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Drury on course to open this summer
Hundreds missing in Ukraine After a season of political upheaval, a gnawing worry persists: What happened to more than 250 people who seemingly vanished? PAge A-3
Youth suicides plague tribes The federal government is asking what it can do to help young Native Americans. PAge A-2
Adm. Mohd Amdan Kurish, left, director general of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, reviews radar signals during the searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane on Sunday.
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The organization says sugar should make up only 5 percent of daily calories.
Search for jet yields only more mysteries
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State exchange denies insurers details about working poor
Investigators looking for clues as conflicting information surfaces By Thomas Fuller
The New York Times
SEPANG, Malaysia — More than 48 hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished, the mysteries over its fate have only multiplied. The Beijing-bound plane made no distress call, officials said, and the Malaysian authorities suggested it might have begun to turn back to Kuala Lumpur in midflight before it disappeared. Despite an intensive international search effort in the waters along its scheduled route, there were no confirmed sightings of the plane’s wreckage. And electronic booking records showed that the two passengers who were traveling on stolen passports bought their tickets from the same Thai travel agency. The seeming security lapse, which Interpol publicly criticized, might have had nothing to do with what happened to the jet and its 239 passengers and crew. Investigators said they were ruling nothing out, including a catastrophic mechanical failure, pilot error, or both. But by late Sunday, the lack of answers — or even many clues — to the plane’s disappearance added to the misery of family members left behind. With Malaysian officials refusing to release many details of their investigation and sometimes
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Today Mostly sunny. High 67, low 34. PAge A-12
Obituaries
Manuel J. Rodriguez, March 4 Margaret Susan Zeilik, 91, Santa Fe, Feb. 11
Antonio (Tony) Chavez Jr., 92, Santa Fe, March 3 Reyes Ramon Padilla, 89, Santa Fe, March 4 PAge A-10
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TaraShea Nesbit The author reads from and signs copies of The Wives of Los Alamos: A Novel, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Marketplace operators intend to market directly to those who lost low-cost coverage by mail, phone By Patrick Malone The New Mexican
sewer line to install a new liner. And along Palace Avenue, they were working on new sidewalks, retaining walls and planters. Nenninger said carpets are going down now in the 182-room hotel, and furniture will be delivered in about two weeks. With 150 to 200 people on site, including contractors and subcontractors, Nenninger said, “It’s all hands on deck.” He said the hotel is close to signing a lease with a third party for operation of the restaurant, which will be accessible from Palace Avenue. Before the new hotel opens, Drury expects to do some cleanup of the exterior of Marian Hall, which got a new roof last November. In a later phase of the project, the brick building is scheduled to become a new boutique hotel. In about six weeks, maybe longer, work will begin on a mostly brick promenade that will connect the hotel with Cathedral Park.
The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange has refused to hand over personal information about thousands of the state’s working poor to commercial insurance companies amid privacy concerns. While the population in question toiled at jobs that pay just above the poverty line, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange Board recently debated whether to share what it knows about them — names, home addresses and phone numbers — with insurance companies that want to sell them policies. Lawyers for the health exchange deemed the data proprietary and slammed the door on the insurers’ request, Debra Hammer, spokeswoman for the exchange, said late last week. “We are not allowed to share that information directly with them,” she said. The policies of about 10,400 people formerly insured under the low-cost State Covered Insurance program were canceled when it was discontinued in January, and they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. They have been referred by the New Mexico Human Services Department to the state’s online insurance marketplace created under the federal Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare.” A family of three with an annual household income of $36,620, or a household of four with $44,100 in yearly earnings, qualified for the State Covered Insurance program, for example. The Human Services Department shared its list of people formerly enrolled in the State Covered Insurance program with the exchange, which intends to market directly to them through mailed literature and phone calls. During the most recent meeting of the exchange board on Feb. 28, board member Dr. Martin Hickey lobbied for the release of contact information to the insurers. “My sense is that were the carriers able to also have that information so that they could make direct contact, you’d have many more people signing up … ,” said Hickey, chief executive officer of New Mexico Health
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A giant compass sits between the parking garage and hotel on the Drury construction site downtown. Luis sánchez saturno/the new Mexican
Hiring process begins as construction continues By Anne Constable
The New Mexican
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rury Hotels is hiring staff for its new Drury Plaza Hotel Santa Fe, which is expected to open this summer at the old St. Vincent Hospital site downtown. Project development manager Brian Nenninger said Thursday that the new general manager, Tauseen Malik, is accepting applications in his office in the old Marian Hall on Palace Avenue. The hotel is hiring for all positions, including janitorial and front-desk jobs. Nenninger said he expects the hotel to employ about 50 people, and its restaurant will need an additional 35 or 40. The hotel is accepting reservations for rooms and events beginning Aug. 1, but Nenninger said the hotel likely will open a couple of months before that if work continues on schedule. Last week, workers were upgrading the
Santa Fe National Forest to update management plan Public invited to attend workshops, meetings By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
Santa Fe National Forest is overhauling its land management plan under a new national agency rule that officials hope will keep the public more involved in decisions, cost less money and foster quicker actions to make forests resilient to climate change. The existing 260-page management plan guides actions such as how many trees can be harvested, where vehicles can go, what
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Life & Science A-9
El Nuevo A-7
trails should be maintained and how wildlife should be protected. The new plan needs to take into account a new set of circumstances affecting the forest, such as climate change, ongoing drought, massive wildfires and competing human uses. The Santa Fe National Forest will start the process of reworking the plan at a daylong workshop Tuesday at the National Guard Armory, 705 Industrial Park Road, in Española. Another workshop is scheduled Wednesday at Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave. The workshops, conducted by a group of people with expertise in community collaboration, will involve presentations, as
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If YOU gO What: workshops on organizing for public participation in the santa Fe national Forest plan revision. When and where: u 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tuesday: new Mexico national Guard armory, 705 industrial Park road, in española u 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. wednesday: santa Fe community college, Jemez rooms, 6401 richards ave.
What: Forest plan revision assessment meetings When and where: u 2 to 4 p.m. april 19: northern new Mexico college, 921 n. Paseo de oñate, in española u 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. april 21: new Mexico highlands university, 1005 Diamond st., in Las Vegas u 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. april 24: santa Fe national Forest supervisors office, 11 Forest Lane
More information: 438-5442, santafeforestplan@fs.fed.us
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