Demons end dry spell with 27-6 victory over Sundevils Sports, B-1
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PAC hired company to find dirt on mayoral candidates
Nine missing from camp State police have issued an Amber Alert for a group of teens from an embattled ranch for troubled youth in Hillsboro. PAge A-2
Gonzales campaign staffer denies current involvement with group By Daniel J. Chacón
The New Mexican
A political action committee supporting mayoral candidate Javier Gonzales took responsibility Friday for hiring a political operative to dig up dirt on mayoral candidates, despite
denials a day earlier from one of the group’s founders. The admission by the Progressive Santa Fe PAC that it hired Blue Searchlight, a Washington D.C.-based political research firm, came after a story in The New Mexican detailed
the firm’s activities and muddied the separation between the PAC and Gonzales’ campaign. Jon Hendry, who helped found the PAC and is still listed as its chairman and campaign treasurer in its latest filings with
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Jon Hendry, Progressive Santa Fe PAC co-founder
Bubbly mass worries Agua Fría residents after Thursday’s storm. PAge A-10
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CHILDREN’S FISHING DERBY: RIVER STOCKED AND READY
FEDERAL SHUTDOWN
State filling gaps — for now Officials concerned about consequences of prolonged shutdown
By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
ABOVE: Santa Fe City Councilor Ron Trujillo helped stock the Santa Fe River with 500 9-inch rainbow trout Friday morning. The fish were provided by the Lisboa Springs Fish Hatchery in Pecos for the Children’s Fishing Derby that starts at 7 a.m. and ends at noon Saturday. BELOW: Several foot bridges have been installed over the river between Don Gaspar Avenue and Guadalupe Street for the event. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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he city of Santa Fe’s annual Children’s Fishing Derby will return Saturday following a two-year hiatus due to drought conditions. City Councilor Ron Trujillo, who started the event, said recently that water flows in the Santa Fe River from rains and the draining of Nichols Reservoir have allowed the city to restart the derby. Trujillo was at the river Friday morning, stocking trout for the event. “Every year that we’ve had it, it’s been a success,” he said of the derby. Trujillo and others stocked 500 9-inch rainbow trout in the river, between Don Gaspar Avenue and Guadalupe Street.
ON THe WeB u View video of Friday’s efforts to stock the river for the Children’s Fishing Derby online at www.santafenewmexican.com.
The fish were provided by the Lisboa Springs Fish Hatchery in Pecos. Children who catch one of 10 tagged fish Saturday will be eligible for prizes. The free fishing derby will be held from 7 a.m. to noon along the river between Don Gaspar and Old Santa Fe Trail in front of the State Land Office Building, he said, adding that the event is aimed at children 12 and younger.
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Cedric Burnside Project and Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes
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INSIDe u Negotiations spark hope for deal. u Some states reopen national parks. u Pearce lauds GOP effort to fund labs; Dems call it “charade.” PAge A-4
The New Mexican
Obituaries Connie L. Bell, 56, Santa Fe, Oct. 9 Nevaeh Elise Cordova, 18 days, Santa Fe, Oct. 7 Paul David Craighead, 59, Santa Fe, July 8 PAge A-10
Today Plenty of sunshine. High 64, low 41. PAge A-12
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Martha K. Iwaski, Santa Fe, Sept. 29
Blues artists, 7 p.m. Music Room at Garrett’s Desert Inn, 311 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-1851, $25 in advance, brownpapertickets. com, $28 at the door. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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About 1,800 of the 22,000 workers in New Mexico’s state government are fully paid by federal funds. But state officials say despite the continued federal shutdown, those workers won’t face furloughs or smaller paychecks, and there’s no looming rollback of federally funded programs that are administered by the state. Instead, state agencies are using funding balances or state money in their budgets to fill gaps caused by the shutdown. However, state lawmakers starting to work on next year’s budget worry that New Mexico’s economy, still struggling to recover from the recession, could be weakened by a prolonged stalemate in the nation’s capital. They are already making plans to set aside state money to make up for federal funding that could be lost. State Budget Division Director Michael Marcelli said Friday there’s been no discussion within Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration of possible furloughs of state workers whose jobs are funded with federal money. “Paychecks are coming out next Friday for state workers, and everyone is getting paid even if you’re on a federal grant,” Marcelli said.
Gay population, anti-gay sentiment likely underestimated, study finds By Emily Alpert Los Angeles Times
Far more people are lesbian, gay or bisexual — and more people are biased against them — than say so on typical surveys, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and Boston University and published by the National Bureau of Economic
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Research, found that even when filling out a private, anonymous survey, some people do not truthfully reveal their sexuality. At the same time, researchers found that some people who believe employers should be able to discriminate against hiring gay, lesbian or bisexual people, or who dislike the idea of having a gay manager, also shy from revealing those attitudes on surveys.
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The findings show that “it is perceived as socially undesirable both to be open about being gay, and to be unaccepting of gay individuals,” the researchers wrote. As a result, some people avoid putting those things down on surveys — even anonymously. How could a study figure out what people weren’t telling them?
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