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Streetcar nostalgia Marc Simmons reflects upon the days when trolleys were commonplace in urban areas through the Southwest. LOCAL NEwS, A-5
Election would be businessman’s first foray into New Mexico politics By Steve Terrell
The New Mexican
A Santa Fe businessman is considering entering the Democratic primary for governor as a fresh face in New Mexico politics, his political consultant
Alan Webber
confirmed Friday. Alan Webber, 65, co-founder of a business magazine and former managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, is a political progressive who has lived in Santa Fe for about 10 years, said consultant Neri
Holguin of Albuquerque. Originally from St. Louis, Webber lived in Portland, Ore., and Boston before moving to Santa Fe. Fast Company, the business magazine he co-founded in
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Española shooting
Albuquerque High drops 37th straight game, ties state record.
A state officer was injured in a fatal gunfire exchange.
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Expansion on the table Navajo proposal would pave way for more casinos, adjust winnings shared with state
Germany, France seek limits on spying Angry leaders want U.S. to curtail eavesdropping By John-Thor Dahlburg The Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Indignant at reports of U.S. electronic espionage overseas, the leaders of Germany and France said Friday they will insist the Obama administration agree by year’s end to limits that could put an end to alleged American eavesdropping on foreign leaders, businesses and innocent citizens. German spy chiefs will travel to Washington soon to talk with U.S. officials about the spying allegations that have so angered European leaders, including whether Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own cellphone was monitored by the National Security Agency. Merkel and French President François Hollande, at the final day of a European Union summit in Brussels, did not offer many specifics on what they want President Barack Obama and his intelligence chiefs to agree to. A former French counterintelligence agent, however, told The Associated Press the European allies will likely demand the Americans sign off on a “code of good conduct”
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Frank Begay, left, and Elizabeth John play slots at the Fire Rock Casino near Gallup when it opened in November 2008. Built on a slice of tribal trust land in northwestern New Mexico, the 64,000-square-foot casino has 472 slot machines, 10 table games and a poker room. GALLUP INDEPENDENT FILE PHOTO
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s the expiration date on a gambling revenue-sharing agreement between American Indian casinos and New Mexico looms, the Navajo Nation is pushing for a new compact that would allow the tribe to open three more casinos and would lower the percentage of winnings it shares with the state. “This will be a win-win situation for you and me,” Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly told a panel of lawmakers
with the Legislative Finance Committee on Friday. The current compact between the Navajo Nation and the state, which was signed in 2003, is set to expire in June 2015. The proposed new compact originally passed through legislative committees in March, but the Legislature adjourned before lawmakers could vote on it. This compact would be solely between New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. All New Mexico tribes, except for the Mescalero Apache Tribe and Pojoaque
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By Tom Murphy
Paul Freeman drove 600 miles last year to save himself — and his employer — thousands of dollars on his surgery. Freeman’s insurer covered his travel costs and the entire bill because a medical center in Oklahoma City could remove the loose cartilage in his knee for about 70 percent less than a hospital closer to Freeman’s
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Texhoma, Okla., home. At first, the community bank CEO hesitated because he thought the lower price would mean lower quality. But he knew if he didn’t make the roughly 10-hour roundtrip trek, he’d pay about $5,000 out of pocket. “You immediately think, ‘Oh they’re going to take me into a butcher shop and it’s going to be real scary,’ ” Freeman, 53, says, noting that instead he had a “wonderful experience.” People shop for deals on every-
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Frank Baca, interim executive director of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board, speaks to the Legislative Finance Committee at the Capitol on Friday, when the Navajo Nation presented a proposal for a new gambling compact with the state that would change its revenue-sharing agreement and allow the tribe to open new casinos. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
thing from cars to clothes to computers. Why not for health care, too? Insurers, employers and individuals are shopping around for health care as they try to tame rising health care costs. Companies are doing things like paying for workers to travel if they agree to have a surgery performed in another city where the cost is cheaper. They’re also providing online tools to help people search for better deals in their home market. And some patients are bargain-
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hunting on their own. Through a website called MediBid, people who pay out of pocket are soliciting doctors, hospitals and medical centers to bid to perform knee surgeries and other non-emergency procedures. Patients who shop for care represent a tiny slice of the roughly $2.7 trillion spent annually on health care in the U.S., said Devon Herrick, an economist who studies health care
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