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY FAVORITE

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Butler Dayton at CENTRAL MICHIGAN at UMASS at VCU at DUQUESNE at CHARLOTTE Wisconsin at NEBRASKA Pittsburgh at UCF at SYRACUSE Ball State Kentucky at AKRON at WESTERN MICHIGAN at BOWLING GREEN Duke at OKLAHOMA at ILLINOIS STATE Toledo at NORTHERN IOWA at CREIGHTON at VIRGINIA TECH at SAN DIEGO STATE at TEXAS A&M Houston TCU at PORTLAND at PURDUE Boise State at UNLV

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

UNDERDOG

at GEORGETOWN at LA SALLE Miami (OH) Saint Joseph’s (PA) Loyola Chicago Saint Bonaventure UAB at MINNESOTA Ohio State at GEORGIA TECH West Virginia Florida State at BUFFALO at SOUTH CAROLINA Ohio Eastern Michigan Kent State at LOUISVILLE Texas Belmont at NORTHERN ILLINOIS Evansville Xavier Boston College Wyoming Missouri at BYU at OKLAHOMA STATE San Diego Michigan at FRESNO STATE Air Force

NHL TUESDAY FAVORITE

Dallas Tampa Bay Ottawa at N.Y. ISLANDERS at MINNESOTA at EDMONTON at CALGARY Buffalo New York

LINE -144 -111 -152 -132 -160 -350 -170 -164 -300

TEXAS RANGERS — Named Garrett Kennedy assistant field/catching coordinator. Named Jeff Mathers strength and conditioning coordinator for Round Rock (PCL). Named Neal Ori athletic trainer and Brett Platts strength and conditioning coach for Frisco (TL). Named Julio Valdez pitching coach, Alex Silcott athletic trainer and Bryce Gist strength and conditioning coach for Hickory (SAL). Named Wes Hunt and Jorge Corts development coaches and Michael Theile athletic trainer for Down East (CRL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Corey Measner strength and conditioning coach and Dan LaBerry athletic trainer for Tacoma (PCL).

National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Named Tim McKeithan assistant director, hitting, Jeremy Bleich assistant director, pitching and promoted Alan Burr to assistant director, strength & conditioning. (player development). Named Robby Hammock manager, Brady Conlan hitting coach, Fernando Nieve pitching coach, Justin Orton performance coach and Taylor Davis catching coach for Altoona (EL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Tommy Edman on a two-year contract.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association DALLAS WINGS — Announced F Awak Kuier is out for the 2024 season.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WRs Andy Isabella, Tyrell Shavers and Bryan Thompson, CBs Ja’Marcus Ingram and Kyron Brown, OLs Kevin Jarvis and Richard Gouraige, TE Tre’ McKitty, DE Kameron Cline and S Kendall Williamson to futures contracts for 2024.

DENVEER BRONCOS — Signed S Tanner McCalister to a futures contract for 2024.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed TE Zach Ertz to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed LBs Keshawn Banks, Kenneth Odumegwu and Arron Mosby, S Tyler Coyle, WRs Grant DuBose and Thyrick Pitts, DL Jonathan Ford, CBs Zyon Gilbert and Anthony Johnson, QB Alex McGough, RB Ellis Merriweather, FB Henry Pearson, TE Joel Wilson and T Kadeem Telfort to futures contracts for 2024.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed DT McTevin Agim, WRs Alex Bachman, Jared Wayne and Johnny Johnson III, QB Tim Boyle, RBs Gerrid Doaks and

UNDERDOG

at DETROIT at PHILADELPHIA at MONTREAL Vegas Washington Columbus St. Louis at ANAHEIM at SAN JOSE

LINE

+120 -108 +126 +110 +132 +280 +140 +136 +240

J.J Taylor, S Brandon Hill, TE Dalton Keene, CB Troy Pride and T Jaylon Thomas to futures contracts for 2024.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Returned D Robert Hagg to San Diego (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled D Jacob Bryson from Rochester (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Brogan Rafferty to Grand Rapids (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Signed RW Corey Perry to a one-year contract. Placed LW Adam Erne on waivers.

