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Navigator helps survivors of devastating blaze find way to much-needed relief, assistance

Deal worth potentially millions of dollars was already part of political controversy

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Calf Canyon Fire of 2022. “But you can help them rebuild.”

A “field navigator” for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Medina spends day after day with victims of the fire, working to clear red tape and explain the sometimesdifficult process by which they can be reimbursed for their losses. He says there are days of success, but also struggle — largely because he knows there are limits to making people whole.

And so it was last week in the small community of Tierra Monte as

A Chicago-based law firm that scored a distant third in its proposal to represent the state in litigation stemming from the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire ultimately was awarded the contract after an evaluation committee decided to embark on a two-step process and interview the bidders.

Documents obtained under a public records request show Edelson PC scored a combined 2,350 points on its proposal, coming in third after firstplace finisher Singleton Schreiber LLP, which scored 2,895 points, and a consor- Hector Balderas tium that included Albuquerque-based Roybal-Mack & Cordova PC, which finished a close second with 2,890 points.

The fourth bidder, Dallas-based Durham, Pittard & Spalding LLP, finished with a score of 2,210.

The contract — potentially worth millions of dollars — has been shrouded in controversy with political overtones since former Attorney General Hector Balderas handed the work to an out-ofBrian Colón state law firm in his final days in office last year.

That law firm subsequently subcontracted with another law firm where Balderas’ close friend and political ally — former State Auditor Brian Colón — is a managing partner, prompting the new attorney general, Raúl Torrez, who ran for the seat against Colón, to terminate the contract within the first two weeks of his tenure and put it out to bid.

Raúl Torrez Despite a bidding process designed for greater fairness, the contract is once again the subject of debate — and a formal protest by one of the losing participants.

The five-member evaluation committee assembled by Torrez assessed the proposals on their level of compliance against criteria that included organizational experience and financial stability.

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ABOVE: Michael “Miguel” Medina of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stands among the charred remains of Mario L. Quintana’s home in Tierra Monte on Thursday afternoon. “I can help him build a new house, but it will never be the same,” Medina said.

BELOW: Jacquee Gillespie, whose property was damaged in the flooding that followed the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire of 2022, pets her miniature horse Robin at her home Thursday afternoon. PHOTOS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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TIERRA MONTE s Mario L. Quintana wandered around the firescarred remains of his family’s adobe house, all Michael “Miguel” Medina could do was look on. His face was marked by empathy, sadness and, maybe, resolve.

“They say you can never make them whole,” Medina said of the New Mexicans who lost property, land, businesses, animals and part of their cultural history in the Hermits Peak/

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IN BRIEF Russia’s opposition is undeterred despite uphill slog against Putin TALLINN, Estonia — Behind bars in penal colonies or in self-exile abroad, Russian opposition figures vow they will still put up a fight against President Vladimir Putin as he seeks yet another term in office in an election in March.

Although they believe Putin will be declared the winner no matter how voters cast their ballots, they say they hope to undermine the widespread public support he enjoys, turn popular opinion against the devastating war he unleashed on Ukraine and show those who oppose it already they are not alone.

Putin, 71, announced Friday he will run for president again. The vote is scheduled for March 15-17, with his victory all but assured.

The vast majority of opposition figures are either imprisoned or have fled the country, almost all independent news outlets have been blocked, and any criticism has been muted by a slew of repressive laws adopted over the last decade.

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Group says Polish trucker blockade harms Ukraine’s battlefield efforts KORCZOWA, Poland — Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the war-torn country’s military warn problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a border blockade that has stretched past a month.

The Polish protesters argue their livelihoods are at stake after the European Union relaxed some transport rules and Ukrainian truckers undercut their business.

While drones will make it to the front line, they’re delayed by two to three weeks, said Oleksandr Zadorozhnyi, operational director of the KOLO foundation, which helps the Ukrainian army with battlefield tech, including drones and communications equipment.

Truck drivers in Poland have blocked access roads to border crossings since Nov. 6. The protesters insist they’re not stopping military transports or humanitarian aid into Ukraine.

The Polish truckers say their Ukrainian counterparts are offering lower prices to haul goods across the European Union since getting a temporary waiver on the 27-nation bloc’s transport rules in 2022.

After three deaths, CDC issues alert over rare disease carried by ticks The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned clinicians and the public about an outbreak of a rare but deadly tick-borne disease that hospitalized five patients in Southern California, killing three of them, after they traveled to or lived in a Mexican border city in recent months.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by the bite of infected ticks that live primarily on dogs. It’s rare in the United States but has emerged at epidemic levels in northern Mexico, where more than 2,000 cases, resulting in hundreds of deaths, have been reported in the past five years.

In a health advisory issued late Friday, the CDC said the five patients had been diagnosed since late July.

All had traveled to or lived in Tecate, in the northern Mexican state of Baja California, within two weeks of getting sick. All five sought care in hospitals in Southern California.

DeSantis’ wife incorrectly asserts anyone in U.S. can caucus in Iowa SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The Republican Party of Iowa on Friday clarified out-of-state residents cannot take part in its presidential nominating contest after Florida first lady Casey DeSantis — the wife of candidate Ron DeSantis — urged mothers and grandmothers from around the country to “descend upon the state of Iowa to be a part of the caucus,” and added, “you do not have to be a resident of Iowa to be able to participate in the caucus.”

Casey DeSantis, who often joins her husband on the campaign trail, has been promoting a “Mamas for DeSantis” 2024 coalition. She said on Fox News “we’re asking all of these moms and grandmoms to come, from wherever it might be — North Carolina, South Carolina — and to descend upon the state of Iowa to be a part of the caucus.”

She further said people should come “let their voice be heard in support of Ron DeSantis,” the Republican governor of Florida.

The Florida first lady later posted on X, the social media site, “voting in the Iowa caucuses is limited to registered voters in Iowa.”

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A pistol is fed into a pulverizer at Gunbusters, a firearms disposal service in Chesterfield, Mo., in October. Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that resell most of the firearm’s parts.

Rather than destroyed, guns are often reborn Federal loophole allows companies to crush one part, resell rest as kit

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hen Flint, Mich., announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.

“Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said.

“I will not allow our city government to profit from our community’s pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents.”

But Flint’s guns were not going to be melted down. Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what’s missing and reconstitute the weapon.

Hundreds of towns and cities have turned to a growing industry that offers to destroy guns used in crimes, surrendered in buybacks or replaced by police force upgrades. But these communities are in fact fueling a secondary arms market, where weapons slated for destruction are recycled into civilian hands, often with no background check required, according to interviews and a review of gun disposal contracts, patent records and online listings for firearms parts.

Some public officials and gun safety advocates said they had no clue this was happening. The Rev. Chris Yaw, whose Episcopal church outside Detroit has sponsored buybacks with local officials, said in an interview he was “aghast and appalled” when told by a reporter how the process works.

“It tells me that our society is set up really well for buying and selling guns,” he said, “but it’s not set up very well for disposing of them.”

The industry relies on contracts with public agencies at the local, state and federal levels and is subsidized by tax dollars and charitable donations that pay for buybacks.

Governments arguably could be seen as complicit in bad outcomes — if a recycled assault weapon from Flint, for example, was later used in a deadly shooting — but it would

be difficult to even know that; the salvaged gun parts typically would not include a serial number that could be traced.

A Missouri business called Gunbusters, which patented a “firearms pulverizer,” was responsible for dealing with the Flint weapons. The company says it has taken in more than 200,000 firearms over the past decade from about 950 police agencies around the country, from Baton Rouge, La., to St. Louis to Hartford, Vt. At least a half-dozen other firms do similar work. LSC Destruction of Nevada says it has disposed of guns for police departments in Minneapolis and San Antonio, while New England Ballistic Services of Massachusetts has worked with Boston and towns in Rhode Island.

Gun auction websites have thousands of listings for parts kits and even complete firearms offered by firms that contract with law enforcement agencies to handle disposals.

Gunbusters and its five licensees across the country, for example, recently averaged more than $90,000 a week in combined online sales of hundreds of disassembled guns from government clients.

This little-known but profitable corner of the firearms economy exists because the approved method of destroying a gun contains a loophole that has been exploited.

To be able to say a gun is destroyed, disposal companies crush or cut up a single piece that federal law classifies as a firearm: the receiver or frame that anchors the other components and contains the required serial number. The businesses can then sell the remaining parts as a kit: barrel, trigger, grip, slide, stock, springs — essentially the entire gun, minus the regulated piece.

Police agencies and disposal companies say they are following guidelines set by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While the guidelines, posted on the ATF website, show illustrations of whole guns being cut into pieces with an acetylene torch, they also say an “acceptable method” is to destroy just the receiver or frame.

The companies, for their part, say if public officials want the whole gun destroyed, they must pay for it.

Most GOP culture war demands cut from defense bill

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Congress is expected to begin voting this week on the final version of its annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, which brought the U.S. military and national security spending more broadly to the main stage of America’s culture wars over the summer.

The $886 billion package, compromise legislation agreed to by negotiators from the Republican-led House

and Democratic-led Senate, strips away a number of contentious provisions — such as restricting U.S. service members’ access to abortion — that hard-right lawmakers had inserted into the lower chamber’s bill despite complaints from members of both parties.

If it passes, as appears likely, the outcome will symbolize a defeat for the GOP’s raucous right flank. Already, some of the party’s most outspoken figures — including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a firebrand who advocated some of the most divisive

proposals — have denounced the final product as a “total sell-out of conservative principles.”

The Senate is due to vote on the measure first, followed by the House.

Greene and other hard-liners maneuvered this summer to load the House s version of the bill with provisions that would have rolled back a Pentagon policy of reimbursing expenses incurred by service members who travel out of state to obtain an abortion; prohibited specialized health care sought by transgender troops or military dependents;

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WASHINGTON — John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street Sense, the local paper that covers issues related to the homeless and employs unhoused people as its vendors.

Today, he’s finding fewer people are walking around with spare change. Even well-meaning individuals who want to help are likely to pat their pockets and apologize, he said.

“I would be out here for six or seven hours and wouldn’t get more than $12 to $15,” said Littlejohn, 62, who was homeless for 13 years. “People are like, ‘I don’t leave the house with cash.’ ” But just as technological shifts helped create the problem, further advances are now helping charitable groups and advocates for the unhoused reach those most in danger of being left behind in a cashless society.

A Street Sense app allows a customer to buy a copy electronically and have the profits go straight to Littlejohn.

Thanks to Social Security and his income from Street Sense and other side gigs, Littlejohn now has an apartment.

One of the larger shifts in Western society over the past two decades has been the decline of cash transactions. It started with more people using credit cards to pay for things as trivial as a cup of coffee. It accelerated as smartphone technology advanced to the point where cash-free payments became the norm for many.

The shift has been felt keenly in the realm of street-level charitable giving — from individual donations to panhandlers and street musicians to the red Salvation Army donation kettles outside grocery stores.

The cashless world can be particularly daunting for the unhoused. While electronic payment apps like PayPal or Venmo have become ubiquitous, many of these options require items beyond their reach — credit cards, bank accounts, identification documents or fixed mailing addresses.

Charities have struggled to adapt. The Salvation Army has created a system where donors can pay by tapping their phones on the kettle.

Certain payment platforms like Venmo and Cash App are more unhoused-friendly because they do not require a bank account, just a phone number and email address.

Others have taken the technology a step further, developing apps that aim to not only enable cashless donations to the homeless but also to steer them into support systems that can help get them off the streets. The Samaritan app takes a deeply personal approach by allowing donors to essentially help sponsor an unhoused person without using cash.

Currently operating in seven cities, including Los Angeles and Baltimore, the program distributes cards to unhoused people containing a QR code that enables donors to give directly into an account. The app itself contains dozens of mini-profiles of local unhoused individuals describing their situation and immediate needs. Donors can give money to fund specific needs, from groceries or an apartment deposit to clothing suitable for a job interview.

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Ukraine aid Penn president resigns after antisemitism hearing unlikely by end of year as GOP ties it to border

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WASHINGTON — A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. The impasse is deepening in Congress despite dire warnings from the White House about the consequences of inaction as Republicans insist on pairing the aid with changes to America’s immigration and border policies.

After the Democratic president said last week he was willing to “make significant compromises on the border,” Republicans quickly revived demands that they had earlier set aside, hardening their positions and attempting to shift the negotiations to the right, according to a person familiar with the talks who was not authorized to publicly discuss them and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The latest proposal, from the lead GOP negotiator, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., came during a meeting with a core group of senators before they left Washington on Thursday afternoon. It could force the White House to consider ideas that many Democrats will seriously oppose, throwing new obstacles in the difficult negotiations.

Biden is facing the prospect of a cornerstone of his foreign policy — repelling Russian President Vladimir Putin from overtaking Ukraine — crumbling as U.S. support for funding the war wanes, especially among Republicans. The White House says a failure to approve more aid by year’s end could have catastrophic consequences for Ukraine and its ability to fight.

To preserve U.S. backing, the Biden administration has quietly engaged in Senate talks on border policy in recent weeks, providing assistance to the small group of senators trying to reach a deal and communicating what policy changes it would find acceptable.

The president is trying to satisfy GOP demands to reduce the historic number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border while alleviating Democrats’ fears that legal immigration will be choked off with drastic measures.

As talks sputtered to a restart last week, Democrats warned Republicans that time for a deal was running short. Congress is scheduled to depart Washington in mid-December for a holiday break.

“Republicans need to show they are serious about reaching a compromise, not just throwing on the floor basically [former President] Donald Trump’s border policies,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday before Republicans made their counteroffer.

But the new Republican proposal dug in on policy changes that had led Democrats to step back from the negotiations, according to the person familiar with the talks. The GOP offer calls for ending the humanitarian parole program that’s now in place for existing classes of migrants — Ukrainians, Afghans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians. That idea had been all but dashed before.

Additionally, those groups of migrants would not be allowed to be paroled again if the terms of their stay expire before their cases are adjudicated in immigration proceedings.

GOP senators proposed monitoring systems such as ankle bracelets for people, including children, who are detained at the border and are awaiting parole.

Republicans want to ban people from applying for asylum if they have transited through a different country where they could have sought asylum instead. GOP lawmakers also want to revive executive powers that would allow a president to shut down entries.

Further, after migrant encounters at the border recently hit historic numbers, the GOP proposal would set new guidelines requiring the border to be essentially shut down if illegal crossings reach a certain limit.

Lankford declined to discuss specifics after the Thursday meeting, but said he was trying to “negotiate in good faith.”

He said the historic number of migrants at the border could not be ignored. “Do you want large numbers of undocumented individuals and unscreened individuals without work permits, without access to the rest of the economy?” he said.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid intense criticism from donors, alumni and others after testimony she gave at a congressional hearing last week about antisemitism on college campuses.

Scott L. Bok, chairman of the Penn Board of Trustees, said in a

note to the university community Saturday that Magill will stay in the role until an interim president is appointed.

Liz Magill After that, she will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law. “On behalf of the entire Penn community, I want to thank

President Magill for her service to the University as President and wish her well,” Bok wrote.

The announcement came a day before Penn’s board of trustees was set to meet amid the growing leadership crisis.

“It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution,” Magill said in the note to campus.

Magill came under withering criticism for testimony in which she declined to state plainly that

assuring that they would punish harassment or bullying. To many, though, the academics’ attempts at nuance came off as weak-kneed and legalistic equivocations.

The backlash was particularly notable for Magill, whose testimony alienated key constituents, including the state’s governor, the board of the Wharton School of Business, and an alumnus who is threatening to withhold a $100 million donation.

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Mario L. Quintana amid the ruins of his adobe home that burned in the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire of 2022 in Tierra Monte. Quintana had lived in the family home that previously belonged to his father. When he first came back to the charred remains of the home, which has been in the family for at least a century, he said the sight “just makes your heart fall to the ground.”

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Quintana prowled his property.

“I can help him build a new house,” Medina said, “but it will never be what it was.”

Quintana’s situation is not far different from many in the ravaged area between Las Vegas, N.M., and Mora.

When he first came back to the charred remains of the home, which has been in the family for at least a century, he said the sight “just makes your heart fall to the ground.”

Now living in an apartment in Las Vegas as he awaits the rest of his FEMA payment, Quintana said all he can do now is drive to the site in his truck and drink a beer while remembering the decades of warm times he had there.

Although some fire victims have chafed at the time it’s taken them to receive federal assistance, Quintana praised Medina, who “got the ball rolling” so he could receive initial FEMA funding.

“It was a relief to find someone to talk to, someone to listen,” Quintana said.

In some ways, talking and listening is just as important as accessing property records, titles, deeds and other proof of ownership documents to help those still reeling from the emotional and financial effects of the fire, said Medina, a native New Mexican who has worked for FEMA since April.

The Navy veteran drove the roads of Mora and San Miguel counties as a FedEx driver before the fire swept in.

With so many things closed because of the pandemic, he sometimes was the only person many people living in those rural communities got to see on a regular basis.

“I got to know these people,” Medina said during an interview at FEMA’s Las Vegas office.

That makes it easier to help, but that still doesn’t mean it’s easy. To start with, when he drives the routes he used to know well, he sees slabs of concrete where houses once stood. Nearby are

Jacquee Gillespie looks at a calendar Thursday as she tracks the timeline of FEMA’s involvement with helping her manage the damage to her property.

RIGHT: Quintana’s burned-out truck sits on his property dotted with charred trees in Tierra Monte.

people standing amid the remains of something that once defined who they were and how they lived.

“The only thing to compare it to is World War I photos,” he said. “To see it now breaks your heart.”

There are other challenges as well.

Medina is juggling 74 claims now, a fraction of the almost 1,400 loss claims involving 2,734 claimants filed to date.

“Sometimes it’s a lot,” he said of his caseload.

He knows there is a perception FEMA is not helping as quickly as it should.

But he said he and his colleagues at the Las Vegas site are New Mexico natives who have compassion for the victims of the disaster.

“You can’t do this if you don’t care,” he said. “You’re dealing with loss. It may not be death, but it’s still loss. It’s still grief.”

The sadness rises again as Quintana begins fiddling around with an ancient wood heating stove in the remains of the adobe structure.

“Sometimes I dream it didn’t happen,” Quintana said. But when he visits the house, bordered by the crisped remains of a field of trees, he says he realizes “it’s reality.”

It can be slow going Medina, 54, was born in Española and lived in Las Vegas for some time. He earned a business administration degree from Northern New Mexico College and spent eight years — four active, four reserve — as a radar operator in the Navy. After he got out, he lived for a while in New York City where he worked as a corporate investigator.

After 9/11, “I decided to come home,” he said.

During a summer 2022 motorcycle tour through the areas he once delivered packages in, he saw the destruction the fire created. He decided he wanted

to help.

“This community raised me,” he said.

He attended a FEMA job fair in December 2022, netted an interview and got hired as a field navigator in the spring.

He finds many claimants — about half are walk-ins at the Las Vegas FEMA site — are just happy to encounter a human being with whom to speak. He said they often do not know what losses are eligible for reimbursement. More challenging, they may no longer have deeds or titles or other proof of ownership; many were lost in the fire.

“There’s a lot of paperwork involved,” he acknowledged. Often it requires FEMA employees to access county property records and retrieve documents for the claimants. Other issues may come up to cause delays, such as local battles over who really owns the

property and discussions of what can be included in loss claims.

“It takes time to look it up, scan it, and it still might not be what we need,” he said when it comes to obtaining proof.

“The more evidence you have to do the claim, the better.”

Noting FEMA made a point of hiring New Mexicans to better serve the community, Medina noted, “We’re all locals. We know the area. We know the culture. We know we’re here for a reason.”

Still, critics complain FEMA is not moving quickly enough to get the roughly $4 billion appropriated for restoration efforts flowing to claimants.

The agency counters with statistics: According to its website, it has made payments to 716 of claimants to date.

Manny Crespin Jr., founder of the Coalition for Fire Fund Fairness, an advocacy group aiming to ensure full compensation for survivors of the fire who suffered losses, sent a letter to President Joe Biden, FEMA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week expressing concerns about the agency’s efforts in New Mexico.

“While many of the impacted communities have begun to heal, the ongoing administration of the claims process has fallen short and continues to have emotional and psychological impacts on victims,” he wrote in the letter, which he sent to The New Mexican earlier this week.

Noting individual FEMA employees are doing their best to help, the letter calls for the Biden administration to replace current Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon FEMA director Angela Gladwell with someone who has a “deep understanding” of the state’s history and culture.

Per FEMA guidelines posted on its website, once a claim is filed and formally acknowledged, claimants have 150 days to submit proof of loss documents and the claims office has 30 days beyond that to process the claim — a total of 180 days.

Crespin said he knows some claim-

ants who have waited out the 180 days without getting a response of any kind.

“That’s when people have to go and talk to their lawyers, and their lawyers have to send something saying they went over the 180 days because that is what is happening,” he said. “Some people are not getting their compensation.”

FEMA spokeswoman Deborah Martinez said the agency is moving as quickly as it can given its staffing and the number of claims.

“We have more people coming in every day to file claims because they’re trusting [in the process]; they’re hearing from their neighbors how reliable our staff is,” she said.

