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JOE SANDO JEMEZ WRITER DIES
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Joe Sando, who became the first Jemez Pueblo member to chronicle life in the tribe as a historian and writer, died Tuesday. He was 88. Sando had been an active member and founder of a number of boards, councils and commissions on Native American issues. He was widely known for his work on Pueblo life ... - PAGE A9
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SANTA FE (AP) — A judge is allowing Republican Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration to move ahead with a limited investigation to determine whether some immigrants with a New Mexico driver’s license still live in the state. District Judge Sarah Singleton on Tuesday decided that some residency checks can continue although she’s putting on hold the administration’s broad plan for potentially certifying the licenses of tens of thousands of foreign nationals, including those living illegally in the country.
Green drops pipeline appeal
The judge said she would issue an injunction to block the program pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. New Mexico is one of only three states — the others are Washington and Utah — where an illegal immigrant can get a driver’s license because no proof of citizenship is required. However, Utah’s permits cannot be used as government ID cards. Martinez wants the Legislature to repeal a 2003 law that allows illegal
immigrants to get a driver’s license. She contends the state has become a magnet for license fraud and outof-state immigrants coming to New Mexico only to get a license and then leave. More than 80,000 licenses have been issued so far to foreign nationals although the state is uncertain how many went to illegal immigrants because it doesn’t ask applicants about their immigration status. To help detect possible See LICENSES, Page A8
ROUNDHOUSE DAY 6 JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Contradicting the views coming from the Republican party that the legislative special session is progressing slowly, Senate President Pro Tem T im Jennings, D-Roswell, said the session is moving no slower than any other time. “Last time (redistricting) took 17 days. We’re not there yet.” Jennings said the hold-
It’s time to move on
up for redistricting is due in large part to the Native American groups. “We have to look at them as a recognized interest under federal law and federal court and they didn’t get their information to the state with their recommended interests [for redistricting] until Friday. Had we started on Sept. 12, which the leadership and the legislature recomSee DAY 6, Page A8
JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Lawyers representing a Roswell businessman seeking to build a water pipeline from Fort Sumner to Santa Fe have dropped their appeal of the state engineer’s order denying applications for the pipeline. However, efforts to build the pipeline continue. Attorneys with the Santa Fe-based law firm Montgomery and Andrews P.A., representing Ron Green,
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Migration season has begun at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge as various waterfowl take flight Tuesday morning.
Same goal, opposing plans Warner will stand See APPEAL, Page A8
DOUBLE OVERTIME!
All season Roswell boys soccer coach James Vernon has said that the biggest thing his Coyotes need to work on is finishing. While they still need some work in that department, they finished enough on Tuesday to beat Hobbs 2-1 in double overtime. The two teams played a scoreless first half, although Vernon said it could have easily been 4-0 in favor of the Coyotes. “This game easily should have been 6-1,” he said. “We hit the post probably three times today. ...” - PAGE B1
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a bruising struggle, Republicans on Congress’ power ful deficit-fighting “supertargeted committee” Social Security and gover nment health care spending Tuesday while Democrats pressed for higher tax revenue as part of any deal to reduce red ink by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. There were no ultimatums from either side, and there was even a fleeting suggestion that tax reform might eventually clear the way for the bipartisan agreement that both sides say they want. Yet with the Census Bureau reporting national poverty at a 28-year high
trial for 8/27 incident JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Co-Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., shakes hands with Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf prior to Elmendorf testifying before the committee, Tuesday. and partisan struggles
flaring elsewhere in Con-
scored the challenge the 12-member panel faces as
Defense attorney Jesse Cosby filed a motion, Tuesday, to dismiss the charges against Ezekial Jamal Warner, 17, on the grounds that he had been denied due process when his client had been moved to a facility in Clovis. Warner is charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapons, ar med robbery and unlawful possession of handgun after officers responded to West Martin Street near Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell on Aug. 27 where Warner allegedly pulled out a firearm at a party and demanded money and valu-
ables from the students. Cosby stated that the transfer had taken place without notifying council. “The state has taken actions to prevent me from seeing him,” Cosby said. In addition, he noted that because of the separation he had not had time to confer with his client and prepare a defense prior to the preliminary hearing. “The case has a tremendous number of interviews and a tremendous number of witnesses.” Cosby said he felt his client should not be tried as an adult and asked if he was, Cosby be allowed a continuance to prepare.
C of C search is on Roswell Reads (and sings) Emily Dickinson’s poetry EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The Roswell Chamber of Commerce is accepting resumes until Oct. 7, to fill its executive director position, soon to be vacated by Dorrie Faubus-McCarty. Faubus-McCarty, who has been the executive director of the chamber since July 2009, resigned from her position earlier this month and will be the new advertising director for the Roswell Daily Record. Chamber president David Duer said the chamber board of directors in a meeting Friday decided not to elect an interim executive director but instead have staff members, especially chamber office manager Kathleen Curtis, take on added responsibilities until the position is filled. The chamber board of
gress, the events under-
directors on Friday also approved a process to begin searching for a new director. After the Oct. 7 application deadline, a search committee comprised of three board of directors members and two active chamber members, will be formed to interview applicants and recommend a candidate for approval to the full board of directors. Former chamber president and present board of directors member Brad Houston will head the search committee. A majority vote of approval from the 21-member board of directors will be required to approve the new executive director, according to chamber bylaws. The ideal candidate will have past managerial expeSee SEARCH, Page A3
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With a folk song and a commercial jingle, Annemarie Oldfield, director of the High Plains Writing Project, hoped she was not committing literary blasphemy for the sake of making Emily Dickinson poems more accessible. “Is it sacrilege ... to sing some of these (poems) to these lighthearted tunes?” she asked the audience at the Roswell Reads kickoff event at the Mark Wilson Photo Roswell Museum and Art Center, Tuesday evening. Sarah Parson checks out her new, free copy of “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson” during The Big Read, Tuesday evening, at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. See EMILY, Page A8