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Body found in Taos County ID’d

Judge denies new trial for Rodella

Chili is a ubiquitous food now, a staple of American cuisine, with people doing all kinds of things to it that range from delicious to disturbing. TASTE, B-5

The remains of a woman found in the Carson area on Christmas Day belong to a Colorado woman. PAGE A-8

The former Rio Arriba County sheriff faces sentencing Wednesday to at least seven years in prison. PAGE A-8

Robin Collier “I can’t understand how anyone reading that ordinance could have supported it,” the Taos activist says.

Mora’s fracking ban tossed

LEGISLATURE The 2015 session

STATE OF STATE ADDRESS

Governor urges ‘progress over politics’

Federal judge rules oil, gas law went too far The New Mexican

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By Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis The New York Times

Gov. Susana Martinez introduces Kendal Sanders, 14, and Nathaniel Tavarez, 13, two students who were shot last year at their middle school in Roswell, at the end of her State of the State speech Tuesday at the Capitol. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Martinez touts higher pay for teachers, job training in her agenda By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

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n her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Susana Martinez outlined her wish list for the 2015 legislative session, including higher pay for new teachers, a large highway spending package, more money to help lure businesses to the state and more funds for job-training programs. As she did in her inauguration speech Jan. 1, Martinez called for

Tourists from Connecticut pose with a sculpture near the Plaza in August. The 12-foot piece by Bill Worrell, Song to the Patrons, was purchased for $63,000 by a patron in Texas.

u Reaction: Senate Democrats say governor ‘dead wrong’ on education, economy. u The state Supreme Court is asking for 11 percent more this year to run the judicial system. u Rep. Don Tripp, right, was elected speaker of the House. LEGISLATURE, A-7

lawmakers to work in a nonpartisan fashion. However, her biggest applause lines from the newly assembled legislators came when she spoke about “red meat” Repub-

Piece standing at Palace, Washington sells for $63,000 By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

The big, bronze deer-headed figure with outstretched arms that has graced the corner of Palace and Washington avenues for the past 15 years or so has been sold. It will be removed via crane early Wednesday and shipped to its new home in Texas, according to the Worrell Gallery, which

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his Republican adversaries in Congress to “turn the page” by supporting an expensive domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class. Released from the political constraints of a sagging economy, overseas wars and elections, Obama declared in his sixth State of the Union address that “the shadow of the crisis has passed,” and he vowed

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lican issues, such as efforts to adopt legislation that would ban compulsory union dues. The 50-minute speech swung between sounding like a campaign speech (boasting of past accomplishments) to almost poetic language (“Because education is what plants the seeds of wonder, of curiosity, of excitement in a child; points them to opportunities and goals, inspires dreams about careers, and about better days; gives them hope”). She urged lawmakers to choose “progress over politics” and “courage over comfort, change over stagnation, reform over the status quo.”

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Popular Plaza-area artwork moving to Texas home

Index

Obama to GOP: ‘Turn the page’ President vows to fight for overlooked agenda in State of Union speech

By Staci Matlock

Little Mora County rolled the legal dice against a Goliath-sized industry opponent and lost. A federal judge has ruled that an oil and gas drilling ban adopted by the mostly rural northeastern New Mexico county is unconstitutional and invalid. Mora County isn’t the first local jurisdiction to impose restrictions on such activities with the goal of protecting the environment, but U.S. District Judge James O. Browning of Albuquerque said its ordinance went too far. In a 199-page ruling issued Monday, he said the ordinance violated the First Amendment by “chilling” protected activities by corporations. He also found the ordinance violates state law, and that the county lacks the authority to enforce it on state land. The ordinance grew out of concerns for protecting land and water after oil and gas companies in recent years leased mineral rights for more than 30,000 acres in Mora County. Residents became especially worried about potential water pollution from hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a drilling technique in which pressurized fluids are used to crack open underground rock formations and release oil and gas. Neighboring San Miguel County has approved land use regulations

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. MANDEL NGAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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recently sold the piece to a private collector for about $63,000. But don’t worry — a new, very similar piece will be put in its place within a week, just as another similar work, by the same artist, welcomed visitors to the corner for about 10 years before this one was installed. Bill Worrell, the multimedia artist who created the piece in the late 1990s — has made a plethora of representations of the primitive image, which he says is inspired by cave drawings thought to be up to 4,000 years old.

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INSIDE u Analysis: Very little of the president’s agenda will be accomplished. PAGE A-5

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Obituaries Eugene Graebner, Santa Fe Shirley Ruth Earp, 87, Santa Fe, Jan. 18 Mildred B.

Martin, 89, Santa Fe, Jan. 14 June Salazar Swartz Gonzales, Santa Fe, Jan. 16 PAGE A-10

Today Cooler with a shower or two. High 42, low 20. PAGE A-9

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