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Woman in crash faces 2 murder charges First reported to be a kidnapping victim, police now believe she’s responsible for deaths of officer, motorist

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An Albuquerque woman has been charged with murder for allegedly fabricating her kidnapping, leading police on a high-speed

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announced at a Saturday evening news conference in Santa Fe. Those killed were Officer Robert Duran, 43, of Rio Rancho and veteran firefighter Frank Lovato, 62, of Las Vegas.

It’s the first time since 1933 that a Santa Fe police officer was killed in the line of duty, records show.

Jaramillo faces life in prison if convicted, Santa Fe County District

chase that ended in a crash that killed a Santa Fe police officer and retired Las Vegas, N.M., firefighter.

Jeannine Jaramillo, 46, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the Wednesday crash, New Mexico State Police

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Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said during the news conference.

Jaramillo is also charged with homicide by vehicle, receiving stolen property, aggravated fleeing and tampering with evidence.

“Jaramillo was driving a stolen vehicle, and she caused the collision that killed Mr. Duran and Mr. Lovato,” Carmack-Altwies said.

“Jeannine Jaramillo must answer to

the charges of first-degree murder.”

Initial reports indicated that a man had kidnapped Jaramillo at knifepoint from an apartment complex near Sawmill Road and St. Francis Drive.

Police said they later determined Jaramillo made up the story and was driving the car that led police on a wrong-way chase on Interstate 25.

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There is safety in numbers, unless you are dealing with a controversial topic like the coronavirus.

And then numbers can be used in numerous contrasting ways.

Two years into the pandemic, official statistics show New Mexico is approaching 7,000 coronavirus deaths, with the nation headed toward 1 million and a global total near 6 million.

As with so many elements of the pandemic, people disagree on whether those numbers are accurate. Some say they are embellished. Many others say they are undercounted.

But for all of the suspicion of vaccines, treatments and government proclamations about the disease, many physicians say in the two years since the pandemic began, science has performed

admirably and accomu Chart: Two years plished of COVID-19 in remarkable New Mexico, by work through the numbers. the panu Survey shows demic. split on politics of pandemic. PAGE A-9 Science has done its job, they say, but communication strategies have failed, leaving a void that remains to this day.

“We had an extraordinary turnaround in terms of being able to produce multiple vaccines against COVID,” said Dr. Denise Gonzales, medical director of adult specialty services at Presbyterian Medical Group. “We have awesome tools, but if they’re not used, they can’t be effective. It is our responsibility to communicate effectively with patients and families.”

For some, the messaging will never matter.

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Obituaries Martin Beldock, Feb. 25 John Dorn Kay Marie Linde Grotbeck, Albuquerque Feb. 28 Charles Greenfield Hauber, Santa Fe, Feb. 17 Virginia “Jinny” Lou Johnson, Dec. 8 Margarita “Margie” Celina Lujan Lopez, 87, Santa Fe, Feb. 20 Margarita S. Lujan, Feb. 10

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From left: Tommy Vigil, Connie Trujillo, Steve Arias and David Fernandez, in St. Michael’s gym Thursday, were members of the Mighty Midgets, the nickname given to the 1962 St. Michael’s boys basketball team whose starting lineup was made up of players 5-foot-9 or shorter. The Horsemen reached the state finals that year, losing to Sandia on a last-minute jumper in what is still regarded as one of the most memorable games in state tournament history.

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s a fourth-grader growing up in Albuquerque’s Southeast Heights, Marty Watts had no rooting interest in the 1962 boys’ basketball Class A state championship game in Albuquerque.

In fact, he didn’t have much of a rooting interest in basketball at all until the day he was dragged into Johnson Gym and plunked into a seat a few rows from the floor.

It was a simpler time. The Pit wouldn’t open its doors for another four years, the tournament wasn’t oversaturated with seemingly 160 teams in 10 brackets as it is now, and games broadcast on TV were showstopping events rather than one of dozens of entertainment options at one’s fingertips nowadays.

“State was a big deal in its own way in 1962,” says Watts, now a sales executive for an Albuquerque-area radio station.

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Iran to answer U.N. nuclear questions as deal talks near end VIENNA — Iran has agreed to supply answers long sought by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, Tehran and the U.N. agency said Saturday, as talks in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers appear to be coming to an end.

A joint statement by Mohammad Eslami, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy, came hours after the two met in Tehran.

It envisions the IAEA reaching conclusions on the discovery of uranium particles at former undeclared sites in Iran by June. The move is separate from the talks over the nuclear deal but could help push them to a conclusion.

Meanwhile, Russia’s foreign minister for the first time linked American sanctions on Moscow over its war on Ukraine to the ongoing Iran nuclear deal talks — adding a new wrinkle to the delicate diplomacy.

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‘Freedom Convoy’ spinoff arrives in Md. with about 1,000 vehicles HAGERSTOWN, Md. — They drove pickups, RVs, 18-wheelers and minivans, some making a 2,500-mile journey from Southern California. More joined as the convoy passed through Amarillo, Texas, or rallied at a farm equipment supplier in Monrovia, Ind. And others came in Friday, as about 1,000 vehicles converged at a speedway here under the rallying cry of “freedom.”

The truckers and their supporters are now the closest they have been to the nation’s capital, where they want to hold lawmakers “accountable” for the government’s pandemic responses. But their plans for coming days remained opaque Saturday afternoon, with authorities across the region warning of potential disruptions on highways but unable to offer specifics.

The convoy’s motives are muddy, too. People gathered at this western Maryland city described frustrations with workplace vaccine mandates and restrictions designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 — even though those rules have now been lifted in many places.

Walker taking no sides in Georgia’s Republican contest for governor ATLANTA — Herschel Walker has a message for the Republicans going after each other for their party’s nomination for governor in Georgia: Don’t count on help from me.

A football legend in a sports-crazed state whose Senate campaign is backed by former President Donald Trump, Walker is running far ahead in Georgia’s May primary.

That makes his support attractive for incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp and challenger David Perdue, who are in a bruising primary campaign.

For now, Walker is refusing to get involved and is increasingly expressing exasperation with the negative tone of the governor’s race. He is voicing the concerns of many Republicans that a nasty campaign between Kemp and Perdue could leave the GOP divided heading into the November election and potentially cost the party the governorship in a state they have dominated for two decades.

“I don’t support either one of them. I’m mad at both of them,” Walker told a University of North Georgia audience last month, according to audio obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He later told nationally syndicated conservative radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton “intersquad fighting” was distracting from efforts to unify the party.

Hunga Tonga volcano spewed ash 38 miles high, a world record NASA has confirmed the Jan. 15 eruption of Hunga Tonga, an underwater volcano in the southwest Pacific, spewed ash 38 miles high into the atmosphere. That staggering figure sets a world record and indicates volcanic material made it into the third layer of Earth’s atmosphere — the mesosphere.

The agency called it “likely the highest plume in the satellite record,” surpassing what many volcanologists and atmospheric scientists had known was physically feasible.

The findings open the door to new studies on the dynamics of volcanoes and the mechanisms of transport of the particles, or aerosols, they emit.

The eruption of Hunga Tonga produced a tsunami that devastated parts of Tonga and even reached the U.S. Pacific coastline. Sound from the volcano’s explosive eruption was heard more than 5,000 miles away in Alaska, and air pressure perturbations rapidly radiating outward from the volcano were picked up by weather stations around the globe.

Hundreds of people evacuate due to Florida Panhandle wildfire PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Residents of hundreds of Florida Panhandle homes were evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others in an area that has spent years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, officials said Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of acres of downed trees from the 2018 hurricane, along with low humidity and strong winds, have created “the perfect storm” for hazardous fire conditions in Bay County, Fla., Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City.

As of Saturday morning, the 1,500-acre Adkins Avenue Fire was 30 percent contained, according to the Florida Forest Service. At least 600 homes had been evacuated as of Saturday morning, but that figure was expected to grow as new neighborhoods were placed under evacuation orders throughout the day.

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Commuter rails struggle to fill seats Public transportation becoming obsolete as telework increases

By Katherine Shaver and Justin George Washington Post

WASHINGTON any workers returning to offices on new hybrid schedules won’t resume the daily commute, leaving public transit systems with significantly fewer of their most reliable customers: suburbanites heading downtown, day after day, for 9-to-5 office jobs.

The uncertain futures of city subway and bus systems have received the most attention amid changing commuter habits, but experts say longer-distance trains and buses that took the biggest hit during the pandemic remain at an even higher risk of long-term ridership woes.

Across the country, city transit lines that serve lower-income riders without vehicle access or who work in health care, retail and other jobs that can’t be done from afar have retained much of their pre-pandemic ridership, experts say. Meanwhile, long-distance systems have lagged, as the bulk of their more affluent customers with more flexible desk jobs continue to telework or turn to driving.

Two years into the pandemic, those trends have transit officials considering how to fill seats while shuttling fewer workers from outer suburbs to city cores. The Washington, D.C., area’s two long-distance commuter rail systems have been among the slowest to rebound.

“Those are systems built for a commuter who won’t ever return or won’t return in the numbers they used to,” said Joe McAndrew, who oversees transportation issues for the Greater Washington Partnership, composed of chief executives between Richmond and Baltimore.

McAndrew said 53 percent of Washington-area jobs can be done remotely — the second highest of any U.S. region behind San Francisco — and many major employers expect nearly 30 percent of their employees to work remotely on any given day.

As of Feb. 23, buildings in the D.C. metro area served by office security firm Kastle Systems were at about 33 percent capacity — below the 37 percent average recorded across 10 major metro areas.

With commuter rail and bus lines running up to two hours each way, passengers also have a bigger incentive to stay home. Many who moved to outer suburbs for more space during the pandemic probably did so with the intent of commuting less, experts say.

That hasn’t stopped rail systems from courting them as transit agencies adjust fares and schedules to try to broaden their customer base and hold on to less-frequent commuters.

Chicago’s Metra commuter rail system is sending free fare cards to residents who recently moved into its suburban service area.

New Jersey Transit is touting its commuter trains and buses as a convenient ride to Manhattan’s entertainment and a more flexibly priced commuting option for the city’s stage, restaurant and hotel workers.

Many commuter rail systems have started offering discounts to less-frequent commuters as an alternative to the traditional monthly pass. Some are adjusting to more flexible work schedules and targeting nonwork trips

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Others are trying to lure weekend customers with flat fares and free rides for children.

“We can’t keep just thinking about the white-collar worker who’s going from Claremont, Calif., to Los Angeles,” said Darren Kettle, chief executive of the Los Angeles area’s Metrolink commuter rail. “We have to sort of rethink who we are.”

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shifted some Boston-area commuter trains from peak commute times to midday to try to resuscitate ridership, which hovers at 39 percent of pre-pandemic levels.

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Metrorail ridership rebounded in recent days to 29 percent of pre-pandemic levels, after more offices reopened on Tuesday. Even so, Metro officials have predicted overall ridership on the rail and bus systems will reach just 53 percent by this summer and 75 percent by mid-2024 — with the biggest losses among long-distance commuters.

Rail trips taken during the traditional morning and evening rush have hovered at 15 percent to 25 percent of pre-pandemic levels, lagging behind the off-peak ridership of 35 percent to 45 percent. Trips beyond 15 miles are at about 15 percent of pre-pandemic levels, according to Metro.

Metro, already hampered by more than half of its rail cars being sidelined for safety problems, has shifted trains from peak commute periods to create standard wait times throughout the weekday. It also has encouraged passengers to take the train more often for errands and leisure trips by extending latenight service and creating a flat $2 weekend fare.

But replacing the revenue lost from daily commuters will be a challenge, Metro officials say.

“Will they come back?” Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said during a recent House subcommittee hearing on the agency’s challenges. “No one knows, of course, but will they come back to the scale that we were? I doubt it, to be frank.”

Ridership on Maryland’s commuter rail bumped up to 23 percent of pre-pandemic levels as more offices reopened this month.

Ridership on Virginia Railway Express hit 16 percent of pre-pandemic levels this month, its highest customer load since the pandemic began. Los Angeles’s Metrolink and Chicago’s Metra commuter rail systems are at 30 percent, according to the agencies. In New York, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North lines have fared better, with ridership above 50 percent. New Jersey Transit reports rail ridership at 50 percent.

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WASHINGTON — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the financial reckoning imposed on Moscow in response are proof the triumphant globalization campaign that began more than 30 years ago has reached a dead end.

Fallout from the fighting in Ukraine will take a meaningful bite out of the global economic recovery this year, with the greatest impact in Europe, economists said. A spike in oil prices to more than $110 per barrel and renewed supply chain disruptions — including fresh headaches for the auto industry — also are likely to aggravate U.S. inflation, already at a 40-year high.

But the war’s long-term consequences could be more profound. Even before Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tanks and missiles hurtling toward Ukraine, years of deteriorating U.S.China relations and failed global trade talks had stalled the tighter integration of finance and trade flows that had been anticipated during globalization’s heyday.

What comes next is unlikely to mirror the Cold War’s distinct blocs.

Even as the global economic order fractures, no rival ideologies compete for supremacy. And China’s harsh authoritarian turn under President Xi Jinping co-exists with extensive commercial ties to the United States, Europe and Japan. But governments, corporations and investors all are adjusting to a new reality.

“It’s the end of one era and the beginning of another, which is a less complete form of globalization than we had ambitions for in the immediate post-Cold War era,” said Michael Smart, managing director of Rock Creek Global Advisors. “We have to think differently about what we mean by the global trading system. There are certain requirements that, if you don’t meet them, you’re not part of it. You can’t be in the club.”

With the United States, Europe, Canada, Britain and Japan uniting to punish Russia with unprecedented financial sanctions, the war has triggered a “major geopolitical realignment” akin to the aftershocks from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to Citibank analysts.

Virtually overnight, most major Russian banks were blocked from moving money across borders. Moscow’s stock market has been closed for a week. Russian customers are cut off from much of the world’s most advanced technologies.

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Drug to prevent COVID widely unused Pence says no room 80 percent of available doses of Evusheld are sitting untouched in pharmacies, warehouses

By Amanda Morris and Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times

Sasha Mallett, Sue Taylor and Kimberly Cooley all have immune deficiencies that make them especially vulnerable to COVID-19, and all have tried to get the same thing: a new treatment that can prevent the disease in people who either cannot produce antibodies after receiving a coronavirus vaccine or cannot get vaccinated at all.

Cooley, a liver transplant recipient in Duck Hill, Miss., got the antibody drug, called Evusheld, from her transplant team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with no trouble. But Taylor, of Cincinnati, was denied the treatment by two hospitals near her home. And Mallett, a physician in Portland, Ore., had to drive five hours to a hospital willing to give her a dose.

As much of the nation unmasks amid plummeting caseloads and fresh hope that the pandemic is fading, the Biden administration has insisted it will continue protecting the more than 7 million Americans with weakened immune systems who remain vulnerable to COVID-19.

Evusheld, which was developed

by AstraZeneca with financial support from the federal government, is essential to its strategy.

But there is so much confusion about the drug among health care providers that roughly 80 percent of the available doses are sitting unused in warehouses and on pharmacy and hospital shelves — even as patients like Taylor, 67, and Mallett, 38, go to great lengths, often without success, to get them.

Because they have a weakened response to the coronavirus vaccine and may not be able to fight off COVID-19, many immunocompromised people have continued to isolate themselves at home and feel left

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Dr. Sasha Mallett, a physician battling her own immunodeficiencies, Tuesday at her home in Portland, Ore. An antibody drug could be lifesaving for the immunocompromised, but confusion about the medication has made doctors slow to prescribe it.

behind as the country reopens.

Evusheld, administered in two consecutive injections, appears to offer long-lasting protection — perhaps for half a year — giving it considerable appeal for this group.

For now, though, the drug is in short supply. Because it is authorized only for emergency use, it is being distributed by the federal government. The Biden administration has purchased 1.7 million doses — enough to fully treat 850,000 people — and had nearly 650,000 doses ready for distribution to the states as of this past week, according to a senior federal health official. But only about 370,000 doses have been ordered by the states, and fewer than one-quarter of those have been used.

“There’s so many other people who are scrapping and driving for hours to get Evusheld,” said Cooley, 40, “when in Mississippi, it’s sitting on the shelves.”

Interviews with doctors, patients and government officials suggest the reasons the drug is going unused are varied. Some patients and doctors do not know Evusheld exists. Some do not know where to get it.

Government guidelines on who should be prioritized for the drug are scant. In some hospitals and medical centers, supplies are

being reserved for patients at the highest risk, such as recent transplant recipients and cancer patients, while doses in other areas of the country are being given out through a lottery or on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hesitance is also an issue.

Some doctors and other providers do not know how to use Evusheld and are thus loath to prescribe it. The fact that it is an antibody treatment can be confusing, because most such treatments are used after someone gets COVID-19 rather than for preventive care.

Adding to the confusion are revised Food and Drug Administration guidelines for Evusheld, released last month, that called for doubling the initial recommended dose after data showed the drug may be less effective against certain variants.

“It is overwhelming and it’s all new,” said Dr. Mitchell Grayson, chief of the allergy and immunology division at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “Providers are definitely trying to keep up, it’s just — I don’t know how well everyone’s doing with that.”

Roughly 3 percent of Americans are characterized by health professionals as immunocompromised because they have a disease that weakens their

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body’s immune response or are receiving a treatment that does so. They include transplant recipients and people with conditions such as cancer, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Evusheld’s arrival in December immediately set off a scramble.

In Facebook groups and online messages, patients and their loved ones began swapping information about how to get it. Government data sets about Evusheld’s availability were so complex and confusing that Rob Relyea, a software developer in the Seattle area, developed his own mapping tool that tracks how much of the drug is available and which providers have it.

“People should know where to go to get in line,” he said.

Relyea, 51, had a vested interest: His wife, Rebecca, is in remission from cancer. They tried 10 hospitals unsuccessfully but then got the drug through luck, as her name was picked in a lottery for Evusheld at a hospital near their home in early February, he said.

But they have not heard anything yet about scheduling a second dose, which she needs based on the new recommendations.

Mallett, in Oregon, was one of many who were desperate to get the drug. She has common variable immunodeficiency, a condition that keeps her immune system from making enough antibodies. Her son started attending kindergarten in person last fall, and when the omicron variant surged, his teacher and classmates began testing positive for COVID-19.

To find Evusheld, Mallett scoured an online government database of shipments and spent weeks cold-calling hospitals, pharmacies and health organizations that received the drug.

When she finally found a hospital in La Grande, Ore., that was willing to give her a dose, she worked with her physician to enroll as a patient there. Then she dropped everything and drove to the hospital in the rain, received the shots and immediately turned back — an 11-hour trip in total.

By Josh Dawsey, Adela Suliman and Timothy Bella Washington Post

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday night said there is no room in the Republican Party for “apologists for Putin” in an apparent swipe at former President Donald Trump.

In a speech to GOP donors in New Orleans, Pence referenced the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As the United States and international community have responded with wide-ranging, extensive sanctions against Russia, Pence said now was not the time for conservatives to voice their support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Ask yourself, where would our friends in Eastern Europe be today if they were not in NATO? Where would Russian tanks be today if NATO had not expanded the borders of freedom?” he said. “There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.”

While Pence did not explicitly refer to the former president by name, Trump has been among the loudest, and only, Republican voices supporting Putin. Trump recently described Putin as “smart,” “savvy” and “a genius,” while insisting the attack on Ukraine never would have happened on his watch.

“The problem is not that Putin is smart — which of course he’s smart,” Trump said last week, “but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.

Dumb. So dumb.”

Pence’s comments come as fighting continues to play out across Ukraine. After evacuation efforts in Mariupol were halted because of what Ukrainian officials said was continued shelling from Russian forces, Putin on Saturday again denounced the widespread sanctions leveled against

Russia from the international community. He described the sanctions as like a “declaration of war,” and said any continued pushback on the invasion from Ukrainian and world leaders would risk “the future of Ukrainian statehood.”

More than 1.2 million people have fled the fighting in Ukraine, and at least 331 civilians have been killed, according to U.N. agencies.

But researchers caution that the actual toll is probably higher because it is difficult and often dangerous to count the dead during war.

GOP leaders have largely condemned Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, even as Republican leaders such as former secretary of state Mike Pompeo have described the Russian president as a “talented statesman” with “lots of gifts.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was sharply criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle this week after suggesting the “only way” to end the crisis in Ukraine is for Russians to assassinate Putin.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Graham’s comments reflected a “hysterical, extreme pressure of a Russophobic outburst” at a time of such global tension.

The White House also rejected Graham’s call for an assassination.

“That is not the position of the United States government and certainly not a statement you’d hear from come from the mouth of anybody working in this administration,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a daily briefing on Friday.

Members of Congress also criticized Graham’s tweets as reckless, including Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

Afghans resettling in U.S. struggle to find affordable housing

By Matthew Barakat, Amy Taxin, Philip Marcelo and Julie Watson Associated Press

IRVINE, Calif. — After fleeing her home in now-Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Mozhgan Entazari did everything she could to find a new one for her family in the sunny, palm tree-lined communities of Southern California.

The 34-year-old mother of two scoured options on Zillow with her husband, while the family lived at a hotel in Irvine, south of Los Angeles. She spent $200 for an Uber ride to see an apartment 90 minutes away only to find it had been rented.

Entazari needed a place not just for her immediate family but for seven members of her extended family.

In the end, it took four months.

On Sunday, they will move into a five-bedroom house in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of LA, which is renting for $4,000.

The family’s struggles are emblematic of what tens of thousands of Afghans are finding since they moved off U.S. military bases and into American cities and towns following last summer’s dramatic airlift operation.

Many hope to settle in Southern California and the Washington, D.C., area, where Afghans previously established vibrant communities with halal grocery stores and mosques.

But these communities also are among the country’s priciest housing markets, and units, especially those suitable for often larger Afghan families, are in short supply. Resettlement agencies report it’s taking longer to get refugees out of temporary housing like hotels, Airbnbs and churches.

Entazari will share a roof with her husband and kids, along with her mother, teen sister and her brother and his family. Without a job, credit history or co-signer, she said it was incredibly difficult to find housing. And without an address, she said she and her husband couldn’t get jobs and her kids couldn’t enroll in school.

“All our life depends on housing,” Entazari said in Farsi through a volunteer interpreter.

They had to pay two months of rent to move in, and they are

getting help from an organization that will fund a portion of the monthly rent until next year.

The search for housing for Afghans comes amid a tightening housing market as the U.S. crawls out of the pandemic. The nationwide vacancy rate for rental units dropped about one percentage point, to 5.6 percent, in the last quarter of 2020, according to recently released U.S. census data. The typical U.S. rent was up nearly 16 percent to more than $1,850 in January compared to last January, according to the online real estate marketplace Zillow, which launched an effort in November to help connect landlords with newly arrived Afghans.

In northern Virginia, Ahmad Saeed Totakhail was lucky to find permanent housing in Dale City, a suburb about 25 miles south of Washington. His sister, who housed him until he got a place of his own, lives there. He was hired to work in nearby Arlington, by the same nonprofit that employed him in Kabul.

The area’s stunning mosques and plentiful Afghan eateries have softened the blow of leaving his homeland. But he was shocked by the high price for his family’s safe haven — $2,000 a month for rent.

“It’s quite expensive,” he said.

“I have friends here. I have my relatives here. But we never discussed the economics.”

About half of all Afghan immigrants to the United States, many who came decades ago, live in five major metropolitan areas — Washington, Sacramento, California, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

As a result, these areas are often attractive for Afghan newcomers, and many list the names of relatives or acquaintances already living there as contacts when resettlement agencies are considering where to send them.

But with some 76,000 Afghans arriving in the United States since the Taliban takeover of their country last year, many of these cities are reaching their saturation point, said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service.

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Russia breaks cease-fire on escape routes; Putin likens West’s sanctions to a ‘declaration of war’

By Michael Schwirtz, Andrew E. Kramer and Michael Levenson New York Times

ODESA, Ukraine resident Vladimir Putin warned Saturday crippling economic sanctions imposed by the West were “akin to a declaration of war,” as the Russian military pummeled civilian targets and continued shelling near the first protected routes intended to allow besieged Ukrainians to flee, apparently violating a cease-fire that had been agreed to only hours earlier.

The ongoing Russian attacks near the “humanitarian corridors,” reported by Ukrainian officials, came hours after both countries had agreed to open safe routes for residents to flee Mariupol, a major port city on the Sea of Azov where tens of thousands of people have been without heat, electricity or water for three days, and Volnovakha, another beleaguered town 40 miles to the north.

Ten days into the Russian invasion, the continued shelling around the corridors made clear Putin had settled on a plan to hammer civilian infrastructure and pulverize basic services and neighborhoods in a sustained assault that has set off what the United Nations calls the fastest-moving exodus of European refugees since World War II. In a news conference in the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities presented a dozen stonedfaced Russian prisoners of war, who spoke of chaotic firefights that had led to their capture and condemned Russian leaders.

It was impossible to ascertain whether the soldiers were speaking under duress. The Geneva Convention prohibits militaries from parading prisoners.

Putin, in his first extended remarks since the start of the war, threatened to fully absorb Ukraine, the former Soviet republic of nearly 44 million people that declared its independence from Moscow 30 years ago.

“The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood,” Putin said.

In addition to his warning on sanctions, which have been crushing Russia’s economy, Putin said imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine — which Ukrainian officials have been demanding, but NATO has so far rejected — “will be seen by us as participation in the armed conflict.” He blamed Ukraine for sabotaging the humanitarian routes, saying its troops had used civilians as “human shields.”

Putin’s threats came as residents in the first major city to fall to Russian troops, Kherson, in southern Ukraine, took to the streets to protest, chanting and waving Ukrainian flags. The demonstrations were the most visible example yet of resistance to Russian occupation and a direct rebuke to Putin’s claim the Russian military has been liberating Ukrainian cities.

Around 10 a.m., hundreds of people started gathering in Liberty Square, in the center of Kherson, according to videos of the scene. In one video, a man stood atop a Russian armored personnel carrier, waving a Ukrainian flag as it drove down the street, prompting cheers

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WASHINGTON — Fighting for his country’s survival, Ukraine’s leader made a “desperate” plea Saturday to American lawmakers for the United States to help get more warplanes to his military and cut off Russian oil imports as Kyiv tries to stave off the Russian invasion.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy opened the private video call with U.S. lawmakers by telling them this may be the last time they see him alive.

He has remained in Kyiv, the capital, which has a vast Russian armored column threatening from the north.

Appearing in what is now his trademark army-green shirt in front of a white wall with the Ukrainian flag, he told them Ukraine needs to secure its skies, either through a no-fly zone enforced by NATO or through the provision of more warplanes so Ukraine could better defend itself. Zelenskyy has been pleading for a no-fly zone for days, but NATO has refused, saying it could provoke a widespread war with Russia.

The hourlong exchange with some 300 members of Congress and their staffs came as Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities and the number of Ukrainians who have fled the country grew to 1.4 million.

“President Zelenskyy made a desperate plea,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

He said Zelenskyy wants the U.S. to facilitate the transfer of planes from Eastern European allies. “I will do all I can to help the administration to facilitate their transfer,” Schumer said.

The U.S. is considering sending American-made F-16s as backfill to former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe that are now members of NATO. They, in turn, would send Ukraine their own Soviet-era MiGs, which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly.

There appears to be a logistical problem, however, in sending the F-16s to Poland or other East European allies because of a production backlog. These countries would essentially have to give their MiGs to the Ukrainians and accept an IOU from the U.S. for the F-16s. The situation is further complicated because the next shipment of F-16s is set for Taiwan, and Congress would be reluctant to delay those deliveries as it eyes China.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated the fighter jets are under consideration after meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dymtro Kuleba at the Poland-Ukraine border outside the town of Korczowa.

“We are talking about and working on everything,” Blinken told reporters.

Blinken reiterated the U.S. support for Ukraine “not only has been unprecedented, not only is it going to continue, it’s going to increase.”

The U.S. Congress is working on a $10 billion package of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Schumer told Zelenskyy lawmakers hope to send it quickly to Ukraine, according to a person on the call and granted anonymity to discuss it.

ABOVE: Thousands attempt to board trains Saturday bound for Poland in Lviv, the city in Western Ukraine that has been a key hub for those evacuating. Russia appeared to break a ceasefire hours after it was agreed to by shelling along ‘humanitarian corridors’ meant for civilians trying to escape the violence.

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LEFT: Military instructors train female Ukrainian volunteers on weapons skills in Kyiv on Friday.

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U.S. veterans head abroad to join fight from onlookers.

The city’s mayor, Igor Kolykhaev, said Russian forces had fired into the air to disperse the crowd, although protesters initially stayed in the area.

There were no reports of casualties, he said, estimating the crowd’s size at 2,000 people.

The protests underscored the challenges facing the Russian military as its moves to capture and hold Ukrainian territory.

Putin insists Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” and has described resistance to Russia’s incursion as the product of brainwashing by nefarious Western operators and “neo-Nazis” in the Kyiv government.

But Kolykhaev said it was ludicrous for Russian forces to destroy city services and supply lines for medicines and other essential goods and then present themselves as “kind liberators.” Russian troops seized Kherson on Wednesday after a vicious battle that killed 300 people, including dozens of civilians, he said.

“First they create a critical situation,” Kolykhaev said in a text message, “then heroically they save us.”

The Russian assault has also deepened the desperation in Mariupol, a major city of nearly half a million people in southern Ukraine where residents described children trapped in bomb shelters without food, water or warmth. It has been largely impossible to bring in medical supplies and other relief to the city, where the local government has refused to surrender, despite daily bombing

by Russian forces, which have surrounded the city.

“The shelling is constant and at random,” Diana Berg, a Mariupol resident, said in an interview Thursday. “Everything I ever thought to be a nightmare is nothing compared to what I

am witnessing.”

Mariupol was cut off from telecommunications, she said, meaning there was no internet, cellphone service, electricity or hot water. Residents, she said, were building fires in the streets to stay warm. “And when you’re on the street, at any moment, a rocket can land next to you,” Berg said.

In an effort to alleviate the suffering, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday it had agreed to a cease-fire and safe routes for residents of Mariupol and Volnovakha, a nearby city in equally dire straits, beginning at 10 a.m. Moscow time.

But Ukrainian officials said Russian troops never stopped shelling the area, and they warned residents who were planning to leave the cities to turn back and take shelter. “The Russian side is not upholding the cease-fire and is continuing to shell Mariupol and the surrounding regions,” Mariupol’s administration said Saturday afternoon.

Since the war began, at least 1.2 million people in Ukraine have fled to neighboring countries, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said Saturday.

Outside Kyiv, there have been fierce attacks and counterattacks as Ukrainian forces battled to keep the Russians from encircling the city. A 40-mile-long convoy of military vehicles approaching Kyiv from the north seems to be largely stalled, according to Western analysts, and the Ukrainian military said its forces have been attacking it where they can.

In its latest assessment of the Russian assault, the British Ministry of Defense said Ukraine continued to hold three key cities — Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol — as well as Sumy, although it was “highly likely” that Russian forces had encircled all four.

By Dave Philipps New York Times

Hector served two violent tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, then got out, got a pension and a civilian job, and thought he was done with military service. But Friday, he boarded a plane for one more deployment, this time as a volunteer in Ukraine. He checked in several bags filled with rifle scopes, helmets and body armor donated by other veterans.

“Sanctions can help, but sanctions can’t help right now, and people need help right now,” said the former Marine, who lives in Tampa Bay, Fla., and, like other veterans interviewed for this article, asked only his first name be used for security reasons. “I can help right now.”

He is one of a surge of U.S. veterans who say they are now preparing to join the fight in Ukraine, emboldened by the invitation of the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who this past week announced he was creating an “international legion” and asked volunteers from around the world to help defend his nation against Russia.

All across the United States, small groups of military veterans are gathering, planning and getting passports in order. After years of serving in smoldering occupations, trying to spread democracy in places that had only a tepid interest in it, many are hungry for what they see as a righteous fight to defend freedom against an autocratic aggressor with a conventional army.

“It’s a conflict that has a clear good and bad side, and maybe that stands apart from other recent conflicts,” said David Ribardo, a former Army officer who now owns a property management business in Allentown, Pa. “A lot of us are watching what is happening and just want to grab a rifle and go over there.”

After the invasion, he saw vet-

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David Ribardo owns a property business in Allentown, Pa., but has spent the past week assisting a group called Volunteers for Ukraine.

erans flooding social media eager to join the fight. Unable to go because of commitments here, he has spent the past week acting as a sort of middle man for a group called Volunteers for Ukraine, identifying veterans and other volunteers with useful skills and connecting them with donors who buy gear and airline tickets.

“It was very quickly overwhelming. Almost too many people wanted to help,” he said.

In the past week, he said he has worked to sift those with valuable combat or medical skills from people he described as “combat tourists, who don’t have the correct experience and would not be an asset.”

He said his group has also had to comb out extremists.

The outpouring of support is driven, veterans said, by past experiences. Some want to try to recapture the intense clarity and purpose they felt in war, which is often missing in modern suburban life. Others want a chance to make amends for failed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and see the fight to defend a democracy against a totalitarian invader as the reason they joined the military.

Nonwhite refugees say they are facing different treatment at border

By Maite Fernández Simon Washington Post

Jessica Orakpo, 23, a medical student from Nigeria, and her friend Nataizya Nanyangwe, 24, an economics student from Zambia, both enrolled at universities in Ternopil, in western Ukraine, decided on last Saturday the time had come, in the face of Russia’s invasion of the country, for them to leave.

They piled into a cab bound for the Polish border, some 136 miles distant, at around 8 a.m. After two hours, they hit wall-to-wall traffic. The cab couldn’t go any further.

After the cab hit the bottleneck, Orakpo and her friend decided to continue their journey by foot. Orakpo said she only packed some clothes, blankets and her travel documents.

By the time they drew close to the Polish border — a day later — they faced another obstacle, one Orakpo says was prompted by her race.

Several African and South Asian citizens in Ukraine have said they’ve seen a different treatment for those who are nonwhite, non-Ukrainian trying to leave the country, a situation that has been confirmed by the top U.N. refugee agency and other official authorities.

Requests for comment to Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service were not immediately returned.

“I don’t know what is happening on the Ukrainian side of the border, but we let everyone in regardless of nationality,” a spokesperson for the Polish border guards said to France24.

Stories similar to Orakpo’s have been

reported in news media and shared on Twitter and Instagram as people desperately try to flee Ukraine.

The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said some people were receiving “different treatments” compared with others.

“You have seen reports in the media that there are different treatments — with Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians,” Grandi said at a news conference Tuesday. “Now our observations — and we possibly cannot observe every single post yet — but our observations is that these are not state policies, but there are instances which it has happened.”

“There should be absolutely no discrimination between Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians, Europeans and non-Europeans. Everyone is fleeing from the

same risks,” he added.

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told the Post on Tuesday there were “isolated cases” of African citizens being mistreated at the border. “I don’t think it’s something done systematically,” he said.

The African Union released a statement condemning the treatment of African citizens at Ukrainian border crossings. “Reports that Africans are singled out for unacceptable dissimilar treatment would be shockingly racist and in breach of international law.”

Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said he was aware of these incidents and he had a call Tuesday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba.

He called reports on social media of

the experiences some Nigerians have received at the border by Ukrainian officials “harrowing” and “deplorable.”

“The question is, how do you know whether these were sort of just rogue officials or whether there was any kind of state sanction to what they were doing?” He reiterated the Ukrainian minister insisted there had been a directive to let everybody leave.

Unable to board a bus to the Polish border, Orakpo went back to her city and managed to board a train to Hungary. She is now living with a friend in Debrecen, she says. She doesn’t know what to do next. “I don’t have any money. I don’t have any clothes. I have nothing,” she said.

“Now I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Medicine was the only thing I had going on for me,” she said.

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Angry over coronavirus pandemic restrictions, such as the closing of gyms, people from several states met in Ohio in June 2020 to plot ways to overthrow government “tyrants,” prosecutors say. Within a week, they chose Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a target.

The plan, as outlined in a federal court indictment, was to kidnap Whitmer at her family’s northern Michigan vacation home and take her to Wisconsin for a “trial.” Over several months, they held training exercises and conducted surveillance on Whitmer’s home in preparation for what a group leader called “a snatch and grab.”

Though it was interrupted by authorities, the alleged plot — for which four men will face trial in a Michigan courtroom beginning Tuesday — represented an increasing level of anger and violence in U.S. politics. That violence disproportionately targets female elected officials, and particularly women of color.

While criticism of public officials is healthy and expected in a democracy, researchers say women are dramatically more likely than their male counterparts to face threats and violence. As more women are elected, the hostility grows, ranging from death threats to armed people gathered outside homes, or attacks on social media that go beyond policy positions to include gendered or racial slurs and insults about intelligence or appearance.

That could have longer-term effects by pushing women to leave public office or deterring them from running, potentially reversing the progress women have made in diversifying who represents the country at City Hall, on school boards and in statehouses and other offices.

Whitmer appears to have been

Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the House committee, and Cheney, the committee’s vice WASHINGTON chairwoman, said, “The facts we’ve gathered strongly suggest that Dr. ormer President DonEastman’s emails may show that ald Trump’s future is he helped Donald Trump advance currently playing out a corrupt scheme to obstruct the in three venues: the House counting of electoral college ballots committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, the and a conspiracy to impede the judicial system and the broader transfer of power.” political arena. The first two are The committee has much intriguing — the prospect of work left to do, with depositions the former president charged continuing, public hearings with a crime for the effect of scheduled for later this year his lies about the 2020 election. and, eventually, a full report of The third, however, is the most its findings. It has no power to important, with the voters hav- charge Trump with obstruction ing the loudest voice. or fraud. At most, it can highlight its findings through public In December, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., hinted strongly testimony and ultimately make a the Jan. 6 committee was lookreferral to the Justice Department ing to make a criminal referral and hope officials there will take to the Justice Department when the next steps and pursue legal she used language directly proceedings against the former from the U.S. Code to question president.

Trump’s activities. “Did Donald The legal path to holding Trump,” she asked, “through Trump accountable, however, action or inaction, corruptly remains uncertain. seek to obstruct or impede At a minimum, last week’s Congress’s official proceeding committee filing adds to the to count electoral votes?” pressure on Attorney General What was suggested by Merrick Garland to pursue such Cheney in December became charges. A formal referral from explicit in the committee’s latest the committee later this year legal document. The filing was would put front and center the part of an effort to obtain access question of whether the Justice to emails and other documents Department is prepared to do from John Eastman, a lawyer what many Trump opponents advising Trump who led an have been calling for since the effort to persuade Vice President Jan. 6 attack took place.

Mike Pence to disrupt Congress’ Garland has been circumspect counting of the electoral college about the work underway at votes as part of an overall plan Justice. On the day before the to overturn the election. In the first anniversary of the attacks, filing, the committee’s lawyers he delivered a speech in which say there is evidence that “establishes a good-faith belief that Mr. Trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts.”

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at an address in September. A 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer represents a growing anger in U.S. politics and violence researchers say is disproportionately aimed at female elected officials and candidates.

among the women lawmakers targeted in part due to gender.

The men who prosecutors say participated in the plot came from different states, and she was not the only U.S. governor to impose pandemic-related restrictions.

In transcripts of recorded conversations, hours of which prosecutors are expected to present at trial, the use of gendered slurs and men discussing things like “taking” Whitmer indicate their rage goes beyond her policies, said Rutgers University Professor Mona Lena Krook, who authored a 2020 book on global violence against women in politics.

“It’s, like, ‘Who does she think she is, trying to tell us what to do?’ ” Krook said. “There is a sense they’re trying to delegitimize her because they don’t feel like she has the right, that she’s allowed to be there because she’s a woman. ... I think they take it very personally.”

Several studies have shown the disparity between how men and women are treated. Researchers for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue measured online abuse of congressional candidates in the 2020 election, including direct or indirect threats and promoting violence or demeaning a person based on identity such as race or gender. They found female Democrats received 10 times more abusive comments on Facebook than

their male peers, while Republican women received twice as many as their male counterparts.

Women lawmakers who are also ethnic minorities are particularly likely to face abuse, the study found. Among those targeted most often were Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who called out a culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” during a 2020 House floor speech after a GOP lawmaker’s verbal assault.

The vitriol also intensified during the coronavirus pandemic and as some Trump supporters believed the lie that he won the 2020 election.

Amanda Hunter, executive director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, traces much of the change to the rise of social media.

Years ago, if someone wanted to verbally attack a lawmaker, they had to track down their address and perhaps mail a letter. Today, it’s relatively easy to reach someone via Twitter, Facebook, email or other methods — often in their homes or on their phones.

That’s created another structural barrier to running for office, particularly in lower levels of government where the jobs don’t come with a security detail or budget, said Hunter.

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he said, “The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. We will follow the facts wherever they lead.”

Garland’s language was legal boilerplate — standard formulation of an ongoing investigation — and yet tantalizing to those who have argued not holding Trump accountable for what happened Jan. 6 would be a dereliction of duty.

Still, what members of the House Jan. 6 committee, or people eager to see Trump charged with a crime, might see as clearcut criminal violations may not be enough to persuade Garland to take the risky step of charging the former president.

The ramifications of such a decision are enormous, from crucial questions of whether the evidence is so ironclad that the government could be certain of getting a conviction to the charged political considerations of having this administration charge the chief executive of the prior administration of a crime.

Whatever comes from the legal system, the public will likely have the last word. The first indications of sentiment toward the former president will come in the November midterm elections, when the power of his endorsements will be tested both in Republican primaries and then against a general election audience.

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Biden’s midterm message: ‘Fund the police’

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Washington Post

WASHINGTON — With homicide rates increasing in some major cities, support waning for reducing police funding and Republicans aggressively pushing a “law and order” midterm message, President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address this past week: “The answer is not to defund the police. It’s to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.”

