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Wurzburger joins crowded race for mayor Half of council members now in running to get on ballot for city’s top job By Julie Ann Grimm
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City Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger threw a party Thursday on the terrace of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center to declare her plans to run for mayor in the spring municipal election.
While guests noshed on hors d’oeuvres and the odor of lilies mixed with smells from an afternoon rain storm, Wurzburger talked about the challenges the city is facing. “It’s my belief that the mayor’s No. 1 job at this point in Santa Fe’s history is to lead a new economic revitalization in Santa Fe, by focusing the council … and community’s attention on creating initiatives like those visionary ideas of the past that have made us both unique and prosperous,” she said. Among the “visionary ideas” she
cited were the founding of The Santa Fe Opera, the farmers market, the Railyard redevelopment, the restoration of the Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Indian, Spanish and International Folk Art markets. Her announcement means half of the city’s eight councilors want to be on the mayoral ballot in the March 2014 election. Councilors Patti Bushee, Bill Dimas and Chris Rivera all said this summer that they will campaign
City Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger announces her candidacy for mayor in front of friends, family and supporters on Thursday afternoon at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.
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Fake officer arrested after stopping N.M. police agents
THE HEAT IS ON ROASTERS PUT CHILE SEASON IN FULL SWING
26-year-old Logan, N.M., man faces charges of impersonating a cop The New Mexican
Chris Duran of Taos, with Los Chile Bros, roasts a batch of Hatch chile Tuesday in the Big Lots parking lot on Cerrillos Road. The roasting operation, now in its 27th year, will be roasting chile from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday until October. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN The New Mexican
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ew Mexico will have a bumper crop of chile this year, according to Stephanie Walker, vegetable specialist with the New Mexico State University extension office. “We are going to have a very good year with above-average yield,” she said Thursday, noting that low rainfall meant diseases and pests weren’t as much of a factor as in previous years. “This year, it really came together and we didn’t have any serious challenges,” she said About 9,500 acres of chile peppers are grown in New Mexico each year, about half of which is green chile.
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Health audit targets executive pay of providers Tax records from nonprofits show CEO incomes vary widely By Steve Terrell
RIGHT: A bumper crop of chile is expected this year, according the NMSU extension office.
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Wal-Mart pushes big beer sales Since last September, the world’s largest retailer has aggressively moved to grab a market share of the $45 billion beer industry, doubling the number of its alcohol buyers and offering discounts on a range of brands, from mainstream Coors to such craft beers as Deschutes, as well as designing new stores to put the suds front and center. PAge A-6
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New year brings new expectations Going back to school is different every year, especially for highschoolers. Generation Next talks to four students about their expectations and goals for the 2013-14 school year. generATIOn nexT, D-1
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Authorities say a man driving a truck with police lights on top made a crucial misstep during a bogus traffic stop in Northern New Mexico. Police say the two men he pulled over for speeding were real state police agents in an unmarked vehicle. According to New Mexico State Police, John Shelton, 26, of Logan, N.M., was arrested Wednesday following the sham traffic stop on N.M. 104, between Las Vegas, N.M., and Trementina, in San Miguel County. John Shelton A news release said the police agents were traveling in a black Ford truck belonging to the New Mexico State Police when they noticed a white Dodge truck was following close behind. When the driver of the Dodge truck activated red and white emergency lights and conducted a traffic stop, the statement said, the agents were under the impression the driver of the truck was a fellow law enforcement officer. Investigators say Shelton, dressed in T-shirt and jeans, had a pistol on his hip when he approached the driver’s side of the agents’ truck and told the
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When state Human Services Department Secretary Sidonie Squier announced that an outside audit had determined there was evidence of massive Medicaid fraud among 15 mental health providers in the state, she said that one of the audit’s findings was “unusual compensation and/or benefits for key stakeholders” in the nonprofits and that some of the providers’ chief executive officers were “improperly getting rich off Medicaid funds.” Indeed, the issue of compensation for executives of providers has been a controversial part of the recent behavioral-health investigation — which has left nearly all the agencies under investigation with their Medicaid funding frozen by the state. At a recent news conference in Albuquerque, several Democratic legislators blasted the administration for paying the CEOs of five Arizona mental health care providers $300 an hour to take over management of New Mexico firms under investigation. Meanwhile, earlier this week, the Albuquerque Journal reported that a leaked portion of the audit showed that the couple who run one of the agencies,
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