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Police say Fire shuts LANL plutonium facility pair dragged homeless man with vehicle Ten-day closure followed 1 of 9 glove box mishaps reported this year By Scott Wyland

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A sealed compartment with safety gloves attached caught ﬁre at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November, resulting in officials

Santa Fe gas station employees face kidnapping, battery, among other charges

shutting down a portion of the site’s plutonium facility for 10 days, according to the lab’s and government watchdogs’ reports. Employees were pulverizing 40-year-old legacy materials that were removed from the facility to create more storage and work space

when they saw a ﬂash and then a ﬁre inside one of the glove boxes they were using for the task, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report. They deactivated the equipment, sounded alarms and promptly left the room. They and Please see story on Page A-4

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Two employees of a Santa Fe gas station face counts of kidnapping and other crimes after they were accused of attaching a chain to a homeless man sleeping outside the business Monday night and dragging him with a vehicle. Police arrested Jonathan Gomez, 22, and Adrian Montoya, 31, at the Speedway at Agua Fría Street and Siler Road and booked them in the Santa Fe County jail early Tuesday morning. Both men were charged with kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly Adrian weapon and conspiracy to commit kidMontoya napping and aggravated battery, according to criminal complaints ﬁled in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. Montoya also faces counts of tampering with evidence and aggravated driving while intoxicated. The man who had been dragged by a vehicle, who was about 50, according to the complaints, suffered road rash and was taken to Christus St. Vincent Jonathan Regional Medical Center for treatment. Gomez One advocate for members of the homeless community decried the incident Tuesday but said it is rare to hear of such cases of violence against homeless people in Santa Fe. Edward Archuleta, executive director of St. Elizabeth

Organization founded by late former governor plans to continue his diplomatic work

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Nursing homes in N.M. facing staffing crisis

ABOVE: Danny Fenster, center, hugs his mother, Rose Fenster, as former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, right, looks on in 2021 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Fenster, a journalist, had a week earlier been sentenced to 11 years of hard labor in Myanmar. Richardson helped negotiate his release. SETH WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Just 2 of 68 facilities in state would meet looming increase in federal standards

BELOW: Richardson, who died in September, with Mickey Bergman, vice president and executive director of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. Bergman says the agency is continuing the work of freeing prisoners abroad. COURTESY PHOTO

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New federal staffing standards meant to improve the care of millions of Americans in nursing homes could go into effect in as soon as two years. New Mexico’s nursing homes aren’t ready. Not even close. The Biden administration rule, according to a White House fact sheet, represents a “minimum federal floor for safe levels of nursing home staffing.” Yet only two of New Mexico’s 68 nursing homes would have met that minimum staffing standard for both registered nurses and certified nursing assistants throughout April, May and June of this year, according to a New Mexico In Depth analysis of the most recent available payroll data: the state-run Fort Bayard Medical Center in Santa Clara and the state veterans home. Eight facilities hit the proposed minimum on more than half of the days during the three-month period while 34 had enough nursing staff on just five or fewer days. Twenty of the 34, all for-profit

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ill Richardson thought he would live forever. But on Sept. 1, the former New Mexico governor, congressman, U.S. energy secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations died unexpectedly in Massachusetts at age 75. His death stunned friends and acquaintances near and far, and also raised questions about the future of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. Would its humanitarian work around the world continue

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IN BRIEF Congress abandons Ukraine aid for year as GOP border talks stall WASHINGTON — Congress gave up Tuesday on a lastditch bid to speed through emergency military aid to Ukraine before the end of the year, as negotiators failed to cement a deal after Republicans demanded tying the money to a crackdown on migration across the U.S. border with Mexico. “Our goal is as soon as we get back to get something done,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, told reporters at the Capitol. The delay punts the fate of Ukraine aid — and the complicated task of drafting new immigration laws — into early next year, when lawmakers will also face the daunting task of striking a broader spending agreement to avert a partial government shutdown by mid-January. Senators have struggled for weeks to strike a bargain pairing about $50 billion in fresh security aid for Ukraine with border enforcement measures stringent enough to satisfy Republicans but not so severe as to alienate Democrats. They intensiﬁed their efforts late last week, after Schumer delayed the Senate’s holiday break to increase pressure for a deal before the new year.

Google to pay $700M to U.S. states, consumers in app store settlement Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations it had been stiﬂing competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes. Although Google struck the deal with state attorneys general in September, the settlement’s terms weren’t revealed until late Monday in documents ﬁled in San Francisco federal court. The disclosure came a week after a federal court jury rebuked Google for deploying anticompetitive tactics in its Play Store for Android apps. The settlement with the states includes $630 million to compensate U.S. consumers funneled into a payment processing system state attorneys general alleged drove up the prices for digital transactions within apps downloaded from the Play Store. That store caters to the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones.

Earthquake in China kills at least 131 people, deadliest in nine years BEIJING — A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, reducing homes to rubble, leaving residents outside in a below-freezing winter night and killing 131 people in the nation’s deadliest quake in nine years. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight Monday, injuring more than 700 people, damaging roads and knocking out power and communication lines in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, officials and Chinese media reports said. State broadcaster CCTV said another 536 were injured in the province.

Pro-Trump super PAC airs first ad attacking Haley in New Hampshire COLUMBIA, S.C. — The super PAC supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has launched a television ad targeting Nikki Haley, a move her campaign called a signal Trump’s allies are worried about her. The ad, debuting Tuesday, marks the ﬁrst such effort by either Trump, who has dominated the Republican primary, or the groups supporting him to take Haley on directly. Ahead of the ad’s release, Haley was already disputing its premise on social media, saying Tuesday night in a post on X the ad signiﬁed “someone’s getting nervous.” New Mexican wire services

Move would prevent nearly all logging in tree areas that store vast carbon amounts By Anna Phillips

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Jonathan Ortiz works earlier this month in the kitchen at Charcoal Sunset, a restaurant in West Hollywood. Business owners say West Hollywood’s nation-leading minimum wage of $19.08 an hour is limiting how many employees they can hire, claims labor experts say are overblown.

Hollywood glitz, glamour and high minimum wage Business owners, labor advocates split over nation-leading $19.08 rate By Kurtis Lee

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. osiah Citrin, the owner and chef of a Santa Monica restaurant with two Michelin stars, opened a new steakhouse a few months ago off the Sunset Strip. He is already concerned about whether the restaurant can survive. The reason, Citrin said, is singular: a West Hollywood city mandate that workers be paid at least $19.08 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the country. “It’s very challenging,” Citrin, 55, said of the new minimum wage, which took effect about two weeks before he opened his doors in July. “Really, it’s almost impossible to operate.” His sentiment is widely shared among business owners in West Hollywood, a city of 35,000 known for restaurants, boutiques and progressive politics. In recent weeks, many owners have written to lawmakers, pleading for a moratorium on further increases to the minimum wage; another is scheduled for July, based on inﬂation. And last month, several marched to a local government building carrying signs that read, “My WeHo” and “R.I.P. Restaurants in West Hollywood.” Their sense of duress arises partly from geography. The jaggedly shaped city is bordered by Beverly Hills to the west and Los Angeles to the north, south and east. And that means West Hollywood’s small businesses have competitors down the street with lower costs. Beyond raising the minimum wage, the West Hollywood ordinance, which the City Council approved in 2021, requires all fulltime employees receive at least 96 hours a year of paid time off for sick leave, vacation or other personal necessities, as well as 80 hours that they can take off without pay. The state of California’s hourly minimum wage is $15.50, the third highest in the nation, trailing only the District of Columbia at $17 and Washington state at $15.74. Chris Tilly, a professor at UCLA who studies labor markets and public policies that shape the

workplace, said research had shown gradual and moderate increases to the minimum wage had no signiﬁcant impact on employment levels. “The claim that minimum wage increases are job-killers is overblown,” Tilly said. But “there are possible downsides,” he added. “One is that economic theory tells us an overly large increase in the minimum is bound to deter businesses from hiring.” Until recently, West Hollywood followed the state’s minimum wage increases, which have risen every year since 2017, often by a dollar at a time. But that changed with a new ordinance that included a series of increases. Genevieve Morrill, president of the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, said while her group wanted workers to earn a living wage in an increasingly expensive part of the country, she felt the ordinance had done more to hurt workers, who have lost hours or, in some cases, their jobs after places have shuttered. Around the time the recent wage bump took effect, Morrill helped more than 50 local businesses, including Citrin’s restaurant, write a letter to the City Council outlining their concerns. They called for a moratorium on further minimum wage increases through 2025 or until the rate aligns with the Los Angeles rate. They also asked that the city roll back the mandated paid time-off policy. A major supporter of the ordinance was UNITE HERE Local 11, which represents 30,000 workers at hotels and restaurants across Southern California. Kurt Petersen, co-president of the local, said West Hollywood was setting a standard that should be replicated across California and the country. “It has raised living standards and given workers the security of paid time off,” he said. Meanwhile, Citrin said the staff at his West Hollywood restaurant, Charcoal Sunset, which specializes in prime cuts of meat, had fallen to 35 from around 50. He often wonders if it’s easier to simply focus on his restaurants elsewhere in the area. “That’s something I need to answer in the coming months,” he said.

Activists hope pope’s action could ease same-sex repression By Nicole Winﬁeld

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ROME — Pope Francis’ green light for Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples is in many ways a recognition of what has been happening in some European parishes for years. But his decision to officially spell out his approval could send a message of tolerance to places where gay rights are far more restricted. From Uganda to the United States, laws that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people or even criminalize homosexuality have increased in recent years, leaving communities feeling under attack. Pastors in some conservative Christian denominations, and the Catholic Church in particular, have sometimes supported such measures as consistent with biblical teaching about homosexuality.

In Zimbabwe, a country with a history of state harassment of LGBTQ+ people and a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, news of Francis’ approval was met with cautious optimism among activists. But Chesterﬁeld Samba, director of Zimbabwe’s GALZ association, which represents LGBTQ+ people, said samesex unions would likely remain taboo regardless of the pope’s stance. “Christians here are of the view that they are devoid of sin and cannot be aligned with LGBTQ+ people,” Samba told The Associated Press. By contrast, a Catholic priest in the United States — Alex Santora of Hoboken, N.J. — was elated by the pope’s declaration, hoping it would clear the path for him to bless a same-sex couple who had been part of the parish throughout

his 19-year tenure there. The Vatican says gays should be treated with dignity and respect but homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” Francis hasn’t changed that teaching, but he has spent much of his 10-year pontiﬁcate offering a more welcoming attitude to LGBTQ+ Catholics. The Vatican statement Monday marked a new step in Francis’ campaign, explicitly authorizing priests to offer non-sacramental blessings to same-sex couples. The blessings must in no way resemble a wedding, which the church teaches can only happen between a man and woman. The Rev. Wolfgang Rothe, a German priest who participated in open worship services blessing same-sex couples in May 2021, said Tuesday the approval essentially validated what he and other priests in Germany have been doing for

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years. But he suggested it would make life easier for homosexual couples in more conservative societies. “In my church, such blessings always take place when anyone has the need,” Rothe said. But “in many countries around the world there are opposing moves to maintain homophobia in the church,” he added. “For homosexual couples living there, the document will be a huge relief.” Antonella Allaria, who lives in New York City with her wife, Amanda and their six-month-old son, said the pope’s decision is a positive step for her family and the church as a whole. “I’m gay, and it’s OK to be a person and to be gay. Where before yesterday, in the Catholic Church, it was not that OK,” she said. “I feel things are getting normalized. And it’s about time.”

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The most ancient trees still standing in America’s national forests would get new protections under a proposal the Biden administration announced Tuesday that would ban most logging in groves that play a vital role in fighting climate change. In a phone interview, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the effort is the first time the U.S. Forest Service has proposed simultaneously revising all 128 of its forest plans, which dictate how all 193 million acres of forests and grasslands are managed. The plan would prohibit cutting down old-growth trees for economic reasons, preventing carbon-rich forests from being clearcut at a time when scientists say they are most needed. These trees, most of which are well over 100 years old, store vast amounts of carbon. They also provide an essential habitat for hundreds of species of wildlife and are more likely to survive wildfires. “We think this will allow us to respond effectively and strategically to the biggest threats that face old growth,” Vilsack said, listing wildfire, disease and pests as challenges. “At the end of the day it will protect not just the forests, but also the culture and heritage connected to the forests.” The proposal also requires the Forest Service to monitor how old growth is changing across the country and track its efforts to protect it. The announcement stems from an executive order President Joe Biden signed a year and a half ago directing the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to inventory mature and old-growth forests across the nation and craft policies that protect them. They found more than 32 million acres of oldgrowth forests remain on public lands in the United States, representing about 18% of all forested land the two agencies manage. Forest Service officials say the proposal would benefit the nearly 25 million acres of old growth they oversee, 45% of which is not protected from logging. But it leaves open the possibility of continued cutting under certain conditions. Forest Service Deputy Chief Chris French said forest treatments the agency uses to reduce wildfire risk, such as thinning understory trees, would still be allowed in old-growth stands to protect them from out-of-control fire. The timber industry has pushed back against the administration’s efforts to protect old growth, arguing logging creates jobs in economically distressed areas and helps reduce fire danger. Conservation groups applauded the agency’s proposal. They have warned without more old growth protections, climate change, wildfire and logging would steadily diminish the oldest stands until little is left. But advocates did not get everything they wanted, such as permanent safeguards for mature trees, which could eventually turn into old growth. Although the proposal left open the possibility of future protections for these trees, agency officials said they are probably years away from drafting them. “Protecting our old growth trees from logging is an important first step to ensure these giants continue to store vast amounts of carbon,” Randi Spivak, public lands policy director with the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “The Forest Service also needs to protect our mature forests, which if allowed to grow will become the old growth of tomorrow.”

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Volcano eruption finally arrives in Iceland Pressure growing Scientists with the University of Iceland take measurements and samples Tuesday standing on the ridge in front of the active part of the eruptive ﬁssure of a volcano in Grindavik.

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HUSAVIK, Iceland — Pall Viggosson, a tour guide in Iceland, was driving a van carrying nine British tourists Monday night in search of the northern lights. But instead of the greenish glow of the aurora borealis, he saw red — ﬂames and smoke from a volcanic eruption Iceland had been uneasily awaiting. The area, the Reykjanes Peninsula, had been experiencing strong seismic activity since October, a harbinger of an imminent eruption. The earthquakes — there were as many as 1,400 in a single 24-hour period in November — prompted the evacuation of the town of Grindavik and the temporary closing of the Blue Lagoon, a top tourist attraction. With these shaky warnings, Icelanders were girding for the eruption that came Monday night. “I realized quickly this was no ordinary light pollution,” Viggosson said. He pulled over on the highway so the tourists could take photos. Soon, the highway, which connects the capital to Keﬂavik

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International Airport, became busy, as other curious spectators drove from Reykjavik and nearby towns to catch a glimpse of the spectacle for themselves: reddish and orange skies, billowing smoke and lava fountains reaching over 300 feet into the air. “Against the mountains, the ﬂames were huge, and the ﬁssure length grew larger and larger,” Viggosson said. One of the spectators was Bjorn Steinbekk, the head of a marketing and consulting company, who left his Reykjavik home as soon as he

But the Reykjanes volcanic system in southwestern Iceland had been dormant for 800 years. In the last few years, however, magma began to gather under the surface. By 2 a.m. Tuesday, the eruption had started easing. Later Tuesday, lava was spewing at a much lower intensity, Steinbekk said, speaking from near the eruption as he prepared to launch his heard about the eruption Monday drone to get more footage. night. Using a drone, he captured Local authorities have not yet footage of the lava shooting into indicated when Grindavik will the sky. Even for someone who be safe enough for residents to has chased many eruptions in the return. Almost everyone had evaclast two years, “last night was a whole new chapter from anything uated at the time of the eruption. Stefan Kristjansson, who we’ve seen before,” Steinbekk said. “It was much more violent for two owns several ﬁshing boats, was or three hours, with bigger strokes unwinding in his outdoor hot tub in Grindavik on Monday night and a lot of lava coming out.” when he saw the horizon light up. Iceland is prone to volcanic He quickly got dressed, left some activity. It straddles two tectonic food out for his sheep and drove plates, which are divided by an to Reykjavik. “I would like to be undersea mountain chain that oozes molten hot rock, or magma. back before Christmas,” he said.

Middle East balks at supporting U.S. sea task force Amid anger over Gaza, only Bahrain agrees to participate in effort to stop Houthi militia

awkward moment for most of the Red Sea. Arab states,” said Dr. Sanam Vakil, Egypt earned a record $9.4 bilthe director of the Middle East and lion from ships transiting the Suez North Africa program at Chatham Canal either to or from the Red House, the international affairs Sea last year, representing about think tank in London. “They do 2% of its gross domestic product not want to be seen as endorsing and serving as a significant source By Neil MacFarquhar Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its of foreign exchange. About 12% The New York Times brutal tactics in any way.” of global trade passes through the canal between the Red Sea and Iran — a key supporter of the There was a noticeable the Mediterranean, especially Houthis — has been the most absence among the participating outspoken critic of the U.S. effort container ships. The only official countries when Secretary of reaction from Egypt has been a while also trying to walk a fine Defense Lloyd Austin announced line. It blasted any joining of the statement Monday from the Suez the United States was organizing coalition as “direct participation Canal Authority saying that it was a new naval task force to confront in the crimes of the Zionist monitoring the situation. the threat from Yemen’s Houthi entity,” according to a statement The port of Jeddah, which militia marauding against global by Ali Shamkani, a political handles the bulk of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. adviser to the supreme leader, Arabia’s commercial traffic, sits No regional power agreed its Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. on the Red Sea, and the entire navy would participate. The only coastline is a major focus of the At the same time, Iran also Middle Eastern country taking economic diversification efforts sought to downplay any direct part is the tiny island state of being pushed by Crown Prince role in the missile, rocket or Bahrain, and there was otherdrone attacks carried out against Mohammed bin Salman. wise conspicuous silence from Israel or shipping in the Red Sea, But Saudi Arabia’s relationship regional capitals. claiming the Houthis were acting with the Houthis was compliMany Arab countries depend on their own. The goal was to cated even before the war in heavily on the trade that flows avoid attracting the direct ire of Gaza. After years of effectively through the Red Sea, from the the United States, Vakil said. losing war with the militia, Suez Canal in the north to the the Saudis are eager to try to Even those states whose trade Bab al-Mandeb Strait that Yemen conclude a peace deal and not to and revenues depend heavily on abuts in the south. But with the keeping the shipping lanes secure enter a new confrontation. U.S.’ repeated and vocal announce- are standing back while at least After the U.S. secretary of state, ments of support for Israel’s war Antony Blinken, spoke Monday five major shipping companies in the Gaza Strip fomenting anger have said that they will avoid the to his Saudi counterpart, Prince among Arab populations, no country in the region seems to want to be associated with the United Proudly Employee Owned, the one stop shop for all your decorating needs. States in a military venture. In response to the announcement, a group of Bahrainis called for a demonstration Friday to protest their government’s par• Window Treatments ticipation in the task force, and • Custom Cabinetry the country’s leading opposition • Floor Coverings, Tile, LVT, Carpet group, al-Wefaq, denounced the • Benjamin Moore Paint government’s decision, saying it • Ceramic Tile 2929 Cerrillos Rd | Santa Fe, NM made Bahrain “a direct partner in • American Clay M-F: 7:15am-5:30pm Sat: 9:00am-1:00pm Sun:Closed • Countertops the shedding of Palestinian blood.” (505) 473-5333 • www.coronadodecorating.com “It is a really uncomfortable and

Faisal bin Farhan, the summary of the call by each side was noticeably different. The American version noted Blinken urged cooperation on maritime security to confront the Houthis; the Saudi version said the main point of the call was developments in Gaza. Oman, which mediates between the international community and the Houthis, has declined to pressure the Houthis to stop their attacks on shipping, saying a Gaza cease-ﬁre must come ﬁrst, according to a person who was briefed by Omani officials.