Although this has long been Biden’s position, the blunt statement brought Republican lawmakers to their feet in applause, provided a bumper-stickersize sound bite to Democrats running in swing districts and confirmed to dismayed activists that the once-widespread desire to overhaul policing has lost its momentum.

In June 2020, amid nationwide racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, about a quarter of Americans supported reducing police funding by a little or a lot, according to a Pew Research Center survey. By October 2021, that support had fallen to 15 percent. There were even starker drops among voters who leaned Democratic.

With the midterms eight months away, Biden and party leaders believe coming out strongly in support of police will asphyxiate inaccurate Republican arguments that Democrats are anti-police, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss strategy on a contentious issue. And the White House sees Biden’s stance as closer to where most Democrats and most Americans are, including many people in communities of color.

But for many liberal activists, “fund the police” sounded like a betrayal — especially as police shot and killed at least 1,055 people in 2021, the highest total since the Washington Post began tracking such incidents in 2015.

“Nobody wants to hear the movement or the work they’re passionate about is being dismissed by the president of the United States,” said Bernice Lauredan, an organizer with Tampa Dream Defenders. “We need more than symbolism. We need more than kneeling. It’s terrible to see the work that people have done on improving our communities, on investing in making a difference, just be pushed to the side.”

Lauredan spent the summer of 2020 marching through the sweltering streets of Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., demonstrating for wholesale police restructuring and saying Floyd’s name.

That year, Biden met with Floyd’s family, called for “real police reform” and showed his solidarity with the movement by taking a knee in Delaware.

Then, over the next two years, Lauredan said, she watched elected leaders ignore nearly everything she marched

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Protesters repaint ‘defund the police’ on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., in 2020. The phrase became a rallying cry for many activists that year as they called on cities to shift funding away from policing and toward social programs that help struggling communities.

for: Tampa increased the police budget instead of shuttling dollars to other community services. Police restructuring legislation that bore Floyd’s name stalled in the Senate. Bipartisan negotiations focused on police revision collapsed amid disagreements. And public opinion has shifted away from what activists refer to as police abolition.

For Lauredan, Biden’s words Tuesday, and the bipartisan applause that followed, hit like a eulogy — and she worries the sentiment will lead to more police on U.S. streets and more deaths.

At Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said “fund the police” has been Biden’s view for decades, and he was defending himself and his party from “attempts to mischaracterize his position and the position of, frankly, a number of his Democratic colleagues.”

“The president has been clear many times that he believes that we need to continue to ensure police departments have the funding they need, that there are strong relationships and partnerships built with communities, but that there also needs to be steps that are taken to ensure there are accountability measures put in place,” she said.

Though legislative efforts have failed, the Biden administration says it has already implemented some incremental changes. The Justice Department has prohibited the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints for federal officers and restricted the circumstances where its agents can use no-knock warrants.

The department has also launched pattern-or-practice investigations into law enforcement agencies, and last month, three former Minneapolis police officers who were at the scene when Floyd was murdered were found guilty of federal civil rights offenses. Psaki added the administration continues

to mull an executive order that would make concrete some police restructuring measures floated in failed legislation.

“Defund the police” became a rallying cry for many activists in 2020 as they called on cities to shift funding away from policing and toward social programs that help struggling communities.

Although many activists have clarified they aren’t advocating for the immediate abolition of all police, the slogan gave Republicans an opening to paint Democrats with a wide, lawless brush.

A misleading ad for Preisent Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020 featured audio from a fictitious 911 call that is answered by a recording. “To report a rape, please press one. To report a murder, press two.” As the audio played, the ad showed images of violent protests before flashing the words: “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”

Celinda Lake, one of Biden’s lead pollsters in the 2020 election, said Republicans are bringing up defund the police “everywhere.” Trump’s campaign, for example, spent at least $6.7 million airing the ad on network television in battleground states, including Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Even as Biden was still speaking Tuesday night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee tweeted an ad that featured Democrats — many of them people of color — speaking in support of reallocating cash for policing.

The ads feature out-of-context statements and don’t fully reflect the views of the Democrats featured in them, but telling voters that Democrats support defunding the police is an easy attack that can be difficult to defend against, Lake said.

“It’s become a values attack more than a substantive attack. It’s like calling [a

Democrat] a socialist,” she said. “It’s a subject that lends itself to a nine-second attack, but not a nine-second response. … It’s hard to say what you’re for in nine seconds because it’s adding mental health services, it’s retraining police and more pay for better-quality police.”

For Democrats, real-world problems have amplified the messaging difficulties. Homicides increased in some large Democrat-controlled cities. Philadelphia, for example, saw a record 561 homicides last year, a spasm of violence that put the city at the epicenter of a debate about the future of policing as it tried to stem the killing and respond to calls for police restructuring.

Biden and other Democrats have long said it is better to give police departments money for training and other tools to implement needed changes instead of stripping their funding.

“There is a need for reform, but reform can’t take hold without the tools to implement it,” said Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., the former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in a statement. “Too often a lack of resources and overreliance on law enforcement to solve social service issues has led to a loss of lives and distrust in our communities. Put simply, in order to reform, we must also invest.”

In the nationwide discussion, White House aides say Biden’s position is closely aligned to that of New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who won his race while promising to crack down on gun crimes, bolster violence prevention programs and enhance community policing.

Lake, the pollster, said Biden is also more closely aligned with the country — including with many Black voters who care about removing troublesome police officers from departments, but who also want to be protected from criminals on the streets.

Amid declining support for reducing police funding, DCCC operatives told Politico that Democrats should work to counter effective GOP arguments rooted in culture wars, like “defund the police,” instead of ignoring the attacks.

Democrats, for example, should stress their support for police.

Maurice Mitchell, a social movement strategist with the Movement for Black Lives and national director of the Working Families Party, said many activists see the shifting rhetoric and wonder what it means for a real-world debate about the proper role police should play in keeping communities safe.

“Folks are concerned that the intensity of the post-George Floyd moment has subsided, and what’s taken place is sort of a backlash,” Mitchell said. “And there are Democrats that are worried about picking up voters that they think otherwise would not be in play.”

Among them, he said, is Biden, who has gone out of his way to show his support for police.

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more than 7,000 fans, the younger Watts unwittingly joined a countless line of others who have — past and present — fallen in love with a team that never hoisted the championship trophy and yet has somehow cultivated a mythical standing that still exists 60 years after its triumphant failure.

“Looking back, that has to be the most legendary game I’ve ever seen,” says Watts. “It was one of those games you could never sit down because it was so exciting. If anything, it made me want to go out and be a ballplayer. That’s really what the state tournament is all about, isn’t it? It gives us all a chance to see something magical even from teams that don’t win it.”

That team capturing the hearts and minds in March of ’62 was the St. Michael’s Horsemen, a group of Catholic school kids colloquially known as the Mighty Midgets. While the nickname’s origins are up for debate, its launch sequence stems from a starting lineup consisting entirely of players 5-foot-9 or shorter.

The surviving members of that team still remain in touch and, when the situation calls for it, get together on occasion to catch up and share a few laughs. All of them are in their late 70s now; a few still live in the area.

Five of the remaining Midgets attended Friday’s practice at St. Michael’s and talked to the players ahead of Saturday’s Class 3A state tournament opener.

“Those boys, they’re about to experience something that will stay with them forever,” says former Midget Steve Arias. “We were lucky enough to create a lifetime’s worth of memories. I can only hope they do the same. It’s right there for them.”

The Midgets, of course, never reached their goal. Their 66-64 loss to Albuquerque Sandia in what was then the Class A finals was broadcast live on television statewide, endearing them to a bigger audience than any of them could have imagined.

“People came to love us because we were so short, and we weren’t supposed to do what we did,” says David Fernandez, the team’s top rebounder and a multisport star during his time at St. Michael’s. “We ran. Oh, did we run. We would press and play defense and go full speed the

entire game. People liked our hustle and that’s how we won.”

Coached by Dick Shelley, the little team that could — and, yes, future Kansas State 7-footer Nick Pino was part of the team but hardly got off the bench — gained an enormous following. In the regular season, it played Santa Fe High before a jam-packed crowd of 5,400 at the Sweeney Center and dealt with raucous crowds in a two-game road trip to Hobbs over the holiday break.

The team even had a game in Roswell where one of the three cars it used to get from town to town caught fire during the game.

“Some of those trips were the best part,” says former Midgets guard Ivan Montoya. “That, and being part of something big.”

By time the tournament rolled around, seats were hard to come by.

The first two rounds were played to full houses at Johnson Gym and the title game was sold out before tipoff.

“My parents couldn’t even get in,” says Midgets guard Tommy Vigil. “They had to sit in the car and listen to it in on the radio.”

All stories need a hero, and Vigil was cast in that role early on. Universally regarded as the worst free throw shooter on the team, he was sent to the line in the closing seconds of overtime against heavily favored Carlsbad in the quarterfinals.

In a huddle before he toed the line, Vigil’s coach gave him a kind look and a vote of confidence the likes of which would be a Hollywood producer’s dream.

“And let me tell you, none of us thought he was going to make those free throws,” says Montoya.

“Nick Pino had this old pickup truck, and he’d give us all a ride after practice, and the last thing you wanted to do was ride in the back during basketball season,” says backup guard Connie Trujillo.

“Coach Shelley had a thing where he’d make you stay late until you hit so many free throws. Tommy was always the last one out. I don’t think he ever rode in the front seat.”

Vigil, of course, made both, and the Midgets won in triple OT. “Remember, that was the best team Carlsbad probably ever had,” says Marty Saiz, an Albuquerque insurance agent who is writing a book about the

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The 1962 St. Michael’s Horsemen were known as the ‘Mighty Midgets’ — a nickname that apparently stems from a starting lineup consisting entirely of players 5-foot-9 or shorter.

history of high school basketball in New Mexico. “They had big Ben Monroe, the 6-3 or 6-4 future Lobo. St. Mike’s had no business winning that game.”

Consider that the state tournament consisted of only two classifications from 1954-63. Schools with more than 500 students were designated for Class A, and everyone else was in Class B. St. Michael’s enrollment was just over 500, thanks to a K-12 curriculum.

“We went into that tournament with maybe one-third the student body of schools like Sandia, but our 500 was a lot smaller when you think of how many elementary kids we had,” says Arias.

Part of Saiz’s book chronicles the 1962 tournament, one filled with upsets, overflow crowds at Johnson Gym, and an inescapable buzz generated by the Midgets.

Three-time defending state champ Las Cruces, coached by future college hall of famer Lou Henson, lost to Valley in the first round while Hobbs was shocked by Cobre.

Even Santa Fe High got in on the fun. Coached by Salvador Perez, the Demons and future University of New Mexico quarterback Stan Quintana were knocked out by Sandia in the quarterfinals.

Saiz compares the St. Mike’s-Sandia tilt to some of the greatest prep games New Mexico has ever seen, like the 1999 final that pitted undefeated big schools Hobbs and Albuquerque La Cueva and

the 1981 title game between unbeaten Hobbs and coach Ralph Tasker against a one-loss Albuquerque High and coach Jim Hulsman. He also mentions, to name a few, the 2012 5A finals that showcased future college players Bryce Alford (La Cueva) against Cullen Neal (Albuquerque Eldorado).

The Midgets surprised Valley in the semifinals before running across Sandia and a roster that included a future NBA player in Gary Suiter and 6-foot-7 college prospect Lou Baudoin.

Baudoin went on to win a national title four years later with the fabled Texas Western team coached by Don Haskins.

He was also portrayed as a supporting character in the 2006 movie Glory Road, which tells the story of that team.

Suiter played one season in the NBA with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he, like a number of other players from that team, has since died. That list includes Jimmy Pappan, a 5-9 guard whose 20-foot jumper with seven seconds left proved to be the game winner. It turned out to be his only made field goal of the entire tournament.

“It was one of those shots where everyone on our side was, like, ‘No, no, no … yes!’ ” jokes Baudoin. “Jimmy and I had one job that entire game: to get the ball across halfcourt and throw it in to Gary. Jimmy’s job was not to shoot the ball with seven seconds left.”

Midgets senior Ray Sanchez had a chance to tie it at the buzzer, but his

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Two police vehicles, two civilian vehicles and the stolen car allegedly driven by Jaramillo crashed near the Old Pecos Trail exit. According to witnesses and Jaramillo, who was treated for minor injuries at a hospital, an unidentified man fled the area on foot. He was described as wearing a red shirt, black pants and a black jacket.

Santa Fe police Officer Julian Norris said he only saw a female driver in the car and saw no one else exit the vehicle, according to court records. Jaramillo’s DNA was found on the driver’s side airbag, Carmack-Altwies said.

Deputy Chief Carolyn Huynh said state police do not know the motive behind Jaramillo allegedly telling a woman at the apartment complex that she was being kidnapped. As a result, the woman called 911.

The 2019 Chevy Malibu driven by Jaramillo was stolen Monday from a mobile home park off Grand Avenue in Las Vegas, city police Chief Antonio Salazar said Saturday.

Loreinna Trujillo of Las Vegas told The New Mexican she was warming up the car to take her children to school around 7:30 a.m. when it was stolen.

It’s not known if Jaramillo stole the car, Salazar said.

“I’m just thankful neither of my kids was in the vehicle,” Trujillo said.

The Cibola County Sheriff’s Office charged Jaramillo after a high-speed chase in September, court records show. When she was arrested, records state, Jaramillo said a man had been holding a knife to her neck and forced her to flee.

Jaramillo told police the man had been wearing a red shirt, black pants and black hoodie, according to the report, but “it is believed there was only one occupant.”

Prosecutors asked the court to dismiss those charges a few weeks later, pending further investigation, but she was arrested again in October by a Cibola County detective investigating the theft of a CenturyLink bucket truck. That case was dismissed in November to allow for more investigation, court records show.

Jaramillo was arrested at 1:30 p.m. without incident in Albuquerque.

She was booked into the Santa Fe County jail, where she remained Saturday night, jail logs showed.

last-second shot from just inside the free throw line bounced off the iron.

It broke the heart of an entire city but, even in defeat, etched the team in the memory banks forever.

“For a few years people would stop [us] on the street and say, ‘Hey, you were one of the Midgets,’ ” Trujillo says.

“Such a great feeling.”

The ’62 finals played out exactly the way one might expect. Suiter had an incredible game with 24 points and 34 rebounds — eight more than the Horsemen had as a team. Baudoin was 9-for-11 shooting, finishing with 22 points and 10 rebounds, but the Midgets’ quickness nearly exposed a fatal flaw in the Matadors. St. Mike’s forced more than three dozen turnovers, many of which helped erase a 15-point deficit.

Fernandez had 22 points to lead the Midgets while the smooth-shooting Gil Gutierrez had 17 and Sanchez 14.

A retired teacher at Albuquerque Academy, Baudoin lives in Corrales and still keeps in touch with a number of the Midgets. When revisiting his earliest memories of that ’62 tournament, he can only laugh at his first impression of what was to come.

“First, let me say this: They were the toughest team we saw and they just ran and pressed like no one we played,” Baudoin says. “But they didn’t exactly strike you as the typical basketball players. Some of those guys, their shooting style was like something you’d find from a guy off the dirt court. They didn’t really have that classic style but, yeah, they could play. And their coach, the man was a genius.”

A few years ago, the Midgets held a reunion to help raise funds for a scholarship that bears Dick Shelley’s name.

The Horsemen would go on to six additional trips to the finals before the end of the decade, winning three. Shelley died in 1967 at the age of 39.

When honoring their coach, someone found the original TV footage of that Sandia game and edited the final seconds to make it seem as though the Horsemen had won, that the trophy was theirs.

As fun as it was to dream about a different outcome, the man known as “Freight Train Fernandez” suggested the Midgets were fine with their history.

“We went through a lot together, but I don’t think we’d change a thing,” he says.

And neither would a city that still carries on the team’s legendary status.

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

Sunday, March 6, 2022

TWO YEARS OF COVID-19 IN NEW MEXICO, BY THE NUMBERS Coronavirus cases per 100,000 40,000

Taos

San Juan

Rio Arriba

Cases: 40,219 Deaths: 720 Vaccination rate: 84% Cases per 100K: 32,645.4 Mortality rate: 505.9

Cases: 9,644 Deaths: 121 Vaccination rate: 89.3% Cases per 100K: 24,961.3 Mortality rate: 238.8

Cases: 5,248 Deaths: 89 Vaccination rate: 88.8% Cases per 100K: 16,350.4 Mortality rate: 161.8

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A-9

Union

Colfax Cases: 2,390 Deaths: 64 Vaccination rate: 70.4% Cases per 100K: 22,658.2 Mortality rate: 353.6

Cases: 774 Deaths: 14 Vaccination rate: 56.5% Cases per 100K: 24,792.2 Mortality rate: 255.1

State average case rate: 24,334.0 30,000

Cibola

10,000

Catron Harding Los Alamos Mora Taos Torrance Sierra Santa Fe San Miguel Otero Socorro Sandoval Bernalillo Colfax Quay Grant Union Valencia Rio Arriba Curry Roosevelt Hidalgo Lincoln Luna Lea Cibola Doña Ana Eddy De Baca Guadalupe San Juan Chaves McKinley

Age-adjusted mortality rate 900.0

As of Feb. 28

Santa Fe

Valencia

Socorro

Cases: 5,681 Deaths: 50 Vaccination rate: 71.6%

Cases: 2,646 Deaths: 50 Vaccination rate: 48.1% Cases per 100K: 16,893.8 Mortality rate: 246.4

Grant

Luna

Percentage fully vaccinated (not including boosters) 100%

As of March 2

Hidalgo

75%

De Baca

Cases: 5,145 Deaths: 64 Vaccination rate: 63.7% Cases per 100K: 26,530.7 Mortality rate: 200.9

Roosevelt Chaves Cases: 21,262 Deaths: 295 Vaccination rate: 54.7% Cases per 100K: 33,940.2 Mortality rate: 387

Otero

Doña Ana

Los Alamos Santa Fe San Miguel Taos Grant De Baca Catron Bernalillo Lincoln Sandoval Otero Hidalgo Rio Arriba Torrance Union Valencia Sierra Doña Ana Mora Luna Guadalupe Quay Colfax Curry Socorro Chaves Eddy Roosevelt Lea San Juan Cibola McKinley Harding

0.0

Cases: 2,014 Deaths: 70 Vaccination rate: 70.6% Cases per 100K: 18,255.7 Mortality rate: 272

Curry

Lincoln

Sierra

225.0

Quay

Torrance

675.0

450.0

Cases per 100K: 20,479.8 Mortality rate: 130.8

Guadalupe

Cases: 3,771 Deaths: 85 Vaccination rate: 71.7% Cases per 100K: 21,968.2 Mortality rate: 383.3

Cases: 406 Deaths: 13 Vaccination rate: 46.8% Cases per 100K: 11,406.7 Mortality rate: 192.9

Harding

San Miguel

Bernalillo

Cases: 6,830 Deaths: 178 Vaccination rate: 77.7% Cases per 100K: 28,730.3 Mortality rate: 558.3

Catron

Mora

Los Alamos

Cases: 32,994 Deaths: 381 Vaccination rate: 83.2% Cases per 100K: 22,504.5 Mortality rate: 211

Cases: 25,494 Deaths: 569 Vaccination rate: 95.8% Cases per 100K: 36,519.3 Mortality rate: 807.4

20,000

0

Sandoval

McKinley

Cases: 62,272 Deaths: 707 Vaccination rate: 82.1% Cases per 100K: 29,271.2 Mortality rate: 280.8

Cases: 13,232 Deaths: 179 Vaccination rate: 58.4% Cases per 100K: 21,447.6 Mortality rate: 213.7

Eddy Cases: 16,942 Deaths: 260 Vaccination rate: 57% Cases per 100K: 29,641.9 Mortality rate: 410.8

Lea Cases: 19,106 Deaths: 313 Vaccination rate: 56.8% Cases per 100K: 28,246.5 Mortality rate: 483.5

SOURCE: NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH THE NEW MEXICAN

Los Alamos

Santa Fe

Mora

Harding

Cases: 2,658 Deaths: 13 Vaccination rate: 94.1% Cases per 100K: 14,175.9 Mortality rate: 49.6

Cases: 27,741 Deaths: 247 Vaccination rate: 87% Cases per 100K: 18,799.1 Mortality rate: 111.8

Cases: 750 Deaths: 16 Vaccination rate: 69.6% Cases per 100K: 16,294.3 Mortality rate: 287.6

Cases: 77 Deaths: 4 Vaccination rate: 51.7% Cases per 100K: 11,415.5 Mortality rate: 812.9

Guadalupe

Quay

De Baca

Curry

Roosevelt

25%

Cases: 1,093 Deaths: 17 Vaccination rate: 75.5% Cases per 100K: 32,450.8 Mortality rate: 339.5

Cases: 1,972 Deaths: 48 Vaccination rate: 53.1% Cases per 100K: 23,606.5 Mortality rate: 353

Cases: 566 Deaths: 5 Vaccination rate: 57% Cases per 100K: 30,923.9 Mortality rate: 185.1

Cases: 12,481 Deaths: 174 Vaccination rate: 61.4% Cases per 100K: 25,046.6 Mortality rate: 357.5

Cases: 4,956 Deaths: 91 Vaccination rate: 44% Cases per 100K: 25,089.2 Mortality rate: 425.5

Bernalillo

Valencia

Grant

Hidalgo

Luna

Cases: 145,001 Deaths: 1,649 Vaccination rate: 81.2% Cases per 100K: 21,406.7 Mortality rate: 199.7

Cases: 18,313 Deaths: 247 Vaccination rate: 71.5% Cases per 100K: 24,934 Mortality rate: 263.5

Cases: 6,531 Deaths: 76 Vaccination rate: 73.5% Cases per 100K: 23,709.7 Mortality rate: 174.7

Cases: 1,074 Deaths: 13 Vaccination rate: 65.6% Cases per 100K: 25,294.7 Mortality rate: 215.6

Cases: 6,660 Deaths: 117 Vaccination rate: 84.3% Cases per 100K: 27,397.3 Mortality rate: 326.1

0%

Roosevelt Catron Torrance Harding Quay Chaves Union Lea De Baca Eddy Otero Curry Lincoln Hidalgo Mora Colfax Sierra Valencia San Miguel Socorro Grant Guadalupe Cibola Bernalillo Doña Ana Sandoval San Juan Luna Santa Fe Taos Rio Arriba Los Alamos McKinley

50%

COVID-19 Continued from Page A-1

“We have a lot of people who really don’t care for the government and anything they say,” said Dustin Middleton, emergency manager and fire marshal in Cibola County.

“I can only help those who want the help. It’s kind of the way it goes.”

Middleton said his father, Frank, died of COVID-19 two days after Christmas in an Arizona hospital.

Dustin Middleton is vaccinated. His father wasn’t.

“This last year has been really, really bad for me and my family,” Dustin said, though he adds he believes getting vaccinated is up to the individual.

“Everybody has their beliefs,” he said, “and that’s one of the freedoms they enjoy.”

The battle over COVID-19 numbers and their meaning has rumbled since mid-March 2020. That’s when the virus arrived, prompting federal, state and local officials to shut down or limit key aspects of American life. With those moves came controversy, and with controversy came disputes over what the numbers actually meant.

Two years later, little has changed: Statistics are among the many disputed elements of the pandemic. Those at the front lines of fighting the disease — including many doctors and scientists — believe coronavirus mortality numbers are understated.

Some say numerous people who died of coronavirus at home didn’t get added to the COVID-19 death count.

Others point to a much more difficult number to track: deaths caused indirectly by the virus due to a variety of cascading elements.

In some cases, people were not treated because hospitals were full or because they couldn’t get into an emergency room; people were afraid to go to the ER because of the disease; and some didn’t obtain routine physicals, mammograms and other screening procedures. All those factors, some experts say, led to delayed diagnosis and care.

“I think those concerns are quite valid,” Gonzales said.

A Boston University report in January said some estimate the coronavirus death count is 20 percent higher than official numbers.

The report also suggested politics have led some coroners to shun

coronavirus as the cause of death.

For example, a USA Today article quoted a county coroner in Missouri as saying his office “doesn’t do COVID deaths.”

Others claim government and hospitals have exaggerated coronavirus case numbers and deaths.

Jesse James Gomez, an organizer with Concerned Citizens for New Mexico, said hospitals have been compensated by the federal government for the number of coronavirus patients they treat, creating an incentive to up the tally — a claim hospitals refute. He said drug companies also have had good reason to overstate the seriousness of the disease — “outrageous profits,” he said.

“You know the pharmaceutical companies are not our friends,” said Gomez, who lives in Chaves County.

Former President Donald Trump also alleged during the 2020 presidential campaign that hospitals and doctors exaggerated coronavirus cases and deaths for financial gain.

To the contrary, Troy Clark, CEO and president of the New Mexico Hospital Association, wrote New Mexico hospitals have lost $420 million since the start of the pandemic.

“We reject any assertion that they would misdiagnose or misreport any illness,” Clark wrote in an email. “… If hospitals were getting so rich from COVID, why have they lost so much money to it?”

Dr. Brad Greenberg, medical director of emergency preparedness at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, where COVID-19 cases at times have swelled his facility to capacity, said controversy over coronavirus death statistics “has been around since the very beginning of the pandemic.”

He said critics want to minimize the severity of the disease, though it remains a public health crisis.

“I think that it is counterproductive for people to try to introduce the idea that the impact of COVID19 is somehow being overstated,” Greenberg said.

For some of those who have had the disease, the impact is not theoretical and has little to do with statistics. To them, it’s been about life and death.

Troy Tryon of Santa Fe and Emmet Fowler of Farmington said it would be tough to overstate the intensity of their bouts with the coronavirus.

Tryon, 58, said he spent a month in Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center and about three weeks

regaining his strength in an Albuquerque physical rehab center after contracting COVID-19.

“They almost put me on a ventilator,” he said of the worst days of his battle with the disease. When he was ill in early 2021, the vaccines were just being unveiled.

He said he was given the antiviral medicine Remdesivir, steroids for his struggling lungs and a lung therapy to loosen fluid. They all helped, he said. His partner was hospitalized with the disease, too, but not as long as Tryon. His partner’s mother died of the disease early last year.

Fowler, 56, said he endured COVID-19 early in the pandemic, in March and April 2020. He fought a fever for 16 days, he said, before he landed in San Juan Regional Medical Center. He had a collapsed lung related to the virus. He said no to going on a ventilator, but he and his wife talked a bit about what a memorial service for him might look like.

“I spent the whole first week in the hospital pretty much crying,” he said. “The whole family was a wreck.”

He and Tryon said they did what exercises they could early on in their hospital stays — raising their toes, trying to lift their knees.

Fowler concentrated on breathing and recalled the character Mr. Miyagi stressing the importance of breathing in The Karate Kid. In Roosevelt County on the state’s east side, the vaccination rate remains below 50 percent and the death rate is comparatively high.

Portales City Manager Sarah Austin said people there see getting the vaccination — or not getting it — as a freedom of choice issue. Many fear the vaccines won scientific and government approval too quickly, she said.

Portales offered $100 to residents who acquired two shots. Austin and her family are vaccinated.

“I have a staff of 140, and I would say about 60 percent of my staff is vaccinated,” she said, adding that was good in her county.

“But I really believe it is up to each individual,” she said.

The death rate is high in McKinley County in the northwest portion of the state, but the vaccination rate also is high.

“I can say that a lot of our deaths were earlier in the pandemic, prior to the vaccine,” said Adam Berry, emergency manager for the county.

Berry said medical institutions in his vicinity, including the Indian Health Service, Presbyterian Medical Services and Rehoboth McKin-

ley Christian Health Care Services, have offered many vaccination events, and that has contributed to a high vaccination rate.

“It’s definitely been a big community effort,” he said.

Some doctors and researchers say public communication strategies and education in many ways couldn’t overcome politics and suspicion of government.

Science has “done itself proud,” said Catherine Troisi, a University of Texas School of Public Health faculty member in Houston. But the field of public health hasn’t done so well, said Troisi. “I am blaming the intrusion of politics into public health practice.”

“It’s also distrust in government,” said Troisi, adding she questioned whether science education has failed in this country. She referred to a conspiracy theory that claimed microchips were placed in the vaccines so people could be tracked.

“How would you even do that?” she asked.

Dr. Janko Nikolich-Zugich, head of the University of Arizona College of Medicine’s immunobiology department, said the country didn’t coordinate messages well enough among government, medical providers and media. “Most everybody has to be on a similar page, if not the same page,” he said.

He said “credible and trusted sources of information” need to carry the message. But vaccine hesitancy as well as vaccine hostility have been intense. “And I don’t know how successful you can be” against that.

Still, two years in, Dr. Theresa Ronan, medical director of quality at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, said scientists and the vaccines they produced have been victorious in the pandemic.

But she noted the medical community evidently didn’t communicate early enough on the vaccines’ efficacy and safety.

By the time they did, some people’s views were cemented.

“That’s probably been my greatest disappointment,” she said.

Emmet Fowler, among the first New Mexicans to fight and survive the disease, recalled when there wasn’t much to battle it with. It has been nearly two years and the memories remain.

“Man, I’ll tell you what; it gave me such a reference point,” he said.

“If you don’t believe in God and you get COVID, you will believe in God.”

Survey shows split on politics of pandemic

By Rick Ruggles

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Sixty-five percent of Republicans say it’s safe to resume normal life as the coronavirus pandemic enters its third year, compared with only 11 percent of Democrats who saw it that way, according to a national survey completed last month.

But a majority of independents, Republicans and Democrats agree on at least one notion: They believe the worst of the disease has passed. Sixty-nine percent of Democrats, 62 percent of Republicans and 61 percent of independents answered that way, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

While it’s little surprise that a phenomenon as disruptive as the coronavirus has generated diverse views, the survey found differences in opinion are stark.

Not surprisingly, some of those are attributable to partisan perspectives, the foundation reported.

New Mexico is about to hit 7,000 deaths from the disease. Nationwide, the death toll is nearing 1 million.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has tracked American views of the pandemic almost from the beginning.

The survey was conducted Feb. 9-21 and published Tuesday. It involved more than 1,500 Americans, who were contacted by phone. About 73 percent of those surveyed had acquired at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

The report said “there are disagreements about what returning to normal means and when it should happen.” Independents stood right in the middle of the two political parties on the question of getting back to normal now. Thirty-eight percent of independents agreed it was time to do so.

Sixty-one percent of those surveyed “worried that lifting some pandemic restrictions could leave immune-compromised people behind due to their increased risk of getting sick.” Over 6 in 10 “are also worried that if masking and testing requirements are not lifted that kids and teenagers’ mental health will suffer or that local businesses will suffer due to loss of revenue.”

Sixty-six percent of Democrats surveyed said they would require all students and school staffers to wear masks; only 14 percent of Republicans answered in that manner. Independents again were near the middle, with 38 percent saying they would require masks in schools.

Asked if they were at least somewhat worried that if authorities lifted restrictions, more people in the community would die, 70 percent of Democrats said yes compared with 23 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of independents.

But the survey also found the coronavirus isn’t a key issue among voters of any affiliation. The report said “voters have already moved on to other key issues” and the pandemic “doesn’t currently rank among the top four issues for any group of voters.”

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U.S. mask-makers Floyd movement led monument removal say overseas prices killing businesses

By Audra D.S. Burch New York Times

Dwindling options in supply chain could put America at risk in next pandemic, producers say

emerged, full of con men and getrich-quick schemers.

A handful of U.S. entrepreneurs decided they would do their part by manufacturing masks.

In Miami, a family-owned surgical device company, DemeTech,

By Joe Nocera spent several million dollars New York Times to expand its facilities, build Mike Bowen has spent much of machines and hire hundreds of the coronavirus pandemic saying, employees In Houston, Diego Olmos, a “I told you so” — and you can hardly blame him. In 2005, just as manufacturing expert who had recently left a multinational comlow-cost Chinese manufacturers pany, used his severance to help were taking over the personal start a mask-making company protective equipment industry, called Texas Medplast. “My busiBowen joined a friend who had ness partner and I said, ‘This is started a small surgical-mask the right thing to do,’ ” he said. company called Prestige AmeriBut as soon as the waves crested, tech. The plan was to market his and Chinese companies, detercompany’s masks to American mined to regain their market share, hospitals and distributors as a began exporting masks below cost, way to provide resilience — a the customers disappeared. means of ensuring domestic “All the hospitals and governsupply if the supply chain ever ment agencies and retailers that broke down. had been begging for American “Every company had left products suddenly said, ‘We’re America,” he recalled recently. good,’ ” Hickey said.

“The entire U.S. mask supply Today, these small U.S. mask was under foreign control.” He manufacturers are in dire straits remembers warning customers, — if they haven’t gone out of “If there’s a pandemic, we’re business already. going to be in trouble.”

The government’s answer to At first, Bowen’s sales pitch this pattern is its own buying wasn’t very successful. But in power. During his State of the 2009, the swine flu virus caused Union address Tuesday night, a mask shortage in the United President Joe Biden promised States. Suddenly, Prestige Ameritech had a lot of customers. “We the government would begin to went from 80 employees to 250,” rigorously enforce provisions in the law that call for the federal Bowen said. “The phones were ringing off the hook. We thought, agencies to buy American-made ‘People finally get it. We’re going goods whenever possible.

The plight of these small mask to fix this problem.’ ” companies, however, suggests He was wrong. As soon as the reviving American manufacturswine flu pandemic ended, the ing — even when the underlying company’s new customers went right back to buying inexpensive rationale is national security — won’t be easy. masks from China; Chinese manufacturers soon controlled The mask manufacturers 90 percent of the U.S. market. interviewed for this article said “The cost savings was like crack the Biden administration had cocaine for American hospitals,” expressed interest in buying their Bowen said. masks, but it has yet to happen.

Even so, Bowen never stopped Even if it did, it would be unlikely to put much of a dent into Chitelling anyone who would nese dominance. As Bowen put listen the offshoring of personal it in a recent email to the White protective equipment — which House, “Hospitals drive the mask includes nitrile gloves, hospital gowns and respirators, as well as market.” Since their incentives are to reduce costs, he wrote, surgical masks — would create big problems for the U.S. the next “Any plan that allows imported masks to cost less than U.S.-made time it faced a pandemic. masks will result in a foreign Which, of course, is exactly government-controlled U.S. mask what happened. Just weeks supply — as currently exists.” into the coronavirus pandemic To put it another way, the in 2020, the supply chain for protective equipment had broken modern imperative of maximizing shareholder value will always put down, creating severe shortages efficiency and cost over resilience. that cost lives. A black market

Energy prices have some looking at nuclear again in many countries after a small number of high-profile safety incidents, and as new construcSoaring fossil fuel prices and tion projects in Europe and the rising demand for clean energy U.S. were plagued by delays have governments around the and cost overruns. The tide has world reconsidering nuclear shifted in recent months thanks power programs that had been to a global energy supply crunch left for dead amid safety concerns that lifted coal and gas prices to and massive cost overruns. records. That momentum has Finland and the Philippines are been supercharged in recent days the latest to show their support

by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. for nuclear after Germany, In the Philippines, which pays South Korea and others softened some of the highest power prices opposition to the sector. Philipin Asia, a public perception surpine President Rodrigo Duterte vey in 2019 indicated almost ordered the energy department 79 percent of citizens approved to adopt a nuclear energy prothe possible use or rehabilitation gram and possibly revive a plant of the existing nuclear plant built almost four decades ago but while 65 percent favored the connever used due to safety and cor- struction of new ones, according ruption issues. In Europe, Fortum to the president. is seeking to extend the lifespan The Bataan nuclear plant, of its Loviisa station in Finland by which was completed in 1985, was 20 years to 2050. about to be commissioned when Anything and everything that Corazon Aquino mothballed it can produce energy is being soon after becoming president looked at now, as global oil, coal in 1986. She alleged the plant had and gas prices skyrocket amid poor safety measures and was uncertainty over Russian supplies. For the Philippines, shifting mired in corruption involving Westinghouse Electric Corp., the away from coal while improving contractor, and the late dictator, power system reliability is Ferdinand Marcos. expected to boost clean energy Duterte has been considering demand by 4.4 percent a year the revival of the controversial through 2040. plant since the early months “Considering this demand of assuming the presidency in and the projected depletion of 2016. In 2017, his administration natural gas resources, nuclear signed an agreement with Russia power will play an important role to contribute to the required to help the Philippines come up capacity,” Duterte said in an exec- with national policies on nuclear energy. utive order signed Monday and Unlike many nations, Finland published today. has never stopped planning for German officials and energy more nuclear power plants. The companies are considering delaying a plan that would phase Loviisa plant’s two units, with a combined capacity of about out nuclear power and close the country’s last plants by the end of 1 gigawatt, were built more than the year. South Korean President 40 years ago and were scheduled to shut down permanently by the Moon Jae-in recently asked officials to move on the startup of end of this decade. Fortum will long-delayed reactors, indicating now apply for a new operating a shift in policy on atomic power. license that would push the reactors’ life beyond 70 years.

Nuclear power had lost favor

By Ditas Lopez and Jesper Starn Bloomberg News

An unsparing examination of systemic racism has unfolded throughout America since the murder of George Floyd almost two years ago, leading to critical conversations about long-standing inequities.

But perhaps the most physical transformation has come from the removal, relocating or renaming of at least 230 Confederate symbols since his death.

Nearly 157 years after the last battle of the Civil War was waged, the United States is reevaluating how — or even if — the Confederacy should be memorialized. Every symbol erected and every symbol dismantled speak to the political calculations and struggle between enshrining heritage and enduring hate.

From Virginia to California, symbolism has been removed, relocated or renamed: statues of soldiers on horseback, the names affixed to schools, the names of streets coursing through cities large and small, a state song whose lyrics disparaged a U.S. president and sympathized with the Confederacy, the name of a lake that runs by a mariner’s museum and park.

While this vexing conversation gained urgency after Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, the rising tide of removals and renaming of Confederate symbols has closely followed racial vio-

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A vandalized monument to Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Va., pictured in 2020. The murder of George Floyd nearly two years ago sparked a movement to remove, relocate and rename monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy.

lence over the past decade.

More than a dozen memorials were addressed after a white supremacist who posed with a Confederate battle flag killed nine worshippers in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015. Two years later, even more were removed after a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the city’s plan to take down a statue of Robert E. Lee, a general.

But then they came down like dominoes in the spring and summer of 2020 amid more than 2,000 protests nationwide.

The social justice movement quickly spread beyond one man’s death because the kindling was already there. Activists pointed

to the myriad ways in which racism helped create disparities, and they called for racial justice in many facets of American life.

Others declared the nation’s history and Southern pride were unjustly under siege and in danger of being erased.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which supports the removal of Confederate symbols, began tracking how many exist across the country after the church shooting in Charleston.

Since Floyd’s murder May 25, 2020, at least 230 monuments and memorials — relics that stood sentry in front of courthouses, college campuses, town squares and public parks — have

been dismantled, hauled away, vandalized or given new names.

Some were toppled in disorderly waves at the hands of protesters.

Some were methodically unearthed, piece by piece, by government workers responding to the protests and fury.

By the end of 2020, 157 memorials — some built during the Jim Crow segregation era — were gone or renamed. Virginia had removed 60 symbols, the most of any state, followed by 18 in North Carolina and 15 in Texas.

In Birmingham, Ala., on the Sunday after Floyd’s death, protesters targeted the 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument. They spray-painted it and chipped at the base of the 52-foot-tall sandstone obelisk. At some point, the crowd took more drastic measures and tried to yank it down with a rope and a truck.

The city’s mayor promised to finish the job despite legislation forbidding its removal. What played out in the park that night was a preview of what was to come.

Within days, demonstrators in a half-dozen cities targeted Confederate symbols, using spray paint, sledgehammers and, in some cases, their bare hands.

Statues that had stood for more than a century suddenly looked like public art graffiti projects.

And in Mississippi, the lowering of the state’s flag, which featured the Confederate emblem, became the final chapter in a battle dating back decades.

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Take steps to alleviate problems at border

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gunman came to our house on a motorcycle. He had a pistol,” said Maira. It’s Sunday, Jan. 30, and we’re in the Respettrans migrant center in Juárez. She is with her husband, Oscar and Rocio, one of her two daughters. “We just fled Honduras.”

They were stuck in Chiapas, Mexico, for five months, then spent five days on buses to Juárez. Now I have read that 600 more migrants are heading north from Honduras in a caravan. Is this a sign that we’re about to see another surge of migrants from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, the most dangerous nations in the world?

Another surge would surely cause the migration issue to flare up again and become a major factor in what we already know will be a brutal and divisive election year.

Here are five suggestions that could help ease this issue and result in solid accomplishments rather than just more partisan rhetoric and anger. u Support migrant shelters on both sides of the border and take advantage of the goodwill of the many volunteers there.

With the Biden administration being forced to continue the Remain in Mexico program and push migrants seeking asylum back into dangerous border towns like Juárez, these shelters will not only be needed, but they will provide an example of the humane treatment of migrants. u Accelerate asylum hearings for those being forced to wait in Mexico under the Remain in Mexico program.

For example, we regularly take food and clothing to the Respettrans migrant shelter near the border bridge in Juárez, and many of the migrants have been stuck there for months. u Address the myth that migrants are a major source of the drug trade as well as violence. This is an argument pushed by those who are opposed to immigration, and it must be defused. How? By better utilizing our ports of entry. For example, millions have been spent to upgrade the ports at Palomas and Santa Teresa on New Mexico’s border, where I cross several times a month, and cars coming north to enter the United States are always checked.

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Yes, Santa Fe Plaza needs to be refreshed

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udos to Ben Timm’s Generation Next piece (“Plaza needs a makeover,” My View, March 4).

Something — anything — should replace the blank adobe box in the center of the Plaza.

