Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 2, 2013

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Martinez names Republican replacement for Rep. Easley

Military memorial Fourteen veterans are laid to rest in a “Forgotten Heroes” ceremony at Santa Fe National Cemetery. LOCAL NeWS, A-6

SNAP cuts take effect

Changes on the horizon

Find out how lower benefits translate to the table. PAGe A-5

Santa Fe’s general hospital prepares to reveal its plan to deal with budget issues. PAGe A-6

Appointment means Democrats will have to fight to regain House seat in 2014 By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Gov. Susana Martinez on Friday chose fellow Republican Vickie Perea, a former Albuquerque city councilor, to replace the late Stephen Easley, a Santa Fe Democrat, in the state House

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of Representatives. The appointment adds another Republican seat in a legislative chamber that already has a narrow divide between the major political parties going into the 2014 legislative session. Once Perea is in, there will be 37 Democrats and 33 Republicans in

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the House in next year’s session. But Perea will have to run for election to the seat next year if she wants to stay. While registration numbers favor Democrats in that district, Perea’s appointment means the Democrats

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Gunman kills TSA officer at LAX Suspect is in custody after attack that injured others, disrupted flights By Justin Pritchard and Tami Abdollah The Associated Press

Owners of San Francisco Plaza, a historic compound on the northeast corner of West San Francisco and Guadalupe streets, are seeking to tear down three of four buildings and add two new two-story buildings on the site. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN; RENDERINGS COURTESY COLUMBUS CAPITAL

LOS ANGELES — A man carrying a note that said he wanted to “kill TSA” pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two others, authorities said. The gunman was wounded in a shootout with airport police and taken into custody, authorities said. His condition was not disclosed. The attack at the nation’s thirdbusiest airport sent terrified travelers running for cover and disrupted more than 700 flights across the U.S.,

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Redevelopment proposed for historic compound at San Francisco and Guadalupe streets By Tom Sharpe

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local real-estate development firm plans to raze part of a historic adobe compound at West San Francisco and North Guadalupe streets to make way for a new two-story building. The city Historic Districts Review Board tabled the downtown project last week and told the owner, real estate developer Jeff Branch’s Columbus Capital, to hire an independent consultant to look into the history of San Francisco Plaza, which is adjacent to the Eldorado Hotel and is home to several businesses, including Il Vicino, The Spanish

Table, a Thai restaurant and a popular frozen yogurt shop. According to the city’s Historic Preservation Division, the first known map of Santa Fe — by cartographer José de Urrutia in 1766 — shows occupation of the site. And by the 1880s, maps and photographs show the compound close to its current form, with thick adobe walls, a wooden cornice, a “terneplate” metal roof and a zaguan, or breezeway, from San Francisco Street into an open courtyard. “Of note is the ‘Heritage’ apricot tree in the patio,” says a historical survey of the property. “At least parts of this structure appear to predate the American period.”

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Obituaries Mark Lawrence Martinez, 62, Oct. 12 The compound, parts of which may predate the American period, has a sculpture-studded open courtyard that also contains a ‘Heritage’ apricot tree, according to a historical survey of the property.

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State, Arizona firm defend behavioral health layoffs Agencies insist clients won’t be denied services, cite ‘revenue shortfalls’ as reason behind firings By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Despite the state budgeting nearly $18 million to pay five Arizona mental health firms to take over the caseloads of New Mexico providers now under investigation, one of the Arizona firms has laid off three of five therapists at a Valencia County facility because of “revenue shortfalls.” Ed Church, one of the laid-off therapists, said Friday that the layoffs mean that hundreds of clients at the

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Valle del Sol facility in Los Lunas are being left without services. He said the move leaves only two therapists to see 380 clients. He said he had about 100 clients in his own caseload, some of whom have recently been released from the hospital because of suicide threats. “With the bottleneck they have, they need more therapists, not less,” Church said. But both the CEO of Valle del Sol and a spokesman for the state Human Services Department dis-

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puted Church’s numbers and insisted Friday that behavioral health clients are not being denied services. Kurt Sheppard of Valle del Sol said the Los Lunas facility has only 99 clients. In a statement, Sheppard said his company’s decision “was based on revenue and in rightsizing operations in New Mexico.” The current number of clients, Sheppard said, “did not justify maintaining current staffing patterns. The focus of services being provided is now based on a truly assessmentdriven model versus a past history of cookie-cutter treatment plans. Valle del Sol of New Mexico’s priority is to provide client centered

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interventions. This results in adjusting staffing and caseload patterns accordingly.” As for the money the state budgeted for the Arizona providers, Sheppard said “the majority of the state funding went to the previous providers to cover their costs during the transitions.” Of the $17.8 million Human Services put aside for the Arizona companies, Valle del Sol’s contract was for up to $2 million. Department spokesman Matt Kennicott said in a statement that the New Mexico companies are being investigated over allegations of overbilling and seeking reimbursement

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Mary M. Naranjo, 84, Oct. 30

Charles “Charlie” Onis Price, 67, Oct. 30 Lucy Sandoval, 91, Oct. 29

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Sleep in Sunday Don’t forget to set clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. AP

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Flying Cow Gallery Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423. Group show of Day of the Dead-themed works, reception 5-9 p.m. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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