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As the country reinforces its border in northern Sinai, top The Washington Post Egyptian envoys are doubling down on efforts to avoid such a CAIRO — Since the beginscenario and push for a cease-fire. ning of the war in Gaza, Egypt Egypt has offered safe haven has held firm that it will not to millions of people who fled accept Palestinian refugees. recent conflicts in Sudan, Libya, But as Israel presses on with Yemen and Syria. But the mass its offensive in southern Gaza, dislocation of Palestinians driving thousands of Palestinians during Israel’s founding in 1948 toward Egypt, pressure is building — known here as the Nakba, or along the border. Conditions are “catastrophe” in Arabic — still ripe for miscalculation, former looms large in the regional psyArab diplomats and analysts say, che. Arab governments fear Israel and the war may ultimately force will not allow Palestinians who Cairo to accept displaced Gazans leave Gaza to return after the war. — threatening the decadeslong Prime Minister Benjamin Netpeace between Israel and Egypt. anyahu and senior defense offiSince Israel launched its retalia- cials maintain Israel’s military tory war in Gaza after the Hamas objective is to defeat Hamas, not attacks of Oct. 7, nearly 20,000 to depopulate the strip. Palestinians have been killed But with public sentiment and more than 50,000 wounded, in Egypt squarely behind the according to Gaza’s Health Minis- Palestinian cause, top officials try. Whole swaths of the enclave here have made clear since Oct. are in ruins. The United Nations 7 that Cairo will not abet another estimates 85% of its 2.2 million mass displacement. Egypt has people have been displaced, facilitated the exit of thousands of heeding Israeli directives to flee foreign nationals and Palestinians to safer ground but often finding affiliated with foreign entities via themselves on another battlefield. the Rafah border crossing since late October. But those who make Many are sheltering in the it through are not allowed to stay southernmost city of Rafah, in Egypt for more than a few days. along the border with Egypt, where they are packed into The Biden administration homes, schools and tent was concerned by Israeli disencampments. Others sleep on cussions in the early days of the the streets. Disease is spreading. war about attempting to push Aid is far from sufficient to Gazans into Egypt, and Secremeet the overwhelming needs tary of State Antony Blinken and of civilians, and Israeli bombing other top leaders pushed back has hampered its delivery. hard, three senior U.S. officials told The Washington Post. “The Israelis have given assurances that whatever mili“The United States believes” tary steps are taken will not spill any eventual peace agreement over into the Egyptian side of “should include no forcible disthe border, but the humanitarian placement of Palestinians from situation is dire,” a former Egyp- Gaza — not now, not after the tian diplomat said. war,” Blinken said last month.

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Shelter Corp., said, “I think people in Santa Fe are more caring than other cities when it comes to social issues.” However, he added, “I’m really horriﬁed to hear about something like this happening.” Montoya declined to speak with police about the incident, the criminal complaints say. Gomez was more forthcoming, telling Santa Fe police officers who responded to the incident he was working at the Speedway and had tried unsuccessfully to rouse the sleeping man. He ordered the man to leave the premises and called the nonemergency number for the local dispatch center several

times seeking help, according to the criminal complaints. However, he said, workers who answered his calls repeatedly hung up on him. He then called his manager, Montoya, who arrived in a Jeep. Gomez told police it was Montoya’s idea to use the Jeep and a chain to drag the unresponsive man away from the gas station, the complaints state. Their goal, he said, was to get the man to a nearby car wash where he could sleep for the night. According to his criminal complaint, Gomez said he started to walk away from Montoya and the homeless man because he didn’t think it was right to drag the man. But Gomez said he didn’t try to stop Montoya.

Instead, he created a video of the incident and posted it to Instagram, the complaint states. Santa Fe County firefighters had pulled their firetruck into the Speedway as Montoya was driving the Jeep in reverse, dragging the man across the parking lot by his feet with a chain attached to the front the of vehicle, states the criminal complaint against Montoya. They saw Gomez standing nearby, recording a video with his phone, according to the complaint. Gomez told Santa Fe police the firefighters had advised him to delete the video, which he did. But an officer wrote in Gomez’s criminal complaint he was able to retrieve the video from the suspect’s Instagram account and

review it. The video showed Gomez’s face, the officer wrote, and then showed the man lying on the ground, with the chain attached to his feet and to the Jeep. Gomez can be heard in the video saying in expletive-laden language the pair had just dragged the sleeping man, the officer wrote. Montoya declined to take a breath-alcohol test, his criminal complaint states, but an officer wrote in the document he smelled of alcohol and conducted ﬁeld sobriety tests. The tampering charge Montoya faces is because he is accused of trying to hide or alter the chain. Police seized the phones of both suspects during their arrests.

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While Richardson wanted to continue his diplomatic work, including negotiating the release of prisoners and hostages held by hostile regimes — a role that elevated his public profile and earned him nominations for a Nobel Peace Prize — he also wanted the center’s mission of promoting global peace and dialogue to endure after he was gone, Bergman said. “He wanted that work to continue, but he never articulated the format,” Bergman said, adding he doesn’t believe Richardson “spent a lot of time thinking about his own demise.” “I do know that he wanted very much for myself and the other individuals that were involved to be set to continue that work, and he was extremely complimentary and supportive [of] me personally, of telling me that even though I don’t have the titles that he had, that I have the knowledge and the experience to continue doing that work and encouraged me to keep doing that,” Bergman said. Asked whether he was comfortable stepping into the high-profile, high-stakes role Richardson took on with ease, Bergman said one of the reasons he and Richardson worked so well together is because they had such different personalities. Richardson, for example, reveled in the limelight. “He knew exactly how to deploy me in the way that he needed, but … with me stepping in and carrying the center after his passing, a lot of the style is a little bit different,” Bergman said. The center has reduced its media presence and is “focusing on the work itself,” he said. Bergman said he started working with the former governor in 2006 after Richardson was asked to travel to Sudan to try to broker a cease-fire from the nation’s president. “I was a young kid at the time,”

recalled Bergman, now 47. When Richardson arranged for a charter plane, a couple of donors told him about Bergman and said he should consider taking Bergman along. At the time, Bergman was a recent graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and working at the Clinton Global Initiative. Bergman, who is Israeli, previously served about six years in the Israeli Defense Forces. Richardson “gave me a call on a Wednesday and told me that I need to — quote — pack my stuff and get my ass to Santa Fe because I’m coming with him to Khartoum,” Bergam said. “That was the ﬁrst time we met. We went on that mission, and I was just ﬂoored at his ability to navigate this situation, not as an elected official but as a private citizen, and still get the results.” About two months after returning from Sudan, Bergman said he sent Richardson a note suggesting how he could free an Israeli soldier who had been kidnapped in Gaza. At the time, Richardson was seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. president. “He called me, and he said, ‘This a good deal. Now go do it,’ ” Bergman recalled. The center is still Richardson’s, and the work it continues to do since his death is in his honor, Bergman said. “Is it easy? No, it’s hard,” he said. “What we’re going to do in terms of the long term, we are still under consideration. We’re talking about different options because one thing we know for sure, the work itself is going to continue. How we’re going to do it as a center or are we going to have a different entity that carries out that work, that is still in a lot of conversations.” Another sure thing, he said, is the center will be “active and working” throughout 2024. “We have all the fundamentals together for a very, very productive year,” he said. “But we haven’t

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yet made decisions on what happens after.” Bergman, who lives in Arlington, Va., said the work Richardson “dedicated his life to” has not only continued but has gained prominence. “We’ve been working nonstop on some of the cases of hostages and political prisoners that we worked on while he was still alive and a lot of new cases — especially when it comes to Gaza — that happened after he passed,” Bergman said. “So, we’ve been extremely busy on the work itself, and from my perspective, personally, that’s the best way to keep his legacy alive and his passion, is to do everything we can to help bring people back home.” Bergman said the center has been approached by an increasing number of families of hostages as a result of the Israel-Hamas war. “Currently, we are working on behalf of more than 60 of the hostage families,” he said. “We had some success a few weeks ago with several of these families, getting their hostages back as a part of the initial deal that took place. “But I am not able to get into any more details of exactly what it is that we’re doing because that’s the nature of our work, unfortunately. We have to do it discreetly.”

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it — applies to Trump, an argument that his opponents have been making around the country. The ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary ballot. It does not address the general election. “We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” a four-justice majority wrote, with three justices dissenting. “We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.” Trump’s campaign said immediately that it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, a likelihood that the Colorado justices anticipated by putting their ruling on hold until January. And while Tuesday’s ruling applies only to one state, it could all but force the nation’s highest court to decide the question for all 50. “It’s hard for me to see how they don’t take this one, because this certainly seems to be one of those questions that requires some national resolution,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, an assistant professor of law at Georgia State University who has closely followed the Colorado case and related lawsuits around the country. If the justices take up the case, it will join a pile of other Trump-related matters they have agreed or are likely to decide, including whether he is immune from criminal prosecution for actions he took in office and the scope of an obstruction charge that is central to his

federal Jan. 6 case. The U.S. Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority, with three justices appointed by Trump himself, and it is already under extraordinary political pressure and scrutiny both for its rulings and its justices’ ethics. “Once again, the Supreme Court is being thrust into the center of a U.S. presidential election,” said Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, who compared the stakes to Bush v. Gore. “But, unlike in 2000, the general political instability in the United States makes the situation now much more precarious.” In the Colorado court’s lengthy ruling on Tuesday, the justices there reversed a Denver district judge’s finding last month that Section 3 did not apply to the presidency. They affirmed the district judge’s other key conclusions: that Trump’s actions before and on Jan. 6, 2021, constituted engaging in insurrection, and that courts had the authority to enforce Section 3 against a person whom Congress had not specifically designated. “A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” the justices wrote in a 4-3 ruling. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado secretary of state to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.” Trump’s campaign denounced the ruling, which is likely to inflame a Republican base that he has primed to see the array of civil and criminal cases against him as a witch hunt. Politically, his standing among Republican primary

Bergman did reveal, however, a book he wrote that highlights Richardson’s diplomatic efforts is scheduled to be released June 4. “It was finished before he passed [and] tells so much of the work that he has done, but for the first time, not him telling it but somebody else telling it,” Bergman said. The book is called In the Shadows. “It is my book, so it tells my story and my work, but since 90% of my work has been learning from him and working from him, it really tells all the different cases and the things that we worked on together,” Bergman said. The book describes how Richardson operated “and all the tricks that we did,” he said, and exposes for the first time Richardson’s involvement “in some of the most famous cases of returned Americans, especially in the last several years, that has been understated up to now.” Bergman said Richardson knew about the book and encouraged his writing. Unfortunately, Richardson died before he had a chance to read it. “But he would’ve enjoyed it,” Bergman said. “I can assure you that.” Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.

voters has only risen in the wake of the dozens of criminal charges against him. “Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice,” a campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said. “We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these un-American lawsuits.” Similar lawsuits in Minnesota and New Hampshire were dismissed on procedural grounds. A judge in Michigan ruled last month that the issue was political and not for him to decide, and an appeals court affirmed the decision not to disqualify Trump there. The plaintiffs have appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court. Tuesday’s ruling “is not only historic and justified, but is necessary to protect the future of democracy in our country,” Noah Bookbinder, the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in a statement. His organization represented the voters seeking to disqualify Trump in Colorado. Trump himself, who has routinely railed against unfavorable rulings, did not explicitly mention the Colorado Supreme Court decision in a speech Tuesday evening in Waterloo, Iowa — but his campaign was already fundraising off it. An email to his supporters accused Democrats of trying to “nullify” Trump votes and asked for contributions to help defend his place on ballots. Republican elected officials quickly circled the wagons around Trump, and a super political action committee supporting him blasted out some of their comments to supporters. The case hinged on several questions: Was it an insurrection when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol

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other facility workers evacuated the building. The Los Alamos County Fire Department responded, and when a team arrived the fire was out, with no apparent damage to the glove box, a lab spokesman wrote in an email. There was no evidence of anyone being contaminated or breathing in any radioactive toxins in the Nov. 6 incident, the safety board said. The work area was closed off for 10 days while technical teams probed it. During that time, Triad National Security LLC, the lab’s primary contractor, began developing a recovery plan. In an email, lab spokesman Steven Horak wrote personnel train for these sorts of incidents, and the facility has built-in protections. “The facility and its safety systems functioned exactly as planned, with no impact to other rooms in the building nor the general public,” Horak wrote. The likely cause of the fire was an energetic reaction from calcium metal contained in the feed material, the safety board said. Engineering personnel have determined the glove box is still maintaining the proper air pressure but have recommended replacing all filters and gloves as well as glove box windows closest to the event, the board said. One discrepancy is the lab and safety board say the affected work area was reopened Nov. 16, while an incident report said the room was restricted until Nov. 20. Another glove box incident occurred a week after the fire. While preparing to package materials, a worker lost control of a container inside the glove box, causing it to slam against the window. It cracked the inner safety glass and shattered the outer leaded glass window used as radiation shielding, the board reported. Surveys of the surrounding area showed no contamination spread outside the immediate glove box area, so workers were able to package the contaminated shards, affix tape to the cracked window and release the room for work later that day. Nasal swabs indicated the worker might have inhaled airborne contaminants, so the employee was given an examination known as a bioassay, the report said. At a fact-finding meeting, some participants noted the worker didn’t use a prying tool, which is encouraged but not required, to open the container. They also said there’s no standard response for a glove box window breach. Both the fire and the broken window are unusual glove box mishaps. Most breaches involve punctured or torn gloves. These are the latest in a string of glove box incidents, with nine recorded this year alone. The incidents have become more frequent in recent years as the lab gears up to produce 30 plutonium cores, or pits, that can detonate warheads. “Given the pressures on LANL to get ready for pit production, there are going to be glove box mishaps,” said Greg Mello, an anti-nuclear activist who heads the Los Alamos Study Group. “All LANL can do is to try and minimize their frequency and danger. Plutonium is dangerous.” Mello contends the lab is preparing for pit production by increasing the workforce and activities in a facility that lacks the capacity. A complex mix of activities is taking place there, both in day and night shifts, he said. One watchdog group argues the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the lab and the country’s nuclear weapons, sought to weaken the safety board’s oversight because it didn’t want the scrutiny as it pursued pit production. The federal agency and the lab also have resisted conducting public reviews of pit production, though mishaps and safety infractions are likely to grow more frequent, said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico. “LANL knows that chronic nuclear safety incidences will increase with expanded plutonium pit production for the new nuclear arms race, which in turn would cause greater public resistance,” Coghlan said. Horak insists nothing is done at the expense of safety. “Safety is always our priority, regardless of the pace of work,” Horak wrote. “The Lab’s focus on safety is central to how we conduct operations.”

on Jan. 6, 2021, trying to stop the certification of the 2020 election? If so, did Trump engage in that insurrection through his messages to his supporters beforehand, his speech that morning and his Twitter posts during the attack? Do courts have the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment without congressional action? And does Section 3 apply to the presidency? Judge Sarah B. Wallace, who made the district court ruling in Colorado, had said yes to all but the last question. Because Section 3 enumerates several offices but not the presidency, and because the presidential oath is worded differently from the oaths of the enumerated offices, Wallace concluded that the broad phrase “officers of the United States” was not intended to include the presidency. The Colorado Supreme Court disagreed. “We do not place the same weight the district court did on the fact that the presidency is not specifically mentioned in Section 3,” the majority wrote. “It seems most likely that the presidency is not specifically included because it is so evidently an ‘office.’ ” The three justices who dissented did so on procedural grounds, not on the merits of whether Trump engaged in insurrection or whether Section 3 applies to the presidency. In three separate dissenting opinions, each based on different legal arguments, they all concluded that the court had overstepped its authority. “Even if we are convinced that a candidate committed horrible acts in the past — dare I say, engaged in insurrection — there must be procedural due process before we can declare that individual disqualified from holding public office,” Justice Carlos Samour Jr. wrote in his dissent. He added, “I am disturbed about the potential chaos wrought by an imprudent, unconstitutional and standardless system in which each state gets to adjudicate Section 3 disqualification cases on an ad hoc basis.”

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There was no warning when a line of vans showed up outside the largest nursing home in St. Louis on Friday afternoon, workers at the home said. Older residents, some with dementia, were whisked away in wheelchairs while still wearing hospital gowns, employees of the Northview Village nursing home recalled. Amid the chaos as Northview Village emptied its halls, younger patients, some of whom

were being treated for injuries or mental illness, walked out into the street on their own, according to Carolyn Hawthorne, a registered nurse who had worked at the nursing facility for nearly 11 years. “It was one big travesty,” she said of Northview Village’s sudden closing, which left relatives of some of the home’s 170 residents scrambling to ﬁgure out where their loved ones had been relocated. Hawthorne’s own aunt, 73, was among residents suddenly moved to facilities around the region. “It was just heartbreaking.”

Nursing homes in N.M. facing staffing crisis Sometimes, inspectors mention understaffing when homes, didn’t meet the requiredescribing other problems, such ments once. as failures to complete patient Only four other states — Texas, paperwork or to monitor patients Oklahoma, Indiana and Missouri for medication side effects, — had fewer hours of nursing without citing the facilities for care per resident, on average, than inadequate staffing. New Mexico, the analysis found. That’s concerning, said RichNursing homes offer a range ard Mollot, executive director of of services: medical care, pain the Long Term Care Community management, pharmacy, wound Coalition, a New York-based care, social services and physical, patient advocacy group. “Suffispeech and occupational rehabilicient nursing staff is the most tation. Today, New Mexico’s nurs- important factor impacting resiing homes care for nearly 5,200 dent safety and dignity.” people but demand is likely to The state Health Department’s grow in coming years. New Mexi- minimum staffing rule requires co’s significant over-65 population, enough nurses and nurse aides to which constitutes 1 in 5 New provide on average two and a half hours of care per patient, per day. Mexicans, is projected to grow by Eleven nursing homes failed to more than 80,000 between 2020 meet that standard, but most did. and 2040. But meeting the state’s rule is Poor staffing can create gaps no guarantee of adequate staffing, and delays in care and leave residents at higher risk of neglect, cautioned one patient advocate. “I mean, [two and a half] hours medical complications and death, per resident day is really licensstudies have shown. New Mexing or mandating poor care,” said ico ranks second in the nation Sam Brooks, director of public for the highest proportion of policy at The National Consumer nursing homes cited for serious Voice for Quality Long Term deficiencies — lapses in care Care, an advocacy group based in causing immediate jeopardy or Washington, D.C. “At [two and a actual harm to a resident, up to half] hours, you’re looking at just death, according to one national database. Ninety percent of nurs- extremely high rates of omitted and delayed care.” ing homes here have been cited The proposed federal rule for infection-control deficiencies would require three hours of since 2018. direct nursing care per patient The U.S. Centers for Medicare each day. Those hours are broken and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that pays for much of down, with requirements of 0.55 hours of care from a registered nursing home costs, encourages nursing home inspectors to scru- nurse and 2.45 hours a day of care from a certified nursing assistant. tinize staffing levels when they The public comment period find certain serious deficiencies. ended Nov. 6; CMS will now Bed sores, for example, can be a finalize the rule in light of comsign of inadequate staff, training ments received. The rule would or supervision, as can resident falls or the medically unnecessary also strengthen CMS guidelines for surveyors’ monitoring of use of drugs to sedate residents. understaffing. Since 2020, New Mexico inspectors have reported more than 100 cases of bed sores and cited med- Advocates say proposal ically unnecessary medication at doesn’t go far enough least nine times, according to a As baby boomers enter nursing search of ProPublica’s Nursing home care in increasing numHome Inspect database. The bers, staffing and patient safety same search found 33 citations for at nursing facilities have become insufficient nursing staff. an increasingly urgent concern “We’re short staffed like all for millions of aging Americans facilities,” a nurse is quoted as and their loved ones. That’s saying in a May 2022 inspection particularly true in New Mexico, report about Taos Healthcare. which is tied with Pennsylvania “It’s frustrating, to be honest. The for the 12th-highest proportion schedule looks good on paper, but of people aged 65 to 84 in the not in real life. I work three nights nation, according to the U.S. a week and this happens at least Census Bureau, with the number once [a week]. Everywhere you go of senior citizens growing faster is short staffed.” than the national average. In the same report, a resident Biden promised in his 2022 described the indignity that can State of the Union address to come with short staffing. “set higher standards for nursing “Some nights the call lights don’t work, the staff will help you to the bathroom, leave, they go help other residents and you sit on the toilet for 45 minutes,” the resident told the inspector. “There is just not enough staff.” The inspector cited the facility for not providing “nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident.” The facility was also cited for staff making too many medication errors. Continued from Page A-1

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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, which regulates nursing homes, said that it had launched an investigation into the abrupt closure of Northview Village, though a representative for the agency said Tuesday that it could not comment on the investigation. A representative at Healthcare Accounting Services, which owns the nursing home and several other facilities in Missouri and Illinois, said Tuesday the company would have no comment. The nursing home sector in the

United States has grappled with overlapping challenges in recent years, including staffing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, sicker patients and rising medical and supply costs. As a result, several facilities have become insolvent. Northview Village had been losing money for several years, according to Medicare cost reports. According to SNFdata Resources, which tracks the nursing home sector, Northview Village had been losing money since at least 2018. Data that

Northview Village provided to Medicare late last year said its operating expenses for 2022 totaled more than $16.4 million, while its revenue was roughly $13.3 million. It is exceedingly rare for nursing homes to suddenly shutter. Usually, state regulators have some warning and can work with owners to arrange a sale or at least ﬁnd new homes for residents. In the case of Northview Village, employees and relatives said, there was no warning.