LOS ANGELES KINGS —Recalled F Samuel Fagemo from Ontario (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Reassigned D Kyle Masters from Iowa (AHL) to Iowa (ECHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Justin Barron to Laval (AHL). Placed C Mitchell Stephens on waivers.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Returned G Ken Appleby to Bridgeport (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned D Matthew Robertson to Hartford (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Reassigned LW Jordan Frasca from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled D Mark Friedman and RW Linus Karlsson from Abbotsford (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLORADO RAPIDS — Signed D Sam Vines to a four-year contract.

NASHVILLE SC — Promoted Oliver Miller-Farrell to assistant general manager, Chance Myers to technical director, Liam Doyle to director of soccer operations and Jeff Robben to director of team administration.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed F Malachi Jones to a contract through 2025.

USL League One UNION OMAHA — Named Alexis Boulos general manager of business operations.

MLS NEXT Pro LA GALAXY II — Named Matt Taylor head coach.

REAL MONARCHS — Named Mark Lowry head coach.

National Women’s Soccer League NJ/NY GOTHAM FC — Signed F Ella Stevens to a contract through 2025.

SPORTS

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

NASCAR backtracks on closure of stands for L.A. heat races The Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR backtracked on its plan to close the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum grandstands for the first day of on-track activity for the upcoming Clash on the very same day the shutdown was announced, said Ben Kennedy, the architect of NASCAR’s race in the storied venue.

NASCAR on Jan. 16 revealed the Coliseum would not be open to the public on Feb. 3, the first time this year its Cup cars will be on track. Only problem?

NASCAR overhauled the schedule for this third running of the Busch Lite Clash at the Coliseum and that day is a full day of track activity.

Fans were furious — many claimed they assumed one ticket covered both days — and in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Kennedy said NASCAR immediately looked for a solution. NASCAR’s senior vice president of racing development and strategy said he was on the phone with the Coliseum staff by Wednesday morning and on Thursday evening he’d posted a “We heard you” video on social media announcing the grandstands will be open, after all, and free to the public.

“We quickly huddled and

made a pretty quick decision to open the gates for free on Saturday,” Kennedy said.

The first two runnings of the Clash were open to ticket holders on both days of the event, but most of the on-track activity was held on Sunday leading into the main event that evening. The overhauled schedule moved four heat races to Saturday. The heat races are used to set the field for the main event and one of the elements that makes the Clash different from the 36 points-paying races on the scheduled.

There is one “last chance qualifier” heat Sunday, but the fight to make the field was mostly going to happen Saturday in an empty Coliseum.

“It’s been a good learning opportunity for us to understand how important those heat races are to our fans,” Kennedy said. “I think as soon as we got that feedback, it was first thing Wednesday morning, we got with the Coliseum and asked ‘How do we find a way to somehow open these gates on Saturday?’ ” NASCAR lost sight of how compelling fans find the unusual heat race element in its tight focus on producing a fulfilling main event in the important Southern California market.

Because California Speedway is currently off the schedule and its future is unclear, the Clash is

MARK J. TERRILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Cars race around the track as downtown Los Angeles is seen in the background during the Busch Light Clash NASCAR exhibition race Feb. 5 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

NASCAR’s only appearance in the second largest media market in the United States right now.

The exhibition Clash was held from its 1979 inception through 2021 at Daytona International Speedway as the opener ahead of the Daytona 500. Kennedy moved the Clash to the Coliseum in 2022 in a made-for-TV event that transforms the famed venue into a temporary short track.

For this third running, the NASCAR Mexico Series will also run — like NASCAR that lower level series will practice and qualify on Saturday, and then its race will be ahead of the Clash on Sunday.