She said that puts a burden on field navigators who have high caseloads but “still they get through.” She said FEMA is onboarding and training new employees constantly, “and we’re not going to stop until we’re fully staffed.”

“Some people do take a little longer,” she said of claimants. Some, she said, request extensions beyond the 150-day claimant deadline to provide proof of loss, which is allowable.

For his part, Medina said, he understands people’s frustration with the pace of progress. “Every process is different, every property is different,” he said.

“The ball is rolling, the gears are moving. We ask people to be patient.”

He pointed to the scarred land around him and the remains of other houses burned to the ground and said the community is still home to many people though their homes are gone.

“Everybody lost something,” he said.

Then he gestured to the vista to the west.

“I think of my family living on the other side of the mountain,” Medina said. “They’re the same kind of people — New Mexicans who live off the land.”

Citing the federal Hermit’s Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act, which provides the federal funding for those affected, he said there are limits to what he and his colleagues can navigate.

“One thing we don’t cover,” he said, “is pain and suffering.”

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Years of quiet fire seasons may be coming to an end

By Scott Dance

The Washington Post

This year transported the West to summers of the past: Pleasant temperatures and clear air allowed for regular walks and hikes in the sunshine. In this part of North America, at least, choking smoke and the buzz of firefighting aircraft, unnerving hallmarks of so many recent wildfire seasons, largely relented.

The dread and fear of out-of-control fires, on the other hand, remained inescapable, residents and emergency managers said. It was a reminder there is no going back to old norms so long as global temperatures continue to rise.

“We have just had a respite,” said Tonya Graham, mayor of Ashland, Ore. “We have had a little bit of breathing space in this trajectory that is taking us toward higher wildfire and smoke risk and more extreme temperatures.”

In recent months, fires raged over an astonishing, record-setting footprint in Canada, killed nearly 100 people and devastated Maui’s cultural capital, and blanketed the eastern United States with plumes of lung-harming smoke. Nevertheless, the U.S. wildfire season is likely to end as the quietest in decades.

Given recent trends in wildfire statistics, it could be the quietest for decades

enough to solve that waterway’s woes.

In California, snowpack brought a water miracle, filling reservoirs and irrigation systems and for once allowing farms to add water to aquifers instead of further sapping them. There were fears that all the moisture might actually trigger an intense fire season in the Golden State if autumn weather dried out all the lush vegetation and it ignited.

But that didn’t happen. For a second year in a row, the acreage torched by wildfires in California was a small fraction of the land burned during the devastating 2018, 2020 and 2021 fire years, and on par with the quieter seasons of the 1990s and early 2000s. For the first time in years, drought is nowhere to be found in the Golden State during what is typically its driest time of year.

Why the season was so quiet This year’s above-normal moisture An unusual abundance of moisture goes meant that fires had difficulty spreading.

In Colorado, the number of fires was back to last winter, when an onslaught of storms dumped rain and — more import- close to average, “but we did not see the large acreage fires that we have experiant — heaps of snow from the Sierra enced in other years,” said Tracy LeClair, Nevada to the Cascades to the Rockies. a spokeswoman for the state’s wildland Snowpack is a key water source for the fire management office.

West through hot and dry summers.

Well-timed precipitation also helped Record-setting snowpack helped the Great Salt Lake bounce back from record prevent fire activity from ramping up, said Jim Wallmann, a meteorologist with low water levels. In the Colorado River the National Interagency Fire Center basin, extra snowfall provided some relief from drought, although it was not in Idaho. Monsoon rains doused fire

to come without successful efforts to prevent blazes and reduce risks.

The lull in wildfire activity has offered some communities, weary from decades of increasingly harrowing fire years, a chance to prepare for when flames come roaring back. In places such as Nevada County, Calif., northwest of Lake Tahoe, that meant time and energy to study and clear evacuation routes, take stock of fire-prone buildings, and go after state and federal money up for grabs for wildfire preparations.

“If you get a breather from it being just emergency, emergency, emergency, then you have the ability to plan,” said Alex Keeble-Toll, a senior administrative analyst for the county’s emergency services office.

activity in Montana in early August, and then later that month, Hurricane Hilary drenched Southern California and spread moisture across the West.

In recent years, drought persistently dominated the country west of the Mississippi River, but the maps flipped this year: Measures of soil moisture are among the highest on record across much of the mountain West and Northwest, according to NASA satellite data. Instead, it’s the Mississippi Valley that is the nation’s most parched — and fire-weary — region.

The conditions fueled hundreds of fires across Louisiana, where the Tiger Island Fire became the largest on record for the state. But because fires in the West can grow so much larger than those in the East, Wallmann said, an above-normal wildfire year in the South and Southeast had little bearing on national wildfire statistics.

Fires aren’t just for a season In the West, the late summer and early fall months are traditionally marked “fire season,” when warm conditions and dry weather patterns turned lush landscapes into tinderboxes. In recent decades, those artificial bounds have become increasingly irrelevant — so much so that authorities have changed their outlook on when risks are highest.

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“After review of the proposals, the Committee felt that interviews would be helpful to further clarify responses and moved forward with a two-step evaluation process to determine the firm that would provide the best value to the State of New Mexico,” according to its evaluation and recommendation report.

The committee was comprised of the procurement manager and chief administrative officer at the Attorney General’s Office, as well as three “independent attorneys with litigation experience from outside the agency,” according to the report. The report identified the three attorneys, all based in New Mexico, as Mark Baker of Peifer, Hanson, Mullins & Baker PA; Ryan Harrigan of SaucedoChavez PC; and Denise Torres of the Law Firm of Denise Torres LLC. Baker initially referred inquiries about the selection process to the Attorney General’s Office.

However, when pressed, he said the process was fair.

“I obviously wouldn’t have participated if I didn’t think the process was fair, but beyond that, I don’t really have any comments,” he said.

Torres said the committee decided to conduct interviews because it had a lot of questions that couldn’t be answered from the firms’ proposals.

“This is a very big deal for New Mexico,” she said. “There was a lot of damage done to the state and so it was very important for us to pick the firm that was going to be the best value for our state, and wow, in hindsight, I’m so thrilled we did the interviews because after the interviews, the winner kind of just leaped out at us.”

Asked whether the selection process was fair, Torres said it was a valid question given the initial scores on the firms’ proposals.

“But after we spoke with the people that are going to be caring for New Mexico, it was a pretty stark contrast,” she said. “Some of those bigger firms, we felt like that New Mexico was just going to be one of many cases that they were working on and almost treated us in a dismissive manner.”

Harrigan, the third outside attorney on the evaluation committee, did not return a message seeking comment.

Lauren Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office, wrote Friday in a statement Torrez authorized the committee to evaluate the bids and was confident in the outcome.

“While neither the Attorney General or his staff played any role in the panel’s final determination, we have no reason to believe that the process they followed was anything other than fair, impartial, and comprehensive,” she wrote.

Ahead of last year’s Democratic primary, Torrez wrote in a candidate questionnaire published in The New Mexican he would discontinue Balderas’ practice of contracting with outside law firms for consumer protection cases.

“The use of outside counsel should be the exception, not the rule, and they should only be selected after an independent panel of local experts has vetted their qualifications,” he wrote.

“We have to end the pay-to-play system that has enabled large out-of-state and well-connected law firms to reap millions in fees

at taxpayer expense.”

Going through the process The request for proposals issued by the Attorney General’s Office stated responsive proposals would be evaluated on technical and business specifications assigned a point value. While the RFP states the procurement manager may contact bidders for clarification, it makes no mention of interviews.

The committee developed questions to ask each bidder, including how would they address potential conflicts of interest that may arise by representing the state and other entities or individuals affected by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and how the size of the firm would affect its ability to get the work done.

After the interviews, which didn’t include a point system, top scorer Singleton Schreiber LLP ended up in third place and Edelson PC in first.

The group that included Roybal-Mack & Cordova PC maintained its second-place ranking.

Antonia Roybal-Mack, the law firm’s founder and managing partner, declined to comment based on a pending protest over the contract. Roybal-Mack is a Mora native who helped coordinate aid efforts for residents affected by the wildfire as it continued to rage out of control.

The protest, which a protest manager for the Attorney General’s Office denied after determining it was without merit, challenged, among other things, the committee’s decision to interview all four respondents given the disparity in scores.

“Once the review committee determined that interviews were a part of their necessary investigations in their review process, there was no impropriety in interviewing all offerors,” Adolfo Mendez, the protest manager, wrote in a letter to Roybal-Mack last month.

The Attorney General’s Office notified Edelson in September it had been awarded the contract.

The decision to select Edelson has stirred allegations, albeit privately, of politics at play.

Colón, the former state auditor, is the managing partner of Singleton Schreiber’s New Mexico offices, and Colón ran against Torrez in the hotly contested Democratic primary for attorney general last year.

Torrez’s predecessor, Hector Balderas, awarded the wildfire disaster recovery contract to California-based Kanner & Whiteley days before he left office last year, and the firm subsequently obtained approval to retain Singleton Schreiber as a subcontractor.

Balderas, now president of Northern New Mexico College, was unavailable for an interview Friday.

In last year’s Democratic primary for attorney general, Balderas endorsed Colón and contributed $100,000 from his AG campaign account on television ads in support of Colón, according to published reports.

Colón said Singleton Schreiber was “disappointed” it wasn’t hired to represent the state.

“We would have loved to represent the people of the state, but the AG’s got prerogative,” Colón said. “He chose a different firm, and we’re hopeful that they will get the best recovery for the people of our state.”

Less than two weeks after Torrez took office, his office terminated the professional services agreement with Kanner & Whiteley, effectively ending the co-counsel agreement with Singleton Schreiber, too.

“The Office anticipates issuing a formal procurement for the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires matter,” a termination letter states. “We encourage your firm to participate in the formal procurement.”

Kanner & Whiteley, however, wasn’t among the bidders.

Bids were due Aug. 5 and apparently scored soon thereafter because the interviews with the four respondents were conducted separately Aug. 14, 15 and 17.

The first interview was with Singleton Schreiber; the last interview was with Edelson.

“After all interviews were conducted, the committee discussed the responses and selected Edelson PC as the firm that would be most advantageous for New Mexico,” according to its evaluation and recommendation report.

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The committee listed several reasons supporting its conclusion, including “Edelson’s work related to the Oregon fires, including trying the case to secure a broad liability finding and recovering damages above the clients’ jury demand on the claims where damages have been determined to date, establishes that the firm will fight to ensure that New Mexico gets the best possible result.”

The committee also noted the team Edelson assembled to represent New Mexico “has particularly impressive credentials, including a strong balance between academic accomplishment and experience working within AG offices.”

In its bid, Edelson indicated it wouldn’t use any subcontractors.

The firm previously partnered with the law office of former House Speaker Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat, on wildfire recovery related to the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, according to its website.

Egolf did not return a message

“We think of fire years,” rather than just seasons, Wallmann said.

Even for experts, it’s hard to say how effectively prevention measures will slow wildfire growth in the decades to come. Recent research found that prescribed burns have helped to reduce fire risks by about two-thirds in California over the past 15 years. Another recent study, however, found that the conditions needed to safely conduct prescribed burns will become rarer as the climate changes.

How those forces interact, “it’s really hard to predict,” said Xiao Wu, an assistant professor of biostatistics at Columbia University and lead author of the study on prescribed burns in California. The research found that, because the state is conducting burns across a relatively small footprint each year, the strategy will have to be targeted to the most vulnerable areas to be successful.

Other methods of clearing out undergrowth to reduce fire risks are tedious and expensive, and can include work by hand. Those can cost upward of $2,000 per acre, while prescribed burning costs several hundred dollars per acre.

“There really is not enough money, and I don’t think there ever will be, to solve this problem,” said Steve Garcia, a Cal Fire forester in Nevada, Yuba and Placer counties.

seeking comment. Edelson partner Jimmy Rock, who was listed as the firm’s contact in its proposal, declined to comment.

In its evaluation and recommendation report, the committee wrote selecting Edelson to handle disaster recovery for the largest wildfire in New Mexico history “avoids the burden on the AG’s office of managing the case through a large group of different firms while still selecting a firm that has the resources to handle the litigation.”

The contingent-fee contract is potentially lucrative and is based on the successful recovery of damages.

The request for proposals

states the contractor — in this case, Edelson — can “petition the court in the proposed litigation for reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, provided that attorney’s fees in cases settled before trial shall not exceed 15% for any monetary recovery under $5,000,000 and 10% for any monetary recovery over $5,000,000.”

The request also states “attorney’s fees in cases that go to trial on the merits shall not exceed 18% for any monetary recovery under $5,000,000 and 12% for any monetary recovery over $5,000,000.”

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rules would impose a new school accreditation process. Both, critics claim, will undermine the authority of local school decision-makers.

When asked how he justifies the Public Education Department’s proposals — particularly as schools are still adjusting to legislatively required alterations to annual calendars that went into effect this school year — Cabinet Secretary Arsenio Romero simply replied: “Because we are in last place.”

“There is a need for us to do something dramatically different in the state of New Mexico,” he said.

180 instructional days Much of the uproar related to the Public Education Department’s proposed changes comes from a requirement that all school calendars include 180 instructional days, a change that would tack on an extra four days for students at Santa Fe Public Schools, plus more for teachers.

Romero asserted the proposal is intended to update Public Education Department policy to adhere to House Bill 130, a bill passed during the 2023 legislative session that required public schools to increase school time to 1,140 hours a year, including teacher professional development time.

When schools created calendars in accordance with HB 130 for the 2023-24 school year, some districts actually decreased the amount of instructional time available to their students, Romero said.

“This was also an opportunity to try, through a rule, to be able to get us up to a standard of 180 days minimum, which would in my mind really complete the intent of what House Bill 130 was,” he said.

So far, the department has collected more than 500 pages of public feedback from students, parents, teachers and administrators across the state, with the overwhelming majority arguing against the imposition of a rule requiring 180 days of instructional time.

Many of the comments stemmed from rural school districts that operate on four-day school weeks, which would be required to alter their calendars to mostly five-day weeks.

Lawmakers also resisted the change. Members of the Legislative Education Study Committee argued in a meeting last month

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Secretary Arsenio Romero in March at the Public Education Department. Romero says he’s pushing for big changes in New Mexico “because we are in last place.”

it was inconsistent with the true intention of HB 130. In a letter sent to the Public Education Department on Thursday, 25 House Republicans also voiced opposition to “any mandate of 180 days of school instruction.”

“Instead, we urge you to consider the crucial role of the family in student success, prioritize addressing chronic absenteeism, and provide enhanced opportunities for local districts to improve student outcomes based on their unique situations,” the letter said.

Accreditation requirements However, school calendars aren’t the only thing set to change.

Department officials also outlined a new school accreditation process, authorized by existing statute but said by critics to infringe on local control of schools.

The change would require schools and districts to report enrollment figures, school safety plans and data demonstrating student proficiency, class loads and subject areas taught — in addition to board training, audit and budget documents and other administrative information. Based on that information, the public education

secretary would determine schools’ accreditation status.

Under the plan, there could be consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet accreditation standards — among them the creation of a corrective action plan; suspension of school board members, a superintendent or school principal; consolidation of school districts; and closure of schools.

“Our goal is to not get to that possibility; we want to be able to support them and support those students before we get anywhere near that,” Romero said of the possible consequences outlined in the proposed rule.

Under existing law, the department already has the authority to suspend district and school leadership as well as consolidate districts in some circumstances, though it’s not yet linked to accreditation.

The accreditation process is intended to ensure school accountability, Romero said, with clear consequences and the possible suspension of state funding intended to guarantee schools and districts will comply with accreditation requirements.

“If you can continue to show growth and continued proficiency for students, then that funding will

continue to be able to be available to your schools and school districts,” he said, “But if not, then we have to have a different conversation about why it’s not having positive impacts.”

To the rule’s critics, accreditation — and the consequences that come with them — sound like a bid to wrest power from local school boards, superintendents and schools.

Grace Mayer, an art teacher at Milagro Middle School and president of the local branch of the National Education Association, framed the department’s accreditation rules as a means of undermining local school boards, elected by their communities.

“When the [Public Education Department] can say to a community, ‘Not only are we going to be able to fire your superintendent and your principals, we’re going to remove your elected board,’ that is completely undemocratic and outrageous,” she said.

For charter schools, the proposals seem duplicative to existing academic, financial and organizational accountability requirements, said Matthew Pahl, executive director of Public Charter Schools of New Mexico. Charter schools are evaluated regularly by the Public

Education Department’s Charter Schools Division and the Public Education Commission, with unsatisfactory results sometimes leading to closure.

“What’s going to happen here is we’re going to be serving two different bodies on our accountability, and it’s likely to lead to more bureaucracy and less focus on students, which we don’t agree with,” Pahl said.

School administrators and board members across the state are worried about how the proposals may affect them, said Joe Guillen, executive director of the New Mexico School Boards Association, and Stan Rounds, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition of Educational Leaders.

Rounds said there should be a middle step — between creating a corrective action plan and suspending local school authorities — in the department’s process for failing to meet accreditation standards.

He suggested a third-party consultant to assist schools in making necessary changes.

Rather than “finger-pointing” at local education officials for New Mexico’s poor proficiency rates, Guillen argued accountability — which he said his organization welcomes — should be a partnership between PED and local schools and districts.

“We’ve been slowly losing some of that authority, with more state control over various policy matters,” Guillen said. “We’ve tried to fight it — and we’ve been successful in many instances — but some of these do get through and we have to live with them.”

Romero argued the proposed accreditation rules are a necessary change. Schools that already are performing well will be able to keep doing what they’re doing, but many need to improve.

“The vast majority of students in New Mexico are failing, and students are not getting the opportunities they need to be able to be successful. … That’s part of my responsibility: To make sure that all schools across New Mexico are continuing to improve,” Romero said.

“And if they’re not, then we have to have a different conversation,” he added. “What has been happening in that community, it’s not working, so we’re going to do things differently.”

WHAT’S NEXT? At 1:30 p.m. Dec. 18, the Public Education Department’s proposed new rules — including both calendar and accreditation regulations — will be subject to an in-person public comment hearing, during which stakeholders can share their opinions.

Comments can also be submitted via email at Rule.Feedback@ ped.nm.gov.

From there, the department will respond to the public feedback and may incorporate some of the suggestions before fully promulgating the rules, said Greg Frostad, the Public Education Department’s assistant secretary of policy, research and technology.

“I’m thankful and grateful that we’re getting feedback, and we will look at all of that and be able to help us as we move forward with those decisions,” said Public Education Department Secretary Arsenio Romero.

TAKEAWAYS u The Public Education Department is proposing a series of new rules, including a change requiring 180 instructional days in school years across the state and another establishing formal school accreditation procedures. u Department officials see the rules as an opportunity to improve school accountability and student proficiency in New Mexico, pushing the state out of its infamous last-place spot in U.S. education rankings. u Many school representatives and state lawmakers, however, framed the changes — both to the calendar and to the accreditation process — as moves to strip power from local decision-makers, like school boards and superintendents.

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While Palestinians suffer, Hamas is reaping benefits

By Ben Hubbard

The New York Times

ISTANBUL — Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruins, with its people pushed from their homes

by Israeli bombardment and the death toll climbing ever higher.

On the ground, Hamas, which has ruled Gaza for 16 years, has largely vanished, other than when its fighters pop up to attack Israeli tanks or fire rockets at Israel.

But the group is still reaping benefits from its surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. It is regarded as the only Palestinian faction to squeeze concessions from Israel in many years. It has thrown a bloody wrench into Israel’s plans to improve relations with its Arab neighbors and forced the Palestinian issue back onto the agendas of world leaders.

Two months into the war, despite vows by Israeli officials to destroy Hamas, Israel has yet to kill its top leaders, free the remaining 137 hostages Hamas holds or provide convincing evidence that it can achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas without an astronomical human cost.

In Hamas’ cynical calculation, the loftiness of Israel’s aims is a plus. While sticking to its long-term goal of destroying the Jewish state, Hamas can declare victory merely by surviving to fight another day.

“There is always going to be an advantage that an unconventional force will have, particularly if it is as ruthless as Hamas and doesn’t really care about the damage to the local civilians,” said Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Middle East policy analyst who grew up in Gaza. “Israel is going to be stuck in this unwinnable war, causing massive death and destruction.”

What exactly Israel can achieve remains an open question. But simply prosecuting the war can, over time, damage Israel’s economy and international standing, while encouraging a new generation of Palestinians to hate Israel — all benefits for Hamas.

The Hamas-led surprise attack Oct. 7 was the deadliest day in Israel’s history, with about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, killed and 240 taken captive. Israel responded with a military ferocity not seen anywhere in decades, dropping thousands of bombs on Gaza and launching a ground invasion aimed at destroying Hamas’ military and governing structures.

The war has been catastrophic for Gaza’s 2.2 million people.

About 85% have fled their homes

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A crowd greets Palestinians freed by Israel as part of the hostage exchange in Ramallah, West Bank, last month. Fighters from Hamas and other factions continue to attack Israeli forces inside Gaza and have killed 90 soldiers since the start of the ground war.

and now face a growing challenge to find food, water, shelter and medical care. More than 15,000 people have been killed, more than two-thirds of them women and children, according to the territory’s health authorities, who do not report how many of the dead were combatants.

