The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 1, 2014

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Oklahoma gov. calls for execution review State’s execution process in question after botched procedure fell short of White House’s humane standards. PAge A-3

Experiment grows new muscles in legs Some patients improved enough to toss canes or ride bikes. PAge A-2

New rules for buskers approved Performers see council decision as obstacle By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Cue the sad trombone. Street performers in Santa Fe face new restrictions on when and where they can perform and more regulatory oversight after the City Council approved changes to the busking ordinance Wednesday night. Complaints from some Plaza vendors and businesses that street performers can be a nuisance, with unwelcome clamor and sometimes aggressive and illegal antics, were the impetus for the changes. But some street performers, also known as buskers, see increased city regulation as an obstacle to their livelihoods, if not an infringement on their civil rights and an insult to their art. A letter to the city from the American Civil Liberties Union warned that the measure could impose restrictions that encroach on the

Passenger speaks out on fatal chase

By Steve Terrell

The New Mexican

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“I told her to stop and not to worry about it,” Muñoz recalled. “If she went to jail … we could get her out.” Anaya insisted she only wanted to get home and would deal with the police officer there, Muñoz said, adding that he didn’t know at the time something investigators would later discover: that Anaya had cocaine in her bloodstream. “Everything was so chaotic,” he said, his voice quavering as he sat at a table in his lawyer’s office. “It’s kind of hard to say what exactly I was thinking at that point. Of

Democrats seeking to oust Republican incumbent Gov. Susana Martinez in November apparently won’t get help from one of the biggest Democratic contributors in the last gubernatorial race. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who chairs the Democratic Governors Association, said what some national Peter Shumlin pundits have been saying for a long time: He doesn’t expect a Democrat to win the gubernatorial race in New Mexico. He also mentioned Nevada and Texas as probable losses for Democratic gubernatorial candidates. Real Clear Politics, a national website, quoted Shumlin saying Tuesday, “I wish that we could spend money for Democrats in all 50 states. My job is not to promote governors’ races in states where we can’t win.” In 2010, the Democratic governors group contributed more than $306,500 directly to the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, plus another $25,000 to the state Democratic Party that year. The association also spent more than $770,000 on “media buys” — television time for campaign ads — for Denish in 2010, according to documents on the Secretary of State’s Office campaign finance website. Martinez’s campaign spokesman, Chris Sanchez, told The New Mexican on Wednesday, “While we fully

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Of course I wanted her to stop, but “ at the same time, I was afraid what the officer would do.” Jeremy Muñoz

April Elaine Martinez, 37, April 24

Jeremy Muñoz, 33, who was in the car with Jeanette Anaya, right, when she was shot and killed by a state police officer in November 2013 following a chase through Santa Fe, speaks about the incident Wednesday in the office of his attorney, Mark Donatelli. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Today Some showers. High 58, low 35. PAge A-12

National Democrat group won’t aid gov. rivals Vermont governor predicts loss for Dems in race against Martinez

Obituaries

Martha Harrington Ludlam, April 22

LOcAL news, A-6

Friend recounts officer’s shooting of Jeanette Anaya, opens up about personal struggles coping with trauma

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Helen Rivera, 79, April 27

ATC educators surprised with teaching honor

Eric Carlson and Devon Ayers of the Academy for Technology and the Classics were the first two educators to receive Teachers Who Inspire Awards for 2014.

old driver while Muñoz crouched on the floor of the car next to her. As Anaya’s car sped down t was about 1 a.m. on a cool various streets and the siren wailed November night when Jeremy from the pursuing police car, Muñoz found himself riding in Muñoz recalled, he kept turning a Honda Accord at speeds up his head to see what Officer Oliver to 87 mph through a south-central Wilson would do. Santa Fe neighborhood. He pleaded with Anaya to pull His friend, Jeanette Anaya, over, he said, but she told him she had decided she wasn’t going to didn’t want to because there was a pull over for a state police officer warrant for her arrest. The warrant and was leading the officer on a was for a misdemeanor charge of chase, Muñoz said in an interview concealing her identity during a Wednesday. He was speaking publicly for the first time about the Nov. traffic stop a few months earlier. She was trying to reach the home she 7 incident, which ended with the officer fatally shooting the 39-year- shared with parents, Muñoz said.

By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

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cOmIng FrIdAy In PAsA Drunktown’s Finest, by Sydney Freeland, is a moving coming-of-age tale that follows the lives of three Navajo youths struggling to escape the harsh realities of reservation life. The film shows at 10:15 p.m. Friday at CCA’s Cinematheque.

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santa Fe Film Festival International documentaries, shorts, feature films and accompanying events; hosted at Jean Cocteau Cinema and CCA Cinematheque; today through Sunday, May 4, tickets available online at santafefilmfestival. com. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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Calendar A-2

Classifieds B-6

Better living standards cleave poverty debate By Annie Lowrey

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Is a family with a car in the driveway, a flat-screen television and a computer with an Internet connection poor? Americans — even many of the poorest Americans — enjoy a level of material abundance unthinkable just a generation or two ago. That indisputable economic fact has become a subject of bitter political debate this year, half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty. Starkly different views on poverty and inequality rose to the fore again Wednesday as Democrats in the Senate were unable to muster the supermajority of 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster of a proposal to raise the incomes of the working poor by lifting the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

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House Republicans, led by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have convened a series of hearings on poverty, including one Wednesday, in some cases arguing that hundreds of billions of dollars of government spending a year may have made poverty easier or more comfortable but has done little to significantly limit its reach. Indeed, despite improved living standards, the poor have fallen further behind the middle class and the affluent in both income and consumption. The same global economic trends that have helped drive down the price of most goods also have limited the well-paying industrial jobs once available to a huge swath of working Americans. And the cost of many important services crucial to escaping poverty — including education, health care and child care — has soared.

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Opinion A-11

Sports B-1

Tammie Hagen-Noey stands outside the group home where she lives, an anarchist collective in Richmond, Va., on Sunday. For Hagen-Noey, her $7.25 hourly wage from McDonald’s is not enough to raise her out of poverty. DREW ANGERER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

InsIde u U.S. economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate. PAge A-4 u Senate Republicans block minimum wage bill. PAge A-3

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