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log listing documents they claimed they did not have to release — or could release in redacted form. That was the Rick May only document released by the Governor’s Office. The Department of Finance and Administration released several documents,
requested records — Rick May, who was fired as the chief executive officer of the New Mexico Finance Authority, still hasn’t received most of the documents he’s seeking. In response to a court-ordered deadline, lawyers for the governor handed over a 75-page
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More than a year after filing a lengthy public records request with Gov. Susana Martinez’s office — and more than seven months after filing a lawsuit against the governor over those
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including several emails in which virtually the entire messages were blacked out and several documents that were outside the scope of the information May requested. Although Martinez’s spokesmen frequently have said her administration is the most transparent in state history, May’s case illustrates how fiercely the administration will fight to avoid
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Honoring their sacrifices Memorial Day ceremony commemorates soldiers’ service to country
Residents say they only recently began to notice odor from Payne’s By David Salazar
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Foul odors in the vicinity of Payne’s Organic Soil Yard have neighbors making a stink. Area residents say the site at 6037 Agua Fría St. — which composts waste from local grocery stores and restaurants, as well as horse manure — has been putting off an increasingly bad smell. “It’s become so bad, we’re forced to close doors, windows during the day,” neighbor Robert Hanelt said. “Now that the temperatures are going up, it’s absolutely vile.” The New Mexico Environment Department’s Solid Waste Bureau conducted two inspections last week at the nursery’s soil yard in response to a complaint, spokesman Jim Winchester said. Although Winchester couldn’t comment on the outcome of the ongoing investigation, the soil yard’s manager, Sam McCarthy, said it was cited for odors and he is taking steps to mitigate the problems. “There are adjustments that we’re trying to make, and part of it is just being aware that the neighbors
Please see sMeLLs, Page A-8 Paul Rodriguez of Santa Fe visited the grave sites of his grandparents and brother during Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. View more photos from the event at http://tinyurl.com/q5uvwgm. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
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T Joel Medrano of Santa Fe composts food waste that was dropped off at Payne’s Organic Soil Yard earlier in the day Friday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
he late-May morning carried the uncomfortable chill of November, a fitting atmosphere for honoring soldiers’ sacrifices. Perhaps 300 people gathered Monday at Santa Fe National Cemetery for a Memorial Day observance in the unseasonably cold temperatures. Nearly all of them stayed for the entire 70-minute tribute to military
veterans and those who died in defense of America. “It’s motivating,” said Rosemary Morales Vargas, who served in the Marine Corps and is a veteran of the first Gulf War. Some gave all for their country. Vargas, of Santa Fe, said that sobering thought is the reason she never misses the Memorial Day ceremony. “It’s an actual reminder of the sacrifices,” she said. Dennis Felipe of Acoma Pueblo also was at
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wheel. At one point, Anderson, who had a trace of Xanax in her blood, faced a The New York Times manslaughter charge. She was 21. All these years, Anderson — now BEN WHEELER, Texas — For most of engaged and a mother — has been a the last decade, Candice Anderson has devoted visitor to his grave. She tidies it carried unspeakable guilt over the death every season, setting down blue daisies of her boyfriend. He was killed in 2004 for his birthday and miniature lit trees in a car accident here, and she was at the for Christmas.
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the ceremony. He served as a door gunner on an Army helicopter crew in Vietnam. Felipe said that, as a young man drafted in 1969, he never thought about the magnitude of going to war. More than 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, a statistic that gives him pause on Memorial Day and most every other day. “You wonder, how did I make it back?” he said.
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