The war has taken a toll on Hamas, too. The group has largely abandoned governance in Gaza, although remnants of its police force still work in the south, and medics in hospitals overseen by the health ministry struggle to treat floods of wounded patients. Otherwise, it is increasingly leaving the strip’s people to fend for themselves.

But fighters from Hamas and other armed factions continue to attack Israeli forces inside Gaza and have killed more than 90 soldiers since the start of Israel’s ground invasion, including the son of Israel’s former military chief.

Israel has yet to find and kill Hamas’ top leaders in Gaza, including Yahya Sinwar, the highest ranking Hamas official in the territory, and Mohammed Deif, who leads the group’s armed wing. Israel considers both men architects of the Oct. 7 assault and of the fighting in Gaza since.

Sinwar has not appeared publicly since the war began. But one hostage, Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old peace activist, told an Israeli newspaper after her release last month that Sinwar had come to the tunnel where she was being held. She said she asked him if he was ashamed to have done such a thing to people who had supported peace. Sinwar did not answer, she said.

Coordination continues

between Hamas members in and outside of Gaza, which allowed leaders based in Qatar to negotiate exchanges of hostages for prisoners that Hamas in Gaza then carried out. The group’s media teams churn out news updates, statements from leaders and videos of attacks and civilians killed in Israeli strikes. Hamas officials in Turkey and Lebanon communicate their views to journalists and diplomats, and the group’s leaders in Qatar speak regularly with mediators from Qatar and Egypt about potential cease-fires and exchanges of captives.

At a restaurant in Beirut last week, Hamas hosted a public seminar to assess the “accomplishments and challenges” of the war so far.

Ahmad Abdul-Hadi, a Hamas representative, told the dozens of attendees that the battle represented a “qualitative shift” in the struggle against Israel and that Hamas and the Palestinians had accepted the sacrifices necessary to keep the Palestinian cause alive.

“The Palestinian people and their resistance had to take a costly strategic decision because the costs of liquidating the Palestinian cause and squandering Palestinian rights would be much greater,” he said.

Of course, Gaza’s civilians had no say in Hamas’ decision to attack Israel, and some have complained that they are paying the price, despite the great risk of speaking out against the group.

“Why are they hiding among the people?” an unidentified man covered in dust in a hospital said during an interview with Al Jazeera. “Why don’t they go to hell and hide there?”

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JERUSALEM — Since Hamas rampaged through Israeli communities Oct. 7, the government here has promoted a simple message: Guns save lives.

Using rhetoric redolent of gun rights advocates in the United States, hard-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir has pushed to loosen firearm licensing requirements and create more civilian “standby teams” to harden communities against a repeat of the deadly surprise attack.

“In the right hands, a weapon can save lives. The war demonstrated this — whenever weapons were present, disasters were smaller,” he said in late October. “A gun can save a family, and an assault rifle can save a building. A weapon can protect you, your family, your street and your country.”

Under an expedited processing system, Ben Gvir’s ministry in the past two months has received more than 256,000 applications to carry private firearms, it said in an update last week. The ministry received around 42,000 for all of last year.

Ben Gvir’s approach has led to some turmoil inside the government and out. The head of the National Security Ministry’s firearms division resigned Sunday after Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Ben Gvir had put loyalists without the necessary legal authority or training in charge of approving gun licenses. Critics, meanwhile, warn the guns could fuel anti-Arab violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel, a growing concern.

Firearms, often slung across the backs of young Israelis completing their mandatory service requirement in this heavily fortified country, are a common sight in cities and settlements. After Hamas and allied fighters streamed out of the Gaza Strip to kill around 1,200 people in Israel, commanders called up 360,000 reservists, many of whom, when they’re off duty, tote their rifles while taking their kids to the playground or on coffee dates with friends.

Private gun ownership was rising before the war.

But since Oct. 7, interest has exploded — a shift for a country in which citizens traditionally have trusted the army and police to protect them, and where relatively strict controls have limited the proliferation of firearms.

Before the war, to be considered for a gun license civilians had to live or work in an area deemed to be under heightened security risk, submit a health declaration signed by a physician, undergo training and demonstrate they knew how to use a gun safely. The

license limited bearers to one gun and 50 bullets.

The push to relax the rules reflects the deep fear that has permeated Israeli society after the surprise Hamas assault. The army took hours to respond, leaving men, women and children largely defenseless against the militants.

In the aftermath, accounts emerged of volunteer security teams in some kibbutzim fending off Hamas attackers and saving lives. The teams, known in Israel as “kitat konenut,” have long been active in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and in Israeli communities near the Gaza border, where they act as first responders to security threats.

For advocates of wider access to gun ownership, the accounts served as vindication of their cause — and helped build support for lowering barriers to firearms access.

Ben Gvir has championed arming civilians and has pushed to increase the geographic area in which private citizens may obtain licenses, expedite the licensing process and arm civilian security teams.

By the end of October, 600 of these groups were up and running across the country, according to the national police commissioner.

Washington Post journalists watched an aspiring civilian security team train in Jerusalem in October.

The 15 men, who were applying for government support, practiced with their newly issued walkie talkies in the basement of a luxury apartment building. Then they made their way to an underground parking garage to yell, stomp and run in formation with toy handguns.

In Jerusalem and Haifa, armed volunteers described Palestinian citizens of Israel as a fifth column.

“You can feel the tension on the street,” said Eliyahu Gev, who organizes training sessions in Jerusalem. “The terrorist attacks, they come from that group, the group of the Arabs.”

“We are dealing with an enemy that we cannot identify; we can’t mark,” Gev said. “They are integrated here in medicine. They are doctors. They work. They contribute to the community. But the situation is that we can’t know who they are or what they are.”

Liad Levy, 48, a tech industry professional in Haifa, has organized about 80 volunteers, some armed, to lead evening patrols.

“When you have kids and you see these atrocities on the border and then you say: ‘OK, my neighbors, do they have weapons? And what can they do with this weapon?’ ” he said. “I’m not going to take any chances.”

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A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they struggled to travel hundreds of miles for care.

Such obstacles have grown more common since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, doctors and researchers say, causing delays that can lead to abortions that are more complex, costly and in some cases riskier — especially as pregnancies get further along.

About half of U.S. states now have laws that ban or restrict access to abortion. Because of that, many clinics don’t offer the procedure, which has increased demand for appointments at the remaining providers.

At various points since Roe, waits in several states stretched for two or three weeks, and some clinics had no available appointments, according to results of a periodic survey spearheaded by Middlebury College economics professor Caitlin Myers and recently provided to The Associated Press. Doctors and researchers say even as wait times have lessened, people still encounter other challenges, like planning and paying for travel, taking time off work and finding child care.

“All of those things can contribute to delays, and then it kind of becomes like this vicious circle,” said Dr. Daniel Grossman, an OB-GYN at the University of California, San Francisco, who co-authored a research report earlier this year that compiled anecdotes from health care providers after Roe was overturned.

People may miss the window for medication abortions, which are not generally offered past 10 to 11 weeks gestation. A dwindling number of clinics provide abortions as people move through the second trimester, which begins at 13 or 14 weeks.

Costs for the procedure change, too, from up to $800 in the first trimester to $2,000 or more in the second trimester.

“While abortion is safe at all points in pregnancy,” with an

overall complication rate of 2%, it “does get more complicated as the pregnancy continues,” said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region.

“It does carry additional risks.”

At least 66 clinics in 15 states stopped providing abortions in the 100 days after Roe was overturned, according to an analysis last year by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

The necessity for people to travel out of state is at the root of abortion delays.

Clinics run by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which operates in Colorado, New Mexico and southern Nevada, saw out-of-state patients more than double after Roe. And Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region’s health center in Fairview Heights, Ill., saw a 715% increase in patients from outside of Illinois or Missouri in the year after Roe. “We know that abortion bans have caused a ripple effect and increased wait times even in states where access is protected,” McNicholas said.

The ongoing Myers Abortion Appointment Availability Survey called more than 700 facilities across the United States. Its latest survey, conducted in September, found that 11 states had median appointment wait times of more than five business days and four states had waits of at least eight business days, not counting weekends or holidays. The longest wait was in Iowa: 12 business days.

A year earlier, the survey found Iowa had a median wait of 13 business days, and six other states had waits between 12 and 15 business days.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains told The AP that wait times peaked at 28 days shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, though it later fell. Before June 2022, waits in the region’s Planned Parenthood clinics averaged 17 days, reflecting restrictions in Texas that were put into place in 2021.

Dr. Rebecca Cohen, an OB-GYN at a hospital-affiliated clinic in Colorado, said her team has cared for an increasing number of patients seeking abortions later in pregnancy, some of whom “have experienced several weeks of delays” trying to find care.

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Big Oil faces a tiny foe on the streets of Asia and Africa. The noisy, noxious vehicles that run on two and three wheels, carrying billions of people daily, are quietly going electric — in turn knocking down oil demand by 1 million barrels a day this year.

In Kenya and Rwanda, dozens of startups are vying to replace oil-guzzling motorcycle taxis with battery-powered ones. In India, more than half of all new three-wheeled vehicles sold and registered this year were battery-operated. Indonesia and Thailand are also encouraging electrification of motorcycle taxis.

China dominates the market. Its government began promoting electric vehicles decades ago in a bid to clean its smogchoked cities, which explains why a vast majority of the world’s electric two-wheelers are in China.

The shift to electric mobility overall has reduced global oil demand by 1.8 million barrels every day, according to BloombergNEF, a research arm of Michael Bloomberg’s financial data and media company. Twoand three-wheelers account for 60% of that reduction, or 1.08 million barrels.

Taken together, cars and smaller electric vehicles are projected to displace only 4% of total oil demand this year. Still, their growth is vital to the energy transition because transportation accounts for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Of all the changes the world is making to slow further warming, electric vehicle sales are the only category on track to meet climate goals, according to an exhaustive independent study.

“Electric bikes are quieter, much more efficient and good for the environment,” said Jesse Forrester, the founder of Mazi Mobility, which has 60 electric motorcycle taxis, known as boda-bodas, on the roads in Nairobi.

“There’s a quiet revolution now in Kenya driving this transformation for the future.”

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Electric rickshaw drivers wait for fares last month at a market in Darbhanga, India. Of all the changes the world is making to slow global warming, electric vehicle sales are the only category on track to meet climate goals.

Forrester’s firm is among several competing to establish an electric two-wheeler ecosystem, selling or assembling imported bikes, installing chargers and working with lenders to offer cheap credit.

Elsewhere, established motorcycle manufacturers are rolling out battery-powered models, including an electric scooter for under $1,800 by India-based Hero MotoCorp.

Ride-sharing companies, such as Ola, also based in India, are getting in on the business.

And Honda recently said it was investing $3.4 billion with the aim of selling 4 million electric motorcycles a year by 2030.

The biggest obstacle to small electric vehicles is government policy. Countries like Mexico that subsidize oil rather than batteries have few electric two- and three-wheelers — or as Karla Ramirez, a motorcycle dealer in Mexico City, put it, they are “a niche product.”

At a gas station on the side of a highway near Nairobi, a team from ARC Ride, one of the city’s leading electric boda-boda startups, was putting up a shiny new cabinet that opens with a phone app.

Put a spent lithium battery into an empty

locker, take out a fully charged one from another and you’re good to go for at least 56 miles — nearly enough for a full day’s work for the motorcycle-taxi drivers.

ARC has installed 72 swap stations in Nairobi, and it has plans to set up over 25 more in the coming months, one for every mile or so on the city’s busiest routes.

“We are interested in a solution that’s going to enable mass electric transport,” said Felix Saro-Wiwa, head of sustainable growth at ARC Ride.

Still, many hurdles remain. Electricity is expensive. The government exempted electric motorcycle sellers from import duties, but the policy needs approval every year, which makes it hard for companies to plan. There’s a cumbersome bureaucracy to import parts. The depreciating Kenyan currency doesn’t help.

Electric bikes from different startups run on incompatible batteries and operating systems, hindering widespread use. Saro-Wiwa, though, is bullish that when the dust settles, the shift away from oil and gas will take off.

“This is what the future of transportation in Kenya looks like,” he said.

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Two Mile Pond needs water flow

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Taylor Swift’s got more than rizz, but don’t get me started

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or the past 150 years, the Santa Fe River valley in The Nature Conservancy’s Santa Fe Canyon Preserve has been dammed, flooded, silted up, dammed again and that replacement reservoir breached. The small pond that was left has evolved into a beloved resource for people and wildlife, the only natural water pond in this town that is publicly accessible.

In 2012, the Living River Ordinance was passed specifically calling for environmental flows to the pond area. Also in that year, The Nature Conservancy and Watershed Association constructed a 400-foot-long “restoration channel” to return small surface flows over Old Stone Dam and back into the natural channel. This project had full permit review and approval by the city’s Water Division, Technical Review Division, state Environment Department, the State Engineer and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Four years ago, the city changed its mind and blocked the restoration channel to the pond, ignoring the prior approvals, and saying it represents an illegal diversion of water from the Santa Fe River. This year the city went further and drained the pond without notice.

What city officials won’t acknowledge is that the Santa Fe River flows through the natural valley bottom, where the pond is, not the 1904 bypass ditch.

That half-mile ditch, which parallels the dirt section of Upper Canyon Road to the Audubon Center, is not the Santa Fe River. It is an engineered flood-control ditch built in 1904 to protect Two Mile reservoir from floods and sediment. It served its design purpose well enough until 1994. That’s when the reservoir was drained and the dam breached, eliminating the original need for the bypass. Now that Two Mile reservoir is gone, the bypass is overgrown, obsolete, loses water and actually increases flood risk for residents of the upper canyon and downtown Santa Fe. The city’s attempt to redefine the bypass ditch as “the Santa Fe River” seems like a cynical legal ploy to justify misguided efforts to confine all river flows in the bypass ditch. They often cite supposed water loss associated with allowing flows back into the natural channel, claiming routing flows through the bypass saves water. This is not the case. Flow measurements collected by the city’s hydrology consultants clearly show that flows decreased by seepage Please see story on Page B-5

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Two Billy the Kid jail plaques one too many

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eliable history tells us Billy the Kid and several cohorts were captured by then-Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse near a place called Stinking Springs about 19 miles east of Fort Sumner. Garrett transported them by wagon to Fort Sumner and then to Las Vegas, N.M., where they spent the night in the San Miguel County Jail. The next day, they were put on a train to Santa Fe. The outlaws came in on the spur line that still runs between Lamy and Santa Fe. The Kid spent three months in the Santa Fe County Jail before being shipped to La Mesilla for trial. He was locked up in Santa Fe from Dec. 27, 1880, to March 28, 1881. A question has existed for years regarding the location of that Billy the Kid jail in Santa Fe. The structure may no longer stand, but its previous position would still be of interest.

Many people are intrigued with Billy the Kid (also known as William H. Bonney, William Antrim and Henry McCarty), and this period of incarceration is the singular time and place we know this most famous outlaw was in Santa Fe. He had been in Santa Fe years earlier before he became an outlaw. His family stayed here temporarily on their way to Silver City when the Kid was still a kid.

Interestingly, while here, his mother, Catherine McCarty, married his stepfather, William Antrim, at the First Presbyterian Church on Grant Avenue. Many stories exist about how great-grandmas danced with Billy the Kid in cantinas near the Plaza. Such tales are generally unverifiable. But we know with certainty he was confined in a cell here for nearly three months — probably his longest sojourn in Santa Fe. Please see story on Page B-4

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Santa Fe has been favored in its newspaper

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ollowing the engaging write-ups about the 175th anniversary of the newspaper by and about Robert McKinney and his daughter, Robin Martin, I feel I must contribute by saying, yes, this town has been most fortunate in having two individuals who have put the interest of the town, its people and its welfare ahead of all else (“Looking to the future: ‘The New Mexican’ turns 175,” Our View, Dec. 3; “Looking back: A message from Robert McKinney,” Dec. 3). Whereas other cities and towns are without newspapers of any sort — a deficit that cannot be easily overcome — ours is rich in its blessings.

Both McKinney and Martin have been thoughtful stewards of The New Mexican and of its responsibilities.

I am certain my father, Oliver La Farge, would agree with this sentiment as he enjoyed his many years as a Sunday columnist thoroughly, then used the paper to construct a history of the town: Santa Fe, The Autobiography of a Southwestern Town.

Santa Fe has been favored, indeed, in the wealth of its cultures, its people and its newspaper, one that looks after us all.

John Pen La Farge

Santa Fe

The true shame In response to the letter (“For shame,” Letters to the Editor, Dec. 6), I am Jewish and participated at the peaceful rally at the Railyard and subsequent march to the Plaza calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and Palestine.

Speakers repeatedly called for complete nonviolence in actions and words for the protest, acknowledging the suffering and pain of the hostages, civilians and children in this Middle East war. People were singing peace songs and chanting “cease fire now.” There was no profanity or aggressive behavior. On arrival at the Plaza, an organizer made an announcement specifically that a menorah was present and to be respectful. It is unfortunate that peaceful protests are so antagonizing for any U.S. citizen.

Shame should be reserved for the horror of innocents dying and not speaking against it.

Jasmine Stewart

Santa Fe

Squeals for Christmas As a supporter of our Northern New Mexico Toy Drive, I wanted to update you on the amazing progress — and what is left to do.. This year is our largest yet. We said “yes” to trying to provide Christmas for about 5,000 children in Northern New Mexico. These kids ages 2-18 represent some of our most in-need citizens of this region.

We have so far collected 3,657 toys and gifts. We start delivering Monday, Dec. 11, and will continue until Dec. 22.

The good news is that this number of toys/gifts is our largest to date since we took this effort on in 2020. The opportunity news — we have more children to support.

Our efforts to bring smiles and happy squeals on Christmas for the children who receive support by the Northern New Mexico Toy Drive, usually represents their only gift. This is especially true for the older kids.

Please consider this nonprofit effort in your giving this year. Go to Exittoydrive.com or google Northern New Mexico Toy Drive — and know you are bringing magic

to a child. Don’t worry if the Amazon site doesn’t work the first time — just go back in and it usually takes you right to the shopping page for our drive.

Smiles and happy squeals heading your way. Let’s make this the best holiday ever.

Jyl DeHaven

Santa Fe

Actual hero Milan Simonich, in (“Here’s to an 11th person who made a difference,” Ringside Seat, Dec. 4), calls actor Brent Lambert a hero for protesting constitutional scholar John Eastman for his role in advising President Donald Trump on the 12th Amendment. In a county that came in 76% for Joe Biden, protesting the opposition could hardly be heroic — even if some city employee did yell at Lambert for being head of a group in which someone graffitied a bridge.

The real hero is Eastman. Rather than take a plea, he has boldly at his own expense (millions) put his reasoning on public record, plus documented an extensive list of election irregularities throughout the country — with witnesses to back that up. Neither Lambert nor Simonich weigh facts, preferring to try Eastman in the press.

To read the concluding brief of Eastman’s case, go here: tinyurl.com/2p8tvbjc. It’s a slog but eye-opening.

Anne Doherty

Santa Fe

Watch the gas company For much of the past year, our attention in the utility sector has been on Public Service Company of New Mexico. I’ve seen little in the press on the New Mexico Gas Co. and its relatively new ownership. So I took a look at my recent natural gas bill. The bulk of natural gas in the Southwest is traded at the Henry Hub, where the recent price was $2.78 per thousand cubic feet (mcf).

New Mexico Gas Co. managed to buy my gas last month for $5.01 per mcf. Of course, there are reasons to pay more for reliability, but this seems like laziness in procurement. So I looked further. New Mexico Gas wants a 25% increase in its base fee for metering and billing and a 21.5% increase in the cost of local distribution pipes and operations. Seems they want to be like Xfinity and just raise rates whenever they want a bit more income.

As a natural gas industry lobbyist for over 20 years, I could give you reasons this happens, but in reality, the new owners at the company seem to have overpaid for the company and are looking for some returns. But that’s not all. The company wants a 19% increase in the cost of natural gas transmission, getting the gas from the gas fields to the local distribution system. For this they’d like to receive $1.25 per mcf for the transmission fee. I checked with some of my old electric utility clients, and they are paying closer to $0.55 per mcf for gas transmission to power plants. We must hope the new staff and commissioners at our Public Regulation Commission have a bit of background in gas operations.

Otherwise, like Xfinity and PNM, we’ll be on the hook for unreasonable local utility operations.

Shane Woolbright

Santa Fe

“The difference of seeing someone smile and be able to go out and get a job and contribute to society is a huge, huge thing, and we’re going to do that over and over and over again. ” Dr. Chris Morgan, local dentist, on the New Mexico Mission of Mercy

Hear more from Morgan on Conversations Different, out Tuesday at santafenewmexican.com

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Lawmakers must come together for CYFD reform

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n the land of enchantment, there exists a harsh reality that we can no longer ignore.

Our state’s Children, Youth and Families Department is failing our children, leaving them vulnerable, exposed and, tragically, unprotected. It is far past the time to confront the harsh truths and demand immediate action from our state’s leadership.

