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Lawmakers express outrage that agency plagued by attrition would stop recruiting as child abuse in state continues to climb By Daniel J. Chacón

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ABOVE: Jesse Quackenbush, right, hoped to buy “as many iconic things” as he could ﬁnd from former Gov. Bill Richardson’s belongings Saturday at an estate sale at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. TOP: Nancy Fortin gathers memorabilia as a gift for her daughter, a U.S. Marine, during Saturday’s estate sale. PHOTOS BY JIM WEBER THE NEW MEXICAN

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ans of former Gov. Bill Richardson ﬂooded into the Santa Fe Convention Center Saturday morning for an estate sale of his belongings. More than 350 people, local and from out of state, descended on the sale within an hour of its opening. Some prepared to stand in line for hours for a chance to peruse everything from Richardson’s electric pencil sharpener to a historic suit of armor priced at $9,000.

The sale drew political aﬁcionados, collectors and admirers of Richardson, many of whom traded photos of and stories about the statesman, who died in September at age 75. “He’s going to have a 100-year legacy,” said John Henry, waiting in line to buy a hat and clothes that belonged to Richardson. Henry, who lives in Santa Fe, met Richardson in 1984 and later worked under the governor in the state Tourism Department and for Richardson’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Despite struggling with chronic workforce shortages, New Mexico’s embattled child welfare agency enacted a monthslong hiring freeze over the summer and spent only $100,000 of a $3 million special appropriation to address its staffing woes. The revelation to lawmakers, made last week during a meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee, highlights the instability that has long plagued the department, often with tragic consequences. The report, which stunned and angered some legislators, comes on the heels of a recent report that child abuse and neglect cases are on track to Teresa Casados increase 50% this year. State Rep. Gail Armstrong, R-Magdalena, said she was “furious” when she learned the agency had instituted a hiring freeze and left much of the $3 million special appropriation on the table. “Everyone knows that CYFD is doing a poor job, and I’m really tired of lip service and excuses,” she said. Former Rep. Rebecca Dow of Truth or Consequences echoed the sentiment, saying the agency uses staffing shortages and low pay as an excuse for horrific incidents involving children. “The staffing shortages and [high] caseloads are real,” she said. “But if they believe that that was the reason children are dying, being thrown in trash cans, being sexually abused, sleeping in CYFD offices, then they would’ve decided to hire. They would have actively recruited and hired and filled those vacancies. “Their policies are failing New Mexico children,” Dow said. Cabinet Secretary Teresa Casados, who stepped into the position on an interim basis in April and then full-time last month, told lawmakers she instituted what she called a “hiring pause” around mid-May “to see what the department needed.” “Part of the work that we did in restructuring our Protective Services Department led to us creating pillars so that individuals had very specific work that they needed to be doing,” she said.

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Los Alamos schools face racism suit Allegations are latest for district over anti-Black slurs, taunts By Margaret O’Hara mohara@sfnewmexican.com

LOS ALAMOS — For Luckie Daniels, the turning point point came early in the school year in an 11th-grade English class that included her daughter and another Black student. While reading out loud from John

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High School students sometimes used it in the hallways, in addition to referring to Jaiya as “Hershey,” Luckie Daniels said. The incident scared Luckie Daniels, who called it the most recent example of systemic disregard for racial equity in Los Alamos Public Schools since Jaiya enrolled in the district in the 2022-23 school year.

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IN BRIEF U.S., Britain report shooting down 15 attack drones over Red Sea LONDON — A U.S. warship shot down 14 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea on Saturday, and a Royal Navy destroyer downed another drone that was targeting commercial ships, the British and American militaries said. Houthi rebels in Yemen have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, and have launched drones and missiles targeting Israel as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread. U.S. Central Command said the destroyer USS Carney “successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems” launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The drones “were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries,” Central Command tweeted. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said HMS Diamond ﬁred a Sea Viper missile and destroyed a drone that was “targeting merchant shipping.” The overnight action is the ﬁrst time the Royal Navy has shot down an aerial target in anger since the 1991 Gulf War.

Ruling Kuwaiti emir dies at age 86; his half-brother, 83, succeeds him DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait’s ruling emir, died Saturday after a three-year, low-key reign focused on trying to resolve the tiny, oil-rich nation’s internal political disputes. He was 86. The death of Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah was announced in a brief statement read on Kuwait state television. Authorities gave no cause of death. His half-brother, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber, now 83, was named emir Saturday afternoon, the state-run KUNA news agency reported. In late November, Sheikh Nawaf was rushed to a hospital for an unspeciﬁed illness. In the time since, Kuwait had been waiting for news about his health. State-run news previously reported he traveled to the United States for unspeciﬁed medical checks in March 2021. The health of Kuwait’s leaders remains a sensitive matter in the Middle Eastern nation bordering Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which has seen internal power struggles behind palace doors.

Tensions mount between Congo and Rwanda, raising risk of war UNITED NATIONS — Tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring Rwanda have escalated, heightening the risk of a military confrontation that could draw in Burundi, the top U.N. official in Congo warned the Security Council last week. Special representative Bintou Keita’s warning came shortly before the ambassadors from Congo and Rwanda traded accusations in the council and nine days ahead of Congo’s Dec. 20 presidential election, in which President Felix Tshisekedi is seeking a second term against two dozen candidates. Tshisekedi has long accused Rwanda and its president, Paul Kagame, of providing military support to M23 rebels, who have been seizing towns and committing atrocities in eastern Congo. Rwanda denies any ties with the rebels. As voting nears, Congo’s government is also doubling down on a push to have regional and international peacekeeping forces withdraw, including the U.N.’s more than 17,700-member force. A regional force of officers from East African countries began leaving eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, last week.

New rules allow brewery to open soon in United Arab Emirates When a commercial brewery opens in Abu Dhabi this month, it will become the first company to legally make alcohol in the region. The emirate has granted a license to the restaurant Craft by Side Hustle to sell beer on tap that’s been brewed on premises. You can already buy Side Hustle’s imported beer and spirits in UAE liquor stores, but all packaged products will still have to be manufactured abroad under the new regulations. The brewery is the first to open under a little-noticed rule change published in Abu Dhabi in 2021, which allowed license holders to ferment alcoholic beverages for consumption on site. It’s the latest change to loosen socially conservative laws in the Gulf region as countries open their economies and focus on industries other than oil. It’s now common to find stores selling beer, wine and hard liquor, and free-standing restaurants and pubs with alcohol licenses. New Mexican wire services

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Bridget Ziegler, a founder of the national right-wing advocacy group Moms for Liberty, during a meeting of the Sarasota County School Board in Sarasota, Fla., last week.

Moms for Liberty loses influence amid scandal Interest in education issues is declining even within GOP By Lisa Lerer and Patricia Mazzei The New York Times

oms for Liberty, a national right-wing advocacy group, was born in Florida as a response to COVID-19 school closures and mask mandates. But it quickly became just as well known for pushing policies branded as anti-LGBTQ+ by opponents. So when one of its founders, Bridget Ziegler, recently told police she and her husband, who is under criminal investigation for sexual assault, had a consensual sexual encounter with another woman, the perceived disconnect between her public stances and private life fueled intense pressure for her to resign from the Sarasota County School Board. “Most of our community could not care less what you do in the privacy of your own home, but your hypocrisy takes center stage,” Sally Sells, a Sarasota resident and the mother of a ﬁfth grader, told Ziegler during a tense school board meeting this week. Ziegler, whose husband has denied wrongdoing, said little and did not resign. Sells was one of dozens of speakers who criticized Ziegler — and Moms for Liberty — at the meeting, an outcry that underscored the group’s prominence in the most contentious debates of the pandemic era. Perhaps no group gained so much inﬂuence so quickly, transforming education issues from a sleepy political backwater to a rallying cry for Republican politicians. The organization quickly became a conservative powerhouse, a coveted endorsement and a mandatory stop on the GOP presidential primary campaign trail. Yet, as Moms for Liberty reels from the scandal surrounding the Zieglers, the group’s power seems to be fading. Candidates endorsed by the group lost a series of key school board races in 2023. The losses have prompted questions about the future of education issues as an animating force in Republican politics. Former President Donald Trump, the dominant front-runner for the party’s nomination, makes only passing reference in his stump speeches to preserving “parental rights” — the catchphrase of the group’s cause. Issues like school curricula, transgender students’ rights and teaching about race were far less prominent in the three Republican primary debates than abortion rights, foreign policy and the economy. And the most prominent champion of conservative views on education

— Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida — has yet to unite conservatives behind his struggling presidential bid. John Fredericks, a Trump ally in Virginia, said the causes Moms for Liberty became most known for supporting — policies banning books it deemed pornographic, curtailing the teaching of LGBTQ+ issues and policing how race is taught in schools — had fallen far from many voters’ top concerns. “You closed schools, and people were upset about that. Schools are open now,” he said. “The Moms for Liberty really have to aim their fire on math and science and reading versus focusing on critical race theory and drag queen story hours.” He added, “It’s nonsense, all of it.” The two other founders of Moms for Liberty, Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, have distanced themselves from Ziegler, saying she has not been an officer in the national organization since early 2021. Ziegler did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement, Descovich and Justice dismissed criticism that the group was hypocritical. They argue it is not opposed to racial justice or LGBTQ+ rights but wants to restore control to parents over their children’s education. “To our opponents who have spewed hateful vitriol over the last several days: We reject your attacks,” Descovich and Justice said. “We are laser-focused on fundamental parental rights, and that mission is and always will be bigger than one person.” Justice declined to answer questions about the continued influence of their organization or their electoral losses. Nearly 60% of the 198 school board candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty in contested races across 10 states were defeated in 2023, according to an analysis by the website Ballotpedia, which tracks elections. The organization claims to operate 300 chapters in 48 states with about 130,000 members. One place where Moms for Liberty maintains a stronger hold is the state where the group has had perhaps the most influence: Florida. Since forming in 2020, the group has aligned itself with DeSantis, backing his parental-rights-in-education law that critics nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay,” which prohibits classroom instruction on LGBTQ+ topics. DeSantis also campaigned for conservative candidates for local school boards, turning nonpartisan races into ones heavily influenced by politics.

Cardinal convicted of embezzlement in Vatican trial By Nicole Winﬁeld The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated ﬁnancial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the ﬁrst cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was absolved of several other charges and his nine co-defen-

dants received a mixed outcome of some guilty verdicts and many acquittals of the nearly 50 charges brought against them during a 2½ year trial. Becciu’s lawyer, Fabio Viglione, said he respected the sentence but would appeal. Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi said the outcome “showed we were correct.” The trial focused on the Vatican secretariat of state’s 350 million euro investment in developing a former Harrod’s warehouse into luxury apartments. Prosecutors alleged Vatican monsignors and brokers ﬂeeced the

Holy See of tens of millions of euros in fees and commissions and then extorted the Holy See for 15 million euros to cede control of the building. Becciu was accused of embezzlement-related charges in two tangents of the London deal and faced up to seven years in prison. In the end, he was convicted of embezzlement stemming from the original Vatican investment of 200 million euros into a fund that invested in the London property. The tribunal determined canon law prohibited using church assets in

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LONDON — Martin Guzman was a college freshman at La Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, in 2001 when a debt crisis prompted default, riots and a devastating depression. A dazed middle class suffered ruin, as the International Monetary Fund insisted the government make misery-inducing budget cuts in exchange for a bailout. Watching Argentina unravel inspired Guzman to switch majors and study economics. Nearly two decades later, when the government was again bankrupt, it was Guzman as finance minister who negotiated with IMF officials to restructure a $44 billion debt, the result of an earlier ill-conceived bailout. Today he is one of a number of prominent economists and world leaders who argue the ambitious framework created at the end of World War II to safeguard economic growth and stability, with the IMF and World Bank as its pillars, is failing in its mission. The current system “contributes to a more inequitable and unstable global economy,” said Guzman, who resigned last year. The repayment Guzman negotiated was the 22nd arrangement between Argentina and the IMF. Even so, the country’s economic tailspin has only increased with an annual inflation rate of more than 140%, growing lines at soup kitchens and a new, self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” president, Javier Milei, who this past week devalued the currency by 50%. The IMF and World Bank have aroused complaints from the left and right ever since they were created. But the latest critiques pose a more profound question: Does the economic framework devised eight decades ago fit the economy that exists today, when new geopolitical conflicts collide with established economic relationships and climate change poses an imminent threat? This 21st-century clash of ideas about how to fix a system created for a 20th-century world is one of the most consequential facing the global economy. The IMF was set up in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., to help rescue countries in financial distress, while the World Bank’s focus was reducing poverty and investing in social development. The United States was the preeminent economic superpower, and scores of developing nations in Africa and Asia had not yet gained independence. The foundational ideology — later known as the “Washington Consensus” — held that prosperity depended on unhindered trade, deregulation and the primacy of private investment. “Nearly 80 years later, the global financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional and unjust,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said this summer at a summit in Paris. “Even the most fundamental goals on hunger and poverty have gone into reverse after decades of progress.” The World Bank’s own analyses outline the extent of the economic problems. “For the poorest countries, debt has become a nearly paralyzing burden,” a report released Wednesday concluded. Countries are forced to spend money on interest payments instead of investing in public health, education and the environment.

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Release priorities come in question By Laurie Kellman

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LONDON — So much for women and children ﬁrst. The phrase and its grave implications about who to save ﬁrst in a catastrophe are rooted in the shipwrecks of centuries past and popularized by Hollywood’s treatment of the Titanic disaster. It is getting another airing at a time when, in many societies, women are expected to do most everything men do. Experts say the unwritten law of the sea is a Hollywood-fed myth and a relic of Victorian-era chivalry. At the center of this round of questions is the prisoners-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas in November that prioritized releasing women and children after negotiators agreed that mothers and their children should not be separated. Israelis are overwhelmingly supportive of this approach. But it leaves behind elderly and injured men during the most chaotic phase of the war, a result that has angered some families. On Friday, Israel said the army had mistakenly killed three of the remaining hostages, all men. “To say ‘women and children’ in the 21st century — as if families can be whole without the fathers, as if children that have come back with their fathers

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Hostages carried white flag before deaths, Israel says Military acknowledges shooting by its troops ran against regulations

the continuing risks for the more than 120 people who Israel says are still captive and raised questions about Israel’s prosecution of the war. Some families of the hostages By Aaron Boxerman, Ben Hubbard seized on the shootings to urge and Thomas Fuller the government to make securing The New York Times the captives’ freedom its highest priority. Itzik Horn, whose chilJERUSALEM — The Israeli dren Eitan, 37, and Yair, 45, were military on Saturday said three abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, hostages mistakenly killed by said the killings reinforced his Israeli troops had been shirtless, unarmed and bearing a makeshift belief Israel must immediately reach a deal to free all the capwhite flag. tives, even if it means releasing The troubling details of how Palestinians being held in Israeli they died have created wideASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO jails on terrorism charges. spread anguish and prompted From left, Doron Asher and daughters Aviv Asher, 2½, and Raz Asher, 4½, are returned to Israel “Let them free all the Palestinrenewed calls for a pause in the last month in a hostage exchange during a pause in the Israel-Hamas war. ian prisoners we have here, all fighting to allow more hostages the terrorists — what do I care,” to be released. still there can in any way start women before men, can lead to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza Horn said in an interview. “The The military, which acknowlwith no known plans to negotirecovering from the trauma — is fraught judgments about whose most important thing isn’t to edged the killings violated its ate the release of anyone else. unthinkable,” Sharone Lifshitz, lives are most valuable — and defeat Hamas. The only victory rules of engagement, announced whose mother was freed in “You think the men are strong? reflect the human impulse to the deaths Friday, hours after say- here is to bring back all the October and whose 83-year-old sort each other. It’s too hard for them. Bring ing it had recovered the bodies of hostages.” father, Oded, remains in captivthem all home,” Sharon Cunio, Experts say the choice nowthree other Israeli hostages in the As Israelis took to the streets ity, told The Associated Press. whose husband, David, and adays often is to save the most Gaza Strip. to demand the return of the other family members are still Of about 240 people who vulnerable first, which would hostages, David Barnea, the head Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevy, the hostages, told Netanyahu and were kidnapped during Hamas’ include children but also older of Mossad, Israel’s spy service, Israeli military chief of staff, said Israel’s war cabinet, according to Oct. 7 rampage, 86 Israelis were people and those who are sick met with Qatari officials Friday Saturday the three hostages had local media. released. Seventeen Thai men and the injured, no matter their in Europe to discuss the possidone “everything so that we also were let go. gender. “Children first” seems to be a bility of a renewed pause in the would understand” they were widely agreed-upon crisis action That left 119 men — many of When everyone can’t be fighting and further exchanges of harmless. “The shooting of the plan, whether it’s a rescue from a rescued at once, the critical them injured or elderly — and hostages was carried out contrary Israeli hostages and Palestinian natural disaster or a hostage-tak17 women and children as hosfactors seem to be the exercise of to the open-fire regulations,” he prisoners. The meeting had been ing. tages in Gaza. leadership and all players makplanned before the death of the said. “It is forbidden to shoot at ing a choice — typically between those who raise a white flag and And women and children hostages. In a private meeting on themselves and others. generally pay an outsize price seek to surrender.” Dec. 5, Israeli media reported, Prime Minister Benjamin in crises: The death toll from Other dynamics weigh heavily, the families of the remaining As the death toll of Palestinians Netanyahu called the killings “an Israel’s bombardment of Gaza such as how much time people captives ripped Israeli Prime killed in 70 days of war soared to unbearable tragedy” and praised tops 18,700 — around two-thirds have before a ship sinks as well Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “brave warriors who are nearly 20,000, according to Gaza of them women and children. as the societal and cultural for agreeing to prioritize women devoted to the sacred mission of health officials, the shootings of But other standards, such as norms of the people involved. and children — then resuming returning our hostages.” the Israeli hostages underlined

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After evaluating caseloads and other factors, “we right sized it based on how many [full-time employees] were needed to meet those caseload standards,” she explained. “Once we did that, then we released the pause, and we started doing the hiring.” Casados said she didn’t have time for an interview after Thursday’s meeting as she dashed out of the state Capitol to pick up a grandchild. She was out of the office Friday and unavailable for comment, CYFD spokeswoman Jessica Preston wrote in an email. Preston wrote Casados stands behind the hiring pause “because it ensured systems were in place so when hiring restarted it was an efficient and effective process.” The results in the last few months have shown it was a prudent move, she wrote. “Secretary Casados has decades of experience in creating successful office workﬂow systems and implementing organizational change — which is exactly what Gov. [Michelle] Lujan Grisham was looking for when she made the change in leadership at CYFD,” Preston wrote. “Those systems and newly organized divisions needed to be in place before hiring could begin.” Since the hiring pause was lifted, “we have had 161 new hires, including 13 employees who transferred from other agencies,” she wrote. During the same period, 89 employees have left. Casados told lawmakers Thursday there was “never” a hiring freeze. “We were always looking at positions

that were critical to be ﬁlled immediately. But there was a pause while we took a look to see what was really needed and where,” she said. The so-called hiring pause was lifted around mid-August, she said, adding a rapid-hire event was held in September.

Legislative reaction Sen. George Muñoz, a Gallup Democrat who chairs the Legislative Finance Committee, said he found the report of a hiring freeze “kind of shocking.” “She’s new, and she had to get her hands around it, but whenever you [enact] a hiring freeze, you’re just further in the hole,” he said. “You’re not moving forward.” Muñoz called the decision unwise. “That’s like getting in the shower, lathering your hair and turning the water off,” he said. “No matter what, you still have to keep hiring. In my business, we take applications all the time.” Muñoz also criticized the agency’s inability to utilize the $3 million special appropriation. “It wasn’t the right thing to do when you’re in crisis,” he said. Maralyn Beck, founder of the New Mexico Child First Network, a nonproﬁt dedicated to improving the lives of children in the state’s foster care system, questioned why the agency wouldn’t beef up hiring amid high vacancy and turnover rates. “There are children sleeping in offices on Christmas — we know that already — and we know that there are tired workers who are getting paid overtime to spend the holidays with them,” she said. “At the end of the day, is this the best we can do? And the answer

is no. We know we can do better. We know our children deserve more than sleeping in cold, stale office buildings on Christmas and holidays.” Beck said lacking of funding amid unprecedented revenues for state government isn’t the problem, “and kids are still sleeping in offices, so what is it going to take for us to say ... we as a state are not OK with treating our children like trash?” Casados acknowledged spending of the special appropriation “has been off to a very slow start.” “I would say we have not spent that money,” said Casados, who previously served as the governor’s chief operating officer. “We spent a very tiny amount of that money.” Rachel Mercer Garcia, the Legislative Finance Committee analyst for CYFD, said Thursday the Legislature appropriated the money after the department conducted a child welfare workforce study “and brought forth some potential action steps to address their challenges.” The one-time appropriation for workforce development gave the agency wide latitude, allowing CYFD to spend the money on recruitment incentives for licensed social work graduates, training and professional development support, caseload improvement cross-training and local recruitment campaigns, among other initiatives. “As of December, CYFD’s total vacancy rate was about 26%,” Mercer Garcia said. “The turnover rate … in protective services was about 32%.”

Budget battle Casados said the department, which is proposing a $426.6 million budget for the upcoming ﬁscal year, a 15% increase over ﬁscal year 2024, would “appreciate” if lawmakers rolled over the unspent money from the special appropriation. “We do have a plan moving forward,”

she said. “In the beginning of the year, we will be sending staff out to various cities of colleges that have high social work graduates, in addition to law schools — two of the areas that we ﬁnd it incredibly difficult to recruit.” Casados said the agency is also considering a loan forgiveness program as a recruitment and retention tool, though she didn’t provide any other details. “The budget request that we’re asking is not a lot of money for the amount of programs that we’re hoping to expand,” she said. Armstrong, a ranking member on the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, said she refuses to give CYFD any additional funds “because they’re not doing a good job with the funds they’re receiving.” Casados also asked lawmakers for the authority to move funds around in CYFD’s budget. “What is really critical is the ability for us to be able to understand that this department is transforming and changing, and it’s difficult right now to know what does that look like and where does that money need to be,” she said. “So really, my hope is that in this next ﬁscal year, we can have program transfer authority. That is really what is going to allow us to organize CYFD the way it can best meet the needs of our families and children.” Casados said she and her staff, including a new leadership team, are “dedicated and committed” and “accountable for every dollar” the agency spends. But she said the agency can’t “have our hands tied” by being unable to move money to where it’s needed. Armstrong said there is no way she would support giving Casados such authority. “We don’t give any agency that [authority]. That’s why it’s called ‘budget’ because you’re supposed to budget,” she said, adding agencies can make

budget adjustment requests. “They have to ask,” she said. “They don’t just have full authority to move money around and, you know, the tide changes. You underestimated this or overestimated this and you can move a little bit of money around, but for full authority, in a huge agency like that, no way.” Armstrong said she wants Casados to succeed. “But the way it’s going right now, she’s not succeeding,” she said. “I understand her taking a step back and trying to ﬁgure things out, but there’s things that are working, so keep doing them, especially hiring.” Casados is the third CYFD secretary under Lujan Grisham’s tenure. The governor’s original appointee, Brian Blalock, stepped down amid withering criticism of his handling of the agency, as well as the purchase of a computer system via a no-bid contract and the department’s use of a secret messaging app critics said violated open-government laws. Blalock was succeeded by former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil, who resigned in April after serving as Cabinet secretary less than two years. In announcing her departure, the Governor’s Office said Vigil would transition from head of the agency to serve on a newly created Policy Advisory Council. Casados told lawmakers Thursday that Vigil had resigned from the council but didn’t give a reason. Armstrong said the agency needs stability. “CYFD has been broken for a long time,” she said. “We’ve been trying to ﬁx it for a long time and with every secretary … everything getting redone and reevaluated. It’s really bad. We need consistency.” Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.

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After a 14-year stint in Congress, Richardson served two terms as governor from 2003-11, about a year and a half as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and three years as the U.S. secretary of energy. He continued to serve as a negotiator in his post-political life, securing the release of hostages around the globe, including women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, who was released from a Russian prison last year. Though Richardson’s popularity declined during his second term as governor, Henry implored people to remember what the politician accomplished in his first six years that helped everyday New Mexicans. “You see all these movie trucks and studios and thousands of people working [in the film industry]?” he said. “That was Bill Richardson. Nobody embraced [film incentives] as much as Richardson.” Jesse Quackenbush, an attorney and filmmaker who used to work in New Mexico but now lives in Texas, called Richardson a hero for becoming an “early leader” to act to end the death penalty. Quackenbush directed The Last Word, a 2008 documentary that aimed to convince people on the fence about the death penalty to abolish it. He recalled giving Richardson a copy of the documentary, and within a month or two, he signed a bill to repeal the punishment in New Mexico. Quackenbush arrived at Saturday’s sale at 6 a.m. to secure a spot as the 14th person in line, hoping to buy “as many iconic things” as he could find for a biopic he intends to make about Richardson. “Although I’m a Republican, I’m very keen that he was a great, great, politician,” Quackenbush said, loading up on neckties, boots and other pieces of Richardson’s favorite clothing.

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Loyda and Fidel Martinez peruse jewelry and bolo ties as their dog Chiquita keeps an eye on the other buyers during Saturday’s estate sale of former Gov. Bill Richardson’s belongings at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.

“I’m hoping this is under $10,000; it’s probably over $10,000,” he said, before checking out. Richardson not only “brought notoriety to New Mexico,” but was a “major collector,” said Melinda Bon’ewell, a dealer from Madrid looking for vintage boots and other items to resell. Richardson’s items ﬁlled a room at the convention center, including a collection of more than 100 pens,

ranging in price from about $50 to over $500; dozens of neckties, gloves, scarves and wallets; $20 pink, blue and purple polo shirts; paintings and sculptures; shoes and boots; jewelry and glassware; cigar cases; saddlebags; items signed by celebrities; and many more odds and ends, such as a $1,500 head of a gemsbok antelope Richardson shot on a trophy hunt in New Mexico. Steve Griego came to the estate

sale from Albuquerque with his wife, Isabelle, out of curiosity, more than anything. “I’m just kind of curious to see what he accumulated over time,” Griego said. His wife added that people must have given him things “from all over the world.” Richardson’s death hit closer to home for old friends Bruce Allen Runyon and Tom Goff, who intended to check out paintings and buy a pen or two at the sale. The two used to regularly have lunch with Richardson at The Shed Restaurant downtown, they said. The ﬁrst time Runyon, a doctor,

met Richardson, the politician said he wanted to stamp out hepatitis C in New Mexico. “I gave him my [business] card, and he took notes on both sides of it. He asked me all these really intelligent questions,” Runyon recalled. “And at the end of the conversation, the governor says, ‘Doc, you made my day.’ I said, ‘Governor, you made my day!’ ” Goff remembered Richardson calling him up from this place or that to say, “Save me a seat!” at The Shed. “I said, ‘You’re the ... governor, save me a seat,’ ” Goff remembered with a laugh. “We had a lot of fun together.”

LEFT: More than 350 political aﬁcionados, collectors, old friends and admirers of the former governor descended in the ﬁrst hour of Saturday’s estate sale. Treasures ranged from an electric pencil sharpener to a $9,000 suit of armor. BELOW: Kristin Jones looks through a table of neckties at the estate sale.

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An Open Letter to New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver: Dear Secretary of State Toulouse Oliver, As you know, in September 2022, a judge in New Mexico ordered Otero County commissioner Cuoy Griffin, convicted of participating in the January 6th insurrection, removed from office. Similarly, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which bars individuals from holding public office if they took an oath to support the Constitution and later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” apply to former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Several states including Colorado have cases in the courts seeking to prevent Trump from appearing on their ballots. The ruling by the New Mexico court has established a precedent to use the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment to prevent Donald Trump from appearing on the presidential ballot in 2024 in New Mexico. As Secretary of State you have the authority with unassailable standing to render such a decision. Given what is at stake, nothing less than preserving our very democracy, we urge you with all speed to take this critical step. As we know all too well, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men (& women) do nothing.” With respect, Concerned Citizens of New Mexico

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incident to Los Alamos district officials, following up and Now, she’s suing the school requesting to speak with the district in First Judicial District district’s equity council. She Court. In an 84-page complaint claims those efforts went largely filed in late November, Luckie ignored. Daniels claims Los Alamos “At this point, I’m taking it Public Schools officials’ failure higher,” Jones recalled in an to address her repeated equity interview. “So that’s when I complaints created such a hostile reached out to the Office of Civil environment that it amounted to Rights.” discrimination, a violation under Throughout the second the federal Civil Rights Act of semester of the 2021-22 school 1964. year, the U.S. Department of The lawsuit names district Education’s Office of Civil Rights Superintendent Jennifer Guy, reviewed the case, including Assistant Superintendent for documents and video footage Teaching and Learning J. Carter as well as interviewing 14 witPayne and all five members of nesses, according to a letter sent the district’s school board as by the Office of Civil Rights to defendants. Daniels is the only then-Superintendent Jose Delfin plaintiff listed in the case. in July 2022. The district denies the In the letter, the Office of Daniels’ claims and declined to Civil Rights identified several comment further on the pending concerns about how the litigation, Guy wrote in an email school district handled Jones’ to The New Mexican. allegations. It said the district She added: “The Los Alamos had failed to train its coaches Public Schools is committed to in anti-discrimination policies, nondiscrimination and works to did not follow up with the ensure our educational environ- complainant and conducted an ment is free from harassing or inadequate investigation of the discriminatory conduct.” incident — investigators did not But Luckie Daniels, who at even watch footage of the game one time worked for the district, before concluding the monkey said the behavior occurring in noises did not happen. schools is evidence the district “A school may be found to on the hill is not as committed have violated Title VI [of the to racial equity as other less Civil Rights Act of 1964] if it has isolated places. failed to correct a hostile envi“The rest of the world — as ronment based on harassment of messy as it is — is … forced to which it has actual or construcaccept that they have to undertive notice,” the letter stated. stand how to navigate a world Rather than making any spewhere everybody is different,” cific findings against the district, Daniels said in an interview. the Office of Civil Rights entered into a resolution agreement with Previous complaints the school district. The agreement required the district to Daniels said she had somerevise its nondiscrimination and thing of a role model when she harassment policies and train all started filing complaints related to racial discrimination with the administrators, employees and athletic coaches in those policies. school district: Miriam Jones. In a statement from the disIn October 2021, Jones’ son, trict published in the Los Alamos then an eighth grader playing Reporter in October, Guy said on the Taos High School varsity soccer team, faced Los Alamos in the district “promptly and propa tense contest. During the game, erly investigated” the allegation and fully cooperated with the she said, one of Los Alamos’ Office of Civil Rights inquiry. players started making monkey Ultimately, Los Alamos Public noises and gestures. Schools revised regulations and At the time, Jones said her son, who is biracial, was the only provided additional training to staff and administrators in Black player on Taos’ team. accordance with the resolution Jones said she reported the

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Jaiya Daniels, 16, is a junior and a track athlete at Los Alamos High School. “When I go to school,” she said, “I just kind of want to go to school — to learn and be with my friends.”

agreement, Guy said in the statement; the matter was “closed successfully” with “no ﬁndings against the district.” Nevertheless, Jones said she worried when Daniels, an old friend, made plans to enroll her daughter in Los Alamos Public Schools.

‘The civil rights fight of my life’ Daniels didn’t share Jones’ worries. At least, not at first. Originally from Georgia, Daniels, who works as a project manager and diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, settled in Taos in 2014. Since then, she said, her adopted state has become home. “We’re fish out of water when we leave New Mexico,” Daniels said. After briefly relocating to Arizona during the 2021-22 school year, the family chose to move to Los Alamos for the town’s highly regarded schools, which currently boast student proficiency rates more than double the state’s averages. Jaiya enrolled as a sophomore at Los Alamos High during the 2022-23 school year. She was one of 13 Black students among the school’s 860 pupils, according to data from the Public Education Department. Census data shows that’s consistent with Los Alamos County’s demographics: About 1.4% of the county identifies as Black or African American, compared to 1.5% of Los Alamos High’s student body. Almost right away, things

started going wrong, Daniels claims in her lawsuit against the district. In September 2022, Daniels volunteered to help run Los Alamos High’s equity council, an advisory committee required at all New Mexico school districts and charter schools. She’d done similar work at Taos Charter School. In the complaint, Daniels alleges Los Alamos Public Schools officials kept her from participating in the equity council for much of the 202223 school year, even after she was hired by the district as an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant. She claims she was excluded from events relevant to her work, kept at a distance from relevant district staff and the scope of her work diminished once she tried to address discrimination against employees. Her complaint also references what she said was a series of incidents throughout the 202223 school year, including some students using racial slurs at Los Alamos High and omission of any observance of Black History Month in February 2023 — arguing the district’s responses to those complaints were inadequate. She listed the Of Mice and Men incident — which Daniels said indicates Los Alamos Public Schools’ leadership failed to adequately train teachers on equitable and appropriate classroom practices — in the complaint as well. Though she’s no longer under contract with the school district,

Daniels said her advocacy efforts over the past two years have been “the civil rights fight of [her] life.” She acknowledges it’s taken a toll: she’s been diagnosed with a heart condition and high blood pressure. “I have spent the last 15 months petitioning the district to prioritize anti-racist, cultural competency development,” Daniels wrote in her complaint. “Equity, safety, and inclusion are not ‘nice to haves’ that can be ‘opted out’ of by LAPS district leadership.” Guy declined to comment on the case. As of late last week, the district had not yet filed a response to Daniels’ complaint in district court. Daniels is requesting $558,400 in damages, including $300,000 in punitive damages and $100,000 in damages related to pain and suffering, according to the complaint. In addition to generating policy changes, Daniels said she hopes her case offers an example for other parents with similar concerns, in much the same way Jones’ complaint to the Office of Civil Rights served as a first step for her. “This cannot continue. It cannot be allowed to happen — and that’s why it’s so ingrained because it’s been allowed to happen,” Daniels said. She continued, “It’s not about the money, but what I recognize is that there has to be a consequence.” And then there is Jaiya. “She’s going to do, unfortunately, what most African American people have to do — and what my grandparents had to do and what her grandchildren will probably have to do,” Daniels said of her daughter. “You continue forward, even in the face of people denying who you are.” The mother said Jaiya spends a lot of her time at school alone, and she worries about the longterm ramifications of the lawsuit on the girl’s life. Though her grades haven’t dipped so far, Jaiya said in an interview that attending school amid an ongoing lawsuit — always wondering if teachers, administrators or other students are talking about the case — is distracting. “When I go to school,” she said, “I just kind of want to go to school — to learn and be with my friends.”

Verdict is a big win for Indigenous land rights By Daniel Shailer

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MEXICO CITY — Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling Friday from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The landmark verdict marks a monumental step in a four-decade struggle for Indigenous land rights and a long, bitter legal battle, which has at times spilled into the streets of northern Guatemala. It also comes at the close of the U.N. climate summit COP28, which stressed the importance of minerals like nickel for renewable energy more than ever. According to a verdict read from Costa Rica in the early morning, the Guatemalan government violated the rights of the Indigenous Q’eqchi’ people to property and consultation by permitting mining on land where members of the community have lived at least since the 1800s. In its written sentence, the court linked the human rights violations to “inadequacies in domestic law,” which fail to recognize Indigenous property and ordered the state to adopt new laws. Leonardo Crippa, an attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center who has been researching and representing the community since 2005, said that the ﬁnding against the state of Guatemala was a once-in-a-century advance for Indigenous rights in Guatemala and internationally. “All countries in Latin America are going to look at this decision,” Crippa said. “All courts will have to secure that any decision that this made on mining, on Indigenous lands or titling of Indigenous land is done in a way that is consistent with what the court decided today.” The court gave Guatemala six months to begin awarding a land title to the community, ordered the creation of a development fund. No further mining can take place without the community’s consent.

