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War on other side of world No. 2 pencils no more as doesn’t seem so distant SAT prepares People in Northern New Mexico have ties to Israelis and Palestinians affected by conflict

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Students, officials both have test anxiety in state with persistent systemic issues

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Leslie Hernandez Ochoa is aiming high.

A junior at The MASTERS Program, a local early college charter school, Hernandez Ochoa has her sights set on attending the University of Chicago, a college whose single-digit acceptance rate rivals much of the Ivy League.

The university’s median SAT scores hover between 1510 and 1560, not far from a perfect score of 1600.

Hernandez Ochoa knows her dream school is prestigious, and she knows that to get in, she’s got to perform well this spring when she, like 11th graders across New Mexico, takes the SAT. The test will look a little different from the college entrance exams of years past: In 2024, students will trade in their old No. 2 pencils and exam booklets to complete the exam — which takes about two hours, excluding breaks — through an app on a laptop or tablet.

But it’s not just the method of testing that’s changing.

The exam’s relevance — to students like Hernandez Ochoa seeking spots at top universities as well as to New Mexico education officials using it as a yardstick for high school proficiency — also is in a period of transition.

So far, the digital SAT has received a middling grade from local students and school administrators, some Please see story on Page A-6

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Santa Feans gather at the Roundhouse on Dec. 20 for the third consecutive week to protest the ongoing conflict in Gaza and call for a ceasefire. The small group of protesters marched in the crosswalks across Paseo de Peralta to draw attention to civilian deaths in the war.

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bout 7,000 miles separates Santa Fe from the Gaza Strip; still, the effects of the Israel-Hamas war are felt here personally and powerfully.

Northern New Mexico residents with close ties to Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East describe grief, fear and outrage over the past three months — emotions that have caused divisions in some families and communities and have fostered stronger

connections for others.

The war is far away. And yet, so close.

Santa Feans have lost loved ones in the war or worry daily that harm will come to friends and relatives called up to fight or trying to flee from violence that continues to rage nearly three months after Hamas launched its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israelis.

Alonet Zarum Zandan, who was visiting Israel with her husband at the time of the attack, said, “Every day there’s a list of soldiers that have been killed.” She checks for names of relatives.

“Hamas needs to be gone,” she said.

She is one of many members of the local Jewish community who supports Israel and sees the terrorist organization as a threat to the nation’s existence.

“People feel this very strongly,” said Rabbi Jack Shlachter, who helps lead congregations Please see story on Page A-4

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Ana Chavez, left, a 2020 graduate of The MASTERS Program, listens earlier this month as junior Josie Pyle talks about her plans for the future with other students at the school on the Santa Fe Community College campus. It’s adjusting to an evolving SAT.

At Rose Parade, celebrating those who gave, received gift of heart San Ildefonso Pueblo woman to be on float honoring growing acceptance of transplants among Natives

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More than 20 years later, Roybal’s transplanted heart is still going strong, and she feels grateful for every beat.

On Monday, Roybal, 64, a San Ildefonso Pueblo member, will take part in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., riding a float that will pay tribute to Indigenous heart recipients

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IN BRIEF U.S. lauds growing effort against ‘reckless’ rebel attacks in Red Sea CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands — Yemen’s Houthi rebels show no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East said Saturday, even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up.

Since Operation Prosperity Guardian was announced just over 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have traveled through the Red Sea region, and none has been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said in an Associated Press interview.

The Iran-backed Houthis say their attacks are aimed at Israel-linked ships in an effort to stop the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

Currently there are five warships from the United States, France and the United Kingdom patrolling the waters of the southern Red Sea and the western Gulf of Aden, said Cooper, who heads the 5th Fleet. Since the operation started, the ships have shot down 17 drones and four antiship ballistic missiles, he said.

Thousands of Serbs chant ‘Thieves!’ in latest rally against disputed vote BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of people rallied in Serbia’s capital on Saturday, chanting “Thieves!” and accusing the populist authorities of President Aleksandar Vucic of orchestrating a fraud during a recent general election.

The big rally in central Belgrade capped nearly two weeks of street protests against reported widespread irregularities during the Dec. 17 parliamentary and local ballot that were also noted by international election observers.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party was declared the election winner but the main opposition alliance, Serbia Against Violence, has claimed the election was stolen, particularly in the vote for the Belgrade city authorities.

Serbia Against Violence has led daily protests since Dec. 17 demanding the vote be annulled and rerun. Tensions have soared following violent incidents and arrests of opposition supporters at a protest last weekend.

U.S. denies role in Syria air raids that killed 6 Iran-backed militants BAGHDAD — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants Saturday, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press.

The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi militants known as the Islamic Resistance claimed an attack on a U.S. military base in northern Iraq’s city of Irbil.

The group has conducted over a hundred attacks on U.S. positions in Iraq and eastern Syria since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war Oct. 7.

Four of the militants killed were from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, while the other two were Syrian, the militia group members said. Another two were injured, they added.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not cleared to speak with journalists. The U.S. has denied responsibility for the strikes.

Consulting firm will settle claims it contributed to opioid crisis Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis.

The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The settlement must still be approved by a judge.

Under the agreement, McKinsey would establish a fund to reimburse insurers, private benefit plans and others for some or all of their prescription opioid costs.

The insurers argued McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma — the maker of OxyContin — to create and employ aggressive marketing and sales tactics to overcome doctors’ reservations about the highly addictive drugs.

Insurers said that, in turn, forced them to pay for prescription opioids rather than safer, non-addictive and lower-cost drugs, including over-the-counter pain medications.

They also had to pay for the opioid addiction treatment that often followed.

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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee holds a winter-run Chinook salmon in 2017. About half of government spending on threatened and endangered species goes toward efforts to conserve salmon and steelhead in the Western U.S.

The fishy business of aid to endangered species Salmon, steelhead get lion’s share of dollars, leaving hundreds in lurch

By Matthew Brown and John Flesher The Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. ince passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction.

Yet federal government data reveals striking disparities in how much money is allocated to save various biological kingdoms.

Of the roughly $1.2 billion a year spent on endangered and threatened species, about half goes toward recovery of just two: salmon and steelhead trout along the West Coast. Tens of millions of dollars go to other widely known animals including manatees, right whales, grizzly bears and spotted owls.

But the large sums directed toward a handful of species means others have gone neglected, in some cases for decades, as they teeter on potential extinction.

At the bottom of the spending list is the tiny Virginia fringed mountain snail, which had $100 spent on its behalf in 2020, according to the most recent data available. The underground-dwelling snail has been seen only once in the past 35 years, according to government records, yet it remains a step ahead of more than 200 other imperiled creatures that had nothing spent on their behalf.

With climate change increasing threats to organisms around the planet and adding to the number that qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act, government officials are struggling in many cases to execute recovery actions required under the law.

Some scientists argue for spending less on costly efforts that may not work and putting the money toward species with less expensive recovery plans that have languished.

“For a tiny fraction of the budget going to spotted owls, we could save whole species of cacti that are less charismatic but have an order of magnitude smaller budget,” said Leah Gerber, a professor of conservation science at Arizona State University.

An Associated Press analysis of 2020 data found fish got 67% of the spending, the majority for several dozen salmon and steelhead populations in California, Oregon

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and Washington. Mammals were a distant second with 7% of spending, and birds had about 5%. Insects received just 0.5% of the money and plants about 2%. Not included in those percentages is money divided among multiple species.

Species drawing no spending at all included stoneflies threatened by climate change in Montana’s Glacier National Park, the stocky California tiger salamander that has lost ground to development and flowering plants like the scrub lupine around Orlando, Fla., where its native habitat has been converted to theme parks.

Such spending inequities are longstanding and reflect a combination of biological realities and political pressures. Restoring salmon and steelhead populations is expensive because they are widespread and hemmed in by massive hydroelectric dams. They also have a broad political constituency with Native American tribes and commercial fishing interests that want fisheries restored.

Congress over decades has sent massive sums of money to agencies such as the Bonneville Power Administration that operate dams along rivers the fish once traveled up to spawn. The money pays for fish ladders around dams, habitat restoration projects, monitoring by scientists and other needs.

Most plants receive less money than recommended under their recovery plans, according to Gerber and others. Researchers say that has direct consequences: Species tend to decline when allocated less funding than needed, while they have a higher chance of recovery when receiving enough money.

Gerber has suggested redirecting some money from species getting more than their recovery plans seek — the bull trout, the gopher tortoise and the Northern spotted owl among them — to those receiving little or none. Her ideas have stirred pushback from some conservationists.

Former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Jamie Rappaport Clark said debating how to allocate scarce resources for rescuing endangered species is a distraction.

“The issue is not where the money is spent,” said Clark, now president of Defenders of Wildlife. “The issue is that there isn’t nearly enough of it.”

Ind. man survives 6 days trapped in pickup wreckage

By Amanda Holpuch and Orlando Mayorquin The New York Times

Two men near Portage, Ind., were scouting a creek for potential fishing spots Tuesday when they spotted a mangled vehicle.

One of the men, Mario Garcia, said he looked inside, pushed aside the airbag and found what he thought was a lifeless body. But upon touch, a young man, still alive, awoke.

“He was very happy to see us,” Gar-

cia said at a news conference last week.

The driver, Matthew Reum, 27, of Mishawaka, Ind., had been trapped in the crumpled 2016 Dodge Ram pickup for six days, according to authorities.

It took rescuers “quite a bit of time” to free Reum from the wreck, according to Sgt. Glen Fifield, a spokesperson for the Indiana State Police.

Reum was airlifted to Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Ind., roughly 50 miles away, with “severe, life-threatening injuries,” police said in a news release Wednesday. His condition

improved from “critical” to “serious” the next day, according to hospital spokesperson Heidi Prescott.

Police determined Reum had crashed the vehicle around 11 p.m. on Dec. 20 in Portage, about 120 miles west of Fort Wayne, Ind. A preliminary investigation found the pickup had been traveling west on Interstate 94 when it veered off the road and barreled toward Salt Creek below, missing a protective guardrail on the highway bridge.

The pickup ended up underneath

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported more than 142,000 immigrants in fiscal year 2023, nearly double the number from the year before, as the Biden administration ramped up enforcement to stem illegal border crossings, according to the agency’s annual report, published Friday.

Nearly 18,000 of those deported were parents and children traveling as families, surpassing the 14,400 removed under the Trump administration in fiscal 2020.

Federal officials said the removals adhered to the Biden administration’s enforcement strategy, which the Supreme Court upheld in June.

Migrants who cross the border illegally and those who commit violent crimes or otherwise pose a safety threat are priorities for removal. The ICE report covered the period from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30.

The increase in deportations is more a reflection of the high numbers of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border than interior enforcement, which President Joe Biden has discouraged in most cases.

“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our mission to keep U.S. communities safe,” said ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner in a statement.

Just 2,500 of the 72,000 non-criminals deported from the United States in fiscal 2023 were in the interior of the country, where dozens of sanctuary cities and towns have passed ordinances seeking to limit ICE from detaining migrants. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in 2021 that being undocumented should not be the sole basis for removing someone from the country.

Biden took office promising to create a more humane immigration system, and he attempted to pause deportations in the hope Congress would create a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

But that hope faded amid fierce resistance from Republicans and public disapproval of the record number of border apprehensions, which surpassed 2 million for the first time in 2022 and is expected to do so again this year.

The Biden administration nonetheless has sharply reduced interior enforcement, halting workplace immigration raids and sparing most undocumented immigrants from being deported. Officials also stopped detaining families in ICE-run facilities.

Officials have also warned migrants against hiring smugglers to take them north to the U.S.-Mexico border and have said people who breach the border would face penalties.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors immigration enforcement, said the increase in deportations remains a tiny share of those arriving at the southern border.

The 18,000 families deported last year is far smaller than the 621,000 parents and children taken into custody at the border during the same period. Most were released to await a court date, she said.

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Moscow: Ukraine hits city in Russia, killing at least 21 in a statement on social media.

The Kremlin said Russian Shelling in the center of President Vladimir Putin had the Russian border city of been briefed on the situation, and Belgorod on Saturday killed 21 that the country’s health minister, people, including three chilMikhail Murashko, was ordered to dren, local officials reported. join a delegation of medical perA further 110 people were sonnel and rescue workers travelwounded in the strike, said ing to Belgorod from Moscow. regional governor Vyacheslav Russian diplomats also called Gladkov, making it one of the for a meeting of the U.N. Security deadliest attacks on Russian soil Council in connection with since the start of Moscow’s inva- the strike. Speaking to Russia’s sion of Ukraine 22 months ago. state news agency, Foreign Russian authorities accused Ministry spokeswoman Maria Kyiv of carrying out the attack, Zakharova said that Britain and which took place the day after the United States were guilty of an 18-hour aerial bombardment encouraging Kyiv to carry out across Ukraine killed at least 41 what she described as a “terrorist civilians. attack.” She also placed blame on Images of Belgorod on social EU countries that had supplied media showed burning cars Ukraine with weapons. and plumes of black smoke ris“Silence in response to the ing among damaged buildings unbridled barbarity of Ukraine’s as air raid sirens sounded. One Nazis and their puppeteers and strike hit close to a public ice accomplices from ‘civilized rink in the very heart of the democracies’ will be akin to comcity, which lies 25 miles north plicity in their bloody deeds,” the of the Ukrainian border and ministry said in a statement.

415 miles south of Moscow.

Cities across western Russia While previous attacks have hit have come under regular the city, they have rarely taken attack from drones since May, place in daylight and have with Russian officials blaming claimed fewer lives.

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Ukraine says more than 19K of its kids have been taken to Russia or Russian-controlled territory

By Oleksandr Chubko, Carlotta Gall and Cora Engelbrecht The New York Times

Wounded in the eye from an explosion, Oleksandr Radchuk, an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy from the destroyed city of Mariupol, waited in a tent while Russian soldiers interrogated his mother.

The two had been taken prisoner after their port city came under prolonged attack

by Russian forces in spring 2022. His mother, Snizhana Kozlova, was gone for 90 minutes.

When the Russian guards brought her back, she hugged him wordlessly. Then social services officials arrived and took charge of him.

“We were crying; I couldn’t believe they were taking me away,” the boy, now 13, who goes by Sasha, recounted in an interview in the presence of his grandmother, Lyudmyla Siryk. His mother was detained, and he has not heard from her in the 20 months since.

Sasha is one of thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly separated from their parents by Russian authorities in the early stages of the war in Ukraine, now nearly 2 years old.

Some were wounded or orphaned in bombardments on Ukrainian towns. Some were left homeless and alone after parents were detained. Others were separated from families believing they were sending their children to summer camp.

Ukraine says it has verified the names of more than 19,000 children who have been transferred to Russia or Russian-controlled territory. Over recent months, 387 children like Sasha have been tracked down by relatives and brought home with the help of the charity SOS Children’s Villages Ukraine, among others.

Their accounts have helped officials and investigators build a picture of a Russian effort to remove children from Ukraine — often under the pretext of rescuing them from the war zone — to turn them against their homeland and into loyal Russian subjects.

The Russian strategy was deliberate, premeditated and systematic, according to the accounts of dozens of children and their families, as well as evidence collected by Ukrainian and international human rights and war crimes organizations.

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Kseniia Honcharova, 12, left, and her sister, Anastasiia, 13, in Vovchansk, Ukraine, earlier this year. Thousands of young Ukrainians were separated from their parents by the Russian authorities early in the war. They are among the most forlorn victims of the invasion.

Russian authorities relocated children from Ukrainian orphanages and certain schools en masse, according to Russian documents gathered by Lyudmyla Denisova, formerly Ukraine’s top human rights official, which she shared with The New York Times. Russian soldiers and police officers escorted the children on buses. Regional authorities housed the Ukrainian children and placed them with Russian foster families. A decree by President Vladimir Putin of Russia opened the way for Russian families to adopt Ukrainian children.

The exceptional scale and duration of the effort has little comparison in modern warfare, and the forcible transfer of children, war crimes investigators point out, can be an act of genocide under the Geneva Conventions.

Yet Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, announced the transfer of children from Ukraine publicly, showing it off as Russian humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian families. Their public statements now lie at the heart of a still-sealed arrest warrant against them for war crimes, issued in March by the International Criminal Court.

The Times traveled across Ukraine to interview more than 30 children who made it back from Russia. Many of them were still traumatized by the events.

From the first weeks of the war, Ukrainian officials warned that Russia was purposefully removing children. As millions fled fighting, Russian authorities set up so-called filtration camps, where they screened Ukrainians coming out of the battle zone into Russiancontrolled territory.

Those suspected of being combatants were detained. Civilians, including children, were swept up in a resettlement program that

placed them in towns and cities in Russianoccupied Ukraine or in Russia.

It was at one such camp that Sasha and his mother were separated. They had sheltered for two weeks in a Ukrainian military field hospital in the basement of the Ilyich steel works in Mariupol after Sasha was wounded in an explosion and were captured along with the Ukrainian troops when the plant was surrounded by Russian forces.

Sasha’s grandmother managed to locate him in a hospital in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine only because sympathetic doctors publicized his case on social media. When she called, he begged her, “Grandma, take me away from here.”

It took his grandmother more than two months to gather the right papers and journey through Russia to collect him.

Once reunited with their families, some children have shown signs of lasting trauma after being separated, sometimes for up to a year, from their homes. Those signs include depression and self-harm, according to a psychologist with Save Ukraine.

The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.

Marharyta Matiunina was 8 when she was sent to a Russian camp by local officials around the time of the mass transfer to Crimea while staying with her father. Her mother, Veronika Tsymbolar, did not know where she was for four months.

Marharyta played happily with her sister and brother in their apartment in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine as her mother spoke, but she buried her head in the sofa when asked how her time in the camp had been.

“She wants to forget it, like a bad dream,” her mother said.

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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Jews, Palestinians in Santa Fe reflect on war’s impact

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“In many ways, that meant being together because that’s a big part of being Jewish, doing things together.”

‘This really galvanized people’

‘We can imagine something better’

Alonet Zarum Zandan woke up to the sound of sirens Oct. 7.

She and her husband were in Herzliya, Israel, visiting her mother and other relatives and friends for the stone-setting ceremony for her late father, a Yemeni Jew who died last year.

At first, Zandan said, they didn’t know what was happening. They don’t normally watch TV on the Sabbath, but they turned it on “and it was saying ‘Stay indoors, stay in your propAlonet Zarum erty, lock the doors, stay away Zandan from windows,’ ” she recalled.

The group sat in a sheltered area of the house and could hear helicopters outside as the scale of the Hamas attack became clear.

They stayed there for two days.

The couple’s flight home to Santa Fe had been canceled, but a friend was able to help them get a new flight from Tel Aviv to Tiblisi, Georgia.

Zandan said they encountered crowds of people without tickets at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel; everyone was desperate to find a way out.

“It was a nightmare,” she said.

Twenty minutes after their flight took off, the airport came under attack.

From Tiblisi, they flew to Munich, and then to Denver and finally to Santa Fe. “During that time, I’m already planning, ‘We have to do something,’ ” Zandan said.

She had been asked earlier about forming an umbrella organization to replace the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, which disbanded last year, but there didn’t seem to be an impetus.

“This really galvanized people,” she said.

She joined up with a woman in Albuquerque to create the Jewish Community Relations Coalition of New Mexico, an all-volunteer organization with 26 partner Jewish organizations in the state.

Zandan said the coalition’s goal is to “unite the Jewish community, inform, educate and advocate,” in part to counter what she says are simplistic and biased narratives about the conflict.

“My family, they all want peace,” she said. “But as much as they want it, they know it can’t happen until the terrorists are neutralized and don’t have the ability to attack anyone anymore. Hamas needs to be gone.”

Many of Zandan’s male relatives have been called up to active duty.

“Every day there’s a list of soldiers that have been killed,” she said. “And I just pray that I don’t see one of my family members up there.”

Vic Wiener was born and raised in Santa Fe but spent seven months living in Israel as a child in 1999 and 2000.

Wiener was just 10 at the time and “wasn’t super politically aware.”

But it was clear something was “profoundly wrong” when an Orthodox Jewish student got into a fight with the only Palestinian student in the class so violent one of them could have been killed, said Wiener, who uses they/them pronouns.

“It affected me really deeply,” Vic Wiener Wiener said of the experience.

As they grew up and learned more about the region, their sense of injustice continued to grow.

It culminated in Wiener leaving the synagogue where they became a bat mitzvah after an experience during a workshop at a conference for Jewish teenagers, where they expressed support for Palestinians having access to their land.

“That night, students were refusing to hold my hand at the closing circle,” Wiener remembered.

“People stopped talking to me. I had no idea what I was walking into.”

Wiener it’s difficult to be part of a mainstream Jewish organization and also be critical of Israel’s politics, a situation that has only intensified following the outbreak of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Wiener comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family who fled Eastern Europe and grew up learning about the horrors of the Holocaust. What’s happening now in Gaza, “I don’t know words for it beyond genocide,” they said.

That view, and their involvement in protests calling for a cease-fire, has cost them.

“I’ve had family reach out to me telling me that I’m calling for a second Holocaust, or that I should stand with my own,” Wiener said. “I’ve lost contact with a lot of my family now because of my views on Palestine.”

Friends have shared similar experiences, with some not going home for Hanukkah because of conflict with family members, they said.

Wiener thinks the Oct. 7 attack was traumatic for many in the Jewish community because of the generations of violence toward Jewish people, but they don’t think the response from Israel is justified.

“I refuse to believe that my safety requires the killing of tens of thousands of people,” Wiener said. “That’s not safety for me. That’s not safety for anyone.”

‘It’s changed a lot of people’s lives’

‘The fortress has been breached’

Aaron Moskowitz doesn’t come from a very religious family. But this year, his sister went out and bought a menorah for Hanukkah, which she had never lit before in her own home.

A Jewish friend of his was planning a trip to Europe for the holidays. While they were there, she and her husband visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp.

He thinks those are indicaAaron tions of a larger desire from the Moskowitz Jewish community to take stock of what it means to be Jewish following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel, and to be in community with others.

“It’s made them want to do things that are more Jewish,” Moskowitz said.

He thinks the tragic events have brought Santa Fe’s Jewish community closer together, which he finds heartening. He cited this year’s Chanukah on the Plaza celebration, which he said was the best he had ever been to.

“It felt different from other years,” he said. “It was just really, really strong community vibes over there. And all sorts of people from outside the Jewish community had come and were saying, ‘We’re here to support you.’ That was really moving.”

While the national rise in antisemitism is frightening, Moskowitz said it hasn’t been significant locally.

“Most people here really want peace and are friendly towards each other,” he said.

The conflict has sparked a desire for community that he hasn’t seen in recent years, he said, noting a group for younger Jewish people recently formed, and during Hanukkah “there were parties happening every single night.”

“I think that everybody during this time was reflecting on what it means to be Jewish,” he said.

Author and playwright Rosemary Zibart grew up in a nonobservant household.

“My father, the only thing he ever said about Israel was Jews were much more respected once Israel was created,” she said. “It’s very meaningful that Israel was powerful, so their loss of power is something to deal with because it makes us vulnerable again.”

That sense of vulnerability following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas is something Zibart Rosemary doesn’t think people outside Zibart the Jewish community fully understand.

“Israel was a stronghold, and now it’s not,” she said. “The fortress has been breached. And that has been a real blow, even to people very far on the left.”

Zibart said younger Jews have grown up with the perception of Israel as an all-powerful behemoth, which wasn’t the case for her generation.

“We don’t just know it as an imperial power, we know it as a refuge,” she said.

She thinks the current Israeli government has strayed from the ideals the nation was founded on, and she is disturbed by the number of innocent Palestinians killed in the conflict.

“I was raised believing Judaism was a peace-loving religion, and the Israeli response to the attack is the opposite of peaceful,” she said. “If Israel loses its traditional values, it will be eroded from within.”

At the same time, she’s troubled by what she feels is a double standard in criticism of the nation.

In a written piece, she noted New Mexicans are living on land taken first from Native Americans and then from Hispanics.

“It’s just that Israel is late to the game — the era of Manifest Destiny has passed,” she wrote. “But I can’t help but feel some of the indignation about

Israel stems from some of the guilt we have about our pasts that we’re doing nothing or very little to heal.”

In the early 2000s, Zibart belonged to a group called Tikkun that advocated for a two-state solution, but after several years the group dissolved because the members didn’t feel they were making a difference.

She wonders if now would be a better time to lobby, but change feels so far away.

“It’s very difficult to imagine any positive outcome, and that’s what’s so tragic,” she said.

‘People treat us like nothing’ Samar Awad, from a small village in the West Bank called Deir Dibwan, arrived in the U.S. at age 15 and soon moved to New Mexico. Awad now lives in Santa Fe with her four children, all in middle school and high school.

The Israeli military and settlers have long oppressed Palestinians in the West Bank, but violence against Palestinians has increased since Oct. 7, Awad said.

“I’m Palestinian American, but my home is Palestine and I’m hoping one day I could go back and live there with my kids,” she said. “But I’m afraid that’s not going to happen because it’s getting worse every day.”

She added, “My parents, they’re afraid to go outside. I’m scared I’m not going to have a home to take my kids to.”

In her village, the Israeli military has been breaking into houses; a few blocks from her parents’ house, the military beat a 20-year-old Palestinian man to death in front of her cousins, she said.

“The thing that hurts me the most is that people treat us like nothing,” Awad said. “That’s how we’ve been treated in Palestine for the last 75 years. … [The Israeli military] have the green light to do whatever they want, [and confront] citizens even walking around the village or even standing in front of their home. Every week, even outside Gaza … there are people being killed. It’s been going on for decades, it’s not since Oct. 7.”

Awad does not condone violence, she said, but she views Hamas’ attack as an attempt to force Israel to release hundreds of Palestinians she said are being held “hostage” in jail.

“They were just fighting for our people,” Awad said. “[Israel] doesn’t allow us to live in our land.

“We are fine to share, just let us enjoy our country,” she said. “Let us go from [one] village to another. Let us go to the grocery store without stopping us, without questioning us, without pointing a gun on our head. Our kids are not safe to go anywhere there by themselves.”

Awad has been attending cease-fire protests in Santa Fe and wishes people would show more support for Palestinians and push for action from the U.S. government.

“There’s a lot of people fighting for my people, my country, but there’s a lot of people here, they don’t even care,” she said. “When I talk to them, they seem to be like, in denial; they don’t want to believe what I’m saying. They don’t want to understand what I’m saying.”

‘Grieving every single day’ Samayya Cabré, who spent her childhood in Spain and Sweden, moved to Abiquiú with her parents as a teenager, where the family joined the Dar al Islam community. Cabré now lives in Santa Fe with her 15-year-old son, whose father is from Gaza.

Cabré and her son have spent the past two months “grieving every single day,” she said.

“Last time we had the strength to look, my son had lost 10 memSamayya bers of his family, all women and Cabré children,” she said. “We haven’t looked in a few weeks.”

Those deaths include her son’s cousin Hiba Abu Nada, a poet killed by an Israeli airstrike on her home Oct. 20.

A video of her son’s uncle, Palestinian doctor Abdullah Abu Nada, also went viral in October, when Abu Nada learned his wife and three children from ages 12 to 16 were killed by an Israeli airstrike after he had been working in the hospital for three days straight, Cabré said.

“Some days we wonder, is [the footage] even having an effect?” she said.

Cabré has seen more and more people, especially young people, wanting to know more about the conflict, “so that brings hope,” she said.

Cabré and her family members have been attending cease-fire protests in Santa Fe, though “some days it’s too heavy” for her son, she said. “[We’re in] incredible disbelief that this is allowed to happen and that the powers that can stop it are not stopping it, but are actually supporting financially and with weapons,” she said.

She wants politicians in New Mexico to speak out against the violence.

“It’s enraging that it’s being called a war between Hamas and Israel when the people that are being murdered are innocent Palestinians and thousands of children who had nothing to do with Hamas,” she said.

“I mean, in this modern era, if [Israel] wanted to target something, they can,” Cabré said. “If this was self-defense … they wouldn’t be killing children.

They wouldn’t be killing reporters [who] are telling the truth about what’s happening there.”

More than 60 Palestinian journalists have been confirmed dead, according to the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists.

‘End the occupation, you end Hamas’ Kenneth Mayers, a secular Jew, has long been a member of Veterans for Peace and founded the Santa Fe chapter in 2002 shortly after he moved to the city.

Mayers became interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in graduate school, when a Palestinian member of his baby-sitting group told Mayers about his family’s displacement from Jerusalem after World War II. Learning more completely changed Mayers’ understanding of Israel’s founding, where settlements were built “on the ruins of Palestinian villages,” he said.

He became an activist for Kenneth Palestinians’ rights when Israel Mayers launched Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, which killed about 1,400 Palestinians in Gaza. In the following years, he participated in international marches for peace in Gaza, visited the West Bank three times and also connected with four cousins living in Israel. Mayers has spent the past several weeks speaking about his story and attending local ceasefire demonstrations. On Oct. 7, two relatives of his cousins were taken hostage by Hamas and have not been heard from since.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank, three close friends who were Palestinian activists — all with family members killed by Israelis — were “immediately” arrested by the Israeli government, he said.

“I think whether you have ‘skin in the game’ or not,” he said, referring to his connections to the region, “if you’ve got any humanity, you can’t help but be horrified and pained by what’s being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”

He added, “When people say, ‘Well, we’ve got to root out Hamas,’ you can only root out Hamas by resolving the underlying issues which give birth to Hamas and sustain it, and that’s the occupation.

You end the occupation, you end Hamas.”

The long-term solution to the violence is creating one democratic nation, equal for all, with religious freedom, Mayers said.

That’s because “even those Israelis who favor a two-state solution don’t favor two equal states.”

‘It’s Palestinians against injustice’ Growing up in Egypt, Zeinab Benhalim routinely saw her mother’s sadness about having been displaced from her home. She left during the Nakba, the mass displacement of Palestinians during the founding of Israel, Benhalim said.

“It’s like, the whole trauma is repeating itself again,” she said.

Benhalim has lived in Santa Fe for over 30 years and owns Tribes Coffee House.

Although she does not know anyone still living in Palestinian territories, the violence in Gaza has affected her daily.

“I can’t really function properly because I can’t get [the images] out of my mind, thinking, how is the world accepting this over 75 years?” she said.

“What’s happening in Gaza is … totally inhumane,” she said, adding she “absolutely” supports a cease-fire. “And you know, it’s racism. For me, it’s pure evil. I can’t find the right word to say it, really.”

Benhalim has wrestled with thoughts about why Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, knowing the response would be “horrible,” but also described Hamas as backed “against the wall.”

“Every single day of Palestinian life is hell, anyway,” she said, adding Palestinians are treated as second-class citizens and routinely intimidated, arrested and abused by the Israeli military.

“Do you think that’s the kind of life that you would accept for yourself?” she said. “This is not going to pass. Things have to change … and it doesn’t mean it’s Palestinians against Jews — it’s Palestinians against injustice,” she said.

The U.S. should put aside its economic interests and put “world peace first,” Benhalim continued, saying the U.S. has been destabilizing, rather than stabilizing, the Middle East. “As a nation, as a world, we could do better.”

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in Santa Fe and Los Alamos. The war has had a direct effect on members of his congregation, many of whom have family in Israel, he said.

Some local supporters of Palestinians blame what they see as decades of brutal Israeli oppression for engendering the conflict and describe the high number of civilian Palestinian deaths — with reports of more than 20,000 dead in Gaza — as genocide.

Yusef Nassar, a Palestinian American who owns the Silver Coyote jewelry shop in downtown Santa Fe, said Palestinians have had endured violence from the Israeli military for decades.

Palestinians are asking for little, added Nassar, who has family in the West Bank.

“We are human like every human.

Please give us chance for our kids to live with peace and no more violence,” he said.

The conflict has prompted vigils by local Jewish congregations calling for the return of hostages held by Hamas as well as protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Vandals leaving pro-Gaza

messages in graffiti have struck U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich’s office in Santa Fe and the state Capitol.

Meanwhile, a rise in both antisemitic and Islamophobic rhetoric nationwide and in New Mexico has prompted local faith organizations to increase security.

Santa Fe has four active synagogues and a Jewish community of several thousand people, according to estimates from religious leaders.

The local Palestinian community is much smaller, members said.

Imam Talha Elsayed, who helped found the Albuquerque Islamic Center eight years ago, said some of the center’s 1,500 members have family members who have been killed and injured in Gaza, and the center has sent donations to support Gazans.

Everyone involved in the center supports a cease-fire, he said.

“We want to see peace. We want to see there is no more killing, no more civilians to die,” he said.

Politicians have joined the debate, with the state Democratic Party considering a resolution calling for a cease-fire and a halt to aid for Israel.

Results of a vote on the measure are

expected this week.

New Mexico’s Democratic congressional delegates have voiced support for Israel but have raised concerns about conditions in Gaza and rising numbers of deaths. Only one, U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, has said he backs a cease-fire.

Vasquez “supports an immediate ceasefire, [as] it aligns with his previous calls for peace in the region,” a spokeswoman wrote in an email.

Heinrich said in a statement Israel “has the right to defend itself.” However, he added, “I am deeply concerned about the way Israel continues to carry out this war. The mounting loss of civilian life in Gaza is dire, and it’s unacceptable.”

Members of the Jewish community have responded to the war’s outbreak in different ways.

Many, like attorney Vic Wiener, have joined protests decrying Israel’s harsh response to the Hamas attack and calling for a cease-fire.

Zandan threw herself into creating the Jewish Community Relations Coalition of New Mexico to help build a sense of unity at an uncertain and troubling time.

Scott Levin, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Mountain States region, said his organization has heard reports of antisemitic incidents in the state since the Oct. 7 attack. A temple in Albuquerque was sent harassing phone calls, and an Albuquerque student was called a slur at school, he said.

The organization has documented a 300% to 400% increase in antisemitic incidents nationwide in the last three months, Levin said. “We don’t have the final tally, but it’s easy to see incidents three to four times what we would have seen last year at the same time.”

He added, “For Jewish people right now there’s a great feeling of vulnerability that we probably have not felt for a long time.”

Shlachter said the increase in what he described as “unfounded Jew-hatred” has been very troubling.

During the eight days of Hanukkah, he and his wife added an extra, unlit candle to their menorah in remembrance of the people still held hostage

by Hamas.

“God willing, they will be returned,” Shlachter said.

Anthropologist Ron Duncan Hart at

the Santa Fe-based Institute for Tolerance Studies said the nonprofit organization has held several educational programs since the start of the war. At a time when so many people are gripped by emotion, giving people accurate information about the history behind the conflict is important, he said.

“If we live in a world of opinion and not facts, we become divided very quickly, as we see happening in our country today,” he said. “If we can see more of the facts and the understanding of how this came to be, maybe we can lower the temperature of the conflict.”

Hart has given given several talks at the University of New Mexico Hillel and in Santa Fe for people who want to know more about the history of the conflict.

“This kind of war doesn’t solve political issues,” he said.

Hart noted New Mexico’s own history, which has involved both cooperation and violence among ethnic groups.

“But by and large, New Mexico has a rich heritage of coexistence and acceptance,” he said, “and I’ve seen that here between the local Jewish and Muslim communities.”

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Defying U.S. pressure, Israel ramps up assault month to facilitate a government sale of about 13,000 rounds of tank ammunition to Israel.

The New York Times Hamas said in a statement Saturday that the U.S. provision Israeli forces clashed with of ammunition to Israel was Hamas militants across the Gaza “clear evidence of the American Strip on Saturday, the Israeli mili- administration’s full sponsorship tary said, deepening their engage- of this criminal war.” ment in the decimated enclave Israeli Prime Minister Benjaeven as the Palestinian death toll min Netanyahu is facing increasfrom relentless airstrikes in 12 ing pressure from the United weeks of war soared higher.

States and many other nations The Gaza Health Ministry to lower the conflict’s intensity, reported Saturday that 165 but he said last week that Israel people had been killed in Israeli would be “deepening” the fightairstrikes and artillery attacks in ing in coming days. the previous 24 hours, adding to At a televised news conference the ministry’s toll of more than Saturday, Netanyahu vowed 20,000 people killed in Gaza again that Israel would not stop since the war began with the its campaign until it achieved Oct. 7 Hamas-led raids into Israel. victory and said that the war The Israeli military said late would continue for “many more Friday that it had destroyed a months.”

Gaza City apartment of the perIsraeli airstrikes and artillery son it considers the mastermind pounded central and southern of those attacks, Yehia Sinwar, the Gaza on Saturday, striking areas Hamas leader who sits atop the where hundreds of thousands of Israeli military’s most-wanted list displaced civilians were told by in Gaza.

Israel to congregate for safety The army said that Sinwar used from the onslaught across the the apartment as a hideout and territory, according to the Palesthat it destroyed a tunnel shaft dis- tinian news media. covered by its troops in the apartIsrael says it has killed thoument’s basement floor, as well as sands of Hamas militants, includan underground headquarters that ing several commanders, but it served as a nerve center for senior has failed to locate Sinwar, whose officials from Hamas’ military and killing or capture would be a sigpolitical wings. nificant blow to Hamas. Israel has He was not believed to be in offered $400,000 to anyone who the complex when it was hit, hav- can provide information leading ing decamped to the south when to his arrest. the Israeli campaign began.

The army statement Friday As global outrage and impadescribed the underground headtience grow over the war’s quarters connected to Sinwar’s devastating human toll, the Biden apartment as part of a network of administration said late Friday tunnels “in which senior officials that it was bypassing Congress of the Hamas terrorist organizafor the second time since the tion moved and operated.” war started for a weapons sale to The headquarters was Israel. described as about 20 yards The State Department approved underground, which Israel said a proposed $147.5 million sale of was deeper than other tunnels. artillery munitions and related The army said it had ventilation equipment to Israel, invoking an and electricity, and was linked to emergency provision that avoids sewage lines.

It led to a tunnel about 250 a congressional review process yards long that the army said generally required for arms sales to other nations, the Biden admin- contained rooms for prayers and for resting, and stocked for an istration said. The department extended hideout. used the same provision this

By Raja Abdulrahim, Roni Caryn Rabin and Thomas Fuller

“The tunnel was built so that it would be possible to stay inside it and conduct combat from it for long periods of time,” the army statement said.

Hamas’ top leaders are believed to be sheltering in deep tunnels under Gaza along with most of the group’s fighters and the remaining hostages abducted in the Oct. 7 attacks. Although the Israeli army says it has demolished at least 1,500 shafts, experts believe the underground infrastructure to be largely intact.

Israel’s search-and-destroy missions and its intensive bombardments have come at the cost of thousands of women, children and other noncombatants killed.

Unverified video footage from local journalists in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where large numbers of displaced people have fled, showed the immediate aftermath of strikes on residential homes. In chaotic scenes in narrow, crowded streets, people carried the injured out from the rubble, wrapped in blankets.

Other wounded were ferried by hand, as several men struggled to carry a man’s limp body.

Israeli airstrikes also hit parts of central Gaza that were under Israeli evacuation orders issued this past week. More than 150,000 people are affected by those orders, according to the United Nations, although it was unclear how many have fled. The strikes forced some families who have already been uprooted numerous times into yet more difficult decisions about whether to move again.

A strike on the home of a journalist in the central Gaza town of Nuseirat killed him and a number of his family members and injured several others, according to the Palestinian media.

More journalists have been killed in the 12 weeks of the war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which calculates that at least 69 journalists and media workers had been killed since Oct. 7.

