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Santa Claus: New Mexico can expect nearly $13 billion in recurring revenue for lawmakers and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to enjoy come January. Citing the famous New York Sun editorial “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus,” Wayne Propst, secretary of the state Department of Finance and Administration, told members of the Legislative Finance Committee on Monday the forecast of nearly $12.768 billion includes $3.48 billion in “new money,” or surplus funds after the state pays for its yearly expenses.
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That means state lawmakers can build a responsible budget in the upcoming 30-day session, scheduled to begin in mid-January, while providing needed services to state residents, he said. Propst said among other initiatives, lawmakers could consider shoring up the rural health care fund, the new Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund and affordable housing projects. While it’s still unclear what initiatives and Please see story on Page A-5
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Girlfriend of suspect alleged to have helped plan violence Police say Esmerelda Jasso-Laguna, 20, discussed specifics for running over boyfriend’s former romantic partner
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The girlfriend of a man recently accused of attempted murder now faces charges herself, with investigators alleging she conspired in the Sept. 22 attack that left a young Santa Fe woman bloodied and unconscious in a Hopewell Mann parking lot. Police charged Jonathan Castaneda, 21, with attempted murder, stalking and property damage in late November, more than two months after 19-year-old Valicity Lozoya was found lying in the parking lot of Sangre de Cristo Apartments. Lozoya was hospitalized and under an induced coma for at least a month after the attack. Her mother said the woman suffered a traumatic brain injury and is still recovering. The family is hoping for a full recovery. Although police initially believed Lozoya had been beaten, investigators wrote in a statement of probable
Proposed Pallet shelter site has reinvigorated church — and will have chance to do same for city’s homeless if approved by council Wednesday
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Family members of people killed by gun violence and members of New Mexico Crusaders for Justice listen to remarks from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the Capitol during the legislative session in February. Lujan Grisham has made a renewed attempt at an assault weapons ban a priority during the upcoming session.
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year ago, Christ Lutheran Church was considering closing its doors. On Wednesday, it will be seeking approval from the Santa Fe City Council to host the city’s first-ever safe outdoor space for homeless people. “When I tell you this is Holy Spirit-led, it truly, truly is,” Pastor Joene Herr said at a community meeting last week. The City Council approved a resolution establishing the pilot program in April and designated $1 million in federal pandemic relief aid to implement it. The city purchased 25 Pallet shelters for the pilot earlier this year and opened an application for host sites and service providers over the summer. The pilot is part of the city’s Built for Zero model of addressing homelessness.
Applications for host sites were open only to faith-based communities, which will not need to seek zoning approval from the city before setting up the shelters. Christ Lutheran, which has space for a 10-shelter village, was the sole site selected by the city. City officials did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether the church was the only applicant or if there is another reason the pilot is smaller than anticipated. Part of Christ Lutheran’s mission statement, recited at the end of each service, is “ministering to the vulnerable and those on the edge.” “Not knowing where you’re going to sleep at night is about as vulnerable as you can get,” Herr said. Herr had recently returned from a several-month sabbatical when she and a Please see story on Page A-5
ABOVE: Pastor Joene Herr answers a question last week about the proposed Pallet shelter pilot program at Christ Lutheran Church. If approved by the City Council, the church — which had recently considered closing — will host a 10-shelter village where homeless people can stay. “[Church members] were tired,” Herr said. “I really think being able to do something that is going to have a positive impact has brought in new life.” TOP: Building plans and imagery for the proposed outdoor housing space. The City Council is considering whether to allocate $388,000 for the preparation and construction and $440,000 for support services at the site. Herr said she believes the program will save money for the city, which is estimated to spend $14 million a year addressing homelessness. PHOTOS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN
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The brutal shedding of Jewish blood Oct. 7, followed by Israel’s relentless military assault on the Gaza Strip, has brought a fraught question to the fore in a moment of surging bigotry and domestic political gamesmanship: Is anti-Zionism by definition antisemitism? The question deeply divided congressional Democrats this week when Republican leaders, seeking to drive a wedge between American Jews and the political party that three-quarters of them call their own, put it to a vote in the
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don’t think Israel has a right to exist, that is antisemitic.” The following night, lighting the national menorah behind the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, warned, “When Jews are targeted because of their beliefs or identity, and when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hatred, that is antisemitism.” Zionism as a concept was once clearly understood: the belief Jews, who have endured persecution for millenniums, needed refuge and self-determination in the land of their Please see story on Page A-4
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Gov.: Heinrich’s assault weapons ban bill will be basis for state’s Lujan Grisham says renewed push in 2024 session will also focus on regulating guns on ‘lethality of their internal mechanisms’ By Daniel J. Chacón
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The Legislature is poised to consider an assault weapons ban that will be mirrored after legislation U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich helped introduce in Congress last week, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Monday. Heinrich’s Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act “would regulate firearms based on the lethality of their internal mechanisms, as opposed to focusing on cosmetic features that manufacturers can easily modify,” according to his office. The governor called Heinrich’s proposal good work. “Let’s try that vehicle in our own assault weapons ban in New Mexico because one thing that I have that the senator doesn’t have is I’ve got a set of lawmakers that are more likely than not to have a fair debate about guns, gun violence, weapons of war and keeping New Mexicans safe Please see story on Page A-5
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IN BRIEF Storm system lashes Northeast after causing 6 deaths in Tennessee A combination of heavy rain, snow and wind brought threats of flooding and power outages to the Northeast on Monday, part of the same storm system that killed six people in Tennessee, where tornadoes toppled houses and tens of thousands of people lost power in the wintry weather. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings through the evening as snow fell across Vermont and northern New York, where up to 10 inches of snow could accumulate. The weather service said snowfall rates of an inch an hour were possible. Heavy rain and strong winds left thousands of Connecticut homes without power Monday morning, and some roads were closed because of downed trees and poles. Between 1.5 to 3 inches of rain fell in the New York City area overnight, but the storm was moving fast and a flood watch and wind advisory were lifted Monday morning.
Jailed Russian opposition figure has gone missing, supporters say MOSCOW — Supporters of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday they had lost contact with him and have been unable to ascertain his whereabouts for almost a week. Navalny, who has been convicted on an array of charges widely viewed as political retribution and carrying combined sentences totaling 30 years, was no longer in the prison colony IK-6 in the Vladimir region, about 140 miles east of Moscow, where he had been held in recent months, his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, posted Monday on X. Following his conviction last summer on extremism charges, Navalny was due to be transferred to a “special security” penal colony, a facility with the most severe restrictions in the Russian prison system, but officials from Russia’s penitentiary service had not informed Navalny’s lawyers or family of his new location. The White House, which has called repeatedly for Navalny’s release, said it was “deeply concerned” by the reports of his disappearance.
Supreme Court declines to hear ‘conversion therapy’ ban challenge The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a challenge to a state law in Washington designed to protect LGBTQ youths from “conversion therapy,” a decision that drew dissent from three conservative justices. More than 20 states and the District of Columbia restrict mental health counseling that attempts to change a young person’s gender identity or sexual orientation. A Christian marriage and family counselor who helps clients with gender identity told the court the Washington law, which limits the practice of “conversion therapy,” censors his conversations with clients in violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld the law, which it said prohibits certain professional conduct, not speech. As is customary, the Supreme Court majority did not explain its decision Monday to leave the 9th Circuit ruling in place. Three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh — said they would have taken the case.
Trump maintains commanding lead ahead of Iowa caucuses, poll finds With five weeks to go until the first Republican presidential nominating contest, a new poll shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley have yet to chip away at former President Donald Trump’s commanding — and growing — lead in Iowa. The latest NBC News-Des Moines Register-Mediacom Iowa poll shows Trump now attracting first-choice support from 51% of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, up from 43% in October. DeSantis and Haley trail Trump at 19% and 16% respectively — numbers that have not changed significantly since October, when both were tied at 16%. New Mexican wire services
Mother of two facing a risky pregnancy leaves state for procedure, her lawyers say By J. David Goodman The New York Times
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The body of a man who died of a suspected drug overdose in carried from a parking garage in downtown Portland, Ore., in July. State and city officials are proposing to roll back a portion of the nation’s most wide-ranging drug decriminalization law in a bid to revive the troubled city.
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fter years of rising overdoses and an exodus of business from central Portland, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said Monday state and city officials are proposing to roll back a portion of the nation’s most wide-ranging drug decriminalization law in a bid to revive the troubled city. Under the plan brokered by Kotek, a Democrat, state lawmakers would be asked to consider a ban on public drug use, and police would be given greater resources to deter the distribution of drugs. Kotek said officials hoped to restore a sense of safety for both visitors and workers in the city’s beleaguered urban core, which has seen an exodus of key retail outlets, including REI, an institution in the Pacific Northwest. “When it comes to open-air drug use, nobody wants to see that,” Kotek said in an interview. “We need different tools to send the message that that is not acceptable behavior.” Oregon voters in 2020 approved the nation’s first law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of hard drugs, including fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamines. The ballot measure sought to end the use of jail as a punishment for drug users and instead treat addiction as a health issue. The effort was to be joined with major new investments in drug treatment, but those new systems have been slow to develop. In the meantime, cities around the country have been struggling to manage both widespread homelessness and an overdose crisis spurred by the rapid spread of fentanyl, a particularly addictive drug that is both cheap and deadly. In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has pressed to arrest drug users, saying “tough love” is sometimes needed. Last month, Seattle implemented a new law that prohibits possession of drugs and public use. “Portland is changing,” Kotek said, adding the new approach could be a model for other cities. Multnomah County, which includes Portland, has been approaching 500 overdose deaths a year, up from about 200 in 2019, and statewide deaths were up 28% over the past
year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the second highest jump in the nation, behind Washington state. In September, the Portland City Council approved a ban on public drug use that comes with a potential punishment of six months in jail, but the measure will go into effect only if lawmakers change state law. Advocates for drug-policy reform expressed alarm about the prospect of bringing back criminal penalties for drug use. Tera Hurst, the executive director of the nonprofit Health Justice Recovery Alliance, said the focus should be on providing people access to services. She noted many people struggling with addiction have challenges accessing services. Putting the emphasis on prosecution and policing effectively criminalizes poverty, Hurst said, as many of the people using drugs publicly are homeless. She expressed fear people will instead seek to use drugs in private, where they have a higher chance of overdosing. “When we push it back into the criminal system, it pushes people back into the shadows,” Hurst said. “People will die because of this.” The arrival of fentanyl and a potent new methamphetamine has brought new challenges with Oregon’s more open drug policies, including people dealing with deeper addiction and mental health struggles than before, said Dr. Andy Mendenhall, the president and CEO of Central City Concern, a nonprofit focused on helping the homeless. His nonprofit supported the passage of Measure 110, the drug decriminalization initiative. He said he continued to support the overall decriminalization effort, though he recognized the need for modifications. “We are in a very strong position of, ‘Revise, do not repeal,’ ” he said. He said there was value in offering people treatment as a diversion option during a criminal process. Mendenhall works in the Old Town neighborhood of downtown. Tents cover the sidewalks in some places, with some people lying motionless near the street and others exhibiting clear signs of mental illness, a scene Mendenhall said can leave visitors feeling unsafe.
Inflation near target, Fed set to leave interest rates alone By Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With inflation edging closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, its policymakers are facing — and in some cases fueling — hopes they will make a decisive shift in policy and cut interest rates next year, possibly as soon as spring. Such a move would reduce borrowing costs across the economy, making mortgages, auto loans and business borrowing less expensive. Stock prices
could rise, too, though share prices have already risen in expectation of cuts, potentially limiting any further rise. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, though, has recently downplayed the idea of looming rate reductions. With the central bank poised to keep its key short-term rate unchanged when it meets this week, Powell hasn’t yet signaled the Fed is done with its hikes. Speaking recently at Spelman College in Atlanta, the Fed chairman cautioned “it would be premature to conclude
with confidence” the Fed has raised its benchmark rate high enough to fully defeat inflation. But the Fed’s two-day meeting that ends Wednesday will mark the third straight time its officials have kept their key rate unchanged, lending weight to the widespread assumption rate hikes are over. The economy is headed in the direction the Fed wants: On Tuesday, when the government releases the November inflation report, it’s expected to show annual consumer price increases
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HOUSTON — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court order allowing an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition, hours after her lawyers said she had decided to leave Texas for the procedure in the face of the state’s abortion bans. The court ruled the lower court made a mistake in ruling the woman, Kate Cox, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, was entitled to a medical exception. In its seven-page ruling, the Supreme Court found Cox’s doctor, Damla Karsan, “asked a court to pre-authorize the abortion yet she could not, or at least did not, attest to the court that Ms. Cox’s condition poses the risks the exception requires.” Texas’ overlapping bans allow for abortions only when a pregnancy seriously threatens the health or life of the woman. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court wrote. The ruling applied only to Cox’s current pregnancy. Cox asked the lower court for approval after she learned her fetus had a fatal condition and after several trips to the emergency room. The legal authorization she obtained from the lower court was put on hold when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed to the state Supreme Court. Due to uncertain of when a ruling would come, her lawyers said Monday, she had decided to seek an abortion in a state where it is legal. “Kate desperately wanted to be able to get care where she lives and recover at home surrounded by family,” Nancy Northup, CEO for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which was representing Cox in her case, said in a statement. “While Kate had the ability to leave the state, most people do not, and a situation like this could be a death sentence.” The case was believed to be the first to seek a court-ordered exception since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, clearing the way for Republican-controlled states like Texas to enact near-total abortion bans. It marked a new chapter in the legal history of abortion in the United States, with pregnant women now going to court seeking permission for their doctors to do what they determine to be medically necessary. Legal challenges have emerged in several states where doctors said the bans were preventing abortions even in cases of serious pregnancy complications. Through September, Texas recorded only 34 abortion procedures performed in the state in 2023, according to state health statistics. In 2020, before the first of the state’s highly restrictive laws went into effect, there were more than 50,000. In Cox’s case, lawyers for Paxton’s office argued she did not meet the criteria for a medical exception to the state’s overlapping abortion bans, which are among the strictest in the nation, and said she was seeking an “elective abortion.” Cox’s fetus received a diagnosis of trisomy 18, a genetic abnormality that in all but rare cases results in miscarriage, stillbirth or an infant’s death within the first year after birth. Karsan determined an abortion would be the safest option for the mother’s health and to preserve her ability to have children in the future.
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U.N. draft far too mild on fossil fuels, envoys from U.S., islands say By Jon Gambrell, Jamey Keaten, Sibi Arasu and Seth Borenstein
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Negotiators from around the world haggled deep into the night at United Nations climate talks to try to strike a deal to halt global warming, with Western powers and vulnerable developing countries worried a proposed text fell far short of goals to save the planet. A new draft released Monday of what’s known as the global stocktake — the part of talks that assesses the world’s progress toward climate goals — called for countries to reduce “consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.” The release triggered a frenzy of fine-tuning by government envoys and rapid analysis by advocacy groups, just hours before the planned late-morning finish to the talks Tuesday — even though many observers expect the finale to run over time, as is common at the annual U.N. talks. Bangladesh climate envoy Saber Chowdhury said a revised text would be presented Tuesday morning that takes into account the many comments from participants. “It’ll be new. To what extent it’s improved remains to be seen,” he said shortly after the session ended at around 2 a.m.
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Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera, right, and Wopke Hoekstra, European Union commissioner for climate action, center, walk near activists as negotiators head into a session Monday at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
stakeholders like Saudi Arabia had watered down the text. United States climate envoy John Kerry says the language on fossil fuels in the text “does not meet the test” of reaching 1.5. “I, like most of you here, refuse to be part of a charade” of not phasing out fossil fuels, Kerry said. “This is a war for survival.” Kerry’s remarks received a round of applause from the room. But when he left the meeting, climate activists confronted Kerry, calling for more action, saying their future was at stake. Zhao Yingmin, China’s vice minister for Ecology and Environment, said at the meeting “the draft fails to address the concerns of developing countries on some key issues” and in particular the idea greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025. Saudi Arabia’s Noura Alissa said the deal “must work for all.” “It must be relevant, it must make to sense to accelerate action for every single country in this room, not some over others,” she said.
In a closed-door meeting late Monday, some country delegation chiefs needled COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber’s frequent calling of the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — since preindustrial times his “north star,” saying the president’s proposal misses that star. “It is not enough to say 1.5, we have to do 1.5. We have to deliver accordingly,” Norway minister Espen Barth Eide said. Some Pacific Island nations argued the text amounted to a death sentence. The proposed text “doesn’t even come close to delivering 1.5 as a north star,” said Seve Paeniu, Tuvalu’s delegation chief. “For us this is a matter of survival. We cannot put loopholes in our children’s futures.” Small island nations are some of the most vulnerable places in a world of rising temperatures and seas. Final decisions by COPs have to be by consensus. Activists said they feared potential objections from fossil fuel
Philda Nani Kereng of Botswana said her country “is a developing country ... it’s still, you know, exploiting natural resources for economic development, for livelihood improvement, for job creation and so forth.” Talking about the outcome of the talks, she said “we are very careful to make sure that it’s not going to sort of stop us from developing our people.” “We need to find a solution that has maximum ambition and maximum equity,” South Africa minister Barbara Creecy said as negotiators dispersed well after midnight. “One without the other will not solve the conundrum we face.” A combination of activists and delegation members lined the entry into the late-evening meeting Monday of heads of delegations with their arms raised in unity as delegations walked through, creating a tunnel-like effect. A few activists told delegates passing by: “You are our last hope. We count on you.”
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WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy kicked off a quick visit to Washington on Monday, warning in a speech at a defense university Russia may be fighting in Ukraine but its “real target is freedom” in America and around the world. He also issued a personal plea for Congress to break its deadlock and approve continued support for Ukraine. His time in Washington, which will include meetings Tuesday at the White House and with Congress, is part of a push by the Biden administration to convince lawmakers to pass a supplemental funding bill as officials warn money for Ukraine is running out. President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $61.4 billion for wartime funding for Ukraine as part of a $110 billion package that also includes money for Israel and other national security priorities. But the request is caught up in a debate over U.S. immigration policy and border security. The U.S. has already provided Ukraine $111 billion for its fight against Russia’s 2022 invasion. “If there’s anyone inspired by unresolved issues on Capitol Hill, it’s just [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his sick clique,” Zelenskyy told military leaders and students at the National Defense University. “Ukrainians haven’t given up and won’t give up. We know what to do. And you can count on Ukraine. And we hope ... to be able to count on you.” Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin, who introduced the Ukrainian president, said America’s commitment to Ukraine is unshakeable Volodymyr and supportZelenskyy ing the war is critical to ensuring the security of the U.S. and its allies. “America’s commitments must be honored. America’s security must be defended. And America’s word must be kept,” Austin said. With Congress in its final week before leaving for the holidays, questions remain as to whether Republicans will be able to come to an agreement on any rounds of future funding for Ukraine or Israel without White House concessions on border security as illegal crossings surge. But any border package also runs the risk of alienating some Democrats. This is Zelenskyy’s third visit to Washington since the war began. His lobbying task, however, has gotten increasingly difficult. He received a hero’s welcome in the Capitol last year but faces a bitterly divided Congress this year. He noted the 82nd anniversary of the U.S. joining World War II, as then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the declaration of war against Germany. Now, he said, though the U.S. has no troops on the ground in Ukraine, it is supplying critically needed weapons and equipment.
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Israeli defense chief resists calls to halt war By Josef Federman, Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against international calls to wrap up the country’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the current phase of the operation against the Hamas militant group will “take time.” Yoav Gallant, a member of Israel’s three-man war cabinet, remained unswayed by a growing chorus of criticism over the widespread damage and heavy civilian death toll caused by the two-month military campaign. The U.N. secretary-general and leading Arab states have called for an immediate cease-fire. The United States has urged Israel to reduce civilian casualties, though it has provided unwavering diplomatic and military support. Israel launched the campaign after Hamas militants stormed across its southern border on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping about 240 others. Two months of airstrikes, coupled with a fierce ground invasion, have resulted in the deaths of over 17,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory. They do not give a breakdown between civilians and combatants but say that roughly two-thirds of the dead have been women and minors. Nearly 85% of the territory’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes. Gallant spoke as Israeli forces battled militants in and around the southern city of Khan Younis, where the military opened a new line of attack last week. Battles were also still underway in parts of Gaza City and the urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, where large areas have been reduced to rubble and many thousands of civilians are still trapped by the fighting. Israel has pledged to keep
fighting until it removes Hamas from power, dismantles its military capabilities and gets back all of the hostages. It says Hamas still has 117 hostages and the remains of 20 people who died in captivity or during the initial attack. More than 100 captives were freed last month during a weeklong truce. In central Gaza, an Israeli airstrike overnight flattened a residential building where some 80 people were staying in the Maghazi refugee camp, residents said. In Khan Younis, Radwa Abu Frayeh saw heavy Israeli strikes overnight around the European Hospital, where the U.N. humanitarian office says tens of thousands of people have sought shelter. She said one strike hit a home close to hers late Sunday. “The building shook,” she said. “We thought it was the end and we would die.” With Israel allowing little aid into Gaza and the U.N. largely unable to distribute it amid the fighting, Palestinians face severe shortages of food, water and other basic goods. Israel said it will start conducting inspections of aid trucks Tuesday at its Kerem Shalom crossing, a step meant to increase the amount of relief entering Gaza. Currently, Israel’s Nitzana crossing is the only inspection point in operation. All trucks then enter from Egypt through the Rafah crossing. Aid workers, however, say they are largely unable to distribute aid beyond the Rafah area because of the fighting elsewhere. Israel has urged people to flee to what it says are safe areas in the south. The fighting in and around Khan Younis has pushed tens of thousands toward the town of Rafah and other areas along the border with Egypt. Still, airstrikes have continued even in areas to which Palestinians are told to flee.
