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Wedding expo celebrates marriage equality Over 30 vendors to take part in state’s first nuptial-planning event catered to gay couples
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Craft beer industry takes off as Santa Fe Brewing Co. plans expansion. LOcAL newS, A-6
There will be men dressed in bridal gowns. Women in tuxedos. And a cake filled with passion fruit, Grand Marnier and coco-
Weak jobs report Report shows U.S. employers added 74,000 jobs in December, leaving baffled economists struggling for explanations. PAge A-3
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nut, iced with bourbon vanilla butter cream. More than 30 vendors are scheduled to participate Saturday in what is billed as New Mexico’s first lesbian/gay/bisexual/ transgender (LGBT) wedding expo. Experts will be there to help same-sex couples plan every aspect of their wedding day — from flowers to photography, music and food. Dominic Silva, marketing and sales man-
Chef Andrea Clover decorates a cake on Friday. The cake is for the state’s first LGBT wedding expo, which will take place Saturday at the Courtyard by Marriott.
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Baillio’s calls it quits in S.F. Electronics retailer to close Jan. 31; owner says chain will consolidate into Albuquerque location
Heinrich rises as a leading NSA foe N.M. senator, who once supported program, now breaks rank as opponent By Ali Watkins
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Last May, Senate Intelligence Committee rookie Martin Heinrich was just settling into his new Senate office, five floors above the committee’s fiercely guarded headquarters — finally wrapping his head around some of the intelligence matters he’d recently been Martin tasked to oversee Heinrich — when Edward Snowden happened. Suddenly, the world was filled with news of National Security Agency surveillance programs whose scope Heinrich had only begun to grasp. “All of that came to a head very quickly,” said Heinrich, who’d attended his first intelligence briefing just six months before Snowden’s leak of documents exposed the NSA’s massive collection of Americans’ cellphone and Internet data. “I started to realize that the program was much more expansive than my assumption when I was in the House.”
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Today Plenty of sunshine. High 49, low 26. PAge A-12
Obituaries Joan Caryl Rosenthal Berner, 87, Santa Fe, Jan. 9 Patrick Esquibel, Santa Fe, Jan. 6 Horace Lowery “Bud” Hagerman, Santa Fe, Jan. 8 Charissa Kerrisk-Lopez,
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Carlsbad, Dec. 31 Mary L. McCreight, 89, Santa Fe, Jan. 2 Arcenio H. Ortiz, 61, Santa Fe, Jan. 7 Vivian R. Padilla, 78, Albuquerque, Jan. 2 Pita Sanchez, 75, Pojoaque, Jan. 8 PAge A-7, A-8
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Baillio’s, an electronics and appliances retailer in Santa Fe for 28 years, announced Friday that it will close at the end of the month. ‘Due to current economic conditions we regretfully announce that the time has come to close Baillio’s Santa Fe and liquidate our entire Santa Fe inventory,’ says an advertisement for Baillio’s in today’s New Mexican. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
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aillio’s, the family-owned appliance store that has stood along Cerrillos Road for 28 years, announced Friday that it is closing at the end of the month. The store, 3294 Cerrillos Road, is one of two owned by Jack Baillio with other family members. A second Baillio’s store, on Menaul Boulevard in Albuquerque, will remain open. Mike Baca, the general manager of the Santa Fe store, said Jack Baillio came by Friday to tell employees in person about the closing. The store’s last day is Jan. 31.
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U.S. to honor Utah’s same-sex marriages Attorney General Eric Holder says marriages that took place in Utah are still legal under federal law. PAge A-4
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Retail businesses have been especially hard hit the last few years, as competition from online sales has whittled away revenues of brick-and-mortar stores. The electronics front has been especially hurt — particularly in smaller cities where there are specialty electronics stores such as Best Buy. With appliances and mattresses, Baillio’s catered to middle-class buyers who needed midpriced products, often with delivery or installation. And although pricing at Baillio’s was often the same of better than that at chain stores, the bigger retailers — with more purchasing power and larger advertising budgets — often had the advantage.
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Impact of Target data breach grows
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Baca said Friday was a stressful day for the family, and that Jack Baillio did not want to talk with The New Mexican. Many of the store’s 13 full-time employees have been with the company several years and learned of the closing Friday for the first time, he added. An advertisement in Saturday’s New Mexican says, “Due to current economic conditions we regretfully announce that the time has come to close Baillio’s Santa Fe and liquidate our entire Santa Fe inventory. All remaining assets will be consolidated into one Albuquerque store where we will continue to focus on providing New Mexico customers with the best selection, prices and customer service.”
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Company says number of affected customers could top 100 million By Jia Lynn Yang and Amrita Jayakumar
The Washington Post
Target said Friday that the thieves who stole massive amounts of credit and debit card info during the holiday season also swept up names, addresses and phone numbers of 70 million customers, information that could put victims at greater risk for identity theft. Every bit of added data helps criminals develop more sophisti-
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cated tactics for either impersonating victims or luring them to give up more sensitive information, according to security experts. “These criminals are building up dossiers on individuals,” said Avivah Litan, a fraud and security analyst at Gartner, a research firm. “Let’s say they have Mary Jane. Now they’ve got her email, her name and her address, and now they have her credit card. So now she’s easier to target.” The Target breach already ranks as one of the worst ever. During the peak of holiday shopping last month, Target said that up to 40 million customers’ credit and debit card information had been stolen from people who shopped in stores
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from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15. On Friday, the company said a new group of 70 million customers — some of whom might also have had their card data stolen — have had their personal information compromised, as well. The full extent of the attack is still unknown as Target continues its investigation, although the total number of shoppers affected by the attack may be more than 100 million, according to Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder. The company said it doesn’t know how many customers have found fraudulent charges on their credit or debit cards so far, but indi-
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