“I think from day one of this event we’ve really leaned toward trying to promote the Sunday ticket as much as possible. L.A. is a big, main-event type of city, and if you look at other sports leagues out there, there aren’t a

ton that open the gates for practice or qualifying days,” Kennedy said. “Our focus has always been on Sunday. And that was the consensus as we approached this year with the addition of the NASCAR Mexico series.

“We had the ‘last chance’ race, which he felt drew a lot of attention and storylines, keeping that on Sunday. And then, of course, a lot of the new fans, they’re really coming there for the main event.”

Now that Saturday has been rectified for fan attendance, Kennedy is interested to see the turnout.

“I’ve already had a bunch of random friends in L.A. that have reached out to me and said, ‘Hey, I’m thinking about coming on Saturday and since I’m going on Saturday, I may as well just get a ticket to Sunday,’ ” Kennedy said.

“It’s neat to see that the crowd is pretty positive about it.”

Lobos ascendant Continued from Page B-1

27th while Boise State also received votes.

Defending national champion UConn remains the top-ranked team in each poll with Purdue at No. 2 and North Carolina at No. 3.

The Big 12 has seven teams (Houston, Kansas, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State and BYU) in this week’s AP poll, the most of any conference. The Mountain West has as many teams ranked as the Big East (UConn, Marquette and Creighton), SEC (Tennessee, Kentucky and Auburn) and Big Ten (Purdue, Illinois and Wisconsin), and more than the ACC (North Carolina and Duke) and Pac-12 (Arizona).

UNM has hovered in the top portion of the metrics ratings all season, as have most of the top teams in the MWC. As of Monday morning, they sat at No. 24 in the NET Rankings and No. 28 in the KenPom Ratings. Each computer-generated tabulation uses several factors to compile the placement of all teams in NCAA Division I, such as strength of schedule and winning percentage, while KenPom includes metrics for offensive and defensive efficiency.

Those factors are key components to determining which teams receive at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. They also reward teams for winning games against others ranked near the top of those metrics, factors that boosted the Lobos’ profile with the recent wins over ranked teams.

UNM is the fourth Mountain West school to appear in the rankings this season, joining Colorado State, San Diego State and Utah State. The Lobos climbed as high as No. 21 last season but have not finished inside the rankings since the 2013-14 season when they were No. 17 entering the NCAA Tournament, their last appearance in the big dance.

UNM’s highest ranking of all time was during the 1966-67 season when it climbed as high as No. 3.

The Lobos are on the road Wednesday night at San Jose State, then play at home

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UNM forward J.T. Toppin dunks the ball during an Oct. 26 exhibition game against Colorado State-Pueblo in The Pit. Toppin on Monday was named the MWC freshman of the week for the second straight week and the second time this season.

Sunday evening against Nevada.

NOTES New Mexico forward J.T. Toppin on Monday was named the MWC freshman of the week.

It’s the second straight week he’s been rec-

ognized for the award, and the sixth time this season. Only one other player in the history of the conference, Boise State’s Tyson Degenhart, has been named its top freshman more often.

Degenhart was named freshman of the week nine times during the 2021-22 season.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have agreed to hire Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan as their head coach, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Monday.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been finalized.

Callahan replaces Mike Vrabel, who was fired Jan. 9 after six seasons and losing 18 of his final 24 games.

The 39-year-old Callahan had a virtual interview with Tennessee on Jan. 12, the first of 10 candidates to speak to the team. The Titans interviewed Callahan in person on Monday and decided to hire him, the person said.

The Titans declined to comment Monday night.

The NFL had not allowed in-person interviews of current league employees until Brian Callahan Monday, the day after the divisional playoff round.

Callahan becomes the third coach hired since the season ended Jan. 7. New England promoted Jerod Mayo to replace Bill Belichick, and the Raiders elevated their interim coach, Antonio Pierce. Carolina, the Los Angeles Chargers, Atlanta, Seattle and Washington are still looking for coaches.