One of the most heart-wrenching failures of CYFD is its inability to shield

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newborns from the devastating consequences of drug exposure. As the silent victims of a system in disarray, infants are being born with drugs coursing through their tiny veins, leaving them with a start in life that is anything but magical.

The cycle of addiction is perpetuated, and the very system designed to protect these innocent lives is letting them down. This is not just a matter of bureaucracy or budgetary constraints; it’s a failure of humanity.

ime magazine named Taylor Swift its person of the year last week, and I get it.

Well, check that. I don’t exactly get it, because I’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song from beginning to end, perhaps because she was born in 1989, the year my eardrums and musical tastes began to lose their elasticity following a decade of T’Pau and Dexys Midnight Runners.

So, yeah, I’m old, and as unhip as a hip replacement, which I actually have, which is sad enough to be the subject of a Taylor Swift song. Just 30 years in the future.

But I digress: The point is Taylor Swift. Sorry, I’ve got to refer to her by both names. I don’t know her well enough to call her Taylor, and Swift seems so … slow.

Taylor Swift is everywhere.

She’s Elvis Presley-in-’58 everywhere.

Beatles-’64 everywhere. Michael Jackson-’84 everywhere. She’s so everywhere that I can’t watch an NFL game anywhere without constant camera cutaways to a luxury box where Taylor Swift is watching the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce catch an option route, then point skyward to … Taylor Swift.

I don’t begrudge her a bit. Taylor Swift has to be terrific. I looked her up on Google the other day and the guys on the internet credited her with having written or co-written 222 songs, about 223 of which have become massive hits.

The titles alone could fill up this column. I’m not going to do that to you, but I am going to write the next two paragraphs about Taylor Swift simply by using her song titles. Hey, that’s power.

Truth is, power can sometimes make you an “Anti-Hero.” The collective eye rolls around the country the minute Time came out with its selection could’ve altered the planet’s rotation.

Some thought it was a “Hoax;” some thought “Karma;” others’ faces went “Red;” some wanted to “Run.” Others think the tales of Taylor Swift are nothing but “Suburban Legends,” or maybe she’s just “The Last Great American Dynasty.” I just think “You Need to Calm Down.” Or maybe, if you’re willing, “Shake It Off.” For some that ain’t happening. If that’s the case, you’d better buckle up.

“Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” (Kelce?) are embedded in the culture, one forever driven by “New Romantics” or “Only the Young.”

It’s her time.

There has to be a reason for this kind of influence, and it can’t just be that Taylor Swift is an attractive white American female who can fill up a stage in the key of T and S. I’m guessing — and yes, I still haven’t downloaded a song, but I will, I swear — it’s because she’s got a helluva talent and unique vision, not just hella (hip word, kinda) celebrity, which is always the pejorative critics use when trying to minimize runaway ability that created celebrity in the first place.

A long time ago, about the time Taylor Swift was getting comfortable in elementary school, I attended a Rolling Stones (look ’em up) concert in Albuquerque at University Stadium. At the time, the Stones, rock legends and cultural icons of the highest order, were 125 to 135 years old.

I went anyway.

I was blown away. Jagger pouted and strutted like it was 1966; Keith Richards did his thing; Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood were great, and it was the best action that sad yard has ever seen. I mean, they weren’t gigging the Hollywood Bowl or the Super Bowl. It’s Albuquerque. They played as if it were their last show.

The opening act, Sheryl Crow, nearing the height of her popularity, might as well have been doing a couple of sets at the Hilton bar.

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These children, our children, are paying the price for a system that is inadequately equipped to handle the complexities of addiction and its impact on families. Enough is enough. We cannot turn a blind eye to the lack of accountability within CYFD. When children slip through the cracks, born into a world already tainted by substance abuse, who is held responsible? The Please see story on Page B-4 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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Increase the alcohol tax and save lives

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t’s no wonder New Mexico hasn’t raised the excise tax on alcohol over the past 40 years. A report from citizens’ interest group Common Cause New Mexico lays out just why legislators are so reluctant to tax alcohol, both as a means of raising revenue and to reduce drinking. Called “Still Under the Influence,” the report successfully — as it intends — “connects the dots” from contributions to policy outcome.

The culprit behind lawmakers’ reluctance to enact smart public policy is simple: lobbyists.

The alcohol lobby is one of the strongest — and most entrenched — in the history of New Mexico. Its influence goes back decades, including a low point in 1963 when liquor lobbyist Pancho Padilla announced at a party, “I own the Legislature.” His subjects had just killed legislation the alcohol industry opposed, so forgive the guy his excess celebration.

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say Padilla was banned from the floor of the Legislature, but still remained there to lobby for his clients.

Such lobbyist power and largesse continues to this day. In 2023 alone, liquor lobbyists spent $74,968 on entertaining and wining and dining legislators, according to the Common Cause report. These are not campaign contributions. These are just dollars to grease the gears of government, and liquor lobbyists ensure there is plenty of grease. Their force showed during the 2023 session, when yet another attempt to increase the excise tax on liquor failed.

The industry’s generosity is seen in campaign contributions, not just lavish celebrations and lunches. Total contributions from the industry, its lobbyists, PACs, allied organizations and individuals was $2.16 million from 2013 to the spring of 2023. An additional $456,388 was spent to wine and dine policymakers, bringing the total spent to $2.62 million.

That money buys, if nothing else, audi-

ences with influential lawmakers, the time to press a point of view that continues to hold that raising liquor taxes would harm the working class and unfairly singles out their industry. The report doesn’t just add up contributions. It shows the connections among lobbyists and legislators; in some cases, they are literally family, whether through marriage or birth.

Yet, as has been reported repeatedly over the years, alcohol is at the root of the many systemic problems in New Mexico. From ensuring people are sick before their time because of alcohol-related illnesses, to the scourge of drunken driving, to acts of violence committed in an alcoholic haze, our state clearly suffers from over-imbibing.

Increasing the excise tax on alcohol would help create a larger stream of funding to treat alcoholism while, at the same time, reducing excess drinking.

National studies on the impact of a 25-cent-per-drink tax on alcohol indicate it could reduce consumption among heavy

drinkers around 11.4% annually. In New Mexico, which leads the nation in alcohol-related deaths, reducing heavy drinking is essential. The 25-cent tax proposed in 2023 had the potential to raise some $155 million for a special fund dedicated to alleviating the harms of excessive drinking.

Advocates for a tax now have raised estimated revenues to some $275 million, revenue to fund programs to lessen the impact of New Mexico’s alcohol addiction.

It’s past time to act, with what has always been a crisis in New Mexico growing more acute. The Common Cause New Mexico report is clear: “Between 2019 and 2021, the state’s alcohol-related death rate increased by 31 percent.” Legislators at a committee hearing on the subject earlier this month learned that 2,200 New Mexicans died in 2021 of an alcohol-related cause, the most recent statistics available. These deaths are preventable, and one way to save lives is to reduce excess drinking. Higher alcohol taxes will do just that.

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Abandoning Ukraine is a shameful act

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t’s not often that I feel ashamed to be an American. But I was ashamed last week when the Senate refused to support a supplemental spending bill that would provide about $61 billion in urgently needed aid for Ukraine (along with $14 billion for Israel and $20 billion for border security). All of the Senate Republicans, even those who have previously supported Ukraine funding, voted to filibuster the bill. Their stated position: They won’t provide a penny for Ukraine unless Democrats agree to a sweeping, draconian overhaul of the United States’ immigration laws.

I’m sorry, that’s not how a serious political party — or a serious country — behaves during a world crisis. It’s like saying to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941: We won’t support aid to Britain as it battles the Nazis unless Democrats repeal the Social Security Act or rewrite the labor laws.

Of course, most Republicans in those days were opposed to aiding Britain: A majority of Republicans in both houses voted against the Lend-Lease Act, enacted in early 1941, which allowed the U.S. government to provide critically needed war supplies to Britain and other nations deemed “vital to the defense of the United States” without demanding payment in cash. Thank goodness that in those days both houses were controlled

by Democrats — and Senate rules did not require a 60-vote supermajority to get anything done.

Most Republicans abandoned their isolationism after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The GOP commitment to internationalism was renewed after 1945 because of postwar Soviet aggression and then, after the end of the Cold War, by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But since the end of the Iraq and

Afghanistan wars, Republicans have been increasingly returning to their pre-Pearl Harbor roots.

The party’s leader, former President Donald Trump, has even embraced the “America First” slogan used by the original isolationists. And, just as so many of the 1930s isolationists, such as Charles Lindbergh, were sympathetic to Nazi Germany, Trump is sympathetic to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Public opinion surveys have reflected a sharp drop-off in Republican support for Ukraine: In a Gallup poll published Nov. 2, 62% of Republicans said the United States was doing too much to aid Ukraine, up from 50% in June.

Yet I confess I had remained naively hopeful that Congress would still do the right thing. After all, strong majorities in both houses had supported Ukraine funding bills in the past. Moreover, the current aid request is a pittance in the context of a $6.1 trillion federal budget (0.98%, to be exact), and most of the funds would be spent in the United States to support our own defense industry.

The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, R-La., had initially voted for Ukraine aid before turning against it, but in recent weeks he sounded much more supportive of Ukraine, saying, “We can’t allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe, and we understand the necessity of assisting there.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., whose father was a U.S. Army soldier in Europe during World War II, has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine. “Honestly, I think Ronald Reagan would turn over in his grave if he saw we were not going to help Ukraine,” he said last month.

Yet now both leaders have taken the position that — as Johnson wrote this week — “supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transforma-

tive change to our nation’s border security laws.” Why are they linking the two? The excuse heard from Republicans is that they can’t in good conscience support funding to defend Ukraine’s borders when our own borders are so insecure. By linking the two issues, Republicans are engaging in a baitand-switch that gives them an excuse to do what their base wants — abandon Ukraine — while trying to blame Democrats for “jeopardizing security around the world,” as McConnell has charged.

It is still possible that Democrats and Republicans will reach agreement on Ukraine funding. But the odds of Ukraine aid being approved look dimmer today than at any point since the Russian invasion, even as the Office of Management and Budget warns that U.S. support for Kyiv is running out: “We are out of money — and nearly out of time.”

The United States has abandoned allies, such as South Vietnam and Afghanistan, before. But this time the costs of support are much lower (no U.S. soldiers are engaged in combat in Ukraine), and the stakes are far higher. Ukraine is fighting the largest war Europe has seen since 1945. If it loses, Putin may be emboldened to attack other neighboring states, such as the Baltic republics and even Poland, which are members of NATO. Other despots may be emboldened to aggression of their own, beginning with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Taiwan. And then we really will be back to the pre-Pearl Harbor world — all thanks to the Republican Party returning to its isolationist roots.

Unless Congress reverses course, and soon, it could be consigning our democratic allies to slaughter — and making the world a far more dangerous place.

Max Boot is a columnist for The Washington Post.

The United States has abandoned allies, such as South Vietnam and Afghanistan, before. But this time the costs of support are much lower (no U.S. soldiers are engaged in combat in Ukraine), and the stakes are far higher.

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he presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania testified before a House committee Tuesday about the state of antisemitism on their campuses. It did not go well for them.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., asked the presidents whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” violated the schools’ codes of conduct or constituted “bullying or harassment.” None of them could answer with a yes. MIT’s Sally Kornbluth said it could be, “if targeted at individuals, not making public statements.”

Penn’s Elizabeth Magill called it “a context-dependent decision.”

Harvard’s Claudine Gay agreed with Magill and added that it depended on whether “it crosses into conduct.”

By the next day, those answers were drawing rebukes not only from Republicans and wealthy donors like Bill Ackman and Marc Rowan, but also from prominent Democrats. Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor emeritus, rebuked Gay for “hesitant, formulaic and bizarrely evasive answers.” Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who is a nonvoting board member at Penn, called Magill’s answer “unacceptable.”

The White House also weighed in: “It’s unbelievable that this needs to be said,” said a spokesperson, Andrew Bates. “Calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country.”

I have some sympathy for the three presidents following their stumbling performance. None have been in their jobs for long.

They all expressed abhorrence for antisemitism during more than three hours of testimony.

And they are clearly struggling with how to balance respect for free expression on campus with opposition to hate speech. When Magill later posted a video trying to clarify her remarks, she had the broken look of someone who knew she was about to be sacked.

But the deep problem with their testimonies was not fundamentally about calls for genocide or free speech. It was about double standards — itself a form of antisemitism, but one that can be harder to detect.

The double standard is this: Colleges and universities that for years have been notably censorious when it comes to free speech seem to have suddenly discovered its virtues only now, when the speech in question tends to be especially hurtful to Jews.

The point came across at different moments in the hearing.

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., observed that Carole Hooven, an evolutionary biologist, had been hounded out of Harvard (although not fired outright) for her views on sex categories. “In what world,” Walberg asked,

“is a call for violence against Jews protected speech but a belief that sex is biological and binary isn’t?” Gay offered no real answer. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., asked Magill if she would permit a hypothetical conference of 25 racists to go forward at Penn — given that in September, under the banner of free expression, she had allowed a conference that included speakers she herself had condemned as antisemitic to take place at the school. She could not bring herself to answer yes.

Other examples abound.

MIT’s alleged commitment to viewpoint diversity, which Kornbluth extolled at the House hearing, was hardly evident two years ago when one of its departments canceled a scientific talk

by University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot because he had questioned the wisdom of some diversity initiatives.

At Stanford, the university issued a statement after the attacks of Oct. 7 saying it “does not take positions on geopolitical issues and news events.”

Yet Stanford was outspoken on the subject of George Floyd’s murder.

At Yale, law professor Amy Chua was relieved of some teaching duties and ostracized by students and the administration on blatantly pretextual grounds while her original sin, as the Times reported in 2021, was her praise for Brett Kavanaugh.

Yet when Zareena Grewal, an associate professor of American studies at Yale, tweeted on Oct. 7 that Israeli “is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle,” Yale defended her by saying Grewal’s comments “represent her own views.”

The word for all this is hypocrisy. Gay, Kornbluth and Magill may not be personally to blame for it because they only recently took over the helm of their schools. But there’s an institutional hypocrisy that they at least have a duty to acknowledge.

They also must decide: If they are seriously committed to free speech — as I believe they should be — then that has to go for all controversial views, including when it comes to incendiary issues about race and gender, as well as when it comes to hiring or recruiting an ideologically diverse faculty and student body. If, on the other hand, they want to continue to forbid and punish speech they find offensive, then the rule must apply for all offensive speech, including calls to wipe out Israel or support homicidal resistance.

If Tuesday’s hearing made anything clear, it’s that the time for having it both ways, at the expense of Jews, must come to an end now.

Bret Stephens is a columnist for The New York Times.

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Stop the murder of our fellow species, the innocent

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he other enormous reality besides the climate Godzilla we humans have unleashed is the threat to the future of life force and the multitudes of species we need to simply survive. Without them, we cease to be. A planetary fever is affecting birds, fish, insects and mammals. Migration patterns are altering. Populations are declining. Our pollution and arrogance is affecting the entire chemistry of the planet.

The felling of a British national treasure in October, the Sycamore Gap tree, is the mark of a psychosis we are imposing on the natural world. The tree’s physical stature was tiny compared to our ineffable sequoias (we’ve lost 20%) and redwoods, but still a monument in the psyche of Great Britain.

Why would anyone choose to behave like this? Plants are withering everywhere, and some forests are losing their photosynthetic ability. Plants and fungi are inadvertently colonizing the South Pole. The world is being turned upside down.

In the northern Rockies, the continued trapping and mindless massacre of endangered wolves and predators is a continuation of Manifest Destiny that eradicated almost all of the buffalo and so many Native tribes.

Our need to conquer the West has reached a renewed fever pitch after the wolf was almost eradicated 100 years ago. To obliterate mother wolves and then to have their fetuses hacked out of their bellies as a bonus bounty to wildlife authorities in Idaho and Montana, is an act of sadism. Some 90% of Idaho’s wolves (almost 1,000) are slated to be destroyed by those who put cows ahead of the wild. It is bloodlust.

Timberline High School has made the wolf its mascot in Boise, Idaho. What did that state’s fish and game department do to the local wolf population?

They annihilated it, of course.

The children were shocked and dismayed, so much so that their voices were heard all the way to the East Coast, and a documentary is being made on their behalf. A superb predator totally indispensable to the maintenance of the forest, one they grew up to respect, was murdered for being entirely itself. And wolves are but one species at risk because of the actions of humans.

In late summer, 90 grizzlies were destroyed in Alaska because they supposedly were impacting a local caribou herd.

Indigenous people knew that in some years, there will be fewer caribou. One doesn’t kill an entire local bear population in the hopes of having more ungulates. There used to be several hundred thousand more caribou throughout Alaska before climate affected migration patterns and settlers eradicated the herds, so hauntingly witnessed by Farley Mowat. They have suffered more than a 50% decline.

Montana’s war on the wild and even against buffalo of late is a war on the innocent. There, where Yellowstone resides, where people so lacking in nature and the wild come to marvel, 20 children won their climate lawsuit against the state of Montana. We need to change behavior and to learn to revere what is extraordinary and different before the life force of the planet collapses — perhaps the children and their lawsuit will show us a way before it is too late.

Otherwise, an Endangered Species Act scorned and abrogated will lead to America becoming a wasteland. All over the world we have unleashed the equivalent of World War III on the natural world. It has to come to an end. When Christ said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,” he meant what he said. In Europe, the children — the Extinction Rebellion — are marching for a livable future. If we love our children, we will heed their words and act as if life on Earth mattered.

Cyril Christo is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Marie Wilkinson, and son, Lysander.

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M Y VIEW ADRIENNE R. SMITH

Let’s find ways to support caregivers

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aid caregivers in New Mexico receive a median hourly wage of $10.89, less than the state’s minimum wage of $12 an hour, according to data from PHI National.

Caregivers are modern-day guardian angels who serve as a lifeline for the elderly, disabled and homebound. These paraprofessionals — often home health aides, personal care aides and certified nursing assistants — are trained to support patients with everyday activities such as eating, bathing, dressing, housekeeping, shopping and mobility.

These caregivers, of whom 83% are women, 15% are immigrants and 64% are living near or below the poverty line, are often forced to take second jobs just to make ends meet for themselves and their families.

Unpaid family caregivers are often left out of the conversation of care delivery, but they also play a major role. Many are sons, daughters, nieces and nephews,

grandchildren and great-grandchildren who step up to care for their loved ones, often at considerable personal expense, when resources aren’t available to secure professional support.

As we look back at National Family Caregivers Month in November and celebrate the holiday season, let us not only recognize how vital services are delivered daily to the doorsteps of our most vulnerable populations, whether in a residential setting or an assisted living facility.

Let’s also crusade for these caregivers — paid and unpaid — pulling long shifts for little to no pay.

Considering the circumstances, it is no surprise home health companies nationally and in New Mexico have difficulty recruiting and retaining paid caregivers. PHI National predicts New Mexico, with its aging demographic and largely rural landscape, will need 60,000 home care professionals by 2028. This

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staffing shortage represents a care crisis that needs to be addressed now.

Our nonprofit organization, the New Mexico Caregivers Coalition, is making a difference in solving this problem, advocating for these workers and family members providing care and educating legislators about this workforce. We are grateful for partners like Molina Healthcare of New Mexico to support this important work.

In 2022, Molina supported our Caregiver Basic Needs Program providing $400 a month supplemental income to 19 caregivers for each of 10 months. This funding guaranteed a basic income for participating caregivers and was accompanied by workforce training to improve skills, confidence and job satisfaction. As a result, caregivers reported spending less time worrying about money, and most of the $400 went toward food, household supplies, utilities and spending more time engaging with family and community.

This program is a small but pivotal step in the right direction. We encourage other organizations to join the effort, ideally through such public-private partnerships.

Policymakers statewide are also critical to sustainable improvements for caregivers. We ask lawmakers and regulators to devise and implement reforms that will bring about a business model beneficial to all, particularly caregivers because they are so often left behind. Only then can our communities ensure the people paid to take care of loved ones most in need of long-term health services can not only survive, but also thrive.

Adrienne R. Smith is founder, president and CEO of the New Mexico Caregivers Coalition, a nonprofit organization that advocates for New Mexico’s caregivers so they may better serve those who are elderly and those with disabilities.

M Y VIEW RICKE Y GATE S

Rancho Viejo Solar project should be approved quickly

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n May 2022, I sent an email to 20 paying clients: “Due to extreme drought, wind, and wildfire, I regretfully need to either cancel or drastically amend our journey through the Pecos Wilderness.” Ultimately, I canceled one trip and moved the other trip to southern Colorado.

Our national forests around Santa Fe have been closed to the public many times over the past decade because of climate-related fires and fire risk.

Temperatures this past summer broke records both locally and worldwide. We, as Santa Feans, New Mexicans and Americans, have a choice in being a leader for sustainable energy or stepping back and letting other communities take the lead. Good leadership is about making hard decisions — quickly.

As a leader in clean energy, Santa Fe now has the opportunity to bring large-scale solar energy to our backyard, in a way that individual, rooftop solar fails to achieve.

