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A loss, then a raid The FBI searches controversial Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella’s home the day after he loses his re-election bid to a former deputy.
Rodeo groups end legal battle over accountability after board shake-up Interim president says focus should be on competition By Patrick Malone
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A legal battle between the boards of two organizations involved with Santa Fe’s rodeo is over, but not before a shake-up that purged members of one of the boards. In February, Rodeo Property Inc., which
owns the Santa Fe Rodeo Grounds on the city’s south side, filed a lawsuit against the board of Rodeo de Santa Fe, the nonprofit that manages the annual event. The complaint sought a court order for more detailed financial accountability from Rodeo de Santa Fe, which some Rodeo Property board members characterized as lax to the point of jeopardizing state and city financial support for development of an indoor arena on the rodeo grounds. Court records show the suit was dismissed
May 22, days after a shake-up left Jim Runer in control of the Rodeo Property board. Runer had been a member of the other board and was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. His new position allowed him to vote to end the suit. Runer said it was in the best interest of both boards to end the litigation. He said he prefers to look ahead to the four-day competition that begins June 18 and to the construction of an
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Democrats look to spark enthusiasm as Martinez kicks off campaign in earnest
Last original Code Talker dies at age 93
By Steve Terrell
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Chester Nez, the last of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, died Wednesday in Albuquerque. He was 93. The Code Talkers created the only unbroken code in modern military history — its meaning eluded the Japanese and was used again during Vietnam. Until 1968, when it was declassified, the code remained a secret. The code was devised in a locked room at Camp Elliott in Southern California and was used to transmit and receive oral messages that helped take islands like Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima in punishing, bloody battles. Because the code was transmitted in real time, it was much Chester Nez more efficient than coding machines, which could take up to an hour to encode and decode a message. The Code Talkers are credited with helping the U.S. win the war in the Pacific. “It was very, very difficult to not be able to talk about how we used the code,” Nez said in a telephone interview last week. “Making the code was the most interesting thing we did as Navajos.” Nez was scheduled to speak in Jemez Pueblo on June 14. His memoir, Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by one of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, written with co-author Judith Avila, was published in 2011. The two traveled across the country together, appearing before audiences both military and civilian. Last November, Nez received the Audie Murphy Award for distinguished service in the military during World War II. In 2001, he received a Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush. Avila met Nez in 2007. “I realized how much Chester had to impart and told him how much I wanted
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Gov. Susana Martinez poses for a picture with Ruth Sandoval of Española while meeting with voters at the Beatriz Martinez Senior Center on Wednesday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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WASHINGTON — The United States is warming fastest at two of its corners, in the Northeast and the Southwest, an analysis of federal temperature records shows. Northeastern states — led by Maine and Vermont — have gotten the hottest in the past 30 years in
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INsIde Gary King speaks to supporters Tuesday night at the DoubleTree hotel in Albuquerque on after winning the New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial primary. CRAIG FRITZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
annual temperature, gaining 2.5 degrees on average. But Southwestern states have heated up the most in the hottest months: The average New Mexico summer is 3.4 degrees warmer now than in 1984; in Texas, the dog days are 2.8 degrees hotter. The contiguous United States’ annual average temperature has warmed by 1.2 degrees since 1984, with summers getting 1.6 degrees hotter. But that doesn’t really tell you how hot it’s gotten for most Americans. While man-made greenhouse gases warm the world as a whole,
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Speaking at an election night party in Albuquerque, outgoing state Treasurer James Lewis gave a rousing speech in which he told fellow Democrats they’ll have to work up some enthusiasm if they intend to win in the November general election. “There’s been some apathy, there’s been some complacency,” Lewis said shortly before the Democratic gubernatorial primary was called for Attorney General Gary King. Many Democrats agreed. And even though King won a comfortable victory over four Democratic challengers, some are worried about the nominee’s ability to inspire the enthusiasm among voters that will be necessary to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Susana Martinez. Some Democratic Party activists expressed this thought in conversations during the party in the DoubleTree hotel in Albuquerque as vote counts were coming in. Some took to Twitter, Facebook and newspaper comment sections to state their disappointment. “Maybe the TV commercial bombardment from Martinez will lighten-up, being that she won’t need to spend even half her millions to beat King,” said one commenter on The New Mexican’s website. “Gary King is not a very exciting candidate,” Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at The University of New Mexico, said Wednesday. However, she quickly added that
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Study: Northeast, Southwest regions take lead in nation’s warming trend New Mexico’s summer averages 3.4 degrees warmer since 1984
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weather is supremely local. Some areas have gotten hotter than others because of atmospheric factors and randomness, climate scientists say. “In the United States, it isn’t warming equally,” said Kelly Redmond, climatologist at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev. “Be careful about extrapolating from your own backyard to the globe.” For example, while people in the East and Midwest were complaining about a cold winter this year, Redmond’s Nevada and neighboring
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Railyard concert series Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilta-Whirl Band Texas blues/rock guitarist, 7:30 p.m., no charge. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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