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offense of failure to keep fans off the court. The ACC does not levy fines and the Big Ten waits until a third offense.

“We try not to be too heavy-handed on the policy of court-storming for a problem that doesn’t necessarily exist. ... Don’t want to unfairly financially hurt already cashstrapped athletic departments,” Big Ten vice president of strategic communications Scott Markley said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.

“But we do have a policy,” he said. “But generally it’s rely on school policy, local law enforcement, [to] know what’s best for their fans and student-athletes and officials. And we’re always monitoring these things and discuss if we need to make adjustments in the interest of a safe environment.”

Jan Jensen, Iowa’s associate head coach, told the AP on Monday that Clark reported no after-effects from the collision.

Clark is the reigning national player of the year and is on the cusp of becoming the all-time leading scorer in Division I women’s basketball.

“When you have an athlete that hits the turf — but then you have arguably the highest-profile college athlete — this might spark the debate about what do we need to do with this,” Jensen said.

Markley said the Big Ten’s game management manual addresses security. Reading from the manual, he said “host institutions must provide adequate security and protection for the visiting teams and officials and their vehicles immediately upon arrival on campus continuing through their departure.”

Markley said institutions “will be held responsible for school-sponsored student and band sections that attack or single out student-athletes. An institution not in compliance with this policy shall be subject to conference review and action.”

Markley said the first offense prompts a private notification to the institution. The second offense brings a public acknowledgment of an institutional problem. A fine could be levied for a third offense,

Markley said.

Other than to say student-athlete safety is of “utmost importance,” the Big Ten did not comment directly on the fan’s collision with Clark.

The Big 12 fined UCF $25,000 for a court-storming following an upset of Kansas in a men’s game Jan. 10.

The Southeastern Conference has a multitiered fine for field or court-storming: $100,000 for the first offense, $250,000 for the second and $500,000 for subsequent offenses. The policy began with the 2023-24 season, with all schools starting with a clean slate.

The Pac-12 issues fines of $25,000 for a first offense, $50,000 for the second and $100,000 for the third. The Big East fines schools $5,000.

The South Carolina women have a yellow rope ringing the court after every home game, win or lose. Fans wait against it while players come up and take selfies with those attending.

When Northwestern upset Purdue on Dec. 1, almost all of Purdue’s players and staff were on their way to the locker room when the Wildcats shot free throws with less than one second left. Fans ran onto the court at the buzzer.

Purdue players and staff were still on the court when time expired at Nebraska, where even head football coach Matt Rhule was among the throng that went onto the court.

“So we’ve got to do something about the court storms, guys,” Painter said after the game. “I don’t know why institutions aren’t ready for it.

What did you think was going to happen? Spread the word, spread the word before somebody gets hurt.

“A student from Nebraska should be able to storm the court, right? Like, we’re cool, just get ready for it, if that’s what you’re going to do. So we’re struggling in our conference with that.”

Painter said schools need to take steps to keep order, whether it’s roping off the court or creating a greater police presence.

“Nothing happened,” he said that night, “but something’s going to happen.”

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winner of the Hall’s BBWAA Career Excellence Award.

Beltré was the leading vote-getter at 99% in his first try, according to Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker. Mauer, also on the his initial ballot, was second at 83%, and Helton was next at 82.5% in his sixth appearance.

Wagner, on for the ninth time, was at 78.4% and Sheffield, making his 10th and final appearance, was at 74.7%, followed

by Andruw Jones at 70.6%. A player’s percentage usually declines among the final total of the approximately 400 ballots; the tracker’s figures includes voters who have revealed their choices, about half those eligible to mail in ballots.

Helton was at 79.8% on the tracker ahead of last year’s announcement and fell 11 votes short at 72.2%. Scott Rolen was the only player elected.

Four players could be elected for the fourth time in 10 years — the only year with five was the first election in 1936.