Efforts to engage such a diverse community committee to solve the obelisk problem means it’s unlikely there will be one. It’s been suggested we create a beautiful fountain with recycling water — something neutral and refreshing and would look gorgeous in the winter with snow. Let’s employ the amazing artistry in our town to create something beautiful. With enthusiasm, money could be raised. Please.

Jan Denton

Santa Fe

Spot on Ben Timm’s article (“Plaza needs a makeover,” My View, March 4) on the condition of the Plaza is spot on.

I recently walked through and around the Plaza while downtown on business and was extremely discouraged by how dirty and ill-kept the area was. Freshen up the bandstand with a coat of paint, get rid of the hideous plywood surrounding the remains of the obelisk and do something with the space (a simple garden would be great), clean the sidewalks and maintain the grass sections. Prohibit vehicular traffic from streets surrounding the Plaza and give the whole area a thorough cleaning. This is the center of our town. It should shine.

Rob Ryan

Santa Fe

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Charles, 15, died in Santa Fe on Feb. 22.

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Remembering Charles, a dog worthy of an obit

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ecently I read an op-ed about Finnegan Horowitz Shea, a “charismatic and sniffy mixed breed dog” who died at age 14½ in New York City (“Finnegan, dog known for his exemplary nose, dies at 14,” New York Times, Opinion, Feb. 21). His owner argued that “if it is exemplariness or accomplishment that qualifies one for an obit, it is clear that any species” could qualify. I agree. Following Alexandra Horowitz’s lead, I am writing this to honor Charles, a beloved Wheaten Terrier who died in Santa Fe on Feb. 22.

He was 15 years old.

Charles was known along Johnson Street in downtown Santa Fe. That’s where Paul Abrams, Charles’s dad, whose law office happens to be on Johnson Street, has walked Charles, steadfastly, every weekday, before lunch and before it was time to go home, for much of Charles’s life. During the past seven or so years, I’ve had the pleasure of joining them from time to time on their lunchtime walks. They became my most amazing days.

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You’ve got to give the governor her due; she has nerve. After a loud and clear response from her constituents through the recent session of the Legislature that we don’t want anything to do with the proposal with no plan that is “blue hydrogen,” she goes ahead and signs an agreement with Wyoming and Colorado, seeking to make New Mexico a hydrogen hub. Now she has appointed oil lobbyist Deanna Archuleta, one of her big donors, to the State Game Commission. Her true colors regarding the environment are black as oil.

Susan Tarman

Santa Fe

What sacrifice?

The Russian invasion in Ukraine has got me thinking about Americans.

I was born in 1952 and was surrounded by veterans of World War II, as well as a mother and an aunt who worked in a Chicago factory building the C-54 Skymaster for the Army Air Forces. My mother spoke often

about rationing and how grateful she was to be able to grow a Victory Garden near her apartment in Chicago.

The following food items were rationed during World War II: meat, dairy, coffee, dried fruits, jams, jellies, lard, shortening and oils. The rationing of sugar did not end until late 1947, nearly two years after the war ended.

Americans are usually pretty generous with donating money to various “just” causes around the globe. That said, I have been surprised by how angry my friends, neighbors and family are at the potential cost increases when buying gasoline. I shudder to think how they would have approached the rationing of tires and automobiles that occurred during World War II. I understand we are an automobile-dependent nation and that gasoline may be constituting a large part of a limited individual or family budget. These increased costs will be hard on many. Perhaps many of us are exhausted by the “sacrificing” we felt we were forced to or had to make during our fight to conquer COVID-19. I get it.

That said, like the people in Ukraine, this may be another moment in time where we need to dig deeply and sacrifice for our fellow human beings.

Charlie Sorensen

Santa Fe

Shut off Russian gas President Joe Biden’s State of the Union appropriately started with the horrific happenings in Ukraine.

We all support the courageous freedom acts of the Ukrainian people.

However, he failed to take accountability for the ineffective sanctions he advertised just a week ago would deter Putin. Cutting off a few financial institutions poses little threat to disrupt the Russia economy.

You must hit them where it hurts. Gas and oil are their biggest exports. Shut those down and you shut Russia down. How can Biden justify his comment: “We will buy American to make sure everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails are made in America” when every day in the past year we have been buying 672,000 barrels of oil from Russia, giving Putin $24 billion to fund his craziness?

Somehow the Washington elites believe the CO2 emitted from oil coming from Russia is less damaging than if produced here. This is NIMBY-ism at a national level and complete hypocrisy from the president. So rather than taking courageous actions, Biden will release some of our national strategic oil reserves, and next time we fill up at the pump, we’ll get a few extra dollars to buy that ever-increasing costly latte and continue watching the carnage from the comfort of our homes.

Andie Perreault

f there’s anything Russia’s war on Ukraine has taught us, it’s that there’s no “over there” over there.

Globalization means if there’s a fever in Kyiv, a cough follows in, well, Santa Fe. And in some ways, that’s not so bad. Even here, ensconced on our high-desert plateau, a snow globe minus the snow, it’s a reminder we have to pay attention to, and maybe even affect, what happens in places that maybe 20 or 40 years ago seemed little more than loose tiles on the world’s Scrabble board.

So, with that as prologue, let me introduce you to Lisa Ellis and reintroduce the Santa Fe Council Phill Casaus on International Commentary Relations.

SFCIR (bad acronym, and maybe one that will change soon) should ring a bell. It’s a nonprofit that tries to link this area to the world at large, using a constant stream of A-list experts on global politics and policies to either come to Santa Fe and talk about what they know, or in the pandemic era, use the internet to make the link.

More to the point, this group, with perhaps 400 to 500 members in town, tries to make this point: It’s not just about knowing more about Ukraine or Venezuela or Egypt. It’s about what those places can help teach us about ourselves.

Before the pandemic, the council held a conclave called Journalism Under Fire that brought reporters from around the world to the city. I met several of them and was humbled. You never know how good you have it until you talk to someone from a country that possesses only a tenuous grasp of what we know as the First Amendment. Makes you proud to do this job, and frankly, be an American.

Now, Lisa Ellis.

She likely is less known, having lived here only two years, but that will change.

Named as the council’s executive director last month, her résumé is dotted with exotic datelines. She’s worked on most of the world’s continents on a wide array of issues: global health, human rights, press freedom, environmental justice and international development. Not bad for a kid from Niwot, Colo.

In keeping with the council’s mission statement, she sees a future in which the group’s outreach will continue to engage locals with the world, but with perhaps an added emphasis on what people here want to know.

“There are perspectives and lessons that are applicable right this minute, so we’ll continue to do the programming,” says Ellis, who’s 62. “My goal, in collaboration with the board and others, is to introduce more diversity. I really think that’s important. And to really survey and ask the Santa Fe and New Mexico community what they need, what they seek out, what their interest is, what they want to know.

“Turn the telescope the other way,” she continues. “It’s not so much about what is the council is doing for you? It’s what do you need, where can we engage with you, to give you what you need to better understand the world and your place in it? So I’m hoping that we can partner with groups, whether it’s women’s groups or young people or artists or whomever. A little bit more diversity in what we’re doing.”

What’s happening now is pretty impressive. On Thursday, Martin Indyk, a diplomatic heavyweight who was the

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N.M. keeps rolling toward clean energy future

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very year, we see more frequent and severe wildfires, hotter and more arid climates, and worsening water scarcity around New Mexico.

Every year, we see less snowpack on our mountains and increased water constraints on our farmers and ranchers. There is no question we need to act urgently to confront climate change.

Effectively addressing this existential crisis requires not only urgent action but also continuous effort. We need to develop solutions that bring all New Mexicans along in our transition to a clean energy future, and we need to pay close attention to how those solutions will be implemented in our communities. If we do it right, we can support our current energy workforce

transition into a clean energy workforce and create thousands of new, good-paying jobs along the way.

As legislators concerned about climate change, we are committed to putting in the hard work to continue passing ambitious and practical legislation to move New Mexico toward a strong economy and carbon-free future.

This legislative session, we achieved several environmental victories that will build on the progress of New Mexico’s landmark Energy Transition Act of 2019, like increasing funding for the Environment Department and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department to better enforce the environmental standards under their purview and help New Mexico succeed

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in an expanding low-carbon economy.

This funding will also support the development of a new office to proactively address climate change. We set aside record funding for short-term drought mitigation while investing in the Office of the State Engineer for long-term water planning and flexibility. We also allocated record funding for watershed health, made record investments in wildfire prevention and mitigation, supported working lands and made unprecedented investments in land conservation.

Additionally, we passed the Community Energy Efficiency Development block grant program to fund targeted energy efficiency projects, like replacing outdated appliances and weath-

erizing homes for low-income New Mexicans, which will help us reduce energy consumption while making utility bills more affordable. We also passed a renewal of the Sustainable Building Tax Credit to offset the costs of installing solar panels and make renewable energy more accessible, and made historic investments in affordable and energy-efficient low- and moderate-income housing.

Even with opposition, we took crucial steps forward. And our work does not end now that the session has adjourned.

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atching a nation under bombardment naturally brings out the urge to help, especially when the world sees a people choosing to stand and defend their homeland.

That’s what is happening in Ukraine right now. But how best to assist?

Locally, the United Church of Santa Fe is doing what it always does, helping in a time of trouble. The Rev. Talitha Arnold says her church will be assembling hygiene kits and raising money for Ukrainians. Money and donations will be sent as direct aid to families and individuals.

Supplies or checks can be sent to “The United Church of Santa Fe, memo: “Ukrainian relief” at 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, Santa Fe, N.M., 87505. Or, donate online at unitedchurchofsantafe.org.

The church is asking for these new supplies — washcloths, wide-tooth combs, nail clippers, bath-size bars of soap individually wrapped, toothbrushes in their original packaging (but not toothpaste); and standard-sized Band-Aids. Hand towels are welcome, but no fingertip, micro-fiber or dish towels.

The hygiene kits are going to Church World Service, an international relief and development agency that has worked in

Ukraine and around the world since the end of World War II. One hundred percent of cash donations will go directly for both emergency relief and also longer-term rebuilding of the area, Arnold said.

This assistance won’t be wasted, in other words. In a touching form of solidarity, United Church of Santa Fe also will be singing the “Kyrie Eleison” from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church throughout Lent. Faith and action, the right combination for Christians.

That’s just one effort from Santa Fe. Earlier this week, Mayor Alan Webber sent out an email telling Santa Fe residents about organizations that will be assisting in Ukraine. u Ukrainian National Women’s League of America: unwla.org/top-news/call-for-humanitarian-aid. u Ukraine Jewish Community Relief Fun sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles: jewishla.org. u Kyiv Independent — independent media keeping the world informed about what’s happening on the ground: gofundme. com/f/kyivindependent-launch. u The Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. Part of the United Nations’ OCHA division, the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund raises money for those in Eastern Ukraine, which has long

been the site of sustained attack: unocha. org/ukraine/about-uhf.

These are just some of the organizations helping relieve suffering in Ukraine as it resists Russian invasion.

Another worthy nonprofit doing essential work is the World Central Kitchen, which has served meals in New Mexico. Its job is feeding people who are hungry.

Founder and chef José Andrés is already in Europe with his team helping provide “thousands of meals in Poland, Romania and even inside Ukraine.” To donate: donate. wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout.

A tried and true charity, also on the ground, is Catholic Relief Services. Local church Santa María de la Paz has a link to the organization at its website, smdlp.org; or go directly to crs.org. Santa María also will be praying for peace in Eastern Europe on Wednesday, starting at 5:30 p.m. with the rosary and Mass to follow at 6 p.m.

For people who want to help charities within Ukraine, Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum posted a helpful website that singles out organizations working right now, including groups that help soldiers, children and the free press. Find them at standforukraine. com. These dollars will go directly to people

inside Ukraine.

Finally, a recent Zoom call showed how different conflict is during the modern world.

Not only are people watching the devastation live on television, we are able, through technology, to hear directly from the war zone.

Last week, the worldwide Chabad community heard from Rabbi Yechiel Levitansky in Sumy, Ukraine. Santa Fe’s community, led by Rabbi Berel Levertov, was able to sign on to the call — it was 3:30 a.m. in Ukraine but evening in New Mexico, when we were able to see into Levitansky’s home in a city under fire.

The pain of what was happening was visible on the rabbi’s face as the California-raised religious leader talked about life on the Ukraine-Russian border. Shortly after the call, he and his family left. May they be safe on their journey.

“They’re constantly shooting from all sides. Literally a war zone from all around,” Levitansky told call participants. “This is what we read about in the history books.

Nobody dreamt of it in real life.”

But real life has brought bombs and bullets. People are dying across Ukraine while the world watches. The future is uncertain and dark — but in the meantime, those of us safe in Santa Fe can help.

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Putin, the bear and the book of Revelation

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ladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has surfaced around Ronald Wilson Reagan (six letters in each of his three names) has made the book of Revelation or Bill Gates (someone with too much relevant once again. time on his hands has declared that if you The final book of the New Testament, assign numbers to the ASCII characters with its apocalyptic visions of multiin his name, you come up with headed dragons, plagues, 666). vials of judgment, the Whore of Babylon and the Battle of For a while, Mikhail Gorbachev Armageddon has confounded was a popular candidate, espereaders for millennia. Written cially with the birthmark on his most likely at the end of the forehead, thought to be the Mark first century by a man known of the Beast. Back in 1988, I interviewed a nuclear engineer who as John the Elder on the island had written an entire book about of Patmos, Revelation is presented in the form of a dream.

Gorbachev, claiming that if you assigned numbers to the letters Generations of believers Randall in Gorbachev’s name, using the have puzzled over its meaning, Balmer Cyrillic alphabet, it tallies 666. and the general sense is that it Commentary The odds against Gorbachev was included in the canon of being the Antichrist, he assured scripture as a source of comfort me, were 710 quadrillion to one. for early Christians who were undergoing persecution at the hands of I grew up in this world. I listened to Roman authorities, an assurance that God countless sermons warning that the “end would eventually avenge their sufferings. times” were near and the world was about to collapse in apocalyptic judgment. I That, however, has not stopped many remember very clearly my mother sumbelievers in ensuing centuries from teasing moning me from a neighborhood baseball out nuances of meaning from these recongame in June 1967 and admonishing me to dite passages. Evangelicals in particular, get ready for the return of Jesus because who purport to interpret the Bible literally of the Six-Day War then unfolding in the (although they typically engage in selective Middle East. literalism), have been especially eager to collate biblical passages with current events.

My father, like many evangelicals of his generation, was what is called in theologiThe establishment of the state of Israel cal circles a premillennialist, which means in 1948, for example, was understood by evangelicals as a direct fulfillment of biblical that he expected Jesus to return to Earth prophecies — and a necessary precondition at any moment, gather the faithful and unleash judgment against those who were for the rebuilding of the Jewish temple. “left behind.” In fact, the popular series of Evangelicals are forever speculating about books and films by that name was inspired the identity of the Antichrist, a charismatic by a 1972 movie called A Thief in the Night, figure and false messiah who leads people which in turn was based on my father’s astray from the truth. The Antichrist is Sunday-evening sermons on the book of mentioned in Revelation and is associated with the number 666, the Mark of the Beast. Revelation. The writer and director of that film, which Time magazine called a Beginning with the Protestant Reforchurch-basement classic, was my Sunday mation in the 16th century, Protestants school teacher, and my father played the have frequently designated the pope as “good” preacher in the movie. the Antichrist, but other candidates have surfaced as well in evangelical demonolThe beauty of premillennialism is its ogy. John F. Kennedy was a popular target protean nature; it can be adapted endlessly in the 1960s, and more recent speculation to explain current events. I remember Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

hearing during my childhood, for instance, that the reference in Revelation to a bear was certainly a designation for Russia, but that interpretation fell out of favor with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Thanks to Putin’s imperial designs, the bear is back. And frankly, it’s difficult not to be swept along with apocalyptic premonitions, especially when the Russian leader refers ominously to his nuclear arsenal.

So is Putin the Antichrist? I put that question to Google, and sure enough, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox had just told the BBC, “Putin is really not messiah, but really Antichrist of our current time.”

What about other candidates, especially someone known for bending the truth (what the Bible calls bearing false witness), one of the criteria for the Antichrist? Could Donald Trump be the Antichrist? Once again, the internet quivers with speculation. “I am the chosen one,” Trump declared in 2019. Hmm. As for charisma, I confess that neither Putin nor Trump does it for me.

But David Jeremiah, pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church and one of Trump’s evangelical acolytes, said about the former president, “The combination of his magnetic personality, speaking ability and extreme good looks will make him virtually irresistible to the masses.”

Apparently, 81 percent of white evangelicals thought so in 2016, and a comparable number four years later.

I’m content to let Putin and Trump duke it out for the title of Antichrist. Both are reprehensible and morally bankrupt. But it’s probably worth remembering in these troubled times that Trump was Putin’s chosen candidate and that Trump’s first impeachment centered around his refusal to provide arms to Ukraine.

Let’s hope — pray — that an apocalypse can be avoided.

Randall Balmer, a resident of Santa Fe, teaches at Dartmouth College and is the author of more than a dozen books, including Evangelicalism in America.

here are many ways in which Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the world a more dangerous, brutish and frightening place. One is by raising the potential for nuclear Armageddon. Two scenarios stand out. The first involves the short term; the other, the long.

In the short term, we’re all hoping his latest nuclear threat is just a bluff. During the rant announcing his attack on Ukraine, Putin sent this not-too-subtle message to the West: Try to stop me and “you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history. […] I hope you hear me.” A couple of days later, he ordered his country’s nuclear forces to adopt “special combat readiness.”

That’s what the world has come to. The leader of a European nation in 2022 not only invades a smaller neighbor that did nothing to provoke him but threatens nuclear war in case things don’t go his way.

Even if it is a bluff, it’s more frightening than anything since the Cuban missile crisis, for two reasons. First, there are questions about whether the man has become unhinged. Second, Russia’s nuclear policy under Putin has in fact incorporated the option of precisely the sort of “tactical” nuclear strike he was alluding to.

It’s defined as a limited atomic attack to end a conventional conflict on Moscow’s terms. The Americans have dubbed this approach “escalate to de-escalate.”

Even aside from the moral nihilism, the flaw in his assumptions is glaring. Nobody knows how to “limit” a nuclear conflagration.

Other nuclear powers must react within minutes — by retaliating or not, for themselves or on behalf of allies; or by preempting subsequent Russian strikes with their own assault on enemy arsenals.

But even if the specter of tactical nukes passes, there’s the long-term damage Putin has already caused. That’s because he has probably ruined any chance that the international community

will ever drive or keep atomic warheads out of the hands of more — and more dangerous — people.

To grasp this part of his legacy, look at a letter drafted in 1994, before Putin was even in power.

It was sent to the secretary general of the United Nations and underwritten by the Permanent Representatives of the U.K., U.S., Ukraine and Russia. Signing for the latter was Sergey Lavrov, who is today Putin’s foreign minister.

At the time, Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, had the third-largest nuclear arsenal after the U.S. and Russia. The world feared its bombs and those in the other shards of the USSR would be impossible to control and fall into the hands of terrorists. But in history’s greatest disarmament triumph, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed to give up their warheads and join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

In return, they got assurances outlined in that letter. Lavrov and the other signatories promised “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine; […] to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, […] to refrain from economic coercion,” and other good things.

So much for all that.

As Russian artillery rains on them today, Ukrainians are right to regret giving up their nukes. If they had kept them, Putin might have thought twice about invading in 2014, and certainly about assaulting the whole country now.

Every aspiring or incumbent leader across the world has taken note — from tin-pot dictators here to mullahs there, from aspiring superpowers to stateless terrorists. Putin has taught them that to disarm is a mistake, no matter what you’re promised, because sooner or later you’ll encounter somebody, well, like him.

Andreas Kluth is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: March 6, 1922: House Burned To Ashes With Contents, Family Imperiled And Owner Remains Ignorant March 6, 1947: Sen. James T. Brewster, Dona Ana county Democrat, threatened today to “pack my grip and go home” in the climax of a senatorial argument which completely snarled legislative action for more than an hour. Brewster’s statement came after he had been accused in open session by other senators of “using a club” on the body, of being a “stickler” for constitutional provisions regarding senate procedure, and of being “entirely unreasonable” in his actions. …

March 6, 1972: A record number of voters is expected to turn out

for the Santa Fe Municipal Election between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday.

A total of 28 candidates are seeking positions as mayor, four City Council seats for four-year terms, one City Council position for an unexpired two-year term and a municipal judge for a two-year term.

March 6, 1997: LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Gov. Gary Johnson took his plans for welfare reform to Las Vegas on Wednesday and discovered an interesting fact.

At the Labor Department’s field office, where Johnson took a look at the job-search computers, there were no local listings for the kind of jobs unskilled welfare recipients might expect — jobs that pay minimum wage.

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Chris Goldstein lived in Santa Fe from 1996-2006 when he was on-air at KSFR and helped found the Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation.

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At KSFR, People Dearmin W reached the world

rom his tiny office at KSFR in Santa Fe, and the studios down the hall, Dallas Dearmin spoke to the world.

And we loved to listen.

In front of a microphone, Dal’s voice never hesitated. His tone and pace were always perfect. A powerful combination of professionalism and charm, he always hit the time cue.

This stellar personality could have spent an entire career on-air. But there was another, perhaps greater calling in community leadership.

When I met Dal, somewhere around 2000, he was semi-retired after a long success as an East Coast advertising rep. The guy literally lived Mad Men. I was 24 years old and managing the only Learjet charter company in town. For years, I had also been volunteering at KSFR, helping with the Warehouse 21 youth radio show, Ground Zero, and picking up my own shift.

We made for quick friends, and then worked closely together for years on a project that had become a passion for us both. Dal had a clear vision for how KSFR could evolve and how to keep our volunteer programming intact.

The early stages were intense.

With a group of fellow volunteers more than twice my age, we formed a nonprofit called the Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation. Next, we had to win the management contract for KSFR from Santa Fe Community College, which actually owned the station.

Dal was key to every success.

His on-air presence was superseded only by his in-person demeanor in a meeting. Never a hard salesman, instead his calm persuasion was closer to being an outright hypnotist.

In 2001, the radio foundation began operating KSFR, and Dal was hired as general manager.

We had inherited the tower and transmitter site, the studios at SFCC and about $30,000 in cash.

We had to find $105,000 for the first year’s expenses or risk losing the contract. I was the treasurer, so the ominous job of fundraising fell to me and Dal. At the transition, KSFR had nearly 100 volunteers running a generally free-form schedule. The diversity range was extremely broad and the talent was amazing.

However, because SFCC had paid all the bills, this community station had never held an on-air fund drive. So, we followed any avenue toward a few bucks.

Dal helped work a deal to broadcast Santa Fe City Council meetings live, under a contract.

Then he helped secure a grant from the McCune Charitable Foundation. We raised more than $10,000 in our first on-air drive, and $52,000 in our second try a few months later.

NPR was too expensive to add into the mix, so Dal struck a nearly free deal with the BBC instead. In short order, the foundation began to expand the paid staff, upgrade aged equipment and started on a monumental shift — building a local news team and expanding the signal.

It took months of training and then solid, daily reporting, but a respected (now award-winning) radio news department emerged.

In the next six years, Dal helped acquire signal repeaters to the south and an additional tower site to the north.

In 2022, we live in a world of paywalls and condensed media.

KSFR proudly beams a beacon of sustainable local news and voices. Today, it remains free to the public on the FM dial — now from Albuquerque to Colorado — and to the world via the internet.

Dal passed away in Santa Fe just before the new year, around the people and the city that he loved, and loved him back.

Whenever I tune in to KSFR, I know that it’s Dal who’s really carrying that signal.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

must learn to tell truth from lies

hy is it so easy to convince people of a lie and so difficult to convince them of the truth, even in the face of overwhelming evidence?

Why do so many folks believe that massive voter fraud took place in the 2020 elections when it did not? Why are so many people convinced that drinking bleach or taking an animal dewormer works better against the coronavirus than clinically proven vaccines given to hundreds of millions with positive effects? Why are so many convinced that masks and social distancing are ineffective when the data says otherwise?

I’m not talking about those who tell the lies, or who truly believe that George Soros is firing lasers at them from the moon or a satanic cannibalistic group of the powerful is running a child traffick-

ing operation out of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor. No, those true believers are in their own category.

I’m talking about otherwise thoughtful and intelligent folks who believe the election was rigged and Donald Trump won.

I’m talking about your friendly neighbor who refused to get vaccinated or wear a mask and died swearing to the end that it wasn’t COVID-19 when it clearly was.

Why have people become so resistant to the demonstrable truth?

Is it because of the political strategy to use lies as some kind of “alternate truth” and claim at least as much validity for it as the real thing? Is it the echo chamber effect of obtaining one’s news from a single source? Is it because of the incredible volume of lies numbing folks’ ability to reason (the Washington Post documented more than 30,000 Trump

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told in his four years in office)?

Or is it because the liars never, ever back down from the lie regardless of the facts (and more often than not double down on it)? Or perhaps it is because the liar never seems to be held accountable for the lie, thereby indirectly giving it credence?

Or because the wheels of justice turn so slowly that accountability becomes moot?

I certainly don’t have the answer. But I do know the problem is getting worse, not better — the above examples are only some of the most blatant. Decisions based upon a foundation of lies can be found at every level of our social discourse.

If people can’t separate truth from lies, we are all in big trouble. If one believes massive voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election, then one is more likely to believe Trump won. That leads in the short term to things like the imposition of

restrictive voting laws and the potential for a partisan takeover of the necessarily nonpartisan voting process. In the longer term, it will lead to a loss of confidence in our electoral process and continued erosion and eventual destruction of the American system of democracy.

Similarly, if one believes COVID-19 vaccines are more dangerous than being infected by the virus, it may lead to not getting vaccinated and putting not only oneself at mortal risk but potentially putting at risk your family, friends and neighbors while at the same time prolonging the pandemic.

We all need to understand that the basis upon which we make decisions has consequences, for both ourselves, our neighbors and our nation. It is up to all of us to learn how to tell truth from lies.

Ira Agins writes from Santa Fe.

M Y VIEW KENNE TH W. COSTELLO

Keep saying no to public power R

eal-world experiences have shown that costs of switching to public power are high and the benefits are specious, highly uncertain, not well-defined and hard to quantify.

New Mexico advocates of public power tend to believe the benefits would outweigh the costs.

These advocates include sponsors of Senate Memorial 10 and House Memorial 20 (“Study State-Level Public Utility Model”), petitioners before the Public Regulation Commission for a study on the benefits and costs of public power, New Energy Economy and others. They have failed in their attempts to force taxpayers to pay for a study to examine the feasibility and the benefits of public power in New Mexico, and with good reason.

Contrary to the proponents of public power, evidence doesn’t show that public power is greener than private power. For example, the Tennessee Valley Authority is one of the largest polluters in the U.S. Nebraska, which has only publicly owned electric utilities, relies heavily on cheap coal power.

For the country as a whole, municipal power utilities, on average, have lower rates. But it is not because publicly owned utilities are more efficient; in fact, municipal utilities typically are much smaller than privately owned utilities, meaning they benefit less from scale economies. The lower rates for municipal utilities are largely attributable to their lower taxes, access to low-cost federal power and the ability to issue tax-exempt bonds. For New Mexico, somewhat surprisingly, the average residential rate charged by municipal utilities is almost 3 percent higher than the average rate charged by privately owned utilities (based on 2020 data compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration).

One thing certain is that consumers and taxpayers bear the risk of bad management and other decisions by publicly owned utilities. The equity owners of a municipal utility are the customers themselves, so the consequences of a poor decision would almost always fall on them.

The road to a new utility is steep and filled with pitfalls, a long and expensive journey that

has stalled many municipalities (prime examples are Boulder, Colo., and Las Cruces) that have embarked upon it in recent decades. The community and the utility must set a fair value price for the electric company’s property, in addition to assuming the outstanding debt of the private utility. In New Mexico, these costs could total billions of dollars.

For a market-traded company, the fair market value of equity is pretty settled at the share price.

One estimate of Public Service Company of New Mexico’s current debt and fair market equity is around $5.5 billion.

One must not forget the Las Cruces saga. In 1991, the city council there passed an ordinance to create a municipal electric utility. The long, bitter struggle lasted almost 10 years until the council decided to pull the plug. One estimate is that the city spent $40 million in its unsuccessful pursuit after the private utility, El Paso Electricity Co., put up one roadblock after another and market conditions changed to reduce the benefits from a municipal utility (e.g., deregulation of the electric sector). The city decided (wisely) it was better to spend money on basic municipal services rather than continuing to throw money on a hopeless venture.

One must ask: What serious problem exists in New Mexico that would justify switching to public power or even studying it at this time? In fact, public power would likely set back the current efforts to comply with the Energy Transition Act, which established one of the country’s most ambitious clean energy mandates for private utilities.

Based on experiences in other jurisdictions, even studies showing public power in a favorable light and costing hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars will not change things because of the real-world obstacles that will stop public power in its tracks.

In conclusion, switching to public power or even studying it would miserably fail a cost-benefit test by being the wrong solution to an undefined problem.

Kenneth W. Costello is a regulatory economist/independent consultant residing in Santa Fe.

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Santa Fe’s essential workers need affordable homes

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s a former teacher who aimed to improve student outcomes in our community, I understand the difficulties and reality of homeownership that educators face in Santa Fe. Our educators are not the only ones who struggle to make ends meet in our community.

Health care workers, police officers, firefighters and other essential workers are being pushed farther and farther outside the city. It is a matter of time before we lose them to Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.

It is imperative for us to address our housing crisis. If we are serious about keeping our essential workforce from moving to more affordable cities, we need to offer more affordable homes right here in Santa Fe. For that reason, I support Homewise’s proposal to build more affordable homes. The Planning Commission delayed a decision on the project last week, but it will return for consideration. It should be approved.

I am a homeowner in the area where Homewise is proposing its development.

When I first heard about the proposal, I was skeptical, but Homewise listened to my concerns and the concerns of my neighbors by making reasonable adjustments based on the feedback.

Specifically, my biggest concern was traffic. The intersection at South Meadows Road and Agua Fría Street can get congested, especially at rush hour. Originally, Homewise proposed building a school in addition to new homes, but a new school would have made traffic congestion worse by bringing concentrated traffic to an area with numerous schools nearby.

Homewise responded, dropping the plan for a school. That will greatly reduce potential traffic. The city of Santa Fe also plans to address congestion at the South Meadows and Agua Fría intersection by adding turn lanes that will improve traffic flow for residents.

Additionally, I am aware that others

Not only is Homewise building much needed housing for our front-line workers in a city that has become harder and harder to afford, but it is doing so in a way that addresses the existing community’s concerns. also are worried about how we have little access to nearby parks in our neighborhood. Homewise heard and listened to those concerns and tripled the size of the park from the original proposal. It now plans to build a 6-acre park on South Meadows, which is bigger than Patrick Smith Park.

Not only is Homewise building much needed housing for our front-line workers in a city that has become harder and harder to afford, but it is doing so in a way that addresses the existing commu-

nity’s concerns.

Ultimately, if we are not going to tackle our current housing crisis, who will teach our students, provide care for us when we are ill or come to our rescue, because our essential workforce cannot afford to live here? Santa Fe desperately needs more affordable homes for our teachers, health care workers and first responders. I commend Homewise for being part of the solution.

Abenicio Baldonado is a south-side resident.

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Why, however, don’t the Border Patrol agents there also conduct random spot checks for weapons being smuggled south into Mexico? The thousands of weapons smuggled illegally from the United States into Mexico are a major source of the violence there.

And what happened to the legislation sponsored by former New Mexico Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small to develop better technology to detect drugs being moved north through those ports? All studies show that about 90 percent of all illegal drugs come into the U.S. via these ports of entry, not via migrants. Let’s see New Mexico’s congressional delegation get on these issues, given the importance of our two major border crossings. u Ease some of the pressure to cross the border illegally by expanding the guest-worker program so more foreign workers will be able to go back and forth legally as their seasonal work requires. American farmers like New Mexico’s chile growers, construction companies, restaurants and other businesses desperately need these workers. Since the minimum wage per day in Mexico is only about $9 — only a little more than half the hourly minimum wage in most parts of the U.S. — the economic pressure to find work in the U.S. is immense.

Give these workers the freedom to move back and forth legally and thus reduce the pressure to enter our country illegally.

Since most of these American businesses are Republican-owned, this is an issue that should appeal to Republican legislators. u Create a cross-border health program, one that would initially deal with COVID-19 and the need for an accelerated vaccination program on the Mexican side, keeping in mind that Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to be a COVID-19-skeptic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just added Mexico to its list of countries to avoid because of COVID-19, which is devastating for the border areas where there is so much cross-border commerce and movement of people. If a binational COVID-19 initiative could be successful, this could be expanded to other health issues. There are many doctors in cities like El Paso who would provide free care in specialized cases, but they are not going to cross the border to do it.

Time is short. We’re about to plunge into what will surely be a brutal and unproductive election cycle. Let’s at least try to take some small steps on these border issues.

Morgan Smith has been documenting conditions on the Mexican border for the last decade. He can be reached at Morgan-smith@ comcast.net.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

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CHART process must stay on course

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s a participant in the ongoing city of Santa Fe CHART Zoom sessions, I received a notice advising the program’s next Zoom session would be on the topic of “equity.”

Even though equity is a truly important topic, it is not what most Santa Fe citizens were led to believe the Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation and Truth process was primarily about — this theme lacks focus on “culture, history, art, reconciliation and truth.”

The tragedy, anger and divisiveness caused by the loss of a historic statue, and without proper City Hall approval/coordination, was truly shameful. Then came the frightful, criminal destruction of the Soldiers’ Monument/obelisk followed by the ensuing criminal, destructive acts of defacing/splattering of red paint on the historic, meaningful and long-honored statues of Fray Angelico Chávez and the Cross of the Martyrs.

All this, lacking any meaningful, strong criticism of the perpetrators, either by the city, Native leadership, the church, the judicial branch or the media. However, there did follow

ongoing criticism, or maybe attempts at deflections, by city leadership in characterizing its own historic, unique and top tourism attraction of Santa Fe, as a city that possesses a “dark side” and a “difficult and woeful history,” and even drudging up the long-ago disestablished, U.S. government-sponsored World War II Japanese internment camp.

And, not to be forgotten, is that it was the mayor and Native groups such as Red Nation, the Three Sisters Collective and radical outsider allies, very sadly, who broke with the letter, spirit and high aspirations of that mayoral-sponsored and highly touted “proclamation” of Sept. 7, 2018, which states in part: “We come together to proclaim our love for our city … our people, our language, our ways of life, and this sacred land and it blessings.”

It goes on to state that, “We rededicate ourselves to our core values: love, respect, compassion.” This proclamation was signed by, among others, the mayor, the chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors and Archbishop John C. Wester, and most surprising,

these awful acts took place subsequent to the Caballeros de Vargas and Fiesta Council agreeing to dismantle the Entrada during Fiesta de Santa Fe and seeking a peaceful future.

City leadership that sponsored and funded this CHART process needs to be honest with its citizens and openly explain the true purpose, expected outcomes and any additional costs of what is happening now. And, yes, I believe the statue of Don Diego de Vargas and the Soldiers’ Monument must be restored to their original status.

That would be “restorative justice,” similar to that given to the felled monument’s criminal perpetrators.

These monuments have helped Santa Fe remain one of the most historic, unique and visited cities in the United States. That popularity continues, even as longtime Hispanic citizens lose more and more of what makes these visitors come. They recognize the downtown city attractions as valuable and historic.

Elmer Maestas is a student of New Mexico history.

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U.S. special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 and ’14, will give a free talk at St. Francis Auditorium. On May 18, the council will host its 2022 gala at La Fonda on the Plaza, featuring Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. She’s written a book, Lessons From the Edge, whose title pretty much says it all.

It’s easy to think Ukraine just showed up on our radar at about the time Russian planes started flying over their next-door neighbors’ rooftops and nuclear power plants, but the country was actually at the center of the events that led up to former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. It’s just another example of how foreign relationships really are domestic.

“Some of it is serendipitous,” she says of the timing of Yovanovitch’s appearance in Santa Fe this spring. “The council does some incredible programming. I mean, we have Ben Rhodes [a former deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration] coming May 5, right? That’s amazing. We had [former national security adviser and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations] Susan Rice for the last in-person gala. They get some big names. Why? Because those people also understand the value of getting the word out and sharing, in this case, bringing the world to local communities and engaging with real people.”

Real people exist. Here, there, everywhere. It’s in our best interest to know them.

Phill Casaus is editor of The New Mexican.

After 50 years, people decided to act

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lot of people seem to blame the mayor and the former police chief for the taking down of the Plaza obelisk. After studying the history of the area and the obelisk, I am confused as to why that is.

Indigenous people have populated the land known as New Mexico for more than 11,000 years. The Pueblo cultures as we know them have existed for at least 2,500 years. The first Spanish people came in the 1500s, and the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico was in 1609-10. The beginnings of the city of Santa Fe as we know it are a little over 400 years ago. That’s a drop in the bucket to the time Indigenous people were here.

In 1865, the legislature of the time authorized construction of a monument on the Santa Fe Plaza to those who died in the Civil War. It replaced the bandstand that was already there.

In 1866, they added a provision to “honor” soldiers who died in the “Indian wars.” Those would be the “wars” the “Indians” fought against Manifest Destiny and the forcible taking of their lands. The obelisk was

The people who found the language on the obelisk hurtful complained but saw nothing done for 50 years. completed in 1868.

Come forward 105 years to 1973. At that time, activists asked the city and the governor to add a marker nearby to contextualize and “blunt the wording” of the monument. A year later, someone chiseled the word “savage” from the obelisk. The monument then remained, as is, until it was taken down by protesters.

That was almost 50 years ago — 1973. Angst over the obelisk was evident before that time, but 50 years ago, the people in charge were asked to do something and what was done was nothing. The people who found the language on the obelisk hurtful

complained but saw nothing done for 50 years. Fifty years is a long time to wait. For some people, it is a lifetime.

For lucky people, it’s half a lifetime.

I’m just wondering how, if the powerful people in Santa Fe knew for at least 50 years that the obelisk wording contained demeaning, racist language and no one did anything about it, how is it the fault of current officials that people finally got fed up and did something about it?

I know many people don’t like the mayor because they think of him as an “outsider.” But shouldn’t the people of Santa Fe be blaming themselves, and prior mayors and city councils, for knowing that this problem existed and yet doing nothing to alleviate it?

If the “winners” of history want to use “the end justifies the means” as an excuse for the forcible taking of land and enslavement of Indigenous people, they should extend the same rights to protesters. It’s not like they didn’t try to get it done for 50 years.

Janet Eduardo is retired and lives in Santa Fe.

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that work for all New Mexicans, so that legislative progress can continue next session and every session after that.

One of the hard truths about fighting climate change is there is no single silver bullet bill that will solve this crisis. But the good news is that this also means no single setback can deter our forward progress. Like all of the most difficult challenges we face in our society and in our own lives, addressing climate change will require perseverance.

We are resolute in our long-term commitment to New Mexico’s clean energy future and will continue to fight for additional progress, including a clean fuel standard and enshrining our net-zero commitment into law. These measures will lay the foundation for our state to become a global leader in the clean energy economy of the future. We can’t let anything divert us from the long road to a green energy future that is viable and just. The future of our planet depends on it.

Rep. Nathan Small is a Democrat from Las Cruces, while Rep. Kristina Ortez is a Democrat representing Taos. House Speaker Brian Egolf lives in Santa Fe.

Remembering Charles, a dog worthy of an obit of my greatest teachers.

Dogs perceive the world differently — docents and staff from the Georgia than we do. They have different senses O’Keeffe Museum, tourists from faraway and gather different kinds of information. places, workers from local restaurants and That’s good for us to think about — about businesses; passersby, young and old, with gathering information differently and or without dogs. Charles brought that about using our senses wisely. goodness out in people. Many would tell On many mornings, I had the opportustories about their own pups. Paul and I nity to walk Charles before his and Paul’s were gifted with observing it, participatworkday started. Sometimes I would sing ing in it, and experiencing the grace and to him — “I have often walked on this blessings of it — and by “it,” I mean the street before, But the pavement always loving effect Charles had on others. stayed beneath my feet before, All at once Charles was handsome, with soft, am I several stories high, knowing I’m on wheat-colored fur. He was friendly withthe street where you live. …” Those early out ever being aggressive. He became one morning walks became sources of great Continued from Page B-1

peace and joy; hopefully for Charles, too.

He brought out that essential feeling in people — love.

In recent months, Charles had trouble walking. His gait was slow. Sometimes he “zoned out.” Dr. Amanda said he was suffering from dementia. But he was still our Charles — kind, loving, devoted. On our lunchtime walks, people still greeted him sweetly, but recognizing he was old, some shared their poignant end-of-life stories about their beloved pups. Charles, as always, waited patiently as his dad and I listened.

On a recent walk at home, days before Charles’ passing, Paul said to Charles,

transitioning from the street to the driveway, “OK, Charles, here we go, walking up the Himalayan Foothill Trail to the guest cottage at the Advaita Ashrama in the Mayavati of Dad’s imagination. …” Heading up the driveway might be a struggle, but it was leading us home. Maybe we all need to envision a better place beyond, as we age, and continue to go forward, putting one foot in front of the other, slowly and steadily.

Charles unearthed the grace in people.

He helped us bury our egos and find joy in life and our imaginations. If his love were a baseball, he hit it out of the park. Charles, I will love you forever, and thanks to you, I am forever changed.

Jan Schlain is a writer and former letters editor at The Santa Fe New Mexican.

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SFPS set to draw new district maps At pre-primary Census data, public feedback will be used during redistricting process

By Jessica Pollard jpollard@sfnewmexican.com

Like Congress and the Santa Fe City Council, the school board is preparing for a redistricting process that will redefine board member boundaries based on 2020 census information.