Israel allowed Qatar payments to Hamas Neyanyahu government said to have encouraged funding for decade as way of ‘buying quiet’
Avigdor Lieberman, second from left, in Tel Aviv in 2019. The former defense minister raised concerns that Hamas was slowly building its military abilities to attack Israel, but his plan to launch a first strike was rejected in favor of containment.
By Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman
The New York Times
TEL AVIV, Israel — Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials. For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them. During his meetings in September with Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue? Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy so Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha. Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting. The Qatari payments, while ostensibly a secret, have been widely known and discussed in the Israeli news media for years. Netanyahu’s critics disparage them as part of a strategy of “buying quiet,” and the policy is in the middle of a ruthless reassessment following the attacks. Netanyahu has lashed back at that criticism, calling the suggestion he tried to empower Hamas “ridiculous.” In interviews with more than two dozen current and former Israeli, U.S. and Qatari officials, and officials from other Middle Eastern governments, The New York Times unearthed new details about the origins of the policy, the controversies that erupted inside the Israeli government, and the lengths Netanyahu went to in order to shield the Qataris from criticism and keep the money flowing. The payments were part of a string of decisions by Israeli political leaders, military officers and intelligence officials — all based on the fundamentally flawed assessment Hamas was neither interested in nor
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capable of a large-scale attack. The Times has previously reported on intelligence failures and other faulty assumptions that preceded the attacks. Avigdor Lieberman, months after becoming defense minister in 2016, wrote a secret memo to Netanyahu and the Israeli military chief of staff. He said Hamas was slowly building its military abilities to attack Israel, and he argued Israel should strike first. Israel’s goal is “to ensure that the next confrontation between Israel and Hamas will be the final showdown,” he wrote in the memo, dated Dec. 21, 2016, a copy of which was reviewed by the Times. A preemptive strike, he said, could remove most of the “leadership of the military wing of Hamas.” Netanyahu rejected the plan, preferring containment to confrontation. Even as the Israeli military obtained battle plans for a Hamas invasion and analysts observed significant terrorism exercises just over the border in Gaza, the payments continued. For years, Israeli intelligence officers even escorted a Qatari official into Gaza, where he doled out money from suitcases filled with millions of dollars. The money from Qatar had humanitarian goals including paying government salaries in Gaza and buying fuel to keep a power plant running. But Israeli intelligence officials now believe the money had a role in the success of the Oct. 7 attacks, if only because the donations allowed Hamas to divert some of its own budget toward military operations. Separately, Israeli intelligence has long assessed Qatar uses other channels to secretly fund Hamas’ military wing, an accusation Qatar’s government has denied. Multiple Israeli governments enabled money to go to Gaza for humanitarian rea-
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ancestors. The word still evokes joyful pride among many Jews in the state of Israel, which was established 75 years ago and repeatedly defended itself against attacks from Arab neighbors that aimed to annihilate it. If anti-Zionism a century ago meant opposing the international effort to set up a Jewish state in what was then a British-controlled territory called Palestine, it now suggests the elimination of Israel as the sovereign homeland of the Jews. That, many Jews in Israel and the diaspora say, is indistinguishable from hatred of Jews generally, or antisemitism. Yet some critics of Israel say they equate Zionism with a continuing project of expanding the Jewish state. That effort animates an Israeli government bent on settling ever more parts of the West Bank some Israelis, as well as the United States and other Western powers, had proposed as a separate state for the Palestinian people. Expanding those settlements, to Israel’s critics, conjures images of “settler colonialists” and apartheid-style oppressors. So for some Jews, the answer to the question is obvious. Of course anti-Zionism is antisemitism, they say: Around half the world’s Jews live in Israel, and destroying it, or ending its status as a refuge where they are assured of governing themselves, would imperil a people who have faced annihilation time and again. “There is no debate,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which has been defining and monitoring antisemitism since 1913. “Anti-Zionism is predicated on one concept, the denial of rights to one people.” Many Palestinians and their allies recoil just as fiercely: The equating of opposition to a Jewish state on onceArab land — or opposition to its expansion — with bigotry is to silence their
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Activists with Jewish Voice for Peace rally to call for a cease-fire in Gaza in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York last month.
national aspirations, muffle political dissent and denigrate 75 years of their suffering. Laila el-Haddad, a Palestinian activist and author, called it “a chilling attempt to punish and silence voices critical of Israeli policies.” But perhaps nowhere is the question more fraught than among Jews themselves. Younger, left-leaning Jews, steeped in the cause of anti-racism and terms such as “settler colonialism,” are increasingly searching for a Jewish identity centered more on religious values like the pursuit of justice and repairing the world than on collective nationalism tied to the land of Israel. Many older liberal Jews have also struggled with the Israeli government’s lurch to the far right, but they see Israel as the centerpiece and guarantor of continued Jewish existence in an ever more secular world. “We’re living in an increasingly post-religious age, and any Jewish community that walks away from the Jewish people, and its most articulate expression of our times — the Jewish state, the state of Israel — is walking away from
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cause a review of surveillance footage provided by a neighbor showed she was actually struck by a pickup that sped from the scene. Castaneda’s girlfriend, Esmerelda Jasso-Laguna, 20, has now been accused of assisting him. Police charged Jasso-Laguna with conspiracy of first-degree murder, accessory to attempted murder, two counts of aggravated stalking and two counts of felony property damage, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday
in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. In an arrest warrant affidavit, a Santa Fe Police Department detective alleged a search of Castaneda’s cellphone after he was arrested turned up a text sent to Jasso-Laguna on the night of the attack that read: “It’s done.” Castaneda confessed to running down Lozoya with his truck during a police interrogation, the affidavit states, and he maintained Jasso-Laguna had no involvement. Police wrote Castaneda said he had carried on a romantic relationship with
their own future,” said Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City and the founder of Amplify Israel, which seeks to emphasize the Jewish state in Jewish worship. For Republicans, the issue is simple and convenient. The raising of anti-Zionism in the debate over antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war pushes aside the presence of white-nationalist bigots on the fringes of the Republican coalition — such as Nick Fuentes, the avowed neo-Nazi who dined with Kanye West and former President Donald Trump last year — and instead forces Democrats to defend the pro-Hamas demonstrators on their own coalition’s fringes. So Tuesday, when GOP leaders led by Rep. David Kustoff of Tennessee, one of the House’s two Jewish Republicans, put to a vote a resolution condemning all forms of antisemitism and flatly stated “that anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” the 216 Republicans who voted yes included two who have been accused of antisemitism and white-nationalist flirtations, Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
Lozoya in late 2022 and early 2023 while he and Jasso-Laguna were “on a break.” The detective noted investigators were skeptical Castaneda had acted alone in the attack on Lozoya that took place at least eight months after their last known interaction on Snapchat. Castaneda told police the relationship with Lozoya had caused Jasso-Laguna stress and strained their relationship since he told her about it earlier this year, the affidavit states. When questioned by police, Jasso-Laguna denied any involvement or knowledge of the attack, according to the affidavit. The detective wrote Jasso-La-
sons, not to strengthen Hamas, an official in Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. He added: “Prime Minister Netanyahu acted to weaken Hamas significantly. He led three powerful military operations against Hamas which killed thousands of terrorists and senior Hamas commanders.” Hamas has always publicly stated its commitment to eliminating the state of Israel. But each payout was a testament to the Israeli government’s view Hamas was a low-level nuisance, and even a political asset. As far back as December 2012, Netanyahu told prominent Israeli journalist Dan Margalit it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Margalit, in an interview, said Netanyahu told him having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state. While Israeli military and intelligence leaders have acknowledged failings leading up to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu has refused to address such questions. And with a war waging in Gaza, a political reckoning for the man who has served as prime minister for 13 of the past 15 years, is, for the moment, on hold. But Netanyahu’s critics say that his approach to Hamas had, at its core, a cynical political agenda: to keep Gaza quiet as a means of staying in office without addressing the threat of Hamas or simmering Palestinian discontent. “The conception of Netanyahu over a decade and a half was that if we buy quiet and pretend the problem isn’t there, we can wait it out and it will fade away,” said Eyal Hulata, Israel’s national security adviser from July 2021 until the beginning of this year.
(The one Republican who voted no, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, has now been labeled antisemitic by the White House.) For the broader Democratic community, by contrast, the debate has been wrenching, pitting allies against one another, splintering more conservative Jewish Democrats who absolutely believe anti-Zionism is antisemitic from progressive Democrats, especially Democrats of color, who argue just as strongly for the latitude to criticize Israel, and leaving a huge middle unwilling to draw bright lines. Thirteen Democrats voted no, including Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Ninety-five voted yes, but 92 Democrats voted “present,” among them prominent Jews including Jerrold Nadler of New York, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. “Folks, this isn’t complicated: MOST antizionism — the type that calls for Israel’s destruction, denying its right to exist — is antisemitic. This type is used to cloak hatred of Jews,” Nadler wrote on social media after the vote. “Some antizionism isn’t that. Thus, it’s simply inaccurate to call ALL antizionism antisemitic.” Still, Democrats worry that the debate is blurring the line between political speech and hate speech. Tibetans pressing for freedom from the Chinese are considered unserious or even repugnant in Beijing, just as Native American activists demanding to reclaim parts of the United States might be to the owners of that land. But are they bigoted? Omar said the Republican resolution she opposed “conflates criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism” and “paints critics of the Israeli government as antisemites.” To the young Jewish activists of left-wing groups such as IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace, which have themselves been accused of antisemitism, the search for a Jewish identity unrooted in the land has not been complicated. Jews, after all, survived without
guna acknowledged she may have said, “I wish she was gone or I wish she was dead,” but added “I say that about a lot of people.” But investigators alleged in the affidavit the two had discussed detailed plans for Castaneda to run down Lozoya with his truck in previous text message exchanges and Jasso-Laguna urged her boyfriend to kill the other woman, whom she referred to as “the problem.” “Jasso-Laguna actively participates via texts,” the affidavit states, “telling Mr. Castaneda where to wait and that running her off the road in her vehicle won’t be enough.”
a state for nearly 2,000 years after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem and scattered the inhabitants of the Holy Land to the four corners of the Earth. Eva Borgwardt, the 27-year-old political director of IfNotNow, said she graduated high school wanting to be a rabbi. Now she speaks of a renaissance of Jewish identity in the United States, a “diasporic” chicken farm, queer Talmudic studies and a Judaism based on good works — including the securing of equal rights and protections for Palestinians. “For Jews questioning Zionism, the issue is protecting the rights of a minority from a state determined to eliminate them,” she said. “What could be more Jewish than that?” Greenblatt, of the Anti-Defamation League, reacted angrily to that argument. “Please don’t tell me my grandfather, whose entire family was incinerated in Auschwitz, wanted to go back to the diaspora,” he said. To which younger, leftier Jews might respond by asking what it even means to suggest American politics should be focused on securing a safe haven for Jews abroad when the First Amendment ensures the United States is such a safe haven. In all of this, a generational divide is palpable. Older Jews lived through the trials and triumphs of the early Jewish state. Middle-aged Jews remember the hope of a peace that recognized the legitimate aspirations of the Jewish and Palestinian people, embodied in the Oslo accords of the 1990s, and a diplomatic process that was pursued vigorously until the early years of the 21st century. The young Jews joining pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the past two months know only an Israel they see as powerful, violent against Palestinians and ruled by leaders far to their right. “I was born after the Oslo accords had fallen apart,” Borgwardt said. “I’ve never known any kind of actual hope for a Zionism that does not demand occupation, apartheid and the oppression of Palestinians to fulfill the identity of the Jewish state.”
The couple texted back and forth about the plan “for hours” on the night of the incident, the detective wrote in the affidavit, with Castaneda stating in texts to Jasso-Laguna he had lost track of Lozoya after following her around town. She responded and urged Castaneda to find her, according to the affidavit. “Later in the conversation, Ms. Jasso-Laguna and Mr. Castaneda start discussing how to explain any damage to his truck,” the affidavit states. “Ms. Jasso-Laguna told him to say he hit an animal saying, ‘It’s Elk and [deer emoji] season.’ They also discussed in text messages where Mr. Castaneda would go after he hit her, to
establish an ‘alibi.’ ” In their text exchanges, the affidavit states, the couple also referred multiple times to a third person who apparently assisted them in the crimes. No charges have been filed against that man as of Monday afternoon. The couple had similarly texted back and forth throughout a July night when Lozoya’s car tires were slashed and her windows were broken, and again in September, the affidavit states. During a phone interview Monday, the victim’s mother, Lizzette Lozoya, said she had never heard of Jasso-Laguna. “All I care about is my daughter’s recovery,” Lozoya said.
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congregant went to the Safe Outdoor Space Community Forum last December, an open house focused on solutions to homelessness. Consulting firm Project Moxie had a Pallet shelter set up at the event, and Herr said she immediately thought the church would be the perfect place to host the shelters. She asked her congregation if it would be interested in pursuing the idea at a special meeting. The response: an enthusiastic yes. Founded in 1963, Christ Lutheran, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, has just over 40 members, most north of age 70, Herr said. The meeting focused on discussing options for the church’s future, including closing because of how small it had become. Ultimately, the congregation decided it still had more it needed to do, and Herr — who had been considering early retirement — committed to staying as pastor for three more years. Since then, Herr, project liaison Allyson Faehl and other congregants have been working to make the safe outdoor space a reality, including a road trip with several members of the Lived Experience Advisory Board to a Pallet shelter community hosted by a church in Aurora, Colo. The advisory board is a group of Santa Feans who are currently or have previously been homeless. Chairman Nechay Gustobov participated in the trip to Colorado and said he was pleased with what he saw. He said he believes having a home, a word
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Megan Robert, right, and Linda Regnier look last week at the plans and drawings for the proposed 10 Pallet shelters at Christ Lutheran Church. The church is in the process of notifying the community groups that use its building during the week and neighboring residents about the pilot and will be required to craft a good neighbor agreement if the program is approved by the City Council.
he prefers to shelter, will allow people experiencing homeless to feel safe and start pursuing ways to turn their lives around. “They will feel like they have a sense of normalcy, no matter how temporary,” he said. Herr said the project has energized the congregation, which Sunday celebrated its 60th anniversary with a 1960s-themed party. “People were tired,” she said. “I really think being able to do something that is going to have a positive impact has brought in new life.” If approved by the City Council, the church plans to start construction on the village as soon as possible and have people move in
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agencies state lawmakers will push to invest more money in during the 30-day legislative session, they’ve become accustomed to using recurring money to wrestle with any number of chronic problems. The state’s public education system continues to rank near or at the bottom of most national surveys on the issue. Crime and substance abuse issues continue to darken many communities in the state. Lujan Grisham likely will have her pet projects to pursue as well. Just last week, she announced a plan to create a strategic long-term water supply for industrial uses by tapping brackish water and hydraulic fracturing wastewater. The governor said she will ask the Legislature to earmark $500 million in severance tax bonds to buy treated brackish water and so-called produced water from fracking to bolster the statewide supply in an era marked by drought. Lawmakers on the committee nonetheless urged caution when it comes to figuring out how — or if — to allocate all that money, particularly with economists predicting the oil and gas industry, which fuels much of the state budget, may be heading into a cooling period. One Legislative Finance Committee analyst told committee members the oil and gas industry makes up about 40% of the state’s annual revenue. Noting the Legislative Finance Report revenue estimate report says recurring revenue could grow at a much slower rate after fiscal year 2024, several lawmakers suggested looking for ways to provide one-time funding to initiatives and programs. Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces, said this could
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than members of Congress are,” Lujan Grisham said. “I feel pretty good about our ability here,” she added. “We’ll have to see how those votes all shake out, but I think that that’s a game-changer for a lot of places, including New Mexico, so expect to see that on my call.” The governor had vowed to ask lawmakers during the 30-day session that begins next month to reconsider an assault weapons ban after failing to get several major gun-control measures across the finish line during the 60-day session earlier this year. Lujan Grisham disclosed her plans while promoting the latest statistics since her administration issued a gun violence public health order, which show 2,490 total arrests since September. Forty percent of the arrests are drug-related, she said. “Let me just state unequivocally: The public health order [has been] in effect three months, and it’s working,” said Lujan Grisham, who plans to keep it in place. “Are we out of the woods in terms of the public safety issues we are challenged by? We are not.” In addition to championing an assault weapons ban, Lujan Grisham said she plans to ask lawmakers for more money to recruit and retain police officers.
at some point next year. The congregation’s goal is to keep the safe outdoor space running for as long as it is needed, Herr said. In the coming year, the church plans to establish a 501(c)3 nonprofit for the safe outdoor space and its weekly food pantry so it can apply for grants besides those available to faith communities. Santa Feans who work with homeless people say the safe outdoor space would be a welcome addition to the city’s available resources. “The more options to help people get connected to services, the better off our whole community is,” said Korina Lopez, executive director of Pete’s Place.
be a good year to push for some one-time efforts that “will allow us to invest in New Mexico while not spending everything right away.” “We have to be very cautious,” said Sen. Bobby Gonzales, D-Ranchos de Taos. Noting lower oil prices equate to a decrease in oil production activity, other lawmakers said the state should do more to create and support other revenue-making industries. “We need to be thinking about additional industries now as opposed to in five years,” said Rep. Meredith Dixon, D-Albuquerque. Despite recent concerns state revenues will come in below budget forecasts made in August, the Cabinet secretary of the state Taxation and Revenue Department said the state “looks to be on track” with a previous estimate of nearly $13 billion in recurring revenue. “There hasn’t been a lot of change in the baseline forecast ... since the August forecast,” Stephanie Schardin Clarke told committee members. A continuation of record-high revenue growth filling state coffers has allowed the Legislature and governor to increase the state’s budget by 13% two years in a row. In an interview after the hearing, Small said revenue projections have been in line with the last few years. He said perhaps the larger question is not about how much money the Legislature has to work with, but whether it can “implement efforts on the ground across New Mexico” to use it to improve water and acequia infrastructure, invest in transportation needs, reduce carbon emissions and create affordable housing. “I have a lot of confidence that folks are very focused on delivering successful implementation [efforts],” he said. “It doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy and we shouldn’t expect everything to be spent or built in one year.”
“I asked for $200 million to get to 1,000 new officers,” she said. “We’re at about 439 statewide. We need to be at 1,000.” The governor also said she will continue to push for establishing a “rebuttable presumption” to keep repeat violent offenders awaiting trial off the streets instead of letting them be released before trial. The bill was tabled in committee earlier this year amid concerns it was unconstitutional. “This will be a very strong public safety session,” she said. “Every session has been so, but I want to make sure this momentum is felt by New Mexicans, every single time we can get policymakers in a room to do the work we need to do so that we’re all safer.” In addition to the thousands of arrests since the public health order went into effect, Lujan Grisham and Ben Baker, her senior public safety adviser, pointed to the seizure of 219 guns in Bernalillo County. An additional 439 guns have been surrendered through gun buyback events. “Getting guns off the street is a necessary ingredient for success in this public health order,” Baker said. Lujan Grisham noted while advocating for an assault weapons ban that a not-so-dangerous firearm can easily be modified into what she called a “weapon of war.” “We don’t know how to define that because somebody comes
up with a new kit about every 10 minutes about how to get around it, so then policymakers don’t want to deal with it, and courts don’t know where they are given the Second Amendment, and it gets really dicey, complicated, messy, so we just keep ignoring it,” she said. “Well, Senator Heinrich didn’t.” The Associated Press reported last week the proposed legislation wouldn’t ban assault weapons outright but would “regulate such guns to have permanently fixed magazines, limited to 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for some heavy-format pistols.” In an interview last week with MSNBC, Heinrich said he started working on the approach of looking at the internal mechanisms, rather than the cosmetics of firearms, after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nev., in 2017 that left 60 dead and more than 400 wounded. “I don’t care if a gun has a folding stock or a pistol grip. I care about how deadly it is,” he said in the interview. “These firearms are in the same sort of bucket as things like fully automatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns that we have regulated for nearly a century,” Heinrich continued. “I think it’s long past due that we take an approach that’s really rooted in the physical mechanisms that make some of these firearms so dangerous.” Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.