As a Protect Our Winters Alliance member and resident of Santa Fe, I know a commitment to clean energy is essential to our success as a society, but especially as an arid mountain town with residents who enjoy local trails and peaks. Our access to skiing, biking, hiking and fishing and the jobs that are attached to these activities will continue to be at risk until we step up.

The solution to climate change needs to happen on a global level starting with humble, local movements. The Rancho Viejo Solar project by Applied Energy Services will add 96 megawatts of clean energy back to the grid, offsetting 120,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year and power the equivalent of 23,300 homes annually. When the system is fully up and running, it will generate no noise, water

or air pollution and require no water or sanitation to run.

With the Energy Transition Act (Senate Bill 489) enacted in 2020, New Mexico put itself in the forefront of tackling climate change (50% carbon free energy by 2030, 100% by 2045). On paper, we are leaders. Now is the time to be leaders in action by allowing the construction of the Rancho Viejo Solar project to move forward.

Change is hard — especially when it comes to a small community such as ours. With new population growth emerging around Santa Fe, we can appropriately ask, when will it end?

But we can’t ask this question without also asking what our community will look like if we continue to kick the can down the road and do nothing at all.

The reality is that our forests are getting drier, our groundwater is decreasing and our ski season is trending shorter every year.

Northern New Mexico is changing before our eyes whether we like it or not.

I’m a local who loves this community, a father who wants to pass along a clean and healthy planet to his children, and a runner, biker and skier who would rather participate in a future of deep snowpack, lush forests and clean air — visible solar panels and all — than one decimated by climate change. When we embrace clean energy, we continue to strengthen our already resilient and forward-thinking community. For our future, our families and our community, supporting the Rancho Viejo Solar project and a clean energy future is the right way forward.

Rickey Gates is an accomplished ultra-runner and backcountry guide and Protect Our Winters Alliance member.

New Mexico put itself in the forefront of tackling climate change (50% carbon free energy by 2030, 100% by 2045).

On paper, we are leaders. Now is the time to be leaders in action by allowing the construction of the Rancho Viejo Solar project to move forward.

M Y VIEW PAUL KRAUSMAN

Stick to the science when discussing wildlife management

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he New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has been criticized for its management of American black bears and mountain lions and lack of management for nongame species (“Don’t raise limits for bear and mountain lion hunting,” Our View, July 17) and (“State conservation officers deserve residents’ gratitude,” Letters to the Editor, Dec. 4).

What is the justification for these concerns? American black bears and mountain lions are abundant, and the limited harvest will not be detrimental to their overall population dynamics and certainly will not deplete their viable populations. And yes, hunting licenses do pay for the management and conser-

vation of wildlife in New Mexico (via collaboration with the federal government) for game and nongame species, as is the case across the nation.

All fish and wildlife departments across the United States, including New Mexico, adhere to the philosophy of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The model includes seven foundational principles: ◆ Wildlife resources are a public trust to be managed by governments for the benefit of all citizens. ◆ Unregulated commercial markets for wild game that decimate wildlife populations are eliminated. ◆ Allocation is by law, meaning laws

are developed by citizens and enforced by government agencies to regulate the proper use and management of wildlife. ◆ Opportunity for all, which means every citizen has the freedom to view, hunt and fish, regardless of social or economic status. ◆ Wild game populations cannot be killed casually, but only for a legitimate purpose as defined by law. ◆ Wildlife will be considered an international resource because wildlife migrates across political boundaries. ◆ Science is the proper basis for wildlife policy and management, not opinion or conjecture, in order to sustain wildlife populations.

The wildlife biologists with the state department are highly educated with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in wildlife ecology and management and related fields. Their professional lives are dedicated to the conservation and management of all wildlife. As stated in the seven principles above, wildlife is a public trust, and the public should have a say in how wildlife is managed and funded. Unfounded, uninformed and emotional criticism, however, does not serve any purpose.

Paul R. Krausman is an emeritus professor from the University of Arizona, a certified wildlife biologist, editor and author who lives in Santa Fe.

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M Y VIEW MELISSA LE A BE A SLE Y-LEE

There’s more to story of Route 66 Centennial Group O n Nov. 2, the article (“Route 66 centennial drives bigger wedge between association, state”)

by Daniel J. Chacón, appeared in The New Mexican. In it, he shared the New Mexico Route 66 Association’s response to the executive order to create a state Route 66 Centennial Group, and the governor’s failure to include a seat for the New Mexico Route 66 Association president.

Although this well-written article covers many of the association’s concerns, two vital points were omitted, leaving the association’s arguments looking shallow. First, as New Mexico Route 66 Association president, I have

been a board member of the Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership since its first meeting in 2017. Board members of this organization are made up of representatives of all eight Route 66 states. I am the board member representing New Mexico.

For nearly seven years since the 2017 meeting, the Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership has created activities, commemorations and a series of programs focused on preservation, tourism promotion, research and education, and economic development of Route 66, all leading up to the Route 66 centennial in 2026. The Road Ahead, along with the help of Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill.,

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answer, it seems, is no one.

The absence of accountability perpetuates a culture of negligence that allows these systemic failures to persist. As concerned citizens, we must demand change, and that change must start at the top.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the time for action is now.

We implore you to take a hard look at the failures within CYFD, to recognize the deep emotional toll

introduced House Resolution 66, which established the Route 66 100th Anniversary Celebration Federal Commission.

Now that the commission has been established and board members appointed, my current role is to be a part of the New Mexico State Centennial Board, provide essential information related to the past seven years of creating and collecting information through my seat with the Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership, and assist in carrying through centennial programs as well as tailoring them to best fit the culture and identity of the state of New Mexico.

Secondly, I contacted then-Secretary of Tourism Jen Paul Schroer in Febru-

on these innocent lives, and to make it a priority to fix a system that is clearly broken. These children need a champion, someone who will fight for their right to a safe and nurturing environment from the moment they take their first breath.

It’s time to channel the collective outrage and heartbreak into tangible reform, to create a system that reflects the compassion and care our children deserve. Inaction is not an option.

The future of our state depends on the well-being of the next generation, and we cannot afford to let them down any longer. Governor, the children of New Mexico are crying out for your help. It’s time to answer that call and join us in saying, “Enough is enough.”

Rep. Jenifer Jones is serving her first term in the state House of Representatives. She is a Republican who lives in Deming.

It’s time to channel the collective outrage and heartbreak into tangible reform, to create a system that reflects the compassion and care our children deserve.

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 10, 1923: Silver City, Dec. 10 — According to reports of the hunters who were in the hills during the open big game season, there were at least 500 deer killed in the southwestern part of the state during the ten days.

Dec. 10, 1948: William L. Bowden is probably wishing detective magazines had never been invented. He’s doing his thinking inthe city jail these days becaue of the blood and guts periodicals —

and a couple of sharp Shreveport, La., kids.

Bowden escaped from the state penitentiary here June 14, 1947, when he and two other trustees walked away from their jobs at the [Japanese] detention camp. … He was working in Shreveport (authorities did not know at what sort of work) when two kids identified him from wanted pictures printed in a detective magazine and informed the U.S. marshal in New Orleans.

Dec. 10, 1973: Burglars struck at Wood-Gormley Elementary School over the weekend and stole about $100 in property and caused $2,200 in damage, Santa Fe Police said.

Dec. 10, 1998: The Santa Fe City Council on Wednesday night shot down by a 5-3 vote the Community Impact Statement Ordinance that was strongly supported by neighborhood groups and fiercely opposed by developers.

Several councilors then proposed a stack of new ordinances and a resolution seeking to meet CISO’s intent: to handle growth pressures and development in a way that is less harmful to neighborhoods.

Councilors Patti Bushee, Frank Montaño and Cris Moore voted for the ordinance. Councilors Carol Robertson Lopez, Jimmie Martinez, Art Sanchez, Peso Chavez and Molly Whitted voted against.

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ary, congratulating her on her appointment to the federal commission. At that time, I also informed Paul Schroer of the bill being submitted by the New Mexico Route 66 Association, with the help of state Sen. Pete Campos, to the state Legislature for the creation of the state centennial commission.

In short, the bill was dropped during the legislative session. My attempts to reach Campos to learn why the bill was dropped were ignored, and my attempts to reach Paul Schroer were likewise ignored. In September, when the executive order was being drawn up, I was not contacted. When comparing my bill submitted earlier in the year

with the governor’s executive order, it’s obvious my bill was used as a draft for the executive order.

These two items absent within the article are the most important reasons as to why the association, its members and its supporters both nationally and internationally are wanting an explanation as to why I was not on the state centennial board. It makes no sense to exclude the one person who has extensive knowledge of New Mexico Route 66 and information regarding Route 66 centennial preparations and celebrations on a national level.

Melissa Lea Beasley-Lee is president of the New Mexico Route 66 Association.

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Many people would like to know where that hoosegow stood. But right now, we have two different plaques downtown, each alleging to mark the spot. At least one of these plaques is wrong. The plaque at 208 West San Francisco St. went up around 1994. And since 2009, another plaque has hung on a north-facing wall of the Otra Vez Building on Water Street.

The plaque on San Francisco Street was put up by the building’s then-owner. The plaque on the Otra Vez Building was erected by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, a local historical

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society that helps mark local buildings (and places) of historical significance. The Historic Santa Fe Foundation has a wealth of data on file that confirms the whereabouts of the Kid’s lockup.

The evidence they possess was evaluated and endorsed by none other than Marc Simmons (recently deceased) — a premier historian of New Mexico with over 40 books published, including an official history of New Mexico.

All logic would suggest the plaque on Water Street erected by the foundation marks the correct location of the erstwhile building. The plaque on San

Francisco Street has some inaccurate information on it, as well. But the more serious problem is that it misleads locals and tourists alike regarding the vicinity of this historically fascinating jail. Anyone who has doubts regarding these conclusions should visit the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s offices on Canyon Road (545 Canyon Road, Suite 2) to inspect the facts on file. The incorrect plaque should be removed.

Up for 30 years, this plaque has no historical value, nor any other value. It is simply an ongoing purveyor of misinformation, which does a disservice to all.

The existence of two, distinct Billy-jail-site plaques near the Plaza is an embarrassment for Santa Fe. Robert Ross, Ph.D. is a retired teacher who lives in Santa Fe.

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There’s a reason the Stones make all that money, I thought: They’ve just got it, even if Richards is swigging Metamucil with a bourbon chaser.

So, that’s gotta be the same thing with Taylor Swift, right? She may never toss “Satisfaction” or “You Can’t Always Get What You” want into the world, but she’s got something. Something big. Maybe not more important, but bigger than AI or Biden or Blinken. At least for a lot of people.

As I think about it, I realize I may be more conversant about Taylor Swift than I thought.

A year or so ago, I watched a documentary about her life. She seemed plenty smart, plenty thoughtful, plenty savvy about the promise and pitfalls of celebrity. And determined to be huge.

I’m not sure what’s changed since then, except she’s released more music that apparently goes to No. 1 the moment she hits Send. She’s also taken up with Kelce, who catches footballs with great regularity from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Taylor Swift of the NFL. Sometimes, timing mixed with talent is everything, and Taylor Swift is tossing down aces over kings wherever she goes.

Which brings me to this: In a year when Hamas is fighting Israel to the death, the planet is overheating like a rusty radiator in an ’89 Mustang, Ukraine is holding on by its fingernails and we’ve got to gird up for another round of Donald Trump, I’m OK if Taylor Swift is the person of the year.

She’s a perfect match for the other big news of last week: word of the year.

Taylor Swift’s got rizz.

But don’t get me started on that.

from the bypass ditch, while flows in the natural channel increased by infiltration of groundwater.

The natural river is in the valley bottom where the beaver ponds and the remaining Two Mile Pond are. The natural channel is a “gaining reach.” Even in dry weather, this stretch gains

Phill Casaus is editor of The New Mexican.

significant water from groundwater and springs, which is why it was colonized by beavers soon after the dam was breached. On the other hand, the bypass is a “losing reach” as shown by some of the Water Division’s own reports. The bypass ditch loses flow continuously to seepage into the ground. Routing river flows through the bypass does not save water. Shutting off flows through the bypass ditch represents an opportunity to increase water in the natural river by eliminating a half mile of seepage from the old clogged ditch.

Retiring the bypass was explicit in the original Public Service Company of New Mexico/city purchase agreement and

design plans of 1994, which committed the parties to post-dam breach improvements, sharing the cost equally. The city would build a bridge at the natural river crossing of Cerro Gordo Road. It also would eliminate flood routing though the bypass channel and restore major flood flows into the natural channel. None of these measures recommended by the flood engineers in 1994 were implemented. There has not been a comprehensive flood study of the area in over 30 years.

River flow in the natural channel and ponds provides ecological and community benefits that are lost to flow in the bypass.

Retiring the bypass will increase

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the amount of water flowing downstream in the natural river.

For reasons of ecological integrity, water conservation, efficient delivery of acequia flows and flood protection, the river should be restored to its natural channel. It’s worth our effort to preserve a small healthy stream winding through treasured wetlands and Two Mile Pond, flowing through the green heart of Santa Fe. Paige Grant and Neil Williams have worked for years to understand the Santa Fe River and watershed through hydrologic studies, stream flow measurement, stormwater harvesting and restoration engineering.

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HOROSCOPE HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023: You’re an idealist who is a determined leader and reformer.

Once you believe in something, you totally embrace it. This is a year to rest and rejuvenate yourself.

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Scorpio.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Issues regarding shared property or the wealth and resources of someone else are unpredictable today. Something might not be quite right. If so, now is the time to find out, not later.

Tonight: Generosity.

This Week: Expect to hear from parents or bosses from your past.

Sunday, December 10, 2023

TIME OUT LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Parents, bosses and authority figures might surprise you today. Meanwhile, you feel sympathetic toward a family member. Tonight: Relax.

This Week: Errors and delays with your work are likely for the rest of the month.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might feel restless today.

Perhaps you will encounter someone who is unusual. A surprise is very likely. Tonight: Cooperation.

This Week: For the rest of this month, travel delays and changes are likely due to Mercury retrograde. Bummer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Something related to your job or a behind-the-scenes project might surprise you today. Be vigilant to avoid accidents.

Tonight: Be help-ful.

This Week: Mercury goes retrograde this week for the rest of the year, giving you a chance to finish up paperwork and financial details.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Cancer parents should be alert today, because this is an accident-prone day for your kids.

Meanwhile, social situations, parties and outings might be canceled or changed. Tonight: Schmooze!

This Week: For the rest of this month, expect to encounter partners and friends from your past.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWER

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Pay attention to everything you say and do today to avoid accidents due to daydreaming.

Distractions are of your own making. Sit up and be present.

Tonight: Creative plans.

This Week: Look good, because you might encounter old flames t.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might feel restless today.

You have a lot of energy within you because both the sun and fiery Mars are in your sign. Get some exercise. Tonight: Solitude.

This Week: For the rest of this month, check for errors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH A friend might surprise you today. Meanwhile, your idealism is aroused, especially if you’re dealing with a charitable organization. Tonight: Be friendly.

This Week: Mercury goes retrograde in your sign for the rest of the year. Expect delays and confusion.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Keep an eye on your money and your possessions today, because something unusual might impact them. Be wise and protect what you own. Tonight: Be frugal.

This Week: Stock the fridge. Relatives and family will descend on you this month.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Others are aware that you might be caught off guard or concerned for those who are less fortunate. If you work with groups, you accomplish more.

Tonight: You are admired.

This Week: This is an excellent time to research and finish projects.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Today the Moon is in your sign sitting opposite unpredictable Uranus, and looking coyly at dreamy Neptune. You might want to “get away from it all!”

Tonight: Compassion.

This Week: Prepare for delays and mixed-up communications.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH This is a mildly accident-prone day for you. Be mindful. Because you feel ambitious, you’ll go after what you want. Unexpected travel plans might fall in your lap. Tonight: Learn.

This Week: Old friends from the past will be back in your world for the rest of this month.

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‘Grampo’ and ‘grama’ celebrate ‘su jubileo de oro’ E ra el 50th wedding anniversary del grampo y la grama.

They were making plans to celebrate su jubilee de oro in a special way; after all, a golden anniversary only came around cada cincuenta años. Grama Cuca was over there en el baño por mucho tiempo getting herself toda dolled up para ir a celebrar. Grampo Caralampio just put some deodorant on debajo de los sobacos, threw on a shirt, y ya estaba listo. As he was waiting for Grama Cuca en la cocina, he sat down con un bonche de barajas. Canutito came over pa’ ver qué estaba haciendo.

As he watched grampo shuffling the deck of cards, Canutito noticed que él no estaba jugando un regular game como cunquián o al monte.

He would just choose unas pocas de playing cards and set them aside. Las barajas weren’t even del mismo suite; algunas eran corazones, some were diamonds y otras eran clubs o spades. Canutito spoke up: “Grampo,” he began, “¿qué clase de game está jugando?”

“I’m not really playing a la baraja, m’hijo,” grampo replied, sin mirar pa’rriba. “I was just thinking de cómo tu grama y yo started out la vida juntos y cómo it has changed después de 50 years.”

“Can the cards tell you all of that, grampo?” Canutito asked him.

“O sí, m’hijo,” grampo said, showing the boy a 2 of hearts.

“When your grama and I started, éramos dos corazones that came together como esta ace of spades.”

He showed Canutito la ace de espadas. “Ya después de que we fell in love, we sealed el contracto con un diamante,” he said, holding up the ace of diamonds. “Then she became la reina de mi corazón,”

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she said, holding up the queen of hearts card.

“How romantic, grampo,” Canutito said, todo impressed que su grampo had found tanto significado en las playing cards.

“And did you live happily ever after en una luna de miel?” he smiled.

“We could have, m’hijo,” grampo sighed, “pero a veces el Diablo came into the picture (he held up the joker) y yo y tu grama had un argumento de la fregada and by the we stopped fighting I was no longer her king of hearts; ahora I had become como este one-eyed jack.” He held up el caballo tuerto.

“I guess,” said Canutito, “que a veces un marriage starts with a diamond and two hearts pero it ends up with a club and a spade.”

“I think you’re right, m’hijo,” Grampo Caralampio said, “pero if you can work out todas las cosas, you end up con una princesa instead of con un Basto y un ojo negro; he threw down the black club.”

Just then, Grama Cuca came out del cuarto de baño, looking más bonita que nada. She was like una flor del jardín. Even though que estaba un poco marchita, grampo still looked at her con ojos de hambre. Canutito just whistled: “Whee-wheeoo …”

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Suspect sought in downtown-area shooting Videos, 911 Woman hospitalized; recordings Santa Fe police say man armed, dangerous detail double homicide The new mexican

Nathan Christopher Ludlow Warner

One woman was wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon near downtown, and police are looking for a suspect they say is armed and dangerous.

Police were dispatched to the Allsup’s convenience store,

305 N. Guadalupe St., around 2:20 p.m. in response to a shooting near Rio Grande Avenue and Piñon Drive, Deputy Chief Matthew Champlin said.

The intersection is near the former St. Catherine Indian School.

The victim was taken to an area hospital and is in stable condition, according to a Santa Fe police news release.

Police late Saturday identified the suspect as Nathan Christo-

pher Ludlow Warner, 32, who left the scene on foot armed with a rifle, according to the news release.

Warner may have been wearing a protective ballistic vest and has several tattoos on his face, police said.

Police have obtained an arrest warrant charging Warner with attempted murder; shooting at or from a motor vehicle causing great bodily harm; and being a felon in possession

of a firearm.

Anyone with information about Warner’s whereabouts should contact the Regional Emergency Communications Center at 504-428-3710.

Police asked those who may see Warner not to approach him and to call 911.

Court and state inmate records show several past arrests for Warner and indicate he is on probation.

The investigation is ongoing.

Suspect was arraigned Thursday on 10 felony counts over shooting by nicholas Gilmore

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After 40-year-old Carmen Navarrete and her teenage son Axel Gonzales were shot inside their home, Navarrete’s daughter locked herself into a bathroom with her baby.

“I think it’s my mom’s ex-boyfriend,” she said on the phone with a Santa Fe 911 dispatcher as she asked them to “please hurry” repeatedly. “He already had a warrant.”

The November double homicide on the southwestern edge of the city unfolded quickly — while sheriff’s deputies were on their way to the home, responding to a report from Albuquerque police the suspect was headed to Santa Fe intending to hurt his ex-girlfriend.

The man suspected of killing them, Jose Antonio “Adrian” Roman, 44, was arrested two days later. He is being held in Santa Fe County jail and was arraigned Thursday on 10 felony counts, including first-degree murder.

Local law enforcement received a warning of danger, but it came minutes too late.

At 9:13 p.m. Nov. 13, an Albuquerque police dispatcher called Santa Fe to request a welfare check for Navarrete at 1449 Prince of Peace, according to a dispatch report and call recording provided by Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center.

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Aurora Baca, 6, of Nambé talks to Santa Claus on Saturday during the 27th annual Electric Light Parade & Christmas on the Plaza in Española.

Jose Antonio “Adrian” Roman, the suspect in a November double homicide in Santa Fe, appears in court Thursday.

