Santa Fe New Mexican, April 23, 2014

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Webber attacked for ties to Mark Rudd GOP blasts Democratic gubernatorial candidate after endorsement from Weather Underground co-founder By Steve Terrell

The New Mexican

Republicans on Tuesday ripped into Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alan Webber for accepting the endorsement of former Weather Underground co-founder — and longtime Albuquer-

que educator — Mark Rudd and attending a recent fundraiser at the home of Rudd and his wife. The controversy stirred up a little déjà vu after the 2008 presidential campaign in which Republicans made an issue of former Weatherman Bill Ayers

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hosting an event for President Barack Obama early in his political career or “pallin’ around with terrorists,” as thenGOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin put it. Webber on Tuesday didn’t disavow Rudd’s support and said that the Martinez campaign was trying to “change the subject” from recent bad publicity in a national magazine story.

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Police say they have not found any earphones at the site where a train fatally struck a bicyclist. LOCAL News, B-1

The third person in five weeks to be killed by officers was the daughter of a retired judge. LOCAL News, B-1

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TheN: An unidentified hydrographer works at Embudo in the late 1880s. COURTESY OF U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Water flow measurers mark 125 years on the Rio Grande Stream gauge technology first devised in New Mexico now struggles with funding

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1889

Year the Embudo stream gauge was installed.

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Number of U.S. Geological Survey stream gauges in the U.S. in 1968.

8,025

Number of USGS stream gauges in the West in 2012.

Number of all types of stream gauges in New Mexico in 1989.

Number of stream gauges in New Mexico in 2014.

or 125 years, a gauge near the village of Embudo has quietly measured the stream flow in the Rio Grande. The Embudo gauge is the oldest U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge in the nation, constructed in 1889 by a small group of newly minted civil engineers who endured a cold New Mexico winter in tents to refine methods for calculating how much water flowed through the West. The data from the Embudo stream gauge and thousands more like it now sprinkled along rivers around the United States have been vital in forecasting floods, sizing dams and bridges, determining water rights and helping irrigators plan for growing season. But Congress has never fully funded the 4,750 stream gauges the USGS identified a decade ago — at lawmakers’ request — as the backbone of a national system that

By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy

The New York Times

The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades. After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind

needs consistent federal backing. About a fourth of those gauges aren’t functioning, and most of the rest rely heavily or completely on money from state and local partners to keep operating. That leaves them vulnerable to cuts. “Every year, our partners face the same kind of budgetary constraints as we do,” said Suzette Kimball, acting director of the U.S. Geological Survey. “It is helpful to have consistent funding year in, year out. Otherwise, it depends wholly on how we’re able to negotiate agreements with other entities. We don’t have a guarantee from year to year that we’ll be able to maintain all of the gauges.”

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made clear that states are free to prohibit the use of racial considerations in university admissions, upholding Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning affirmative action. By a vote of 6 to 2, the court con-

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cluded that it was not up to judges to overturn the 2006 decision by Michigan voters to bar consideration of race when deciding who gets into the state’s universities. The ruling could encourage other states to join the handful that have such prohibitions, including California and Florida. Higher-education officials have warned that those states have seen a decline in the number of minorities

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admitted to their flagship universities. In effect, the ruling says that universities may still employ the limited consideration of race authorized in previous Supreme Court rulings. But it also said

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U.S. Supreme Court clears states to ban affirmative action at public universities By Robert Barnes

in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans. The numbers, based on surveys conducted over the past 35 years, offer some of the most detailed publicly available comparisons for different income groups in different countries over time. They suggest that most American families are paying a steep price for high and rising income inequality. Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of U.S. households is fully benefiting from it. Median income in Canada pulled into a tie

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NOw: From left, U.S. Geological Survey hydrographers Ryan Wienpahl and Mike Carlson talk to Jay Cederberg, USGS Albuquerque field office chief, about stream flow readings on the Rio Grande at the Embudo stream gauge.

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