Workers said they found themselves suddenly unemployed, even as relatives searched to ﬁnd new facilities where their family members had been taken. Lisa Cox, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said that state officials had no advance warning that the facility was facing dire ﬁnancial problems, and that, as of Tuesday afternoon, some families still had yet to learn the whereabouts of their relatives because of the “emergent nature of the relocation.”

homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve.” But patient advocates say his administration’s staffing rule falls well short of that goal. “We’ve been waiting for 20 years for CMS to set a minimum nurse staffing standard,” said Charlene Harrington, professor emeritus at the University of California San Francisco’s School of Nursing and a nationally recognized expert on nursing home staffing and patient safety. “So we were excited when the president announced that CMS was going to set a standard. But these proposed regulations are shockingly low.” The Biden rule ups the requirement for a registered nurse to be on site, from eight to 24 hours a day, every day of the week, Harrington acknowledged. “This is something we’ve asked for years,” Harrington said. “But the proposal overall is to set a standard for three hours of total nursing per resident per day instead of the 4.1 nursing hours that was recommended by a CMS study in 2001.” CMS never formally adopted that 2001 recommendation as a requirement; instead it required facilities to hire “adequate” staff for their patients’ mix of individual needs. Harrington and advocates like Mollot favor an even higher standard, citing the increased complexity of patients’ medical conditions and medication regimens compared to 2001. On average, only 13% of New Mexico nursing homes met the 4.1-hour recommendation during the second 90 days of 2023, separate analyses of payroll data by the LTCCC and New Mexico In Depth showed. Nursing homes in neighboring states, except for Texas, at 10.7%, do much better than New Mexico, but the picture is still discouraging: 43% of Utah nursing homes, 34.5% of Arizona’s, 28% of Colorado’s and 23% of Oklahoma’s met or exceeded the 4.1-hour recommendation.

where they are located, to staff up in the different categories. Those years would be crucial given a nationwide shortage of nurses. In July, New Mexico was short almost 7,000 nurses, according to published job announcements around the state. That shortage, as with most medical professionals, is more acute in rural areas, where roughly a third of New Mexicans live. Patient advocates are concerned CMS will exempt rural and other nursing homes from the new rule. But Vicente Vargas, executive director of the New Mexico Center for Assisted Living, a group

representing all but two of the state’s nursing homes, believes the exemptions contained in the proposed rule need to go even further. Vargas would like to see waivers for some urban nursing homes, because they also struggle to retain staff, facing competition from nearby hospitals, which pay better. Without those more generous exemptions — or higher payment rates from Medicaid — the Biden rule won’t be feasible in New Mexico, he said. “In some urban areas with a lot of facilities, they don’t have the workforce [because it is] diluted with a bunch of nursing facilities and assisted living facilities that you may be competing against,”

Vargas said. In a letter sent to CMS on Nov. 6, the ﬁnal day of the Biden staffing rule’s public comment period, Vargas urged the government to increase Medicaid funding for nursing homes and to keep the existing rule that registered nurses be on-site eight hours a day instead of the proposed 24/7 requirement.

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Nearly a century after government-sponsored programs eliminated wolves from Colorado, wildlife officials Monday released five of the animals onto public land northwest of Denver in an effort to restore a permanent population of the predators to the state. It was the first release in a program initiated by Colorado residents, who narrowly voted in a 2020 referendum to return wolves to the state. The referendum had sent Colorado wildlife officials scrambling to find wolves that could be captured, transported and released before a deadline of Dec. 31. It also reignited long-standing tensions between cattle ranchers, livestock farmers and hunters, who see the wolves as a threat, and conservationists, who point to their potential ecological benefits. “Wolves have become kind of symbolic of these deeper identity-based debates: How should we be using public land?” said Becky Niemiec, director of the Animal-Human Policy Center at Colorado State University. “People have a really strong

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RIGA, Latvia — Jailed Russian opposition figures are incommunicado, missing in the country’s opaque and secretive prison system and unreachable by their lawyers or even the court system. A popular, exiled detective novelist has been branded as a terrorist and charged by Russian authorities. Monuments to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin are popping up, the latest a museum dedicated to him in the Siberian city of Barnaul. And President Vladimir Putin is ramping up his inflammatory anti-Western military rhetoric, as his defense minister claimed that Russian weapons and military equipment had proved superior to NATO’s in the war on Ukraine — a boast that omitted the fact that the United States and Europe have restricted military supplies to Kyiv to limit attacks on Russian soil. Just days into Putin’s reelection campaign — a highly stagemanaged process in which there is no doubt he will win — there are signs that the Kremlin is sharpening its already severe repression of opponents and critics, with no regard for international criticism or the potential for deeper damage to relations with the West. Lawyers for Alexei Navalny, an imprisoned Putin political rival, said Tuesday that they had not been able to contact him for 14 days after he was removed from the prison colony where he was being held in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow. His location was unknown. Lawyers for another prominent opposition figure, Alexei Gorinov, 62, a local legislator in Moscow, said they had been denied access to him since Dec. 8. Both Navalny and Gorinov have been in poor health, according to their lawyers, with Gorinov deprived of medication and so ill with bronchitis that he did not have the strength to sit on his chair or speak when he was last seen this month. Leaders of Navalny’s AntiCorruption Foundation, who live in exile because of threats of arrest and prosecution, posted pictures on social media Tuesday of supporters holding up signs asking: “#Where is Navalny?” His team posted that Navalny was “alone with the people who tried to kill him,” a reference to his 2020 poisoning with a banned chemical nerve agent, an attack that was carried out by the Russian government, according to the State Department. Navalny, 47, could be in transit to another prison, but Russian authorities have confirmed nothing, raising fears for his safety, given the unusually long time he has been out of contact. In Russia, transit between penitentiary facilities is seen by rights groups as a highly vulnerable moment for political prisoners. As supporters worry about Navalny and Gorinov, Putin’s powerful propaganda machine is operating at full blast in the run-up to an election designed to boost the legitimacy of his war on Ukraine. The Kremlin is carrying out public events featuring the Russian leader that seem designed to build a cult of personality around him. Last week, Russians tuned into Putin’s annual news conference and call-in show for citizens, in which he exuded confidence and said the goals in Ukraine were unchanged. On Tuesday, he addressed an expanded board of the Russian Ministry of Defense, attended by the militaristic leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, and other religious, political and military officials, and boasted that the West’s attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia had failed. Thanks to Russia, he said, “the myth of the invulnerability of Western military equipment also collapsed.” Putin said that Russia would never compromise its interests in any negotiations over Ukraine, and he proclaimed a need to further ramp up military production. As Russia’s weapons factories churn out arms 24 hours a day, the nation’s security apparatus is equally industrious, jailing activists and trying to intimidate leading exiled cultural figures critical of the war.

5 wolves released in Colo. in effort to repopulate species

President Joe Biden attends a funeral service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday in Washington. O’Connor, an Arizona native and the ﬁrst woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Dec. 1 at age 93.

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Primary voting in N.M. trails many red states

ontrary to popular mythology, Texas is more liberal than New Mexico when it comes to voting and elections. The state of big belt buckles and little tolerance, a place kooky enough to send Ted Cruz to the Senate, Texas nonetheless is enlightened in one respect. It opens primary elections to everyone eligible to cast a ballot. Residents of Texas do not join a political party when they register to vote. For primary elections, Texas voters request the ballot of either major party. They are free from year to year to alter which party’s primary they vote in. Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina — states with ugly histories of suppressing the Black vote — also hold open primary elections. New Mexico should be so progressive, so accommodating, so smart. Instead, New Mexico operates like a political machine from the 1950s when it comes to primary elections. People who register to vote in New Mexico are questioned on whether they want to join a political party. A total of 578,000 New Mexicans are members of the Democratic Party. Another 412,000 are registered Republicans. The third-largest group, with 307,000 voters, declined to select a political party. “In particular, many younger people don’t want to commit to either major party,” said state Sen. Bill O’Neill, D-Albuquerque. Under existing law, New Mexicans who aren’t affiliated with a party must change their registration to Democrat or Republican in order to vote in taxpayer-funded primary elections. (Technically, Libertarians also are a major party in New Mexico, but they account for only 15,000 registered voters, and they never have competitive primaries). O’Neill has long tried to open New Mexico’s primaries to voters who aren’t Democrats or Republicans. He hopes his breakthrough will occur in the legislative session starting in January. O’Neill is reviving a bill that would amend the New Mexico Election Code to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in primary elections without having to change their registration status. A similar bill in the last session cleared the Senate 27-10 but died in the House of Representatives. Nine Republican senators voted against open primaries. Also opposing the bill was perhaps the most liberal senator, Democrat Jerry Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque.

Solving city crime with surveillance Officials say network of cameras, sensors helps prosecutors build better cases, makes community safer, but more needed By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s largest city is blanketed with 10,000 cameras, license plate readers along some of the busiest roadways and special listening devices that hone in on the sound of gunﬁre — all part of a technological net of sorts that Albuquerque authorities say has been an integral part of addressing high crime rates and record homicides. With the push of a button, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller revealed the city’s Real Time Crime Center behind what had been a wall of opaque glass just moments earlier. Video feeds from city intersections and bus stops played out simultane-

ously on a massive screen that covered one wall as individual stations were outﬁtted with numerous smaller monitors. There were feeds from local news stations and social media streaming as well as access to databases that included criminal records and facial recognition. It’s meant to be one-stop shopping for Albuquerque police officers, providing real-time information as they respond to calls throughout the city. The police chief and mayor say it’s working. They want state lawmakers to double down on the investment and expand its reach to neighboring communities. With more than $50 million already spent over several years, Albuquerque Please see story on Page A-8

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A wall of monitors behind a glass wall last week at the city of Albuquerque’s Real Time Crime Center. Ofﬁcials are seeking more funding from the New Mexico Legislature to add cameras and expand access to neighboring communities.

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Akmal, who formerly ran an L.A.-based consulting firm, is at least fifth to leave role during Webber administration By Carina Julig

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A woman hired as the city of Santa Fe’s spokeswoman about three months ago is no longer on the job. Amy Akmal, at least the ﬁfth person to serve in the role during Mayor Alan Webber’s administration, “separated from the city” Monday, City Manager John Blair wrote in an email. Blair did not specify a reason for Akmal’s Amy Akmal departure and didn’t disclose whether she resigned or was ﬁred. As a matter of policy, the city does not provide such personnel information, he said, adding he wished Akmal “all the best” in her future endeavors. Akmal’s departure leaves the city without a communications director or a permanent city clerk following resignation in September of Kristine Bustos-Mihelcic, who left to work for

ABOVE: Emeker Rodrigo, 4, watches in amazement as his dad, Mahesh Rodrigo of Santa Fe, helps him build his gingerbread house at the Main Library during their Family Gingerbread House Making event Tuesday. RIGHT: Helen McKalish, 5, eats the icing after she is done building her gingerbread house during the Family Gingerbread House Making event Tuesday.

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Prosecutors seek pretrial Local artist competes in U.S. Open table tennis tourney detention of Tesuque woman, 78, who suspect, 59 meditates, paints, plays Please see story on Page A-8

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pingpong, heads to Calif. to test her skills in 7 events

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Ellen Fuller is getting older, but the local artist is determined not to get old. She paints, meditates and practices table tennis. The game, known as pingpong among less serious players, isn’t just a hobby for 78-year-old Fuller. She is competing this week in the U.S. Open table tennis competition in Ontario, Calif. Fuller, a Brooklyn native who has lived in Tesque for over 40 years, is scheduled for several matches in the tournament, including women’s doubles for contenders 75 and over, mixed doubles for those 40 and over and a women’s singles match with no age requirement. She’ll compete in a total of seven events over the course of a few days. “That’s crazy,” she said with a laugh during an interview Friday as she prepared for the trip. Her workout diet, as you might call it, consists of “lots of water, bananas once in a while, some nuts, some fruit.”

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Ellen Fuller playing table tennis. Fuller will be competing this week in the U.S. Open’s table tennis competition in Ontario, Calif. “It’s a mind game; it’s like chess,” she said. “You have to learn all the spins and moves. I like the competitive part of it. I like getting better.”

Fuller played tennis years ago — her father, Irving Lawner, was a tennis pro — and used to enjoy pingpong. Always interested in learning something new and keeping her mind alert, she began playing tennis table in 2016 with members of the Santa Fe Table Tennis Club. “It’s a mind game; it’s like chess,” she

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said. “You have to learn all the spins and moves. I like the competitive part of it. I like getting better. “When people get older, some become resigned and don’t do a lot,” she added. “It’s good to be active.” Fuller lives what she calls a quiet life, one devoid of television, an iPhone or

anything that might distract her from painting or meditating. She has a ﬂip phone, she admits, but it’s almost always turned off, which can drive her family members and friends a little crazy. She wanted to be an artist like her mother, Frances Lawner, from an early age. “I was a weird child,” she said. “I’d go into my room, close the door and just draw.” Her work today — portraits, animals and nature sequences — have a photorealistic quality. She’s shown her paintings in several exhibits in Santa Fe and across the nation. The coordination and creative mental spark necessary for drawing and painting comes in hand when playing table tennis, she said: “Both require concentration, being focused, being present.” There is a sense of calm that can envelope her when she is in front of a canvas in her studio. Not so at the table tennis table. In the heat of a match, she often feels “nervous, deﬁnitely nervous,” she said. Table tennis might not seem to be a game of accidents and injuries, but Fuller has had her share. Once during a warmup, her right hand smashed into the table, tearing up ligaments. She played through it — likely with

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Ribera man faces charges of first-degree murder in Dec. 12 slaying in small community By Nicholas Gilmore

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State prosecutors in San Miguel County are requesting a Ribera man accused in a fatal shooting in Villanueva be held in jail until his trial. A pretrial detention hearing is scheduled Thursday in the 2nd Judicial District Court for Gary Hicks, 59, who is charged with ﬁrst-degree murder in the Dec. 12 slaying of 39-year-old Alejandro Rodriguez in the small community on N.M. 3. A prosecutor wrote in a motion ﬁled Friday no conditions of release for Hicks can guarantee the safety of the community. A New Mexico State Police officer arrived at a Villanueva residence shortly after 7 p.m. Dec. 12 in response to a report of a shooting and found three people standing next to Rodriguez, who was lying facedown in a pool of blood, according to a statement of probable Please see story on Page A-10 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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The Empty Stocking Fund is a long-standing project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs. Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applications are now closed. How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need. 2023 goal: $399,000. This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa

Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual. To donate: Make your tax-deductible donation online by visiting santafenewmexican.com/empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, 87504-1827. Cash and coin donations are always welcome. Those can be dropped off at the offices of the newspaper at 150 Washington Ave., Suite 206. Donors can request to remain anonymous. If you can provide a service such as rooﬁng or home repairs, contact Habitat for Humanity at repairs@santafehabitat.org. If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares, furniture, ﬁrewood or other items or services, call the Salvation Army at 505-988-8054. DONATIONS Kimball and Sharyn Udall: $300 Solveiga Unger: $150 Joe Vigil: $35.48 White & Luff Financial: $257.73 Robert Lee Williams, in memory of Ida Ortiz: $515.46 Marsha Winborn: $50 Susan Wortman: $103.09 Nancy and George Yankura: $100 Mel and Barbra Yost: $300 Meme and Phil Young: $103.09 Bette Yozell and Richard Epstein: $200 Cumulative total: $231,014.30

IN BRIEF Gov. receives award for public health work Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been awarded the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s annual Public Service Award, her office announced Tuesday. The professional organization, whose members include more than 1,200 scientists in the ﬁeld of neuropsychopharmacology, recognized Lujan Grisham for her public health efforts as a congresswoman and governor, especially her work aimed at improving mental and behavioral health services, according to a news release. Carlos Zarate Jr., chairman of the group’s awards committee, said in a statement the governor was honored for being “a ﬁerce champion for senior citizens, veterans, and individuals living with disabilities; for sponsoring the HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act (H.R. 1507); and prioritizing policy changes and education to increase access and treatment of addiction and substance use disorders in New Mexico.” The governor was nominated by University of New Mexico professor Mauricio Tohen. “I’m honored to receive this award, but I know there is much more to

do,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “As governor, I will continue to implement solutions to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to every New Mexican.”

Supernatural thriller to start filming in S.F. The supernatural thriller Killing Faith will start filming in January at a local Western set and other locations around Santa Fe County, the Santa Fe Film Office reported Monday. The movie stars Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential and Iron Man 3) and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion). Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) was set to star as well but had to withdraw just a few days ago, said Jennifer LaBar-Tapia, the city’s film commissioner. Killing Faith follows a doctor (Pearce) escorting a mother (Wise) and her daughter, who is believed to be possessed, across the 1859 desert in search of a faith healer to cure her. Killing Faith is written and directed by Ned Crowley, who directed the 2016 release Middle Man. The New Mexico Film Office reported the production will employ 60 New Mexico crew members, five local principal actors and about 45 local background actors.

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Ariz. town mourns 5 kids killed in house fire BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. — A father in Arizona who left four children and a young relative at home so he could buy Christmas gifts and groceries returned to find the charred remains of the family’s home after a fire broke out, killing all five children inside, authorities said. Investigators in northwestern Arizona said Tuesday they have yet to determine what started the blaze, which began Saturday evening in the downstairs foyer area of the two-story duplex. Flames and smoke traveled up the only staircase inside the home, preventing the children from escaping. Staff and wire reports

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS LORRAINE QUINTANA Lorraine was called home to our Lord on December 12, 2023. Lorraine was born to Manuel and Tessie Romero on January 30, 1949, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lorraine was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend. Lorraine is preceded in death by her parents and daughter Linda Francis. She is survived by her husband Don, son Chris Romero (Denise), son-in-law Gilbert, granddaughter Amanda Jaramillo (Michael) who Don and Lorraine raised as their own daughter. Granddaughters Natasha Romero, Candace Romero and family, grandson, Christopher Romero and family. Her great grandchildren Krista better known as “Sunshine”, Dominic, Michaela and Jaden, whom she adored and were her whole life. Lorraine is also survived by her sisters, brother, nieces, nephews and her stepchildren, Donnie, Peggy, Joann (Ray), Kenny, and Lenny (Lenora). Don and Lorraine were blessed with the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad during their years together. A Rosary will take place on Friday, December 22, 2023, at 11:00am in the Rivera Family Kiva Chapel of Light, 417 Rodeo Rd., Santa Fe NM with a Prayer Service to follow at 12:00pm.

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wants the Legislature to put in another $40 million so authorities will have eyes on more parts of the metro area and other police agencies can access and share data. Keller said during a tour Friday that the technology and the ability of police and prosecutors to build better cases is helping make the community safer. “We have a long, long way to go, but we’re going the right direction,” Keller said. Albuquerque is one of many cities that have been pouring money in crime-ﬁghting technology, with dozens of real time crime centers popping up in recent years and surveillance systems being expanded to more locations. Keller pointed to the massive screen, highlighting a map with dozens of yellow markers on it — each one denoting gunshots detected by ShotSpotter. Authorities said those detections are cross referenced with live video from the area and license plate data that is captured to give responding officers a better idea of what they might be heading into or who they might be looking for. “It not only enables us to catch people, but it keeps our officers safe day in and day out,” Police Chief Harold Medina said. Medina touted the capabilities in solving some of the city’s most notable crimes over the last two years — from a hit-and-run that left a 7-year-old boy dead to the shooting deaths of four men that rocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community and a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of elected officials. Weapons violations increased by 21% for the ﬁrst nine months of 2023 compared to the previous year, according to data released by the Albuquerque

The state agency also reported the New Mexico-based production company Triple Seven Pictures, which relocated from New York, is providing locations and production services. The ﬁlm is produced by Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra of Film Bridge International in partnership with Summer Crockett-Moore and Tony Glazer of Choice Films, entertainment publication Deadline reported. Zori Davidkova and Wes Hager are the producers for Choice Films while on location in Santa Fe.

ABOVE: Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller discusses the capabilities of the city’s Real Time Crime Center during a news conference last week in Albuquerque. “We have a long, long way to go, but we’re going the right direction,” Keller said.

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RIGHT: The entrance to the city’s Real Time Crime Center last week. Ofﬁcials are seeking more funding from the Legislature to add surveillance cameras and expand access to the system for neighboring communities.

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Police Department. Authorities say that’s due to an increase in the ShotSpotter technology, which covers about 15% of the city. Still, some have criticized reliance on the technology. A 2021 Associated Press investigation, based on a review of thousands of internal documents, confidential contracts and interviews with dozens of public defenders in communities where ShotSpotter has been deployed, identified a number of flaws in using the technology as evidentiary support for prosecutors.