“I think it’s a wonderful idea,” added Ed Archuleta, executive director of St. Elizabeth Shelter. “I hope this is a success and they start more around town.” “Having a place to be able to get away from the trauma of the streets and lock up their personal belongings is really crucial” to helping homeless people succeed, said Janelle Bohannon, an outreach services program manager at The Life Link. The Life Link will provide the day-to-day staffing and case management services at the safe outdoor space. Bohannon said the organization was inspired to become involved by the emergency shelter hotel program it ran
during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the course of nine months, Bohannon said, 29 people who participated into the program moved into some form of permanent shelter. Staying in the hotel was contingent on receiving case management services from The Life Link, Bohannon said, which will be the case at the safe outdoor space as well. There will be two case managers on site Monday through Friday to help connect residents to a range of services and work toward the long-term goal of getting into permanent housing, she said. “It’s going to be a lot of work, but we’re prepared,” she said. Project Moxie will be providing technical assistance for the pilot program, funded by the Anchorum Health Foundation. “These sites are incredibly successful,” said Project Moxie Vice President Kathleen Van Voorhis. Project Moxie has helped established Pallet shelters across the nation, and Van Voorhis said people who stay at the shelters transition into permanent housing at high rates. The company will work with the providers in Santa Fe to ensure they are following best practices for safe outdoor spaces, which include providing wraparound community support services. It also will help with com-
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munity outreach, she said. The church is in the process of notifying the community groups who use its building during the week and neighboring residents about the pilot and will be required to craft a good neighbor agreement. On Wednesday, the city will be asking City Council to approve an agreement with Christ Lutheran for $388,000 for the preparation and construction of the safe outdoor space and $440,000 for support services and 24-hour supervision from The Life Link through the end of 2024. Herr said that was more than she initially expected it to cost but believes the program will end up saving the city money if it is successful in getting people into housing. A 2022 report estimated the city spends $14 million a year in total addressing homelessness. The church has spent about $3,500 of its own money on the architectural design for the safe outdoor space, which came from a gift in memory of a congregant who died last year. Herr said she hopes other organizations in town will be inspired by Christ Lutheran to want to become host sites as well. She joked her congregation is “the little mouse that roared.” “We’re small, we’re old — but if we can do it, anyone can do it,” she said.
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WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith made his request for the court to act with unusual speed to prevent any delays that could push back the trial of the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, currently set to begin March 4, until after next year’s presidential election. Later Monday, the justices indicated they would decide quickly whether to hear the case, ordering Trump’s lawyers to respond by Dec. 20. The court’s brief order did not signal what it ultimately would do. A federal judge ruled the case could go forward, but Trump said he would ask the federal appeals court in Washington to reverse that outcome. Smith is attempting to bypass the appeals court, the usual next step in the process, and have the Supreme Court take up the matter directly. “This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been
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Special counsel Jack Smith speaks at a news conference about an indictment of former President Donald Trump in Washington earlier this year. Smith is asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether the former president is immune from prosecution.
impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin,” prosecutors wrote. Trump’s presidential campaign criticized Smith for trying to go around the appeals court. “There is absolutely no reason to rush this sham to trial except to injure President Trump and tens of millions of his supporters. President Trump will continue to fight for Justice and oppose these authoritarian tactics,” the campaign said in a statement. The court is next scheduled to meet privately on Jan. 5, 2024. It’s unclear whether the justices would convene sooner to take up Smith’s request. Underscoring the urgency for prosecutors in securing a quick resolution that can push the case forward, Smith and his team wrote: “It is of imperative public importance that respondent’s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court and that respondent’s trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected.”
Trump decides against testifying as scheduled in New York civil fraud trial NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has decided not to return to the witness stand to testify Monday as he had planned, setting up an abrupt and anticlimactic ending to the defense’s case in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan. As recently as Sunday morning, Trump had been expected to testify in his own defense in the case, in which the New York attorney general has accused him of fraudulently inflating his net worth. But just before 1:30 p.m., Trump announced on his social media platform in two all-caps messages he had testified “very successfully and conclusively” and that “I will not be testifying on Monday.” His about-face all but ends the lengthy and chaotic proceedings in the fraud trial, which began in early October. A defense witness, Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, is instead expected to conclude the defense’s case, to be followed by several rebuttal witnesses called by Attorney General Letitia James’ lawyers. In January, both
parties are expected to file final briefs, after which the trial judge, Arthur Engoron, is expected to deliver his ruling. James has asked that Trump be fined $250 million and be permanently barred from running a business in New York. Before the trial, Engoron concluded that the former president had committed fraud by inflating the values of his assets on annual financial statements, which he then shared with banks and insurers to receive preferential treatment. Over the past month, Trump’s lawyers have fought back against that argument with a parade of their own witnesses. David Williams, a banker in the wealth management group at Deutsche Bank, and Rosemary Vrablic, who oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Trump, testified the former president’s exaggerated claims of wealth had not influenced them and that the bank had conducted its own due diligence.
At issue is a Dec. 1 ruling from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that rejected arguments by Trump’s lawyers that he was immune from federal prosecution. In her order, Chutkan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, wrote that the office of the president “does not confer a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jailfree’ pass.” “Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability,” Chutkan wrote. If the justices get involved, they would have an opportunity to rule for the first time ever on whether ex-presidents enjoy immunity from prosecution. Justice Department policy prohibits the indictment of a sitting president. Though there’s no such bar against prosecution for a former commander in chief, lawyers for Trump say that he cannot be charged for actions that fell within his official duties as president — a claim that prosecutors have vigorously rejected.
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In a cathartic moment for many in Poland, moderate political veteran Donald Tusk got the nod Monday to be the country’s next prime minister, marking the end of eight years of rightwing nationalist governance and a dramatic shift in the European political landscape. Tusk’s alliance secured a majority in October elections with a promise to restore Polish democracy and the country’s relationship with European allies. “This is a wonderful day, not for me, but for all those who have deeply believed over these years that things will get even better, that we will chase away the darkness, that we will chase away evil,” Tusk said, addressing the Polish people on Monday night. “From tomorrow, we will be able to right the wrongs so that everyone, without exception, can feel at home,” he added. But with interest and expectations running high, Tusk faces the daunting task of repairing relations with the European Union, depoliticizing the judiciary, restoring the independence of the media, and bolstering the rights of women and minorities — all without alienating the many who sympathize with the old guard. Prominent among the obsta-
cles is President Andrzej Duda, who has two more years in office and remains loyal to the outgoing Law and Justice party. Duda Donald Tusk sought to delay a political transition by first tapping Law and Justice leader Mateusz Morawiecki to serve another term as prime minister. Although Law and Justice remains the largest party in parliament, it is well short of a majority, and Morawiecki’s proposed cabinet lost a vote of confidence Monday. That cleared the way for lawmakers to vote in favor of Tusk as the next prime minister. His government is expected to be endorsed in a further parliamentary vote, enabling him to take his place among European leaders at gatherings later this week. Congratulations poured in from across the continent on Monday night, as Warsaw’s Palace of Culture was illuminated in the colors of the Polish flag. There is a sense of “now we can just be back to normal, in the sense of what the state is and that public institutions are respected,” said Malgorzata Bonikowska, president of Center for International Relations in Warsaw. But walking back eight years of Law and Justice party rule won’t be quick — or easy.
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The attacks and threats against two Georgia election workers after Rudy Giuliani baselessly accused them of tampering with the 2020 elections results were swift, racist and vicious, attorneys for the women said Monday in opening Rudy statements at Giuliani defamation trial for the former New York mayor. Callers told Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Arshaye “Shaye” Moss that they were traitors, that they deserved to be hanged from trees and hanged at the U.S. Capitol close enough to the public “for people to hear their necks snap,” said attorney Von A. DuBose, who like the plaintiffs is Black. “Your name is the most important thing you own,” DuBose added. “You will hear how Mr. Giuliani and his co-conspirators stole the lives of Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss by destroying their names.” Attorneys for Freeman and Moss played recordings of some of the messages for the jury in U.S. District Court in Washington, where Giuliani could be held liable for up to $43.5 million in damages to the mother and daughter who sued for defamation. In the lawsuit, Freeman and Moss said they received death threats and were forced into hiding after he repeatedly claimed in the weeks after the 2020 election that misleading security video footage showed them bringing in “suitcases” full of fake votes for President Joe Biden. Those claims were quickly debunked by election officials in Georgia, who explained that the so-called suitcases were regular ballot boxes and that nothing untoward had occurred at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Giuliani sat throughout the morning a dozen feet away from the plaintiffs at separate tables in the courtroom. The jury of eight selected Monday will only decide how much he should pay in damages for violent threats and harassment the pair received, after a judge earlier found him liable for more than a dozen defamatory statements against them. Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph A. Sibley IV, said in his opening statement, “There’s no question these claimants were harmed. They didn’t deserve what happened to them. But what happened to them happened because of a controversy involving a lot of people, not just Rudy Giuliani.” He said Giuliani did not make any of the threatening phone calls or messages, and the jury must determine whether he was the proximate cause of those threats. Sibley said that the amount of damages being sought by Freeman and Moss “really should fit the crime. What the plaintiffs’ counsel are asking for here is the signal equivalent of the death penalty. What they are asking for will be the end of Mr. Giuliani. I want you to come back with an award that’s fair, appropriate and just.” U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell previously ordered Giuliani to pay the women $230,000 in legal fees and sanctions for failing to turn over relevant information. She said those failures, combined with Giuliani’s own admissions, compelled her to rule without a trial that he defamed both women, intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them as part of a civil conspiracy, and owes punitive damages. “The only issue remaining in this trial is for the jury to determine any amount of damages Mr. Giuliani owes to Plaintiffs for the damage caused by his conduct,” Howell said in jury instructions. That conduct, he said, includes his willfully false accusations that the two workers committed election fraud by making statements they illegally excluded poll watchers, snuck in and hid illegal ballots in suitcases under tables and illegally counted ballots multiple times. Attorney Michael J. Gottlieb said the plaintiffs would present evidence to support their request for “tens of millions of dollars” in damages after their names became for millions of Americans “synonymous with crimes, cheating and fraud.”
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State high court upholds murder conviction Justices reject attorney’s claim Montoya denied fair trial in 2020 killing of former Santa Fe High basketball player By Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com
The state Supreme Court on Monday upheld the murder conviction of a teenager in the fatal shooting of former Santa Fe High School basketball star Fedonta “JB” White. Estevan Montoya, then 16, shot White at a house party in Chupadero on Aug. 1, 2020. Multiple witnesses testified at Montoya’s trial the two exchanged words in a confrontation immediately
before Montoya shot White, 18. A jury convicted Montoya of White’s slaying following a trial in 2022. Montoya later was sentenced to life in prison. Montoya’s legal team appealed to the state Supreme Court, citing “irregularities … and cumulative error throughout the trial.” Appellate attorney Allison Jaramillo, who represented Montoya at his appeal hearing, argued District Judge T. Glenn Ellington denied Montoya a fair trial by refusing to give jurors the option of
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finding Montoya had killed White in self-defense. The state’s high court rejected that argument in the opinion published Mon-
day, noting “it is clear from the evidence that Defendant was the initial aggressor in the fatal encounter with the victim.” The court also rejected a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in the case. “The State presented evidence sufficient for a reasonable juror to find that Defendant deliberately intended to kill the victim,” wrote Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon, who authored the opinion. “Evidence submitted to the jury included a cell phone video showing Defendant playing with the laser sight attached to the murder weapon immediately before the party; the Defendant’s fixation on the gun before, during, and after his stay at the
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party; and Defendant lifting up his shirt and ‘flashing’ or displaying the murder weapon to a fellow gang member prior to any hostilities with the victim.” Bacon also wrote evidence indicated Montoya “escalated the hostilities and instigated a physical altercation with the victim through fighting words ‘Let’s get it!’ and ‘You don’t want this smoke’ as well as inviting the victim to come closer.” Montoya also immediately fled the scene and disposed of the weapon, the opinion says, and “lied to investigating police officers in denying that he had Please see story on Page A-8
Complaint says woman strangled prior to shooting near downtown Española man wanted on attempted murder, other charges in weekend incident that left ex-girlfriend shot in her shoulder By Nicholas Gilmore
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Gwen Ricard of Eldorado, left, watches as her friend Marilyn Hertz of Lamy greets Elmer Serna, owner of Serna’s Tree Lot, with a hug while they buy trees from him Monday at his Old Pecos Trail tree lot. Ricard and Hertz have been buying their Christmas trees from Serna for 13 years.
Santa Fe butcher sets sights on Hollywood Beck & Bulow to sell its products at California luxury grocer Erewhon By Teya Vitu
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Erewhon — Los Angeles grocery chain for the 1-percenters and movie stars. Beck & Bulow — a small butcher shop at 1934 Cerrillos Road. A match made in Santa Fe. Eventually, everyone seems to get to the City Different. Not everybody gets to Beck & Bulow, but a year ago, an Erewhon vice president happened to do so. The result: Eight Beck & Bulow products were expected to be in display cases Tuesday at all 10 Erewhon stores in tony neighborhoods of the L.A. metroplex, Beck & Bulow co-owner JP Bulow said Monday morning. Beck & Bulow sent out three pallets last week of mostly bison, each weighing roughly 1,500 pounds. “It’s very high profile, the L.A.
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market with all the celebrities,” Bulow said in an interview. “The exciting thing about Erewhon is the prestige.” Actors Dakota Johnson, Cara Delevingne, Miley Cyrus, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more reportedly shop at Erewhon. The Hollywood Reporter in
October wrote: “[Erewhon CEO Tony] Antoci shrugs off criticisms that the company caters only to the affluent to the exclusion of the 99%. ‘It doesn’t bother me because it is true,’ he says. ‘We are catering to the affluent. But only because the raw ingredients cost so much more that unfortunately it puts
certain demographics out of reach. But we shouldn’t be shamed for that. Why should someone not be able to eat organically because it’s not for the masses?” A year ago, Erewhon Vice President Jason Widener was visiting his parents, Hal and Sandy Widener, in Santa Fe, and they happened to be customers of Beck & Bulow. The rest reads like a story that could happen only in Hollywood. “Our family at Erewhon has been looking for an authentic meat brand to join us,” Jason Widener said in a news release. “My Santa Fe based parents told me about this ultra-high quality meat shop and took me to visit. Upon visiting, my interest was piqued and I fell in love because of their exceptional quality and passionate team. We had to have Beck & Bulow at Erewhon!” Widener’s parents brought him to Beck & Bulow last December, and Bulow recalls a festive setting, with shoppers sipping eggnog and tasting samples of food. Please see story on Page A-8
Get ready: Another wintry storm is moving in Precipitation expected Wednesday, Thursday in S.F., with potential snow totals of 2 inches or higher The New Mexican
El Niño is on its way back to Northern New Mexico. The National Weather Service said a winter storm watch will be in effect starting late Tuesday night and lasting through Thursday in the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range and through the northeastern part of the state. Precipitation is expected Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, with potential snow Design and headlines: Nick Baca, nbaca@sfnewmexican.com
totals of about two inches though possibly higher, according to a weather service graphic. But Clay Anderson, a meteorologist with the weather service, said because the upper-level low pressure system coming in from Arizona is “a warmer system,” it could bring a mix of rain and snow and thus not add up to very much of the white stuff in Santa Fe proper. “Midtown, Cerrillos Road, could see as little as a half-inch of snow mixed with rain,” he said. The foothills and higher elevations around the city could see higher accumulations, he said. “It’s not a particularly cold system,” he said, adding the rain/snow mix will likely turn into snow sometime Thursday night. And the system should be gone by Thursday
evening, he said. The storm is the latest in a succession of fronts to hit Northern New Mexico in recent weeks, including a blitz that left more than six inches of snow in Santa Fe nearly two weeks ago. The high temperature in Santa Fe on Wednesday is expected to be 39 degrees, warming slightly to 42 degrees Thursday. The probability of precipitation is 70% Wednesday, 90% Wednesday night and back to 70% Thursday, Anderson said. After that, it will be “kind of pleasant” for Santa Fe for a few days, he said, with temperatures in the 40s from Friday through Sunday and no chance of precipitation.
An Española man accused of shooting and wounding a woman in Santa Fe over the weekend remained at large Monday. Nathan Christopher Ludlow Warner, 32, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, shooting from a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. Police were dispatched Saturday to an Allsup’s gas station on North Guadalupe Nathan Christopher Street to help the victim, but an arrest Ludlow warrant affidavit alleges the shooting Warner took place on a residential street near downtown. The woman, who was struck by a bullet in her left shoulder, told police she was Warner’s girlfriend, according to the affidavit. Police stated in a news release the woman was in stable condition after being taken to a hospital for treatment. The woman told police she left Warner that day after he had strangled her the previous night, the affidavit states. She said she did not report the previous abuse to police but had driven to Santa Fe on Saturday to check into a women’s shelter. She told police Warner called her that day and threatened to kill her family and “shoot up the Plaza” if she did not meet up with him, the affidavit states. They arranged to meet at the intersection of Piñon Drive and Vera Drive, according to the affidavit. The location sits Please see story on Page A-8
Human Services Department set to make some changes Under single Health Care Authority, officials say unified agency will be able to provide better benefits and lower costs By Marianne Todd
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Visitors to New Mexico’s Human Services Department will see new signage as early as July as the state transitions the multifaceted office into what will be known as the Health Care Authority. The department already provides services for hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans in behavioral health, child support enforcement, assistance for people living with disabilities, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and more. These services and others — including buying and governing health insurance plans for up to 180,000 state and local employees — will fall under the direction of the single Health Care Authority. State officials say the added purchasing power of a larger, unified agency will mean better benefits and lower costs. “We’re aiming high here,” said Kari Armijo, current cabinet secretary of the Human Services Department, who will lead the new agency as it transitions into the Health Care Authority. Armijo presented the transition plan to the state Legislative Health and Human Services Committee about two weeks ago, and though questions remain, Armijo said officials are working to iron out the specifics of how the plan will work. “It’s coming to the right home,” Armijo said. “We need to get a lot of information so we can make some deliberate recommendations on how to move forward.” The move was predicated by the passage of Senate Bill 16 earlier this year, a measure directed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to revamp the Human Services Department Please see story on Page A-8 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM
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Occidental is buying oil and gas company CrownRock in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $12 billion. “We found CrownRock to be a strategic fit, giving us the opportunity to build scale in the Midland Basin,” Occidental President and CEO Vicki Hollub said in a statement, referring to the vast oil and gas fields in western Texas. U.S. domestic oil production hit an all-time high in October. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration reported that American oil production in the first week of October hit 13.2 million barrels per day, passing the previous record set in 2020 by 100,000 barrels. The acquisition of CrownRock by Occidental comes at a time when there’s increasing consolidation in the energy sector. Some companies are spending heavily to increase their positions in
various oil-rich areas. This includes the Permian Basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In October Exxon Mobil announced that it was buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon’s presence in the Permian Basin. That same month, Chevron said that it was buying Hess Corp. for $53 billion. Chevron said at the time that the acquisition of Hess adds a major oil field in Guyana as well as shale properties in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota. But on Friday the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is investigating Chevron’s acquisition of Hess, requesting additional information and documentary materials related to
the proposed deal. That announcement came just days after the FTC said that it was looking into Exxon’s proposed acquisition of Pioneer. The inquiries come after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators urged the FTC to investigate the two deals. Schumer said Friday the Chevron-Hess merger would lead to “higher prices at the pump for families even while Big Oil profits keep going up and up.’ The Occidental and CrownRock transaction’s total includes the assumption of debt. CrownRock LP is a privately held joint venture of CrownQuest Operating LLC and Lime Rock Partners. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024. Occidental also said Monday that it plans to raise its quarterly dividend by 4 cents per share to 22 cents per share starting in February.