Anyone elected will be inducted into the Hall on July 21 along with manager

Former Philadelphia Phillies closer Billy Wagner, on the Hall of Fame ballot for the ninth time, was at 78.4% of voting. The threshold is 75%.

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Jim Leyland, voted in last month by the contemporary era committee for managers, executives and umpires.

An average of 5.86 names were on ballots last year, down from 7.11 in 2022.

The BBWAA said 13.9% of voters used all 10 slots, down from 33.8% in 2022.

“I don’t think there’s any clear dividing line anymore,” said Bob Costas, winner of the Hall’s Frick Award for broadcasters but not a voter. “I think the modern analytics have been infor-

mative, and they’ve revealed a valid case for some people who previously had been overlooked. But you’ve got so many overlapping circumstances.

“It’s a mishmash. There’s so many different ways to come at it,” added Costas, saying debate often comes down to: “Well, if this guy is in it, why isn’t that guy in?”

Steroids-tainted Alex Rodríguez (35.7%) and Manny Ramírez (33.2%) fell far short last year. Shaughnessy left them off, citing the criteria on the ballot specifying “voting shall be based upon the player’s record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played.”

“The hard part’s been the disqualifiers for those who take the character clause into consideration, and that’s been the bane of existence for this Hall voter for

quite some time,” Shaughnessy said. “It feels like we’re finally clearing through a little bit, but it’s still strict, unforgiving on that one.

“I know it’s not popular, and I know it’s going away. I think the younger voters don’t care about it, and I understand that.”

Beltré, a four-time All-Star and fivetime Gold Glove third baseman, hit .286 with 477 homers and 1,707 RBIs for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1998-2004), Seattle (2005-09), Boston (2010) and Texas (2011-18). His 2,759 games at third base are second to Brooks Robinson’s 2,870 and his 636 doubles are 11th on the career list.

Mauer was a six-time All-Star, threetime Gold Glove winner and the 2009 AL MVP during 15 seasons with Minnesota. He is the only catcher to win three batting titles. He batted .306 with 143 homers and 906 RBIs with Minnesota from 2004-18.

Helton received 16.5% support in 2019, his first year on the ballot. A fivetime All-Star first baseman and the 2000 major league batting champion, he hit

.316 in 17 seasons for Colorado with 369 homers, 1,406 RBIs and 1,401 runs. He had widely divergent home/road statistics, batting .345 with 200 homers and 791 RBIs in the mile-high air of Coors Field and .287 with 142 homers and 547 RBIs on the road.

Wagner was on 10.5% of ballots when he was first eligible in 2016. The seven-time All-Star is sixth in career saves with 422, going 47-40 with a 2.31 ERA in 16 seasons. A left-handed reliever, he struck out 1,196 in 903 innings with Houston (1995-2003), Philadelphia (2004-05), the New York Mets (200609), Boston (2009) and Atlanta (2010).

Sheffield received 11.7% when first on the ballot in 2015. A nine-time All-Star and the 1992 NL batting champion, Sheffield started as an infielder before shifting to the outfield for most of his career. He hit .292 with 509 homers and 1,676 RBIs in 22 seasons for Milwaukee (1988-91), San Diego (1992-93), Florida (1993-98), the Dodgers (1998-2001), Atlanta (2002-03), the New York Yankees (2004-06), Detroit (2007-08) and the Mets (2009).

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BeWellnm, New Mexico’s health insurance marketplace, closed its open enrollment Jan. 16 with a record 56,447 residents enrolling in a medical insurance plan.

The enrollment count increased by 12,000 over last year, beWellnm reported, and 1,500 people enrolled on the final day.

The state’s “Obamacare” health insurance exchange, which offers insurance to people who aren’t offered health care by employers or are self-employed or retired, is heavily subsidized through the Healthcare Affordability Fund approved in 2021 by the New Mexico Legislature. Forty-one percent of customers are enrolled for $10 or less a month, beWellnm CEO Bruce Gilbert said in a news release.