That process is set to be relatively straight-

forward. However, new information from the census will provide insight into population movement in Santa Fe Public Schools that will likely revive conversations about resource inequities and whether some schools should close.

The district recently selected local research firm Research & Polling Inc. to break down

census data and provide possible maps for the redistricting process.

Board members must host community input meetings and decide on a new district map by December.

“Nothing that we’re doing has anything to do with opening or closing schools,” said Research & Polling Inc.’s data and analytics director Please see story on Page C-4

Addressing youth violence Milagro Middle School implements safety aide program to prevent drug use, gun problems

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Lead safety aide at Milagro Middle School Victor Quintana keeps an eye on the busy hall between classes last month. Santa Fe Public Schools are ditching their security contractor and developing their own force of ‘safety aides’ to monitor activity in schools, an initiative led in part by retired Santa Fe Police Department officer Mario Salbidrez.

By Jessica Pollard jpollard@sfnewmexican.com

T

he hallway at Milagro Middle School quickly filled with students — and the sounds of their voices and slamming lockers — during a frenzied period between classes.

Just as abruptly, it fell quiet.

“We’re always having to round up the stragglers,” said Victor Quintana, 36, the school’s lead safety aide. “That’s 90 percent of it, is getting them to class.”

A few months ago, Quintana was a delivery driver for FedEx. Now he helps provide security at Milagro and supervises two other safety aides in a new program that will

largely replace Santa Fe Public Schools’ reliance on security contracts for school guards. District Security Director Mario Salbidrez hopes the initiative will cut costs, improve security staff retention and create a stronger and more Mario personalized safety system Salbidrez in local public schools.

The new aides are being supervised by retired Santa Fe police Detective Brian Rodriguez, who was hired by the district this year. There are no armed aides or school resource officers on district campuses, and Salbidrez said there are no

plans to change that.

The new safety effort comes amid a rise in behavioral problems — including drug use and gun violence — both on campuses and in surrounding neighborhoods.

“We have a bad epidemic of fentanyl coming through,” Salbidrez said. “That brought a lot of problems into schools.”

Some of the issues the district faces are severe.

In October, a shooting near Capital High School involving one teenager and two young adults led to a lockdown. The boy accused in the shooting was one of more than a dozen Santa Fe-area teens arrested on suspicion of Please see story on Page C-4

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By Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com

ESPAÑOLA — It was just four years ago when Laura Elaine Garrett expressed the dreams for her future in a college essay.

It was simple vision, yet one that seemed unattainable anytime soon: She wanted to run an afterschool arts program in a place where magic happened.

Now, just days shy of her 24th birthday, fantasy has become reality. Last month, the leaders of Moving Arts Española, a nonprofit performing and visual arts-based center, chose Garrett as its artistic director.

She succeeds longtime artistic director Roger Montoya, who stepped down to dedicate more

Lujan Grisham spoke about achievements during her term, encouraged crowd to ‘be bold’ ahead of November election

By Daniel J. Chacón

dchacon@sfnewmexican.com

The Democratic Party of New Mexico traveled to Republican-rich Roswell on Saturday for a pre-primary nominating convention filled with dancing, rousing speeches and momentum-building ahead of what looks to be a challenging November election.

With rising inflation and a Democratic president whose approval ratings are fluctuating, party leaders and candidates called for unity and a push to turn out voters.

“We have 244 days until this critical midterm election, and we cannot waste a minute of that time given the headwinds that we face,” Ken Martin, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told the crowd of about 300 attending in person and some 600 watching via Zoom.

“The shadow that was cast by our narrow defeats last year looms large over the 2022 midterms,” he said.

The party’s standard-bearer, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, kicked off nearly three hours of speeches by touting her accomplishments since she took office in 2019.

“In the last 3½ years, we’ve gotten a lot done,” from increasing teacher pay and raising the minimum wage for the first time in a decade to requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their workers, she said.

“And in just days from now, we’re gonna be adding about 11,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars because we promised recreational legalized cannabis, and it’s here — we’re doing it,” Lujan Grisham said.

The governor wore a bomber jacket with a Zia symbol on the back and the word “warrior” on the sleeve; she said it was gifted to her by a Santa Fe artist.

“She said, ‘I want you to have this because I want you to be bold. I want you to be strong. I want you to be courageous. In fact, I want you to be your badass self,’ ” she said, generating applause. “And I’m asking something of you today. I want you to bring your badass selves to the 2022 midterms. We will not go backward.”

Unlike Republicans, who experienced problems with their voting system but announced their election results the night of their convention, Democrats will keep voting open through 9 p.m. Wednesday and announce their results in a week. Democrat delegates will be able to vote electronically or by phone, which Republican Party of New Mexico chairman Steve Pearce said in a statement shows their “propensity to allow voter fraud.”

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State intends to install more charging sites for electric cars N.M. expected to get $38M from federal govt over next five years to fund project

By Scott Wyland

New leader tries to bring ‘magic’ to Moving Arts Longtime dance teacher named artistic director of nonprofit last month

convention, Dems prepare for midterms

Sunday SPOTLIGHT time to his work as a legislator.

Montoya will serve on the center’s advisory board.

As she prepared to teach a ballet class for young girls on a recent afternoon at the center, Garrett said she feels lucky to have landed a job at which she can instill a love of the arts in young people — just as her mother and other dance teachers instilled that love in her when she was a child.

“At the core of why humans make art is about community building,” said Garrett, who has worked at the nonprofit as a dance teacher and co-artistic director. “It’s about moving with other people, creating something Please see story on Page C-6

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Laura Elaine Garrett, right, marches alongside Peyton Maestas on Wednesday afternoon at Moving Arts Española, during Garrett’s beginners and intermediate ballet class for ages 5 to 7. Last month, the leaders of Moving Arts Española, a nonprofit performing- and visual arts-based center, chose Garrett as its new artistic director.

swyland@sfnewmexican.com

In the early days of the automobile, a big part of boosting demand was ensuring drivers had enough places to fuel up.

Now, as sales of electric vehicles gradually increase, state leaders plan to install more charging stations to help jump-start an industry that many view as a linchpin in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that warm the climate.

There won’t be charging sites on every corner in the foreseeable future, but in the coming years, drivers could see one about every 50 miles on certain stretches and even sharing space with gasoline pumps at service stations.

New Mexico is expected to receive $38 million in federal money, spread out over five years, for developing the charging sites along “alternative fuel corridors.”

The funding is part of the bipartisan infrastructure package President Joe Biden signed into law late last year. In all, the Federal Highway Administration is allocating $615 million nationally to develop infrastructure for electric cars.

State officials must submit a plan to federal transportation managers by Aug. 1. If the plan is approved, New Mexico will receive the first round of funding in the fall.

Increasing the number of charging sites is essential in helping the state shift away from fossil fuel cars and make the transition toward greener energy, said Jerry Valdez, executive director of special projects for the state Transportation Department.

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Sunday, March 6, 2022

MARGARITA S LUJAN 3/7/1932 TO 2/10/2022

FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY

PAUL (P.J., CHICO) MARTINEZ MARCH 28, 1941 – MARCH 15, 2021

It’s been a long difficult year since you abruptly left us and your earthly life to go to your Eternal Home with our Heavenly Father.

We miss you more each day, and you will forever live in our hearts.

Vaya con Dios, Mi Amor.

Anniversary Mass will be on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 5:00PM at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 471 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM.

We sadly announce the passing of our dear mother Margarita who passed away peacefully in her sleep Thursday February 10th. She is preceded in death by her husband Joe R Lujan Sr., Granddaughter Lorie Martinez, grandson Adrian Martinez Jr., grandson Robbie Gonzales Jr., and daughter in law Debbie Lujan.

She is survived by sons Joe Jr. AKA Ranger, Geno (Mae), and Ray, daughters Lillian (Adrian), Sophia, and Linda (Jason).

Margarita had 13 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren and sisters Sadie Quintana and Amy Gonzales, brother Seff Sandoval, brother in law Phillip Lujan (Helen) sister in law Dolores Lujan.

Margarita loved to bake and cook for her family. It made her so happy to hand out baked goods and food instead of buying gifts. She loved to crochet, color and do her word searches. She loved giving and sharing whatever she had to whoever would visit her. Margarita wanted everyone to remember her at her best. She wanted us all to love one another and to be there for each other.

Services for Margarita will be held Thursday, March 10, 2022 at Cristo Rey Church. Rosary at 12:00 pm and funeral mass at 12:30 pm.

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ROBERT DEL MIERA It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Del Miera to heaven on February 17,2022. He is preceded in death by his parents Del Miera and Gertrude Miera, his wife Louana, daughter Marilyn, son Robby, and grandmother, Mariana.

Born in Algodones, N.M., Bob grew up with a large family, and later at a young age, moved to Santa Fe, where he spent most of his life. He graduated from St. Michael’s High School, where he was an exceptional athlete. He lettered in five sports and received other accolades during his time there. Even all these years later, you would often find him cheering on the Horsemen and Lady Horsemen.

He was employed at Joe G. Maloof Company for more than 30 years, where he earned multiple sales awards. Bob continued his passion for athletics through the mentorship of young athletes throughout Santa Fe. He coached baseball and basketball, and worked with the city’s youth at the Monica Roybal Center. He was an active member of the Coronado Kiwanis Club, where he served as president. He was a member of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, and attended church regularly; he passed on the importance of faith to his family. He also found tremendous joy in the mountains of Valle Escondido. He was an outdoorsman who enjoyed snowmobiling, driving ATVs, and sharing those moments with his family. Bob also had a greenthumb and enjoyed working in his beautiful garden year round. Bob’s influence was felt by many as he was a man of morals and hard work. He will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.

Perhaps Bob’s greatest achievement and joy was being married to his lifelong friend, Louana, for 58 years, and father to his children: Marilyn (Charles) Emanuele, Michael (Karmella) Miera, Michelle Miera, Martin (Marlene) Miera, Lyndi (Bob) Miller, Melissa (John) Bash, Robert Miera, Mark (Sonya) Miera, and grandfather to Helen Emanuele, Aaron (Shannon) Miera, Kimberly Miera (Clinton Nicley), Alisha (Michael) Montoya, Ron Schneider, Megan (Ben) Wood, Malerie (Brandon) Mabry, Maren (Eugene) Smith, Melissa Miera, Zachary Becker, Jack Miller, Brandon (Eboni) Bash, Kyle Bash, Marcus Miera, Jennifer Miera and Luke Miera. He is survived by his sister Melba (Orlando) Esparza, and sister-in-laws, Selene Luna, Nannie Jo Miera, Darlene Luna, and Carmen Luna. He was also a great grandfather and great great grandfather to a manifold of great grandchildren and a great great grandchild.

Bob’s faith carried him through until the end, and his family takes great comfort in knowing that he now resides in heaven with his wife Louana, daughter Marilyn, son Robby and many other believers in Jesus Christ.

The Miera family appreciates the assistance and care of Ambercare and specifically, Tanya, RN. Pallbearers: Ruben Lovato, Gene Fulgenzi, Warren Fulgenzi, Tommy Vigil, Mariano Chavez, Vince Lopez.

Honorary pallbearers: Manuel Miera, Fred Miera, Ron Miera, Dennis Luna, Rockne Luna, Rick Gutierrez.

Catholic Rosary will be held at 6:00pm on Thursday, March 10, 2022, at the Kiva Chapel of Light, 417 E. Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM. The funeral mass will be held at Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, 1301 Osage Avenue, Santa Fe, NM., on Friday March 11, 2022 at 11:00am with burial to follow at Rosario cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Bob’s name to: St. Michael’s Alumni Association, 100 Siringo Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

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MARY E. MARTINEZ It is with great sadness that The Martinez Family announces the passing of our beloved mother and matriarch Mary E. Martinez, age 77. She passed away February 25th after a courageous battle with Covid Pneumonia.

Mary was a dedicated wife, mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, great grandmother & godmother. She was born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico on May 9th, 1944 to Alfredo and Aurora Trujillo. She is preceded in death by brothers Gilbert, Leo, and sister Elaine.

She graduated from Robertson High School 1962 and in 1965 married her high school sweetheart, Pete Martinez II. As newlyweds they moved to Santa Fe in 1971 and Mary was able to realize her calling of taking care of others, as an RN. Mary was known for being a selfless and caring mother, and always giving of herself and her time freely. Her life’s pleasure was dedicating her life to raising her children and grandchildren. As a grandmother, she never told any of her grandchildren off, and spoiled them as much as possible. In her free time, she loved cooking her celebrated dishes from scratch; fresh Beans, Blue corn chicken enchiladas, Lasagna, and the family favorite, Dutch Chocolate Cake.

She loved to share meals and shop with her sisters; Elaine, Theresa, and Margie. She was a woman of deep faith and served as a Eucharistic minister at Santa Maria de La Paz. Mary is greatly missed and is survived by her three children: Liza, Pete, & Gabriel(Lori), and her 5 grandchildren: Angel, Crystal, Michael, Anjelica, & Ariel, her 5 great grandchildren: Kaydince, Mikaylah, Kianah, Keilani, and “JJ” plus numerous beloved nieces/nephews, and hijados.

Mary was described by many as an “angel from heaven”. We are sorrowful to be without you, but rejoice knowing you have gone to be with The Lord and are now watching over us.

Please join the family for memorial services to celebrate Mary’s life and say our last goodbyes.

All services to be held at Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe, NM. (Richards Ave.): Rosary: March 10th at 7:00pm Funeral Services: March 12th at 10:00am Internment: Rosario Cemetery, Santa Fe, NM – Reception following at Santa Maria de la Paz

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BRUCE WEDDA Born Aug. 17, 1943 in Detroit Michigan, passed February 16, 2020 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Our good friend Bruce crossed over after living patiently, for years with Myelo Fibrosis, a bone cancer. Bruce love the outdoors and was a student of nature his whole life. An ethical hunter and fisherman and wildlife photographer. He was also a fine carpenter and builder with an astute political savvy.

He is survived by a sister Sue, and son Robert and daughter Heather and will be missed by all those who knew him and shared time with him.

Any who wish to make donations in his name should contact: New Mexico Wildlife Center, 505-753-9505 newmexicowildlifecenter.org or The Raptor Center, 505-699-0455 thesantaferaptorcenter.org Thank you, and thank you Bruce for sharing your gift of life with us.

Peter J Roibal 15 Year Anniversary Mass celebrates on March 7, 2022 at 7:00am at Guadalupe Church Always loved, never forgotten, forever missed.

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VIRGINIA “JINNY” LOU JOHNSON Virginia “Jinny” Lou Johnson died December 8, 2021, at the Spring Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jinny was born to Frank and Clarabell Link on July 31, 1942, and grew up on the family farm near LaPorte, Indiana with siblings William and Kathleen, as well as a “family” of dogs, feral cats, cows and the chickens who would peck her when she collected their eggs. She attended the University of Indiana, receiving a B.S. in Physical Therapy in 1964. She moved to Lexington, Kentucky to work as a PT at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, where she met and then married a surgical intern named Ernest “Jack” Duval Johnson in 1965. Their honeymoon was interrupted by the draft – the Vietnam War was on – and Jinny accompanied her husband to Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, where she spent the next two years as an army wife to a Captain in the Second Armored Division, and brought two sons into the world, Matthew Duval Johnson and Thomas Hamilton Johnson.

Shortly after leaving the Army and Texas behind in 1967, the family moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri where they would live for the next twenty-five years before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She was smart, well-read, and extensively world-travelled – she loved hiking, skiing, snowshoeing and scuba diving, and pursued these interests wherever she went, spending months at a time abroad with her husband and friends in her favorite country of Italy, and hiking the Grand Tour de Mont Blanc in Europe and the Milford Track in New Zealand, among other great adventures.

Her love of cooking and cuisine led her to take classes with Julia Childs and Jacques Peppin. She was a farm girl from Indiana who loved simple things – her garden, flowers, sitting in her swing, her pets and all animals big and small. But most of all, Jinny loved other people, not just her family and friends, dearly and deeply with all her heart. She spent her life giving to and serving others. She was an amazing mother, wife, grandmother, sister, aunt a loyal and devoted friend. She was a lifelong volunteer, actively involved with Meals on Wheels and other charities, and teaching English as a second language to elementary school children for six years in the Santa Fe Public Schools.

As anyone who knew her will attest, her love was as infinite and boundless as her patience and grace. She was our heart… She passed away with Jack, Matt and Tom at her bedside. She is survived by them, her brother and sister, her two granddaughters, Ella Claire and Astrid Boone, a host of nephews and many others whose hearts she touched and who are broken by her passing. May her love shine through all those who knew and remember her. The world needs more people like her. RIP Virginia Lou Johnson July 31,1942 to December 8, 2021.

Donations can be made in her name to the National Scleroderma Foundation in Danvers, MA www.national.scleroderma.org.

HENRY VALENCIA Henry Valencia, 79 Lifelong Resident Of Espanola, Passed Peacefully On Friday Febuary 11, 2022, After Battling A Lengthly Illness.

Henry Was Preceded In Death By His Parents Martin And Manuelita Valencia, His Beautiful Wife Catharina (Kitty) Of 32 Years, Son Henry Valencia Jr. And Son Michael Valencia. Parents In Law Jan And Hendrika Houtman. Sister-In-Law Margo Houtman.

Brother-In-Law Alfirio Maestas.

Henry Is Survived By His Daughters Margaret Valencia, Wieke Van Der Kuijl (Bob) Grandsons Michael Naranjo (Deeandrea), Mike Van Der Kuijl And Jaiden Orlando-Casados - Valencia, Grand-Daughter’s Victoria Pena (Thomas “Tj” Martinez, Fiance) And Maureen Van Der Kuijl, Great- Grand Childern Julian Naranjo And Leila Naranjo. Sister Susie Maestas, Sister Linda Baca Paul), Brother Robert Valencia (Beatrice), Brother Edward Valencia (Inez), Brother Frank Valencia (Marie) Sister Mabel Valencia, Brother Patrick Valencia. Caregiver’s Dorren Lopez And Elsa Garcia. As Well As Many Cousins, Great Nieces And Great Nephews And Many Aquaintances And Friends.

Henry Graduated From Espanola High Shool (Hornets). He Served In The Airforce Till 1968 In Holland Where He Met His Beautiful Wife.

He Then Brought Her Home To Begin Their Journey.

He Owned And Operated Henry Valencia Inc In Espanola And Expanded His Business To Santa Fe As Valencia Motors. He Was Well Respected In The Automotive Industry. Henry Served The Espanola Community As City Councilor, And As A Member Of Chamber Of Commerce. He Was Voted As Best Dressed Businessman In The Valley Of Espanola. He Contributed To The Many Organizations In The Community. His Outgoing Personality, Charm And Love Touched So Many. You Could Often See Him Riding His Motorcycle And Enjoying Time With His “Cookie” Friends.

Assisting The Family As Pallbearers Will Be, Curtis Valencia (Nephew), Michael Naranjo (Grandson), Conrad Valencia (God Son), Steven Baca (Nephew), Jerry Valencia (Nephew) And Eric Valencia (Nephew) Honarary Pallbearers Are, Rachel Valencia (God Daughter), Michelle Valencia (Niece), Dolores Salazar (Niece), Sharon Valencia (Niece), Melissa Valencia (Niece), Sharon Pacheco (Niece). Rosary Will Be Held On Thursday, March 10, 2022 At 10:00am At Holy Cross Catholic Church With Mass To Follow 11:00a.M. Due To Covid There Will Not Be A Condolence Line At The Rosary Or Mass. Graveside Services Will Be Held Friday, March 11, 2022 @ 9:00am At The Santa Fe National Cemetary With Military Honors.

The Family Of Henry Valencia Has Entrusted The Care Of Their Loved One To The Devargas Funeral Home & Crematory Of Espanola Valley 505-747-7477.

MARGARITA “MARGIE” CELINA LUJAN LOPEZ 8/26/1934 - 2/20/2022 Our beloved Margarita “Margie” Celina Lujan Lopez, native of Santa Fe for 87 years was called to her eternal resting place to be with the Lord. She is preceded in death by her parents Zulema and Jose Lujan and reunited with her daughter Kathleen. She is survived by her children; Liz, Trish (Kiko), Tim, Joseph (Aurora), James, and Roberta.

Grandchildren; Jessica (Anastacio), Jamie (Elario), Brittany (Gabriel), Joshua, Jamila (Tim), Victoria (Marcos), Margarito (Reyna) and Lexi; StepGrandchildren; Manny, Ruben, Sarah, Great Grandsons; Aaron, Judah, Jeriah, & Jaiven.

Margie was a loving mom, grandma and devoted her life to caring for all her children, grandchildren and friends.

Serving as pallbearers are: Ruben Montoya, Joshua Montoya, Margarito Lujan, Danny Alire, Elario Montoya, Tim Sisneros, and Marcos Gallegos-Romero. Rosary and Mass will be on Monday, March 7, 2022 at 10:00 am at St. Francis Cathedral Basilica.

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FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS LAVERTA MAE LYNN MOORE Laverta Mae Lynn Moore, who passed away on February 23, 2022, in Houston, Texas, will be remembered as good-humored, kind-hearted, and down-to-earth, with a getit- done attitude, traits she maintained to the end of her life. Laverta was born January 27, 1932, in St. Louis, Oklahoma to David and Viola Lynn. Laverta graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1954 and was recruited by the Santa Fe Public Schools to teach at Acequia Madre Elementary. Excited to have a job, Laverta bravely headed west, sight unseen, to a new adventure. In 1958, she married Jim Moore, who was working at the family business, Moore’s clothing store. The family became complete when Alice Ruth joined them. In 1965, the family moved to La Paloma Street. There, their neighbors became life-long friends. When Alice started first grade, Laverta went back to work. She taught the second grade at Gonzales Elementary until her retirement. Additionally, Laverta was active in Santa Fe’s First Presbyterian Church, PEO, and Delta Kappa Gamma. She enjoyed playing bridge, yard work, entertaining friends and family, and traveling. Most of all, she enjoyed being Jim’s wife and Alice’s mom.

Jim passed away in April 2020.

She is survived by her daughter Alice and her son-in-law Amitava Dasgupta. Laverta is also survived by her sister Treva Henry and her very special nephews and nieces: Terry Moore Boothman and Joe Sullivan, Max Boothman, Tomas Moore, Tomas Luke Moore, Lynda and David Watson, Barbara and Eric Clark, Tracey and Keith Hawkins, Pat Hays and Warren Boothman. They all called and/or came to visit Laverta and Jim in Santa Fe and Houston.

The family requests any donations in Laverta’s memory be made to your local food bank. Laverta and Jim will be jointly buried at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at a later date.

Charles Greenfield Hauber Charles Greenfield Hauber passed away quietly at home, surrounded by family, in Santa Fe, N.M. on February 17, 2022.

His family includes four children, two daughter-in-laws and two son in-laws, his life partner Ellen Premack, the mother of his children, five grandchildren, 5 brothers and one sister, three step-grandchildren and extended family. Charlie was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1940 to the late Charles A. and Julia Hauber. His job was his focus. He worked in Denver, Co. as a CPA and accomplished businessman. He found great fun in supporting artists and collecting beautiful art, gardening, raising chickens, interacting with his special parrots, and loving his dogs, Maverick and Katie.

Charlie was a kind-hearted, serious and quiet gentleman who had a wicked dry sense of humor. Charlie lived passionately, he loved freely, and he could tell those he adored the pride, meaning and love he saw in them. He was a soft-hearted person, always for the underdog and acted to help people if they were in need. He saw the best in humanity with a very sarcastic twist. Donations can be made to the Gabriel Foundation in Elizabeth, Co./African Heritage Celebration in Denver, Co/ or the Hearing Loss Association of America.

MARION HARRIET COHEN OLDHAM MARCH 4,1938-JUNE 29, 2021 Marion was born in Boston, Massachusetts March 4, 1938. Her father doted on her and encouraged her to play piano. She attended Cardinal Cushing College and Emmanuel College and studied music and psychology. In the 60’s Marion taught elementary school and later became a faculty member and piano instructor at Cape Cod Conservatory.

In the early 80’s, Marion moved to New Mexico. She worked at Northern New Mexico Music and taught private piano lessons. Marion was an accomplished musician. She loved lighthouses, the New England Patriots, the Isotopes and traveling to Martha’s vineyard. Marion was a spunky and fun person. She recorded her first CD when she was 80 years old and learned to teach virtually during the pandemic.

Marion is survived by her daughter Pamela Ann Oldham of Pocasset, MA. Marion was loved by many. She had two canine companions throughout her life in New Mexico; Nibbetts and Katie.

Katie passed on the same morning as Marion. Marion’s ashes have been spread around a beautiful maple tree in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

KAY MARIE LINDE GROTBECK Kay Marie Linde Grotbeck passed away peacefully in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 28, 2022, having dedicated her life to government and community service, social justice, racial and gender equality, freedom of choice, environmental conservation, family, friendships, love and compassion for every living being.

Kay was born to Woodrow Peterson and Dorothy Danies in Rush City, MN, on October 22, 1941. She graduated from Sibley High School and the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN, and taught political science and economics at Rudyard High School in Upper Michigan. She married Ronald Lee Grotbeck in 1964, and had three sons: Christopher, Carter and Creighton. On military assignments, they lived in Montgomery, AL, Washington, D.C., Dayton, OH, and Albuquerque, NM. Kay and Ron divorced in 1993, and Kay spent the rest of her life living and working in (and for) New Mexico, in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Cochiti Lake. Kay was active in the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club, the Conservation Voters’ Alliance and the Democratic Party. She attended the Church of Religious Science in Santa Fe and was affiliated with Hillside Community Church in Albuquerque.

Kay is survived by her three sons and one step-daughter, her brother Nels Linde of Clear Lake, WI, sister Barbara Sunderland, of Savannah, GA, and sister Linnea Klingel of Cottonwood, AZ, as well as two nieces, four nephews, four grand-children, a great niece and a great nephew.

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REYNALDA “BERNIE” SANCHEZ Reynalda “Bernie” Sanchez passed away on February 14, 2022. Bernie was born on April 23, 1929, to the late Simon and Emilia Ortiz in Chimayo, New Mexico. She was married for 62 years to her beloved late husband, Fidel Sanchez in Santa Fe, NM. She was preceded in death by her parents, Simon and Emilia, husband, Fidel Sanchez, sons; Leroy Sanchez, Frank Sanchez, and Fidel Sanchez Jr., grandchildren; Marty, Michael, Elizabeth, Senaida, and Jacob.

She is survived by her children, Lee Sanchez, Daniel Sanchez (Gloria), Joe Sanchez (Jennifer), Christine Sanchez-Warren (David), Jerry Sanchez and Cecilia Ortiz (preceded

by David), 24 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, extended family and numerous friends.

Bernie was a faithful woman who loved the Lord, her family and church. She was a warm, loving, generous and beautiful person who made a lasting friendship with everyone she met.

A recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., followed by Mass at 10:00 a.m. at St. Anne Parrish, 511 Alicia St., Santa Fe, NM. A private Interment will take place on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Leroy Sanchez, Jonathan Sanchez, David Ortiz, Stephen Sanchez, Levi Martinez, and Travis Sanchez. Honorary pallbearer will be Kevin Pacheco.

Funeral arrangements are under the care of Rivera Funeral Services.

Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com MARTIN BELDOCK Martin Beldock, formerly of Santa Fe, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2022, in Rancho Mirage, California, surrounded by family.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Toni, and leaves behind in this life his brother, daughter, son, cousins, nieces, nephew, grandson, brother and sisters-in law, and countless other friends. The absolute favorite time of his life was the 20+ years he lived in Santa Fe where he and his wife made many friends in the community and were active in the temple, including the Safe Haven Program. He also volunteered at KSFR several times a week compiling and reading the news, which he enjoyed tremendously.

While a formal service is not planned for Santa Fe, it was his wish, and Toni’s, that friends who want to say a final goodbye partake of good food and music, celebrate life, and enjoy each other’s company.

JOHN DORN Amidst the nervous proposals and ecstatic engagements and the last-minute deliveries of strawberries dipped in chocolate, there was a blue note on this year’s Valentine’s Day: John Dorn, a monumental figure to all who knew him, died at 94. He was at home with his wife Bobby in Galisteo, New Mexico, a place so peaceful the transition to Heaven should require little to no adjustment.

John Chapman Dorn was born on June 24 in 1927 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He was the caboose in the train of children produced by his parents Ruth and Forest Dorn. Arriving before him at this earthly carnival were his brother Dale, his sister Skip, and three more brothers: Clayton, David and Dick. John’s grandfather, Clayton Glenville Dorn, grew frustrated at the loss of his children every summer to camp, so he bought a verdant sprawl of land outside of Bradford, and outfitted it with all the trappings of summer camp so the children could spend summers with the family. There was a stable full of horses, a swimming pool, tennis courts, lakes for rowing and a skeet range. He built a big lodge-styled house, soon called the Big House, and named the property Glendorn. No one who has passed through its tall gates has ever fully shaken its magic spell. It is the perfect combination of nature and civilization, where the indoors and the outdoors offer different but equally diverting enchantments. It was at Glendorn where John learned to ride and jump horses, to wing shoot and fly fish. Like any sane person, he eventually stopped carrying on like that with horses, but his love of hunting, fishing and the outdoors was a source of serene pleasure all his life. These rustic enjoyments helped him beguile his way through a case of childhood polio.

John went to local public schools in Bradford, then the Choate School in Connecticut for high school, and then to Yale, one of the better universities in New Haven. During the summers he worked for the Barnum and Bailey/Ringling Brothers Circus, sweeping up after the elephants, and showing people to their seats. (This love of circuses would also stay with him all his life.) Near the end of the war, he served in the navy aboard the USS Enterprise. After the war, he returned to his education and to something more exciting than world war: on a visit to Santa Fe in the summer of 1948, he met the bewitching BLee Stringer, a coed visiting from the University of Texas. John did what was needed to catch her eye, including riding a bull. Frustrated suitors take note: they were married within the year.

The newlyweds made their home in Midland, Texas where John worked for the family business, Forest Oil. The Dorns first lived at 1303 N. Colorado in a home that John recalled was constructed of Fort Worth stone and bubble gum. In 1954, they moved to a sturdier piece of work at 1201 Country Club Drive, then a company home previously inhabited by John’s cousins, Bill and Rhea Miller. John and BLee had the house substantially remodeled by the soon-to-be-eminent-but-then-just-promising young architect Frank Welch. The Dorns would live in this house until BLee’s death almost 60 years later, and in those years threw countless lip-smacking dinners and jazz-infused parties for all occasions, in and outside the house. The Dorns’ backyard had a tennis court, a pool and, for a long time, a wild turkey who found it pleasing to make his home there— who can blame him?

Long before the arrival of Noel Coward— that was the name they gave the turkey, in tribute to his attitude of regal authority— the Dorns had four children: Rebecca, Leslie, Stephen and Timothy.

After his decades at Forest Oil, John started a company called Perm Corp that, among other places, looked for oil in the newly friendly, at least to people with money, Soviet Union. For years, John bicycled to work on a one-speed bike he named Trigger, carrying any papers he needed in a saddle bag. He also spent many years as a rancher, where, along with the usual cast of horses and cattle, he began raising and selling goats. On the back of his car was a bumper sticker with the advice: EAT MORE GOAT. John was fastidious and dapper: sharp hats, some with a feather angling out of the band; button-down shirts, khakis, well-polished shoes— with the dust in Midland, that was a full-time job— and a belt buckle rakishly set to the side. He wore his wristwatch with the face on the underside of his wrist. No fingernail on the John Dorn hand ever got beyond itself.

Like the best of American businessmen, but sadly not all of them, John had a great sense of civic obligation: John was on the board of the Midland Memorial Hospital, Choate Rosemary Hall, and the Glendorn Foundation. He not only supported the local hospital in Midland, but contributed to many world-class medical institutions, including Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He sent many friends to these places for second opinions or treatment. There was nothing more calming than when John Dorn said he could help.

He was a man of enormous curiosities. He loved to read history and had a special interest in American presidents. When the world awaited the U.S. mission to land a man on the moon, John bought a highpowered telescope to keep an eye on the proceedings. In a small tower atop the house on Country Club, he kept all manner of weather tracking devices, which in Midland principally meant how hard the wind was blowing. At different times in his life, John baked bread and brewed his own beer. At Glendorn, he worked with a Bradford professor to identify the rich variety of plants and trees throughout the property. John often led nature walks where he taught anyone interested how the bark of a maple was different from an oak or a pine. Some smarty-pants city folk visitors were surprised at how satisfying it was to learn such things.

A hallmark of John’s hospitality is that along these walks, which were often a couple of miles in length, there were stopping points where walkers would find thermoses of hot chocolate enlivened with peppermint schnapps. Proust had his madeleines, but the ramblers of Glendorn will never forget their schnappy hot chocolate.

John and BLee were married for 60 years. Over the last 30 years of her life, BLee would battle seven different cancers, and no one was more lovingly devoted to her care than John— “heroic” is the word that comes to mind, but always in the modest, quiet way that marked all his dealings. Theirs was a marriage of extraordinary closeness and people worried what would happen to John when BLee died— some feared he would quickly succumb to despondence and follow her.

That concern turned out to be entirely unnecessary. Some months after BLee’s death, John took a trip to Santa Fe— again Santa Fe! Frustrated suitors take note!— where he ran into Barbara “Bobby” Hilliard, an old friend who once lived in Midland. Beautiful and charming, the very picture of elegant, easy-going grace, Bobby soon lifted John out of his grief. In the words of Ira Gershwin: he fell and it was swell. They were married within the year, and John moved to Bobby’s beautiful home in Galisteo, New Mexico, where they spent the last 11 years. She survives him, as do John’s children: Rebecca Dorn of Red Bank, NJ; Leslie Dorn and Timothy Dorn of Eldorado, TX; and Stephen Dorn of Fort Worth, TX; his grandchildren: Sarah Margaret Kniesler of Marion, MA; Martha Kniesler of Red Bank, NJ.; Michelle Dorn of Baird, TX.; Bridget and Tyson Watson of Abilene, TX.; Travis Dorn and Raven Glasser of Plano, TX; and two great-grandchildren: Shiloh Watson and Conor Watson of Abilene, TX. He is also survived by Bobby’s six children and thirteen grandchildren.

For all his success in business, and for all his prominence as a charitable and conscientious citizen, two memories stand out about John: perhaps as a triumphant rebuke to the polio which slowed him for a time as a boy, John became a superlative social dancer, swirling his partners around the dance floor with merry velocity, the gravitas of his normal personality joyfully, if temporarily, out of sight.

The other image is this. There was never a night at the Dorn home when, at the end of the evening, John did not walk his guests to their cars. He thanked you for coming, graciously making it seem as though you had done him a service by accepting the invitation. Only when you were in your car and on your way, did he turn and walk back inside. Whether the circumstance was social, financial or medical, the man knew how to take care of people.

John Dorn was a figure of dignity, kindness and fun— that’s a great combination and one we don’t get much of. His friends and family mourn the loss of it now and will cherish the memory of it forever.

In lieu of flowers, charitable donations can be made for research at Memorial Sloan Kettering (https://giving.mskcc.org/donatenow?gclid=CjwKCAiApfeQBhAUEiwA7K_UH2sU0hszx6B01a9hNwn2Zxt1NRJ8xkLR4kzO-ikSXfDHgQXyGLwvLxoCvDsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) or the Midland Memorial Hospital (https://www.midlandhealth.org/main/giving-online) The family is planning a memorial in late June.

DEREK ROBERT ROMERO Derek Robert Romero, 33 a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico passed away peacefully February 26, 2022. Please see Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations web site for services.

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“Why would it take more than a week to count ballots?” he asked.

Pearce called the Democrats’ convention a “Democrat makeover.”

“Underneath the self-congratulations is a real sense of fear and nervousness,” he said.

“These Democrats know they’re in trouble.”

Republicans hoping to regain control of the Governor’s Office have said Lujan Grisham is vulnerable as she seeks a second term. At the top of their list of Lujan Grisham’s flaws are her COVID-19 mandates, such as closing businesses and requiring face masks in public settings for much of the pandemic.

“We’ve got protesters outside because our governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, dared to do the right thing and follow the science and keep us safe,” State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said. “So, ladies and

gentlemen, in 2022, science — science — will be on the ballot.”

Jessica Velasquez, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, said Democrats will unite behind Lujan Grisham in November.

Asked whether Lujan Grisham was vulnerable, Velasquez said that’s “not necessarily a word that comes leaping to mind” when she thinks about the governor.

“I see an effective leader who’s willing to make tough decisions for the greater good,” she said.

Sen. Cliff Pirtle, a Republican from Roswell, said he thought it was “great” Lujan Grisham traveled to Roswell.

“Hopefully the citizens have had their chance to express their displeasure for the unnecessary destruction she has caused during her term as governor,” he said. “We will not forget the pain and mental trauma she has caused on all our children.”

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We have 244 days until this critical “ midterm election, and we cannot waste a minute of that time given the headwinds that we face.”

Ken Martin, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee

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said. “We’re committed to these initiatives.”

A state map shows a network of freeways and highways, nearly all in the eastern half of the state, that will become the future alternative fueling corridors.

The main corridor that’s now dedicated for this aim is Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

The state will kick off the expansion in the next several months by installing a total of 12 fast-charging stations at three sites, near three of the Department of Transportation’s district offices, Valdez said.

State officials will tap the $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act money the Legislature approved for this purpose, Valdez said, adding the project will require only a portion of the fund.

An electric vehicle advocate praised the planned expansion as a good start.

“I think it’s a great opportunity,” said Travis Madsen, transportation program director for the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project. “Benefits for New Mexicans are substantial — in the tens of billions of dollars over the next couple of decades — because electrical vehicles are cheaper to fuel and maintain.”

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change, Madsen said. So investing in this infrastructure makes economic and environmental sense.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has said growing New Mexico’s fleet of electric cars is a key to cutting carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. On-road transportation accounts for the state’s second-highest amount of greenhouse gases, behind the oil and gas industry, according to a 2020 climate report.

Valdez said the goal is to space the sites 50 miles apart, but the distance might be greater in rural areas that lack a power source, such as a transmission line.

In some remote places, the remedy might be to install a small solar or hydrogen-driven plant to generate electricity, Valdez said.

A dearth of charging stations is commonly cited as discouraging consumers from buying electric cars because they worry they’ll have no place to juice up if the battery runs low.

Industry analysts and some government officials say building the charging sites will allay those concerns and attract more people to the market.

“The ability to fund these charging stations provides security for EV drivers, so they can easily travel across New Mexico with the comfort of knowing they can re-charge and arrive at their destination safely,” state Transportation Secretary Mike Sandoval said in a statement.

Noah Long, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said there’s actually a better reason to create more of these sites.

SFPS set to draw new district maps

That could lead to boundary changes The initiative was introduced after the around District 5, the central-most district school board rejected a plan supported by on the current board map, which houses board members Lorraine Price and Maureen Nava, Piñon and Salazar elementary schools. Cashmon that would have closed tiny E.J. “If the growth is southward from northMartinez, Nava and Acequia Madre elemeneast to southwest, then some of these bound- tary schools due to enrollment declines, aries are going to move,” he said. aging facilities and equity issues stemming While Poss agreed the south side likely in part from the schools’ small class sizes has seen the most growth, she said it will compared with those of larger schools, often Continued from Page C-1 be important to keep in mind that barriers on the south side. posed by the pandemic during 2020 will While enrollment at Acequia Madre Brittany Poss. “And I think that’s something likely show undercounts in groups including appeared stable at the 40-day mark this that can be a little confusing.”

Poss, who drew redistricting map options rural and tribal communities and low-inschool year compared with 2018, both come areas when a U.S. Census Bureau for Congress during the legislative special E.J. Martinez and Nava saw dips — along report is released in coming months. session in December, said her firm will hold with a suite of other schools across the “We know that there are undercounts,” a presentation at an upcoming school board map including Sweeney Elementary, Amy meeting and release population breakdowns she said. “We’re kind of constrained in that Biehl Community School and El Camino we have to use this data to do redistricting.” of each of the five current board member Real Academy, which all lost 100 or more At a January Santa Fe Public Schools districts. students.

Her team will examine populations, along meeting, Kristy Janda-Wagner, deputy superPart of the plan would be to create a intendent for operations and school support, with demographic groups. But the maps steering committee and gather community reminded the board to keep future developwon’t have anything to do with student feedback about topics such as enrollment ments in mind during the process. enrollment levels, which data from earlier declines, school boundaries, per-pupil “Our school boundaries do tend to shift this year suggests have dropped possibly by spending and recruitment for interzone some every few years, based on develop1,000 across the district since the pandemic transfer students. ment, based on where students live and began.

Board member Sarah Boses said she trying to balance enrollment,” she said.

The firm will help the district coordinate community feedback sessions on a series of In an interview Thursday, Superintendent “absolutely” expects updated census data possible maps. The maps and specific data Hilario “Larry” Chavez said the redistricting will bring those discussions back to the surface but likely not until next school year. breakdowns have yet to be released. process is a likely “first step” in reigniting “Everyone likes to use closing schools as Results from the 2020 U.S. census revealed a greater conversation around equity in an example,” Chavez said of the plan. “It’s Santa Fe County was the fifth-fastest-growschools brought on by a resolution the ing county in New Mexico with an estimated board passed in February 2020, dubbed “A much broader. It’s reviewing bus routes, it’s 7.4 percent population growth since 2010.

Roadmap to Reinvention for SFPS” in a 2020 reviewing attendance zones … it’s looking at That growth compares with an overall programs being offered in schools.” presentation.

2.8 percent growth statewide, the slowest climb since New Mexico achieved statehood El Dorado Community School César Chávez Elementary, BOARD MEMBERS in the 1900s, Poss said.

