Santa Fe New Mexican, April 18, 2014

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Four justices recused in judicial pay suit

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Fifth justice will help appoint panel to rule on veto of 8 percent raise

City plans to offload impounds at auction

By Patrick Malone

The New Mexican

The New Mexico Supreme Court is taking a rare action in an effort to avoid a situation in which members of the high court would have to rule

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GOP lures support with gun giveaways

seeks to overturn Gov. Susana Martinez’s veto of an 8 percent pay raise for magistrates, district judges and Supreme Court justices that the Legislature included in the state budget. Justices Petra Jimenez Maes, Edward Chavez, Charles Daniels and Chief Justice Barbara Vigil are bowing out, while Justice Richard Bosson will serve as acting chief justice to preside over the case and appoint temporary justices to decide it.

on how much they get paid. Four justices have recused themselves from hearing a lawsuit that could affect not only their own their own pay but also that of other judges throughout the state. A fifth justice nonetheless will remain involved with the case in order to seat a temporary panel of appointed justices to rule on the matter. The suit, filed Monday by a group of judges and two state legislators,

“Reality is also the myths of the common people. I realized that reality isn’t just the police that kill people, but also everything that forms part of the life of the common people.” Gabriel García Márquez, 1927-2014

Survivors recall sharp turn, chaos aboard ferry

Nobel laureate, literary pioneer dies at age 87 Novelist Gabriel García Márquez seen as master of magic realism

By Choe Sang-Hun, Su-Hyun Lee and Jiha Ham The New York Times

JINDO, South Korea — It was a trip that the second-year students at Danwon High School had been eagerly awaiting, a last chance for fun before a grueling year of studying for the national university entrance exam. Soon after their ship left the port of Incheon on Tuesday night, the students celebrated by launching fireworks from the deck. About 12 hours later, everything went terribly wrong. Their ferry, the 6,825-ton Sewol, bound for the resort island of Jeju, tilted to the left for as-yet-unexplained reasons shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday and began sinking in the blue-gray waters off southwestern South Korea. There were 325 students among the 475 people believed aboard the ship, and more than 24 hours later, with bad weather having largely stymied a second day of search operations, 285 passengers were still missing. As of Thursday evening, the confirmed death toll was at 25, and 179 had been rescued. Rain, strong currents and poor visibility underwater hampered the efforts of divers from South Korea’s navy and coast guard to search the sunken ship. It is unclear why the Sewol leaned so far to port before sinking, and why so many aboard the ship were unable to escape, even though it took nearly 21/2 hours for the vessel to capsize and

By Jonathan Kandell Acoma Pueblo resident Monica Pasquale walks with daughter Mari Chino, 12, on U.S. 84/285 on their way to the Santuario de Chimayo on Thursday. The pair have been walking from Sky City Casino Hotel, located about 60 miles west of Albuquerque, since Sunday and estimate they will make it to Chimayó on Friday evening. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Paul Leyba of Rio Rancho walks on U.S. 84/285 on Thursday near The Santa Fe Opera on his way to the Santuario de Chimayó. Leyba, a former Marine, started his walk from the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

he state Department of Transportation has posted signs and traffic control devices along the most popular routes to El Santuario de Chimayó this week as the faithful began making their annual trek to the shrine in Northern New Mexico. Thousands are expected to make the Good Friday pilgrimage. Paul Leyba of Rio Rancho, a former Marine, started his walk Thursday from the Santa Fe National Cemetery. “I’m walking for all my brothers who can’t walk,” he said as he walked along U.S. 84/285. The Transportation Department is closing the right traffic lane on northbound U.S. 84/285 and on N.M. 599. Signs and electronic message boards also have been placed along parts of N.M. 76 and N.M. 503 to alert drivers. The New Mexican

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Hundreds oppose Aamodt water-rights settlement Objectors say contract is incomplete, ask judge to stay deadline By Staci Matlock

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Hundreds of New Mexicans are objecting to a water-rights settlement between the state and four pueblos, saying they’re being asked to sign off on an incomplete contract and potentially give up water, without having all their questions answered. People and businesses with domestic well rights in the NambePojoaque-Tesuque River Basin had until April 7 to object to the terms

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Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose One Hundred Years of Solitude established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. His death was confirmed by Cristóbal Pera, his former editor at Random House. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience. “Each new work of his is received by expectant critics and readers as an event of world importance,” the Swedish Academy of Letters said in awarding him the Nobel. García Márquez was considered the supreme exponent, if not the creator, of the literary genre known as magic realism, in which the miraculous and the real converge. In his novels and stories,

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PILGRIMS BEGIN TREK TO CHIMAYÓ SHRINE

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An order issued by the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would be unprecedented for a case before the Supreme Court to be decided by a panel that didn’t include at least one active justice to preside with the authority to appoint temporary justices, and Bosson agreed to take on that role. The Martinez administration, however, maintains that keeping Bosson

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of the Aamodt settlement at U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. The 2010 settlement reached by the state, city and county of Santa Fe and the pueblos of Nambe, Tesuque, San Ildefonso and Pojoaque establishes water rights for the pueblos in a case that stretches back more than half a century. Many of those objecting to the settlement are asking the federal judge assigned to the case, Judge Martha Vázquez, to stay the deadline until concerns and questions from those with domestic wells have been answered. “Why are they wasting my time trying to sell me on this when they haven’t finished everything?” said

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Santa Fe County Commissioner Kathy Holian and Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera sign the historic Aamodt water-rights pact during a ceremony March 14, 2013, at the Santa Fe Indian School. Also shown, from left, are other officials at the time: Tesuque Pueblo Gov. Mark Mitchell, Nambe Pueblo Gov. Phillip Perez, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn, San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. Terry Aguilar, Santa Fe Mayor David Coss and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

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