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Federal closures begin Separate, but equal Twins Amelia and Sophie Linett share a passion for the same sport, but they play for different schools. sPORTs, B-1
VICENTE OJINAGA, 1918-2013
One of last march survivors dies at 95
A National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most nonessential federal programs and services. CAROLYN KASTER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WASHINGTON irst slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday and President Barack Obama warned the longer it goes “the more families will be hurt.” Republicans said it was his fault, not theirs, and embarked on a strategy — opposed by Democrats — of voting on bills to reopen individual agencies or programs. Ominously, there were suggestions from leaders in both parties that the shutdown, heading for its second day, could last for weeks and grow to encompass a possible default by the Treasury if Congress fails to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. The two issues are “now all together,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Speaking at the White House, the president accused Republicans of causing the first partial closure in 17 years as part of a nonstop “ideological crusade” to wipe out his signature health care law. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, gave as good as he got.
“The president isn’t telling the whole story,” he said in an opinion article posted on the USA Today website. “The fact is that Washington Democrats have slammed the door on reopening the government by refusing to engage in bipartisan talks.” Both houses of Congress met in a Capitol closed to regular public tours, part of the impact of a partial shutdown that sent ripples of disruption outward — from museums and memorials in Washington to Yellowstone and other national parks and to tax auditors and federal offices serving Americans coast to coast. Officials said roughly 800,000 federal employees would be affected by the shutdown after a half-day on the job Tuesday to fill out time cards, put new messages on their voice mail and similar chores. Late Tuesday, House Republicans sought swift passage of legislation aimed at reopening small slices of the federal establishment. The bills covered the Department of Veterans Affairs,
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a budget bill by Monday’s midnight deadline, nonessential federal government buildings closed and nonessential government employees were asked not to report to work until lawmakers pass a funding bill. The shutdown affected about 400 national parks and monuments across the country, including 13 in New Mexico. Around the nation, the first government shutdown in 17 years took hold Tuesday in ways large and small. Visitors arrived to find “CLOSED” signs at the Statue of Liberty, the Smithsonian and
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Craig Moody of Dallas fixes a power cable for his solar panels while camping Tuesday at the Black Canyon Campground on Hyde Park Road. Due to the government shutdown, campers at Black Canyon were given 48 hours to leave. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Campers asked to pack up, leave as furloughs kick in for 800,000 workers By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
Kelly Huddleston’s daughter was excited about a camping trip she had planned to take Tuesday to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas with her sixth-grade class at the Santa Fe Waldorf School. But when Huddleston’s daughter woke up Tuesday morning, the mother had to explain that since Congress couldn’t pass a budget resolution, the sixth-graders wouldn’t be going to the national park. After Congress failed to agree on
Small businesses off to smooth start on state’s health exchange Individuals using federal system report glitches By Barry Massey
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New Mexico on Tuesday launched an online marketplace for health insurance that drew early interest from employers, who saw relatively short wait times, but individuals in the state shopping for insurance were forced to use a federal system plagued with glitches and delays.
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The state began work in May to establish its health insurance exchange, and officials decided to initially use the federal online system for individuals because there wasn’t enough time to meet this month’s deadline for starting enrollment in a separate state-based computer system. The state-based exchange for businesses — known as the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP — is available to employers with 50 or fewer workers. About 100 small businesses had
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signed up by midday Tuesday through the state exchange, and more than two dozen did so in the first hour after it was launched, said Mike Nuñez, the exchange’s executive director. By establishing
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Vicente Ojinaga, one of Santa Fe’s few remaining Bataan Death March survivors, died Monday at the home he bought in Casa Solana on the GI Bill in 1956. He was 95. After World War II ended, Ojinaga sometimes would tell his children stories about his three and a half years of captivity by the Japanese, “but not in detail,” daughter Teri Gonzales Vicente said Tuesday. “We didn’t Ojinaga want him to relive the horrible things. … He said what kept him alive was faith and prayer and his family, knowing he was going to come back to his family.” Born Jan. 22, 1918, in Santa Rita, a copper-mining town near Silver City, Ojinaga was one of four sons and three daughters of José and Josefa Ojinaga, who had emigrated from revolution-torn Mexico in 1910. Upon graduation from high school in 1937, Vicente Ojinaga worked as a carpenter in the copper mine. As the world reached the brink of World War II, Ojinaga and his brothers agreed that the first to be drafted would join the military, so the others would not be obligated. But when an older brother received his draft notice, Ojinaga hid it until his own arrived. He was sent to the Philippines, where he became one of 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers, including 1,800 New Mexicans, who were taken captive by the Japanese when the United States forces surrendered in the province of Bataan and Corregidor Island in April 1942. “When they told us to surrender, we didn’t want to,” Ojinaga said in a 1997 interview. “What went through my mind was, ‘That is the most terrible thing that had happened to me in my life.’ I felt like I had betrayed my country.” In a prison camp in Japan, Ojinaga and other New Mexican POWs would “get
Dems, GOP trade blame as signs indicate shutdown could drag on for weeks By David Espo and Donna Cassata
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Anne Hillerman The author celebrates the launch of Spider Woman’s Daughter, her novel reviving Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee crime series, 6 p.m., Inn and Spa at Loretto, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, no charge, book sale proceeds benefit Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library, 955-2839. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Nicholas Frost, 46, Santa Fe, Abel Davis, 88, Sept. 25 Tesuque, Sept. 30 David Padilla, Milton Dworkin, 58, Santa Fe, 89, Sept. 22 Sept. 30 John Ellvinger, Julian Wencel 86, Santa Fe, Rymar, 94, Sept. 27 Santa Fe William Wallace John Schmelz, 67, Wotherspoon, Santa Fe, Sept. 29 94, Santa Fe, Sept. 28 PAges C-2, C-3
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