Ortiz Middle, Nye Early ChildDistrict 3: Kate Noble At a January study session on redistricting, District 1: Carmen Gonzales hood Center, Ramirez Thomas Term expires: Dec. 31, 2025 Santa Fe-based attorney Geno Zamora told Term expires: Dec. 31, 2023 Elementary, Nina Otero ComCurrent schools: Aspen ComCurrent schools: Atalaya the board that population growth in the area munity School and Sweeney munity School, El Camino Elementary School, Acequia could continue moving south.

Elementary Real Academy, Carlos Gilbert Madre Elementary, Chaparral Zamora placed Santa Fe’s population District 5: Sascha Anderson Elementary School, Gonzales Elementary, E.J. Martinez Elecenter — which describes the central-most Elementary School, Mandela Term expires: Dec. 31, 2025 mentary, Wood Gormley Elepoint of a region based on population — International Magnet School, Current schools: Early College mentary and Santa Fe High around Cerrillos Road and St. Michael’s Tesuque Elementary School Opportunities High (ECO), District 2: Sarah Boses and Desert Sage Academy Drive after the 2010 census.

Kearny Elementary, Milagro Term expires: Dec. 31, 2023 District 4: Rudy Garcia It’s possible this time it has shifted as far Middle, Nava Elementary, Current schools: Amy Biehl Term expires: Dec. 31, 2023 south as Camino Carlos Rey or Siler Road, Piñon Elementary, Salazar EleCommunity School at Rancho he said.

Viejo, Capital High School and mentary and Santa Fe High Current schools: Capital High, While a more built-up infrastructure reassures buyers — especially New Mexicans driving across vast expanses — electric cars’ growing popularity requires more charging stations to meet demand, Long said. “I think it’s less of ‘if you build it, they will come,’ and more that they are coming and we should build it.”

Madsen said most vehicle charging takes place at people’s homes. But ample on-road charging stations are necessary when driving from one city to the next and will create a sense of normalcy for drivers.

The chargers could be installed at some gasoline stations, Valdez said, offering drivers another fueling option. The national program calls for fostering public and private partnerships, but it would be up to gas dealers to add chargers to their service stations, he added.

A separate pot of federal grant money, also from the infrastructure package, will make about $2.5 billion available nationwide to underserved communities that lack access to the main corridors.

Those include rural areas, lowand moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with a low ratio of private parking or a high ratio of multi-unit dwellings, Valdez said.

To augment the government’s efforts, the state’s three investor-owned utilities will spend a combined $14.4 million to expand charging stations at private homes and in public areas in New Mexico. They are the Public Service Company of New Mex-

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gun-related offenses in 2021.

Last month, police were called to Santa Fe High to investigate concerns of a possible sexual assault. A heavily redacted police report said students told officers boys and girls had been drinking alcohol in a bathroom, and one girl might have been groped by several boys. Police have confiscated three cellphones from male students, the report said.

The district has declined to comment on the incident.

Salbidrez called a meeting of law enforcement officers and others in January at Capital High to discuss youth violence and other crimes.

The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office also is taking steps to address gang activity and violence near both of the city’s large public high schools.

The office is launching a pilot program called The Life Project aimed at educating high schoolers about the criminal justice system.

Santa Fe Public Schools’ safety aide program is the brainchild of Salbidrez, a former Santa Fe police deputy chief who joined the district in 2018. He said he has wanted to move away from contracted security guards since before the start of the pandemic.

The effort could save the district

as much as $40,000 a year, he added.

The number of security guards provided by contractor Allied Universal has declined to four from 24 as the safety aide program moves forward. The district won’t sever ties with the company, Salbidrez said, because Allied is able to provide staff for after-hours patrols.

In recent years, the company has struggled to fully staff security guard positions for the district.

When Quintana stepped into his job, he said, students were “running circles around” the lone guard patrolling the halls at Milagro.

But the safety aide program also has vacancies. Recently, Salbidrez said eight of the 24 positions were still open.

While much of Quintana’s job involves preventing students from skipping class, at least once or twice a week he or another aide gets called into a classroom to escort a student to the office due to a class disruption.

Safety aides also watch for signs of fights.

“Usually once they see the extra presence of all the staff around, it kind of fizzles away,” Quintana said.

Milagro Vice Principal Susan Greig said in written comments

to the school board in February the safety aides “are a support and resource I cannot do without on a daily basis.”

Salbidrez said there are many advantages to training safety personnel in-house. The district has developed several trainings for new employees that include how to respond to opioid overdoses and address children with autism.

He also hopes students will feel more comfortable disclosing troubles at home to safety aides, who can “facilitate a soft handoff” to other district employees, he said.

Signs of the safety aide program’s success will include better retention of workers and fewer disruptions in schools, he added.

Serenity Lucero, a parent of students at Nina Otero Community School, said she was excited to hear about the program. Two of her daughters have experienced bullying and harassment on school grounds and on social media this year, she said, which never happened previously.

Lucero said she recently filed a police report over an incident, but no progress has been made on the case.

“I hope they just continue to make the safety for students a priority,” she said. “It hasn’t felt like it’s been a priority in so long.”

Charging stations at the Bataan Memorial Building in Santa Fe. The state will kick off the expansion in the next several months by installing a total of 12 fast-charging stations at three sites, near three of the Department of Transportation’s district offices, said Jerry Valdez, executive director of special projects for the state Transportation Department.

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ico, Southwestern Public Service Company and El Paso Electric.

At the same time, a trio of auto manufacturers aims to chip in big money to build and operate a network of charging stations across the country for medium and heavy commercial vehicles running on electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cells.

Daimler Truck North America, NextEra Energy Resources and BlackRock Renewable Power will invest a combined $650 million, with the work slated to begin in 2023.

It’s clear these big utilities and carmakers see a future in electric

vehicles, Madsen said.

Both Madsen and Long foresee electric cars taking over the market in the next decade.

The transition to electric vehicles would be bolstered by a proposed rule that would require these cars and plug-in hybrids make up 8 percent of manufacturers’ new sales in the state by the 2026 car model year, Madsen said.

The volume would rise exponentially if the state remained in step with California, whose governor issued an executive order calling for all new passenger vehicles sold there to be

electric by 2035.

The state Environment Department drafted the rule as part of a petition scheduled to go before the state Environmental Improvement Board by summer.

Long said he’d like to see more state policies supporting electric cars, such as the advanced clean car standard and electric vehicle tax credits. Strong policies must accompany infrastructure expansion, he said.

“I think there’s definitely things that we can and should do to hasten that transition,” Long said. “But I think the transition is happening nonetheless.”

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Bush family legacy at stake in attorney general race Bloomberg News

George P. Bush won a chance to extend his family’s Texas dynasty by pushing the race for the Republican nomination for attorney general to a runoff.

The campaign against incumbent Ken Paxton will test how Bush’s brand plays in the country’s biggest red state, which has taken a hard right turn on many social issues — and where the GOP is deeply in thrall to former President Donald Trump.

Paxton has Trump’s endorsement and a national profile after he sued to overturn the 2020 election results, but Bush has also cozied up to the former president and boasted that he’s the only family member whom Trump likes. Despite Bush’s creation of a beer koozie that bears that boast, Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said the former president will stand by his endorsement of Paxton.

Bush will benefit from name recognition, even as the family ties may leave him vulnerable to criticism that his style isn’t conservative enough for Texas.

“I’m blessed to be a Bush, but Texans know me as my own man for seven years serving them as land commissioner, and as a candidate to be our top attorney with my own ideas,” Bush told Bloomberg News shortly before the March 1 primary.

Paxton won about 43 percent of the vote, leaving him short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid the May 24 runoff. Bush came in second with 23 percent.

Two other candidates together garnered 35 percent — meaning if enough of their voters support Bush, he could topple Paxton,

the election by raising his hand in response to a question during a campaign debate.

But with many Republicans believing Trump’s untruths, Bush has focused his campaign on ethics questions surrounding Paxton, questioning the incumbent’s fitness for office and ability to beat a Democrat in the general election given his baggage.

Paxton faces a 6-year-old securities-fraud indictment and claims of misconduct from former top lieutenants who say their boss abused his power to help out a donor. He has denied wrongdoing and says the accuMATTHEW BUSCH/BLOOMBERG NEWS sations are politically motivated.

George P. Bush, Republican candidate for Texas attorney general, His campaign didn’t respond to a takes questions from reporters last month during a campaign request for comment on his race event in Lakeway, Texas. against Bush.

In an interview with Dallas-area who has been dogged with ethics community,” Jillson said. “George radio station 660 AM, Paxton P. would be smoother for them.” scandals. said Bush is focused on the ethics The candidates have few “Texas deserve better,” Bush issues because he doesn’t have a disagreements over policy said in the interview. “Let’s clear track record of his own. issues. Both promise to fight the air of suspicion and go with “If conservatives unite, which Washington overreach, crack someone who can just hit the I think they will and they should, down on illegal immigration and we can end the Bush dynasty,” reset button and beat Democrats.” support law enforcement. The Paxton said. “He doesn’t ever Bush is seen as friendlier to the most striking difference between talk about his agency or what business community than Paxton, the men is their views of Trump’s he’s done in office. He talks about according to Cal Jillson, a politifalse claims that the 2020 election what he’s going to do and how cal science professor at Southern was rigged. bad I am. And he doesn’t even Methodist University in Dallas.

Paxton spoke at the Jan. 6 really say I’ve done a bad job in That’s because Paxton’s push for Trump rally that preceded the my office; I’m just a bad person.” socially conservative policies has invasion of the Capitol, and said Bush, 45, is the son of former sometimes conflicted with coron Twitter that morning that “A Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the porate interests. For example, just lot of voters, as well as myself, nephew of former Texas govlast week Paxton issued a legal believe something went wrong ernor and President George W. opinion that gender-affirming in this election.” The Dallas Bush, and the grandson of former medical or surgical treatment for Morning News reported that in transgender youth constituted October last year, he agreed with child abuse. a questioner at an event in El “The business community Paso that Trump was the rightful doesn’t like that kind of stuff winner of the 2020 election and because they are employee based. Biden’s presidency amounts to an Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, “overthrow.” let alone transgender rights, are Bush, for his part, silently disconcerting for the business affirmed he believes Biden won

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President George H.W. Bush.

Beginning when he was just 12, he took the stage at the Republican National Conventions in 1988, 1992 and 2000 to support his grandfather’s and uncle’s presidential runs.

He taught in a Miami public school for one year after college, then got a University of Texas law degree. He clerked for a federal judge, was a Navy Reserve officer in Afghanistan and worked at a real-estate private-equity firm.

In 2014, he won election as commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, putting him in charge of managing public lands, and was reelected four years later. His time was marked by criticism over efforts to overhaul the Alamo historic site in San Antonio and accusations that he snubbed Democratic areas when distributing federal recovery funds for Hurricane Harvey, which flooded Houston in 2017.

Paxton has led the state’s crusade against what he calls federal meddling. He has sued the Biden administration repeatedly and filed a failed lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in four states.

“Paxton plays a very powerful political role,” said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston. He is “one of the principal Texas warriors fighting the Democrats in Washington.”

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Last month, Paxton sued Meta Platforms Inc. over facial recognition data stored by Facebook and Instagram. And in January, his office filed its third lawsuit against Google, saying the company monitored consumers’ locations even when users thought they had turned off the tracking feature.

While the 59-year-old Paxton has avoided trial on the securities-fraud indictment and has dismissed the misconduct claims from his former aides, the Associated Press has reported the FBI is investigating the whistleblowers’ complaint.

“Let’s let the process play out, let the FBI investigate,” Bush said.

“But Texas deserves better.”

The Democratic primary is also headed to a runoff. Rochelle Garza, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, finished first with 43 percent, but counting continues to determine the runner-up. A Democrat hasn’t won statewide office since 1994.

In the Republican primary’s first round, Eva Guzman, a former state supreme court justice, and Rep. Louie Gohmert received 18 percent and 17 percent of the vote. Much of their support could migrate to Bush, according to Patrick Flavin, a political science professor at Baylor University in Waco.

“Paxton might be in real danger of losing,” he said. “It will be a close runoff.”

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Woman charged with faking her own abduction

Ballets students, from left, Therese Martinez, Lauren Trujillo and Aviana Meyer stretch as their class with Laura Elaine Garrett comes to an end at Moving Arts Española on Wednesday. Before becoming the artistic director, Garrett taught ballet at the arts center since the summer of 2020 and became co-artistic director that November.

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with other people, expressing, sharing, and that’s what Moving Arts is about.”

Her appointment comes at a time when Moving Arts, founded in 2008, plans to expand both its physical footprint and operations.

Garrett has a long to-do list: using a recent $100,000 matching grant from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation to build a new 2,400-square-foot media lab offering classes in filmmaking, editing and music production; finding a way to offer behavioral health services; and expanding the center’s client base from children 12 and under to teens and adults.

For Garrett, that means learning how to write grants, raise money and draw more attention to the center. Continuing talks with board members and other Moving Arts leaders about how to get this all done are on hold as she finishes acting and serving as dance captain for a local production of the musical Cabaret.

She’s aware some people might raise eyebrows over her age and lack of experience. She has taught ballet at the arts center since the summer of 2020 and became co-artistic director that November.

“You know, I recognize I’m 23,” Garrett said with a laugh, citing a number of people at Moving Arts, including Montoya and executive director Salvador Ruiz, whose support she can rely upon.

“All of this is new. … I want to be the best leader I can be, to be best artistic director I can be.

“And I know that is going to come with a lot of listening, potentially making mistakes and moving through those mistakes.”

Garrett seems perpetually on the move as she makes her way around the well-lighted, spacious center, which includes a free meal kitchen for program participants. She even jumped up during an interview to demonstrate some dance moves she is teaching to her “baby ballerinas” — 5-year-old girls who act like seasoned pros around their mentor.

Garrett has been moving — dancing, acting, performing — since she was younger than those girls, she said.

Her mother, Diana Orozco Garrett, a longtime lawyer, judge and dance instructor, introduced her 3-year-old daughter to dance.

Eventually she began taking classes at the National Dance Institute of New Mexico, where a number of instructors, including

Board paid for.

Michael L. Johnson, the New York Times Shasta County sheriff, said in a statement Thursday that Papini She said that her captors had had cost taxpayers more than leashed her to a pole inside a $150,000 in resources used closet, a bucket of kitty litter to investigate her claims and serving as her toilet. Then came staged abduction. the beatings. And when she “Not only did this charade tried to escape, she told investi- take valuable resources away gators, she was branded. from real criminal investigative That is how Sherri Papini matters,” he wrote on Facebook, explained to investigators what “but in a time where there is happened during her disapserious human trafficking cases pearance in 2016, a three-week with legitimate victims Sherri ordeal that prompted an intense Papini used this tragic societal and costly search across Northphenomenon to gain notoriety ern California, where she had and financial gain.” been living, and several other Prosecutors said Papini had states. said that her kidnappers were The widely reported missing part of a human trafficking person case wound down after a ring and had told her that she truck driver spotted Papini wanwould be sold. “The buyer’s a dering along an interstate, but cop. They’re never going to find the investigation was not over. you,” she said one of her captors Federal prosecutors said last told her, according to the crimiweek Papini’s claims that two nal complaint. masked women had abducted In a statement released her at gunpoint while she was Thursday by a public relations on a run in Redding, Calif., had firm, the Papini family criticized been made up and that she the nature of the federal invescontinued her deception when tigation and the tactics investiinvestigators confronted her. gators employed in questioning In fact, prosecutors say, Papini and her husband, Keith.

Papini, who is married with The statement did not address two children, was staying with whether Papini had faked her an ex-boyfriend and had used abduction. prepaid cellphones to arrange “We love Sherri and are for him to whisk her some appalled by the way in which 600 miles away to his home in law enforcement ambushed her Southern California. this afternoon in a dramatic and Her bruises and burns were unnecessary manner in front self-inflicted, said prosecutors, of her children,” the family’s who announced that Papini, 39, statement said. “Sherri and had been arrested Thursday on Keith have cooperated with felony charges that included making false statements to a fed- law enforcement’s requests eral law enforcement officer and despite repeated attempts to unnecessarily pit them against mail fraud. The fraud charges each other, empty threats to stem from more than $30,000 publicly embarrass them and in therapy and ambulance serother conduct that was less than vices that prosecutors said the California Victim Compensation professional.”

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Garrett leads her students Wednesday as they stretch during her beginners and intermediate ballet class for ages 5 to 7 at Moving Arts Española.

Donna Scheer, influenced her.

Reached by phone, Scheer recalled Garrett working feverishly on every piece of choreography “as if it was opening on Broadway this week. She was so full out, so present.”

“I’ve always known her to be super dedicated,” Scheer continued. “If she says she’s going to do it, she’s going to do it. If she has a goal in mind — she’s going to double enrollment in five years — she’ll do it.”

Garrett took lessons in tap, ballet, jazz dance, modern dance and, later, at Goucher College in Maryland, hip-hop. She majored in dance and Spanish there.

Dance choreography, she said “seems like an exciting puzzle to put together.”

She wasn’t sure she wanted to come back to New Mexico after she finished college. But the pandemic sent her home as the college closed its campus and switched to virtual learning in mid-March 2020.

She busied herself offering free virtual dance classes until Montoya, whom she knew and had worked with on some dance projects, called her that summer to teach virtual, and later live, ballet classes.

Her mother, who has taught at Moving Arts for years, said her daughter will have to overcome some hurdles in her new job.

“A big challenge is going to be, she just graduated, she’s replacing Roger Montoya, and he has connections and charisma and is well loved there in the Española community,” said Diana Orozco Garrett. “But if anyone can meet that challenge, she can. I don’t think she’s going to try to imitate Roger. Laura has a very genuine, real concern for children and people that I’m sure will come shining through for her.”

Allegra Lillard, who also taught the younger Garrett dance, recalled her former student saying she would one day run her own company.

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“From the very beginning, she’s had this fiery passion and energy and commitment to her work and to her dancing — and also a sense of leadership,” Lillard said.

“It doesn’t surprise me she has landed this position.”

As she prepared for her afternoon ballet class, Laura Elaine Garrett said the Moving Arts Española space “feels like a deep breath.”

Sizing up her charges before class began, she said she sees herself in them, poised and ready to learn.

“What a sense of magic I felt going to class,” she said of those childhood years of learning. “I try to recreate that in them. There’s such a sense of love and dedication for dance in them, and I try to nurture that as well.”

Then class began — and so did the magic.

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Deadliest hunting season yet for Yellowstone’s wolves

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post

GARDINER, Mont. — Kim Bean saw the black ravens clustered in the leafless cottonwoods and thought: There’s our death.

The carcass had been on the hillside overlooking Yellowstone National Park for some time, but there was still enough flesh to attract scavengers. Bean crouched over it, examining the thin bones on the snowy ground.

“They chopped off the feet,” she said.

The head was also gone, making it harder to identify the animal. But there were clues. The radius and ulna were not fused, ruling out the mule deer or elk that migrate out of the park in winter across the plateau known as Deckard Flats. Bean suspected it was a gray wolf, and she had plenty of reasons to think so.

In less than six months, hunters have shot and trapped 25 of Yellowstone’s wolves — a record for one season — the majority killed in this part of Montana just over the park border. The hunting has eliminated about one-fifth of the park’s wolves, the most serious threat yet to a population that has been observed by tourists and studied by scientists more intensively than any in the world.

Since 1995, when staff released wolves into Yellowstone — where they had been wiped out decades before — this celebrated experiment in wildlife recovery has become a defining feature of America’s first national park, now celebrating its 150th anniversary.

Each step of their comeback has been documented in books, movies and daily reports from the field by a passionate band of wildlife watchers. Bean, who helps lead the nonprofit group Wolves of the Rockies, is one of those enthralled with wolves and their stories. And she has watched in horror as the body count has mounted.

“This is a definite war,” she said.

A federal judge’s ruling last month that overturned a Trump administration policy and restored federal protections to gray wolves across much of the United States does not apply to wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. It is in these Republican-led states where most of the wolf hunting — and the most intense fights over wolf management — is playing out.

The Interior Department is reviewing whether to put the gray wolves of the Northern Rocky Mountains back on the endangered species list. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland recently warned Montana officials their actions “jeopardize the decades of federal and state partnerships that successfully recovered gray wolves in the northern Rockies.”

The management of Montana’s wolves passed to the state a decade ago. Since that time, it has sharply restricted hunting around Yellowstone — until last year.

The Republican-controlled legislature passed laws mandating a decrease in the state’s wolf numbers and allowing hunters to catch wolves in neck snares, hunt them at night and lure them with bait. Then in August, the state fish and wildlife commission eliminated rules that only one wolf could be killed per year in each of the two hunting districts bordering Yellowstone.

The result has been “four to five months of basically glovesoff, take wolves out through any means possible,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said in an interview. “It is highly concerning to us.”

The culling has also divided neighbors and relatives who live at the park’s edge. Dozens of businesses that depend on tourism and wildlife viewing argue these wolves are worth more alive than dead. Wolf hunters have celebrated their kills on social media, and they defend their actions as legal and just.

And each day at sunrise, both sides were watching. In pickups and on horseback, hunters

times,” he said. “That’s it.” ons crowd. Much of the hunting Their clients don’t set out scene turns him off these days. to kill wolves, his wife, Susan, This winter more than ever. responded by email, but “we just He has watched hunters let our elk hunters shoot one if regularly gather in groups as the season is open and they have large as 20 above Deckard Flats a license!” in the late afternoon to scan for “We definitely know they need wolves, then head out at dawn to to be shot to keep their numbers shoot them. He has heard them in check,” she said. play recordings of howls to lure She mentioned another local wolves over the Yellowstone outfitter whose clients shot three border. Other hunters say dead animals, including elk and horses, wolves this fall from “a pack of 27!!!!!” are being left out as wolf bait “Way too many!” along stretches of park boundary.

Anti-wolf fervor has been Johnson hasn’t seen that yet, but around as long as humans have it wouldn’t surprise him. shared land with wolves. But “A person can understand if it has flourished in the West in you want one. One animal of an era of increasing political something. Just to respect it, just polarization. Wyoming permits to have it. But when you start unlimited wolf hunting across killing like they’re doing, multiple, it’s not even hunting. It’s just 85 percent of its state. Idaho LOUISE JOHNS/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, killing is all it is. I totally don’t Bill Hoppe looks out the door of his barn last month on his ranch in Jardine, Mont. Hoppe relocated agree with it,” he said. “It’s gross, last year signed a bill that allows his multigenerational outfitting business 150 miles north soon after the wolves were reintroduced killing as much as 90 percent of and it’s sick, is what it is.” because he said the wolves decimated the elk herds he used to hunt. the state’s wolves.

Johnson knows many of the There is a stick-it-to-liberals flaarea’s wolf hunters. He doesn’t want to name names or start a vor to this debate. Around Yellow“glassed” the hillsides with by his father. Winter is normally She bent down and tugged binoculars and scopes, checked feud in the community. But wolf stone, visiting hunters have heard at some soft white hairs that downtime, staying in shape for their traps and listened for howls. remained near the animal’s tail. advocates in town say one of others bragging about wolf kills. long summertime backcountry Their opponents were out, too, She wanted a DNA sample. them is his brother, Warren John- On the Facebook page of one local hunting and horseback riding lingering on gravel pullouts on “Okay, listen,” she said, strainguide, the O Bar Lazy E Outfitters, son, who runs Hell’s A-Roarin’ trips for clients who want to ing. “You gave up your life. You Forest Service roads, their own are several pictures of slain wolves, experience a real, if disappearing, Outfitters across the creek from can give up your fur. Come on.” spotting scopes watching for including one image where two Ralph Johnson’s place.

Montana. He prefers old-time Nearly every day in winter, hunters watching for wolves. hunters — Midwesterners who dead wolves flank a Trump-Pence When a reporter approached When Bean found the carcass, Ralph Johnson and his blue show up in L.L. Bean clothes with him in his pickup outside his ranch, 2020 campaign sign. heeler, Sage, hike the hills around wooden-stock rifles — more than Warren Johnson didn’t want to talk she texted a photo of it to Carter “We saved a few elk today,” Deckard Flats. Johnson can look Niemeyer, a legendary trapper the camouflage and assault-weap- wolves. “I’ve been into it too many read the October 2020 caption. at a trampled patch of ground who had been hired by the U.S. and distinguish tracks of the government in the 1990s to coyote from the fox from the catch the Canadian wolves that PROVIDING cottontail rabbit. He can point launched Yellowstone’s wolf out the two ivory teeth in an elk’s recovery. It was hard to tell, he skull on the trail — and explain told her, but it looked to him the evidence that a mountain lion like a trophy animal killed and brought it down. This place that skinned in the field. hunters and wildlife enthusiasts Bean read his response aloud: We’re small. travel the globe to glimpse is, to “The reason I say this is the hide IN A HOME-LIKE him, the backyard. was saved along with the head Different.

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City of Santa Fe HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD – March 22, 2022 Field Trip - 12PM at Santa Fe City Hall Virtual Hearing - 5:30PM For more information contact Carly Piccarello at cpiccarello@santafenm.gov For agendas and packets visit https://santafe.primegov.com/public/portal SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE AND PUBLIC COMMENT: In response to the State’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency, the Mayor’s Proclamation of Emergency, and he ban on public gatherings in excess of those permitted in the current Public Health Order, and the need to incorporate technology and practices to re-institute in-person meetings consistent with the limitations established by the Order, the Historic Districts Review Board meeting will be conducted virtually.

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A. ROLL CALL B. APPROVAL OF AGENDA C. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: 1. March 8, 2022 D. APPROVAL OF FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW E. MATTERS FROM THE PUBLIC F. NEW BUSINESS 1. 2022-004878-HDRB. 342 Plaza Balentine. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Richard Martinez, agent for Julia Platt and Zachary Leonard, owners, requests a status review and designation of primary facades, if applicable, on a noncontributing structure. (Daniel Schwab, dnschwab@santafenm.gov) 2. 2022-004867-HDRB. 620 W. San Francisco St. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Will McDonald, agent for William D. White, owner, requests status review and designation of primary facades, if applicable, for two non-contributing structures.

(Daniel Schwab) 3. 2022-004866-HDRB. 76 E. San Francisco St. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Daniel Lujan, agent for Komis Enterprises, LLC, requests demolition of 287 sq. ft. boiler room behind non-contributing building. (Angela Schackel Bordegaray, asbordegaray@santafenm.gov) 4. 2022-004868-HDRB. 701 E. Alameda St, #3. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Ju Tan, agent for Steve Brown, owner, proposes to construct a 200 sq. ft. portal on a non-contributing structure. (Daniel Schwab) 5. 2022-004862-HDRB. 661 C Garcia St. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Christopher Purvis, agent for Lynn Horning proposes a 444 sq. ft. addition to a 3,312 sq. ft. non-contributing building. (Angela Schackel Bordegaray) 6. 2022-004863-HDRB. 2 Camino Pequeno. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Daniel Strongwater, owner, requests to add 130 sq.ft. addition, a 860 sq. ft. free-standing carport, increase portion of roof height from 14’-0” to 15’-8” (maximum allowable height: 15’-8”), window and portal alterations; yard wall and and fence alterations; and add solar panels to a noncontributing building. Applicant requests exception to Section 14-5.2(E)(1)(c) regarding window panes larger than 30” in any dimension. (Angela Schackel Bordegaray) 7. 2022-004876-HDRB. 1149 Camino San Acacio. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Will McDonald, agent for William Johnson, owner, proposes to construct a 106 sq. ft. portal, enclose a breezeway, raise parapets, replace windows and doors on a contributing structure. An exception to Section 14-5.2(D)(2)(c) is requested to construct on a primary facade. (Daniel Schwab) 8. 2022-004912-HDRB. 1564 Canyon Rd. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Beverley Spears, agent for Kate Lopez, owner, requests historic status determination on non-statused 806 sq. ft. free-standing guesthouse. (Angela Schackel Bordegaray) 9. 2022-004721-HDRB. 1564 Canyon Rd. Downtown and Eastside Historic District. Beverley Spears, agent for Kate Lopez, owner, proposes a 577 sq. ft. addition to a height of 12’-1” to a non-statused 806 sq. ft. guesthouse (height 10’-0”), a 360 sq. ft. free-standing carport to a height of 9’-8”, demolition of a 380 sq. ft. shed, and 5’-6” yard wall. (Angela Bordegaray) G. DISCUSSION ITEMS H. MATTERS FROM THE BOARD I. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 J. ADJOURN Persons with disabilities in need of accommodations, contact the City Clerk’s office at 955-6521, five (5) working days prior to meeting date.

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Although it began in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in countries around the world. People with Irish heritage remind themselves of the beautiful green countryside of Ireland by wearing green and taking part in the festivities.

In Ireland, clover leaves are also called shamrocks. Fields of clover or shamrocks are part of what make Ireland’s countryside so green.

Most shamrocks have three leaves. But sometimes one grows with four leaves. This is called a lucky four-leaf clover.

Can you find one on this page?

Standards Link: Social Science: Students compare the beliefs, customs, traditions and social practices of various cultures.

Standards Link: Classification: Visual Discrimination.

The leprechaun Seamus O’Scoop has hidden 10 shoes in these shamrocks. Can you find them all?

Can you read three shoe-lengths of news?

Put your shoes end to end to measure three shoe lengths. Mark the length on a piece of paper. Now read a news story in today’s newspaper. Using your measure, find the length of your news story. Did you read the length of a leprechaun?

Standards Link: Math: Measure the length of given objects.

Look for a pattern in each row. Draw the picture that comes next in the box at the end of each row.

Standards Link: Math: Students identify and extend simple patterns.

Stories from Ireland tell about magical little people called leprechauns who make shoes for fairies. Fairies wear out their shoes quickly because they dance all night. Leprechauns sell a lot of shoes to fairies and the fairies always pay in gold. This is what the stories say. What do you think?

Can you find the leprechaun twins? Careful—they’re tricky!

The leprechaun’s shoe shelf has toppled. Can you match the pairs of fairy shoes?

“St.” is an abbreviation for the word Saint.

Clip six examples of abbreviations from the newspaper.

Write the whole word for each abbreviation.

Standards Link: Math: Students identify, sort and classify objects.

Standards Link: Social Science: Students compare beliefs of various cultures drawing from folklore.

Color each shape with a shamrock green.

What is hidden in this box?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students follow simple written directions.

SHAMROCK IRISH HERITAGE GREEN FAIRIES SHOES SAINT CLOVER GOLD MAGICAL LUCKY FOUR LEAF PATRICKS DAY

Standards Link: Writing Conventions: Identify and correctly use abbreviations.

H A L A C I G A M Y S P P H Y S N S A K

K I N T S L E D C C

C R S Y E I E O A U

This week’s word:

ABBREVIATION

I E G A T I R E H L

The noun abbreviation means a shortened form of a word or phrase.

T O R I A N F O U R

Molly changed her name to the abbreviation M to shorten the space on the page.

R V F D I M G I T S

A L C H I K T S L D P C S E I R I A F D

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Lucky Shamrock Adjectives

Try to use the word abbreviation in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

Four-leaf Clover

Clip five words from the newspaper to describe St. Patrick’s Day. Paste the words on a green shamrock. Write a sentence using each adjective. Select your favorite sentence and use it as the main idea for a paragraph.

ANSWER: One. After eating one shamrock, his stomach is no longer empty.

Standards Link: Grammar: Identify and use adjectives correctly in writing.

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I knew my luck would change when I picked up a four-leaf clover.

Finish this story.

FAMILY

Patience with questions will pay off Question: I’m concerned that Answer: I think you’re makmy 3-year-old — she’s nearly 4 ing a mountain out of a molehill.

— daughter has some If there is a problem, it sort of language issue. would fall into one of For example, even three categories: discithough my brother’s pline, development or family moved away disorder. You’re cernearly two years ago, tainly not describing whenever we drive by a discipline problem, their former house, and while I don’t have my daughter will ask enough information to if they still live there. be definitive about the If I am wearing a latter two possibilities, John yellow shirt, she’ll ask, more than 40 years’ Rosemond experience as a par“Is your shirt yellow, Living With Mommy?” She knows ent, grandparent and Children her colors, by the way. family psychologist Lately, when she lead me to propose asks a question of that what you’re that sort, I ask, “What do you describing is no big deal. think?” I’m trying to get her to My sense is she’s simply trying figure it out on her own, but she to figure out how to begin conimmediately becomes quiet, like versations with people, starting she’s confused. She’s very bright with you. for her age, but could she have a During the second and third language problem? On the one years of life, a child figures out hand, I’m worried. On the other, the fundamentals of language she can grate on my nerves. and begins constructing sen-

tences. A 3-year-old child begins using language to describe the world around her, but 3’s are known for monologues, not conversation. They’ll go on and on about seemingly nothing, jumping from topic to topic and obviously uninterested in what anyone else might have to say. At 4, the art of give-and-take conversation begins to develop.

Your daughter is simply trying to figure out how to have interactive exchanges with other people.

And yes, a child’s first attempts at conversation can be annoying, as can attempts on the part of a toddler to learn words (e.g., the constant “What’s that?”).

It takes patience to respond with more than a “Yep” to your daughter’s repetitions and seemingly unnecessary questions, but patience will pay off handsomely for the both of you. Help her learn what conversation is all about by responding to these “annoyances” with a question

CELEBRATIONS

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Faces & places Bandelier National Monument announced Friday its natural resources program manager, Sarah Milligan, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Dorothy Hoard Stewardship Award by the Friends of Bandelier.

Dorothy Hoard, who established the nonprofit group that supports activities at Bandelier, was a historian, preservationist and environmentalist who died in 2014, the monument said in a news release. The award in her name was established to recognize those who devote time and effort in the pursuit of environmental stewardship at Bandelier and in the surrounding areas.

The recipient sponsors a $1,000 volunteer project that will be funded by the Friends of Bandelier.

Milligan grew up in Michigan with a love of the outdoors. She joined the Navy and then decided to become a park ranger. Her first job with the National Park Service was a seasonal position in fire. She later returned to school to obtain a master’s degree in environmental science and wildlife management.

She joined Bandelier in 2009. Her day often starts before the sun comes up, overseeing a bird banding project with multiple volunteers. She also is involved in beaver reintroductions.

“The most important part of my job is figuring out what we need to do to preserve a healthy diversity of species in Bandelier and in the Jemez Mountains as more and more species become threatened or endangered,” Milligan said in a statement. “What can we do to help?” uuu

The Life Center Foundation, which has worked to help improve the lives of thousands of at-risk children and teens in New Mexico for 40 years, has announced the finalists for its 2022 Leadership Award. The winning nonprofit organization will receive $20,000.

that causes her to think and draws her into a discussion.

For example, the next time she asks about your brother’s former house, you can ask, “What’s the best memory you have of being at Uncle Bob’s?” or “Do you remember where Uncle Bob lives now?”

If she asks, “Is your dress yellow, Mommy?” you can respond with “Can you name something else that is also yellow?”

Talk to your daughter. Teach her how to converse. The more you help her, the quicker she will develop her conversational skills, and the more you’ll enjoy talking to her. And she will grate on your nerves no more.

Visit family psychologist John Rosemond’s website at johnrosemond.com; readers may send him email at questions@ rosemond.com; due to the volume of mail, not every question will be answered.

New Mexico Bank & Trust.

Moon Mountain Foundation.

The Owings Gallery.

Palace Prime Santa Fe. uuu

COURTESY PHOTO

Bandelier National Monument’s natural resources program manager, Sarah Milligan, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Dorothy Hoard Stewardship Award by the Friends of Bandelier.

Runners-up also will receive grants, the foundation said in a news release.

The foundation has provided nearly $450,000 in awards to more than 80 nonprofits serving high-risk youth since 2002.

The winner of this year’s award will be announced March 10.

The finalists are: u Communities in Schools. u Youth Shelters and Family Services. u Cooking With Kids. u Santa Fe Youth Symphony.

The 2022 Leadership Award Sponsors are: u Anne Hillerman. u Century Bank. u CRI CPAS & Associates. u Elizabeth A. Sackler. u Engel Law Firm. u Enterprise Bank & Trust. u Lisa & Leonard Galante.

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The American Craft Council, a national nonprofit, has named Terri Greeves of Santa Fe one of its fellows for 2022. Greeves is a bead artists who works in the Kiowa tradition.

The council said in a news release Greeves was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, where her mother ran a trading post.

After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Greeves began her career as a beadworker and won Best of Show at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1999.

Greeves’ work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the British Museum, the Heard Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Greeves and the organization’s other honorees for the year will be celebrated during a virtual ceremony Sept. 15. uuu Kareem James Abu-Zeid, a translator and writer who lives in Lamy, has been named as a finalist in the 2022 Pen America Literary Awards. He is one of five nominees for an award in the Poetry in Translation category, which comes with a $3,000 prize.

Abu-Zeid translated Exhausted on the Cross by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish (New York Review Books) into English from Arabic.

He has received numerous awards for his work in nearly two decades.

Education standouts James Contreras of Santa Fe, who attends the University of New Mexico, recently was initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, a collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

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Sensitive talks: Creating safety and mutual purpose

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rucial conversations can feel risky.

In our last column, we talked about how being intentional in your crucial conversations with your child can make a big difference in the outcome. Being intentional Maggie preps your Macaulay heart, brain Whole Hearted and body for Parenting calmness. It keeps you focused on a higher purpose that benefits both of you.

Creating safety and mutual purpose can also provide a foundation for deeper understanding.

When we feel safe, there is a greater likelihood that both people walk away feeling heard and valued.

When entering a sensitive conversation — which can feel like a risky situation — our instincts may say “be careful.”

Something happens when we are being careful, though. Our bodies become tense. We become less creative and flexible. We tend to see others as threats, objects to overpower rather than beings to understand. We close down rather than become more open and vulnerable.

Because we don’t feel safe, we don’t create safety for the other person.

What can we do instead? Be “full of care” rather than careful.

When Pam Dunn, author of It’s Time to Look Inside, first said this, I thought it was brilliant.

Being full of care returns you to your heart. In the moments when you realize you are being careful, remember how much you love your child and what you love about them. Reminding yourself of your love will bring you back to being full of care and to creating safety for both of you.

When you are being full of care, your child learns to bring caring to sensitive talks.

In Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High, the authors define mutual purpose as what happens when those in the conversation perceive that all are “working toward a common outcome in

MORE INFORMATION u Would you like to gain more experience having gratifying sensitive talks? Join Maggie Macaulay on Saturday for the live virtual workshop, “Powerful Communication for Sensitive Talks.” Visit WholeHeartedParenting.com/shop for more details and to register.

the conversation” and that others “care about their goals, interests, and values.” This is where being full of care, listening without an agenda and being willing to slow down the conversation — even though it may feel scary — make a big difference.

You can also find where you agree, even if it is a minuscule place that may initially be hard to discover.

If you are discussing your son’s grade that has radically dropped, begin by finding that place where you agree. It could be both of you voicing how challenging the pandemic has been and how it has taken a toll. Share how it has influenced the quality of your work just as the stress has influenced your son’s grade.

It could be both of you agreeing how difficult physics is — or whatever the challenging class may be. It could be seeing that both of you desire that your son earns grades he is satisfied with.

Making a C in college physics was a grade I felt OK with. Physics was not my place to shine, and I was good with that C. Having a mindset of being in service also will support you. Be in service to your child learning how to make decisions that are healthy and self-supporting. That means they may make a few that aren’t. It means noticing those great decisions that your child does make and recognizing them.

Being in service means that you are a guide, that you make your child’s desires as important as your own and that you are willing to “not know” all the answers.

Having satisfying crucial conversations takes practice. Learn from your experience — including the nosedives — and your next one will be even better.

Maggie Macaulay is the owner of Whole Hearted Parenting, offering coaching, courses and workshops. Contact her at 954-483-8021 or Maggie@ WholeHeartedParenting. com. Visit her website at WholeHeartedParenting.com.

Kid’s take on movies: ‘Uncharted’ Director Ruben Fleischer expressed that Holland, as the younger version of the video like Uncharted because it is character Nathan Drake, is a based on the 2007 key to making a movie PlayStation video adaptation that offers game of the same name. something for gamers You never know who and newcomers alike. to trust in this actionThe moral of this film packed, two-hour treais to be very careful sure-hunt game turned who you trust. Don’t movie. Uncharted is trust anyone — only about the adventures yourself and your of treasure hunter and instincts. fortune seeker Nathan The audience will Ethan P. Drake (Tom Holland) confirm my statement as he discovers the when watching the truth behind a mythical treasure movie: Every character pursues during his journey with Victor the same goal — the mystical “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahltreasure — and they will do berg). anything and everything in order Wahlberg and Holland work to get it, even if that means they masterfully well together, while have to kill.

Antonio Banderas as villain SanI give Uncharted 5 out of 5 stars tiago Moncad will stop at nothing and recommend it to ages 12 to get what he wants, including to 18, plus adults. If you are an killing his own father.

Uncharted video game fan, you You don’t have to be a video will recognize a special cameo game fan to enjoy this treaappearance that you just have to sure-hunting movie. “listen” for.

By Ethan P.

KIDS FIRST! film critic, age 13

How to talk to kids about Ukraine I

By Amy Joyce

Washington Post

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he day after Russia first attacked Ukraine, I passed the Russian Embassy with my 12-year-old son. People were gathered at its ominous gates, protesting the invasion.

“What have you heard so far about Ukraine and what’s happening?” I asked. I was taking advice from experts who say when something scary happens, first ask how much children know. My son knew a decent amount. And then I asked: “How do you get your information?”

“SportsCenter,” he said.

He and his 14-year-old brother, who gets much of his news from Instagram, TikTok and texts from friends, had a grasp of what was happening, but they didn’t under-

stand why or how. They also are dodging a lot of misinformation.

If you think your kids don’t know about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, you’re wrong. They’re hearing about it, and we need to make sure information is correct — and that they aren’t immediately anxious that we’re on the verge of World War III. “Most kids will have heard something about this on TV, radio, social media, from friends,” says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

And much like the Cuban missile crisis implanted itself on his 11-year-old brain forever, “this won’t be something they’ll forget,” Haass said.

