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Public bank study
La Bajada mining plan again tabled
The idea is gaining traction and the city is seeking someone to study it. PAGE B-1
Crowd angry commission doesn’t vote
Medical pot rules
By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
An official urges the state to hold off on making changes to the state’s medial marijuana rules. PAGE B-1
A collective groan was heard from the crowd in the Santa Fe County Commission chamber on Tuesday when commissioners came out of a closed-door session and, for the second time, postponed a decision on a proposed
Bacall dies The seductive actress with a throaty voice dies at age 89.
50-acre basalt mine on La Bajada mesa south of Santa Fe. Reactions from people at the meeting were swift and angry. “I am shocked and I am horrified,” said Diane Senior, a Madrid resident who has been highly involved in the fight against the pro-
posed mine. “We deserve a vote. This should not have been taken into a private meeting to discuss. They’ve had two months to consider this.” People filled the commission chamber at 102 Grant Ave. on Tuesday for a continuation of a public hearing in early June. They expected
Marianna Hatten, left, was disappointed the County Commission failed to act Tuesday. She is comforted by Joanna Conte Durham after the mine vote was postponed. JANE PHILLIPS THE NEW MEXICAN
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Fears of running dry
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Man faces charges in alleged threat to neighbor
By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
said marina operator Steve Biggs, referring to precipitation in the Rockies that flows down the Colorado River to help fill the reservoir separating Nevada and Arizona.
Floyd Garcia held the horror inside for 30 years following the gruesome New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. “And then the volcano erupted,” he said. Garcia, an Española resident, was a member of the state National Guard in February 1980 when rioting prisoners took over and killed 33 of their fellow inmates. Garcia said his unit was one of the first to arrive on the scene when Gov. Bruce King called in the National Guard. Being assigned to the duty of removing “dead, mutilated, burned” bodies from the prison — and having to wade through water in the building polluted with “raw sewage, blood and body parts” — left him with post-traumatic stress disorder, he said in an interview Tuesday. Speaking about himself and other Guard members who responded to the riot, Garcia said he feels that the National Guard and the state have “left us out in the cold for the last 30 [plus] years.” “We’re trying to get the state to take responsibility … for what was done to us,” he said. “We never got any counseling, briefing or debriefing after the riot. We served our community, our state, our country.” Garcia said he has spoken with lawyers but has never filed
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By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican
A grand jury has indicted a 35-year-old Alcalde man on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he was accused of using a revolver to threaten a neighbor who had told authorities he was a cocaine dealer. According to reports of the case, Anthony “Whistle” Montoya had learned of the woman’s accusations from a volunteer Anthony firefighter who Montoya had responded to a medical emergency at her home. Moments after the responders left the neighbor’s house, a report says, he arrived at the home with a gun and threatened her. A Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office report alleges Montoya, the relative of a county commissioner, was known by some deputies to sell large amounts of cocaine and had political ties in the community. But he wasn’t arrested during an initial investigation into the assault case June 6 because he reportedly promised a deputy he would
Lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam in Arizona in late July. On the left are the Arizona intake towers of Hoover Dam. The bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water mark of the reservoir, which has shrunk to its lowest point since it was first filled in the 1930s. PHOTOS BY JOHN LOCHER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Southwest braces as Lake Mead water level continues to drop By Ken Ritter The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, Nev. nce-teeming Lake Mead marinas are idle as a 14-year drought steadily drops water levels to historic lows. Officials from nearby Las Vegas, Nev., are pushing conservation but also are drilling a new pipeline to keep drawing water from the lake. Hundreds of miles away, farmers who receive water from the lake behind Hoover Dam are preparing for the worst. The receding shoreline at one of the main reservoirs in the vast Colorado River water system is raising concerns about the future of a network serving a perennially parched region that’s home to 40 million people and 4 million acres of farmland. Marina operators, water managers and farmers who for decades have
The bathtub ring of light minerals that delineates the high water mark on Lake Mead is seen at Hemenway Harbor in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.
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chased every drop of water across the booming Southwest and part of Mexico are closely tracking the reservoir water level, already at its lowest point since it was first filled in the 1930s. “We just hope for snow and rain up in Colorado, so it’ll come our way,”
White, middled-aged men like Williams face higher suicide risk By Lenny Bernstein and Lena H. Sun The Washington Post
If you tried to create a profile of someone at high risk of committing suicide, one likely example would look like this: A middle-aged or older white male toward the end of a successful career, who suffers from a serious medical problem as well as chronic depression and substance
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abuse, who recently completed treatment for either or both those psychological conditions and who is going through a difficult period, personally or professionally. Robin In short, that Williams person would look a lot like Robin Williams, the 63-year-old actor and comedian who, authorities said Tuesday, hanged himself with a belt
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in the bedroom of his San Francisco Bay-area home a day earlier. While certainly not the only group susceptible to suicide — 39,518 people took their own lives in 2011 — older white males with that cluster of characteristics have been on psychologists’ radar at least since fed-
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Daniel Ulbricht and New York City Ballet performers Stars of American Ballet, 7:30 p.m., includes a preperformance talk by Ulbricht, $13.50-$100, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, Thursday encore. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Obituaries Maria Esquibel, 98, Santa Fe, Aug. 8 Susan Sisneros, Aug. 7 Jesse Marlow, Aug. 3
Leah HochbergUsatin, Santa Fe, Aug. 9 Maclovio Griego Jr., 57, Santa Fe, Aug. 7 PAGE B-2
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