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Migrant children Latino Democrats shifting on Biden injured, dying on Pro-immigration items one of riskiest jobs off table in search for deal tied to Ukraine aid BORD ER SECURIT Y

By Stephen Groves, Lisa Mascaro and Rebecca Santana The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Prominent Latinos in Congress looked on quietly at first, privately raising concerns with the Biden administration over the direction of border security talks. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was on the phone constantly with administration officials questioning why the Senate negotiations did not include any meaningful consideration of providing pathways to citizenship for longtime immigrants lacking the proper legal documents. New Mexico Democrat Sen. Ben Ray Luján made similar arguments as he tried to get meetings with top-level White House officials. But when the talks didn’t seem to make enough difference, the influential lawmakers started leading the open opposition. “A return to Trump-era policies is not the fix,” Padilla said. “In fact, it will make the problem worse.” Padilla even pulled President Joe Biden aside at a fundraiser last weekend in California to warn him “to be careful” of being dragged into “harmful policy.” The Latino senators have found themselves on shifting ground in the debate over immigration as the Democratic president, who is reaching for a border deal as part of his $110 billion package for Ukraine, Israel and other national security needs, has tried to reduce the historic numbers of people arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico. The negotiations, which intensified Saturday at the Capitol as bargainers race to draft a framework by the end of the weekend,

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Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., in Belen in August. Luján was among lawmakers who battered President Joe Biden last week over border security concessions they said would harm asylum-seekers.

come as the Biden administration has increasingly endured criticism over its handling of border and immigration issues — not only from Republicans but also from members of the president’s own party. Democratic cities and states have been vocal about the ﬁnancial toll they say migrants have been taking on their resources. But left off the table in the talks are pro-immigration changes, such as granting permanent legal status to thousands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, often referred to as “Dreamers,” based on the DREAM Act that would have provided similar protections for young immigrants but was never approved. A few days after his conversation with the president, Padilla, Luján and Sen. Bob Menendez,

D-N.J., aired their concerns prominently at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus news conference in front of the Capitol. They slammed Senate Republicans for demanding the border policy changes in exchange for Ukraine aid, and they criticized Biden for making concessions they say ultimately undermine the United States’ standing as a country that welcomes immigrants. Biden is facing pressure from all sides. He has been criticized about the record numbers of migrants at the border and is trying to address the political weakness before a potential campaign rematch next year with Donald Trump, the former Republican president, who has promised to enact far-right immigration measures. And the issue is now tied to

a top Biden foreign policy goal: providing robust support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia. The White House and Senate leaders are pushing for a framework of the border deal by Sunday, in preparation for possible votes in the week ahead. “We’ll need to have some kind of framework by the end of the weekend,” Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the key Republican negotiator, said Saturday during a break in talks. Recently during the negotiations, the White House has pushed to include provisions that would legalize young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children, according to two people with knowledge of the closed-door talks. But others said that was quickly taken off the table by Republicans.

Children working on conBy Hannah Dreier, Brent McDonald, Nicole Salazar, struction sites are six times as Annie Correal and Carson Kessler likely to be killed as minors The New York Times doing other work, according to the National Institute for On social media, they call Occupational Safety and Health. themselves ruferitos. Roofing is particularly risky; it They wake before dawn to be is the most dangerous job for driven to distant job sites, someminors other than agricultural times crossing state lines. They work, studies show. carry heavy bundles of shingles But death is not the only that leave their arms shaking. hazard. Labor organizers and They work through heat waves on black-tar rooftops that scorch social workers say they are seeing more migrant children their hands. suffer serious injuries on roofing Federal law bars minors crews in recent years. from roofing because it is so A 15-year-old in Florida was dangerous, but migrant children burned when he slipped from are doing this work across the a roof and onto a vat of hot United States, The New York tar. A 16-year-old fell off a roof Times found. Over more than in Arkansas and shattered his a year, The Times spoke with back. A child in Illinois stepped more than 100 child roofers through a skylight and fractured working in 23 states, including his spine. some who began at elementary When children get hurt, school age. In New Orleans, Juan Nasario contractors often refuse to pay said he had been replacing roofs medical bills. Terry Coonan, who runs a human rights center during 12-hour shifts nearly at Florida State University, often every day since arriving from Guatemala four years ago, when comes across children after they he was 10. He would like to go to have been discarded by their employers. school or at least join a soccer One 15-year-old boy from team, but he needs to pay rent to Central America who had been his older cousin. traveling around the country In Dallas, Diego Osbaldo with a crew boss was abanHernández started roofing at doned last year after he was 15 after coming to the United injured on a work site. The boy States from Mexico last year to was found alone and crying in a live with an older friend. His ditch. “He was of no more use,” jobs take him all across Texas, Coonan said. but his favorite place to work About 100 roofers are killed is San Antonio. “They are the on the job each year, most often shortest houses,” he said. in falls, according to the DepartRoofing work is plentiful and ment of Labor. The government pays better than many of the does not publish data about other jobs these children can get. But it is also dangerous: One injuries or fatalities among child roofers — a category of workers slip can be fatal. that is not supposed to exist. The federal government But the federal Occupational pledged to crack down on Safety and Health Administrachild labor this year. But the workforce continues to grow as tion, which is part of the Labor Department, sometimes finds fast as children arrive, anxious them while investigating workto find a way to support themselves and help their families. place accidents.

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inscription at her feet that reads: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Some of the ﬁgures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as a “mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, along with an enslaved man following his owner to war. Earlier this year, Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty. The North Carolina base was originally named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from the state who was known for owning slaves and for losing key battles that contributed to the Confederacy’s downfall.

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Prosecution after miscarriage reveals Can abortion rights, faith coexist? Some activists say Catholicism, post-Roe inequities feminism are not contradictory ME XICO

California Irvine and author of Legal abortion helped Policing The Womb, said those protect against charges efforts have long overwhelmtargeted Black and brown over unintentional harm ingly women. Even before Roe was

overturned, studies show Black women who visited hospitals for prenatal care were 10 times more likely than white women COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio to have child protective services was in the throes of a bitter and law enforcement called on debate over abortion rights this them, even when their cases were fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began similar, she said. “Post-Dobbs, what we see is passing thick blood clots. kind of a wild, Wild West,” said The 33-year-old Watts, who Goodwin. “You see this kind of had not shared the news of her muscle-flexing by district attorpregnancy even with her family, neys and prosecutors wanting made her first prenatal visit to to show that they are going to a doctor’s office behind Mercy be vigilant, they’re going to take Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in down women who violate the Warren, a working-class city ethos coming out of the state’s about 60 miles southeast of legislature.” Cleveland. She called Black women The doctor said though a fetal “canaries in the coal mine” for heartbeat was still present, Watts’ the “hyper-vigilant type of policwater had broken prematurely ing” women of all races might and the fetus she was carrying expect from the nation’s network would not survive. He advised of health care providers, law heading to the hospital to have enforcers and courts now that her labor induced so she could abortion isn’t federally protected. have what amounted to an In Texas, for example, Repubabortion to deliver the nonviable lican Attorney General Ken fetus. Otherwise, she would Paxton mounted an aggressive face “significant risk” of death, and successful defense against a according to records of her case. That was a Tuesday in Septem- white Texas mother, Kate Cox, ber. What followed was a harrow- who sued for permission to skirt ing three days entailing: multiple the state’s restrictive abortion law because her fetus had a fatal trips to the hospital; Watts miscondition. carrying into, and then flushing At the time of Watts’ miscarand plunging, a toilet at her riage, abortion was legal in Ohio home; a police investigation of through 21 weeks, six days of those actions; and Watts, who is pregnancy. Black, being charged with abuse Her lawyer, Traci Timko, said of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year Watts left the hospital on the Wednesday when, coincidentally, in prison and a $2,500 fine. her pregnancy arrived at that Her case was sent last month date — after sitting for eight to a grand jury. It has touched hours awaiting care. off a national firestorm over the The delay was because hostreatment of pregnant women, pital officials were deliberating and especially Black women, in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme over the legalities, Timko said. “It was the fear of, is this going to Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision constitute an abortion and are we able to do that,” she said. that overturned Roe v. Wade. Civil rights attorney Benjamin At the time, vigorous camCrump elevated Watts’ plight paigning was taking place across on social media, and supporters Ohio over Issue 1, a proposed have donated more than $100,000 amendment to enshrine a right to through GoFundMe. abortion in Ohio’s constitution. Some of the ads were harshly Whether abortion-seekers attacking abortions later in should face criminal charges is pregnancy, with opponents a matter of debate within the arguing the issue would allow the anti-abortion community, but, post-Dobbs, pregnant women like return of so-called “partial-birth abortions” and pregnancy termiWatts — who was not trying to nations “until birth.” get an abortion — have increasingly found themselves charged The hospital did not return with “crimes against their own calls seeking confirmation and pregnancies,” said Grace Howard, comment, but B. Jessie Hill, a assistant justice studies professor law professor at Case Western at San Jose State University. Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, said Mercy “Roe was a clear legal Health-St. Joseph’s was in a bind. roadblock to charging felonies for unintentionally harming “These are the razor’s edge pregnancies, when women were decisions that health care providlegally allowed to end their preg- ers are being forced to make,” she nancies through abortion,” she said. “And all the incentives are said. “Now that Roe is gone, that pushing hospitals to be conservaroadblock is entirely gone.” tive, because on the other side of this is criminal liability. That’s the Michele Goodwin, a law impact of Dobbs.” professor at the University of By Julie Carr Smyth

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MEXICO CITY — In a corner of their Mexico City office, activists from Catholics for the Right to Decide keep an image of the Virgin Mary close to a green scarf that reads: “Mary was consulted to be mother of God.” For these Catholic women, prayer does not conflict with their fight for abortion access, nor does their devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe prevent them from supporting LGBTQ+ rights. “You might think that one cannot be a feminist and a Catholic,” said activist Cinthya Ramírez. “But being women of faith does not mean that we oppose progressivity, human rights or sexual diversity.” The organization was founded in 1994 by theologians and activists following in the footsteps of Catholics for Choice in the United States. Now present in 10 Latin American countries, its members denounce the invisibility of women in some religious environments and advocate for the reinterpretation of sacred texts with a feminist perspective. Believing the Virgin Mary made a choice to be a mother instead of just obediently fulfilling an archangel’s request is unusual in Mexico, where conservatives frequently dress in light blue to protest the decriminalization of abortion.

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A green scarf with the message in Spanish “To decide is sacred, just and necessary” on an altar to the Virgin Mary earlier this month in the Mexico City ofﬁce of Catholics for the Right to Decide. Members of the organization advocate for the reinterpretation of sacred texts from a feminist perspective.

The Catholic archbishop of Mexico City, Carlos Aguiar Retes, advocated for an anti-abortion presidential candidate months ago, and religious groups are used to praying outside abortion clinics, using Catholic symbols to strengthen their message. “May the Blessed Virgin intercede for all vulnerable lives and inspire us to be instruments of love and compassion,” the Mexican branch of 40 Days for Life published on

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Alcohol lobby knows how to win at Legislature

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Heinrich on a bill that won’t go anywhere — for now

aising the tax on alcohol in New Mexico will hurt small, locally owned businesses like local brewpubs and wineries and neighborhood bars. And raising those taxes will hurt the tourism industry, which is crucial to New Mexico’s economy. Lobbyists for the liquor and hospitality industries always make these and similar arguments during the New Mexico Legislature any time a bill calling for an alcohol tax increase is discussed. We heard it all again during the 2023 session, in which some legislators unsuccessfully tried to pass a 25-centper-drink tax increase on the state’s alcohol excise tax. But think about it. If you and a bunch of friends go out and you each were going to have three drinks — whether at the fanciest restaurant or the darkest little dive bar — would the fact it’s going to cost you an extra 75 cents that night really stop your party plans? Back in 2010 when then-state Rep. Brian Egolf unsuccessfully sponsored a bill that would have raised the alcohol tax, he scoffed at the idea his proposal would hurt tourism. “How many people look up the tax rate on alcohol before they decide where to go on vacation?” Egolf told a reporter. “You’d have to be the most degenerate alcoholic!” A recent report by Common Cause New Mexico — written by former state Sen. Dede Feldman and myself — looks at how the alcohol lobby and its allies have for years been successful in thwarting in any increase in the tax on alcohol. This despite the fact the state not only is the highest in the nation for alcohol-related deaths, it’s three times the national average. One in 5 deaths of working-age New Mexicans between 2017 and 2021 was caused by alcohol consumption, according to state Department of Health statistics. Our report cited a recent study by the University of New Mexico Department of Economics that showed taxpayers here shell out $2.77 per drink for the health costs of alcohol. These costs include deaths, other health costs, underage drinking and drinking while pregnant. But that study suggests this ﬁgure probably is low because it doesn’t consider other costs such as domestic violence and traffic accidents. Just looking at the last decade, Please see story on Page B-4

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New Mexico taking wrong road with EVs

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he adoption of these rules is a victory for customer choice, our ambitious climate goals and cleaner air for every New Mexican,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham remarked in response to the new clean air rules passed last month by the state Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board. There is more mendacity in that statement than what I have heard in a long time. New Mexicans will suffer from this stringent clean car rule requiring 82% of all new vehicles delivered to the state be zero-emission by 2032. Together with the state’s other actions to promote electric vehicles, the clean air rules are a double whammy for gasoline/ diesel-powered vehicles. They make EVs more economically attractive with taxpayer-funded subsidies and limit the number of gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles New Mexicans can buy. Perhaps the most pathetic part of this policy is that it hopes to trim down the number of gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles in the state without knowing whether that is what the citizens of New Mexico want. How arrogant is that? The governor and the two boards are telling New Mexicans this: We know better what types of vehicles you should purchase than you do. They are ignoring the wishes of her constituents to purchase different vehicles. Today, only about 1% of the vehicles in New Mexico are EVs. So far, purchasers of EVs are mostly in the high-income category, and that will likely hold for the foreseeable future. What that means is that tax credits and other subsidies will beneﬁt the Please see story on Page B-4

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Raising the alcohol tax would reflect our values

s a New Mexican physician, I commend the editorial board for its commonsense recommendation on the alcohol tax (“Increase the alcohol tax and save lives: It’s that simple,” Our View, Dec. 10). Most people don’t know that when states increase alcohol excise taxes, it deters youth use. This is why so many public health and medical organizations recommend doing so — particularly in states like ours where the low alcohol tax is driving higher rates of poor mental health, violence and early deaths. Deterring youth use of alcohol can also help with our health care-access crisis. Evidence from medical journals shows physicians can feel helpless when treating so many people dying from substance-use disorders. I know from personal experience that it is devastating to take care of so many people in their 20s dying from alcohol-related deaths, and when trying to recruit physicians here from other states, many have said they are considering this when choosing whether to come practice here. Let’s do the right thing for our communities and our future by raising the alcohol tax to reﬂect our values. Dr. Eileen Barrett

afflicted with alcoholism. You want to tax a disease. That’s what alcoholism and addiction are. Ultimately, if the tax is passed, no one will bat an eye at the extra cents on a drink when they go into a bar, and those who do notice it will go hungry to feed their disease. Eliseo Alcon

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Unheard voices Arguing over terms — “is anti-zionism antisemitic?” — distracts us from the humanitarian crisis in Gaza where the majority of those killed in Israeli bombardments are civilians, and a majority of that total are women and children. President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are squandering their leadership in refusing to demand a long-lasting cease-ﬁre. This will alienate many former Democrats — 75% of all voters support a cease-ﬁre — and increase the possibility of a Trump win in the presidential election. The voices of Palestinians must be heard, and I doubt they will ever be conveyed in wire service stories from The New York Times.

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Taxing a disease I am writing in response to Milan Simonich’s decision to include me and my voting record in his rant regarding proposed alcohol tax concerns (“Block out lobbyists and raise taxes on booze,” Ringside Seat, Dec. 8). The fact I voted against loan reform wasn’t even on topic. Targeting me on a totally unrelated subject is beyond me. I am a Bronze Star Vietnam veteran. The people of my community have trusted me as a judge for 17 years and legislator for over 14 years to make decisions to make our community strong. The voting decisions I make reﬂect careful study for what is best for the people of my district. Simonich needs to realize that the loan reform legislation amounted to poor people being forced to beg their churches and social groups for help if and when banks and credit unions refused to back them. We may as well pass legislation supporting panhandling on the median as a viable alternative for those without the blessing of good credit. That is why I voted against it. How I stand on the proposed issue of increasing taxes on alcohol at this time depends on a few important questions being answered. With the state bringing in $3.4 billion in new money, does New Mexico really need to raise a tax with no assigned purpose? The issue with the proposed alcohol tax is that the expected revenue is not speciﬁcally allocated for rehabilitation, education, expansion of specialty courts or help for those

Green schools Electrification of school districts is a key to combating climate change. As public schools are one of the largest energy consumers in the public sector, they use the equivalent of 18 coal-fired power plants or 15 million cars each year (K-12 Climate Action). The young people of our society will be the future, and many of us want the world to use renewable energy. Starting within our school districts, LAHS EcoClub has made the outreach doable. We have met with many administrators, county principals, lobbyists and other clubs to gain support for our resolution. Within less than two months, the members have already set a date to present a resolution to the Los Alamos Public Schools Board of Education. On Feb. 13, EcoClub members will propose a fully electric school district to board members. We are eager to continue pushing the administration and county to switch to renewable energy. I hope we inspire other New Mexico schools to join The Great School Electrification Challenge. Our club has made it so far to gain outreach and support for our resolution. We have gained many opportunities to partner and even lobby in Washington, D.C., in June. Charlotte Butcher

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suspect Sen. Martin Heinrich could go on at length about a new assault weapons bill he and Maine Sen. Angus King recently introduced — a piece of legislation that took six years to craft and one he acknowledges has no chance of getting through the current Congress. The bill has an acronym (GOSAFE) that stands for the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act. In essence, it focuses on a weapon’s internal mechanisms and not its cosmetics, the latter of which have been the workarounds manufacturers have used to keep on producing delivery vehicles for God-knows-how-many mass shootings and deaths in this country. It’s possible Heinrich has come up with a brilliant, get-Capone-on-tax-evasion plan — a bill that maybe someday will be passed when the tumblers click into place both politically and on Main Street. On the other hand, it’s possible this will fall into the Washington abyss, the one that lets Sandy Hooks and Orlandos and Lewistons happen. We’ll see. Either way, just saying Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion could take some time. But here are the highlights of a roughly 14-minute interview with Heinrich about his bill, a measure that got some attention in Washington this month. Question: Have you been able to acquire a Republican backer on this? Answer: We haven’t. We’re trying and we’re talking to some [Republicans]. There is some interest, but nobody has signed on yet. Question: Why do you think that is, other than it’s hard for them within their own party? Answer: I think that is the primary challenge — this has become such a deeply divided issue along party lines. Even the work we did in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act … I mean everyone who participated in that on the Republican side got a lot of heat from their own party and there were, you know, resolutions of disapproval and all sorts of things that they had to weather to really pull that off. … It was certainly a firearms safety bill, but it wasn’t what I would call gun control. And yet, they still got that, that heat.” Question: I read where you said you’d started working on this bill in ‘17. Why does it take six years? Answer: It took a while to figure out how to approach this from a purely sort of mechanics point of view as opposed to the way this has been approached in the past, in terms of largely cosmetics and making a list and that sort of thing. There was a lot of back and forth with ATF over those years to really come up with terms that were very clear, accepted in the manufacturing community as the definition of things we wanted to get at. You know, early on, what I asked myself was like, ‘OK, what is an assault rifle?’ Because if you ask 10 different people, sometimes you get 10 difference answers. And having had enough exposure to these weapons myself to sort of really understand why they keep showing up in these mass shootings, eventually I settled on the fact that the thing that’s in common is a gas-operated action, in combination with a large-capacity magazine. And it’s that combination that really creates the opportunity to do such broad-scale damage in a short amount of time. And Please see story on Page B-4

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Would-be education reformers — listen to the teachers

write this out of surprise and anger at the recent Public Education Department suggestion that adding days to the school year is the antidote to the issue of students missing school days. As a retired school administrator of 30 years, the last 17 of those in Santa Fe, I know the frustration that absenteeism creates, but adding school days in no way addresses the issue of why there is a problem. Why is no one asking the teachers, the professionals who are struggling

with this issue on a daily basis, for ideas? I talked to a ﬁrst grade teacher friend in Santa Fe about what would work and below are two ideas that reﬂect our experiences. ◆ Realize that punitive attendance policies don’t work anymore. Robocalls and threats have no impact. Instead, we need additional attendance aides who are bilingual, friendly and conversational, and who can create genuine alliances with parents and students. Instead of delivering empty threats,

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they could call each household where a student is missing school to assess the problem and offer suggestions. If initial suggestions or referrals to services do not help, trained social workers or counselors with strong communication skills and a positive mindset could meet with parents and students to further understand what is needed: tutoring; help dealing with a bully; need for a babysitter for a younger sibling so parents can work; money for clothes they are not embarrassing to wear; classes that

emphasize practical skills; recognition of undiagnosed depression or drug dependence; better assessment of actual ability level with appropriate placement; special help that does not feel demeaning; and classrooms that feel supportive and lively. Services must be provided by people who understand and like children and teens, and who will want to keep in touch with students and their families over time. Please see story on Page B-4 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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Do something different, just not every year

ublic Education Department Secretary Arsenio Romero is anxious to improve the education of New Mexico’s schoolchildren. He’s not alone. But there’s disagreement about how to reach a common goal, and those various points of view will be front and center at a hearing next week to consider rules that would lengthen the school year and make inroads into local authority over public education. In one corner, there’s a Cabinet official who is adamant the state must change how it delivers education. In a recent interview with The New Mexican, Romero outlined the challenge, one most people who’ve lived here for any length of time already understand. “There is a need for us to do something dramatically different in the state of New Mexico,” Romero said. One of his solutions is to install 180 instructional days in all districts, starting in the 2024-25 school year. For Santa Fe Public Schools, that would mean four extra days of classroom time and additional days for teach-

ers. Under House Bill 130, passed in 2023, the state increased requirements to 1,140 hours a year, including teacher professional time. Depending on how those hours are allocated, that can add up to more than 180 days a year. But that’s only part of an aggressive menu in a state that already wants to reform how reading is taught. Romero’s stance on hours has created howls from almost every corner. Oddly, Republican state representatives and senators are among those who don’t like the new proposed calendar, calling it a power grab. Many of them are the very same lawmakers who extolled the efforts of former Secretary Hanna Skandera when she tried to institute major reforms under a GOP governor who saw public education as a political wedge issue — and maybe, a cudgel. That was a real power grab. Then again, many Democratic lawmakers aren’t happy, either, as a legislative hearing last week revealed. Which brings to mind this observation: For all the braying about how New Mexico

needs to improve its public education system, anyone who actually tries to do just that — and it can’t happen without changing something — finds himself or herself backed into a very tight corner. Under Romero’s proposal, local control could be reduced under a plan to “accredit” schools. While not as obvious as Gov. Susana Martinez’s A-F ratings, the proposal smacks of the Public Education Department becoming the arbiter of just how effective school districts in New Mexico really are. Spoiler alert: On the whole, not very good, which is what one might expect in a farflung state where poverty holds sway in both urban and rural areas. The accreditation process will require stats on what is already being collected. Schools and districts that fall short of standards — which, we assume, would be made clear — could face consequences, ranging from creating and following a creative action plan, to suspension of school board members or a superintendent or principal, to consolidation of school districts and even

the closure of schools. Threatening local control of districts and schools can be problematic — there needs to be a balance so state bureaucracies don’t run amok. And if there’s an unpopular bureaucracy within state government, it’s the Public Education Department, where tone-deaf or ineffectual or bewitched leadership has come and gone for more than a decade. Unlike Skandera, who had no background in New Mexico, Romero knows the state well and was a superintendent in Los Lunas and Deming. He understands the territory, and it’s obvious he aims to change the perception of both the state’s educational system and the bureaucracy that oversees it, by force (or rule) as necessary. His hole card? Our desultory education performance. We admire him for refusing to accept the status quo, but also caution that listening to the customers — and separating the wheat from the chaff — is never a bad idea. Bottom line: New Mexico must do things differently, and soon. But it doesn’t have to do something different every year.

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Today’s GOP should remember how Al Gore saved the country W

e don’t talk enough about Al Gore and his greatest moment: The night of Dec. 12, 2000, when he saved the country by accepting the bitter results of a partisan Supreme Court ruling on a tied election. The 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore gave George W. Bush 271 Electoral College votes — one more than required for victory. After the excruciating spectacle of the Florida recount, there was more reason to challenge the legitimacy of the presidential election than any time since 1860. If Donald Trump loses next year, as I believe he will, it is a foregone conclusion that he won’t accept the results. Most of the Republican Party will either support his fraudulent claims or remain silent, just as they did in 2020. This is the great shame that will forever taint my former party. By continuing to follow Trump, the Republican Party is transforming from a traditional American political party into an autocratic movement. Gore was in the American mainstream, with the shared belief that democracy is a sacred trust that must be protected. Trump rejects that basic value. The House speaker, Mike Johnson, R-La., announced he has been anointed by God. This is not a party prepared to accept the verdict of mere citizens over God’s will. Gore could have shattered our electoral

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 17, 1923: Federal Judge Phillips at 2:45 this afternoon granted the application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of John Looney and set the hearing for 9 o’clock Tuesday morning. This afternoon Looney’s counsel has advised that Governor Hinkle

system’s stability by raising legitimate questions about a deeply flawed process. There was clear reason to feel he had been cheated in a state governed by his opponent’s brother and by a Supreme Court influenced by his opponent’s father. It was the first time in more than a century that the winner of the popular vote was not elected president. I moved to Austin, Texas, to work for the Bush campaign in the spring of 1999. We were more relieved than jubilant when the election was finally called. Looking back, what Gore did was the action of a quiet hero, like so many others in our history. He passed the character test that the GOP fails every day that they support Trump. Gore showed what patriots do: Put the country first. “Almost a century and a half ago,” Gore said that December night, “Senator Stephen Douglas told Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency, ‘Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.’ “ Gore urged the country to come together and was later praised for his graciousness. “Let there be no doubt, while I strongly disagree with the court’s decision, I accept it. … And tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.”

had set 10 a.m. Tuesday as the time for a hearing on the requisition for Phillips to be returned to Illinois on state charges. Dec. 17, 1948: The 2-cent boost in the gas tax that the highway department wants is no novelty, State Highway Engineer Burton Dwyre told a dinner audience of highway contractors last night. Off 44 legislatures that will meet in 1949, Dwyre said, 37 will consider gas tax increases. Three of those not asking for more

After the 2000 election, Gore withdrew from elected politics and focused on sounding the alarm about climate change. His legacy will be most remembered for his time in elected office — as a member of Congress, a U.S. senator and vice president — and for his prescient environmental warnings. He’ll join the list of other Democrats and Republicans who lost a presidential race, the stuff of historical footnotes remembered for what they failed to accomplish, not what they achieved. But as we increasingly realize the inherent fragility of our democracy with its dependency on goodwill, Gore’s greatest moment may well be when he accepted defeat. This year, let us pause to honor the actions of a quiet American hero who simply did the right thing. As the Republican Party has forgotten, there can be no democracy unless someone is willing to lose. That night in December 2000, Gore told his staff not to trash the Supreme Court because he believed there was something more important at stake than the results of one election. He was right. We owe Gore the respect of a grateful nation. Stuart Stevens is a former Republican political consultant and senior adviser to the Lincoln Project. This was originally published by The Washington Post.

have recently raised their rates. Dec. 17, 1973: ALBUQUERQUE (UPI) — State Senate majority leader Tibo Chavez of Belen announced Sunday his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at a mass barbecue rally at the State Fairgrounds. In his talk to a crowd that included Bruce King, King’s brothers and his best-known nephew, Chavez stressed his acquaintance with all areas and “all peoples” of New Mexico. He appeared on the speaker’s stand

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surrounded by his family. Dec. 17, 1998: A flurry of parking citations that settled on vehicles outside St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on Sunday morning could lead to new exceptions for no-parking zones near places of worship. Councilor Frank Montaño has asked city attorneys to draft an ordinance or resolution that would allow parking in yellow zones — where safe — near churches and synagogues during services.

omelessness is an American tragedy, but it’s not hopeless. In a recent column, I explored how Houston has become a national model by reducing homelessness by more than 60%. One takeaway is that homelessness, above all, reﬂects a shortage of cheap housing. So I’m intrigued by an approach to providing such housing that’s gaining ground around the country. It’s an idea so old, it seems new: converting single-family houses to rooming houses. Rooming houses, boardinghouses or single-room occupancy hotels used to be ubiquitous. President Thomas Jefferson stayed in a boardinghouse for several months before moving into the White House. At the seedier end, single-room occupancy hotels largely disappeared over the past half-century, partly because of zoning and economic development projects. In Houston, I dropped in on a home operated by PadSplit, a company that offers furnished bedrooms for working-class Americans. PadSplit, which is something like a long-term Airbnb for rooming houses, has housed 22,000 people so far and is growing fast. The PadSplit model is to take a house that is near public transportation, convert the living room to a bedroom, put locks on each bedroom door and then rent out each room by the week. This typically means a shared bathroom and kitchen, and some tenants have complaints, but it’s affordable for people who have few other options. “It’s reasonable!” said Gregory Walker, 46, a warehouse employee who takes home $2,300 a month. He pays $150 a week, or a bit more than $600 a month, for a furnished bedroom in the PadSplit I visited. He shares it with six others in a middle-class neighborhood. Utilities and Wi-Fi are included in the rent. Previously, Walker was stuck in a “sleazy hotel,” as he put it, for $1,950 a month because he had a poor credit record that made it difficult to rent an apartment. PadSplit is the brainchild of an Atlanta real estate developer, Atticus LeBlanc, the company’s CEO. He studied architecture and urban studies at Yale but knew little of rooming houses. Then in 2009, he was renting out a home, and two men asked if they could rent individual rooms in it. The men had only Social Security for income — $685 per month for one man and $735 for the other — and had been paying $100 a week for rooms in a decrepit house with no heating or air conditioning, but that home had been foreclosed on, and they needed to ﬁnd somewhere else to live. LeBlanc realized that if he rented rooms out at $100 a week, he could give people with low incomes comfortable accommodations and increase his income from the house.

“This was mind-blowing,” LeBlanc said. He entered a competition for ideas to provide affordable housing and won foundation funding that allowed him to start PadSplit in 2017. It’s a public benefit corporation, meaning it is for profit but also aims to advance a social purpose. Now operating in 18 cities, PadSplit provides an online platform for low-income workers to find furnished rooms offered by landlords. Sometimes the landlords rent out the entire house, room by room; others rent out just a room or two. PadSplit renters have an average age of 35 and earn a median of $30,000 per year. The single-room occupancy model addresses a mismatch between our housing stock and household size. Some 28% of American households consist of a single person living alone, yet fewer than 1% of housing units are studios. Many large houses can be used much more efficiently if they’re converted to rooming houses. PadSplit hasn’t received direct public subsidies, and the model has room to scale up; census data suggests there are tens of millions of bedrooms in America that no one sleeps in. This can provide low-cost housing more quickly and cheaply than public efforts to build housing: San Francisco has built some housing units for people who are homeless for more than $1 million each. There’s no one answer to America’s housing crisis, but I’d like to see local governments experiment by rewarding landlords for creating basement flats, taking in boarders or creating rooming houses. A major impediment is local zoning regulations, which sometimes limit how many unrelated people can live together in a house. I’m sure some readers will see this model as exploitative and think that people should have the right to their own home. Yes, that would be nice, but that sentiment doesn’t actually get anyone housed. And while sharing a bathroom and kitchen isn’t ideal, it’s so much better than living in a car. Millions of Americans working as teachers, firefighters or factory workers simply can’t afford to rent apartments, or credit problems mean they can’t get approved to rent. PadSplit takes people with eviction histories or weak credit but still makes it work with modern real estate management practices: It claims a 97.5% collection rate. All this is a reminder that we used to have solutions to homelessness — such as single rooms for rent — that we mostly eliminated half a century ago. This was a catastrophe of good intentions: We aimed to improve housing and neighborhoods, and instead we got people sleeping in cars and on sidewalks. Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times. SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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State needs bear, cougar policies that are based on science

recent op-ed by Paul Krausman urged New Mexico to “stick to the science” when determining how many bears and cougars can be killed by hunters (“Stick to the science when discussing wildlife management,” My View, Dec. 10). But just what is that science? Both species are extremely hard to count. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish claims there are around 8,000 bears and around 3,500 cougars. They are hardly “abundant” as Krausman wrote. But it is crucial to know how many there are in order to know how many can be killed without impairing species survival. During the hunting rule review conducted this year, the department did not provide information to the public about how the populations for bears and cougars were determined, or offer a management plan so the public could see what the goals are for those populations, or how it plans to monitor the effects of not only trophy hunting but also depredation kills, extreme drought, wildfire and ever-more habitat intrusion by humans. Science demands transparency. It requires scrutiny. We should not be asked to take department findings on faith. Faith is not science. Department biologists are not gods. The department has conducted scientifically valid density studies for bears in some select areas of bear habitat. But some of these studies are nearly a decade old with data gathered before the drought intensified and before the two largest fires in New Mexico history. The department has not shared how those density studies were extrapolated to determine total bear population estimates upon which the kill limits are based. What total land area was assumed to contain those densities and how was that ascertained? We do not know. For 16 of the 18 cougar hunting zones, we have cougar population estimates based not on field studies, but on assumptions and computer modeling. In the other two cougar zones, recent on-the-ground field studies found those estimates to be too high — as much as 70% too high. Even though the science is showing cougar population estimates and the hunting quotas based on those numbers are likely excessive in those zones, the department is leaving them in place. At the Oct. 27 State Game Commission meeting, retired cougar researcher Ken Logan testified the department is allowing 17%-24% of the cougar population to be killed each year, which, even if it were based on a population that is not overestimated, is scientifically associated with a declining number of cougars. He went on to say that to keep the cougar population stable, the number should not be more than 14%. If the department wants cougar populations to decline, it should make that intent clear to the public. Also consider that the more that scientists study the behavior of both bears and cougars, the more scientific data emerges that killing them is not necessary to their population health or to human safety. These apex carnivores did not evolve to be hunted by anything. They have social strategies to limit their own reproduction, and where they are not hunted, their numbers don’t grow out of control. The science shows killing them for trophies and recreation throws their social interactions into disarray, alters the population age structure and alters the behavior of the animals that remain to increase conflict with humans. In truth, the hallmarks of science have been missing from the bear- and cougar-hunting discussion in New Mexico. The public has no way to know whether the Department of Game and Fish is more concerned with large carnivore conservation or with providing license-buying hunters more opportunity to kill them. Mary Katherine Ray is the wildlife chair for the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club living in the outback of Socorro County, where she delights in seeing wildlife, including rare sightings of bears and cougars.