“As much as we think our kids don’t hear what we’re anxious about, I think they do,” says

Caroline Netchvolodoff, vice president of education at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I have four sons. One of the things I’ve learned very clearly is kids do pick up on what their parents are anxious about.”

Kids of different ages require different explanations and parental involvement, she says.

When Emma Humphries asked her 10-year-old what she had heard and what she thought was going on, her daughter said, “I heard we’re going to have a World War III.” Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at iCivics, a nonprofit that promotes civics education and provides educational resources for teachers, knew to frame what is happening in a historical way, comparing it to the previous

world wars, and explaining how it is different. “Whenever you’re in a current moment and it feels scary or fraught, you can lean into the history and use that for the framework” of your conversation, she says.

For parents of older kids who are accessing Ukraine news via social media, now is the time to get involved. When they mention something they saw or read, sit with them while they show you where they gain their knowledge. Treating this as something you’re figuring out together will keep them from feeling like they have to hide it from you.

“In this fog of war, we’re getting such incomplete information,” Humphries says. “So talk to them about their sources. Ask ‘Can we find this information in other places? Are they reputable?’ ”

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THE WEATHER

Sunday, March 6, 2022

NATIONAL CITIES

7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE Today

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New Orleans 81/68

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The Northeast will see mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers and thunderstorms, highest temperature of 67 in Marietta, Ohio. The Southeast will experience partly cloudy skies with isolated showers, highest temperature of 85 in Tampa, Fla. In the Northwest there will be partly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 54 in Kennewick, Wash. The Southwest will see mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with isolated rain and snow, highest temperature of 74 in Salton City, Calif.

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March 6, 1989 - A winter storm in the south central United States left parts of Missouri and Arkansas buried under more than a foot of snow. Heavier snowfall totals in Missouri included 14 inches at Springfield and 16 at Lebanon.

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Washington D.C. 75/60

St. Louis 61/38

Albuquerque 50/24

New York 69/53

Detroit 60/34

Chicago 48/33

Omaha 40/22

Hermosillo 74/52

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7 p.m. on BRAVO Kandi & The Gang At Kandi Burruss-Tucker’s OLG restaurant in Atlanta, the dishes never disappoint and neither does the drama. This new reality series follows Kandi (The Real Housewives of Atlanta, pictured), her husband Todd and the “Old Lady Gang” behind the scenes at their famed hot spot, where they dish up delicious soul food that has customers lining up, served by the colorful cast of characters who work there.

7 p.m. on STARZ Outlander Claire and Jamie (Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan) continue their fight to protect those they love while the threat of the Revolutionary War hangs over Fraser’s Ridge as Season 6 of this romantic fantasy opens. The couple hopes to maintain peace and flourish in a society that — as Claire knows all too well from her time-traveling perspective — is marching toward revolution.

8 p.m. on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles After a civilian scientist working with the Marines is murdered and her advanced radar technology stolen, Callen, Sam (Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J) and the rest of the team spring into action to catch the culprit and recover the sensitive equipment in a new episode called “Where Loyalties Lie.” 8 p.m. on STARZ Shining Vale Courteney Cox (Friends, Cougar Town) returns to series TV in this promising new supernatural comedy, which casts her as novelist Pat Phelps, who just moved with her husband, Terry (Greg Kinnear), and their two kids to the Connecticut village of the title. This change is Pat’s last-ditch attempt to save her marriage after her ill-advised affair with a hot handyman. Unfortunately, their newly acquired 200-year-old home has a history that includes a triple homicide and a resident ghost (Mira Sorvino).

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Billings 32/16

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7 p.m. on NBC The Courtship If someone produced a period adaptation of The Bachelorette, it might look something like this reality dating series, which was developed under the working title Pride & Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance. This unconventional social experiment revolves around a heroine looking to find her dream duke, so she is transported to a Regency-style English setting, where a series of hopeful male suitors pay court to her in a castle.

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Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.892 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.293 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 1.866 Total production: 6.051 Total consumption: 6.412 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 1.20 Reservoir storage: 237.01 Estimated reservoir capacity: 18.56%

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Offices still wanted, but flexibility built in Companies considering increased remote work when designing their new in-person facilities

By Josh Funk

Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — If you build a shiny new office building, will your employees show up to work in it?

Many U.S. companies are banking on it because they believe working in person is better for collaboration and training young employees. So even though most employees are still working from home offices and dining room tables today, some companies are willing to spend big on showplace headquarters.

Businesses recognize there is a place for offices despite the fact they plan to give workers more flexibility to work from home and might see cost savings from limiting their real estate holdings.

In a sign of how committed companies are to keeping offices, some 57 percent of the

ANNA REED/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Mutual of Omaha CEO James Blackledge, right, announces plans for the company’s headquarters skyscraper in January.

Many companies are recommitting to office space despite working remotely since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

more than 2,300 office projects giant architecture firm Gensler is now working on were started last year, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. But as they’re building, companies are tweaking designs to reflect that offices may become spots that workers visit primarily to

collaborate with others, instead of places where they toil all day, every day.

Jordan Goldstein, the co-firm managing principal at Gensler, said companies are placing a premium on having more meeting rooms with the technology to accommodate remote and

in-person participants, as well as more flexible space for people to choose where they work within the office.

Mutual of Omaha plans to build a glassy new headquarters in its namesake Nebraska city that could wind up as Omaha’s tallest building.

But the insurance company says the plans for its new building reflect its commitment to flexible work. The company has 4,000 employees in the Omaha metro area but is planning a building that can only accommodate between 2,200 and 2,500 people on any given day, Mutual spokesman Jim Nolan said.

“The only way that works is by embracing remote and hybrid work,” he said.

A survey done last year by CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, showed 87 percent of large companies planned to use a hybrid schedule after the pandemic, with workers in the office part of the time.

Mutual of Omaha CEO James Blackledge said bringing people together in an office at least

periodically will boost productivity and creativity and having a gleaming new $433 million office should help the company attract new talent. Plus, the new headquarters will likely be smaller overall than Mutual’s current headquarters complex, but the exact size will be determined later in the design process.

Elsewhere, two high profile projects incorporating remote work already underway are Walmart’s new headquarters being built in Bentonville, Ark., and the new New York City home for bank JP Morgan Chase.

Deluxe, the company once known primarily for printing checks that now processes nearly $3 trillion in payments a year, invested $12.2 million during the pandemic in a new 94,000-square-foot Minneapolis headquarters that opened last fall. But the new headquarters is less than one-third the size of Deluxe’s old one. The company cut its overall real estate footprint in half nationwide to better reflect its current needs with more people working remotely.

Vetting of Russians brings politics into the art world

By Javier C. Hernández New York Times

In Canada, an acclaimed 20-year-old Russian pianist’s concert was canceled amid concerns about his silence on the invasion of Ukraine. The music director of an orchestra in Toulouse, France — who is also chief conductor at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow — was instructed to clarify his position on the war before his next appearance. In New York, Anna Netrebko, one of opera’s biggest stars, saw her reign at the Metropolitan Opera end after she declined to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As global condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukraine

grows, cultural institutions have moved with surprising speed to put pressure on Russian artists to distance themselves from Putin, a collision of art and politics that is forcing organizations to confront questions about free speech and whether they should be policing artists’ views.

Institutions are demanding that artists who have supported Putin in the past issue clear condemnations of him and his invasion as a prerequisite for performing.

Others are checking their rosters and poring over social media posts to ensure Russian performers have not made contentious statements about the war. The Polish National Opera has gone so far as to drop a production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, one

of the greatest Russian operas, to express “solidarity with the people of Ukraine.”

The tensions pose a dilemma for cultural institutions and those who support them. Many have long tried to stay above the fray of current events and have a deep belief in the role the arts can play in bridging divides.

Now, arts administrators, who have scant geopolitical expertise, find themselves in the midst of one of the most politically charged issues in recent decades, with little in the way of experience to draw on.

“We’re facing a totally new situation,” said Andreas Homoki, artistic director of the Zurich Opera. “Politics was never on our mind like this before.”

The new scrutiny of Russian artists threatens to upend decades of cultural exchange that endured even during the depths of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union and the West sent artists back and forth amid fears of nuclear war.

Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, who has long been close to Putin, was fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and saw his international engagements dry up.

Citing that Cold War tradition, the Cliburn — a foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, named for American pianist Van Cliburn, whose victory at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 was seen as a sign that art could transcend political differences

— announced it would welcome 15 Russian-born pianists to audition next week.

Even as many institutions are eager to show support for Ukraine, and to distance themselves from artists who embrace Putin, they are uncomfortable with trying to vet the views of performers — and worry Russian artists, who must often rely on the support of the state for their careers to thrive at home, could face reprisals if forced to publicly disavow the Kremlin.

“You can’t just put everybody under general suspicion now,” said Alexander Neef, director of the Paris Opera. “You can’t demand declarations of allegiance or condemnations of what’s going on.”

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CL A SS 5A BOYS ALBUQUERQUE SANDIA 49, SANTA FE HIGH 46

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Loss robs Demons of Hollywood ending Russia After missing game-saving shot, Santa Fe High falls to Albuquerque Sandia

By James Barron jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

The moment was movie-ready, and all the Santa Fe High boys basketball team needed was to finish the script in typical Demons fashion.

The team that lived and died by the 3-point shot and pressure defense got the steal it needed in its Class 5A firstround game against Albuquerque Sandia on Saturday night in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium. All that was left was for Santi Montoya to hit a trey to

detains WNBA All-Star Griner

keep the Demons’ 2021-22 season afloat.

It turned out, the moment was too perfect.

Montoya’s 20-footer from the left wing was just a tad short, hitting front iron. Teammate P.J. Lovato, whose legacy was that of the athletic, scrappy forward who always was in the right place at the right time, was in the right spot to grab the rebound.

Except the 6-foot-3 senior saw the ball glance off of his hands and out of bounds to give the Matadors the ball.

They killed the final 5.9 seconds to secure a 49-46 win to advance to the 5A quarterfinals.

But when Montoya rose for his shot,

Customs officials claim player had vape cartridges containing hashish oil

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Albuquerque Sandia guard Dovirs Riley, left, pressures Santa Fe High forward Rob Martinez under the basket during Saturday’s Class 5A boys state basketball tournament opener at Santa Fe High. The Matadors won 49-46.

By Michael Crowley and Jonathan Abrams

JIM WEBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

New York Times

CL A SS 3A BOYS NO. 4 ST. MICHAEL’S 76, NO. 13 TOHATCHI 33

Horsemen trample Tohatchi

WASHINGTON — Russia said Saturday it had detained an American basketball player in Moscow on drug charges, entangling a U.S. citizen’s fate in the dangerous confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine.

The Russian Federal Customs Service said its officials had detained the player after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow.

The customs service said in a statement the player had won two Olympic gold medals with the United States, but it did not release the player’s name.

The Russian news agency Tass, citing a law enforcement source, identified the player as Brittney Griner, a seven-time WNBA All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury. Griner, 31, won gold medals with the U.S. women’s national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.

In a statement, Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, did not dispute reports of her client’s detention. “We are aware of the situation with Brittney Griner in Russia and are in close contact with her, her legal representation in Russia, her family, her teams and the WNBA and NBA,” she said.

Griner’s detention comes at the most dangerous moment in U.S.-Russia relations since the Cuban missile crisis, as the Biden administration leads dozens of nations in imposing crushing sanctions on Russia’s economy and political elites. President Vladimir Putin of Russia said Saturday the sanctions were “akin to a declaration of war” on his country.

Earlier Saturday, the State Department, which for weeks had warned Americans against traveling to Russia, released an updated advisory urging U.S. citizens to leave the country immediately, citing the invasion in Ukraine, the “potential for harassment against U.S. citizens by Russian government security officials” and the limited ability Please see story on Page D-4

JIM WEBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Horsemen forward Donevan Ricker, left, and Sabiani Rios Guevara, right, battle for a rebound with Cougars forward Hayden Yazzie as St. Michael’s soundly beats Tohatchi 76-33 in the opening round of the Class 3A boys state basketball tournament Saturday at St. Michael’s.

Guard Montoya turns it up, leads St. Michael’s on scoring spree; Navajo Prep up Wednesday

By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

H

ello, secret weapon.

Well, maybe not so secret. It’s not as if people didn’t know the impact Adam Montoya would have on the St. Michael’s boys basketball team once he joined the active roster back in early January. A reliable guard who had two years of varsity experience under his belt, he was pegged as a major contributor long before this season began.

On Saturday night at Perez-Shelley Gymnasium, he showed just how big of a role he can play in leading the Horsemen to a 76-33 cakewalk over

Tohatchi in the opening round of the Class 3A State Tournament. Seeded fourth in the 16-team field, they’ll remain at home for the state quarterfinals and host No. 5 Navajo Prep on Wednesday night.

Thanks to Montoya’s efforts, Saturday’s game was over almost as soon as it started. His bucket just 40 seconds in ignited an 11-0 run over threeplus minutes that kept the Horsemen in front the entire way.

Montoya finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds, heading to the bench in the fourth quarter after things had gotten completely out of hand.

“I guess you could say it’s state tournament time and things are just different,” Montoya said. “You have to play different, be more intense. You can’t

take anything for granted, even if you’re playing a team you’re supposed to beat. One bad game and it’s over, so you just have to play a different level and have fun.”

Everyone who wore a Horseman uniform saw action against the Cougars. Everyone contributed, particularly in the fourth quarter when the starters took the rest of the night off and the reserves got their time.

Given the frenetic pace Tohatchi was trying to employ, foul counts were up, as were the turnovers.

The Cougars (13-16) coughed it up 20 times in the first half and trailed 50-23 at the break.

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PAUL BEATY/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner shoots against Chicago Sky’s Azura Stevens during the WNBA Finals on Oct. 17 in Chicago.

MEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL NORTH C AROLINA 94, NO. 4 DUKE 81

Rival UNC upsets No. 4 Duke in Coach K’s Cameron farewell

By Aaron Beard Associated Press

Surrounded by former players, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski applauds while being recognized prior to the team’s game against North Carolina on Saturday in Durham, N.C. The matchup was Krzyzewski’s final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

GERRY BROOME ASSOCIATED PRESS

DURHAM, N.C. — North Carolina ignored all the attention surrounding the final home game for retiring Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski, as well as the fourthranked Duke’s emotionally charged, rowdier-than-usual crowd.

Instead, the rival Tar Heels walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium and fearlessly spoiled Coach K’s perfect send-off to the postseason.

Armando Bacot scored 23 points and the Tar Heels shot 59 percent after halftime to upset the Blue Devils 94-81 on Saturday night,

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

a major reversal from a blowout loss in the first meeting that raised questions about UNC’s ability to compete against the nation’s top teams.

First-year coach Hubert Davis had shrugged off the “pageantry” from Krzyzewski’s final home game, saying the team needed to tune out all the extra emotion and do one thing: compete.

“All week, we just talked about our competitive fight,” Davis said, “that we had to do three things: We had to plant our feet, we had to stand our ground and we had to fight. ... I just felt like, as the game went on, we started to just gain more and more confidence.”

In the final minutes, the Tar Heels (23-8, 15-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) were stretching the lead to double figures, hitting clinching free throws and leaving the “Cameron Crazies” in disbelief that Krzyzewski’s final home game after 42 years at the helm of Duke would end this way.

The day had begun with more than 90 former Blue Devils players joining Krzyzewski on the court for a pregame photo and the coach with 1,196 career victories and five NCAA championships. There were also celebrities like comedian Jerry Seinfeld and NBA commissioner Please see story on Page D-4 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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Sunday, March 6, 2022

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

AFRICA LEAGUE BASKETBALL 7 a.m. NBATV — REG (Rwanda) vs. AS Sale (Morocco), Senegal 10:30 a.m. NBATV — US Monastir (Tunisia) vs. CFV — Beira (Mozambique), Senegal AHL 2 p.m. NHLN — Iowa at Chicago AUTO RACING 11:30 a.m. CNBC — MotoGP: The Grand Prix of Qatar, Losail International Circuit, Doha, Qatar (Taped) 1:30 p.m. FOX — NASCAR Cup Series: The Pennzoil 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nev. 8 p.m. CBSSN — GT America: The Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. (Taped) 10:30 p.m. CBSSN — FIM: The MX2, Mantova, Italy (Taped) 11:30 p.m. CBSSN — FIM: The MXGP, Mantova, Italy (Taped) BOWLING 10 a.m. FS1 — WSOB PBA: The Roth/Holman Doubles Championship, Wauwatosa, Wis. COLLEGE BASEBALL 10 a.m. ACCN — Florida at Miami 1 p.m. ACCN — South Carolina at Clemson COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 10 a.m. BTN — Penn St. at Rutgers 10 a.m. CBS — Houston at Memphis 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Big South Tournament: TBD, Championship, Charlotte, N.C. 10:30 a.m. FOX — Michigan at Ohio St. Noon BTN — Nebraska at Wisconsin Noon CBS — Missouri Valley Tournament: TBD, Championship, St. Louis Noon CBSSN — Patriot League Tournament: Lehigh at Colgate, Semifinal Noon ESPNU — UCF at Tulsa 2 p.m. CBSSN — Patriot League Tournament: Boston U. at Navy, Semifinal 2 p.m. ESPNU — Southern Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Asheville, N.C. 2:30 p.m. CBS — Maryland at Michigan St. 4:30 p.m. ESPNU — Southern Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Asheville, N.C. 5:30 p.m. BTN — Minnesota at Northwestern 5:30 p.m. FS1 — Iowa at Illinois COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ESPN — Atlantic Coast Tournament: TBD, Championship, Greensboro, N.C.

Noon ESPN — Southeastern Tournament: TBD, Championship, Nashville, Tenn.

Noon ESPN2 — Atlantic 10: TBD, Championship, Wilmington, Del. 1 p.m. FS1 — Big East Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Uncasville, Conn.

2 p.m. ESPN2 — Big Ten Tournament: TBD, Championship, Indianapolis 3:30 p.m. FS1 — Big East Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Uncasville, Conn.

4 p.m. ESPN2 — Pac-12 Tournament: Utah vs. Stanford, Championship, Las Vegas, Nev. 6:30 p.m. ESPNU — Big South Tournament: TBD, Charlotte, N.C.

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COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S) 5 p.m. FS2 — Big Ten Tournament: Michigan St. at Michigan, Quarterfinal Game 3 (If Necessary) COLLEGE HOCKEY (WOMEN’S) 7 p.m. ESPNEWS — NCAA Ice Hockey Selection Special COLLEGE LACROSSE (MEN’S) 4 p.m. CBSSN — Utah at Jacksonville COLLEGE LACROSSE (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ESPNU — Northwestern at North Carolina COLLEGE SOFTBALL 11 a.m. SECN — Louisiana Tech at LSU 1 p.m. SECN — UMKC at Arkansas COLLEGE WRESTLING 2:30 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: Championship, Lincoln, Neb. 5 p.m. ACCN — Atlantic Coast Tournament: Championship, Charlottesville, Va. 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Big 12 Tournament: Championship, Tulsa, Okla.

7 p.m. PAC-12N — Pac-12 Tournament: Championship, Tempe, Ariz.

FISHING 6 a.m. FS1 — Bassmaster Series: 2022 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk, Lake Hartwell, Greenville S.C. GOLF 10:30 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Arnold Palmer Invitational, Final Round, Bay Hill Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 12:30 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Puerto Rico Open, Final Round, Grand Reserve Country Club (Old), Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 12:30 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour: The Arnold Palmer Invitational,

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8-2 2-8 7-3 3-7 4-6

L-1 W-1 W-4 L-4 L-1

W-2 L-4 W-5 W-1 L-1

22-10 18-11 20-12 16-18 9-22

17-13 19-15 16-17 9-20 11-21

28-7 26-7 19-13 19-16 15-18

25-13 22-18 24-18 11-28 14-27

23-5 17-14 15-18 9-19 9-24

30-9 26-15 21-23 16-23 17-26

Bradley 0-2, Johnson 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Golden State 41 (Porter Jr. 10), L.A. Lakers 47 (James 10). Assists—Golden State 22 (Poole, Toscano-Anderson 5), L.A. Lakers 25 (Monk 5). Total Fouls—Golden State 20, L.A. Lakers 18. A—18,997 (18,997)

MINNESOTA 135, PORTLAND 121

PORTLAND (121) Blevins 0-3 0-0 0, Elleby 4-11 1-3 9, Eubanks 6-7 1-1 13, Johnson 5-9 2-3 15, Simons 11-25 7-7 38, Watford 3-8 6-8 12, McLemore 2-8 7-7 13, Williams 9-14 1-1 21. Totals 40-85 25-30 121.

MINNESOTA (135) McDaniels 6-13 1-2 16, Vanderbilt 5-8 4-5 14, Towns 13-17 10-11 36, Beasley 5-10 2-3 16, Russell 5-12 2-2 14, Prince 3-7 1-1 9, Reid 2-2 2-2 6, McLaughlin 1-3 0-0 2, Nowell 8-13 2-3 22, Okogie 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 48-85 24-29 135.

Dallas 114, Sacramento 113 Charlotte 123, San Antonio 117 Memphis 124, Orlando 96 Miami 99, Phila. 82 Minnesota 135, Portland 121 L.A. Lakers 124, Golden State 116

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Brooklyn at Boston, 11 a.m.

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 1:30 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 4 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 5 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 6 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m.

PORTLAND MINNESOTA

Atlanta at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Phila., 5 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 7 p.m.

New York at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

30 31

37 46

20 26

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121 135

MIAMI 99, PHILADELPHIA 82

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Brooklyn at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Orlando, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Memphis, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8 p.m.

L.A. LAKERS 124, GOLDEN STATE 116

GOLDEN STATE (116) Porter Jr. 3-9 4-4 10, Wiggins 6-15 0-2 14, Looney 0-1 0-0 0, Curry 13-22 0-0 30, Thompson 3-13 0-0 7, Kuminga 7-10 1-3 18, Toscano-Anderson 1-3 3-8 5, Moody 4-4 0-1 9, Poole 9-15 1-1 23. Totals 46-92 9-19 116.

L.A. LAKERS (124) Johnson 2-7 0-0 4, Reaves 3-7 1-1 10, James 1931 12-13 56, Monk 4-10 0-0 12, Westbrook 9-17 1-2 20, Anthony 5-8 2-3 14, Augustin 2-4 0-0 6, Bradley 0-2 0-0 0, Horton-Tucker 0-3 2-2 2. Totals 44-89 18-21 124.

22 35

34 32

3-Point Goals—Portland 16-38 (Simons 9-17, Johnson 3-5, McLemore 2-5, Williams 2-5, Elleby 0-1, Watford 0-2, Blevins 0-3), Minnesota 15-37 (Nowell 4-7, Beasley 4-9, McDaniels 3-7, Prince 2-3, Russell 2-6, McLaughlin 0-1, Towns 0-4). Fouled Out—Portland 1 (Eubanks), Minnesota None. Rebounds—Portland 41 (Watford 14), Minnesota 42 (Towns 15). Assists—Portland 24 (Blevins, Johnson 5), Minnesota 36 (Russell 15).

Total Fouls—Portland 23, Minnesota 21. A—17,136 (19,356)

MONDAY’S GAMES

27 27

8-2 6-4 4-6 4-6 4-6

7-3 8-2 6-4 4-6 0-10

SATURDAY’S GAMES

42 30

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Detroit 111, Indiana 106 Phila. 125, Cleveland 119 Atlanta 117, Washington 114 Orlando 103, Toronto 97 Milwaukee 118, Chicago 112 Minnesota 138, Oklahoma City 101 New Orleans 124, Utah 90 Denver 116, Houston 101 Phoenix 115, New York 114

25 32

7-3 8-2 4-6 3-7 1-9

.677 .609 .429 .375 .238

FRIDAY’S GAMES

GOLDEN STATE L.A. LAKERS

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116 124

3-Point Goals—Golden State 15-34 (Poole 4-8, Curry 4-9, Kuminga 3-5, Wiggins 2-4, Moody 1-1, Thompson 1-5, Porter Jr. 0-2), L.A. Lakers 18-41 (James 6-11, Monk 4-9, Reaves 3-5, Anthony 2-3, Augustin 2-4, Westbrook 1-3, Horton-Tucker 0-1,

PHILADELPHIA (82) Harris 6-15 3-3 16, Korkmaz 1-5 0-0 2, Embiid 4-15 14-14 22, Maxey 7-14 0-2 17, Thybulle 0-2 0-0 0, Millsap 2-5 0-0 4, Niang 4-11 0-0 9, Reed 0-0 0-0 0, Milton 2-6 0-1 4, Green 2-8 0-0 6, Joe 0-1 2-3 2. Totals 28-82 19-23 82.

MIAMI (99) Butler 6-15 8-11 21, Tucker 1-2 0-0 2, Adebayo 3-10 0-0 6, Robinson 2-5 0-0 6, Vincent 6-8 0-0 16, Highsmith 0-0 2-2 2, Martin 5-7 2-2 14, Strus 3-7 0-0 9, Dedmon 0-1 2-2 2, Yurtseven 0-0 0-0 0, Guy 0-1 0-0 0, Herro 9-16 2-2 21, Smart 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-72 16-19 99.

PHILADELPHIA MIAMI

14 22

26 32

28 19

14 26

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82 99

3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 7-41 (Maxey 3-6, Green 2-7, Harris 1-4, Niang 1-8, Joe 0-1, Thybulle 0-1, Millsap 0-2, Milton 0-2, Korkmaz 0-4, Embiid 0-6), Miami 13-28 (Vincent 4-6, Strus 3-7, Martin 2-4, Robinson 2-4, Butler 1-2, Herro 1-3, Guy 0-1, Tucker 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 41 (Embiid 15), Miami 38 (Adebayo 10).

Assists—Philadelphia 13 (Niang 3), Miami 20 (Butler 5). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 17, Miami 19.

A—19,704 (19,600)

MEMPHIS 124, ORLANDO 96

HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races NBA 11 a.m. ABC — Brooklyn at Boston 1:30 p.m. ABC — Phoenix at Milwaukee 5:45 p.m. ESPN — Toronto at Cleveland 8:05 p.m. ESPN — New York at LA Clippers NBA G LEAGUE 1 p.m. NBATV — Grand Rapids at Lakeland NFL Noon NFLN — NFL Scouting Combine: Defensive Backs, Indianapolis

COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (WOMEN’S) 1 p.m. PAC-12N — California at UCLA

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Final Round, Bay Hill Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 2:30 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: The Hoag Classic, Final Round, Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif.

ORLANDO (96) F.Wagner 6-9 0-0 15, Okeke 2-10 0-0 4, Bamba 4-8

NHL 2 p.m. TNT — Dallas at Minnesota 5 p.m. NHLN — Tampa Bay at Chicago PARALYMPICS 10 a.m. NBC — Daytime: Paralympics Coverage (Taped) 7 p.m. USA — Men’s Para Cross-Country Skiing (20km Race) 9 p.m. USA — Para Snowboarding (Snowboard Cross Quarterfinals) (Taped) 9:40 p.m. USA — Para Snowboarding (Snowboard Cross Finals) (Taped) 11 p.m. USA — Women’s Para Cross-Country Skiing (15km Vision Impaired & Standing) (Taped) RODEO 6 p.m. CBSSN — PBR: The Global Cup, Championship Round, Arlington, Texas (Taped) SOCCER (MEN’S) 5 a.m. CBSSN — SPFL: Celtic FC at Livingston 7 a.m. USA — Premier League: Arsenal at Watford 9:30 a.m. USA — Premier League: Manchester United at Manchester City 10 a.m. CBSSN — Serie A: Spezia at Juventus 2 p.m. ESPN — MLS: Inter Miami CF at Austin FC 8 p.m. FS1 — MLS: Portland at LA FC 8 p.m. FS2 — Liga MX: Atletico San Luis at Tijuana SOCCER (WOMEN’S) 5 a.m. CNBC — FASL: Birmingham City at Arsenal

0-0 10, Anthony 7-16 1-1 19, Hampton 1-7 2-4 4, Brazdeikis 5-8 1-2 12, Schofield 2-3 0-1 4, M.Wagner 6-12 4-5 17, Ross 2-5 1-1 5, Fultz 2-8 2-2 6. Totals 37-86 11-16 96.

MEMPHIS (124) Jackson Jr. 2-11 9-11 13, Williams 3-7 0-0 8, Adams 2-2 0-0 4, Bane 10-15 1-1 24, Morant 9-17 4-7 25, Tillman 2-4 0-0 5, Tillie 0-2 0-0 0, Culver 0-2 0-0 0, Anderson 4-6 0-0 9, Clarke 4-6 3-6 11, Jones 5-9 1-2 14, Konchar 1-3 0-0 2, Melton 4-8 0-0 9.

Totals 46-92 18-27 124.

29 31

16 37

29 29

22 27

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96 124

3-Point Goals—Orlando 11-35 (Anthony 4-6, F.Wagner 3-4, Bamba 2-4, Brazdeikis 1-3, M.Wagner 1-4, Ross 0-1, Schofield 0-1, Fultz 0-2, Hampton 0-3, Okeke 0-7), Memphis 14-34 (Jones 3-5, Bane 3-6, Morant 3-6, Williams 2-3, Tillman 1-2, Anderson 1-3, Melton 1-3, Culver 0-1, Konchar 0-2, Jackson Jr. 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 41 (M.Wagner 11), Memphis 55 (Konchar 11). Assists—Orlando 25 (F.Wagner 6), Memphis 25 (Morant 7). Total Fouls—Orlando 20, Memphis 14. A—17,794 (18,119)

CHARLOTTE 123, SAN ANTONIO 117

SAN ANTONIO (117) Johnson 14-24 1-2 33, McDermott 2-7 3-3 8, Poeltl 4-8 3-5 11, Murray 9-21 7-8 25, Vassell 6-13 0-0 14, Bates-Diop 0-2 0-0 0, Collins 2-3 0-0 5, Primo 4-7 0-0 10, T.Jones 2-5 2-2 6, Walker IV 2-8 0-0 5.

Totals 45-98 16-20 117.

CHARLOTTE (123) Bridges 3-12 3-4 10, Washington 6-13 0-0 15, Plumlee 2-3 0-0 4, Ball 7-16 6-6 24, Rozier 10-18 5-5 31, Martin 4-7 4-4 12, Thor 0-0 0-0 0, Harrell 7-10 1-4 15, Oubre Jr. 3-12 4-6 12. Totals 42-91 23-29 123.

SAN ANTONIO CHARLOTTE

30 31

30 31

37 37

20 24

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117 123

3-Point Goals—San Antonio 11-37 (Johnson 4-10, Primo 2-5, Vassell 2-6, Collins 1-1, Walker IV 1-4, McDermott 1-5, T.Jones 0-1, Bates-Diop 0-2, Murray 0-3), Charlotte 16-42 (Rozier 6-8, Ball 4-9, Washington 3-9, Oubre Jr. 2-8, Bridges 1-6, Martin 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 51 (Collins 10), Charlotte 50 (Plumlee 13).

Assists—San Antonio 28 (Murray 10), Charlotte 29 (Ball 7). Total Fouls—San Antonio 18, Charlotte 16. A—18,941 (19,077)

DALLAS 114, SACRAMENTO 113

SACRAMENTO (113) Barnes 3-8 2-3 9, Lyles 5-8 1-1 11, Sabonis 7-10 1-5 15, Fox 18-31 5-6 44, Holiday 4-12 0-0 9, Holmes 2-3 2-2 6, Metu 2-3 0-0 5, DiVincenzo 3-10 1-1 10, Mitchell 2-9 0-0 4. Totals 46-94 12-18 113.

DALLAS (114) Bullock 5-12 0-0 11, Finney-Smith 6-13 0-0 17, Powell 3-5 0-1 6, Brunson 8-15 5-5 23, Dinwiddie 11-22 12-13 36, Bertans 2-5 1-2 7, Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Burke 0-1 0-2 0, Green 4-6 2-4 12, Ntilikina 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 40-84 20-27 114.

SACRAMENTO DALLAS

36 26

29 25

27 34

21 29

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113 114

3-Point Goals—Sacramento 9-25 (Fox 3-4, DiVincenzo 3-6, Metu 1-1, Barnes 1-3, Holiday 1-7, Lyles 0-1, Mitchell 0-3), Dallas 14-36 (Finney-Smith 5-11, Brunson 2-3, Green 2-3, Bertans 2-4, Dinwiddie 2-7, Bullock 1-6, Brown 0-1, Burke 0-1). Fouled Out—Sacramento None, Dallas 1 (Powell). Rebounds—Sacramento 45 (Sabonis 10), Dallas 39 (Green 12). Assists—Sacramento 24 (Fox, Sabonis 6), Dallas 22 (Dinwiddie 7). Total Fouls—Sacramento 28, Dallas 22. A—20,060 (19,200)

PREP SCORES BOYS BASKETBALL

NMAA State Tournament First Round Class 4A Albuquerque Academy 71, Goddard 53 Artesia 50, Lovington 47 Belen 41, Gallup 36 Del Norte 63, Silver 51 Española Valley 65, Los Alamos 55 Highland 71, Miyamura 47 St. Pius X 37, Valley 31 Taos 63, Hope Christian 53 Class 5A Atrisco Heritage 62, Eldorado 58 Carlsbad 49, Rio Rancho 47 Farmington 80, Hobbs 66 La Cueva 57, West Mesa 34 Las Cruces 84, Albuquerque High 34 Los Lunas 59, Cleveland 53 Sandia 49, Santa Fe 46 Volcano Vista 74, Organ Mountain 41 Class 3A Bosque School 55, Hot Springs 45 Crownpoint 42, Santa Fe Prep 33 Navajo Prep 56, West Las Vegas 46 Robertson 73, Dexter 37

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Baseball applicants can contact Crawford at 505-930-8940 or crawfordd26@yahoo.com. Those interested in softball can contact Salazar at 505-490-3560 or salazar.richard4@gmail.com.

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Sandia Prep 80, Cottonwood Classical 33 Santa Fe Indian 46, Raton 40 Socorro 81, Tucumcari 48 St. Michael’s 76, Tohatchi 33 Class 2A Escalante 58, Santa Rosa 51 Estancia 62, Lordsburg 55 Hagerman 65, Texico 52 Jal 63, Clayton 46 Menaul 78, Dulce 49 Pecos 74, Peñasco 58 Rehoboth 60, McCurdy 39 Tularosa 64, Mescalero Apache 41 Class A Clovis Christian 75, Evangel Christian 53 Dora 42, Legacy 39 Elida 76, Cimarron 56 Magdalena 74, Ramah 25 Melrose 69, Springer 30 Mesilla Valley Christian 58, Coronado 37 Mosquero/Roy 69, Cliff 45 Reserve 60, Fort Sumner/House 58

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Florida Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Detroit Buffalo Ottawa Montreal

55 54 55 56 56 56 54 56

37 36 35 34 24 18 19 15

13 12 16 18 26 30 30 34

5 6 4 4 6 8 5 7

79 78 74 72 54 44 43 37

227 186 202 171 163 153 142 137

163 152 163 152 203 200 177 212

55 57 55 57 56 52 55 55

38 34 35 30 28 21 17 19

12 5 14 9 15 5 18 9 25 3 23 8 28 10 31 5

81 77 75 69 59 50 44 43

188 185 165 185 186 133 139 168

132 152 138 158 205 147 192 200

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA Carolina Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Washington Columbus N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia New Jersey

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

Colorado St. Louis Minnesota Nashville Dallas Winnipeg Chicago Arizona

PACIFIC

GP W 55 54 53 55 54 55 56 55

40 32 32 31 31 24 20 16

GP W

L OT PTS

11 16 18 20 20 21 28 35

4 6 3 4 3 10 8 4

84 70 67 66 65 58 48 36

L OT PTS

GF GA

219 192 200 174 159 166 141 132

155 148 171 155 157 170 192 201

GF GA

Calgary 53 32 14 7 71 186 130 Los Angeles 56 30 19 7 67 166 160 Vegas 56 31 21 4 66 182 166 Edmonton 56 30 22 4 64 184 180 Vancouver 57 28 23 6 62 164 165 Anaheim 57 26 22 9 61 169 177 San Jose 55 24 25 6 54 143 176 Seattle 57 17 35 5 39 146 204 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Rangers 3, New Jersey 1 Los Angeles 4, Columbus 3, OT Buffalo 5, Minnesota 4 Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1 Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Dallas 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Vegas 5, Anaheim 4

SATURDAY’S GAMES

TENNIS 7 a.m. TENNIS — Lyon-WTA Final 3:30 p.m. TENNIS — Monterrey-WTA Final

ORLANDO MEMPHIS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

N.Y. Islanders 2, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3 Arizona 8, Ottawa 5 Florida 6, Detroit 2 Washington 5, Seattle 2 Vancouver 6, Toronto 4 Montreal 5, Edmonton 2 Boston 5, Columbus 4, SO Nashville 8, San Jose 0 Calgary at Colorado, late

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Los Angeles at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at New Jersey, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Seattle at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Vegas, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Boston, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 5 p.m.

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

Edmonton at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL MEN’S TOP 25 SATURDAY

No. 1 Gonzaga (24-3) did not play. Next: WCC Tournament, Monday.

No. 2 Arizona (28-3) beat California 89-61. Next: Pac-12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 3 Baylor (26-5) beat Iowa St. 75-68. Next: Big 12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 4 Duke (26-5) lost to North Carolina 94-81.

Next: ACC Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 5 Auburn (27-4) beat South Carolina 82-71.

Next: SEC Conference Tournament, Friday.

No. 6 Kansas (25-6) beat No. 21 Texas 70-63, OT. Next: Big 12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 7 Kentucky (25-6) beat Florida 71-63. Next: SEC Conference Tournament, Friday.

No. 8 Purdue (25-6) beat Indiana 69-67. Next: Big Ten Conference Tournament, Friday.

No. 9 Providence (24-4) did not play. Next: Big East Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 10 Wisconsin (24-5) did not play. Next: vs.

Nebraska, Sunday.

No. 11 Villanova (23-7) beat Butler 78-59. Next: Big East Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 12 Texas Tech (23-8) lost to Oklahoma St. 52-51. Next: Big 12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 13 Tennessee (23-7) beat No. 14 Arkansas 7874. Next: SEC Conference Tournament, Friday.

No. 14 Houston (26-4) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Sunday.

No. 14 Arkansas (24-7) lost to No. 13 Tennessee 78-74. Next: Next: SEC Conference Tournament, Friday.

No. 16 Southern Cal (25-5) at No. 17 UCLA. Next: Pac-12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 17 UCLA (22-6) vs. No. 16 Southern Cal. Next: Pac-12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 18 UConn (22-8) beat DePaul 75-68. Next: Next: Big East Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s (Cal) (24-6) did not play.

Next: WCC Tournament, Monday.

No. 20 Illinois (21-8) did not play. Next: vs. No. 24 Iowa, Sunday.

No. 21 Texas (21-10) lost to No. 6 Kansas 7063, OT. Next: Big 12 Conference Tournament, Thursday.

No. 22 Murray St. (30-2) beat Morehead St. 7167. Next: TBD. No. 23 Ohio St. (23-9) did not play. Next: vs.

Michigan, Sunday.

No. 24 Iowa (22-8) did not play. Next: at No. 20 Illinois, Sunday.

No. 25 Alabama (19-12) lost to LSU 80-77, OT. Next: SEC Conference Tournament, Friday.

SATURDAY’S SCORES

ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

Bellarmine Knights 53, Liberty 50 Jacksonville 54, Jacksonville St. 51 Big South Conference Semifinals Longwood 79, SC-Upstate 70 Winthrop 76, Gardner-Webb 67 Colonial Athletic Conference At St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena Washington, D.C. First Round Northeastern 68, William & Mary 63 Missouri Valley Conference At Enterprise Center St. Louis, Mo. Semifinals Loyola Chicago 66, N. Iowa 43 Drake 79, Missouri St. 78 Northeast Conference Semifinals Bryant 70, Mount St. Mary’s 69 Wagner 82, LIU 62 Ohio Valley Conference At Ford Center Evansville, Ind. Championship Murray St. 71, Morehead St. 67 Southern Conference

At Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville Asheville, N.C. Chattanooga 71, The Citadel 66 Wofford 68, VMI 66 Furman 80, Mercer 66 Samford 66, UNC-Greensboro 64 Summit League Conference At Denny Sanford Premier Center Sioux Falls, S.D. First Round S. Dakota St. 87, Omaha 79 N. Dakota St. 82, Denver 62 Sun Belt Conference At Pensacola Bay Center Pensacola, Fla. Quarterfinals Louisiana-Lafayette 79, Texas St. 72 Troy 69. UALR 62 Georgia St. 65, Arkansas St. 62 Appalachian St. 73, Georgia Southern 60 West Coast Conference At Orleans Arena Las Vegas, Nev. Quarterfinals San Francisco vs. BYU, 10:30 p.m.

Santa Clara vs. Portland, 12:30 a.m.

NEW MEXICO 76, UNLV 67 FG UNLV MIN M-A Hamm Iwuakor Hamilton McCabe Nuga Webster Baker Muoka Williams Gilbert

TOTALS

27 15 39 33 6 32 17 13 13 5

3-8 1-1 8-22 1-9 0-1 5-11 2-5 1-1 1-2 0-1

FT REB M-A O-T A PF PTS 3-3 1-10 0 2-2 1-4 0 9-11 1-5 0 0-0 0-3 7 0-0 0-0 0 1-2 1-2 1 0-0 0-1 0 0-2 0-3 0 1-2 1-4 1 0-0 1-3 0

2 1 0 3 3 1 3 0 4 5

200 22-61 16-22 6-35 9 22

9 4 28 3 0 13 5 2 3 0

67

Percentages: FG .361, FT .727.