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Mia Schem, foreground center, reunites with her family Dec. 1 at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel. A dual citizen of Israel and France, she had been attending a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants crossed the border and raided the site.

Israeli-French hostage recounts harrowing experience in captivity The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in the Gaza Strip says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear throughout the weeks she was held hostage.

Mia Schem, a 21-year-old dual citizen of Israel and France, was attending a music festival in southern Israel when Hamas militants burst across the border and raided the event site Oct. 7.

More than 300 people were killed and dozens taken hostage.

She was released Nov. 30 during a weeklong cease-fire.

In an interview broadcast Friday on Israel’s Channel 13 TV, Schem said she was captured after she got out her friend’s burning car.

She said her captor began touching her upper body inappropriately and only stopped after she screamed and he noticed she had been shot in the arm and badly wounded.

“I started screaming, going

crazy,” she said. “There were burnt vehicles, bodies.”

While in captivity, she was held in a house with a family and watched around the clock by the father, Schem said. She said his constant staring made her uncomfortable and fearful that he might try to harm her. The man’s wife did not like her and sometimes denied her food for days at a time, she said.

Israeli authorities have said that sexual violence was part of the Hamas rampage into southern Israel, and they accused the international community of playing down or ignoring the pain of the victims.

The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sexual violence, but Schem spoke out publicly about her experience.

Schem made international headlines when Hamas released a video of her in captivity days after she was taken hostage. In the video, she lay in bed as someone bandaged her right arm, and

she says she wants to go home.

At the time, it was the first sign of life from the hostages.

Schem said she barely slept during her time as a hostage because she was so terrified, and that she also did not shower or receive any medications. She said her captor’s children occasionally came in to look at her “like I’m some animal in a petting zoo.”

Schem said she was taken from the home into a tunnel and held with other hostages during her final days in captivity.

During this time, she said she knew she would soon be released. Schem said she was kept with six or seven people in a small room and received just one piece of pita bread a day.

She said she feels guilty because of the other hostages left behind.

Schem broke down during the interview, saying she still has not come to terms with her return as she processes the ordeal.

“I can’t get it out of my head,” she said.

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At Rose Parade, celebrating those who gave, received gift of heart Continued from Page A-1

This year’s float has a Native American focus to celebrate how Indigenous people have become more receptive over time to donating and receiving organs, said Celina Espinoza, spokeswoman for New Mexico Donor Services, a sister organization of Donate Life California.

The float’s riders mainly will be Indigenous heart recipients from around the country, while the posthumous heart donors, also mostly Indigenous, will be represented by floragraphs, Espinoza said, referring to portraits made from plant-based materials such as dried flowers, seeds and grains.

“It’s a way of looking at both sides of the coin and honoring the gift of life,” she said.

The float’s theme will be “Woven Together: The Dance of Life,” inspired by the Hopi tribe, which will have members dancing in front of it in the parade, she said. It symbolizes diverse stories and transcending cultural

Renee Roybal is shown with Leon Roybal, her husband of 42 years.

“I’m thankful for every day that I get,” Renee Roybal said of life after a heart transplant.

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boundaries, she added.

Roybal said back when she received her heart, she wanted to get the word out to the pueblos about how life-saving organ donations can be.

She would set up a table at health fairs to impart information, and would encounter uneasiness from Native people

who approached her.

“I’d tell them about organ donation, and once they heard that, they’d freeze and walk away,” Roybal recalled. “They were like, ‘No, we don’t want to do that.’ ” Roybal said she tried to explain to them she wasn’t telling them to do anything, just to think about

No. 2 pencils no more as SAT going digital

standardized test scores?

The National Center for Fair and Open Testing compiles a list of test-free and test-optional colleges and universities. It includes more than 2,000 institutions.

Among them are the majority of Continued from Page A-1 By some estimates, the state’s SAT scores rank near the bottom colleges in New Mexico, from private St. John’s College to the appreciative of the digital test’s nationwide.

University of New Mexico. unique components but wary of About half of the juniors in “The good news for New placing too much importance on Santa Fe Public Schools’ high Mexico students is that 90% a standardized test. schools earned proficient scores And while the College Board, in English on the SAT during the of colleges are test-optional or test-free,” Feder said. “So in that which oversees the SAT, insists 2022-23 school year, while about the digital version of the exam is a quarter were proficient in math, world, New Mexico students easier to take and more relevant 2022-23 proficiency data from the don’t have to rely on standardized test scores to get into to today’s students, fair testing Public Education Department college.” advocates nonetheless question shows.

As the SAT goes digital, then, how equitable the new format will Even at The MASTERS Prostate officials and some students be — particularly in rural, digitally gram — which sent 60% of its divided states like New Mexico.

2022 graduating class to four-year say they’re ready for the change, though concerns persist.

Tina Morris, assistant head universities and operates with Neither the College Board of The MASTERS Program, a college and career readiness summed up the good and bad score above 95%, according to the nor the state’s Public Education of the modern SAT succinctly, Public Education Department — Department are concerned about calling reliance on the exam 67% of students scored proficient the switch.

“We always listen to educatroubling and innovative at the in English on the SAT and just tors and students and adapt to same time.

31% in math, the data indicates. ensure we continue to meet their “It’s alarming to me that so Some of that likely is attributevolving needs. Students are now many judgment calls are based able to New Mexico’s lackluster doing more of their learning and on how a student performs in one education system, which ranked testing digitally, and the SAT moment on one day,” she said. at the bottom nationwide again shouldn’t be the exception,” the “[It’s] interesting in that public in 2023.

College Board wrote in an email education has learned the imporBut many New Mexico stutance of using the right kind of dents may be at a systemic disad- to The New Mexican.

Since the pandemic, Romero data to help inform instruction.” vantage when it comes to taking said, the technology necessary In New Mexico, the SAT is the the exam. Historically, the SAT to administer an online SAT test of choice: The state’s Public has been biased in favor of kids Education Department uses it as from white, wealthy families, said is already in schools, where students will be taking the test. its standardized proficiency exam Harry Feder, executive director A 2020 audit of student internet for 11th graders, Cabinet Secreof the National Center for Fair access completed by the Public tary Arsenio Romero said in an and Open Testing, a nationwide Education Department deterinterview with The New Mexican. organization advocating for the mined 99% of schools across That means every 11th grader elimination of flawed testing the state have reliable internet in the state gets to take the test practices.

— which usually costs $60 — for While Feder noted the SAT has access, even though nearly a free. College-bound students made progress in becoming more quarter of New Mexico students lacked that access at home. can choose to send their score to equitable, that history doesn’t Laptops and tablets, too, are universities. bode well for a state in which standard-issue for testing at “We have literally thousands the majority of students are not schools across the state. and millions of students that white and a quarter of children “We’ve actually got a lot of have taken the SAT, so it really live in poverty. practice in giving tests online allows us to be able to get a true There also is the question of now. All of our assessments are picture of where our high school relevance, Feder added: How done that way now. … So I think students are as they get closer relevant is an SAT score to a we’re ready for that. I think to being high school graduates,” college-bound kid when, in the we’ve got the hardware in place,” Romero said. aftermath of the coronavirus Romero said.

How do New Mexico’s 11th pandemic, many colleges and Still, Feder expressed concerns graders fare on the SAT? Poorly. universities no longer require

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Now it’s mainly older people in the pueblos who are resistant because organ donation is so foreign to their upbringing, she said. In contrast, younger people are more receptive.

“It’s very nice to see the younger generation really accepting it,” Roybal said. “They’re really inquisitive about it. They’re like, ‘Oh yeah, cool.’ ” Espinoza said it’s very important for Native Americans to be in the system to give or receive organs.

There are 644 New Mexicans waiting for an organ transplant — 20% are Native American, Espinoza said, citing her organization’s data.

Native Americans suffer from the highest rates of diabetes and kidney disease in the world, she said, ailments that often result in the person needing a new organ.

About half of those with kidney disease die in the first five years of dialysis, she said.

Roybal said she was fortunate to get a young heart.

She never learned how the girl who donated the heart died, she said. The girl’s family has never responded to her attempts to contact them, she said, which she understands because the loss would be difficult.

Overall, the transplant has gone well, though there are some ups and downs, Roybal said. Her body has never rejected the heart, and she can be physically active and even exercise as long as she doesn’t push herself too hard.

She must take immunosuppressants so her system doesn’t attack the transplanted heart as a foreign object, Roybal said. Dialing down her immunity leaves her more vulnerable to germs and viruses, she said.

“If I do catch something, it takes much longer to recover,” Roybal said.

One posthumous New Mexico donor being honored with a floragraph on the float is Frederick Jones, a Navajo from the Albuquerque area.

Jones was willing to give his sister a kidney, but she declined his offer because he was enlisting in the military and she didn’t want to risk him being rejected for not having all his organs, Espinoza said.

Jones died later in a car accident at age 27. He had registered as an organ donor, enabling his heart, livers, kidneys, corneas and tissue to be used.

His donations saved several lives, Espinoza said.

Roybal said she wound up in the Rose Parade through a happy turn of events. She complimented the float’s Native American theme on a Facebook page. That led to her being invited to ride the float as an honoree.

The invitation was a pleasant surprise, Roybal said. The organization flew her and family members to California for the parade.

It’s another life experience she will get to enjoy because of the heart transplant, she said.

“I’m thankful for every day that I get,” she said.

Wi-Fi and device access in New Mexico’s most rural areas may not meet the needs of students taking the SAT, robbing them of a fair shot at a good score.

“How’s the Wi-Fi in the Zuni Pueblo? … Do all the kids have working laptops to take this thing? Here’s the next equity problem,” he said.

Students at The MASTERS Program said they’re ready to succeed on this spring’s online SAT — though they’re careful not to let their scores seep too far into their self-worth.

After taking the PSAT — in essence, a mini-SAT taken earlier in high school — Hernandez Ochoa said she liked some of the changes that come with a digital test. The online SAT is equipped with a calculator, annotation and highlighting tools and — crucially for a timed test — a clock built into its software.

Camila Godoy, another junior at The MASTERS Program, agreed, saying the nebulousness of time remaining threw her off track when she took the paperand-pencil PSAT. “I’m definitely feeling more confident being able to do the SAT this coming spring, mainly because it was digitized,” Godoy said.

The local charter school also created an SAT math prep course for its students, after a teacher recognized the need to offer it in school for free, said Kristen Pyle, The MASTERS Program’s registrar. Both Hernandez Ochoa and Godoy participated in the class during the fall, and they said it helped boost their confidence ahead of the exam.

Still, they’re nervous — about the test and about what the test might mean for their futures.

Hernandez Ochoa gave the example of her older sister, Joselyne Ochoa. Five years older, Joselyne was Hernandez Ochoa’s role model, but she wasn’t the best test-taker. A lower-than-expected score on the SAT made Joselyne start to doubt herself

and her ability to get into college, Leslie said.

“If tests would be the one thing that, I guess, measures you as a person, she would be seen as much less than what she actually is,” Hernandez Ochoa said of her older sister.

The experience helped her realize something about the SAT, Hernandez Ochoa said: The whole of her knowledge and experiences can’t shine through in a timed test.

“It somewhat shows like a part of your student life and a part of you,” Godoy added. “But I feel like it doesn’t show the majority of who you are as a person because it’s standardized. It’s the same for every individual, but everybody’s so different.”

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Banning Trump: A boon or a bust for democracy?

Amid challenges to former president’s 2024 candidacy, experts warn of collapse of faith in U.S. electoral system

By Jack Healy, Anna Betts, Mike Baker and Jill Cowan The New York Times

As the top elections official in Washington state, Steve Hobbs says he is troubled by the threat former President Donald Trump poses to democracy and fears the prospect of his return to power. But he also worries that recent decisions in Maine and Colorado to bar Trump from presidential primary ballots there could backfire, further eroding Americans’ fraying faith in U.S. elections.

“Removing him from the ballot would, on its face value, seem very anti-democratic,” said Hobbs, a Democrat who is in his first term as secretary of state. Then he added a caveat: “But so is trying to overthrow your country.”

Hobbs’ misgivings reflect deep divisions and unease among elected officials, democracy experts and voters over how to handle Trump’s campaign to reclaim the presidency four years after he went to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. While some, like Hobbs, think it best that voters settle the matter, others say that Trump’s efforts require accountability and should be legally disqualifying.

Challenges to Trump’s candidacy have been filed in at least 32 states, although many of those challenges have gained little or no traction, and some have languished on court dockets for months.

The decisions happening right now come amid a collapse of faith in the American electoral system, said Nate Persily, a Stanford Law School professor who specializes in election law and democracy.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Reno, Nev., last month. Some critics say the battles over the former president’s ballot status are turning him into a martyr and eroding faith in American elections.

how to deal with these unprecedented developments,” he said.

Persily and other legal experts said they expected the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately overturn the decisions in Colorado and Maine to keep Trump on the ballot, perhaps sidestepping the question of whether Trump engaged in an insurrection. Persily is hopeful that whatever ruling the court issues will bring clarity — and soon.

“This is not a political and electoral system that can deal with ambiguity right now,” he said.

Trump and his supporters have called the disqualifications in Maine and Colorado partisan ploys that robbed voters of their right to choose candidates.

They accused Democrats of hypocrisy for trying to bar Trump from the ballot after campaigning in the past two elections as champions of democracy.

After the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be removed from the state’s primary ballot, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, said in a statement:

“Apparently democracy is when judges tell people they’re not allowed to vote for the candidate leading in the polls?

This is disgraceful. The Supreme Court must take the case and end this assault on American voters.”

Chris Christie, a former governor of New Jersey and Trump’s most ardent critic in the Republican primary, warned that Maine’s decision would turn Trump into a “martyr.”

But other prominent critics of Trump — many of them anti-Trump Republicans — said the threat he posed to democracy and his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol now required an extraordinary intervention, whatever the electoral consequences.

The challenges are based on a Reconstruction-era provision of the 14th Amendment that prohibits anyone who has engaged in rebellion or insurrection from holding federal or state office.

J. Michael Luttig, a retired conservative federal appeals court judge, hailed

Retirements could tip control of House majority — and GOP has the early edge

By Kevin Freking The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A chaotic year for the House is coming to a close with more Democrats than Republicans deciding to leave the chamber, a disparity that could have major ramifications in next year’s elections.

About two dozen Democrats have indicated they won’t seek reelection, with half running for another elected office. Meanwhile, only 14 Republicans have said they are not seeking another term, with three seeking elected office elsewhere.

More retirements can be expected after the holidays, when lawmakers have had a chance to spend time with families and make decisions ahead of reelection deadlines. But so far, the numbers don’t indicate the dysfunction in the House is causing a mass exodus for either party.

“Members sort of knew that this is what the institution is

currently like when they chose to run for office,” said Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank that maintains a database of vital statistics on Congress, including retirements. “Some of them may well be feeling frustrated at this point in time, but anybody who has been elected to Congress in recent years, they’re not surprised at what they’re finding.”

Republicans certainly had the most high-profile exits. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., became only the third lawmaker to be expelled by colleagues since the Civil War. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was the first speaker removed from that office by his colleagues. He opted to leave effective Dec. 31 rather than serve among the rank-and-file.

But it’s the departure of a handful of Democrats in competitive districts that has Republicans thinking the overall retirement picture gives them an advantage in determining who will control the

House after the 2024 elections.

Reps. Katie Porter of California, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia proved they could win toss-up congressional districts in good election cycles for Democrats and not-so-good cycles.

They are all seeking higher office within their home states. Porter and Slotkin are running for the U.S. Senate. Spanberger is running for governor in 2025.

Democrats are also losing sixterm Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan to retirement, leaving them with another competitive open seat to defend in a state that will be crucial in the presidential election. Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., is not seeking reelection due to health challenges in a district that leans Democratic but is more competitive than most.

“Retirements are a huge problem for the Democrats. They’re not a problem for us,” Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the House GOP campaign arm, said.

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Colorado’s and Maine’s decisions as “unassailable” interpretations of the Constitution. Officials in Maine and Colorado who disqualified Trump from the ballot have written that their decisions stemmed from following the language of the Constitution.

But on a recent sunny Friday afternoon in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Deena Drewis, 37, a copywriter, and Aaron Baggaley, 43, a contractor, both of whom have consistently voted for Democrats, expressed a queasy ambivalence over such an extraordinary step.

“I’m really just conflicted,” Baggaley said. “It’s hard to imagine he didn’t fully engage in insurrection. Everything points to it. But the other half of the country is in a position where they feel like it should be up to the electorate.”

Officials in Democratic-controlled California have shown little appetite for following Colorado and Maine. California’s Democratic secretary of state, Shirley Weber, announced Thursday that Trump would remain on the ballot, and Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed calls by other Democrats to remove him. “We defeat candidates at the polls,” Newsom said in a statement. “Everything else is a political distraction.”

In interviews, some voters and experts said it was premature to disqualify Trump because he had not been criminally convicted of insurrection. They worried that red-state officials could use the tactic to knock Democratic candidates off future ballots, or that the disqualifications could further poison the country’s political divisions while giving Trump a new grievance to rail against.

“Attempts to disqualify demagogues with deep popular support often backfire,” said Yascha Mounk, a professor and political scientist at Johns Hopkins University who has written about threats to democracies. “The only way to neutralize the danger posed by authoritarian populists like Donald Trump is to beat them at the ballot box, as decisively as possible and as often as it takes.”

The decisions by Colorado’s highest court and Maine’s secretary of state barring Trump from state primary ballots are on hold for now and are likely to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

While most of the challenges to Trump’s candidacy have been proceeding in federal or state courts, Maine’s Constitution required the voters seeking to disqualify Trump to file a petition with the secretary of state, putting the politically volatile and hugely consequential decision into the hands of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat.

Her counterparts in other states said that they had spent months discussing whether they could face a similar decision, and that they had been talking with other elections officials and their legal teams about the thickets of state laws governing each state’s elections.

In Washington state, Hobbs said he did not believe he had the power as secretary of state to unilaterally remove Trump from the ballot. He was relieved, he said, because he did not think one person should have the power to decide who qualifies to run for president.

The stakes for the nation were enormous, Hobbs said, because of the damage Trump had already done to faith in the nation’s elections.

“It’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle,” he said. “This is going to be a long-term effort to try to regain trust among those who have lost it.”

In Arizona, placing Trump on the ballot was a more cut-and-dry decision, said Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state. He said that state law required him to list any candidate who had been certified in two other states.

He called the blizzard of legal rulings, dissents and contradictory opinions swirling around Trump’s place on the ballot a “slow-rolling civics lesson” that demonstrated the country’s democratic resilience.

“I kind of celebrate the notion it’s complicated,” he said. “We’re having this conversation because that’s what democracy is about.”

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‘No other job’: Colonial roots of Philippine poverty In region largely defined by upward mobility through manufacturing, archipelago stands out as nation still dependent on agriculture

By Peter S. Goodman

The New York Times

MINDANAO, Philippines — Rodino Sawan stepped into the wire harness and dug his toes into the muddy track that threads the sweltering plantation.

He pushed forward, straining against the cargo trailing behind him: 25 bunches of freshly harvested bananas strung from hooks attached to an assembly line.

Six days a week, Sawan, 55, a father of five, tows batches of fruit that weigh 1,500 pounds to a nearby processing plant, often as planes buzz overhead, misting down pesticides. He returns home with aches in his back and daily wages of about $6.80.

One day last year, the plantation bosses fired him. The next day, they hired him back into the same role as a contractor, cutting his pay by 25%.

“Now, we can barely afford rice,” Sawan said. Still, he continued to show up, resigned to the reality that, on the island of Mindanao, as in much of the rural Philippines, plantation work is often the only work.

“It’s an insult,” he said. “But there’s no other job, so what can I do?”

The desperation confronting tens of millions of landless Filipinos stems in part from policies imposed by the powers that controlled the archipelago for centuries — first Spain, and then the United States.

In a region defined by upward mobility through manufacturing, the Philippines stands out as a nation still heavily reliant on agriculture — a legacy of outside rule.

Nearly 80 years after the country secured independence, the colonial era still shapes the structure of its economy.

Because the United States opted not to engage in large-scale redistribution of land, families that collaborated with colonial authorities retain oligarchic control over the soil and dominate the political sphere. Policies engineered to make the country dependent on American factory goods have left the Philippines with a much smaller industrial base than many economies in Asia.

“The U.S. forced land reform on a whole lot of different countries in the region, Japan included, because of World War II,” said Cesi Cruz, a political scientist at UCLA. “But in the Philippines,

“Our ancestors are buried there,” said the chief of the community, Rolando Anglao, 49. “That is the land that we inherited from them.”

There, he indicated, gesturing toward the other side of a busy highway. The forest was gone. In its place was a pineapple plantation stretching across nearly 3,000 acres. The land was ringed by barbed wire and guarded by an armed security brigade.

According to Anglao, the Lorenzo family seized the tribe’s land. One morning in February 2016, roughly 50 men arrived in trucks and began firing their rifles in the air, sending 1,490 members of the tribe scurrying away, he said.

Anglao, his wife and their two sons were among 100 families that live in shacks constructed with plastic and sheets of corrugated aluminum on the shoulder of the highway. They drink from shallow wells tainted with chemical runoff from surrounding plantations, he said. Children are frequently sick with amoebic dysentery. Tractor-trailers barrel through at all hours, their air horns blaring, carrying loads of sugar cane and pineapples to processing plants.

Over the years, the tribe has tried and failed to persuade local prosecutors to pursue charges against Pablo Lorenzo III, the president of the local company JES AZNAR/THE NEW YORK TIMES Workers on a farm on horseback last month in Talakag, Bukidnon, Philippines. Decades after independence, the Philip- that controls the plantation, and — not incidentally — the mayor of the surpines lacks the kind of factory economy that has lifted up other Asian nations, tying millions to farm work. rounding town of Quezon.

This year, the tribe secured legal because they were fighting on the same The founder’s eldest daughter, Regina plagued by hunger. It helps explain why title from the National Commission on Angela Lorenzo, known as Rica, overside, they did not want to punish their roughly one-fifth of this nation of 117 Indigenous Peoples, a government body. ally economically by forcing all these million people is officially poor and why sees Lapanday from a corporate office But the commission has yet to formally restrictions on them.” nearly 2 million Filipinos work overseas, in the Philippine capital, Manila, in a record the deed. Lorenzo has accused district full of five-star hotels, glittering from construction sites in the Persian Over the last half-century in much of the tribe of supporting an insurgency, restaurants and luxury car dealerships.

East and Southeast Asia, national leaders Gulf to ships and hospitals worldwide, the New People’s Army, said Ricardo She described her family as “a small sending home critical infusions of cash. have pursued a development strategy V. Mateo, a lawyer at the commission’s player” in agribusiness. that has rescued hundreds of millions “You have an export strategy for office in Cagayan de Oro. That has “We employ people,” she said. “We of people from poverty, courting foreign Filipinos,” said Ronald U. Mendoza, an prevented the tribe from reclaiming the add tax revenue. We make productive investment to construct export-oriented international development expert at land by prompting an investigation by use of the land.” industry. Farmers gained greater incomes Ateneo University in Manila. “This is the Philippine military. through factory work, making basic goods really a middle class that we should have Her sister Isa Lorenzo owns art galMeanwhile, the security cordon like textiles and clothing before evolving had in the country.” leries in Manila and lower Manhattan — remains, with the tribe on the outside. into electronics, computer chips and cars.

Silverlens New York, where she features Those who remain at home in rural “It’s the power of Pablo Lorenzo,” modern Southeast Asian artists. An Yet in most of the Philippines, factory areas typically plant and harvest pineAnglao said. “He’s above the law.” inaugural exhibit last fall put the spotapples, coconuts and bananas, laboring jobs are few, leaving landless people at In an interview at city hall in Quezon, light on “issues around the environment, Lorenzo denied seizing the land. largely for the benefit of the wealthy, the mercy of the wealthy families that powerful families that preside over land. community and development,” including control the plantations. Manufacturing “It’s a scam,” he said. “Those people the question: “Who owns the land?” makes up only 17% of the national The plantation where Sawan works claiming that — they were never even economy, compared with 26% in South Disputes over who owns the land is controlled by Lapanday Foods, on that land.”

Korea, 27% in Thailand and 28% in dominate life for the Manobo, an Indigwhich exports bananas and pineapple Still, he acknowledged offering the China, according to World Bank data. enous tribe in the highlands of central to wealthy countries in Asia and the tribe “a small amount of money” to Even Sri Lanka (20%) and Cambodia Middle East. Its founder, Luis F. Lorenzo Mindanao. relinquish its claims.

(18%), two of the poorest countries in Sr., was a former governor of Davao For generations, members of the His family’s wealth traces back to his Asia, have slightly higher shares. del Sur, a province in Mindanao, and a community lived along the banks of the grandfather, who worked as a corporate senior executive at Del Monte, the multi- Pulangi river, under the shade of teak and The shortage of manufacturing and lawyer representing American investors, national fruit conglomerate. His son Luis mahogany trees. They harvested cassava, the lopsided distribution of land are Lorenzo said. He personally owns 15% to P. Lorenzo Jr., known as Cito, is a former hunted wild boar and caught fish from the 20% of the company that developed the part of the reason that a country with river. They drank from a pristine spring. some of the most fertile soils on Earth is agriculture secretary of the Philippines. plantation, he said.

Tesla strike in Sweden biggest test yet of Musk’s anti-union posture

By Gerrit De Vynck

The Washington Post

MALMÖ, Sweden — Every day, port workers here in Sweden’s third-largest city unload shipping containers, oil, chemicals and building materials destined for places across the country. But there’s one thing they won’t touch: Tesla cars.

For six weeks, dockworkers at Swedish ports have refused to load or unload the electric cars made by Elon Musk’s company. They’re part of a growing movement of workers across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark who are protesting in support of striking Swedish Tesla technicians and their demand for a collective agreement on the terms of their employment.

“We’re going to take the fight all the way,” Curt Hansson, a 55-year-old dockworker here said in an interview during a break from unloading ships on a cold, gray December day. “Either he leaves or signs an agreement.”

Since October, when a subset of Tesla’s 130 technicians in Sweden first went on strike, tens of thousands of workers in Northern Europe have joined the largest coordinated labor action against Tesla since its founding in 2003.

Norwegian and Finnish ports have likewise closed to Tesla shipments.

Danish truck drivers won’t transport Teslas through their country.

Postal workers have refused to deliver license plates to new Tesla drivers in Sweden; cleaners won’t work in the company’s Swedish offices, and electricians won’t service its charging points here. On Friday, Swedish waste collectors added their support, refusing to pick up from Tesla’s repair shops across the country.

The solidarity blockades have the potential to disrupt Tesla sales in Northern Europe — a relatively small market compared with the United States and China, but a wealthy and environmentally conscious one, with some of the most electric vehicles per capita in the world. Even more, though, the labor actions are being watched as a test case for global efforts to crack Musk’s strict no-unions policy.

“Elon Musk isn’t making an agreement in Sweden because

he’s afraid … it will create follow-ups in other countries, even the U.S.,” said Jan Villadsen, chairman of a Danish union that represents 50,000 transport workers, including truck drivers and dock workers blockading Teslas.

At Tesla’s super factory near Berlin, the company’s second production hub outside the United States, a growing number of the roughly 11,000 workers want to organize, German union officials say. And the United Auto Workers, fresh off its victory in strikes against Ford, General Motors and Chrysler-owner Stellantis, has said Tesla would be one of its next organizing targets.

“If Tesla gives in to the unions around this ongoing dispute, it could create a growing brush fire in Europe that eventually gets to the UAW and U.S. in 2024,” said Dan Ives, a New York-based analyst with Wedbush Securities.

“It’s an important lightning rod issue around unions globally.”

Neither Tesla nor Musk responded to requests for comment. But Musk has weighed in publicly on the labor actions

in Sweden. On his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, he replied to a post about mail carriers refusing to deliver license plates to his customers by writing, “This is insane.”

He has also been clear about his attitude toward unions.

“I don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing, and I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company,” he said at a conference in November. “If Tesla gets unionized, it will be because we deserve it, and it failed in some way.”

Today, about 65% of Swedish workers are part of unions, one of the highest rates in the world, and nearly 90% are covered by a collective agreement, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“If you come to Sweden, you have to abide by these rules,” said Anders Linde, a Swedish postal worker and union activist in Malmö, who is participating in the effort to block Tesla’s mail.

“We have fought for these rules for generations, so we’re not going to give them up easily.”

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The year in letters: The Plaza, home tax and, oh, the noise PRC appointment process is failing citizens (Jan. 8) I shouldn’t have been surprised by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s appointments to the Public Regulation Commission. Voters in November 2020 overwhelmingly approved the amendment to the state constitution to make the PRC a three-person appointed body instead of the five-person elected board most of us had grown tired of tolerating. Yet the new appointment process began under a cloud when former (yay) House Speaker Brian Egolf appointed himself to the nominating committee. Sure, no conflict there. This sort of move is exactly what voters loathe.

This was a golden opportunity for the governor to do what voters asked: Appoint a qualified, three-person board devoid of political connections, debt and baggage. Instead, we got an engineer who used to work for Public Service Company of New Mexico and a former state representative currently a grocer from Clayton. Rounding out the trio is a Washington, D.C., insider who describes himself as a dedicated public servant. I’m pretty sure that description is on every politician’s résumé. Few, if any of them, are.

The governor knew what voters wanted. We were clear in our concerns, comments, requests and ultimate vote. We want politics out of the PRC so it can act as an independent body while overseeing critical, important utility issues in the state.

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Every opponent of gun safety legislation must answer this question: Were you afraid of getting shot when you went to school?

YES or NO.

Find the grocery stores that respect their customers enough to sufficiently fill checkout stations, so we the consumer are not pushed to check ourselves out.

Support these stores and not the others. This is a huge scam.

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Retain open admissions (Feb. 12) You recently reported of the change in the admissions policy at the Santa Fe animal shelter: No more open admissions (“ ‘Those days are officially done,’ ” Feb. 4). This makes it extremely difficult for animals.

I suggest the shelter examine its business model and retain its open admission policy.

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Center the stage (Feb. 19) I participated in the Cultural, Historic, Art, Reconciliation and Truth, or CHART, process concerning the Soldiers’ Monument on the Plaza. My view has been that any “monument” will offend somebody, leading to more unrest and vandalism. A Plaza is a place where people gather to enjoy life. It should not be political, divisive, proclamating, preaching or educating — rather, just a place to be.

I feel my background represents two sides to this controversy coin: I am 70, born in the southwestern valley of Albuquerque. My great-great-great grandfather was a legislator from Valencia County in Territorial days. He was poisoned by a fellow legislator in 1858 at a meeting in Santa Fe and died a day later, buried in the catacombs under the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. One of his sons married a Spanish woman but also took a Zuni woman captive to be his servant. I don’t know her name, only that she is my great-great grandmother.

My input to CHART was to move the stage to the center of the Plaza and make more room for people to gather and sit. Also, the orientation of the stage should not have its back to the Natives who sit under the Palace of the Governors portal. They should feel included. It is, after all, their White Shell Water Place.

Hardly reassuring (April 2) Reading the words: “Santa Fe is far from the only municipality or public agency in New Mexico that’s behind” — is this supposed to be reassuring?

Ray Lopez

Too high (April 23) The rents in this town are scandalous. They exclude rather than include. I don’t think this is the kind of community most of us desire. Housing has become a short-term investment rather than a home.

Susan Yewell

Santa Fe

Border woes (May 10) President Joe Biden refuses to hold news conferences or answer questions from the press but has enough time for a painful interview with his cheerleader Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. He admitted he wants to expedite illegal immigration by sending 1,500 troops to the border. They will be doing data entry, processing and warehouse support instead of securing the border. When Ruhle asked if Biden is bringing in migrants because we need more workers, Biden said “bingo.” I believe it goes far beyond that.

He needs as many undocumented Democrats as he can get.

Raymond Lopez

Santa Fe

Noise pollution matters (May 14)

Our mothers had it right. If we bickered over a toy, she took it away and ultimately donated it. That’s what should happen with the Plaza’s Soldiers’ Monument, or the obelisk. If someone wants to celebrate dead people, do it in a graveyard. The Plaza should speak for today and the future, not the misguided activities of soldiers long dead. That belongs in a New Mexico history class, not in statuary. Meanwhile, the money planned for some Plaza monument, or the mayor’s fountain idea, could be earmarked toward construction of a real soccer facility that could be used by many Santa Fe teams.

In The New Mexican article (“Villarreal won’t run for reelection; a crowded field will vie for her seat,” May 8), several candidates for this November’s election were mentioned. These candidates need to be up on the noise ordinance and the new fines related to moving vehicles. These are semi-trucks, pickups, passenger cars and motorcycles. Under Section 10-2.3, “boom box” is defined, and we all know what it sounds like. A noise disturbance is “any sound which annoys or disturbs reasonable persons with normal sensitivities.” Section 10-2.9, Motor Vehicle Noise, Paragraph C lists four key requirements for exhaust systems that cover those 10% of the loud vehicles on our streets today.

In late January, Councilor Signe Lindell proposed an ordinance that increases fines for excessive vehicle noise. The first ticket is a 60-day “fix it,” the next is $100 followed by $250 and $500 thereafter. This fine started around May 1. Other dangerous driving is going on like running red lights. I asked the mayor about this, and the reply from the police department was an average of one ticket each month for the last 16 months. This is a small fraction of the violations.

Candidates for the next election need to be on top of this issue and insist that noise and spending tickets are issued daily in the short-term. And bringing back the unmarked speed vans and red-light cameras in the long-term.

Patricia Emerson

Tom Andrews

Susana Villalobos

Santa Fe

Remembering water (March 12) So, Mayor Alan Webber wants a water feature on the Plaza (“On eve of vote, mayor proposes obelisk plan amendment,” March 8)? Great, with all the building that he is allowing, Santa Fe will be in great need of a memorial to water.

Carol Sommers

Santa Fe

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Isn’t Santa Fe supposed to have a dark-sky initiative? It doesn’t seem to be working. Go to Sierra Vista, Ariz., to see a genuine dark-sky city. We recently drove through Sierra Vista at night and stopped for dinner. It was possible to clearly read all the commercial signs: McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Applebee’s, Walgreens, etc. but the signs glow out of a field of darkness. The streets and parking lots are minimally lit. Enough for safety, but nothing excessive. Nothing like the lighting we experience in Santa Fe, especially at the south end of town, where the immense empty hospital parking lots are brilliantly lit. The car dealers, I believe, are the worst offenders — their lights glow all night over new cars and trucks. It seems as if the city’s switch to LED lighting has increased surface light, not diminished it. Granted Sierra Vista is about half the size of Santa Fe, but it’s doing a fine job of limiting both business and residential light pollution.

Go see for yourself. I would have taken a picture to show you, but it was too dark.

Phill Casaus

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Hardly muffled (June 9) One might be forgiven for thinking the city has rescinded its muffler ordinance. The noise along Cerrillos Road from St. Michael’s Drive to St. Francis Drive is certainly awful. If your neighborhood is affected by this, please let your councilors or constituent services know it’s time for enforcement.

Jeffrey Donlan

Santa Fe

The danger of cats (June 18) Regarding the article (“Trying to control feral cats,” May 21): Releasing feral cats back into the wild after they have been spayed makes about as much sense as releasing neutered Burmese pythons that kill Key deer and other animals back into the Everglades. Both are invasive species. Nationwide, bird populations are in decline. The journal Nature Communications has estimated that “free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3-4 billion birds and 6.3-22.3 billion mammals annually.”

To reduce wildlife mortality, releasing these invasive species into the wild should be outlawed.

Tom Sykes

Santa Fe

Poison from above (June 28) To the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Insecticide is poison. It not only kills bees and butterflies; insecticide kills birds and lands on the ground where rainwater washes it into streams, rivers, and lakes and, last but not least, the ocean. How is nature supposed to endure this endless bureaucratic cure of poison spraying, so-called “controlled” burns and other destructive fix-its? Has anyone noticed how few birds exist? I have not seen a real flock of birds in years. Heartless, ignorant and destructive, so what else is new?

Sina Brush

Santa Fe

True salvation (July 2) Regarding the defacing of the progressive pride flag on the Plaza with a cross and the words “Jesus Saves”: Speaking as a Christian pastor serving a United Church of Christ, if Jesus saves us from anything, first and foremost it should be from fear and hatred.

The Rev. Talitha Arnold

United Church of Santa Fe

Remembering Debbie (July 16) A proposed excise tax, or tax on a portion of the price of homes that sell for more than $1 million, was a huge issue back with then-Mayor Debbie Jaramillo.

She campaigned on the issue, attended meetings with locals, including the Santa Fe Association of Realtors.

All to no avail. In fact, the poor woman was vilified by everyone.

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here’s a stew of stories cooking almost every day in New Mexico. And in late December, we usually recount them in year-end inventories under the headings of the Biggest, or Most Important, or Holy Smoke, That Was Huuuuge.

Fine. Everyone loves a list.

But for me, there’s no contest for the most unforgettable mental image of 2023.

On a sunny but bitterly cold Veterans Day, I’m waiting for the buzz that will signal an open table is awaiting me at Atrisco, one of my favorite Santa Fe restaurants. As I kill time inside De Vargas Center, still uncertain whether it will be red or green smothered on a roast beef-stuffed sopaipilla, I look through the mall’s vestibule and catch a glimpse of the governor of New Mexico ... picking up trash on the sidewalk.

And not just a little bit of trash. Her hands — no gloves — are filled with the kind of rubbish you might grab around your own place, but likely would ignore in a big public space.

Yuck.

Or to put it another way: That’s someone else’s problem.

Michelle Lujan Grisham thinks it’s her problem. And yours. And mine. She believes New Mexico looks dumpy — could anyone honestly disagree? — and wants to do something about it with a combination of money and marketing, but far more important, an appeal to residents’ sense of what’s right.

“It’s such a hard problem to tackle that everyone is looking away, and you can’t,” she says. “You have to confront it, or we can’t deal with it.”

In Lujan Grisham-speak, you is actually we — meaning everyone. The knucklehead dreaming about a chile fix at DeVargas Center mall. The executive outside the office complex. The high school junior in the stadium parking lot.

The senior citizen on a walk. The mayor or county manager with plenty of other problems, thank you very much.

The state’s chief executive in a Santa Fe parking lot.

Everybody.

And give the governor this: She’s doing her part, and until I caught her, doing it without notice. She didn’t know a member of the media was watching her grab gum wrappers and empty coffee cups in the cold outside a Starbucks last month.

Lujan Grisham is so serious about this that her state-issued vehicle comes equipped with big trash bags so she can scoop up offending rubbish wherever she sees it, which is everywhere.

So, let’s get this out of the way right now. I’m not suggesting trash and unfilled potholes will be the overriding issues of the 2024 legislative session, nor a cornerstone of her time as governor.

We’ve got life and death crises in New Mexico, and though empty Big Gulps on Interstate 25 are ugly and omnipresent, they’re not killing anyone.

Still, the tone in Lujan Grisham’s voice and the passion she has on the subject says there’s something visceral — and critical — about cleaning up streets and sidewalks and highways and medians and yards because she accurately and innately understands this truth: How we feel about ourselves is often based on how we see ourselves.

And if we see nothing but junk, what is that saying about a state already saddled with an inferiority complex?

So, no, it’s not a fad — a talking point to be toyed with, then put away in a box till next Christmas. She says she’s serious enough about a statewide cleanup that she’s including it in the State of the State address next month, and confides officials are ramrodding a public awareness campaign that will be the next iteration of the aging Toss No Más push.