The health care providers taking part in the marketplace are United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, Molina Health Care of New Mexico, Presbyterian Health Plan and Ambetter from Western Sky Community Care.

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Average gas price jumps 25 cents a gallon in S.F. Gas prices in Santa Fe last week soared unlike anywhere in the state, with a far higher increase than in neighboring states or nationally, according to the AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch.

Santa Fe saw a 25-cent leap to an average $2.90 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, with some gas stations posting $2.99 prices.

AAA spokesman Daniel Armbruster had no specifics on why gasoline prices spiked in Santa Fe. “Robust demand helped push gas prices higher week to week across New Mexico,” Armbruster said. “Some areas of the country were up way more. Santa Fe just happened to be one of those.”

Overall, last week was a tame week for gas prices, with the national average up 1 cent to $3.09, Texas and Colorado unchanged for the week, Nevada down 5 cents and Arizona down 8 cents, AAA noted.

Santa Fe still remains 1 cent cheaper than Albuquerque, which saw a 14-cent increase last week to $2.91 per gallon.

Las Cruces rose 8 cents to $2.89, which is also the statewide average, and the Farmington price dropped 10 cents to $3.18 per gallon.

Musk, on rehabilitation tour, visits Auschwitz KRAKOW, Poland — Pushing back against accusations of antisemitism, Elon Musk has in recent months visited Israel, hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Tesla factory in California and repeatedly insisted he bears no animus toward Jews.

On Monday, he took his penitence tour to a new level, declaring himself “aspirationally Jewish” after a visit to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland, where he lit a candle in memory of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

Musk, the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, stirred outrage — and an exodus of advertisers — in November when he endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth.” The post accused Jewish communities of pushing “hatred against whites” and supporting the immigration of “hordes of minorities.”

The White House denounced Musk for “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate.”

He quickly apologized for his intervention, saying “it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.” He has been scrambling since to calm the outcry and halt the flight of advertisers.

Exxon sues to prevent climate proposal vote Exxon Mobil is suing two activist investors to prevent their proposal calling for emissions cuts at the oil giant from going to a vote of shareholders.

In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Sunday, Exxon accused the investors, Arjuna Capital and Follow This, of abusing the process for proposing shareholder votes to advance their priorities with votes “calculated to diminish the company’s existing business.”

Arjuna filed a proposal in December for a nonbinding resolution that urged Exxon to accelerate its plans to reduce its carbon emissions and expand the scope of the emissions it measures to include its suppliers and customers. Follow This joined in support of the proposal shortly thereafter, according to the complaint.

The proposal “does not seek to improve ExxonMobil’s economic performance or create shareholder value,” Exxon said in the complaint, but is instead “constraining and micromanaging” the company’s operations.

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ABOVE: General supervisor Joe Cordell works with the dogs at Zoomies, keeping them moving and socializing Friday at the facility near downtown Santa Fe. Zoomies is expanding and taking over a portion of the space next door.

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oomies is poised to become more of a good thing for Santa Fe dog owners.

Owner Stephen B. Biles is expanding his cage-free dog care center into the neighboring space formerly occupied by Marquez Deli.

At the same time, he is reconfiguring and sprucing up the original Zoomies space he acquired in April 2022.

By spring, Biles expects to have expanded from two to five playrooms for pooches to roam freely while their owners are off at work or doing whatever else during the day. Zoomies 24/7 Dog Day Care-Boarding, 513 Camino de los Marquez, also boards dogs for extended periods, though Biles said boarding makes up only 30% of the dog traffic, typically on weekends and holidays.

Expansion was already on Biles’ mind when he bought Zoomies, with its warehouse setting with painted concrete floors mostly peeled away, chesthigh fencing setting the dog playrooms apart and nothing but the roof above.

