The Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 12, 2013

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Man held in year’s first homicide

About-face on Atalaya

Police identify a homeless man whose body was found Tuesday near Rosario Cemetery and say another homeless man, Orlando Yazzie, is held in connection with the death. LocAL news, A-6

SFPS agrees to downsize plans and move the school’s gym in response to neighbors’ complaints. The changes are expected to cost up to $500,000. PAge A-7

Builder indicted on fraud charges

Reflecting on 9/11 and 12 years of war that followed, many Santa Feans voice support for nonviolent solution to crisis in Syria

‘We just want peace’

Grand jury indicts man who walked away from high-end Santa Fe homes in 2008 By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Five years after he moved away from Santa Fe, abandoning a dozen unfinished luxury homes and leaving subcontractors, investors and others holding the bag, a former homebuilder now faces 10 criminal counts of embezzlement and fraud. William “Kal” Kalinowski, 68, who built upscale houses for two decades around Santa Fe and the Las Campanas subdivision before leaving town in 2008, was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in state District Court in Santa Fe. “So many were hurt,” said one of Kalinowski’s investors, real estate broker Michael D’Alfonso, on Wednesday. He told The New Mexican, “There were investors, partners, subcontractors, employees of subcontractors, buyers who had given him $200,000-plus in earnest money, people who lost lots. It’s hard to tell how many there were.” D’Alfonso said he lost “hundreds of thousands” to Kalinowski, but he doesn’t expect to see any of it back, no matter what happens in the case. He said he’s one of many people who

Mark Licht of Santa Fe, holding a sign saying, ‘No War Syriasly,’ protests with several others Wednesday outside the office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich at Marcy Plaza. Heinrich has said he would vote to support a strike on Syria. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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bell at the Santa Fe Fire Department’s Station No. 4 tolled 15 times Wednesday morning, signifying a firefighter had died in the line of service and was “coming home.” The solemn moment, commemorating the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people, including hundreds of firefighters, offered a sobering reminder that 12 years after the attack, America is still a country at war. The ceremony — and hundreds like it across the land — was all the more poignant this year as the nation debates the wisdom of yet another military strike in a foreign land. “We have to stop the violence,” said Pastor Kate Schlechter of the Christ Lutheran Church of Santa Fe, moments before local firefighters raised a flag during Wednesday’s ceremony at the fire station. While she didn’t condone the chemical-warfare

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u A U.N. report says both war crimes are escalating on both sides of conflict. PAge A-4

Firefighter Josh Mihelcic, from Santa Fe’s Fire Station No. 7, posts the colors during a 9/11 Day of Remembrance ceremony Wednesday at Station No. 4 on Arroyo Chamiso Road.

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A nationwide sigh of relief as Obama delays strikes

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By David Lightman

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — America exhaled Wednesday, relieved that the United States has avoided military involvement in Syria at least temporarily. The relief — the opposite of the rally-round-the-flag emotion common to such moments — suggested the country is entering a new post-Cold War, post9/11 era, reluctant if not openly hostile to armed intervention in faraway lands. Even while he asked Congress to delay a vote on airstrikes, President Barack Obama tried this week to argue that it’s crucial, that allowing Syria to go unpunished for the alleged use of chemical weapons would

Successful first ‘Dip’ More than 150 furry friends beat the heat in first-ever event at city pool. scooP, A-9

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Maria de Barros Jazz and traditional Cape Verde coladeira singer, 7:30 p.m. the Lensic, $15-$35, 9881234, ticketssantafe.org. More events in Calendar, Page A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

ANALYSIS

Colo. recall has lessons for gun-control advocates By Mark Z. Barabak Los Angeles Times

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For a time after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it seemed as if the politics of gun control might shift dramatically in favor of tougher restrictions. But less than a year after December’s shooting deaths in Newtown, Conn., it appears that outside a few Democratic-leaning states, expansive gun control is no more

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politically tenable now than it was before the 26 students and staff members died.

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The recall Tuesday of two Democratic Colorado senators, targeted because they voted to strengthen the state’s gun restrictions, was the latest setback for those seeking to reduce gun violence by making firearms less available. Colorado’s statewide gun controls, put in place after Sandy Hook and the July 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, a Denver suburb, include a 15-round limit on magazines, higher fees and universal

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Interim Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com

background checks, paid for by gun purchasers. Each of the provisions is supported by a majority of Coloradans, as gun control advocates are quick to note. But that failed to save either Colorado Springs’ John Morse, president of the state Senate, or fellow Democratic Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo. They became the first legislators in Colorado history to be kicked out of office before their

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obituaries Barbara Jean Cawley, 81, Santa Fe, Sept. 6 Michael E. Nevares, 87, San Diego, Aug. 18 PAge A-10

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Today Showers and an afternoon thunderstorm. High 71, low 56. PAge A-12

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