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into a more complete entity that would service everything from welfare benefits to child support enforcement along with the newly created division that would purchase health care plans for government employees. Those employees include state and local employees, school employees and retirees, Armijo said. “It’s big and it’s daunting,” she added, “and the stakes are really high, and we take it really seriously.” Armijo said the move is not simply providing a new name for an established department but is “truly a reorganization. It’s a transition to a healthier New Mexico.” The divisions the new Health Care Authority will govern affect more than half of the state’s population, she said. “The average person is an HSD customer, and so everything the agency does touches almost every New Mexican,” Armijo said. She said the state moved to consolidate health insurance coverage to leverage purchasing power for better employee premiums, co-pays and deductibles — costs that have dramatically risen in
recent years. “The health insurance we have is expensive, and the costs go up year after year,” she said. “We tend to pass the costs onto employees, and I’d like to look at a way to manage the health benefits proactively rather than stifling utilization, which is what higher cost-sharing usually does. The target is to make it more affordable.” State Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, said he was pleased with the consolidation of health plan purchases. “Ultimately I think it’s going to be an advantage for the state,” he said. “At first I thought they’re rearranging the chairs and moving a couple of programs over, but as they fleshed it out now, it appears to have great promise.” Armijo said she is not yet sure how Medicaid Forward, a new sliding-scale plan that will insure people not currently covered by Medicaid, will fit into the new division. “We’re in the process of studying that and considering options for 2024,” she said. “But that process is underway. I can’t say exactly where we will land, but there will be some form of options.”
Armijo said she is unsure if officials will develop a “Medicaid for all” plan or adjust the thresholds for incomes. “We’re optimizing every federal dollar that we can here in New Mexico for Medicaid so that’s part and parcel of what we’re trying to do,” she added. The authority will also focus on rural health care, Armijo said. The agency’s requested budget includes a promise to increase the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families eligibility threshold up to 95% of the federal poverty rate, Armijo said. New Mexico’s current eligibility rate is one of the lowest in the nation. “We want to make sure the health care side doesn’t dilute our other, very important mission of being the anti-poverty agency here in New Mexico,” she said. “It’s hard to focus on your health care when you’re trying to figure out where you next meal is coming from,” she said. “We consider this part of an integrated health care system. Food is health care from our perspective. Financial security is health care.” Providing rural health care
is a complicated issue, Armijo said, since rural providers tend to have high fixed costs but not the volume necessary for adequate reimbursement, making increased Medicaid payments to rural providers imperative. “Medicaid is a big economic driver,” she said. “In some communities, it’s the only economic driver, so it’s important to pay providers in these communities.” The state’s rural health care grant fund will soon provide $80 million to assist rural health providers with start-up costs, she said. “That’s straight out the door to rural providers in behavioral health, primary care, transportation services and maternal health, and we’ve requested another $150 million for the fiscal year ’25 budget, she said. Sen. Martin Hickey, D-Albuquerque, suggested Armijo and other officials seek outside consulting services to complete the massive transfer of services. He estimated this would cost $5 to $6 million and said he would support it. “It’s one glaring missing piece. You’ve got to have an outside consultant that does transformation. You cannot do it yourself,” Hickey said.
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“There was such an energy in the store,” Bulow remembered. “[Widener’s parents] said, ‘Hey, gotta meet our son, he’s from L.A.’ ” From 1968 to 2014, Erewhon had a single location. Tony and Josephine Antoci acquired that store in 2011, and in the last nine years, undertook the expansion to 10 stores, the most recent opening Sept. 13 in Pasadena. Bulow and co-owner Tony Beck will get to know all of the outlets in the next week as they do store demos for customers with their grilled bison steaks. The launch party will be Wednesday afternoon at the Erewhon store in the suburb of Calabasas — Kardashian territory. Erewhon shoppers will get to pay top dollar for Beck & Bulow bison tenderloin, bison ribeye and tomahawk steaks, bison liver, bison marrow bones, wagyu
beef flank steaks and elk medallions, Bulow said. “What’s popular in L.A. is the vegetarian diet,” Bulow said. “They brought us in to help with the meat game.” So far, Beck & Bulow has the one three-pallet order from Erewhon. “The first order is to get them going,” Bulow said. “Maybe there will be orders once a month, maybe more.” Bulow and Beck launched their business as a wholesale bison operation on Jorgensen Lane in 2018. Over the years, beef sales have steadily increased, and four months ago beef for the first time exceeded bison sales, Bulow said. They opened the Cerrillos Road butcher shop in March 2021 and nearly a year ago expanded into the neighboring space that was formerly Rosa’s Salon. In 2021, they bought a seafood processing plant on Kodiak Island in Alaska to process their own salmon, halibut and
Pacific cod, and recently they added a tank to sell live lobsters. Beck & Bulow raises bison and cattle on 660 leased acres in San Miguel County and another ranch near Madrid. But sales volume has soared to such an extent that Beck & Bulow now collaborates with like-minded ranchers for free-range beef, bison and elk, grass-fed lamb and wild-caught seafood. Beck & Bulow distributes its meat to more than 600 restaurants and retailers across the country. Bulow said they do not know yet how the Erewhon deal will work out beyond this first shipment. “We’ve had a lot of opportunities that came and have gone,” he said. “We’ve had some that came and are still with us. This is definitely not all our eggs in one basket. Ultimately, Tony and I just do what we do. We’re not moving to L.A. This is just one account.”
The Empty Stocking Fund is a longstanding project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs. Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applications are now closed. How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need. 2023 goal: $399,000. This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual. To donate: Make your tax-deductible donation online by visiting santafenewmexican.com/empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, 87504-1827. Cash and
44-year-old man found dead under Siler bridge was reported missing A man who recently was found dead under the Siler Road bridge had been reported missing to law enforcement officials days before. John Michael Cowdery, 44, was found near the Santa Fe River on Thursday. He had been reported missing in Santa Fe on Dec. 3, according to a statewide database of missing people managed by the state Department of
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Public Safety. Santa Fe police Deputy Chief Ben Valdez wrote in an email Cowdery’s mother had not heard from her son in days, noting he had been staying in a local shelter and was experiencing health issues. An investigation into Cowdery’s death is ongoing, though state police spokesman Wilson Silver said Monday there “does not appear to be foul play” involved. The state Office of the Medical Investigator has not made a determination on Cowdery’s cause of death. The New Mexican
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shot anyone.” Montoya’s defense attorney Dan Marlowe told jurors at the trial Montoya shot White out of fear after the athlete, who was listed at 6-foot-7 when he played, attempted to punch him several times at a house party hosted by fellow teens. One witness testified White had thrown several punches at Montoya but said only one of them landed and it had glanced off Montoya’s shoulder. Jaramillo expressed disappointment in the decision Monday. “A jury was not asked to consider whether Estevan Montoya was acting in self defense,” she wrote in an email sent by a spokeswoman. “This case is part of a troubling trend of appellate decisions undercutting decades of New Mexico law guaranteeing the right to assert that defense. Before sentencing someone to life in prison, particularly a juvenile, the jury should make the factual determinations necessary to reject a claim of self defense.” First Judicial District Attorney spokesman Nathan Lederman wrote in an email the office was “grateful to the Supreme Court” for upholding the conviction against Montoya and another gunman in recent weeks. “We hope this finality brings comfort and solace to their families and the communities impacted by these senseless crimes,” Lederman wrote. White’s grandmother Jude Voss also applauded the ruling. “I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the judicial system and witnesses for their unwavering dedication and commitment to justice,” she wrote in a text message Monday. “I am deeply thankful for their service and
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JB WHITE FOUNDATION u JB White’s supporters started the JB White Foundation following his death to provide scholarships and registration fees for other young athletes. u One of the foundation’s initiatives is to provide basketball shoes for students whose parents can’t afford them. The foundation plans to give away 20 pairs of shoes this season and is accepting applications submitted by coaches through the end of December on the website www.fedontaforever.com. Applicants must be playing basketball for a public school and have financial need.
the vital role they play in ensuring that justice is served.” White, who played three years at Santa Fe High School, was one of the city’s best-known athletes in recent history and was only a few weeks from attending the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship. His death stunned sports fans throughout the state who had yearned for a home-grown star to lead the Lobos’ men’s program. At Montoya’s sentencing in 2022, Ellington highlighted youth gang violence and an increase in shootings by young people throughout Santa Fe as key factors in White’s death. Montoya was affiliated with a group called the South Side Goons, which has been characterized as a gang. However, his friend Kane Flores told The New Mexican at the time the group is not a gang. Flores said Montoya was carrying a weapon that day due a heightened sense of fear in the wake of the slaying of another mutual friend, who had been fatally shot a few weeks before the party and whose death remained unsolved.
threatened to kill her in the past, the officer wrote in the affidavit. Warner has been convicted of at least three violent crimes in New MexContinued from Page A-7 ico in recent years, including armed robbery and possession of a deadly in a residential neighborhood northweapon by a prisoner. west of the Plaza. In 2015, Warner was convicted of The woman told police Warner, who aggravated battery and false imprisonwas on foot, began shooting at her as ment in Otero County after a woman she drove up to the intersection, the said he strangled her six times when affidavit states. A responding police she attempted to leave his home. officer met the woman at the gas staAnyone with information on Wartion, noting bullet holes in her vehicle’s ner’s whereabouts is encouraged to windshield, roof and doors. contact Santa Fe police dispatch at 504The woman told police Warner had 428-3710.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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M Y VIEW ARSENIO ROMERO
More time spent in school will pay off for students
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There’s still time to get flu, COVID and RSV vaccinations
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t’s not too late to get your shots — that is the message from the state Department of Health about vaccinations. Although public health officials recommend individuals get their flu shots in the fall, getting a vaccination now will offer for protection during holiday gatherings. Only about 20% of New Mexicans eligible for a flu vaccine — everyone 6 months and older — have gotten their shots so far this season, according to the Department of Health. That percentage needs to increase to reduce risk of spreading influenza — which, we remind you, can be fatal. In the 2021-22 flu season, some 5,000 people died of the disease, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control. That was a relatively light year; in 201718, the death toll from flu was around 52,000. Vaccinations can help lessen the impact of flu, especially among the vulnerable — people age 65 or older; younger children, especially those under 2; anyone who is pregnant; and people with chronic health conditions including asthma, diabetes and heart disease. This season, it appears the current vaccine matches the flu strain going around, meaning it can reduce the risk of flu illness by 40% to 60%. With flu showing up in New Mexico already, getting a shot is even more of a good idea. Flu usually won’t peak until February, so a vaccination now will provide protection through the season. Considering the CDC is reporting flu activity in New Mexico as “high,” the vaccination could be just in time to prevent or reduce a potentially severe illness. And flu isn’t the only respiratory illness people can
THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 12, 1923: Committee Of 100 On Indian Policy Meet Changing Conditions Make it Needful to Protect Red Man, Says Work. Dec. 12, 1948: A City Council committee gave a tentative go-ahead Tuesday for a one-route “demonstration” bus system — if the gasoline shortage becomes critical. A bus service would be an “emergency” measure to get people to work if they don’t enough gas to drive to work, according to member of the ad hoc transit committee. Santa Feans “are going to ride their cars as long as they possibly can,” committee chairman Robert Stuart remarked, and committee members Elmer Longacre said a bus system will work only if people are “absolutely forced” to use it. Dec. 12, 1998: Defense lawyer Gary Mitchell might have summed up the feelings of the jury in the case of the murder trial of the postal worker who admitted killing his wife’s lover. Reminding the jury in his closing arguments of all the threats made and violence allegedly committed by Estevan Trujillo against defendant David Jaramillo and his family, Mitchell said, “I’ll bet all the men on the jury are sharing the same thought: I’d have killed him earlier.” The Rio Arriba County jury took less than an hour to decide that Jaramillo was not guilty of any criminal charges.
SCHEDULE A VACCINE u Appointments can be made at vaccine.doh.nm.gov.
contract. Health officials recommend people get vaccinations for RSV and COVID-19, which, despite predictions of its demise, is still spreading. Research continues to show COVID-19 can have long-term effects on the body — the symptoms include chronic pain, brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain and intense fatigue. Avoiding repeat infections is smart, both for individual and community health. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, presents with cold-like symptoms, but in the very young and old, it can cause severe illness. The CDC reports from 6,000-10,000 adults over 65 die from RSV yearly, while 100 to 300 children younger than 5 died. In addition to vaccinations, the spread of these respiratory illnesses can be checked if people stay home when sick, wash hands thoroughly and frequently and disinfect high-touch areas regularly. Avoiding touching eyes, noses and mouths can reduce the spread of germs as well. And despite disinformation campaigns, wearing high-quality masks can protect both the wearer and others. During travel, when contact is close, wearing a mask can be particularly useful to prevent infections. It’s this basic: The holidays are here, with much merry-making and gatherings of friends. Avoid getting sick yourself or making someone you love sick. From vaccinations to washing hands to wearing masks, do it all to prevent illness. It’s not too late.
here has been a lot in the news lately about a new rule being proposed by the New Mexico Public Education Department that would establish the standard minimum school year at 180 days for all schools. I want to be clear about something: This is an update of an existing rule that established the 180-day minimum standard for schools with five days per week calendars in 2011-12. This rule was not strictly enforced in recent years because of the pandemic, so some schools have dropped their instructional days below 180. In addition, this rule now applies to districts that operate on a calendar of four days per week. This will be a big change for them, and we appreciate that change is difficult. However, our students deserve better. Some of the arguments against the proposed change are that it is not supported by research and that increased instructional time alone does not guarantee improved student outcomes. Factors such as regular attendance, student engagement, smaller class sizes, rigorous learning opportunities, highly qualified teachers, high-quality instructional materials and parental and community involvement have more direct impact on student achievement. Much of that is true. At PED, we are doing all we can to help students reach the achievement levels we know that they are capable of. We are investing in addressing chronic absenteeism, further implementing structured literacy — which has proven results — and providing additional support and high-quality instructional materials in math. While there are multiple important factors for student achievement academic success, there is ample evidence to demonstrate providing students with sufficient opportunities to engage with the curriculum is an important factor on its own. In other words, students need days in school to improve academic achievement. A recent RAND study looked at the impact of four-day school weeks in comparison to five-day school weeks. Researchers from the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Social Research were among the authors. They studied four-day school weeks in New Mexico, Idaho, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota. The study found the big trade-off was in student achievement. Math and English test scores didn’t fall when schools switched to a fourday week. But they didn’t grow as fast as they did in similar districts in the same states that kept a five-day schedule. That meant students in the four-day districts fell behind a little more every year. After eight years, that lag in improvement was roughly equivalent to the achievement losses schools saw during the pandemic. “A lot of the benefits that districts think they’ll enjoy, we couldn’t really find in the quantitative evidence,” said Christopher Doss, a policy researcher at RAND and former high school teacher, who helped lead the study. New Mexico ranks poorly in reading and math proficiency, with only 38% of students in New Mexico testing as proficient in reading and 24% proficient in math. That is unacceptable. We all need to be accountable to our students and to do everything we can to give them opportunities to succeed. We all need to focus on what is best for the students of New Mexico and embrace a culture of accountability and achievement. The governor and Legislature have invested record levels of funding for schools. It is now time to ensure the Public Education Department sets high expectations for schools to see the results of those investments and that we are all accountable for those results. Change can be difficult, and what is familiar is comfortable. But, we cannot accept continued low proficiency rates as just the way things are in New Mexico. We must take bold measures to change educational outcomes for students in New Mexico. Arsenio Romero is secretary of the Public Education Department.
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AG awards potentially lucrative wildfire recovery contract to third-place bidder, Dec. 9 The first- and second-place bidders scored far higher than the third-place bidder with an almost 19% lower score. To put that in perspective, if the top two were in the A-grade range, the third was a C-grade. That didn’t meet with the desires of the AG’s office, so they added an “interview” step. Mirac-
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FEMA field navigator says one thing drives his work: Compassion, Dec. 9 Great reporting. We learn specifics about how the FEMA old-school bureaucracy is furthering hardship and about the added delays that happen when family/ownership records are destroyed. And we see the positive impact of exceptional individuals like Miguel Medina who step up to serve people in need and bridge the logjams.” Michelle Mosser
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M Y VIEW MARY PARR-SÁNCHEZ
Speak up against school calendar changes
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ew Mexicans across all races, diverse and unique backgrounds and geographically wide zip codes from Aztec to Alamogordo want our students engaged in learning and attending school every single day. We want students to graduate from our public education system ready to thrive in college, their chosen profession and, ultimately, life in general. Student engagement and attendance and a stable educator workforce are the topics that need to be focused upon. However, for years now, the state Public Education Department and powerful members of the Legislative Finance Committee have been narrowly (and erroneously) focused on extended learning time as the primary means to “fix” many of our academic woes. Unfortunately, this approach excludes other necessary and vital ways to help our students progress in school. These aspects include reduced class sizes, smaller caseloads for special educators, decreased time and resources spent on standardized testing, increased planning time for
Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell
educators to allow for quality preparation and delivery of instruction, understanding student disengagement, addressing chronic absenteeism, resourcing mental health issues and paying more for continually rising educator health care costs, to stabilize the workforce — to name a few. Recently, Public Education Secretary Arsenio Romero wrote, “… Students statewide have low reading and math proficiencies. This is unacceptable. It is time for accountability: for the Public Education Department, for the school districts (including their boards and schools), charter schools, teachers’ unions and families.” During the 2023 legislative session, a new bill was passed that increased the number of hours students needed to be in school from approximately 1,000 hours to 1,140 hours. After discussion, debate and compromise by the education community, House Bill 130 was passed and signed into law by the governor. Not even five months into the new school year, the Public Education Department secretary is announcing more changes are now coming to district
calendars through rulemaking. These are changes that are not in the law. They would require all school districts to enact 180 student-day calendars, with many more days for educators. Legislation that mandated additional school days was not enacted because it doesn’t fix the lack of resources that currently exists. Mary Daniel Montoya, sixth grade teacher states, “Every day that I’m at school, not supported and not able to do my best work, hurts. We got into this profession because we want to serve kids. We’re here trying to compensate by staying late, working outside our contract day, trying to meet every need. ... It’s broken some of us.” We can all agree learning is threatened without the presence of a highly qualified, experienced work force and that we can make the right investments into public education that attracts educators rather than drives them away. Now, we must work together to give House Bill 130 time to take effect and show results. We must collectively raise our voice to the PED to stop the rule change
that mandates 180 student days, and many more teacher days, because by attempting to coerce this action by force (of rule) the Public Education Department is turning a deaf ear to the input of those who must live with their shortsighted actions. Please attend the one-hour hearing at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 18, at Mabry Hall in the Jerry Apodaca Education Building and tell the department to stop the rule change. Or email and submit your comment to rule.feedback@ped. nm.gov. Mary Parr-Sánchez is president of NEA-New Mexico.
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POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7, Severity . . . .Low ... Allergens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper ...... Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ...... 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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Wind: E 20 mph
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Wind: ENE 15 mph
Wind: WNW 10 mph
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Farmington 51 / 33
Raton 42 / 25
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Gallup G 5 / 25 53
San Francisco 62/46
Las Vegas 46 / 25
Albuquerque 52 / 32
Ruidoso 56 / 31 Truth or Consequences 59 / 33
Las Vegas 64/41
Denver 39/26
New Orleans 61/46
Mérida 77/67
Guadalajara 73/49
Hobbs 56 / 46 0s
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STATE EXTREMES MONDAY
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Alamogordo 55/21 pc 61/37 mc 62/40 pc Albuquerque 50/27 mc 52/32 cl 50/33 sh Angel Fire 49/7 mc 43/16 mc 36/14 sn Artesia 57/28 pc 54/42 mc 53/44 sh Carlsbad 64/26 s 55/42 mc 54/45 sh Chama 49/19 pc 44/23 mc 41/20 sn Cimarron 49/7 mc 46/26 mc 39/27 rs Clayton 50/24 pc 45/31 mc 39/29 rs Cloudcroft 55/21 pc 47/27 mc 42/29 rs Clovis 58/25 pc 53/39 mc 47/34 ra Crownpoint 53/17 mc 48/32 cl 46/29 sh Deming 61/21 pc 60/32 mc 62/34 s 46/25 mc 50/28 cl 47/30 sh Espan~ ola Farmington 47/12 pc 51/33 cl 52/34 cl Fort Sumner 58/29 pc 53/36 mc 48/37 ra Gallup 52/15 mc 53/25 mc 50/26 sh Grants 52/13 mc 48/26 mc 47/27 rs Hobbs 68/27 s 56/46 mc 53/41 sh Las Cruces 57/26 pc 63/35 mc 64/41 pc
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Dec. 12, 1969 - The worst tornado of record for western Washington State tracked south of Seattle, traveling five miles, from Des Moines to Kent. The tornado, 50 to 200 yards in width, began as a waterspout over Puget Sound. One person was injured and the tornado caused half a million dollars in damage.