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THE BIG CLEANUP u Got a suggestion on how to make New Mexico look better? Know of an area that needs attention now? Know someone who’s doing their part to improve everyone’s surroundings? Contact Kendal Chavez at kendal.chavez@exec.nm.gov.

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new year begins Monday, an opportunity for a fresh start for all — even the governments we elect and trust to keep the roads paved, the streets smooth and safe, garbage collected and parks free of trash and debris.

The government closest to us isn’t the one in Washington, D.C, or even state officials operating out of the Roundhouse and in various office buildings around New Mexico.

No, it’s at the local level where the choices made affect our daily lives, and in 2024, here are a few suggestions — a list of resolutions, if you will — for how local governments can fill the fresh start a new year brings with accomplishments galore.

For the city of Santa Fe, the to-do list is long and familiar. u Complete all required financial audits on time, and if auditors identify problem areas, fix them. We look forward to the days — coming soon, is the familiar pledge — when the completion of an audit merits a

few paragraphs in the local section. The fiscal year 2023 audit, now overdue, has been promised by May 15. Let’s do it. u Then there’s the brown box on the Plaza, the plywood that covers the toppled Soldiers’ Monument, down since 2020.

Decide what to do. Then do it. And then, find a home for the statues of Don Diego de Vargas and the Tesuque Pueblo runners, Catua and Omtua, who had a pivotal role in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The longer the resolution takes, the more resentment will fester. Don’t let more years pass before making the Plaza center beautiful again, while honoring all cultures appropriately. u More basic problems must be faced as well, including deciding how best to improve the aging wastewater treatment plant. The city already has decided to ask the state for $88.4 million for upgrades to the facility, which is 60 years old and has been malfunctioning in recent years. With the price tag so high for upgrades, elected

officials also should discuss whether it would be more sensible to build a new plant altogether. u Other decisions with long-term implications? Getting the midtown campus plans moving; deciding how best to parlay tax dollars from the affordable housing excise tax into long-term solutions; improving systems across the city so roads are paved and parks are cleaned in a timely fashion.

To do all this — and myriad other tasks — we hope to see a city government that is focused on moving forward on top priorities, one that welcomes public debate and wants residents to speak out. People will trust the process of governing when they are actively involved. Right now, trust is rare, if it exists at all.

That’s true not just at the city level, but for county government as well.

In 2024, we hope Santa Fe County commissioners continue pushing for affordable housing, whether it’s building more, rehab-

bing current public housing or passing ordinances that encourage property owners to rent homes long-term, rather than operating short-term rentals. The area needs more places for people to live, period.

As it should, the county wants to improve roads, bridges and rural septic systems. These basic infrastructure projects have large price tags but improve the lives of residents in a manner that can’t be measured in dollars and cents. Part of protecting infrastructure will be finding ways to preserve the county areas of the Caja del Rio until more robust federal protection is added. All of this is why we have government.

And anyone elected to government should remember to take care of the basics.

They are not boring. They are fundamental.

And when systems are in place to keep the city or the country running smoothly, the promise of the new year will be fulfilled. In 2024, let’s resolve to get things done. And demand accountability when they aren’t.

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he recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling excluding former President Donald Trump from the upcoming Republican primary has provoked a lot of controversy. Arguments for and against it — and a similar decision by the Maine Secretary of State — will continue until we have a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling and very likely after that, too. Although many issues in this case may be difficult, one common claim – that the Colorado court decision should be overturned because it is “anti-democratic” — is straightforward, easy to understand and wrong.

“Let the voters decide!” many people shout, including pro-Trump MAGA partisans and others who should know better.

The answer is simple: No, the voters should not decide.

The whole point of Article 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is that some candidates must be excluded from elections regardless of whether they are popular.

In fact, they must be excluded precisely because they are popular. The relevant words of Article 3 state: “No person shall … hold any office … under the United States … who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”

This provision was adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War out of fear that

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former Confederate leaders would be elected to office from readmitted Southern states. The drafters of the amendment knew that Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee or any of a number of former Confederates might win elections. They deliberately disqualified them from serving because, no matter how popular they might be in their home states, leaders of an insurrection should not participate in the government they sought to destroy.

Is Article 3 anti-democratic? You bet it is! In fact, all Constitutional rights are anti-democratic. That point is too often overlooked. The right to free speech? It’s there to protect speech that majorities want to suppress. No one needs the First Amendment to guarantee the right to praise patriotism, motherhood or apple pie. Freedom of religion? It shields religious minorities from what a hostile majority might do when exercising its democratic power.

You would think Republicans would understand the anti-democratic nature of Constitutional rights since they champion the Second Amendment against gun regulations supported by large majorities.

Sadly, no.

In a pure democracy, the majority does whatever it wants at any moment. Pure democracies are hard to find, but ancient Athens came close. It was there that Socrates was hauled before a jury of 500 people and condemned to death for his

unpopular teachings. He could not argue that he had a First Amendment right to his opinions. Pure democracies allow no rights to stand against the will of the majority.

Fortunately, we don’t live in a pure democracy. We have what ancient authors called a “mixed” government with majoritarian and anti-majoritarian elements.

Our written Constitution regulates how the different parts work together.

Under its provisions, not everyone is qualified to serve as president. Below the age of 35? Not qualified. Not a “natural born citizen”? Not qualified. (You would think Trump would understand that provision after all the fuss he made about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Sadly, no.) Finally, have you taken an oath to defend the Constitution and later engaged in an insurrection against it? Not qualified!

It doesn’t matter how popular Trump may be with his base supporters. If he doesn’t meet Constitutional requirements, he can’t run. While weighing the Colorado decision, the U.S. Supreme Court may wrestle with all sorts of questions about Article 3, but that it is “anti-democratic” is not an objection to its application. It’s the reason for it.

arrangements.

Justice Daniel K. Sadler of the state supreme court seems to be the most popular administrator of oaths. He will administer the oath of office to at least four state officers, starting at 10 o’clock tomorrow.

Dec. 31, 1973: A City Council committee carved up the extra revenue-sharing pie today, setting aside $42,348 for social programs and the balance for city government departments.

The Recovery of Alcoholics Program and La Clinica de la Gente will receive the largest amounts of money if the committee recommendation is accepted by the full City Council.

Dec. 31, 1998: Gov. Gary Johnson’s inaugural bash Friday will be special for two reasons.

He’s the first New Mexico governor ever elected to a second consecutive four-year term. And it’s his 46th birthday.

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Grant Franks has lived in Santa Fe for more than 30 years. He is a law school graduate and a tutor at St. John’s College.

s a lifelong marijuana enthusiast, now middle-aged, it’s easy to see weed through green-colored glasses. Advocacy slogans read, “You can’t spell healthcare without THC,” and TV portrays an attractive counterculture, from Broad City to Bob’s Burgers to Survival of Thickest. There’s also a lot of eye-rolling from enthusiasts when it comes to any talk about its negative effects. And there are many enthusiasts.

A Gallup poll conducted in October showed that 70 percent of Americans support marijuana legalization. Less than a month later, Ohio became the 24th state to legalize recreational use.

“More than 50 percent of the U.S. population lives in a state that has ended cannabis prohibition for adults — and nearly 75 percent live in a jurisdiction that has legalized medical or recreational marijuana,” watchdog news outlet Marijuana Moment reports.

But there’s no such thing as a harmless drug.

The marijuana industry and its proponents are getting a pass on its negative effects, especially addiction. As an industry that touts treatments for epilepsy, chemotherapy-related nausea and chronic pain management, leaders should also be held responsible for informing us of the possible risks. Substance usage can result in dependency.

Recreation can become addiction. For marijuana consumers, it’s called cannabis use disorder.

Addiction to cannabis looks like using marijuana as a primary coping mechanism, putting yourself in harm’s way, experiencing withdrawal symptoms and failed attempts to cut back, to name a few symptoms. Only 4 to 5 of the 12 outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders are needed to diagnose addiction.

Marijuana advocates don’t want to talk about addiction.

First of all, no industry talks about the harmful stuff until they’re legally forced to. Lookin’ at you, Philip Morris. Also, no one wants to rain on the parade of hard-fought destigmatization.

And scores of science and health journals are finally publishing verifiable results of Mary Jane’s benefits. The more you know, the better decisions you make.

That’s why we need to treat marijuana addiction like other kinds of addiction — as a health disorder. Recently, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published “Uncovering genetic roots of marijuana use disorder” which studied almost 21,000 people diagnosed with cannabis use disorder. They found genetic links in areas previously associated with risk-taking behavior and nicotine addiction.

On top of addiction, large doses of marijuana can cause some major problems.

Cedars-Sinai reports daily users of marijuana could find themselves in the emergency room with severe vomiting known as cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Prolonged vomiting can also lead to a slew of other health issues. Other effects include difficulty breathing, panic, anxiety and paranoia.

Research is still being done on its impact on those with mood disorders such as depression.

Marijuana usage can clearly have real consequences, but we change the subject. The munchies and giggles are fun, and compared with other drugs, there isn’t much risk. You can’t die from a marijuana overdose, and unlike alcohol, consuming marijuana doesn’t incite violence or cause blackouts. Marijuana is hailed, not just as the lesser of all vice-related evils, but more like a friendly therapist who helps the participant relax and open up.

But if I’m on public transit and someone pulls out a flask, I worry for them and assume they have a problem. Anyone who needs to drink all day to get through is, by American definition, an alcoholic. However, if that person regularly vapes cannabis oil in public or personal environments, they don’t face the same stigma. Perhaps they should.

The first time I smoked weed, I was a teenager hanging out with friends, drifting into the best mood of my life while listening to Fiona Apple. Twenty years later, an avid weed consumer and advocate, I met my wife, who is sober. This reality prompted extensive reflection of and changes to my behavior.

When your partner can be triggered into relapse, the consequences of consumption become much greater than misplacing car keys or working the first half of the day with a hangover. Now, there’s some skin in the game, and it belongs to the one you love. We all deserve that kind of candid reflection for ourselves as well.

Times are changing. The least we can do is change them for the better. That starts with clearing the smoke around what addiction looks like, providing intentional education to a new generation of consumers and, in whatever we advocate for, acknowledging that nothing is all good or all bad.

Frances Story is the founder and host of the Writing Workshop KC. This commentary was written for The Washington Post. The SAMHSA National Helpline offers confidential free help, from public health agencies, to find substance use treatment and information. Call 1-800-662-4357.

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casual traveler on Interstate 10 passing Deming and looking to the north and south sees distant blue islands emerging from an ocean of creosote and stunted mesquites. These dark blue silhouettes are rugged mountain ranges, and this picture provides only a hint of the spectacular sky islands that dot the landscape and are now the focal points of a proposed new national monument.

For the few who brave the dirt roads that lead to them, these sky islands are marvels with deep canyons, unique vegetation, springs where desert mule deer and mountain lions drink, and sometimes formidable cliffs. A far-sighted group of citizens of Luna County and several national groups are proposing formal protection for these mountains.

The proposed Mimbres Peaks National Monument encompasses the Cooke’s Range, the Florida Mountains, the Good Sight Mountains, and the Tres Hermanas mountains — a total of just over 245,000 acres. (see protectmimbrespeaks.org/learnmore for a description of the proposal).

Southeast of Deming, a rough dirt road ends at the sheer cliffs and seemingly impossible terrain that makes the Florida Mountains. This serpent-like range of steep cliffs and spires is home to javelina, ring-tailed cats and Persian ibex — their sentinels sounding an alarm with a distinctive “meah” call. The herd rapidly flows across the sheer cliff face and disappears.

Higher up the mountain reveals a stream of whitethroated swifts that jet in and out of crevices. As dusk arrives, a quiet observer might see an ibex leap down a sheer cliff face and then retreat onto a ledge and into a crevice, safe from mountain lions. A single visit convinces any American or outdoor enthusiast this is a landscape well worth preserving.

The original human inhabitants of this land, ancient Puebloans and Diné, left their intricate and beautiful petroglyphs and pictographs on rock palates across these ranges.

Because they are higher than the surrounding creosote plains, these sky islands capture clouds that feed their lusher vegetation.

The rains they catch feed the basin and range aquifers that farmers in the fertile Mimbres and Mesillas Basins rely on.

The sky islands of southwestern New Mexico are treasures of biological, cultural and recreational resources. Importantly, the land in these sky islands belongs to the American public and they are managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

The creation of the monument will maintain traditional uses of the land including cattle grazing and existing mining claims.

Creating the Mimbres Peaks National Monument will have significant benefits for local communities and the American public. The monument will safeguard unique plants and animals and will shield an important water source for future generations.

The monument will increase the average income of the county with the highest unemployment in New Mexico. Economists have shown that more businesses are established and more jobs are created after national monuments are created. These new businesses are less likely to fold.

Outdoor recreation represents 2% of New Mexico’s economy (about $2.5 billion). It includes 28,000 well-paying jobs and is growing at a fast clip. The creation of the Mimbres Peaks National Monument will thus undoubtedly tap into this fast-growing source of wealth and direct it to Luna County and the surrounding area.

We urge you to contact Luna County’s county commissioners (lunacountynm.us/departments/ commissioners.php) and our state and federal representatives and senators (nmlegis.gov/members) to urge them to support the creation of the Mimbres Peaks National Monument. The land and its people deserve it.

Carlos Martínez del Rio and Blair Wolf serve on the board of the New Mexico Wildlife Federation.

he holiday season of peace on Earth and goodwill toward men is but a brief lull before the multibillion-dollar craziness of the 2024 presidential campaign. I thought the last one was gruesome with ads, tweets and speeches that tried to scare us, pitted neighbor against neighbor and presented every candidate as our country’s sole savior capable of uniting us.

The 2020 campaign was reaching its fevered pitch when my third grandson, Wessie, was born. Instead of being thrilled with a healthy new baby, I was struck by a profound sadness that this perfect little human being was born into a combative, disintegrating America. He entered this world a scant two hours before the first presidential debate, an inauspicious start to his American life.

After a brief existential meltdown, I realized the obvious: New parents and grandparents share similar hopes and dreams for their children. All the hyped

societal battles ignore what we share. And what we share is more important and more real than the endless inflammatory chatter we hear at parties, on TV and online.

My wishes for Wessie are exactly the same as three years ago. The power of wishes is that they don’t need to be realistic or have a time line. They are just the purest expression of what blooms in the human heart.

For Wessie, I wish that he wakes up every day and rejoices in the day the Lord hath made.

And that he treats our Earth as a precious gift to be preserved, not one to be wasted and dirtied at our convenience.

I wish that Wessie’s parents stay happily married, and that his family brings him joy. And when he grows up, that he creates a family with people he loves and trusts.

I wish that he and his older brother are best friends for life. His great-grandfather and his younger brother were best

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friends for 80 years. They considered each other to be one of life’s greatest gifts.

I wish that Wessie becomes involved with his community.

This could be a community of faith, or one of common purpose, like feeding hungry children; or a physical community, like the town in a Hallmark movie that pitches in to save the Christmas festival. Community will inspire him to think about the collective good, not just what he wants for himself.

I wish that Wessie never has to participate in an activeshooter drill or feels compelled to carry a gun to protect himself. I wish we could agree on how to balance the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms and the Declaration of Independence’s directive to governments to protect our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I wish that Wessie never watches a human being die violently. In the old days, this

artificially pushed down nor lifted up by prejudice. He needs to understand past prejudices, and reject them in his life and others.

I am keenly aware that Wessie is already reaping the benefits of structural white supremacy.

I do not wish that any of the advantages are stripped away from him. I simply wish that it is the new normal for all.

As we welcome in the new year, I wish we all recognize the ties that bind and the strength of our shared values.

New years and newborns are a fresh opportunity to get it right. That’s a heavy lift, but it is a gift of incalculable value to each other, our country and humanity.

happened in snuff films. Today, they are nightly news.

I wish that public service is once again an honorable profession and that government is considered a force of good, worthy of investment by the people it serves.

I wish Wessie a world where personal privacy is possible.

Where he doesn’t need to live off the grid to avoid bullying and the tracking of his every thought, utterance and movement.

I wish Wessie grows up with people and institutions he can trust. A citizenry that cares about facts and feelings and where “accountability” is no longer the hollowest word in the English language.

And here’s the biggie: I wish that the prejudices deeply ingrained in our culture are vanquished, immediately. Not over generations, not all in good time. Now. That will force Wessie to make his own way in the world where he is neither

Elizabeth Heller Allen is a resident of Santa Fe and a member of the Santa Fe Community Foundation Board of Directors and a new board member of Searchlight. She is studying at the University of Chicago.

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ur five Santa Fe County Commissioners have a unique opportunity to support local residents and affordable housing by voting to stop issuing permits to commercial and investor non-owner-occupied short-term rentals. The public hearing is scheduled for a vote at the 5 p.m. meeting Jan. 9.

The county currently has two short-term rental classifications — owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied.

An owner-occupied STR is operated by the permanent resident and rents rooms or a guesthouse to supplement income. This type of STR is acceptable in most communities and is not being challenged. Issuing a STR permit to a permanent resident will not contribute to housing loss.

A non-owner-occupied STR (“less than thirty (30) consecutive days”) is not the owner’s permanent residence. The owner lives elsewhere. Non-owner-occupied STRs replace long-term rentals, disrupt neighbors and neighborhoods, allow a hotel to move in next door, raise rents for working individuals and families, drive up homeowner purchase prices, displace families and working people, and favors investors and tourists above our residents and workforce.

Non-owner-occupied STRs are a way around zoning regulations that would normally keep out commercial businesses and activities.

Issuing investor non-owner-occupied STR permits allow hotels in neighborhoods.

The connection between non-owner-occupied STRs and the affordable housing crisis cannot be underestimated. STR investment has become a community/neighborhood problem, as recognized by the Old Santa Fe Association. There is much talk about building new housing but little about how the policy of allowing non-owner-occupied STRs has contributed our housing shortage. No matter what the situation, every investor-owned STR that is not run by a permanent resident takes a home away from someone.

County commissioners have been asked to consider a primary residence requirement (including a grandfather clause allowing all cur-

rently permitted STRs to continue) that would discontinue permitting additional investor, non-owner-occupied STRs because they negatively affect our community.

Most every tourist dependent, popular and desirable community such as ours has already adopted a primary residence requirement — a reasonable response to housing challenges. We lag behind by not making the workforce, housing and neighborhoods our top priority. Bozeman, Mont.; Denver; Charleston, S.C.; and Boulder, Colo., have adopted a primary residence requirement, demonstrating respect and support for residents that need access to housing instead of an unwanted hotel popping up next door.

Homes should not be handed over to investors for vacation rental profit.

Homes should house permanent residents and leave the business of tourism to the hotel industry.

The county apparently is proposing to allow five investor non-owner-occupied short-term rentals per person or company. That would mean that five homes would no longer be available to house our workforce, residents and families.

In comparison, the city of Santa Fe’s 2020 residential rule change allows only one investor STR permit.

A primary residence requirement says yes to affordable housing and no the continued loss of long-term rentals and housing opportunities due to commercial and investor non-owner-occupied short-term rentals.

If you cannot find housing, let the county know. If you have repeated nuisances, let the county know.

Attend meetings and write letters.

Otherwise the future of available housing in the county looks dim.

Housing stock is being handed over to investors. Comments and hearing attendance can make a difference.

County commissioners need to hear from our workforce.

For a lot more STR information, examples and a partial list of communities that have adopted a primary residence requirement, go to www.UnfairbnbSantaFe.com Pat Lillis is a longtime Santa Fe resident and is a board member of the Old Santa Fe Association, which supports a short-term rental primary residence requirement.

M Y VIEW JUDY GIBBS ROBINSON

Words change, meanings change, knowledge grows arcane

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just allowed the word for a handbill to be spelled “flyer” in the local newspaper where I work part time. I may need a few days to recover.

You see, as a longtime journalist and journalism educator, I’ve always corrected “flyer” to “flier” in such cases. That’s because for decades, The Associated Press Stylebook, which arbitrates such matters and is followed by most newspapers and many other publications, distinguished between “flier” (a handbill) and “flyer” (an aviator.)

But the style gurus at AP seem to be running amok (not “amuck”) in recent years, and everything I’ve learned and practiced for 40 years seems to

be changing. “Flyer” is now the preferred spelling no matter the meaning. “Over,” I shudder to tell you, is now accepted as a synonym for “more than” (although I surreptitiously ignore that one, firm in my belief that “over” is and should ever remain a preposition signifying a spatial relationship.)

And, perhaps worst of all, AP now requires “data” to take a singular verb, even though “datum” is the singular form and “data” is a plural.

Of course, you are already aware the plural pronouns “they,” “them” and “their” are now accepted as a singular form if that is the preference of the person to whom they refer.

The style gurus who accepted that change did so, I’m sure, to recognize and support the desire of nonbinary folks for fair linguistic representation. I applaud that objective. But to nonbinary folks, I respectfully say: “They,” “them” and “their” are already taken. Let’s find you some new pronouns!

I don’t mean to be stingy with words and meanings; well, maybe I do. When one word has just one meaning, clear communication is easier. Holding to the one-one rule is especially important for the media, whose role is to clearly communicate information to a wide audience.

Of course, language changes over time despite efforts to

freeze it. Consider, for example, historic efforts by the Académie Française to keep French pure from the creeping influence of English (and other) languages.

Nevertheless, you can still order a “hamburger” in Paris and everyone will get your meaning.

The same has now happened in English to “hopefully,” which once meant “with hope” or “in a hopeful manner.” Today dictionaries accept as a second meaning “it is to be hoped that.”

Which kind of breaks my heart.

As a graduate student, I was astonished to learn dictionaries are not arbiters of meaning, as I always assumed, but collectors of usage. So when enough people say things like, “Hopefully, they

will arrive on time,” well, there you have it — a new meaning.

Media students have long memorized and been quizzed on AP style to prove their fitness to write for print and online publications, and in mastering it, we become quite rigid about its rightness (and even righteousness). It reminds me of my husband’s devotion to the now-ancient MS-DOS computer programming language: After learning it, he felt offended when Windows arrived, making his knowledge arcane.

Now my knowledge, too, has become arcane. Hopefully, I’ll adapt.

Judy Gibbs Robinson is a lover of language and copy editor.

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M Y VIEW SUSAN NEDELL

Update New Mexico’s building codes for cleaner future

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s the calendar flips to the new year, New Mexico is poised to accelerate toward a clean transportation future by uniting the 2023 clean car and electrification gains with new electric vehicle incentives, and updating the building code to require EV charging infrastructure and the latest energy efficiency measures in new housing and commercial buildings.

These advances will enable people to live healthier lives as they breathe cleaner air, see lower energy costs, drive clean vehicles and live and work in energy efficient and EV ready buildings.

Once all this progress gets fully in gear, we’ll be on the road to unlocking $44 billion in health, economic and climate benefits for New Mexicans to enjoy.

The transition to clean transportation got a boost in November when the state

adopted advanced clean car and truck standards, steering a rising number of new clean electric vehicles to the state through this decade and beyond. An improved federal EV tax credit makes them more affordable to purchase.

Utilities also have moved ahead with plans to expand transportation electrification across the state. These plans can include investments or incentives to help deploy charging infrastructure and electrical equipment supporting transportation electrification for public transit and public vehicle fleets.

In the upcominglegislative session starting in mid-January, state lawmakers will consider a state-based EV tax credit so even more car buyers can go electric, and a clean fuel standard aiming to curb carbon pollution in the state’s gas-burning vehicles. And just after the new year,

the state is scheduled to act on another key clean transportation front.

On Wednesday, the state’s Construction Industries Division will hold a public hearing in Albuquerque and then vote whether to modernize the state building code to require greater energy efficiency and electric vehicle charging infrastructure in new housing and commercial buildings.

This code will save people money on energy costs through energy efficiency improvements, and help them charge their EVs at home, which is the easiest and cheapest way for drivers, and make it more inclusive for all New Mexicans to share in the opportunity to drive EVs. People who install EV charging infrastructure in targeted low-income census tracts can claim up to a 30% federal tax credit. Many New Mexico utilities

offer additional support for installing EV charging infrastructure for new buildings, and for retrofitting existing buildings.

Including charging stations in affordable housing is vitally important, as this will allow low-income drivers to consider buying EVs — which are cheaper to own and operate than gasoline vehicles. New federal tax credits for used EVs in tandem with increased charging infrastructure where people live and work will also help to ensure that low-income drivers reap the extensive benefits that come with driving an EV. When you install EV charging infrastructure at the time of construction, it’s as simple as installing an additional dryer outlet.

Updating the building code so new buildings are built EV-ready will help

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Clean vehicle standards help us breathe easier

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he numerous New Mexican families struggling with health impacts from air pollution can breathe a little easier.

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board officially adopted new standards to cut pollution from cars and trucks. This is a big opportunity for us to dial down transportation emissions harming our communities.

It’s not just about saving lives — it’s also about getting us less hooked on dirty, volatile, and pricey fuels that mess up our climate and our health. These standards are like our superhero tools for slashing pollution from the transportation sector.

We are part of the New Mexico Health

Professionals for Climate Action. As medical and public health professionals all over the state, we’re seeing the direct connection between our world heating up and the health problems hitting New Mexicans. Dealing with vehicle emissions helps us address the health risks thrown our way by a changing climate — things like extreme heat, wildfires, and new illnesses carried by pests. Every move to reduce climate-changing pollution is a win for our communities. We are grateful to the boards, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller for leading the charge. It’s a win-win for all of us.

These standards aren’t just your regular rules; they bring incredible innovations to New Mexicans. They tighten up

emission regulations and fast-track the use of zero-tailpipe-pollution vehicles.

That means we’re looking at air quality upgrades, climate protection, and less health risk in a warming world.

We know particulate pollution, tailpipe emissions and climate change-related events are causing spikes in cancer, heart, and lung diseases, significantly affecting pregnant women and kids. Getting these standards in place is a game-changer for health harms like asthma, affecting about 175,000 adults and 30,000 kids in our state.

New Mexicans in some areas experience high rates of adult asthma and heart disease, scoring in the 95th-100th percentile nationally. Additionally, 44% of New Mexico counties with data got

an “F” grade from the American Lung Association for having too many high ozone days. EPA’s Environmental Justice data highlight concerning ozone levels in areas like Las Cruces (90-95th percentile nationally) and Carlsbad (95-100th percentile nationally), as well as diesel particulate matter 2.5 levels in the Albuquerque area (95th-100th percentile nationally).

We need these new, tougher emission rules for vehicles to cut down diseases caused by breathing in nasty diesel and fine particulate pollutants.

If we crank up the emissions limitations and switch to zero-emission trucks, we’re looking at healthier communities and fewer folks dealing with symptoms. Researchers saw we could get about $1 billion in health benefits

keep costs low. Installing charging infrastructure units on the front-end ranges from $100 to $6,000 for homes, apartments and commercial buildings, according to a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

It makes senses that installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure during construction, when wires, conduit, electricity capacity, and more are being installed anyway, would be much cheaper than having to install charging equipment AFTER construction.

Through its multipronged effort for vehicles, buildings and utilities, New Mexico is firmly in the driver’s seat and pushing the pedal on the transition to clean transportation. Let’s wave the checkered flag.

Susan Nedell is the Mountain West Advocate for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). from these new rules to limit vehicle pollution in New Mexico until 2050.

But let’s not get lost in the numbers.

The real deal is what it means for our patients. Clean air isn’t just about statistics. It’s about a child not having to fall behind in school because of repeated absences due to asthma exacerbations; it’s about the parent of that child not having to miss work to care for their sick child; it’s about all of us being able to work and play outdoors without being impacted by poor air quality.

Let’s all get behind these new clean car and truck rules and tell our state regulators to go all-in on delivering the benefits to all New Mexicans. Together, we’re taking a solid step towards cleaner air, better health, and a brighter future for everyone.

Dr. Paul Charlton is an emergency physician in Gallup. Dr. Kristin Graziano is a recently retired family physician in Arroyo Seco. Shelley Mann-Lev is a public health advocate in Santa Fe.

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community leaders, and more important, the public, without seeming like a scold, a tyrant, a nag, or any other noun that may or may not seem sexist. That’ll be tough gymnastics. An activist by nature and a crisis communicator by fate, Lujan Grisham is coming off several years of telling people what to do — COVID-19 restrictions, then a gun ban that has her critics screaming about executive overreach and worse.

“Where I’m frustrated is, I don’t want people to feel mini-

mized or attacked in a message about, gosh, what’s happened in our backyard?” she says. “I want ‘em to be motivated to pick it [trash] up.”

Lujan Grisham is offering sweeteners, if you want to call them that: She recently sent state workers to fix and beautify Santa Fe. City officials, of course, “welcomed” the assistance, but if you read between the lines, couldn’t have been thrilled about the message. Nobody likes being told their town looks like it needs a shave and a shower.

“I do think they feel a little, um, put upon,” she says. “And that was not my intention. Which is why I know if I don’t get this

messaging right, I’m gonna get resistance from everyone. And I don’t want that.”

Lujan Grisham, a onetime county commissioner, stresses she understands the problems local jurisdictions have in the post-COVID era, and notes a lot of places, not just Santa Fe, need to look better. Over and over, she says she doesn’t want to embarrass anyone — just the opposite.

She simply wants people to look at their town, their neighborhood, their street, and just do their part, because it adds up.

One coffee cup and gum wrapper at a time.

Phill Casaus is editor of The New Mexican

The year in letters: The Plaza, home tax and, oh, the noise people just don’t know, including this mayor and his council. Good luck.

Richard Mares

Santa Fe

Arm the bears (July 23) I am pro-gun in one respect: I am for arming wildlife.

Brad Bealmear

Santa Fe

A real investment (July 30) I started Meow Wolf in 2008, and we are now one of the largest companies in Santa Fe. While we pride ourselves on paying wages that far exceed those of our competitors, housing costs still are forcing many of our staff to live out of town and commute long distances. Santa Fe is an arts mecca, and yet most artists can’t live here. As more artists leave and choose to live and work elsewhere (alongside teachers, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, health care workers, etc.), the vibrancy and culture of our town are threatened. When I served as a planning commissioner from 2015-18, we approved over 1,000 new rental units, many of which were supported by the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. That fund now lacks sufficient funding to do what is needed as Santa Fe continues to grow.

Let’s make a real investment with the excise tax levied on sales of high-end homes.

Vince Kadlubek

co-founder, Meow Wolf Santa Fe

Caught (Aug. 6) Trump was right, it was a witch hunt. And now they have caught the witch. Lock him up!

Tom Sommers

Santa Fe

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What City Manager John Blair did is totally unacceptable, and the primary issue is that every city councilor, with one exception, has allowed this behavior, and yet councilors are wanting to “act” as if they are surprised by this disregard of transparency (“Late audit delaying city funds,” Sept. 26).

Councilor Michael Garcia is the only councilor who questioned the late audits, the 22 issues of concerns on the finally submitted, so-called good audit. Councilors have allowed this mayhem to happen; they have allowed the total disregard of the public to be notified; and they have allowed a complete and total lack of responsibility in all of the malfeasance in so many city departments. Their refusal to acknowledge so many concerning issues, including the amount of E. coli being dumped into the Santa Fe River, is a total disregard to their elected positions and responsibility they owe to the citizens of Santa Fe. Victoria Murphy

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Take heed (Oct. 22) My husband and I attended the first Santa Fe Plaza Powwow (“Healing after hostility,” Aug. 10).

The New Mexican said: “the crowded, all-ages event was calm.” John Cannon, a member of the powwow planning committee, described it by saying, “it is bringing people together, our Indigenous community, our Spanish Community, our Anglo community and all other people to celebrate. Come celebrate with us.”

Let’s take heed.

Let’s level the old obelisk and replace it with a new statement that will bring us all together: Install plaques on the ground, designed by each community where the monument once was so everyone can share their community message; so, we can review our New Mexico heritage and restore our physical, mental and financial health. It was an inspiring beginning.

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The proposed 3% transfer tax on high-value properties is eminently fair. This is one reason why I am hugely in favor of it. When people reap a profit from selling real estate, it is only right that a portion of this be returned to the community that created the value. Take my house on Manhattan Avenue: It has increased in value mostly because of the unique culture of Santa Fe, the proximity of public lands for recreation and beautiful landscapes, the city’s development of the Railyard into a thriving and vibrant commercial and arts location, and more.

When I sell my house, it is completely reasonable for me to return a share for the community’s benefit. While this should not be the only tool to create affordable housing, it could be a significant one.

Chattel call (Oct. 29)

The women were making their way through Lubbock County in northern Texas to New Mexico where they would be free — to make their own decisions about ownership of their medical treatment, their bodies, their prospects for education, career, economic destiny; where they would not be considered property of the state, of the husband, the father, the evangelical Taliban.

Will their car be pulled over as they head to the border for medical care and everyone searched and subjected to a pregnancy test? This is what life is looking like in the theocracy of Texas. New Mexicans, beware! Even a woman’s travel rights are under attack in this country where Mafia Don Esther Kovari Trump pulls the strings to get his election deniers Santa Fe running Congress with a promise to keep female citizens in their place as barefoot and pregnant Not a solution (Aug. 22) chattel.

The proposed tax on the sale of high-end homes Georgia Jones-Davis nixed by voters in the 2009 referendum would Santa Fe generate new problems and would fail to solve the affordable housing problem. A better solution is to Can we create a plan to repair the strengthen the Midtown LINC ordinance, which was intended to incentivize apartment construction on St. roads? (Nov. 19) Michael’s Drive but has failed because the incentives Perhaps the newly elected city councilors will are insufficient. If our City Council would strengthen assist the city to come up with a plan for repairing, the incentives, St. Michael’s would become a residen- repaving and restriping yellow and white areas on tial neighborhood for thousands of people, walking our much-neglected streets and roads. When visdistance to schools, shopping and jobs. iting Constituent Services at City Hall recently to Henry Medina inquire about such a plan, I was advised that none Santa Fe existed.

Such remedies only take place by constituent request, and there were over 200 requests already Mission accomplished (Sept. 3) on record. So the city considers this matter an Just over two years ago, Mayor Alan Webber amenity rather than a safety necessity? publicly promised he would remove the Don Diego Shirley Anderson de Vargas statue, the Soldiers’ Monument and the Santa Fe Kit Carson Monument. The mayor needs to be rec-

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Something is rotten in Denmark (aka the Santa Fe City Council). Misapplying the city’s code of Union Protectiva, presidente Santa Fe conduct, Mayor Alan Webber and his allies are attempting to block Councilor Michael Garcia from investigating the circumstances surrounding Willing to share (Sept. 10) the Webber administration’s efforts to conceal an “I have something for you,” he said. He was Gov. important letter concerning the city’s late (again) Bill Richardson, then a member of Congress. It was audit until they heard The New Mexican was about the ’90s, me new to town, former publisher now to publish a copy of the letter. full-time artist. I called Richardson to ask him for To suggest it was wrong to ask questions in an a pair of his shoes for an art piece. “Sure,” he said. effort to penetrate Webber’s stonewalling speaks I was given a handsome pair of alligator boots. volumes about how desperate Webber et al. are Telling the aide they would be deconstructed, she to cover up their repeated failures to conduct city replied he wanted me to have his best ones! I made business in an open and transparent manner. a Bill doll and filled one boot. It sold and was aucThe citizens of Santa Fe deserve better, but tioned many times, raising money for Democrats. evidently won’t get better so long as the Webber Years later, I painted his picture in front of the cabal is in charge. In the meantime, let’s support Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, and even Councilor Garcia’s efforts to pull back the curtain later produced glass-blown ornaments with the to reveal the Webber administration’s audit stumimage, Smile You’re in Santa Fe, for the New Mexblings. ico Museum of History. I called upon him armed Joyce Huffer with ornaments. Smiling, he gave me his shirt, Santa Fe pausing to write something nice on it. I’m wearing his shirt today and wondering what kind of art I’ll make with the other boot. Something I hope would Destruction (Dec. 23) make him smile!

Gaza is the new Guernica.

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HOROSCOPE HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023: You are refined and have excellent taste. You are a confident perfectionist who likes to help others. This year has been full of exhausting change. Now is the time to focus on your own well-being.

MOON ALERT: After 5:15 a.m. today, there are no restrictions.

The moon is in Virgo.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Be patient this morning. Later in the day, you might see ways to boost your earnings or get richer. You might even buy something special for yourself. People notice you, and you look attractive! Tonight: Be helpful.

This Week: You’re high-viz and admired! Travel if possible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Avoid squabbles with romantic

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partners and kids this morning.

Fortunately, later in the day, you’re ready to par-tay! You will open your world to enjoying whatever is offered. Happy New Year! Tonight: Socialize!

This Week: Travel is a priority. Money can come to you this week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Be patient with authority figures and parents this morning. Fortunately, by the end of the day, you’re happy! You have a warm feeling in your tummy. Tonight: Entertain.

This Week: Take it easy Monday and Tuesday, then get busy!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might be worried this morning. Chill out. As the day wears on, you will enjoy good times with groups. Everyone will be upbeat! Tonight: Conversations!

This Week: Focus on friendships and partnerships. A productive week for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Financial squabbles might take place this morning. You might

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be at odds with your kids or how to cover the cost of a social occasion. Tonight: Protect your belongings.

This Week: Work hard, party hard! Go easy on Monday and Tuesday.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Today the moon is in your sign at odds with Saturn and Venus, which means relations with others, especially older people, are a bit prickly. Tonight: You win!

This Week: Party and socialize. Relax!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH When it comes to New Year’s celebrations, you have second thoughts. It’s a manic night when people are determined to have a good time — or else. You prefer a small gathering that is civilized.

Tonight: Privacy.

This Week: Cocoon at home.

Enjoy discussions with others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Be patient with your kids and the young people you encounter today. Avoid squabbles about money that might arise. Tonight: Friendships.

This Week: A busy week! You attract money and spend it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Steer clear of squabbles with

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Tonight: You’re noticed.

This Week: Shop for clothes for yourself. Focus on cash flow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Don’t get hung up on silly squabbles today. Demonstrate grace under pressure. By evening, you’re ready to enjoy fun times with kids, romantic partners and people from other cultures.

Tonight: Explore!

This Week: You’re strong.

Secret love affairs take place.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Avoid arguments about money and shared responsibilities.

Why ruin your day? Discussions with friends also might be challenging. Tonight: Check your finances.

This Week: Enjoy the company of others but relax and be low-key.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Be prepared to cooperate with others today. Avoid silly squabbles with parents and bosses.

Trust in the fact that as this day wears on, you will be happier dealing with everyone. Tonight: Listen.

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anutito was bored en casa very early una mañana.

Ahora que there was no longer any school, ya no podía jugar con sus amiguitos nor do any homework. He watched Grama Cuca busy lavando ropa en la máquina de lavar pero watching her sortear por toda esa dirty clothes was not exactly his idea of a good time. Grama Cuca noticed que Canutito estaba bien aburrido and so she suggested que hiciera fuerza practicar su español so that he could speak it better. Canutito thought about it por un momento and then he said: “Grama, how about if you say something in English and I will try de repetirlo en español?”

“Muy bien, m’hijo,” Grama Cuca said, as she wrung la ropa por el esprimidor. “I’ll say algo en inglés and you try to repeat it in Spanish.” She thought por un momento and she said: “I am eating chokecherries.”

Canutito smiled y dijo: “Ah grama, eso es muy fácil; ‘yo estoy comiendo capulín’. Try to think about algo que sea más difícil.”

Grama thought por otro poquito and she said: “My cousins are big shots in town.”