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ESPAÑOLA amilies piled under blankets and hung out windows and trunks of cars and cheered on dozens of floats Saturday night at Española’s 27th annual Electric Light Parade.

Organizers expected 20,000 people to turn out along 3-mile route for the parade, which has begun to attract people from across Northern New Mexico as its reputation has grown, said Christine Bustos, chair of the Downtown Action Team of Española.

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Please see story on Page C-4 ABOVE: Spectators take in a light display. The parade was expected to draw 20,000 people from across Northern New Mexico.

RIGHT: Elias Archuleta, 4, drinks hot chocolate near a luminaria.

BELOW: Annalyn Garcia, from left, Adma Retes, Alfredo Morales and Carlo Cala of the Filipino Community Choir warm up before performing.

Santa Fe River Trail to expand to crossing at San Ysidro Work scheduled to finish in 2025

by Scott Wyland

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Those who walk, run or bike on the paved pathway stretching along the Santa Fe River could see crews as early as spring begin work on a muchawaited mile-long extension.

Santa Fe County recently wrapped up buying the required easements, and it plans to put the project out to bid in January, with the aim of getting work going by May. The riverside trail — actually a wide sidewalk — runs several miles between St. Francis Drive and Siler Road, passing by a half-dozen pedestrian bridges, a ball field, tennis courts and several parks.

The thoroughfare has grown popular enough for voters to approve $6.7 million in bond money in two elections to extend it a mile to San Ysidro Crossing in Agua Fría.

The new section will allow trailgoers to jump on an adjacent mile-long dirt path that connects to Romero Park, tacking on two miles to the riverfront route.

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The Santa Fe River Trail runs between St. Francis Drive and Siler Road for about 3.5 miles. design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com

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FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS

Sunday, December 10, 2023

DAVID COST

JO ANNA BOOR

October 3, 1931 - November 28, 2023

SEPTEMBER 17, 1949–DECEMBER 2, 2023

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Santa Fe — Jo Anna Boor died peacefully at home on Saturday, December 2, 2023. Jo Anna was born in Española, New Mexico on September 17, 1949, to Manuel and Marie Garcia. Jo Anna attended Loretto Academy in Santa Fe for high school and then went on to earn an associate degree in data processing from New Mexico State University.

She married and moved to Houston, Texas for a couple of years and then returned to Española and began working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Her career at LANL spanned 30 years.

Jo Anna had two children, Rocke Johnson and HC (Harry Carl) Hawkins, that she loved and adored from her first husband. Shortly after her divorce, she met her current husband, Michael Boor. While they were only married for 18 years, they were together for 34 years.

Jo Anna’s real calling came when she had grandchildren. She often told people that “grandkids are the best”. She dedicated her retirement years to being an attentive Nana. She took grandkids to school, picked them up, attended sporting events, school events and always made birthdays and holidays special.

Jo Anna was known for her delicious red chile. Her red chile won the 2015 San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen Chile Cookoff. She was always happy to share her secret to good red chile... chicken broth.

Jo Anna was a dedicated member of Saint Anne’s parish where she served as a Catholic Daughter for several years. She was best known for the many cakes she baked for the cakewalk and bake sales for church fundraisers. She was also a dedicated adoration (Blessed Sacrament) member at both Saint Anne’s parish and Sacred Heart Parish in Española, where she assumed her mother’s adoration time slot upon her death.

Jo Anna was a strong Catholic, a loving wife, mother, nana, daughter, sister, aunt and friend to those in her life. She will be greatly missed.

Jo Anna was preceded in death by her parents Manuel and Marie Garcia.

She is survived by husband Michael Boor of Santa Fe, daughter Rocke Johnson (Jesse) of Los Alamos, son HC Hawkins (Jamie) of Santa Fe, grandchildren Aiden, Jonah and Abbie Johnson, Bryce and Brooke Hawkins and Logan Baca. She is also survived by her brother Anthony Garcia of Española, sister Dolores Maez (Emery) of Abiquiu, sister Emelda Castillo (Robert) of Santa Fe, sister Loretta Garcia (Jimmy Leal) of Santa Fe and brother Manuel Garcia (Chayo) of Las Cruces, godson Juan Maez, godson Robbie Castillo (Anika), goddaughter Trinity Garcia, nephews and nieces that she loved like her own Chris Castillo (Kym), Stephanie Balderrama, Melissa Castillo, Joseph Maez (Rosanna), Tres Garcia (Stephanie), Daniel Garcia (Gabriel Lopez), numerous great nieces and nephews, other extended family and many friends.

Services will be held Tuesday, December 19 at Saint Anne’s Church, 511 Alicia Street in Santa Fe. A rosary will be recited at 9:00AM, followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00AM, and internment at Rosario Cemetery at 2:00PM.

TRUEL WEST

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The youngest of two boys, David Cost was born on October 3, 1931, in Hinsdale, IL to James Nicks and Eloise Mericle Cost. Dave graduated from Dartmouth College in 1953 and subsequently served the US Government in military intelligence, posted in Germany. After graduation from Stanford business school in 1959, Dave began a career in commercial banking. He married Margaret Louise (“Peggy”) Pierson in 1960, and, following the birth of their first son David Jr. in 1962, moved to Peggy’s hometown of Minneapolis, MN. Their second son, Charles Piper, was born in 1965.

Dave worked for Norwest Bank in downtown Minneapolis for 25 years, rising to the level of Senior Vice President in charge of philanthropy. He also served as a branch president and director of Human Resources during his tenure at Norwest.

In the late 1970s, Dave served on the board of trustees of the University of Minnesota Hospital, and chaired their board for one year.

Following the death of his beloved son Charlie in 1984 and his divorce from Peggy, David Cost reinvented himself and built a second career, one filled with richness and creativity. In the late 1980s, Dave began taking poetry classes in Minneapolis, and following that passion, received his MFA in writing from Vermont College at the age of sixty.

In 1997, Dave married Mary Elizabeth Warren, and shortly thereafter Mary and Dave moved to Santa Fe, NM. Thus began a period of artistic creativity that marked the next 25 years of Dave’s life. He wrote poetry and was published in national journals. He became a skilled photographer. Finally, Dave discovered mono printing, which became his primary pursuit. In the early 2000s Dave opened the printmaking studio, the 4th Dimension, in Santa Fe with his good friend, the master printer Michael McCabe, welcoming artists from around the country to pursue their craft.

Dave’s mono prints were exhibited in galleries in Santa Fe and Minnesota. He self-published seven books of poetry, each of which included his art and design. In 2023 Dave published Searching for What Is Not, a compilation of his favorite mono prints and poems from the past 25 years.

Dave’s passions were not limited to the visual arts. He served on the board of Santa Fe Pro Musica for 16 years, including president of the board for 3 years, and served as an emeritus member of the board until his passing. Dave and Mary travelled extensively around the world, returning often to their favorite destinations, Oaxaca and Tuscany. He loved the music of Mahler and the pottery of Warren McKenzie, which he first discovered in the 1970s in Minnesota. A self-taught fly-fisherman, Dave returned to Montana to fish on the Bighorn River with the same guide, Jim Laughery, for 35 consecutive years.

Dave’s life, and art, were filled with whimsy and humor. He loved birds, often paying more attention to the skies above than the river below when he fished. Dave was kind, generous, with a huge heart, and his sense of fun and adventure was boundless. Dave had imaginative ways of expressing his affection for others, as anyone who received his handmade notecards and ample handouts of fall peaches can attest.

Dave is survived by his wife, Mary; his brother, James of Santa Fe; his son, David Jr, David Jr’s wife Kate Stechschulte and their children, Lucca Charles Cost and Julia Gray Cost, of Berkeley, CA; his stepchildren Sarah Warren and John Warren and their families; and nieces and nephews from the Cost and Pierson families.

A service for David’s life will be held in Santa Fe in mid-March, 2024. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Santa Fe Pro Musica, attn: Tom O’Connor, Executive Director; 1512 Pacheco Street, Suite D201; Santa Fe, NM 87505.

JOSEPH AMADOR TRUJILLO December 10, 2021 We miss your humor and laugh.

Santa Fe — Truel West passed away, surrounded by family. Born in Norton, Kansas, Truel spent most of his childhood in Denver. He graduated from Purdue University in 1974 with a degree in engineering. He moved to New Mexico in the mid-1970’s and began working at Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his career of more than 30 years, he worked on various projects, including the Lab’s International Technology Division, where his focus was on the nuclear nonproliferation program.

Away from work, Truel was ever-considerate, fun-loving, generous, and kind. The best vacation planner, he and Joan traveled the world birding, visiting gardens, and sampling local cuisine. He loved music and sang with the NM Symphony Chorus for many years. He shared his skills by supporting and working with many non-profit organizations. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Joan, family Peter & Tom Abrams, Mark and Christa Romwalter, 5 grandchildren, and his sister Sheree West. A celebration of his life will be held in January. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to your favorite charity.

We miss you! ~Los Trujillo’s

JERRY BYRD

November 6, 1936–November 23, 2023

ALICE PINO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023 Santa Fe — Alice Marie Pino, 64, died November 15, 2023. She was born in Santa Fe to the late Jesusita Romero Pino and Nicolas “Nick” Pino, Sr. She was strongwilled, determined, and proud. One of her proudest moments was being selected Princessa of the 1980 Fiesta de Santa Fe. She continued to serve on the Fiesta Council for many years and was eventually elected Executive Secretary of the Board.

During her tenure on the Board of the Fiesta Council and while working full time, she earned both her Bachelor and Master of Business Administration degrees from the College of Santa Fe. These accomplishments fueled a strong belief in higher education and led her to serve for several years as Adjunct Professor at New Mexico Highlands University. In addition to teaching, she served in many roles in her employment at St. Vincent Hospital and then with the State of New Mexico. She achieved retirement from the State in 2023.

Alice always put her loved ones before herself. Though her passions included cooking, dancing, laughing, and telling funny stories, she was probably best and most satisfied by being extremely generous with those she loved. She excelled at caring for her family, especially for both her parents and her brother prior to their passing.

Alice is survived by her siblings: Socorro Ortiz, Rita Vigil (Ruben), Carlos Pino (Judy), Marcella DiPalma (Brian), Felix Pino, Michael Pino, as well as her nieces and nephews: Joel Ortiz, Patricia Candelaria, Ruben Vigil, Jr, Richard Pino, Rebecca Pino, Sean DiPalma, Jessica DiPalma, Nick Pino, Felicity Pino, and Nicole Pino.

Alice was predeceased by her parents; infant sister, Fidelita Pino; brother, Nick Pino, Jr; nephew, Eugene Ortiz; nephew, Raymond Pino; and aunt Juanita Rael.

A rosary for Alice will be prayed at St. Anne’s Parish on Monday, December 11, 2023 at 9:00am, followed by a funeral mass at 10:00am, with an inurnment to follow at Rosario Cemetery.

Alice was a lifelong, devout believer in the miracles performed by Mother Cabrini. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Mother Cabrini Shrine, www.mothercabrinishrine.org

Jerry Byrd, 87, of Santa Fe, NM, passed away on November 23, 2023. He was born on November 6, 1936. Jerry is survived by his wife, Essie Byrd, his daughter, Sonya Byrd, and stepson, Bobby Burnett. He was preceded in death by his mother, Carrie Jones, and brother, Bill Jones.

Jerry proudly served in the Air Force from 1955-1959 and was honorably discharged.

Following his military service, Jerry embarked on a successful career. He worked for CocaCola bottling in the 70s and later joined El Dorado Elementary, where he dedicated many years until his retirement in 2005. Jerry also had a stint at Quinn and Co (Raymond James).

Jerry was an active member of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organization, where he found solace and community.

A funeral service for Jerry Byrd will be held on Thursday, December 14th at 10:30 am at Berardinelli Funeral Home.

RONALD RIGGS BALL Ronald Riggs Ball, born May 20, 1940 in Colby, KS, passed from this life to be with the Lord on November 23, 2023. Surrounded by his loving family, he passed in comfort and with dignity according to his wishes in his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was preceded in death by his wife of sixty years, Jean Ann Egenhofer Ball, his parents Harold F. Ball and Virginia M. Brown, both of Denver, CO, and his brother Fred Ball.

He is survived by his three children and their spouses, Tim and Mary Ann Ball of Elizabeth, CO, Susan and Andy Ortiz of Santa Fe, and Chris and Amy Ball of Chapin, SC, eight grandchildren, Jessica, Justin (Leah), Ryan, Steven, Matthew, Andy, Nicholas (Kaylie), and Brian, five great-grandchildren, and his sister Tami Kessler (Drew) of Denver.

A service will be held on Friday, January 12, 2024, at 11:00am; First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to: Shriners Hospital for Children 2900 Rocky Point Drive Tampa, FL 33607 US OR https://www.shrinerschildrens.org

IN LOVING MEMORY OF PEDRO GARCIA August 22, 1921 - December 9, 2022 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Dad, I can’t believe it has been a year that you left us.

It still feels like it was yesterday.

We Love and Miss You Very Much every day.

Love Marie and grandchildren, Sanchez family.

MARIETTA RODRIGUEZ Marietta Jean Rodriguez went home to our lord, surrounded by family and friends on November 30, 2023, at age 66.

Marietta was born on May 18, 1957 in Santa Fe, NM to Jose B. and Grace Rodriguez Marietta was considered by her parents as their Miracle Baby. When she was just a baby, she had become very ill. The Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her.

Her father went to church to pray for her healing. She recovered and lived a blessed life.

Marietta graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1976. She married and was blessed with five children; Georgianna, Daniel III, Melinda, Celina, and Monique.

Marietta will be remembered by all as being a welcoming and loving person. She opened her heart and home to those that were part of her and her family’s life. She loved to cook, most especially for others. She was a member of the Cursillo movement and enjoyed singing with El Coro De Jesu Cristo group. She moved in with her father in the fall of 2021 to assist in his care.

They were partners in crime ever since. Dad loved Marietta very much.

Marietta was preceded in death by her mother Grace Rodriguez, brothers Bernardo and Anthony, and Sister Edwina.

She is survived by her father Jose B. Rodriguez, brothers John, Paul, Reyes, and Francisco; children Georgianna, Daniel III, Melinda, Celina, and Monique; grandchildren Jazmain, Arrianna, Daniel IV, Raquel, Angelina, Maiha, Encarnacion, Annalise, Guadalupita, Anthony, Serenity, Faith, Grace, Fantasia, Augustine, and Jayde; as well as many nieces and nephews.

Viewing on Monday 12/11/2023 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, followed by a Rosary at 6:00 PM at Rivera’s Funeral Home, 417 East Rodeo Rd., SF, NM. Rosary and Funeral Mass on Tuesday 12/12/2023 at 9:30 AM at Cristo Rey Catholic Church, 1107 Cristo Rey St., SF, NM Interment to follow at Rosario Cemetery, SF, NM along with a Reception at 1:00 PM at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 833 Early St., SF, NM Marietta, you will forever be in our hearts. We love you!

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Santa Fean was often volunteering, fundraising for groups provides health care to underserved Santa Feans, to heading the local branch of an international women’s advocacy Friends and family remember Cindy organization called Zonta.

Mares not only as kind and fun, but also The local branch of Zonta has since as a prolific fundraiser who strengthfolded, but as president, Mares funded ened organizations across Santa Fe. scholarships for women in the sciences, “Now, whenever you saw Cindy, you among other projects, her husband said. knew that you were you were going to Mares’ other standout roles included be hit up for 100 bucks for some organihelping former New Mexico first lady zation,” her husband, Richard “Tippe” Alice King found the New Mexico ChilMares, said with a laugh. dren’s Foundation in 1992 and serving of “I mean, you never told ‘no’ to Cindy,” board president of Girls Inc. of Santa Fe agreed Jayne Jaramillo, a friend of more in the 1990s. than 50 years. “You wanted to participate Although she worked as a bailiff for in whatever she was doing.” several years, once her husband started Cindy Mares, born and raised in Santa doing well with their real estate busiFe, died last month at 81 after decades of ness, Mares Realty, she did not have to leading, volunteering with and raising work for a living and dedicated her time money for a plethora of local organizato the community. tions and nonprofits. Her efforts ranged She spent 25 years on the Santa Fe from supporting the Salvation Army and Fiesta Council and was “known among Fiesta members for her generosity, busiVilla Therese Catholic Clinic, which

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ness acumen, and prolific fundraising skills which ensured Fiesta’s success,” Council President-elect Krystle Lucero wrote in an email.

Her “people-first” orientation also shone through as a volleyball coach at the St. Catherine Indian School for 17 years, before the school closed in 1998, her husband said.

One example: Mares recruited friends to help collect and recycle aluminum for money to pay for the volleyball athletes’ food on trips, longtime friend and retired educator Eleanor Ortiz said.

Often, the cans wouldn’t raise enough money to cover all of the food, but “whatever it cost to feed the girls, Cindy paid it,” Ortiz recalled. “That was way above and beyond as a coach.”

The girls she coached continued to visit her over the years, including just before her death, friends said.

“She did a great job, I thought, on

behalf of the community, always serving, and I don’t remember anybody particularly thanking her or [her] getting any special recognition, but that was her,” Richard Mares said. “People just expected it of her.”

“She forced me to do a whole lot of things,” he joked. “All of those things, Cindy did quite easily.”

Beyond her generosity in professional roles, Mares was simply a giving person, said JoAnn Schutz, who became friends with Mares through years working on the Fiesta Council together.

During the holidays, Mares and her husband would host sometimes about 100 friends and family at an annual Christmas party.

“You’d go to their house, and it was like it was your house. They just opened it up with lots of love and laughter and joy,” Schutz said. “[Cindy] always had a big smile for everybody.”

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS CINDY DARLENE TAFOYA

MAY 3, 1960–NOVEMBER 17, 2023 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our sweet and beloved Cindy after losing her long and courageous battle with brain cancer on November 17, 2023, surrounded by her loved ones.

Cindy graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1978. While in high school, Cindy achieved numerous Blue Ribbon awards in the state high school agricultural competition. She then went on to pursue her passion for landscape architectural design in parts of Europe (most notably Finland), on a DECCA scholarship. After returning home, she went on to achieve a bachelor of arts degree at Texas Tech University, where she graduated with honors. Cindy eventually opened her own landscape design company, (Santa Fe Landscape Design), where she created beautiful gardens and landscapes for numerous residents and businesses. We will continue to enjoy her lovely designs throughout Santa Fe, which will remind us of her. It is important to note that prior to opening up her own business, Cindy was instrumental in assisting her husband Glenn open up his own successful business, Pack, Ship & Mail.

Cindy had a heart of gold and loved all the beautiful gifts God has bestowed on us. Just like St. Francis of Assisi, she had a special bond with all animals. She also loved camping, outdoor activities, cooking and she made the best red chile posole.

Cindy was preceded in death by her father, Eppie Velasquez, her inlaws, Tony and Maude Tafoya, brother-in-law Jim Anthony Tafoya, special aunt and uncle, Ida and Albin Vigil, nephews Paul and Jerome Romero and nephews, Mark and Paul Saiz.

Cindy is survived by her devoted husband and primary caregiver, Glenn Tafoya, son Justin Tafoya (Nicole), grandchildren, Lucas and Mia Tafoya, mother Cleo Velasquez, sister Yvonne Reins (Holger), brother George Velasquez (Angela), uncle Florencio Velasquez, uncle and aunt Damian and Joanne Velasquez, brother-in-law and sister-inlaw, Mike and Judy Lujan, and brothers-in-law Jack and Rodney Tafoya, along with many other relatives and friends. We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all the relatives, friends, doctors and especially the nursing staff of Compasus Hospice Care. A special thank you to Dr. Teague, Angela Gomez, Alberta Pena and Angela Menendez for their excellent care.

A rosary will take place at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at 10:00 am, followed by a mass of Christian burial. Interment will then follow at Rosario Cemetery. A reception/celebration of Cindy’s life will follow the interment service at the Elks Lodge.

Pall Bearers: Dave Sena, Jack Barela, Mike Lujan, Holger Reins, Andy Villanueva, Steve Gonzales, Florito Velasquez Honorary Pall Bearers: Karen Copeland, Liana Velasquez, Frank Manlove, Angela Gomez, Armando Tafoya, Judy Lujan, Rodney Tafoya and Jack Tafoya Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 riverafamilyfuneralhome.com

GERALDINE NELSON ARON Geraldine Nelson Aron was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois on December 1, 1922. She died on December 1, 2023, which was her one hundred and first birthday, which she considered an accomplishment. She was at peace and full of grace, surrounded by her pet family and close friends.

Geri grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois, the only child of Minnie Sargisson and Arthur H. Nelson. Archeology, especially prehistoric man and the Egyptians, art, and architecture, were interests of hers early on. As a theme throughout Geri’s life, she said, “My greatest concern is for this planet and the extinction of so many animal and plant species, mainly because of human encroachment.“ She was employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Company first as an operator and eventually as a draftsman in the plant engineering department. She pursued her education focused on Interior Decorating by attending evening classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She also attended the Institute of Design at the University of Illinois–Chicago campus in 1957. After her first marriage in 1944, Geri moved to the Near North side of Chicago in 1953. She attended the Old Town Art Fair. She met Gunther Aron who was exhibiting jewelry at the Fair. After they married in 1956 Gunther’s jewelry designs grew and transformed into sculpture. A storefront on Wells Street served as a home and studio for the pair. While living in Old Town Chicago, a visit to Santa Fe inspired their purchase of the Old School House in Lamy. In 1974, Geri and Gunther moved permanently to Lamy where her interior design skills were put on display with their conversion of the school into an expansive home, studio, and rental. Geri’s lifestyle in Lamy included the rescue, care, and adoption of dogs in need.