NATIONAL EXTREMES MONDAY High
82° in Arivaca, Ariz.
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Dallas 62/44
Mexico City 67/50
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Monterrey 66/52
La Paz 81/67
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Detroit 42/26
Chicago 37/24
Omaha 37/27
Hermosillo 76/60
Roswell 54 / 42
Las Cruces 63 / 35
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Clovis 53 / 39
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Boston 43/33
Minneapolis 27/18
Billings 44/24
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Los Alamos 44 / 31
Sillver City 55 5 / 35
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Clayton 45 / 31
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A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31. For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation
0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous
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The following water statistics of December 10th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.877 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 2.347 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 6.224 Total consumption: 6.504 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.73 Reservoir storage: 328.27 Estimated reservoir capacity: 25.69%
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NATIONAL CITIES
7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE
Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46°/24° ...... Normal . . . . . . . high/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44°/19° ...... . . . . . . .high Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60° . . . in . . 1950 .... . . . . . . .low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2° . . in . . 1997 .... Record Santa Fe Airport Precipitation .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.04" .... . . . . . . . month Normal . . . . . .to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.33" .... Year . . . . .to . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.58" .... Normal . . . . . . . year . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13.06" ..... Last . . . . year . . . . .to. .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.76" .....
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‘Barbie’ leads Globes nominations, followed by ‘Oppenheimer’ By Lindsey Bahr
The Associated Press
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs. It was closely followed by its release date and meme companion Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which scored eight nominations, including best picture drama and for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt. In a statement, Gerwig said she, “can’t wait to bring the Barbie party to the Globes.” The revamped group, now a for-profit endeavor with a larger and more diverse voting body, announced nominations Monday for its January awards show, after scandal and several troubled years, including one without a broadcast. Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place Jan. 7. Films nominated for best motion picture drama included Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Celine Song’s Past Lives, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The
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Ryan Gosling, left, and Margot Robbie pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film Barbie earlier this year in London. Barbie tied for second-most nominations in Golden Globes history with Cabaret, from 1972.
Zone of Interest. In the best motion picture musical or comedy category, Barbie was joined by Air, American Fiction, The Holdovers, May December and Poor Things. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon both received seven nominations each. Poor Things saw nominations for Lanthimos, its actors Emma Stone, Mark Ruf-
falo, Willem Dafoe and Tony McNamara for screenplay. Killers of the Flower Moon got nods for Scorsese, for direction and co-writing the screenplay with Eric Roth, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro. Stone, who was also nominated for the Showtime series The Curse, said in a statement that she was “Feeling extremely bewildered and thankful for
it all.” She also said her Poor Things character Bella Baxter is her favorite. DiCaprio praised Gladstone in his statement: “She is the soul of our film and helped Cillian to bring this sinister Murphy and painful part of our nation’s history to life,” he wrote. The film is about the murders of wealthy Osage individuals in Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Barbie tied for second-most nominations in Globes history with Cabaret, from 1972. Robert Altman’s Nashville remains the record-holder with 11 nominations. It went into the morning as a favorite and got a big boost from its three original song nominations, including “I’m Just Ken,” and one of the year’s new categories, recognizing cinematic and box office achievement. One person who was not nominated was America Ferrera, who delivered the movie’s most memorable monologue. Succession was the top-nominated television program, with nine nods including for series stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin, followed by Hulu’s The Bear. As always there were some big surprises, like Jennifer Lawrence getting nominated for her bawdy R-rated comedy
No Hard Feelings for best performance by a female actor in a musical or comedy. She was nominated alongside Robbie, Stone and Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple), Natalie Portman (May December) and Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves). Barrino heard the news from her husband who she immediately called back to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. “My voice is shot because I’ve been screaming, crying and just telling God, ‘Thank you.’ I almost allowed fear to hinder me from this role, to keep me from this role,” she told The AP through tears. She’s been on the road for work and said she’s excited to go home and experience it with her children. The Color Purple was expected to do better. The adaption of the stage musical got only two nominations total, both for actors, for Barrino and Danielle Brooks for her supporting performance. Left out was Colman Domingo, who was nominated for best drama actor for Rustin. Cord Jefferson’s comedy American Fiction also came up with only two nods, best musical or comedy and for lead actor Jeffrey Wright, who plays a frustrated writer. “I don’t think it’s totally healthy to think about these things too much, but they’re there, so one does,” Wright told The AP Monday. “I’m really pleased that the film is being recognized more so than my own personal recognition.”
‘Part of pop culture’: How NASA learned to love four squirmy letters By Kenneth Chang
The New York Times
Last month, NASA welcomed Richard Danne to its headquarters in Washington to celebrate work he had done nearly half a century ago. Danne never studied the stars. He never built a rocket. But he and his design partner, Bruce Blackburn, came up with one of the most recognizable elements of the space agency: the logo known as the “worm,” with the acronym N-A-S-A spelled out in bold, sinewy, orange-red letterforms. The worm endures, even though NASA dumped it more than 30 years ago, returning to “the meatball” — its original logo, with a blue circle, stars, an elliptical orbit trail and a swoosh representing an airplane wing. In the past few years, the worm’s clean, futuristic look has experienced a
NASA VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES
An embrodered patch bearing NASA’s logo. Decades after sending it to design purgatory, the agency is celebrating a logo it still calls “the worm.”
renaissance inside and outside the space agency; it is now prominently splayed on the sides of spacecraft, T-shirts, sneakers and souvenirs. This summer, it became 3D, a massive sculpture in front of NASA headquarters and a picturesque background for tourist snapshots. “I love being part of pop culture,” said Danne, 89. Look at some of NASA’s recent space-
craft, like the Orion capsule that went around the moon last year, and you’ll see an unexpected mashup of the two logos. “Some might say they come from different planets,” David Rager, NASA’s creative director, said during the event that celebrated Danne and the worm last month. For half a century, it was one logo or the other at the space agency. NASA started using the meatball in 1959, a year after its founding. It was the logo on Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit when he stepped on the moon in 1969. The worm is a child of the ’70s. A small, newly formed design firm, Danne & Blackburn, won a contract from the National Endowment for the Arts when that body was seeking to give federal agencies a visual remake. Blackburn, who had designed the symbol used to mark America’s bicentennial celebration, played with various pictorial approaches,
but settled on a futuristic take on the four letters of NASA. The two As, prominently lacking crossbars, suggested rocket noses, or engine nozzles. “It was extremely simple,” Blackburn said in 2015. (He died in 2021.) The work delivered to NASA by Danne and Blackburn went far beyond just a four-letter logo. They also put together a compendium of do’s and don’ts — the proper size and usage of the logo, placement of any accompanying text, the specific shade of red. The graphics standards manual sought to give a cohesive appearance across the agency and its centers around the country. “This is something that didn’t exist prior to our redesign,” Danne said. “The publications and forms were quite a mess, radically uneven in both language and appearance.” Danne said much of the work was devoted to the visual decluttering of
the NASA organization. They rewrote NASA’s forms to make them shorter and clearer, and those shorter forms saved on printing costs. They specified standardized layouts, with limited combinations of fonts, which allowed NASA to put out publications more quickly. In 1992, Daniel Goldin, appointed as NASA administrator by President George H.W. Bush, sought to rekindle the excitement of NASA’s early days and announced the return of the meatball. His farewell to the worm was not unlike the soliloquy of a movie villain about to dispatch the hero. “Slowly it will die,” Goldin said to an applauding audience at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, “and never be seen again.” (The headline in the South Florida Sun Sentinel: “Worm Turns: NASA Junks Despised Logo.”) Except the worm never completely went away.
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SECTION B TuESDAy, DECEMBER 12, 2023 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
NFL MONDAY NIGHT FO OTBALL
Last-second boot gives Giants win
Titans score 2 late TDs, top Dolphins
Packers lose 24-22, snap 3-game win streak
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u Sports Talk: The Broncos have made themselves into a playoff hopeful. u The Chiefs are still complaining a late offsides penalty was called.
down made it 21-13. The Packers led 10-7 at halftime on Carlson’s 36-yarder with 13 seconds left. The drive was kept alive early by a 27-yard pass interference
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Rookie Will Levis threw for a career-high 327 yards and directed two touchdown drives in the final 4½ minutes, and the Tennessee Titans rallied to stun Miami 28-27 on Monday night, knocking the Dolphins out of the top spot Titans 28 in the AFC. Dolphins 27 The Titans (5-8) held Tua Tagovailoa and Miami’s explosive offense in check for most of the game but still fell behind by two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, thanks to critical mistakes that gave short fields to the Dolphins (9-4). Raheem Mostert ran for TDs of 3 yards and 5 yards to put Miami ahead 27-13. Levis, a second-round draft pick making his sixth career start, took over from there. He led a nine-play, 75-yard drive that took 1:54, capping it with a 3-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins and a 2-point conversion throw to Nick Westbrook-Ikhine. The Titans got a stop and Levis quickly went to work, hitting Hopkins for 28 yards and Chigoziem Okonkwo for 16 yards to get into scoring position. Derrick Henry scored on a 3-yard rush and the extra point gave the Titans a one-point
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By Tom Canavan
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Tommy DeVito threw a 32-yard pass to Wan’Dale Robinson to set up Randy Bullock’s 37-yard field goal as time expired, and the New York Giants beat Green Bay 24-22 on Monday night to hand the Packers their first December loss since Matt LaFleur took over as coach in 2019. The Giants went 57 yards in eight plays after Jordan Love threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Malik Heath with 1:33 to play. Green Bay then tried a 2-point conversion but Jayden Reed was stopped by linebacker Bobby
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Okereke. The go-ahead drive was set up by a Saquon Barkley fumble. DeVito rushed for 71 yards in the third straight win for the Giants (5-8). He threw an 8-yard TD pass to Isaiah Hodgins while leading four scoring drives, two of them capped by Barkley runs of 5 and 1 yards. The Giants defense forced three turnovers. Reed scored on a 16-yard run and Anders Carlson kicked field goals of 36, 32 and 48 yards for the Packers (6-7), who had won three
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Giants kicker Randy Bullock kicks a field goal to win 24-22 as time expires against the Packers on Monday in East Rutherford, N.J.
in a row. Green Bay dropped to 16-1 in December under LaFleur. DeVito finished 17 of 21 for 158 yards. He had a 26-yard run that set up Barkley’s 1-yard TD in the third quarter, and Hodgins’ touch-
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5th- and 6th-year players lead list
Top girls hoops players By James Barron
jbarron@sfnewmexican.com
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s we finally come to a close to our (not-so) preseason outlook on Northern New Mexico basketball, no preview would be complete without looking at the top girls players. What was apparent before the first tip-off of the season has not changed, but there might be a couple of surprises, given how the first two weeks of the season has played out. Don’t be surprised by the influx of smallschool players, because the strength in Northern New Mexico definitely is concentrated in that area, but there will be some big-school representative — even a couple of players from Santa Fe.
By Ralph D. Russo
The Associated Press
Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels from LSU was one of seven players in either their fifth or sixth season of college football selected to The Associated Press All-America team announced Monday. Daniels, a fifth-year quarterback, won the Heisman and AP player of the year honors last week after accounting for 50 touchdowns and nearly 5,000 yards of offense this season. He was joined in the backfield by Missouri’s Cody Schrader, a sixth-year running back and former Division II player who leads the nation at 124.9 rushing yards per game. The other sixth-year player of the AP first team was North Carolina State linebacker Payton Wilson, who won the Chuck Bednarik Award as national defensive player of the year. Kansas State guard Cooper Beebe, edge rushers Laiatu Latu from UCLA and Jalen Green from James Madison, and Texas defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat were the other fifth-year players to make the first team. College players who were in school during the 2020 pandemic season were granted an extra year of eligibility and they are still making their presence felt around the country. Eleven more fifth-year players made the second and third teams and there were eight sixth-year players selected to those teams, including Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr., the Heisman runner up. Penix and the second-ranked Huskies face No. 3 Texas in the College Football Playoff’s Sugar Bowl semifinal on Jan. 1. Notre Dame offensive tackle Joe Alt and Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. were selected first-team All-Americans for the second straight year. Beebe and Georgia tight end Brock Bowers moved up from second team last season to first this year. No. 5 Alabama led all teams with three first-team All-Americans, all on the defensive side: cornerbacks KoolAid McKinstry and Terrion Arnold and linebacker Dallas Turner. The Crimson Tide, seeded fourth in the College Football Playoff, faces No. 1 Michigan in the Rose Bowl semifinal on Jan. 1. FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS (BY CONFERENCE) SEC — 9. Big Ten — 6. Pac-12 — 4. Big 12 — 3. ACC — 1. MAC — 1. Sun Belt — 1. Independent — 2.
FIRST TEAM (OFFENSE) Quarterback — Jayden Daniels, fifth-year, LSU. Running backs — Ollie Gordon II, second-year, Oklahoma State; Cody Schrader, sixth-year, Missouri. Tackles — Joe Alt, third-year, Notre Dame; Olu Fashanu, fourth-year, Penn State. Guards — Cooper Beebe, fifth-year, Kansas State; Zak Zinter, fourth-year, Michi-
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1. Alexis Pacheco, guard, West Las Vegas It’s hard to ignore she is a threetime Class 3A All-State selection for one of the best programs in the state — Las Vegas Robertson. She transferred in the offseason to West Las Vegas to follow her dad when he took over the softball program. Pacheco has been the engine to the Lady Dons’ 5-2 start, averaging more than 20 points per game and providing energy on both sides of the court. She raised West Las Vegas’ profile in in a crowded District 2-3A, and could have a say in who wins it.
2. G.G. Romero, wing, Los Alamos
ABOVE: Santa Fe Indian School’s Emma Lewis looks to shoot during a 3A semifinal game March 9 at the Rio Rancho Events Center. Lewis is averaging just under 14 points and 11 rebounds per game. GABRIELA CAMPOS NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
St. Michael’s guard Jada Lujan, right, picks up a loose ball against Santa Fe Indian School in February 2022 in a district semifinal at Santa Fe Indian School. She has been a crucial player as St. Michael’s has been on a three-game win streak. JIM WEBER NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com
The Hilltoppers’ rise in District 2-4A is directly tied to Romero’s ascension as one of the top guards in Class 4A. A second-team All-State performer, Romero has been the team’s leading scorer who can shoot and attack the basket over the past two seasons. She is continuing that process, helped Los Alamos navigate the transition to a new head coach in Todd Zollinger. If the Hilltoppers are to repeat as district champions, Romero will be key to it.
3. Emma Lewis, forward, Santa Fe Indian School Lewis was first-team All-State selection last season as a sophomore, leading the Lady Braves to their second straight 3A championship game. She is a double-double machine, averaging just under 14 points and 11 rebounds per game as SFIS is off to a 4-3 start. The 5-foot-7 junior is a wellrounded player, capable of posting, shooting from the perimeter and even handling the ball against pressure.
4. Tana Lopez, guard, Mesa Vista The 5-4 guard has grown into the go-to player the Trojans look to for a much-needed bucket. She has led the team in scoring since she was a freshman and is averaging 24.3 points per game. She combines speed and quickness with a good shooting touch for a team that is contending for the Class 2A title. She is just one piece in a two-part guard puzzle that has the Mesa Vista community dreaming of a state title. Please see story on Page B-34 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. CHL HOCKEY 9:30 a.m. NHLN — Dynamo Pardubice at Lukko Rauma Noon NHLN — Skelleftea AIK at Farjestad Karlstad
NBA 5:30 p.m. TNT — LA Lakers at Dallas 8 p.m. TNT — Golden State at Phoenix
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4:30 p.m. FS1 — Monmouth at Seton Hall 5 p.m. ACCN — UT-Martin at NC State 5 p.m. BTN — Alcorn St. at Maryland 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Hofstra at Duke 5 p.m. SECN — Georgia Southern at Tennessee 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Coppin St. at Georgetown 8 p.m. PAC-12N — California Baptist at Oregon
NBA G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPNU — Rip City at Team Ignite NHL 5:30 p.m. ESPN — Detroit at St. Louis 8 p.m. ESPN — Chicago at Edmonton SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. CBSSN — UEFA Champions League Group Stage: Real Sociedad at Inter Milan, Group D
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L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 6:15 p.m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 16
Minnesota at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 2:30 p.m. Denver at Detroit, 6:15 p.m.
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Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla. Miami (Ohio) vs. Appalachian St., 1:30 p.m. New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico St. vs. Fresno St., 3:45 p.m. LA Bowl Hosted Inglewood, Calif. UCLA vs. Boise St., 5:30 p.m. Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. California vs. Texas Tech, 7:15 p.m.
SUNDAY, DEC. 17
Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m. Chicago at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Kansas City at New England, 11 a.m. N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 11 a.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. Washington at L.A. Rams, 2:05 p.m. Dallas at Buffalo, 2:25 p.m. Baltimore at Jacksonville, 6:20 p.m.
MONDAY, DEC. 18
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Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.
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Myrtle Beach Bowl Conway, S.C. Georgia Southern vs. Ohio, 9 a.m. Celebration Bowl Atlanta Howard vs. Florida A&M, 10 a.m. New Orleans Bowl New Orleans Jacksonville St. vs. Louisiana, 12:15 PM
N.Y. Giants 24, Green Bay 22 Tennessee 28, Miami 27
0 7
HOME
AFC
2023-24 BOWLS SATURDAY
THURSDAY, DEC. 14
TENNESSEE MIAMI
PA
205 290 318 331
5-1-0 5-2-0 3-5-0 1-6-0
AWAY
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
MONDAY’S GAMES
3 7
PA
269 261 270 341
HOME
Achane 7-47, Tagovailoa 3-15. PASSING_Tennessee, Levis 23-38-1-327. Miami, Tagovailoa 23-33-0-240. RECEIVING_Tennessee, Hopkins 7-124, Spears 6-89, Okonkwo 5-46, Westbrook-Ikhine 2-28, Moore 1-22, Henry 1-17, Burks 1-1. Miami, Waddle 6-79, Achane 5-24, T.Hill 4-61, C.Wilson 2-30, Smythe 2-16, Berrios 2-13, Ingold 1-13, Mostert 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Miami, J.Sanders 44.
New England 21, Pittsburgh 18
7 0
PA
233 321 314 395
314 242 267 309
THURSDAY’S GAMES
GREEN BAY N.Y. GIANTS
PA
228 309 282 259
PA
340 266 280 270
PCT
0 0 0 0
PA
PF
.769 .769 .385 .308
290 279 330 282 218 272 287 250
292 287 282 202
PCT
0 0 0 0
PA
PF
.615 .538 .385 .385
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
PF
361 289 280 210
PCT
0 0 0 0
294 244 257 272
PF
.769 .615 .538 .538
PA
411 348 201 169 312 287 314 241
PCT
0 0 0 0
8 7 5 5
PF
.692 .538 .385 .231
0 0 0 0
L
W
Kansas City Denver L.A. Chargers Las Vegas
PCT
T
5 6 6 8
10 8 7 7
T
3 3
15 17
— —
28 27
First Quarter Mia_Sieler 5 interception return (J.Sanders kick), 8:25. Second Quarter Ten_Henry 1 run (Folk kick), 6:53. Ten_FG Folk 28, :00. Third Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 20, 9:35. Ten_FG Folk 23, :09. Fourth Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 31, 12:37. Mia_Mostert 3 run (J.Sanders kick), 5:34. Mia_Mostert 5 run (J.Sanders kick), 4:34. Ten_Hopkins 3 pass from Levis (Westbrook-Ikhine pass from Levis), 2:40. Ten_Henry 3 run (Folk kick), 1:49. A_66,068.
