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Panel blocks bill to let voters decide on legal marijuana The New Mexican
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana didn’t make it out of a state Senate committee Tuesday, and all sides agree that means New Mexico voters in November likely won’t get to vote on whether this state should follow Colorado and Washington state in legalizing, taxing and regulating the drug. The measure, Senate Joint Resolution 10, sponsored by state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, met an impasse in the Senate Rules Committee. There, five Democratic senators voted to pass the resolution on to the Senate Judiciary Committee with no recommendation. However, Sen. Clemente Sanchez, D-Grants, joined all four committee Republicans to vote against that move. That means SJR 10 is dead for this
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session — except in the unlikely event that someone has a change of mind. But even though the vote was a defeat for drug reform advocates and recreational marijuana enthusiasts, one New Mexico activist said there was a big silver lining in the committee’s debate. “We were really encouraged by the debate,” said Emily Kaltenbach, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance’s New Mexico office. “Some of the issues that were voiced in the past [by opponents] didn’t come up in the debate today. I think the tide is turning.” Polls in recent years have shown a growing support for marijuana
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Sundevils cling to crucial district win
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Dozens honor late Marine
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New Mexico students score far below U.S. average on AP exams By Kimberly Hefling
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico high school students ranked below the national average on Advanced Placement tests last year, a report released Tuesday shows. Overall, 12 percent of New Mexico students passed, compared to a national average of 20 percent. But the New Mexico scores have improved over the past decade, a period during which the number of U.S. public school students taking Advanced Placement classes nearly doubled. Advanced Placement exams, which started in the 1950s, offer a way for students to earn college credit while still in high school and are offered in 34 different subjects. The classes are designed to be rigorous and are graded in a uniform way, meaning students’ grades from one school can be matched up against those from another. Proponents say
they help transition students to college and allow graduates to stand out in the college admission process. The 10th annual report by the College Board also shows New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanic and low-income students who passed the tests. The report shows 43 percent of Hispanic students in New Mexico who took an AP test scored 3 points or more — the highest percent nationally of students achieving the grade many colleges and universities require to award college credit. At 53 percent, New Mexico also has the highest number of Hispanic high school students, and 46 percent of them took an AP test. Nearly 40 percent of low-income students in New Mexico who took an AP test passed. Much of the nationwide expansion in the number of students taking the tests stems from an effort
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Military funeral pays tribute to veteran who died alone By Phaedra Haywood
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Pair will testify against niece of Chimayó victim By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
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Two women have pleaded guilty in the beating and stabbing death of a 64-year-old Chimayó man during a burglary at his home in October 2012 that allegedly had been planned by the man’s niece. Angel Baldonado, 24, of Ohkay Owingeh and Sheanee Martinez, 20,
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of Chimayó pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder in the death of Rudy Montoya, a longtime Las Vegas, N.M., educator, in an agreement to testify against the niece, Rhiannon Montoya, when she faces trial next month on a charge of first-degree murder. According to an arrest warrant, Martinez admitted to police that she stabbed Rudy Montoya 40 to 47 times after she and Baldonado had beaten him with a baseball bat in a bloody prelude to a burglary. The women reportedly stole a computer from Montoya’s home, as well as his
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car, which later was found burning in the Lyden area. Baldonado and Martinez also pleaded guilty to burglary and tampering with evidence Friday before First District Judge Mary MarloweSommer. The two originally were charged with first-degree homicide and aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon, District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco said. The body of Rudy Montoya, who reportedly worked at Northern New
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Women plead guilty in fatal burglary
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he streets of downtown Santa Fe shut down temporarily Tuesday to make way for the funeral procession of a reclusive former Marine who died alone in his home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Retired Sgt. Eloy Timothy Tafoya was described as a “loner” by the few people who knew him. But his tragic death by his own hand in a Santa Fe apartment in January struck a chord with dozens of people who gathered at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in the veteran’s honor.
Tafoya, 60, was described by the few who knew him as a reclusive man, and he died alone in his home from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. ‘Knowing he died alone was so upsetting,’ said funeral attendee Taneya Vigil, wiping tears from her face as she left the ceremony.
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Chaplin José Villegas of the Santa Fe Police Department presides over funeral services Tuesday for retired Marine Sgt. Eloy Timothy Tafoya at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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