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Gay marriages help give city a tourism bump
Residents evacuate and schools shelter in place as a SWAT team seeks a robbery suspect. LOCAL, C-1
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Business deadline looms for health exchange Some still wary of N.M. network, but nearly 800 have workers enrolled
Another balcony planned on Plaza Plaza Galeria on San Francisco Street hopes to update its façade with a view of the busy city park. LOCAL, C-1
By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Many small-business owners are still sitting on the fence about whether they should sign up with the state’s new health insurance exchange. And the first deadline is near. Business owners who want their employees to begin receiving insurance benefits by Jan. 1 must enroll by 5 p.m. Thursday. While the state-run health insurance exchange for small-business owners seems to be working for many, others, like Brian Lock of Santa Fe Brewing Co., are still undecided. They say they still have questions about how participating in the exchange will impact their bottom line, their employees, their taxes and even their own insurance coverage. Instead of providing health insurance for his employees, Lock gives them money, in addition to their wages, to help them buy private insurance. “They can take the supplement and pocket it, save it or apply it toward health insurance if they
Teen reform camps flourish, despite abuse allegations Sure, there’s shackles — but parents say tough programs put kids on right path By Jeri Clausing
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE — David Hall was afraid of his own son. They were getting into violent, physical fights requiring police intervention. Fearing the teen would end up in juvenile detention, Hall had his son hauled away in handcuffs and shackles to a Southern New Mexico ranch for troubled youths. He didn’t see him again for 11 months, when police raided the Tierra Blanca ranch amid allegations of abuse. There are few options for parents like Hall, and in that vacuum, a relatively unregulated, off-the-grid industry of reform youth camps has flourished, despite a decade of high-profile cases alleging beatings and other abuse at some camps. Proponents of such programs — which can cost upward of $100,000 a year — say they are an effective, last-ditch solution to save troubled youth from the criminal justice system. “My feeling is that I would rather have my 17-year-old son in shackles than go to visit him at 18 in shackles in state prison,” Hall said. “He really is a changed young man. He laughs, he smiles and he is trying to make up for all of the bad things in the past.” Others insist stronger regulation and oversight are needed. A 2007 Government Accountability Office report found
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Devey Napier, left, and her wife, Dorothy Alexander, both from Oklahoma City, are shown Tuesday at the Silver Saddle Motel. The couple, who came to Santa Fe to get married, are part of tourism boomlet. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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The Tierra Blanca Ranch, a facility for troubled youths near Hilsboro, N.M., is shown earlier this month, when it was raided by state authorities amid allegations of abuse. JUAN CARLOS LLORCA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
orothy Alexander and Devey Napier’s trip to Santa Fe this week was part of a tourism boomlet in a city long known as a gay-friendly destination: visits by same-sex couples who come to get married. The Santa Fe County clerk has issued 106 marriage licenses to same-sex couples from outside New Mexico since Aug. 23. That’s nearly a quarter of the 463 licenses the clerk has issued to gay partners. Alexander and Napier met about 20 years ago in Oklahoma, where they still call home — a state that prohibits same-sex marriage. Both were previously married and had children. Alexander decided after her son died, and Napier after her husband died, that it was time to come out as a lesbian. They have been together 18 years. “It’s something that never in my wild-
est dreams I thought would happen, ’cause I’m almost 80 years old,” Alexander, 79, said of her marriage to Napier. “It still makes me kinda dizzy when I think about it.” The couple originally planned to marry in December so that they could invite family and friends. But they decided to push up the date and wed before a decision in Griego v. Oliver, the New Mexico Supreme Court case on whether state law permits same-sex marriage. While gay-rights advocates believe the justices will rule that same-sex marriage is legal in the state, Napier, 68, said she and Alexander “thought we better do something quick and celebrate later.” Alexander is a municipal judge in Sayre, Okla., a conservative town more than 100 miles west of Oklahoma City. Being able to legally marry in New Mexico made her reflect Tuesday on the
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Culture experts: Blackface never en vogue on Halloween From actress’ slip-up to duo’s riff on slain teen, costumes renew painful memories of minstrelsy By Leanne Italie
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Is donning blackface to dress up as a favorite TV character ever OK for Halloween? How about a bloody hoodie and blackface for a costume riff on the slain teen Trayvon Martin, or full-on minstrel at a splashy Africa-themed party for the fashion elite in Milan?
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Each of those costumes made headlines this Halloween season. And the answer to each, African studies and culture experts said, is never. “The painful hisJulianne tory of minstrelsy is Hough not that long ago for us to think that now, somehow, we can do it differently or do it better,” said Yaba Blay, codirector of Africana Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Julianne Hough found that out the hard way. She apologized on Twitter
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This 1927 image shows Al Jolson in blackface makeup in the movie The Jazz Singer. Historically, blackface emerged in the mid-19th century, representing a combination of put-down, fear and morbid fascination with black culture. COURTESY WARNER BROS.
over the weekend amid criticism for darkening her skin for a costume as Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New
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Center for Contemporary Arts Atomic Surplus, a group exhibit surveying the global nuclear legacy; Tony Price and the Black Hole, an exhibit of ephemera from the Los Alamos Black Hole salvage yard and works from the estate of artist Tony Price, through Jan. 5, 1050 Old Pecos Trail. 982-1338. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Obituaries Jane Barberousse, Oct. 26 Julio Chavez, 85, Santa Fe, Oct. 26 Mary Lou Cook, 95, Santa Fe, Oct. 7 Edward Delgado, 82, Española, Oct. 25 Jose Tito Duran, 72, Chupadero, Oct. 27 Richard Manuel Duran, 54, Oct. 23
Mary E. Encinias, 65, Oct. 26 Stanton H. Hirsch, 90, Santa Fe, Oct. 29 Chandler “Lani” Kahawai, 52, Santa Fe, Oct. 27 Eva Lopez De Larragoite, 93 Tina McDuff, 92, Oct. 22 Mary Elizabeth Strawn, 90, Santa Fe, Oct. 17 Tyra Allison Ulibarri, 34, Santa Fe, Oct. 20 PAge C-2, C-3
Today Partly cloudy, breezy, colder. High 53, low 28. PAge A-6
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