He explored the feasibility of adding a second story, but Marquez Deli next door moved out in summer 2022.

Biles immediately locked onto that space, but zoning and permitting kept Biles from starting demolition work until December.

“When I came into the community and understood the square footage and the dog visits they already had, I knew there was potential,” Biles said.

“I knew we needed to grow. These added spaces give us what we need.”

Zoomies will expand from 7,000 to 10,000 square feet, but Biles also plans to reduce the size of the playrooms.

He believes the smaller spaces will be more suitable for caring for the dogs.

Capacity will increase from 100 to 125 dogs. On a typical day, 40 to 60 dogs spend the day at Zoomies, where drop-off and pick-up times span from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., though Biles is considering expanding hours.

He already doubled staff from the nine he inherited to 18 with anticipation of increasing to “north of 20” when the expansion opens.

“The biggest thing I recognized

TOP: Heather Burnworth gives Georgie the Chihuahua a little extra attention Friday since it’s his first experience with dog day care at Zoomies.

LEFT: Zoomies owner Stephen Biles is expanding the Santa Fe dog care business. Biles also owns cage-free dog care operations in Arizona and Washington state.

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was I need to staff up,” he said.

Biles is a veteran cage-free dog care advocate based in the Phoenix area.

He opened Gilbert Dogs 24/7 in 2009 without a clue that 15 years later he would have a three-state mini-empire and a one-man crusade “to spread the gospel” of cage-free dog care.

Gilbert Dogs 24/7 is now Mesa Dogs 24/7, and he has added two Phoenix Dogs 24/7, a Tempe Dogs 24/7, a Chandler Dogs 24/7 and a Glendale Dogs 24/7. Then his ambition turned to Santa Fe. “I’ve captured the market in Phoenix,” Biles said. “I found a company

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[for sale] in Santa Fe that was doing the same thing we were doing.”

Since taking on Zoomies, Biles has also acquired two Lazy Dog Crazy Dog cage-free operations in the Seattle area and now has nine locations.

“At some point, we hope to grow to Albuquerque,” said Biles, who is also interested in a second Santa Fe location. “My customers are spread all over the country and they say, ‘Please open one here.’ ” Biles was a third-generation Arizona copper miner until the 2008 recession. He had a Phoenix office job as a mid-level manager but was

asked to transfer to the giant copper mines around Morenci near the New Mexico state line.

Time for a career change.

“It can be summed up with a single phrase: I love dogs,” Biles said. “In a traditional kennel, dogs are caged up. It has an emotional and mental impact on [them]. There was a better way to do this.”

Biles separates dogs by size and temperaments. Dogs have their own personalities and some are more unruly than others, but nearly any dog can fit in at Zoomies.

“When a dog comes in the first time, it has to pass a temperament test, a meet-and-greet; it’s a four-hour trial,” Biles said. “It’s a 98% pass rate.

You get a dog away from the owner and off the leash, a well-versed dog handler works it out.”

The expansion will add full walls with viewing windows to define each playroom. Biles will install drop ceilings to transform the warehouse aura into a professional dog day care operation. He will also apply epoxy flooring.

The biggest change for dog owners will be the reconfigured layout. The customer entrance will move from Camino de Los Marquez to the back of the structure on Linda Vista Road, where there is also a small parking lot.

Biles believes his staff will have even more enthusiastic responses to the standard statement when dog owners come to pick up their charges: “I hope my dog had a better day than me.”

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024: You are mentally alert and inquisitive, and you follow your own path. Let go of whatever impedes your growth.

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Cancer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HH Steer clear of confrontations with authority figures, bosses, parents and the police today. However, if you can man-

age this, you might enjoy fun times at home, either by entertaining yourself or entertaining others. Feel-good vibes are possible! Tonight: Give advice.

sign at odds with Mercury and fiery Mars, which indicates disagreements with partners and close friends. However, there’s more. Tonight: Warm relations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You have a choice today: Llet your power of positive thinking spread into an optimism that ultimately attracts money, gifts and goodies to you.