TEN
MIA
First downs 22 20 Total Net Yards 403 366 Rushes-yards 29-83 31-158 Passing 320 208 Punt Returns 4-30 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-23 4-99 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-5 Comp-Att-Int 23-38-1 23-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 5-32 Punts 5-48.8 5-47.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-1 Penalties-Yards 9-59 7-61 Time of Possession 27:36 32:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Tennessee, Henry 17-34, Spears 7-29, Levis 4-15, Burks 1-5. Miami, Mostert 21-96,
Famous Toastery Bowl Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky vs. Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DEC 19
Frisco Bowl Frisco, Texas UTSA vs. Marshall, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, DEC. 21 Boca Raton Bowl Boca Raton, Fla. USF vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, DEC. 22
Gasparilla Bowl Tampa, Fla. Georgia Tech vs. UCF, 4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 23
Camellia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. Arkansas St. vs. N. Illinois, 10 a.m. Birmingham Bowl Birmingham, Ala. Troy vs. Duke, 10 a.m. Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas No. 24 James Madison vs. Air Force, 1:30 p.m. Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho Georgia St. vs. Utah St., 1:30 p.m. 68 Ventures Bowl Mobile, Ala. South Alabama vs. Eastern Michigan, 5 p.m. Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nev. Utah vs. Northwestern, 5:30 p.m. Hawaii Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii Coastal Carolina vs. San Jose St., 8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DEC. 26
Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Bowling Green vs. Minnesota, noon First Responder Bowl Dallas Texas St. vs. Rice, 3:30 p.m. Guaranteed Rate Bowl Phoenix Kansas vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27
Military Bowl Presented Annapolis, Md. No. 23 Tulane vs. Virginia Tech, noon Duke’s Mayo Bowl Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina vs. West Virginia, 3:30 p.m. Holiday Bowl San Diego, Calif. No. 16 Louisville vs. Southern Cal, 6 p.m. Texas Bowl Houston No. 22 Oklahoma St. vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, DEC. 28
Fenway Bowl Bronx, N.Y. No. 17 SMU vs. Boston College, 9 a.m. Pinstripe Bowl Boston, Mass. Rutgers vs. Miami, 12:15 p.m. Pop-Tarts Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 19 NC State vs. Kansas St., 3:45 p.m. Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas No. 12 Oklahoma No. 14 Arizona, 7:15 p.m.
FRIDAY, DEC. 29
Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Clemson vs. Kentucky, 10 a.m. Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas
PREP SCHEDULE
calero Apache: first round, Gateway Christian vs. Escalante, 2 p.m. New Mexico School for the Deaf at Tierra Encantada, 5 p.m.
SPORTS BETTING LINE
Subject to change. Check with schools regarding tickets and game times and dates. Send changes to sports@sfnewmexican.com.
Friday
THURSDAY
Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Dulce vs. Portales, 12:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs. Monte del Sol, 3:30 p.m.; Beralillo vs. Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m. Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: TBA Academy for Technology and the Classics at Hub City Tournament at Belen: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA McCurdy at J. May Classic at Tularosa: TBA Santa Fe High at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. Mesa Vista at Pecos, 7:30 p.m. Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: semifinals, Capital/Academy for Technology and the Classics winner vs. Portales/ Crownpoint winner, 2 p.m.; Dulce/ Monte del Sol winner vs. Shiprock/ Pojoaque Valley winner, 5 p.m.; consolation, Capital/Academy for Technology and the Classics loser vs. Portales/Crownpoint loser, 9:30 a.m.; Dulce/Monte del Sol loser vs. Shiprock/Pojoaque Valley loser, 11 a.m. LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: semifinal/consolation, Santa Fe High vs. Las Cruces Centennial/Rio Grancho, 1 p.m.(semifinal)/3 p.m.(consolation) Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA St. Michael’s at Taos, 7 p.m. Mesa Vista at Pecos, 6 p.m.
at LAS VEGAS
Tuesday Boys basketball — East Mountain at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 6:30 p.m. Los Alamos at Abq. St. Pius X, 7 p.m. Española Valley at Bernalillo, 7 p.m. McCurdy at Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep, 7 p.m. Aztec at Taos, 6 p.m. Mora at Raton, 6:30 p.m. West Las Vegas at Cuba, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Santa Fe Indian School at Capital, 7 p.m. St. Michael’s at Pecos, 6:30 p.m. East Mountain at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 5 p.m. Abq. Bosque School at Academy for Technology and the Classics, 6 p.m. Valencia at Los Alamos, 7 p.m. McCurdy at Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep, 5:30 p.m. Mora at Raton, 5 p.m. West Las Vegas at Dexter, 6 p.m. Abq. Hope Christian at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.
Wednesday Boys basketball — St. Michael’s at Capital, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Peñasco at Taos, 7 p.m.
Thursday Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Dulce vs. Monte del Sol, 12:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs. Bernalillo, 3:30 p.m.; Portales vs. Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m. Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: Wagon Mound vs. Questa, 12:30 p.m.; Maxwell vs. Abq. Legacy Academy, 3:30 p.m.; San Luis (Colo.) Centennial vs. Questa, 6:30 p.m. Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: first round, Melrose vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 1:30 p.m. Hub City Tournament at Belen: first round, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Belen, 7:15 p.m. Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: first round, Quemado vs. Escalante, 12:30 p.m. J. May Classic at Tularosa: first round, Lordsburg vs. McCurdy, 5 p.m. Capital at Española Valley, 7 p.m. New Mexico School for the Deaf at Tierra Encantada, 6:30 p.m. Peñasco at Springer, 5 p.m. Los Alamos at Valencia, 5:30 p.m. Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: first round, Capital vs. Academy for Technology and the Classics, 9:30 a.m.; Crownpoint vs. Portales, 11 a.m.; Dulce vs. Monte del Sol, 2 p.m.; Shiprock vs. Pojoaque Valley, 5 p.m. LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: Maxwell vs. Questa, 11 a.m.; Rehoboth Christian vs. Abq. Legacy Academy, 2 p.m.; San Luis (Colo.) Centennial vs. Questa, 5 p.m. Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: first round, Santa Fe High vs. Abq. Sandia, 5 p.m. Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mes-
No. 15 Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Oregon St., noon Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn. Memphis vs. Iowa St., 1:30 p.m. Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas No. 7 Ohio St. vs. No. 9 Missouri, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 30
Peach Bowl Atlanta No. 10 Penn St. vs. No. 11 Mississippi, 10 a.m. Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn. Maryland vs. Auburn, noon Orange Bowl Miami No. 5 Florida vs. No. 6 Georgia, 2 p.m. Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz. Toledo vs. Wyoming, 2:30 p.m.
MONDAY, JAN. 1
ReliaQuest Bowl Tampa, Fla. No. 13 LSU vs. Wisconsin, 10 a.m. Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 20 Iowa vs. No. 25 Tennessee, 11 a.m. Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz. No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 18 Liberty, 11 a.m. Rose Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal Pasadena, Calif. No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m. Allstate Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal New Orleans No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas, 6:45 p.m.
MONDAY, JAN. 8
CFP National Championship Houston Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.
PREP SCORES MONDAY BOYS BASKETBALL
Robertson 62, Valencia 53 Springer 60, Questa 36
MONDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL
Elida 45, San Jon 26 Menaul 64, Legacy 35 Piedra Vista 42, Shiprock 34
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOP 25 DAILY FARED MONDAY
No. 1 Arizona (8-0) did not play. Next: at No. 3 Purdue, Saturday. No. 2 Kansas (9-1) did not play. Next: at Indiana, Saturday. No. 3 Purdue (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 1 Arizona, Saturday. No. 4 Houston (10-0) did not play. Next: at Texas A&M, Saturday. No. 5 UConn (9-1) did not play. Next: at No. 10 Gonzaga, Friday. No. 6 Baylor (9-0) did not play. Next: at Michigan St., Saturday. No. 7 Marquette (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. St. Thomas (MN), Thursday. No. 8 Creighton (8-1) did not play. Next: at UNLV, Wednesday. No. 9 North Carolina (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 14 Kentucky, Saturday. No. 10 Gonzaga (8-2) beat MVSU 78-40. Next: vs. No. 5 UConn, Friday. No. 11 Oklahoma (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. Green Bay, Saturday. No. 12 Tennessee (6-3) did not play. Next: vs. Georgia Southern, Tuesday. No. 13 Clemson (9-0) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Saturday. No. 14 Kentucky (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 9 North Carolina, Saturday. No. 15 FAU (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. FIU, Wednesday. No. 16 Illinois (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. Colgate, Sunday. No. 17 Colorado St. (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. CSU-Pueblo, Sunday. No. 18 BYU (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Denver, Wednesday. No. 19 Texas (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. LSU, Saturday. No. 20 James Madison (9-0) did not play. Next: at Hampton, Saturday. No. 21 Duke (6-3) did not play. Next: vs. Hofstra, Tuesday. No. 22 Wisconsin (7-3) did not play. Next: vs. Jacksonville St., Thursday. No. 23 Miami (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. La
FAVORITE
Saturday Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Portales vs. Monte del Sol, 12:30 p.m; Bernalillo vs. Dulce, 3:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs. Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m. Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: TBA Academy for Technology and the Classics at Hub City Tournament at Belen: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA McCurdy at J. May Classic at Tularosa: TBA Peñasco at Clayton, 2:30 p.m. Mesa Vista at Cuba, 4:30 p.m. Pecos at Taos, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: championship, 5 p.m; third place, 2 p.m.; fifth place, 11 a.m.; seventh place, 9:30 a.m. LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Santa Fe High at Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA Gallup at Española Valley, 5 p.m. Peñasco at Clayton, 1 p.m. Mesa Vista at Cuba, 3 p.m. Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital at Rio Hondo Invitational at Roswell, 8 a.m. Taos at Rattler Invitational at Tucumcari, 8 a.m.
Salle, Saturday. No. 24 Northwestern (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Chicago St., Wednesday.
SCORES MONDAY EAST
Anna Maria 99, Mass. College 76 Christopher Newport 61, Averett 50 City College (NY) 78, Merchant Marine 67 Columbia 87, Fairleigh Dickinson 83 Connecticut College 67, Johnson & Wales (RI) 37 Delaware 73, Robert Morris 69 Eastern Nazarene 97, Framingham St. 92 Elmira 103, Penn College 90 Gwynedd-Mercy 91, Cairn 82 Hunter 83, Albertus Magnus 77 Husson 80, MIT 66 Kean 90, Brooklyn College 72 New Hampshire 75, Stonehill 62 Penn 78, Howard 68 Rhode Island Coll. 60, Nichols 58 Thiel 75, Washington & Jefferson 72 Western Connecticut Wolves 90, Elms 60 Yale 73, Quinnipiac 66
SOUTH
Benedict 90, Mars Hill 75 Berea 71, Asbury 69 Bluefield 76, St. Augustines 61 Edward Waters 88, Kentucky St. 85 Emory & Henry 73, Southern Wesleyan 53 Gardner-Webb 79, North Greenville 60 Georgia Southwestern 65, Albany St. (Ga.) 56 Hampton 100, Mary Baldwin 53 Lincoln (Pa.) 72, Claflin 62 Longwood 92, Gallaudet 61 SC State 86, Jacksonville 85, OT Samford 118, Alabama A&M 91
MIDWEST
Case Western 104, Hiram 95 Findlay 90, Great Lakes Christian Crusaders 78 Kentucky Wesleyan 76, Lake Erie 74
SOUTHWEST
Texas A&M Commerce 101, N. Colorado 99, 2OT Texas St. 107, Jarvis Christian 58
FAR WEST
CS Northridge 80, Utah Tech 75 Gonzaga 78, MVSU 40 San Francisco 85, New Orleans 72
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.
PTS 9-0
PRV1. 900
2. UCLA 9-0 861 2 3. NC State 10-0 800 3 4. Iowa 10-1 754 4 5. Texas 10-0 732 5 6. Southern Cal 8-0 697 6 7. LSU 9-1 679 7 8. Colorado 9-1 651 8 9. Stanford 8-1 608 9 10. Baylor 7-0 572 10 11. Utah 8-2 498 11 12. Kansas St 9-1 488 13 12. Ohio St. 8-1 488 12 14. Notre Dame 7-1 459 14 15. Indiana 8-1 396 16 16. Virginia Tech 7-2 391 15 17. UConn 6-3 343 17 18. Louisville 9-1 314 18 19. Marquette 9-0 252 19 20. Creighton 7-1 171 22 21. Gonzaga 10-2 165 23 22. Florida St. 7-3 113 20 23. UNLV 9-0 103 24. Miami 8-0 100 25. North Carolina 6-4 37 24 Others receiving votes: Washington 25, Washington St 23, TCU 22, West Virginia 21, Texas A&M 10, Texas Tech 8, Penn St. 3, Mississippi St. 3, Green Bay 3, Davidson 3, Minnesota 2, Oregon St. 1, Mississippi 1, Michigan St. 1, Colorado St. 1, Nebraska 1.
SCORES MONDAY EAST
Marshall 115, Salem International 56 Monmouth (NJ) 68, Lafayette 47 Princeton 61, Villanova 58 Seton Hall 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 27 Stony Brook 85, Longwood 49
SATURDAY FAVORITE
at CINCINNATI at INDIANAPOLIS at DETROIT
TODAY
3
(33½)
O/U
UNDERDOG
OPEN
TODAY
O/U
UNDERDOG
OPEN
TODAY
3 3 9½ 3 5½ 9½ 2½ 13½ 6½ 2½ 3½
(42½) (34½) (37) (37½) (37½) (40½) (38½) (47½) (48½) (48½) (43½)
Tampa Bay at CAROLINA at NEW ENGLAND Chicago NY Giants NY Jets Houston at ARIZONA Washington Dallas at JACKSONVILLE
OPEN
TODAY
O/U
UNDERDOG
1½ 1½ 4½
SUNDAY
FAVORITE
at GREEN BAY Atlanta Kansas City at CLEVELAND at NEW ORLEANS at MIAMI at TENNESSEE San Francisco at LA RAMS at BUFFALO Baltimore
3½ 2½ 4½
3½ 3 11½ 3½ 5 13½ 3 13 5½ 1½ 6½
MONDAY FAVORITE
Philadelphia
4½
LA Chargers
(39½) (42) (46½)
Minnesota Pittsburgh Denver
O/U
3½
UNDERDOG
(48)
at SEATTLE
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY MYRTLE BEACH BOWL, CONWAY, S.C. FAVORITE
OPEN
Georgia Southern
TODAY
1½
NEW ORLEANS BOWL, NEW ORLEANS Jacksonville State
1½
CURE BOWL, ORLANDO, FLA.
3½
(48½)
O/U
UNDERDOG
3½
(59½)
Louisiana
Ohio
Appalachian State
4½
6½
(44½)
Miami (OH)
New Mexico State
1½
3½
(51½)
Fresno State
NEW MEXICO BOWL, ALBUQUERQUE LA BOWL INGLEWOOD, CALIF.
UCLA
2½
3½
(49½)
Boise State
Texas Tech
1½
2½
(57½)
Cal
FAVORITE
OPEN
TODAY
INDEPENDENCE BOWL, SHREVEPORT, LA.
MONDAY FAMOUS TOASTERY BOWL, CHARLOTTE, N.C. Old Dominion
4½
2½
O/U
UNDERDOG
(55½)
Western Kentucky
NBA TUESDAY FAVORITE
LA Lakers at DALLAS at BOSTON Cleveland Denver at CHICAGO at PHOENIX Golden State at LA CLIPPERS Sacramento
2
LINE
UNDERDOG (235½)
10
(224)
8½
(216½)
3½
(232½)
4
(232½)
COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY FAVORITE
LINE
at UMASS-LOWELL at SETON HALL at WRIGHT STATE at TENNESSEE North Carolina Central at LOUISIANA TECH at NC STATE at DUKE at SAINT PETER’S at MARYLAND at CINCINNATI at RADFORD at SOUTH FLORIDA at SAM HOUSTON at NORTHERN IOWA at MINNESOTA at UIC at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS at GEORGETOWN at BOISE STATE at TEXAS TECH at OREGON
18½ 14½ 5½ 33½ 5½ 13½ 19½ 15½ 8½ 20½ 18½ 14½ 16½ 9½ 12½ 21½ 12½ 11½ 19½ 22½ 12½ 12½
UNDERDOG
LIU Monmouth Western Kentucky Georgia Southern at N.C. A&T SE Louisiana UT Martin Hofstra UMBC Alcorn State Bryant VMI UAPB UL Monroe Prairie View A&M IUPUI Green Bay Austin Peay Coppin State Northwestern State Oral Roberts Cal Baptist
NHL TUESDAY FAVORITE
LINE
Carolina at N.Y RANGERS at PITTSBURGH at NASHVILLE at ST. LOUIS Florida at EDMONTON at VANCOUVER at VEGAS Winnipeg
UNDERDOG
-137 -137 -188 -142 -125 -156 -410 -130 -170 -230
at OTTAWA Toronto Arizona Philadelphia Detroit at SEATTLE Chicago Tampa Bay Calgary at SAN JOSE
LINE
+114 +114 +155 +118 +104 +130 +315 +108 +140 +188
SOUTH
Cleveland at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Denver, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Utah at Portland, 8 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.
MIDWEST
BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Will Smith on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Collin snider for assignment. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Samuel Perez on a minor league contract. Agreed to terms with 3B Jeimer Candelario on a contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Acquired INF Trey Sweeney from the New York Yankees in exchange for LHP Victor Gonzalez and INF Jorbit Vivas. Agreed to terms with RHP Joe Kelly on a contract. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 3B Rylan Bannon on a minor league contract. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Named Dean Kiekhefer assistant pitching coach and Daniel MacLea major league coordinator of technology and systems.
Coll. of Charleston 69, Jacksonville St. 58 Grambling St. 109, Wiley 41 Jacksonville 70, NC Central 67 Mississippi St. 91, Kennesaw St. 50 Morehead St. 53, Wheeling Jesuit 49 UCF 72, New Orleans 45 VCU 64, Delaware 55
TRANSACTIONS
Georgia Southern 111, Chicago St. 67 Lindenwood (Mo.) 99, Harris-Stowe 54
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 91, McMurry 55 Oral Roberts 112, Eagles 48
FAR WEST
Oregon 67, Southern U. 37 San Diego St. 69, Seattle 61
NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC
W
L
PCT
GB
L
PCT
GB
L
PCT
Boston Phila. New York Brooklyn Toronto
16 15 13 12 9
5 7 9 10 14
Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington
16 13 9 7 3
7 10 13 14 19
Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit
16 13 13 9 2
7 8 10 15 21
W
L
PCT
GB
L
PCT
GB
L
PCT
SOUTHEAST
CENTRAL
SOUTHWEST
TOP 25 DAILY FARED MONDAY
OPEN 3½
W
W
WESTERN CONFERENCE
WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOOPS
RECORD SOUTH CAROLINA (36) 1
NFL
Dallas Houston New Orleans Memphis San Antonio
14 11 13 6 3
8 9 11 16 19
Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland
17 15 15 7 6
5 7 9 16 16
Sacramento L.A. Lakers L.A. Clippers Phoenix Golden State
13 14 12 12 10
8 9 10 10 12
NORTHWEST
PACIFIC
W
W
.762 .682 .591 .545 .391
.696 .565 .409 .333 .136
— 3 6½ 8 12½
.696 .619 .565 .375 .087
— 2 3 7½ 14
.636 .550 .542 .273 .136
.619 .609 .545 .545 .455
— — 1½ 1½ 3½
MONDAY’S GAMES
Indiana 131, Detroit 123 Phila. 146, Washington 101 Miami 116, Charlotte 114 Orlando 104, Cleveland 94 New York 136, Toronto 130 Denver 129, Atlanta 122 Oklahoma City 134, Utah 120 Houston 93, San Antonio 82 Dallas 120, Memphis 113 New Orleans 121, Minnesota 107 Milwaukee 133, Chicago 129, OT Sacramento 131, Brooklyn 118 L.A. Clippers 132, Portland 127 Cleveland at Boston, 5:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Denver at Chicago, 6 p.m. Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Chicago at Miami, 5:30 p.m.
— 2 2 8 11
— 2 3 10½ 11
No games scheduled.
New Orleans at Washington, 5 p.m. Phila. at Detroit, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6 p.m. Memphis at Houston, 6 p.m. Brooklyn at Phoenix, 7 p.m. New York at Utah, 7 p.m.