There also are privacy concerns, said Daniel Williams, a policing policy advocate with the ALCU in New Mexico. “There’s a balance between the very real risks to the privacy of all of us in our community when this sort of mass surveillance is employed and the legitimate need to solve crimes and keep us safe,” he said. For lawmakers, Williams said the time has come for them to think about crafting data retention and reporting policies. In Albuquerque, city councilors recently amended an

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the state Department of Transportation. Bustos-Mihelcic had served in both roles as well as director of community engagement. Assistant City Clerk Geralyn Cardenas was appointed in October to serve as interim city clerk as Webber conducts a search to fill the permanent position. Blair said he and senior adviser Bernie Toon, also hired about three months ago, will handle media requests as the city works to fill the communications position “as swiftly as possible.” Toon and Akmal were both hired in mid-September. Their positions previously were part of the City Clerk’s Office but were transferred to the City Manager’s Office in the budget for this fiscal year as part of a reorganization of the communications team. Akmal was brought in at a much higher annual salary than the previous communications director, earning about $115,500, compared to a little more than $80,000 for her predecessor. She came to the city from Los Angeles and most recently operated her own communications consulting firm. As an employee at a previous public relations job in the 2000s, she served as a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Public Works. Before she joined the city of Santa Fe, the communications director position had been vacant for nearly a year, with Bustos-Mihelcic serving as spokeswoman. Webber has had several communications directors during his tenure. Matt Ross, who was a spokesman for former Mayor Javier Gonzales, continued in the role through January 2019. In May 2019, former TV reporter Lilia Chacon moved to Santa Fe from Chicago to serve in the position. She was let go after a little over a year. Dave Herndon served as spokesman from fall 2020 to November 2022. He was not replaced until Akmal was hired.

Fear of being ousted is the main reason many politicians don’t like O’Neill’s bill. Though they would never admit to being weak-kneed, many incumbents worry about an inﬂux of unaffiliated voters swinging primaries to newcomers. That would be possible because turnout is pitiful in New Mexico primaries. Statewide voter participation was 25.5% in last year’s primary. Turnout was 42% in 2020, a presidential election year when interest was higher. The potential for unaffiliated voters to inﬂuence primaries appears greatest in New Mexico’s most populous county, Bernalillo. It has 199,000 Democrats, 117,000 Republicans and 100,000 voters who declined to select a party. Based on those statistics, unaffiliated voters would be most likely be a factor in Republican primaries. In Santa Fe County, Republicans already are outnumbered by voters who did not select a party. About 23,000 voters are unaffiliated, compared to 16,500 Republicans. Democrats dominate Santa Fe County with 68,000 registered voters. The sheer size of the Democratic Party occasionally leads to primaries for county offices and state legislative seats.

ordinance that lengthens the retention policy from two weeks to a year, with Williams suggesting that’s too long. “Our tradition in this country, our values are that we don’t engage in surveillance of people or intrude into the lives of people by law enforcement in case they might one day commit a crime,” he said. Medina acknowledged those concerns, saying technology comes with a responsibility and that his department will use the tools where it can to ensure public safety.

Republicans are lucky if they can ﬁeld a candidate for offices in Santa Fe County. They ought to welcome the prospect of more voters, as it might also lead to more candidates. If O’Neill’s bill were to clear the Legislature and be signed into law by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, more than a few formerly secure incumbents might have a panic attack. O’Neill has miles to go before he can think about that sort of fallout. Because the 2024 legislative session will last only 30 days, preference goes to bills involving expenditures. O’Neill needs Lujan Grisham to place his proposal for open primaries on the agenda. He said the measure this time can clear both chambers of the Legislature if the governor gives it the opportunity to be heard. Increasing voter participation in primary elections should be a righteous cause for a legislature dominated by progressive Democrats. “Come on. What are we afraid of?” O’Neill asked. His admonition isn’t as direct or as stirring as the old Southern battlecry, “Give us the ballot.” It doesn’t have to be. O’Neill isn’t attempting anything dramatic. He’s just trying to drag New Mexico into the 21st century. Ringside Seat is an opinion column about people, politics and news. Contact Milan Simonich at msimonich@ santafenewmexican.com or 505-9863080.

Milford A. Fleig (Mil) died peacefully in his home on December 12, 2023, surrounded by his loving daughters. Mil was born in 1929 in Iowa and was married to his loving wife, Shirley Fleig, for 69 years prior to her death in October 2023. He is survived by his three daughters, Jill Reynolds (Mark) of Cedar Crest, NM, Jodi Haines of Santa Fe, and Jane Fleig (Erica) of Bloomington, IN. He was truly the best girl-dad ever. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Misty Haines Hartman and Jace Reynolds. Mil retired from the State Highway Department, where he was a landscape architect who helped design all the rest areas in New Mexico, as well as multiple highway beautification projects. Mil was a big proponent of using native and xeric grasses and plants. He was also a Santa Fe City volunteer firefighter for many years prior to the city adding a paid force. Mil loved being outdoors and particularly loved wandering the state of New Mexico. Everyone who knew Mil loved him and he will be greatly missed. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter to honor his last and favorite dog, Polly, who loved him beyond all things. Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

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Santa Fe — Lanalee (Cissy) Lewis of Santa Fe and San Francisco, 73, passed away peacefully on December 9, 2023. She is survived by her brother Frank Lewis (Galina) of Fort Worth, Texas and two nephews: Chris Lewis (Lily) of San Francisco and Roman Ivanov (Aissa) of San Antonio, TX. Cissy was born on September 17, 1950, in Munich, Germany, to Col. Frank L. Lewis and Ruth Shirley Lewis. Born into a military family, she lived in many countries including Chile, where she became fluent in Spanish before the family returned to the U.S. She attended Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, earned a BA in English and Biology at The University of the South, an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and a Ed.M. at Harvard University. A former Academic Dean and Assistant Head of School at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California, Cissy was a beloved English teacher whose Baccalaureate talks were long cherished by graduates. She was twice recognized with the Distinguished Teacher Award. She also taught at Harpeth Hall School in Tennessee, The Hockaday School in Texas, and served as an administrator at The Baylor School in Tennessee In San Francisco, Cissy was a devoted member of Grace Cathedral, and upon moving to Santa Fe, she became a member of The Church of the Holy Faith. Always the teacher, she contributed to the church community by presenting admired forums on a wide variety of topics, including the connection between faith and the arts. A service will be held at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe at 3:00 p.m. on January 13, 2024. A gathering of friends and family will also take place in San Francisco at a date yet to be determined.

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he sign on the door of the Public Education Department building Monday was clear: A rules hearing is not a debate, but an opportunity to hear public comment. Tell that to Margaret Mitchell, 13-yearold student from Taos Academy Charter School, who ended her testimony with this debate-worthy question: “Will you encourage more dropouts and take away the precious rest we get, or will you listen to the people this directly affects and leave our schedule as is?” She was one of dozens of people who showed up Monday to speak out on a proposed rule change that would add days to the school year — requiring 180 days a year by 2024-25 — and potentially eliminate the four-day school week beloved in rural districts. So many people showed up — from Clovis, Springer, Lordsburg and other, even smaller towns across the state — that the hearing stretched into the evening with testimony almost uniformly and loudly opposed to the proposed rule change. And even fans of children spending more time learning, as we are, left the hearing persuaded the Public Education Department

and Secretary Arsenio Romero must reconsider. This is the wrong rule change at the wrong time. For people in rural parts of the state, fourday weeks reduce travel time for children, save districts operating dollars and allow families time to work with their children on farms and ranches. Remember, some of these kids spend several hours a day on the bus. A four-day week helps them avoid exhaustion, with those days structured to include enough mandated learning time. As Andrew Romero of the Springer Municipal Schools said: “Sixty percent of four-day districts meet or exceed state proficiency averages, compared to only 6% of five-day school districts.” Some districts have operated on truncated schedules for decades — 40 years for several pioneer districts. These schedules work for the people of those communities, for the teachers, for the kids and for the families. And it was clear Monday that rural New Mexicans did not appreciate an edict from on high that would upend their lives and schedules. The message was clear: One size does not fit all across New Mexico. Kimber Sanchez, from Mountainair

Public Schools, bemoaned how a five-day week would cause teachers — many of whom drive from other communities to work — to leave her district: “Considering the Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit, any rule that would decrease a rural school’s access to highly qualified teachers should never be considered by the department.” And so it went, one person speaking after the other, with parents, children, teachers, administrators, school board members and others stressing the need for local control and the necessity of focusing on real solutions. Those include reducing class sizes and focusing intently on reducing chronic absenteeism. As Wood Gormley Elementary School teacher Susan Webster said, “Extending the school year by two more weeks means these students simply aren’t going to attend school for two more weeks.” Public Education Department Secretary Romero did not attend the hearing, supervised by Denise Terrazas, director of policy and legislative affairs for the department. The legislation this rule is designed to enact, House Bill 130, increased required hours of classroom time from 990 to 1,140; it left structuring those hours up to districts. One reason for opposing the rule is that it

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Supreme contempt for women T he Irish expect the worst to happen at any moment. And they have what my colleague Dan Barry calls “a wry acceptance of mortality.” Still, Ireland was shaken to its core in 2012 by the death of Savita Halappanavar, a beautiful, sparkling 31-year-old Indian immigrant, a dentist married to an Indian engineer. Savita was expecting her first child. She wore a new dress for the baby shower and prayed for the future. But that night she got sick. She went to a Galway hospital, where she was crushed to learn her fetal membranes were bulging and her 17-week-old fetus would not survive. Knowing her life was at stake, she begged the medical staff to remove the fetus. As Kitty Holland wrote in Savita: The Tragedy That Shook a Nation, a midwife explained to her, “It’s a Catholic thing. We don’t do it here.” Ireland had a long history of punishing women, sending them to religious asylums if they were pregnant out of wedlock or deemed “fallen.” Savita developed septic shock and died four days after her baby girl, whom she named Prasa, was stillborn. That tragedy jolted the turbulent debate in Ireland about the right of women to control their bodies. Savita’s story was vividly evoked by women and men when I covered the 2018 referendum to revoke the Vatican-approved Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which made abortions illegal, even in cases of rape or incest. That draconian amendment had women selling their cars and going to loan sharks to get the money to fly to England for procedures. It stamped women with a scarlet letter and psychological trauma because they felt their country had turned its back on them. I remember, as I reported on the vote, having a flash of gratitude that I lived in America and not Ireland. I thought to myself that I would hate living in such a benighted country shaped by religious fanatics. But now I am. Religious fanatics on the Supreme Court have yanked America back to back alleys. American women are punished, branded with scarlet letters, forced to flee to get procedures. And we have our own fraught case of a 31-year-old begging for a termination: Kate Cox, a married Texas mother of two who was thrilled to be pregnant until she was told her fetus had a deadly chromosomal abnormality. Continuing the pregnancy could also keep Cox from getting pregnant again.

goes beyond legislative intent. It’s unfortunate the secretary did not attend. Romero might have learned a few things — not just about the futility of extending the school calendar before dealing with chronic absenteeism, but about the anger from private and charter school operators about the impact of proposed changes to the accreditation process. While it’s important to ensure all schools are accredited, it’s also essential to avoid burdensome red tape and duplication. Witnesses also pointed out there was no consultation with tribes, either, when discussing rule changes. That’s a requirement. At the end, witnesses pleaded with state education officials to listen to their words. Adding days to the calendar — especially with no reassurance the state will deliver the funds to pay for transportation, meals, teacher time and all the other operational costs — will not be a magic bullet. Retired teacher Terry Blackman of Santa Fe summed it up: “Until chronic absenteeism is addressed and becomes the primary objective of PED, it’s basically insanity to add on more days for kids to be absent.” Insanity. Is anyone — that means you, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — listening?

Writing letters to veterans spreads holiday cheer

hank you so much for the article regarding the letter-writing program to the veterans who reside at the two New Mexico veterans homes (“Letter-writing program spreads joy to veterans’ homes,” Dec. 14). It inspired my grandson and myself to stop all the busyness around us, turn on some Christmas carols and address Christmas cards to the veterans. It was quality time spent with my grandson doing something that, hopefully, will bring a little Christmas cheer to our veterans. I am from a family of veterans, so I appreciate all those who have served our country. Tina Tafoya

“I kept asking more questions, including how much time we might have with her if I continued the pregnancy,” Cox wrote in The Dallas Morning News. “The answer was maybe an hour — or at most, a week. Our baby would be in hospice care from the moment she is born if she were to be born alive.” Cox, more than 20 weeks pregnant, had to leave Texas to have an abortion because the state’s boorish, mega-MAGA attorney general, Ken Paxton, gleefully threatened to prosecute “hospitals, doctors or anyone else” who helped her, even floating first-degree felony charges. The case has become so politically toxic that even the voluble Sen. Ted Cruz, who is running for reelection next year, has clammed up about it. Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, playing school nurse, warned Republicans on the Hill to talk less about banning abortion and more about the benefits of contraception. I’m sure even former President Donald Trump, who was once pro-choice but now panders to evangelicals, has qualms about criminalizing abortion. It’s a political loser and could cost him the election if women are supermobilized. He called Gov. Ron DeSantis’ six-week abortion ban in Florida “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.” Once Trump bragged about appointing the conservative justices on the court who were pivotal in overturning Roe v. Wade. But that won’t be a great sales pitch in the general election.

It is outrageous that such an important right in America was stripped away by a handful of cloistered, robed zealots, driven by religious doctrine, with no accountability. But the Savonarola wing of the Supreme Court — all Catholics except Neil Gorsuch, who was raised Catholic and went to the same suburban Washington Catholic prep school as Brett Kavanaugh — could go to even more extreme lengths. The court announced Wednesday that it will consider curtailing the availability of a pill used to terminate ﬁrst-trimester pregnancies. Soon, it’ll be mandating the rhythm method. An explosive New York Times article by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak revealed Justice Samuel Alito was even more underhanded than we knew as he plotted to engineer “a titanic shift in the law” by vitiating Roe. Conservative judges who assured the Senate that Roe was settled law in their conﬁrmation hearings could barely wait until Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died to throw it in the constitutional rights rubbish bin. The more we learn, the more infuriating it is that our lives and choices about our bodies are determined by conniving radicals. The Supreme Court is way, way out of order. Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times.

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A lethal mix Allowing the AES Rancho Viejo Solar project to move forward without reading the history of AES is a shortsighted, passive approach to the future of our communities. Moving away from fossil fuels is dead-on correct. Questioning the means to produce clean energy is essential to community health. The issue is not solar panels, but 500,000 lithium-ion battery cell storage covering about 1,000 acres in the midst of a densely populated area. AES has a long history of explosions and huge fires caused by lithium battery storage in other communities: Surprise, Ariz., 2019, and Chandler, Ariz. 2020 — sites smaller than this proposal. Spontaneous lithium battery explosions, runaway fires, dry vegetation and strong winds make a lethal mix. Communities, just like individual people, have a level of “health.” Prevention surpasses cure. Inform yourself; read the fine print. Learn more at CleanEnergyCoalitionSFC.org Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 20, 1923: Sheep men in Missouri, as well as farmers who raise pigs, angora goats, turkeys and other poultry have welcomed the assistance given them by the Biological Survey of the United States department of agriculture and the Missouri state board of agriculture in their fight against predatory stock-killing animals, particularly wolves. This work has been recently started in response to many complaints of sheep men who were unable to protect their flocks from animal marauders, and a number of wolves already

have been taken. Dec. 20, 1948: The kids of Santa Fe are going to do all right this last week before Christmas, with an almost continual round of parties climaxed Thursday night in the Plaza when Santa Claus will be on hand to dish out the candy and gifts. Tonight Santa’s helpers will be busy at the American Legion hut sacking candy for the Thursday night shindig. Dec. 20, 1973: The Public Service Co. of New Mexico today filed for an increase in electricity rates that would boost the average residential bill by $1.31 a month, or 10.5 per cent. The new rates, if approved by the state Public Service Commission, would generate

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some $5.4 million in additional revenue next year, according to company president G.A. Schreiber. Dec. 20, 1998: With the nation reeling from news of the historic vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach the president, Santa Fe priests, ministers and rabbis are looking inward for answers to the moral and ethical dilemmas that face the nation. And many plan to use the pulpit today to broach the subject in a spiritual sense. “What we need to do now is to consolidate by focusing on what we have left instead of what we have lost,” said the Rev. Stephen Swisher, directing pastor for Zia United Methodist Church.

Regarding the headline, (“Small college defends lavish spending,” Dec. 7) why not just say, “Small college defends spending” and let readers decide? Submitted by Searchlight New Mexico, this article reads like a gossip column. References to The New York Times real estate pages and the pavilions of Disney World do not smack of serious journalism, coming from an organization that seemingly wants to be associated with The Boston Globe’s Spotlight — an investigative unit that uncovered 250 priests who had

molested children for decades. College President Joseph Shepard has the C-suite skills for any executive position, and has chosen to apply them for the beneﬁt of Western New Mexico University. He’s maintained ﬁnancial reserves of 20% six of the last 12 years, 17% more than the state requires. His wife, Valerie Plame, is a patriot betrayed by our government, a fact strategically left out of a piece too busy trying to take her down for buying a couch on Etsy. Stacia Raymond

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Proud grandpa My granddaughters have attended Chaparral Elementary for the past ﬁve years. On Dec. 9, the parent-teacher organization sponsored its ﬁrst awesome community winter carnival. I want to thank the PTO, families, parents, staff and local students, including the Santa Fe High football team, who helped make it a fun, safe and successful event for the kids. My granddaughters and I had so much fun playing games and socializing. It was great to see other families from the community having fun with their kids. I am proud to be a Chaparral “Firebird” grandparent. Alfred Hernandez

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Christmas joy My wife and I drove to Albuquerque on Saturday to see the Mother Road production of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. It is a wonderful show, uplifting in spirit in this time of strife, about Allied and German troops deciding to enjoy a day of cease-ﬁre and fellowship at Christmas. It primarily features song after song, both historic war songs and Christmas carols. The music director, Lina Ramos, turned the cast of 15 actors into a fantastic men’s chorus to bring this music to life. The direction by Marc Comstock seamlessly moved the actors from recruitment to the front lines, and from English to German troops as they interacted. Mother Road is bringing this show to Santa Fe this week, Thursday and Friday, at the New Mexico Actors Lab theater. We highly recommend you consider this opportunity to bring some Christmas joy into your life. Cris Barnes

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NEW YORK — Haven’t ordered your holiday gifts yet? Well, you might ﬁnd solace in discovering some of America’s biggest retailers are working to increase their shipping speeds to please shoppers expecting faster and faster deliveries. Walmart, Target and Amazon are all-in on the shipping wars, a move retail experts say will help them maintain a competitive edge against low-cost retailers Shein and Temu, which were founded in China. For Walmart and Target, their investments are also aimed at narrowing the gap in delivery speed with Amazon, which has set the standard for fast shipping and remains the king of speed. Amazon packages have been arriving at the doors of Prime customers even faster this year under the company’s new distribution model, which divides the country into eight regions and

cause. The officer identiﬁed the three people as Hicks, Rodriguez’s wife and a witness who had dialed 911. The officer also found “an AK-47 style ﬁrearm” at the scene, he wrote in the statement. During the 911 call, the witness reported Hicks had shot Rodriguez, while Hicks could be heard in the background denying this, according to the statement. The witness told investigators he had been cutting wood with Hicks that evening. The two men stopped at a home where Rodriguez’s wife and daughter live when they saw Rodriguez’s vehicle parked there, according to the statement. They both knew a court order prohibited Rodriguez from being at the home, the man said. He and Hicks got out of his vehicle and confronted Rodri-

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predominantly ships items from warehouses in those areas. The idea, Amazon says, is to get shipments to travel shorter distances with fewer touchpoints, which helps the company speed up deliveries and also cut down on costs. Previously, the Seattle-based ecommerce giant used to fulfill orders from warehouses across the country. In July, it said 76% of customer orders were being fulfilled within their region, up from 62% before the change. “We remain on pace to deliver the fastest delivery speeds for Prime customers in our 29-year history,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in October during an earnings call with analysts. Company executives have noted faster shipping is also being driven by Amazon’s expansion of same-day delivery, which was first rolled out in 2015 to Prime members who currently pay $139 a year for free two-day shipping and other perks. Same-day delivery sites are smaller warehouses that are located in metro areas

and predominantly store the top 100,000 products customers want. Amazon Vice President of Delivery Experience Sarah Mathew said the company currently has 55 of these sites in the country. And it has plans to double the number in the coming years. “Psychologically, fast delivery is very important to the consumer when ordering online,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail. “That is why everyone is trying to push out more into this space even though it’s very expensive to support and it often requires a lot of new infrastructure.” To catch up, Walmart and Target have been pouring money into warehouse upgrades, new facilities or other efforts that they say will also help trim costs. “These facilities have transformed how we move inventory with speed and precision to guests’ doorsteps,” Target’s executive vice president and chief operations officer John Mulligan said.

guez, he said. He told police he was facing Rodriguez when he heard a gunshot from behind him and then saw Rodriguez fall to the ground, the statement says. He turned and saw Hicks holding a riﬂe. Rodriguez was charged in November with child abuse, battery and criminal damage to property after his wife reported he had grabbed her by the throat, slammed her into a wall and broken a window while their children were present at the home, a criminal complaint against Rodriguez states. A Nov. 20 court order allowed Rodriguez to be released from jail but prohibited him from contacting his wife or returning to her home. Rodriguez’s wife told investigators she returned home Dec. 12 to ﬁnd Hicks and his friend standing near Rodriguez’s body. She

checked to see if he had a pulse, police wrote in the statement. Rodriguez’s 11-year-old daughter was inside the home during the incident. She told police she saw Hicks through the window and noticed he had a gun, the statement says, and she heard a gunshot about five minutes later. When police questioned Hicks, he said he had grabbed the rifle from the vehicle after hearing two gunshots fired from behind him and seeing Rodriguez fall to the ground, police wrote in the statement. “After pressing Mr. Hicks on the incident, he kept saying he does not remember shooting Alejandro Rodriguez,” the statement says. The officer told Hicks his companion had accused him of shooting Rodriguez, and Hicks replied the man “is an honest person, so if he told you that’s what happened then that’s what happened.”