In 1979, Geri joined the newly incorporated Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection organization. She was an exceptional and active member, promoting the group and helping to set up legislation regarding animal protection and educational displays centered on trapping and dog fighting. A distinct accomplishment was the passing of the Dog Fighting Bill in the NM Legislature. Eventually, the homespun local organization expanded to the highly functional statewide Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. Geri was still volunteering to extend financial aid to low-income pet owners during the 101st year of her life. Exemplifying her knowledge and interest in art, Geri Aron was deeply involved with the Bauhaus Chicago Foundation which was established to ensure that the educational principles formulated in the field of creative arts at the Bauhaus in Germany (1919–1933), and taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago between 1937–1956, are preserved and documented for future generations. See website: bauhauschicagofoundation.org In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, Save the Chimps, Animal Protection of New Mexico or any other organization of your choice.

RAYMOND ROMERO

AUGUST 10, 1969 - NOVEMBER 17, 2023 Santa Fe — Raymond Kenneth Romero passed away unexpectedly on November 17, 2023. Raymond was born in Santa Fe, NM on August 10, 1969. Ray was an avid Denver Broncos fan, and he loved fishing. He always had a smile and was a good friend to all he met. Raymond is survived by his parents Andrew and Georgia Romero, his sister Elizabeth Romero, and his sister & brotherin-law Jacqueline and John Valdez and many other close relatives. He will be greatly

missed by all.

A Rosary will be recited on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, at 10:00 am, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Santa Fe, NM, followed by a funeral mass at 11:00 am, with the burial immediately following the mass at Rosario Cemetery.

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CANAVAN OCTOBER 28, 1956 - OCTOBER 29, 2023

Houston — Christopher Michael Canavan (Chris) passed peacefully on October 29, 2023 at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was the oldest of three boys, born in New Jersey on October 28, 1956, to Gregory and Jean Canavan. The family moved to Albuquerque in 1965. Chris attended Wyoming’s National Outdoor Leadership School in 1971, following a trip into the Pecos that sparked his love of backpacking.

In 1974, Chris left school searching for adventure. He traveled between Florida, Louisiana, and New Mexico before settling in Mesilla in 1982. He met Mary Green in 1986. The two married on June 25, 1988. For 35 years, Chris endeavored to make their old adobe house a home. When Allie and Ian came along, Chris embraced fatherhood, sharing his passions for nature, cooking, and music.

Chris worked as an environmental scientist until he retired in 2019 and was active in restoration efforts in the Gila. Chris was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in January 2018. He fought valiantly and was dedicated to advancing cancer research.

Chris is survived by his wife, Mary, and his children, Ian and Allie; his brother, Neil, wife Dani, and stepchild, Phoenix; and his brother Mark, wife Asli, and daughters Natalie and Melissa.

The family requests donations be made in Chris’s memory, specifically to Dr. Skoulidis’ Laboratory Research Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center: P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486.

Or, call 713-792-3450.

To donate online, go to http://www.mdanderson.org/ and click Donate. Read Chris’ full tribute here: https://www.bradshawcarter.com/tributes/ChristopherCanavan

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DAVID SOVERANEZ David, you are missed and loved by all.

You are forever in our hearts.

Love you always, The Soveranez and Maloney Family We will be celebrating his life for his 2nd Anniversary at Sunday Mass, December 17, 2023, 10am at Cristo Rey Church.

GEORGE LUJAN George Lujan, born in Santa Fe, NM, on March 14, 1937, to Benidito and Rosaura Romero Lujan, passed this world on December 4, 2023, to be with our Lord.

George is preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, parents. Brothers Ramon E. Lujan and Marcello Lujan, sister Alfonsita Mignardot.

George is survived by his daughter Angela Martinez (Ron); son Anthony (Dina); brothersin-law Timothy Hampton (Jessica) and Mike Hampton. He is also survived by his lifelong friend Jack Churchill (Peggy) and many other relatives and friends.

George served honorably in the U.S. Navy and was a nationally Certified Public Procurement Officer. He worked at Northern New Mexico College for 20 years and the City of Espanola as Director of Purchasing. After he retired from state and local government, he and his wife traveled extensively throughout the U. S, and abroad. He was an active parishioner and Eucharist Minister of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz.

A Rosary will be recited at 9:30 am on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, with a Mass of Christian Burial to follow at 10:00 am at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, NM. Burial to follow at 12:30 pm at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, NM. The family of George Lujan has entrusted the care of their loved one to DeVargas Funeral Home & Crematory of the beautiful Espanola Valley. www.devargasfuneral.com 505-747-7477

STEPHEN C. JOSEPH

NOVEMBER 25, 1937–NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Santa Fe — Stephen (Steve) was born in New York City on November 25, 1937 and died on November 24, 2023 at his home in Santa Fe with his wife, Elizabeth Preble, by his side.

After receiving his BA from Harvard University, his MD from Yale University and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University, Steve embarked on a long career of leadership in domestic and international public health and pediatric medicine. In the United States, Steve served as Commissioner of Health in New York City, Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).

Internationally, he worked for USAID, UNICEF, and other organizations and academic institutions; and held long-term positions in Nepal (Peace Corps physician), Cameroon, Newfoundland, and Indonesia.

After retirement, Steve’s volunteer activities included work with Amref Health Africa and practicing pediatrics in post-earthquake Haiti.

Steve loved the outdoors — mountains, sea, the beautiful high desert of New Mexico and the magical countryside of southwest France.

He will be remembered for his keen intellect, indomitable spirit, and commitment to social justice.

Steve is survived by his wife of 38 years, Elizabeth Preble, brother Jeffrey Joseph, daughters Denise Ellen Joseph and Tara Anne Joseph and four grandchildren.

Special thanks go to Margot and other EGIS staff who helped care for Steve in recent months with competence, affection, and a large dose of good humor. The family also thanks the devoted staff of Presbyterian Hospice of Northern New Mexico.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to Doctors without Borders.

PEDRO “PETE” BOULTON

AUGUST 8, 1968 - NOVEMBER 20, 2023 Albuquerque — Pedro “Pete” Boulton passed away on Monday, November 20, 2023, at the age of 55 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born on August 8, 1968, in Newport, Rhode Island, Pete was a man who lived his life displaying kindness and gratitude to all he met.

Pete was fiercely loyal to his family and friends, always putting their needs above his own. He had a remarkable ability to shrug off the bad and focus on the good in life, spreading his positive attitude wherever he went. Hard working and caring, Pete was someone who motivated people to be their best.

Pete spent time between New Mexico and Alaska making significant relationships with the people he worked with. He started work on Prince of Wales Island, logging in Tongass National Forest.

Later, he moved to Cordova, Alaska. He progressed from an entry level position at Ocean Beauty Seafoods to eventually managing their fleet of fishing vessels. After taking some time to open BoulTawn’s Bagelry in Santa Fe, New Mexico (with longtime friend, Tawn Dix), hard work and dedication brought him back to Alaska this summer where he worked with Silver Bay Seafoods in Kodiak.

Pete is survived by his father, John Boulton and stepmother, Catherine Wrenn Boulton of Idaho Springs, CO; his brothers, Jack Boulton of Denver, CO and William Boulton of Temecula, CA; uncle, Joe Lamb of Berkeley, CA and many cherished aunts, cousins and lifelong friends. He was preceded in death by his mother, Susan Lamb of Madrid, NM. A ceremony to honor Pete’s life will be held on Saturday, December 16th, 2023, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Email martyboulton8711@gmail.com for time and location. Family, friends, and all those whose lives were touched by Pete are invited to pay their respects.

Pete will be deeply missed by all who knew him. Let our memories of him be a blessing we celebrate daily. Please visit our online guestbook for Pete at www.FrenchFunerals.com.

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Children receive gifts after visiting Santa Claus on Saturday during the Electric Light Parade & Christmas on the Plaza in Española.

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the city has seen difficult times in 2023 but the holidays are a time to be thankful.

“I’m glad we could be here together as a family because tomorrow’s not certain,” she said.

Sandra and Mike Urioste, who came to the parade from Arroyo Seco, said their two kids Continued from Page C-1 have already put a list of their Christmas wishes in each of their Española to drink hot chocolate, stockings. warm up in front of luminarias “The elf on the shelf got them and watch Santa Claus arrive by and took them, so we’ll see what helicopter. they get,” Sandra Urioste said.

Kids lined the block to tell For adults, the best part of the Santa, in the Misión y Convento, their holiday wishes — everything holidays is spiked eggnog, her husband joked. from a Barbie dollhouse to a new “No, getting together with famiPhone 15. ily, that’s the whole point,” Mike Jacquelyn Sherwood, a mother in line with her kids, also planned Urioste added.

This year’s floats — which to ask Santa for help paying the had the theme of “Merry Chrisbills.

Moose,” in honor of Marty Moose Sherwood, who lives in Española, echoed others in saying — did not disappoint. The bull

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I’m glad we could be here together as a family because tomorrow’s not certain.” Española mother Jacquelyn Sherwood moose has become a local legend after he wandered south from near the Colorado border to Santa Fe. Although wildlife officials moved him in September, the moose was spotted last month south of Española again.

Bustos, who has chaired the small group that works with the city to organize the festivities for 25 of the parade’s 27 years, said themes have “run the gamut” over the years, and she landed on Marty Moose because he brought good news coverage to Española when he stayed around the city for a few weeks this fall.

“I’m not surprised that it’s Merry ChrisMoose given all the

excitement about him coming through Española,” said John Burman with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The organization’s float from Abiquiú Lake sported a wire moose standing at the bow of a boat decked out in lights.

The city of Española’s float resembled a truck-size head of Marty Moose, with two long ears of lights bobbing on either side.

Seeing what everyone brings to the table is the best part of the parade, said Noah Vogel, preparing to play music on the parade route with his three-member band from Chimayó.

“It’s really how we come together as a community,” he said.

The Empty Stocking Fund is a longstanding project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs.

Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applications are now closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need.

2023 goal: $399,000.

This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual.

To donate: Make your tax-deductible donation online by visiting santafenewmexican. com/empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, 87504-1827. Cash and coin donations are always welcome.

Those can be dropped off at the offices of the newspaper at 150 Washington Ave., Suite 206.

Donors can request to remain anonymous.

If you can provide a service such as roofing or home repairs, contact Habitat for Humanity at repairs@ santafehabitat.org. If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares, furniture, firewood or other items or services, call the Salvation Army at 505-988-8054.

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their neighborhoods, said David Bell, owner of Mellow Velo bike shop in Santa Fe. “Every town in the United States is investing every dollar they can in high-quality pedestrian infrastructure, whether it’s bicycles, dog parks or multi-use trails,” Bell said.

The county bought 20 acres of easements on 31 properties along the river for nearly $1 million.

The average price of each easement was $29,200.

Although the trail is being extended only a mile, there’s much more work involved than just paving a stretch along the route, county officials said.

A trailhead and parking area will be built near where the pathway now dead ends at the Siler Road underpass. Also, an access road will be added near the river in the San Ysidro area.

Abandoned cars, cast-off junk and trash must be removed from some riverfront areas used for illegal dumping. And crews must conduct archaeological surveys along the way.

Riverbanks must be fortified in places to prevent floods from washing out the trail. And because the route connects to a flood plain, the construction must meet federal guidelines.

“We’re actually changing some of the [river] flow,” said Mike Hart, the project manager. “We’re putting in structures to actually slow the water down and redirect it, so it changes the flood plain.

It’s really quite extensive.”

The flood plain work requires dealing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its specifications — a lengthy and involved process, said Curt Temple, a county project section manager.

Finding a contractor who’s versed in all the requirements is challenging, Temple said.

“The restoration work is a very specialized trade,” Hart said.

“There are very few people that actually do that. That makes it even more difficult.”

The county hopes to finish the extension by early 2025, but how quickly it’s built will depend on the weather, Hart said.

If the El Niño weather pattern brings a wetter winter, as forecast, the snowpack will be thicker, filling the city’s two reservoirs when it melts in the spring, similar to last year. That could lead to the city releasing a lot of water from the reservoirs into the Santa Fe River, Temple said, delaying the crews that must place equipment in dry riverbeds to do the trail work.

A healthy monsoon in the summer also would intensify river flow, Temple said. Drier conditions would allow crews to reinforce the embankments and build the trail through the summer, then finish the restoration work in 2025, he said.

Hart said crews should be able to build the trailhead and parking area near Siler and the access road at San Ysidro in the spring because they’ll do this work on the river’s edges.

A project of this scope has many variables, Temple said.

By the time the $3.2 million bond measure was placed on the 2022 ballot, construction costs had nearly doubled in the two years since voters had approved the first $3.5 million bond, due to more expensive materials, a labor shortage and general inflation, Sarah Smith, county operations manager, told The New Mexican.

County officials get some ideas for open-space improvement projects from residents, she said, adding the river trail, which has grown popular, generates a lot of requests for lengthening.

Residents around San Ysidro have complained Agua Fría Street, the only way bicyclists in the neighborhood can access the

river trail, is dangerous to ride on, and a trail extension is needed.

In the next phase, the river trail would be extended past Romero Park, taking pathgoers to the Nancy Rodriguez Community Center, Cottonwood Village and the trails out to Diablo Canyon.

The Diablo Canyon route would offer cyclists a nearly 50-mile out-and-back trek from downtown Santa Fe. Known as Section C, it would require about $10.5 million more in funding, Temple said. Another section, planned further into the future, would go toward La Cienega, he said, adding that phase is conceptual.

Jonah Boudreau, a Mellow Velo employee who rides his bike on the river trail to work, said extending the pathway a mile or two is a good start.

Boudreau recalls when he lived in San Ysidro, commuting by bicycle was more of a hassle because he had to ride on streets a good distance before he could roll onto the trail. Creating user-friendly routes naturally encourages more people to bike, he said.

“The more bike paths we can have in town, the better,” Boudreau said. “It adds to the appeal of cycling — riding a bike more — for a lot of people.”

The trail was part of a joint effort by the city and county

TAKEAWAYS u Santa Fe County officials expect work to begin in the spring on the milelong extension of the Santa Fe River Trail, a wide sidewalk that runs between St. Francis Drive and Siler Road. u Voters approved $6.7 million in bond money in two elections to extend the pathway that’s popular for walking, running and biking. u The county hopes to finish the extension by early 2025, but how quickly it’s built will depend on the weather.

known as the Greenway Project.

County leaders see the trail not only as a recreational byway, but also a way to diversify the area’s transportation system, offering people alternatives to driving, Temple said. They want government employees to walk or bike to work if possible, he said.

“They think of the trail as a major transportation corridor,” Temple said. “This is for a safe and sustainable community.”

Bell, the bike shop owner, said the investment in building and improving pathways, such as this one and the Rail Trail, is worthwhile because they are so well-traveled.

“The proof is in the pudding that if you build the infrastructure, people will use it,” Bell said.

“There are no unused bike trails in Santa Fe.”

Four people were killed early Saturday morning about 20 miles northwest of Española when two vehicles collided and burst into flames, New Mexico State Police said.

A Jeep Cherokee and a GMC pickup crashed head-on around 3:30 a.m. near Medanales on U.S. 84, police said in a news release.

The two vehicles became engulfed in flames, police said, and the four people — two in each vehicle — were killed on the scene.

“This investigation is in the preliminary stages with many details still under investigation,” police said.

State police are working with the Office of the Medical Investigator to identify the four victims and said more information will be released when it becomes available.

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TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona woman got a huge shock when surveillance footage showed the thief who stole her backyard cameras was four-legged and fluffy-tailed.

Esmeralda Egurrola of Tucson noticed recently her three motion-activated cameras appeared off line.

So, she checked the most recent recording in each camera from an app on her cellphone.

Three videos had documented an entire heist carried out by a gray fox.

“I saw him sniffing and messing with camera one. I went to the second video, which was camera two. It caught him with camera one in his mouth.,” Egur-

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rola told The Associated Press on Friday.

“That’s when I knew, ‘Omigosh I think he took all of them.’ ” Egurrola shared video and photos of the intruder fox-trotting away on Facebook. It didn’t take long for reactions to snowball. It was first reported by The Arizona Daily Star.

She tried to search for the cameras, which were a gift and cost around $200, but saw no sign of them. She believes they are sitting in a fox hole.

“So what if I do happen to see them. Am I really going to poke my hand in there? Finders keepers,” Egurrola said.

She plans to eventually get new cameras and she will make sure they are tied down.

“I may leave one untied with a tracker,” Egurrola said.

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Featured announcements in and around Santa Fe

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SANTA FE RAILYARD COMMUNITY CORPORATION

The Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation will have its monthly Board of Directors’ Meeting on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Sage Hotel, 725 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 and via Zoom. The public, neiigh hbors, tenantts, and d alll intterestted d persons are encouraged d to atttend d. If you would like to attend the public portion of this meeting, please contact our office at 505-982-3373 or info@sfrailyardcc.org to register and obtain the agenda.

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THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

FREE CONCERT! Carols & Choruses, Tues., Dec. 12, 7:00 pm, at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Gather your friends and family and join Choral Director, Carmen Flórez-Mansi, as she leads The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus and The Symphony Brass & Organ for a performance at the iconic Cathedral-Basilica in downtown Santa Fe. Enjoy traditional carols, sing-a-longs, and holiday favorites such as the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah, John Rutter’s Gloria, O’ Holy Night, O Magnum Mysterium by Lauridsen, accompanied by collaborative pianist Paul Roth. Doors open at 6:15 pm. No tickets required. All ages welcome!

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Come and do some Christmas shopping and find wonderful handmade gifts at an Arts & Craft Fair. The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, on the corner of Agua Fria and Guadalupe streets is sponsoring this event on Saturday, December 16, 2023 from 9 AM to 3 PM. Vendors will be selling their art, jewelry, handmade items, and baked goods. Food and beverages will be for sale. This is a fundraising event to help pay to reroof Our Lady of Guadalupe church. Your support will be greatly appreciated.

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Videos, 911 recordings detail double homicide Continued from Page C-1

Roman’s son had called and said his father left his house in Albuquerque one and a half hours earlier, the Albuquerque Police Department operator said. The son said Roman was intoxicated and stole a shotgun from his home, while “grumbling and making comments about hurting his girlfriend.”

Less than seven minutes later, recordings show, Navarrete’s daughter dialed 911 from a bathroom in the Prince of Peace home and screamed into the phone.

“Please come!” she shrieked to the dispatcher. “We have babies!”

There were six people in the house, she said, including two infant children. She told the dispatcher she was hiding in the bathroom with her 1-yearold daughter.

“Please hurry, please hurry,” she said. “He broke all the windows. He’s inside — he’s inside in the house.”

The man who broke in, she told the dispatcher, was her mother’s ex-boyfriend, against whom her mother had filed a restraining order. She told the dispatcher she heard eight to 10 shots fired.

“We told you guys, and you guys did nothing,” she said.

“We told you guys — he tried killing her.”

Less than two weeks before the shooting, Navarrete had told police Roman had choked her and beaten her with a rifle and threatened to kill her if she told anyone, according to a criminal complaint filed against Roman in Bernalillo County. Roman was wanted on several felony charges related to that incident at the time of the homicide.

Navarrete’s daughter’s boyfriend dialed 911 from another room in the house, another recording shows.

“I was in my room and I heard some shots,” he told the dispatcher. “I think it was in my house. ... I just barricaded

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myself in the room.”

He referred to Navarrete as his mother-in-law and said he believed the shooter was her ex-boyfriend Adrian.

“I’m pretty sure that’s him because he made some threats before,” he told the dispatcher.

Meanwhile, a sheriff’s deputy was speeding down West Alameda Street with flashing lights and a blaring siren. He pulled onto Prince of Peace just as a white Nissan truck that was pulled over on the right side of the road began moving forward, dashcam footage shows.

The deputy followed after the truck in a slow pursuit down Prince of Peace, a residential road that ends in a dead end. At the end of the road, the deputy yells for the driver to turn off the truck and show hands, but instead the truck driver turns around and fishtails off, smashing into the police cruiser before heading back the other way, according to the deputy’s bodycam footage.

The deputy followed the truck back through a cloud of dust.

Inside the house, Navarrete’s other daughter called 911 from another bathroom.

“He shot my mom, and he killed her,” she told the dispatcher. “I’m in the bathroom right now — I don’t know if he’s about to come for me now.”

The dispatcher stayed on the line with her until a deputy arrived at the home and met with the family members.

The deputy who had pursued Roman came upon his truck crashed into a tree in a field next to the street, he wrote in an incident report provided by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Two more deputies arrived and helped him to check the truck and then the surrounding field, but they didn’t find anyone.