3-Point Goals: 7-32, .219 (Hamilton 3-13, Webster 2-6, Baker 1-4, McCabe 1-5, Nuga 0-1, Williams 0-1, Hamm 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 1 (Muoka).

Turnovers: 8 (Hamm 2, McCabe 2, Webster 2, Hamilton, Williams).

Steals: 8 (McCabe 4, Webster 2, Iwuakor, Nuga).

Technical Fouls: None.

FG FT REB NEW MEXICO MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Allen-Tovar House Johnson Mashburn Singleton Jenkins Arroyo Forsling Todd

TOTALS

5 0-1 0-0 0-3 1 0 36 7-19 12-13 2-6 5 1 33 1-3 3-4 1-7 0 1 33 8-20 3-3 0-1 0 3 26 3-5 2-2 0-4 3 1 29 4-7 0-0 0-4 0 2 18 1-4 1-2 2-7 0 2 17 1-1 0-0 1-3 3 4 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1

0 27 5 21 9 9 3 2 0

200 25-60 21-24 6-35 12 15 76

Percentages: FG .417, FT .875.

3-Point Goals: 5-16, .313 (Mashburn 2-4, Singleton 1-1, Jenkins 1-4, House 1-5, Allen-Tovar 0-1, Johnson 0-1).

Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 3 (Arroyo, House, Singleton).

Turnovers: 9 (House 4, Mashburn 3, Jenkins 2).

Steals: 5 (House 3, Jenkins, Singleton).

Technical Fouls: None.

UNLV NEW MEXICO

22 38

45 38

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67 76

NEW MEXICO STATE 62, UTAH VALLEY 46

FG FT REB UTAH VALLEY ST. MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Fuller Aimaq Harding Harmon Nield Darthard Farrer McClanahan McCord

TOTALS

24 4-9 0-0 2-5 0 0 8 34 3-11 1-3 1-9 0 2 8 30 2-4 1-1 0-4 1 0 5 21 1-8 0-0 1-3 0 2 2 20 0-2 0-0 0-0 4 1 0 23 4-8 2-2 0-0 0 2 13 22 0-2 2-2 1-2 0 2 2 19 2-3 0-0 0-3 2 1 4 7 1-2 2-2 0-2 0 0 4

200 17-49 8-10 5-28 7 10 46

Percentages: FG .347, FT .800.

3-Point Goals: 4-15, .267 (Darthard 3-6, Aimaq 1-4, Farrer 0-1, Harmon 0-1, McCord 0-1, Harding 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 1 (Fuller).

Turnovers: 13 (Harding 3, Farrer 2, Fuller 2, Harmon 2, McClanahan 2, Aimaq, Darthard).

Steals: 5 (McClanahan 2, Darthard, Farrer, Harding).

Technical Fouls: None.

FG FT REB NEW MEXICO ST. MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS McCants McNair Allen Henry Rice Pryor Peake Alok Cotton McKinney

TOTALS

36 5-8 0-0 2-13 4 2 11 25 1-4 0-0 2-3 1 2 2 39 7-20 2-2 0-6 5 1 20 22 3-5 0-0 0-1 0 1 7 29 3-13 0-0 0-1 0 1 6 19 2-3 0-0 0-3 4 3 4 12 1-2 0-0 2-3 0 0 2 8 3-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 7 5 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 5 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 3

200 26-60 2-2 6-33 16 10 62

Percentages: FG .433, FT 1.000.

3-Point Goals: 8-35, .229 (Allen 4-14, McKinney 1-1, Alok 1-2, Henry 1-3, McCants 1-4, McNair 0-1, Peake 0-1, Pryor 0-1, Rice 0-8).

Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 2.

Blocked Shots: 4 (McCants 3, Rice).

Turnovers: 9 (Alok 2, McNair 2, Allen, Henry, McCants, McKinney, Rice).

Steals: 10 (Allen 3, Henry 2, McCants, McKinney, McNair, Pryor, Rice).

Technical Fouls: None.

UTAH VALLEY ST. NEW MEXICO ST. A—5,707 (12,482).

22 28

24 34

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46 62

WOMEN’S TOP 25 SATURDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (29-1) beat Mississippi 6151. Next: vs. Kentucky, Sunday.

No. 2 Stanford (27-3) did not play. Next: vs. Utah, Sunday.

No. 3 NC State (28-3) beat No. 21 Virginia Tech 70-55. Next: vs. Miami, Sunday.

No. 4 Louisville (25-4) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 5 Baylor (24-5) did not play. Next: at Texas Tech, Sunday.

No. 6 LSU (25-5) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 7 UConn (23-5) beat Georgetown 84-38. Next: vs. DePaul, Sunday.

No. 8 Iowa St. (25-5) beat West Virginia 74-57.

Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday.

No. 9 Texas (23-6) beat Oklahoma St 65-50. Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday.

No. 10 Michigan (22-6) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 11 Maryland (21-8) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 12 Iowa (22-7) beat Nebraska 83-66. Next: vs.

No. 14 Indiana, Sunday.

No. 13 Ohio St. (23-6) lost to No. 14 Indiana 7062. Next: TBD. No. 14 Arizona (20-7) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 14 Indiana (22-7) beat No. 13 Ohio St 70-62.

Next: vs. Iowa, Sunday.

No. 16 North Carolina (23-6) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 17 BYU (25-2) did not play. Next: vs. Portland, Monday.

No. 18 Tennessee (23-8) lost to Kentucky 83-74.

Next: TBD. No. 19 Oklahoma (23-7) lost to Kansas 73-67.

Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday.

No. 20 Notre Dame (22-8) lost to Miami 57-54.

Next: TBD. No. 21 Virginia Tech (23-9) lost to No. 3 NC State 70-55. Next: TBD. No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast (26-2) did not play.

Next: vs. North Florida, Sunday.

No. 23 Florida (20-10) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 24 Georgia (20-9) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 25 Georgia Tech (21-10) did not play. Next: TBD.

GOLF ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL Saturday At Bay Hill Club, Orlando, Fla. Purse: $12 million Yardage: 7,466; Par: 72 Third Round Talor Gooch Billy Horschel Viktor Hovland Scottie Scheffler Gary Woodland Chris Kirk Graeme McDowell Rory McIlroy Corey Conners Matt Fitzpatrick

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TENNIS WTA LYON OPEN SATURDAY

At Palais des Sports Gerland Lyon, France Purse: $262,727 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor LYON, FRANCE (AP) — Results Saturday from Lyon Open at Palais des Sports Gerland (seedings in parentheses):

WOMEN’S SINGLES SEMIFINALS

Zhang Shuai (8), China, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-2, 7-5.

Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, def. Sorana Cirstea (2), Romania, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4.

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Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, and Alexandra Panova (4), Russia, 4-6, 7-5, 12-10.

WTA ABIERTO MONTERREY

Saturday At Club Sonoma Monterrey, Mexico Purse: $276,750 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor MONTERREY, MEXICO (AP) — Results Saturday from Abierto GNP Seguros at Club Sonoma (seedings in parentheses):

WOMEN’S SINGLES QUARTERFINALS

Leylah Annie Fernandez (2), Canada, def. Wang Qiang, China, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

WOMEN’S SINGLES SEMIFINALS

Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (5), Colombia, def.

Nuria Parrizas Diaz (6), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.

Leylah Annie Fernandez (2), Canada, def. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 6-1, 6-4.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES SEMIFINALS

Han Xinyun, China, and Yana Sizikova, Russia, def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, and Katarzyna Piter, Poland, 6-3, 6-3.

TRANSACTIONS SATURDAY

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Signed Fs Kelan Martin and Malik Fitts to 10-day contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed C Travis Boyd to a two-year contract extension.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned D Jake Christiansen to Cleveland (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled C Otto Koivula and D Parker Wotherspoon from Bridgeport (AHL) loan.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned G Kirill Ustimenko to Reading (ECHL) from Lehigh Valley (AHL).

SEATTLE KRAKEN — Placed C Austin Czarnik on waivers. Activated LW Jared McCann from injured reserve.

American Hockey League BELLEVILLE SENATORS — Reassigned Fs Hugo Roy and Mitch Hoelscher to Atlanta (ECHL).

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Reassigned F Ryan Lohin to Allen (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Recalled F James Sanchez from Jacksonville (ECHL) loan.

LAVAL ROCKET — Signed D Olivier Galipeau to a professional tryout contract (PTO).

LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Reassigned G Kirill Ustimenko to Reading (ECHL).

East Coast Hockey League ECHL — Suspended Kansas City’s LW Anthony DeLuca and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a game on March 4 against Wichita.

ALLEN AMERICANS — Activated F Kolten Olynek from the reserve list. Placed D Andrew Jarvis on the reserve list.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Released F Carlos Fornaris. Place F Matt Gomercic on the reserve list.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Activated F Joe Manchurek from the reserve list.

JACKSONVILLE ICEMEN — Acquired F Ethan Szypula.

KALAMAZOO WINGS — Activated F Tyler Kobryn from the reserve list. Placed F Dennis Smirnov on the reserve list.

KANSAS CITY MAVERICKS — Activated D Justin Woods and F John Schiavo from the reserve list.

Placed Ds Greg Moro and Garrett Clarke on the reserve list.

MAINE MARINERS — Activated D Connor Doherty and Fs Nick Master and Lewis Zerter-Gossage from injured reserve. Placed F Brendan Soucie on the reserve list and D Brendan St-Louis on injured reserve effective Feb. 21.

NEWFOUNDLAND GROWLERS — Activated D Riley McCourt from injured reserve. placed F Maurizio Colella on the reserve list and F Marcus Power on injured reserve effective Feb. 27.

READING ROYALS — Activated D Patrick McNally from the reserve list. Place G Hayder Hawkey and D Dominic Cormier on the reserve list and D Mike Chen on injured reserve effective Feb. 21.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Activated F Barret Kirwin from the reserve list. Place F Carter Cowlthorp on the reserve list.

TROIS-RIVIERES — Signed Fs Alexis Guibault and Jason Imbeault to the active roster and F Jason Imbeault to a standard player contract (SPC).

Released D Julien Houle and F Fabien Laniel. Activated Eliott St-Pierre from the reserve list.

TULSA OILERS — Activated F Jordan Ernst from injured reserve. Place F Dylan Sadowy on the reserve list.

WHEELING NAILERS — Acquired G Brian Matesevac from the emergency backup goalie list (EBUG). Loaned G Louis-Philippe Guindon to Laval (AHL).

WICHITA THUNDER — Recalled F Matteo Gennaro from Bakersfield (AHL) WORCESTER RAILERS — Activated F Ethan Price from the reserve list. Placed F Ross Olsson on the reserve list.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MIAMI CF — Signed Ds Noah Allen and Modesto Mendez to short-term loan agreements from MLS Next Pro. COLLEGE FLORIDA GULF COAST — Released head men’s basketball coach Michael Fly from the remainder of his contract.

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James scores 56, Lakers beat Warriors

By Dan Greenspan Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James scored a season-high 56 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors 124-116 on Saturday night to snap a four-game losing streak.

James had his third-most points in a regular season game, finishing with at least 50 for the 13th time. He had a career-best 61 for Miami against Charlotte in 2014.

“It’s funny, our [media] guys were fol-

lowing me off the floor tonight going to the locker room and they asked me how it feels to score 56. I said, ‘Right now, I don’t give a damn about the 56. I’m just happy we got the win,’ ” James said.

James was 19 of 31 from the field, shaking off a blow to his right elbow in the first half.

Russell Westbrook added 20 points, and Carmelo Anthony had 14.

“I felt pretty good with my game tonight, every part of the floor, and I was able to make a couple plays to help us win,” James said.

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Stephen Curry had 30 for Golden State, and Jordan Poole added 23. The Warriors have lost four straight to drop to third overall in the NBA, a half-game behind Memphis and 81/2 games behind Phoenix.

“There’s more games coming, so we’ve got to do this ourselves,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. “We got to dig out of the mud, and nobody’s going to help us,” Anthony completed a three-point play to give the Lakers a 114-112 lead with 3:29 to play, and Malik Monk hit a 3 to extend that lead to five after Austin Reeves stole Curry’s pass.

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Oklahoma State guard Avery Anderson III, left, goes to the basket past Texas Tech guard Terrence Shannon Jr. in the second half of Saturday’s game in Stillwater, Okla.

Oklahoma State wins 52-51, sinks No. 12 Texas Tech’s Big 12 title hopes

PHOTOS BY JIM WEBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

St. Michael’s forward Devin Flores collides with the stands as he dives for a ball headed out of bounds during Saturday’s Class 3A boys state basketball tournament game against Tohatchi at St. Michael’s.

Horsemen trample Tohatchi Continued from Page D-1

Their aggressive style allowed St. Michael’s to camp out at the free throw line in the second quarter, as 13 of the team’s 25 points in the period came from the stripe.

Montoya was 7 for 8 from the line in the quarter.

“We work on those every day, and it’s one of those little things we focus on as much as possible,” said interim St. Michael’s coach Gerard Garcia. “You get to this time of year and it’s about focus. The kids know that.”

Devin Flores had 19 points and Diego Armendariz 10 as the Horsemen reached the .500 mark for the second time this season. Of course, it continues the team’s remarkable turnaround from a historically bad start that had the entire program in shambles following the holidays.

The Horsemen are 14-4 since the beginning of January. That’s 14-4 since Montoya regained his eligibility and joined the starting lineup. That’s 14-4 since the team got a lift from a solid player who has clearly figured out how to flip the switch between the regular season and the playoffs.

“We know what we have to do, three games to win or, you know, one bad game and we’re out,” Montoya said. “It’s the tournament and we’re playing like the team we knew we could be. It was a bad December.

We lost 10 games in a row and everyone was talking about it, but we knew we could turn the whole thing around if we won district and got to state. No one will talk about 0-10 if

Horsemen guard Sabiani Rios Guevara, center, shoots under pressure by Cougars forward Hayden Yazzie, right.

we did that.”

The Horsemen didn’t quite win their district, but they came close enough to rise from the ashes of that miserable start to land a top-four seed in the tournament. One game down, three to go with the next one on their home floor.

“Just one game at a time,” Garcia said.

“You hear that all the time but these boys have focus. We’re ready for this.”

NOTES Northern power: Three teams from Dis-

trict 2-3A survived Saturday’s opening round.

Joining St. Michael’s in next week’s quarterfinals are No. 2 Robertson and No. 11 Santa Fe Indian School.

Robertson allowed just four points in the opening quarter and led 41-15 at halftime en route to a 73-37 win over No. 15 Dexter. The Cardinals will host No. 7 Bosque on Wednesday night at Michael

Marr Gymnasium in Las Vegas, N.M. Santa Fe Indian School emerged as the lone double-digit seed in 3A to get a win, landing a 46-40 upset over district rival Raton. The Braves (10-15) travel to No. 3 Sandia Prep next week. The Sundevils destroyed Cottonwood Classical, 80-33, to keep their hopes of a third straight trip to the finals alive.

All told, 2-3A went 3-2 on Saturday. Santa Fe Prep was knocked out with a 42-33 loss at No. 8 Crownpoint. The Blue Griffins scored just 12 points in the second half and faded after battling to a 28-all tie after three quarters.

Stat lines: Freshman Sabiani Rios Guevara had eight points for the Horsemen while Josh Sanchez finished with five. Marco C de Baca and Reed Bass each had four. Tohatchi was led

by Talon Long’s 12 points.

The Cougars finished their night with 28 turnovers, a figure that was held below 30 because of the running clock via the 35-point mercy rule in the fourth quarter.

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so did the rest of the Demons’ bench in anticipation of erasing a 49-40 deficit in 90 seconds.

“When he shot it, I got that feeling of ‘Let’s go, this is it,’ ” senior guard Elefio Benavidez said. “It didn’t, and right there, we knew.”

Sandia, the ninth seed in the tournament, will play No. 1 Las Cruces on Wednesday evening.

Santa Fe High, the eighth seed, saw a season full of promise end prematurely at 22-6.

Promise got the Demons this far, but execution was lacking down the stretch against the Matadors. They committed four turnovers in the fourth quarter after grinding their way from a 22-15 deficit to a 36-35 lead when Elijah Apodaca drained a 3 from the top of the key with 6:22 left in the game, thanks to tough defense and timely shooting.

The Demons were just 5-for26 from the perimeter, but went 5-for-10 during that stretch to fuel the comeback.

Sandia, which relied on its size to contest almost every Santa Fe High shot and bully its way into the paint, reestablished the rhythm that allowed it to take a seven-point lead in the opening half. The Matadors hit five of their first six shots in the fourth

quarter, and when Dalen Moyer drained a sideline 3 with 5 minutes left, Sandia held a 42-36 lead.

Danny Brown, the Matadors head coach, said the goal was to establish 6-foot-6 senior big Sean Johnson in the paint, then have the guards play off of the Demons’ adjustment to that. It worked perfectly, as Johnson scored eight of his 16 points in the opening half. In the final quarter, the combo of Moyer and Andrew Hill combined to score 12 points.

“Early on, we were establishing that paint with Sean, to make sure they know he was going to be a load to stop there,” Brown said. “And we have such good guards, I told them things would loosen up for you at the rim.”

Even when the Demons cut the margin to 42-40 on an Apodaca 3 and one of two free throws by Rob Martinez, Sandia didn’t waver from its game plan.

Moyer completed a three-point play on a drive from the right wing for a 45-40 advantage.

Then, Johnson came up with a steal on an ill-advised Benavidez pass to Lovato, which turned into a driving layup by Hill for 47-40 with 2:24 left.

Another errant Benavidez pass to Lovato led to a baseline layup

by Johnson for the nine-point

lead with 1:29 left in the game.

Lovato said the Demons were victims of trying to make the big play instead of making the right decision.

“We were just trying to force stuff a little too much,” said Lovato, who played despite sharp pain in his right wrist he suffered in last week’s District 5-5A championship loss to Los Lunas. “We acted like one shot was going to change the game.

I think we felt like that one shot was going to bring us all the way back.”

But just when it seemed like the curtain was going to descend on the Demons, they came up with a riveting third act. Lovato scored on a putback, collected a steal on the defensive end, and fed Apodaca for a transition layup for 49-44 with 55 seconds left.

After Lukas Turner drew a charge on hill with 48 ticks left, Lovato drove into the paint for a bucket with 40.4 seconds left to cut the lead to three.

The Demons pressed, trying to get one more steal, but it didn’t happen until the final 10 seconds.

Moyer eschewed a wide-open layup that would have increased the Matadors’ lead to 5 for a pass to Johnson near the left wing. Apodaca got a hand on it,

and the ball squirted to Lovato, who pushed it up and passed to Montoya on the left side for a Hollywood-like ending.

Even after the miss, Lovato had a chance to keep hope alive, but he could not grab the carom.

“I had the opportunity, but I just let it go,” Lovato said. “I don’t blame anybody else but me for that. I had it in my hands. I just let it slip away.”

With it, came the end of prep careers for six seniors, including Lovato. In four varsity seasons, he was a part of a state runner-up team as a freshman, three district championships and four playoff teams. Santa Fe High accumulated a 78-23 record in that span — the best four-year mark in school history.

Demons head coach Zack Cole said Lovato was a joy to coach because he was perhaps the hardest worker on the team.

Even as he dealt with injuries to his ankles, back and wrist during the season, Lovato never tried to beg out of practice or a game.

“He sacrificed his body so much for us,” Cole said. “It seemed like, every game, we were getting P.J.’s body to get ready for the next game. Once that started, it seemed like it was the trend the rest of the year. But we are so proud and thankful for him.”

STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State salvaged a special ending from what could have been a throwaway season.

Bryce Thompson made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 19.4 seconds left and Oklahoma State beat No. 12 Texas Tech 52-51 on Saturday, eliminating the Red Raiders from the Big 12 title race.

Terrence Shannon missed a jumper closely contested by Oklahoma State’s Tyreek Smith just before the buzzer, and the Cowboys (15-15, 8-10) celebrated a win in their season finale.

The NCAA banned Oklahoma State from postseason play because of rules violations.

“I feel like we kind of maximized what we could do,” Thompson said. “That’s a great team we just played. To go out and win in that fashion, to keep fighting and to finish it off for our seniors was big.”

The Red Raiders (23-8, 12-6) needed a victory and losses by Baylor and Kansas to finished tied for the Big 12 lead, but they shot 35.2 percent and went extra cold late in the game.

“We just couldn’t score,” Tech coach Mark Adams said. “I apologized to the team. I couldn’t get them in anything that seemed to work.”

Kevin Obanor led Texas Tech with 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Bryson Williams added 13 points before fouling out in the final minute. Williams — Tech’s leading scorer for the season — wasn’t in for the final sequence.

Rondel Walker led the Cowboys with 12 points, and Thompson had 11.

Obanor’s reverse layup with 15 seconds left before halftime put Texas Tech up 27-25. Thompson’s jumper with four seconds remaning tied it at 27. Neither team led by more than six in the first half. The game was tied six times and there were three lead changes.

The Red Raiders went unbeaten at home but struggled elsewhere. They went 3-6 on the road and 5-8 away from home.

That’s not a good sign heading into postseason play.

The Cowboys closed the season by winning four of their final seven games, despite the postseason ban. They beat the Red Raiders, despite shooting just 32.8 percent.

Cone wins four-year term as U.S. Soccer president, beats Cordeiro Reelected to a four-year term as U.S. Soccer Federation president, Cindy Parlow Cone will turn her attention to collective bargaining agreements and a report by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates on allegations of abusive behavior.

“U.S. Soccer is ready and more than willing to implement any changes that we need to make,” Cone said after defeating predecessor Carlos Cordeiro on Saturday in what amounted to an endorsement of the governing body’s settlement of an equal-pay lawsuit by women players.

Yates was hired in October to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct in women’s professional soccer.

“We’re not looking to just make a change just to make a change,” Cone said. “When there’s problem, especially as horrible as the abuse that has been going on, it’s human nature to want to jump in and do something. And I felt that, as well, and I hear that from other people. But we want to make sure the changes that we are making are the right changes and really impactful changes. And really we want to do everything that we can to make sure and to prevent this from ever happening again.”

Cone, a former national team player, received 785.12 of the weighted votes, or 52.3 percent, on the first ballot during the USSF National Council meeting, held on-line and in Atlanta.

Forbidden Kingdom romps in San Felipe; Baffert takes second ARCADIA, Calif. — Forbidden Kingdom romped to a 53/4-length victory in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes on Saturday, beating a pair of 3-year-old colts from the barn of embattled trainer Bob Baffert.

Ridden by Juan Hernandez, Forbidden Kingdom ran 11/16 miles in 1:43.98 on a showery, 55-degree day at Santa Anita.

Trained by Hall of Famer Richard Mandella, Forbidden Kingdom took the lead out of the gate on the way to his third win in five career starts. He’s a son of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, who was trained by Baffert.

It was Forbidden Kingdom’s first try going two turns.

In four of his wins, the colt has led all the way.

Sent off as the even-money favorite in the field of seven, Forbidden Kingdom paid $4, $2.40 and $2.20. The chestnut colt earned 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby on May 7.

It’s been 18 years since Mandella had a starter in the Kentucky Derby, where he’s 0 for 6. His last trip to Louisville ended in heartbreak when morning-line favorite Omaha Beach was scratched days before the 2019 race because of a throat issue.

Horschel, Gooch share lead on brutal day at Arnold Palmer Invitational ORLANDO, Fla. — No lead was safe Saturday at Bay Hill.

No one ever felt comfortable until they were finished. In the toughest conditions of the year, Billy Horschel and Talor Gooch were up to the task at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Horschel got a good break on a day where those were hard to find, turning a tough par into an unlikely birdie on the 18th hole for a 1-under 71. That gave him a share of the lead with Gooch, who made his only bogey on the back nine at the last hole for a 72.

They still managed to find some semblance of pleasure in the test Bay Hill offered with its strong wind and greens with so little grass from being baked by the sun, making it hard to predict how putts would roll — or glide, in this case.

This is supposed to be the March run on the way to the Masters. It felt more like mid-June and a traditional U.S. Open.

Viktor Hovland lost a four-shot lead at the turn, shot 40 on the back nine for a 75 and went from control of the tournament to one-shot behind in a matter of two hours. Rory McIlroy was making his move until a tee shot out-of-bounds on the 15th led to double bogey.

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An international flavor This year’s combine class may be larger, more talented and covers a broader portion of the globe

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Purdue defensive lineman George Karlaftis, who grew up in Greece, participates in a drill at the NFL Scouting Combine on Saturday in Indianapolis.

Then there’s John Metchie III, the Alabama receiver who was born in Taiwan, moved to Ghana and later to Canada before honing his football skills at a Maryland high school. The experiences have taught Metchie and others lessons that go beyond football.

“I think culture is one of the biggest keys to who I am today,” Metchie said. “Just having lived around so many different people and so many different cultures definitely helped me become the man I am today.”

The transition from a purely American game to one with foreign connections didn’t happen by chance. League officials long ago mapped out a plan that included playing regular-season games in London and Mexico City. Munich joins the international series this fall and Tokyo has hosted preseason games.

Now comes the payoff.

Some mock drafts list Metchie, Ojabo and Raimann — along with Ebiketie and Karlaftis — as first-round prospects. Faalele, who was measured at 6-foot-8, 384 pounds, and Luketa are likely second-day picks.

Don’t expect the international train to stop anytime soon, either. Luketa, a teammate of Metchie’s on Team Ottawa, hopes to join Los Angeles Chargers receiver Josh Palmer and Carolina running back Chuba Hubbard as fellow Canadians on NFL rosters. More, he believes, are on the way.

“We’re everywhere,” Luketa said. “The talent in Canada is untapped. Being able to be in this position and shine that light over back home is everything. It’s so much bigger than us. There is so much talent in Canada but it’s not given the same opportunity.”

Perhaps it’s because not everyone follows the traditional journey.

Ojabo, for instance, played soccer and basketball before trying football. Raimann competed in soccer until age 14. Karlaftis was such a strong water polo player he made the Greek national team and stayed behind to finish the season before leaving for West Lafayette, Indiana, to be reunited with his family following the sudden death of his father.

And after Ebiketie’s father was assigned to the country’s American embassy, the 6-2, 250-pound pass rusher played basketball and competed in sprints and the high jump before blossoming into a top-flight football player.

Each now has a chance to expose others to the sport they’ve embraced by taking one more step in their surprising journeys.

“The first time I tried football was my sophomore year of high school,” Ebiketie said. “I was a natural athlete so that wasn’t a problem. The biggest thing was learning the rules and once I learned the rules, everything sort of took care of itself.”

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Hendrick squashes potential feud between drivers

By Jenna Fryer

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Rick Hendrick spoke and his drivers heard the boss loud and clear.

Hendrick intervened on a competition matter for the first time since Kyle Larson joined the team when he squashed any potential beef between his stars following their run-in last week in California.

Larson, the reigning Cup champion, caused Chase Elliott, NASCAR’s most popular driver, to wreck last week as the two raced for the win. Larson did not see his teammate on his outside and his spotter missed Elliott, too, which led Larson to inadvertently run Elliott into the wall.

Elliott was furious and launched an expletive-filled tirade, while Larson was immediately apologetic.

Hendrick moved fast to ensure the first drama of the season didn’t play out inside his very own building. The owner joined the weekly Hendrick Motor-

Talks resume today; Scherzer favors playoff ‘ghost win’

By Ronald Blum

By Michael Marot

INDIANAPOLIS eorge Karlaftis and Arnold Ebiketie took similar journeys to this week’s NFL Scouting Combine.

Both excelled at other sports before trying football. Both emerged as star defensive ends in the Big Ten. And when each moved to America at age 13, neither knew much about the sport — or career path — that would change their lives.

Roughly a decade later, Karlaftis and Ebiketie are both in Indianapolis, showing everyone that kids from around the world still can achieve their dreams in America.

“I didn’t know anything about the game — what a first down was, how to get in a stance or how to throw a spiral,” said Karlaftis, who grew up in Greece. “I had to rely on my instincts. It took me about a year to figure it out, but I could see I was physically dominating my friends on the field, so I thought I’d try it out.”

Purdue couldn’t have been happier with the results. Penn State was similarly pleased when it got Ebiketie for his final college season after the Cameroon native started at Temple.

And with the draft nearing, Karlaftis and Ebiketie are quickly emerging as something bigger than just potential first-round picks.

They’re among the faces of the NFL’s expanding global reach.

At recent combines, the participant list has been sprinkled with athletes from around the world. But this year’s class may be larger, more talented and covers a broader portion of the globe.

Offensive lineman Bernhard Raimann of Central Michigan came to the U.S. from Austria after completing a mandatory 6-month military stint. Former Penn State linebacker Jesse Luketa grew up in Canada and massive offensive lineman Daniel Faalele was first discovered at a satellite football camp in Australia before attending Minnesota.

Defensive end/linebacker David Ojabo was born in Nigeria and lived in Scotland before landing at Blair Academy in New Jersey and eventually Michigan.

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sports competition meeting and made clear his expectations to Elliott, Larson, Alex Bowman and William Byron.

“That’s the only meeting since I’ve been there that Rick’s been a part of in that sense,” said Larson, who was hired in late 2020. “He’s been to competition meetings and stuff like that. And we’ve had multiple meetings about different things. But as far as the racing and stuff, that’s the first one I can remember him getting involved in.

“I think we all know his expectations and after the incident last week, it was good for him to get involved again and tell us what the expectations are.”

Larson didn’t get to actually speak to Elliott individually until Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Larson is the defending race winner and looking to start another streak.

He was the fourth driver in NASCAR history to win three or more consecutive races multiple times last season as he

dethroned new teammate Elliott as champion.

Although they are teammates, Larson and Elliott do not know each other well. Hendrick Motorsports has operated mostly under pandemic restrictions since Larson joined the team and its presented few faceto-face interactions between the drivers.

Larson said of the Hendrick meeting “from my spot, it’s always going to be awkward” but found Elliott to be professional on Saturday.

“We got to go over what happened from each of our vantage points. It was good to have a conversation and good to hopefully move along from it,” Larson said.

“It went well, honestly better than I anticipated. He’s a great teammate and I’m going to do my part to be a great teammate each and every week.

“Hopefully we never have any incidents happen again like what happened last week.”

Larson is listed as the favorite

— 7-2 by FanDuel — for the third consecutive week and starts second alongside pole-sitter Christopher Bell on Sunday.

BELL TO THE FRONT Bell won the first pole of his career in his 75th Cup start, but one of his few true chances to master a qualifying session.

NASCAR set the field by points for much of the last two years because practice and qualifying had been scrapped in pandemic restrictions. The return this year of one short practice session and a shootout-style of qualifying helped Bell finally get to the front.

He turned a lap at 182.673 mph in his Toyota to put the Joe Gibbs entry on the pole. Larson was second, but the parity of the new Next Gen car showed behind the front row.

Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric qualified third in a Ford for Team Penske. Cindric is the first rookie in NASCAR history to lead the Cup points standings for more than one race.

Chase Briscoe continued his strong start to his second season by qualifying fourth in a Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing.

NEW YORK — Max Scherzer favors a radical reworking of the playoffs, one that would have the higher seed in the first round of an expanded postseason start a best-of-five series with a 1-0 lead.

Major League Baseball and locked-out players, who resume talks Sunday, both would expand the postseason from 10 teams — that’s been the field since 2012, other than the 16 teams in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

The union prefers 12 and the parties appear headed toward that number, but Scherzer said players would consider 14 if clubs would agree to the “ghost win” format.

Under MLB’s 14-team plan, the division winner with the best regular-season record in each league would get a bye and advance directly to the Division Series. The two other division winners would choose their opponents and be at home for an entire best-ofthree round.

The division winner with the second-best record would choose its opponent from among the three lowest-seeded wild-card teams. The division winner with the third-best record would then get to pick from among the remaining two wild cards. The top wild card would face whichever team is left over after the division winners make their choices and also play all games at home.

Selections would be made on a televised show.

“We felt like competition could be eroded in that scenario, and we had specific examples of different players who spoke up that highlighted that specifically,” Scherzer said after Tuesday’s breakdown in labor talks.

“Continuing on from those division winners down, we didn’t see the proper incentive for those other two division winners,” the New York Mets pitcher added. “We didn’t understand why they didn’t want to take us up on a more competitive format.”

The lockout was in it 94th day Saturday, four days after Commissioner Rob Manfred canceled the first two series of the regular season, which had been scheduled to start March 31. Players are expected to respond Sunday to MLB’s latest offer, the last before talks ended Tuesday.

Before talks broke down, players said they could agree to a 12-team postseason subject to an overall agreement. There remains a possibility 14 teams could return to discussions, depending on tradeoffs in the end stages of negotiations.

Under the postseason plan the union has discussed verbally but is undecided whether to formally propose, the higher seed would be home for all games and need two wins to

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of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to assist American citizens in the country.

“I obviously don’t know the circumstances of her detention, but Griner’s arrest should serve as a wake-up call to all Americans in Russia,” said Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow. “Get out. Shut down your businesses now.”

The customs service released a video of a traveler at the airport who appeared to be Griner going through security.

The video showed an individual removing a package from the traveler’s bag.

The screening at the airport occurred in February, according to the customs service, raising the possibility that Griner has been in custody for at least several days.

According to the statement, a criminal case has been opened into the large-scale transportation of drugs, which can carry a

sentence of up to 10 years behind bars in Russia. The basketball player was taken into custody while the investigation was ongoing, the officials said.

The incident comes at a moment of intense repression within Russia, as Putin cracks down on internal dissent to a degree analysts say they have not seen since the days of the Soviet Communist Party.

In recent years, U.S. officials have accused Russia of detaining and sentencing American citizens on trumped-up charges.

The detainment of a high-profile American could even be an effort by Russia to gain leverage in the political and economic standoff with Washington over the Ukraine invasion.

A State Department spokesperson said only that the United States was aware of reports that Griner had been arrested and that the United States provided consular services to Americans arrested overseas.

Colas, Griner’s agent, said

in her statement, “As this is an ongoing legal matter, we are not able to comment further on the specifics of her case but can confirm that as we work to get her home, her mental and physical health remain our primary concern.”

The WNBA said in a statement that Griner “has the WNBA’s full support, and our main priority is her swift and safe return to the United States.”

The Phoenix Mercury; USA Basketball, which oversees the Olympics teams; and the WNBA players union also released statements expressing support for Griner.

Many WNBA players compete in Russia, where salaries are more lucrative, during the U.S. league’s offseason. Griner has played for the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg for several years.

Griner is set to earn $227,900 with the Mercury in the 2022 season, according to Her Hoop Stats, just shy of the WNBA’s

maximum salary, $228,094. Some players have made substantially more money with Russian teams, like Griner’s Mercury teammate Diana Taurasi, who reports said earned around $1.5 million with UMMC Ekaterinburg in 2015.

Some American players began making plans to leave Russia after the country’s invasion of Ukraine, and a WNBA spokesperson said Saturday that all WNBA players besides Griner were out of Russia and Ukraine.

Griner, a native of Houston, became a transformative talent in college basketball throughout her celebrated tenure at Baylor University.

Before Griner, only a handful of female players had ever dunked in a college game. Griner’s dunks became anticipated during her time at Baylor that included guiding the Lady Bears to a national championship in 2012.

The Mercury selected Griner with the top pick in the 2013 draft and paired her with Taurasi, another of the game’s top players. Phoenix captured the WNBA’s title in 2014.

advance, while the visiting team would have to win three times.

A team with the first-round Max Scherzer bye would be off at least five days, possibly complicating starting pitcher plans, and the fans of the lower seed in the opening round would not have any home games.

Scherzer argued for the plan during a Monday meeting with Colorado CEO Dick Monfort, and MLB told the union it is not interested. MLB does not think the “ghost game” is the preference of broadcasters and thinks the concept would not be well-received by fans.

“The 14-team format MLB originally proposed offers significant advantages to division winners and provides incentives to win at every level of the bracket,” MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said Saturday. “In an effort to compromise, MLB accepted a 12-team format after the discussion of formats including a ‘ghost game.’ MLB made clear that the ‘ghost game’ raises serious issues and is not a viable path forward.”

The “ghost win” has been used in the Korea Baseball Organization since 2015, when its playoffs expanded from four teams to five in the 10-club league. The new best-of-three wild-card round has ended in one game in five of seven seasons, with the lower seed team forcing another game in 2016 and last year, then losing the finale both times.

“Working with the economists on the union staff, we felt like we had devised a format that you would incentivize competition throughout all the season, especially for division winners,” Scherzer said. “We didn’t see that that solely home-field advantage was going to be the necessary piece to try to go out there and win your division.”

Without the “ghost win” format, Scherzer said “a 12-team format made more sense to us.”

Pitcher Andrew Miller, like Scherzer a member of the union’s eight-man executive committee, said Scherzer’s thoughts on the postseason carry weight within the union.

“A core goal of this negotiation is to increase competition, and there’s no way we’re leaving the table without something that does that,” Miller said. “We’ve spent a lot of time debating the merits of various playoff formats and there’s probably not a better guy to ask in the room than Max. But we’re not going to do anything to sacrifice this competition of the season. Anything that points towards mediocrity, that’s the antithesis of our game and what we’re about as players.”

Adam Silver in attendance at a game where tickets rocketed into four- and five-figure costs.

The emotions were too much for even the most veteran of coaches.

“I didn’t think I’d cry,” Krzyzewski said. “But I did. But that’s all right, it’s all right.”

He paused, then added with a chuckle: “I’m glad this is over.”

Krzyzewski had tried all season to deflect questions about his looming retirement — even eschewing the use of the word “last” — and trying to avoid being a distraction or creating additional pressure on his team. That began to change more in recent days as the moment drew near for a coach who has long taken a live-inthe-moment approach.

The Blue Devils (26-5, 16-4) still felt that pressure.

“It was a big moment, actually a huge moment this week,” Wendell Moore Jr. said. “I felt like we kind of got lost in everything.”

Freshman Paolo Banchero scored 23 points for the Blue Devils, who shot just 42 percent after halftime as the Tar Heels took over. But Krzyzewski was particularly frustrated by his

team’s play at the other end.

“They didn’t talk at all on defense,” he said. “That’s why the second half, our defense was just horrible.”

When the horn sounded, the Tar Heels mobbed each other to celebrate on the court, while Caleb Love — who overcame an 0-for-8 shooting start to score 15 of his 22 points after halftime — jawed at the Crazies.

It also included Krzyzewski taking the microphone to address the still-full arena before the school’s postgame ceremony in his honor.

“I’m sorry about his afternoon,” he said, calling the performance “unacceptable.”

It marked the first time an unranked North Carolina team had beaten a top-5 Duke team in Cameron since 1990, when Davis was a sophomore guard for the Tar Heels under late Hall of Famer Dean Smith.

“We know how good of a team we are,” Bacot said. “We know at times we’ve had lapses.

But we came in and we knew we were going to win the game.”

R.J. Davis added 21 points and Brady Manek 20, marking the first time in program history that the Tar Heels had four 20-point scorers in the same game.

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hat is the square-foot cost to build?”

That question, while straightforward, is one builders dread. They hate it because the answer sounds like a dodge and puts them on the defensive. The answer is always: “It depends.”

Are we talking just heated square footage? Well, no, there’s also a garage and some portals. So, we mean total roofed area? Well, no, there’s that long driveway and all needed utilities.

Cheap fixtures and finishes? Well, not too cheap, but not the most expensive, either. The list of considerations that narrows “it depends” to a final dollar per square foot is endless.

What is also true, if counterintuitive, is that “small and simple” (all other things being equal) is always Kim more per square foot than “average.”

Shanahan A “simple” one-bedroom casita of Building Santa Fe 500 square feet has all the same costly elements of a “simple” one-bedroom, 1,000-square-foot casita. The smaller one will cost much more per square foot to build, though total cost might be less.

So what’s the point of this remedial lesson?

Affordable housing, built for homeownership at the lowest price levels mandated by city rules, sells for less than the square-foot cost to build them. That’s not counting the land, infrastructure, financing or sales commissions. They are deep money-losers.

What developer can sustainably eat that kind of loss?

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They rushed to buy in the pandemic — here’s what they would change

Mortgage rates are pulled down by global events

By Kathy Orton Washington Post

Mortgage rates have been in a tug of war lately. Inflation was pulling them higher, but now Russia’s attack on Ukraine is dragging them back down.

According to data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average fell for the second week in a row, slipping to 3.76 percent with an average 0.8 point. (A point is a fee paid to a lender equal to 1 percent of the loan amount. It is in addition to the interest rate.) It was 3.89 percent a week ago and 3.02 percent a year ago.

Freddie Mac, the federally chartered mortgage investor, aggregates rates from some 80 lenders across the country to come up with weekly national averages. The survey is based on home purchase mortgages. Rates for refinances may be different. It uses rates for high-quality borrowers with strong credit scores who make large down payments.

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or nearly two years, homebuyers have been shopping in conditions ripe for regret. Prices have soared, inventory has plunged and competition has been brutal in markets across the country. With fixer-uppers fetching multiple offers, buyers must make snap decisions about what is often the biggest financial investment of their lives.

Invariably, someone makes a choice they wish they hadn’t.

“There are all kinds of craziness happen-

ing,” said Marilyn Wilson, a founding partner of the WAV Group, a consumer research company, who described open houses so crowded they felt like nightclubs, with buyers getting 15 minutes to tour a home. “Sometimes people don’t remember, did it have three bedrooms or four? You might get the house, but it might not be the house you want because you’re just in this desperate state.”

The pandemic has turned out to be a historically miserable time to buy a home.

Many buyers entered the market looking for a home to solve some of the problems the pandemic created. They wanted more space for Zoom rooms and home gyms. They

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wanted bigger and better backyards to entertain outdoors.

These expectations ran headlong into the reality of shopping in a frenzied sellers’ market where the pickings were slim and the prices astronomical. Surveys by the WAV Group and Zillow found about three-quarters of recent buyers expressed some regret.