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clenched teeth. Playing doubles requires extra coordination and caution. “You can trip, you can get knocked over — I’ve been knocked over,”

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The following water statistics of December 17th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.895 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.947 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.318 Total production: 6.160 Total consumption: 6.201 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 1.03 Reservoir storage: 309.35 Estimated reservoir capacity: 24.21%

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she said. Her backhand is better than her forehand, she said — and she’s particularly proud of her “smash,” the practice of delivering a high-speed shot aimed at scoring a point. She’s played in a number of regional and national competitions, including the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah, where she earned a gold medal. Qualifying for the U.S. Open,

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which continues through Thursday, is exciting and nerve-wracking, she said, but one thing she has learned is she wants to keep learning. If she learns something new about the game, she doesn’t mind if she loses. One of her favorite moments comes after she wins. “I love telling people after I beat them how old I am,” she said, “and they’re always surprised.”

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SPORTS

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NBA

SECTION B WeDneSDay, DeceMBer 20, 2023 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

UNM MEN’S BA SKE TBALL

Streaking Lobos face UC Irvine for 1st time UP NEXT

By James Barron jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

The University of New Mexico Lobos are hot, but can they keep it going? UNM is coming off a hotly contested 73-72 win over New Mexico State University on Dec. 15 that was nothing like the first matchup between the two in-state schools two weeks prior, which the Lobos won by 42 points. Now, they get their first taste of a new team — the UC Irvine Anteaters — on Wednesday night in The Pit. It is the first time the two programs play each other. UC Irvine comes in as cold — having just halted a three-game losing streak after a 121-78 GERALD HERBERT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, No. 12, goes to the basket between New Orleans Pelicans forward Herbert Jones, No. 5, and guard Dyson Daniels for the game-winning shot at the buzzer Tuesday in New Orleans. The Grizzlies won 115-113.

Morant’s 34 in season debut keys Memphis win

Friday: UC Irvine (7-4) vs. New Mexico (10-1), 7 p.m. in Albuquerque (The Pit) Online: Mountain West Network, themw.com Radio: KKOB 770 AM Live stats: GoLobos.com/mbbstats

win over South Dakota on Dec. 16 — as UNM is hot (winners of nine straight games). However, the Anteaters lost those three games by a combined 15 points, including a heartbreaking 63-62 loss to UNM’s Mountain West Conference foe San Diego State on Dec. 9. The Aztecs scored six unanswered points in the last 59 seconds to Please see story on Page B-3

New Mexico guard Donovan Dent shoots against Saint Mary’s guard Aidan Mahaney during a Nov. 9 game in Moraga, Calif. JED JACOBSOHN/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

GIRL S BA SKE TBALL SANTA FE INDIAN SCHO OL 41, P OJOAQUE VALLE Y 35

Emotional reunions Coach Roybal returns to SFIS with her Elkettes, while a mother and daughter find themselves on opposing sides

By Brett Martel

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Ja Morant capped a stirring, 34-point season debut with a spinning dribble in the lane to set up a game-winning floater as time Grizzlies 115 expired in the MemPelicans 113 phis Grizzlies’ 115113 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. The Grizzlies, who entered on a five-game skid and were 6-19 during Morant’s 25-game suspension for his social media antics with guns, trailed by 24 in the first half but took a 113-111 lead on Morant’s inside basket with 1:22 to go. The Pelicans tied it and the teams exchanged missed 3-pointers before Morant finished it off at the horn, leaving much of the crowd stunned as he and his teammates celebrated under the basket. “I’ve been putting work in, man,” Morant said. “I ain’t play a game in eight months. Had a lot of time to learn myself. A lot of hard days where I went through it. But you know, basketball is my life — what I love, therapeutic for me. And I’m just excited to be back.” Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins designed the winning play for Morant and called the two-time All-Star’s execution of it, “a special play by a special player.” Morant’s point total was the most in NBA history by a player coming back from an absence of at least 25 games. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 24 points and Desmond Bane had 21 for Memphis, which also snapped the Pelicans’ fourgame winning streak. Brandon Ingram scored 34 points for New Orleans, but Zion Williamson’s time on the court was limited by foul trouble and he finished with just 13 points. Morant was booed heartily by partisan Pelicans fans during pregame introductions and also when he handled

PHOTOS BY JIM WEBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

ABOVE: Pojoaque coach Cindy Roybal makes some adjustments during Tuesday’s game against the Lady Braves at Santa Fe Indian School. The game marked the return of Roybal, the former head coach of SFIS, to her old digs. Roybal made her name in two stints, leading the Lady Braves to state titles in 2010 and ’11. BELOW: Elkettes forward Kaylee Martinez, center, battles for a loose ball with Lady Braves guard Daneen Herrera, left, and forward Kaydence Riley.

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

eunions were at the forefront Tuesday night. It was for Cindy Roybal and the program that made her into a coaching legend. It was for Monica Romero and Jasmine Valdez, a mother/daughter team who were on opposite sides of the court in Santa Fe Indian School’s Everett Chavez Pueblo Pavilion. Emotions were a challenge for Roybal, Romero and Valdez, even as Pojoaque Valley battled the Lady Braves a nondistrict game that went to the home team by a 41-35 count. Roybal, the Elkettes head coach,

Please see story on Page B-4

TODAY ON TV 5 p.m. NBATV — Minnesota at Philadelphia 8 p.m. NBATV — Boston at Sacramento

INSIDE u Long losing streaks can often be part of players’ pro-level indoctrination. PAGE B-4

was moved to tears as she nodded to the spot where her late sister, Isabel Delora, would cheer heartily for her sister and the Lady Braves when she coached there from 2009-14. During that time, SFIS won two Class 3A titles, was 0.00.1 seconds away from a third and was one of the dominant teams in the state, regardless of class. “I can see her yelling still,” Roybal said sobbing. “That was difficult. But ... It was good to be back.” As that played out for Roybal, a different set of emotions beset Romero, the junior varsity coach for SFIS, and her daughter, Valdez, Please see story on Page B-3

COLLEG E FO O TBALL

QBs dominate headlines, but portal has big impact on other positions By Steve Megargee

The Associated Press

All the attention surrounding quarterbacks who switch schools has overshadowed how the transfer portal has affected the way colleges try to stockpile talent at other positions. The Associated Press measured the impact of the transfers by tracking the top 20 prospects at every position each year from 2019-22, as rated by composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports. As expected, the most impacted position was quarterback. Nearly two-thirds of those 80 quarterbacks already have switched

schools or are currently in the portal. But about 55% of the cornerbacks and about half of the safeties, running backs, wide receivers and inside linebackers also have either transferred or are in the process of doing so. All that movement is having a trickle-down effect on high school recruiting that has become apparent heading into Wednesday’s start of the December signing period. Since teams have a chance to ﬁll holes in their roster with more proven players, high school prospects don’t have the same choices as they might have enjoyed before the 2021 NCAA policy change enabling athletes to transfer one time as undergradu-

ates without sitting out a season. “There are more kids signing probably a level down than probably ever before,” said Andrew Ivins, the director of scouting at 247Sports. “You can go through state by state, and you’ll come across kids who in previous years they’d be probably going to a Power Five program, and now they’re at the Group of Five level.”

Quarterbacks Four of the top ﬁve ﬁnishers in the Heisman Trophy balloting were quarterbacks who had transferred at one point in their college careers. The last two Heisman Please see story on Page B-4

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

TODAY ON TV 1 p.m. ACCN — ACC Huddle: Signing Day Special 1 p.m. ESPN2 — College Football Live: Signing Day Special Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams, left, throws a pass as UCLA linebacker JonJon Vaughns watches during a Nov. 18 game in Los Angeles. Williams and LSU’s Jayden Daniels, the two most recent Heisman Trophy winners, had both used the transfer portal. RYAN SUN ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. AHL HOCKEY 5 p.m. NHLN — Providence at Toronto

1 p.m. ESPN2 — College Football Live: Signing Day Special

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 3 p.m. PAC-12N — UC San Diego at California 5 p.m. CBSSN — UConn at Seton Hall 5 p.m. ESPN — Baylor vs. Duke, New York 5 p.m. FS1 — Xavier at St. John’s 6 p.m. BTN — UMBC at Iowa 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Arizona St. vs. Northwestern, Phoenix 7 p.m. ESPN — The Jumpman Invitational: North Carolina vs. Oklahoma, Charlotte, N.C. 7 p.m. FS1 — Villanova at Creighton 7 p.m. PAC-12N — Bellarmine at Utah 9 p.m. ESPN — Alabama vs. Arizona, Phoenix

5 p.m. NBATV — Minnesota at Philadelphia 8 p.m. NBATV — Boston at Sacramento

NBA

NBA G-LEAGUE 10:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Winter Showcase: Cleveland vs. G-League Ignite, Orlando, Fla. 11 a.m. NBATV — Winter Showcase: Windy City vs. Grand Rapids, Orlando, Fla. 1:30 p.m. NBATV — Winter Showcase: Texas vs. Delaware, Orlando, Fla. 6:30 p.m. ESPNU — Winter Showcase: Greensboro vs. Iowa, Orlando, Fla. NHL

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 4 p.m. FS2 — UConn at Toronto Metropolitan 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 — The Jumpman Invitational: Michigan vs. Florida, Charlotte, N.C. 5 p.m. ACCN — Washington at Louisville

5:30 p.m. TNT — NY Islanders at Washington 8 p.m. TNT — Seattle at Los Angeles

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 1 p.m. ACCN — ACC Huddle: Signing Day Special

4 a.m. Thursday TENNIS — World Tennis League Day 11: Hawks v. Falcons

SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. CBSSN — The Italian Cup: Bologna at Inter Milan, Round of 16 TENNIS

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

Wednesday Boys basketball — Monte del Sol at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 6:30 p.m. Hot Springs at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m. Taos at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Tularosa at West Las Vegas, 5 p.m.

Thursday Boys basketball — Academy for Technology and the Classics at Wagon Mound, 5:30 p.m. Pecos at McCurdy, 7 p.m.

Boise, Idaho Georgia St. vs. Utah St., 1:30 p.m.

Las Vegas Utah vs. Northwestern, 5:30 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 BOWL SCORES, SCHEDULE SATURDAY, DEC. 16 MYRTLE BEACH BOWL

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

CELEBRATION BOWL

Atlanta Florida A&M 30, Howard 26

NEW ORLEANS BOWL

New Orleans Jacksonville St. 34, Louisiana 31, OT

CURE BOWL

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

NEW MEXICO BOWL

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

LA BOWL HOSTED

Inglewood, Calif. UCLA 35, Boise St. 22

INDEPENDENCE BOWL

Shreveport, La. Texas Tech 34, California 14 Monday, Dec. 18

FAMOUS TOASTERY BOWL

Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky 38, Old Dominion 35, OT

TUESDAY, DEC 19 FRISCO BOWL Frisco, Texas UTSA 35, Marshall 17

THURSDAY, DEC. 21 BOCA RATON BOWL

Mobile, Ala. South Alabama vs. Eastern Michigan, 5 p.m.

LAS VEGAS BOWL HAWAII BOWL

Honolulu, Hawaii Coastal Carolina vs. San Jose St., 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, DEC. 26 QUICK LANE BOWL

Detroit Bowling Green vs. Minnesota, noon

FIRST RESPONDER BOWL Dallas Texas St. vs. Rice, 3:30 p.m.

GUARANTEED RATE BOWL

Phoenix Kansas vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 MILITARY BOWL PRESENTED Annapolis, Md. No. 23 Tulane vs. Virginia Tech, noon

DUKE’S MAYO BOWL

Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina vs. West Virginia, 3:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY BOWL

San Diego, Calif. No. 16 Louisville vs. Southern Cal, 6 p.m.

TEXAS BOWL

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

THURSDAY, DEC. 28 FENWAY BOWL

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

PINSTRIPE BOWL

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

POP-TARTS BOWL

Orlando, Fla. No. 19 NC State vs. Kansas St., 3:45 p.m.

ALAMO BOWL

San Antonio, Texas No. 12 Oklahoma No. 14 Arizona, 7:15 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 29 GATOR BOWL

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

SUN BOWL

El Paso, Texas No. 15 Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Oregon St., noon

LIBERTY BOWL

Memphis, Tenn. Memphis vs. Iowa St., 1:30 p.m.

COTTON BOWL

Arlington, Texas No. 7 Ohio St. vs. No. 9 Missouri, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30 PEACH BOWL

Atlanta No. 10 Penn St. vs. No. 11 Mississippi, 10 a.m.

MUSIC CITY BOWL

Nashville, Tenn. Maryland vs. Auburn, noon

ORANGE BOWL

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

ARIZONA BOWL

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

MONDAY, JAN. 1 RELIAQUEST BOWL

Boca Raton, Fla. USF vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.

Tampa, Fla.

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

Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 20 Iowa vs. No. 25 Tennessee, 11 a.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 22 GASPARILLA BOWL SATURDAY, DEC. 23 CAMELLIA BOWL

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

BIRMINGHAM BOWL

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

Fort Worth, Texas No. 24 James Madison vs. Air Force, 1:30 p.m.

5-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-5-0

FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL

Carolina 9, Atlanta 7 Cleveland 20, Chicago 17 Houston 19, Tennessee 16, OT Kansas City 27, New England 17 Miami 30, N.Y. Jets 0 New Orleans 24, N.Y. Giants 6 Tampa Bay 34, Green Bay 20 L.A. Rams 28, Washington 20 San Francisco 45, Arizona 29 Buffalo 31, Dallas 10 Baltimore 23, Jacksonville 7 Seattle 20, Philadelphia 17

9-1-0 5-4-0 6-5-0 2-7-0

NO. 13 LSU VS. WISCONSIN, 10 A.M.

FIESTA BOWL

Glendale, Ariz. No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 18 Liberty, 11 a.m.

ROSE BOWL CFP SEMIFINAL

Pasadena, Calif. No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m.

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL CFP SEMIFINAL New Orleans

Coronado at Questa, 5:30 p.m. Mora at Maxwell, 6:30 p.m. Moriarty at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Española Valley at Los Lunas, 7 p.m. Pecos at McCurdy, 5:30 p.m. Cuba at Escalante, 6;30 p.m. Coronado at Questa, 5 p.m. Mora at Maxwell, 5 p.m. Wrestling — Dual: Abq. Valley at Pojoaque Valley, 4 p.m.

SPORTS BETTING LINE NFL THURSDAY FAVORITE

at L.A. RAMS

Boys basketball — Peñasco at Santa Rosa, 6 p.m. Bernalillo at Taos, 7 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Abq. West Mesa at Capital, 2 p.m. Española Valley at West Las Vegas, 1:30 p.m. Escalante at Native American Community Academy, 3 p.m. Girls basketball — Española Valley at West Las Vegas, noon

TODAY 4½

(46½)

OPEN

TODAY

O/U

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

SATURDAY FAVORITE Cincinnati Buffalo

1½ 9½

SUNDAY

FAVORITE

Friday

OPEN

at ATLANTA Detroit Seattle Green Bay Cleveland at N.Y. JETS at TAMPA BAY at MIAMI at CHICAGO at DENVER

1½ 12½

1½ 3 1½ 4½ 1½ 2½ 2½ 1½ 3 5½

MONDAY FAVORITE

at KANSAS CITY at PHILADELPHIA at SAN FRANCISCO

1½ 3 2½ 4½ 2½ 3 1½ 1½ 4½ 7

9½ 7½ 4½

10 11½ 5½

No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas, 6:45 p.m.

UTSA MARSHALL

0 7

21 10

7 0

— —

First Quarter MRSH: E.Payne 1 run (Verhoff kick), 8:54. Second Quarter MRSH: Ali 64 run (Verhoff kick), 14:48. UTSA: Henry 3 run (C.Allen kick), 11:27. UTSA: Cephus 44 pass from McCown (C.Allen kick), 8:53. MRSH: FG Verhoff 44, 5:12. UTSA: Henry 1 run (C.Allen kick), :47. Third Quarter UTSA: Amador 19 pass from McCown (C.Allen kick), 4:49. Fourth Quarter UTSA: R.Grifﬁn 17 run (C.Allen kick), 8:39.

35 17

MRSH

First downs 21 13 Total Net Yards 386 367 Rushes-yards 41-135 34-109 Passing 251 258 Punt Returns 2--2 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-23 2-36 Interceptions Ret. 1-58 2-2 Comp-Att-Int 22-31-2 15-34-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-10 6-40 Punts 5-45.0 7-40.286 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-60 8-60 Time of Possession 29:59 30:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: UTSA, R.Grifﬁn 11-43, McCown 8-38, Henry 14-37, Barnes 8-17. Marshall, Ali 9-92, E.Payne 11-34, Turner 4-10, Keaton 1-3, Pennington 9-(minus 30). PASSING: UTSA, McCown 22-31-2-251. Marshall, Pennington 15-33-0-258, Parachek 0-1-1-0. RECEIVING: UTSA, Cephus 7-102, Ogle-Kellogg 3-54, McCuin 3-28, Carpenter 2-13, Henry 2-12, Amador 1-19, Wilson 1-13, McCoy 1-5, Thomas 1-3, R.Grifﬁn 1-2. Marshall, J.Harrison 6-132, McMillan 3-44, C.Montgomery 2-59, Keaton 2-10, Soto 1-8, E.Payne 1-5. MISSED FIELD GOALS: Marshall, Verhoff 53, Verhoff 34.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

PCT

Boston Phila. New York Brooklyn Toronto

20 18 15 13 11

6 8 11 13 15

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

16 15 11 7 4

9 12 15 18 22

Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit

20 15 13 11 2

7 12 12 17 25

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

.769 .692 .577 .500 .423

Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

16 16 13 7 4

10 12 11 19 22

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

20 17 18 10 7

5 8 10 17 19

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

16 16 15 14 13

9 10 12 13 14

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

MONDAY’S GAMES

.640 .556 .423 .280 .154

— 2 5½ 9 12½

.741 .556 .520 .393 .074

— 5 6 9½ 18

PCT

WESTERN CONFERENCE

— 2 5 7 9

PCT

.615 .571 .542 .269 .154

PCT

— 1 2 9 12

.800 .680 .643 .370 .269

— 3 3½ 11 13½

.640 .615 .556 .519 .481

— ½ 2 3 4

PCT

Chicago 108, Phila. 104 L.A. Clippers 151, Indiana 127 Toronto 114, Charlotte 99 Cleveland 135, Houston 130, OT Minnesota 112, Miami 108 Atlanta 130, Detroit 124 Oklahoma City 116, Memphis 97 Denver 130, Dallas 104 Utah 125, Brooklyn 108 Sacramento 143, Washington 131 New York 114, L.A. Lakers 109

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Memphis 115, New Orleans 113 Milwaukee 132, San Antonio 119 Portland 109, Phoenix 104 Golden State 132, Boston 126, OT

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m. Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Phila., 5 p.m. Utah at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Denver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. New York at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Utah at Detroit, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Orlando at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Chicago, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Washington at Portland, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Toronto at Phila., 5 p.m. Denver at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 6 p.m. Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Washington at Golden State, 8 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S SCORES EAST