Canutito paused and then he ventured: “¿Mis primos son grandes pistolas en la plaza?”

“That doesn’t make any kind of sense, m’hijo,” grama snickered, running un par de chortes por el wringer. “A veces no puedes hacer translate literally. En español, ‘big shots’ is not interpreted as grandes pistolas, but as perros grandes — ‘big dogs’, so you say: ‘mis primos son perros grandes en la plaza’.” She put un par de medias en el wringer.

“Now,” she said, “cómo se dice: ‘that hit the spot’, en español?”

Canutito guessed: “I suppose que es algo como ‘cayó bien suave en la mancha’ and he added, shrugging his shoulders. “It that right, grama?”

“Not quite,” said grama “la expresión: ‘that hit the spot’ is ‘cayó como un anillo en el dedo’ — it fell like a ring on a finger’.” She put un poco de Biz en la camiseta

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del grampo. She always used de ese polvo de bleach para limpiar grampo’s T-shirts really white.

Now I understand porque Filimotas is always getting todo mal en la escuela,” Canutito said. “Last month, just before Easter he told al Mr. Gonzales algo interesante.”

“What do you mean, m’hijo?” grama asked him.

“Shortly before Mr. Gonzales, el Spanish teacher, let us go home para las vacaciones de Pascua, Filimotas turned to him and he said: ‘Señor Gonzales, yo espero que Usted tenga una fiesta de huevos perfectos.’

Grama was so startled que she got una de sus manos caught en el washing machine wringer. “¡Ay, Dios mío!” she exclaimed, rubbing her hand para recomensar la circulación and get her blood flowing otra vez. “What was Filimotas trying to say, m’hijo?”

“I think que Filimotas estaba tratando de decirle: “I hope you have a Happy Easter” en español, grama. Uh, what was it that he really ended up saying?”

Grama Cuca blushed un poquito and she stammered: “Filimotas said: ‘I hope you have a happy feast of perfect eggs;’ in other words, I hope que you are very fertile this weekend.” Se hizo clear la garganta and she looked away as she continued lavando la ropa esa mañana.

“I don’t get it, grama,” Canutito said. “¿Qué quiere decir eso? It must be algo difícil de interpreter las cosas. Una persona could get into serious trouble si no se cuida …”

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SECTION C SunDay, DeCember 31, 2023 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

LEFT: Lorraine Chavez made the Five & Dime’s famed Frito pies.

BELOW: Jerry Apodaca was elected governor in 1974.

A look back at those who died in 2023

IN MEMORIAM ABOVE: Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan led the Archdiocese of Santa Fe through troubled times.

BELOW: Paul T. Martinez was Taos Pueblo’s cacique. TAOS NEWS FILE

ABOVE: Bill Richardson made an impact as governor of New Mexico and beyond.

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ormer Govs. Jerry Apodaca and Bill Richardson were among the many notable New Mexicans who died in 2023.

Apodaca, the first Hispanic governor since New Mexico’s earliest days as a state, is widely credited with helping to open the door to other Hispanics in politics and business.

Richardson, the father of major projects in the state such as the Rail Runner Express commuter train and Spaceport America, also served as a congressman, U.S. energy secretary and U.N. ambassador, and made his mark on the international stage negotiating for the release of dozens of Americans held hostage in foreign nations.

ABOVE: Susan Turner Bowden helped shape the Railyard. COURTESY PHOTO

Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan, who led the Archdiocese of Santa Fe through troubled times, and Marc Simmons, “the dean of New Mexico historians” and author of more than 40 books about the state, also died in 2023. So did John Nichols, one of the state’s most famous authors.

The year also saw the passing of some hardworking local people who helped shape the City Different: Adelaido “Lalo” Ortega, who spent 64 years working at La Fonda on the Plaza; Lorraine Chavez, a fixture at the Five & Dime General Store and one of the few people privy to its renowned Frito pie recipe; and Alicia Chavez Moreno, who pushed for gay rights in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Here we celebrate their lives and the lives of others who died in 2023.

ADELAIDO ‘LALO’ ORTEGA, 95, JAN. 4 Ortega spent 64 years working as a bell captain at La Fonda on the Plaza. He was a well-known figure at the iconic hotel, greeting guests and toting their bags.

While his name tag said “Lalo,” most people called

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Slaughterhouse to open in Taos in ’24 Driver shortage

prompts ‘sweeping’ Blue Bus service cuts

Officials say permanent facility will give local ranchers path to commercial markets

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Transit district launches app-based, on-demand rideshare program in affected areas

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TAOS — Ranchers in Taos are edging closer to having access to local meat processing thanks to a public-private partnership that will cut travel costs for local livestock growers and increase food security in Taos.

The Taos County Economic Development Corp.’s Mobile Matanza slaughter facility will still be available for off-premises jobs, but a permanent, larger-capacity meat processing plant is taking shape near the Taos Regional Airport.

Currently, there is no local commercial meat-processing option for north-central New Mexico ranchers, so the new facility intends to produce meat inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“The USDA stamp will basically open the commercial doors for our ranchers so they can sell commercially at any grocery store in the nation,” Taos County Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Mercedes Rodriguez told officials at a joint

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Rancher John Adams grabs feed for his cattle last spring in Taos. He and other livestock growers could benefit from a planned permanent meat-processing facility.

meeting of the County Commission and Town Council earlier this month. “It’s going to provide them the avenue of selling in restaurants; you can’t sell beef unless you

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A state inspection program that certified Please see story on Page C-5

Getting around Northern New Mexico will be a little harder in the new year.

The North Central Regional Transit District announced “sweeping” but temporary service reductions to some of its routes last week, citing a shortage of drivers, simultaneously announcing it would launch a new app-based, on-demand rideshare service in affected areas, including Española, Taos, Chimayó and the Jicarilla Apache Nation.

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routes will take effect Jan. 6, the transit district said in a statement.

Beginning Jan. 8, the 340 Chile Line route will operate from 8:45 a.m. to 2:57 p.m., and the 100 Riverside Route will operate from 8:40 a.m. to 3:16 p.m.

The 150 Chimayó route will also be modified, with services hours being reduced to 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6:10 p.m., the announcement said.

There will be no service to Truchas or Las Trampas. The route, which will terminate at El Santuario de Chimayó, will be served by the MyBlue on-demand rideshare service.

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FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS

JAMES ZAFARANO

FRANK FEDERICO RENDON

James Zafarano passed away on December 5, 2023, age 96, at home with his wife and family. He was born on September 18, 1927, in Buffalo Valley near Hagerman, NM, to Giacomo Zafarano and Ysabela Zafarano née Sarabia. He was the fourth of five children. His father, a native of Sicily, was in the Italian Merchant Marines, and had met his mother in South America, a native of Colombia, from where they had emigrated in 1920.

James grew up attending school in a one-room schoolhouse. He recalls not performing very well in school, in part due to some hearing loss that had occurred from an inner ear infection as a young boy. He often worked picking cotton on the farms of southeastern New Mexico as a young boy and teenager. After the death of his father when James was 14, he left school entirely to work full time. In 1946, he joined the army. After basic training, he spent some time stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and also San Juan, Puerto Rico, but his most memorable time was in Panama with the engineering corps. He enjoyed boxing and in the army was known for being a fierce and agile boxer with a quick left hook.

After leaving the army near the end of 1948, he returned to southeastern New Mexico and began work as a gas service technician with the then Southern Union Gas Company in Carlsbad, NM. In 1952, he married Ernestina (Ernestine) Trujillo. He put in for a transfer with the Southern Union and in 1953 they moved to Santa Fe, NM. In 1954, the first of their five children were born. In the late 1950s, James and Ernestine built a house entirely on their own at the corner of Richard’s Avenue and Rodeo Road, the area being considered far out of town at the time.

In the late 60s, James and Ernestine Purchased John’s Trailer Court from John and Mae Ardissone, which was a small travel lodge of about 13 RV-sized spaces, with a laundry, bathrooms/showers, gas service station, and ten apartments that had been converted from old barracks on mostly vacant land between Rodeo and Cerrillos Roads near Airport Road. While still working full time (and mostly doubletime) for the now re-named Gas Company of New Mexico, James, along with Ernestine and the help of their oldest children, were able to expand and convert the travel lodge to 125 larger-sized semi-permanent manufactured home rental spaces that entailed trenching for new utility lines and laying concrete patio slabs, renaming it from John’s Trailer Court to The Roadrunner Trailer Lodge.

After working for the Gas Company for 25 years, James retired as a gas service technician and in the 70s, he started a small business making entry stairs for manufactured housing. He sold the stairs primarily to manufactured home dealerships, and at the height of the business, he supplied nearly all mobile home dealerships across the state of New Mexico and parts of west Texas, Southern Colorado and Arizona.

His distinctive entry stairs could be seen for decades, with wood plank treads painted red and welded steel frames and handrails painted black. Never one for a desk job, James’ primary roles in the business were metal welding, which he’d taught himself, as well as a deliveryman, because he enjoyed the trucking/traveling part and the interaction with his customers.

After owning the mobile home park for 30 years, in the 1990s the land was re-developed into a retail shopping center by a developer based in Chicago, IL. The shopping center known as Plaza Santa Fe, containing such iconic big-box anchor tenants as Target, Albertson’s, Best Buy, Michaels, PetSmart, and others, is one of the most recognizable shopping centers in Santa Fe, thanks in part to the street running through the center that bears James’ name, Zafarano Drive, as an enduring legacy to James’ work ethic and life.

Outside of regular exercise and hard work, James’ recreational activities included avid reading, mostly of westerns, some history, working algebra math problems, or studying a little Latin. Despite a large down-turn in demand for basic entry stairs for manufactured homes (due to a larger demand for on-site custom-built entry porches) James continued to occupy most of his later years with his dogs at his shop until 2012, age 85.

In his last decade, James began to decline cognitively, although he was always able to make people laugh and smile with his silly and often ornery personality and sense of humor. Sometimes selfdeprecating and feigning ignorance, often emphasizing his 9th grade level education, he’ll always be remembered by his family and friends for his keen insights through many quips and sayings, some in Latin.

The family would like to thank Home Instead Senior Care for their services in allowing James and his wife to age gracefully at home, and the numerous caregivers too many to mention, who have helped him and his family through the last decade, and especially through his last weeks. James is survived by the love of his life of 71 ½ years his wife Ernestina, his younger sister, his five children Jimmie Sue Wolf, Marcus Edward Zafarano, Violet Marie Rodriguez, Virginia Zafarano, and Giacomo Zafarano, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements and services Saturday, January 6th at Rivera Family Funerals, 417 E Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505, with interment at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at a later date.

NOVEMBER 5, 1947 - DECEMBER 18, 2023 Rio Rancho, NM - Frank Federico Rendon passed away on Monday, December 18, 2023. He was born in Embudo, NM on November 5, 1947, to Cruzita Romero and was later adopted by Manuel and Victoria Rendon. He grew up in Dixon, NM, spent summers in Santa Maria, California with his mom Cruzita; stepfather, Andrew Peneranda; and brothers, Simon, Ted, and Andrew Jr. He was preceded in death by his parents, his daughter, Ariana Rendon; brothers, Andrew Peneranda, Jr., Simon Romero and wife, Mary, Steve Rendon and wife, Laura; sister, Jovita Rendon Ramirez; and ward and nephew, Daniel Rendon.

Frank is survived by his daughter, Deianira Christner, husband, Dennis; grandsons, Hayden and Kaleb Christner; his daughter, Julieanne Rhodes, husband, Brian; grandchildren, Olivia and Roman Rhodes; and stepson, Timothy Martinez, wife, Pam; and grandchildren, Emily and Bryan Martinez. He is also survived by his beloved sweetheart and partner, Becky Vigil and her family, Rachel Vigil and Ben Santistevan; Ivonae and Karli Vejil; Flavio, Julio, Leticia and Liana Vigil; Julio II and Ophelia Vigil; brother, Ted Valdos, wife, Charlotte, and family; and godson, DJ Lucero; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Frank graduated from Menaul High School in Albuquerque, NM in 1965. Shortly thereafter, he enlisted in the United States Army where he earned the rank of Captain and served two tours in Vietnam as a forward observer and artillery liaison. In service to his country, he was awarded five Bronze Stars for valor above and beyond, as well as numerous other medals and awards. Following fulfillment of his military duties, Frank returned to NM to attend the University of New Mexico and Northern New Mexico College.

He went on to work for many NM state agencies and the Santa Fe County government. His career in Finance, Administration and Management spanned 26 years.

After retiring, he was called upon to work in state agencies and private institutions that needed his expertise, hence; he continued his work for 10 more years. Along the way, he influenced and mentored many individuals, helping them to succeed in their respective careers. In addition, he served on many committees and boards, assisting towns and communities in NM in various endeavors. In his spare time, he volunteered to coach Little League baseball and softball and elementary school basketball, teaching and mentoring many young people in Santa Fe, NM. During the last 15 years, Frank lived in Rio Rancho where he continued to do community service as a board member of the Menaul Historical Library. Menaul was always near and dear to his heart and he never forgot the life lessons he learned there. He reciprocated through donations and service in their name. Frank also loved parties; his classmates, schoolmates and many friends were invited and welcomed into his home for class reunions and other gatherings.

Additionally, he enjoyed traveling with Becky, was an avid golfer, an insatiable reader, and an ardent UNM Lobos and Denver Broncos fan. Most importantly, he was a kind, generous, and loving father, grandfather, uncle, partner, and friend. In his 76 years, he garnered friendship, affection, and respect from all the people whose lives he touched. He will be dearly missed, but his spirit, wisdom, and love will live on in the minds and hearts of all who knew, respected, and loved Frank Federico Rendon.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, January 5, 2024, 10:00 a.m. at Legacy Church, 4701 Wyoming Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM. The burial service will be held at the Santa Fe National Cemetery on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. Pallbearers will be Robert Apodaca, Roy Cruz Juanito Lovato, Harold Nolan, David A. Romero, Marcos Tapia and Fidel Salazar. Honorary pallbearers will include Dennis Christner, Brian Rhodes, Joseph Pacheco, Richard Archuleta, Robert Garcia, Peter Maes, Noe Villareal, Jerry Loucks, Alfonso Romero, Lee Peneranda, Dena Peneranda, Victoria Moriarty, and all his grandchildren. Please visit our online guest book for Frank at www.FrenchFunerals.com.

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To all that think of me If others wonder why I’m missing Just tell them I have gone fishing.

I’m fishing with the master of the sea WE MISS YA BOB LaFamilia

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MAY 12, 1929 - DECEMBER 23, 2023 Albuquerque - Anastacio A. Archuleta, Jr. “Archie” age 94, died Saturday, December 23, 2023. Archie was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Josephine “Josie” and daughter, Kathryn Archuleta.

Archie is survived by his daughters, Priscilla Lorlovick and husband, Don “Scott” of Albuquerque, Christine Lennicx and husband, Joe of Fairhope, Alabama, and Gloria Couch and husband, Bob of Corrales, NM; and son, Nick Archuleta and wife, Cindy of Las Cruces, NM; brothers, Reynaldo and Mike of Las Cruces, NM, Danny and Alvino of Huntsville, AL, and Raymond of Aurora, CO; sisters, Carolina Jordan of Mason, TX, and Dotie Hale of Las Cruces, NM; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Archie was a deputy sheriff with the Dona Ana Sheriff’s Department in Las Cruces, NM for many years and went on to become first an agent and then a District Manager for Farmers Insurance Group in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM for 35 years.

Archie would like to be remembered for his love of hunting, fishing, hiking, family time, and enjoying his best bud, Jack Daniels. We will miss you, Papa.

Cremation will take place and a memorial service celebrating his life will be planned and announced at a later date. Please visit our online guestbook for Archie at www.FrenchFunerals.com.

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CLYDE JOHN LUCERO October 4, 1972- December 30, 2019

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NOVEMBER 20, 1934 – DECEMBER 20, 2023

Albuquerque Santiago “Jimmy” Mascarenas, aged 89, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on December 20, 2023, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was born on November 20, 1934 in Llano Largo, New Mexico, to Urbanita Leyba and Ramon Mascarenas and spent his childhood in Penasco, New Mexico.

He attended Penasco High School, where he graduated second in his class and served as Class President and Student Council Vice President. He went on to attend St. Michael’s College before joining the United States Air Force and serving as a Master Sergeant.

In 1959, he met the love of his life, Helen Vigil, at a dance. Helen was a young widow and the mother of three small children - Betty, Rosemary, and Johnny. Jimmy remained devoted to Helen for 27 years (until her death in 1986) and to her children and grandchildren long after.

Jimmy was best friends with his little brother, Orlando Leyba, who he fiercely protected. Jimmy looked up to his older brother, Joe (Tessie) Mascarenas and is survived them both, as well as his younger brother, Andy (Maria) Leyba. Jimmy’s life was marked by his unswerving loyalty, extraordinary integrity, and capacity for love. He made the world a kinder place while he was in it and he will be dearly missed.

Jimmy was preceded in death by his parents, his love Helen, and his beloved dog, Panda Bear.

He is survived by his children, Betty Montoya, Rosemary Vigil and Johnny Vigil, his grandchildren, Elicia Montoya (Kurt Gilbert), Nina Montoya, Henry Vigil and Dennis Vigil, and his siblings, greatgrandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends.

Visitation will be from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. on January 4, 2024 at the Cathedral of Santa Fe. His Rosary will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the same location and date, followed immediately by eulogy and then his funeral mass at 11:00 a.m. His burial at the National Cemetery will proceed immediately after and reception to follow.

TOMMY LARRANAGA

JULY 31, 1948 - DECEMBER 8, 2023

Please rest in peace with all the angels and saints in heaven. You’ve been gone four years, but it seems like a lifetime. Your mom, dad, and all your family miss and love you very much.

God Bless You. Until we see you again.

Love, your family.

In memory of Clyde C. Lucero 08/17/32 – 01/26/74 Fred E. Lucero 07/30/53 – 06/10/2019

Santa Fe - In Loving Memory of Tommy Larrañaga, who passed away on December 8, 2023, at the age of 75, surrounded by his cherished family and friends at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Tommy’s life journey began on July 31, 1948, in Rincones Colorados, New Mexico, born to Anita Tapia Larrañaga and Macario Larrañaga.

Tommy is now reunited with his siblings: Eloisa (Larrañaga) Couty, Libby (Rose Libradita Larrañaga) Martinez, Gilbert Larrañaga, Esther Larrañaga, Delfinio Tapia, Ramon Tapia, Juanita Montoya, Mary Larrañaga, and Louie Sandoval. He also joins family members from the Larrañaga, Martinez, and Tapia families in eternal rest.

Tommy’s legacy lives on through his devoted children: Mark Larrañaga, Chris Larrañaga, Esther Larrañaga, and his beloved grandchildren and great-grandchild Julien Ontiveros Larrañaga, Joshua Ontiveros Larrañaga, Sofia Larrañaga, Mila Larrañaga, Nathaniel Larrañaga, Kaiden Adonis Ontiveros. His presence touched many lives and left an indelible mark on those he loved.

A Rosary service to honor Tommy’s memory will be held at 9 am on January 4, 2024, at St. Anne Parish, followed by a memorial service at 10 am, culminating in a heartfelt gathering with food and desserts. He will find his final resting place at Rosario Cemetery on January 5, 2024, at 11 am. We invite all who knew and cherished Tommy to join us in commemorating his life—a life that embodied kindness and generosity.

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Anniversary Mass will be held at San Jose in La Cienega December 31, 2023 at 10 am

ANDREW L VILLA Andrew L Villa, was born in Santa Fe NM on November 24, 1949 and passed away on December 8, 2023 at his home in Santa Fe with his wife and loving family by his side.

Andy was preceded in death by his parents Joe S Villa & Fedelina J Villa, brothers Michael and Joseph Villa.

Andy is survived by his loving wife Wanda, children Andrew (Kathy), Jennifer (Alvin), Kenneth (Pilar) and Michelle (Gene). 12 Grandchildren and 6 Great Grandchildren, along with siblings, numerous nieces, nephews, uncle, aunts and cousins.

A Rosary will be recited on Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 9:30 am, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 100 S. Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe, NM, followed by a funeral mass at 10:00 am.

The family would like to thank his Dr’s: Dr Abney, Dr. Gonzales and Alexander Vining PAC, the devoted staff of Presbyterian Hospice of Northern New Mexico and our dear friend Becky Nottke.

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Over the decades, he walked more than 30,000 miles through the corridors of the hotel, opened more than 250,000 locks and hefted over 480,000 suitcases, some of which belonged to celebrities and famous politicians.

While working at the hotel, Ortega met President John F. Kennedy, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, members of the rock band Guns N’ Roses and actor John Travolta, among others.

In an interview with The New Mexican when he retired in 2010, he spoke about unique encounters he had over the years, including a ghost he saw dressed like Abraham Lincoln and a blind man who told Ortega he was “just looking around.”

He once helped a couple check in on their honeymoon, and 50 years later, he carried their luggage when they returned for their golden wedding anniversary.

Although Ortega worked two jobs, he always found time for his family and went to all his grandkids’ sports games to cheer them on.

“He could have gone home to rest after his jobs, but he would go to the games and support them,” said his daughter, Geraldine “Geri” Martinez. “Nobody’s perfect, but he was pretty darn close, I’ll tell you that much.”

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Bell captain Adelaido “Lalo” Ortega works his last shift Jan. 28, 2010, before retiring after 64 years. Ortega died Jan. 4 at age 95.

JANET ANN WISE, 69, JAN. 8 Wise, a onetime reporter who later held roles as a communications official in government and as head of marketing and public relations at Santa Fe Community College, was known to be a whiz with words.

Throughout her life, she used that skill to serve students in their pursuit of higher education and new career opportunities. A onetime deputy press secretary for former Gov. Bruce King and director of public information for the Janet Ann city of Santa Fe, she took a Wise position in 1984 at the College of Santa Fe’s marketing and administrative offices, where she worked for nearly 20 years.

Wise later got a job working for the community college and eventually became its executive director of marketing and public relations.

In 2013, she helped establish the Campus Cupboard food pantry, an initiative that allowed students to access food and other personal supplies for themselves and their families.

“She was a really great strategic thinker and somebody who could work well with others and communicated well,” said Emily Drabanski, Wise’s longtime friend and former colleague.

“She really excelled at all the things she did.”

KAREN PETERSON, 74, JAN. 13 Colleagues the journalist described Peterson as an outspoken woman who was dedicated to her profession and ruffled feathers along the way.

“She did not fit into any categories, and she could drive you crazy sometimes, but you could always get back and make up with her,” said Mark Oswald, a longtime reporter and editor who worked with Peterson at The New Mexican.

Peterson, who grew up in Los Alamos and spent most of her life in New Mexico, started her career in journalism in 1987 at the Rio Grande Sun in Española. Over the Karen years, she worked at several Peterson newspapers, including the El Paso Times, The New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal North, where she would become editor of the opinion pages and arts section.

In 1998, she wrote about New York radio personality Don Imus’ arrangement with two state Cabinet secretaries to demolish historic structures on state trust land leased by the Imus Ranch in Ribera. Imus responded by disparaging Peterson on his radio show, calling her a “slut” and giving out her email address on air.

Oswald said Peterson and her friends took the insult in stride, and went on to call themselves “the trolls” in response to an email calling her a “reporterette troll.”

“You could never hurt Karen Peterson with an insult like that,” said Eddie Moore, a photographer for the Albuquerque Journal who knew her well.

GEORGE BAYLESS, 91, JAN. 17 Bayless was a newspaper writer, a salesman, a librarian and a special education instructor whose teaching career began at age 70. He was also an avid hot yoga practitioner, a pastime that helped keep him spry enough to bag groceries and shag grocery carts at Sprouts Market in his late 80s.

While Bayless “only” lived in Santa Fe for the last 20 years of his life, his connection to the City Different goes back to Mary Dodson Donoho, who traveled the Santa Fe Trail in the early 1830s and is believed by many historians to have been the first Anglo woman to make the trek. She opened a hotel at the trail’s end, where La Fonda on the Plaza now stands, creating a cornerstone for the downtown Plaza. Her descendant was active in the Santa Fe Trail Association.

“He had a broad palette of interests and skills that just took him to a lot of places and community activities across Northern New Mexico,” said his son, Grant Bayless.

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John Armijo at his Johnnie’s Cash Store in 2017. Armijo died March 9 at age 93.

SIB DIMEGLIO, 91, FEB. 3 DiMeglio was a man known for his strong work ethic. He took that mentality everywhere with him, including when he was on the job at La Fonda on the Plaza. And yet, though DiMeglio was a hard worker, those who knew him said he always made time for family and community.

“He’s a great dad who did a lot for his family and was very family-oriented,” said his son, Chuck DiMeglio.

DiMeglio started his career in the hotel and restaurant industry after serving in the U.S. Army toward the end of the Korean War, eventually landing in New Mexico, where he worked at the Albuquerque International Sunport and then cooked New Mexican food in California. He became general manager of La Fonda in 1963.

MOLLIE TOLL, 73, FEB. 8 Toll, an ethnobotanist and archaeobotanist, identified plant remains from archaeological sites in the Southwest, and as a teacher, she tried to inspire youth.

“She always felt archaeology is a great tool for teaching,” said her husband, Wolcott Toll.

“The reason we both love archaeology is it touches on so many [subjects]. … It is a great way to engage kids to think about how they interrelate, and think about how the evidence from an archaeological site can tell you about how the people were living.”

Those who knew Mollie Toll remember her as a calm and considerate woman who was always willing to share her knowledge with teachers and students.

“I keep hearing people say she’s the nicest person in the world,” Wolcott Toll said. “There’s all these different kinds of people that were important to her and to whom she was important.”

Mollie Toll is still remembered for her work as a botanist and an archaeobotanist studying ancient plant remains for the National Park Service’s Chaco Project, the last major excavation at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

GERALD FRIED, 95, FEB. 17 Fried was known for his musical work on a plethora of iconic films and TV shows, from campy sitcoms like Gilligan’s Island to the B-rated Western horror Terror in a Texas Town to the Emmy Award-winning miniseries Roots.

He was a composer; a musician skilled in the oboe, saxophone and piano, to name a few; and a man who called Santa Fe his home, moving here in 2000.

CICILIO SENA, 68, FEB. 26 It always seemed as if everyone in Santa Fe was familiar with Sena, the bodybuilding bicycle cop who was known for patrolling the Plaza for the Santa Fe Police Department.

“Everyone just loved my dad,” his son, Richard Owens Sena Stroble, said in an interview.

“I felt like my dad was a celebrity when I’d go around with him; it was amazing and almost

annoying at the same time … but it was very heartfelt.”

Cicilio Sena, a Las Vegas, N.M., native and a U.S. Navy veteran, started his policing career in his hometown in 1983. He served with the Santa Fe police from 1987 until retiring in 2008.

“When we think of Cicilio Sena in 2004. an ambassador for the department with our community, Cicil was it,” said Deputy Chief Ben Valdez. “He maintained a great rapport with our local businesses, and he was just a great example of someone that was welcoming and helpful for people that would come visit Santa Fe.”

BARBARA GUDWIN, 75, MARCH 6 Gudwin grew up in New Jersey but moved to Santa Fe in 1977, quickly getting a job with the Santa Fe Mountain Center and working with kids.

This became a theme in her life. She packed her years, friends and family said, with an indefatigable drive to help: Her volunteerism, evidenced by her membership on nonprofit boards, was ever-present.

At one time or another, she served on the Santa Fe County Adolescent Pregnancy Taskforce, the Santa Fe Youth Council, the Santa Fe Community College Foundation Board, Partners in Education, Communities In Schools and co-chaired the Buckaroo Ball fundraiser. She was elected to the school board in 2009.

JOHN ORLANDO ARMIJO, 93, MARCH 9 Famous for his $2 red and green chile chicken tamales, his burritos, his Elvis memorabilia, his generosity and his knack for never forgetting a face, Armijo — known to many of his customers at Johnnie’s Cash Store as “Johnnie” or “Mr. J” — was perhaps best known for fostering a sense of community at his business on Camino Don Miguel.

Up until the 1960s, Johnnie’s Cash Store was one of dozens of mom and pop stores in the city.

Armijo even drew a map of them all — 78 in total as of the late 1970s. Almost all are gone now.

“Johnnie’s has been in business for almost 80 years, which would easily make it the longest-running family-owned store in Santa Fe,” said Anna Pacheco, whose story about Armijo and his store was published in The New Mexican in 2008.

“He and his store provided a sense of community that doesn’t really exist anymore,” Pacheco said.

OLIVER GREER, 56, MARCH 17 Greer indulged in his own interests in a way few people ever do and invited others to do the same. He was always willing to share his passions — bugs, movies, music, among others — with curious friends and strangers.

“Anything that piqued his interest, he would — literally — learn everything he possibly could about it,” said Greer’s longtime friend Ryan Wells. “It didn’t have to be necessarily one of his old interests; it could be a conversation that he had with somebody at Häagen-Dazs that made him think.”

Although he was a chef by training, Greer was perhaps best known in Santa Fe for his enormous collection of insects, arachnids and other creepy-crawlies. The Crawlywood Collection, as Greer called it, is an astonishing exhibition of 2,400 mounted insects that has traveled around Santa Fe.

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Mollie Toll instructs students at Salazar Elementary School in 2013. Toll, an ethnobotanist and archaeobotanist as well as a teacher, died Feb. 8 at age 73.

Werner, a native of Slovakia, was an adventurer, an academic and a cultural historian best known for his work with the Navajo people. He worked for decades to create an encyclopedia of the Navajo ethnomedical system, covering everything from illnesses and injuries to pregnancy rituals and birthing.

“He was interested in the semantics of linguistics, and he understood health and healing were central to the Navajo culture,” said Edward Garrison, one of Werner’s graduate stu-

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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 closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs. 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.

Ski basin building briefly evacuated due to propane leak The main building at Ski Santa Fe was evacuated Saturday morning when a valve broke off of a large propane tank behind the lodge.

The valve broke as a Ferrellgas technician was filling the tank, Ski Santa Fe general manager Ben Abruzzo said in an interview.

“At that point, there was nothing that could be done other than for it to empty itself,” he said.

The propane leak prompted an evacuation of roughly 100 people in the main building to the parking lot, said Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Denise Womack-Avila. The lower

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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.

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lifts of the ski area closed for about an hour and a half, while upper lifts remained open.

One person was attended to by firefighters, she said. The specific injury was unknown but was “nothing serious” and did not appear to be from inhalation, she said.

Firefighters said late Saturday morning the 2,000-gallon tank — which had about 1,500 gallons of fuel in it at the time of the leak, Womack-Avila said — was empty and no longer posed a threat.

Because propane evaporates, there is “nothing to clean up” from the leak, Abruzzo said, and the tank was repaired by New Mexico Gas Co. late Saturday morning.

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FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS CARLOS S. (KOJAK) ORTEGA

VIRGINIA LEE FRYER

August 7, 1958 December 8, 2023 Carlos passed away unexpectedly on Friday morning December 8, 2023 following a brief illness.

Rosary 10:00 am Monday January 8, 2024 at the Santuario de Guadalupe, mass to follow at 10:30 am.

Interment to follow at Rosario Cemetery.

Virginia Lee Fryer, 102, a longtime resident of Santa Fe, passed away peacefully on Thanksgiving Day. Formerly from California, Virginia dearly loved Santa Fe and its art and culture.

A celebration of her amazing life will be held in the springtime.

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IN MEMORIAM Continued from Page C-3 dents at Northwestern University, where Werner taught for decades before retiring to New Mexico.

Werner moved to Albuquerque with his wife in the 1990s. He moved to Santa Fe after she died in 2015.

PAUL SLAUGHTER, 84, APRIL 6 Slaughter, a 34-year Santa Fe resident, was the official photographer for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Committee.

He moved to Santa Fe with his wife in 1989. As a young man, he worked as a DJ for a jazz station in Los Angeles, where he met many of the biggest jazz names in history — first as an interviewer, later as a photographer.

Tony O’Brien, a longtime photographer who ran the photography department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, said Slaughter was “consumed” with photography.

“He loved jazz, and he did a project over a number of years photographing different jazz musicians in concert, backstage, what-have-you,” O’Brien said. “It was a brilliant, brilliant collection of photographs.”

JERRY APODACA, 88, APRIL 26 The first former New Mexico governor to die in 2023, Apodaca was elected in 1974, becoming New Mexico’s first Hispanic governor since Octaviano Larrazolo was elected in 1919.

But according to his son, Jeff, his years after leaving the Governor’s Office may have had the most impact as he worked to make boardrooms and executive positions more accessible to minorities who’d rarely gotten access to those kinds of seats.

“His legacy is not that he was the first Latino governor elected,” Jeff Apodaca said. “His legacy was that he opened doors for minorities, Hispanics, women in the state and around the country.”

Born in 1934 in Las Cruces, Apodaca was a star football player in high school and college. A Democrat, he served in the state Senate before being elected governor. After leaving office, he ventured into the business world. He helped found Hispanic magazine, worked as a radio talk show host, helped manage pension funds and served as a consultant for Hispanic-owned companies.

Garcia, an electrical engineer who retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003, was recognized with multiple awards over his lifetime, including the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award and the Ely S. Parker Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

In 2007, he swore in Bill Richardson as governor of New Mexico.

LORRAINE CHAVEZ, 58, MAY 27 For 25 years, Chavez, a Santa Fe native, was a mainstay at the Plaza fixture, the Five & Dime General Store, where she served tens of thousands of Frito pies over the years. She learned the recipe from the late Teresa Hernandez, credited with bringing the culinary concoction to the food counter at the old Woolworth’s, which preceded the Five & Dime.

Earl Potter, owner of the Five & Dime, said Chavez was “always upbeat and never cooked a bad batch of Frito pies in her entire life.”

Darlene Castillo, who worked alongside Chavez for many of those years, said Chavez found time to take care of her customers and her family members.

“She was always doing for her grandkids,” Castillo said. “And she loved this job.

She just did.”

ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS MICHAEL J. SHEEHAN, 83, JUNE 3 Sheehan was a Roman Catholic priest for 50 years — 32 of them as a bishop, including 22 years leading the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Born in Kansas, he spent a decade in Lubbock, Texas, before being appointed to lead the church in Santa Fe. He came at a troubled time for the church, with his predecessor forced to resign due to allegations of sexual misconduct with women and with reports of child sexual abuse by priests starting to come out.

By many accounts, Sheehan succeeded in restoring stability to the diocese. He was also deeply committed to the church’s social justice teachings and successfully worked to abolish the death penalty in New Mexico.

His successor, Archbishop John C. Wester, remembered Sheehan as a “relational person” for whom his ministry with people and his interactions with them were a highlight of the job.

“He had a heart of gold,” Wester said. “He was a very loving man; a very kind man.”

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Crawford MacCallum as King Basilio in the 2010 Teatro Paraguas production of Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca.

CRAWFORD MACCALLUM, 94, APRIL 27 MacCallum was born in New York City but ended up in New Mexico when he got a job at Sandia National Laboratories in 1956.

His theatrical side first emerged regionally when he launched a black-box theater in Albuquerque. He made his mark in Santa Fe after he retired, where in 2004 he launched the bilingual theater company Teatro Paraguas, starting it by telling his son, Argos, he wanted to mount a poetry reading of the works of Pablo Neruda, the late Chilean poet.

MacCallum served as literary translator and narrator for a number of Teatro Paraguas productions. Teatro Paraguas performer Jonathan Harrell said the elder MacCallum served “as a grandfather figure” to the company’s younger members.

“He was a very incredible spirit; he had a real sensitive ear for the nuances of poetry and language,” Harrell said.

DAVID BISHOP, 50, MAY 6 Bishop, a documentary filmmaker with ties to Santa Fe, died while rafting on the Rio Grande near Pilar when his raft capsized.

Bishop, who lived in Española at the time of his death, worked for the National Park Service as an archaeologist and later found success working on several films as a writer, director and producer. He was born and raised in Pawhuska, Okla., and was a member of the Osage Nation.

“He was hilarious,” said Haley Ritchey, an Eldorado dentist who attended Oklahoma State University with Bishop in the early 1990s. “One of the funniest people I’ve ever known; he had a super zest for life and worked really hard. He got an education and just kept working at his craft. I was really proud of him and happy for him.

It seemed like everything was really coming together and going his way.”

One of his last projects was The Osage Murders, which covered some of the same territory as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. It aired after Bishop’s death.

JOE GARCIA, 70, MAY 11 Garcia’s career highlights include three terms as governor of Ohkay Owingeh, two terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians, chairman of the All Indian Pueblo Council and vice president of the Santa Fe Indian School Board of Trustees. Friends and colleagues remembered him as a fierce champion with a kind heart.

Joe Garcia “He always had time to speak to everybody,” said Larry Wright Jr., executive director of the National Congress of American Indians.

Salazar, a longtime typesetter at The New Mexican, was remembered by many for how helpful he was to people just starting out at the paper.

“We were all in our 20s, wet-nosed, and Jimmy was part of a crew that had been there for a while,” remembered Howard Houghton, who started out working for Salazar and eventually rose to city editor.

“He had a lot of tolerance for us young, green newspaper people. He was a very nice guy, very considerate and tolerant of our ignorance of how the newspaper would fit together.”

John Robertson, who got his start on the copy desk in the 1970s, remembered how Salazar would help the young copy editor with his invariably too-long headlines, which back then had to be cut with scissors to fit on the page.

“Guys like Jimmy who knew their stuff compensated on deadline for all the errors of my inexperienced ways,” Robertson said. “He was just part of a very skilled group of composing room people, workers that put the paper together every day and ensured that it got printed.”

RICH FREEDMAN, 69, JULY 16 Freedman’s varied careers included his ownership of The Teahouse and El Farol on Canyon Road. Toward the end of his life, he also served as CEO of the Sky Railway excursion train running between Santa Fe and Lamy.

“He turned it around,” said his friend and business associate, Bill Banowsky. “It was not doing well until he took it over.

He made it work in every way. He figured out how to create the right entertainment experiences.”

A New Hampshire native, Freedman moved to Santa Fe in the early 2000s. He worked as a tax attorney for many years, buying The Teahouse in 2012 and El Farol five years later.

ERIC WITT, 60, JULY 17 Starting under Gov. Bill Richardson, Witt is widely credited with helping to nurture and grow New Mexico’s film industry to what it is today.

“He came up with a plan that involved state financing of movies, tax credits, the use of free state land, training; it was just comprehensive,” recalled Richardson, who hired Witt as an adviser after he took office in 2003. “And he Eric Witt sold it to the Legislature my very first year. It was one of our legacy achievements.”

Witt was born in Los Angeles but graduated from high school in Santa Fe, then studied film in college. He became Richardson’s point man on all matters film throughout his term, then later took over direction of the Santa Fe Film Office for several years before returning to state government to work as an adviser to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

JAMES HALLINAN, 40, JULY 20 Hallinan was a political consultant who served as a spokesman for various elected officials in New Mexico, including former Attorney General Hector Balderas and former First Judicial District Attorney Marco Serna. He also worked on the campaigns of former State Auditor Brian Colón and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s first campaign for governor.

Hallinan is perhaps best known for receiving a $150,000 settlement from Lujan Grisham’s campaign after he alleged the then-candidate for governor sexually harassed him by grabbing his crotch. The issue reemerged in attack ads during the 2022 governor’s race.

EDWARD MANNING, 82, AUG. 7 Manning, a Virginia native who moved to Santa Fe in 2007, was a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, photographer, visual

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artist, museum docent and volunteer. He was someone who always sought to help others, friends said.