GB
.773 .682 .625 .304 .273
SUNDAY’S GAMES
TUESDAY’S GAMES
— 1½ 3½ 4½ 8
GB
FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed WR Jeff Smith to the practice squad. Waived WR Andre Baccellia. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed S Grant Delpit to a three-year contract extension. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Elevated RB Kenyan Drake from the practice squad to the active roster. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed OT Jared Veldheer to the practice squad. Released DB Brandon Wilson from the practice squad. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed WR Justyn Ross on the suspended-by-the-commissioner list. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Signed OL D.J. Fluker to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Elevated LB Quinton Bell and T Ryan Hayes from the practice squad to the active roster. NEW YORK GIANTS — Reinstated QB Tyrod Taylor from injured reserve. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Re-signed CB Jason Verrett to the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived DB Keenan Isaac. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed RB Jonathan Ward and P Ty Zentner to the practice squad. Elevated DL Marlon Davidson and LB JoJo Domann from the practice squad to the active roster. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Placed LB Jamin Davis on injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled LW Brett Murray from Rochester (AHL). Loaned C Isak Rosen to Rochester. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Filip Roos from Rockford (AHL). Placed LW Boris Katchouk on waivers. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned G Jet Greaves to Cleveland (AHL). Recalled G Daniil Tarasov from Cleveland. DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled Fs Zach Aston-Reese, Jonatan Berggren and Austin Czarnik from Grand Rapids (AHL). LOS ANGELES KINGS — Returned D Jacob Moverare to Ontario (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled D Kyle Masters from Iowa (ECHL) to Iowa (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Returned D Grant Hutton to Bridgeport (AHL). PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Placed D Dmitri Samorukov on waivers. ST. LOUIS BLUES — Reassigned G Will Cranley from Springfield (AHL) to Utah (ECHL). SAN JOSE SHARKS — Recalled G Magnus Chrona from Wichita (ECHL) to San Jose (AHL). Reassigned D Henry Thrun to San Jose. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Cole Koepke to Syracuse (AHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reassigned RW Ty Voit from Newfoundland (ECHL) to Toronto (AHL). Recalled C Bobby McMann from Toronto. Minor League Hockey COLLEGE RHODE ISLAND — Named Cody Kauffman head baseball coach.
SPORTS AP T OP 25 BA SKE TBALL P OLL
Arizona, Kansas, Purdue are in lead By Dave Skretta
The Associated Press
Arizona strengthened its place atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday, setting up a showdown this weekend against Purdue, the former No. 1 team in the nation. The Wildcats earned all but one first-place vote from a panel of 63 voters, no doubt impressing them with their 98-73 win over the No. 23 Badgers. They picked up three first-place votes to remain atop the poll for the second straight week, while Kansas remained at No. 2 and Purdue — which Arizona had supplanted at No. 1 — moved up one spot to third after wins over Iowa and Alabama. The Wildcats (8-0) play the Boilermakers (9-1) on Saturday in Indianapolis. “We spend a lot of time talking about Arizona basketball legacy,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said over the weekend, “and this group right now, we’re in the sun. The sun is shining on us right now.” Houston received the only No. 1 vote that didn’t go to the Wildcats but still dropped one spot to fourth. UConn remained at No. 5 after beating ninthranked North Carolina and Arkansas-Pine Bluff last week. Baylor again gave the Big 12 half of the top six teams in
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Arizona guard Caleb Love dunks over Wisconsin guard Max Klesmit on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.
the country. The Bears were followed at No. 6 by Marquette, Creighton, the Tar Heels and Gonzaga, which fell three spots to No. 10 after its 78-73 loss to Washington. “We’ve got a long season. Big games coming up,” said Bulldogs forward Anton Watson, whose team will play fifth-ranked UConn on Friday night in Seattle. “I don’t think one loss, two losses, is going to determine a season. We all have that mindset.”
While there was little movement within the top 10 this week, there were some wild swings within the rest of the Top 25. Oklahoma made one of the biggest jumps, climbing eight spots to No. 11 after wins over Providence and Arkansas. The unbeaten Sooners were followed by Tennessee, which climbed five spots, and undefeated Clemson, which moved up No. 11 after beating South Carolina and TCU to remain one of the seven teams with
perfect records left in Division I basketball. Kentucky moved up two spots to No. 14 while Florida Atlantic fell four spots to No. 15 after its loss to Illinois. The Illini slotted in right behind the Owls, while Colorado State, BYU, Texas and James Madison round out the top 20. Duke was at No. 21, followed by Virginia, Wisconsin, Miami and Northwestern at No. 25. The Wildcats (7-1) are ranked for the second straight season but only the seventh time since the 196869 season. “I hear about it at home. My daughter is probably the biggest one that was mad that we didn’t get ranked last week. She’s the one that has been yelling and screaming that we need to be in the Top 25,” said Northwestern coach Chris Collins, whose team is off to its best eight-game start since the 2015-16 season. “Those are all nice rewards for a team that is playing hard and working hard, but we’re not worried about that. Our whole focus right now is winning basketball games.” The No. 11 Sooners play Green Bay this week before a high-profile matchup with the ninthranked Tar Heels next week. No. 13 Clemson also will have a chance to keep climbing when it visits Memphis — which is receiving votes — on Saturday.
Top girls hoops players Lopez has been a valuable part of the Panthers’ rotation since she was an eighth grader, and a 12-point, 3.9-rebound per-game performance in 2022-23 garnered her a first-team All-State selection in 2A. She is second on the team in scoring this year at 13 points per game, but she improved her passing, as her 4.0 assist-per-game average attests. While the Panthers have size that many teams up North covet, Lopez is the one who can help get the bigs the ball.
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Española Valley’s Hailey Renteria, right, faces Mesa Vista’s Tana Lopez on Thursday in the Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley. Lopez combines speed and quickness with a good shooting touch for a team that is contending for the Class 2A title.
is sharing the ball, as she is averaging and impressive 7.5 assists. She is also a force at the top of the Trojans’ press, leading the team in steals with 4.8 per contest.
8. Jada Lujan, wing, St. Michael’s The 5-7 senior is one of the most talented athletes at St. Michael’s, and she is showing it on the court. She has stepped into 2023 graduate Lauryn Pecos’ scoring role and is averaging 12.5 points per game. Lujan also is recording 6.5 rebounds per night and provides speed and length when the Lady Horsemen
5th- and 6th-year players lead list Continued from Page B-1 gan. Center — Jackson Powers-Johnson, third-year, Oregon. Tight end — Brock Bowers, thirdyear, Georgia. Wide receivers — Malik Nabers, third-year, LSU; Marvin Harrison Jr., third-year, Ohio State; Rome Odunze, fourth-year, Washington. All-purpose player — Travis Hunter, second-year, Colorado. Kicker — Graham Nicholson, thirdyear, Miami (Ohio).
FIRST TEAM (DEFENSE) Edge rushers — Laiatu Latu, fifthyear, UCLA; Jalen Green, fifth-year, James Madison. Interior linemen — T’Vondre Sweat, fifth-year, Texas; Jer’Zahn Newton, fourth-year, Illinois. Linebackers — Payton Wilson, sixth-year, North Carolina State; Edgerrin Cooper, fourth-year, Texas A&M; Dallas Turner, third-year, Alabama. Cornerbacks — Cooper DeJean, third-year, Iowa; Kool-Aid McK-
SIDELINES Clemson beats Notre Dame 2-1 to win school’s fourth men’s soccer title LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Seniors Brandon Parrish and Ousmane Sylla each scored, and No. 9 Clemson held off No. 2 Notre Dame 2-1 on Monday night to claim the program’s second national championship in three seasons. Clemson (15-3-5), making its sixth championship game appearance in school history and second in three seasons, has won titles in 1984, 1987 and 2021. The Tigers also knocked off Notre Dame in the 2021 semifinals. Notre Dame (13-3-6) was seeking its second championship in program history after winning the College Cup in 2013.
FIFA report says 1 in 5 players at Women’s World Cup abused online ZURICH, Switzerland — Players at the Women’s World Cup were 29% more likely to receive online abuse than those at the men’s tournament in 2022, said a report published Monday. One in 5 players (152) at the Women’s World Cup received “targeted discriminatory, abusive or threatening messaging,” according to FIFA and global players’ association FIFPRO. They released data from FIFA’s Social Media Protection Service, which tries to help shield players, teams and officials from online abuse and hate speech. Almost 50% of “detected and verified” abusive messages were homophobic, sexual and sexist, SMPS added. “The abuse that persists online impacts football players all over the world and it cannot be ignored. This toxic online environment is a risky place to be in for players and it affects their mental health and wellbeing,” FIFPRO president David Aganzo said. “Football has a responsibility to protect the players around their workspace.” The SMPS was launched last year and has been used in eight FIFA tournaments. It uses artificial intelligence to try and prevent abuse on participants’ social media feeds. The report analyzed abusive content from all the major social media platforms during the Women’s World Cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand in July and August. FIFA said 5.1 million posts and comments in 35 different languages were analyzed. More than 400,000 comments were reported and hidden. “There can be no place on social media for those who abuse or threaten anyone, be that in FIFA tournaments or elsewhere,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said. “Discrimination has no place in football and no place in society.”
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6. Isabella Lovato, guard, Santa Fe High
Lopez might light up the scoreboard, but Boies is the cog that makes the Trojans’ offense go. That was never more apparent than during a 56-44 loss to Española Valley on Thursday. She left the court midway through the third quarter, and Mesa Vista struggled to take care of the ball and get into its offense with her absence. Boies’ strength
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NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani will receive just $20 million of his $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers over the next 10 years, with $680 million payable from 2034-43 in an unusual structure that gives the team greater payroll flexibility in coming seasons. Ohtani’s record-setting deal, agreed to Saturday, calls for annual salaries of $70 million, according to details obtained by The Associated Press. Of each year’s salary, $68 million is deferred with no interest, payable in equal installments each July 1 from 2034-43. For purposes of baseball’s luxury tax, the contract is valued as a yearly addition to the Dodgers’ payroll of about $46 million. Under the collective bargaining agreement, for the calculation of a team’s tax payroll the value of deferred money is discounted at the federal mid-term rate. For all agreements this offseason, the discounting will be at the October rate of 4.43%. A unique two-way superstar as both a hitter and pitcher, the 29-year-old Ohtani left the Los Angeles Angels as a free agent to sign with the Dodgers.
5. Rochelle Lopez, guard, Peñasco
7. Isabella Boies, guard, Mesa Vista
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One of the few returning players on the Demons’ squad who saw significant playing time, Lovato is a solid ball-handler who can knock down shots from the perimeter — a quality Santa Fe High needs with a small lineup. The junior is also a on-court leader as the Demons aim to contend in District 5-5A.
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instry, third-year, Alabama. Safeties — Malaki Starks, second-year, Georgia; Xavier Watts, fourth-year, Notre Dame. Defensive back — Terrion Arnold, third-year, Alabama. Punter — Tory Taylor, fourth-year, Iowa.
SECOND TEAM (OFFENSE) Quarterback — Michael Penix Jr., sixth-year, Washington. Running backs — Audric Estime, third-year, Notre Dame; Omarion Hampton, second-year, North Carolina. Tackles — Taliese Fuaga, fourthyear, Oregon State; JC Latham, third-year, Alabama. Guards — Tate Ratledge, fourthyear, Georgia; Clay Webb, fifthyear, Jacksonville State. Center — Sedrick Van Pran, fourthyear, Georgia. Tight ends — Dallin Holker, fifthyear, Colorado State. Wide receivers — Troy Franklin, third-year, Oregon; Malik Washington, fifth-year, Virginia; Luther Burden III, second-year, Missouri.
use their press. She has been a crucial player as St. Michael’s has improved to 4-3 with a threegame winning streak.
9. Analise MacAuley, forward, Peñasco What program in the state wouldn’t want a 5-foot-9 post who can play in the paint, shoot jumpers and is athletic enough to be second on the team in steals? That is MacAuley this season for the Panthers. She is averaging a team-best 15.8 points and 9 rebounds per game, while also collecting 2.5 steals, which third-best on the team. In a matchup Saturday against
All-purpose player — Ashton Jeanty, second-year, Boise State. Kicker — Jose Pizano, third-year, UNLV.
SECOND TEAM (DEFENSE) Edge rushers — Jonah Elliss, thirdyear, Utah; Jared Verse, fourthyear, Florida State. Interior linemen — Byron Murphy II, third-year, Texas; Howard Cross III, fifth-year, Notre Dame. Linebackers — Jeremiah Trotter Jr., third-year, Clemson; Jason Henderson, third-year, Old Dominion; Jay Higgins, fourth-year, Iowa. Cornerbacks — Quinyon Mitchell, fourth-year, Toledo; Beanie Bishop Jr., sixth-year, West Virginia. Safeties — Tyler Nubin, fifth-year, Minnesota; Caleb Downs, firstyear, Alabama. Defensive back — Kris AbramsDraine, fourth-year, Missouri. Punter — Matthew Hayball, sixthyear, Vanderbilt.
THIRD TEAM (OFFENSE) Quarterbacks — Bo Nix, fifth-year, Oregon. Running backs — Blake Corum, fourth-year, Michigan; Kimani Vidal, fourth-year, Troy. Tackles — Javon Foster, sixth-year, Missouri; Troy Fautanu, fifth-year, Washington. Guards — Christian Haynes, sixthyear, UConn; Luke Kandra, fourth-
Pecos and its star post, Natalia Stout, she had 22 points and 16 rebounds in a 53-39 win.
10. Natalia Stout, forward, Pecos Stout has led the Panthers in scoring since she was a eighth grader and the 5-8 sophomore is doing it again. She is averaging 15 points per game to lead the team in that category, and she also averages 6 rebounds and 6 steals per game, to boot. The Panthers hope to take the next step and challenge in a very competitive District 6-2A. If it happens, Stout will be the one leading the charge.
year, Cincinnati. Center — Zach Frazier, fourth-year, West Virginia. Tight end — Ben Sinnott, fourthyear, Kansas State. Wide receivers — Ricky White, fourth-year, UNLV; Brian Thomas Jr., third-year, LSU; Tetairoa McMillan, second-year, Arizona. All-purpose player — Xavier Worthy, third-year, Texas. Kicker — Will Reichard, fifth-year, Alabama.
THIRD TEAM (DEFENSE) Edge rushers —Chop Robinson, third-year, Penn State; Bralen Trice, fifth-year, Washington. Interior linemen — Kris Jenkins, fourth-year, Michigan; Braden Fiske, sixth-year, Florida State. Linebackers — Nathaniel Watson, sixth-year, Mississippi State; Edefuan Ulofoshio, sixth-year, Washington; Danny Stutsman, thirdyear, Oklahoma. Cornerbacks — Ricardo Hallman, third-year, Wisconsin; T.J. Tampa, fourth-year, Iowa State. Safeties — Trey Taylor, fifth-year, Air Force; Dillon Thieneman, firstyear, Purdue. Defensive back — Sebastian Castro, fifth-year, Iowa. Punter — James Ferguson-Reynolds, second-year, Boise State.
HOUSTON — Tari Eason had a season-high 18 points and 14 rebounds off the bench as the Houston Rockets beat San Antonio 93-82 on Monday night and dealt the Spurs their franchise-record 17th consecutive loss. Top overall pick Victor Wembanyama had 15 points, 18 rebounds and five blocks, along with an overpowering dunk over Houston’s Alperen Sengun in the third period, but it wasn’t enough to get the Spurs back in the win column. San Antonio hasn’t won since a 132-121 victory over Phoenix on Nov. 2. The Rockets won their 10th straight home game and third in a row overall. A tip-in by Wembanyama got San Antonio within four points with about four minutes remaining. Fred VanVleet made a 3-pointer for Houston seconds later before Sengun blocked a shot at the other end to give the Rockets the ball back. Eason added a dunk to stretch Houston’s lead to 86-77 with three minutes left. The Spurs called a timeout, but it didn’t help as Houston used a 5-2 run, with another 3 by VanVleet, to make it 91-79 with less than a minute left.
Swiatek is first woman since Serena to win WTA award twice in a row ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Iga Swiatek’s second consecutive season-ending No. 1 ranking helped her collect a second consecutive WTA Player of the Year award Monday, making her the first woman since Serena Williams to claim that honor twice in a row. Williams, who retired last year, was the WTA Player of the Year every season from 2012-15, the final four of the seven total times the American claimed that award. Swiatek went 68-11 in 2023 with a tour-leading six titles, including at the French Open in June. That was Swiatek’s third championship at Roland Garros and fourth overall at a Grand Slam tournament. The 22-year-old from Poland wrapped up the season with an undefeated run at the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, last month, which allowed her to overtake Aryna Sabalenka atop the rankings. Swiatek held the No. 1 spot from April 2022 until this September, before regaining it to close the year.
Imprisoned accomplice in shooting of then-NFL player’s girlfriend dies CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man who had spent two decades in prison for firing the shots in a plot by then-Carolina Panthers player Rae Carruth to kill Carruth’s pregnant girlfriend has died. Van Brett Watkins died Dec. 3 at 63, according to online prisoner records from the state Department of Adult Correction. Watkins, who had been at Central Prison in Raleigh, died at a hospital from natural causes, department spokesperson Keith Acree said. Watkins, whose death was first reported by Charlotte television stations, received more than 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to his role in Carruth’s effort to kill Cherica Adams in 1999. He was sentenced for second-degree murder, conspiracy and other charges. His projected prison release date had been in 2045, the correction records show. Watkins fired the shots and another man drove the car. They pleaded guilty in exchange for testimony that Carruth paid Watkins to kill Adams and her baby. The Associated Press
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Chiefs’ Reid still incensed over costly penalty
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By Arnie Stapleton
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Sean Payton might be the only coach since the 1950s to hold up the Detroit Lions as a shining example in the NFL. But that’s exactly what Payton did when the Broncos stumbled to a 1-5 start this season, similar to Dan Campbell’s 1-6 start with Detroit a year ago before the Lions bounced back to finish 9-8, then carried that momentum into 2023, where they now sit atop the NFC North at 9-4. “There’s a fine line here between a groove and a rut,” Payton said back on Oct. 18. “You have to take a look at Detroit a year ago, sitting 1-6. ... There’s a grit element involved. Mental toughness. Here they are now as one of these teams in contention. ... We’re kind of in that position.” Especially now. The Broncos’ 24-7 shellacking of the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday gave them six wins in seven games and made them one of six AFC teams at 7-6. They’re also just a game behind the firstplace Kansas City Chiefs, losers of four of six, in the AFC West. Ahead of the Broncos’ visit to Detroit this weekend, Payton again expressed his admiration for the Lions and the work Campbell has done to change the team’s losing culture. “It goes back to the relationship I have with their head coach,” Payton said Monday. “I was in New York when we drafted Dan and I was the offensive coordinator and then when I was in Dallas I was part of the reason we were able to sign Dan as a free agent. And then eventually I signed Dan to the Saints. He got injured. That’s where his career ended. And then eventually I was able to sign him as an assistant coach.
throw a flag if there is another infraction. “It’s a working relationship. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — That part is so important in Chiefs coach Andy Reid this thing,” Reid said. “You can was still baffled Monday by see it on both sides, whether an offside penalty called on it’s the defense lining up in the his offense that wiped out a neutral zone at times. Just give go-ahead, 49-yard touchdown the coach a heads-up, and in our pass against the Buffalo Bills, case, we tell them. taking the officiating crew “And then if they get called, from Sunday’s game to task for listen, you’ve been warned. throwing a flag rather than issu- That’s how it worked over the ing a customary warning in that years.” situation. Referee Carl Cheffers The play came with just over acknowledged offensive offside a minute left and the Chiefs is not something officials “want trailing 20-17. Patrick Mahomes to be overly technical on,” but threw over the middle to Travis added “when in his alignment Kelce, who was about to get he’s lined up over the ball, that’s tackled when he lateraled something that we are going to to Kadarius Toney, who ran call as offensive offside.” untouched the rest of the way It doesn’t matter whether that for the score. happens on the first play of the The Chiefs began to celebrate game or a big play in an importthe touchdown, only to see an ant moment. official had thrown a flag on “If they looked for alignment Toney for lining up offside. advice, certainly we are going to “There are no excuses on give it to them. But ultimately, this thing. That’s not what I’m they are responsible for whersaying,” Reid said. “I’ve always ever they line up,” Cheffers told had a good working relationship a pool reporter. “And certainly, with these guys, and that’s the no warning is required, espeimportant part. They know cially if they are lined up so far when they tell me something offside where they’re actually with a guy, I’m going to address blocking our view of the ball. .... the guy — like, right now — This particular one was beyond and make sure it gets changed. a warning.” When you’re talking about It’s not the first time a player inches, those happen in the being offside has cost the Chiefs game.” in a crucial moment. In fact, there were numerous Five seasons ago, during instances throughout Sunday’s the AFC championship game game in which players on both against New England, the Chiefs teams — and both sides of the thought they had clinched their ball — were lined up in the spot in the Super Bowl when neutral zone. they were leading 28-24 and Bills pass rusher Von Miller Charvarius Ward picked off was offside more than once, and Tom Brady with a couple of more egregiously than Toney, minutes to go. who may have been at most But pass rusher Dee Ford was 3 inches beyond the line of offside on the play, giving the scrimmage. Patriots another chance, and Reid acknowledged during a they scored a go-ahead touchdown — the Chiefs would kick Zoom call with reporters Monday that Toney was in the neua field goal to force overtime, tral zone. But in those situations, but Brady and company scored officials will usually give him a a TD on the first possession to warning about the player, then win the game.