In the Zillow survey, released last month, the findings paint a picture of homeowners second-guessing the choices they made and wishing they’d had more time, more patience or considered living somewhere else. About Please see story on Page E-2 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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required to sell 20 percent of their homes to income-qualified buyers, must subsidize the losses from sales of the nonaffordable homes, thus creating an unfilled gap between market-rate and affordable homes. The gap is widening every day.

The city’s requirement for homeownership subdivisions of 20 percent affordable, no fees in lieu allowed, are targeted to those with 50 percent to 80 percent of area median income as set by federal standards. For a family of four, that’s annual incomes

roughly from $30,000 to $50,000.

City rules say a family of four is entitled to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom affordable house no smaller than 1,150 square feet.

If “all-in” construction costs are $200 per square foot (they’re likely more), that’s $230,000 before land, infrastructure, financing and commissions.

Add all of those, and the affordable home “costs” are near $300,000. Yet they must be sold to qualified buyers for well under $200,000. Who can do that? The virtual absence of new affordable homes for sale says apparently no one. Notable exceptions are

REAL ESTATE donating 20 percent of their lots to Habitat, in exchange for a 50-cents-on-the-dollar state tax credit, will get them off the money-losing hook.

Conceivably, Habitat could be called on to take on every developer’s 20 percent requirement, which would explode its current pace of six or seven homes per year to dozens per year. That’s a big lift, but somebody has to do it. With an existing pledge to have all of its homes be net-zero energy with rooftop solar panels, Habitat may also be energy efficiency-shaming the 80 percent market-rate homes into doing the same.

Homewise and Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity, both nonprofits committed to building new affordable homes for sale.

Homewise does it by building subdivisions with market-rate homes that help subsidize affordable homes.

Most of its subdivisions have double the number of affordable homes the city requires, and it qualifies buyers who earn up to 120 percent of area median income.

Homewise also is a financial institution, a real estate brokerage and an unequaled getter of grants.

Habitat for Humanity has a different model and is the only entity in town exclusively selling homes to earners at the bottom tier of eligible incomes.

Smart developers recognize

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a third of respondents regret buying a house that needed more work than they anticipated, 31 percent wish the home they bought was bigger and 21 percent thought they overpaid.

“Pandemic-era buyers faced unprecedented conditions. They had far fewer homes to choose from; they had far more competition for the homes that were for sale,” said Amanda Pendleton, Zillow’s home trends expert. “A lot of buyers ended up in this home that was maybe not what they expected.”

Buyers stepping into the 2022 market have much to learn from those who shopped before them.

Market forecasts predict that conditions won’t change significantly this spring. If anything, they might get tougher. At the end of December, inventory fell to a record low, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Zillow projects that home prices will rise another 16 percent in 2022, on top of the 20 percent rise in 2021. Rising interest rates will likely push some buyers out of the market, but they could be replaced with others looking to escape rising rents or shoppers who sat on the sidelines last year, waiting for some stability.

Many successful buyers ended up with homes that they liked and are happy to own a place. For some of them, that meant making an offer that managed to stand out in a bidding war. For others, it meant recalibrating their expectations during their search to avoid disappointment.

Recent buyers — those who are remorseful and others who are content with their homes — have some sage advice about how they would do it differently if they had to do it all over again.

The risk of the impulse buy Celeste Mohan and Zach Flynn did not set out to buy a farmhouse with a barn and two cows. But after they lost a bidding war for a rundown house in Boca Raton, Fla., the couple jumped on the 2,660-square-foot house in Lake Wales, Fla., a town of 16,000 about an hour from Orlando. They bought it in July for $349,000.

Mohan, 25, and Flynn, 29, a teacher, felt pressured to buy because the rent on their one-bedroom apartment in Boca Raton was about to jump 22 percent, to $1,900 a month.

With their $400,000 budget, their options were restricted to fixer-uppers, with fierce competition. After their bidding war defeat, the couple headed for the country. The farmhouse, set on 5 acres on a lake, seemed like an ideal alternative: quiet, pastoral and charming.

Almost immediately, the couple regretted their decision.

The property felt eerily quiet and isolated, and maintaining 5 acres and two cows was more work than they anticipated.

“You see these people on Instagram with their farm life,” Mohan said. “Nobody tells you what actual hard work that is and how time consuming it is.”

Before the summer ended, the couple had given the cows to the neighbor, had moved back to Boca Raton and rented a new apartment. Rather than try to sell the farmhouse, they hope to turn it into an Airbnb.

“Right now we’re paying rent and a mortgage, which is really uncomfortable,” Mohan said.

They married in December and are expecting a baby in March, adding to their financial stress.

What they wanted: A three-bedroom house in Boca Raton for under $400,000.

What they bought: A three-bedroom farmhouse in Lake Wales for $349,000.

What they learned: In

hindsight, Mohan wishes she and Flynn had spent more time evaluating their goals before giving up on Boca Raton. If they had been more clear on what they wanted, they would have known their wish list included staying in a younger, livelier community.

“I also would’ve told myself and Zach to honestly try harder for a house in Boca and to not get so worried about the competition,” she said.

The cost of being house poor Three months into the pandemic, Stephanie DiSantis felt claustrophobic working from home in her 800-square-foot town house in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.

So, like millions of other Americans, she started looking for a bigger space. She set her maximum budget at $900,000 but soon realized if she wanted to stay in the central neighborhood, she would have to pay more. She pushed her budget up to $1.3 million, reassessing her priorities.

“I decided, I’ve done a lot of traveling, I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve done the thing where I’m like, ‘I’m hungry for pasta, I’m going to go to Rome for three days,’ ” said DiSantis, 47, who works for Amazon. “I can stop doing that.

I can afford to be a little house poor.”

In October 2020, while she was in Massachusetts visiting family for a month, a 2,570-square-foot house dropped the list price to $1.45 million, over her maximum budget but within reach. After her friends, her broker and an inspector vetted it in her absence, her offer at full asking price was accepted.

She returned to Seattle in November, seeing the house she’d only seen on video in person for the first time.

The house gave her more space, but at a significant financial cost. In 2021, her priorities shifted, and she suddenly felt the burden of a huge mortgage.

“I got super burned out at work,” she said. “I remember thinking, ‘Man, if I was still in that town house, I could just quit my job for a year and be fine.’

The mortgage was so low, I could take a year off — I could relax, I could refuel and now I really can’t.”

What she wanted: A three-bedroom house in Seattle for $900,000.

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Stephanie DiSantis of Seattle, with dog Brady, loves her spacious new home but does find the mortgage to be a financial strain.

During the pandemic, homebuyers have been shopping in conditions ripe for harried decisions that sometimes lead to regrets.

What she bought: A three-bedroom house in Seattle for $1.45 million.

What she learned: When DiSantis calculated her budget, she did not anticipate how a large mortgage would limit her future options.

“I wish that I would have been able to foresee a couple of years down the road and waited it out,” she said. “I could have taken a big break or been that person who’s like, ‘OK, I’ll move to Montana and get a house that is everything I want for half the price.’ ”

More work than expected When Travis Parman got a new job in Lexington, Ky., he figured the housing market there would be more forgiving than the one in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been living.

“I thought it would be cheap and easy,” said Parman, 49, who started his job at AppHarvest, a tech startup, in November 2020.

“What I actually found out was that Lexington tends to be low on inventory.”

Parman started his search in November 2020. His husband, Andrew Kung, 43, a surgeon with the Navy, lives on a military base in Jacksonville, N.C., visiting on weekends. With a budget of

$1 million, Parman imagined he could find a picturesque historic property to be his forever home.

Instead, he found extremely limited options. And the properties that were available were a far cry from the stately homes he envisioned.

“I walked into a lot of situations that were disasters,” he said.

Frustrated, he reset his expectations. Rather than look for the perfect home, he would find one that could work for the next five years. In a few years, when the market cooled, he could reassess.

With a more measured goal in mind, he found a 3,600-squarefoot four square-style house in a historic neighborhood close enough to the office that he could bike to work. With canary yellow walls, dated track lighting and decorative kitchen tiles adorned with herbs, it seemed like a house that needed only modest upgrades, the types of improvements that let a homeowner put their own stamp on a space. He closed in January 2021, figuring the renovations would take three months.

But not all repairs are immediately visible or caught during an inspection. By summer, the central air conditioning, which was 20 years old, failed. Replacing it

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every borrower.

The 15-year fixed-rate average dropped to 3.01 percent with an average 0.8 point.

It was 3.14 percent a week ago and 2.34 percent a year ago. The five-year adjustable rate average slid to 2.91 percent with an average 0.3 point. It was 2.98 percent a week ago and 2.73 percent a year ago.

“Mortgage rates fell this week as investors sought safety by buying mortgage bonds,” said Holden Lewis, a home and mortgage specialist at NerdWallet. “This decline in rates is temporary because the Federal Reserve will start its rate-raising

campaign in earnest in the middle of the month.”

Since the beginning of the year, mortgage rates had been trending higher. They had climbed 70 basis points before global events intervened. (A basis point is 0.01 of a percentage point.)

“Mortgage rates have generally risen over the past few months, but have been volatile for some time, and the conflict in Ukraine has exacerbated the volatility further,” Robert Heck, the vice president for mortgage at Morty, an online mortgage marketplace, wrote in an email.

Investors are not only watching what happens in Ukraine but also are paying attention to what the Federal Reserve does to curb inflation. The central bank’s rate-setting committee meets later this month.

hers up to $655,000, over her $650,000 budget. Her offer was rejected anyway. The first rejection motivated her.

“Once you start looking, it becomes an addiction, and you just want to move,” she said.

Her broker, Molly Franklin, a saleswoman at Corcoran, showed her six more apartments in Williamsburg, and she bid on three.

Two needed work. The third, at 484 square feet, was far smaller than any of the other options.

But it had a balcony and was in a luxury building with an elevator, roof deck and a swimming pool.

“I had this expectation of the size of my apartment,” she said. “I thought it was going to be larger.”

Listed for $569,000, the apartment was well within her budget. Unlike the other options, it did not need work. She initially thought she’d be willing to renovate, but once the options were in front of her, she realized she wasn’t up for the work.

“I was not prepared to remodel,” she said. “I needed something that was turnkey.”

She decided she could live with the tiny size because the apartment had an open floor plan, storage space and the amenities gave her options to entertain elsewhere.

She closed on the apartment in November.

What she wanted: A Learning your limits one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg for under $650,000.

After spending almost a year What she bought: A traveling through Mexico and one-bedroom apartment in WilCosta Rica, Steph Vaye returned to New York in September eager liamsburg for $569,000.

What she learned: Ultito buy an apartment. She had two requirements: The apartment had mately, Vaye realized that staying well within her budget was a to be in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, top priority, even if it meant she and it could not be a studio. would have to pare down her Three days after Vaye, 29, belongings to live in a much started her search, an apartment came on the market that checked smaller space. By choosing all her boxes. Listed for $599,000, a home that didn’t need any it had an open kitchen and a large repairs, she had the money to decorate immediately, adding balcony.

“This was a dream apartment,” new wallpaper and painting the she said. space.

She offered the full asking “That was the really fun part,” price, but with multiple offers she said. “I was really able to already on the table, she bumped make it a home.”

cost $5,000. The spring revealed a dead 100-year-old pin oak on the property, another $5,000 bill, although the city shared in the cost of removal.

His list of simple upgrades to the décor collided with pandemic delays and cost increases. He struggled to find dining tables, light fixtures and wall coverings.

“We wound up having to, in many cases, choose second, third or fourth options because materials or pieces just weren’t available,” he said. The threemonth job has stretched to nearly a year.

What he wanted: A historic home in excellent condition in Lexington for under $1 million.

What he bought: A four-bedroom home in need of repairs in Lexington for $653,000.

What he learned: Parman learned that even minor improvements can take longer than expected, and not all larger problems are immediately apparent.

In hindsight, he said he wished he’d researched the life span of the mechanicals, like the air conditioning, to avoid unexpected bills.

However, he found that by lowering his expectations for the kind of home he needed, he was able to find something that he could live with for the next few years.

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Two-bedroom wings, library, finished basement, oversized 3-car garage. This nearly 14,000 square foot manor is only minutes from the Plaza, the Opera, and Canyon Road. https://youriguide.com/117_tesuque_ridge_ santa_fe_nm $7,000,000 MLS #202100779

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Nestled among majestic old trees, this historic property built in 1935 of double adobe, offers luxury and comfort combined. Includes a 3BR suites, 4BA home, and a 2BR, 2BA guest house. The almost acre encompasses several patios, party areas, mature landscaping, and views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Direct entry 3-car garage.

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Sanctuary: a retreat promising quiet and calm. The air, the light, the views! Santa Fe’s natural beauty is all here: inspiring sunrises, spiritraising Sangre de Cristo mountain vistas, rosy reflected sunsets and clear moonlit evenings. Custom built, single level home is a combination of grand open spaces/private retreats. Visiting wildlife enhance the scenery. Prestigious location, minutes to Plaza! $3,900,000 MLS #202200499

Secluded and spacious contemporary Northern New Mexican-style home in Vista Redonda on 5 ridge-top acres with magnificent, panoramic mountain views.

Exceptional workmanship by renowned builder Dennis Saye. Featuring soaring beamed ceilings, remodeled interior, new appliances, chef’s kitchen, built-in desk and bookcases, kiva fireplace and more. Easy access to The Santa Fe Opera and downtown Santa Fe. https://youriguide.com/66_paseo_ encantado_ne_santa_fe_nm $1,850,000 MLS #202200582

This 71+ gated acres off Hyde Park Road is surrounded by Santa Fe National Forest with incredible, unobstructed Santa Fe and Los Alamos city lights, Jemez, Sandia, Ortiz, Manzanos, Black Mesa and Badlands views. The property consists of 3 separate tax parcels and was formally approved for 9 lots in total. Features paved roads, city water and sewer, underground electricity and natural gas. Close to town. https://player.vimeo.com/video/675958305?h=551a11e277 $1,725,000 MLS #202200362

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Resting high above the surrounding properties, on five acres, bordered on two sides by State conservation land, this glorious, airy and bright country home is a dream. The formal dining room is classic and the kitchen is functional as well as beautiful. The laundry room has a “secret” back, spiral staircase for a quick trip to or from the primary bedroom. https://bit.ly/36ShiloTour $899,000 MLS #202200528

Gorgeous 3658 sq ft 4 bed/3.5 bath custom-built home on 1.25 acres in the gated community of Las Lagunitas. Home features extensive updates including a kitchen that is a cooks/entertainers dream. Private wing with two bedrooms downstairs and enormous master bedroom located upstairs. Fully enclosed yard and courtyard. Enjoy the beautiful lakes and miles of trails in the lovely common areas of Las Lagunitas. https://tours.DragonFly360Imaging. com/104307 $895,000 MLS #202200488

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HOROSCOPE HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, March 6, 2022: You live by your own rules.

You love style based on beauty, grace and elegant etiquette.

You are dedicated to what you value. This year, service to others (especially family) will be a theme. Take care of your health so you can be a resource to others. You might even consider a makeover.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

MOON ALERT: After 1 a.m., there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Taurus.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Today your focus is on money and possessions. But for the next few weeks, you’ll be more involved with friends, clubs and organizations. This includes younger people as well as artistic, creative types. You’ll definitely be more popular. Tonight: Protect your assets.

This Week: Socialize with friends and groups.

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heighten your emotions and reactions to others. But the good news is it will also slightly increase your good luck! Meanwhile, relations with bosses and parents will become a stronger focus. Tonight: Expect change.

This Week: You look good to the boss!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Today you might want to hide.

Nevertheless, a different astrological influence that exists for the next month will make you want to travel, explore and seek adventure! (“Should I pack tropical?”) Tonight: You’re restless.

This Week: Travel and study!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Friendships are important today, especially your interaction with a female friend. Meanwhile, in the next few weeks, disputes about shared property might arise. Fear not, because it looks like you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank. Tonight: Someone surprises you.

This Week: Expect money and gifts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You are high-viz today. People seem to know personal details about your private life as well.

Meanwhile, your focus on partners and close friends will be stronger in the next few weeks.

Tonight: Respect authority.

This Week: Warm, happy

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relations with others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Today you want adventure, a chance to travel and an opportunity to see new places and meet new faces. In the next few weeks, you will work hard and people will help you. (A work-related romance might begin.)

Tonight: Change of plans.

This Week: You are popular and well-liked!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You feel increasingly rewarded about your work and health.

Today you might focus on shared assets. Meanwhile, in the month ahead, expect more opportunities to socialize and enjoy romance, sports and fun activities with kids. Tonight: Check your finances.

This Week: Fun and romance are promising!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH Today you have to go more than halfway when dealing with others. This simply requires tolerance, accommodation and cooperation. In the next month, you will be busy at home with redecorating projects and bustling activities! Tonight: Patience.

This Week: Entertain at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Be ready to help someone today or perform a service for someone who needs your help.

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Tonight: Work interruptions.

This Week: You appreciate life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH This is a busy time, and today is a fun-loving, playful day. Enjoy pleasing yourself and doing exactly what you want. Meanwhile, you might attract money to you in the month ahead.

Certainly, many of you will be working hard to earn it. Tonight: Plans change.

This Week: Finances look good!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Today you will enjoy having a chance to cocoon at home and relax among familiar surroundings. Meanwhile, both Venus and Mars have entered your sign, which means you will be charming and energetic in the months to come. Everyone loves you. Tonight: Be patient with family.

This Week: You are charming and energetic!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You feel powerful today, which is one reason you want to enlighten someone about something. You want a serious, meaningful discussion — nothing superficial. For some of you, this could relate to a secret, hidden love affair. Of course, if it’s a secret, who’s talking? Tonight: Avoid accidents.

This Week: Special dreams are coming true.

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Filimotas was sitting en el asiento de atrás pero he raised his hand, waving it pa’trás y pa’delante porque pensó que sabía la answer. The teacher, however, picked on Canutito, who was sitting muy calladito. He answered: “Es el Día de San Patricio; St. Patrick.”

Pero before he could say algo más, Filimotas yelled out: “Él es el hombre who runs el ‘Wheel of Fortune’ show en el television.” “Él no es the host on ‘Wheel of Fortune’,” la Señora Sandoval corrected him.

“Ese hombre sí es Patrick también, pero se llama Pat Sajak.”

“Es la misma gata,” Filimotas shot Larry Torres back. “I know que Saint Patrick invented Growing up corned beef and cabbage, por eso we eat Spanglish it en su día.”

“Eso no es la verdad,” la maestra countered otra vez. “Comimos carne ensalada con coles because it was la comida de los pobres. El corned beef era carne vieja enpacada en sal y los cabbages eran las legumbres del año pasado that had been buried en arena in the cellar.” Filimotas was frustrated con las correcciones de su mestra. He just wasn’t getting nada bien.

“Well, at least I know que el St. Patrick sembró todas las shamrocks en Ireland,” Filimotas said.

“There you go again, Fil,” the teacher said. “Lo que el St. Patrick did was to pick una shamrock — un trébol — y dijo: ‘Just as there are three leaves en esta shamrock, así también hay tres personas en un solo Dios; son la tres Personas Divinas’.”

“Filimotas decided to try his luck otra vez. He said: “Yo oí que St. Patrick drove all the snakes away de Ireland. I think que he drove them en una troca Chevrolet que su papá had given him.”

La Mrs. Sandoval nomás hizo roll up her eyes, implorando paciencia. She said: “San Patricio vivió como trescientos años después de Jesús. He didn’t have a Chevrolet truck donde poner las culebras; in fact, no habían snakes in Ireland. Lo que San Patricio did was to drive off las religiones paganas and he instituted el Cristianismo in that area del mundo.”

She continued: “We use the color green en honor de St. Patrick en ese día. Can anyone tell me por qué hacemos eso?”

Otra vez, el eager-beaver del Filimotas blurted out: “Es because uno de los miracles que Saint Patrick did, was to turn toda la beer en Ireland into green booze.”

“I give up!” exclamó la Señora Sandoval, toda frustrada.

Canutito tried to cheer her up diciendo: “Miss, yo estoy usando green so that nobody pinches me para hacerme remind que es el tiempo de San Patricio.”

Just then Filimotas sneaked up detrás del Canutito y le prendió un pellizco that stung a lot. He said: “Ese color no es green; es más como color light-blue.”

But when Canutito went to pinch him back, he yelled: “You can’t pinch me! Yo seigo Católico and this morning el padre en la iglesia even wore vestments verdes porque he was praying que los Green Bay Packers would win el juego de fútbol esta tarde. And that is also the reason que I haven’t blown my nose por tres días. Yo tengo las narices full de puro moco verde!

Neither Canutito ni la Mrs. Sandoval said anything. Pero they didn’t go anywhere near him porque whatever era un enfermedad del Filimotas, it might be contagious y prendérseles a ellos …

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Taos Health Systems, Inc. dba Holy Cross Hospital Located in Taos, New Mexico

We are in need of 2 Medical Laboratory Scientists.

Duties: Performs general duties pertaining to the processing of patient samples so as to accommodate accurate and timely laboratory testing and procedures.

Responsibilities: Accurately performing tests in the fields of microbiology, coagulation, chemistry, hematology, transfusion medicine, serology, and urinalysis.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology or related Laboratory Sciences, ASCP or AMT or equivalent certification, full-time employment.

Send application to: HR Department Taos Health Systems, Inc. 1397 Weimer Rd., Taos, NM 87571

Office of Human Resources

NORTHERN New Mexico College Chief Procurement Officer & Compliance Officer (CPO/CO) The CPO/CO position reports to the Vice President for Administration and Finance and oversees all of NNMC procurement related compliance requirements.

The CPO/CO provides managerial oversight of all procurement for NNMC, including Federal and State compliance for grants, contracts, and procurement. Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field, or an associate’s degree and four years of direct procurement and grants management experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree. Two years of experience as a Procurement Manager or Grant Manager. New Mexico Chief Procurement Officer Certification or ability to obtain within one year from date of hire. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: A complete application must include: 1) a cover letter, 2) resume, 3) copies of unofficial transcripts conferring required degree, and 4) names, addresses, and phone numbers of (3) three professional references.

For a complete job description visit: www.nnmc.edu Required application materials should be sent to: humanresources@nnmc.edu.

NNMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Executive Director – New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority (NMRHCA)

The New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority (NMRHCA), an independent statutory agency of the State of New Mexico, is recruiting for the position of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to oversee the administration of group health insurance for qualifying retirees and their dependents. NMRHCA has over 65,000 members and over 90,000 active employees contributing to the program with the expectation of future benefits.

This position reports directly to the New Mexico Retiree Health Care Board of Directors and is responsible for the overall administration of NMRHCA. Job responsibilities include but are not limited to: 1. Design, administer and evaluate NMRHCA benefit programs that ensure fund solvency; 2. Administer pharmaceutical programs, formularies, and rebate programs; 3. Establish and administer contracts with service providers; 4. Implement Board policies, as well as provide administrative support for Board operations; 5. Represent NMRHCA before the legislative and executive branches of government; 6. Develop and maintain effective communications with participating employers, employees and retirees; 7. Oversee the daily operations of NMRHCA. Further information related to this position can be found at: Executive Director Job Description (nmrhca.org) Experience: Preferred seven (7) years of experience in the administration of health care benefit plans, of which at least five (5) years must have been in a managerial capacity.

Experience preferred in financial/investment fields, self-funded health care plans and Medicare related health care programs. A strong background desired in customer service.

Experience also desired in testifying before legislative committees or policy-making boards or councils.

Employment of the executive director will be by the NMRHCA Board. This position is subject to applicable policies as they pertain to exempt employees and conditions outlined by the Board.

To apply, please submit resume to Human Resources Manager listed below: By email in Word or PDF Format to: JessicaA.Trujillo@state.nm.us For further information please contact Jessica Trujillo, HR Manager e-mail: JessicaA.Trujillo@state.nm.us Phone: 505-476-9395 For best consideration, resumes should be submitted by March 14, 2022. However, the position will be considered open until filled. Facsimiles will not be accepted.

THE NEW MEXICO RETIREE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Mental/Behavioral/Health Authority Forestry Crew Member Administrative Assistant/Forestry Coordinator Environmental Technician Boys & Girls Club Activities Coordinator Boy & Girls Club Program Aide Education Program Coordinator LEAD Project Manager Transportation Crew Member CHR Generalist Secretary/Driver CHR Home Care Provider/Driver CHR Information Technology Educator For a copy of position descriptions or more information please contact Karen Arpan, Human Resources Department:

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FT and PRN Pharmacy Techs This not your typical Pharmacy Tech job!

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FT Computer Network Support Techs Learn exciting new workplace technology Build relationships with all departments and staff in the facility Make a difference Help our staff give the best patient care by supporting them with their IT needs.

Small, family oriented department.

Ability to learn and experience all aspects of the pharmacy tech role and to interact with multiple areas within our hospital.

Great, reliable, and very experienced team of co-workers.

Collaborative relationship with the on-site Pharmacy Director Flexibility in scheduling whenever possible.

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APARTMENTS FURNISHED Commercial unit Located close to downtown Santa Fe. Suited for bodywork such as Pilates. Approximately 840 square feet. $1000.00 per month call 505-988-5299

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BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN WITH VIEWS Passive Solar, 2 bdrm., 2 full baths, 2 story. New refrigerator, new dishwasher, washer/dryer hook-up, sunken living room with gas fireplace, high ceiling; also an office/den or library; on large corner lot in a quiet village. 20 minutes from Santa Fe going North on I-25. $2,500 monthly plus utilities. First, last and deposit. Available now.

Shown by appointment only, 2 people at a time, Masks Required.

Call 505-670-4246 from 11a.m. to 3p.m. only. Please leave a message if there’s no answer.

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BY THE NUMBERS ACCOUNTANT/ BOOKKEEPER NEEDED

Salary ranges are: SA - $71,,649 to $105,619.40/yr.

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Private yard. $1200. Plus utilities. NO PETS! 505-471-4405

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Front/Back Porch.

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Shed. Appointment 3/6/22 call Nick $25,000 505-362-9796.

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C3. PERIMETER SHELL. $150,000 Duke Realty Group Katharine Duke 505.429.1523 Kd@dukerg.com SellNewMexico.com Ready to list your property, call me!

Upscale country, 5 acres, Partially furnished.

Mountain views, Private court yards. Located in Arroya Hondo, near Harry’s Roadhouse. Call 505-699-6161. $4,100 monthly.

PM and The New Mexican offers a comprehensive compensation and benefit package and free parking!

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WANTED Long term rent unfurnished single home, one floor. 3 bdrm., 1.5 bath, 2 car garage. a/c. Excellent referrals. 800+ credit.

Call 505-920-7432 or 505-807-1537, Leave message if no answer. Santa Fe & Eldorado.

1. Extensive experience in a business office.

2. 5 years (minimum) of general bookkeeping principles and practices.

3. Knowledge of MS Office and Outlook.

Our offices are located in downtown Santa Fe within walking distance to all that offers - library, shops, restaurants, etc.

Please send your questions, resume (if you’d like to explore this further) and salary requirements to: wredic@sfnewmexican.com or you can apply online at: sfnm.co/sfnmjobs.

The New Mexican is an equal opportunity employer and a Family Friendly employer.

Apply online at losalamosnm.us or for more information call 505-662-8040.

Los Alamos County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in employment or the provisions of service.

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What do we offer?

The opportunity to have a stable job where your efforts are appreciated in a variety of ways. Training? Yes - we’ll do that. Benefits? A long list.

Hours?

Let’s create a schedule that works for all. This is a new position, so help us create a job description by applying today by emailing: hr@sfnewmexican.com.

The New Mexican is locally owned and independent and has been a source for Northern New Mexicans since 1849. We provide a reliable vehicle; you provide a good driving record and pass a pre-employment drug test. The New Mexican is an Equal Opportunity, Family Friendly Employer.

DRIVERS WANT TO WORK FOR A GREAT COMPANY? R.L LEEDER COMPANY IS LOOKING TO HIRE! CDL DRIVERS, EQUIPMENT OPERATORS AND LABORERS. PLEASE CONTACT R.L. LEEDER’S OFFICE (505)473-1360 OR RLLEEDERCOMPANY@GMAIL.COM, IF INTERESTED.

THE NEW MEXICO SUPREME COURT is recruiting for a Human Resources Administrator Senior.

Position Location: Santa Fe, NM. Pay Range: ($46k - $92k).

Extensive benefits package.

EDUCATION Art teacher & flexible faculty team member. Teach established art curriculum to grades 6-8; facilitate open studio time; cofacilitate events/field & camping trips. ~12 hrs./wk. Art degree required; teaching experience preferred. Send cover letter & resume to Darya: dglass@santafegirlsschool.org

To apply : https://www.nmcourts.gov/ careers.aspx OR call 505-827-4810.

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The New Mexican has a full-time job opportunity available immediately for a Delivery Area Manager. You’ll be overseeing our contract newspaper delivery people - mainly updating delivery routes when we have new subscribers, alerting the carriers when there is a vacation stop or start, etc.

Part-time middle school Spanish teacher.

Must have teaching experience & strong personal connection to Spanish-speaking culture(s). Compensation based on experience.

Darya: dglass@santafegirlsschool.org

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MISCELLANEOUS Work at Kaune’s! Cashier and food prep. Full or part-time. Saturday only possible. Great benefits, reasonable hours. Vaccine and drug test required.

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FURRY BEST FRIENDS He has a heart-shaped smoocher ready to love you to smithereens! Baxter is a black Lab mix, and we kind of hope he doesn’t ever grow into those giant, velvet-soft ears! He’s three months old, neutered, up to date on vaccines, microchipped, and goes home with six months of heartworm prevention for an adoption fee of $150. www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662

The Colonel is the highest ranking officer of his army of one. This special 5 year old guy is very sweet, but he would like to maintain his boss status and decide his own schedule, and we can absolutely respect that. Give this guy a second chance at a new beginning: he’s neutered, vaccinated, chipped and goes home for an adoption fee of $20. www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662 For more information, contact Española Humane at 108 Hamm Parkway, Española NM 87532

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The Santa Fe New Mexican, a locally owned and independent newspaper in one of the nation’s most interesting capital cities, is looking for an ambitious public safety reporter who can juggle a range of daily stories while tackling more in-depth, longerformer enterprise pieces for the weekend editions.

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a motivated individual to join the Pre-Press team as a PrePress Technician . Working on the production of multiple New Mexican publications, including our daily newspaper, as well as a wide variety of commercial publications and products.

The successful candidate will cover crime in a community that has seen a rise in violence in the last year, fueled in part by the drug trade. But you’ll also cover behavioral health issues at the center of the community’s crime, child welfare issues, wildfires and wildfire prevention, the people and politics surrounding local law enforcement and the policymaking process, even at the state level.

You’ll work in a diverse, culturally rich and always-sunny arts and food town surrounded by mountain ranges offering opportunities for stellar yearround outdoor recreation.

Solid reporting and writing skills are a must, and we’re looking for an insightful self-starter who always has a sharp idea, most often focused on the powerful human stories.

You’ll be surrounded by busy, productive colleagues who care about good journalism above all. This fastpaced position is an excellent opportunity for you to grow as a journalist and hone your skills.

Job requirements: Bachelor’s degree and preferably at least two years’ experience in news at a daily newspaper, though new grads are encouraged to apply.

Strong writing skills with an eye on deadline and the willingness to tell stories in non-traditional ways.

The ability to find sources and connect with the community, even as COVID-19 creates barriers.

Salary is negotiable.

Send your cover letter, résumé and clips of your best work to: Cynthia Miller News Content Editor Santa Fe New Mexican cmiller@sfnewmexican.com No calls, please.

The ideal candidate must have an Associate degree (or 2 years of relevant work experience). Must be highly motivated, have an acute attention to detail, and able to excel under pressure.

Must have excellent communication skills, be computer proficient on both Mac and Windows Operating Systems.

Have experience in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat. Be knowledgeable with CMYK separations; have an understanding of 2-up, 4-up and 8-up page imposition and have experience with CTP output.

Selected candidate will: • Communicate between departments, and with commercial customers.

• Build and paginate jobs accordingly.

• Download files from our FTP site and enter them into our pagination system.

• Review files, check separations, and approve for printing.

• Operate, troubleshoot, and maintain plate-making equipment; CTP image-setters, processors, benders, and printers as needed in the daily production of the newspaper.

This position is located at our 1 New Mexican Plaza, Santa Fe location (off Frontage Road, near I-25), and is the evening shift (5:00 PM - 1:00 AM, Saturday Wednesday).

Compensation DOE.

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First shots and dewormed. Call 505927-7416.

BOARDING FOR RETIRED HORSES 2005 Volvo Cross Country XC70. All wheel drive. Fantastic mechanical condition. Great for snow and dirt roads. Very Safe. 149,000 miles. $5,500.

Call 505-660-9781.

1710 THIRD STREET SUNDAY, MARCH 6 10AM - 3PM Yard sale focusing on ceramic equipment and materials, art books, indoor horticulture and outdoor recreation equipment.

3209 LOURAINE CIRCLE . Major Downsizing: Selling chairs, rugs, vanity counter and sink, walker, knee scooter, boombox, art, baskets, queen beds, travel bags, etc. Louraine Circle, near Richards and Siringo Saturday from 9 to 1

The New Mexican is an equal opportunity employer and a Family Friendly Employer.

Please submit your resume’ to: dgomez@sfnewmexican.com or apply on-line at: http://www.sfnm.co/sfnmjobs

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TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST OR SR. TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST, 22113 RE-ADVERTISED Salary ranges are: TSS: $22.75 to $33.53/hr.

Sr. TSS-$26.33 to $38.82/hr.

Closing date is March 18, 2022.

Apply online at www.losalamosnm.us or for more information, call 505-662-8040.

Los Alamos County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in employment or the provisions of service.

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking carriers for routes. This is a great way to make money and still have most of your day for other things - like school or other work.

JEWELRY INLAYER WANTED ~ A well established Santa Fe Jewelry manufacturing company is seeking an inlayer. We offer benefits. Pay is starting from $25+ per hour depending on experience. Call 505-983-4562.

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Applicants should call: 986-3010 or email scahoon@sfnewmexican.com

PINION WOOD $400 FOR FULL MEASURED CORD. HALF CORD, $225.

FREE DELIVERY IN SANTA FE AREA. 505-316-3205.

Six graduated pots with lids, slip cast from a mold by Acoma Pueblo potter Pauline Abeita. Like new condition.

Largest pot diameter 30” height: 9.5” Smallest pot diameter: 14” Height: 5” $475.00. Call (505) 264-1335.

3 glass shelf TV stand. Like new, excellent condition. $100.

Call/text, 505-795-0245.

New Khaki Coach Purse. Multipockets. Still new. $50. Call or text 505-795-0245.

RARE SHOP MANUALS. Snap On and other brand names. Some shop equipment? Call 505-473-9540.

6 Decorative Throw Pillows. $30.

Call/text 505-795-0245 Floral wall hanging. 22” wide x 28” high. $20. Call/text 505-795-0245

THE TIME IS FULFILLED AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND: REPENT YE AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL MK 1:15

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New BootsFor 6.5Details womens. $45 Call/text 5057950245

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CASH PAID FOR VINYL RECORDS 33RPM Albums/LPs, 45RPM Singles/7”s, even 78s! Visit our store at 131 W. Water St in Santa Fe or Call 505-399-5060 We buy used records! Great offers for your old rock, jazz etc albums. The Good Stuff, 401 W. San Francisco.

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CASHIERS Big Jo True Value Hardware is now taking applications for full and part time cashiers!

Please apply within, Monday thru Friday!

1311 Siler Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507.

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Maltipoo Puppies, hypoallergenic, Playful, friendly. Have had their 1st shots/ deworming. Approximately 10wks delicate/ healthy puppies ready for forever home. $900 (626)206-9263.

AVAILABLE: PRIME FINANCING VEHICLE SERVICE CONTRACTS GAP INSURANCE

LOST DEAF CHIHUAHUA.

Last seen 3/2/22 on our dead end dirt road in the Los Lovatos neighborhood wearing a blue sweater with snowflakes & orange dots. ‘Donut’, is a shorthair, tan, 16 year old, DEAF, male with a heart of gold. Extremely friendly & loves to be held. He doesn’t normally wander off, someone may have picked him up thinking he was lost.

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GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES AKC REGISTERED, CURRENT ON SHOTS. MALES $700 AND FEMALES $1200.

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Al’s RV Providing full-service repair for RVs, Horse Trailers, and more for over 47 years.

505-577-1938 or 505-203-6313.

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NO-STRESS IN-HOME CAT CARE Licensed & Professional Reasonable Rates 3/6/22 Call Judy THE CAT CONCIERGE Roberts Santa Fe 505-954-1878 thecatconciergesantafe.com

Beautiful Pair of Lamps. $40 each.

Call/ text, 505-795-0245.

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY CARRIERS

The New Mexican is a daily newspaper! You must have a clean driving record and a reliable vehicle.

This is a year-round, independent contractor position.

You pick up the papers at our production plant in Santa Fe.

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Los Alamos County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in employment or the provisions of service.

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Selected candidate will be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit package after probationary period.

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Salary ranges are: Trainee-$14.66 to $21.61/hr.

Operator 1-$16.16 to $23.82/hr.

Operator 2-$17.82 to $26.27/hr.

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High quality, low cost, all inclusive Horse Boarding for retired and senior horses.

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The New Mexican offers a comprehensive and competitive compensation package and is an equal opportunity employer.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican, THE daily newspaper for Northern New Mexico, has an immediate full-time opportunity for an Accountant/Bookkeeper. The hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM and The New Mexican offers a comprehensive compensation and benefit package and free parking!

The numbers you’ll work with include: You should know your numbers and have: • Payments from our subscribers.

• Extensive experience in a business office.

• Reconciliation of client accounts.

• 5 years (minimum) of general bookkeeping

• Monthly reports, journal entries, ACH payments and more.

principles and practices.

• Knowledge of MS Office and Outlook.

Our offices are located in downtown Santa Fe within walking distance to all that offers – library, shops, restaurants, etc.

Please send your questions, resumé (if you’d like to explore this further) and salary requirements to: wredic@sfnewmexican.com or you can apply on-line at: sfnm.co/sfnmjobs

The New Mexican is an equal opportunity employer

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•Erosion Control

ARE RODENTS CHEWING THRU YOUR CAR’S WIRING AGAIN??? I CAN HELP! Rodent damage to automobiles and home can be quite costly and hazardous to your health! Prevent the expense before it happens. Servicing all makes and models. Now available: 12 Volt Rodent Detector Lights for Auto, Home, Camper, and Mobile Homes.

By Appointment Only 505-473-9540 or 505-946-8791

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Santa Fe Dog Waste Removal LLC We pick up after your dog.

Licensed and insured.

Competitive rate.

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We Do It All

ORNAMENTAL METAL WORK FIREPLACE EQUIPMENT SCREENS, TOOLS & ANDIRONS

BAT TREE SERVICES EXPERT AND AFFORDABLE LICENSED “SANTA FE STYLES” HANDYMAN, Landscaping, and Repair.

Call the local guys.

We know the style.

Quality is our priority 100% satisfaction guaranteed.

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ENCHANTED STONE Hardwood, engineered, laminate, and tile floors.

Installation and repair of custom showers, baseboard, and custom flooring layouts. Contact us for all your floor needs. 505469-6363

DFM Concrete Incorporated

Residential and Commercial *Driveways *Foundations *Patios *Slabs *Ex posed Aggregate *Concrete Block Wall *Excavation *Demolition *Footings *Asphalt Repair *Sidewalks *Stamped & Color Concrete Acid Stains 100% Customer Satisfaction Licensed/ BONDED/ INSURE D DFMConcreteInc72@gmail.com 505- 328- 4883

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Residential Gardens, Stone Masonry Walls, Patios: Brick and Flagstone, Coyote Fences, Fountains, Waterfalls, Gravel and Boulders.

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Sprinklers New or Update Irrigation System.

Leaks, drip head and valve replacement. Drainage Systems, and Erosion Control.

a division of Victors Lawns LLC.

WINTER MAINTENANCE ROCK, LATILLA AND WOOD FENCE, GRAVEL, FLAG STONE, TILE, TREE MAINTENANCE, IRRIGATION, PLANTING, BRICK PAVES, COLOR BRICK,

Licensed and Insured Clean up, Pruning, Tree Services, Sod, Fencing, Hardscaping, Patios, Retaining Walls, Commercial Maintenance.

Call for FREE Estimate: 505-661-9680 www.victorslandscapingnm.com

FREE ESTIMATE EXCELLENT REFERENCES AVAILABLE! ERNESTO 505-570-0329

Greencard Landscaping Get it done right the first time!

Have a woman do it.

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Do you need cleaning in your house?

Call me at 505-920-4873... I offer deep cleaning, regular cleaning. Many years of experience serving Santa Fe and nearby areas. Free estimates! I will be glad to help you, Dalila Sosa.

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“essential work” for essential doors

Does your door need a tune up?

LOCAL REFERENCES PROFESSIONALS AT WORK We Wear Our Masks 505-930-3008 santafedoorandwindow. com YARD MAINTENANCE

ROOF LEAKS? WE DO TORCH DOWN, ALL TYPES OF ROOFING, RE-ROOFS, PATCHING, & HOT TAR FOR ALL YOUR ROOFING NEEDS. OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE! SERVING SANTA FE AND SURROUNDING AREAS ALL WORK DONE AND GUARANTEED!

COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL CALL HECTOR OR WERNER FOR FREE ESTIMATES 505-666-1774 505-660-3634

DOOR AND WINDOW Tech Installation Service & Repair Pella, Marvin, Pozzi, etc.

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References Available 505-603-3182 ROOF REPAIRS

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A+ HOUSECLEANING AVAILABLE NOW! One time or as needed.

Many years of experience in Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and surrounding areas.

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