The Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 1, 2014

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Anti-nuke lab worker out

Ex-mayor candidate, wife of councilor seek high-level posts with city. PAGE B-1

Santa Fe man claims he was fired for his stance

Tribe blasts gov.

By Patrick Malone

Fuego force showdown

Pojoaque Pueblo buys an ad to hammer Martinez over gambling compacts. PAGE B-1

Consumers worry

Santa Fe pitcher strikes out seven batters to force a deciding Game 3 on Friday against the Alpine Cowboys. PAGE B-6

Poll finds confidence in ecomony lacking. PAGE A-3

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Santa Fe resident James Doyle says he’s been burned by political retaliation for bucking the pro-nuclear weapons culture at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After 17 years of employment, Doyle was fired by the lab July 8. His story was first reported Thursday by the

nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, an online investigative reporting organization that had questioned the National Nuclear Security Administration about the lab’s decision to classify an article Doyle had written and to strip some of his security clearances. A day later, Doyle was fired. Doyle’s troubles began in February 2013, one month after the article he wrote, defending President Barack Obama’s nuclear nonproliferation stance, appeared in an online international journal, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy. Doyle says lab officials

had cleared the article for publication. “The timing of the lab’s actions raised my suspicions that I was being treated unfairly from the beginning,” Doyle, 55, told The New Mexican on Thursday. “Starting with the decision to classify the article after I had it cleared by the lab classification office and after it was published, it felt like I was being punished.” A LANL spokesman declined to comment about Doyle, saying the lab does not publicly discuss personnel

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Backlash ends House GOP border plan

Night Wave: 3-night event aims to breathe new life into downtown

failed to advance legislation to address the immigration crisis, unable to overcome a procedural By Paul Kane hurdle and then leaving and Ed O’Keefe town for five-week sumThe Washington Post mer break. The congressional WASHINGTON — chaos ensured that PresiHouse Republican leaddent Barack Obama’s ers were ambushed by administration will not another conservative have additional resources insurrection on Thursday, to stem the recent tide forced to scrap a pivotal of tens of thousands of vote on a border secumigrants from Central rity bill and scrambling America, many of them to find a solution amid children entering the a familiar whirlwind of United States alone, until acrimony and fingermid-September at the pointing. earliest. The only two The failure to move significant measures forward with legislation headed for approval by aimed at coping with a Congress as of Thursday surge of unaccompanied were bills authorizing minors at the U.S.-MexSee BORDER, Page A-4 ico border left Republicans unable to act on a INSIDE problem that they have repeatedly described as u Immigrants line up for a national crisis. As the licenses in Colorado. drama unfolded in the u Lawyers aid Artesia detainees. PAGE B-2 House, the Senate also

Tea party stops any agreement

The newly opened nightclub Skylight launched Night Wave on Thursday, a three-night downtown festival designed to improve the city’s ‘nighttime economy.’ CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

After-hours party launches By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

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ozens of young and old Santa Feans flocked to the blue neon dance hall of newly opened nightclub Skylight on Thursday for the launch of Night Wave, a three-night downtown festival designed to improve the city’s “nighttime economy.” Festival-goers crowded around the club’s bar, danced to the twangy banjo and guitar blues of Santa Fe band Hot Honey, munched on finger foods and scanned the crowd for familiar faces. In between sets of the local Americana band, the thrash of metal riffs drifted into Skylight from across the street at Evangelo’s, another Night

Wave venue. The festival, which features live performances, food and free transportation, is the brainchild of Vince Kadlubek, who said he wants people to give downtown Santa Fe’s nightlife a chance to entertain them. “There are people who have never thought of coming downtown,” the Night Wave organizer said. “Come out and enjoy yourself. You’re going to find something fun going on.” Kadlubek coordinated and promoted Night Wave with the help of a $4,000 grant from the city. The festival kicked off with performances Thursday and continues Friday and Saturday evenings. Pre-sale tickets for headlining

FRIDAY EVENTS AT NIGHT WAVE

ster’s Bastard Kid, 13 Pieces, $5 cover

Burro Alley Lounge, 207 W. San Francisco St., Viva Friday, D-Monic, $5 cover.

Matador, 116 W. San Francisco St., One Man Army with CP-Squared, no cover

Skylight, 139 W. San Francisco St., Pictureplane, Mykki Blanco, Dirt Girl, P.F.F.P., $15 cover.

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 8 p.m., This is Spinal Tap; 11 p.m., Kung Fu Hustle Outdoor performances, San Francisco and Galisteo streets, 9 p.m. Ariel Johnson and Whitney Jones; 9:30 p.m. Spencer Toll; 10 p.m. Westin McDowell; 11 p.m. Grannia Griffith

Evangelo’s, 200 W. San Francisco St., The Strange, $5 cover Underground, 200 W. San Francisco St. (under Evangelo’s), ’80s vs. ’90s Party with Punky Brew-

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N.M. still in hunt for Tesla battery plant State economic official says talks held this week as company prepares Reno site By Dee-ann Durbin The Associated Press

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Electric carmaker Tesla Motors widened its loss in the second quarter as it prepared for the launch of a new SUV and started work on a massive new battery plant in Nevada. Tesla said it started preparing a site for the

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factory outside Reno, Nev., last month. But the company is still considering sites in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, and won’t make a final decision for months. “Before we go to the next stage of pouring a lot of concrete, we want incentives there that make sense and are fair to the state and Tesla,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said. There has been fierce competition among states for the plant, which Tesla says will employ as many as 6,500 workers by 2020. The plant is intended to supply Tesla’s massmarket third-generation car, the Model 3, which is scheduled to go on sale in 2017. At around $30,000, the Model 3 would be less

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than half the starting price of a Model S. New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela said New Mexico is still competing for the battery factory planned by Tesla. “We are still very much in the game” he said in a statement, adding that the state had discussions with high-ranking Tesla officials this week. His comments came after Tesla confirmed it had broken ground near Reno. Barela said it’s not surprising that Nevada is a contender for the plant because of its

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Ebola outbreak tops 700 deaths By Krista Larson and Clarence Roy-Macaulay The Associated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The death toll from the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 in West Africa as security forces went house-tohouse in Sierra Leone’s capital Thursday looking for patients and others exposed to the disease. Fears grew as the United States warned against travel to the three infected countries — Guinea, Sierra Leone

and Liberia — and Sierra Leone’s soccer team was blocked from boarding a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, that was to take them to the Seychelles for a game on Saturday. Airport authorities in Kenya said Seychelles immigration told them to prevent the team from traveling. Almost half of the 57 new deaths reported by the World Health Organization occurred in Liberia, where two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas and

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Obituaries

Partly cloudy. High 73, low 56.

Syrena Morris Tucker, Santa Fe Janine Anton, 57, Santa Fe, July 24 Jeffrey Alan Hockersmith, Rio Rancho Jonatham Mark North, Trout Creek, June 30

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