Albany (NY) 93, Sacred Heart 79 Assumption 81, Caldwell 78, OT Bentley 102, Bridgeport 83 Binghamton 74, Niagara 69 Cabrini 78, Rosemont 74 California (Pa.) 93, Lock Haven 71 Carnegie Mellon 77, Chatham 62 Catholic 86, Wabash 72 Christopher Newport 67, Kean 55 Clarion 92, Kutztown 72 Cornell 95, Siena 74 D’Youville 94, Felician 74 Daemen 93, Franklin Pierce 73 Delaware Valley 86, Goucher 69 East Stroudsburg 108, Pitt.-Johnstown 59 Gannon 114, West Chester 94 Glenville St. 70, Penn St.-Mont Alto 65 Gwynedd-Mercy 73, Saint Elizabeth 69 Hobart 78, Wells 58 Hood 95, Waynesburg 58 Indiana (Pa.) 74, Bloomsburg 71 Maryland 73, Nicholls 67 Mercyhurst 64, Millersville 56 Molloy 81, Chestnut Hill 71 Montclair St. 98, Penn St.-Abington 67 Northeastern 79, CCSU 74 Post (Conn.) 69, St. Anselm 68 Providence 72, Marquette 57 S. Connecticut 79, Holy Family 69 Seton Hill 74, Mansﬁeld 70 Shepherd 78, Edinboro 61

Auburn-Montgomery 80, Georgia College 56 Augusta 78, Emmanuel 74 Carson-Newman 107, Tenn. Wesleyan 83 Chattanooga 69, Gardner-Webb 66 Erskine 72, Emory & Henry 69, OT Florida Gulf Coast 53, Georgia Southern 42 Florida St. 91, North Florida 75 Florida Tech 84, Georgia Southwestern 74 Furman 76, Presbyterian 61 George Mason 84, Bridgewater (Va.) 60 Georgia St. 122, Toccoa Falls 45 High Point 74, UNC-Greensboro 63 James Madison 87, Coppin St. 48 Kennesaw St. 91, Brescia 59 Lake Superior St. 74, St. Leo 65, OT Lander 73, King (Tenn.) 42 Lenoir-Rhyne 79, Belmont Abbey 66 Limestone 78, Southern Wesleyan 71 Lynchburg 82, Centre 60 Lynn 91, Barton 72 Memphis 77, Virginia 54 Mercer 84, Queens (NC) 65 Mississippi 74, Troy 53 Montevallo 99, Huntingdon 94, 2OT North Georgia 89, Lincoln Memorial 83, OT Northwestern St. 99, Southern (NO) 75 Roanoke 79, Eastern 71 Shenandoah 65, Guilford 58 South Carolina 72, Winthrop 62 Southern Cal 79, Alabama St. 59 Southern U. 82, Wiley 49 Stetson 80, FIU 68 Trevecca Nazarene 83, Bryan 68 W. Carolina 63, Vanderbilt 62 Wingate 77, Young Harris 57

MIDWEST

Ashland 105, Villa Maria Vikings 48 Bowling Green 75, Hampton 65 Butler 74, Georgetown 64 Cent. Michigan 90, Davenport 66 Cent. Oklahoma 89, Missouri-St. Louis 59 Cincinnati 65, Merrimack 49 Drake 92, Alcorn St. 55 Drury 72, S. Arkansas 68 Ferris St. 91, Cedarville 82 Florida 106, Michigan 101, OT Hampden-Sydney 85, John Carroll 67 Hanover 87, Asbury 75 Ill.-Springﬁeld 70, Grand Valley St. 57 Indiana 69, Morehead St. 68 Indiana St. 90, Tennessee St. 69 Kenyon 74, Mount St. Joseph 71 Lewis 74, Wis.-Parkside 72 Loyola Chicago 72, Charleston Southern 59 Maryville (Mo.) 58, SW Minnesota 51 Michigan Tech 73, Winona St. 72 Millikin 85, Rose-Hulman 41 Minnesota St. 100, Minn. Duluth 96, OT Missouri St. 79, Lindenwood (Mo.) 57 Monmouth (Ill.) 81, Westminster (Mo.) 73 N. Michigan 80, Northwood (Mich.) 64 Neb.-Kearney 79, Bethany (Kan.) 66 Oral Roberts 71, John Brown 59 Otterbein 77, Wilmington (Ohio) 49 Pittsburg St. 97, Henderson St. 87 S. Illinois 76, N. Dakota St. 63 S. Indiana 79, St. Francis (Ill.) 47 Saginaw Valley St. 68, Hillsdale 61 Samford 79, Valparaiso 61 Sioux Falls 86, Mount Marty 39 The Citadel 65, Notre Dame 45 Truman St. 77, Cent. Missouri 63 Upper Iowa 115, St. Cloud St. 84 Walsh 94, WV Wesleyan 76 Washburn 84, Northeastern St. 48 Wis. Lutheran 71, Illinois Tech 55 Wittenberg 70, Muskingum 61 Wright St. 92, Miami (Ohio) 82

SOUTHWEST

Chicago 70, Southwestern (Texas) 45 Dallas Baptist 99, Mississippi College 78 Mary Hardin-Baylor 85, Berry 78 Oklahoma Christian 77, Ark.-Fort Smith 69 SMU 89, Houston Christian 53 Stephen F. Austin 75, New Mexico St. 72 Tulsa 79, MVSU 50 West Texas A&M 108, Rogers St. 100, OT

FAR WEST

Azusa Pacific 83, Point Loma 76 Biola 97, Life Pacific 75 Buena Vista 88, Caltech 46 CS Bakersfield 96, South Dakota 76 CS Northridge 76, UCLA 72 CSU-Chico 85, Simpson Red Hawks 55 Cal Lutheran 86, Kalamazoo 49 Cal State-LA 92, Fresno Pacific 72 Cent. Washington 108, Evergreen St. 79 Colorado Mesa 92, Simon Fraser 78 E. New Mexico 104, Navajo Tech Skyhawks 69 Hawaii Hilo 72, San Francisco St. 65 Long Beach St. 107, CS Dominguez Hills 78 Montana 73, UC Davis 61 Montana St. 89, S. Utah 88, OT NW Nazarene 82, Westmont 67 Nebraska Wesleyan 65, UC Santa Cruz 63 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 71, Middle Tennessee 34 San Diego St. 91, Saint Katherine 57 Seattle Pacific 73, CS San Marcos 66 W. Kentucky 73, Cal Baptist 70 Willamette 101, Misericordia 92, OT

OTHER

Thomas More Saints 62, Miami Hamilton Harriers 49

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S SCORES EAST

Ball St. 73, Pittsburgh 62 Navy 105, Goucher 50

SOUTH

Bethune-Cookman 61, Valparaiso 35 Clemson 70, Air Force 54 Coll. of Charleston 84, SC State 64 Elon 65, Mount Olive 39 FIU 87, Alabama A&M 63 Georgia Southern 74, Hampton 48 Georgia St. 93, LaGrange 51 Louisiana-Lafayette 64, LSU-Shreveport 46 NC A&T 57, Stetson 54 North Alabama 69, Samford 64 Tennessee 85, Wofford 63 Texas St. 84, Chicago St. 76 Texas-Arlington 69, Jacksonville St. 64 UCF 67, Morgan St. 41

MIDWEST

E. Kentucky 57, SE Missouri 48 Green Bay 94, Wis.-Parkside 55 Illinois St. 87, Saint Louis 81 Kent St. 84, Lake Erie 20 South Carolina 93, Bowling Green 62

SOUTHWEST

North Carolina 61, Oklahoma 52 Texas A&M-CC 77, Our Lady of the Lake 33 Tulsa 66, Texas Tech 58

FAR WEST

Denver 81, Colorado Christian 59 Idaho 63, St. Martin’s 44 Long Beach St. 81, San Francisco 79 Santa Clara 76, UC Riverside 46 UTSA 75, Seattle 64 Utah Tech 92, Oregon 86

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

Boston Toronto Florida Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

GP W L OT PTS GF GA 30 19 5 29 16 7 31 18 11 33 15 13 31 15 12 31 14 13 33 13 17 27 11 16

6 6 2 5 4 4 3 0

44 97 77 38 108 95 38 91 81 35 111 115 34 110 99 32 87 106 29 94 114 22 91 93

30 22 7 31 18 10 31 15 8 32 17 12

1 3 8 3

45 101 82 39 93 81 38 97 101 37 106 103

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Carolina

OPEN

Syracuse

SOUTH

Houston Semiﬁnal winners, 5:30 p.m.

FRISCO BOWL UTSA 35, MARSHALL 17

FAVORITE

Slippery Rock 93, Shippensburg 77 St. Michael’s 86, Wilmington (DC) 76 Stevenson 90, Manchester 88, OT

MONDAY, JAN. 8 CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

O/U

(37) (43½)

O/U

UNDERDOG

New Orleans

UNDERDOG

at PITTSBURGH at L.A. CHARGERS

UNDERDOG

(44½) (46½) (41½) (36½) (40½) (37½) (43½) (51½) (44½) (34½)

Indianapolis at MINNESOTA at TENNESSEE at CAROLINA at HOUSTON Washington Jacksonville Dallas Arizona New England

O/U

UNDERDOG

(41½) (42½) (46½)

Las Vegas N.Y. Giants Baltimore

COLLEGE FOOTBALL THURSDAY BOCA RATON BOWL BOCA RATON, FLA.

SOUTHWEST

68 VENTURES BOWL

MONDAY’S GAME

DIV

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

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

SUNDAY’S GAMES

NFC

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

267 290 278 348

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

AFC

DIV

309 296 258 206

THURSDAY’S GAME

ARMED FORCES BOWL

PREP SCHEDULE

UTSA

8 8 8 5

SCOREBOARD

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

FAVORITE

TODAY

4½

FRIDAY GASPARILLA BOWL TAMPA, FLA.

OPEN

UCF

TODAY

4½

O/U

(56½)

O/U

UNDERDOG

South Florida

UNDERDOG

(66½)

Georgia Tech

O/U

UNDERDOG

NBA WEDNESDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at CLEVELAND at PHILADELPHIA at ORLANDO at INDIANA New York Denver L.A. Lakers at HOUSTON L.A. Clippers at SACRAMENTO

6½ 3½ 5 10½ 1 4½ 4 4 3 1

(227) (226) (219½) (249) (233½) (229½) (224½) (233½) (239) (235½)

Utah Minnesota Miami Charlotte at BROOKLYN at TORONTO at CHICAGO Atlanta at DALLAS Boston

COLLEGE BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at CENTRAL ARKANSAS Longwood at OKLAHOMA STATE at CAL at NC STATE at ST. JOHN’S at TOLEDO Robert Morris at WEST VIRGINIA at GEORGIA at SE LOUISIANA South Dakota State at DAYTON at EAST CAROLINA at DUKE at PITTSBURGH UConn at DELAWARE at NEBRASKA at BELMONT at EAST TENNESSEE STATE at RICE at GRAND CANYON at EVANSVILLE at CHICAGO STATE Liberty at IOWA Northwestern at CREIGHTON North Carolina at GONZAGA at NEW MEXICO at UTAH at UTEP at UCSB at SAN FRANCISCO at CSU FULLERTON Santa Clara at SEATTLE U at ARIZONA

1½ 6½ 12½ 8½ 12½ 5½ 4½ 4½ 6½ 11½ 6½ 4½ 11½ 10½ 1½ 13½ 9½ 10½ 18½ 4½ 4½ 9½ 15½ 9½ 6½ 5½ 26½ 4½ 7½ 2½ 25½ 7½ 19½ 5½ 8½ 16½ 13½ 1½ ½ 7½

UNDERDOG

Western Illinois at NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL Wofford UCSD Saint Louis Xavier Vermont at SAINT FRANCIS (PA) Radford Mount St. Mary’s Grambling at WYOMING Oakland Delaware State Baylor Purdue Fort Wayne at SETON HALL Rider North Dakota Arkansas State UMKC Prairie View A&M Sam Houston Tennessee Tech Bethune-Cookman at UTAH VALLEY UMBC at ARIZONA STATE Villanova at OKLAHOMA Jackson State UC Irvine Bellarmine Norfolk State Howard Northern Arizona Paciﬁc at SAN JOSE STATE Louisiana Tech Alabama

NHL WEDNESDAY FAVORITE

LINE

at WINNIPEG at WASHINGTON at LOS ANGELES

Washington New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus

-164 -126 -188

28 15 9 30 16 12 30 14 13 33 11 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Dallas Colorado Winnipeg Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago Vegas Vancouver Los Angeles Calgary Seattle Edmonton Anaheim San Jose

4 2 3 5

34 70 80 34 103 107 31 87 84 27 105 121

L OT PTS

GF GA

L OT PTS

GF GA

30 32 30 32 31 31 30 31

18 19 18 18 16 15 13 10

8 11 9 14 13 15 13 20

4 2 3 0 2 1 4 1

40 107 95 40 115 99 39 99 79 36 101 99 34 97 89 31 89 105 30 93 98 21 73 111

33 33 28 32 33 29 31 32

21 22 18 13 10 13 12 9

7 9 6 14 14 15 19 20

5 2 4 5 9 1 0 3

47 116 87 46 125 81 40 101 68 31 96 110 29 90 109 27 98 100 24 84 105 21 67 128

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay 6, St. Louis 1 Columbus 9, Buffalo 4 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Toronto 2 Carolina 6, Vegas 3 Minnesota 4, Boston 3, OT N.Y. Islanders 3, Edmonton 1 Vancouver 5, Nashville 2 Chicago 3, Colorado 2 Arizona 4, Ottawa 3 Los Angeles 4, San Jose 1

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Detroit at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 5:30 p.m. Seattle at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with OF Hunter Renfroe on a two-year contract. Designated RHP Max Castillo for assignment. NEW YORK YANKEES — Claimed INF Jeter Downs off waivers from Washington. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Trevor Gott on a one-year contract. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Traded OF T.J. Hopkins to San Francisco in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. BASKETBALL NBA — Fined Houston F Dillon Brooks $35,000 and Head coach Ime Udoka $25,000 for directing inappropriate language toward a game ofﬁcial and publicly criticizing ofﬁciating in a game on Dec. 17 against Milwaukee. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released WR Daniel Arias from the practice squad. ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived DL Travis Bell. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Jake Funk to the practice squad and RB Melvin Gordon to the active roster. Placed RB Keaton Mitchell on injured reserve. BUFFALO BILLS — Designated DT DaQuan Jones to return from injured reserve to practice. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived DL Justin Houston. Signed OT Badara Traore to the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DT Chris Williams to the practice squad. DENVER BRONCOS — Signed DB Keidron Smith to the practice squad. Released S Dallin Leavitt from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Activated QB Hendon Hooker from the non-football injury list (NFI). Waived K Riley Patterson. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed QB Tim Boyle to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Suspended WR Isaiah McKenzie and CB Tony Brown for three-games due to conduct detrimental to the team. Signed DE Zach McCloud, WRs Jaydon Mickens and Juwann Winfree to the practice squad. Released G Lewis Kidd. Promoted RB Tyler Goodson to the active roster from the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed QB E.J. Perry to the practice squad.

UNDERDOG

Detroit N.Y. Islanders Seattle

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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed LB Darius Harris to the practice squad. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Signed DT Marquan McCall. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Designated LB Tanner Muse to return from injured reserve. Signed QB Will Grier. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Designated RB Ronnie Rivers to return from injured reserve to practice. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived OLB Jason Pierre -Paul. Activated RB Chris Brooks from injured reserve. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Designated LB Jordan Hicks to return from injured reserve. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed CB J.C. Jackson o the non-football injury list (NFI). Signed RB Kevin Harris to the active roster ad DB William Hooper and RB Ke’Shawn Vaughn to the practice squad. Claimed QB Nathan Rourke off waivers from Jacksonville. NEW YORK JETS — Placed DE Quinton Jefferson on injured reserve. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Designated S Elijah Riley to return from injured reserve to practice. Signed S Jalen Elliot to the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Re-signed LB Vi Jones to the practice squad. Released LS Evan Deckers from the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed C James Empey and G Jordan Roos to the practice squad. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Signed LS Tucker Addington to the practice squad. Canadian Football WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Agreed to terms with DB Redha Kramdi on a two-year extension. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned D Robert Hagg to San Diego (AHL) on loan. BOSTON BRUINS — Activated C Pavel Zacha from injured reserve. BUFFALO SABRES — Activated RW Jack Quinn. Loaned D Jacob Bryson to Rochester (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled F Austin Czarnik from Grand Rapids (AHL). Signed G Michael Hutchinson to a one-year, two-way contract for the remainder of the season. Reassigned G John Lethemon to Grand Rapids (AHL) from Toledo (ECHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS — Assigned RW Justin Sourdif to Charlotte (AHL) PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Loaned F Olle Lycksell to Lehigh Valley (AHL). Recalled F Rhett Gardner and G Cal Peterson from Lehigh Valley. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Reassigned RW Lukas Svejkovsky to Wheeling (ECHL) from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled Fs Ivan Miroshnichenko and Hendrix Lapierre from Hershey (AHL). Loaned D Lucas Johansen to Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer ATLANTA UNITED — Traded the player rights to Miguel Berry to LA Galaxy in exchange for a natural second round selection in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. COLORADO RAPIDS — Signed D Sebastian Anderson to one-year contract with an option through 2026 and M Oliver Larraz to one-year contract with an option for 2025. HOUSTON DYNAMO FC — Signed D Grifﬁn Dorsey to a new contract through 2025 with an option for 2026. LA GALAXY — Acquired F Miguel Berry from Atlanta in exchange for a natural second round pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. MINNESOTA UNITED — Traded $100,000 in 2024 general allocation money (GAM) to New England in exchange for a natural 1st and 3rd round selection in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Named Caleb Porter head coach. ORLANDO CITY SC — Agreed to terms with head coach Oscar Pareja on a two-year contract through 2025. PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired $75,000 in 2024 and $50,000 in 2025 in general allocation money (GAM) from Nashville in exchange for the 11th overall pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed F Chris Donovan to a new contract through 2025 with options through 2027. COLLEGE MIDDLE TENNESSEE — Named Jamie Blatncik football’s director of strength and conditioning.

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EAGAN, Minn. lexander Mattison and the Minnesota Vikings had boarded the flight home after a tough loss earlier this season, when the fifth-year running back found dozens of hateful and racist messages directed toward him on social media. Criticism for the fumble he lost or his lack of rushing yards in the game? Fine. That comes with the job. But the trolling that night was so egregious that Mattison, after conferring with a trusted friend and fellow Black teammate, decided to push back and share some screen shots. “Under my helmet, I am a human, a father, a son,” Mattison posted on Instagram in his lament and challenge to the 60-plus users to reflect on their words and the harm they can inflict. “This is sick.” The intensity of NFL fandom that increased with the surge of fantasy football participation around the turn of the century has spiked further in the age of online betting. “When you used to lose, you would hear about it because of a fan’s loyalty to the team. They want to win. Now you hear about it because they’re losing their money because of you,” Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff said. The accessibility of social media has put players in position to feel that ferocity as never before, and that’s one reason why the league has a wellness program for these uniquely high-profile employees. “We’ve come to a place in society, unfortunately, where we think it’s acceptable to dehu-

manize people. I think that veil of anonymity online creates that culture or that belief that it’s OK to go after people with impunity, but I think that we have to consider the impact on athletes,” said Dr. Brownell Mack, the team clinician for the Vikings. “We see them in armor. They wear the helmets and the padding, and we think that they’re somehow invincible or don’t have feelings.” The contrast between those ups and downs in public approval rating can be particularly jarring. “I was a Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee. I’d like to think of myself as a pretty good dude. But I pushed my backup quarterback last year. That went viral,” said Vikings left guard Dalton Risner, referring to a sideline confrontation during his time with the Denver Broncos. “It was an all-out brawl, how I got made out to be as a guy. Woo, man. That’s a good example of how you’ve got to be able to ride the wave of this whole deal and keep even-keeled.” Seattle Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock learned this as a freshman at Missouri, when he eagerly soaked up the praise after a win in his ﬁrst start and had his eyes opened to the opposite after a lopsided loss the following week. “I was like, ‘Holy cow, this is a roller coaster of, ’You’re the best and you’re the worst,’ ” Lock said. “Once I cleared through that ﬁrst year I was like, ‘I’m done with it. I’ve got to stay away.’ ” Mack and his colleagues with other clubs regularly counsel players through mental health challenges that can quickly arise in this tension between the fame, fortune and privilege of playing a game for a living and the

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The Minnesota Vikings’ Alexander Mattison looks on during an Oct. 1 game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, N.C. Mattison and the Vikings had just taken a tough loss earlier this season when the veteran running back checked his social media accounts and found dozens of hateful and racist messages directed toward him in relative digital anonymity.

scrutiny surrounding such short careers. Rookies across the NFL each summer aren’t just trying to memorize their playbooks. They attend a required symposium and receive skills training in areas such as decision-making and stress management. “We’re trying to put our best foot forward on the ﬁeld, but people are going to mess up,” Vikings cornerback Akayleb Evans said. “You’re not always going to be at your best every game. People just have to realize the human side of everything.” Social media is the proverbial double-edged sword. That’s the easiest way for players to show their human side to the world. But that’s where the danger lurks too. “I’ve just got to understand that I’m doing something that only a small percentage of people get to do. It’s what comes with this game,” Dallas Cowboys safety Jayron Kearse said. “Before I was here, this came with it. After I’m gone, it’s going to be the same thing that comes with it.” The people on the other side of the screen are often grappling with the same realities. Matt

Rigby manages a high-maintenance fantasy keeper league with friends and relatives, an intense hobby he ﬁts in behind raising a family, working as a data scientist and coaching high school football in North Carolina. “I’ve had Deebo Samuel on my team for six years. He’s like my brother at this point,” Rigby said. “So when he doesn’t perform well, and I know that I speak for other people in the league on this, too, I think we spend far too much time trying to get into the personal life. There’s like a disappointment in the player simply because of the fantasy outlook.” Rigby recalled a recent season when another participant was down on San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle because his receiving production had waned even though the offense was thriving. “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I love watching Kittle right now, because he’s contributing to the game. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s got a stat line to show for it, but what is football at some point?” Rigby said. “Is it just fantasy football? Or are we watching the game as the game?”