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Community must discuss big picture of growth

write in response to the article written by Saguna Severson (“ ‘Yes’ Man: interview with Bill McKibben,” Dec.3). Speciﬁcally, I write in response to the quoted comments of Johanna Gilligan of Homewise. Gilligan comments that there is a faction of the public who are “naysayers” in regard to the issues of affordable housing developments. I object to that label and ﬁnd her comments somewhat divisive in an area that needs collaboration rather than division. Here is my answer to the label: “naysayer,” given in the style of Bill McKibben’s urge to say “yes”: Yes, I am over 60 (but no, I am not retired). Yes, I own my own home, and therefore I am neither in the rental market nor am I trying to buy a house. Yes, I believe in affordable housing. Yes, I voted for the 3% excise tax on

the sale of homes over $1 million. Yes, I believe the place for real dialogue about sustainability and affordable housing is not in the City Council chamber attending to one project at a time. Yes, I believe the speciﬁc project at 2200 Old Pecos Trail is not a project that can be designated “affordable.” Yes, I am an abutter to that property, and that property is sacred me and to my neighbors, both human and wild. Yes, the property is in a scenic corridor, as designated in the city’s 1999 General Plan. And yes, the city has willfully, some say illegally, ignored that designation by allowing the area to be rezoned from R-1 to R-3. Which brings me to the “Nos” of this speciﬁc example. No, 20 houses out of 25, each of which may, by law, have an accessory dwelling unit, at a possible selling point

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of $850,000 on 9.78 acres within the city limits, is not an affordable development by anyone’s deﬁnition. No, sustainability (transportation, water, dark night skies, connectivity, habitat loss, to name a few key sustainability issues) is not addressed in the developer’s plan. Currently there is no public transportation, nor to my knowledge is there any planned, for this area of Old Pecos Trail. That’s an omission that continues to promote a car-centric ethos. There could be as may as 70 car trips out of the so-called Old Pecos Estates per day. Emissions from fossil fuel-burning vehicles clearly have been shown to negatively impact air quality. This is not a sustainable model for the city of Santa Fe. No, this project, which was presented at land-use commission hearings and City Council meetings (where public speakers were graciously allowed two

minutes to present our points of view) was not a discussion or a dialogue, as Gilligan also decries. While I support and applaud the efforts of Gilligan and Homewise, and other nonproﬁts in Santa Fe seeking to navigate the complexities of the emotionally charged issue of affordable housing availability and subsequent solutions offered by developers, I call on the City Council to answer the following two questions. How are we as a community to share real dialogue about this complicated issue, and when and where will talks on how land-use patterns are connected to affordability and sustainability take place? Lily O’Leary is a local medical professional who, with her husband Charlie, has lived in the city for 23 years.

M Y VIEW ANTOINE T TE RE Y E S

Methane rules will make it easier to breathe in N.M.

or more than a dozen generations, my ancestors have called New Mexico home. While some have left the state, we always come back. There is no other place with such beautiful sunrises and sunsets, such incredible landscapes and blue skies. It truly is the Land of Enchantment. However, I worry about what the future holds. I am a health-conscious, environmentally minded person with two elementary-aged children, one of whom developed asthma living in Southern New Mexico’s poor air quality. In Las Cruces, where we live, you’d be surprised to know it’s not just heavy-vehicle pollution impacting my daughter’s health, but pollution from the Permian oil boom is contributing to the fact that our county is within 95% of exceeding federal ozone standards. Other New Mexicans live closer to the sources of pollution, yet the effects are felt all over. For kids like my daughter, this is urgent. Her asthmatic symptoms improve dramatically when we travel out of state. It’s hard telling a kid they can’t read or play in the backyard on bad air-quality days, that where we live is hurting her health. It’s even worse for those within a mile of oil and gas infrastructure. Those who have traditional swamp coolers, whether they rent or own a home and can’t afford to upgrade to central air conditioning, have to live with dirty air being pulled indoors to cool their homes in the hot summer months, causing some to feel like they are suffocating in their own home, constantly smelling fumes, suffering from headaches or nose bleeds. Enforcing state and federal rules will be critical in ensuring our communities’ air gets cleaned up so we can all live healthier, fuller lives. To give you a sense of the scope of the problem: There are 62,492 wells, compressors and processors in New Mexico. Over half of new onshore oil and gas leases the Biden administration has issued nationwide have been in the Permian Basin alone. According to oilandgasthreatmap.com, 144,000 people in New Mexico live within half a mile of

one of these facilities, almost half of whom are people of color and nearly a quarter of whom are children. There are 119 schools within that same radius. This staggering number doesn’t even include the people impacted by the tens of thousands of miles of leaky pipelines around the state. So I felt pretty excited when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham joined Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan to announce national oil and gas methane safeguards at the recent United Nations climate summit last week. Our strong state methane and ozone protections will give us a good start on complying with the federal safeguards. Air pollution knows no boundaries. This will meaningfully improve life for New Mexico communities bordering states lacking protections, like Texas. New Mexico’s safeguards go beyond the federal rules by banning routine venting and flaring for all producers; enforcement remains a problem for our understaffed state agencies. And the federal rules encourage equipment, such as pneumatic controllers, to be upgraded to less leaky versions. A recent report from the International Energy Agency found it would cost industry just 2% of gross profits to retrofit all equipment nationwide to leak and emit less climate and health-harming pollutants. Almost half of the nationwide oil extraction comes from southeast New Mexico. With year-overyear record profits, the time is now for industry to step up and protect communities from the social costs of business as usual to improve the quality of the air our families breathe. My daughter and I say action can’t come too soon. We need our environmental agencies fully funded to enforce, and we need federal methane safeguards implemented as soon as possible. Antoinette Reyes is a passionate organizer with the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, which represents over 35,000 members and supporters in New Mexico and West Texas.

M Y VIEW SAM HIT T

Forests are healthier if we stop the controlled burns

he well-endowed Nature Conservancy recently hired two public relations firms to come up with “easy-to-follow, broad rules” that agencies could use when communicating their wildfire message to the general public. Curiously, these consultants recommended avoiding “using climate change as a rationale for action.” Never mentioned is the critical role that forests play in stabilizing Earth’s climate. Instead, they urged officials to talk only about periodic cycles of drought that naturally occur in the arid Southwest — the same story used by climate deniers to shift attention away from fossil fuel use. We should all be concerned when a large organization with “nature” in its name comes across as joining climate deniers to promote a flawed fire policy. The recommendation not to mention the warming climate was made to avoid

alienating climate deniers, about onethird of those surveyed. But it’s also consistent with costly federal programs lobbied for by The Nature Conservancy to cut and burn millions of climate-moderating trees on national forests to restore “forest health.” Instead of focusing on reducing fossil fuel use, the consultants recommend “pivoting to how to help.” They explain this means supporting efforts currently underway by professionals at the U.S. Forest Service to intensively alter forests by intentional burning and clearing vegetation on a vast scale. It’s assumed such major surgery is required to make forests healthy. In allocating federal ﬁre prevention funds, the consultants recommend not to “use language focused generally on equity” but instead talk about “communities with high risk and few resources.” When fairness and equity are not part

of the conversation, the advantage that wealthier communities have over poor rural communities will likely get worse. Gated communities in scenic settings will continue to be better prepared for wildfire than poorer communities in need of grants and low-interest loans to achieve the same level of preparedness. This disparity was demonstrated last year when hundreds of rural residents in Northern New Mexico needlessly lost their homes to wildfire when a fire intentionally started by the U.S. Forest Service, and advocated for by The Nature Conservancy, went awry near Las Vegas, N.M. Those homes would be standing today if federal fire policy prioritized public safety instead of costly schemes to make forests “healthy.” The U.S. Forest Service now admits that wildfires seldom encounter the areas freshly cleared of fuels. Instead, flammable shrubs and grasses, like

invasive cheatgrass, soon dominate those cleared areas. Without the cooling shade of a forest canopy, fire danger grows. Congress continues to pour billions into this failed approach to fire while every year more communities in the West burn to the ground. A focus on public health, not forest health, would prioritize the importance of saving lives and property. An added benefit is that fewer intentionally ignited fires would escape to burn down communities. Forest health is best achieved by letting the trees stand to remove and store atmospheric carbon needed to stabilize the climate. That way, we protect the vulnerable and inch closer to a climate-sane future. Sam Hitt has been active in forest issues for more than 40 years. He founded WildEarth Guardians in 1989 and currently is president of the Santa Fe Forest Coalition.

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well-to-do and be paid for by folks who are less financially well-off. One study remarked, “The U.S. academic literature indicates that up to 90% of EV purchase incentives adopted by the federal government have flowed to the richest one-fifth of households.” What almost always gets ignored is the fact that no matter how many EVs New Mexicans buy, the effect on climate change will be negligible — zilch! It’s even unclear whether replacing gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles with EVs could have a negative environmental effect. For example, similar to many other batteries, the lithium-ion cells that power most electric vehicles rely on raw materials (like cobalt, lithium and rare-earth elements) that have triggered grave environmental and human rights concerns. Cobalt has been especially problematic. The governor’s and boards’ actions presume EVs are a winning technology — but this is highly presumptuous, as there is much uncertainty over the future of EVs. A policy that mandates EVs as a preferred option could turn out disastrous if the price of gasoline falls sharply, or if EVs fail to develop economically and technically as advocates hope. I believe what is driving the EV frenzy is the anti-fossil fuel agenda or virtue-signaling (by both EV purchasers and EV advocates). EV advocates probably know EVs would have a minuscule effect on climate change but long to see the extinction of fossil fuels; I can’t think of a more plausible explanation. For example, most climate activists view fossil fuels as a barrier to achieving deep-decarbonization targets deemed essential to protect against potential catastrophic climate change. They regard electrification of buildings and transportation with clean-energy sources as an essential part of a policy portfolio to achieve these targets. What they don’t say is their proposals for government intervention will fail a cost-benefit test and benefit the well-to-do at the expense of others. How can they then defend their pro-EV advocacy with such anti-social results? A better way to make EVs more attractive to consumers is to have them compete against gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles. When regulating or legislating away their main competition, it becomes more likely EVs will continue to be inferior to gasoline/ diesel-powered vehicles in the eyes of consumers. Kenneth W. Costello, who resides in Santa Fe, is a regulatory economist and independent consultant.

Heinrich on a Help make Mission of Mercy a success bill that won’t go anywhere — for now T M Y VIEW CHRIS MORGAN AND KELLE Y RYAL S

he state’s largest humanitarian event, the New Mexico Mission of Mercy free dental clinic, is returning to Santa Fe on April 26-27. This event changes not only the lives of patients but the lives of the community members who volunteer and provide financial support to make the Mission of Mercy a success. The bottom line is we rely on the kindness and generosity of our friends and neighbors in Santa Fe, and across the state, to make this event happen. The Mission of Mercy is a 100-chair dental clinic at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center offering free, high-quality dental and medical services. Both adults and children are provided services on a first-come, first-serve basis, no ID required. The 2016 Santa Fe event featured 1,200 volunteers serving over 1,200 patients, providing $1.6 million in donated treatment. We need you to make this happen. This is a completely volunteer event, from translation to cleanup to patient registration. Every type of skill

set is needed, and every job is critical. If you are an individual or belong to an organization that wishes to help, please visit nmdentalfoundation. org for more information. The other key to making the Mission of Mercy a success is the generous ﬁnancial support given by businesses and individuals. Every donation adds up — the more funds raised, the more people can be treated and a wider scope of services can be provided. A donation can be made online at nmdentalfoundation.org or by check to the New Mexico Dental Association Foundation at PO Box 16854, Albuquerque, N.M. 87191. All donations are tax deductible. We urge you to join us in April for the Mission of Mercy. It’s your opportunity to serve your community and make a difference, one smile at a time. New Mexico Mission of Mercy co-chairs Dr. Chris Morgan and Dr. Kelley Ryals both live and practice in Santa Fe.

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Common Cause determined the alcohol industry spent more than $2.6 million on political activities in New Mexico between 2013 and the spring of 2023. This ﬁgure includes: ◆ Nearly $1.8 million in campaign contributions by industry lobbyists to legislators and statewide candidates. ◆ More than $456,000 spent by industry lobbyists to wine, dine and entertain policymakers. ◆ More than $800,000 in campaign contributions to

candidates from alcohol companies, retailers, distributors, breweries, wineries and affiliated individuals. ◆ More than $180,000 spent by industry political action committees and allied organizations, including the New Mexico Restaurant Association. This industry wisely has hired some of the best-known and bestliked lobbyists to make its case to lawmakers and wisely allowed the owners of small, local brewpubs, wineries and distilleries, rather than large international companies, become the face of its

Listen to the teachers Continued from Page B-1 ◆ Provide social workers, counselors and lay helpers in schools to support teachers. A teacher should be able to make a quick call for someone to take a child who is unhappy or in crisis out of the classroom for help so the teacher can teach the rest of the class. That helper can assess whether this is a temporary need for support or a systemic problem that needs further attention. Having an immediate, nonpunitive individual

legislative effort. Alcohol interests don’t provide nearly as much political money as, say, the oil industry in this state. But considering all the failed efforts to increase the tax on its product, the Common Cause report concludes the industry has never had a bad session in the New Mexico Legislature. We’ll be interested if they keep this streak going in the upcoming session. Steve Terrell is retired after an award-winning career as a journalist, including at The Santa Fe New Mexican. Common Cause New Mexico’s recent report on the alcohol industry’s inﬂuence in the state can be found at tinyurl. com/5d6v62j6.

response for a child who is unhappy or in crisis is a necessity; the result is the rest of the students do not suffer the consequences of the teacher having to direct all attention to the child in need. The reality of the world today is that life is difficult, and children are deeply affected. Let’s put money into humans helping humans from a place of love and understanding rather than into quick-ﬁx or punitive responses. Schools have to be a place where we address student needs that interfere with learning, facilitating growth and change early enough to impact educational outcomes. We can do this! Anne Salzmann is a retired principal of Monte del Sol and The MASTERS Program charter schools.

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then we started working with ATF to really come up with the definitions to make sure that we captured that combination across the board and really just regulated largely that combination. Question: How do you look at passage on this? From the outside looking in you’d say you’d have a better shot in the (Democrat-controlled) Senate. Is it a slam dunk in the Senate or is it far from that? Answer: No, no. I think this is not gonna happen in this Congress and I recognize that. But my experience with legislation broadly is things are impossible until the moment that they’re not. And I think that the country is shifting on these issues, and I think certainly the constituencies of both young people and moms in particular are changing the politics of what’s possible. And I think it’s really important to get the details right before that sort of political door opens and [you] have something that is really well thought through, that is not ambiguous, that is very clear and that will stand up to the obvious court challenges that will come. …” Question: A huge number of shooting deaths in America aren’t Lewiston or Columbine types of shootings. Often it’s a pistol and not an assault weapon. How far are we from being able to deal with the huge number of gun deaths [that aren’t caused by] assault weapons situations? Answer: I don’t want to oversell this as the solution to all of our gun problems. And I do believe that we have moved in the course of 30 or 40 years from the gun culture in this country from being a culture of responsibility to a culture of unlimited rights and permissiveness. And this legislation is not going to fix all of that. But I’m not going to let the fact that it doesn’t fix everything hold us back from trying to fix the things that we think we can fix. You know, if you look at the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, I wanted to address assault weapons in that legislation and we didn’t have the support of our Republican colleagues to do that. But we still moved forward with a bill that has been deeply impactful. … The straw purchase and the gun-trafficking pieces of legislation that I negotiated with Susan Collins [R-Maine] have resulted in thousands of firearms being confiscated on the border, and you know, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition that were being trafficked to Mexico. We’ve had more than 100 defendants charged under those straw purchasing provisions that made it more than a paperwork crime to buy a firearm for someone who is prohibited by law from owning it. So I don’t have all the solutions and I don’t want to pretend like I do, but I think there’s a special responsibility for those of us who are familiar with firearms, who are gun owners, to be part of the solution to get us to a place that’s safer. Question: What did you think of the governor’s push to model a bill based on this bill and try to get it through the Legislature? Answer: I’m happy to work with anyone — the governor, individual legislators — to come up with something that will be workable and pragmatic. So I welcome the interest. Phill Casaus is editor of The New Mexican.

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HOROSCOPE HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023: You are an honest, straightforward, practical realistic. You speak your mind and say what you mean. Next year, you will open new doors and explore new avenues. MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. After that, the Moon moves from Aquarius into Pisces. The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Just coast for the early part of today during the Moon Alert because things are confusing. Don’t shop except for food or gas. Make no important decisions. After the Moon Alert is over, you will suddenly feel confident. Tonight: Contentment. This Week: Authority figures from your past.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Agree to nothing important this morning. However, after the Moon Alert is over, you can move forward with confidence. People will help you. Friends will be reliable. Tonight: Friendships. This Week: Enjoy travel and study. Expect delays. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Travel plans are loosey-goosey, especially this morning. However, after the Moon Alert is over, your day begins to take shape in a solid way. Discussions with authority figures will be important. Tonight: You’re admired. This Week: Wrap up red-tape details. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Postpone important decisions about shared property and money issues during the Moon Alert today. Be smart. Wait until it’s over. Meanwhile, discussions with ex-partners and old friends might tell you something important. Tonight: Explore! This Week: Ex-partners and ex-spouses are back on the scene!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Be cooperative with others, especially this morning. However, agree to nothing important until the Moon Alert is over today. When it’s over, you can make decisions about shared property with confidence. Tonight: Check your finances. This Week: Glitches to your productivity. Press on! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Your focus on home and family continues, especially relating to issues with kids or social events. After the Moon Alert is over today, discuss responsibilities with ex-partners and friends. Tonight: Cooperation. This Week: Old flames back in your world or your dreams. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Don’t be too eager to act today. Check the limitations of today’s Moon Alert. However, once the Moon Alert is over, you will be productive. Tonight: Be helpful. This Week: Relatives camped on your doorstep. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Old flames might be back in your life today. Meanwhile, children could be an increased responsibility. Tonight: Creativity! This Week: Transportation delays and confused communications.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH This morning is a fun-loving time; however, it’s a poor time to make important decisions or shop. Once the Alert is over, everything will shift and responsibilities take on a serious note. Tonight: Sympathy. This Week: Double-check finances. Expect delays. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Wait until the Moon Alert is over today before you make important decisions. Ultimately, this is a good day to deal with the past and wrap old business. Tonight: Daydreams. This Week: Be patient with errors, delays and confusion. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Today the Moon Alert takes place in your sign, which might make you feel indecisive. Make no important decisions during this time. Once it is over, you can deal with financial matters. Tonight: Be frugal. This Week: It’s a great week to do research! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH After the Moon Alert is over today, things will tend to go your way. You will be serious about something and willing to take on duties and responsibilities. Tonight: Happy times. This Week: Old friends and contacts are back in your world. Rules • Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. • The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the topleft corners. • Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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na mañana, Canutito estaba messing around en el restroom, mirando a ver qué cosas Grama Cuca had en todos los cajoncitos. Besides the usual cosas como la medicina de la tos y las botellas de aspirinas, Canutito found other things como Band-Aids y bolas de algodón. Grama Cuca came in y halló al muchachito riﬂing through the drawers nomás en cuanto que había pepenão a strange-looking bottle. ¿Qué hay en esta botella, grama?” he asked her. She looked at it sin interés and she answered: “Es una bottle of Hai Karate que era un perfume que tu grampo usaba when we were single. En el TV commercial decían que era tan powerful that you had to be ‘careful how you use it’ pero para mí, it smelled parte como chiva y parte zorrillo.” “It does smell pretty bad,” Canutito agreed. “I would have believed que era un perfume bueno if it would have had un nombre como ‘Sígueme’ o ‘Ven conmigo,’ pero éste hace smell como ‘essence of goat and skunk’.” Grama Cuca laughed at the idea que un perfume might have un nombre como “Follow me” or “Come with me.” She said: “A veces people hear ciertas cosas and they interpret them todas mal. I was thinking de un hombre who told me que una noche he happened to be passing por un campo santo on the way home. As he passed through the cemetery, he heard two people behind a grave. “Una voz was saying: ‘Una para tí y otra para mí. Una para tí y otra para mí’.” “One for me and another for you. One for me and another for you,” Canutito repeated. “What were they talking about, grama?

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“¿Qué estaba dividiendo entre los dos?” “Pues, el hombre thought que maybe there, behind esa sepultura, there was God and the devil, dividing the souls between los dos de ellos, saying ‘one for me y otra para tí’.” “Oh my gosh!” Canutito exclaimed. “Was it really Dios y el diablo dividiéndose de las almas, grama?” “That’s what the man thought, m’hijo,” Grama Cuca replied. “pero cuando miró over the gravestone, he saw que no era Dios y el diablo; it was only dos muchachos who had stolen a bunch of apples y estaban diciendo: ‘una para tí, y otra para mí’.” “Oh, I thought que iba a ser algo más scary que eso, grama,” Canutito said to her. “Yo estaba listo para cerrar los ojos and cover up my ears.” “That is why es muy importante de poner everything en su propio contexto. Never assume que algo está correcto without verifying it.” Just then, Grampo Caralampio entró en la cocina where they were. He said to them: “Nunca, nunca hagas assume anything, m’hijo porque whenever you assume you make an ass out or you and me.” “Eso hace answer a lot of questions,” Grama Cuca mumbled …

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Tenant union leader says his eviction is act of retaliation Unionizer says management wants him out for organizing, filing complaints amid declining conditions and increasing costs by nicholas Gilmore

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Hope Marquez, 7, and other members of Touré Tsosie’s family gather Saturday for a candlelight vigil on the Española plaza. Family, friends and classmates mourned the loss of four teenagers recently killed in a two-vehicle crash. More than 100 people gathered in front of four tables around the gazebo with balloons, ﬂowers and photographs of Isaiah Gonzales, Tsosie, Guillermo Terrazas and Sean Montoya.

‘Can’t make sense of this’ Over 100 gather at Plaza de Española for candlelight memorial honoring four teens killed in crash

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ESPAÑOLA candlelight vigil Saturday evening in Española supported family, friends and classmates of four teenagers recently killed in a two-vehicle crash. As the sun set, more than 100 people gathered in front of four tables in the Española plaza with balloons, flowers and photographs of Isaiah Gonzales, Touré Jerome Tsosie, Guillermo Terrazas and Sean Montoya. Montoya, 16, and Terrazas, 17, were juniors at Española Valley High School, classmates said, while Tsosie, 18, graduated from the school last year. Gonzales, also 18, was a senior at Española’s Victory Faith Christian Academy. All four teens died at the scene of a head-on crash around 3:30 a.m. Dec. 9 on U.S. 84 northwest of Española. Both vehicles became engulfed in flames, New Mexico State Police said in a news release. State police did not respond to a request for comment Saturday about the cause of the crash. “I know we can’t make sense of this all,” the Rev. James Martinez from Rock Christian Fellowship Church said to the tearful crowd. “All our time on Earth is just temporary.” Tsosie, a member of Santa Clara Pueblo, was a “young soul,” with a lot of ahead of him, his mother, Victoria Rivera said. He had just received a welding certificate from Northern New Mexico College and had also started his own clothing brand; the family bought him a trademark for the brand as a graduation gift, Rivera said.

Some residents of an Española apartment complex have formed a tenants’ union, citing declining conditions and skyrocketing utility fees as their impetus. The group’s leading organizer, Dylan Schwaegel, is facing eviction for nonpayment of the fees. He alleges that management at Las Lomas Apartments is seeking to get rid of him both for organizing the tenants’ union and for ﬁling complaints about the housing complex to a government agency. Management at Las Lomas Apartments, 600 N.M.-76, declined to comment on the tenants’ union, Schwaegel’s eviction or any of his allegations against the company. The complex has two and three bedroom units starting at $1,200 a month, according to the online real estate marketplace Trulia. Amenities include a swimming pool, ﬁtness center and clubhouse. Residents of the complex have complained about declining conditions and services amid continuously increasing charges. Schwaegel began organizing other residents at Las Lomas into a tenants’ union in August after he realized his neighbors had many of the same complaints he did, he said during a recent phone interview. “We started forming a group of people to talk about Please see story on Page C-3

Performance S.F. picking up pieces after departures Board leader confident organization will persevere following Nov. 17 firing of director, ensuing wave of resignations, dismissals by mark Tiarks

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working harder than other kids his age, his stepmom said. Montoya, from Ohkay Owingeh, loved games like basketball and “jamming out” listening to music, said Craig Calvert, who said people consider him Montoya’s older brother. “He truly was a good friend,” Calvert said. “And he was always looking out for his

One of Santa Fe’s oldest and most esteemed performing arts organizations is scrambling after a wave of firings and resignations left it with almost no staff earlier this month. With only one employee left, Performance Santa Fe board members have been pitching in to get things done, including working as part of the stage crew for the Winter Wassail event, held Friday at the Santa Fe Masonic Center. “They’re also taking the lead to work with Indigenous Performance Productions on The Aunties, which is coming up in January,” Performance Santa Fe Board Amy Iwano President Leah Gordon said. “It’s all going smoothly.” Sources said the exodus at Performance Santa Fe began Nov. 17, when the board fired Executive and Artistic Director Amy Iwano, although her departure did not become public until earlier this month when a news release said she was resigning effective Tuesday. Multiple sources confirmed Iwano was called to an

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Geraldine Lopez embraces her grandson West Carl Lopez during a candlelight vigil Saturday on the Española plaza. Four teens died at the scene of the head-on crash around 3:30 a.m. Dec. 9 on U.S. 84 northwest of Española.

An avid outdoorsman who enjoyed skateboarding, ﬁshing and generally being in the mountains, he had wanted to snowboard every day this winter and had asked for a snowboard and season pass for Christmas, she added. Gonzales, who was Diné and lived in Santa Cruz, was passionate about martial arts, doing jujitsu, kickboxing and Muay Thai, his friend Louie Gallegos said. He also took work seriously, with a job at a pizza chain,

Pueblos offer holiday dances — a mix of Catholic and Pueblo traditions by robert nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com

One writer called them “dances of mystery” — public performances cloaked in a sense of privacy. The traditional cultural dances performed by many of New Mexico’s pueblos around Christmastime are deeply personal rituals of prayer and expressions of gratitude, but they’re often wide open to the public. To outsiders, the dances may not be easy to understand, but in general they have the same goal: to offer thanks and pray for good tidings for those who dance and the spectators who watch. “It’s very important within pueblo traditions to welcome guests, to feed

them, and there is also a tradition in doing our dances and having our feasts and ceremonies for them,” said Felipe J. Estudillo Colón, provost of the Institute of American Indian Arts. “We are imbuing those who are watching with the prayers we are putting out,” said Colón, a member of Laguna Pueblo. He said the hope is visitors will “take those prayers out with them into the world” and share them with others. The dances often blend Spanish Catholic customs with pueblo tradi-

tions, a mix that may strike some as odd, given the desire for self-determination and the pain connected to centuries of colonialism. Colón said it actually makes sense. When the Spanish came into the territory and put the pueblos under their rule, they naturally brought in Catholic rituals, traditions and customs to help convert Natives to their religion. One thing the two cultures had in common was the timing of many of these traditions, including feast days Please see story on Page C-5

Los Matachines de Alcalde perform their annual dance in front of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in 2018. The dances may not be easy to understand, some say, but in general, the goal is to offer thanks and pray for good tidings for those who dance as well as spectators. GABRIELA CAMPOS/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

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IN MEMORIAM RICHARD GADDES, 1942-2023

General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, 2001-2008 Seasons It is with profound sorrow that the Santa Fe Opera bids farewell to one of its most cherished leaders and its second General Director, Richard Gaddes, who passed away on December 12, 2023. A visionary impresario, a passionate advocate for the arts and an indelible force in the world of opera, Richard leaves an enduring legacy that will resonate for generations to come. Richard dedicated his life to the cultivation of opera talent and enrichment of the art form. His journey with the Santa Fe Opera began in 1969 as an Artistic Administrator, where his unwavering commitment to artistic excellence and innovation quickly earned him the respect and admiration of colleagues and artists alike. Notably, his keen eye spotted the potential of soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, whom he brought to the Santa Fe Opera for her U.S. debut in 1971. He also introduced other luminaries, such as conductor Edo de Waart and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade during his tenure. Serving as Director of the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Program for Singers from 1988 to 1994, Richard returned to the company full-time in 1994, acting as Vice Chairman of the Capital Campaign for a new theater. In 1995, he became Associate General Director and in 2000 succeeded Founder John O. Crosby as General Director, holding the position until the end of the 2008 Season. He continued to elevate the Santa Fe Opera, attracting world-class talent, supporting emerging artists, making opera more accessible, and expanding engagement programs through the company’s first simulcasts and presentations of The Beggar’s Opera, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, and Noah’s Flood within the community. His programming achievements included the American premieres of Tea: A Mirror of Soul, The Tempest and L’Amour de loin, as well as unusual works such as Agrippina, Kát’a Kabanová, Cendrillon and Platée, often featuring former apprentices in major roles. Richard’s impact extended beyond his roles at the Santa Fe Opera. In 1976, he co-founded Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he served as General Director until 1985. Under his leadership, the company achieved international acclaim for its commitment to developing young artists and presenting a diverse repertoire. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis became the first American opera company to be featured at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1983. Richard also served as President of the Grand Center in St. Louis, contributing to the city’s vibrant performing arts scene. His dedication to the arts earned him numerous honors and awards, including the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2006 and the Opera Honors Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. Opera News cited him as one of the “25 Most Influential People” in the world of American opera. The Santa Fe Opera and the global arts community acknowledge Richard Gaddes’ immeasurable contributions to the world of opera and we extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all who were touched by his extraordinary life. His legacy lives on in the notes that continue to resonate on stages worldwide and in the hearts of those he championed and inspired.

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ANITA MARIA ALDEIS It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Anita Maria Aldeis, 96, on December 11, 2023. She was a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was born on March 14, 1927 in Cerrillos, New Mexico, to the late Lora and Alfredo D. Martinez. Anita is survived by her favorite daughter, Carmela Aldeis and her babies, Precious and Shady. Her brothers Deacan Juan R. Martinez and Jimmie Martinez (Florine); and sister-in-laws Rose Ellen Martinez and Louise Martinez. She is preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Cora Martinez, Aurora Felix, Norma Perry and sister-in-law Mary Jane Martinez; brothers, Eloy Martinez, Alfredo Martinez, Joe J. Martinez and, most recently, Dr. C. Leo Martinez. Anita served the State of New Mexico DMV for 20 years and retired from the NMDOT with 43 yrs and 9 months at the age of 87. She is the longest living member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, for 48 yrs. She was an honorary member of the St. Francis Cathedral Altar Society, prior to that was a lector at Guadalupe Church. Anita was a local icon who could often be found working at her brothers’ Quick and Easy gas station. She was a volunteer eucharistic minster at St. Vincent’s hospital. She collected monetary donations for the Carmelite Nuns for many years. Anita enjoyed bowling and mush ball up to the age of 75, as she played softball in her younger days. Anita was well known for her famous delicious chocolate cakes graciously gifted to special occasions. Anita will be fondly remembered by the many friends and coworkers whose lives she touched. Anita treasured her time with all her nephews and nieces of five generations. The family would like to thank PMS hospice, Berna Gurule, family and friends for their loving care, her special niece, Laura Felix Findlay, for her daily visits. A special thank you to Rivera Funeral Home and staff, especially Paul Vigil, for his kind and loving support. Services will be held at St. Francis Cathedral on Wednesday, December 20, 2023; rosary at 10:00am, mass at 11:00am. Burial to follow at Rosario Cemetery. In leu of flowers, monetary donations can be made to the Carmelites Monastery, 49 Mount Carmel Rd., Santa Fe, NM. Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

ELLEN WILDE

NOVEMBER 11, 1929–DECEMBER 9, 2023

MICHELLE ORTEGA 11/14/78 - 12/20/13

10 Year Anniversary Ten years have passed since the Lord called you home, But the empty space in our hearts still remains. Missing you always Love, Mom, Felicia, Daniel, Grandma, Auntie, Carl

Mesa — Ellen M. Wilde died at home on December 9, 2023. Born November 11, 1929, to Clara and George Mathieson in Toledo, Ohio, Ellen grew up in Vineland, New Jersey. She graduated as salutatorian from VHS and then studied art at Syracuse University before graduating cum laude from Ohio State University in 1951. She worked at Celanese Corporation before she married Dale Wilde in 1955. Ellen worked in the home while Dale worked for RCA. While raising their three children, Ellen nurtured her creative side with designing and developing her garden. Boldly, Ellen and Dale decided to move west. After five years in Tucson, Dale found work in Los Alamos at the government lab, and the family moved again in 1977. Ellen loved Santa Fe and discovered gardening with native plants. She created posters for The New Mexico Native Plant Society and a book on Penstemon for the American Penstemon Society. Penstemon-spotting took her hiking around NM and other states. She also volunteered with the Folk Art Museum and AFS. To satisfy her desire for international travel, she went with either Dale or friends to Europe, to Australia and New Zealand, and, adventurously, to China. With Dale’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2010, they moved to Mesa, Arizona, close to Elena. Dale died in Mesa in June 2019, and Ellen stayed on. She is survived by her three children, Donald, Kathryn (Chris) Wilde, Elena (Jon) Rowe, and her grandchildren. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation for the Museum of International Folk Art, PO Box 2065, Santa Fe, NM 87504 or Natural Resources Defense Council at 49 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011.

MARK SWAZO-HINDS

01/16/1959 - 12/09/2023

CALVIN HENRY GEORGE Calvin George, Santa Fe, NM, wttps://virtualmemorialgatherings.com/memorial-services/calvingeorge for obit and memorial. SAM F. MARTINEZ Sam F. Martinez, 70, went to be with Our Lord on November 28, 2023, after fighting a hard battle with cancer. Sam was a retired HVAC Sheet Metal Craftsman of over 40 years. He was preceded in death by his parents, Juan and Stella Martinez. He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Patsy, son Sam Jr. and wife Karie, daughter Erika and fiancé Robert, Grandkids Sammy III, Tomas, Marina, Mikayla and many other relatives. A Rosary will be recited at 10 a.m. with Mass to follow on December 19th 2023 at St. John’s the Baptist Catholic Church, 1301 Osage Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87505. Burial will be immediately after Mass at Rosario Cemetery, 499 N. Guadalupe St. Santa Fe, NM 87501. A reception will follow at Nancy Rodriguez Community Center, 1 Prairie Dog Loop, Santa Fe, NM 87507. Pallbearers: Sammy III, Tomas, Marina, and Mikayla Honorary pallbearer: Francisco Diaz Jr. Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

Santa Fe - Mark Swazo-Hinds passed away on December 9, 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a courageous and long battle with various physical ailments. Born on January 16, 1959, in Berkeley, California, Mark was a beloved member and huge presence in the Santa Fe art community. The son of Rita (Gunther) Swazo-Hinds and renowned painter Patrick Swazo-Hinds. Mark was from Tesuque Pueblo, where he was laid to rest. Best known as a sculptor in stone, he also was a painter and worked in other media. He graduated from Pojoaque High in 1977, attended Haskell Indian Junior College in Kansas, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe where he studied under Doug Coffin (Potawatomi/Creek). His work was carried in many leading local and nationally known galleries around the country. He participated in the Santa Fe Indian Market (SWAIA), the Heard Museum Indian Market in Phoenix, the Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market in Indianapolis, and many other Native American art markets. His work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, on the grounds of the Santa Fe Opera, and in other collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He loved fishing, hunting, cooking, and telling stories of his life’s escapades. He appreciated the finer things in life and enjoyed sharing his knowledge and gifts with his family and friends. He is survived by his sister Marita Hinds; his grown children Ryan Swazo-Hinds (wife Roxanne), Nonabah Sam, Marissa Swazo-Hinds, and Medina Kailahi; nieces Jade Begay and Cienna Giago; grandchildren Ymelda Coriz, Denaya Sandia, Siua Kailahi, and Soni Kailahi; and great grandson, Solriz Coriz. A Celebration of Life will be planned for the spring of 2024.