Manning set up a commercial photography studio in his apartment when he moved here. He shot landscapes, portraits and nudes, among other subjects. He gained the trust of members of Ohkay Owingeh and often photographed their daily lives and customs, including ceremonial dances. He also helped create a photography group called The Photo Eclectic.

In a short biographical piece published online, Manning said he liked New Mexico because “I discovered a new life. I got out of my own way and let myself see and feel the many contrasts in this state. The rough landscapes of white, purple, and red rock formations just dared me to walk in them.

The smooth and sensuous landscapes of White Sands presented a contrast to the rough harsh landscapes. Both allowed me freedom to create my work.”

DAVID GILTROW, 85, AUG. 29 Giltrow, who was born in the Midwest and settled down in Santa Fe near his wife’s family in 1984, immersed himself in New Mexico after he retired, from taking care of his neighborhood to becoming active in the Quaker group Santa Fe Friends Meeting.

In particular — influenced by his wife, a reference librarian with the New Mexico State Library — the book lover turned his energy to helping fund libraries.

In 1992, Giltrow helped start the New Mexico Library Foundation, which provides grants to libraries across the state. Eight years later, he threw himself into passing a statewide library bond. The library bond still exists, approved by voters by wide margins every year since 2002, and the foundation has grown a decent endowment, enabling it to give out grants to all types of libraries in New Mexico, including public, academic and tribal.

In 2003, the library community awarded Giltrow the New Mexico Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his work. He has likely been the only non-librarian to receive the award, said Ben Wakashige, a former state librarian who worked with him.

“It’s a reflection of our appreciation of his effort and just his belief in libraries. … He was passionate about literacy, without question, and about the role that libraries of all types have in communities,” Wakashige said.

offender Jeffrey Epstein, who owned a ranch in Santa Fe County; he denied any links to Epstein’s crimes against children.

ANTONIO GARCEZ, 68, SEPT. 10 For more than 30 years, Garcez wrote about New Mexico’s paranormal stories.

His 20 books on ghost tales from all over New Mexico are still widely in demand and garnered the interest of nationally acclaimed paranormal experts like Jeff Belanger, host of the Emmy-nominated series New England Legends.

Garcez’s popularity led him to be featured on the TV show America’s Antonio Scariest Places and the Garcez Ted Turner production of Haunted, often broadcast around Halloween on the History Channel.

Garcez believed his childhood and Native American background taught him to be sensitive to the possibilities beyond what we can see.

“In my family, we did not make fun of such subjects as ghosts, hauntings, or brushes with the supernatural,” he wrote.

“On the contrary, my mother taught us to maintain a cautious respect for spirits, folk healers, witches and forces considered to be occult in origin. Undoubtedly, my Mescalero Apache grandfather, who was brought to Santa Fe as a child to be ‘educated’ at the Indian School, provided his daughter — my mother — with the basis for such a positive and respectful view of the paranormal.”

CHUCK ZOBAC, 79, OCT. 6 A U.S. Army veteran, Zobac hosted the local radio show Calling All Veterans for years. He was dedicated to helping veterans of all ages, a passion his wife, Carol Rose, attributes to his memories of the hostility with which he and others were received coming home from Vietnam.

“He did not want any of the younger veterans to experience what [they] did,” she said.

Besides his radio show, Zobac served as a board member for the nonprofit Honor Flight of Northern New Mexico program, which offers military veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam free trips to Washington, D.C., so they can view the many memorials erected to honor them.

“Chuck was absolutely dedicated to everything veteran-based,” said Brandy Smotts, operation manager for the Honor Flight of Northern New Mexico program.

MICHAEL BRANCH, 85, OCT. 11 Branch grew up in Northern New Mexico and, after serving in the U.S. Army, settled down in Santa Fe. He worked for a trucking company in Santa Fe and earned a degree in business from the now-defunct College of Santa Fe before opening an office supply store on Montezuma Avenue with his brother-inlaw. In the late 1970s, he obtained a Realtor’s license and opened Branch Realty.

He served two terms on the Santa Fe City Council, helping to move City Hall into its current premises on Lincoln Avenue. His son Jeff Branch said his father, as a counMichael cilor, had a “strong sense Branch that city government’s role is to take care of basic services — parks and roads and sewers and police.”

Former Mayor Sam Pick recalled Branch as “a wonderful guy, dedicated to the city, like the Energizer Bunny” who enjoyed talking about his family’s history in the state — the Branches migrated from Virginia to New Mexico via the Old Santa Fe Trail in the 1800s. His son also remembered genealogy as his father’s passion.

“People and history and having those connections was key to him,” Jeff Branch said. “He lived a great life and touched a lot of people.”

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BILL RICHARDSON, 75, SEPT. 1 Richardson was a giant in New Mexico politics for decades. A Democrat, he represented Northern New Mexico in Congress before being appointed U.N. ambassador and then energy secretary under President Bill Clinton.

After that, Richardson was elected governor, serving two terms from 2003 to 2011. Among his accomplishments were the creation of the Rail Runner Express commuter train and Spaceport America; he was also particularly interested in bolstering New Mexico’s education system.

Originally a supporter of the death penalty, he changed his mind while in office and signed the bill that abolished it.

Richardson ran unsuccessfully for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

After his governorship, he remained active as a negotiator, working with authoritarian regimes around the world to get hostages and American prisoners released. One of his last such accomplishments was helping get Brittney Griner released from a Russian jail cell; he was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee at the time of his death.

As Clinton, his longtime friend and sometime rival, put it at Richardson’s funeral at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Richardson was successful at dealing with people, including dictators, because he knew that even “bad guys” were capable of doing good.

“A person may have bad ideas … may be twisted beyond untwisting, but once in a while they do the right thing anyway,” he said. “Bill Richardson knew that.”

Richardson’s career wasn’t without scandal. A federal investigation that dominated much of his second term eventually produced no charges against him or his top aides, but the fallout was ugly: A federal prosecutor said the probe revealed pressure from the Governor’s Office resulted in the corruption of the state’s procurement process.

His term as energy secretary was marred by the case of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was imprisoned on espionage charges that ended up being dropped.

Richardson was also named in court documents tied to sex-trafficking allegations against deceased financier and sex

projects. And she served as a planning commissioner, where she helped create an escarpment ordinance, preserving the beauty of Santa Fe’s hilltops, and worked to establish Wild and Scenic River status for the Chama River.

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Historian and author Marc Simmons, dressed as a cowboy near his rustic, hand-built adobe house in the Galisteo Basin of Northern New Mexico.

This photograph was for a book cover.

MARC SIMMONS, 86, SEPT. 14 The “dean of New Mexico history” was born in Texas.

Simmons became interested in history as a child; family trips to Santa Fe and Taos hooked him on New Mexico. He did graduate studies at the University of New Mexico, focusing on the Southwest’s Spanish colonial period.

Simmons was highly regarded by other historians for his knowledge of the colonial period, the Santa Fe Trail and historical figures such as Kit Carson. He wrote more than 40 history books over the course of his career. He was also a newspaper columnist, starting in the late 1970s. At one point, his “Trail Dust” column was syndicated in as many as seven newspapers, including the Santa Fe Reporter, which ran it for 20 years. The column later was published in The New Mexican, where it ran until 2016. He also co-founded the Santa Fe Trail Association.

SUSAN TURNER BOWDEN, 67, SEPT. 27 In every corner of Santa Fe, Bowden’s architectural presence and urban design can be felt. But what she will likely be best remembered for is her work to make the Railyard what it is today.

The architect was involved in the international competition to choose the architect to design the park. She then carried the community’s wishes into the 1990s through the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corp., detailing the architectural guidelines for the types of buildings that could be constructed around the area.’

“Everything she touched she did with intention and knowledge and research and integrity,” said her friend and colleague, writer Carmella Padilla.

Bowden was also involved in numerous residential and affordable housing

Alicia and her husband, Eduardo, were founding members in the 1990s of the Santa Fe branch of PFLAG, an organization that advocates for and supports LGBTQ+ people and their loved ones. The pair got involved in advocacy for LGBTQ+ people after their son, Edward, came out as gay and disclosed his status as HIV-positive.

“They became parents and advocates for everybody who didn’t have a family or a parent or an advocate,” Edward said.

The couple also advocated for gay rights protections at the state level, testifying in favor of a law Gov. Bill Richardson signed banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace, in public spaces and in housing.

PAUL MARTINEZ, 77, OCT. 30 Martinez, a native and lifelong resident of Taos Pueblo, served in various roles in tribal government. He became pueblo governor in 2008, and in 2010 he became cacique, serving in this role until his death.

As cacique, he had both spiritual leadership duties, served as head of the Tribal Council and played an important role in choosing and appointing tribal leadership officials and signing Tribal Council resolutions and other official documents.

“The role of cacique is a huge responsibility that he committed to, and his family as well,” said his niece, Yvonne Trujillo.

“As a family we learned many things and saw how people came to his home seeking advice and guidance. We hope that any words and actions that he shared are always kept in mind for the good of our beloved people.”

CINDY MARES, 81, NOV. 14 Mares, born and raised in Santa Fe, spent decades leading, volunteering with and raising money for a plethora of local organizations and nonprofits. Her efforts Cindy Mares ranged from supporting the Salvation Army and Villa Therese Catholic Clinic, which provides health care to underserved Santa Feans, to heading the local

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The local branch of Zonta has since folded, but as president, Mares funded scholarships for women in the sciences, among other projects, her husband said.

Mares’ other standout roles included helping former New Mexico first lady Alice King found the New Author John Nichols, best known for 1974’s The Milagro Beanfield War, died Nov. 27.

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Mexico Children’s Foundation in 1992 and serving as board president of Girls Inc. of Santa Fe in the ’90s.

RICHARD ‘RICK’ ABELES, 85, NOV. 15 Abeles, who moved to Santa Fe with his wife, Kathy, in 1975, quickly took to his new community. Some friends called him an unofficial mayor of Santa Fe because everywhere the man went, he knew someone.

“It was difficult to move around town with him because he couldn’t get too far without stopping,” his daughter, Liza Abeles Lutzker, recalled.

The Children’s Museum and Santa Fe Community College were particularly dear to him. He worked with the museum’s co-founders in the 1980s and served as board president from 1985 to 1993; he served on the board again in the early 2000s.

In 2010, he joined the board of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation, which supports students through scholarships and supports the college through special project grants, and served for nearly a decade, including four years as board president.

JOHN NICHOLS, 83, NOV. 27 Engaging, political and funny, Nichols wrote several fiction and nonfiction works but is best known

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for 1974’s The Milagro Beanfield War, a galvanizing tale about the collision between old and new in New Mexico, issues that face the state even today. The book gained added notoriety thanks to a 1988 film adaptation directed by Robert Redford.

But Milagro’s popularity may have been eclipsed by Nichols’ devotion to other works — both fiction and nonfiction — many of them focused on the beauty and challenges facing the people, customs and lands of the state.

“I hope his legacy will be his enduring love letter to New Mexico,” said Stephen Hull, director of the University of New Mexico Press, which published Nichols’ memoir, I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer, in 2022.

A California native who settled in Taos in 1969, Nichols is best remembered for his New Mexico trilogy written in the 1970s and 1980s, which as well as The Milagro Beanfield War included The Magic Journey and The Nirvana Blues.

GERALDINE ARON, 101, DEC. 1 Aron, an Illinois native who moved to New Mexico in 1974, was an animal lover and art aficionado who played a key role in advocating for legislation that abolished dog fighting in New Mexico.

Animal Rights New Mexico Executive Director Lisa Jennings described Aron as one of the organization’s “founding mothers” and someone who was “feisty, opinionated, compassionate and present,” noting Aron was working almost until the day she died — fielding calls for the organization from people who needed help covering medical bills for their pets.

“She really understood the value of giving back to the community,” Jennings said.

MARK SWAZO-HINDS, 64, DEC. 9 A renowned artist, outdoorsman,

meat for sale within New Mexico was shut down more than 15 years ago. According to a 2021 Legislative Finance Committee report, “the USDA revoked its authority, a result of continual compliance and performance issues” and “returned New Mexico to a federally inspected program, ensuring New Mexico meat processors maintain access to New Mexico and national markets.”

Rodriguez noted legislation to establish a revamped New Mexico inspection program will likely be introduced in the upcoming 30-day legislative session.

Rodriguez said, “Right now, there are one or two USDA inspectors within the state, so there’s a waiting list; an in-state inspection program will make more inspectors available.”

The Taos County Economic Development Corp. has applied for a state economic development grant to pay for installation of utilities for the new modular Friesla meat-processing units, which will require an advanced wastewater treatment system.

The first phase of the permanent facility will become operational in 2024, with the final phases of the project — including solar power — scheduled to be completed in 2025.

The recently upgraded mobile unit — revived after an eight-year dormancy — will still be available, particularly for bison and cattle produced on tribal land, Rodriguez said.

Lucas Salazar, a multigenerational rancher with roots in Taos, has signed on to manage the meat-processing facility. For the past 12 years he’s operated Salazar Meats, a small processing facility in Manassa, Colo.

“It’s crazy, you know, the need for USDA processing,” he said.

“We get people that come from farther than Albuquerque; we get people from Longmont and Denver. They just can’t find it, and their animals need to get slaughtered, so they’re willing to really truck ‘em.

That just ruins the whole profitability of their situation.”

Salazar Meats can process 14 cattle at once, whereas the Matanza will have the capacity to process 50 at a time and “a lot more in terms of pigs, or a whole lot more in terms of lambs,” Salazar said.

family member and friend, Swazo-Hinds was born into a family of Tesuque Pueblo artists as the son of prolific painter and printmaker Patrick Swazo-Hinds. He was a regular at Indian Market, and his signature stone carving gained him recognition beyond Santa Fe, with pieces from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., to the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe. Swazo-Hinds was also a hunter, angler and general outdoorsman, sometimes hosting dinner parties for friends featuring fish he’d caught or animals he had killed.

Overall, he was a good guy to know, said his sister, Marita Hinds.

“If you needed to move furniture, he’d be there. If you needed help out with moving sculpture, he was there. If you needed a flat tire fixed, he was there,” she said. “He was just that kind of a person.”

RICHARD GADDES, 81, DEC. 12 Gaddes, a native of northeastern England, was among the most influential and progressive leaders

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Richard Gaddes was the general director of the Santa Fe Opera from the fall of 2000 to the end of the 2008 season. Gaddes died Dec. 12 in New York City at 81. COURTESY THE SANTA FE OPERA in American opera for four decades and Santa Fe Opera’s general director in the early 2000s.

Gaddes, who succeeded founder John O. Crosby in fall 2000, retired from the Santa Fe Opera after the 2008 season. His artistic credo emphasized a commitment to living composers through world and American premieres. He believed opera was a theatrical medium as much as a musical one, and he had a lifelong devotion to advancing the careers of promising young singers.

Gaddes’ status was confirmed when he was tapped to receive one of the first Opera Honors Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. His fellow awardees were composer Carlisle Floyd, conductor James Levine and soprano Leontyne Price.

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Salazar has designed a drip cooler for the front end of the facility, as well as a stationary high-speed kill floor with capacity to begin processing up to four animals at once. Freezer units and storage for processed meats are on deck as well.

Eventually, the Matanza could employ 35 people and process 150 cattle at a time, which is still relatively small in scale. For comparison, Cargill Meat Solutions, a large-scale meat-processing facility in Fort Morgan, Colo., kills up to 4,000 cattle a shift.

“And they’ll do two shifts a day sometimes,” Salazar said.

Local rancher John Adams is designing the facility’s livestock corrals, which will be reviewed

by Mark Deesing, cattle welfare and facilities consultant. Deesing worked for decades with Temple Grandin, the academic and celebrated animal behaviorist known for her books on autism and for developing practical strategies for the humane treatment of livestock bound for slaughter.

The full buildout of the facility will include additional modules, which are similar in appearance to large shipping containers. The facility will also hold offices, employee areas, laundry facilities and bathrooms, storage, a loading dock, and a parking lot.

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be on demand, requiring passengers to call to make a reservation because the app is not available in that area.

The transit district also said it is “not likely” to operate its seasonal 341 TSV Green route between Taos and Taos Ski Valley this season.

The MyBlue rideshare service uses smaller vans Monday through Friday between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. to pick up and drop off passengers who live within a designated service zone, the district announced.

Passengers may book a trip using the MyBlue North Central RTD mobile application, available on Google Play and Apple iTunes stores, or by calling 866-206-0754. The North Central Regional Transit District is temporarily waiving the $1 fare for the MyBlue service.

“While we are pleased to introduce our new MyBlue service … we are doing so in part because the NCRTD has had to reduce service schedules due to bus driver shortages across our system,” NCRTD Executive Director Anthony Mortillaro said in the statement.

“MyBlue is a shared ride service and passengers may have to share vehicle space and trips with other passengers to optimize efficiency and maximize the use of the service,” the district said in a statement. “Shared rides may extend the travel time of passengers and all passengers should plan accordingly.”

NCRTD urges “responsible and skilled” drivers interested in driving a bus to visit the Blue Bus website at ncrtd.org/employment for more details or to call 866206-0754.

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© 2023 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 40, No. 5

This little cub has taken some of the words out of this article. Can you find where each one belongs?

Have a parent check your work.

Big and white, fluffy and furry, these are adjectives that describe a polar bear!

Can you think of other adjectives that would describe this animal?

Polar bears love fish! How many fish can you catch on this page?

Each hair shaft is transparent with a hollow core that scatters and reflects visible light, much like what happens with ice and snow, giving it a bright white appearance.

Polar bears live on ice near the North Pole in the Arctic, which is covered in ice and surrounded by very cold water. But that doesn’t bother a polar bear.

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In each box, write the letter that comes before the letter at the bottom of each box to find a couple of cool ways these fluffy fellows stay warm.

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Polar bear paws can grow to be 12 inches across (31 centimeters) and help distribute weight when treading on thin ice.

Black footpads on the bottom of each paw are covered by small, soft bumps known as papillae.

Papillae grip the ice and keep the bear from slipping. Tufts of fur between their toes and footpads may help with purchase as well as can their claws.

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These little guys grow up to be BIG. A male polar bear can grow to be 1,200 pounds.

A female about 650 pounds.

They start to get ________ at about eight weeks. They stay in the den drinking mama bear’s nutritious milk for about three to four ___________.

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Under the guard hairs is a layer of dense, short, soft hairs that trap heat close to the skin, like thermal underwear.

When swimming, their broad forepaws act like large paddles and the hind paws serve as rudders for steering.

A polar bear starts its life in a den or ice _________ that its mother _______ into the snow.

The den protects the mother and the cubs from _________, cold and predators. The den stays warm inside as heat from the mother bear warms the tight ___________ and the frozen walls trap the warm air.

Verbs and Adjectives

Look through the newspaper and find five adjectives that describe a polar bear.

Then find five verbs that describe how a polar bear moves.

Write one or more sentences about a polar bear using your adjectives and verbs.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

Young polar bears stay with their mothers until they are around 30 months old. By then, they have learned how to ____________ in the cold and find food on their own.

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The adjective thermal means relating to or saving heat.

The thermal layer in Jane’s jacket helped her stay warm while skiing.

Try to use the word thermal in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

News Article Mix-Up

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ANSWER: Because they’d look kind of silly in Hawaiian shirts!

Cut out an article from the newspaper. Cut the article into four pieces. Give the pieces to a friend to see if he or she can put the article back together in the right order.

Write at least two facts and two opinions about bears.

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After holiday chaos, remember notes of gratitude

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t was an unconventional Christmas for me this year. Wild by all accounts.

I made the conscious decision to not record who gave the gifts to me and my family. My decades-old notebook cataloging “gifts given, gifts received” remained on a shelf in the closet.

I am a stickler for thank-you notes and try to keep track of the presents received on all the special occasions throughout the year.

This year I chose to just sit and watch the ribbons and wrapping paper fly through the air as my kids ripped open their Christmas gifts, along with our several guests. There is so much to keep track of over the holidays, and I wanted to feel present with our company and take in the scene.

However, my lack of writing it all down is not a substitute for communication and expressing gratitude.

I have a rough idea of who gave what and will reach out to thank each individual for their effort and thoughtfulness.

Over the holidays, I think everyone should be given a hall pass, especially those with young children, and allot at least a month to send a thank-you note.

But I don’t leave the gift-giver hanging that long. I inform them when their parcel arrives in the mail. I also send

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a quick text to friends when I receive a beautiful card or round robin letter acknowledging its arrival and something about the content.

The holidays are the one time of year people actually make an effort to send snail mail, and it feels good to be recognized for doing that (and paying for all that postage!).

My aunt, one of two visiting for Christmas, shared with me that earlier in December she mailed a $50 gift card to one friend and printed and sent a stack of photographs to another from a recent trip together. With both recipients, it was crickets; not a word … yet. While a formal thank-you isn’t warranted in the middle of the holidays, it’s always a thoughtful gesture to let the sender know it arrived.

When time allows for the more formal expression of gratitude, I follow a tiered system.

The handwritten thank-you note.

Telephone call. Email. Text.

Putting pen to paper shows the most effort and sincerity. The act of writing engages the brain more actively, enabling the writer to express their sentiments in a way that differs from a call or electronic communication.

A thank-you note is made up of four sentences or more, never less. Three sentences are about the gift, describing what you enjoy about it or how it is useful. One sentence is unrelated — “I look forward to seeing you this summer” or “I can’t wait to hear more about your adventures.” Think of the note as a visit on paper. Say what you would say if the person were in front of you.

The key to writing with ease is having all your tools in the box, so to speak.

Keep a stash of stationery or box of note cards at the ready. Buy your stamps in bulk, as the forever stamps don’t expire if the rates go up. Find what type of pen feels good in your hand (gel, ink, rollerball) and keep them in a hidden place far from the littles in your life. When it comes to ink color, black is standard, colors are fun and blue is for business.

Pace yourself. It’s daunting and tiring to write notes all at once. Aim for two to three at a time then come back another day.

Can’t face it or you just don’t have a free moment? Be gentle on yourself and pick up the phone.

It may take as much time or longer than writing to have a chat on the phone, but sometimes hearing the voice on the other end of the line is a gift in itself, to either party.

Email and texting require the least effort, but expressions of gratitude can still convey as long your content follows the four-sentence rule used in the handwritten note. Perhaps include a photograph of the item being enjoyed to add some pizazz to your otherwise simple presentation.

The bottom line is to not skip the thank-you nor be so simple that you say, “Thank you for the gift.”

If months have gone by and you have forgotten or have not been able to make the time, do it anyway. Everyone likes to feel good about their gift ideas and effort.

If you’re like me and walk into a room and forget why you’re there, you might also forget who gave you what. Use process of elimination and ask your family members to help. When that fails, reach out if you know someone sent you a gift and ask them what, explaining that the gift tag came off, etc.

When you receive cash or a gift card,

you can still be descriptive in your thank you by saying how you plan to use it or what you used the gift for.

If the gift is experiential, describe what you enjoyed about it.

When the gift and the taste of the recipient don’t align, keep that to yourself, be thankful for the effort and creative with your words. If you choose to regift, be sure to keep track of who gave you the gift so you can be sure to pass it on to someone far outside that family or social circle.

There are a few things I feel I could go to hell for: throwing trash on the ground, not voting and skipping thankyou notes. I’m doing my best to avoid that.

One year I wrote my Christmas thank-yous on Valentine’s Day. This year, I didn’t keep track of who gave what. It might take me some time to trace the lineage of the presents, but the act of expressing gratitude is a gift to the recipient and myself. May your new year be filled with much to be thankful for.

Bizia Greene is an etiquette expert and owns the Etiquette School of Santa Fe. Share your comments and conundrums at hello@etiquettesantafe.com or 505988-2070.

CASHING IN ON KIDS Being aware of UND ERSTANDIN G DISABILIT Y ANDY WINNEGAR

Study finds social media ad revenue from minors last year topped $11B

stress’s impact on your body

By Barbara Ortutay and Haleluya Hadero

The Associated Press

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ocial media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published on Wednesday.

The researchers say the findings show a need for government regulation of social media since the companies that stand to make money from children who use their platforms have failed to meaningfully self-regulate. They note such regulations, as well as greater transparency from tech companies, could help alleviate harms to youth mental health and curtail potentially harmful advertising practices that target children and adolescents.

To come up with the revenue figure, the researchers estimated the number of users under 18 on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube in 2022 based on population data from the U.S. Census and survey data from Common Sense Media and Pew Research.

They then used data from research firm eMarketer, now called Insider Intelligence, and Qustodio, a parental control app, to estimate each platform’s U.S. ad revenue in 2022 and the time children spent per day on each platform.

After that, the researchers said they built a simulation model using the data to estimate how much ad revenue the platforms earned from minors in the U.S. Researchers and lawmakers have long focused on the negative

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effects stemming from social media platforms, whose personally-tailored algorithms can drive children towards excessive use.

This year, lawmakers in states like New York and Utah introduced or passed legislation that would curb social media use among kids, citing harms to youth mental health and other concerns.

Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, is also being sued by dozens of states for allegedly contributing to the mental health crisis.

“Although social media platforms may claim that they can self-regulate their practices to reduce the harms to young people, they have yet to do so, and our study suggests they have overwhelming financial incentives to continue to delay taking meaningful steps to protect children,” said Bryn Austin, a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard and a senior author on the study.

The platforms themselves don’t

make public how much money they earn from minors.

Social media platforms are not the first to advertise to children, and parents and experts have long expressed concerns about marketing to kids online, on television and even in schools. But online ads can be especially insidious because they can be targeted to children and because the line between ads and the content kids seek out is often blurry.

In a 2020 policy paper, the American Academy of Pediatrics said children are “uniquely vulnerable to the persuasive effects of advertising because of immature critical thinking skills and impulse inhibition.”

“School-aged children and teenagers may be able to recognize advertising but often are not able to resist it when it is embedded within trusted social networks, encouraged by celebrity influencers, or delivered next to personalized content,” the paper noted.

As concerns about social media

and children’s mental health grow, the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month proposed sweeping changes to a decadesold law that regulates how online companies can track and advertise to children.

The proposed changes include turning off targeted ads to kids under 13 by default and limiting push notifications.

According to the Harvard study, YouTube derived the greatest ad revenue from users 12 and under ($959.1 million), followed

by Instagram ($801.1 million) and Facebook ($137.2 million).

Instagram, meanwhile, derived the greatest ad revenue from users aged 13-17 ($4 billion), followed by TikTok ($2 billion) and YouTube ($1.2 billion).

The researchers also estimate that Snapchat derived the greatest share of its overall 2022 ad revenue from users under 18 (41%), followed by TikTok (35%), YouTube (27%), and Instagram (16%).

Although social media platforms may claim that they can self-regulate their “ practices to reduce the harms to young people, they have yet to do so, and our study suggests they have overwhelming financial incentives to continue to delay taking meaningful steps to protect children.” Bryn Austin, Harvard professor and study author

CELEBRATIONS Con Alma Health Foundation’s Board of Trustees has announced Linda CandelariaDodd was hired as the foundation’s new executive director starting Jan. 3.

Candelaria-Dodd has served as a Con Alma trustee member since 2021 and replaces Denise Herrera.

Candelaria-Dodd has served as resource development manager at Carlsbad Lifehouse Inc., where she executed major fundraising and outreach efforts, including grant writing, according to a news release.

Prior to that role, she managed all aspects of daily operations as executive director and CEO of United Way of Eddy County and served as program director of the Carlsbad Literacy Program.

She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and communication disorders from Eastern New Mexico University.

Candelaria-Dodd was raised in rural Los Bra-

zos and has spent her life residing and working in small communities in New Mexico and Arizona, including the Navajo Reservation in northwestern New Mexico and the Mescalero Apache Reservation in Cibeque, Ariz.

She also has been a volunteer board member for the Ronald McDonald House Charities in New Mexico and the Eddy County Health Council.

Candelaria-Dodd will help Con Alma invest the remaining $4 million MacKenzie Scott gift as well as its annual cycles of grant giving focused on improving health and working toward health equity in New Mexico, the news release said. ◆◆◆

The Envision Fund of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, the first and largest LGBTQ+ funder in New Mexico, is pleased to announce $37,500 in grants to 10 nonprofit organizations across New Mexico.

The 2023 grants, which range from $2,500 to $7,500, support the fund’s four priority areas:

creating an HIV-free generation in New Mexico; combating discrimination against LGBTQ+ people; supporting school-based programs that create a safe environment for all students; and promoting holistic reproductive and gender-affirming health care.

2023 Envision Fund grantees include Justice Access Support and Solutions for Health; The Mountain Center; New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership/SRIC; New Mexico Legal Aid; Office of Student Wellness, Santa Fe Public Schools; Rocky Mountain Youth Corps; Santa Fe Dreamers Project; Sky Center/NM Suicide Intervention Project; Solace Sexual Assault Services; and True Kids 1.

Founded in 1997, the Envision Fund is the first and largest philanthropic entity in New Mexico dedicated solely to serving the LGBTQ+ population, according to a news release. Since its inception, the fund has awarded over $1 million to nonprofits across the state.

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very January sees a surge in job searches, moves and job changes.

Some employees receive year-end bonuses in December, making January an opportune time to explore new career opportunities.

Still, changing jobs and moving can be stressful, and our bodies might not always be prepared for such changes.

Even going on vacation, for some of us, can induce stress.

The American work culture places a high value on long hours and dedication to the job, leading many American workers to be hesitant about taking time off.

Surprisingly, when we finally do take a break, it may make us feel tired, unsettled or even agitated rather than happy and energized.

Despite the human body’s remarkable adaptability, when routines are altered, whether through changes in sleep patterns, work schedules or daily activities, the body may respond in various ways.

I recall developing a temporary eyelid twitch on my first day of vacation years ago. Perhaps I was overly tired, had consumed too much caffeine or was anxious about reaching my vacation destination. At the time, I had no idea why my body reacted in that way.

It is well known that prolonged stress can weaken the immune system, too, making individuals more susceptible to illness and injury.

People may become more physically and emotionally vulnerable.

Most of us are not aware of the physical tension our bodies experience at work or school. When a stressor is removed, the pressure may subside, but a new anxiety or condition may emerge.

I found myself at a crossroads recently when I realized I was getting a little too old and slow to continue running marathons. After three months of training for a race in California, I decided to quit training and sell my bib. The next day, my back went out, making it difficult to stand up straight or walk. While it wasn’t a serious issue and only lasted a couple of days, I was surprised by the immediate physical response from my body and how depressed I was.

Prolonged stress is a constant companion for many of us. What we often don’t realize is that the removal of stress, while seemingly liberating, can also induce unexpected challenges. Our bodies often communicate what our minds may not immediately comprehend.

Everyone responds differently to changes in routines, and some people adapt more easily than others. Of course, not all changes have negative effects; positive changes like a new job can lead to improved well-being, higher income and a better lifestyle.

Balancing life’s demands, both physical and emotional, will be my new year’s resolution.

It isn’t easy to be aware of the body’s signals especially when you are deeply involved at work.

One technique to be more in touch with your body is the Body Scan Meditation, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a renowned American professor, scientist and meditation teacher.

Here’s how it works: ◆ Find a quiet space to sit or lie down. ◆ Ensure you’re in a comfortable and relaxed position with your arms at your sides. ◆ Inhale slowly through your nose and exhale slowly through your mouth to center yourself. ◆ Begin the body scan at your feet, focusing on your toes, the soles of your feet and your heels. Notice any sensations in these areas, such as warmth, coolness, tension, or relaxation. ◆ Gradually shift your attention upward, moving to your ankles, calves, knees and thighs, your hips to your abdomen, chest, back, shoulders, arms, hands, neck and head. ◆ Take your time with each area, allowing your attention to linger for a moment. ◆ If you encounter distractions or any areas of tension, discomfort, or pain, observe these sensations without reacting to or trying to change them.

The goal is not to change your physical sensations, thoughts or worries but to become aware of them.

Andy Winnegar has spent his career in rehabilitation and lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Judy.

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Empty nesters Privacy concerns over new TSA tech taking flight for holidays Contractor for expedited airport screening now using facial recognition

By Sofia Andrade

The Washington Post

For decades, season was about kids — now older couples on dream vacations

By Alyson Krueger

The New York Times

Over the summer, Viviane Trinh, 35, received a surprising email from her parents, her mother in her late 60s and her father in his mid-70s, explaining that they wanted to skip the family’s Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations this year and take a six-week cruise from Japan to Singapore. “They asked if anyone had objections,” she said.

Trinh, who is a dentist and lives in the West Village in New York City, felt torn.

On one hand, she loves her family’s traditions. The whole gang — she and her two siblings, and their partners — gathers at her parent’s house in Stamford, Conn., where they have a huge Thanksgiving meal. The day after Thanksgiving, they begin decorating the tree, and in the weeks leading up to Christmas, she’ll drop by to keep helping out. Christmas Day brings another feast, along with a gift exchange. “I never thought our family traditions would change,” she said.

But Trinh also wants her parents to do what they want, especially since they are getting older. “My parents love us so much, they are always providing, and this is a chance to rekindle their own love as a couple,” she said. “People my age are making our own plans and having our own families,” she added.

This year, some parents of adult children are forgoing family traditions and making their own plans, including taking dream trips. Their thinking goes: Our holidays have revolved around our children for decades; why not finally take time for ourselves? But changing long-established roles and customs can be challenging.

“I didn’t realize how much I appreciated our family traditions and family time until my parents made this choice,” said Trinh, who is spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with her husband’s family.

Susan Rossen, 72, who works as a part-time hospice and palliative care nurse in Memphis, Tenn., has spent numerous Hanukkahs with her three children, ages 46, 43 and 37, and her six grandchildren, ages 3 to 17.

But this year, she and her husband are celebrating their 50th anniversary and decided to spend the holiday in Aruba. “We have a timeshare there, and we’ve come so many times with children, grandchildren, siblings, relatives,” she said. “We’ve never come with just the two of us, so we decided to take a couple’s trip.”

She feels the difference. “We talk about our kids a lot,” she said. “We are buying souvenirs for them.” The couple also made sure to celebrate Hanukkah with their child who lives in Memphis, along with other family members, before they left, and they plan to see all of them when they return.

But it’s also been stimulating to create new holiday traditions. “There was a Hanukkah party here at one of the hotels,” she said. “There were several hundred people; they did candle lighting; they had latkes and jelly doughnuts and kosher deli sandwiches; they had a concert. It was really fun.”

The private security screening company Clear is rolling out facial recognition technology at its expedited airport checkpoints in 2024, replacing the company’s iris-scanning and fingerprint-checking measures. With a presence at more than 50 U.S. airports, Clear’s update is the latest sign in a broader shift toward biometrics in air travel that is raising concerns from some privacy experts and advocates.

Clear’s shift to its new screening technology, which the company is calling NextGen Iden-

tity Plus, also includes stronger verification of identity documents by comparing them “back to the issuing source,” the company told The Washington Post. Clear said it has been collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security and TSA since 2020 to make these changes.

Members who pay $189 a year for a Clear Plus subscription will be moved to the new technology free of charge.

Just last year, the Transportation Security Administration also announced it would begin using facial recognition technology in its airport checkpoints. Other face recognition systems, like those used by law enforcement

agencies, use photos taken of unidentified people (sometimes without explicit consent) and compare them to a large database in order to find a match.

Clear’s system differs, the company told the Post, in that it only compares live snapshots taken of travelers using the designated Clear airport lane to data from their enrollment in NextGen Identity Plus. Moving from iris and fingerprint scanning to facial scanning should help customers get through checkpoints faster.

Clear has long been in the business of biometrics in its screening practices at airports, arenas and other public venues. But a turn to facial recognition may lead to increased risk of surveillance and reduced privacy for travelers, privacy advocates say.

Stressed-out travelers get a little llama love Portland, Ore., airport amenity fits with its quirky personality

By Andrea Sachs

IN BRIEF

The Washington Post

Just after 3-year cruise canceled, 3½-year voyage is announced About a month after Life at Sea Cruises canceled its debut three-year voyage because it couldn’t secure a ship, another company has done just that. Villa Vie Residences, which plans to sail the world in three and half years, announced this month it has purchased a 924-passenger ship that is expected to launch in May. The 30-year-old MS Braemar, which will be renamed Villa Vie Odyssey, was purchased from Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, a Britain-based and Norwegian-owned cruise line.

The ship has previously sailed with the Crown Cruise Line and Norwegian Cruise Line brands. It will undergo a multimillion-dollar renovation that will begin early next year and take roughly eight weeks to complete. After it launches, the ship will stop at ports in about 150 countries.

“It’s a continuous cruise that will really never stop,” said Mikael Petterson, Villa Vie Residences’ founder and CEO. “Our goal is to make this more of a lifestyle and residence, more than your typical cruise.”

The price for the 1,301-day journey starts at $89 per day, per person and includes food, biweekly laundry service, weekly housekeeping and internet service. Shore excursions, spa treatments and bar services are available at an added charge, Petterson said.

Staying on the Villa Vie Odyssey during its first circumnavigation comes out to $115,789 (before taxes and fees) at the lowest price point, but guests can book shorter-term reservations.

Petterson said much of the client base is business owners who work remotely or retirees.

Universal Studios looks to U.K. as it breaks ground on Texas park Universal Studios said it is looking into the possibility of building a theme park in the United Kingdom after purchasing a 480-acre parcel of land near Bedford, England.

The land was purchased by Universal’s parent company, Comcast Corp., in August for $271 million, a company spokesperson confirmed. It will take several months before a decision on further plans for the land, the company said.

Within the United States, Universal currently operates parks in Orlando and Hollywood, as well as other locations in Japan, China and Singapore. It broke ground last month on Universal Kids Resort in Frisco, Texas, a theme park for families with young children.

Company officials said they’ve identified the Bedford land because of its connectivity to the rest of the United Kingdom and Europe; it’s a little over an hour away from London by train.

This wouldn’t be Universal’s first theme park in Europe.

The company previously owned a park in Salou, Spain, called Universal’s Port Aventura.

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he Portland International Airport in Oregon understands holiday travel is stressful. So this season, it invited a few specialists to help passengers manage their cortisol levels. Over three visits this month, Beni and Prince doled out their brand of medicine.

“You can hug them close, and their thick fiber is so soft,” Lori Gregory said of her llamas.

“They’re just very unique animals compared to most other therapy animals. They got the total package.”

Airports around the globe use a variety of methods to inject some Zen into one of the busiest travel periods of the year. They decorate their halls in holiday lights, host carolers and concerts, and bring in therapy dogs for group canine counseling.

Portland does all of the above. True to the city’s quirky spirit, it also invites local camelids to the airport to canoodle with passengers.

That’s where Gregory, president and founder of Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas & Alpacas, comes in.

“PDX has an ongoing partnership with various therapy animal programs,” said Allison Ferre, media relations manager with the Port of Portland, which operates the airport. “So this year, when we were bringing back holiday concessions programing, we just thought, “Who better to lead that parade than the llamas and alpacas?”

Gregory’s herd has outfits made out of the airport’s beloved carpet pattern, which Napoleon and Smokey wore during the grand opening of Concourse B in 2021. For their special appearances over the past two weeks, Beni and Prince donned holiday attire.

This year’s theme was “reindeer.” Gregory and her daughter, Shannon Joy, dressed the pair in antler headbands, glittery halters with tinkling bells and poinsettia-adorned wreathes.

Red velvet banners worn like saddles were inscribed with their names and silvery snowflakes.

“They looked pretty fancy,” Gregory said.