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who is a starting guard for the Elkettes. Romero was an assistant at Pojoaque for the past two seasons but did not return as the school opted to hire Roybal as head coach to take over for Jonathan Salazar. Romero said it was hard for her to lose the opportunity to coach Valdez for her senior year. Then, to watch her daughter score 10 points, four rebounds, four steals and a block was an equally mixed bag. It was against her team, but deep down, she was proud of Valdez’s performance. “I didn’t know how to react,” Romero said. “She was dominating. Her passing, everything, was on point. I thought to myself, ‘You know, I could have been on that [Pojoaque’s] bench but here I am and I’m doing good things here, too.’ ” Valdez said it was weird seeing her mom on the SFIS sideline, but she also was the one who pushed her to take the job at the school after not being retained at Pojoaque. “She’s been my coach my whole life, but this was just a fun game to play — to show her I’m doing all right,” Valdez said. This was not the ﬁrst time Valdez had been in an awkward situation. When she was an eighth grader in 2019-20, she played against sister Destiny Valdez, who played at Española Valley. “Playing against her back then was pretty awesome,” the younger Valdez said. “Me and her, we dominated against each other, no matter what. Now,

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Elkettes guard Lauren Salazar, left, pulls down a rebound under pressure by Lady Braves guard Daneen Herrera during Tuesday’s game at Santa Fe Indian School.

playing against my mom, it was really weird seeing her on another team.” While that was playing out, the Lady Braves showed they can stop most teams with their defensive intensity. But it was a different matter when it came to putting the ball in the basket. SFIS (6-3) hit just three of its first 23 shots before finally removing the lid from the basket. Leading just 9-8 midway through the second quarter, the Lady Braves finally found their rhythm offensively, hitting four of their next five attempts to extend the lead to 19-12 on a pair of free throws from Jasmine Coriz with 1:20 left. SFIS head coach Khadijha

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Jackson said a half-hour delay to start the C-team game had a domino effect. “Tonight was just an ‘off’ game,” Jackson said. “It’s hard, especially when we have the wait time and everything pushed back, but it’s coming along.” It seemed like SFIS had everything under control when Kaydence Riley scored on a layup off a high-low dish from Emma Lewis for a 28-14 lead at the 6:56 mark of the third quarter, but Pojoaque (5-5) showed Roybal something the rest of the game — heart and hustle. SFIS turned the ball over six times the rest of the quarter, and the Elkettes steadily chipped away at the margin. They cut it

to 30-24 when Kaylee Martinez banked a 3-pointer from the left wing with 11 seconds left, then embarked on a 7-2 spurt to pull within 34-31 on Marisela Bowie’s breakaway layup with 4:26 to go in the game. “There was no quit in them; they kept fighting,” Roybal said. “You can tell we’re still out of shape. Once I get them into shape, what I want to do is press. We haven’t been able to do that yet.” The Lady Braves finally pulled away with a 7-0 run, ignited by five points from Lewis as she finished with nine points. “The shots were there for most of the night, they just didn’t fall,” Jackson said.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Joe Flacco was at home a month ago, all but ready to accept his 15-year NFL career might be over. Then came a phone call from his agent with an invitation to a workout with the Cleveland Browns. A commercial flight and practice squad deal later, the Super Bowl 47 MVP has become an instant star for a team ravaged by injuries but still trying to maintain playoff hopes. It can happen almost overnight: a backup quarterback goes from holding a clipboard — or in Flacco’s case, watching at home — to being thrust into action, sometimes at the most important point of the NFL season. They’re on display all around the NFL right now after a flurry of starters have gone down for the season with injuries and teams have needed help to stay in contention. “It’s one of the more important positions on your team,” said Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, who called on backups in several games last season, including in the postseason, when starter Tua Tagovailoa missed time with concussions. “Not only are you supporting the process of the starter, but you have to, at a moment’s notice, go and orchestrate full-speed everything you have worked on. ... It is challenging, challenging, challenging because you never know what’s going to happen.” Despite the NFL’s efforts to protect quarterbacks, passers are still getting injured in an era in which they are leaving the pocket more and defensive rushers are quicker and more skilled than ever. At the end of Week 15, 18 teams had started quarterbacks who weren’t their first-string passers on opening day; 56 different quarterbacks have started an NFL game this season. And the list of starters who are out for the season is star-studded: Aaron Rodgers (torn Achilles tendon); Deshaun Watson (shoulder surgery), Joe Burrow (wrist); Anthony Richardson (shoulder surgery); Justin Herbert (broken index finger); Daniel Jones (torn ACL); Kirk Cousins (torn Achilles tendon). In Indianapolis, Gardner Minshew is 6-4 as a starter this season and has kept the Colts in contention for the AFC South title after the rookie Richardson had season-ending surgery on his throwing shoulder in October. Jake Browning is 3-1 in Cincinnati since Burrow suffered a torn ligament in his right wrist last month. The New York Giants entered Week 15 on a threegame winning streak thanks to the unexpected emergence of undrafted rookie quarterback Tommy DeVito. “When you see guys go out and play well in those situations, it’s pretty impressive because all week they didn’t get a rep,” said Dallas backup Cooper Rush, who is 5-1 filling in for Dak Prescott. “When you get a full week to prep and game plan and talk with the coach and run the play with the players you’re used to playing with, that helps a lot during the week.” San Francisco’s Brock Purdy went from the final pick in the NFL draft to winning his first seven starts and leading the 49ers to the NFC title game after they lost first and second-stringers Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo to sea-

son-ending injuries last season. Purdy is 16-3 as a starter and is an MVP candidate this season for the NFC-West leading 49ers with 3,795 yards, 29 touchdowns and a 119.0 passer rating. Not all teams are as lucky. The New York Jets entered the season with Super Bowl aspirations after landing Aaron Rodgers in the offseason, but after the four-time league MVP tore his left Achilles tendon on the fourth snap of his Jets debut, the team’s postseason hopes ﬁzzled as they have shuffled struggling backups in and out of their lineup. But the production of veterans such as Flacco, who is 2-1 with the Browns, and young standouts such as Purdy shows the value of a solid second-stringer. The recent success of backups shows the talent gap between starters and backups may be narrowing, said Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Teryl Austin. “When you look at the league in terms of it’s not all ﬁve-, seven-step drop-back [anymore],” Austin said. “There’s a lot of play action. There’s a lot of different things where you can protect a quarterback. He can be very accurate. He could get the ball out of his hands and that offense can keep moving. So if and when the quarterbacks do get hurt, there’s not a big drop-off.” The Browns have had four different quarterbacks start and win this season and have stayed in playoff contention despite the juggling act. Cleveland has also gotten wins from rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson and P.J. Walker since Watson’s season-ending shoulder surgery. Cleveland caught some criticism for trading backup Joshua Dobbs before the season, leaving the team vulnerable at the position. Dobbs, who was traded from Arizona to Minnesota in October, has had some solid performances for the Vikings. “I don’t ever overlook that position and say, ‘OK, we’ve got our starter,’ ” said Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Pederson, who spent most of his 10-year NFL career as a backup. “You can’t. When you do that, it’s going to bite you at some point and you’re not going to have a backup and/or a backup that’s ready.” No coach may know the importance of a backup quarterback more than Pederson. He led the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl victory over Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots with backup QB Nick Foles stepping in after Carson Wentz tore two knee ligaments in December 2017. Foles outplayed Tom Brady in a 41-33 win to give Philadelphia’s its only Super Bowl title. Pederson won another playoff game with Foles the following season after Wentz again was injured. The Eagles then drafted Jalen Hurts in 2020 because they lost Wentz’s only playoff game after he was knocked out with a concussion. Jacksonville signed sixthyear quarterback C.J. Beathard to a two-year extension in February after he spent the past two seasons as Trevor Lawrence’s backup. “Having a veteran like we do and — I would say most teams — that’s pivotal,” Pederson said. “You see it. This is a tough sport. You see how many quarterbacks have gone down or at least out for a period of time. Having a guy that’s been around and played meaningful games in this league helps.”

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hold off UC Irvine’s upset bid. The matchup pits two teams capable of putting up points. Both teams are averaging more than 80 points per game. UNM is scoring at an 84.9-point-per-game clip, while the Anteaters are at 80.5. It should be noted UC Irvine had two games in which it scored more than 110 points, including its win over South Dakota. The two teams go about scoring in different ways, though. UNM will push the ball, thanks to a defense that is forcing 16.6 turnovers per game, the 16th-best in the nation, which leads to plenty of transition opportunities. The Lobos are scoring 15.9 fast-break points,

thanks in large part to the 9.8 steals they average. In the win over the Aggies, UNM forced 21 turnovers, collected 14 steals and had 15 points off of NMSU turnovers. The problem was taking care of the ball, as the Lobos turned the ball over 21 times and allowed the Aggies to score 20 points off of them. UC Irvine, meanwhile, prefers to attack the paint, led by the guard duo of 6-foot-2 junior Justin Hohn and 6-4 freshman Derin Saran. Hohn leads the Anteaters with a 13.2 pointper-game average, while Saran checks in at 11.7 points per game. They lead a team that is averaging 42.4 points in the paint. UNM continues to show balance in its

scoring attack, with five players averaging double figures. However, leading scorer Jamal Mashburn Jr. (18.2 PPG) is likely to miss his seventh straight game due to a thumb injury. His absence has allowed sophomore guard Donovan Dent to take flight. He is averaging 17.8 points per game over the last four games, including a 14-point performance that was highlighted by his acrobatic layup that gave the Lobos a 72-72 lead with 21 seconds left. UNM also saw its bigs play to their potential in that game, as 6-9 freshman JT Toppin led the team with 18 points and 11 rebounds, while Nelly Junior Joseph had 10 points and a career-high five steals.

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Browns quarterback Joe Flacco looks to pass in the second half of Sunday’s game against the Bears in Cleveland.

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Long losing streaks can often be part of players’ pro-level indoctrination By Pat Graham

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Victor Wembanyama has adjusted to many things — food, culture, double teams — since the top pick’s arrival with the San Antonio Spurs. There’s just no getting accustomed to all the losing. Pick an NBA player’s name, any name, and they’re not hardwired for skids. Players like Wembanyama have typically always been on winning teams before coming to the league, not ones that stack up defeats at historic rates. For Wembanyama, along with youngsters like Cade Cunningham and Ausar Thompson in Detroit and Bilal Coulibaly of Washington, losing has become part of their NBA education. Misery does love company, and the Pistons, who lost their 24th straight game Monday night, have some in the Spurs and Wizards. Despite the presence of Wembanyama, the Spurs have dropped 19 of 20, while the Wizards are in the midst of losing 17 of 19. “Sometimes, you’ll be in a game and maybe think about the losing streak and causes you to do a little extra or just do something you wouldn’t normally do,” Thompson recently said. “Panic a little bit.” Thompson’s certainly not used to this. He won a state title in high school, along with two titles with Overtime Elite, a professional basketball league based in Atlanta that’s opening another door to the pros for talented young players. Now, he’s trying to help a struggling Pistons team. The record for the longest losing streak within a single season is shared by the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers, who both dropped 26 consecutive games. The 76ers also had a 28-game losing streak that started in the 2014-15 season and carried over to 2015-16. “It’s just a miserable existence,” said NBA on TNT analyst Greg Anthony, who was a member of the 1995-96 Vancouver Grizzlies team that dropped 23 straight contests. “Your food doesn’t taste as good. You don’t sleep as well. There’s a lot of stress and anxiety. It wears on you, because everybody in your world knows you’re going through it. “The city knows it, the country knows it, the entire league. You’re the butt of jokes. As a competitor, that is a really difficult experience to have to go through.” The Pistons (2-25), Wizards (4-22) and Spurs (4-21) may have scuffling in common. But not all rebuilds are the same. Detroit has an array of ﬁrst-round talent, and the Spurs boast Wembanyama (he’s averaging 19 points and 11 rebounds). Washington, meanwhile, is generating headlines as much for its moves off the court — possibly relocating out of the District of Columbia — as the mounting losses. On the ﬂoor, the Wizards are trying to build around Coulibaly, Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma, the veteran forward who won an NBA title with James and the Lakers. Other single-digit win teams include Portland (6-19), Memphis (6-19, but Ja

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Morant returns Tuesday after a 25-game suspension) and Charlotte (7-18). It’s a race to the bottom right now, with Detroit in the driver’s seat — and no Wembanyama awaiting in the 2024 draft. “Your whole career, your whole life as an athlete, you’re always in the mindset of winning,” Anthony said. ”And typically, most guys have been on good teams where if you do certain things, well, you’re going to have a chance to win. But when you get in those kinds of situations, where you don’t have control over your own destiny in a specific game, that can really try you and challenge you, and everybody involved. It can just be a really ... poisonous existence.” The Pistons had all the signs of a team prepared to improve on their 17-65 mark from a season ago. Cunningham was back from shin surgery, they landed Thompson and Marcus Sasser in the most recent draft and had a year of growth from Jaden Ivey, the 2022 fifth overall pick out of Purdue. They also brought in veteran coach Monty Williams. Instead, it’s been loss after loss after loss after loss, etc. “You talk to people that are around our team, they’re not laughing, giggling and having a ball. They hate it,” Williams recently said of the losing. “But when we show up in the gym the next day, the guys are wideeyed. They’re looking at me for answers. They come in and work hard. “We’ve just hit an unbelievably tough stretch of basketball.” Anthony knows the feeling. He was once in the middle of an historical skid, too. This after winning a national championship at UNLV. This after helping New York Knicks to the 1994 NBA Finals, where they lost in seven games to Hakeem Olajuwon and the Rockets. As part of the 1995 expansion draft, Anthony was picked by the Vancouver Grizzlies (now Memphis). That first season, Anthony experienced a losing streak that started with a loss on Feb. 16, 1996, to Atlanta, and didn’t end until the Grizzlies knocked off Kevin Garnett and the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 23. “In a weird way, that was like winning a playoff game,” Anthony recalled. “It was a really, really big deal. You can’t even describe the relief that one feels having gone through that.” Wembanyama almost felt like the weight had been lifted when the Spurs saw their 18-game losing streak end with a win over LeBron James and the Lakers last Friday. On Sunday, though, they lost 146-110 to New Orleans. The Spurs are young and bumps are part of the journey. “It might explain it but it doesn’t mean it’s OK,” Wembanyama said. “I mean, any team’s goal is trying to be consistent. We’re on our way. There are no excuses.”

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San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, top, blocks New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson, front right, during Sunday’s game in San Antonio, Texas.

DeBoer led Washington to CFP Second-year coach’s Huskies went undefeated in regular season, won Pac-12 trophy, will play in Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 By Tim Booth

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SEATTLE alen DeBoer landing the job at Washington two years ago seemed to be an unheralded transaction at the time. It has turned out to be a shrewd decision by the Huskies. One might say it’s been perfect. DeBoer was named The Associated Press coach of the year on Tuesday after leading the Huskies to a 13-0 record, the Pac-12 championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff in just his second year in charge at Washington. The Huskies will face Texas in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 with a spot in the CFP championship game on the line. In his two seasons, the Huskies are 24-2, leaving behind the bitter memory of a 4-8 record in 2021 that led to a change and brought DeBoer to Washington. “It’s all about the people around me. This is a team award,” DeBoer said. “When you win, I tell the players this, you win football games, you’re going to get recognized and more awards are going to get shared. I’m fortunate enough to kind of be the figurehead of our team and receive these cool awards. Just really blessed.” DeBoer received 30 of 52 first-place votes and had 113 points overall from AP Top 25 poll voters to easily outpace Florida State’s Mike Norvell (57 points). Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz (38) and Arizona’s Jedd Fisch (28) were the only other coaches to receive multiple first-place votes. DeBoer is the first Washington coach ever to be named the AP coach of the year and just the third Pac-12 coach to win the award in the last 25 years, joining Mike MacIntyre (Colorado, 2016) and Chip Kelly (Oregon, 2010). “I think when dealing with the team, I think I’m the same. I think there’s job

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Washington coach Kalen DeBoer celebrates with the trophy after the team’s win over Oregon in the Pac-12 championship Dec. 1 in Las Vegas, Nev. DeBoer was named The Associated Press coach of the year Tuesday after leading the Huskies to a 13-0 record, the Pac-12 championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff.

responsibilities that come along with this level that you continue to adjust to and learn from — the good, bad and ugly, whatever it was that had happened,” DeBoer said. “But I think when it comes to building the team, the foundation of it is the same, the same priorities.” DeBoer is in just his fourth season as a head coach in the Bowl Subdivision. He was 67-3 at his alma mater, Sioux Falls, from 200509 and won three NAIA championships. At Fresno State, he went 12-6 in two seasons, including 9-3 the ﬁnal year. When the Washington job came open, DeBoer knew he was ready for the challenge of a Power Five program. But he was inheriting a team that went through a tumultuous season that included the ﬁring of coach Jimmy Lake with two games still on the schedule. While DeBoer won at nearly every stop, he still needed to prove to his new team that his methods would work.

“We were open ears to what he had to say, and he was so persistent in his genuineness and his commitment to take this program to the top that at the end of the day, it was unstoppable to be able to trust him,” firstteam AP All-American wide receiver Rome Odunze said. While it certainly helped to have talent like Odunze and Heisman Trophy runner up Michael Penix Jr., a significant amount of Washington’s success this season came because DeBoer and the Huskies were great in close games. Each of Washington’s final eight games were decided by 10 points or fewer and all of them were in question into the fourth quarter. Washington’s final four wins — Utah, Oregon State, Washington State and Oregon — were decided by a total of 15 points. That speaks to coaching. And belief. “We’ve gotten here because he’s carried through with everything he said he was going to do with all his effort,” Odunze said.

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winners are quarterback transfers: LSU’s Jayden Daniels (formerly at Arizona State) and Southern California’s Caleb Williams (Oklahoma). A majority of the 133 Football Bowl Subdivision programs this year had a transfer quarterback who either started at least half the team’s games or led the team in passing. “I had a Group of Five program tell me they’re never going to sign a high school quarterback again because they know there’s going to be a ton of transfers every single year,” Ivins said.

DBs and WRs There’s also plenty of movement elsewhere. In many cases, players aren’t needing more than one or two years before moving on. Three of the top ﬁve cornerbacks from 2022 already have transferred, headlined by Travis Hunter’s decision to follow coach Deion Sanders from Jackson State to Colorado. Three of the top six receivers from 2022 and ﬁve of the top seven wideouts from 2021 also have moved on. “In college football now, you

literally have added a whole other department in what’s the equivalency of a pro personnel department in the NFL,” Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said. “Because you have to now scout other colleges and be ready if a guy goes in the portal, you have to know what your opinion is. So now we scout every single position, just like we do high school prospects.”

On the line Some positions don’t have quite as much movement. Looking at the 247Sports composite’s top 20 prospects at each position from 2019-22, just over one-quarter of the offensive tackles have entered the portal. About 70% of the interior offensive linemen and interior defensive linemen remain at the schools that initially signed them out of high school. “Why there are more skill guys than there are bigger guys [in the portal], I don’t know,” Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell said. “I think the nature of the beast, it’s pretty easy to evaluate if you don’t get a lot of balls, if you don’t catch a lot of balls, obviously sometimes it probably looks like the grass is greener on

the other side.” Ivins said schools might not be as concerned if one of their own running backs or receivers transfers because it’s easy to ﬁnd a potential replacement in the portal. But if a school lands a quality lineman or pass rusher out of high school, Ivins noted those teams are “going to try to hold on to them as much as they can.” “NFL teams, you start looking at the really good teams — where do they spend their money? Where do they allocate their resources?” Auburn director of player personnel AK Mogulla said. “It’s O-line, D-line. This day and age, you’ve got to have a premier shutdown type of corner. That’s where it’s going. It’s just trickling down from the NFL, down to the college level now. That’s all it is. It’s just now become free agency. That’s what we are in.”