GERALDINE NELSON ARON Geraldine Nelson Aron was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois on December 1, 1922. She died on December 1, 2023, which was her one hundred and first birthday, which she considered an accomplishment. She was at peace and full of grace, surrounded by her pet family and close friends. Geri grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois, the only child of Minnie Sargisson and Arthur H. Nelson. Archeology, especially prehistoric man and the Egyptians, art, and architecture, were interests of hers early on. As a theme throughout Geri’s life, she said, “My greatest concern is for this planet and the extinction of so many animal and plant species, mainly because of human encroachment.“ She was employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Company first as an operator and eventually as a draftsman in the plant engineering department. She pursued her education focused on Interior Decorating by attending evening classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She also attended the Institute of Design at the University of Illinois–Chicago campus in 1957. After her first marriage in 1944, Geri moved to the Near North side of Chicago in 1953. She attended the Old Town Art Fair. She met Gunther Aron who was exhibiting jewelry at the Fair. After they married in 1956 Gunther’s jewelry designs grew and transformed into sculpture. A storefront on Wells Street served as a home and studio for the pair. While living in Old Town Chicago, a visit to Santa Fe inspired their purchase of the Old School House in Lamy. In 1974, Geri and Gunther moved permanently to Lamy where her interior design skills were put on display with their conversion of the school into an expansive home, studio, and rental. Geri’s lifestyle in Lamy included the rescue, care, and adoption of dogs in need. In 1979, Geri joined the newly incorporated Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection organization. She was an exceptional and active member, promoting the group and helping to set up legislation regarding animal protection and educational displays centered on trapping and dog fighting. A distinct accomplishment was the passing of the Dog Fighting Bill in the NM Legislature. Eventually, the homespun local organization expanded to the highly functional statewide Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. Geri was still volunteering to extend financial aid to low-income pet owners during the 101st year of her life. Exemplifying her knowledge and interest in art, Geri Aron was deeply involved with the Bauhaus Chicago Foundation which was established to ensure that the educational principles formulated in the field of creative arts at the Bauhaus in Germany (1919–1933), and taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago between 1937–1956, are preserved and documented for future generations. See website: bauhauschicagofoundation.org In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, Save the Chimps, Animal Protection of New Mexico or any other organization of your choice.

FILEMON SANCHEZ

OCTOBER 28, 1933 - DECEMBER 2, 2023 Santa Fe — Phil was born in Youngsville, NM. He served in the Army at Fort Hamilton, New York and retired from Coca-Cola Bottling Company. He is proceeded in death by his beloved wife Celine L. Sanchez. Together they had 5 children: Diane James, Robert Sanchez, Jeanette Arellano, Michael Sanchez, and Barbara Rivera. Please visit www.riverafuneralhome.com for Full Obituary.

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Tenant union leader holding utility payments,” he said, adding he hopes the case will “shed issues in the apartment complex a little light on the way they’ve going unaddressed,” he said. “We been conducting their business.” found a host of red flags — too The tenants’ union at Las Lomas many to count.” has continued to grow, SchwaeIn addition to residents’ recurring gel said Friday, with a current complaints over maintenance delays membership of 25. There is a and amenities like the swimming “core group” of about five tenants, pool and laundry facility being including 64-year-old Ben Bear, unavailable, Schwaegel said unnecwho said he has lived at Las Lomas essary charges and fees from mansince February. agement seemed to be a pattern. Bear said there has been a “hisOver the summer, Las Lomas tory of vagueness” in charges and tenants began to receive bills fees at the apartment complex. for their water, sewer and trash “I hear that from everybody,” charges from an outside company Bear said in a recent interview. called Multifamily Utility Com“They’re just trying to get money pany, Schwaegel said. from people using charges they Residents saw their monthly can’t prove.” utility costs increase — in some The idea to form a tenants’ cases tripling — after the outside union came from Schwaegel, Bear company became involved. said. A copy of Schwaegel’s account “I know usually strength comes ledger filed in the eviction case in numbers,” he said, “so we all shows his monthly utility charges said, yeah let’s do it.” were $53.42 in May and $43.27 in The goal of establishing a tenJune. After the complex engaged ants’ union, Schwaegel said, was Multifamily Utility Company in its to represent people who rent from billing, his costs soared. In August the complex, mediating disputes and September, his charges for the with management and advocating same services came out to $161.08 for them. Most importantly, he and $156.73, respectively. said, the union could introduce Management at the complex demands as a group to the landexplained the move as part of “an lord for problems people would effort to help conserve natural like to see addressed. resources” in a letter to residents Among the first steps taken by dated June 28. members of the union was lodging Schwaegel said he took his con- an official consumer complaint cerns about the increased utility against the property management charges to management but was company at Las Lomas, Cornertold to pay or face eviction. When stone Residential. he asked for a breakdown of his Schwaegel submitted the water usage, it wasn’t provided, he complaint — signed by five other said. residents — to the state Attorney He believes he is justified in General’s Office in late September withholding payment of the alleging Cornerstone hit tenants charges. with “questionable charges” such The apartment complex filed as parking fees and late fees and a petition for restitution against threatened eviction unless they’re Schwaegel in Santa Fe County paid. The complaint requested an Magistrate Court on Oct. 31, stating investigation into the company. he owed $874 in “unpaid rent.” The Attorney General’s Office Schwaegel filed a counterclaim that has received the complaint and is accused Las Lomas’ management of reviewing it, spokeswoman Lauren retaliation in violation of the state’s Rodriguez wrote in an email Friday. Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Schwaegel said he could have Act. He also alleged the company just paid the charges, but his had violated its obligations under choice to take on his landlord is the law relating to billing for utilities “about principles” and “standing in multi-unit housing. up to people who try to bully you A hearing is scheduled for and shake you down.” Schwaegel’s case on Thursday in “If you can’t afford to live in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. Española, where can you afford to “I have good reason to be withlive?” he said. Continued from Page C-1

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Folk healers Eduardo Alamillo, left, and Israel Mendoza cleanse themselves with peppers that they will later burn last month in Pharr, Texas. Near the Mexican border in Texas, folk healers known as curanderas bring modern touches to an ancient practice long revered in local Hispanic culture. “I think it’s an honor to be a curandera; it is something very beautiful,” said folk healer Chriselda Hernandez.

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Modern touch to ancient practice Young Hispanics are taking on curandera rituals learned from grandmothers, deploying them against 21st-century problems By Edgar Sandoval

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EDINBURG, Texas — On a recent day, Chriselda Hernandez heard a knock at her door in the Texas border town of Edinburg. It was a college student who said she was suffering from a string of bad luck. A drunken driver had crashed into her car. Then someone broke into the new car she was driving and stole her laptop. “I need a limpia,” she pleaded — a spiritual cleanse. Hernandez moved to an altar in her living room that bore an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Slowly, she mixed a concoction of sage and palo santo, a wood native to South America, and lit it with a match. Then she turned back to the young woman and waved the healing smoke over her body. “You are holding on to something,” Hernandez whispered to her. “Let it go. There is no shame.” For generations, Hispanic communities along the southern border have turned to curanderas, or folk healers, like Hernandez, often seen in the popular imagination as old women with candles and religious icons operating in the shadows of society out of rusty shacks. But the ancient healing art has entered the age of Instagram. More and more younger people are taking on rituals they learned from their grandmothers and deploying them against 21st-century problems. They conduct limpias on public beaches, trade recipes online for blocking “envy energies” and sell artisan candles bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in shops. Their clients are often college-educated, like Clarissa Ochoa, the young woman who went to Hernandez for help. “I think it’s an honor to be a curandera; it is something very beautiful, but also very limiting,” said Hernandez, 42. “I feel like we are breaking those boundaries, that curanderas are just herbs and little old ladies. My calling is just to heal whoever I can.” A culture of folk healing preceded the arrival of Spaniard conquistadors to Latin America and Mexico. Over time, curanderos, a term used for healers of both gen-

Sasha García performs a card reading last month in Pharr, Texas. Curanderismo has become so accepted in the Rio Grande Valley that it is not unusual to see street signs and TV commercials advertising folk healing services.

ders, began mixing Indigenous rituals with elements of Catholicism and inﬂuences from Asian and African folk traditions along the way. The practice has taken hold in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, located a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, in large part out of necessity. Hidalgo County, home to McAllen and a majority-Hispanic population, has one of the highest rates in the nation of people without health insurance, and many people rely on curanderas for lack of other affordable options, said Servando Hinojosa, a professor of anthropology who teaches a class on Mexican American folk medicine at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Hinojosa said many Hispanic residents also tend to be mistrustful of the medical establishment. This is especially true when it comes to mental health. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while the number of Black, Asian and white people who have sought mental health care treatments has climbed in recent years, there has been very little movement among Latinos. “There’s an element of distrust, but there is also structural alienation,” Hinojosa said. “They are a population that will seek affordable resources, and they will go to where the products are and where the

advice is to be found.” Curanderismo has become so accepted in the Rio Grande Valley that it is not unusual to see street signs and TV commercials advertising folk healing services. Hernandez said her great-grandmothers had both been parteras, or midwives. When she was a little girl, she said, she discovered that she possessed her own set of gifts; as she grew older, she said, she began interacting with an entity she believes to be the angel of death, Azrael. She works at a cellphone call center and lives with a girlfriend in a modern house in the suburbs of Edinburg, a city close to the border. “You make it your own. There is no right or wrong. You do what’s right for you,” Hernandez said. Another modern folk healer, Danielle López, 39, a former student of Hinojosa who said she also learned she had a don, a gift, as a young girl, has embraced the moniker of millennial curandera. She has combined the old traditions she learned from the grandmother who raised her, Consuelo López, and an aunt, Esperanza Rodriguez, with new skills learned at institutions of higher education. Her academic record includes a Master Please see story on Page C-4

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family. He was a genuine leader.” All of the teens were “full of life,” friend Martin Martinez said. Guillermo, who lived in Chamita, was one of those people who is always smiling, Martinez said. “In the most craziest situations, in the most saddest situations, anything,

he always found a way to make you laugh,” Martinez said. Martinez’s mom, Heather Velarde, who organized the vigil, said earlier this week the teens’ deaths have been devastating for the community. GoFundMe pages set up for the families of each of the four teens had raised between $3,000 to $8,000 as of Saturday.

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Performance Santa Fe picking up the pieces after personnel departures its international board, and the board of the Save the Children. During the off-site meeting with board members, late 1990s, Gordon was affiliated with then told her employment was being Hallmark Entertainment (not the TV terminated and that she should return channel), which co-produced The Sound to the office only long enough to collect of Music and The Scarlet Pimpernel on her belongings and depart. Broadway. Her name was removed from the Performance Santa Fe’s roots go back organization’s website a few days later, to 1937, when the Santa Fe Community and Gordon confirmed Iwano has proConcert Association, as it then was vided no services to Performance Santa known, was created to present local Fe since Nov. 17. performances by Community ConProduction Manager Sarah LeBlanc certs — classical music performers on resigned Nov. 24. The departures of national tours organized by New York’s finance and administration director Columbia Artists Management, Inc., one Susan Cantor; audience services manof the country’s largest talent agencies. ager Zoe Burke; director of audience Community Concerts folded in development and community relations 2003, but the concert association here Katie Rountree; and education, grants, continued to book artists and attractions and development manager Allie Norris independently, changing its name to followed. By Dec. 8, Performance Santa Performance Santa Fe in 2014 to reflect Fe was down to one employee. There its broader artistic focus as well as its were seven in mid-November, according independence. to the organization’s website. The group’s 2023-2024 season consists The departures would create major of 23 performances, ranging from world challenges for Performance Santa Fe at music and jazz to performance art, any time, but even more so now, with classical music and ballet. The roster January performances scheduled and of performers includes the avant-garde end-of-the-calendar-year fundraising Kronos Quartet, jazz great Regina Carand artistic planning for the 2024-2025 ter, Cuban American trumpeter Arturo season. Sandoval, New Orleans trombonist DelGordon acknowledged she hadn’t feayo Marsalis, classical pianist Emanuel anticipated personnel losses on that Ax, opera soprano Camilla Tilling and scale after severing ties with Iwano. Broadway star Jessica Vosk. But she said the organization would The current season ends May 12 with persevere. the Isidore String Quartet. “We’ve been here for 87 years. We Iwano joined Performance Santa Fe in bring great performances to Santa Fe, September 2021, following nine years as and we have great education programs. executive director of UChicago Presents We plan to continue them for another 87 and 19 years in the same function with years. We’re here to stay.” the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Staff rebuilding is underway. This Her history of long tenures was week, Gordon will become the orgaundoubtedly part of her appeal to the nization’s interim executive director. organization. Chad Hilligus, her immeAnd Performance Santa Fe has engaged diate predecessor, served for less than a marketing consultant and assistant, two years and his predecessor, Jonathan along with a part-time accountant, she Winkle, for less than three. said. Performance Santa Fe’s finances were Gordon has both board and enterrelatively healthy coming out of the tainment experience. She has served pandemic. Expenses for the fiscal year that on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes ended on June 30, 2022, were $1.53 Foundation in New York, as well as on Continued from Page C-1

million, according to the organization’s most recent IRS Form 990. Income totaled $1.59 million, so there was a $60,000 surplus in Iwano’s first year on the job. The surplus increased Performance Santa Fe’s reserve funds to almost $530,000. According to Gordon, preliminary figures for the 2022-2023 fiscal year show expenses of a bit more than $1.7 million and income a bit below. The result was a deficit for the year believed to be around $58,000. Based on the 990, the group had ample reserve funds on hands to cover the shortfall. Neither Iwano nor Gordon would provide specifics on the circumstances surrounding her departure. Gordon did say, “Not everything that happens is bad,” while also acknowledging the issue had resulted in one board member’s resignation. In an interview, Iwano said: “Boards are often populated by deep-pocket individuals who are used to getting their way.” This has been a difficult year for executive directors of Santa Fe cultural organizations, with three in addition to Iwano departing after short tenures. Danyelle Means, who joined the Center for Contemporary Arts in July 2021 as its executive director and head curator, lost her job during the group’s near-death experience in April. Santa Fe Pro Musica and Executive Director Andréa Cassutt went their separate ways in May after a 21-month relationship. Melissa Mann, who became CEO of the International Folk Art Market in January 2022, resigned in July. Asked about her future, Iwano replied, “I am open to anything except staying. What happened to me is particular to Santa Fe and its unique board cultures.” She added: “I do not regret taking the Performance Santa Fe position. I talked to a lot of people when I first arrived, and what I heard was that Santa Fe wanted high-quality performances as well as something ‘different.’ I feel this is what I brought.”

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Sasha García, left, performs a limpia for Jocelyn Acevedo at La Casa de la Santísima Yerberia, last month in Pharr, Texas. For generations, Hispanic communities along the southern border have turned to curanderas, or folk healers.

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not sleep, she recommends that they cut their intake of sugar or caffeine. Because the advice comes from a curandera, she said, people tend to trust that she has Continued from Page C-3 their best interests at heart. The concept of a curandera is so of Arts in interdisciplinary studies with pervasive in Latino enclaves that in a concentration in Mexican American September, the Texas Diabetes Institute, literature, medical anthropology and Latin a state-of-the-art facility operated by art history at the University of Texas Rio University Health on San Antonio’s west Grande Valley. She is completing a doctor- side, a historical Mexican American ate in English with a focus on borderlands neighborhood, brought back to its lobby literature at the University of Texas at San a sprawling wall-size painting, La CuranAntonio, where she is also a lecturer. dera, by Chicano painter Jesus Treviño, “For me, it’s a continuity,” she said of who died early this year. The painting her spiritual work. “I feel like we need it had been removed for restoration. more now.” Still, when it comes to luck and It is not unusual for people to ask her matters of the heart, many people avoid for trabajitos, little jobs, including bless- professional help and turn to curandings, limpias and home remedies, when eras, because there is no substitute, said she is not buried in books. Not long ago, Sasha García, 39, a curandera who is López got a request to bless a new busi- known for her ﬁre-red hair. ness for a friend. When López cleansed In northern Mexico, where Indigethe establishment with a bouquet of nous culture is not as widespread and roses, six petals fell, prompting her to the Catholic Church’s hold is stronger, warn her friend that six people “did not García said, her ancestors often have good intent.” operated in the shadows to avoid the “They may say they are happy about stigma associated with folk healers. By her new business, but they are not.” contrast, on the American side of the She also sometimes offers more border, she not only feels freer to pracscience-based advice. When people tell tice openly, but some Catholic priests her that they are feeling anxious or can- stop by for her counsel, she said.

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Video game maker to pay $54M to settle discrimination claims By Alex Veiga

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LOS ANGELES — Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker. The settlement, which is subject to court approval, resolves allegations that the maker of Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft and other video games “discriminated against women at the company, including denying promotion opportunities and paying them less than men for doing substantially similar work,” the California Civil Rights Department announced late Friday. Allegations of workplace discrimination helped drag down Activision’s stock price in 2021, paving the way for Microsoft’s eventual takeover bid in January 2022. The software giant, which owns the Xbox gaming system,

closed its $69 billion deal to buy Activision in October after fending off global opposition from antitrust regulators and rivals. California’s civil rights agency sued Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard in July 2021, alleging that female employees faced constant sexual harassment, that few women were named to leadership roles and that when they were, they earned less salary, incentive pay and total compensation than male peers. Employees spoke up about harassment and discrimination, signing petitions criticizing the company for its defensive reaction to the lawsuit and staging a walkout. Under the terms of the settlement, women who worked for the company between Oct. 12, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2020, either as hires or independent contractors, may be eligible for compensation. About $45.75 million of the settlement amount has been set aside for

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and dance celebrations. December is full of feast days honoring Catholic saints, while the pueblos often held winter ceremonies and dances — particularly dances paying homage to the animals who provided sustenance for the pueblo people, Colón said. “There was an alignment in what we were already celebrating,” said Colón, adding the mix of the two traditions has “been going on for hundreds of years.” Following the 1680 Pueblo Revolt which led to the temporary Spanish retreat from the territory, the pueblos reverted to practicing their own traditions while incorporating some of the Spanish customs. Once the Spanish returned later that century, he said, pueblos were often “willing to adopt an outward demonstration of their Catholicism even if internally they were not Catholic, per se.” In the early 1700s, he said, there was a “major shift” in the support Catholic missions in New Mexico got from the Spanish church system. Instead of one priest servicing one pueblo, he might be put in charge of multiple areas and “that kind of took the attention off of what the pueblos were doing,” he said. As such, the pueblos could adopt a “here’s what we want to keep, here’s what we like, here’s what we want to get rid off” attitude toward practicing Catholic and Spanish traditions in celebrations, he said. “So they formed their own kind of tribal tradition and Spanish tradition” approach, he said. Matthew Martinez, a former lieutenant governor of Ohkay Owingeh and former professor of Pueblo Indian studies at Northern New Mexico College, said the pueblo dances are based on the seasons. He and Colón both said agricultural-based dances take place during the season of planting and growing, while winter — a non-growing time, for the most part — is ideal for the animal dances that often make up the Christmas-season events. Martinez said the dances pay respect to the larger calendar season of good health and sustenance. “Each pueblo is very unique in terms of cultural understanding and approaches, but generally, if there are animal dances — particularly with deer or buffalo — or corn dances, they pay respect to wishing for good life and good food, not only for native people but all living things.”

such payouts, the agency said. Activision Blizzard also agreed to take steps to ensure “fair pay and promotion practices” at the company. “We appreciate the importance of the issues addressed in this agreement and we are dedicated to fully implementing all the new obligations we have assumed as part of it,” Activision Blizzard said in a statement Saturday. The company also noted that the California Civil Rights Department agreed to ﬁle an amended complaint that withdraws sexual harassment allegations. The settlement agreement declares that “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations” of systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard, nor claims that the company’s board of directors and CEO acted improperly or ignored or tolerated a culture of harassment, retaliation or discrimination.

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MORE INFORMATION u A number of New Mexico’s pueblos host public dances during the holiday season. Call individual pueblos in advance to check on events, times and guidelines. u The New Mexico Tourism Department’s New Mexico True website has a full list of holiday-related pueblo dances. Visit tinyurl.com/22m3865y.

The matachin dance, which dates back hundreds of years, is one that is familiar to many pueblo visitors. The dance is performed in both Hispanic and Native American communities at various times of the year and for different reasons. “It’s more of a social dance where there is a blending of Hispano and pueblo traditions, a community celebration of Catholicism and its impact on the villages,” Martinez said. Matachin dances often features the same main characters, including La Monarca, who often represents Montezuma, and La Malinche, a role usually reserved for a little girl dressed in white. Some also include the character of El Toro, who sometimes represents bad behavior or evil. Martinez said at his pueblo, new dancers often take part in the matachin performances, including a new girl to play La Malinche. “It’s a once-in-alifetime opportunity for her to be chosen for this dance,” he said. His pueblo also offers the Turtle Dance using the same dance regalia and songs every year, he said. The words, however, can change depending on who writes the songs. “The dancers and singers gather at last a week before (the dance performance) to hear the songs and to learn the new words,” he said. Martinez urged visitors to be respectful during the dances and follow pueblo guidelines. Photography and video are almost always prohibited, he said. Even in rare circumstances when photos might be allowed, he said he advises people “to just come in and experience it with an open heart and listen and observe. Just be part of being there, taking in the energy, taking in the moment and not get caught up with the photography or even the question of what does this all signify?” Colón echoed that thought, adding some pueblos have what are known as clown dancers — Kosahre — who perform a number of tasks, including monitoring crowd behavior, during the dances. If a clown dancer sees someone taking photos where that is prohibited, the camera could be conﬁscated. He said it’s important to respect each pueblo’s guidelines and enjoy the dances — “but we want you to keep your camera or iPhone,” he joked.

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AG Paxton seeks payback — maybe higher office By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

The Washington Post

Emboldened by his impeachment acquittal this fall, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — who still faces a whistleblower lawsuit and criminal charges — is thrusting himself back into the national spotlight with right-wing legal activism. Paxton made major headlines last week for successfully blocking a lawsuit by a Dallas-area woman who sought an abortion out of state after her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal anomaly; she was forced to seek the procedure out of state. His response included sending a letter to Texas hospitals threatening felony prosecution if they allowed the procedure and warning that an initial court ruling in the woman’s favor would not insulate them, doctors “or anyone else from civil and criminal liability” for violating the state’s abortion ban. “General Paxton is doing what he was elected to do and what’s expected by the voters,” said Jonathan Saenz, president of the conservative nonprofit Texas Values. Yet political experts and strategists see a shrewd calculation. Paxton’s extraordinary action, they say, was a play to his deepred base while the Texas Republican Party is at war with itself. It followed litigation he filed last month against the drugmaker Pfizer, alleging that the company misrepresented the efficacy of its coronavirus vaccine and failed to end the pandemic soon enough. Paxton also announced a fraud investigation of Media Matters for America — a “radical antifree speech organization,” in his words — after the liberal watchdog group reported neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts on X. Advertisers then began fleeing the platform, which prompted a lawsuit from X owner Elon Musk. On Monday, Media Matters punched back by taking Paxton to court for unlawful retaliation. “The base loves it,” said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston, and the aggressive suits, threats and investigations are keeping Paxton’s supporters energized. Given the key primaries coming in March, Paxton wants to maximize “the value of his endorsement” for Republicans running against state House GOP incumbents who led his impeachment, Jones said. “He’s using these cases to remind them why he’s their guy.” Paxton signaled as much after his acquittal by the Senate on accusations of corruption and bribery. Many of the 60 Republicans who moved his impeachment forward now face primary opponents. With former President Donald Trump urging Paxton on, the three-term attorney general hinted about his aspirations for higher office and vowed to defeat any lawmaker in his party who had voted against him. That’s what he is doing now. “Payback, retaliation, revenge. Paxton now believes he’s

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Former President Donald Trump poses for photos with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in 2021. Paxton made headlines last week for successfully blocking a lawsuit by a Dallas-area woman who sought an abortion out of state.

bulletproof, and his financial backers are pouring money into campaign accounts for candidates challenging Republican state representatives who voted for impeachment,” said Dick DeGuerin, a Houston lawyer who helped prosecute Paxton in the Senate trial in September. Austin-based GOP consultant Matt Mackowiak agreed, noting that Paxton — among the few state attorneys general with national name recognition — helped to recruit some of those challengers ahead of a filing deadline last week. “Surviving the impeachment has given him political capital,” Mackowiak said, and Paxton’s using it “to try to punish people who he feels went after him unfairly. He does appear to have the political wind at his back. Impeachment has become a political anvil around the neck of Republicans who voted for it.” Paxton received a hero’s welcome when he appeared at an October meeting of ultraconservative Collin County Republicans near his home in the Dallas suburb. “We have a united front,” Paxton said. “We are going to take the Texas House back.” The GOP club’s former president, Abraham George, is among the individuals Paxton has endorsed. George said the attorney general remains hugely popular in North Texas, where he and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, a Republican, are known to give out their personal cellphone numbers and answer constituents’ calls. “When I decided I’m going to do this, I reached out to him,” said George, an Indian-American who owns a technology business. The first-time candidate is running for a House district seat, and his campaign announcement echoed many of Paxton’s talking points about “woke politicians,” corporate media and other forces on the left. During their conversation, George said, he reminded Paxton of his promise to support Republican primary challengers. “He said, ‘You got it,’ and we

have stayed in touch,” George said, with Paxton giving him advice “that essentially comes down to one thing: You’ve got to listen to your people.” Paxton has capitalized on sharp divisions within the party that have pitted grass-roots activists in places like Collin County against so-called establishment RINOs — the derisive acronym for “Republican in name only.” “A lot of people get into office and become more aligned with the establishment. Ken and Angela never did,” George said. “That’s a huge thing for people in Collin County; the guy hasn’t changed. The principles he talks about, he carries the water. He’s very popular. He’s much stronger than before, after the impeachment.” Like many Texans on the far right, George downplays Paxton’s

lingering legal troubles: “Some of these things have been hanging over his head for close to 10 years now, and so far, we haven’t seen any results.” Those troubles include two state felony securities fraud charges and another for allegedly failing to register as an investment adviser. A conviction could mean prison time and tens of thousands of dollars in fines. The case is set for trial in Houston in the spring. “The state’s case is built on politics, and the legal foundation is flimsy,” defense attorney Philip Hilder said Wednesday. An FBI investigation in San Antonio also resulted in federal felony charges this year against wealthy Paxton donor Nate Paul. Paul is accused of wire fraud and of providing false information to financial institutions to obtain loans. So far, none of Paul’s indictments have named Paxton. In addition, Paxton faces a lawsuit by former senior staffers who claim they were fired in 2020 for reporting the suspected bribery

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can’t think of a single thing he’s accomplished for our state or even for the country.” “Everything’s on the table for me,” Paxton, 60, told Tucker Carlson. Paul Chabot leads two Collin County GOP groups, knows the attorney general and his wife, and is a “huge fan.” “We hope he doesn’t run for Senate,” Chabot said. “We hope he stays attorney general because we need a strong attorney general to challenge the Biden administration.” Paxton has also been talked about as a potential successor to Gov. Greg Abbott or Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in 2026, should either Republican choose not to run again. And if Trump is elected to a second presidential term, Chabot and others in the Texas GOP think Paxton might be tapped for a position in Washington. As long as he survives his legal problems, Mackowiak predicts, “Paxton’s most signiﬁcant political offices are likely in front of him.”

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Judge denies ranchers’ requests to halt reintroduction of wolves By Jesse Bedayn

The Associated Press

DENVER — A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward in the coming days by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the predators’ release. While the lawsuit will continue, Judge Regina Rodriguez’s ruling allows Colorado to proceed with its plan to ﬁnd, capture and transport up to 10 wolves from Oregon starting Sunday. The deadline to put paws on the ground under the voter-approved initiative is Dec. 31. The lawsuit from the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and The Gunnison County Stockgrowers’ Association alleges that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately review the potential impacts of Colorado’s plan to release up to 50 wolves in Colorado over the next several years. The groups argued that the inevitable wolf attacks on livestock would come at signiﬁcant cost to ranchers, the industry that helps drive the local economies where wolves would be released. Attorneys for the U.S. government said that the requirements for environmental reviews had been met, and that any future harms would not be irreparable, which is the standard required for the temporary injunction sought by the industry.

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A female wolf pup in North Park, Colo., last year. Gray wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S. by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns.

They pointed to a state compensation program that pays owners if their livestock are killed by wolves. That compensation program — up to $15,000 per animal provided by the state for lost animals — is partly why Rodriguez sided with state and federal agencies. Rodriguez further argued that ranchers’ concerns didn’t outweigh the public interest in meeting the will of the people of Colorado, who voted for wolf reintroduction in a 2020 ballot initiative. Gray wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S.

by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns. They received endangered species protections in 1975, when there were about 1,000 left in northern Minnesota. Wolves have since rebounded in the Great Lakes region. They’ve also returned to numerous western states — Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and, most recently, California — following an earlier reintroduction effort that brought wolves from Canada to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s.

and will update software and ﬁx a defective Tesla driver to pay $23,000 in cles system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying restitution for 2019 Los Angeles attention when using Autopilot. It came after a two-year federal investigation into crashes that crash that killed two people happened while the Autopilot partially automated LOS ANGELES — A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb, a decision announced the same day that the automaker recalled nearly all vehicles sold in the United States. Wednesday’s court hearing wrapped up a case believed to be the ﬁrst time in the U.S. prosecutors brought felony charges against a motorist who was using a partially automated driving system. It was among a series of deadly crashes investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that led to this week’s recall. The recall affects more than 2 million Tesla vehi-

driving system was in use. The Tesla driver in the Los Angeles case, Kevin Aziz Riad, pleaded no contest to two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Despite facing more than seven years behind bars, a judge sentenced him to probation in June. Aziz Riad’s attorney, Peter Johnson, did not respond to a request for comment Friday. Authorities say Aziz Riad, a limousine service driver, was at the wheel of a Tesla Model S that was moving at 74 mph when it left a freeway and ran a red light on a local street in Gardena, Calif., on Dec. 29, 2019. The Associated Press

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Geraldine Nelson Aron, an animal lover and art aficionado who played a key role in advocating for legislation that abolished dog fighting in New Mexico died Dec. 1, her birthday. She was 101. Animal Rights New Mexico executive director Lisa Jennings described Aron as one of the organization’s “founding mothers” and someone who was “feisty, opinionated, compassionate and present,” noting Aron was working almost until the day she died — fielding calls for the organization from people who needed help covering medical bills for their pets. “She really understood the value of giving back to the community,” Jennings said in a recent phone interview. Aron grew up in Illinois and worked as a telephone operator and draftsperson for the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. as a young woman, according to an obituary written by close friend and neighbor Marge Tartarka. She studied interior decorating at the Chicago Art Institute and Chicago of Academy of Fine Arts before marrying her second husband, Gunther Aron, in 1956. They were married 60 years before his death about a decade ago. The couple moved to New Mexico in 1974 after a visit to the area inspired them to purchase the Old Lamy School House. There, she put her interior design skills to use converting it into a home and studio for her husband, a sculptor and jeweler. A lifelong concern for the planet and human effects on plant and animal species prompted her engagement in the rescue, care and adoption of dogs in need and her decision to join the newly formed Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection organization in 1979, according to the obituary. The grassroots local group later became the statewide Animal Protection New Mexico, Inc. The organization honored Aron as a “volunteer extraordinaire” in the spring edition of its publication Making Tracks earlier this year, marking her 40 years of service to the state’s animals as the group’s “longest serving volunteer.”

Jennings said Aron was instrumental in lobbying for the passage of a 1981 bill that made dog fighting a felony. The law was amended in 2007 to prohibit cockfighting as well. In a pre-digital age, Jennings said Aron’s advocacy often meant hand-writing letters to lawmakers and others to raise awareness about the issue. Aron also created informational displays about animal rights issues, Jennings said. “[Aron] recalled cutting out pictures of euthanized dogs from a Life magazine article, and making a dramatic collage on spay/neuter that was featured in the Santa Fe Main Library for many weeks,” according to the Making Tracks article. She and others also “organized a march against fur trapping and even approached fur wearers on the Santa Fe plaza.” Aron’s love of animals sprang from growing up an only child in the suburbs of Chicago, according to the article. Tartarka said Aron’s love of living things extended from “insects to elephants.” Although “Geri,” as she was known to friends, and her husband had no children, she adopted several homeless animals and treated them as her children. At the time of her death, Aron lived with two cats and a white and brown Chihuahua mix named Dallas. They came to her after their guardians died, according to Making Tracks. Aron’s friends have managed to find new homes for the cats, Tartarka said Thursday, but have not yet found a new living situation for Dallas. “We are desperately looking for a new home for him” Tartarka said. Dallas is 7, neutered, leash-trained and has “a wonderful personality,” Tartarka said. “He really talks,” she said. “He doesn’t just bark; he makes all kind of sounds and really lets you know what’s going on.” Tartarka said Aron’s friends plan a celebration of her life in the spring, but a date has not yet been set. In the meantime, mourners are encouraged to make donations to the Santa Fe animal shelter, Save the Chimps, Animal Protection of New Mexico or other organizations of their choice, the obituary says. Anyone interested in providing a home for Dallas may connect Tartarka at tartarka@gmail.com.

