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Lawmakers blast Human Services over behavioral health spending Report: Only 11 percent of budget used effectively By Milan Simonich The New Mexican
The Legislative Finance Committee issued a scathing report Wednesday that said New Mexico’s system of treating addicts and people with
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mental health problems is so broken that only 11 percent of the budget is spent on effective programs. “The state does not have a comprehensive grasp on how it spends the estimated $209 million on adult behavioral health,” the report stated.
It also said the state Human Services Department doesn’t know whether it is funding proven programs, whether they are offered in areas with the greatest need and if they are delivering good results. Matt Kennicott, a spokesman for the Human Services Department,
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World leaders address challenges U.N. chief urges hope amid strife By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press
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President Barack Obama addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Wednesday. Referring to Islamic State militants, the president said he will build a coalition to ‘dismantle this network of death.’ Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press
Obama presses allies to join fight against Islamic State By Mark Landler
The New York Times
UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama laid out a forceful new blueprint Wednesday for deeper U.S. engagement in the Middle East, telling the U.N. General Assembly that the Islamic State understood only “the language of force” and that the United States would “work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death.”
In a much-anticipated address two days after he expanded the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, into Syria, Obama said, “Today, I ask the world to join in this effort,” declaring, “We will not succumb to threats, and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build, not those who destroy.” “Those who have joined ISIL should leave the battlefield while they can,” Obama said in
a blunt declaration of his intentions. The president also said: “We will neither tolerate terrorist safe-havens, nor act as an occupying power. We will take action against threats to our security, and our allies, while building an architecture of counterterrorism cooperation.” Toward that end, the Security Council unanimously approved
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Navajo Nation will receive $554M under record settlement with feds Longtime dispute over asset management ends with historic deal By Sari Horwitz
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In the largest settlement with a single American Indian tribe, the Obama administration will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle claims that the U.S. government has mismanaged funds and natural resources on the Navajo reservation for decades. The settlement, to be signed in Window Rock, Ariz., on Friday, resolves a long-standing dispute
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Report fuels controversy in gubernatorial contest An investigation by the district attorney for Doña Ana County into emails allegedly destroyed by his predecessor, Gov. Susana Martinez, has set off a political firestorm in the New Mexico governor’s race. In addition to controversy over the deleted emails, there also was political heat generated by some of the few emails that 3rd Judicial District Attorney Mark D’Antonio managed to find. The state Democratic Party in April requested any emails related to the first gubernatorial campaign of Martinez, a Republican who had served as district attorney until after she was elected governor in 2010 and is now running for a second four-year term. The Democratic Party’s request also sought emails sent by Amy Orlando — who had been Martinez’s deputy in the District Attorney’s Office and then briefly succeeded Martinez as district attorney before losing an election bid — and an investigator in the office who had worked under both Martinez and Orlando. The public records request was sparked by a story published earlier this year by Mother Jones magazine. Regarding Martinez’s first campaign for governor in 2010, the report said, “A former [Martinez] staffer recalls the campaign on multiple occasions sending the license plate numbers of cars believed to be used by opposition trackers to an investigator in Martinez’s DA office who had access to law enforcement databases.” But no such emails were found by D’Antonio, a Democrat who defeated
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between the Navajo Nation and the U.S. government, with some of the claims dating back more than 50 years. The sprawling Navajo reservation, located in parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, is the largest and most populous Indian reservation, with 14 million acres of trust lands, which are leased for farming, grazing, and oil, gas and other mineral extraction. The land is also leased for businesses, rights-of-way, easements and housing. “This landmark resolution ends protracted and burdensome litigation,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Wednesday. “This demonstrates the Justice Department’s firm commitment to strength-
ening our partnerships with tribal nations.” Under the agreement, the Navajo Nation will dismiss its current lawsuit and forgo further litigation against the U.S. government for its historic management and accounting of Navajo funds and resources held in trust by the government. “The Navajo Nation has worked tirelessly for many years to bring this issue to a close,” said Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation. “After a long, hard-won process, I am pleased that we have finally come to a resolution on this matter to receive fair and just compensation for the Navajo Nation.” Shelly said the tribe will host
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The Invincible Czars The ensemble plays a live soundtrack to the 1928 silent film The Wind, 7:30 p.m., Cinematheque, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $10 in advance online at ccasantafe.org, $12 at the door.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief called for world leaders Wednesday to join an international campaign to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refugees, the displaced and victims of violence in a world wracked by wars and the swiftspreading and deadly Ebola epidemic. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said leaders must find and nurture “seeds of hope” in the turmoil and despair of a world that may seem like it’s falling apart with people crying out for protec- Ban Ki-moon tion from greed and inequality. “Not since the end of the Second World War have there been so many refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers. Never before has the United Nations been asked to reach so many people with emergency food assistance and other life-saving supplies,” Ban said in his state of the world address at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting. Several leaders including Jordan’s King Abdullah and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the challenges — financial and social — of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria. Abdullah, whose country is sheltering nearly 1.4 million Syrians, said the refugee crisis “demands a global solution.” “To date, the response has not kept pace with the real needs,” he said. The global spotlight at the assembly is focused on the rise of radical Islamic extremists, who chose Wednesday to behead a French hiker in Algeria. French President François Hollande denounced the militants linked to the Islamic State group who assassinated Herve Gourdel and warned that they pose a global threat that must be stopped.
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