Portal concerns Although transfers at all positions have college experience, Fickell says recruiting from the portal has its own challenges. “The reality is the transfer portal, to me it’s a bigger crapshoot than a high school kid,”

Fickell said. “Now, there are some that aren’t. There are some guys out there that have 50-60-70 catches, that aren’t as much of a crapshoot. But they’re still leaving for a reason.” The challenge is that colleges often don’t know the players they get out of the portal as well as the high school recruits they’ve been following for years. Fickell said when he recruits from the portal, he gravitates toward players he might have recruited from high school or who might have some connection with his staff. Even then, there are risks. “Does somebody really know why they’re leaving?” Fickell said. “Are there good reasons to leave? I’m sure there are. But they’re still walking away. I think we’ve just got to be careful. There’s a lot of really good kids out there who can ﬁt into some good situations, but it’s an educated guess.” It’s a guess coaching staffs are making more and more. And that has made the recruiting process more challenging for those prospects still in high school. “It feels from my perspective and my vantage point, there are a lot of programs out there that three weeks before signing day, they were not looking at the high school ranks,” Ivins said. “It’s quickly pivoted all to the transfer portal, and that’s going to leave a lot of talented athletes without a chair when the music stops.”

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the ball on the opening possession. Those boos died down as the game wore on, and a section of visiting fans near the Memphis bench made themselves heard as Morant explosively scored eight points — twice hitting difficult driving shots as he was fouled — in a span of 1:20 early in the third quarter. “My one expectation was for him to have fun,” Jenkins said. “That’s how you want Ja to play, is play fast and free with the dynamic abilities.” The spectators on hand for Morant’s comeback included LSU Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jayden Daniels, who sat next to Tigers star receiver Malik Nabers in the front row near New Orleans’ bench. Although Morant looked winded at times and didn’t hit many jumpers, his ability to drive into the paint — and finish — looked undiminished. His repertoire included crossover dribbles to set up high floaters in the lane, finger rolls, and double-pump bank shots while hanging in the air. Memphis got back into the game with an 11-0 run that began late in the first half and continued into the third quarter to make it 60-47. Soon after, Morant made a floater off the

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant drives to the basket against New Orleans Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas in the ﬁrst half of Tuesday’s game in New Orleans. GERALD HERBERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

glass while being fouled by Herb Jones, and followed that up by converting a spinning dribble in the lane into a layup as he was fouled, cutting it to 69-62. The game was competitive from there on, with Morant continuing to ﬁnd ways to prevent New Orleans from relaxing. Jonas Valanciunas had 22 points and 14 rebounds for New Orleans. CJ McCollum added 18 points on six 3s. New Orleans went on a 28-2 run during which McCollum made four 3s and Ingram

drove the lane for a soaring right-handed dunk. Ingram closed out the spurt with two free throws that made it 53-31. New Orleans led 60-41 at halftime after Memphis’ Vince Williams beat the horn with a corner 3. Although they play in the same division, it was just the seventh time Morant and Williamson — the top two NBA draft choices in 2019 — had appeared in the same game, mostly because of Williamson’s health issues.

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few blocks west of the Plaza, nestled between Palace Avenue and San Francisco Street you’ll find Burro Alley, paved with cobblestones and the resonance of old Santa Fe. At one point, the alley served as a place for burros to park and unload firewood. Now it’s a quiet, pedestrian-friendly, just-off-the-beaten-path home for a handful of local businesses. One of my favorite shops in town, Modern Folk Ware (modernfolkware. com), owned by potter Jennie Johnsrud, recently moved next door to Chainé, a dessert shop owned by Chainé Peña with creative, made-from-scratch, small-batch French macarons and cookies. Both shops have loyal and passionate followings, so it feels almost too good to be true that they are next door to each other. On the day I walked in with my kids to celebrate their last day of school for the year, Peña, a sixth-generation Santa Fean, had just pulled a batch of biscochitos from the oven. Her mom was helping her in the open kitchen, while my boys carefully eyed an array of generously portioned cookies and row after row of colorful macarons. They eventually both made the same choice — a bright red “Santa” macaron, filled with a chocolate cookie and mint cream. So when Peña offered to share her popular piñon and chocolate chip cookie recipe, it felt like such a gift. Peña started baking as a hobby before she took a macaron baking class in France, where she fell in love with this technically intricate cookie. When she began posting her creations on social media and people started asking if they could place orders, she knew she was on the right path. “I love that cookies are a straightforward treat that most people love,” Peña says. “What really makes me excited about my cookie offerings is playing with texture and flavor to create something a little different, like our lemon meringue cookie or creme brulée. It’s fun to pack an unexpected dessert flavor into a few inches of a cookie.” Chainé is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday at 38 Burro Alley. Macarons and cookies can also be preordered on its website, chainesantafe. square.site or via email at chainescookies@gmail.com.

PIÑON CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES Makes: Around 30 cookies; total time: 1½ hours 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature and the best quality you can get your hands on 3/4 cup light brown sugar, loosely packed 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla paste or extract 21/2 cups all-purpose flour; her favorite is Bob’s Red Mill 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon sea salt; she uses pink 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips; her favorite is Ghirardelli 5 mm baking chips 2 cups piñon nuts, unsalted and shelled Preparation: In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment (or with a wooden spoon by hand), cream together the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until it’s fluffy and fully incorporated. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Scrape the sides of the bowl one to two times between mixing to ensure all the butter and sugar remnants combine with the eggs. In a separate bowl, using a sifter or a fine mesh strainer, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt and cornstarch. Add ¾ of the dry mixture to the wet. Mix just until it slightly comes together. Add the chocolate chips and the nuts to the remaining flour mixture and give them a toss (this step helps the chocolate and nuts disperse evenly throughout the dough) before folding into the dough. Using a cookie scooper, a large tablespoon, a ¼ measuring cup or a scale (about 2 ounces) portion out rounds of dough. Refrigerate preportioned cookie dough for 45 minutes to one hour. Time to bake! Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. On a parchment-lined cookie sheet, place your cookies and give them plenty of room to grow. Bake for about 11-13 minutes until the edges and top are just browned. Allow cookies to cool for at least 10 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

Marianne Sundquist is a chef, writer and co-founder of Stokli, celebrating nourishing goods from the high desert (stokli.com). Find her on Instagram @ marianne__sundquist and email her at marianne@stokli.com.

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alettes are a wonderful pastry, unpretentious and elegant at the same time — as fitting at a picnic as they are at a dinner party. This one is a winter favorite in our house. A tender, crisp crust embraces a sweet apple, pecan and caramel filling. Served warm, it’s as cozy and comforting as a fire in the fireplace. If you prepare it at sea level, you can cut the apples into ¼-inch-thick slices, but at higher elevations, they must be thinner to fully cook when the crust is done, so limit their thickness to an eighth of an inch. For the same reason, avoid crisp, tart apples; select softer, sweeter ones instead. My galette dough yields a sturdy crust designed to support a heavy filling, but your own or a commercial dough will also work. If you make mine, it’s critical the butter be very cold, so if necessary, freeze the cubes of butter. Though crushed graham crackers are optional, I recommend their use. They absorb the juices the apples release while baking, preventing the bottom crust from getting soggy.

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Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes Recipe works at any elevation. Make on a cookie sheet. Homemade or commercial crust. For homemade crust (optional): 11/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, spoon and level 3 teaspoons granulated sugar, preferably superfine Generous ¼ teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch cubes, very cold 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste 3-6 tablespoons ice water 2-3 tablespoons crushed graham crackers, optional For the filling: ¼ cup packed dark brown sugar 1 teaspoon apple pie spice or cinnamon 11/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon apple brandy, dark rum, bourbon or apple juice 2-3 sweet baking apples, like Fuji 3 tablespoons chopped toasted pecans 2 tablespoons caramel sauce 1 egg 1 teaspoon milk or water Turbinado sugar Make the crust (optional): Add the flour, sugar and salt to a food processor and pulse to blend. Add the cold butter and vanilla and pulse until the cubes are broken up but still chunky. Add 3 tablespoons of ice water and pulse until large, moist clumps form. If too dry, add more water, a little at a time. Take care: Too much water

Something cozy for the holidays In this apple pecan caramel galette, a tender, crisp crust embraces a sweet apple, pecan and caramel filling. Served warm, it’s as cozy and comforting as a fire in the fireplace. COURTESY VERA DAWSON

will make a tough crust. Turn the dough out, knead gently, and form it into a disc. Wrap in plastic and chill until firm. Make the filling: Combine the sugar, apple pie spice and flour in a large bowl and whisk to blend. Add the brandy and stir until the dry ingredients are uniformly moistened. Peel, core and slice the apples into 1/8-inch crescents (you should have about 2-2½ cups) and move them to the bowl with the sugar mixture. Stir/toss until all the apples are heavily coated with the

sugar mixture and none remains in the bottom of the bowl. Set the bowl aside for about 15 minutes so the apples can macerate and release some of their juices. Assemble the galette: While the filling rests, preheat the oven to 375 degrees with a rack in the center position. Remove the dough from the fridge (if using a commercial dough, take it out of packaging), place it in the middle of a sheet of parchment paper, cover it with another sheet of parchment or waxed paper, and roll it

into a 12-inch circle; it doesn’t have to be perfectly shaped. Remove the top sheet of paper and gently lift the dough so it isn’t sticking to the parchment, then return it to the center of the paper. If you’re using the graham crackers to keep the bottom of the crust from getting soggy, sprinkle them evenly in the dough’s center, leaving a 2to 3-inch border around the edge. Arrange the sliced apples, but not their juices, on top of the crackers. Gently fold the edges of the dough up and over the filling, letting it form pleats, pressing them down as you do so. Sprinkle the pecans over the apples and drizzle on the caramel sauce, avoiding the crust. If necessary, warm the caramel sauce at low temperature in a microwave, so it pours easily. Move the galette, on parchment paper, to your cookie sheet. Bake and cool: Whisk the egg and milk, brush it over the crust (you won’t use it all), then sprinkle on turbinado sugar. Bake until the crust is golden, the apples are soft and the filling is bubbling. Start checking at 25 minutes, it may take longer, depending on the type and amount of apples and how thickly they are sliced. If the crust is done before the apples, tent it with aluminum foil. Cool completely. Serve and store: Serve warm or room temperature. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.

Vera Dawson is a high-elevation baking instructor and author of three highaltitude cookbooks (available at Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe). Contact her at veradawson1@gmail.com. SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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Case No. 23-00115-UT

) NOTICE OF PROCEEDING AND HEARING NOTICE is hereby given by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (“Commission” or NMPRC) of the following matter: On April 3, 2023, DISH Wireless L.L.C. (“DISH Wireless”) filed a petition requesting that the Commission designate DISH Wireless as an eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) in the state of New Mexico (“Petition”). DISH Wireless seeks designation solely to provide federal Lifeline service to qualifying New Mexico consumers, including those consumers residing on federally recognized Tribal lands. DISH Wireless indicates in the petition that it will not seek access to funds from the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) for the purpose of participating in the Link-Up program or providing service to high cost areas. DISH Wireless L.L.C. is a Colorado limited liability company with a principal address at 9601 S. Meridian Blvd, Englewood, CO 80112. According to the Petition, DISH Wireless provides, among other things, facilities-based and resold wireless telecommunications services in New Mexico and other states, using the Gen Mobile brand name and other brand names. DISH Wireless’ parent company, DISH Network Corporation (“DISH Network”), is a connectivity company headquartered in Colorado that has served the pay-TV market since 1980. In 2020, DISH Wireless entered the retail wireless business by acquiring the Boost Mobile brand and in 2021, acquired the Gen Mobile brand as well as other brands and customer assets. Today, DISH Wireless offers 5G mobile broadband service to more than 70 percent of the U.S. population on the nation’s first virtualized, cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G broadband network. To facilitate the buildout, DISH Wireless has entered into multi-year agreements with over 30 partners, including Mavenir, Amazon, Dell, CISCO, VM Ware, IBM, Oracle, Nokia, Fujitsu, MTI, Intel, Altiostar, Samsung, and Qualcomm. See Petition, pp. 2-3. DISH Wireless asserts in the Petition that it meets the statutory and regulatory requirements for designation as an ETC, including Section 214(e)(2) of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended, Sections 54.101 through 54.207 of the Rules of the FCC, and the State Rural Universal Service Fund (SRUSF) Rule under 17.11.10.24 NMAC. Further information regarding this case can be obtained by contacting the Commission at the internet and physical addresses and telephone numbers provided below. Additional details regarding the procedural requirements for this proceeding are set forth in the Procedural Order issued by the Hearing Examiner on December 15, 2023 (“Procedural Order”). All inquiries, correspondence, written comments, and other communications concerning this matter shall refer to Case No. 23-00115-UT. As established in the Procedural Order, the present procedural schedule for the case is as follows: 1. DISH Wireless shall file direct testimony in support of its petition on or before December 29, 2023. 2. Any person desiring to intervene to become a party (“intervenor”) to this case must file a motion for leave in conformity with NMPRC Rules of Procedure 1.2.2.23(A) and 1.2.2.23(B) NMAC on or before January 31, 2024. All motions for leave to intervene shall be served on all existing parties and other proposed intervenors of record. 3. Any intervenor may file direct testimony on or before February 9, 2024. 4. Staff of the NMPRC Utility Division’s Telecommunications Bureau (“Staff”) shall file direct testimony on or before February 27, 2024. 5. Any rebuttal testimony shall be filed on or before March 15, 2024. 6. With respect to all but rebuttal testimony (i.e., petitioner direct, intervenor, and Staff testimony) any motions in limine, motions to strike testimony, and other prehearing motions shall be filed on or before March 12, 2024. Responses to such motions shall be filed on or before March 15, 2024. 7. With respect to rebuttal testimony any motions in limine, motions to strike testimony, and other prehearing motions shall be filed on or before March 19, 2024. Responses to such motions shall be filed on or before March 22, 2024. 8. The public hearing of this matter shall be held on March 26, 2024 beginning at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time (MT) to hear and receive evidence, arguments, and any other appropriate matters relevant to this proceeding. The evidentiary hearing will continue, as necessary on March 27, 2024. Based on present conditions and logistical issues, the Hearing Examiner has concluded that it will be necessary to conduct evidentiary hearing via the Zoom videoconference platform. Access to and participation in the evidentiary hearing shall be limited to party-participants (i.e., counsel and witnesses), the Commissioners, and other essential Commission personnel. The Zoom hearing will be livestreamed through YouTube and will be displayed on the Commission’s website at https://www.prc.nm.gov. Persons not participating in the evidentiary hearing as an attorney or witness may view the hearing on the Commission’s website and shall not join the hearing via Zoom except to provide oral comment as allowed below. 9. Interested persons who are not affiliated with a party may make oral or written comment pursuant to Rule 1.2.2.23(F) NMAC. Oral comment shall be taken at shortly after the beginning of the evidentiary hearing on March 26, 2024 and commenters shall be limited to three (3) minutes per commenter. As part of the public hearing, public comment will be taken via the Zoom platform. Therefore, persons wishing to make an oral comment must register in advance, not later than 9:00 a.m. MT on March 26, 2024, by e-mailing Ana Kippenbrock at ana.kippenbrock@prc.nm.gov. Written comments may be submitted before the Commission takes final action by sending the comment, which shall reference NMPRC Case No. 23-00115-UT, to prc.records@prc.nm.gov. Public comments, whether oral or written, shall not be considered as evidence in this proceeding. 10. Interested persons should contact the commission at 888-427-5772 for confirmation of the hearing date, time and place since hearings are occasionally rescheduled or, if deemed not required or necessary, canceled at the discretion of the Hearing Examiner or Commissioners. 11. The procedural dates and requirements established by the Hearing Examiner are subject to further order or ruling of the Hearing Examiner or Commission. The Commission’s Rules of Procedure, at 1.2.2.1 NMAC et seq., shall apply in this case except as modified or varied by order of the Hearing Examiner or Commission. The Rules of Procedure and other NMPRC rules are available online at the New Mexico Commission of Public Records’ State Records Center and Archives website at http://www.scra.nm.gov/nmac-home/ nmac-titles. Interested persons may examine DISH Wireless’ petition and other documents in the public record for this case on the Commission’s website under “Case Lookup E-docket” at https://edocket.nmprc.state.nm.us. Anyone filing pleadings, documents, or testimony in this case shall comply with the Commission’s electronic filing policy, as amended from time to time. This includes filings in .pdf format, with electronic signatures, sent to the Records Bureau’s e-mail address, as set out in the Commission’s procedural rules at: prc.records@prc. nm.gov, or another Records Bureau address as set out on the Commission’s webpage, within regular business hours of the due date in order to be considered timely filed. Documents received after regular business hours will be considered as being filed the next business day. Regular business hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 .m. MT. Parties shall serve a copy on all parties of record and Staff. All filings shall be e-mailed by no later than 5:00 p.m.MT on the date they are filed with the Commission. Any person filing prepared testimony under 1.2.2.35(I) NMAC on behalf of a party shall attend the hearing and submit to examination under oath. No person shall testify at the hearing unless that person has pre-filed testimony. All documents mailed to the Commission and its personnel shall be mailed to the following address: P.O. Box 1269, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504. All filings shall be e-mailed to the Hearing Examiner on the date filed at anthony.medeiros@prc.nm.gov by no later than 5:00 p.m. MT. Such e-mailing shall include the Word or other native version of the filing (e.g., Excel or Power Point) if created in such format. Any filings not e-mailed to the Hearing Examiner in compliance with the requirements of this Order and Commission rules are subject to being summarily rejected and stricken from the record in the Hearing Examiner’s discretion. PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Any person with a disability requiring special assistance to participate in this proceeding should contact the Commission at (505) 467-9116 OR (505) 690-4191 TO REQUEST SUCH ASSISTANCE as soon as possible, preferably as soon as the person receives notice of this proceeding to allow consideration of the request and to arrange for a potential reasonable accommodation. ISSUED under the Seal of the Commission at Santa Fe, New Mexico this 15th day of December 2023. NEW MEXICO PUBLIC REGULATION COMMISSION _________________________________ Anthony F. Medeiros Chief Hearing Examiner Pub: Dec 20, 2023

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53 Cap worn at a Shriners

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houseguest?

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60 Making fun of

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64 Historical period

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sensei

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023: You are hardworking and a gifted problem-solver. In 2024, it’s time to work and get productive. Keep things simple. Stay grounded and levelheaded. MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Aries. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Something unexpected could impact banking situations or something to do with

an inheritance or anything that you are sharing or divide with someone else. Tonight: Check your finances.

today. There might be disappointments and sudden arguments. Tonight: Be prepared.

today. It’s a tricky day. You might find money; you might lose money. Or you might suddenly receive a gift. Tonight: Protect your assets.

something you least expect. Hopefully, it will be pleasant. Or perhaps you will meet someone unusual today, a real character. Tonight: Be organized.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Today Venus in your sign is opposite unpredictable Uranus, which means something unexpected can impact your closest relationships. Tonight: You’ve got this.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Be alert today, because bosses, parents, teachers or the police might suddenly do something that you least expect. “Busted!” Yes, it could be unfavorable. Stay positive. Always expect a miracle. Tonight: Patience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH A partnership or close friendship will experience an upset today. It could be pleasant. Or it might be unpleasant. Be ready for anything. Some of you will meet a real character. Tonight: Be understanding.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Be aware, because something unexpected might happen at home today. It might be wise to stock the fridge. For starters, something beautiful might get broken. “Oh no!” Or unexpected company might drop by. Tonight: Patience.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Expect to be surprised by something concerning your health, your pet or your job. For example, a co-worker might surprise you. Tonight: Get organized.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH A sudden chance for a short trip or a visit with siblings and relatives might delight you. Alternatively, you might suddenly have an argument. Tonight: Be mindful.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Something out of the blue and unexpected could change your day today. It might be something private that only you know about. Tonight: Stay cool.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Romantic relationships will experience a few surprises

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Keep an eye on your money and your possessions

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH A friend might surprise you today by saying or doing

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Sudden opportunities to travel might drop in your lap today. In fact, this is highly likely. Some of you also might suddenly strike up a romance with someone who is different or from another culture. Tonight: Check your finances.

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SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: “A CHRISTMAS STORY” (THE FILM) (e.g., The boy is named ____ Parker.

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PH.D. LEVEL 7. What eventually happened to Mr. Parker’s table lamp? Answer________ 8. What happens when Ralphie utters a profanity? Answer________

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to do with the film?

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