During their two-hour visits, the llamas were treated like celebrities with valet parking, paparazzi and adoring fans. Though the pair had to pass through security, they didn’t have to submit to a pat down, which they might have enjoyed for the extra pets. For their procession, the llamas had several handlers who encouraged spectators to hug, rub noses and pose for selfies with them.

Last Wednesday, Beni and Prince tended to an emergency after a plane was delayed

PHOTOS BY SHANNON JOY VIA THE WASHINGTON POST

ABOVE: Napoleon and Smokey, llamas at the Portland International Airport.

TOP: Llamas Beni and Prince meet passengers in the airport terminal.

because of fog in Seattle. In a TikTok video, a distressed woman throws her arms around the 15-year-old Beni and presses her face into his shaggy brown coat.

“Oh my god, I so need a therapy llama,” she says with relief. “I am so happy now.”

Gregory said llamas are often misunderstood. Contrary to animals-behaving-badly videos, the trainable pack animals that hail from South America do not typically spit, jump

on people or bite. In fact, they only have teeth on the bottom front of their mouths.

“I think their PR has not been as positive as the alpacas,” she said of their smaller cousins.

Gregory, who with her daughter cares for nearly a dozen llamas and alpacas, said they hope to return to PDX next year with their brood. However, if travelers need some llama love even sooner, the farm offers free therapy sessions. Call ahead to make an appointment.

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Cowboys hold off three 2-point tries to win Lamb goes for 227 as Dallas survives crazy sequence to extend home win streak to 16 games

By Schuyler Dixon

The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — CeeDee Lamb could only watch from the sideline in the final

seconds of the best game of his career, hoping it would be enough for a 16th consecutive home victory for the Dallas Cowboys.

It was, because the Cowboys

Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb fumbles the ball out of the end zone for a touchback as Detroit cornerback Kindle Vildor makes contact Saturday in Arlington, Texas. SAM HODDE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Dallas Detroit

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survived a 2-point conversion fest with Detroit

going for the win.

The first of Dak Prescott’s two touchdown passes was a 92-yarder to Lamb, and Dallas stopped the third 2-point try from the Lions after they were penalized when they converted the first with 23 seconds remaining in the Cowboys’ 20-19 victory

TODAY ON TV 11 a.m. CBS — Miami at Baltimore 11 a.m. FOX — Arizona at Philly 2:25 p.m. CBS — L.A. Chargers at Denver 6:20 p.m. NBC — Green Bay at Minnesota.

Saturday night.

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2023 SP OR T S Y E AR IN RE VIEW

Another lap around the sun North’s year in sports featured scandals and major coaching changes — but plenty of stellar performances, too

Detroit holds on to beat shorthanded Raptors for its first victory since Oct. 28

By Ben Golliver

The Washington Post

The Detroit Pistons finished a miserable year of basketball on a winning note by scoring a 129-127 victory over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Saturday night to end their Detroit 129 record-setting losing streak at 28 Toronto 127 games.

The Pistons took advantage of favorable schedule circumstances and a Raptors trade with the New York Knicks to claim their first win since Oct. 28, closing the calendar year with a 10-65 record. Detroit (3-29) finished last season with a 7-36 record after Jan. 1, including a 2-21 stretch after the all-star break.

Cade Cunningham finished with 30 points and 12 assists to lead six Detroit players in double-figure scoring. Jalen Duren added 18 points and 17 rebounds, and he hit four free throws in the final minute to help seal the win during a chaotic endgame sequence.

“I feel amazing,” Cunningham said.

“Oh, man, I feel amazing. ... It’s been a long time coming. I don’t want to go back to where we were.”

After a 2-1 start, the Pistons went winless in November, snapped their franchise record of 21 straight losses across the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons earlier this month, set the NBA’s single-season record by losing their 27th straight game Tuesday and then tied the league’s alltime losing streak record by dropping their 28th consecutive game Thursday.

The Philadelphia 76ers previously lost 28 straight games across the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, while the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2013-14 76ers previously shared the single-season record with 26 straight losses.

Saturday’s long-awaited breakthrough followed a competitive week for the Pistons, who suffered a narrow loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday and then pushed the Boston Celtics to overtime before losing Thursday.

Toronto (12-20) was playing on the second night of a back-to-back after losing, 120-118, at the Celtics on Friday.

Raptors Coach Darko Rajakovic also was left with a shorthanded roster after OG Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn were traded to New York in a deal that was officially announced just hours before tip-off.

With Toronto struggling to get its offense going early, Detroit took a 52-44 lead into halftime and then survived a strong push from Pascal Siakam to open the second half and held on for dear life during a messy closing stretch. The Pistons missed multiple free throws and committed a turnover in the final minute, helping the Raptors cut a 10-point deficit with 44.8 seconds remaining to the two-point final margin.

But Detroit had done just enough to emerge victorious.

JIM WEBER/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Santa Fe High’s Bryce Melton exploded onto the state track scene in 2023 with a sophomore year to remember. He would go on to win the 100- and 200-meter titles at the Class 5A state track and field meet in May, part of several big state track performances for area teams: The Los Alamos boys and girls teams swept the 4A state titles for the third straight year, and St. Michael’s boys won their fourth straight championship and the girls their third.

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orthern New Mexico’s year in sports started with the resurrection of the state’s flagship college hoops program, saw the other area Division I team cancel its season amid national fallout from a shooting and hazing scandal, featured prep dominance and surprises throughout the year and ended with both FBS football squads in the state making surprise coaching changes. Here’s a look back at Northern New Mexico’s top sports moments from 2023 and everything that happened in between:

Jan. 1 — The new year dawns to only two remaining undefeated teams in men’s college basketball; top-ranked Purdue (13-0) and No. 22 New Mexico (14-0). Purdue loses the following day, leaving the Lobos as the lone unbeaten.

They drop their first game 48 hours later at Fresno State.

ABOVE: St. Michael’s Raylee Hunt, one of the state’s top athletes, announced in October she will swim at Duke. GABRIELA CAMPOS/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO LEFT: Bronco Mendenhall was named UNM’s new football coach Dec. 6. SAM WASSON/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN Jan. 1 — Two players with New Mexico ties are taken in the XFL Supplemental Draft. Former Lobo offensive lineman Teton Saltes goes early with the third overall pick by the Arlington Renegades.

Former New Mexico State linebacker Terrill Hanks was nabbed by the D.C. Defenders in the seventh round.

Jan. 1 — Gloria Nevarez takes over as commissioner of the Mountain West Conference after the retirement of Craig Thompson. Thompson was the league’s first and only commissioner upon its launch in 1999.

Jan. 2 — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapses from cardiac arrest

during a Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Jan. 2 — Mississippi State scores nine points in the final four seconds to beat Illinois, 19-10, in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Fla. The Bulldogs are coached

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Clark passes milestones in win Iowa star sets Big Ten’s passing record, becomes first to 3,000 points, 900 assists, 800 boards and moves to fifth place all-time in scoring

By John Bohnenkamp The Associated Press

College Football Playoff Michigan players say chaotic year has made team stronger, while Texas and Washington built contenders with holdover rosters. PAGE D-5

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark has so many awards, she’s not sure where all of them are at.

She’s going to add a couple more commemorative basketballs after the fourth-ranked Iowa women defeated Minnesota 94-71 on Saturday.

Clark recorded her sixth double-double of the season and 49th of her career with 35 points and 10 assists — and she became the Big Ten’s all-time assist leader.

She also became the first Division I player — man or woman — to have 3,000-plus points, 900 or more assists and 800 or more

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rebounds in a career. And she moved into fifth place all-time on the NCAA Division I career scoring list with 3,149 points.

“I have a couple of storage units back home my parents put stuff in,” said Clark, whose 904 assists surpassed Samantha Prahalis’ 901. “The 3,000-point ball is just sitting in our locker room. Sometimes it gets lost in my locker, I don’t know, until I clean it out, or until I make one of my teammates clean it out. They get so Please see story on Page D-4

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Caitlin Clark passes around Minnesota’s Janay Sanders during Saturday’s game in Iowa City, Iowa. Clark had 10 assists to become the Big Ten’s all-time assist leader, and she also became the first Division I player to 3,000-plus points, 900 or more assists and 800 or more rebounds in a career and moved to fifth place alltime on the NCAA Division I scoring list with 3,149 points.

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

6:30 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Sweden vs. Finland, Group A, Gothenburg, Sweden 9 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Switzerland vs. Czech Republic, Group B, Gothenburg, Sweden 11:30 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Germany vs. Canada, Group A, Gothenburg, Sweden

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Noon PAC-12N — Washington St. at Colorado 1 p.m. CBSSN — Omaha at South Dakota 2 p.m. PAC-12N — Arizona at Stanford 2 p.m. SECN — Bryant at Mississippi 4 p.m. PAC-12N — Washington at Utah 6 p.m. PAC-12N — Arizona St. at California

G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL 2 p.m. NBATV — G-League Ignite at Sioux Falls

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ACCN — Wake Forest at Florida St. 10 a.m. CW — Clemson at North Carolina 10:30 a.m. BTN — Illinois at Indiana 11 a.m. CBSSN — S. Dakota St. at North Dakota Noon ACCN — Notre Dame at Syracuse Noon SECN — Radford at Vanderbilt 12:30 p.m. BTN — Maryland at Nebraska 2 p.m. ACCN — Louisville at Miami 4 p.m. ACCN — NC State at Virginia

NFL 11 a.m. CBS — Miami at Baltimore 11 a.m. FOX — Arizona at Philadelphia 2:25 p.m. CBS — L.A. Chargers at Denver 6:20 p.m. NBC — Green Bay at Minnesota RODEO 6 p.m. CBSSN — PBR: Round 2 and Championship Round, Albany, N.Y. SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 a.m. USA — Premier League: Bournemouth at Tottenham Hotspur

COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S) 1 p.m. ESPNU — Harvard at UConn

IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 4 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Slovakia vs. U.S., Group B, Gothenburg, Sweden

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UNDERDOG Atlanta New Orleans at WASHINGTON New England Miami Tennessee Las Vegas Carolina at N.Y. GIANTS Arizona Pittsburgh L.A. Chargers Cincinnati Green Bay

TODAY 9½ 16½ 6½ 1½ 4½

O/U (55½) (67½) (35½) (44½) (62½)

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UNDERDOG at WASHINGTON at SAN ANTONIO L.A. Lakers Brooklyn at MEMPHIS Orlando

COLLEGE BASKETBALL FAVORITE at GREEN BAY at IOWA STATE at PURDUE FORT WAYNE at COLORADO Cleveland State at YOUNGSTOWN STATE at MISSISSIPPI STATE at OKLAHOMA at SOUTH DAKOTA at OKLAHOMA STATE Wright State at SOUTH DAKOTA STATE at ST. THOMAS at LINDENWOOD at OLE MISS Arizona Morehead State at SIU-EDWARDSVILLE at DENVER at UTAH at CAL

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SATURDAY’S GAMES

Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. Clemson 38, Kentucky 35 Sun Bowl, El Paso No. 15 Notre Dame 40, No. 21 Oregon St. 8 Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn.

Memphis 35, Iowa St. 26 Cotton Bowl, Arlington, Texas No. 9 Missouri 14, No. 7 Ohio St. 3

Dallas 20, Detroit 19

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Las Vegas at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Miami at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Washington, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 6:20 p.m.

DALLAS 20, DETROIT 19 0 0

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Peach Bowl, Atlanta No. 11 Mississippi 38, No. 10 Penn St. 25 Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn.

Maryland 31, Auburn 13 Orange Bowl, Miami No. 6 Georgia 63, No. 4 Florida St. 3 Arizona Bowl, Tucson, Ariz.

Wyoming 16, Toledo 15

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First Quarter Det_FG Badgley 41, 10:46.

Dal_Lamb 92 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 3:26.

Third Quarter Det_Montgomery 3 run (Badgley kick), 4:34.

Dal_FG Aubrey 51, :23.

Fourth Quarter Det_FG Badgley 30, 12:18.

Dal_Cooks 8 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 7:20.

Dal_FG Aubrey 43, 1:41.

Det_St. Brown 11 pass from Goff (pass failed), :23.

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First downs 21 17 Total Net Yards 420 384 Rushes-yards 31-125 21-61 Passing 295 323 Punt Returns 3-35 0-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-24 2-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-35-2 26-38-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 3-22 Punts 4-48.75 4-45.25 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 6-35 5-34 Time of Possession 30:36 29:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Detroit, Montgomery 14-65, Gibbs 1543, St. Brown 1-11, Williams 1-6. Dallas, Pollard 16-49, Lamb 1-5, Prescott 2-5, Vaughn 2-2.

PASSING_Detroit, Goff 19-34-2-271, Reeves-Maybin 1-1-0-31. Dallas, Prescott 26-38-1-345.

RECEIVING_Detroit, LaPorta 7-84, St. Brown 6-90, Williams 2-69, Dorsey 1-31, J.Reynolds 1-13, Raymond 1-11, Mitchell 1-4, Gibbs 1-0. Dallas, Lamb 13-227, Cooks 5-60, Ferguson 4-33, Vaughn 1-10, Tolbert 1-9, Hendershot 1-6, Pollard 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

NCAA FOOTBALL 2023-24 BOWLS DEC. 27

Military Bowl Presented, Annapolis, Md. Virginia Tech 41, No. 23 Tulane 20 Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Charlotte, N.C. West Virginia 30, North Carolina 10 Holiday Bowl, San Diego, Calif.

Southern Cal 42, No. 16 Louisville 28 Texas Bowl, Houston No. 22 Oklahoma St. 31, Texas A&M 23 Fenway Bowl, Boston Boston College 23, No. 17 SMU 14 Pinstripe Bowl, New York Rutgers 31, Miami 24 Pop-Tarts Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Kansas St. 28, No. 19 NC State 19 Alamo Bowl, San Antonio, Texas

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

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

Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

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

Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.

College Football Playoff Semifinal No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m.

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

MONDAY, JAN. 8

CFP National Championship, Houston Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.

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Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

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SATURDAY’S GAMES

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at Washington, 1 p.m.

Boston at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 6 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota at New York, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Denver, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 7 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORE EAST

Army 58, Merchant Marine 50 Binghamton 108, Marywood 52 Boston U. 74, Merrimack 63 CCSU 99, Saint Elizabeth 38 Cornell 77, Colgate 64 Delaware St. 77, Mount St. Mary’s 73 Duquesne 95, Cougars 47 Fairfield 78, Le Moyne 72 Fordham 87, Columbia 78 George Washington 69, Md.-Eastern Shore 63 Howard 71, La Salle 66 Iona 69, Harvard 60 Lehigh 65, Marist 58 Marshall 75, Louisiana-Lafayette 61 Navy 77, William & Mary 65 Princeton 84, Delaware 82 Rhode Island 82, Northeastern 71 Rutgers 59, Stonehill 58 Sacred Heart 92, Mercy 63 St. Francis (Pa.) 78, Campbell 76 St. John’s 84, Hofstra 79 St. Peter’s 67, Bucknell 58 Syracuse 81, Pittsburgh 73 Towson 97, Arcadia 46 UMass 79, Siena 66 Wagner 68, Manhattan 56

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HORSE RACING 12:30 p.m. FS1 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races

MEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

Alabama 101, Liberty 56 Anderson (SC) 79, Furman 74 Appalachian St. 67, Louisiana-Monroe 55 Auburn 101, Chattanooga 66 Duke 106, Queens (NC) 69 Florida 97, Quinnipiac 72 Florida Gulf Coast 72, FAU 68 George Mason 94, NC A&T 69 Georgia 93, Alabama A&M 73 Georgia Southern 88, Southern Miss. 67 Georgia St. 91, Arkansas St. 90 High Point 90, Bellarmine 85 Jacksonville 79, Erskine 52 James Madison 82, Texas St. 65 Lipscomb 78, Florida St. 75 Memphis 81, Austin Peay 70 Murray St. 75, Middle Tennessee 54 Nicholls 74, Mobile 65 Presbyterian 91, Johnson & Wales (NC) 67 Richmond 59, Lafayette 38 SC-Upstate 96, Coker 76 SE Louisiana 87, Loyola (NO) 64 South Alabama 61, Old Dominion 59 South Carolina 94, Florida A&M 62 Tennessee St. 90, UALR 82 The Citadel 106, Toccoa Falls 76 Troy 72, Coastal Carolina 65 UT Martin 81, Tennessee Tech 73 VCU 87, Gardner-Webb 73 Vanderbilt 69, Dartmouth 53 W. Carolina 90, King (Tenn.) 62 W. Kentucky 86, Abilene Christian 84 Wake Forest 86, Virginia Tech 63

MIDWEST

Davidson 72, Ohio 69 Dayton 78, Longwood 69 DePaul 70, Chicago St. 58 E. Michigan 67, Northwood (Mich.) 64 Kansas 86, Wichita St. 67 Loyola Chicago 73, Cent. Michigan 35 Marquette 72, Creighton 67 Michigan St. 87, Indiana St. 75 Missouri 92, Cent. Arkansas 59 Notre Dame 76, Virginia 54 Ohio St. 78, West Virginia 75, OT S. Illinois 62, Ill.-Chicago 50 St. Bonaventure 62, Akron 61

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas 106, UNC-Wilmington 90 Houston 81, Penn 42 Lamar 91, Paul Quinn 64 North Texas 80, LSU-Shreveport 57 Seattle 73, UTEP 61 Texas A&M 79, Prairie View 54 Texas A&M-CC 84, Schreiner 61

FAR WEST

BYU 94, Wyoming 68 CS Northridge 84, Long Beach St. 68 E. Washington 87, Sacramento St. 61 Grand Canyon 73, Louisiana Tech 70 Montana 76, Idaho St. 68 N. Colorado 92, N. Arizona 77 Nevada 92, Fresno Pacific 59 New Mexico St. 66, Cal Baptist 61

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Oregon 64, UCLA 59 Oregon St. 86, Southern Cal 70 Pacific 80, Cal Maritime 66 Portland St. 77, Idaho 72 S. Utah 95, Antelope Valley 78 San Francisco 92, MVSU 42 Texas Rio Grande Valley 77, Incarnate Word 74 UC Davis 71, Cal Poly 46 UC Irvine 75, CS Bakersfield 56 UC Riverside 79, UC Santa Barbara 77 Utah Tech 96, FIU 92, OT Weber St. 86, Montana St. 64 Yale 66, Santa Clara 58

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Akron 53, Canisius 48 Albany (NY) 87, Navy 56 Army 87, Sound 52 Binghamton 68, Chestnut Hill 54 Bryant 98, Bridgewater (Mass.) 68 Buffalo 70, Md.-Eastern Shore 61 Fairfield 72, Stonehill 49 Loyola (Md.) 66, Delaware St. 64 Michigan St. 98, Penn St. 87 Penn 72, Maine 69 Providence 51, Seton Hall 46 Richmond 70, George Washington 66 Rider 67, Lehigh 57, OT Saint Joseph’s 76, Fordham 49 St. Bonaventure 84, Loyola Chicago 72 Stony Brook 81, Cornell 56 Temple 71, UTSA 58 Villanova 86, Xavier 45 Wagner 83, Saint Elizabeth 50 Yale 72, Quinnipiac 48

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Appalachian St. 69, Louisiana-Lafayette 56 Austin Peay 53, Miami (Ohio) 44 Belmont 69, Ill. Chicago 61 Bethune-Cookman 60, Mercer 58 Charleston Southern 69, Francis Marion 56 Charlotte 74, North Texas 64 ETSU 65, Coker 53 Elon 74, High Point 66 FIU 68, Utah Tech 62 Florida 73, Winthrop 36 George Mason 74, La Salle 37 Georgia 76, Wofford 57 Howard 75, American 57 James Madison 85, Louisiana-Monroe 79 Marshall 87, Southern Miss. 72 Mississippi 76, Alcorn St. 37 Murray St. 90, Valparaiso 62 NC A&T 90, Averett 30 Old Dominion 62, South Alabama 56 Queens (NC) 66, Gardner-Webb 48 South Carolina 73, East Carolina 36 South Florida 70, SMU 61 Stetson 73, Flagler 60 Tennessee St. 83, UALR 78, OT Tulsa 71, Memphis 62 UAB 65, FAU 53 UT Martin 67, Tennessee Tech 58 VCU 65, UMass 45 W. Carolina 73, Southern Wesleyan 34

MIDWEST

Ball St. 95, Oakland City 58 Bellarmine 70, Ohio 66 Creighton 67, St. John’s 56 Drake 78, S. Illinois 59 Fort Wayne 65, Milwaukee 55 Green Bay 85, Cleveland St. 72 Illinois St. 78, Bradley 74 Indiana St. 66, Evansville 49 Iowa 94, Minnesota 71 Kansas St. 66, Cincinnati 41 Kent St. 109, La Roche 31 Michigan 69, Ohio St. 60 Missouri St. 54, N. Iowa 52 N. Illinois 98, Concordia (Ill.) 32 Northwestern 77, Rutgers 70 Purdue 89, Wisconsin 50 Toledo 94, Hillsdale 52 West Virginia 85, Kansas 60 Wichita St. 63, Tulane 60

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Arkansas St. 81, Coastal Carolina 73 Baylor 85, Texas 79 Georgia Southern 70, Texas St. 69 Iowa St. 76, Oklahoma St. 68 Lamar 61, Loyola Marymount 58 Louisiana Tech 66, Abilene Christian 49 Oklahoma 69, UCF 52 Prairie View 107, Wiley 32 Stephen F. Austin 111, North Texas at Dallas 38 TCU 81, BYU 67 Tarleton St. 52, Texas Southern 40 Texas A&M-CC 76, Concordia-Austin 45 Texas Rio Grande Valley 66, Sam Houston St. 58 Texas Tech 79, Houston 71 Texas-Arlington 61, New Mexico St. 60 UTEP 89, S. Utah 62

FAR WEST

Brown 70, San Diego 61 Cal Poly 57, UC Davis 54 Colorado 76, Utah 65 E. Washington 60, Sacramento St. 33 Fresno St. 59, Air Force 49 Grand Canyon 68, Middle Tennessee 59 Hawaii 59, Cal St.-Fullerton 49 Idaho 61, Portland St. 55 Long Beach St. 76, CS Northridge 58 N. Arizona 76, N. Colorado 72 New Mexico 69, Nevada 59 San Diego St. 74, Colorado St. 71, OT Santa Clara 65, Arizona St. 55 UC Irvine 71, CS Bakersfield 48 UC Santa Barbara 64, UC Riverside 56 UNLV 107, Utah St. 68 Wyoming 61, Boise St. 47

Dickinson scores 22 in leading Jayhawks against in-state rival The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hunter Dickinson had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and second-ranked Kansas routed Wichita State 86-67 on Saturday in the first matchup between the in-state rivals in nearly nine years.

Kevin McCullar Jr. scored 20 points and Elmarko Jackson added a career-best 12 for the Jayhawks (12-1), who have won 25 straight games in December.

Dalen Ridgnal scored 13 points for the Shockers (8-5).

Kansas and Wichita State first played in 1908, but, despite being separated by just 161 miles, the schools have met only 16 times over the years, including a pair of NCAA Tournament games. The most recent meeting was in 2015, when the Shockers beat the Jayhawks in a Midwest Regional game in Omaha, Neb. NO. 3 HOUSTON 81, PENN 42 In Houston, L.J. Cryer scored 16 points and Jamal Shead had 14, leading the Cougars to the runaway win.

Cryer scored 12 points in the first half as Houston (13-0) jumped to an 18-0 lead and led 39-17 at the break. Cryer scored his 1,000th career collegiate point between Baylor and Houston on a 3-pointer with 14:15 left in the first half.

FLORIDA GULF COAST 72, NO. 7 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 68 In Fort Myers, Fla., Zach Anderson scored 21 points, Dallion Johnson added 18 and Florida Gulf Coast earned its most significant win since its run to the Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament.

Cyris Largie scored 12 points for FGCU (6-9), which never trailed in the game’s final 34 minutes.

The Eagles came into the game as 17-point underdogs and most recently needed overtime just to beat NAIA member Florida Memorial last week.

But none of that mattered on

Saturday. Vladislav Goldin scored 21 points for FAU (10-3), and Johnell Davis added 17 for the Owls.

NO. 10 MARQUETTE 72, NO. 22 CREIGHTON 67 In Milwaukee, Sean Jones scored a career-high 15 points, Tyler Kolek also had 15 and Marquette tied a Big East record with its 20th consecutive home conference victory.

The only other Big East teams to win 20 straight home games were Pittsburgh from 2002-04, Notre Dame from 2006-09 and Marquette from 2012-14.

Creighton (9-4, 0-2) lost for the third time in four games despite getting 23 points from Baylor Scheierman and 18 from Trey Alexander. Scheierman went 7 of 13 on 3-point attempts.

NO. 14 BYU 94, WYOMING 68 In Provo, Utah, Trevin Knell and Noah Waterman each scored 17 points, leading BYU to the win.

The Cougars (12-1) scored 16 points off turnovers and knocked down 14 3-pointers in their fourth straight win.

NO. 16 DUKE 106, QUEENS 69 In Durham, N.C., Jared McCain scored a season-high 24 points, and Duke earned its fourth consecutive victory.

The Blue Devils (9-3) also got a big game from Kyle Filipowski, who had 19 points and a careerhigh five blocked shots.

NO. 19 MEMPHIS 81, AUSTIN PEAY 70 In Memphis, Tenn., David Jones scored 19 points, and the Tigers pulled away for the win.

Nae’Qwan Tomlin had 15 points, 15 rebounds and three blocked shots for Memphis (11-2), which earned its sixth straight victory.

NO. 20 JAMES MADISON 82, TEXAS STATE 65 In Harrisonburgh, Va., T.J. Bickerstaff had 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, leading James Madison to the victory.

Terrence Edwards added 17 points and Noah Freidel had 11 for the Dukes (13-0, 1-0 Sun Belt).

SIDELINES Oft-injured pitcher Sale to Braves ATLANTA — Chris Sale’s injury-filled career with the Red Sox ended Saturday when the 34-year-old left-hander accepted a trade to the Atlanta Braves that sent infielder Vaughn Grissom to Boston.

Boston also is giving cash to the Braves, covering a portion of the $27.5 million salary the seven-time All-Star is owed in 2024, the final guaranteed season of a $160 million, six-year contract. That 2024 salary includes $10 million deferred until June 30, 2039.

Sale was acquired by Boston from the Chicago White Sox in December 2016. He has made nine trips to the disabled and injured lists with the Red Sox, mostly due to shoulder and elbow ailments. He had Tommy John surgery March 30, 2020, and returned to a big league mound on Aug. 14, 2021.

He was 6-5 with a 4.30 ERA in 20 starts and 102 innings last season.

Reds give Montas one-year deal Frankie Montas and the Cincinnati Reds have agreed to a $16 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a deal that gives the 30-year-old right-hander a chance to revive his career after an injury-decimated spell with the New York Yankees.

Montas was acquired by the Yankees from Oakland with reliever Lou Trivino on Aug. 1, 2022, for four prospects.

Montas went 1-3 with a 6.35 ERA in eight starts with New York that year, later admitting he wasn’t healthy. He played just one game this season.

Knicks trade for Toronto’s Anunoby NEW YORK — The New York Knicks traded RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley to the Toronto Raptors on Saturday and got back OG Anunoby, dealing two of their top offensive players but likely getting a boost to their defense with last season’s NBA leader in steals.

The Knicks also acquired Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn, while sending the Raptors a 2024 second-round pick belonging to Detroit.

Barrett averages 18.2 points but has struggled lately with his outside shot, going 2 for 12 from 3-point range over the last two games. The No. 3 pick in the 2019 draft helped the Knicks reach the playoffs twice in the last three seasons after missing them the previous seven.

Quickley was the runner-up for the Sixth Man of the Year award last season, but there has been speculation he could be moved since the Knicks declined to give him a contract extension before this season.

The Associated Press

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to Minor League contracts with C David Banuelos, RHP Wandisson Charles, LHP Luis Gonzalez, C Micheal Perez, RHP Albert Suarez, and RHP Nathan Webb.

BOSTON RED SOX — Acquired INF Vaughn Grissom from the Atlanta Braves for LHP Chris Sale and cash considerations.

CHIGAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Flexen. Designated C Carlos Perez for assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — activated CB Bobby Price from injured reserve. Elevated WR Dan Chisena from the practice squid.

GREEN BAY PACKERS —Added CB Eric Stokes to the injured reserve. Signed S Benny Sapp III from the practice squad to the active roster. Elevated

WR Bo Melton from the practice squad to the active roster.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Elevated LB Melvin Ingram to the active roster.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DL T.J. Smith and LB Nick Vigil from the practice squad. Elevated CB Jaylin Williams and WR Lucky Jackson from the practice squad. Placed LB Try Dye on injured reserve.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed DT Ross Blacklock to the active roster from the practice squad.

Placed TE Josh Whyle on injured reserved. Elvated LB Tae Crowder and DB Kendall Sheffield from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned F Johnatan Berggren and F Austin Czarnik to Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned Trenton Bliss to Toledo (ECHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated F Brian Halonen off the injured reserve list and assigned him to Utica (AHL).

SPORTS

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Year in review Continued from Page D-1

by Zach Arnett, an Albuquerque native, La Cueva graduate and former two-sport recruit at UNM. Arnett took over in December after the death of MSU coach Mike Leach.

Jan. 2 — UNM football coach Danny Gonzales names Bryant Vincent his new offensive coordinator.

It comes 10 days after news of Vincent’s hire was leaked. He was the interim head coach at UAB in 2022, leading the Blazers to a bowl win.

He inherits a Lobos offense that finished last in the country in total offense in ’22.

Jan. 3 — Former Pojoaque Valley football coach Pat Rodriguez is named head coach at West Las Vegas. He replaces Adrian Gonzales, who went 49-43 in his eight seasons with the Dons.

Jan. 4 — Zeke Villegas is named the new football coach at Pojoaque Valley. The founder and president of the Northern New Mexico Children’s Sports League, his youth football movement in Santa Fe has become the area’s largest developmental program and has spawned countless prep players over the years.

Jan. 5 — Three days after hiring an OC, Danny Gonzales promotes Lobos cornerbacks coach Troy Reffett to defensive coordinator, replacing Rocky Long after his December departure to Syracuse.

Jan. 6 — Santa Fe High senior Alex Waggoner is signed to a contract to play the 2023 season with the New Mexico United and is eligible to play in the United Soccer League Championship while maintaining his amateur status. Waggoner skipped his senior season with the Demons to play with the United’s developmental squad, which helped him land a scholarship to the University of Michigan.

Jan. 7 — Allan Lockridge and Ricky DeHerrera are joined by longtime basketball referee Leon Lopez in their induction into the hall of fame for the Northern Rio Grande Conference. All three men have dedicated years of their lives to promote basketball, each becoming staples of the annual tournament that’s regarded as one of New Mexico’s best for small schools.

Jan. 7 — The first sellout (15,424) for a Lobos basketball home game in nearly eight years watches nationally ranked UNM lose to UNLV in The Pit. It’s the Lobos’ second straight loss after climbing to No. 21 in the AP Top 25.

Jan. 7 — Academy for Technology and the Classics opens its new on-campus gymnasium, naming it after former principal Susan Lumley. A principal, teacher and coach for more than a quarter century in Texas and New Mexico, she was instrumental securing funds that dramatically expanded the ATC campus.

Jan. 9 — Former Lobos receiver Terance Mathis is elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, becoming the second UNM player (Brian Urlacher being the other) to be enshrined. The induction ceremony will not take place until Dec. 5 in Las Vegas, Nev., and features a class that includes Tim Tebow (Florida), Reggie Bush (USC), Dwight Freeney (Syracuse), Luke Kuechly (Boston College) and Troy Vincent (Wisconsin). Mathis played three seasons at UNM in the 1980s, surpassing 250 receptions, 4,000 yards and more than 6,000 all-purpose yards. He parlayed that into a 13-year NFL career.

Jan. 9 — Georgia’s football team (15-0) hammers TCU, 65-7, in the College Football Playoff national championship game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to win its second straight title. The Bulldogs are immediately named favorites to three-peat (plus-275 by DraftKings); New Mexico State is a 500,000-to-1 longshot, UNM is one of 13 teams given 1 million-to-1 odds.

Jan. 10 — Capital boys basketball coach Ben Gomez wins the 300th game of his storied career as the Jaguars beat visiting Valencia. It is also Capital’s 600th win in program history.

Jan. 13 — The Albuquerque Isotopes introduce Pedro Lopez as their new manager. Former UNM and La Cueva star Jordan Pacheco is named the team’s new hitting coach with Chris Michalak the pitching coach. Lopez was the club’s bench and hitting coach in 2022.

Jan. 13 — Hope Christian’s boys basketball team beats Hot Springs, 62-45, giving Huskies coach Jim Murphy career win No. 855 and moving him past Pete Shock and into sole possession of second place on the state’s all-time wins list behind only Ralph Tasker (1,117).

Jan. 14 — The Lobos basketball team gets its first road win over a ranked team in 10 years as Jaelen House and Jamal Mashburn Jr. combine for 51 points in New Mexico’s 76-67 victory at No. 23 San Diego State.

Jan. 17 — Devon Sandoval, the first player ever signed by the New Mexico United and the first goalscorer in team history, announces his retirement.

Jan. 21 — Tammy Archuleta, a West Las Vegas wrestling parent, is arrested and charged with battery of a school employee after she punches a Dons’ assistant coach in the face. She accused the coach of having an affair with her husband and had a verbal exchange with the coach during a match in Las Vegas.

Jan. 21 — Down 32-13 at halftime, Cleveland’s boys basketball team rallies to a 53-50 win against visiting Volcano Vista. It snaps the Hawks’ 47-game winning streak, just six wins shy of tying the state record set by Hobbs from 1965-67.

As it is, it’s tied for the third-longest streak in state history.

Jan. 24 — Mariella Ruiz hits an uncontested layup with six seconds left to hand the St. Michael’s girls basketball team its first win over Santa Fe Indian School in eight years. The 25-23 defensive slugfest is the district opener for the Lady Horsemen.

Jan. 26 — Legendary college basketball announcer Billy Packer passes away at age 82. He was the analyst for the 1983 Final Four in The Pit when he delivered one of his most famous lines: “They won it. On the dunk,” after North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles grabbed Dereck Wittenberg’s airball and dropped in the winning shot with two seconds left to upset Houston’s star-studded Phi Slamma Jamma club. After Packer’s delivery, the broadcasters don’t say another word for 77 seconds, allowing the pandemonium of the moment play itself out on live TV. His death comes just nine weeks before the 40-year anniversary of that game.

Jan. 27 — A silent but ever-present fixture in high school basketball gyms for decades, Imelda Rodriguez passes away surrounded by her family in her Santa Fe home.

She was 84. Her husband of 56 years was NMHSCA Hall of Honor coach Bobby Rodriguez of their nine children, their sons David and Ernie have been head coaches at Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Espanola Valley, Santa Fe Indian School, Pojoaque Valley, West Las Vegas and Desert Academy, to name a few.

Jan. 28 — Major Arena Soccer League 2 officially approves a franchise for Santa Fe for the 2023-24 season. The as-of-yet unnamed team will play its home games at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, the same facility that was home to failed sports franchises from the North American Hockey League (Santa Fe RoadRunners) and the American Basketball Association (New Mexico Style).

Jan. 31 — A 22-year-old girls basketball assistant coach in Virginia is fired after she suited up and impersonated a 13-year-old in a junior varsity game in Portsmouth, Va. Feb. 1 — Tom Brady retires again.

Feb. 7 — LeBron James hits a 21-foot jumper late in the third quarter of a home game against Oklahoma City, giving the Lakers’ guard the NBA’s all-time scoring record. That same night, the UNM men’s basketball team loses its ninth straight game to Nevada (and seventh straight to former coach Steve Alford) on a buzzer-beater in The Pit. Feb. 7 — A boys’ high school basketball game in Oklahoma saw Weatherford beat Anadarko, 4-2.

Anadarko, ranked ninth in Oklahoma’s Class 3A, stalled the entire game. Weatherford led 2-0 at halftime and held Anadarko scoreless until the final three minutes of the fourth quarter.

Feb. 10 — Less than 48 hours before the Super Bowl, New Mexico State becomes the biggest sports story in the county when the school suspends operations for its men’s basketball team and places the coaching staff on paid administrative leave. An initial statement says it has nothing to do with a fatal shooting involving player Mike Peake earlier in the season in Albuquerque, nor with a brawl between UNM students and NMSU athletes during a football game in Las Cruces in October, 2022.

Feb. 12 — NMSU cancels the rest of its basketball season, citing allegations of hazing of a sexual nature where three players regularly targeted at least one player, possibly two. The details are spelled out in heavily redacted police report filed by the victim. The announcement comes just 42 minutes before kickoff of Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Ariz. — a 38-35 Chiefs win. The Aggies finish 9-22 overall and in last place in the WAC after conference officials declare NMSU’s final six games are all forfeit losses.

Feb. 14 — NMSU terminates the contract of Heiar less than 11 months into a five-year contract worth $300,000 annually. He his fired for cause after refusing to participate in a pair of investigations; one for the Peake shooting, the other over the recent hazing incident.

Feb. 20 — JuJu Bernardino scores all 15 of Academy for Technology and the Classics’ points in the third quarter of a 64-47 win over Menaul in the District 2-2A tiebreaker in Estancia. The win nails down ATC’s first-ever boys basketball state tournament berth.

Feb. 22 — NMSU extends refunds for all season ticket holders for men’s basketball.

March 4 — Santa Fe High’s boys basketball team loses in the opening round of the Class 5A state tournament, dropping a 56-41 decision at West Mesa. It proves to be the final game for Demons coach Zack Cole, who resigns later in the year to take the same job at Cleveland.

March 9 — With tensions heating up between a proposed arena soccer team for the Genoveva Chavez Community Center and the GCCC’s skating community, mayor Alan Webber announced the city has

JIM WEBER/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

New Mexico guard Jaelen House shoots under pressure by UNLV guard EJ Harkless during a January game at The Pit. House — who averaged 16.9 points, 4.7 assists and 2.7 steals per game during the 2022-23 season — helped fuel a Lobo resurgence that saw UNM start 12-0 but lose 12 of its final 14 games. abandoned its unofficial arrangement to help get the team up and running. It effectively kills any chance of having arena soccer at the GCCC. March 9 — The NMAA announces Santa Fe’s Joe Butler will be the lone inductee for its annual Hall of Fame class. A St. Michael’s and Notre Dame graduate, he had a legendary run as an athletic director at his alma mater, Santa Fe High and Moriarty.

March 10 — The SFIS girls basketball team commits more than 20 turnovers and misses 12 of its first 13 shots in a 46-24 loss to Tohatchi before 12,000 fans in The Pit for the Class 3A state championship game.

March 10 — Escalante’s girls are beaten in the Class 2A basketball championship game in The Pit, losing 44-30 to Texico.

March 11 — Behind a smothering defense, St. Michael’s captures the Class 3A boys basketball title with a lopsided win over Robertson in The Pit. The Horsemen finish the season on a 22-game winning streak.

March 11 — The remarkable run of the ATC boys basketball team ends with a loss to Pecos in the Class 2A championship game in The Pit. For the Panthers, it’s their fifth title in seven years.

March 15 — The debut of Santa Fe High’s new turf baseball field is snowed out. The seven-figure facelift includes new batting cages and other amenities, but it’s no match for a passing snow storm that muddies the mound and home plate area.

