The Santa Fe New Mexican, June 17, 2013

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U.S. Open: Justin Rose captures his first major title

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Council to consider ammo ban Attorney, gunsmith say city could face lawsuits over controversial rule

zines allowed in the city limits. Councilors Patti Bushee and Ron Trujillo and Mayor David Coss are backing a plan for the city to prohibit possession and sales of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and other gun accessories that the proposed ordinance calls “high capacity ammunition feeding devices.” A city attorney believes the proposed ordinance might put the local

By Julie Ann Grimm The New Mexican

The Santa Fe City Council is scheduled to weigh a proposal next week that would impose strict regulations on the number of bullets in gun maga-

government at risk of lawsuits, and councilors have heard both encouragement and opposition to the idea from city residents. Even Bushee, who introduced the idea, admits there will be enforcement challenges. For example, the proposal would exempt magazines and other devices that were already “legally possessed” at the time the ordinance goes into effect, but does not delineate how

Many semi-automatic handguns are sold with magazines that hold up to 15 shells. Under a proposed city ordinance, magazines holding more than 10 rounds would be prohibited. Gun owners can order 10-round magazines, but it could take several months to receive the special order.

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Worth the wait Santa Fe man returns to family after 10 months across the border on a mission to secure a visa and a path to citizenship

Retired teacher Ted Freedman, shown in April running with Wood Gormley Elementary School students, is hoping to qualify for the Kona Ironman via a video contest. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Retired teacher closer to Kona Triathlete, 64, makes first cut in video contest for spot in Ironman competition By Julie Ann Grimm The New Mexican

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ed Freedman has it all mapped out in his head. First, he’ll swim 2.4 miles in the waves of the Pacific Ocean off the Kona Pier. Then, he’ll bike 112 miles along the “Queen K” Highway in Hawaii’s 90 percent humidity. Finally, he’ll run a marathon distance of 26.2 miles, including several miles through baking black lava fields. When he crosses the finish line more than 13 hours after he begins the race, an announcer will say, “Ted Freedman, you are an Ironman.” “I want to hear that,” he said in a recent interview, “and I will be carrying all of Santa Fe in my heart across the finish line.” He will be exhausted, he said, but he will be smiling. Freedman retired this year as a physical education teacher at Wood Gormley Elementary school after 17 years at a job in which he served as inspiration to thousands of Santa Fe children. Although he’s already completed one Ironman, he’s now got his sights set on finishing what’s known as the most arduous race on the competitive

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QuesT for KonA Ted Freedman is a finalist in the Kona Inspired Internet video contest, which could earn him a spot in the 2013 Kona Ironman competition. To watch his video, visit www.konated.com to vote from now to June 27. People may vote once each day.

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Currents 2013 The Santa Fe International New Media Festival experimental documentaries Program 1, Video Shorts, six free screenings beginning at 7:30 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia.

Today Warm and partly cloudy. High 88, low 58. PAge A-12

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Cities worldwide brace for rising seas

BONN, Germany — From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people

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Rodriguez waits at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez for a physical exam June 11, the last step before the issuance of a visa.

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Editor’s note: This article is a follow-up to one that appeared in The New Mexican on Dec. 2, 2012, reporting on the early steps in José Guadalupe Rodriguez Ortiz’s effort to become a legal resident of the United States. At that time, he had returned to his birthplace near Aguascalientes, México, to begin the long wait, which concluded Friday with a visa allowing him to return to Santa Fe.

uring his last days in Mexico, José Guadalupe Rodriguez Ortiz waited in a hotel room next to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez. As the days wore on the temperature climbed to 106 degrees, a record for an early June day in this gritty border city across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Waiting was nothing new for the 30-year-old Santa Fe man, who had been born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, but raised since age 10 in Santa Fe. He had been waiting 10 months for permission to re-enter the U.S. and to return to his wife and two young children. The long wait ended Friday, a little before noon, when Rodriguez walked across the Ysleta International Bridge into El Paso, showed his U.S. visa to Customs and Border Protection agents and met his waiting family at a McDonald’s restaurant just north of the border. “I’m here, I’m here,” were his first words after re-entering the USA. “I can’t believe it.” Rodriguez’s adventure began last Labor Day, when he crossed the border into Mexico, knowing that he might never get the chance to return.

By Karl Ritter

As energy boom sweeps nation’s driest spots, drilling technique sucks up precious water and drives up costs. PAge A-6

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BY TIMOTHY ROBERTS FOR THE NEW MEXICAN

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on adapting to climate change. The first story appeared in Sunday’s edition.

Fracking fuels water fight

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José Guadalupe Rodriguez Ortiz is shown with his daughter, Yanelie, 4, wife, Nancy Solis-Rodriguez, and son, Youanie, 11, on Friday at a McDonald’s, Rodriguez’s first stop after crossing the border into El Paso. PHOTOS COURTESY TIMOTHY ROBERTS

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Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com

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and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming. Some are planning cities that will simply adapt to more water. But climate-proofing a city or coastline is expensive, as shown by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $20 billion plan to build floodwalls, levees and other defenses against rising seas. The most vulnerable places are those

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with the fewest resources to build such defenses, secure their water supplies or move people to higher ground. How to pay for such measures is a burning issue in U.N. climate talks, which just wrapped up a session in the German city of Bonn. A sampling of cities around the world and what they are doing to prepare for the climatic forces that scientists say are being unleashed by global warming:

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