Tonight: Travel plans.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Today you are best served by keeping a low profile and not getting caught up in arguments related to your job, your health or something to do with a pet.

In fact, you might be a bit tired.

Tonight: Mutual support.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Money squabbles are likely today. Or possibly disagreements about your possessions and who owns what. People should understand that you like two of everything. Tonight: You benefit.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HH Today the Moon is in your

to avoid public arguments in elevators or hissing, whispered exchanges with family members. Tonight: Entertain.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Irritable exchanges with your kids, a romantic partner or sports colleagues are likely today. In fact, these are probably unavoidable. Tonight: Play!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH People notice you today, which is why you might want

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Avoid daily squabbles with others that are probably based on irritability or unhappy feelings. Issues about politics, religion and race are touchy.

Instead, turn to the support of close friends and partners.

Tonight: Supportive conversations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Arguments about inheritances, earnings, belongings and shared property might be a challenge today. Who needs this? Not you. On the upside, if you focus on your health, your work and your pet, you will feel uplifted, encouraged and rewarded. Tonight: Pretty items.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HH With Mercury and Mars in your sign, you’re ready to defend yourself! Meanwhile, entertaining diversions with kids and groups will make you feel good. Tonight: Shop for wardrobe items.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Avoid arguments today, because this will be draining.

You have a choice today. You can get caught up in silly disputes or enjoy entertaining at home. Tonight: Enjoy solitude.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Parents need to be patient with their kids today to avoid arguments. Likewise, romantic partners need to be patient with each other for the sake of the relationship and their own sanity. Tonight: Be friendly!

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Nothing brings husband’s children closer Dear Annie: I’ve been married to my husband for 16 years. He and his ex-wife did not end on good terms. We have never been invited to any holiday gatherings from his grown kids, who are married and have kids of their own. We are, of course, invited to all the grandkid’s birthday parties.

In the past, I have tried to plan Christmas gatherings, but my texts were ignored. I delivered Christmas gifts every year after Christmas and sometimes into March. We didn’t get to see the kids open presents.

So, last year, I decided I was not going to be Santa anymore since we are never extended an invite to join them for Christmas. My kids call me and ask what the plans are for Christmas. His kids, crickets. I feel bad for my husband because they never plan a birthday, holiday or even a visit. Father’s Day is no different. Any other blended families have this problem?

— Stepmom Dear Stepmom: This has to be most difficult on your husband, but ultimately it is up to him to repair his relationship with his adult children and find out why they ignore you and your invitations for Christmas gatherings. It is nice that you go to the grandkids’ birthday parties. This indicates that the relationship is not beyond repair. It sounds like there is hope. But it also sounds like there is a lot of anger about the divorce directed at your husband, and the best thing you can do is support your husband in taking the steps to repair any damage that was done. As your husband is mending his relationship, try not to point out to him all the terrible ways they have treated him (he knows that), but rather focus on his actions and what he can do to control himself.

Dear Annie: My parents divorced when I was only 6, and my father went on to have three more marriages, the last of which produced a daughter.

Growing up, I felt the only time he had anything to do with my sister and me was if he needed something. He owned multiple businesses — a hotel, a cafe, a bar, a gas station and a steakhouse — and if he needed help running them during the summer when we were teenagers, he would reach out to us.

But that was it.

He saw two of my daughters once but never had the pleasure of meeting my third.

When he was in the hospital, his wife reached out to me while I was in Europe.

I made arrangements to use WhatsApp so we got to say our goodbyes, and I know this meant a lot to him but meant nothing to me except closure. He passed within hours of talking to me. I feel I took the high road and moved on a very long time ago.

— Took the High Road Dear High Road: The real person you took the high road for was yourself. You will never forget the forgiveness that you gave your father by taking his call. A job well done!

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