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Groups sue over railroad bear deaths By Amy Beth Hanson The Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. — Two wildlife conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over delays in finalizing a plan to reduce the number of federally protected grizzly bears that are killed by trains in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho. WildEarth Guardians and the Western Environmental Law Center filed the lawsuit in federal court in Missoula on Thursday arguing BNSF and other railroads that use their tracks, including Amtrak, have been killing grizzly bears without an incidental take permit for decades. Such permits, required under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, allow a certain number of protected animals to be killed in exchange for efforts by a company to try to reduce the deaths. BNSF Railway says that even though it doesn’t have a permit,

it is taking measures to prevent grizzly bear deaths. The railroad’s ﬁrst efforts to obtain an incidental take permit began in 2004 and have still not been completed nearly 20 years later, the lawsuit ﬁled by the wildlife conservation groups says. “We are extremely disappointed that, after all these years, BNSF has refused to change its business practices to prevent the unnecessary deaths of Montana’s iconic grizzlies, resulting in the tragic deaths of three bears just this fall,” said Sarah McMillan, Wildlife and Wildlands Program director at the Western Environmental Law Center in Missoula. “When a company chooses to operate in the epicenter of key habitat for a threatened species, it must take some responsibility to adapt practices to minimize its impacts on these animals.” The tracks at issue in the case stretch between Shelby, Mont., and Sandpoint, Idaho, and between the Montana cities

of Kalispell and Columbia Falls. The tracks also cross through two grizzly bear recovery areas: the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem — which includes Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness — and the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho. An estimated 1,000 grizzly bears live in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem while 50 to 60 bears live in the Cabinet-Yaak. The railway’s June 2020 draft plan for reducing the number of grizzly bears killed was put out for public comment in January 2021, but it still hasn’t been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The railroad seeks a seven-year permit allowing it to kill an average of 2.5 grizzly bears per year in exchange for efforts to reduce train strikes and to cut other human-caused deaths of grizzly bears elsewhere in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

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SECTION D SuNDAy, DeceMBer 17, 2023 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

NFL BENGAL S 27, VIKINGS 24

Backup shines again in another win Burrow replacement Browning leads three TD drives in fourth before setting up FG in overtime By Mitch Stacy The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Trailing 17-3 late in the third quarter behind an offense that had struggled to move the ball, the Bengals needed Jake Browning to be nearly perfect — and he was. Browning led Cincinnati to three fourth-quarter touchdowns and directed the winning drive in overtime in his latest

INSIDE u Capsules for the rest of Week 15. u Denver playoff hopes take hit in loss to Lions. u Colts get fifth win in last six games to boost playoff chances vs. fading Steelers. PAGE D-5

extraordinary performance since taking over for the injured Joe Burrow, and the Bengals beat the Minnesota Vikings 27-24 on Saturday to improve their position in the playoff race. Browning won his third straight start and improved to 3-1 since Burrow suffered a season-ending right wrist injury in a loss at Baltimore. This time, he threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter

and overtime, becoming the fourth QB in the past two years to throw for at least that many yards and two or more scores after three quarters. “I feel like I need a beer,” said Browning, who beat a team that cut him from its practice squad two years ago. Tee Higgins went high over a Vikings defender to catch a 16-yard pass from Browning and make a twisting move at the goal line for the tying touchdown with 39 seconds left in regulation. Then, in overtime, a scrambling Browning found Tyler Boyd for a 44-yard completion that got Cincinnati (8-6) into Vikings terriPlease see story on Page D-4

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Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins reaches back into the end zone to score a touchdown after going up high for a contested catch against Akayleb Evans in Saturday’s game in Cincinnati. The score — Higgins’ second of the game — came with 39 seconds left to force overtime. The Bengals won in the extra period.

NEW ME XICO BOWL FRE SNO STATE 37, NEW ME XICO STATE 10

FRUSTRATING DENIAL

Aggies can’t close dream season with bowl win; after loss, coach alleges UNM AD tried to block use of practice facility in profanity-laced rant By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE ew Mexico State football coach Jerry Kill bit his tongue and held something in virtually

all season. But moments after his Aggies football team walked off the field with a 37-10 loss to Fresno State in Saturday night’s 18th annual New Mexico Bowl, he finally blew off some steam regarding an offseason incident where his starting quarterback, Diego Pavia, was seen in a video posted online urinating on the field in UNM’s indoor practice facility. Sitting behind a microphone fielding questions from the media for 18½ minutes following Saturday’s game, Kill was ready to walk off the dais when he took aim at New Mexico athletic director Eddie Nuñez. In a two-minute, profanity-laced rant, the Aggies coach alleged Nuñez blocked NMSU from using the Lobos’ indoor facility in preparation for the bowl game over the incident with Pavia. “We had all kinds of stuff here at the bowl game trying to get done,” Kill said. “He had to fight his [expletive] off to get us to be able to practice in an indoor because of a situation that happened down the road.” The Aggies later did get into the building because it’s part of the contract UNM has with the bowl regarding equal access to all facilities for both teams. “It may not be the time to do it but, by gosh, I’m going to get it off my damn mind, because I ain’t said anything about it,” Kill began. “We disciplined [Pavia]; he doesn’t get to do any interviews and stuff like that. You know, if you want to take a toothbrush and clean the toilets all the time, that ain’t a lot of fun, and do community service. Well guess what, I hope the AD here gets the same damn discipline with the people around this state that Diego got because he deserves it. “And it don’t bother me a damn bit,” Kill continued. “When [Nuñez] doesn’t want to let us practice in the indoor facility, when he don’t want us to do this, do that, that’s [expletive].” The postgame press conference was held in UNM’s football weight room. Of those sitting in the front row was NMSU athletic director Mario Moccia. Nuñez was not in attendance, and a UNM spokesman said the Lobos’ AD had nothing to do with the practice schedule or use of the facilities. He also said Nuñez was unavailable for comment.

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Fresno State’s Morice Norris Jr. contacts New Mexico State’s Jonathan Brady as Brady tries to make a catch in the end zone during Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque. The Aggies were held under 100 total yards in the ﬁrst half of the 37-10 loss. NMSU’s program had never lost a bowl game until Saturday.

Fresno QB shines with coach out Bulldogs’ Keene throws for career-high 380 yards in win The Associated Press

Adriana Beltran with the New Mexico State marching band’s folklórico dancers at Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque. The game against Fresno State drew a crowd of 30,822, the third-largest crowd in the bowl’s history and its largest since 2010. A vast majority of those fans were there for the Aggies, as most of the east side of the stadium was full.

ALBUQUERQUE — Mikey Keene threw for a career-high 380 yards with three touchdown passes and a rushing TD, and Fresno State routed New Mexico State 37-10 in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday, the Bulldogs’ ﬁfth straight victory in a bowl game. Malik Sherrod rushed for 90 yards on 20 carries and had eight receptions for 81 yards for Fresno State (9-4), which had closed the regular season on a three-game skid. The Bulldogs played without coach Jeff Tedford, who stepped away after the regular season because of Please see story on Page D-4

New Santa Fe futsal franchise Gloom opens with win By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

Santa Fe’s newest professional sports organization took its ﬁrst steps Saturday night as the Santa Fe Gloom, winning its opening game as an expansion club in the National Futsal Premier League. Luiz Rodriguez and Jim Guzman each scored twice, leading the Gloom to an 8-4 win over visiting Colorado Futsal Academy at Santa Fe High’s Toby

Roybal Memorial Gymnasium. It took them just 10 seconds to score the first goal in club history, a shot from the right side from Rodriguez. Goalie Hector Casteñeda made it 2-0 less than five minutes later when he booted a line drive kick that deflected off the Colorado keeper’s hands near midcourt and into the unguarded net. Nick Cashmere made it 3-0 from about 80 feet away, then Yeremi Valdez

scored at the halftime buzzer when Casteneda fed him with a long throw-in pass that began with just three seconds on the clock. Colorado scored twice in the ﬁrst 10 minutes of the second half, but the Gloom got its next two goals from Guzman, both coming within a matter of seconds from one another to pad Santa Fe’s lead to 6-2. The lead was trimmed to 6-4 in the ﬁnal three minutes, but an

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Jordan Fox, jfox@sfnewmexican.com

empty net goal from Rodriguez with 1:30 left ended the suspense. The ﬁnal goal came from Peter Torres, giving the Gloom six different players in the scoring column. Santa Fe will play its next three matches on the road, starting with a Jan. 13 trip to Brusa FC in Mesa, Ariz. The next home game will be Feb. 10 against New Mexico Flagship FC, also at Toby Roybal Gym.

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

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TODAY ON TV

SPORTS BETTING LINE

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. PNC Championship, Final Round, Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Fla.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 11 a.m. BTN — Colgate at Illinois 11 a.m. CBSSN — Oregon vs. Syracuse, Sioux Falls, S.D. 11 a.m. ESPN — Southern Cal at Auburn Noon ACCN — Pepperdine at Louisville 1 p.m. PAC-12N — UTSA at Oregon St. 3 p.m. ESPN — Seton Hall at Missouri 3 p.m. PAC-12N — Idaho at Stanford 4 p.m. ESPNU — Chris Paul HBCU Challenge: Howard vs. Texas Southern, Las Vegas, Nev. 6:30 p.m. ESPNU — Chris Paul HBCU Challenge: NC A&T vs. Jackson St., Las Vegas, Nev.

HORSE RACING 12:30 p.m. FS1 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races NBA G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL 2 p.m. NBATV — Rio Grande Valley at Austin NFL 11 a.m. CBS — Tampa Bay at Green Bay 11 a.m. FOX — Kansas City at New England 2:25 p.m. FOX — Dallas at Buffalo 6:20 p.m. NBC — Baltimore at Jacksonville

Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets e-New England

SOUTH

NORTH

WEST

4 6 8 10

Jacksonville Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

9 7 5 3

PCT

0 0 0 0

.615 .571 .538 .385

3 5 6 7

PCT

0 0 0 0

Kansas City Denver Las Vegas L.A. Chargers

8 7 6 5

.692 .538 .385 .231

5 6 6 8

10 8 8 7

PCT

0 0 0 0

8 8 7 5

.769 .615 .571 .500

5 7 8 9

PCT

0 0 0 0

.615 .500 .429 .357

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST W

Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

SOUTH

Detroit Minnesota Green Bay Chicago

WEST

3 3 8 9

Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay e-Carolina

NORTH

10 10 5 4

6 6 6 1

.462 .462 .462 .077

4 7 7 8

PCT

0 0 0 0

10 7 6 5

.769 .769 .385 .308

7 7 7 12

PCT

0 0 0 0

PCT

0 0 0 0

x-San Francisco 10 3 L.A. Rams 6 7 Seattle 6 7 Arizona 3 10 e-Eliminated from playoffs x-clinched playoff spot

.714 .500 .462 .385

0 0 0 0

PCT

.769 .462 .462 .231

THURSDAY’S GAMES

411 348 201 169

TENNIS 9 a.m. TENNIS — Ultimate Tennis Showdown: Semifinals 1 p.m. TENNIS — Ultimate Tennis Showdown: Final

312 344 287 241

361 289 307 223

421 342 183 261

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

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

HOME

AWAY

228 351 280 345

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

HOME

233 321 314 395

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

HOME

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

HOME

331 269 267 309

AWAY

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

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

205 290 318 331

HOME

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

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

AWAY 3-3-0 5-2-0 2-5-0 3-4-0

AWAY

Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 21

New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 6:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 23

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 2:30 p.m. Buffalo at L.A. Chargers, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 24

Cleveland at Houston, 11 a.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Green Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Seattle at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m. Arizona at Chicago, 2:25 p.m. Dallas at Miami, 2:25 p.m. New England at Denver, 6:15 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 25

Las Vegas at Kansas City, 11 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m. Baltimore at San Francisco, 6:15 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2023-24 BOWL SCHEDULE SATURDAY, DEC. 16 SATURDAY, DEC. 16 MYRTLE BEACH BOWL

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

Boca Raton, Fla.

DIV

4-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-4-0

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 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. Houston No. 22 Oklahoma St. vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Boston No. 17 SMU vs. Boston College, 9 a.m.

New York Rutgers vs. Miami, 12:15 p.m.

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.

SUN BOWL

THURSDAY, DEC. 21 BOCA RATON BOWL

NFC

8-1-0 4-4-0 5-5-0 2-6-0

Birmingham, Ala. Troy vs. Duke, 10 a.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 18 FAMOUS TOASTERY BOWL

Frisco, Texas UTSA vs. Marshall, 7 p.m.

AFC

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

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

BIRMINGHAM BOWL

FRIDAY, DEC. 29 GATOR BOWL

TUESDAY, DEC 19 FRISCO BOWL

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

Montgomery, Ala. Arkansas St. vs. N. Illinois, 10 a.m.

INDEPENDENCE BOWL

Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky vs. Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

DIV

Tampa, Fla. Geogia Tech vs. UCF, 4:30 p.m.

POP-TARTS BOWL

Shreveport, La. Texas Tech 34, California 14

NFC

DIV

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

USF vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.

Orlando, Fla. Appalachian St. 13, Miami (Ohio) 9

LA BOWL

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

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

PINSTRIPE BOWL

Inglewood, Calif. UCLA 35, Boise St. 22

AFC

AWAY

New Orleans Jacksonville St. 34, Louisiana 31, OT

Albuquerque, N.M. Fresno St. 37, New Mexico St. 10

NFC

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

DIV

THURSDAY, DEC. 28 FENWAY BOWL

NEW MEXICO BOWL

AFC

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

Jacksonville, Fla. Clemson vs. Kentucky, 10 a.m.

El Paso, Texas 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

FAVORITE Philadelphia

OPEN 4½

TODAY 3

O/U (47½)

UNDERDOG at SEATTLE

MONDAY

MIDWEST

Bowling Green 79, UMKC 69 Chicago St. 63, Valparaiso 62 Creighton 85, Alabama 82 Dayton 82, Cincinnati 68 Evansville 70, Bellarmine 61 Fort Wayne 86, Bethune-Cookman 63 Georgetown 72, Notre Dame 68, OT Ill.-Chicago 89, W. Michigan 68 Indiana St. 83, Ball St. 72 Iowa 88, Florida A&M 52 Kansas 75, Indiana 71 Lindenwood (Mo.) 73, IUPUI 67 Michigan 83, E. Michigan 66 Michigan St. 88, Baylor 64 Northwestern 56, DePaul 46 Purdue 92, Arizona 84 Saint Louis 75, Louisiana Tech 74 Wichita St. 69, S. Illinois 68 Xavier 75, Winthrop 59

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MONDAY

FAVORITE Old Dominion

OPEN 4½

TODAY 4½

O/U (51½)

UNDERDOG Western Kentucky

FAVORITE UTSA

OPEN 7

TODAY 11½

O/U (52½)

UNDERDOG Marshall

FAVORITE Syracuse

OPEN 4½

TODAY 3

O/U (61½)

UNDERDOG South Florida

FAVORITE UCF

OPEN 4½

TODAY 4½

O/U (67½)

UNDERDOG Georgia Tech

TUESDAY

OPEN 1½ 4½ 3½ 6½ 14 9½ 7

TODAY 1½ 7½ 1½ 2½ 16½ 6½ 9½

O/U (53½) (44½) (61½) (41½) (46½) (41½) (53½)

UNDERDOG Northern Illinois Duke Georgia State Air Force Eastern Michigan Northwestern Coastal Carolina

LINE 7 8 7 13 4½

O/U (227½) (236½) (230½) (245) (232)

UNDERDOG Orlando at SAN ANTONIO Houston Washington at PORTLAND

FAVORITE Oregon at AUBURN at ILLINOIS Stony Brook at OMAHA at FAIRFIELD at LONGWOOD at LOUISVILLE at NORTHERN IOWA at OREGON STATE at KANSAS STATE at ILLINOIS STATE at BOISE STATE at MISSISSIPPI STATE at EASTERN KENTUCKY at MCNEESE at ABILENE CHRISTIAN at SAN JOSE STATE at STANFORD at OKLAHOMA STATE at IOWA STATE Washington Nevada

LINE 4½ 8½ 15½ 3½ 1 6 17 2½ 16½ 10 5½ 3½ 12 5½ 2 6½ 1½ 3 17½ 7½ 32 4 3

FAVORITE Vancouver at CAROLINA at NEW JERSEY at VEGAS at COLORADO

LINE -220 -220 -250 -205 -320

UNDERDOG at CHICAGO Washington Anaheim Ottawa San Jose

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL Albany (NY) 77, Stonehill 38 Canisius 65, Siena 63 Fairﬁeld 62, Mount St. Mary’s 44 George Washington 46, Hampton 40 Hofstra 113, Farmingdale St. 24 Le Moyne 66, Buffalo 61 Manhattan 73, Rider 39 Md.-Eastern Shore 72, Wagner 50 Niagara 67, Iona 48 Providence 66, Sacred Heart 35 Robert Morris 71, Coll. of Charleston 65 Seton Hall 84, UNLV 54 St. Bonaventure 55, Youngstown St. 47 St. John’s 51, Villanova 46 St. Peter’s 51, Marist 42 UConn 86, Louisville 62 Vermont 77, Duquesne 61

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. 4 Florida St. vs. No. 6 Georgia, 2 p.m.

Tucson, Ariz. Toledo vs. Wyoming, 2:30 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 1 RELIAQUEST 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. College Football Playoff Semiﬁnal Pasadena, Calif. No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m.

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL

MONDAY, JAN. 8 CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

FRESNO ST. 37, NEW MEXICO STATE 10 0 17

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10 37

First Quarter FRES_FG Lynch 32, 6:17. FRES_Freeman 26 pass from Keene (Lynch kick), 3:26. Second Quarter NMSU_FG Albertson 45, 10:47. FRES_Gill 23 pass from Keene (Lynch kick), 7:02. Third Quarter FRES_FG Lynch 25, 11:50. NMSU_Pavia 14 run (Albertson kick), 4:23. Fourth Quarter FRES_Keene 4 run (Lynch kick), 13:20. FRES_FG Lynch 38, 7:08. FRES_Moss 9 pass from Keene (Lynch kick), 4:40. A_30,822.

NMSU

FRES

First downs 12 23 Total Net Yards 200 500 Rushes-yards 35-142 25-120 Passing 58 380 Punt Returns 0-0 3-45 Kickoff Returns 2-28 1-14 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 11-25-1 31-40-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-21 0-0 Punts 5-41.0 1-66.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 7-42 7-65 Time of Possession 29:11 30:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_New Mexico St., Pavia 18-72, Young 5-18, J.Jones 5-15, McMillan 1-13, S.Thomas 1-10, Brady 1-10, M.Watkins 3-9, (Team) 1-(minus 5). Fresno St., Sherrod 20-90, Gilliam 3-21, Keene 2-9. PASSING_New Mexico St., Pavia 11-25-1-58. Fresno St., Keene 31-39-1-380, (Team) 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING_New Mexico St., Stowers 3-20, David 2-19, Bellamy 2-8, Brady 2-8, S.Thomas 1-6, McMillan 1-(minus 3). Fresno St., Sherrod 8-81, Brooks 5-77, Gill 5-69, Moss 4-76, Freeman 3-47, Watson 3-19, M.Dalena 3-11. MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

NEW MEXICO BOWL WINNERS

Dec. 16, 2023 — Fresno St. 37, New Mexico St. 10 Dec. 17, 2022 — BYU 24, SMU 23 Dec. 18, 2021 — Fresno State 31, UTEP 24 Dec. 24, 2020 — Hawaii 28, Houston 14 Dec. 21, 2019 — San Diego State 48, Central Michigan 11 Dec. 15, 2018 — Utah State 52, North Texas 13 Dec. 16, 2017 — Marshall 31, Colorado State 28 Dec. 17, 2016 — New Mexico 23, UTSA 20 Dec. 19, 2015 — Arizona 45, New Mexico 37 Dec. 20, 2014 — Utah St. 21, UTEP 6 Dec. 21, 2013 — Colorado St. 48, Washington St. 45 Dec. 15, 2012 — Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Dec. 17, 2011 — Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Dec. 18, 2010 — BYU 52, UTEP 24 Dec. 19, 2009 — Wyoming 35, Fresno St. 28, 2OT Dec. 20, 2008 — Colorado St. 40, Fresno St. 35 Dec. 21, 2007 — New Mexico 23, Nevada 0 Dec. 23, 2006 — San Jose St. 20, New Mexico 12

NBA Boston Phila. New York Brooklyn

19 18 14 13

5 7 11 12

7 11 12 17 24

PCT .792 .720 .560 .520

Dallas Houston New Orleans Memphis San Antonio

16 13 15 6 4

9 9 11 18 20

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

19 16 17 9 6

5 8 10 17 18

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

15 15 15 13 11

9 10 11 12 14

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Houston Semiﬁnal winners, 5:30 p.m.

ATLANTIC

18 13 14 10 2

PACIFIC

College Football Playoff Semiﬁnal New Orleans No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas, 6:45 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

NORTHWEST

ROSE BOWL

7 3

8 11 15 17 20

SOUTHWEST

CITRUS BOWL

3 7

.400

PCT

GB — 1½ 5½ 6½

.667 .577 .400 .292 .167

PCT

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Tampa, Fla. No. 13 LSU vs. Wisconsin, 10 a.m.

0 10

10 16 15 10 7 4

CENTRAL

ARIZONA BOWL

NEW MEXICO ST. FRESNO ST.

Toronto

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

SOUTHEAST

— 2 6½ 9 12

.720 .542 .538 .370 .077

— 4½ 4½ 9 16½

PCT

.640 .591 .577 .250 .167

— 1½ 1½ 9½ 11½

.792 .667 .630 .346 .250

— 3 3½ 11 13

PCT

.625 .600 .577 .520 .440

Phila. 124, Detroit 92 New Orleans 112, Charlotte 107 Washington 137, Indiana 123 Atlanta 125, Toronto 104 Boston 128, Orlando 111 San Antonio 129, L.A. Lakers 115 Houston 103, Memphis 96 New York 139, Phoenix 122

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee 146, Detroit 114 Phila. 135, Charlotte 82 Cleveland 127, Atlanta 119 Miami 118, Chicago 116 Minnesota 127, Indiana 109 Golden State 124, Brooklyn 120 Dallas 131, Portland 120 Oklahoma City 118, Denver 117 Sacramento 125, Utah 104 L.A. Clippers 144, New York 122

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Orlando at Boston, 1 p.m. New Orleans at San Antonio, 1:30 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Washington at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Golden State at Portland, 7 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Phila., 5 p.m. Houston at Cleveland, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Memphis at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Brooklyn at Utah, 7 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 7 p.m. Washington at Sacramento, 8 p.m. New York at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Memphis at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m. San Antonio at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Boston at Golden State, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES EAST

Bryant 101, Towson 93, 2OT CCSU 57, Mass.-Lowell 54 Delaware 67, Rhode Island 56 Drexel 71, Albany (NY) 52 FAU 64, St. Bonaventure 54 Georgia Tech 82, Penn St. 81, OT Hofstra 74, Norfolk St. 58 Le Moyne 80, Dartmouth 54 Marshall 72, UNC-Greensboro 65 Monmouth (NJ) 77, Rider 71 Niagara 89, NJIT 81 Pittsburgh 86, SC State 50 Providence 78, Sacred Heart 64 Radford 70, Bucknell 63 Rutgers 83, LIU 61 Saint Joseph’s 83, Iona 58 St. John’s 77, Fordham 55 UMass 87, West Virginia 79

SOUTH

9½

Appalachian St. 80, Gardner-Webb 59 Chattanooga 88, Alabama A&M 72 Davidson 98, Lynchburg 63 FIU 146, Trinity (FL) 55 George Mason 62, Loyola (Md.) 54 Georgia 66, High Point 58 James Madison 88, Hampton 71 Kennesaw St. 94, Presbyterian 84 Kentucky 87, North Carolina 83 Liberty 99, St. Andrews 26 Memphis 79, Clemson 77 Mercer 70, Florida Gulf Coast 65 Miami 84, La Salle 77

— ½ 1 2½ 4½

Auburn 67, Norfolk St. 39 Austin Peay 90, Lions 57 Georgia St. 78, Clemson 72 Georgia Tech 64, Georgia 53 Howard 46, FAU 45 Louisiana Tech 49, Alcorn St. 47 NC State 66, South Florida 54 Richmond 99, Liberty 73 South Carolina 99, Presbyterian 29 South Dakota 80, UT Martin 74, OT Tarleton St. 88, McNeese St. 64 Wofford 71, Virginia 70

MIDWEST

Evansville 70, Lindenwood (Mo.) 68 Green Bay 87, Saint Louis 54 Iowa 104, Cleveland St. 75 Kansas 69, Cent. Arkansas 48 Kansas St. 79, North Florida 53 Michigan 75, Miami (Ohio) 49 Missouri St. 72, Wichita St. 65 St. Thomas (MN) 82, Wis.-Stevens Pt. 49

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas 68, Samford 54 Baylor 75, Miami 57 Incarnate Word 57, St Edwards 49 Rice 85, Prairie View 59 Texas-Arlington 76, Sam Houston St. 65

FAR WEST

Air Force 70, Weber St. 58 BYU 79, Idaho St. 76, OT Cal Baptist 73, Cal St.-Fullerton 68 Fresno St. 68, Sacramento St. 47 Nevada 88, CS Stanislaus 53 New Mexico St. 70, Utah Valley St. 39 Paciﬁc 90, Long Beach St. 86 Pepperdine 80, CS Bakersﬁeld 60 San Francisco 74, Portland St. 63 Utah 96, S. Utah 60 Utah Tech 110, Bethesda 35 Washington 64, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 32

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES

Alamo-Navajo 76, Corona 25 Albuquerque High 80, Gadsden 62 Atrisco Heritage 106, La Cueva 76 Clayton 52, Penasco 48 Del Norte 69, Miyamura 44 Grants 80, Kirtland Central 50 Highland 75, Las Cruces 46 Legacy 66, Centennial, Colo. 29 Logan 56, Des Moines 53 Magdalena 47, Farwell, Texas 36 Navajo Prep 59, Rehoboth 43 Portales 65, Monte del Sol 16 Shiprock 78, Fort Deﬁance Window Rock, Ariz. 66 Valley 38, Artesia 36, OT Volcano Vista 81, Cleveland 62

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES

Albuquerque High 53, Gadsden 33 Cliff 24, Animas 17 Clovis 58, Rio Rancho 52 Gateway Christian 30, Mescalero Apache 29 Kirtland Central 56, Aztec 29 Las Cruces 63, Cleveland 52 Logan 59, Des Moines 31 Mayﬁeld 36, Centennial 32 Melrose 57, East Mountain 7 Mesa Vista 62, Cuba 37 Mesilla Valley Christian 33, Loretto Academy, Texas 19 Questa 54, Rehoboth 33 Sandia 64, Eldorado 50 Tatum 55, Tularosa 34 Tohatchi 57, Magdalena 31 Volcano Vista 53, West Mesa 41

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Toronto Florida Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

29 19 5 28 16 6 30 18 10 30 15 11 32 14 13 30 13 13 32 13 16 25 11 14

5 6 2 4 5 4 3 0

43 94 73 38 106 90 38 95 79 34 107 95 33 105 114 30 84 104 29 90 105 22 85 83

29 21 7 30 17 10 30 14 8 30 16 12 28 16 11 27 14 9 29 13 13 32 10 17

1 3 8 2 1 4 3 5

43 96 80 37 90 79 36 94 100 34 99 98 33 100 99 32 68 79 29 83 81 25 96 117

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Winnipeg Dallas Colorado Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

29 29 30 31 30 30 28 29

18 17 18 18 15 15 12 9

L OT PTS

GF GA

L OT PTS

GF GA

9 8 10 13 13 14 12 19

2 4 2 0 2 1 4 1

Columbus at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Boston, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Vegas at Carolina, 5 p.m. Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m. Colorado at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Ottawa at Arizona, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

GOLF PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS PNC CHAMPIONSHIPS PAR SCORES

Saturday At Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Fla. Yardage: 7,106; Par: 72 Purse: $1.85 million

FIRST ROUND

Team Kucher Team Langer Team Singh Team Goosen Team Duval Team Daly Team Cink Team O’Meara Team Annika Team Lehman Team Leonard Team Korda Team Stricker Team Woods Team Thomas Team Furyk Team Harrington Team Faldo Team Price Team Trevino

29-28—57 30-30—60 30-30—60 28-32—60 32-38—60 30-31—61 32-30—62 31-31—62 32-30—62 30-32—62 30-34—64 32-32—64 33-31—64 32-32—64 33-31—64 33-33—66 32-35—67 35-33—68 34-34—68 33-36—69

-15 -12 -12 -12 -12 -11 -10 -10 -10 -10 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -6 -5 -4 -4 -3

TRANSACTIONS

SOUTH

LINE +180 +180 +202 +168 +255

Minnesota 2, Vancouver 1, SO New Jersey 6, Columbus 3 Philadelphia 1, Detroit 0 Montreal 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 Winnipeg 6, Colorado 2 Toronto 7, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Rangers 2, Boston 1, OT Nashville 3, Washington 1 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT Arizona 2, Buffalo 0 Calgary 4, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 5, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 3, Seattle 2, SO

TUESDAY’S GAMES

SATURDAY’S SCORES EAST

NHL SUNDAY

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Detroit, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Montreal at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m. Seattle at Dallas, 6 p.m. Florida at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

BYU 86, Georgia St. 54 Cal Baptist 70, UC Riverside 69 Grand Canyon 91, Portland 63 Montana St. 106, SAGU American Indian College 81 N. Arizona 76, S. Utah 74 North Dakota 79, Utah Tech 62 Ohio St. 67, UCLA 60 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 69, UNLV 67, 2OT Santa Clara 69, Washington St. 61 UC Davis 82, Paciﬁc 61 UC Irvine 121, South Dakota 78 UC Santa Barbara 68, Loyola Marymount 59 Utah 76, Utah Valley St. 62 Utah St. 54, San Francisco 53 Weber St. 84, Wyoming 71

UNDERDOG at SYRACUSE USC Colgate at ARMY Stetson Wagner VMI Pepperdine Alcorn State UTSA Nebraska North Dakota State CSU Fullerton North Texas Northern Kentucky Louisiana UTEP Montana Idaho Oral Roberts Florida A&M at SEATTLE U at HAWAII

N.Y. Rangers 5, Anaheim 1 Nashville 6, Carolina 5, OT Boston 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, SO Dallas 5, Ottawa 4 Arizona 1, San Jose 0 Buffalo 5, Vegas 2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Arkansas 69, Lipscomb 66 Houston 70, Texas A&M 66 Houston Christian 107, Champion Christian 72 Oklahoma 81, Green Bay 47 TCU 79, Arizona St. 59 Texas 96, LSU 85 Texas Tech 76, Vanderbilt 54 Texas-Arlington 76, Air Force 73 Tulsa 73, Missouri St. 72

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SUNDAY

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver at Chicago, 1 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m. Anaheim at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Vegas, 6 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 6 p.m.

FAR WEST

FAVORITE at BOSTON New Orleans at MILWAUKEE at PHOENIX Golden State

two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

SOUTHWEST

DIV

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

NFC

Atlanta Florida A&M 30, Howard 26

CURE BOWL

NFC

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

AFC

TEXAS BOWL

NEW ORLEANS BOWL

AFC

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

DIV

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

AWAY

Conway, S.C. Ohio 41, Georgia Southern 21

CELEBRATION BOWL

NFC

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

DIV

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

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

SUNDAY’S GAMES

MONDAY’S GAMES

AFC

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

NFC

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

DIV

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

4-5-0 3-5-0 5-4-0 0-9-0

SATURDAY, DEC. 23 CAMELLIA BOWL

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.

AFC

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

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

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

FRIDAY, DEC. 22 GASPARILLA BOWL

Cincinnati 27, Minnesota 24, OT Indianapolis 30, Pittsburgh 13 Detroit 42, Denver 17

NFC

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

2-4-0 3-4-0 3-4-0 0-8-0

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Las Vegas 63, L.A. Chargers 21

AFC

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

HOME

269 261 270 341

380 299 280 230

AWAY

251 285 262 197 382 290 280 270

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

HOME

290 343 279 282 218 272 311 280

292 304 265 303

HOME

UNDERDOG Houston at NEW ENGLAND at CAROLINA N.Y. Giants Tampa Bay N.Y. Jets Chicago at ARIZONA Washington Dallas at JACKSONVILLE

NBA

SOCCER (WOMEN’S) 1 p.m. CBSSN — D1 Arkema: Paris Saint-Germain at Paris FC

O/U (36½) (37) (33½) (39½) (42½) (36½) (37½) (48) (50½) (49½) (41½)

SUNDAY

SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 a.m. USA — Premier League: Brighton & Hove Albion at Arsenal 9:30 a.m. NBC — Premier League: Manchester United at Liverpool

294 244 257 272

TODAY 3½ 8½ 3 5½ 3½ 8½ 3 12½ 6½ 1½ 3½

FAVORITE Arkansas State Troy Utah State James Madison South Alabama Utah San Jose State

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

OPEN 3 11½ 3 5 3½ 13½ 3½ 13 5½ 1½ 6½

SATURDAY

SNOWBOARDING 11:30 a.m. CNBC — FIS: World Cup, Anchorage, Alaska

GOLF 10:30 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The PNC Championship, Final Round, Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Fla. 11:30 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Q-School, Final Stage, TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass CC, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 11:30 a.m. NBC — PGA Tour: The

FAVORITE at TENNESSEE Kansas City Atlanta at NEW ORLEANS at GREEN BAY at MIAMI at CLEVELAND San Francisco at L.A. RAMS at BUFFALO Baltimore

FRIDAY

SKIING 2:30 p.m. NBC — FIS: Freeski World Cup, Copper Mountain, Colo.

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S) 1 p.m. ABC — NCAA Tournament: Texas vs. Nebraska, Championship, Tampa, Fla.

NFL SUNDAY

THURSDAY

NHL 1 p.m. NHLN — Vancouver at Chicago 4 p.m. NHLN — Washington at Carolina

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ACCN — Purdue at Notre Dame 11 a.m. SECN — Louisiana-Monroe at Alabama 1 p.m. SECN — Northwestern St. at LSU 2 p.m. BTN — Missouri at Illinois 3:30 p.m. FS1 — Virginia Tech at Rutgers 5 p.m. PAC-12N — Arizona at Arizona St.

