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A judge issued an arrest warrant for luxury home builder William “Kal” Kalinowski after he failed to show up to court Monday. LocAL News, A-6
Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry hopes to overcome attacks on his handling of the city’s scandal-plagued police department and lackluster economic recovery to win a second term on Tuesday. LocAL News, A-6
Santa Fe loses ‘spiritual mother’ Mary Lou Cook, founder of the Living Treasures program, dies at age 95. LocAL News, A-6
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Focus shifts to debt limit as shutdown continues By David Espo
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets in the U.S. and overseas. A gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the threats. Stocks got a case of the jitters on Wall Street, and halfway around the world China stressed the importance for the international economy of raising the U.S. debt limit. “Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the U.S. and the world,” Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China holds $1.277 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, second only to Japan. At home, the political rhetoric was unchanged — and generally uncompromising — while a new poll suggested Republicans are paying a heavier price than Democrats for the deadlock. President Barack Obama said the House should vote immediately on ending the partial closure of
Please see DeBT, Page A-5 Maya Mulligan, 2, gives Pedro Romero money while he performs on the Plaza on Monday. Romero, a professional musician who plays at La Boca every Friday, said he loves playing on the Plaza at lunchtime during the week. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Lone dissenter on copper rule leaves water commission
Councilors shelve proposed busker ban on Plaza, plan to rethink approach By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
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proposal to ban buskers from the heart of the Santa Fe Plaza and restrict them to designated areas in the periphery is off the table. For now, anyway. City Councilor Chris Calvert said Monday he is withdrawing a rewrite of the ordinance governing street performers on public property. “We’ll go back to the drawing board in terms of a different approach and process,” he said. Calvert said an earlier proposal wasn’t
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An evening with Paul Hawken “Commerce, Climate and Community,” lecture by the environmentalist, entrepreneur and author, 7 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, $15-$30, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
obituaries Margaret Bluck Gonzales, 81, Santa Fe, Oct. 5 Paula Gage, 55, Santa Fe, Oct. 1 Edward Joseph Filemyr III, 80, Santa Fe, Oct. 4 Donald Tusk, 78, Santa Fe, Oct. 4
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fully vetted. “It wasn’t ready for public hearing, and that’s my fault,” he said. “I needed to do more work in advance meeting with the various parties before we proposed what we proposed.” The councilor, who represents the north-side District 1, said the idea was prompted by complaints from business owners, residents and tourists. “I think we have to look at some of those complaints in terms of: Were they distinguishing between buskers and panhandlers?” he said. “I think a lot of people lump those together … and that’s not fair.” The city in recent years has allowed
musicians to perform for tips in and around the Plaza park if they obtain a city permit. However, the proposed ordinance would have banned street performers from the Plaza and surrounding streets, including Old Santa Fe Trail from San Francisco to Water streets. Buskers could perform only in five designated areas outside the Plaza and no later than 9 p.m. under the proposal. Buskers interviewed Monday said the decision to shelve the proposal was music to their ears. “I thought it was a stupid idea to begin
By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
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Possible curriculum changes generate anxiety at SFhS District to announce plans at Oct. 15 school board meeting By Robert Nott
The New Mexican
Santa Fe High School parents, students — and, apparently, some teachers — aren’t happy with the school district’s plans for major academic changes at the high school level. They fear the new plan would force incoming freshmen to choose a line of study for a career pathway while eliminating electives that may perk interest in alternative careers and thus keep more students in school. Also, some express concern that developing eight or nine such career pathways between the two public high school campuses will limit a student’s options when choosing a high school. But the anxiety may be driven by a lack of communication within the schools and the district, as Santa Fe Public Schools hasn’t formally committed to any one restructuring plan yet. Administrators plan to unveil budget projections and more specific details at the next school board meeting, scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
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Oct. 15 at the district’s Educational Services Center on Alta Vista Street. Almudena “Almi” Abeyta, the district’s chief academic officer, and Michael Hagele, secondary school reform facilitator, said by phone Monday that the goal is to find a way to engage all students by offering a number of options built around career pathways. For example, students interested in engineering would focus on that topic from 10th to 12th grade. That approach could cut back on opportunities to take an elective outside that pathway. The district is still considering creating small freshmen academic environments in its two high schools — Capital and Santa Fe High. Also on the burner is a proposed International Baccalaureate school for sevenththrough 12th-graders. The district has already committed to an alternative high school setting that will open at Zona del Sol in January. Abeyta and Hagele stressed that any new program wouldn’t affect students currently enrolled at either high school, so those in grades 9-12 will continue with their studies as planned. “This is not going to happen overnight,” Abeyta said. “We are not going to change
The only member of a New Mexico regulatory commission who voted last month against a controversial copper mining rule resigned Monday. Doug Bland, a geologist with New Mexico Tech, cited work-related reasons for stepping down from the state Water Quality Control Commission and the Mining Commission, which he chaired. However, skeptics in the environmental community suspect political factors, suggesting that Bland was pressured to leave as a result of votes he cast earlier this year. They see Bland’s departure as the latest victory for Gov. Susana Martinez’s goal of stacking environmental and mining commissions with industry-friendly people in order to undo or weaken previously adopted environmental regulations. “I think the Martinez administration cannot tolerate dissent of any kind and he was removed,” said Bruce Frederick, attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. Bland had served on the commissions as the designee of the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources director, who, by statute, has a seat on both commissions. Bland said in a statement that his resignation was a mutual decision between himself and the bureau’s
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Making the cut Santa Fe EcoWood is ready for the wood-burning season with a new wood yard on the southwest side.
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