March 16 — The UNM men’s basketball team loses 83-69 to Utah Valley in the opening round of the NIT in The Pit. The Lobos started 14-0 but lost 12 of their final 22 games in Pitino’s second season.

March 18 — Another title for the Pony Express. The drill team from St. Michael’s wins the Class 3A blue trophy for the 29th time, more than any dance team in state history.

A day later, the Taos cheer team wins the 4A state title for the third straight year.

March 19 — Bill Rogan is named manager of the Marysville Drakes, an expansion team in the Pecos League. Rogan spent the previous two seasons managing the Santa Fe Fuego.

March 21 — Santa Fe native Ron Porterfield joins fellow New Mexico State alum Ken Crenshaw in Team USA’s dugout for the World Baseball Classic championship game against Japan in Miami. The pair had worked the entire tournament as athletic trainers for the U.S., a team of megastar players considered to be one best teams ever assembled.

March 24 — NMSU hires Jason Hooten as its new men’s basketball coach. The former Sam Houston State coach is dealing with a complete overhaul as every player, coach and support staff member will soon leave the program on their own or be shown the door by Hooten. That includes forward Mike Peake, the player involved in a fatal shooting on the UNM campus just four months earlier.

March 27 — First Serve New Mexico is recognized by the USTA, getting named the National Junior Tennis and Learning chapter of the year.

March 29 — A new collective bargaining agreement essentially doubles the pay for minor league baseball players. It comes just as the Albuquerque Isotopes report to town for their first preseason workout.

March 30 — The New Mexico United and city of Albuquerque leaders reach an agreement to develop plans for a new 10,000seat stadium for the soccer club at Balloon Fiesta Park.

March 31 — Northern New Mexico College men’s basketball player Keane Jamal Harris, a 6-foot-2 guard, participates in the slam dunk contest during the buildup to the Final Four in Houston. He failed to make it out of the first round.

April 1 — Capital’s Katelyn Padilla wins the state title in the 165pound weight class at the State Powerlifting Championships in Rio Rancho.

April 3 — Mountain West champion San Diego State loses 76-59 to UConn in the men’s basketball national championship game. The Aztecs are the first MWC team to reach the Final Four.

April 12 — UNM men’s hoops signs former Iona center Nelly Junior Joseph out of the transfer portal.

April 14 — Santa Fe Public Schools superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez is named to the NMAA Board of Directors.

April 16 — Teri Morrison’s spot as the SFIS girls basketball coach is vacated when the school announces it will open the position.

Technically the winningest coach in state history, Morrison will land the head job at Albuquerque High five weeks later.

April 19 — Former NMSU men’s basketball players Deuce Benjamin and Shakiru Odunewu, along with Benjamin’s father, file a civil suit against the school alleging former coach Greg Heiar and other school officials knew of hazing incidents within the men’s program during the 2022-23 season.

April 20 — UNM unveils its new $4.3 million weight training facility inside its football stadium.

April 26 — Online site Stacker. com names Taos as the top sports high school in New Mexico ahead of options like La Cueva, Cleveland, Artesia, Albuquerque Academy or Volcano Vista.

April 28 — Three former women’s basketball players at Eastern New Mexico University file a civil lawsuit against the school claiming school officials, including athletic director Paul Weir, they were sexually assaulted the husband of the-ENMU women’s coach and did nothing about it.

April 30 — Former Lobos safety Jerrick Reed is taken by the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL Draft. He’s the first UNM player in five years to be drafted.

April 30 — Capital’s softball team is handed the No. 16 seed in the Class 5A state tournament, ending a 17-year playoff drought for the Jaguars.

May 4 — McCurdy’s baseball team beats Mora in the final home game of Bobcats coach Roberto DeVargas. His team is eliminated from the state playoff a week later.

May 6 — The St. Michael’s track and field teams continue their dominance at the state meet; the boys win their fourth straight state championship while the girls get their third.

May 6 — Ralph Bolton’s career as tennis coach at Santa Fe Prep comes to an end at the conclusion of the state tournament in Albuquerque. He announced earlier in the season he was retiring.

May 6 — The New Mexico Highlands baseball team loses 10-6 in Game 2 of a doubleheader at Colorado Christian. The Cowboys finish the season with a 3-47 record.

May 12 — UNM makes men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino a millionaire with a five-year deal that will pay him $1.1 million in 2023-24 and more than $1.2 million by the end of the deal.

May 13 — Santa Fe High’s Bryce Melton wins the 100- and 200meter titles at the Class 5A state track and field meet. That same day, the Los Alamos boys and girls teams sweep the 4A state titles.

May 13 — Former Santa Fe High boys soccer star Alex Waggoner scores his first goal as a professional while playing for New Mexico United.

May 17 — The NMAA adopts a new rule for free throw shooting, doing away with 1-and-1 scenarios after a seventh team foul in each half. Now teams will head to the line after a fifth foul in each quarter.

May 20 — Zack Cole is named the basketball coach at Cleveland.

May 22 — The Attorney General’s office said former NMSU men’s basketball player Mike Peake will not face criminal charges for his involvement in a fatal shooting on the UNM campus in 2022.

May 24 — Cindy Roybal is named the new girls hoops coach at Pojoaque Valley. It comes less than a week after the school hired former NNMC coach Ryan Cordova to lead its boys program.

June 2 — Popular volleyball coach Josie Adams, who led the Demons to an appearance in the Class 5A state title match during the coronavirus pandemic-shortened 2020 season, resigns.

June 3 — The Santa Fe Fuego open their season with a 24-14 loss to Trinidad at Fort Marcy Ballpark. The game lasts four hours and includes a pregame shower that delayed first pitch for 30 minutes.

June 6 — Longtime Santa Fe High boys basketball assistant coach Francisco Rivera is promoted to the role of head coach.

June 12 — Marc Ducharme, citing health issues, steps down as athletic director for Santa Fe Public Schools. Kristy Janda-Wagner is named his successor four weeks later.

June 14 — Former MLS star Eric Quill is named coach of the New Mexico United.

June 15 — San Diego State informs the Mountain West Conference it intends to resign from the league effective immediately. It’s done, presumably, as a precursor to the school joining the Pac-12.

June 25 — The NMAA adopts a “Two-Strike Policy” to curb poor fan behavior. Bylaw 7.7.4 — formerly titled Crowd Control & Unsportsmanlike Conduct — bans a team from participation after it’s cited two times by the NMAA for unruly fan conduct.

June 26 — Cindy Roybal is inducted into the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame.

June 27 — A pair of former NMSU men’s basketball players reach an $8 million settlement with the school over their allegations that school officials knew about sexual hazing incidents within the program but did nothing about it.

June 28 — Harry Estep steps down as Luna Community College’s baseball coach to take the same position across town at NMHU. June 29 — Problems with the irrigation system at the MRC force the city to shut down the Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe in an attempt to keep the course alive.

July 11 — Santa Fe Little League claims three state championships just days apart as its 50/70 Intermediate All-Star baseball team won its tournament in Albuquerque, its senior softball team did the same in Silver City and its 8-10-year-old team turned the trick in Rio Rancho.

July 13 — The parents of former student-athlete Luke Archuleta (Española Valley High School) file a lawsuit against the school district claiming their son was unfairly targeted and mistreated by the school’s basketball coaching staff.

July 14 — Alfonso Camarena is named the St. Michael’s girls soccer coach just nine months after he was forced out by the school’s previous administration.

July 16 — Carolina Ruiz of Santa Fe Little League competed in the West Regional Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. She launched 18 bombs in the first two rounds but was defeated in the semifinals.

July 19 — Amid the crumbling Pac 12 landscape, San Diego State asks for and receives a second chance to stay in the Mountain West. That same day, UNM’s football team is picked last in the preseason football poll.

July 22 — Former UNM athletic director Paul Krebs is acquitted of embezzlement charges brought forth by the state. It stemmed from Krebs’s involvement in a much-publicized golf fundraising trip to Scotland several years before.

July 27 — Santa Fe Little League’s senior softball all-star team is beaten by a team from Waco, Texas, in the championship game of the District 9 Regionals in Louisiana. A win would have sent the team to the Little League World Series.

July 30 — Fuego outfielder Parker DePasquale hits five home runs in a single game, driving in 11 in a game against Blackwell at Fort Marcy Park. He hit three or them in a 21-run first inning. It turns out to be the highlight of an awful season for the Fuego, who endured a team-record 15-game losing streak in the middle of the season.

Aug. 3 — Kathy Hipwood announces her retirement as the girls’ cross country coach at Los Alamos.

Aug. 18 — A team sleepover for the Los Alamos volleyball team leads to a flurry of coaching changes after multiple members of the staff are said to have consumed alcohol in the presence of the players. The Hilltoppers go through three different coaches but eventually end their season in the Class 4A state tournament.

Aug. 20 — Eventual state champion St. Michael’s opens its football season with a 39-30 win at Taos.

Aug. 26 — Capital’s football team loses 28-20 at St. Michael’s, kickstarting a remarkable string of five straight losses by one possession (and seven in 10 gams on the season). The Jaguars finish 1-9, losing nine straight to end things.

Aug. 27 — Former Los Alamos track star Chase Ealey defended her shot put title at the World Athletics Championships in Hungary.

She won the event with a top throw of 20.43 meters.

Sept. 16 — New Mexico State beats UNM 27-17 at University Stadium. Afterward, Lobos coach Danny Gonzales puts his neck on the line by guaranteeing a bowl berth for his team.

Sept. 16 — Santa Fe High’s volleyball team wins the Tournament of Champions, a three-day event it hosts each fall. It’s the Demons’ first championship in 25 years.

Sept. 18 — A video of NMSU quarterback Diego Pavia surfaces showing him urinating on UNM’s indoor practice field during a summer visit.

Sept. 25 — Standout St. Michael’s student-athlete Raylee Hunt announces she will accept a scholarship to swim at Duke.

Sept. 29 — Santa Fe High’s football team has its Friday night game at Lovington delayed to the following day after a series of nearby

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lightning strikes push officials to postpone the game until Saturday afternoon.

Oct. 6 — SFIS sweeps Robertson in volleyball, marking the Braves’ first win over the Cardinals in 12 years.

Oct. 6 — Robertson football coach Leroy Gonzalez returns to the team’s sideline since experiencing multiple health issues earlier in the season. He will attend every game the rest of the way, roaming the sidelines on a motorized scooter.

Oct. 12 — The UNM men’s basketball team is picked third in the preseason MWC coaches poll behind San Diego State and Boise State.

Oct. 17 — The Albuquerque Isotopes are sold to a New York-based ownership group, ending a 22-year relationship with Ken Young as the team’s owner.

Oct. 20 — Popular sports broadcasting company SportsPrimo has $4,000 in gear stolen from one of the director’s vehicle in Santa Fe. Oct. 21 — The UNM football team beats Hawaii on homecoming weekend, snapping a 20-game home losing streak against Mountain West opponents.

Oct. 25 — Paul Weir steps down as athletic director at Eastern New Mexico to take an administrative role in the Abilene Christian athletics department.

Oct. 26 — Just two days before the Lobos play their first basketball game of the season, celebrated offseason transfer Nelly Junior Joseph arrives on campus. He’d been stuck in his native Nigeria awaiting an updated visa.

Oct. 27 — Santa Fe High’s football team ends its season with a 28-21 win at Capital. It proves to be the final game for Jaguars coach Joaquin “Wax” Garcia, who steps down shortly after the season wraps up.

Nov. 1 — Santa Fe native Matt Lucero gets a world championship ring as the Texas Rangers beat Arizona, 5-0, in Game 5 of the World Series. The Rangers’ head trainer, he is frequently shown during broadcasts lending care to players in the dugout and on the field.

Nov. 3 — A perennial bottom feeder, the Española Valley football team beats St. Pius, 31-7, in the opening round of the Class 4A state playoffs. It’s the first playoff win in school history. The Sundevils won their district title two weeks earlier and were eliminated in the quarterfinals on Nov. 11 at Lovington.

Nov. 11 — Landen Sandoval of St. Michael’s wins the 3A cross country state championship in Albuquerque. Judah Daffron of Taos does the same in 4A. Chloe Grieco of St. Michael’s is crowned the 3A girls champ. The ATC girls, Santa Fe Prep girls, and Los Alamos boys win state titles.

Nov. 11 — The St. Michael’s football team mounts a stunning fourth-quarter rally to beat district rival Raton in the quarterfinals of the 3A playoffs. The Horsemen trailed 14-0 with nine minutes remaining before storming back.

Nov. 18 — St. Michael’s sweeps SFIS in the championship match of the 3A state volleyball tournament in Rio Rancho, giving the Lady Horsemen back-to-back titles.

Nov. 18 — NMSU shocks Auburn with a decisive 31-10 win at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn pays $1.85 million for the so-called “bodybag” game. That same night, UNM stuns Fresno State on the road.

Nov. 25 — A strong overnight snow storm dumps five inches onto Ivan Head Stadium, but it’s not nearly enough to stop the St. Michael’s football team from beating rival Robertson in the 3A championship game. Volunteers arrive four hours before kickoff to clear the field in time for the early afternoon kickoff.

Nov. 25 — UNM fires football coach Danny Gonzales after four years in charge of his alma mater.

The Lobos ended their season 4-8 in what was their most successful season under Gonzales.

Nov. 28 — Cleveland’s boys basketball team pounds Capital, 80-48, in the debut of Storm head coach Zack Cole.

Dec. 2 — A sellout crowd in The Pit watches UNM hammer NMSU, 106-62, in the return of the Rio Grande Rivalry. It’s the first meeting between the teams in two years.

Dec. 6 — UNM hires Bronco Mendenhall as its football coach. The former Lobos assistant and head coach at BYU and Virginia is given a five-year contract worth $1.2 million annually. It’s twice the sum of what NMSU is paying coach Jerry Kill.

Dec. 6 — The NMAA reclassifies a number of schools for the 202425 school year, including Capital’s football team dropping from 6A to 5A. Dec. 16 — The Santa Fe Gloom debut as the city’s latest professional sports organization. The futsal club beats visiting Colorado in the season opener at Toby Roybal Memorial Gym. Dec. 16 — The NMSU football team is beaten by Fresno State in the Isleta New Mexico Bowl, but the real news comes afterward when Aggies coach Jerry Kill heavily criticizes UNM athletic director Eddie Nuñez for allegedly trying to prevent NMSU from using the Lobos’ indoor practice facility in the days leading into the game.

It stems from the incident where Pavia urinated on the field over the summer.

Dec. 23 — Just two days before Christmas, Jerry Kill resigns as NMSU’s coach. A number or players immediately enter the transfer portal, including Pavia. The school immediately names Kill assistant Tony Sanchez the new head coach.

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WEEK 17 NFL CAPSULES

By Cindy Boren

The Washington Post

A new team has staked an undisputed claim to being the NFL’s best heading into the next-to-last week of the regular season.

The Baltimore Ravens gained separation by thoroughly beating the San Francisco 49ers behind Lamar Jackson, who is 20-1 against NFC teams. (The only loss was to Daniel Jones’ Giants in October 2022.) The Ravens’ perch may not be comfortable, though.

They lead the Miami Dolphins in the race for the AFC’s top seed and, conveniently enough, host the Dolphins on New Year’s Eve. Behind Jackson, a strong MVP possibility, Baltimore has yet to lose two games in a row — and in each of its three losses, the decisive points came after the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter (with one coming in overtime).

Here’s a look at some interesting facts entering Week 17.

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Dolphins (11-4) at Ravens (12-3) 11 a.m., CBS Miami found a way to win differently on Christmas Eve, beating Dallas with a performance more gritty than glittering and relying on Jason Sanders to kick five field goals. But the Dolphins emerged with their first signature win and secured a playoff berth. Another opportunity for a statement victory beckons as the Ravens, Dolphins and Browns slug it out for the AFC’s top seed.

Cardinals (3-12) at Eagles (11-4) 11 a.m., Fox Philadelphia has a one-game lead in the NFC East and faces an easier path to the division title than Dallas. After this game, the Eagles play the Giants; Dallas must play a strong Detroit team Saturday before finishing the regular season at Washington.

Chargers (5-10) at Broncos (7-8) 2:25 p.m., CBS After a disastrous start to the season, Denver looked promising but has been doomed by four terrible losses at home by a total of 16 points to the Raiders, Commanders, Jets and Patriots — teams with 21 wins among them.

Packers (7-8) at Vikings (7-8) 6:20 p.m., NBC Jordan Love has a better touchdown-interception figure through 16 weeks (27-11) than Patrick Mahomes (26-14). The banged-up team that emerges as the winner before the ball drops in Times Square has a chance to earn a playoff spot on the final Sunday of the season, when Minnesota visits Detroit and Green Bay hosts Chicago.

OTHER GAMES

Patriots (4-11) at Bills (9-6) 11 a.m.

Buffalo’s Josh Allen (51) joined Cam Newton (75) as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with 50 or more career rushing touchdowns.

Allen is the first NFL player to post four straight seasons of 40 or more total touchdowns.

Falcons (7-8) at Bears (6-9) 11 a.m.

With Desmond Ridder benched, Taylor Heinicke was back at quarterback against Indianapolis and

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kept Atlanta in the running in the NFC South.

Titans (5-10) at Texans (8-7) 11 a.m.

Running back Derrick Henry threw his second touchdown pass of the season last week, as many as quarterback Ryan Tannehill has on the entire year.

Raiders (7-8) at Colts (8-7) 11 a.m.

There’s a sobering note for the Raiders as they surf the emotional wave of beating the Chiefs on Christmas. QB Aidan O’Connell did not complete a pass in the last three quarters as the Raiders became the first team since 2000 to accomplish that dubious feat. Only five teams have won at Arrowhead Stadium without scoring an offensive touchdown.

Panthers (2-13) at Jaguars (8-7) 11 a.m.

Jacksonville QB Trevor Lawrence, the No. 1 pick in the 2021 draft, has more career interceptions (37, including five this month) than New England’s Mac Jones (36), the 15th pick in 2021.

Rams (8-7) at Giants (5-10) 11 a.m.

The Rams arrived at their Week 10 bye with a 3-6 record and had lost 18 of 26 games since winning Super Bowl LVI. They’ve been one of the hotter teams since, winning four of five games (with the only loss coming in overtime in Baltimore) while averaging 433.8 yards and 32.4 points.

Saints (7-8) at Buccaneers (8-7) 11 a.m.

Baker Mayfield is 4-0 in December, passing for 1,010 yards and nine touchdowns with only one interception. Tampa Bay can secure the NFC South title with one win in the final two weeks. Its regular season finale is at Carolina.

49ers (11-4) at Commanders (4-11) 11 a.m.

Kyle Shanahan is 0-38 when trailing by eight or more points going into the fourth quarter. Last week, for the first time since Colin Kaepernick in 2015, a 49ers QB threw four interceptions.

Steelers (8-7) at Seahawks (8-7) 2:05 p.m.

Mason Rudolph became the first Steelers QB to pass for 250 or more yards and two or more touchdowns in a game since Ben Roethlisberger in 2021 — the last season in which Rudolph previously started a game.

Chargers (5-10) at Broncos (7-8) 2:25 p.m.

After a disastrous start to the season, Denver looked promising but has been doomed by four terrible losses at home by a total of 16 points to the Raiders, Commanders, Jets and Patriots — teams with 21 wins among them.

Bengals (8-7) at Chiefs (9-6) 2:25 p.m.

In the Christmas loss, Kansas City handed the Raiders two defensive touchdowns seven seconds apart in the second quarter.

While Mahomes and his wide receivers have struggled, tight end Travis Kelce hasn’t been a reliable weapon. Often double- and triple-teamed, he hasn’t had more than 100 receiving yards since Oct. 22 and hasn’t scored since Nov. 20.

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Wilson, Broncos seem poised for split

By Mark Maske

The Washington Post

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s Jarrett Stidham takes over for the benched Russell Wilson as the Denver Broncos’ starting quarterback Sunday, there is considerable doubt that Wilson and the Broncos will repair their relationship.

Coach Sean Payton made the switch Wednesday from Wilson, the nine-time Pro Bowl selection and Super Bowl winner for the Seattle Seahawks, to Stidham, a fifthyear pro who is on his third NFL team.

Wilson confirmed to reporters Friday the Broncos threatened in late October — during the team’s bye week and just after a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs — to bench him for the rest of the season if he did not agree to adjust his contract and address an injury guarantee tied to a $37 million offseason payment.

The contentiousness leaves other NFL teams believing Wilson, 35, probably will be available in the offseason, with the Broncos poised to release Wilson if they’re unable to trade him.

“I don’t see how that situation gets fixed,” said a high-ranking official with an NFL franchise, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Wilson is under contract to another team. “I would think in your planning you would have to say that he will be on the market.”

The $37 million payment due to Wilson under his contract currently is guaranteed against injury, and it becomes fully guaranteed in March. Wilson also confirmed the league and the NFL Players Association became involved in the matter during the exchange that began in late October.

“They came up to me during the bye week, the beginning of the bye week, on Monday or Tuesday,” Wilson said Friday, “and they told me that if I didn’t change my contract, my injury guarantee, that I’d be benched for the rest of the year. “... I was definitely disappointed about it. ... The NFLPA and NFL got involved or whatever, I think, at some point.”

Wilson is the NFL’s seventh-rated passer as he heads to the bench.

“I came here to play here, to win,” Wilson said. “I knew it was going to be a process.

I signed a seven-year deal for us to go and play hard. That’s my goal every time I step in between the white lines, is give everything I have. I want to be here. I want to play here. I want to be able to win here. I want to win championships here. ...

“I want to be the best teammate and

GENEVA HEFFERNAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Denver quarterback Russell Wilson is sacked by New England defensive tackle Christian Barmore during the Broncos’ loss Dec. 24 in Denver. The defeat at the hands of the four-win Patriots may be the final start of Wilson’s two-season tenure with the Broncos, after coach Sean Payton announced last week Jarrett Stidham will start the remainder of the 2023 season and the sides seem primed to separate in the offseason.

leader that I can be, in the midst of it all.

And so that’s why I was out here at practice every day. I told Jarrett I’d help him and do whatever it takes and keep the guys going and try to lead the right way. That’s all I know.”

Payton maintained Friday that the quarterback switch was made for football reasons and that he was not involved in any contract issues, calling that the responsibility of General Manager George Paton.

“I understand the question,” Payton said at a news conference. “And it’s fair, and I totally get it. I’m not privy to any of those [conversations]. I’m handling the football.

And I know this: The number one reason for taking this job, for me, was ownership and winning. ... That’s something George and the front office [did]. I’m not involved in any of that. I mean, certainly I’m involved in a lot. And there’ll be a time and place at the end of the season where maybe some of the questions that you might have, someone else will be able to answer. My focus has been on winning.”

The Broncos obtained Wilson in a March 2022 trade in which they sent a package of players and draft picks, including two first-rounders, to the Seahawks. They signed Wilson to a five-year, approximately $245 million contract extension that September,

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Hall of Fame receiver Bob Hayes.

The NFC North champion Lions (11-5) went for the victory after entering the game with Continued from Page D-1 hopes of getting one of the top two seeds in the NFC. Brown, Goff completed a pass “I told the offense that we to lineman Taylor Decker, but were going down, 1:41 left, we’re he was ruled to be an ineligible going to go down and score and receiver. then we’re going to go for 2 and The Lions went for 2 again finish this game off,” Lions coach from the 7-yard line and were Dan Campbell said. “I told them stopped on an interception that that, and so that’s what we’re didn’t even reach the end zone, doing.” but the Cowboys were called for The playoff-bound Cowboys offsides.

(11-5) have a shot at the NFC East On the final attempt, Goff’s title, but need division-leading pass to James Mitchell short of Philadelphia to lose at least once the goal line was incomplete, fin- in the final two weeks. ishing off the Dallas celebration Dallas went ahead 17-13 on of two-time Super Bowl-winning Brandin Cooks’ scoring catch coach Jimmy Johnson’s induction from Prescott midway through into the team’s ring of honor at the fourth quarter, and the Cowhalftime. boys extended the lead to seven “Very stressful,” said Lamb, on Brandon Aubrey’s record 35th who had a career-high 227 yards field goal without a miss to start receiving. “But definitely I know his career. my defense had us, and they held Goff’s second interception set it down.” up Aubrey’s kick, but he led the Lamb’s touchdown was the Lions 75 yards in nine plays to St. second-longest pass in club Brown’s TD catch. history — behind the 95-yard Goff said Decker, the starting connection in 1966 between two left tackle, reported to officials more ring of honor members in and Dan Skipper, a backup offenDon Meredith and Pro Football sive tackle, did not. Skipper said

putting him under contract through the 2028 season. Wilson’s contract would count $85 million against the Broncos’ salary cap if they release him this offseason, though that cap hit might be spread over multiple seasons.

Payton said Friday the Broncos have not made a decision about Wilson’s status beyond this season.

It remains possible Wilson will stay with the Broncos under a revised contract. But that seems increasingly unlikely, given the tensions between the sides and the now-public nature of the contract squabble.

The Broncos take a 7-8 record into Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Denver. They have lost two straight and three of four but remain alive in the playoff race. They’re 12th in the AFC standings in Payton’s first season with the franchise.

It’s Stidham’s job now. His previous two NFL starts came late last season for the Las Vegas Raiders after they sat Derek Carr before releasing him in February. Stidham was a fourth-round draft choice by the New England Patriots in 2019.

“I know how this has been written,” Payton said. “But this decision is strictly what I believe gives us a chance to win number eight.”

he didn’t report to an official.

Two players can’t report to be eligible receivers on the same play.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” said Campbell, who was visibly angry with referee Brad Allen after the successful 2-point play was negated.

In a pool report, Allen said Skipper reported to him as eligible, but then lined up in a tackle spot that didn’t require him to report. Allen said Decker didn’t report, and that his conversation with Decker was about Skipper reporting.

Video showed Allen and Decker talking before Allen said something to the Dallas defense.

“That conversation is where [Skipper] reports to me, and I then go to the defensive team, and I say to them ‘[Skipper] has reported as an eligible receiver,’ so they will be aware of who has reported,” Allen said in the pool report.

Goff finished 19 for 34 for 271 yards with a TD and two interceptions, and David Montgomery had a scoring run.

“It’s unfortunate, man,” Goff said. “I don’t know if I’ve had this feeling before where you feel like

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UCLA survives top-10 L.A. battle to stay unbeaten The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Londynn Jones scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, and No. 2 UCLA defeated No. 6 Southern California 71-64 in a battle of unbeaten crosstown rivals, despite 27 points and 11 rebounds from JuJu Watkins 2 UCLA 71 at a sold out Pauley Pavilion.

6 USC 64 Lauren Betts had 15 points and eight rebounds while Kiki Rice scored 12 for the Bruins (12-0, 1-0 Pac-12), who beat the Trojans for the ninth straight time.

McKenzie Forbes scored 23 for the Trojans (10-1, 0-1) and Rayah Marshall pulled down 14 rebounds.

It was the first ranked matchup between the rivals since 1985 and the first since March 1981 where both have been in the top 10.

NO. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA 73, EAST CAROLINA 36 In Greenville, N.C., Kamilla Cardoso had 12 points and 10 rebounds and South Carolina beat East Carolina.

Freshman MiLaysia Fulwiley added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Gamecocks (12-0) in their final test before jumping into Southeastern Conference play.

NO. 10 BAYLOR 85, NO. 5 TEXAS 79 In Austin, Texas, Jada Walker scored 19 points and Baylor opened Big 12 conference play with a win over Texas, which played its first game without injured point guard Rori Harmon.

The Bears (12-0) also got 18 points and eight rebounds from Dre’Una Edwards. Baylor has won 14 in a row at

Texas (13-1) in a rivalry that won’t see as many matchups once the Longhorns leave for the Southeastern Conference after this season.

Texas freshman Madison Booker had 25 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in taking over the point-guard duties for Harmon, who was lost for the season when she tore a knee ligament in practice this week.

NO. 7 LSU 110, JACKSONVILLE 68 In Baton Rouge, La., Annesah Morrow and Flau’jae Johnson scored 20 points each as LSU had six players score in double figures and beat Jacksonville.

Angel Reese had 17 points and a season-high 20 rebounds and Morrow had 10 rebounds for LSU (13-1).

NO. 8 COLORADO 76, NO. 12 UTAH 65 In Boulder, Colo., Jaylyn Sherrod had a career-high 34 points, Aaronette Vonleh scored 18 and Colorado rode a strong finish to a win over Utah in the Pac-12 opener for both teams.

Sara-Rose Smith added 11 points and 12 rebounds for Colorado (11-1).

Alissa Pili scored 27 points to lead Utah (10-3). No other player scored in double figures for the Utes, who were held to a season low in points.

NO. 11 KANSAS STATE 66, CINCINNATI 41 In Cincinnati, Gabby Gregory had 12 of her 17 points in the second quarter when Kansas State took control and the Wildcats coasted to a win over the Big 12 newcomer Bearcats.

Zyanna Walker added 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting for the Wildcats, who are 13-1 for the fifth time in school history. Ayoka Lee had eight rebounds, making her just the

second Wildcat to ever reach 1,000 boards.

MICHIGAN 69, NO. 17 OHIO STATE 60 In Ann Arbor, Mich., Laila Phelia scored a career-high 26 points and Michigan pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat rival Ohio State.

Lauren Hansen, a graduate transfer from Missouri, finished with 17 points for Michigan (11-2, 2-0 Big Ten).

NO. 21 CREIGHTON 67, ST. JOHN’S 56 In Omaha, Neb., Lauren Jensen scored 20 points, Kennedy Townsend added a career-high 14 off the bench and Creighton beat St. John’s.

Molly Mogensen added 10 points for Creighton (10-2, 1-1 Big East). Jensen had six assists, Townsend had six rebounds, and Mallory Brake contributed four steals.

Jillian Archer had 19 points for St. John’s (7-7, 1-1) and Unique Drake had 16 points.

NO. 23 TCU 81, BYU 67 In Fort Worth, Texas, Sedona Prince had 25 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks, Madison Connor had 21 points and TCU pulled away to beat BYU in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

TCU (14-0) has won 14 straight to open a season for the first time in Horned Frogs basketball history.

NO. 25 WEST VIRGINIA 85, KANSAS 60 In Lawrence, Kan., Jordan Harrison had a career-high 21 points, Kyah Watson had a double-double and West Virginia opened Big 12 Conference play with a win over Kansas.

Ja’Naiya Quinerly had 13 points for West Virginia (12-0), which is ranked for the first time since 2021.

you won and then you didn’t.”

Prescott finished 26 for 38 for 345 yards with an interception.

Lamb broke two of receiver Michael Irvin’s single-season club records from 1995 while also setting career highs with 13 catches in his first 200-yard game.

The third catch broke Irvin’s mark of 111, although it ended up being a turnover when he fumbled into the end zone out of bounds when Dallas was on the verge of a 14-3 lead.

Lamb has temporary taken the NFL receiving yardage lead with 1,651 yards, 10 more than Miami’s Tyreek Hill, who plays Sunday.

Irvin had 1,603 yards in 1995.

“I really don’t know where to start,” Lamb said. “Shout out to the defense for bailing us out. I told y’all I’d enjoy it more if we won, and we did.”

Irvin was there to see every catch and yard. He and his fellow Hall of Fame “Triplets” from the 1990s Super Bowl winners — quarterback Troy Aikman and running back Emmitt Smith — greeted Johnson as their former coach joined them in the ring of honor during a halftime ceremony.

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annoyed, they clean it for me.”

“It needs to be cleaned,” coach Lisa Bluder quickly added.

The record-breaking assist came on a pass that Hannah Stuelke, who had 19 points, turned into a layup with 47 seconds left in the third quarter.

“Caitlin always finds me,” Stuelke said.

All of Clark’s milestones, though, are something Bluder has grown to appreciate.

“I relish it,” Bluder said. “It’s so much fun. I want her to get double-doubles, I want her to break records. To me, it’s so much fun to watch her do that. I never get tired of her passing.”

Clark immediately interrupted.

“Do you ever get tired of my shooting, though?” she said, smiling.

“No,” Bluder said, who then smiled as she added, “Well, sometimes.”

Clark was good with her shooting in this game, going 13 of 22 from the field, including 8 of 16 on 3-pointers.

Iowa (13-1, 2-0 Big Ten) extended its winning streak to 10 games, the program’s longest streak since the 2004-05 team opened the season with 13 consecutive wins.

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UW, Texas didn’t need to flip rosters In era of transfer portal, new coaches built contenders using players already on the team

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Remaking a roster has never been easier in college football for a coach taking over a new team.

If the players aren’t to the new guy’s liking, they can be nudged — or even shoved — into the transfer portal to create room for potential upgrades.

As Deion Sanders told the players at Colorado in his first team meeting: “I’m bringing my luggage with me, and it’s Louis.”

At Washington and Texas, extreme makeovers weren’t needed. In fact, the holdovers from the previous regimes for the second-ranked Huskies (13-0) and thirdranked Longhorns (12-1) formed the core of two College Football Playoff teams that will face each other Monday night in the Sugar Bowl.

The programs Washington coach Kalen DeBoer and Texas coach Steve Sarkisian inherited weren’t necessarily lacking talent.

What they needed was for the players to embrace a new message.

“We weren’t just going to bring a wave of guys in,” DeBoer said Saturday at Sugar Bowl media day. “We were going to be very careful because we knew, you might bring two guys in and it might push the wrong two out. And we wanted to be really careful with that because we felt like there was a base within the program of good football players, great people.”

For the second-ranked Huskies (13-0), 30 of the 44 players on the two-deep depth chart — specialists included — were on the team before DeBoer took over after the 2021 season, including AP All-America receiver Rome Odunze and tackle Troy Fautanu, defensive end Bralen Trice and linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio, all third-team All-Americans.

“A lot of us were gonna leave after lake after [former coach Jimmy] Lake got dismissed, and I think you got to give [DeBoer] a lot of credit because he recruited the heck

out of all of us. He he was trying super hard and he was having so many authentic conversations,” said Ulofoshio, a sixthyear player who came to Washington when Chris Petersen was the head coach.

Kalen DeBoer Petersen stepped down after the 2019 season and Lake was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach, hoping to keep continuity in a program that seemed to be on solid ground.

Lake’s two seasons include the abbreviated 2020 pandemic season in the Pac-12 and then a tumultuous 4-8 season in 2021, when he was fired with two games left.

DeBoer was lured away from Fresno State, bringing with him a large chunk of a staff of assistants who had worked with him at several previous stops.

They wanted to send a message to the players: “We chose them. And with us choosing them, we wanted to keep them around,” Washington co-defensive coordinator William Inge said.

Tight end Jack Westover, another sixthyear player, credits Petersen for laying a foundation and building a culture that kept the team tight-knit even through a couple of bumpy seasons.

“It’s important to buy in to the [new] coaches, but really when you do that, you’re buying into each other,” he said.

Sarkisian took over a Texas team after the 2020 season that had gone 25-12 in the previous three years under Tom Herman.

“When you take over a program, you’re trying to figure out what are the issues, and I don’t think anybody ever felt like our issue was lack of talent or lack of resources,” Sarkisian said. “I just felt like culturally, we needed to get better. We needed to get more connected. We needed to get more vulnerable, we needed to get honest with one another, so that we played more for one another than playing for ourselves.”

Sarkisian said former Longhorns running backs Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson, both NFL rookies this season, were critical in building the culture he felt was

missing at Texas.

“I thought those guys really carried the flag for what we were trying to do in our program, when very easily those two guys could have went somewhere else,” Sarkisian said.

There are 16 players from the 2020 team still playing for Texas, including some of the Longhorns’ best: All-America defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat, leading tackler Jaylan Ford, defensive back Jahdae Barron and starting offensive linemen Christian Jones and Jake Majors.

“We all took it upon ourselves to be leaders and kind of encouraged what Sark was preaching and what these coaches were preaching because we knew that we had a chance to be one of the best in the country,” Ford said.

Initially, the change was jarring.

“You do something a certain way for three years. And then they basically came in and was like, the way that you’re lifting is wrong, the way that you’re running is wrong, the way that you’re practicing is wrong, everything that you’ve done wrong, and this is right,” Jones said.

Jones also noticed quickly Sarkisian was trying hard to connect with the players.

Jones recalled Sarkisian, less than a week into his tenure at Texas, asking about his girlfriend.

“He cares about everything that’s a part of your life because he knows that it all ties into the product on the field,” Jones said.

Sarkisian instituted Culture Wednesdays in an attempt to get his players to open up, the way he does to them about his past struggles with alcohol that cost him the head coaching job at Southern California and led him to rehab.

“I really believe that culture is organic.

I don’t think it’s a sign up in your team room,” Sarkisian said.

Barron said Culture Wednesday was a way for the players to get to know their teammates away from the field.

“Knowing that if you can trust them off the field, it’s easy to trust somebody on the field,” Barron said.

By building upon what they found, DeBoer and Sarkisian didn’t need to go searching for what they needed to win.

ROSE BOWL 3 P.M. MONDAY, E SPN

Michigan says turmoil made it stronger

By Greg Beacham

The Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. — The way Blake Corum sees it, the Michigan Wolverines are unbeaten, top-ranked and two wins away from a national championship because of all the turmoil they’ve overcome this year, not in spite of it.

Michigan’s star running back explains his view while sitting among his teammates Saturday under a big white tent outside the rain-soaked Rose Bowl, where the Wolverines (13-0) will face Alabama (12-1) on Monday in the College Football Playoff semifinal.

“I think we learned from all our setbacks, all of our mistakes,” Corum said. “With this team, with everything we’ve been through this year, I think we’re stronger physically and mentally than we ever were. That’s a big part of why we’ve played so well. ... We just came together. A team that I thought couldn’t get any closer, we did. When adversity hits, you can do two things. You can crumble, or you can keep going. We just kept going.”

The college football world already realizes Michigan’s pristine record and No. 1 ranking are poor camouflage for a profoundly messy season.

The year was bookended by coach Jim Harbaugh’s suspensions for the first three games and the final three games of the regular season. The first ban was a pre-emptive school decision related to the NCAA investigation into Michigan’s recruiting, while the second was Big Ten-mandated for the Wolverines’ sign-stealing scandal.

Beyond six game days without their head coach, the Wolverines have been hit by a barrage of abrupt changes — like the firing of linebackers coach Chris Partridge last month —

RYAN SUN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh stands near quarterback J.J. McCarthy during practice Friday in Carson, Calif., ahead of the Rose Bowl. Harbaugh missed the first three games of the Wolverines’ season due to a self-imposed suspension over recruiting violations, then missed the final three games as punishment from the Big Ten for a sign-stealing scandal.

constant social media negativity and general unsettledness for players in a sport that usually thrives on metronomic routine.

Michigan has pushed forward with togetherness and steadiness, building up to back-to-back victories over Ohio State in The Game and over Iowa in the Big Ten title game. The school adopted the slogan “Michigan vs. Everybody” while the team was battered this season, but the Wolverines say they’re all they need.

“Michigan Against the World was real this season,” defensive lineman Kris Jenkins said. “At least that’s how it felt.

Everybody was against us. If you weren’t wearing the Block M, you wanted us to lose. We didn’t let it affect us, and that’s because of the culture we’ve been straining so hard to build.

You saw it all this year.”

That mental toughness is built on physical tenacity. The Wolverines spoke glowingly this week of the benefits of their hard-hitting 9-on-7 drill, which has changed its name in recent years, depending on their biggest

opponent: the “Beat Ohio” drill and the “Beat Georgia” drill are now the “Beat Bama” drill.