Mississippi 88, California 78 NC A&T 85, Texas Southern 79 North Florida 113, Trinity Baptist 72 Rice 76, Northwestern St. 51 Richmond 64, Charlotte 56 SE Louisiana 61, Murray St. 55 SMU 68, Florida St. 57 Samford 99, Belmont 93 South Carolina 73, Charleston Southern 69 South Florida 77, Loyola Chicago 64 Tennessee 79, NC State 70 Tennessee St. 117, Boyce 59 Tennessee Tech 70, North Alabama 67 Tulane 105, Southern U. 81 UNC-Wilmington 82, Georgia Southern 77 VCU 87, Temple 78 Virginia 56, Northeastern 54 Virginia Tech 73, Vermont 51 W. Carolina 70, SC-Upstate 53 W. Kentucky 65, Austin Peay 64

38 97 76 38 103 92 38 107 94 36 99 94 32 93 86 31 88 99 28 86 91 19 67 105

Vegas 31 20 6 5 45 107 78 Vancouver 31 20 9 2 42 116 76 Los Angeles 27 17 6 4 38 99 69 Calgary 31 12 14 5 29 93 109 Seattle 32 10 14 8 28 89 107 Edmonton 28 13 14 1 27 98 102 San Jose 30 9 18 3 21 64 118 Anaheim 29 10 19 0 20 75 101 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and

BASEBALL Major League Baseball National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Acquired RHP Tyler Glasnow and OF Manuel Margot and cash considerations from Tampa Bay in exchange for RHP Ryan Pepiot and OF Jonny DeLuca; Glasnow also agreed to a ﬁve-year contract with Los Angeles. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed F Henri Drell to a twoway contract. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated OL Elijah Wilkinson from injured reserve. ATLANTA FALCONS — Activated LaCale London from injured reserve. Placed DL Kentavius Street on injured reserve. Promoted OL Tyler Vrabel and TE Tucker Fisk to the active roster from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted G Gabe Jackson and OT J.D. DiRenzo to the active roster from the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed LB DeMarquis Gates to the active roster. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Promoted S Tanner McCallister and LB Charlie Thomas III to the active roster from the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Promoted DT Carl Davis and RB Malik Davis to the active roster from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Promoted K Michael Badgley and DL Bruce Irvin to the active roster from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated CB Eric Stokes from injured reserve. Promoted RB Kenyan Drake and WR Bo Melton to the active roster from the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS — Promoted WR Steven Sims and LB Garret Wallow to the active roster from the practice squad. Activated K Ka’imi Fairbairn from injured reserve. Placed DB Tavierre Thomas on injured reserve. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Activated WR Jamal Agnew from injured reserve. Promoted TE Josh Pederson to the active roster from the practice squad. Waived QB Nathan Rourke. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed S Deon Bush to the active roster. Promoted NT Mike Pennel and RB Deneric Prince to the active roster from the practice squad. Waived LB Darius Harris. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated WR Tyler Johnson to the active roster from the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Promoted CB Ethan Bonner and RB Darrynton Evans to the active roster from the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Promoted RB Kevin Harris to the active roster from the practice squad. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Promoted WR Marquez Callaway and OT Cameron Erving to the active roster from the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS — Activated TE Darren Waller from injured reserve. NEW YORK JETS — Signed OL Xavier Newman to the active roster. Placed LB Zaire Barnes on injured reserve. Promoted DL Jalyn Holmes and LB Marcelino McCrary-Ball to the active roster from the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Designated CB Avonte Maddox to return from injured reserve. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Promoted DT T.Y. McGill and RB Jeremy McNichols to the active roster from the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DT Deadrin Senat to the active roster. Promoted DB Richard LeCounte and Derrrick Pitts to the active roster from the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed WR Mason Kinsey to the active roster. Promoted DL Marlon Davidson and LB JoJo Domann. Waived DL Teair Tart. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Promoted RB Jonathan Williams to the active roster from the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Returned D Ian Mitchell to Providence (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned F Alex Doucet to Toledo (ECHL) from Grand Rapids (AHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled RW William Lockwood from Charlotte (AHL). PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned D Mason Millman to Lehigh Valley (AHL) from Reading (ECHL). SEATTLE KRAKEN — Recalled C Tye Kartye from Coachella Valley (AHL). Reassigned C Shane Wright to Coachella. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reinstated D Timothy Liljegren from injured reserve. Recalled C Pontus Holmberg from Toronto (AHL). VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled C Jack Studnicka from Abbotsford (AHL) loan. Loaned D Nick Cicek to Abbotsford (AHL) Minor League Hockey American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed G Michael Hutchinson to a one-year contract for the remainder of the season. LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled G Parker Gahagen from Reading (ECHL) loan. ONTARIO REIGN — Recalled G Jacob Ingham from Greenville (ECHL). UTICA COMETS — Recalled G Jeremy Brodeur from Adirondack (ECHL) loan. SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed to a three-year contract with an option for 2027, as a designated player and completed the transfer of Emil Forsberg from RB Leipzig, pending receipt of his Visa and International Transfer Contract (ITC). ORLANDO CITY SC — Transfers D Antonio Carlos to Fluminense FC of Brazil’s Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A.

SPORTS

Sunday, December 17, 2023

MA JOR LE AG UE BA SEBALL

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

D-3

SIDELINES

Dodgers trade Rays for ace Glasnow Kareem Abdul-Jabbar falls and breaks hip at L.A. concert, condition unknown

L.A. also gives oft-hurt right-hander new deal By Fred Goodall

The Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Los Angeles Dodgers finalized their second major move this offseason on Saturday, acquiring Tyler Glasnow from the Tampa Bay Rays in a fourplayer trade after the pitcher agreed to a $136.5 million, fiveyear contract. Los Angeles also received outfielder Manuel Margot and sent the Rays young right-hander Ryan Pepiot and outfielder Jonny DeLuca. A week after signing free agent Shohei Ohtani to a record $700 million, 10-year contract to bolster an already potent lineup, the Dodgers addressed a need for pitching help with the addition of an often-injured, hard-throwing right-hander with a track record of being a dominant performer when healthy. A 30-year-old right-hander, Glasnow had one season remaining at $25 million and would have been eligible for free agency after next season. The teams reached a tentative agreement on the trade Thursday and were given a 72-hour window by Major League Baseball running through Sunday for the Dodgers to negotiate with Glasnow on a new deal. Glasnow went 10-7 with a 3.53 ERA while setting career highs for starts (21), innings pitched (120) and strikeouts (162) in 2023. Without a new contract, he would have been eligible to become a free agent after the

JOHN RAOUX/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Tampa Bay starter Tyler Glasnow pitches during Game 1 of an AL wild-card series against the Rangers in October in St. Petersburg, Fla. Glasnow went 10-7 with a 3.53 ERA while setting career highs for starts (21), innings pitched (120) and strikeouts (162) in 2023, but he will play in 2024 with the Dodgers after a trade.

2024 World Series. Margot, a .255 career hitter, batted .264 with four home runs and 38 RBIs in 99 games with the Rays in 2023. Parting ways with him enabled Tampa Bay to save even more money as the 29-yearold outﬁelder is owed $10 million next season, plus a $2 million buyout on a $12 million option for 2025. The Rays acquired Glasnow, along with outﬁelder Austin Meadows and pitcher Shane Baz, at the trade deadline in 2018 in a deal that sent one-time Tampa Bay ace Chris Archer to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Saturday’s cost-cutting move continues a trend that’s seen the team depart with other front-line pitchers. Right-hander James Shields also was an All-Star before being dealt to the Kansas City

Royals in December 2012. Lefties David Price and Blake Snell both won AL Cy Young awards with Tampa Bay before being dealt to the Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres in July 2014 and December 2020, respectively. In each case, the return for the Rays has included promising young prospects or players who helped the budget-minded franchise remain playoff contenders while also keeping the club’s payroll at a manageable level. Pepiot, 26, made his major league debut with the Dodgers in 2022 and has appeared in 21 games, going 5-1 with a 2.76 ERA with 80 in 78⅓ innings. He was 2-1 with a 2.14 ERA in three starts and ﬁve relief appearances this year after beginning the season on the injured list after straining his left oblique in his ﬁnal spring

training start. DeLuca, 25, is a right-handed hitter who batted .262 with two homers and six RBIs in 24 games for Los Angeles last season. Glasnow had Tommy John surgery in August 2021 and missed most of the following season before returning to the major leagues on Sept. 28, 2022. He sat out the first two months of 2023 due to a left oblique strain suffered during spring training, returned to the rotation in late May and helped the team reach the playoffs for a fifth consecutive year. Over portions of eight seasons with the Pirates and Rays, the right-hander is 30-27 with a 3.89 ERA over 127 games, including 88 starts. Glasnow started all 71 games he pitched with the Rays, compiling a 27-16 record with a 3.20 ERA with 678 strikeouts. He slots into the Dodgers rotation along with Walker Buehler and Bobby Miller. Buehler is expected back after rehabbing from his second Tommy John surgery, which ended his season early in 2022 and kept him out all of 2023. Los Angeles still needs more pitching. Three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw is a free agent who underwent shoulder surgery on Nov. 3, and the 35-year-old lefty has yet to decide where or when he might pitch next season. With Glasnow moving on and injured starters Shane McClanahan, Drew Rasmussen and Jeffrey Springs all expected to miss either all or a significant portion of next season, the Rays face the challenge of re-tooling a rotation headed by right-handers Zach Eflin and Aaron Civale.

MEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

LOS ANGELES — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was undergoing surgery for a broken hip Saturday after falling at a concert in Los Angeles. The NBA Hall of Famer was attending a show Friday night when he was injured. Paramedics at the undisclosed venue responded and the 76-year-old was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. His business partner, Deborah Morales, declined to provide a further update Saturday and referred only to a statement posted on Abdul-Jabbar’s social media. “We are all deeply appreciative of all the support for Kareem,” it said. Abdul-Jabbar was a key player on the Los Angeles Lakers’ teams during their “Showtime” era in the 1980s, leading them to ﬁve NBA championships. He was a six-time NBA MVP. The 7-foot-2 center was the NBA’s career-scoring leader until being passed by current Laker LeBron James in February. Abdul-Jabbar owned the mark for 39 years. He starred at UCLA, when he was known as Lew Alcindor and was a three-time national player of the year under coach John Wooden. Abdul-Jabbar disclosed in 2020 that he had prostate cancer. In 2009, he said he had been diagnosed the previous year with chronic myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer.

Ohtani and Acuña win MLB’s Hank Aaron Awards for offensive play LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. won the 2023 Hank Aaron Awards on Saturday, presented by Major League Baseball to the most outstanding offensive performer in each league. The MLB award is picked by fan balloting combined with votes from a panel of Hall of Famers and former winners, a group that this year included Johnny Bench, Craig Biggio, Ken Griffey Jr., Derek Jeter, Chipper Jones, Pedro Martínez, Eddie Murray, Albert Pujols, David Ortiz, John Smoltz and Robin Yount. The pair also won Most Valuable Awards last month in voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Ohtani became a free agent after the season and left the Los Angeles Angels for a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He led the AL with 44 homers and hit .304 with 96 RBIs, eight triples and 20 stolen bases in a season at the plate that ended Sept. 3 because of an oblique injury. Acuña was a unanimous winner of his ﬁrst NL MVP after becoming the ﬁrst big leaguer with 40 homers and 70 stolen bases in a season. The Associated Press

WOMEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

No. 3 Purdue beats top-ranked Wildcats Freshman leads No. 1 S.C. to 70-point win

The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Fletcher Loyer tied a career high with 27 points, Braden Smith added 26 and No. 3 Purdue beat No. 1 Arizona 92-84 on Saturday. Zach Edey had 22 points and nine rebounds, with the 7-foot-4 All-American handling the middle while Smith and Loyer supplied the outside firepower in the Indy Classic. The Boilermakers (10-1) handed the Wildcats their first loss while defeating a No. 1-ranked team for the first time since beating Arizona 72-69 on Nov. 25, 2000, which also was played in Indianapolis. Caleb Love scored 29 points and Keshad Johnson added 24 for the Wildcats (8-1). Oumar Ballo added 13 points.

The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Freshman MiLaysia Fulwiley had 18 points and No. 1 South Carolina pulled away early to beat Presbyterian 99-29 on Saturday. The Gamecocks improved to 10-0 for a third straight season. Chloe Kitts ﬁnished with 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Gamecocks and Ashlyn Watkins had 10 points and 12 rebounds. Freshman Tessa Johnson had 13 points, Kamilla Cardoso and Sakima Walker scored 12 apiece while Bree Hall added 10. Tilda Sjokvist led Presbyterian (8-4) with 15 points.

NO. 2 KANSAS 75, INDIANA 71 In Bloomington, Ind., Kevin McCullar Jr. scored 21 points, including four crucial free throws in the final minute, and Hunter Dickinson had 17 points and 14 rebounds as Kansas rallied in the second half for a win over Indiana. The Jayhawks (10-1), who picked up their first victory at Assembly Hall, trailed by as many as 13 and did not take their first lead of the game until Dickinson scored in the post to make it 62-61 with 4:53 remaining. Trey Galloway scored a career-high 28 points for Indiana (7-3), Mackenzie Mbako had 14, Malik Reneau finished with 13.

NO. 4 HOUSTON 70, TEXAS A&M 66 In Houston, Emanuel Sharp scored 21 points, L.J. Cryer added 17 and the unbeaten Cougars held off Texas A&M. Cryer has scored in double figures in 10 straight games, and Sharp has reached double figures in nine of 11 games this season. Jamal Shead had 12 points and eight assists, and J’Wan Roberts had 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for Houston (11-0), which shot 43% and made 11 3-pointers. Wade Taylor IV scored 34 points, including 26 in the second half, to lead an Aggies’ rally.

MICHIGAN STATE 88, NO. 6 BAYLOR 64 In Detroit, Tyson Walker scored 18 of his 25 points in the first half to help build a huge lead and struggling Michigan State went on to rout Baylor, handing the Bears their first loss of the season. The Spartans (5-5) had a breakout performance with a 30-point lead in the first half, looking like the the team respected enough to be ranked No. 4 in preseason AP Top 25. Michigan State’s A.J. Hoggard had 14 points, five assists and three steals while reserve guard Tre Holloman had 11 points. Baylor (9-1) started the game with six players averaging at least 10 points, but didn’t have a player in double digits until RayJ Dennis made a shot with 7:10 left in the game.

NO. 8 CREIGHTON 85, ALABAMA 82 In Omaha, Neb., Ryan Kalkbrenner came back from an early ankle injury to score 17 of his 19 points in the second half and lead Creighton past Alabama. Trey Alexander paced Creighton (9-2) with 22 points and Baylor Scheierman added 20, but it was the return of Kalkbrenner to start the second half that gave the Bluejays the boost they needed to bounce back from their midweek loss to UNLV. Alabama (6-4) led most of the second half until Kalkbrenner converted lobs from Alexander and Scheierman into easy layups on consecutive possessions and Scheierman hit a 3-pointer to put Creighton up 72-66.

NO. 14 KENTUCKY 87, NO. 9 NORTH CAROLINA 83 In Atlanta, Rob Dillingham scored 17 points,

AJ MAST/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Purdue guard Braden Smith shoots in front of Arizona forward Keshad Johnson during Saturday’s Boilermaker win in Indianapolis. Smith scored 26 points. including two straight baskets to swing the momentum back to Kentucky, and the Wildcats held on down the stretch to beat North Carolina. The Tar Heels squandered a chance to go for a tying 3-pointer when Elliot Cadeau, rushing the ball up the court, delivered a pass off the back of Cormac Ryan, who was looking the other way. RJ Davis scrambled to recover the loose ball but wound up dribbling across the center line for a backcourt violation.

NO. 11 OKLAHOMA 81, GREEN BAY 47 In Norman, Okla., Rivaldo Soares scored 13 points and Oklahoma overcame a sluggish start to roll past Green Bay in the Sooners’ final game before a showdown against No. 9 North Carolina. Otega Oweh added 12 points and John Hugley IV had 11 for Oklahoma (10-0), off to its best start since opening 12-0 during the 2015-16 season — when the Sooners reached the Final Four behind Buddy Hield.

NO. 12 TENNESSEE 79, N.C. STATE 70 In San Antonio, Texas, Josiah-Jordan James had 23 points, Zakai Zeigler added 20 and Tennessee held off North Carolina State in the Hall of Fame Series. The Volunteers (8-3) held the Wolfpack to 10 points in the final seven minutes to secure the victory, including a 3-pointer with 24.1 seconds remaining.

MEMPHIS 79, NO. 13 CLEMSON 77 In Memphis, Tenn., David Jones scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half, Jahvon Quinerly added 17 points and six assists, and Memphis held off Clemson. Nick Jourdain added 11 points for Memphis (8-2). PJ Hall led Clemson (9-1) with 21 points, while Chauncey Wiggins finished with 19 and Chase Hunter had 13. Hunter hit the first of two free throws with 1.3 seconds left to cut the Memphis lead to 79-77, but his miss of the second was grabbed by Malcolm Dandridge, preserving the Tigers’ win.

NO. 15 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 64, ST. BONAVENTURE 54 In Springfield, Mass., Johnell Davis scored 16 points and Florida Atlantic held off St. Bonaventure in the Hall of Fame Classic. Vladislav Goldin added 11 points for FAU (9-2), nine of them in the second half.

NO. 18 BYU 86, GEORGIA STATE 54 In Provo, Utah, Richie Saunders scored a career-high 20 points to help BYU beat Georgia State for its second straight victory. Saunders filled the void off the bench when BYU scoring leader Jaxson Robinson injured his ankle in the first half. Robinson played only seven minutes, scoring two points. Trevin Knell added 15 points for the Cougars (10-1).

NO. 19 TEXAS 96, LSU 85 In Houston, Max Abmas had 20 points and seven assists, Tyrese Hunter added a season-high 19 points and Texas defeated LSU. Dylan Disu scored 17 points and Dillon Mitchell had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Texas (8-2).

NO. 20 JAMES MADISON 88, HAMPTON 71 In Hampton, Va., Xavier Brown matched a career high with 17 points off the bench to lead six Dukes in double figures as James Madison rallied to beat Hampton.

NO. 22 VIRGINIA 56, NORTHEASTERN 54 In Charlottesville, Va., Reece Beekman scored 21 points, including the final four of the game to lift the Cavaliers over Northeastern. Beekman hit a pair of free throws to pull the Cavaliers (9-1) even at 54 with 52.7 seconds left, then banked in a short jumper with 5.1 seconds to go for the winning basket. After each team took a timeout with 3.2 seconds remaining, Northeastern (4-7) threw the ball away for its 17th turnover. Chris Doherty led the Huskies with 12 points.

NO. 24 MIAMI 84, LA SALLE 77 In Coral Gables, Fla., Wooga Poplar overcame a slight ankle injury and scored a career-high 25 points to help Miami beat La Salle. Norchad Omier finished with 23 points and Matthew Cleveland had 14 for the Hurricanes (8-2). Nijel Pack was Miami’s fourth double-figure scorer with 11.

NO. 25 NORTHWESTERN 56, DEPAUL 46 In Chicago, Nick Martinelli scored 16 points and Northwestern bounced back from a stunning loss to beat DePaul. Ryan Langborg added 14 points, Brooks Barnhizer and Boo Buie each had 11 and the Wildcats (8-2) came away with a win they sorely needed after getting beaten at home by Chicago State. on Wednesday night.

in double figures, and Utah defeated Southern Utah. The Utes (9-2) got 15 points from Dasia Young. Kennady McQueen had 12 points, six assists, six rebounds and three steals. Off the bench, Lani White and Matyson Wilke scored 11 points each. Megan Smith made 11 of 17 shots and scored 26 points for Southern Utah (3-6). Ava Uhrich added 15 points.

NO. 12 KANSAS STATE 79, NORTH FLORIDA 53

In Tampa, Fla., River Baldwin had 16 points and 11 rebounds, Aziaha James added 16 points, and NC State beat South Florida. Madison Hayes and Zoe Brooks both scored 12 for the Wolfpack (11-0). Brooks, coming off a triple-double, had seven rebounds and two assists. South Florida (7-4) got 11 points from Romi Levy, and Carla Brito chipped in 10.

In Manhattan, Kan., Aoka Lee scored a season-high 36 points on a near-perfect shooting night and Kansas State defeated North Florida. Lee finished 15-for-17 shooting and 6-for-6 from the line. Lee, who holds the Division I scoring record of 61 points in a game, was averaging 19.1 points entering Saturday’s game. Gabby Gregory had nine points, six assists and five rebounds for Kansas State (10-1). Freshman backup guard Taryn Sides had nine assists. Lyric Swann scored 12 points, Selma Eklund and Jayla Adams each added 10 for the Ospreys (4-8).

NO. 4 IOWA 104, CLEVELAND STATE 75

NO. 17 UCONN 86, NO. 18 LOUISVILLE 62

NO. 3 NC STATE 66, SOUTH FLORIDA 54

In Des Moines, Iowa, Caitlin Clark scored 38 points and reached No. 9 on the all-time scoring list as Iowa beat Cleveland State in the nightcap of a men’s-women’s doubleheader at Wells Fargo Arena. Hannah Stuelke contributed 17 points for the Hawkeyes (11-1) and grabbed 13 rebounds. The loss snapped Cleveland State’s nine-game winning streak. Mickayla Perdue led the Vikings (9-2) with 24 points. With a basket in the third quarter, Clark moved past former Iowa State player Ashley Joens for No. 9 on the all-time scoring list. Joens finished her college career last season with 3,060 points. Clark’s career total is now 3,079.

NO. 10 BAYLOR 75, NO. 24 MIAMI 57 In San Antonio, Texas, Sarah Andrews had 18 points and Baylor handed Miami its first loss, rolling to victory in the Hall of Fame Series. Baylor forced 15 turnovers and led for all but 1 minute, 34 seconds. Jada Walker added 14 points, Bella Fontleroy had 13 points and Yaya Felder had 12 points for the Bears (9-0). Shayeann Day-Wilson had 12 points to lead Miami (8-1). Ally Stedman and Kyla Oldacre each added 11 points.

NO. 11 UTAH 96, SOUTHERN UTAH 60 In Cedar City, Utah, Alisa Pili scored 20 points, leading five

In Hartford, Conn., Aubrey Griffin scored a season-high 25 points and Aaliyah Edwards added 22 and UConn pulled away to beat Louisville. It was the second straight win over a ranked team for the Huskies, who have used six different starting lineups and are 2-3 against teams now in the Top 25. The Cardinals gave up a season high in points and had their sixgame winning streak snapped. Paige Bueckers hit four 3-pointers and scored 20 points for the Huskies (7-3), with a career-high five blocks. Nika Muhl had 10 of UConn’s 24 assists on 32 baskets. Kiki Jefferson had 20 points for the Cardinals (10-2), Sydney Taylor had 13 and Olivia Cochran 12.

SETON HALL 84, NO. 23 UNLV 54 In South Orange, N.J., Azana Baines had 23 points and 11 rebounds to help Seton Hall rout UNLV. It’s the fourth straight win for the Pirates (8-3), who jumped all over the Lady Rebels (9-1). Alyssa Brown led the Lady Rebels with 13 points before fouling out. After putting up just 21 points in the opening 20 minutes, UNLV scored 23 in the third quarter, but couldn’t get defensive stops. Seton Hall had 26 points in the period and led 68-44 heading to the fourth. The Pirates shot 73% in the third quarter and 56% for the game.

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UCLA rolls past Mountain West champ Broncos By Joe Reedy The Associated Press

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Ethan Garbers answered the call for UCLA when it needed him the most. The junior quarterback told coach Chip Kelly he did not feel well enough UCLA 35 to start Saturday’s Boise St. 22 LA Bowl against Boise State, but when Collin Schlee was injured during the third quarter with the Bruins trailing, Garbers knew he had to come into the game. Garbers threw for 152 yards and two touchdowns as the Bruins rallied for a 35-22 victory over the Broncos, giving them their ﬁrst bowl victory since the Alamo Bowl to end the 2014 season. “This whole week and before the game I wasn’t feeling 100%. When I looked out there [in the second half], and the team needed me, that’s my biggest priority. It was an easy call to say the least,” said Garbers, who completed 9 of 12 passes and won Offensive MVP honors. Garbers started six games for the Bruins this season, but also had his share of injuries. Kelly

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UCLA wide receiver J. Michael Sturdivant catches a touchdown pass against Boise State cornerback A’Marion McCoy during Saturday’s LA Bowl in Inglewood, Calif.

wasn’t surprised with Garbers’ performance and when he said he wasn’t ready to start. “He said I think we got to go with Collin, but I’m ready to be a backup if we have to go,” Kelly said. “So when Collin went down, I asked him are we ready to go, and he said he was and played fantastic.” Garbers also gave Kelly a gift after the game when he announced he would return for one more season and UCLA’s move to the Big Ten. Garbers participated in Senior Night

ceremonies and there were plenty of questions about the quarterback position after freshman Dante Moore entered the transfer portal. The Bruins trailed 16-7 at halftime and scored on their ﬁrst three drives in the second half to take control of the contest, which took place 12 miles from the UCLA campus. TJ Harden rushed a season-high 105 yards on 20 carries, including two third-quarter touchdowns. J. Michael Sturdivant had four receptions for 142

yards, including a 40-yard score midway through the fourth quarter that put UCLA (8-5) up by three scores. George Holani had both of Boise State’s touchdowns and finished with 138 yards rushing on 17 carries. The Broncos (8-6) had won four straight games to claim the Mountain West title and earn the automatic bid to the game. Boise State got into the red zone on all four of its first-half drives, but had to settle for field goals by Jonah Dalmas on its first three trips instead of touchdowns. That would end up proving fatal for the Broncos. “How you execute in the red zone is everything. Not field goals. Scoring touchdowns,” coach Spencer Danielson said. “We’ve got to find ways to capitalize and put that ball in the end zone. We just didn’t get it done, so obviously the difference between nine points and 21 points is going to be a big part of the game.” Garbers came into the game with 11:25 remaining in the third quarter after starter Schlee was injured after a 44-yard run up the right sideline. Schlee appeared dazed after the hit as he walked to UCLA’s bench.

Garbers completed his ﬁrst eight passes, including a 5-yard TD to Kyle Ford three plays after entering the game. Harden then scored the next two touchdowns — a 1-yard run off left end with 3:03 remaining in the third quarter to give the Bruins a 21-16 advantage, and a 14-yard score in which he patiently waited for a hole to develop and then broke a tackle at the Broncos’ 4. Holani had a 1-yard carry off left tackle in the second quarter to put the Broncos up 16-7. The senior then went 66 yards up the middle with ﬁve minutes remaining in the fourth quarter to get the Broncos within 13. The 2-point conversion was no good. SCHLEE’S DAY Schlee made his second start of the season. The junior transfer from Kent State had 127 yards on seven carries and was 11 of 16 passing for 78 yards and a TD. Schlee gave the Bruins a 7-6 lead with 48 seconds left in the first quarter when he stepped up in the pocket on third-and-goal, stayed just shy of the line of scrimmage and flipped a pass to tight end Hudson Habermehl for a 5-yard touchdown. Three plays earlier, Schlee had a 50-yard run off right end and up the sideline to the Broncos 8.

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Fresno State’s Dean Clark tackles NMSU quarterback Diego Pavia during Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque. The former Volcano Vista prep player completed 11 of 25 passes for 58 yards and ran for 74 yards and a touchdown but was held in check during his homecoming.

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health concerns. Keene, a transfer from UCF, completed his first 15 passes, finishing 31 of 39 with an interception. He connected with Josiah Freeman for a 26-yard touchdown and Jaelen Gill for a 23-yard score as the Bulldogs took a 17-3 halftime lead. With Fresno State ahead 20-10 entering the fourth quarter, Keene ran for a 4-yard score that all but sealed the game. His final TD pass was a 9-yarder to Jalen Moss. “Our guys did a phenomenal job executing and making some plays,” Keene said. “The offensive line kept me upright. It kept me clean. It’s easy to do your job when that happens. So they played their butts off and I appreciate them.” Fresno State finished with 491 yards of offense and held New Mexico State to 200. Diego Pavia threw for just 58 yards while rushing for 72 yards and a touchdown for the Aggies (10-5), who reached double digits in wins for the first time since 1960 but lost to unbeaten Liberty in the Conference USA championship game two weeks ago. The Bulldogs sacked Pavia four times and intercepted him once. New Mexico State didn’t have a first down in the first quarter and didn’t top 100 yards of offense until midway through the third. “We didn’t execute. We didn’t play as well,” New Mexico State coach Jerry Kill said. “But that goes to Fresno State. They played an outstanding game.” MISSING TEDFORD Assistant head coach and linebackers coach Tim Skipper handled Tedford’s duties. “This game ball right here is for coach Tedford,” Skipper said, holding up a football. “We talked about that in the first meeting. This is the actual ball from the last snap. This thing is going to Fresno and going to coach Tedford, we’re gonna bring it home to him.”

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As he got up to leave, Kill had one last thing to say about Saturday’s game: “And we got our ass kicked.” The defeat wrapped up one of the greatest seasons in NMSU history, finishing 10-5 after losing its final two games. The Aggies made an appearance in the Continued from Page D-1 Conference USA championship game, and they went to a bowl game for the second “I don’t care; that’s my opinion. [If] I straight season — just the second time get in trouble, I don’t give a [expletive], either,” Kill said. “I can go down to Mexico that has ever happened. Until Saturday, the Aggies had never lost a bowl game. tomorrow, drink margaritas and let you Fresno State took care of that. The Bullall enjoy your life because I’ll be enjoying mine. But I got class, and I’ve had class my dogs controlled the game from the outset, holding NMSU’s offense to fewer than whole life. Never been treated like that.” 100 total yards in the first half. Playing Kill said he wasn’t made aware of the antics by Pavia — who played for Volcano through an injured throwing shoulder, Pavia completed 11 of 25 pass attempts for Vista in Albuquerque and later New 58 yards and one interception. He had 74 Mexico Military Institute but was not rushing yards and a touchdown but was recruited by UNM after either stop — held in check all night. for two months. It wasn’t brought to his It spoiled an otherwise triumphant attention until after NMSU beat the Lobos weekend for NMSU. Saturday’s game in Albuquerque on Sept. 16. drew a crowd of 30,822, the third-largest “Take that to the bank,” Kill said as he crowd in the bowl’s history and its largest wrapped things up. “And [Nuñez] better since 2010. A vast majority of those fans be disciplined. He better be disciplined were there for the Aggies, as most of the by this state, and if he’s not, it’s a crime. east side of the stadium was full. Thank you.”

Hundreds of fans were still streaming into the stadium as the ﬁrst quarter unfolded. The long lines created backups at every stadium entrance. By game’s end, many of those fans had headed for the exits, drawing the curtain on a season that will be remembered for the rapid growth of NMSU football. The Aggies have now won 16 of their last 22 games dating to the middle of last season, a span that includes a memorable win at Auburn on Nov. 18. “The bottom line is that Las Cruces is a special place with special people, certainly not used to winning,” Kill said. “Winning solves a lot of problems, believe me.” NOTES NMSU lost to Hawaii, UMass and Fresno State this season; three teams that were beaten by the Lobos. ... Fresno State quarterback Mikey Keene was the game’s offensive MVP. He completed his first 15 passes and finished with 380 yards and three touchdowns, completing 31 of 39 throws with an interception. ... NMSU was called for offside twice, the first time that has happened all season. ... The Aggies ran 60 plays, gaining 200 yards. Fresno State ran 65 plays for 500.

Harding runs over Highlands opponent to claim DII title McKINNEY, Texas — Blake Delacruz rushed for 208 yards, Braden Jay added 161 yards and three touchdowns on the ground and Harding won its first Division II championship, defeating Colorado School of Mines 38-7 on Saturday. Jay’s 73-yard touchdown run in the third quarter gave the Bisons a 28-7 lead and they added a Grant Ennis field goal and a short scoring run by quarterback Cole Keylon. The Bisons needed less than what for them would be an average day on the ground (404 yards per game) to become the first team to rush for 6,000 yards in a season at any level of NCAA football. They gained 502 yards to finish with 6,161 yards. John Matocha completed 24 of 33 passes for 270 yards for the Orediggers. He threw one touchdown pass and was intercepted once. His 2-yard touchdown toss to Noah Roper increased his all-divisions record for most career total touchdowns (191) and Division II record for most career touchdown passes (162). Harding led 21-7 at halftime after two touchdown runs by Jay and one from Jhalen Spicer. The Bisons’ flexbone churned out 228 yards in the half, with Delacruz gaining 101 yards on 13 carries. Harding (15-0) stopped Colorado School of Mines (14-1) on a fourth-down play at the 10-yard line in the second quarter and the Orediggers reached the Harding 32-yard line before Jacob Click missed a 49-yard field goal on the last play of the half. The Orediggers finished 0-for-3 on fourth down. School of Mines was runner-up to Ferris State in 2022, the year Matocha won the Harlon Hill Trophy. Matocha finished second to Central Missouri quarterback Zach Zebrowski in this year’s Harlon Hill vote, which was announced on Friday. Colorado School of Mines went 9-0 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play this year and defeated New Mexico Highlands 77-3 on Nov. 4.

Montana beats NDSU in two OTs to make FCS final MISSOULA, Mont. — Junior Bergen returned a fourth-quarter punt for a touchdown, caught a touchdown pass in the first overtime and threw for a 2-point conversion on a trick play in the second overtime to put Montana in the FCS Championship game with a wild 31-29 semifinal win over North Dakota State on Saturday. Bergen’s toss to Keelan White on an end-around right was duplicated by the Bison after their score, but Corbin Walker intercepted RaJa Nelson, sending the Grizzlies to the final game for the first time since 2009. Montana (13-1), the second seed with 10 straight wins, will face top-seeded and defending champion South Dakota State (140), owner of a 28-game winning streak, in Frisco, Texas, on Jan. 7. “I’ll have to get him rushing the passer next time,” Montana coach Bobby Hauck joked about Bergan, who had kickoff- and punt-return touchdowns a week earlier in a 35-28 overtime win against Furman. “He’s a special kid. Obviously his teammates work awfully hard for him.” The Associated Press

Jacksonville State wins bowl to cap first season competing in FBS By The Associated Press

of transfer portal losses to win its fifth straight bowl game.

NEW ORLEANS — Zion Webb completed a fourth-down pass to Perry Carter for an 18-yard, tying touchdown with 1:46 left in regulation, Garrison Rippa hit a 27-yard field goal in overtime, and Jacksonville State capped off its first season in the Football Bowl Subdivision with a 34-31 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette in the New Orleans Bowl. Ron Wiggins rushed for 126 yards and a score for Jacksonville State (9-4), which had to overcome four turnovers — three of which were returned for touchdowns — just to force overtime. Safety Jalen Clark scored touchdowns on a 46-yard fumble return and a 16-yard interception return for Louisiana-Lafayette (6-7). Fellow safety Tyree Skipper had a 43-yard interception return for a score that gave the Cajuns a 31-24 lead in the fourth quarter. Louisiana-Lafayette quarterback Chandler Fields ran for 1-yard TD — the only time the Cajuns ended an offensive possession in the end zone. Kenneth Almendares added a 33-yard field goal that tied the game at 24-all in the fourth quarter.

CELEBRATION BOWL FLORIDA A&M 30, HOWARD 26

MYRTLE BEACH BOWL OHIO 41, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 21 In Conway, S.C., freshman Rickey Hunt ran for four touchdowns and caught a fifth as Ohio overcame a host

In Atlanta, Jeremy Moussa threw three fourth-quarter touchdown passes, including two to Kelvin Dean Jr., and Florida A&M rallied past Howard. Florida A&M (12-1) closed the season with 11 consecutive wins. Moussa connected with Dean on scoring passes of 21 and 53 yards as the Rattlers recovered after trailing 14-0 in the first quarter and 16-10 to open the fourth. Carson Hinton’s 26-yard pick-6 gave Howard a 26-24 lead. The Rattlers answered with a 38-yard, flea-flicker touchdown pass from Moussa to JahMarae Sheread. Linebacker Isaiah Major intercepted Howard quarterback Quinton Williams with 1:45 left to seal it.

CURE BOWL APPALACHIAN STATE 13, MIAMI (OHIO) 9 In Orlando, Fla., Joey Aguilar threw for 211 yards and scored on an 8-yard run in the third quarter to lead Appalachian State past Miami (Ohio) in rainy conditions. Aguilar’s scoring run capped an 11-play, 73-yard drive and gave Appalachian State a 13-3 lead after Michael Hughes kicked field goals of 29 and 22 yards in the first half. The game was played in a steady rain, and pools of water formed around midfield over the bowl logo and in the end zones. There were 13 fumbles.

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WEEK 15 CAPSULES By Cindy Boren

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Buccaneers (6-7) at Packers (6-7) 11 a.m., CBS In the Packers’ loss to the Giants on a walk-off field goal, an opponent rushed for more than 200 yards on Green Bay’s defense for the fourth time this year.

Chiefs (8-5) at Patriots (3-10) 11 a.m., Fox Targets to Rashee Rice and Travis Kelce accounted for 20 of Patrick Mahomes’s 43 pass attempts (hauling in 13 for 155 of Mahomes’s 271 passing yards against Buffalo), with no other receiver targeted more than four times. Seven times this season, the team has failed to score more than 20 points in a game.

