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Overhauled Medicaid raises fears of overload Many praise state’s goal of ‘seamless’ system for physical, mental health
By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican
New Mexico’s behavioral health system, already fractured by the loss of more than a dozen mental health
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providers following a state audit, is about to undergo another upheaval as the Martinez administration rolls out its retooled Medicaid program, known as “Centennial Care.” The program, which is set to begin Jan. 1, is aimed at reducing Medicaid costs while providing low-income New Mexicans better access to medical care and mental health services. Under the new program, physi-
cal and mental health services will no longer be walled off by separate management companies. Instead, all services will be provided under a seamless, coordinated system by one of four private companies — Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Presbyterian or UnitedHealth Care.
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Smashing triumph Fathers of the ‘God particle’ theory, the long elusive Higgs boson, share a Nobel. PAge A-3
Main break opens sinkhole River of water disrupts westside traffic and about 50 homes see service cut.
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Los Alamos climate researcher discusses dire forecast for New Mexico forests
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Women’s groups laud Yellen’s nomination By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Janet Yellen on Wednesday as the first woman to head the powerful Federal Reserve. If confirmed, she would become the world’s most influential banker. The vice chairman of the Federal Reserve since 2010, Yellen, 67, is a career economist who has served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, headed the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and taught at Janet Yellen University of California, Berkeley. Obama once was thought to have favored his confidante and former treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers, for the post. But Summers was controversial, opposed by liberal groups as too close to Wall Street and by women’s groups for remarks while president of Harvard University that questioned women’s intelligence. He withdrew from consideration. Women’s groups Tuesday evening lauded the Yellen nomination. “I’m in a fabulously amazing good mood,” Terry O’Neill, head of the National Organization for Women, told McClatchy in an interview. “Janet Yellen is the right person for the job, male or female. She has the temperament, the knowledge and she has the amazing ability to dig into the facts and come to her colleagues with actual facts.” At an April meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Yellen hinted at the achievement her nomination now signals. “At the highest levels of central banking, there are very few women,
Vibrantly colored trees are shown from the Aspen Vista Trail in September 2012. Recent climate reports suggest that in fewer than four decades, New Mexico will lose the majority of its forests due to climate change. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
By Staci Matlock
Cathy Wilson, right, a LANL climate researcher, speaks Tuesday at Santa Fe Community College about local impacts of climate change.
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hile Congress dithers over budgets and battles over climate policy, scientists and others are urging state and local governments to take action as climate change affects water, agriculture, forests and businesses such as ski resorts that are dependent on dwindling snow. Rising temperatures are killing forests globally, and research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists finds it is highly likely that the Southwest, including
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Minds Interrupted: Stories of Lives Affected by Mental Illness The National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Compassionate Touch Network offer personal stories written and presented by residents of Santa Fe and surrounding areas, 7 p.m., the Lensic, general admission $15, reserved seats $50, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. More events in Calendar, Page A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Author’s talk to explore scientific evidence of ‘soul’ and immortality By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Is it all over when we die? No, says medical internist and author Larry Dossey. He’s convinced, not by religious faith but by science, that some part of us lives on after our brains and bodies expire. Call it soul, consciousness or the like, he said, “there is some aspect of who we are that is infinite in space and in time.”
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New Mexico, will lose the vast majority of its forests by 2050. That means no golden aspens in the fall or pine trees in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The Pacific Northwest would follow closely behind, with forests dying off a few decades later. That dire projection came from Cathy Wilson, a climate researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was part of a panel of experts who talked to a packed room at the Santa Fe Community College on Tuesday about the local impacts of climate change and how communities
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Dossey has sifted through decades of research by scientists from Princeton, Stanford and dozens of other Larry Dossey universities. Dossey will explore the latest research into consciousness and questions of
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immortality at a free talk at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 107 W. Barcelona Road. His most recent book is One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters, which was released Monday. Back in the 1980s, Dossey borrowed the term “non-local” from
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