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Chargers quarterback Easton Stick fumbles as Broncos safety Justin Simmons sacks him Sunday in Inglewood, Calif. Denver won 24-7.
“And so he’s a close friend and a fantastic coach and someone I’ve always enjoyed working with,” Payton said. “And so at 1-5, we just pointed to a similar situation a year ago. In other words, a team which was 1-6 which was able to flip the script.” Payton’s team has displayed many of the same qualities as Campbell’s in its turnaround over the last two months: more gnash than flash and usually winning gritty, not pretty. The Broncos’ win Sunday was their first on the road in the AFC West in four years and their first victory at SoFi Stadium, where their embarrassing 51-14 loss to the Rams last Christmas Day led to Nathaniel Hackett’s firing. During their hot streak, the Broncos have beaten Andy Reid for the first time in eight years, Patrick Mahomes for the first time in 13 tries and Justin Herbert on the road for the first time in four attempts. Come January, they’ll get another chance to beat the Raiders for the first time since that franchise moved to Las Vegas, Nev., following the 2019 season. Of course, the drought they’d really like to break is their seven-year stretch without making the playoffs, and if trends hold, they might just end the Chiefs’ seven-year stranglehold on the
division, too.
What’s working About the only thing consistently clicking on offense is Russell Wilson’s connection with WR Courtland Sutton, who seems to make a highlight-worthy TD catch on a weekly basis. This one was a one-handed, 46-yard grab while getting pulled down by CB Michael Davis. On defense, coordinator Vance Joseph was aggressive against Herbert and his backup, Easton Stick. After a hiccup at Houston, Denver’s defense returned to form with a season-best eight pass breakups, six sacks by six players and two takeaways.
What needs work Making their second-half opening drives a point of emphasis last week didn’t break the Broncos of their doldrums after halftime. They went threeand-out for the fifth consecutive week. In all, they’ve gotten the ball first 11 times coming out of the break and have nine punts, a missed field goal and a blocked field goal.
Stock up PJ Locke has played lights-out during Kareem Jackson’s second suspension, which ends after
this weekend’s game at Detroit. Locke became the first safety in team history to record a sack in three consecutive games when he strip-sacked Stick in the fourth quarter.
Stock down Payton’s second-half play-calling coming out of halftime and the Broncos’ offensive execution to start the third quarter. Denver hasn’t had a single first down on its opening drive of the second half since Oct. 29 at Kansas City.
Injuries Payton wouldn’t give an update on OLB Nik Bonitto’s knee injury. He said G Quinn Meinerz was fine and was returning to Denver after staying in California with a rapid heartbeat Sunday night.
Key numbers 1-for-18 — The Broncos held the Chargers without a first down on a dozen third-down chances and stopped them five times out of six on fourth down.
Next steps The Broncos cannot afford another slip-up, even against an NFC team in the Lions. Had they taken care of business a week ago at Houston, they’d be in a much more comfortable position in the
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yards and had his streak of 21 consecutive games with a touchlead. Levis ripped off his helmet, down pass snapped. screamed for joy and embraced Levis went 23 of 38 with a coach Mike Vrabel on the sidetouchdown pass and an intercepline. tion. Hopkins had seven catches The Dolphins took over with for 124 yards, and Henry ran for no timeouts left and got to their two scores. own 45, but Harold Landry III A grind-it-out game took a sacked Tagovailoa to put the wild turn in the fourth quarter, game away. Miami lost at home beginning when Tennessee’s Eric for the first time this season, and Garror tried to field a bouncing its three-game winning streak punt with the game tied at 13-all was snapped. Baltimore now with 6:16 remaining. The ball has a one-game lead for the best caromed off his hands and Elijah record in the conference. Campbell recovered for the DolMiami played much the game phins at the 7. without star receiver Tyreek Hill, Mostert punched it in, then who sat out the second quarter scored again after the Titans and majority of the third after fumbled on their next possession injuring his ankle in the first on a botched pitch by Levis to quarter. He returned and caught Henry. Mostert leads the NFL passes of 23 and 25 yards to set up with 16 rushing touchdowns. Jason Sanders’ 31-yard field goal Henry, who finished with 34 that tied it at 13 at the beginning yards, moved to 15th in NFL of the fourth. Hill, who leads the history in rushing yards when he NFL in receiving yards, was in scored his 87th career rushing TD in the first quarter that tied and out of the game from there the game at 7 going into the half. and finished with 61 yards. Miami’s top-ranked offense Tagovailoa was 23 of 33 for 240
was held scoreless in the first half against a Titans defense that has given up the fewest red zone touchdowns in the NFL. The Dolphins were 2 of 5 in the red zone and lost a fumble at the Titans 2 on a bad quarterback-center exchange on their first possession. Miami went ahead 7-0 when defensive tackle Zach Sieler intercepted Levis at the 5 and took it to the end zone. The Dolphins have had a pick-6 in three straight games for the first time in franchise history. Tagovailoa faced more pressure than usual with the Dolphins missing three starters on their offensive line. Left tackle Terron Armstead (knee/ankle) and right guard Rob Hunt (hamstring) did not play, and center Connor Williams injured his knee in the first quarter. Sanders converted a 20-yard field goal that tied the game at 10-all in the third quarter. He also had a 44-yard field goal blocked by Denico Autry.
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tive series early in the game. Wide receiver Reed scored on a 16-yard sweep late in the first quarter. It came one play after
Love hit running back AJ Dillon on a 35-yard pass play. Barkley’s 5-yard scoring run came one play after the running back took a direct snap and handed off to Wan’Dale Robinson for a 32-yard run. Barkley gave New York its first lead, going in from the 1 a play after DeVito woke up the crowd a 26-yard scamper.
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Stage set for rebirth Clovis inching toward restoring historic downtown theaters By Teya Vitu
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Federal and state grants adding up to $1 million have finally given the city of Clovis a chance to finish renovations of the 1919 Lyceum theater. The Lyceum has been closed since a theater group departed in 2013. With the new funding, city officials hope to reopen it in about a year. The Lyceum is one of three historic downtown Clovis theaters in various stages of revival. The Mesa and State theaters, both also closed for years, reopened in 2021 after renovations, although the State closed again after storm damage in late 2021. The same storm also set back the Eastern New Mexico city’s efforts with the Lyceum, where the basement flooded and the stage and auditorium floors were damaged, Clovis City Manager Justin Howalt said. The city this year received a $500,000 federal Saving America’s Treasures grant that they were able to match with a $500,000 state New Mexico MainStreet capital outlay grant announced last week. “Knowing we have $1 million as a budget is a good start,” Howalt said in an interview. “We are under contract with an architect. Until we get actual prices, we don’t know if $1 million is enough, but it will get us in a good place to open.” The city plans to get a new sign for the Lyceum, paint the exterior, update the stage and interior lighting, and redo the stage and auditorium flooring the city had already installed as part of $174,600 in investments since 2014. Among other improve-
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hen Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos. One of the checks, which she put in a mailbox on a Lincoln Park street in Chicago, was later stolen and rewritten for $7,200 to someone named Mark Pratt. That drained her business bank account, which meant she couldn’t pay the printer, her monthly payroll taxes or her salespeople. Nearly two months later, Berns, 76, hasn’t recovered the stolen money from her bank, BMO, which is still investigating the matter. “A friend told me, ‘Whatever you did to get robbed, just don’t do it again,’ “ she said. “I just mailed checks. Most of us are vulnerable.” What was once a routine way to pay your bills — handwriting paper checks at the kitchen table, dropping envelopes into a blue metal box on the street — has become a high-risk endeavor: It provides the raw materials for low-level fraud artists and sophisticated crime rings, costing financial institutions billions. It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process. Many fraudsters manage to disappear without any consequences. “Fraudsters go where the money is easiest,” said Chad Hetherington, a vice president at NICE Actimize, a financial crimes company specializing in fraud prevention. Even as check usage has rapidly declined over the past couple of decades, check fraud has risen sharply, particularly since the pandemic. The cons may start with stealing pieces of paper, but they leverage technology and social media to commit fraud on a grander scale, banking insiders and fraud experts said. In the past, criminals needed a special internet browser that would grant entry into the dark web marketplace of stolen checks, maybe even someone to vouch for them. Now all they need is an account from Telegram, a messaging app. “You can buy checks on the internet for $45, with a perfectly good signature,” said John Ravita, director of business development at SQN Banking Systems, which provides check fraud detection software. “There is one website that offers a money-back guarantee. It’s like Nordstrom.” A recent surge in mail theft caused the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — an arm of the Treasury Department known as FinCEN that is charged with safeguarding the financial system — to sound alarm bells this year. Thieves have attacked mail carriers or stolen and sold carriers’ arrow keys, which unlock mailboxes within a certain area. The checks are stolen from the mail, and then criminals carry out a classic fraud: “washing” the checks using something as basic as nail polish remover, leaving the signature untouched. Others “cook” new checks by scanning and altering the old ones. Some criminals deposit checks into their own accounts, while others list them for sale. But the schemes have grown sophisticated. Not only can thieves buy stolen checks; they can purchase bank accounts in which to deposit them, along with the mobile phone number and device used to create that account, among other things. Banks and credit unions are expected to file nearly 540,000 suspicious activity reports tied to check fraud this year, a record, according to a Thomson Reuters analysis of data from FinCEN. That’s about 7% higher than 2022 but more than double the levels in 2021, when fewer than 250,000 such reports were filed. David Maimon, a criminal justice professor and director of a cybersecurity research group at Georgia State University, acts like a secret agent, watching the deals that take place on dark corners online, where criminals brazenly advertise their stolen checks using code words. The number of stolen checks circulating escalated during the pandemic, he said, when scam artists figured out how easily they could pull off such crimes. In September, Maimon’s group found nearly 9,148 stolen checks circulating in 80 select Telegram markets, up from 4,527 in February. “This is just the beginning in a really long road
ments, the city also has installed new sound and lighting and remodeled the restrooms. The city acquired the 700-seat Lyceum in 1982. A theater group operated it until 2013. Community members donated the 1925 Mesa theater to Clovis Community College in 2003, but it was not until June 2021 that the Mesa reopened, renamed as the Norman & Vi Petty Performing Arts Center. “We’re not going to take the sign off. It’s so historic,” said Christy Mendoza, director of the Cultural Arts Series at Clovis Community College. The 400-seat Petty offers another venue for the series for smaller concerts. The series primarily stages performances at the 1,400-seat Marshall Auditorium at Marshall Middle School. The college has had only a handful of events at the Petty, but Mendoza hopes to have more in the coming year. “We are doing our first play in there now,” Mendoza said. “The stage is so small. It will be used for smaller music events.” The college’s Cultural Arts Players are staging an adaptation of A Christmas Carol Wednesday to Saturday at the Petty. Renovations at the Petty are not entirely complete. “I’m hoping to have lighting and sound [improvements] in place in two years,” Mendoza said. “I think we have to spend another [$200,000].” The college received $500,000 from the Joe and Charlyne Sisler Foundation for renovations to that theater in 2011. Others have contributed $250,000
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since then, and the Legislature approved $125,000 more in capital outlay funding this year. Over the years, the stage was rebuilt, the former Mesa space was made handicapped accessible, the roof was replaced, new restrooms were installed, a neighboring building was demolished to create a parking lot, the lobby was renovated, and a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system was brought in, Mendoza said. “Everybody is interested in seeing something at the Petty,” Mendoza said. “We’re getting there slowly but surely.” Even with the three historic theaters not yet
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all operational, they have already played a role in sparking downtown vitality, said Lisa Pellegrino-Spear, executive director of Clovis MainStreet, an economic development organization dedicated to revitalizing downtown Clovis. “Downtown has seen significant improvement knowing the theaters are coming,” Pellegrino-Spear said. “Last year, nine new businesses opened.” Red Door on Main, a craft beer taproom, and Bandolero Brewing, the first Clovis brewery, opened across the street from each other and near all three theaters, while The Rails restaurant has opened in the historic 1907 train depot. “We’re excited what [the theaters] can do for our downtown district,” Howalt said. “MainStreet has done a great job recruiting businesses.”
IN BRIEF Missing a rebate check? State is looking for you Some 16,700 tax rebate checks from 2022 totaling $6 million were returned to the New Mexico Tax and Revenue Department as undeliverable. The checks were part of the three rounds of economic relief for $500 sent to more than 550,000 New Mexican taxpayers in 2022. The checks have been turned over to the department’s Unclaimed Property office and can be claimed by taxpayers who did not receive their payments at nmclaims.unclaimedproperty.com. The taxation department also has 11,500 rebate checks issued earlier this year that were returned as undeliverable but have not been forwarded to Unclaimed Property. Taxpayers can reach out to the department at nm.rebates&tax. nm.go for missed 2023 rebate checks. Taxpayers can update their addresses by creating an account at tap.state.nm.us or by submitting Form RPD-41260. The form is available in the personal income tax folder on the forms and publications page at tax.newmexico.gov.
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Tyler Keefer’s bank account was frozen and then dropped after he cashed a $3,000 check that was genuine but the bank felt was suspicious.
that we will be experiencing,” Maimon added. “Not enough is being done.” At the same time, bank anti-fraud measures, however well-intentioned, may misfire, turning consumers’ financial lives upside down. Tyler Keefer’s troubles started when he sold his Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. Accepting a check from the buyer caused Keefer’s bank, Ally, to lock him out of his account, cutting him off from his main source of money just before he had to pay rent. Then it dropped him as a customer altogether. “Freezing my account the day before rent was due felt diabolical,” said Keefer, 26, who lives near Lancaster, Pa. “It was all I could think of for the rest of that day at work.” The buyer had come to see the bike with his father. They left a $500 cash deposit, but Keefer said he would accept a personal check for the balance under one condition: It needed to clear before he released the bike. They agreed. Keefer watched the buyer write a check for
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$3,000, and the funds appeared in his account a few days later. The day after that, however, the deposit was clawed back, and Keefer’s account — along with his fiancée’s — was frozen. The check had been flagged as potentially fraudulent by the check-issuing bank, PNC, because it believed it contained handwriting from two different people, he said. The bike buyer cleared up the matter with his bank and ultimately paid Keefer in cash without incident. Ally, however, wouldn’t budge. “From their perspective, I had cashed a fraudulent check,” he said. “Ally wouldn’t talk to PNC about that. There was no coming back.” Ally and PNC declined to comment. “Funny enough, I still have the check,” Keefer added. “I kept it as proof. I was worried they were going to put some sort of thing on my record and that other banks wouldn’t take me. I kept all of my information.” Banks need to talk to other banks to get to the bottom of these schemes, and that alone can be a challenge. The American Bankers Association created an industry directory recently so that bank employees working in their fraud departments could more easily find their counterparts at other institutions who may be on the other side of a fraudulent transaction. After they do connect, the most difficult task may be figuring out which bank is on the hook — an investigation that can take months. Fraud analysts examine the check’s electronic image, not a physical piece of paper, which may hold more easily discoverable clues about the way the check was altered. “The liability rests on which bank is most able to determine whether the check was real,” said Paul Benda, executive vice president of risk, fraud and cybersecurity at the bank association.
Santa Fe-based Tartle is poised to enable hundreds of millions of consumers to own, share and earn money with their data through Tartle’s data marketplace storage technology. Tartle has $1.3 million in annual revenue and $6.5 million in investor funding. The company was issued a patent in late November for a “user data electronic exchange platform” that is a continuance of the company’s original patent. Co-founder Alexander McCaig said the company has 1.5 million customers in 248 “geographic areas” currently. He hopes to increase this greatly, to 20 million to 50 million customers by the end of 2024 and 200 million by the end of 2025. “We created a tool that is 100% consumer focused,” McCaig said. “We enable consumers to own their health care records and financial records. We enable them to share data with doctors and health care providers and earn money for sharing their data. They can also donate their earning to nonprofits.” McCaig launched Tartle in Massachusetts in 2017, soon thereafter moved it to New Mexico and ended up in Santa Fe in 2021. Tartle has eight employees in Santa Fe. “I came to New Mexico for personal reasons but saw there were good resources for tech companies, and I got in the right circles,” McCaig said.
Average gas prices in N.M., Santa Fe lowest in a year New Mexico’s average prices for regular unleaded gasoline dropped below $3 per gallon Thursday for the first time since December 2022, the AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch reported. The statewide $2.99 average in New Mexico is the 18th-lowest price among states, AAA statistics show. Two neighboring states have the lowest average prices: No. 1 Texas at $2.68 per gallon and No. 3 Oklahoma at $2.74. The Santa Fe average fell 5 cents from the previous week to $2.88, the lowest since Dec. 22, 2022. Albuquerque checked in at $2.85 and Las Cruces at $2.82, with Farmington the outlier at $3.77 per gallon. “The main reason for this drop is the $20 per barrel decrease in crude oil prices since the end of September,” AAA New Mexico spokesman Daniel Armbruster said in a news release. “Lower crude oil prices are anticipated to translate into continued relief for consumers at the gas pump throughout December.” The New Mexican SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-Soso; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023: You are passionate, free-spirited and spontaneous. You love to travel. Stay flexible so that you can act fast. ! MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions after 11:30 p.m. tonight. The new moon in Sagittarius is at 4:32 p.m. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHH This is an excellent day to explore what further education or training you might get to improve your job and career. Likewise, what travel
plans in the future might enrich your life or expand your world? Tonight: You’re idealistic.
for you to think about this and explore remedies or new ideas. Tonight: Work.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Give some thought to your debt and the arrangements you have with others regarding shared property, shared responsibilities and such. Tonight: Don’t give away the farm.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH It’s important to have the right balance of work and play in your life. The perfect balance is ideal to promote productivity, health and happiness. Tonight: Creative play.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Today the only new moon all year in your House of Partnerships is taking place. Ask yourself how you can improve your closest partnerships and friendships. Tonight: Listen.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH This is the best day of the year to think about what you can do to improve your family relationships. It’s important to have a secure, pleasant refuge from the world. Tonight: Be sympathetic.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH What can you do to improve your health? Today’s New Moon is the perfect day
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Today the new moon is in your House of Communications. This is the only time all
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH With Mercury retrograde in your sign now, you are likely to encounter ex-partners, ex-spouses and old friends from your past. Nevertheless, you have a strong desire to protect your privacy. Tonight: Solitude. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Your friends influence your thinking. Meanwhile, your mind makes decisions about your future. This is why it’s important to hang out with people who benefit you. Tonight: Be helpful. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Today’s new moon is the best day of the year to think about your life direction in general. Think about what you want and where you want to go. Tonight: Clarity.
Dear Annie: Please tell the parents who were confused or concerned about cellphone use to have their teens watch (with them, if possible) the documentary The Social Dilemma on Netflix. It explains the power of cellphone addiction and how it is ruining lives, making teens (and adults) depressed and anxious and contributing to the rise of hate groups. The biggest threat is the undermining of democracy. Everyone should watch it. It is an eye-opener and will surely give teens more to think about when deciding on their own to use less screen time than just “cause Mom and Dad say so.” — Cellphone Wary Dear Cellphone Wary: This was a great movie — thanks for the recommendation! — though, I think some of the political messages could be considered controversial. Though there’s no dispute that social media and cellphones are incredibly distracting. Cellphones have been called “the new cigarettes” because they can be addictive and harmful. Dear Annie: I have to share a gift. When my nephew got married, his future motherin-law sat her daughter down and had a talk with her about her future mother-in-law. Her mom told her to be “nice and respectful” to her future mother-in-law. Her mom told her this because she has a daughter-in-law who does not treat her well. Unfortunately, I feel this story could be familiar for many mothers of sons. It is heartbreaking that so many families experience this. We never know when a loved one could be gone in a heartbeat. So, why are we acting this way? I guess what really needs to be said is this: Talk to each other. Tell each other what you like and don’t like. Engage in a relationship. Life is work; let’s make it productive and pleasant for as many as we can. — Mother-in-Law Dear Mother-in-Law: Your letter highlights a very important rule; namely, the golden one. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. When we live like this, the world shines a little brighter.
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Dear Annie: I’m confused about an issue that involves my husband. We have been separated for 13 years. We try to work things out all the time, but now, suddenly, he said I cheated on him. He also said that all I do is lie to him. He said he doesn’t want to listen to me when I tell him the truth. He listens to everybody else. So, should I keep trying, or should I just get the divorce and move on with my life and find someone new? Please help me. — Confused Dear Confused: The answer is pretty clear. After 13 years of what sounds like a toxic relationship, it is time to either commit to marriage counseling or to get divorced. Staying in limbo, continuing to accuse each other of cheating and fighting all the time is not healthy for anyone. Best of luck to you.
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