Cowboys (10-3) at Bills (7-6) 2:25 p.m., Fox Dallas is on a five-game roll and has a rookie kicker (Brandon Aubrey) who is 30-30 on his field goal attempts and, against the Eagles, was successful from 45, 50, 59 and 60 yards. No kicker had made two from 59 or beyond in a game before.

Ravens (10-3) at Jaguars (8-5) 6:20 p.m., NBC Odell Beckham Jr. is emerging as a productive receiver for Baltimore with Mark Andrews absent. Beckham caught four passes for 97 yards, including three for more than 15 yards, in the OT victory against his former Rams teammates.

Eagles (10-3) at Seahawks (6-7) 6:15 p.m. Monday, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes Philly has been outscored 75-32 by San Francisco and Dallas, their direct competition for the NFC’s No. 1 seed, and has given up 34, 42 and 33 points in its last three games. In those games, opponents have scored on 19 of their 30 possessions (13 touchdowns, six field goals).

OTHER GAMES

Falcons (6-7) at Panthers (1-12) 11 a.m. Atlanta has lost five one-score games, and Younghoe Koo — the league’s most accurate kicker with one miss coming into last week’s game — missed field goals from 50 and 52 yards in the 29-25 loss to Tampa.

Bears (5-8) at Browns (8-5) 11 a.m. In five games since being traded to Chicago, defensive end Montez Sweat has a team-best 3.5 sacks and helped the Bears rise to become a top five defense (total defense, pass defense and takeaways) over that span.

Jets (5-8) at Dolphins (9-4) 11 a.m. Miami could have become the second AFC team to get to 10 wins, but the Titans’ Monday night shocker no doubt left the Chiefs, Ravens and Bills rejoicing in the tightly packed AFC battle for the No. 1 seed.

Giants (5-8) at Saints (6-7) 11 a.m. Just when the Giants need a folk hero, here comes Tommy DeVito. He’s the first undrafted rookie QB in NFL history to win three straight starts without an interception; the first undrafted rookie QB in NFL history with a 100-plus passer rating in three straight starts; and the first Giants QB to win three straight starts with a 100-plus rating and zero interceptions since Fran Tarkenton in 1970.

Texans (7-6) at Titans (5-8) 11 a.m. With C.J. Stroud out with a concussion, Davis Mills is the 56th different QB starter this season.

49ers (10-3) at Cardinals (3-10) 2:05 p.m. Maybe it’s not outrageously hyperbolic to say “Brock Purdy” and “Joe Montana” in the same sentence any more. Purdy has connected on 70% or more of his passes in seven consecutive games, joining Montana (whose mark of eight in 1989 would seem reachable for Purdy against Arizona), Sam Bradford (seven, 2016) and Drew Brees (seven, 2016) as the only NFL QBs to do so in seven or more consecutive games.

Commanders (4-9) at Rams (6-7) 2:05 p.m. Five of the 14 interceptions thrown by Washington QB Sam Howell have come in the last five games, with a pick-six in each of the last three games. The record is four.

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Goff throws five touchdowns as Detroit puts end to Denver’s run Broncos’ playoff hopes take hit as yelling incident between Payton, Wilson on sideline draws attention By Larry Lage

The Associated Press

DETROIT — Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions bounced back and took a step toward ending a six-season playoff drought. Goff matched a career high with five touchdown passes, three to rookie tight end Sam LaPorta, and Detroit routed the Denver Broncos 42-17 on Saturday night. “Our superpower is how we respond as a team,” Goff said. The NFC North-leading Lions (10-4) could clinch a spot in the postseason for the first time since the 2016 season if other results go their way the rest of Week 15. The simplest scenario would be a loss or tie by Seattle to Philadelphia on Monday night. If Detroit wins a division title for the first time since 1993, it would host a playoff game. The Lions have only one playoff victory since the franchise won the NFL title in 1957. “It would be fun, but we’ve got work to do,” Goff said. The Broncos’ hopes of making the playoffs for the first time since the 2015 season took a hit. Denver (7-7) had won six of its previous seven games to pull within a game of AFC West-leading Kansas City. “We’ve got to keep believing,” quarterback Russell Wilson said. “We’ve done it before.” Goff and the the Lions had lost two of three, but they put that behind them with a dominant second quarter. “We’ve been through a lot of adversity as a group and a threegame lull is not the worst thing we’ve been through,” Goff said. The veteran quarterback, who turned the ball over eight times in the previous four games,

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Lions safety Brian Branch tackles Broncos running back Javonte Williams (33) during the ﬁrst half of Saturday’s game in Detroit. Denver had just 75 yards of offense in the ﬁrst half.

threw touchdown passes in the second quarter to LaPorta, rookie running back Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown to give Detroit a 21-0 halftime lead. Denver, meanwhile, was 1 of 6 on third down and had just 75 yards in the first half. “It was the ultimate team win. The defense started it out for us,” coach Dan Campbell said. The Broncos had a touchdown on fourth down negated late in the third when offensive lineman Quinn Meinerz was flagged for being offside. Broncos coach Sean Payton proceeded to scream at Wilson on the sideline and Denver settled for a field goal to cut its deficit to 28-10. “I was upset about the call,” Payton said. “That’s all. Simple. That’s it.” So, why was he yelling at Wilson? “Listen, what I talk to Russell about is none of your business,”

he said curtly to a reporter. Wilson, who lost a fumble on his first possession, finished 18 of 32 for 223 yards with a touchdown pass and a rushing TD. He was relieved by backup Jarrett Stidham on a meaningless final series. Goff was 24 of 34 for 278 yards, throwing five touchdown passes for the first time since 2018 when he played for the Rams, and didn’t have a turnover. He joined Houston’s C.J. Stroud as the only QBs to throw for five TDs in a game this season. The Broncos had given up just four touchdown passes over the previous six games. LaPorta, a second-round pick from Iowa, became the first rookie tight end to have at least 70 receptions, 700 yards and nine touchdowns. St. Brown had seven catches for 112 yards and a score after totaling five receptions in the previous two games. The Lions leaned on a strong

running game with Gibbs and David Montgomery combining for 185 yards and 27 carries. Gibbs’ 12-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter put them ahead 35-10. PRIME-TIME PLAYERS Detroit is 4-0 at night this season with wins over Kanas City, Green Bay, Las Vegas and Denver.

ADDITIONAL SCENARIOS Detroit could secure a playoff spot on Sunday if the Los Angeles Rams lose or tie along with a Tampa Bay loss or an Atlanta loss or tie.

INJURIES Broncos: OLB Nik Bonitto was inactive after leaving last week’s game with a knee injury. Lions: CB Jerry Jacobs (hamstring) and TE Brock Wright (groin) were hurt during the game.

UP NEXT Broncos: Host New England on Sunday, Dec. 24. Lions: At Minnesota on Dec. 24.

Colts win for fifth time in last six games, move up in playoff position By Michael Marot The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Gardner Minshew got the most out of his depleted supporting cast. The Colts’ quarterback, himself a backup, made big plays with backup receivers. He got Indianapolis’ reserve running backs into play calls that would succeed. It was some of Minshew’s ﬁnest work of the season — perhaps of his entire career. Minshew matched his career high with three touchdown passes, Indianapolis rushed for 170 yards and the Colts improved their playoff prospects with a 30-13 win over the sagging Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday. “We’ve needed to win these games, and we’ve done a great job down the stretch,” Minshew said. “I think everybody was locked in, the urgency was there, the attention to details. At this point it’s all about winning games, however; you’ve got to get it done.” Minshew and the Colts (8-6) have won ﬁve of six to move from the bottom of the AFC South into playoff contention. They currently hold the No. 7 position in the AFC, and they will remain there when this weekend’s games conclude because of tiebreakers. They wouldn’t be in that spot without Minshew, who replaced injured rookie Anthony Richardson in Week 5. On Saturday, Minshew went 18 of 28 with 215 yards despite losing top receiver Michael Pittman Jr. to a concussion and top rusher Zack Moss to an injured right arm. Jonathan Taylor (right thumb), the 2021 NFL rushing champ, didn’t play, either. The Steelers (7-7) dropped their third straight and fell into last place in the rugged AFC North, putting coach Mike Tomlin’s run of 16 straight seasons at .500 or better in jeopardy. Pittsburgh took an early 13-0 lead behind backup quarterback Mitch Trubisky, who made his

second start in place of the injured Kenny Pickett. But by late in the fourth quarter, the Colts had scored 30 consecutive points and third-stringer Mason Rudolph was slinging passes for the Steelers. “Let’s be honest, we’re a fundamentally poor football team right now,” Tomlin said. “We’re playing losing football, and I own that. I don’t necessarily have the answers today. If I did, we’d have played differently today. But I will acknowledge things will not continue the way that they are.” Trubisky was 16 of 23 for 169 yards with one TD pass and two interceptions. Pittsburgh rushed for 74 yards and finished with 216 total yards. The Steelers got off to a promising start when a replay review changed a fumble by Trubisky into a 1-yard TD run. Chris Boswell missed the extra-point attempt. Six plays later, Pittsburgh capitalized on a blocked punt when Trubisky threw a 4-yard TD pass to Diontae Johnson early in the second quarter. But Indy’s defense stiffened from there, and the Colts took control when Minshew and Moss hooked up on a 16-yard TD pass and D.J. Montgomery caught a 14-yard TD pass with 22 seconds left in the first half for a 14-13 lead. Montgomery was promoted from the practice squad this week. “He’s just worked his tail off on the scout team all year; he’s just made play after play,” Colts coach Shane Steichen said. “It’s like, we’ve got to get this guy up on the active roster.” Pittsburgh’s downward spiral continued when Najee Harris fumbled on the first Steelers play of the second half. On the next snap, Minshew threw an 18-yard scoring pass to Mo AlieCox to make it 21-13. The Colts sealed the win with three field goals by Matt Gay. Trey Sermon ran 17 times for 88 yards to lead the Colts after logging only 11 runs this season.

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tory and set up Evan McPherson’s game-ending 29-yard field goal. “Jake’s just so steady, you know?” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “He really is. He doesn’t get rattled by a negative play. He doesn’t overreact to it.” Browning was 29 for 42 for 324 yards with two touchdowns — both to Higgins — and an interception. He completed passes to 11 receivers and has a 110.9 passer rating in his four starts. Nick Mullens, the fourth quarterback to start a game this season for the Vikings, was solid in defeat. He passed for 303 yards with two TDs but threw two interceptions. “An absolute grind of a football game,” Mullens said. “But those are the types of games you want to be in.” Minnesota (7-7) has lost three of four, the only win in that stretch a 3-0 decision at Las Vegas that led to Joshua Dobbs being benched in favor of Mullens, who had more success finding the Vikings’ playmakers. Jordan Addison had six catches for 111 yards and two TDs. Justin Jefferson had seven receptions for 84 yards in his first full game since returning from a hamstring injury. He suffered a chest injury in the Raiders game. “Nick did a fantastic job today,” Jefferson said. “Especially with just a week of preparation of him being the starting quarterback. I feel like he came out today with confidence.” Backup Ty Chandler had a career-high 132 rushing yards and a touchdown for Minnesota. Chandler got the start in place of Alexander Mattison, who has a sprained ankle. With five teams a half-game behind them in the NFC standings, the Vikings could be out of playoff position by the end of the weekend. “Very unfortunate,” Minnesota coach Kevin O’Connell said. “Come on the road and battle a team that’s playing well right now. Felt like we let one slip away.”

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POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ...... Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ...... Source: https://pollen.com

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Mostly Cloudy.

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48 / 32

Rain & Snow Possible. Rain & Snow Possible.

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45 / 29

Humidity (Noon)

42 / 23

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51%

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Boston 56/50

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Farmington 48 / 23

Raton 52 / 21

~ ola Espan 52 / 20

San Francisco 65/52

Las Vegas 55 / 21

Pecos 56 / 25 Albuquerque 58 / 26

Truth or Consequences 62 / 33

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67° in Animas -2° in Costilla

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Monterrey 72/55 Mérida 79/70

Guadalajara 77/54

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Albuquerque 58/26 Phoenix 77/49

Mexico City 68/52

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St. Louis 47/34

Carlsbad 71 / 33

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Denver 56/25

Hobbs 69 / 34

Alamogordo 64 / 34

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Las Vegas 68/44

New York 55/52

Detroit 47/35

Chicago 47/31

Omaha 47/26

La Paz 73/71

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Alamogordo 61/25 s Albuquerque 50/28 s Angel Fire 34/11 s Artesia 61/32 s Carlsbad 64/30 s Chama 51/11 s Cimarron 34/11 s Clayton 56/28 s Cloudcroft 61/25 s Clovis 58/32 s Crownpoint 55/21 s Deming 61/28 s 43/21 s Espan~ ola Farmington 40/27 pc Fort Sumner 59/28 s Gallup 55/15 s Grants 51/19 s Hobbs 61/32 s Las Cruces 60/32 s

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Clovis 64 / 28

Ruidoso 63 / 27

Minneapolis 40/19

Billings 48/28

Santa Fe 49 / 26

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Sillver City 63 3 / 35

Seattle 48/39

Clayton 58 / 25

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Thursday

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The following water statistics of December 14th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.889 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.768 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.429 Total production: 6.086 Total consumption: 5.812 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.93 Reservoir storage: 318.56 Estimated reservoir capacity: 24.93%

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The Northeast will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers, highest temperature of 58 in Salisbury, Md. The Southeast will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers W O R L D C I T I E S and isolated thunderstorms, highest temperature of 81 in Marathon, Fla. In the Northwest there Yesterday Today Tomorrow will be partly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 58 in Coos Bay, Ore. The City Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Southwest will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers, highest temperature of 76 in Mesa, Ariz. Amsterdam 50/44 mc 51/48 mc 49/46 mc Athens 61/49 ra 50/47 ra 55/42 s Baghdad 69/43 mc 71/46 mc 69/58 pc WEATHER HISTORY Beijing 17/10 s 18/-4 s 19/9 cl Dec. 17, 1987 - A storm in the southwestern U.S. brought heavy rain and heavy snow to Berlin 47/38 mc 49/47 cl 46/43 s parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. Charleston, NV was blanketed Bermuda 65/59 mc 67/61 ra 70/68 ra with 12 inches of snow. Lake Havasu City, AZ was drenched with 2.26 inches of rain. Bogota 63/53 ra 58/54 ra 64/52 ra Cairo 78/60 s 75/57 mc 74/58 pc NATIONAL EXTREMES SATURDAY Copenhagen 47/39 cl 49/46 cl 46/46 ra High 87° in Fallbrook, Calif. Low -21° in Peter Sinks, Utah Dublin 55/51 pc 54/50 ra 55/51 ra Frankfurt 46/38 mc 45/38 mc 45/38 s NIGHT SKY Guatemala City 77/57 ra 69/54 pc 70/52 pc Sunrise Mercury Istanbul 50/44 ra 45/42 ra 48/40 s 7:56 a.m. Today 7:07 a.m. Rise 67/52 cl 63/54 mc 61/51 pc 5:39 p.m. Jerusalem Monday 7:07 a.m. Set Johannesburg 77/59 ra 85/60 ra 83/65 ra Tuesday 7:08 a.m. Venus 75/68 mc 68/65 pc 66/65 mc Rise 3:52 a.m. Lima Sunset 52/43 cl 52/47 mc 53/48 mc Set 2:34 p.m. London Today 4:52 p.m. Mars Madrid 54/36 s 53/38 s 53/42 s Monday 4:52 p.m. Rise 64/51 ra 68/52 pc 69/54 mc 6:30 a.m. Mexico City Tuesday 4:53 p.m. Set 24/6 sn 34/7 sn 32/18 mc 4:13 p.m. Moscow Nassau 76/70 ra 77/74 ra 75/71 s Jupiter Moonrise 74/52 pc 74/50 s 74/56 s 1:55 p.m. New Delhi Today 11:16 a.m. Rise 43/20 cl 42/28 cl 32/27 mc -- Oslo Monday 11:47 a.m. Set Paris 51/40 pc 48/36 pc 47/41 s Tuesday 12:15 p.m. Saturn 89/75 s 87/75 pc 86/74 pc Rise 11:11 a.m. Rio Moonset Set 10:03 p.m. Rome 56/46 s 54/38 s 56/40 s Today 10:13 p.m. Uranus Seoul 39/25 sn 19/10 s 23/16 mc Monday 11:23 p.m. Rise 41/31 ra 44/32 ra 41/35 mc 2:33 p.m. Stockholm Tuesday Next Day Set -- Sydney 94/64 s 76/68 ra 78/67 ra Tel Aviv 77/50 s 70/54 pc 69/63 pc Tokyo 71/56 pc 63/52 s 49/42 mc First Q. Full Last Q. New 42/40 mc 43/41 ra 43/40 ra Dec. 19 Dec. 26 Jan. 3 Jan. 11 Toronto Vienna 47/39 pc 47/38 pc 49/39 pc

Oompa-Loompa: What do we do? New York museum

returning art linked to trafﬁcking scheme

Dahl gave Hollywood a lot to work through By Robert Ito

The New York Times

What do we do with the Oompa-Loompas? That’s a question filmmakers and writers have tangled with ever since the 1964 debut of the tiny, largely unpaid laborers in Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In Dahl’s original, the Oompa-Loompas were starving African pygmies, subsisting largely on a mash of green caterpillars and tree bark until “rescued” by Willy Wonka. He smuggled the entire tribe out of Africa in packing crates to live and work — and sing and goof and dance — in the chocolatier’s plantation, er, factory. “It didn’t occur to me that my depiction of the Oompa-Loompas was racist,” Dahl said in a 1988 interview. “But it did occur to the NAACP and others.” In the five decades since their literary debut, the Oompa-Loompas have undergone a series of transformations to shake their story from its colonialist roots. Some fixes have been transparently cosmetic (in subsequent editions of the book, illustrators simply made the tribesmen white). Others weren’t fixes at all: In the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the director, Tim Burton, just shifted continents, moving the Oompa-Loompas out of Africa to someplace that vaguely resembles South America — as imagined by an adventure film director from the 1950s. In the Warner Bros. prequel Wonka, which opened Friday, the filmmakers address the colonialist aspects head on. In many ways, the prequel format — with Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) struggling to get his chocolate business up and running — allowed the filmmakers to sidestep the book’s more off-putting elements. Instead of smiling servants, there’s a sole Oompa-Loompa, and he is

shamelessly stolen, but has also volunteered to return them, as part of their ongoing cooperation, to their rightful owners: the ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s People of Cambodia.” Metropolitan Museum of Art This isn’t the first time the said Friday it will return more museum has repatriated art than a dozen pieces of ancient linked to Latchford. In 2013, it artwork to Cambodia and Thai- returned two objects to Camland after they were tied to an bodia. art dealer and collector accused The Latchford family also of running a huge antiquities had a load of centuries-old trafficking network out of Cambodian jewelry in their Southeast Asia. possession they later returned This most recent repatriation to Cambodia. of artwork comes as many In February, 77 pieces of museums in the U.S. and Europe jewelry made of gold and other reckon with collections that precious metal pieces, including contain objects looted from items such as crowns, necklaces Asia, Africa and other places and earrings were returned to during centuries of colonialism their homeland. or in times of war or other Other stone and bronze upheaval. artifacts were returned in SepFourteen Khmer sculptures tember 2021. will be returned to Cambodia, The latest works being and two will be returned to returned from the Metropolitan Thailand, according to the Museum of Art were made museum. between the ninth and 14th The repatriation of the centuries in the Angkorian ancient pieces was linked to period and reflect the Hindu well-known art dealer Douglas and Buddhist religious systems Latchford, who was indicted prominent during that time, in 2019 in connection with a according to the museum. multiyear scheme to sell looted Angkor in the ninth to the 15th Cambodian antiquities on the centuries was a powerful kinginternational art market. dom in the area of present-day Latchford, who died the Cambodia. following year, had denied any Tourists can see relics of that involvement in smuggling. past at the Angkor Wat temple The museum initially coopcomplex in the country’s northerated with the U.S. attorney’s west. office in Manhattan and the Among the pieces being New York office of Homeland returned include a bronze Security Investigations on the sculpture called The Bodhireturn of 13 sculptures tied to sattva Avalokiteshvara Seated Latchford before determining in Royal Ease made sometime there were three more that between the late 10th century should be repatriated. and early 11th century. Another “As demonstrated with today’s piece of art, made of stone in announcement, pieces linked the seventh century and named to the investigation of Douglas Head of Buddha, will also be Latchford continue to reveal returned. Those pieces are part themselves,” HSI Acting Special of 10 that can still be viewed in Agent in Charge Erin Keegan the museum’s galleries while said in a statement Friday. arrangements are being made for their return. “The Metropolitan Museum There is no specific timeline of Art has not only recognized for when the pieces will be the significance of these 13 returned, the museum said. Khmer artifacts, which were

By Maysoon Khan

The Associated Press/ Report for America

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Timothée Chalamet, left, and Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa in a scene from Wonka.

something of a lone wolf, more cranky nemesis and eventual mentor than kowtowing lackey. Put simply, he’s Hugh Grant. As for the Oompa-Loompas’ sketchy working conditions (are they really just paid in chocolate?) and the questions about just how and where Wonka gets all those cocoa beans to make his delicious chocolate, well, he unwittingly steals them — from the Oompa-Loompas! — and makes the candy himself (at this point in the story, he’s still a small-batch candymaker). “I was really interested in the idea of the Oompa-Loompas judging Wonka for having stolen their cocoa beans, and finding him extremely wanting, and meting out punishments,” said Paul King, the film’s director and co-writer. In the film, we finally hear the Oompa-Loompas’ side of this once-lopsided story, a first for a five-decade franchise that includes books, musicals (Broadway and kids’ versions) and films. Even so, there were complaints about these Oompa-Loompas even before this latest film opened, with some actors criti-

cizing the decision to cast Grant in a role traditionally played by actors with dwarfism. Scholars have criticized Dahl’s children’s books for decades, calling out instances of racist and sexist stereotypes. This year, Puffin Books ignited a firestorm when it released new versions of Dahl’s classics, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, that removed, among other things, references to skin color, body size and slavery. For years, biographers have taken on Dahl himself, calling out his self-professed antisemitism and his stunningly cruel mistreatment of his first wife, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal. So it’s little wonder when the creators of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, first adapted Dahl’s story, they ran as fast and far as they could from the book’s “happy slave” narrative, with its singing, grinning Black workers, dressed only in skins and leaves, toiling for next to nothing in a place they never leave. After race riots in Britain in

the 1950s and the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, “there really is no way of overstating how not of the moment this was,” said Catherine Keyser, an English professor at the University of South Carolina who has published on Dahl. In the Wilder version, the Oompa-Loompas morphed from starving natives from “the deepest and darkest part of Africa” into orange-faced, green-haired men in vaguely European togs. Their African home was changed to the fictional nation of Loompaland; instead of being smuggled from the jungle in crates, they were “transported.” To play the newly refashioned Oompa-Loompas, the 1971 filmmakers hired performers with dwarfism and painted them orange, a decision Dahl found upsetting. Dahl was also pressured to recast the Oompa-Loompas in later editions of his books. Illustrator Joseph Schindelman’s images of smiling Black natives were re-imagined by various illustrators as fair-skinned sprites with spiky blond locks, or bearded hippies.

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Homes sold: 2 Median price: $910,000

Ho omes sold: 3 Me edian price: $1,232,818

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Ho omes sold: 2 Me edian price: $1,875,500

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Homes sold: 2 Median price: $436,0 000

Homes sold d: 3 Median price: $756,5 500

Ho omes sold: 0 Median price: NA

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By golly, ADUs have a way of being built

Proposed rules may lead to higher mortgage rates for loans with smaller down payments

ast week’s column raised the confusing notion that all Santa Fe residential lots have a “by right” to an accessory dwelling unit unless they can’t. The column provided examples of permitting difficulties but never said why and how some lots can’t. On lots with no restrictions, “by right” provisions mean underlying zoning limits are effectively doubled. A recent example I’m familiar with was a new subdivision proposed on Agua Fría Street. The developer, with urging from the city Planning and Land Use Department at the time, sought increasing density over the surrounding neighborhood’s predominance of five homes per acre, or R-5. The developer and city staff hoped to exercise a never-used provision of the 1999 General Plan called R-7-I. It says if a project is deemed “infill,” then there’s a “by right” to increase density from five to seven homes per acre. The caveat to that official generosity would be restrictive covenants on recorded deeds that no lots could have accessory dwelling units. The reason R-7-I has never been used is because surrounding R-5 neighborhoods organize themselves and fight increased density tooth and nail. Developers inevitably give up and often wonder why they let Land Use staff talk them into something that drags out approvals. Such was the case on the Agua Fría tract. The developer eventually threw in the towel and came back with an R-5 master plan. Neighbors celebrated victory. Except the developer wisely removed restrictive covenant language, which meant every lot could “by right” have an ADU, meaning the neighborhood could effectively become R-10 — 10 dwelling units to the acre. City ordinance 2019-12 revised the 2008 code on accessory dwelling units to make them easier to do. One curious passage in the language said ADUs were exempt from density restrictions but then added “nothing herein is intended to supersede private covenants or other restrictions.” That doesn’t mean covenants and deed restrictions can’t be ignored, just that it wasn’t the city’s intent. So when can restrictive covenants be ignored? Anytime. You could get sued and lose, but it won’t be the city suing you, and the city won’t help anyone trying to sue you. The likelihood of being sued depends on whether you live in a neighborhood governed by an active homeowners association. The city keeps a map of registered neighborhood associations and HOAs. They are not the same thing. HOAs have dues and governance and the funds to sue to enforce

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Marsheila Caldwell, 49, decorates the family Christmas tree with sons DaySean Sims, 22, and DeAngelo Caldwell, 11, in their apartment in Cincinnati this month. Caldwell has been searching for a home to buy.

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By Tory Newmyer The Washington Post

arsheila Caldwell wants to celebrate her upcoming 50th birthday by buying a home in a neighborhood safe enough for her 11-year-old son to play outside. The Cincinnati social worker is gearing up to restart a search she had abandoned out of frustration three times in recent years because she couldn’t ﬁnd an affordable house that met her needs. But she also knows the market has only gotten more difficult, with home prices hitting record levels and interest

rates hovering at two-decade highs. “I’m just praying that somewhere I can ﬁnd what I’m looking for,” Caldwell said. Finding a home she can afford could get harder if regulators get their way. An unusual alliance of big banks and some housing affordability advocates is arguing that a proposal meant to boost the ﬁnancial stability of banks would make mortgages more expensive for cash-poor homebuyers — disproportionately people of color. The proposed rule change would force banks to hold on to more capital for residential mortgages with smaller down payments. The logic is that such loans are riskier, so banks should

keep more in reserve against defaults. The practical effect: To afford that bigger cushion, banks will demand higher mortgage rates for borrowers who can afford only a small down payment. Despite narrowing during the pandemic — helped by low interest rates and government stimulus programs — the racial homeownership gap has been widening more recently and now stands at 29 percentage points, its widest in a decade, according to the National Association of Realtors. “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment,” Please see story on Page E-2

Mortgage rates fall below 7% as homebuying pressures ease By Tory Newmyer The Washington Post

Aspiring homebuyers grappling with the most difficult housing market in nearly 40 years are ﬁnally seeing some relief. Borrowing costs for 30-year ﬁxed-rate mortgages dropped below 7% last week

for the ﬁrst time in four months, according to the housing-ﬁnance giant Freddie Mac on Thursday. Just six weeks ago, the average rate for those home loans peaked at 7.8%, a high not seen since 2000; now it stands at 6.95%. Pressure on the battered real estate market look poised to ease further. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held off

raising interest rates, extending its pause to three rate-setting meetings in a row, as its policymakers projected that they would cut their benchmark rate by 0.75 of a percentage point by the end of next year. Investors see the move as conﬁrmation that the central bank has ended its war on inﬂation and will take a more hands-off approach to guard against an economic

downturn. For homebuyers, the Fed’s decision should add momentum to an improved outlook, even though housing experts say meaningful mortgage-rate relief could still be months away. Borrowing costs remain more than double what they were early last year, and real estate prices remain elevated. That has kept the inventory of for-sale

home low because existing homeowners have more incentive to stay put if moving means taking on a costlier home loan. But with rates starting to fall, there already are signs that buyers are rejoining the hunt. Mortgage applications, which in October sank to their lowest level since 1995, have been ticking up since, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported. SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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said Odette Williamson, a senior attorney with the National Consumer Law Center. And working-class minorities hoping to buy their ﬁrst home — a critical tool for building wealth that many have been systematically denied — have been facing new obstacles in recent years. Borrowing costs for mortgages have more than doubled over the last two years as the Federal Reserve has battled inﬂation by hiking interest rates, which hit a 22-year high earlier this year. That has compelled current homeowners to hold off from selling and instead stay put until rates cool — choking off supply and locking in prices that rocketed during a pandemic-fueled buying spree.

Out of reach Higher financing costs already have put homeownership out of reach for most of these borrowers who qualified just two years ago: Before the Fed started raising interest rates, 3.4 million Black Americans were deemed “mortgage ready” based on their credit history and income, according to research by Freddie Mac. Thanks to the higher cost of financing, that number stands at less than 1 million now, the National Fair Housing Alliance found in a follow-up analysis based on traditional underwriting standards. Meanwhile, Black home loan applicants in the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan markets are 1.6 times more likely to be denied than the overall population, a recent study by LendingTree found. “That just shows you what happens with this wealth divide,” National Fair Housing Alliance CEO Lisa Rice said. “When you don’t have family members that you can lean on because they weren’t able to build wealth to help with a down payment, these higher interest rates have a devastating impact.” These concerns prompted regulators and industry executives a few years ago to make homebuying easier for underserved borrowers. After George Floyd’s murder ignited nationwide protests in the summer of 2020, corporations across the economy committed to projects aimed at battling systemic racism. Mortgage lenders pledged to work with financial regulators to provide credit to more minority borrowers. Yet only a handful of companies followed through. While a number of mortgage lenders have launched pilot programs over the past year that collectively pledge to initiate tens of thousands of home loans, those efforts will barely make a dent in the racial homeownership gap at their current scale: Closing it would require 4.5 million more

Black Americans buying homes, according to the Urban Institute. More broadly, big ﬁnancial institutions have retreated from lending to economically disadvantaged mortgage borrowers. Three of the largest banks for mortgage lending — Bank of America, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo — cut the share of home loans they issued to lower-income borrowers by more than half in the six years following the 2008 ﬁnancial crisis, a 2017 Federal Reserve study found. The new rules put forth by banking regulators could drive banks to accelerate that trend, critics say. The proposal, unveiled in July by the Federal Reserve and two other agencies, would not only harmonize U.S. regulations with international rules on capital requirements but also would go beyond foreign standards regarding extra capital for larger banks. Advocates of the change say it’s an attempt to ensure the banking system remains sound in the event of another crisis like the one that shook the industry this spring.

Odd bedfellows The banking industry has launched an unusually aggressive lobbying blitz against the proposal with help from some unlikely allies: Traditionally progressive groups focused on promoting homeownership are also rallying against it. The Financial Services Forum, representing eight of the biggest U.S. banks, said it is spending a seven-ﬁgure sum on television advertising blasting the proposal as an added fee on Americans already burdened by inﬂation. Another group, called Center Forward, is airing ads with a similar

covenants. Neighborhood associations do not. It’s possible some properties within a neighborhood association have deed restrictions preventing ADUs, but unless covenants are expressly intended for perpetuity, they generally expire after 40 years. Covenants

expected to roll out next year. “We do care very much about access to credit for low- and moderate-income borrowers,” he testiﬁed. “We hear those concerns, and we will very much take those into account as we work to ﬁnalize the rule.”

The new players As banks have offered fewer home loans, companies such as Quicken Loans and Guaranteed Rate — “non-bank lenders” that are not subject to the same strict oversight facing banks — have stepped in to fill some of the gaps. In 2014, four of the top five mortgage lenders were banks; in 2022, only Wells Fargo remained in the group, according to the mortgage data analysis firm Recursion. But this new crop of lenders is at best an imperfect substitute for banks, housing finance experts say. “A borrower in a high-cost area with limited cash for a down payment would probably still find it difficult to secure credit from a non-bank lender,” said Michael Reher, an assistant professor at the University of California at San Diego who has

studied the phenomenon. He also experienced it firsthand when he needed to finance 90% of his home purchase and could land a mortgage only from a local bank. The reason, Reher said, is that banks have greater leeway to keep mortgages with smaller down payments on their balance sheets, since they have a generally stable cushion of funding from their deposits. By contrast, the newer mortgage companies aren’t banks and don’t have deposits, so they need to sell off a greater portion of the loans they make to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giants that help pump liquidity into the housing market. In turn, Fannie and Freddie limit the sorts of loans they will buy to reduce their exposure to risk. The proposed capital rule would not apply directly to non-bank lenders. That disparate treatment could end up costing the neediest borrowers, some housing finance experts say. Minority homebuyers tend to pay more than others in closing costs when buying a home, an expense that can cost up to 1% of their

loan, recent research has shown. And the fewer lenders available, the more expensive these costs will be on account of the diminished competition, Reher said. For Caldwell, every additional expense weighs against buying a house, a move she already needs to stretch to afford. So the Cincinnati resident has padded her savings for a down payment to $3,000, paid off credit cards to improve her credit score, expanded her search area — and adjusted her expectations. Caldwell said she originally told her Realtor she wanted to ﬁnd a three-bedroom house and could spend $1,500 a month on a mortgage. He countered she had to ﬁnd a way to pay $1,800, and that number has since climbed. Then again, if she extends the lease on her two-bedroom apartment — where her 11-year-old son is sharing a bedroom with his 22-year-old brother — her rent will increase by $70 a month, to nearly $1,400. “To hear costs just keep going up is really disheartening,” she said. “Where do they want people to live?”

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message on national broadcasts, including during NFL games. And big bank CEOs raised the issue in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the NAACP, the National Urban League and the Urban Institute have lodged their own critiques. An Urban Institute study of the proposal’s impact on lower-income minorities concluded it is “particularly perverse in the face of efforts by the bank regulators and other government agencies to encourage banks to increase their lending to precisely these borrowers and communities.” Not all progressive groups oppose the proposed rule. Alexa Philo, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner who now works as a senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, said the proposal has sparked heated opposition from the industry because it could dent executives’ pay. “When banks have to raise more equity capital, it can depress the share prices that are linked to banker bonuses,” she said in an email. “That’s why the bank lobby fights greater capital requirements with everything it has. The rest, particularly about alleged harms to economic growth, is largely nonsense.” Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, struck an incredulous tone over the industry’s lobbying push as the bank CEOs testified before the panel Wednesday. “Wall Street banks are actually saying that cracking down on them will, quote, ‘hurt working families.’ Really?” he asked. “You’re going to claim that?” But pushback from such a broad range of outside groups has helped spur bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers pressed Michael S. Barr, the Fed’s chief banking cop, on the matter in a pair of hearings last month. Barr, the architect of the proposal, signaled that regulators could tweak the final version,

and deed restrictions also can be ignored if others have flaunted them or if there are no individuals or groups benefiting from them. So who benefits from restrictions on accessory dwelling units? Some might argue new ADUs decrease neighborhood property values. Really? Wouldn’t new rental income increase prop-

erty values? Issues like increased traffic and riffraff renters might also get raised, but those arguments rarely hold up. A waiver or variance from an HOA is possible, but people living in litigious communities like Eldorado or Rancho Viejo know that’s a likely dead end. So if you want an ADU and don’t live in an HOA community, you have the option of just going for it. You might get sued by a neighbor, but they probably won’t win. Contact Kim Shanahan at kimboshanahan@gmail.com.