The drill begins with the sirens from the Purge movie series, and it features full tackling — a no-no in other programs and on most NFL teams because of the health risks.

“It’s a lot of pads popping, a lot of noise, loud music, a lot of violence,” offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore said. “Sometimes there’s people on the ground, sometimes there’s not, but it’s physicality at its finest and the players love it, the coaches love it.

And I think it’s kind of molded us and built us to what we’ve been these past couple years and what we need to be going forward.”

Several Michigan players also give significant credit for their steadiness to Ben Herbert, the Wolverines’ director of strength and conditioning. According to his adoring students, Herbert doubles as a motivational guru who seems to know just what to say at the perfect time, and his attitude toward Michigan’s turmoil resonated.

BOWL ROUND UP

Ole Miss bullies Penn State The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Jaxson Dart passed for 379 yards and three touchdowns, including two to tight end Caden Prieskorn, 11 Ole Miss 38 and ran for a score 10 PSU 25 as No. 11 Mississippi bullied No. 10 Penn State’s proud defense in a 38-25 victory in

the Peach Bowl.

Ole Miss (11-2) gained 540 yards against Penn State (10-3), which led the nation with its average of 223 yards allowed. It was the most yards and points allowed by the Nittany Lions this season.

The win gave coach Lane Kiffin’s Rebels their first 11-win season.

Prieskorn had 10 receptions for 136 yards with touchdown receptions of 6

“Coach Herb likes to talk about it like it’s a hidden blessing,” receiver Roman Wilson said. “Without adversity, you’re not really going to grow. You’re not going to become something special. My opinion, I feel like all these problems, the things going on, it’s really a blessing for us. It really has helped this team grow a lot into what we are now.”

Receiver-turned-cornerback Mike Sainristil sees the stoic attitudes in Herbert’s overall philosophy as the backbone of the Wolverines’ perseverance.

“He always tells us that there are a whole bunch of things that you can’t control, but what you can do is show up and do what’s being asked of you,” Sainristil said. “Don’t fall victim to why-me, or other things that allow you to have a setback.”

The distractions haven’t stopped flying, even during the quiet weeks of December: Ten days ago, Michigan received a notice of allegations from the NCAA about the potential recruiting violations during the COVID19 dead period and coaching activities that led to Harbaugh’s first, pre-emptive suspension.

But even the newest Wolverines have joined their veteran teammates in attacking the turmoil with togetherness and toughness.

“It has been very surreal this year,” said standout center Drake Nugent, who spent four years at Stanford before transferring to Michigan for this season.

“Obviously a huge shift in culture, not only in the program, but outside the program as well,” Nugent added. “All the attention the program gets, the attention the head coach gets. Coach Harbaugh, he’s always in the media doing something. But I’ve always had a winning mentality, so I think it was nice to be a part of a program where everyone else had the same thing.”

and 37 yards.

For Penn State, Drew Allar shared time at quarterback with Beau Pribula, who threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to Nicholas Singleton late in the first half.

Allar threw an interception in the second quarter and lost a fumble when sacked in the fourth.

MUSIC CITY BOWL MARYLAND 31, AUBURN 13 In Nashville, Tenn., Billy Edwards Jr. ran for a touchdown and threw for a score as Maryland routed Auburn in the Music City Bowl and won a program-record third straight bowl.

LYNNE SLADKY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Georgia running back Daijun Edwards is lifted into the air by offensive lineman Chris Brown after one of his two rushing touchdowns Saturday against Florida State. The Bulldogs also got two rushing scores from Kendall Milton as they exploded out to a 39-point halftime lead, the largest in Orange Bowl history.

OR AN G E BOWL NO. 6 GEORGIA 63, NO. 4 FLORIDA STATE 3

Georgia rolls FSU in battle of teams snubbed by CFP

By Alanis Thames

The Associated Press

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Kirby Smart didn’t need to do much to convince his Georgia Bulldogs of the importance of the Orange Bowl.

“As long as winning matters, we’re gonna compete like hell at Georgia,” Smart said.

The Bulldogs entered Saturday night’s matchup against Florida State essentially at full strength.

The Seminoles, who were missing at least a dozen of their key contributors because of opt outs and players in the transfer portal, did not.

The result was what you might expect: The sixth-ranked Bulldogs crushed previously undefeated and fourth-ranked Florida State 63-3 in the Orange Bowl in a matchup of teams missing out on the College Football Playoff.

Smart said the result of the game was indicative of a larger problem in the sport.

“People need to see what happened tonight, and they need to fix this,” he said. “It needs to be fixed. It’s very unfortunate that [the Seminoles], who have a good football team, are in the position they’re in. Everybody can say it’s their fault. Everybody can say that we had our guys and they didn’t have their guys. I can listen to all that. But college football has got to decide what they want.

“It’s really unfortunate for those kids on that side of the sideline that had to play in that game that didn’t have their full arsenal. And it affected the game, 100%.”

Carson Beck passed for 203 yards and two touchdowns and backup QB Gunnar Stockton passed for two more scores for Georgia, which scored touchdowns on nine of 12 drives and gained 673 total yards against the short-handed Seminoles.

The Bulldogs (13-1) were used to competing for championships this time of year, having won the last two national titles. But Georgia lost to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference championship game — the Bulldogs’ first loss since the 2021 season — and missed out on one of the four spots in the CFP rankings. Instead, they settled for the seventh New Year’s Six bowl appearance in program history.

Florida State (13-1) failed to make the CFP cut despite winning the Atlantic Coast Conference title, and because of transfers, opt-outs and injuries, the Seminoles were without players who were responsible for 97% of their passing yards, 88% of their rushing yards and 84% of their receptions this season.

The Bulldogs charged out to a 39-point halftime lead, the largest in the bowl’s 90-year history, beating West Virginia’s 29-point halftime lead over Clemson in 2012.

It was also the largest margin of defeat in Florida State’s history.

Maryland (8-5) hadn’t even played three consecutive bowls since 2006-08, and the Terrapins added this victory to their win over Virginia Tech at the Pinstripe Bowl and last year’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl win over North Carolina State.

ARIZONA BOWL WYOMING 16, TOLEDO 15 In Tuscon, Ariz., John Hoyland kicked a 24-yard field goal as time expired and Wyoming sent coach Craig Bohl into retirement a winner with a victory over Toledo in the Arizona Bowl.

Bohl is retiring after 42 years of coaching — the last 10 for the Cowboys, one of New Mexico’s Mountain West opponents

Beck, who had touchdown passes of 12 and 2 yards, did not play in the second half. Stockton, a freshman, started in the third quarter and immediately ushered another touchdown drive. He finished with 96 yards passing and 46 yards rushing, and the Bulldogs became the first program to score at least 55 points in back-to-back bowl games (they beat TCU 65-7 in the Peach Bowl last season).

The Bulldogs’ Kendall Milton was the game’s MVP after rushing for 104 yards on nine carries with two touchdowns.

Daijun Edwards added two more rushing scores and 62 yards.

Both were part of a senior class that picked up its school-record 50th win.

“You want to take every game serious no matter what the level is,” Milton said. “You’ve got to prepare the right way because this is top level college football on any given week, so we took that very personally.”

In what could be his last game for the Bulldogs, receiver Ladd McConkey had 49 all-purpose yards. He scored on a 27-yard rush in which he caught a pass from Beck behind the line of scrimmage, looked to complete another pass but took off running instead, weaving through stumbling Florida State defenders and into the end zone to put Georgia up 38-3 in the second quarter.

Georgia players knew the story of the team on the other side of the field: The Seminoles entered the game having beaten all 13 teams on their schedule, including then-No. 15 Louisville in the ACC title game, but were left out of the College Football Playoff partly due to a season-ending leg injury to starting quarterback Jordan Travis. Florida State became the first Power Five conference champion to finish with an undefeated record and still be left out of the playoff.

“This is a championship level team,” Florida State coach Mike Norvell said. “You go back and watch 13 games and that’s who you saw. I am fully confident in what this team did throughout this year and what they could have achieved. It was not the path that was set out for us. ...

We’ll never know.”

In the week leading up to the bowl game, Georgia players expressed their understanding of the Seminoles’ frustrations, while acknowledging they, too, felt slighted.

Smart had lobbied for the selection committee to consider the Bulldogs’ full resume in making their final decision: Georgia won 29 straight games before the SEC title matchup and finished the season with the eighth-best offense in the country and the No. 9 defense.

It wasn’t enough. And the Bulldogs vented frustrations in the Orange Bowl — possession by possession.

— and defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel will take over next season.

Toledo (11-3) shut down Wyoming’s offense most of the afternoon before the Cowboys started to find an offensive rhythm in the fourth quarter.

The Cowboys (9-4) trailed 15-6 after giving up a safety and a field goal in the third quarter.

Evan Svoboda scored on a 1-yard touchdown sneak after Andrew Peasley was injured in the fourth quarter to pull Wyoming within two.

Peasley returned but went down again without being hit. Svoboda then moved the Cowboys quickly down the field, and Hoyland split the uprights to finish off the win.

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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Dec. 31, 1962 - Perhaps the worst blizzard in the history of Maine finally came to an end.

The storm produced 40 inches of snow in 24 hours at Orono and a total of 46 inches at Ripogenus Dam. Gale force winds produced snow drifts 20 feet high around Bangor.

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The following water statistics of December 28th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.995 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.857 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.847 Total production: 6.699 Total consumption: 6.969 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.97 Reservoir storage: 282.98 Estimated reservoir capacity: 22.15%

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Filmmaker Nolan reckons with AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’ Director says focusing on tech’s potential ‘doomsday’ scenarios distracts from solving real problems

By Cat Zakrzewski

The Washington Post

2023 has been widely described as the AI industry’s “Oppenheimer moment.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of atomic bomb” for his leading role in the Manhattan Project, struggled with the deadly consequences of his invention.

Director Christopher Nolan reawakened public interest in the scientist’s life this year with the release of a blockbuster epic detailing his tortured life.

Many saw parallels between Oppenheimer’s attempts to warn policymakers about nuclear proliferation and modern alarm over the possible consequences of artificial intelligence, with some top technologists saying AI poses a “risk of extinction” on par with nuclear weapons.

As Oppenheimer took over theaters this summer, the debate over how to develop AI safely and responsibly was reaching a peak in Washington. As President Joe Biden was convening top CEOs for discussions about AI at

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Christopher Nolan in 2020 in Burbank, Calif. While discussing potential impacts of artificial intelligence, Nolan said, “When we look to the far reaches of where this technology might be applied or where it goes, I think it distracts from things that need to be addressed right now, like copyright law,” he said.

the White House, tech executives and senators saw an opportunity to use Oppenheimer’s struggles to illustrate the morally complex stakes of the debate over the emerging technology.

But Silicon Valley’s fascination with Oppenheimer has left Nolan with “conflicted” feelings.

“It’s a wonderful thing that scientists and technologists of all stripes are

looking to history and looking at that moment and worrying about unintended consequences,” Nolan said in a recent interview at the Hay-Adams hotel in Washington. “But I also think it’s important to bear in mind that the nuclear threat is a singular threat to humanity.”

Nolan says that the atomic bomb was a “force of destruction,” and policymakers need to address that differently than

a tool such as artificial intelligence. He warns against viewing AI as a special case and cautioned against ascribing “godlike” attributes to the technology in ways that could allow companies and governments to deflect responsibility.

“We need to view it as a tool, and we need accountability for the people who wield the tool and the ways they wield the tool,” he said.

Some technologists are warning of “doomsday” style scenarios in which AI grows an ability to think on its own and attempts to destroy humanity. Their warnings have resonated on the global stage, and they were a key focus of an international gathering of global leaders to discuss AI safety at Bletchley Park, a historic site in Britain where Allied code-breakers deciphered secret German messages during World War II. But Nolan warns that focusing on those potential outcomes distracts from solving problems companies and policymakers could address now.

“It lets everybody off the hook if we’re looking at the most extreme scenarios,” he said.

Already, AI systems are ingesting his work and other Hollywood movies to generate photos and videos, he said. Nolan says policymakers need to address the ways that AI systems are taking people’s work now.

“When we look to the far reaches of

where this technology might be applied or where it goes, I think it distracts from things that need to be addressed right now, like copyright law,” he said.

“They’re not as exciting and interesting to talk about … but there’s an immediate impact on employment and compensation that needs to be dealt with.”

Oppenheimer’s story also signals how difficult the path ahead will be to regulate artificial intelligence, according to Nolan. ChatGPT accelerated a race within top companies to develop and deploy AI systems, and policymakers around the world are in the early stages of catching up. In the U.S. Congress, lawmakers have launched a group to develop bipartisan legislation to address the technology, amid extensive lobbying from the tech industry.

Oppenheimer largely failed in his efforts to address the risks of his invention. He was “crushed” in his efforts to prevent the development of the hydrogen bomb, Nolan said. The scientist’s efforts to work within the political system to create change largely failed, especially after his security clearance was revoked due to allegations that he had ties to communism.

“I sympathize with people on the cutting edge of AI who will look at Oppenheimer’s story and seeing it as a cautionary tale, partly because I don’t think it offers many answers,” he said.

T OM WILKINSON , 1948 -2023

‘The Full Monty’ actor drew critics’ acclaim through decades of work

By Alan Yuhas

The New York Times

Tom Wilkinson, the actor who could transform a manic lawyer, a steel-foreman-turned-stripper and parts small and large into mesmerizing characters, winning Oscar nominations and plaudits for his performances in movies like Michael Clayton and The Full Monty, died Saturday, according to a family statement. He was 75.

The statement, from his agent sent on behalf of his family, said he died suddenly at home. It did not provide other details.

Wilkinson’s range seemed to know no bounds.

He earned Academy Award nominations for his work in In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton and delighted

audiences in comedies like The Full Monty and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

He appeared in blockbusters like Shakespeare in Love and Batman Begins, Tom and took on horror Wilkinson in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, history as Benjamin Franklin in John Adams, and memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

He often did not have the name recognition or sheer star power of the actors he played opposite — George Clooney, Sissy Spacek and Ben Affleck among them. But he drew audiences’ eyes and critics’ acclaim through decades of work in television and film

and onstage.

“I see myself as a utility player, the one who can do everything,” he told The New York Times in 2002. “I’ve always felt that actors should have a degree of anonymity about them.”

To many Britons, though, The Full Monty remains his most beloved performance, as one of the gruff, unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield, England, who scheme to make some money and repair their self-regard by starting a striptease act for the town.

Wilkinson played Gerald Cooper, an aging ex-foreman who joins the cadre in part to escape the ornamental gnomes his wife erected on the lawn.

But his range extended far beyond comedy, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in In the Bedroom, directed

by Todd Field.

Opposite Spacek, Wilkinson played one half of a Maine couple struggling in the aftermath of their son’s murder.

Field said he was drawn to Wilkinson because of his everyman quality.

“You don’t typically think that Robert Redford is going to live next door,” Field told the Times. “But you believe that Tom Wilkinson could live next door.

That’s the difference.”

A few years later, Wilkinson was winning acclaim again as a high-powered lawyer who has a breakdown in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton. He was nominated for another Academy Award for his performance in that film.

By then, Wilkinson had been acting for three decades.

Wilkinson was born in Yorkshire, England, but his parents moved to

Canada when he was 4, seeking better work than farming. Their stay lasted only six years, during which time his father worked as an aluminum smelter.

The family returned to Britain, where Wilkinson’s parents ran a Cornwall pub until his father died, drawing Wilkinson and his mother back to Yorkshire.

Wilkinson said his life took a sharp turn at 16, at the King James’s Grammar School at Knaresborough, where the headmistresses “simply decided she would make something of me.”

This, he said, “meant being invited round to her house, being taught how to eat, which knives and forks to reach for first.”

“We would go to the theater together,” he said. “Having wandered aimlessly through school, suddenly someone took an interest in me.”

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s a keen observer and participant of housing and development for more than 30 years, and avid market trends watcher, I felt ready to start making public predictions at the end of 2019.

Last year, I got more right than usual.

Either I’m better, or things are more predictable. I fear it’s the latter. I predict 2024 will be more of the same, which is not much in the way of homeownership projects.

I’ve concluded predicting what is not going to happen is more accurate.

Unfortunately for housing, I’ve been predicting the same nonhappenings every year. Even more unfortunate are failures I predicted would happen.

Starting with the longest nothing-happening development: Tierra Contenta phase three is the surefire winner.

Market forces dictated more than 10 years ago it was time to ramp up to the heyday levels of production from 20 years ago.

It didn’t happen and still won’t happen. The rutted, winding, two-track trails on the bluffs above the SWAN Park that look across into maturing Tierra Contenta neighborhoods will still be prime off-roading.

Reasons are complex but come down to two: A revolving door of nonleadership and the city’s stubborn refusal to take responsibility for public roads and infrastructure with the extension of Paseo del Sol. There are ways the city could get it done, but it won’t.

The second longest nonevent is the headline-grabber – the midtown campus. It’s only been nonstarting for six years when education income evaporated in 2017, leaving the city holding an annual $3 million bag of debt.

Yes, it’s the crown jewel of the city and yes, there might be more than 1,000 dwelling units there someday, and yes, 30% are pledged affordable. But virtually none will have a swing set in the back yard.

Tierra Contenta, on the other hand, is 1,500 single-family homes ready to be owned by emerging young families, just as it was nearly 30 years ago. And it’s shovel ready. Why, then, can the city spend so much time and money gazing at its navel in the center of the city and get nothing when Tierra Contenta is exactly what the market demands and

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ABOVE: An outdoor seating area on the upper floor of Fekri Hassan’s home, a renovated Hassan Fathy house in New Gourna in the suburbs of Luxor, Egypt.

BELOW: Hassan, 81, seen backstage at a community theater designed by Fathy in New Gourna. The architect in 1945 made an effort to build social housing with traditional design and materials that aid passive cooling. Some passively cooled houses in Egypt and Turkey are centuries old and still in use.

By Philip Kennicott and Sima Diab

The Washington Post

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rom the mosque in this dusty desert village, you can see the wide terraces and austere columns of one of Egypt’s premier tourist destinations, the Temple of Hatshepsut, baking far in the distance. It’s late August, and by noon the temperature is already 103 degrees Fahrenheit and heading well north of that, enough to drive even the most intrepid tourists who visit the site back to their motor coaches and hotels.

But here in New Gourna there are no tourists, even though this village, placed on the World Monuments Fund watch list in 2010, may be as important to the future of our warming planet as the tombs and temples

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of ancient Egypt are to the past. It was here that the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy began a social housing experiment in 1945, planning a town with traditional Nubian materials and design, defended against the heat with thick walls of mud brick and natural ventilation — passive cooling techniques that had, for millennia, been an essential part of the local architecture.

Fathy, a progressive architect with a deep respect for the past, broke with the dogmas of modernism, the generic boxes of concrete and steel, plugged into the electrical grid, that had become a universal symbol of Western progress around the globe. He was interested in something more radical, and better suited to Egypt: sustainable Please see story on Page E-2

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More states requiring flood disclosures lina became the fourth state this year to embrace more stringent disclosure requirements, joining Hours into a marathon meeting South Carolina, New York and earlier this month, and with New Jersey. little fanfare, the North Carolina Advocates say the shifts, which Real Estate Commission gave its for the most part encountered blessing to a proposal that could little outward opposition, rephave profound impacts in a state resent an acknowledgment that where thousands of homes face flood risks are surging throughthreats from rising seas, unprecout the country and that more edented rainfall and overflowing transparency about those risks rivers. is a common-sense measure that Soon, anyone who sells a home could mean more homes have in the state will be required to flood insurance and fewer buyers disclose to prospective buyers face catastrophic surprises. far more about a property’s flood “It’s a recognition that flooding risks — and flood history. Rather is only going to get worse and than merely noting whether a that they need to take action home is in a federally designated now to protect homebuyers and flood zone, they will have to renters,” said Joel Scata, a senior share whether a property has attorney at the Natural Resources flood insurance, whether any past Defense Council, which tracks flood-related claims have been flood disclosure laws around the filed, or if the owner has ever country. “It’s also a recognition of received any federal assistance the importance of transparency in the wake of a hurricane, tidal and fairness.” inundation or other flood-related The changing disclosure disaster. policies come at a time when sciWith the changes, North Caro- entists say the nation’s coastlines

By Brady Dennis

The Washington Post

will experience as much sea level rise in the coming few decades as they have over the past century.

They also have documented how the warming atmosphere is creating more powerful storms and more torrential and damaging rainfalls, which already are inundating communities where aging infrastructure was built for a different era and a different climate.

The more stringent rules adopted this year also follow a path set by some of the country’s most flood-battered states.

Louisiana, facing massive land loss from rising seas and the prospect of stronger storms, has what environmental advocates and even the Federal Emergency Management Administration agree is one of the most robust sets of disclosure laws in the nation. Likewise, in the wake of cataclysmic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Texas adopted new rules that have also made the state a model for flood disclosure.

But even as several additional states finalized new disclosure

rules in 2023, many others still do not require sellers to divulge to buyers whether a home has previously flooded. That includes places such as Florida, which faces significant and rising risks from hurricanes, climate-fueled rain bombs and inland flooding along rivers.

According to NRDC, more than one-third of states have no statutory or regulatory requirement that a seller must disclose a property’s flood risks or past flood damage to potential buyers.

Others have varying degrees of requirements — a patchwork that means where people live can greatly influence how much they actually know about the flood risks of a home they buy or rent.

“There are still too many states who keep homebuyers in the dark,” Scata said. “That needs to change. Flooding is only going to become more severe due to climate change. And people have a right to know whether their dream home could become a nightmare due to flooding.”

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not being produced?

Inflated home prices? Duh. Sad to say, and no disrespect to good intentions of good people, but the city fails as a developer.

Ranking three development entities for speed, agility and efficiency; the city is a distant third. Faster, but also hampered by committee and consensus, are nonprofits. Fortunately Santa Fe has the best, including one operating like a private property developer.

The city could still play a critical role in getting things done, but it would mean abandoning the hubris that it’s just as good, or better, than any private or nonprofit developer.

How homes in world’s hottest places stay cool without AC

It isn’t. There are just too many layers.

Instead, the city could pioneer a new development construct.

A much-ballyhooed “new” planning tool is public-private partnerships. Santa Fe could go one better, and weave the third entity, nonprofits, into public and private. Indeed, it must. It has in the past.

Because we have mandates for built homes — 20% and no fee-in-lieu allowed — for affordable homeownership, and because our nonprofits qualify those buyers, the three entities form a stable platform for development.

Santa Fe’s good faith and credit can bring money to the table. It can smooth entitlements, take responsibility for public infrastructure and even parcel water and mandate reclamation and harvesting. It also can demand greener and more affordable homes.

Unfortunately, it won’t. The proof is the tepid offering and response to invitations to bid on 228 vacant acres on the north side. That nonstarter is only beginning its fourth year.

of Mardin some 60 miles southeast of Diyarbakir, compared a 17th-century home (with stone walls more than about a meter Continued from Page E-1 house, which is being restored thick) with a modern concrete after a partial collapse. It is a sad and brick structure built after architecture, built by hand by reminder that New Gourna was 1990. Not only did the traditional local artisans and designed to be both a landmark project, and a house stay cooler and more therhabitable even during the hottest failure. The workers who were mally stable during the hottest days of the year. supposed to move here didn’t part of the day, but the residents I’ve come here to find what want to leave their old homes, of similar houses had strikingly remains of Fathy’s experiment on closer to the ancient sites, like different perceptions of comfort. the Nile in Upper Egypt, some Hatshepsut’s temple, that were More than two-thirds of those 400 miles south of Cairo. It’s one the source of their illicit income who lived in traditional houses stop on a longer trip to some of from looting. New Gourna was reported feeling comfortable, the hottest places on the planet, never finished, and only partially while almost 70% of those in to see if the three basic elements occupied, and today all the things modern, box-like structures felt of passive cooling — earth, water Fathy opposed — cheap, unsusthe opposite: It was hot. and wind — really function as tainable, generic modern design The psychological aspect of Fathy and other architects say ideas — are encroaching on the cooling isn’t to be discounted. they do. Do the thick, earthen few relics of the original town.

The sound of water and the walls that Fathy built in New “I think he would lament that transition from bright sun to cool Gourna really keep a house cool? we have not done what we should shade in the iwan, a high-arched Can a fountain splashing in an have done when he made his enclosure on the southern wall, Ottoman courtyard drop the temexperiment in the ’40s,” says Has- are essential to the larger cooling perature to bearable levels? Can san. That includes learning from effect. That made me particularly desert winds be harnessed from the past, building with the least interested in finding a selsebil, above a house to wick the sweat impact on the world, and respect- a type of fountain that created off those inside it? ing the lessons of traditional archi- miniature waterfalls. But if they From the comfort of libraries tecture, including its technologies exist in Diyarbakir, no one seems in a much cooler climate, I had for cooling. “His message is as to know where they are. read about these buildings and the cogent and urgent as ever, even That loss is part of a larger, ABOVE: The back courtyard of punishing climate they withstand. more so now,” says Hassan. more disturbing destruction of Fekri Hassan’s home, a renoBut when I visited them, it was my heritage: The wholesale demolivated Hassan Fathy house in body, not my mind, that registered Water New Gourna in the suburbs of tion of large parts of the city after the magic of their design.

Luxor, Egypt. clashes between government Courtyards, like the small one Passing under a soaring air forces and the local Kurdish popin Hassan’s house in New Gourna, shaft of a Cairo mosque, it felt LEFT: The windcatcher on the ulation in 2015 and 2016. During are essential to cooling buildings like someone turned on the air roof of Sitt Wasilla Historic our walk, we passed suddenly throughout the region, and they House in Cairo. conditioning. In New Gourna, I from the streets near the bustling come in many different forms. entered the darkened shelter of PHOTOS BY SIMA DIAB central market to a moonscape of In urban dwellings, they can be a simple mud-brick room and I FOR THE WASHINGTON POST devastation, open fields, rubble compact and vertical, venting out imagined I was stepping out of a and scrubby grass. A few, newly heat during the day and storing sauna, into a flood of cool, dry air. owners want to add more floors. constructed homes inhabited this cool air gathered at night.

But In a city in the arid zone of east“The owner of that one,” alien landscape like generic conI was particularly interested in ern Turkey, I watched the attensays Hassan, “has a permit for dos in any faceless suburb on the the grand, open courtyards of dant of an old courtyard house demolition.” He is pointing to the Ottoman-era houses in Eastern planet. It was both a political and water down the porous stone of remains of one of Fathy’s original Turkey, where the weather is just a thermal journey: From a living, its leafy, green courtyard, and the houses, dwarfed by the newer as brutal in the summer as Upper Kurdish city to a modern, dead seasons seemed to change, from structures. for the Poor. Steel and concrete one, from narrow, shady streets Egypt. These courtyards, which high summer outside to a burst of he teaches a new generation of He takes me to the town were expensive, but mud brick architects, many of whom are to the withering full blast of the use pools, fountains and trees to spring within. mosque — one of Fathy’s most keenly aware of the climate crisis, wasn’t just affordable, it was midday sun. create garden-like microclimates, All of these technologies have earthy but elegant designs — he faces a double challenge. How effective at keeping houses cool.

“He [expletive] us over,” said are part of a complex system their contemporary equivalents: which has been restored by the can he and his colleagues not just Fathy thus began an intensive one of the women I was with, of cooling dependent on water, Electric fans, swamp coolers and government as a heritage site, preserve the traditional wisdom study of Nubian architecture referring to Turkish President vapor and evaporation. insulation. But throughout the of vernacular architecture, but including ventilation, the thermal and the same principles are in Many of the most sophisticated Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Earth’s hot zones, many of them operation. A lush courtyard garmake it attractive to profit-driven properties of different materials, A few crumbling remnants of examples of this kind of archiin the Global South, the new den offers shade and evaporative tecture are in Iran, where it isn’t developers, and clients who window placement and the use of centuries-old walls still hung in technologies are expensive, and cooling, creating air flow to the often look to the energy-hungry courtyards to keep houses cool. the air, memorials to what has easy to travel. So I opted instead create dependence on erratic main sanctuary, a tall, domed designs popular in wealthy Even late in the morning, been lost. No one knew their to go to Diyarbakir, a mostly electrical grids and networks space where the heat gathering entrepôts like Dubai? the courtyard of Fekri Hassan’s Kurdish city more than 600 miles exact origins, but before the demof production, commerce and above your head is vented out.

For an architecture critic, it house in New Gourna is shady east of Istanbul, where a few olition, the thick stones at their transportation that are alien, and Now, well after noon, it is unbear- examples still exist. The courtdoesn’t seem like this should be base probably never felt the direct and comfortable.

Hassan, a unsustainable. able to stand in the open sun, such an uphill battle: The tradiyard houses of Diyarbakir have rays of the sun. The cool mass distinguished geoarchaeologist The old technologies are also tional architecture that is being but in the mosque, it feels like also been studied intensively by near street level, now surrounded who has taught at Washington a resource: They offer a way ignored or erased throughout the State University and University the clock stopped around 8 a.m., local architects and historians for by rubbish, would have absorbed forward, architecturally, culturworld’s hot zone isn’t just funcwhen the air was dry, cool and their passive cooling technology. heat from the air, offering respite College London, has created a ally and climatically, not just for tional, sustainable and uniquely fresh.

Scholars have also studied to passersby. But that function is center for sustainable architectorrid zones in Egypt or Turkey, As the sun continues its relent- the relative comfort level of lost now, like untold numbers of ture in Gourna and is determined but for heavily populated regions local, it is beautiful.

But nothing, of course, is ever houses built throughout the historic structures that once filled to preserve the remains of Fathy’s less assault, we pass through throughout the world that rely that easy. region. One analysis, in the city this desolate space. the town, visiting Fathy’s own village. Over several cups of on precarious sources of power. strong, dark and sweet tea, he From Cairo to California, there Earth explains how a Fathy house are architects who are already works.

Bricks can be made of incorporating these technologies Hassan Fathy found that mud like adobe, baked in the in contemporary buildings. But out the hard way. Born in sun rather than energy-intensive there are multiple challenges: 1900 in Alexandria, Egypt, he kilns. They are cheap to produce, overcoming skepticism among enjoyed a life of privilege and relatively weak structurally and people long dependent on was, throughout his career, very inefficient at conducting modern systems, recalibrating cosmopolitan in his leanings. heat. But when built up into thick what it means and feels like to He was alert to the emerging walls, they are strong, stable be comfortable, and recovering international modernist styles, and trap cool air inside for long and preserving the wisdom of was aware of the heavy-handed stretches of the day. He shows me vernacular systems. utopian aspirations of architects a bedroom with a twin bed set The last of these challenges — like Le Corbusier, admired the into a thick, arched alcove and a undoing erasure and forgetting clean lines of modernist styles rugged but graceful dome of mud — is urgent. The few remaining in Europe and understood the houses from Fathy’s original necessity for architects to address brick above. Outside, the sun is withering; inside, the light is low plan are crumbling in New broader social problems. Yet, and it feels a bit cave-like, but the Gourna. In the searingly hot the modernist fetish for walls of bed is cool and inviting.

Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in glass and fixed shading devices A corridor leading from the southeast Turkey, civil unrest — brise soleils — made no sense courtyard — now full of pictures and oppression has led to whole in Egypt, which needed its own swaths of the ancient town, full accommodation between the past of New Gourna over the long arc of its construction and decay — of historic stone homes with and present. creates a palpable breeze through complex fountain systems, being When asked by the governthe house. Stairs lead to the roof, demolished. And in Cairo — ment to design a new village where people would sleep at where some of the world’s most for workers displaced from a night while the mud house below sophisticated passively cooled sensitive archaeological site slowly cooled in the night air. A houses were built centuries ago now known as old Gourna, he curious pattern of angled bricks — decay, neglect and government struggled with the complex and Homewise has helped thousands of people become along the rooftop parapets helps sponsored demolition threaten to punishing economics of housing homeowners, find out how we can help you too! create a faster flow of air above erase invaluable heritage. large numbers of poor people “We already figured out how to using contemporary construction where people would sleep. From the roof, you can see modern coexist with the warm climate,” methods. structures rising nearby, with says Khaled Tarabieh, university “There is no factory on earth metal rebar sticking out like architect and professor at the that can produce houses these American University in Cairo, villagers can afford,” he wrote, in weeds atop the concrete strucwith a sense of exasperation. As ture — an indication that the a 1969 book called Architecture

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Hidden right in the heart of historic downtown Santa Fe is a secret residential building. Part was built in 1845, and includes the jail that held the outlaw, Billy, the Kid from 1880-1881; the rest was built 140 years later in 1986. The lucky investor will acquire 27 residential units, including studio apartments, one bedrooms, and a two bedroom penthouse, along with three prime street level retail boutiques. $7,250,000 MLS # 202340229

This exceptional 7.45-acre estate designed in late 1920’s by renowned architect John Gaw Meem enjoys breathtaking views in every direction.

With 200-year-old carved and painted wooden doors and 5,900 + sq. ft. of living space, this classic triple adobe hacienda features 4 main bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 guest house casitas, and 1926 old barn to be restored or repurposed. $6,200,000 MLS # 202341636

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

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This soft contemporary home on 1.5 acres +/- offers magnificent Sangre de Cristo mountain views from all living areas. Features white oak floors, plaster walls and ceilings throughout, an open concept living/gourmet kitchen, a grand living area with high ceilings with broad vigas, wood burning fireplace and built in shelves. Split bedroom plan for privacy, rear portal with wood burning fireplace and more. $3,750,000 MLS # 202342154

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

The Plaza and Canyon Road are minutes away. $2,900,000 MLS # 202338929

Stunning 4BR, 4.5BA contemporary home built in 2021 approximately 15 minutes from Santa Fe Plaza. Entertain in grand style in an expertly landscaped outdoor oasis complete with custom outdoor kitchen and awe-inspiring Sangre de Cristo Mountain views. Expansive 1,200 sq. ft. covered and heated patio with gas fire pit provides threeseason enjoyment. $2,600,000 MLS # 202341280

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

This true Adobe Hacienda is unlike any other property on the market!

Brilliantly conceived by master builder Buzz Bainbridge, this spectacular estate has seen many a sunset fiesta and jaw dropping wedding. On 2.5 private acres, the rambling 7,500 sq. ft. ranchera offers a lofty living room, like a palace lounge; and a cantina bar, like a private club. A hedonistic main suite, patios and fireplaces everywhere! $2,450,000 MLS # 202233099

Stellar home on 6 acres with unobstructed views of the Barrancas, Sangres and Jemez mountains to enjoy from 1000+ sqft of portals.

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Soaring ceilings, plaster walls, polished-concrete and hardwood floors, graceful curves, and oversized windows contribute to the singular ambience of this chic condominium on Old Pecos Trail. Sleek open great room with a modern fireplace, two bedrooms and baths, powder room, study or office, and a two-car garage. Surrounded by fruit trees, is walking distance from the Plaza, Canyon Road, and Museum Hill. $1,695,000 MLS # 202339137

Glamorous living in a prime location on the historic Old Pecos Trail, just walking distance from the Plaza, Canyon Road, and Museum Hill. Majestic high ceilings, soothing plaster walls, oversized windows, and theatrical open spaces, it is an entertainer’s dream. Completing the compelling picture are two bedrooms and baths, a powder room, an office, a direct-entry two car garage, and a refreshing courtyard. $1,650,000 MLS # 202340413

This open concept four bedroom, four bath property captures magnificent Sangre de Cristo mountains. The 3BR, 3BA main house has 2-story windows in the living area opening onto a shaded garden with sitting areas and swimming pool. The 1BR, 1BA guest casita with 2 kivas features a panoramic room with dining space and bifold windows.

Detached 2 car garage. Perfect home for indoor/outdoor entertaining. $1,485,000 MLS # 202341580

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An excellent design with good flow, 4 bedrooms create extra spaces, single level - no steps to trip you up. You will benefit from a snazzy garage + carport. Extras include a fenced dog yard, separate studio, solar panels, 15,000 gallon water catchment. Views? Absolutely! The large western portal promises sunsets and huge sky views, other portals are secluded private retreats. Come see and appreciate! $1,400,000 MLS # 202341958

Santa Fe style, custom built, single level, passive solar home. Large combo living/dining/kitchen with high ceilings, views, and French doors to a big deck. Mostly concrete construction. New roof November 2023.

Radiant heat. Separate office/studio. Hot tub. Convenient, close-in NW location 10 minutes to Santa Fe & handy for Los Alamos. 3 beds, 2 baths, office, 3,000 sq ft, 1.8 acres. $1,275,000 MLS # 202341704

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

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211 Callecita Place, Unit C

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The main two-story home has 3,236 sqft, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, gorgeous wood planked ceilings with vigas, custom installed slate tiled flooring, brand new carpets and a newly remodeled and designed master bathroom. Unit A is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath with 416+/- sqft and Saltillo tiled flooring. Unit B is also a 1 bedroom, 1 bath with 420 +/- sqft and an attached 2-car garage. Unit C is a sweet 1 bedroom 1 bath studio with 437+/- sqft and Saltillo tiled flooring. Also included is a stylish 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 900+/- square foot casita with great interior natural light! $1,000,000 MLS # 202340806

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

4141 Cerrito Lindo Santa Fe, NM 87507 WELCOME HOME TO 4141 CERRITO LINDO WHICH RESIDES ON A LARGE 2.5 ACRE PARCEL! From the custom-built and crafted American Cherry wood kitchen cabinetry to the impressive handmade kitchen island, you will find many special owner touches such as these throughout the home. Upon entry, you encounter an inviting living room space with high ceilings, stylish Saltillo Tile and an efficient Kozy Heat wood stove that warms the home and creates a wonderful atmosphere. Schedule a showing today to view this amazing home! $1,025,000 MLS # 202342108 JAMES DELGADO

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4718 Las Plazuelas LA BELLE DE LAS SOLARES! Enjoy this Serenity open floorplan with 3 beds/ 2 baths and bonus office/ tv room. Gourmet kitchen includes stainless steel appliances, gas cooktop, two ovens, microwave, walk-in pantry, granite countertops, and large granite island, LR stacked stone gas-burning fireplace, portal with additional OUTDOOR gas fireplace, fab primary suite & oversized 2 car garage w/extended bay. This home should not be missed! $690,000 MLS # 202341013 CAROL HAWKINS

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2404 AGUA FRIA UNIT B

MUST-SEE HOME, NESTED IN THE TIERRA BELLO SUBDIVISION! This home has several personal designs graced by the owner with special attention to detail.

Such as, the kitchen has 24 banks of drawers with most upper cabinets designed with 4 shelves.

Upgraded windows from almost floor to ceiling throughout, allowing wonderful natural light into the home. The floor plan is ideal for entertaining as the kitchen is open to both living and dining rooms. There are 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths each featuring double sinks.

There is an extra bonus room that can be used as an office or playroom.

Schedule a showing today! $599,500.00 MLS # 202341705

SPECIAL NORTHERN NEW MEXICAN STYLE HOME ON A LARGE .23 ACRE LOT IN SANTA FE! The home was built in 2006, is light and bright, centrally-located and very cozy. It features: Three bedrooms, two full baths, 1,008 +/- sqft, central heating and cooling, a pitched propanel roof, no interior steps and a private well! You’ll also enjoy being near Frenchy’s Park and the Santa Fe River which both have great walking and biking trails. A brand new privacy fence has been installed around a portion of the large lot. $395,000 MLS # 202341275

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