Santa Fe New Mexican, May 28, 2014

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Salad spot’s success starts with soil

2014 primary election endorsements See The New Mexican’s picks for Santa Fe County assessor and County Commission, District 1. OPInIOnS, A-7

“You can’t have good food without good soil,” says Vinaigrette owner Erin Wade, who lives on the Nambé farm that supplies much of the food for her restaurant. Wade’s home-farm-to-restaurant-table operation feeds its plants well, using organic waste from the eatery to enrich the soil in which the greens grow. TASTe, C-1

A look at VA clinic ‘gaming strategies’ How care facilities falsified appointment records. PAge A-3

CEO pay hits record high in U.S.

2014 ELECTIONS DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY

It’s still anyone’s race

Average compensation is 257 times greater than that of average worker

Efforts aimed at reduced possession penalties in Santa Fe, Albuquerque

By Ken Sweet

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — They’re the $10 million men and women. Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures for the first time last year. The head of a Standard & Poor’s 500 company earned a record $10.5 million, an increase of 8.8 percent from $9.6 million in 2012, according to an Associated Press/Equilar pay study. Last year was the fourth straight that CEO compensation rose following a decline during the Great Recession. The median CEO pay climbed more than 50 percent over that stretch. A chief executive now makes about 257 times the average worker’s salary, up sharply from 181 times in 2009. The best paid CEO last year led an oilfield-services company. The highest paid female CEO was Carol

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The New Mexican

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Recent poll shows King narrowly leads party rivals despite weak fundraising

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ith less than a week before New Mexico’s primary election, it appears that the Democratic nomination for governor might be Gary King’s to lose. Member of a well-known political family and state attorney general for more than seven years, King has lagged in terms of fundraising

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Obituaries

Melinda (Merlyn) Luis P. Armijo, 76 Montoya, 69, Santa Fe, David Franklin May 21 George, 56, Abiquiú, May 15 Serafin E. Thee Keros, Roybal, May 26 101, May 22 Shyra K. Smith, Jacinta (Connie) 45, May 15 Medina, 60, Santa Fe, May 23 PAge B-2

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and came in last at the Democrats’ pre-primary convention in March. Nonetheless, an Albuquerque Journal poll released over the weekend showed King holding a 6-point lead over his closest two opponents among Democratic voters who had made up their minds. However, the most common response from those who took part in the poll, conducted by the Research & Polling firm in Albuquerque, was “undecided.”

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Obama sets 2016 deadline for final Afghan pullout President Barack Obama

By Mark Landler

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, declaring that it was “time to turn the page on a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” announced Tuesday that he planned to withdraw the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016. Under a new timetable outlined by Obama in the Rose Garden, the 32,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan would be reduced to 9,800 after this year. That number would be cut in half by the end of 2015, and by the end of 2016, there would be only a vestigial force

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Peter Heller The novelist discusses and signs copies of The Painter, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226.

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Nearly a third of the 631 Democrats surveyed — 29 percent — said they didn’t know which of the five candidates for the party’s nomination as governor they would support.

Ballot initiatives aimed at reducing penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana could go before voters in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. ProgressNow New Mexico and the political arm of the Drug Policy Alliance launched campaigns Tuesday to ask voters in both cities to amend local ordinances to make the penalty for possession of an ounce or less of marijuana and marijuana-associated paraphernalia a civil infraction punishable by a fine of no more than $25. Currently, possession of an ounce or less of marijuana in Santa Fe is a petty misdemeanor for the first offense, punishable by a fine of not less than $50 or more than $100 and up to 15 days in jail. The proposed ballot initiatives also would make possession of small amounts of marijuana “a lowest law enforcement priority” for local police in both cities. “We think we can start something in Albuquerque and Santa Fe that lays a model down for the rest of the state to follow,” said Patrick Davis, executive director of ProgressNow New Mexico, a liberal-leaning group based in Albuquerque. The group said it was hoping to get the issue on the ballot for both cities as early as the November general election, but it was unclear if that would be possible.

Linda Kehoe casts her ballot Tuesday during early voting at the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office as volunteer Arlene Decker works in the background. With less than a week left until the primary election, many voters are still undecided. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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Index

Groups try to put pot before voters

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will seek to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year. to protect the embassy in Kabul and to help the Afghans with military purchases and other security matters. At the height of American involvement, in 2011, the U.S. had 101,000 troops in the country. Obama said the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan would free up resources to confront

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an emerging terrorist threat stretching from the Middle East to North Africa — a strategy he plans to detail in a commencement address on Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. “Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them,” he said. “Yet this is how wars end in the 21st century.” Despite Obama’s attempt to signal the end of 13 years of U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan, the United States will continue to have troops engaged in lethal counterterrorism operations there for at least two more years. The president also conceded that the U.S. would leave behind a deeply

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ambiguous legacy. “We have to recognize Afghanistan will not be a perfect place, and it is not America’s responsibility to make it one,” he said. “The future of Afghanistan must be decided by Afghans.” Republican critics in Congress said that, even though Obama accepted the recommendation of his generals to leave behind a substantial residual force, the rigid deadline for troops’ departure could expose Afghanistan to the same violence and instability that has erupted in Iraq since the pullout of the last U.S. soldiers in 2011. Military commanders had recommended leaving at least 10,000 troops in

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