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498 Camino Pinones – Museum Hill

EXTRAORDINARY SPANISH PUEBLO REVIVAL ADOBE

ICONIC ADOBE MASTERPIECE

GATED IN-TOWN PRIVACY AND VIEWS

This exceptional 7.45-acre estate designed in late 1920’s by renowned architect John Gaw Meem enjoys breathtaking views in every direction. With 200-year-old carved and painted wooden doors and 5,900 + sq. ft. of living space, this classic triple adobe hacienda features 4 main bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 guest house casitas, and 1926 old barn to be restored or repurposed. $6,200,000 MLS # 202341636

Beautifully renovated adobe estate • 5,600 sqft • 3 bedroom, 5 bath • Panoramic views • 10 acre lot • Living room with 16ft ceilings, beams, corbels, oak flooring • Contemporary kitchen with top-tier appliances • Formal dining, wine cellar, sunroom, office, media room • 2 ensuite guest bedrooms • Designed by John McHugh, architect for the Santa Fe Opera • Gated community, 5 minutes to The Plaza

Experience unparalleled in-town serenity at this refined Museum Hill residence with 3 Bedrooms, 4.5 baths, Office, and Studio on 1.9-acres with it’s own private gate and views of Sun & Moon Mountain. The perfect combination of Territorial architecture with Craftsman interior finishes, renovated by Wolf Corp in 2005. Just a short 1.1-mile walk to Kaune’s. $3,750,000 MLS # 202341552

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TIM & PAULA GALVIN

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837 Vista Catedral

316 East Buena Vista Street

1678 and 1682 Cerro Gordo Road

WARM AND WELCOMING 3BR, 4BA CUSTOM HOME

UNIQUE HISTORIC PROPERTY IN SOUTH CAPITOL

RARE RIVERFRONT RETREAT

Constructed by renowned local builder Sonny Otero, this new custom three-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot home in the gated Eastside community of Cerro Moreno boasts iconic Santa Fe style, a contemporary ambience, and breathtaking mountain views. Hickory and tile floors flow throughout the floor plan, which has no interior steps. Just minutes from Palace Avenue, Canyon Road, the historic Plaza, and Museum Hill. $3,300,000 MLS # 202335054

Built in 1910, the Francis Cushman Wilson House is a rare example of a Craftsman influenced Prairie style home. Located on a lush, landscaped acre in the South Capitol neighborhood, this updated two-level home is fully fenced and gated. It has a private irrigation well & professional level greenhouse, many landscaped areas w/in ground hot tub, outdoor dining area w/fireplace and more. 2-car garage and shed. $2,995,000 MLS # 202334926

This serene 2.738-acre riverfront property—consisting of two lots—is home to a 4,000-square-foot three-bedroom home. Features an open floor plan flooded with abundant natural light, wall space ideal for displaying art, and fireplaces on each of the two levels. Offers shade and fruit trees, open meadows, an acequia, and riverfront woodlands. The Plaza and Canyon Road are minutes away. $2,900,000 MLS # 202338929

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44 Paseo Encantado SW

1106 Calle Conejo - Sierra del Norte

EASTSIDE GEM MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN

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This New Mexico Territorial-style home sits on 2.788 acres of land with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The main house has 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. The guest house is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath home. Nearby, a detached garage/studio can be used as a studio, shop or a car showroom. This historic Eastside home is just minutes from Museum Hill, Canyon Road and the Downtown Plaza. $2,895,000 MLS # 202338636

This 6-acre estate with a separate pool area has been completely remodeled. The 3,167 Sq. Ft. two story main house features 3BR and 3BA with brick floors, vigas, chef’s kitchen, all new windows and doors. There is a 286 Sq. Ft. one room casita, a separate 230 Sq.Ft. studio plus a 4-car garage. Located for rustic privacy yet only 20 minutes from town. 5.3-acre adjacent lot is also available for sale. $2,495,000 MLS # 202341085

Sandia, Sunset and Night Light Views plus Privacy are yours at this Single-Level Soft Contemporary 5 Bedroom / 4-Bath home that includes a spacious 2 Bed / 1 Bath Guest House, built by Respected Builder Doug McDowell, on 2-plus acres in a private, gated community inside Sierra del Norte with easy walking access to the Dale Ball Trail System. $2,495,000 MLS # 202340660

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1109 East Alameda Street

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A previous Haciendas Parade of Homes winner, this custom 3BR, 4BA home would cost upwards of $3.5 million to build today! Only 13 minutes and 10 miles to the Plaza. Magnificent, unobstructed views of BOTH the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountain ranges from this grand Pueblostyle residence on a private, 5+-acre lot. $2,295,000 MLS # 202334931

Meticulously maintained, this single-level two-bedroom Pueblo-style home on 2.3 acres north of Santa Fe in Monte Sereno enjoys Sangre de Cristo views. Highlights include open living areas; an office, study, or media room; a portal with a fire pit and a nearby hot tub; radiant in-floor heating; a smart home system; custom doors from La Puerta; and recent roof maintenance with a transferable two-year warranty. $2,250,000 MLS # 202341603

This light-filled home has been meticulously reconstructed and designed. All new electrical, plumbing, HVAC, windows, roof, stucco, and interior finishes. Beautiful living room & dining area with vaulted ceilings and square beams, designed kitchen with large butler’s pantry. The private primary suite has a raised fireplace, a beautiful bath and an access to an outdoor patio. 2 parking places behind the home. $1,995,000 MLS # 202341872

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26 Avenida La Scala

640 Camino De La Luz

HARMONIOUS LAS CAMPANAS HAVEN

PRIVATE PROPERTY IN GATED CASAS DE SAN JUAN

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This exceptional four-bedroom home balances the softness of traditional Santa Fe style and the sleek lines of contemporary design. The great room is anchored by a stately fireplace and flows naturally to lovely gardens. Each of the three unique guest rooms is located in a separate wing for privacy. Amenities of the Club at Las Campanas are readily available, and the galleries, restaurants of Santa Fe are 10 minutes away. $1,675,000 MLS # 202341245

This open concept four bedroom, four bath property captures magnificent Sangre de Cristo mountains. The 3BR, 3BA main house has 2-story windows in the living area opening onto a shaded garden with sitting areas and swimming pool. The 1BR, 1BA guest casita with 2 kivas features a panoramic room with dining space and bifold windows. Detached 2 car garage. Perfect home for indoor/outdoor entertaining. $1,485,000 MLS # 202341580

Adobe construction • 1421 Sqft • 2 bedrooms, 3 baths • 1/2 acre hillside location • Open living/kitchen/dining area with dramatic views of Sangre de Cristos & Picacho Peak • Flagstone flooring, vigas and picture windows • Spacious primary suite, 12 ft ceilings, wood plank flooring, tongue & groove ceilings, fireplace • Deep portal for outdoor dining with kiva fireplace • Tiered landscaping with gazebo $1,395,000 MLS # 202340989

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THE DURAN ERWIN GROUP

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13 Hawthorne Circle

2 Stone Ridge Road

OPEN PLAN RIDGETOP HOME WITH VIEWS

GREAT VALUE IN LAS CAMPANAS

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Santa Fe style, custom built, single level, passive solar home. Large combo living/dining/kitchen with high ceilings, views, and French doors to a big deck. Mostly concrete construction. New roof November 2023. Radiant heat. Separate office/studio. Hot tub. Handy for 599 and just 10 minutes to De Vargas Mall. 3 beds, 2 baths, office, 3,000 sq ft, 1.8 acres. $1,275,000 MLS # 202341704

On 1.52 acres on a quiet Las Campanas cul-de-sac, this stylish residence affords luxurious living with mountain and sunset views. Combining superior craftsmanship, lush landscaping, this home features a living room with a fireplace, a contemporary kitchen with a casual dining area, a formal dining room, a portal and patio, a primary suite with a spa-like bath and a walk-in closet, and two guest suites. $1,175,000 MLS # 202337970

A quick 10min to town, this 2-level home, adjoining studio & separate guesthouse sited on 4 acres, offers comfort, privacy & VIEWS. The ultra private 2800+ sqft home blends contemporary & Southwestern elements, features an open concept living space w/. sleek kitchen, den, formal dining, & living rooms on the main floor, all bathed in natural light w./ stunning vistas. Paved access, AC, new well & septic. $1,145,000 MLS # 202341680

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T. EARLEY, R. ALLEN C. GRIFFITH

(505) 660-1734 • tara.earley@sothebys.realty Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 988-8088 231 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 sothebysrealty.com

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505-455-8750 • natalie@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

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211 Callecita Place, Unit C

BEAUTIFUL DESIGN & LANDSCAPING IN ALDEA

A TREY JORDAN SOFT CONTEMPORARY

Aldea de Santa Fe • 2,500 Sqft • 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms • Single level • 3 fireplaces • Recently updated kitchen, granite countertops, premium appliances • Diamond plastered walls, vigas, tongue and groove ceilings • Primary bedroom, raised fireplace, egress to back portal • Primary bathroom, large walk-in shower, deep soaking tub, double vanities • Oversized 2-car garage • New roof w/ 10-year warranty $1,095,000 MLS # 202341968

A rare opportunity to purchase the 3-level one-owner unit in Callecita Place. Two bedrooms, each with ensuite bathrooms. Open-concept living and dining on the main level, complete with a powder room. The private walled courtyard offers an elegant entrance into the property. A perfect “lock and leave” residence with ideal proximity to The Plaza and Ft. Marcy Park. $995,000 MLS # 202340836

THE DURAN ERWIN GROUP

505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

HAL LOGSDON

505.819.8796 • hal.logsdon@sfprops.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 216 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 halhomes.net

6 Floresta Drive BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED ELDORADO HOUSE & CASITA 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms • 2,647 SqFt • Attached casita with private entrance • Beautifully renovated, new roof, new stucco, new windows • Panoramic views of Ortiz and Sandia mountains • High ceilings, vigas, latillas, clerestory windows & wood burning fireplace • Gourmet kitchen • South-facing deck in front courtyard • Northeastfacing back portal, enclosed courtyard • 1.86 acres $845,000 MLS # 202341852 THE DURAN ERWIN GROUP

505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

2 Lamy Station Trail

613 Avenida Colima

632 Old Santa Fe Trail, Unit #7

SPECTACULAR LAMY JEWEL BOX!

EXQUISITE AND SOPHISTICATED CONDOMINIUM

MOVE-IN READY CONDO – GREAT LOCATION

Adobe Charm Redefined. Quaint yet grand, this 2BR, 2BA home has been expertly renovated and is part of a compound. Every inch has been touched. French doors open from great room to a new backyard patio featuring a wood-burning fireplace, beautiful fountain and covered dining area, creating amazing outdoor entertaining space. The property has been newly irrigated and landscaped. $825,000 MLS # 202341075

World-famous architect Ricardo Leggoreta designed this exquisite 2BR, 3BA plus office in the desirable Zocalo subdivision with sophisticated contemporary design elements. Recently remodeled with functionality, and style considered in every detail. The living room shares a doublesided gas fireplace, and the dining room is open to the kitchen. Spacious terrace, landscaped and on drip irrigation. $795,000 MLS # 202341682

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms • 996 square feet • Private, walled compound • Walking distance to Kaune’s, The Plaza, Canyon Road • Built in 2001 with updated kitchen • Radiant heat plus 3 mini-splits • Saltillo tile, tall ceilings, vigas, nichos, and 2 kiva fireplaces • Private, outdoor patio with kiva fireplace • Décor by French and French Interiors • Designated parking space $759,000 MLS # 202341760

LISA SMITH

505-570-5770 • lisa.smith@sothebys.realty Sotheby’s International Realty • 505-988-2533 326 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 sothebysrealty.com

RACHELE GRIEGO

(505) 690-9386 • rachele.griego@sothebys.realty Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 988-2533 326 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 sothebysrealty.com

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505-372-5500 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • 505-982-9836 530 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.santaferealestate.com

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This single level home was recently updated with tile flooring, new appliances, wall finishes and more. It features a good separation of bedrooms and a versatile room use is possible. Large coyote fenced yard, easy care landscaping and 2-car garage. Just off 599, Aldea de Santa Fe includes over 200 acres of parks with many amenities and walking trails. $575,000 MLS # 202340425

This gated Tesuque Ridge Ranch 5.7-acre residential lot with mountain views is located in the foothills north of Santa Fe, yet only minutes to the historic Plaza. Electric, gas, telephone, paved roads and an established shared well are all available. Tesuque Ridge Ranch subdivision has a semi-public 1.5-mile hiking trail loop that has access to the Dale Ball Trail and Santa Fe National Forest. $475,000 MLS # 202341947

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magine you had a chance to interview Santa Claus! What would you ask? What would Santa say? Here are some ideas from some Kid Scoop readers, who came up with the questions and the answers for today’s page.

I was a smart, cheerful child. When my parents died, I was heartbroken. I cried, not out of self-pity, but out of true love. One of my tears dropped into the snow and froze to make an ice marble. When I held it, it glowed and took me to the North Pole. I met the elves and they needed my help. After I grew up with them I How many took on the greatest task of ice marbles all—delivering presents. can you find on The ice marble gave me today’s page? the powers I have today.

Imagine you are a newspaper reporter. What question would you ask a Christmas tree and a snowman? Write your question, then write what you think the answer might be.

I like whole milk best, but Mrs. Claus put me on a diet so I have to drink non-fat.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow one-step written directions.

Help Santa find his way through the magic maze back to the North Pole. Find at least 10 differences between Santa and his reflection.

Pretend Santa has to buy all of his Christmas presents from the stores advertising in your newspaper. Help him by selecting a gift for everyone in your class using ads in the paper. Don’t spend more than $500.

I don’t buy them; Mrs. Claus grows them. On Christmas Eve I come back with a sleigh full of soil instead of an empty sleigh. We grow food in our greenhouse and eat fresh veggies and fruit everyday.

Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Solve addition problems using money amounts.

Find the two identical fruit trees.

As long as my heart is __________ and my belly is ___________, I reckon I’ll want to be!

No, and I _______ that never __________. Where does each of these words belong?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Standards Link: Investigation: Identify similarities and differences in common objects.

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Interview as a verb means to have a conversation between a reporter and a person who will be the subject of the report. The newspaper reporter interviewed the mayor, asking her many questions. Use the word interview today when talking with your friends and family members.

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Find five to ten quotes in articles in today’s newspaper. On a separate piece of paper, write the question you think each quote answers. ANSWER: I’ll have a boo Christmas without you.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Analysis of media communications.

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FAMILY Bizia Greene Etiquette Rules!

Holidays offer opportunities to experience Indigenous Feast Days T

aking a gaggle of fifth and sixth graders on a field trip is no small feat. Throw in some idle time, candy canes and wide-open spaces and you’d expect chaos under the sun. But that wasn’t the case on a recent winter morning at a nearby pueblo for a Feast Day and dances. My son has a number of Indigenous schoolmates; they make up a quarter of his fifth grade class. When he goes off to Spanish class, Tewa is taught to his Native friends. When he goes to tennis lessons, one of his classmates goes to hoop dancing lessons. It’s a cultural education that is both unique and woefully isolated in the Americas. On this day, the two grades have been invited to Pojoaque Pueblo by their classmates to attend the annual Feast Day ceremonies honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, their Catholic patron saint. It’s an annual event blending Pueblo tradition with LEARN MORE centuries-old Spanish influence. ◆ Visit After three dances, the students are indianpueblo.org/ invited to the dancers’ homes for lunch. feast-days Our school has no buses, so it takes a village of parents to drive and chaperone the students for the 25-minute drive north from Santa Fe, passing by red and pink cliffs and snow-covered mountains under cotton-ball clouds. But before anyone leaves campus, there are days of discussions about Pueblo and Feast Day etiquette. Whether you are a group of almost three dozen 10- to 13-year-olds or tourists visiting from out of town, cultural sensitivity and awareness are paramount when visiting any pueblo, especially during dances. With numerous pueblos observing the Christmas holidays, there are ample opportunities to take in Native American ceremonies this winter. Most pueblos and cultural centers offer a website listing Pueblo etiquette. Show your respect by observing this compilation when visiting these living communities. ◆ Tribal members do not use a clock to determine the schedule of activities. Start and finish times for ceremonies are determined by nature and the sequence of events that must take place. ◆ As such, eat a good meal before you arrive. Dress for standing and the weather but not with too much visual pop. There are often indeterminate start times and long pauses in between dances, so comfort is key while not looking sloppy. While umbrellas are allowed, put them away when the dances begin. ◆ Pueblo dances are not performances, theater or spectacle. They are visually dynamic religious ceremonies and prayers taking place on one of the most important days of the year. The attire is not costumes. Every detail has meaning. ◆ Capture the moment in your mind, not your lens. Most pueblos require a permit to photograph, sketch or paint on location. Some pueblos prohibit photography at all times (no selfies, either!). Check with the tribal office for the permitting process before entering the pueblo. Once a permit is obtained, always ask for permission before taking a photograph of a tribal member. Cameras and cellphones can be confiscated. ◆ Silence is important during all dances and Pueblo ceremonies. This means no questions about the ceremonies or dances while they are underway, no interviews with the participants, no walking across the dance plaza and no applause during or after the dance or ceremony. ◆ Never bring pets, firearms, alcohol or illegal drugs into a pueblo. Feast time is a time of abstinence and to cleanse. ◆ Pueblo villages, including kivas, ceremonial rooms and cemeteries, are sacred places and restricted for use by pueblo members only. Observe all signage indicating “off limits” and obey traffic and speed limit signs. ◆ On Feast Days and other public observances, enter a home as you would any other — by invitation only. It is courteous to accept an invitation but never appropriate to stop in unannounced. Whether you are invited to one home or five, it is a sign of respect to eat at each home. Have a cookie at the very least. Meals are served family-style. When dancers show up to their homes to eat, they are seated first. They usually have to return to the kiva for more dances and ceremonies. When it is your turn to eat, join others at the table. Enjoy all that is offered but be mindful not to linger, as your host will want to serve numerous guests. Your host will clear the table for you. If you are offered bread, pie or cookies upon leaving, take it as an offering of thanks. Thank your host, but a payment or tip is not appropriate. The dances and accompanying regalia are connected to nature, and on this winter day, tribal members of all generations and heights dress for the Buffalo Dance. Male participants wear rich brown buffalo headdresses and white kilts, even the littlest toddlers. Women and girls wear black and white, and bells and shells jingle as they dance in sync with their male counterparts in a single serpent-like-formation across the dance plaza while shaking rattles adorned with pine branches. The male drummers beat their drums and sing songs to give thanks for their well-being and as a way to pass language and story down from elder to student. With their connections to earth and the seasons, the dances are visually and emotionally powerful. Seeing these sacred rituals through my son’s eyes as he watches his peers and their younger siblings participate is an honor and privilege. It gives me great hope for a future generation raised with cultural sensitivity, appreciation and acceptance. Bizia Greene is an etiquette expert and owns the Etiquette School of Santa Fe. Share your comments and conundrums at hello@etiquettesantafe.com or 505-988-2070.

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Holiday gifts that last a lifetime

confess, gifts are my love language. I love to give them and love to receive them. That said, the hyper-focus on holiday gifts can create stress in your body and in your wallet. Consumerism comes with multiple price tags. Here are some alternatives to the motorized unicorn and the at-home children’s 3D printer (which is pretty cool!) that are personal, creative and stress-free as well as being ﬁnancial lightweights. Make love language cards. Get creative or go simple with four index cards, writing one of the love languages — gifts, time, words of affirmation and physical affection — on each of the four. Give them to your child with the instructions to play the card with the love language they would like you to speak to them. For children who are not yet reading, use stickers or draw examples of each love language, such as a wrapped present, a clock, a thought bubble with words in it and a hug. If they present the card when you are completing a project, cooking dinner or otherwise unavailable, make an appointment to do so. For example, “I am in the middle of vacuuming, and I would love to do this in 15 minutes. How does that work for you?” Then be on time for your special appointment! These cards not only set it up for you to speak their love language, but they also assist your child in recognizing when their “love

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tank” may be running low or on empty. Your child experiences the important responsibility of making the request for one of their needs to be met. Make a book of tickets for special times together. You could include tickets for receiving a foot massage, hearing a favorite story, watching a movie or baking cookies. They can cash in their ticket any time, and you can respond as you did for the cards above. Last year, I found an image for a ticket online, printed a variety of them and bound them with festive ribbon. My husband could cash in his ticket for getting a back massage, going on a hike together, receiving his favorite meal or doing one of his household chores for him such as feeding the dogs. Give the gift of your presence. Mindfully giving your presence and deeply listening cost nothing, and yet they are the most valuable of things to give your child and anyone else you care about. Your presence is the ﬁnest present

you can offer. Commit to slowing down, being present and truly listening. Practice connecting rituals. Each holiday season we love to attend a performance of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale or to walk down Canyon Road on Christmas Eve. Rituals offer connection and comfort. Experiencing the rituals of your religion brings heightened meaning at this time of year. Whether you host an annual party, enjoy a meal with family and friends or decorate your home, rituals enrich your life. They are like glue, binding your family together. Cook together. My mother was a terriﬁc cook, and she insisted on doing it all herself. It was her gift to our family. Yet, I would have loved to have shared in that experience and learned from her. There is something special about preparing meals with those you love, especially over the holidays. Together is the keyword. Plan menus together. Shop together. Cook together. Eat together. The holidays offer us a sacred time to gather. May these ﬁve simple and inexpensive ideas bring your family joy and memories that last a lifetime! Maggie Macaulay is the owner of Whole Hearted Parenting, offering coaching, courses and workshops. She can be contacted at 954-4838021 or Maggie@WholeHeartedParenting.com.

Snorble on display at the Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York on Oct. 1. The AI-powered robot companion interacts with kids in a variety of ways and can be programmed to assist with bedtime routines. Snorble is expected to be in stores next year, but other AI-powered robot toys like Miko, which has a tablet-like screen for a face, are already on the market. CALLA KESSLER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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met Snorble in a basement corner of New York City’s Javits Center during the Toy Fair in September. We played a game, naming shapes. He made me giggle with his bear impression. Snorble is not a person. Nor even a “he.” Snorble is a robot pal for young kids. He’s the size of a small owl, looks like a cheerful ghost on the hunt for a friendly house to haunt, and he’s powered by artificial intelligence. He’ll likely be in stores next year. As such, Snorble is a reminder that questions such as whether high school students will use ChatGPT to cheat are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to kids and AI. Parents who will soon have to decide whether to welcome robot companions for toddlers into their homes should consider a few key issues before clicking “Add to cart.” The first: What is this for? In an age of overconsumption, that’s worth asking of any toy. It is an especially good question given the potential for total absorption that robot companions offer and the nature of a child’s developing brain. As psychology and neuroscience researchers Tamar Kushnir and Teresa Margaret Flanagan noted in a recent literature review, younger children are more likely than older ones to believe robots have agency. They are all on the cutting edge of a social experiment. Many of the AI-powered toys for young kids shown at the Toy Fair are intended as parent-approved playmates — chipper little friends with infinite patience, a passion for educational games and no inclination for mess or mischief. Miko, another robot companion, can tell jokes, start dance parties or let kids use the screen that doubles as its face to stream content from outside providers, including Disney and Cosmic Kids Yoga. Snorble might chuckle along with a kid who is reading a funny book, check in with a crying child or play dress-up as a panda or unicorn thanks to RFID chips in his costumes. Snorble can also be programmed to assist with a customizable bedtime routine, cheerleading a kid up the steps and into pajamas, before teeing up a prayer or reflection. This multifunctionality is a reminder of how

many areas of kids’ lives AI could soon touch. For example, Snorble co-creator Mike Rizkalla envisions the robot encouraging kids, via a connected toothbrush, to really get in there and clean those molars: potentially reducing dental bills in exchange for some light surveillance. Or Dog-E, a robot puppy who enjoys having its ears scratched and getting a plastic treat, might offer an eerie simulation of pet ownership. Others, meanwhile, are developing AI tools intended to help kids learn by engaging them in conversation. PBS Kids has funding from the National Science Foundation to work with researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Irvine on interactives that could debut in 2025. Characters such as Elinor, the animated bunny star of Elinor Wonders Why, could someday ask children questions about what’s happening on-screen. The idea is that kids who talk about what they’re reading or watching retain more and understand concepts at a deeper level. If it’s clear that AI has plenty to offer kids and families, the gnarlier question is how to make those experiences safe. One rule is to start small. Both Miko and Snorble use algorithms that run on processors inside the toys, rather than on the cloud. These products avoid uploading children’s voices and questions to a database and avoid hacks that could give outsiders access to kids. Snorble and Miko can’t trawl the internet and train themselves on unﬁltered content. That limit means they won’t start babbling about extreme politics or encourage kids to hijack cars, because the AI tools themselves won’t know about those ideas. Similarly, the PBS tools function like sophisticated search engines, crawling limited data. When a character asks, for example, “Do you think that snake will move faster or slower once it’s shed its skin?” the broadcaster’s AI will decode children’s answers and choose from a menu of prerecorded responses. Putting more mutable AI into products intended for children is dicier. At the Toy Fair, I stopped by the booth for ScienceWiz, a company that promised interactive e-books pow-

ered by ChatGPT. I asked Electra, the virtual assistant in the books, about her favorite birds and prehistoric eras. She praised “the majestic peacock” for “its vibrant colors and stunning tail feathers” and singled out the Mesozoic as “particularly interesting.” Electra’s creator, Penny Norman, was surprised: “Yesterday, she wouldn’t say she had a favorite.” What if Electra got creative in other ways and started to preach bogus scientific theories, say? Norman pointed to a potential upside to that risk: It is an opening, she suggests, to train children to be skeptical and look for a second source. But that sort of media literacy lesson is probably beyond very young users. Hence the importance of setting limits on the responses of AIs for kids. “I remember a three-week span where all we did was talk about Snorble being abused by children,” Rizkalla recalls. The team ultimately decided that Snorble simply wouldn’t respond to being cursed at or tossed against the wall to avoid rewarding kids with negative attention for bad behavior. When I asked Miko Mini “Where do babies come from?” it replied that for “a human thing” such as this, I should seek the counsel of a grown-up. The aim of the programming, Miko co-founder Sneh Vaswani said, is that Miko “will never try to drive an opinion” or undermine what a parent might want to tell a child about a fraught concept such as “war” or “murder.” At their most admirable, these AI tools are programmed to behave the way parents aspire to act. What father who has just been bit by a 2-year-old wouldn’t admire Snorble’s equanimity in the face of provocation? Wouldn’t all parents love to have the patience for infinite educational games, and a way to bring down the curtain on screen time without sparking a tantrum? But no toy is a substitute for human company and adult wisdom. Miko can’t answer those big life questions, and Snorble, adorable as he might seem, can’t enfold kids in a loving embrace at the end of a long day. Like a lot of parents, my husband and I have already welcomed some AI into our home. A mischievous expression creeps across my 5-year-old’s face as she tells Alexa to replace the jazz coming from her father’s speakers with “I Am a Gummy Bear.” The Roomba that scuttles around our floor like a drunken hermit crab has been named Arthur Crazypants. But Snorble? I’m not quite ready to let him in. For now, I’m content to chat with him on my metaphorical front steps and to see who he — and my kids — grows up to be. Alyssa Rosenberg writes about mass culture, parenting and gender for The Washington Post’s Opinions section.

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espite the La Niña weather pattern that dumped snowfall by the foot last winter at many mountain resorts in the western United States, global warming fundamentally threatens the survival of the ski business. In response, ski areas are increasingly investing in efficient snowmaking and carbon emissions reductions. Some areas, especially in the West, are also pursuing another method: developing terrain higher up mountains where colder climes or steeper, tree-ﬁlled terrain are more likely to hold the snow. This winter, three ski areas in Colorado — Aspen Mountain, Keystone Resort and Steamboat Ski Resort — are unveiling signiﬁcant high-altitude expansions or terrain additions designed for experts, potentially delighting one of the biggest audiences of skiers and snowboarders in recent years.

Western resorts take skiers where the snow is

Going higher While opening higher-elevation areas aims to take advantage of colder conditions to produce and preserve snow, travelers may need more time to adjust to runs cut above 10,000 feet. In Aspen, the 153-acre expansion known as Hero’s adds 20% more terrain to Aspen Mountain, one of four ski areas in the Aspen Snowmass portfolio. “We have an uncertain future because of climate change,” said Geoff Buchheister, the CEO of Aspen Snowmass. He stressed that the expansion — 20 years in the making — didn’t begin as an answer to global warming, but should help retain snow. “It’s above 10,000 feet and happens to be northeast-facing so the sun is perfect for holding snow once it’s there through the winter, allowing us to ski longer in the spring,” Buchheister said. “In low snow years, it might be a nice asset for us.” Skiers and riders will take the main Silver Queen Gondola from the village base to the top of Aspen Mountain to gain access to Hero’s — which is entirely reliant on natural snow — at 11,262 feet. Trees were thinned in the new gladed area of the White River National Forest, offering natural obstacles to carve around on a 1,220-foot vertical drop. While there are a few access points for intermediate skiers, the heart of the terrain — including chutes, or steep, narrow sections usually bounded by rock walls — are rated double black for expert skiers. “It’s going to make you feel like a hero,” Buchheister said. Keystone Resort, a Vail Resortsowned destination about 75 miles west of Denver, is opening a new lift terminating at 12,282 feet and providing access to its Bergman Bowl, formerly available to skiers and riders who hiked in for more than 1 mile or took a

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A 153-acre expansion known as Hero’s adds 20% more terrain to Aspen Mountain, one of four ski areas in the Aspen Snowmass portfolio.

Seeking higher ground snowcat ride up. The high-speed Bergman Express lift will offer access to roughly 550 acres — much of it above the tree line — in two adjacent bowls, Bergman and Erickson, which have been mapped with 16 new trails, most of them intermediate. Although the resort is open, the Bergman area, which is dependent on natural snow, is not expected to open until late December or early January. Chris Sorensen, the vice president and general manager of Keystone, said the Bergman Bowl project has been in development plans since 2009 and is largely reliant on natural snow. The relatively low angle of the mountain in the area allowed Keystone to offer less-than-expert skiers access to high alpine runs. “We wanted to make sure it was accessible,” Sorensen said, adding that the new terrain includes three beginner runs that appeal to Keystone’s core

demographic, families. “Everyone in the family can go out there and have a good time.”

Extending the season Another debut encompasses steeper conditions known to preserve snow. In Steamboat Springs in Northern Colorado, Steamboat Ski Resort has introduced 655 acres of expert terrain known as Mahogany Ridge, an area previously accessible from the resort by backcountry skiers but not officially inbounds, meaning it wasn’t patrolled or treated to diminish the risk of avalanches. Served by the new Mahogany Ridge Express lift, the experts-only area — where trees were left uncut except for under the lift — adds more challenging terrain to the resort map. “We’ve historically been an intermediate’s paradise, and we remain one,” Loryn Duke, the communications director at Steamboat, wrote in an email.

The addition will rely on natural snow with no snowmaking or grooming. “But because of its extreme nature the area tends to keep our light, ﬂuffy snow for long periods of time,” Duke added, attributing its duration in part to low traffic and tree shading. Skiing or snowboarding steeper, harder-to-reach or wooded terrain often demands expert skills catering to core enthusiasts. “Higher elevation terrain keeps resorts open longer,” said Nick Sargent, the president of Snowsports Industries America, a trade group. Noting the short ski season traditionally runs from Thanksgiving to Easter, he added, “The resort’s goal is to extend that as much as possible.”

‘New and different terrain’ Pushing higher up the mountains isn’t an option for most ski resorts, even in the West.

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“When it comes to high-elevation skiing, there aren’t that many resorts in the U.S. that can build higher,” said Adrienne Saia Isaac, the director of marketing and communications for the National Ski Areas Association. “For the majority of experiences, you’re already skiing from the summit.” Trails venturing into thinner air offer their own management challenges. High winds may sheer them of snow or force the lifts to close. Taos Ski Valley, which began operating a chairlift reaching 12,481-foot Kachina Peak in 2015, said it rarely opens the lift before the end of January each season. Once the terrain is open, it is available about 76% of the time, on average, with the lift running about 68% of the time and the rest open to those who hike up. Most expansions or developments, Isaac added, are done to stay competitive. “People want to ski new and different terrain,” she said.

A grand hotel shampoo collection nears its end By Les Carpenter

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Holiday travel to surge More Americans are expected to ﬂy or drive far from home over Christmas than they did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel.

Auto club AAA forecast last week that 115.2 million people will go 50 miles or more from home during the 10 days between Dec. 23 and New Year’s Day. That’s 2.2% more than AAA predicted during the comparable stretch last year.

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I am a reasonably sane, middle-aged man who has gone my entire adult life without buying shampoo. Instead, I only use the free little bottles of hotel shampoo that I’ve gathered over the years as a traveling sportswriter. Some might ﬁnd collecting hotel shampoo an odd thing to do, but there’s comfort in knowing that when one little bottle runs out, I only need to reach inside the basket of samples I keep in a bathroom cabinet. No leaving the house. No racing to the store. My basket of shampoo was always bountiful. Until it wasn’t. A few years ago, I noticed some hotels no longer lined tiny bottles of shampoo atop their bathroom sinks. In an attempt to trim costs and cut down on plastic, they were replacing them with huge bottles locked in brackets on shower walls like prisoners trapped in stockades. Soon the little bottles were gone from virtually every hotel. The supply in my bathroom basket began to dwindle. I could see the end coming. I never set out to wash my hair with only hotel shampoo. It just happened. A bottle I absently brought home led to another bottle, and another, until free shampoo became a kind of obsession. It wasn’t enough to have a complimentary little bottle from each hotel on a trip, I needed a bottle from every night at every hotel. I started stashing bottles deep inside my toiletries bag on the mornings of hotel stays, hoping that when I returned, a gleaming replacement

would be waiting on the counter. Almost always, it was. Occasionally, a housekeeper would go rogue, plucking the hidden bottle from my bag and placing it back on the sink. But such vigilantes were rare, and soon my home shampoo collection grew. But the other day, I noticed my basket was down to just three bottles: one from a Beijing hotel, brought home after the last Olympics, another from a hotel I can’t remember and a third so old the liquid inside had hardened into a grayish clay that crumbled into chunks when I shook it. Discarding that last bottle, I placed the one from the mystery hotel on my usual spot beside the shower door. Then I began to dread the inevitable trip to the drugstore knowing that soon I will be standing frozen in the shampoo aisle, overwhelmed by the rows of bottles in blues and greens and reds with labels screaming words like “Shape,” “Volume” and “Shine.” “You are embarrassing, and I don’t want people knowing I know you,” my wife recently said. She could have been talking about many things, but in this case, it was shampoo. She’s never understood my basket of hotel samples claiming valuable space in the bathroom cabinet. She thinks I’m “being cheap.” I prefer the word “practical.” For the most part, I’ve kept using hotel shampoo because it was easy. Doing so meant one less decision in a life of dilemmas. But now, with the bottle growing emptier, I’m met with the sadness one feels when reduced to rationing his last drops of free shampoo, trying to stave off the inevitable. SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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