Roman was arrested a day and a half later in Albuquerque.

United Airlines to test Houston flight S.F. terminal expansion slated to finish in Jan.

By Carina Julig

cjulig@sfnewmexican.com

Texans, rejoice.

United Airlines will begin testing a flight from Santa Fe to Houston starting in March to see if the route could be viable.

The flight will be once a week on Saturdays, and if it proves popular, it could expand into a permanent route with more travel days, said Santa Fe Regional Airport Director James Harris.

There is currently one Texas-bound flight out of Santa Fe — to Dallas — along with flights to Phoenix and Denver.

United operates the Denver route. Harris said officials from the airline reached out to him about the test flight and said they had been interested in a route from Santa Fe to Houston for a while. The route would cut the travel time between the two cities from a 12-plus hour drive to a twohour direct flight.

The flight will launch after the completion of the Santa Fe airport’s terminal expansion project, which Harris said is on track to be done by the end of January after

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Travelers wait March 14 outside the terminal at the Santa Fe Regional Airport where construction continues on a terminal expansion and parking lot improvements.

the need for additional repairs to underground infrastructure pushed back the date several times.

“Right now we’re just maxed out; we don’t have the terminal capacity to host another flight,” he said. “But once the expansion is done, we’ll have room for more flights simultaneously.”

Harris said he hopes the expansion will attract more airlines to come to Santa Fe and add more routes. Popular requests include flights to Los Angeles and Chicago.

City Manager John Blair said at

the Nov. 29 City Council meeting the test flight is an indicator the airlines at the airport “are recognizing the work that we’re doing here and the potential for future growth and additional flights.”

The work continues.

Along with the expansion project, Harris said, he recently filed three grant requests to the Federal Aviation Administration for money from the $1 trillion federal infrastructure law passed in 2021.

The FAA was given $15 billion for airport infrastructure and $5 billion for air traffic control upgrades.

Harris is asking for $20 million for further terminal expansion work, $14 million for a new air traffic control tower that has up-to-date equipment and is Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant and $1.5 million for new equipment and heating, ventilation and air conditioning upgrades for the terminal.

“Most of that stuff has been there since the terminal was built in 1958, and there hasn’t been an upgrade to it in a very long time,” he said.

At a November City Council Finance Committee meeting, councilors praised Harris for his tenacity in seeking funds for the airport.

“I haven’t been keeping count, but it’s been a lot,” Harris said with a laugh when asked how many grants he’s applied for this year.

The airport had one of the largest post-pandemic increases in passenger traffic and is on track to have 200,000 passengers this year, he said in an earlier interview.

“Our flights are full,” Blair said at the meeting. “They’re not flying empty, they’re not flying half-full, they’re at near capacity, if not at capacity, at every flight. There is demand to fly into and out of Santa Fe, which is great.”

‘New Mexican’ to get Report for America position The New Mexican

The New Mexican is one of 52 newsrooms across the country that will be getting a reporter partially funded by Report for America in 2024.

The position will be focused on covering child welfare in New Mexico, a state that consistently has some of the highest rates of child hunger and poverty in the country. Much of the focus will be on covering the juvenile justice system and the state Children, Youth and Families Department, which has been beset by staffing woes and questions about its funding and management.

“We’re very fortunate to have so many terrific reporters, photog-

raphers and editors at this newspaper, but one more — especially on such an important topic — will be welcomed,” said New Mexican Editor Phill Casaus.

The position is expected to be filled around mid-2024. Reporters who are interested in the job have until Jan. 31 to apply. Applicants are vetted by Report for America, with the finalist selected by The New Mexican from several candidates. Visit reportforamerica.org/ reporters/ if you are interested in applying.

“Report for America invites journalists from diverse backgrounds to weave their unique narratives into the fabric of local newsrooms. With a dedicated beat as their canvas, these storytellers

ensure that every community’s voice is heard and critical issues are amplified,” Earl Johnson, vice president of recruitment and alumni engagement at Report for America, said in a statement.

“Through Report for America, journalists find not just a job but a calling — a perfect opportunity to make a profound difference where it matters most.”

Report for America has placed more than 600 journalists in hundreds of local newsrooms since launching in 2017. They have covered beats including health care, energy, climate and communities of color, according to RFA’s website. The program focuses especially on increasing coverage of undercovered communities

and topics. It is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to rebuilding journalism from the ground up.

Out of this year’s corps of reporters, more than half will cover diverse communities and nearly half will report on the environment, according to a news release from RFA. About a third each will cover rural communities and state politics.

RFA pays for part of the reporter positions for three years, starting by paying half the salary and with the percentage declining every year. The rest of the reporter’s salary will be funded by the newsroom and by private donors in the community.

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The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Gather your friends and family and join Choral Director, Carmen Flórez-Mansi, as she leads The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus and The Symphony Brass & Organ for a spectacular community concert at the iconic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe. This evening of beautiful music features traditional Christmas carols, sing-a-longs, and holiday favorites such as Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah, John Rutter’s magnificent Gloria, O Holy Night, O Magnum Mysterium by Lauridsen, and many more accompanied by collaborative pianist Paul Roth. Be sure to bring all of your loved ones! Everyone is invited, and all ages are welcome. No tickets are required. DOORS OPEN AT 6:15 PM.

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The most secretive job in the sky

Behind the scenes of air marshal training

By Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post

EGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. ven sitting in a conference room, Michael LaFrance looks straight out of a Bourne movie. He has icy gray-blue eyes, a shaved head and a salt-and-pepper beard. His freckled arms are covered in black and blue tattoos. While LaFrance could pass as a rogue CIA assassin on screen, in real life his job is aboveboard, albeit still secretive: a federal air marshal.

Technically, he’s the “supervisory air marshal in charge” of the training operations at the Transportation Security Administration Training Center, whose campus is close to the Atlantic City International Airport. He’s an air marshal shaping the future of air marshals.

“The movie that probably portrays us the best is Bridesmaids,” LaFrance said with a straight face, referring to Ben Falcone’s character, Air Marshal Jon. “I’m totally kidding.”

The conference room was full of LaFrances — former and active air marshals who looked the part. Instructors wore tactical pants and tucked-in polos; administrators donned crisp suits. We were about to get a rare glimpse into their training and find out what it takes to become an air marshal.

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The truth behind the myths If you don’t know much about air marshals, mission accomplished.

The service has been an anonymous layer of public security since the concept was created in response to a spate of plane hijackings in the 1960s and expanded in the 1970s. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, air marshals moved under the newly created Department of Homeland Security and TSA. The number of air marshals grew from 33 to thousands.

Today, the exact number is secret.

They travel among us, armed and undercover, on planes, subways and ferries, and monitor airports, train and bus stations. It’s a lot of pressure, they say, particularly on a plane.

“You’re in a metal tube surrounded by 200-plus unknown people, traveling 500 miles per hour, 30,000 feet in the air,” said Martin Haibach, the acting assistant supervisory air marshal in charge of the TSATC, who’s been with the service for 17 years.

LaFrance said there’s no set minimum or average on how much air marshals fly.

“It just doesn’t work like that,” he said.

“It’s based on the needs of the service and what’s going on in the world at that moment that would need our attention.”

They can’t say how many air marshals are out there or where they sit on planes (“That’s part of the surprise,” LaFrance said). They also can’t share any battle stories from their flights, even though some have ended up in the news.

What they can disclose is that FAMs always travel in “squads,” never alone.

They’re not on every flight as there are simply too many to cover (the Federal Aviation Administration handles more than 45,000 each day). They’re allowed to watch in-flight movies, read books,

ABOVE: Michael LaFrance, supervisory air marshal in charge, demonstrates the use of an airplane slide at the TSA training center in Atlantic City, N.J. RIGHT: An air marshal service instructor demonstrates how to arrest an assailant on a plane in an educational re-creation of the 9/11 plane hijacking at the TSA training center.

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take breaks to nap and eat. They are not allowed to drink alcohol on board.

Sometimes they tell flight attendants they’re on board; sometimes they don’t.

They fight jet lag with regular exercise.

And contrary to popular mythology, they do not have to disclose who they are if confronted. They have the discretion to lie to keep cover or reveal themselves as they see fit. If a passenger is being disruptive, for example, they can identify themselves to passengers to help de-escalate the situation.

When it comes to their covers, they’ll fall back on tales of former careers or keep things vague. “The best one is, ‘I’m going to a funeral,’ ” LaFrance said. The key is not to get in over your head with an elaborate yarn, they say. They learn how to do just that, and other essentials of flying under the radar, at FAM school.

A serious commitment To become an air marshal, applicants must be U.S. citizens between the ages of 21 and 36, although they can make exceptions for military veterans over 36. They need to have a bachelor’s degree or three years of relevant work experience. They have to undergo a drug test as well as a criminal and credit background check.

They have interviews, mental and physical evaluations, a polygraph test and a physical training assessment. Starting salaries begin around $60,000.

The job attracts a variety of backgrounds, but it’s common to get people who’ve worked in military, law enforcement or government, LaFrance said.

Air marshal Regina W. Boateng, who’s

now the assistant supervisory air marshal in charge of strategic communications and public affairs, says her application and interview process took roughly nine months. At the time, she was working as a TSA screener and was interested in a career at the Drug Enforcement Administration until she met an air marshal at her college’s career fair.

“All I heard was him say ‘fly all over the world,’ and I didn’t hear anything else,” Boateng said. “I was like, ‘Sign me up.’ ” About four months after she got her conditional offer, Boateng was off to the academy, which lasts around five months.

Phase one starts with roughly seven weeks of what LaFrance calls “Police 101” at a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in either Glynco, Ga., or Artesia,

N.M. Alongside students pursuing other fields like the Secret Service or Amtrak police, their basic training covers a broad curriculum, including crowd control, constitutional law, crime scene preservation, responding to individuals in mental health crisis and more — everything you’d need to know for an entry-level federal law enforcement position.

If they pass Police 101, it’s off to Atlantic City.

How to handcuff on a plane The TSATC’s main classroom building looks like any high school in the country. An American flag hangs in the hallway. There are dropped ceilings with fluorescent light panels, a gym that could hold an entire football team and

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shiny linoleum floors.

FAM candidates walk around filed in two straight lines. You can tell what stage of training the candidates are in by their outfits. New students are required to wear dark suits before they graduate to uniforms. They also carry a guidon — a flagpole with streamers that identifies their class.

“There’s also a game to it,” LaFrance said. If just one person in the class breaks a rule — shows up late, for example — instructors will ball up their streamer with a rubber band for a given period so the class has to march around with their shame.

It drives home a message: “Once you’re an air marshal, you’re part of a team,” LaFrance said. “If the teammate messes up, you all mess up.”

The agency has faced misconduct and workplace complaints in recent years, prompting Congress to investigate.

Between 2016 and 2018 fiscal years, FAM workers filed 230 discrimination complaints to TSA’s Civil Rights Division, according to a Government Accountability Office report. There have been reports of alcohol abuse, job-related health issues and misuse of firearms. Questions have also been raised about the agency’s ability to deter terrorism attacks. The Washington Post asked the agency for comment on misconduct but has not received it.

Over the course of 81/2 weeks in N.J., candidates learn the duties of an air marshal. “Training ranges from observation techniques, legal and investigative, physical fitness, aircraft tactics, active threat and especially firearms,” LaFrance said, adding that air marshals have the highest firearms qualification requirements of any federal law enforcement agency.

To graduate, candidates must achieve a score that would qualify them to be firearms instructors in other law enforcement fields. They’re also required to complete 112 hours of additional training every year, half at their local field office and half in Atlantic City.

Students carry out high-pressure drills designed to mimic a crisis, like active-shooter or terrorist attacks, as well as lower-stakes scenarios, like disruptive travelers. Although the air marshal program is rooted in counterterrorism, dealing with unruly or intoxicated passengers has always been part of the job, LaFrance said.

“Anything that a law enforcement officer would respond to, we would do the same on an aircraft,” he added.

Candidates learn what is called “a common strategy” developed by the TSA, FAA and airlines that offers guidance on when air marshals should get involved in onboard situations. Flight attendants are trained to deal with passengers up to a certain extent, but once it becomes an assault and threatens the safety of others, “that could be a reason for an air marshal team to get involved,” LaFrance said.

In rooms with padded floors for combat training, students learn how to subdue unruly passengers with control tactics such as tools like handcuffs and martial arts training. In warehouses with replica airplane cabins, jet bridges and terminals, they learn how to use those skills in more realistic settings. “It’s very hard to handcuff in the [airplane] aisle,” one instructor tells me. “That’s one of our biggest things that we go over.”

6 days national parks are free to visit in 2024

By Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post

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To help with your 2024 travel planning, the National Park Service has announced its annual list of free entrance days. The six days are split between seasons and offered as a way of giving Americans cost-friendly vacation options. Normally, entering one the 63 national parks in the U.S. costs between $10 to $35.

“If an entrance fee is a barrier to anybody visiting, we want to be able to take that away on certain days throughout the year to encourage people to go and visit a park maybe they’ve never been to before,” said National Park Service spokesperson Kathy Kupper.

In 2024, the entrance fee-free dates will take place on what Kupper calls days of celebration and commemoration, from national holidays to park-specific ones. Here’s the list: ◆ Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day ◆ April 20: First Day of National Park Week ◆ June 19: Juneteenth ◆ Aug. 4: Great American Outdoors Day ◆ Sept. 28: National Public

Lands Day ◆ Nov. 11: Veterans Day Visitors on fee-free days will still have to pay for services and amenities such as camping reservations, boat launches and special tours. If you can’t make it on these particular dates, there are still more than 300 national park sites — including national monuments, historical places, seashores and trails — that are always free to visit.

“The majority of national parks are free to enter every day,” Kupper said. “Currently, there’s 109 of the 400-plus that have an entrance fee.”

Kupper said parks near major metros — like Shenandoah National Park near Washington, D.C., or Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California — tend to get the biggest spike in traffic on fee-free days. “It’s an incentive to the populations nearby to choose that day to go and visit a nearby park,” she said.

Harder-to-reach, bucket-list parks like Glacier National Park in Montana or Big Bend National Park in Texas don’t see the same influx because they’re less likely to get the jump-in-the-car-and-go visitor.

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New trend announcing Larry Torres has five new books in time for Christmas pregnancy: Baby’s here!

By Fortesa Latifi

Special To The Washington Post

The New Mexican

Many of the works of local columnist Larry Torres, 50 years in the making, are now available online as Kindle, paperback and hardcover volumes on Amazon.

While he was teaching languages and linguistics over a 45-year career, Torres also was researching and writing novels.

The Children of the Blue Nun, a historical novel, was released at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was joined this year by five others, all streaming from the same source.

Readers might recognize several snippets of his columns that have been published in The Taos News and in the Santa Fe New Mexican in the newly released dual-language novels: In the footsteps of Giovanni the Hermit, The Diary of a Cowboy, The Boy who never was, The Way of the Cross, and Religious dramas from the fourteenth century in Mexico.

In the footsteps of Giovanni the Hermit is a true story based on a 19th-century bilocator who was raising people from the dead in Las Vegas, N.M., a few years before the first archbishops arrived in Santa Fe. The hermit’s gruesome death is one of the most popular, unsolved mysteries of the American Southwest.

In The Diary of a Cowboy, Torres writes about the Wild West accounts and depictions that have based their

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Larry Torres sits in his home in the spring of 2019, not long after he retired from the University of New Mexico-Taos.

misconceptions on tall tales and on old cowboy movies.

Torres wanted to debunk those misconceptions. He created a French cowboy who moved away from a turbulent European system in the 1700s and sought to identify himself with a young American nation. The French cowboy came to immerse himself among a diminishing Indian nation, the Louisiana Purchase and a railroad system that challenged the idea of wide-open, prairie spaces.

CELEBRATIONS Faces & places AARP New Mexico has announced Don Miller of Santa Fe is among five New Mexicans who have completed a six-month fellowship with the 2023 New Mexico State Walking College.

The Walking College is a joint effort between AARP New Mexico and America Don Miller Walks offering a six-month, distance-learning fellowship program for people interested in advocating to make their communities more walkable.

The Boy who never was is a semi-autobiographical story that focuses on the thoughts, reflections and doubts of a child growing up in a small town in Northern New Mexico. He travels across time and space to Scotland, Transylvania, France, Russia and Hungary, guided by his big-footed Yeti friend.

The Way of the Cross is an illustrated translation, while Religious dramas is an anthology of morality plays, including the story of Adam and Eve.

Pueblo, Nadine Kowice of Laguna Pueblo and Mario Hooee of Zuni Pueblo.

Participants, known as fellows, completed a series of modules covering leadership development, coalition-building, walkable community design, local public policy and strategic planning. The program is part of AARP’s Livable Communities initiative.

Each of the Walking College graduates has developed a personal Walking Action Plan, laying out goals and strategies that will guide their advocacy.

Miller’s plan focuses on making Santa Fe a more walkable/rollable community for people with mobility challenges.

Miller has been an avid hiker and outdoorsman who has served as a volunteer with the North Country National Scenic Trail Association. He moved to Santa Fe in 2020.

Other graduates include: Yvonne Allbritton-Chapman of Socorro, Dennis Felipe Jr. of Acoma

uuu Patricia Varga has joined Solace Sexual Assault Services as development specialist. She has more than 25 years in sales, marketing and development.

Prior to joining Solace, she worked in publishing with Hearst, Condé Nast, Meredith, Time Inc., Economist Group and Rodale, where she worked with Patricia Varga some of the nation’s top brands. She also spent more than a decade doing clinical work with domestic violence survivors, cancer patients and their providers.

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CLACK! “GOAL!” These are the lively sounds of a hockey game!

How many silly things can you find in this hockey scene?

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Standards Link: Physical Education: Understand the role of sport in a diverse world (e.g., the influence of professional sport in society).

sure. But for hundreds of years, kids have been sliding stones and other objects across ice with sticks and tree branches.

Over the years, in different parts of Europe, a variety of games played on ice with sticks and sliding objects were created.

A hockey puck slammed into the article about pucks, scattering the letters a, b and c. Can you put them all back where they belong?

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How many hockey pucks can you find on this page?

Source: Backcheck: Hockey for Kids Library and Archives Canada

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Ice hockey players push off and skate in bursts of speed up to 30 miles per hour! These quick starts, stops and turns chew up the ice very quickly.

When Grace was about 12 weeks pregnant with her first child, she posted a picture-perfect Instagram announcement featuring ultrasound photos and a knit gray “NEW TO THE CREW” onesie. She even had a customized hashtag for the new addition.

As it turns out, the pregnancy was ectopic. It came to a devastating end.

Four years later, Grace, 29, skipped sharing anything about another pregnancy. Instead, she announced her daughter’s arrival by sharing a newborn photo with the caption “Surprise!”

What changed? After a terrible time with the devastating loss, Grace decided to keep this one for just a chosen few.

She and her partner relished the secret of her pregnancy this time around: “Having things that you keep sacred to yourself in a world where you can share so much is beautiful.”

Consider this its own announcement: the immaculately styled, made-for-Instagram pregnancy announcement is out and the hard launch is in.

During the past decade or so, carefully planned and orchestrated pregnancy announcements, complete with siblings or pets holding signs about the new arrival, empty onesies promising to be filled soon, or framed black and white sonogram photos have populated Instagram and Facebook

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Put the words in ABC order.

Standards Link: Grammar: Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives in writing.

Spelling: Put words in alphabetical order.

Varga also founded the Create to Heal program and the Women with Wings Foundation.

She received her undergraduate degree in English from Stanford University. uuu

The Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area announced the selection of its 2023-24 grant program recipients.

This year’s grantees include: u Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association: Los Maestros del Norte. u New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: Friends of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. u Santa Fe Canyon Preservation: Water History Park Development. u Moving Arts Española: Baile Folklorico Program. u Riversource: Connecting Youth with Traditional Knowledge and Eco-

feeds. But as social media trends begin to shift in favor of more authentic and less posed and perfect content, the pregnancy announcement is following suit.

Parents are opting out of sharing their pregnancy news, choosing instead to share news of their bundle of joy once the baby has actually arrived.

Mothers choose the birth as a first announcement for different reasons, including high-risk pregnancies that can leave them feeling vulnerable, the changing laws around reproductive freedom and the simple desire to keep their best news to themselves.

Kristy Ihle, 26, announced she was expecting another baby by posting a photo of her daughter holding a “Big Sister” sign. But somewhere between her second and third pregnancies, Ihle started to wonder: Did the people she knew only peripherally and kept in vague touch with through social media need to know?

She began to think about the privacy of children online around the time she was pregnant with her third child, and so she culled her social presence. “I deleted a ton of people and stopped sharing as much,” she says. “I wanted my pregnancy with him to be our own little special thing.”

When Ihle’s son was born, she posted a photo from the hospital. “I got a lot of messages from people that were like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t even know you were pregnant!’ I was like, ‘That’s the point.’ ”

logical Science. u Family Learning Center: Traditional Arts Experiences for Pre-K Students. u Lightning Boy Foundation: Hoop Dance Project. u Reunity Resources: Agua Fría Cultural Center and Adelante Agua Fría. u Littleglobe Inc: Breaking the Silence of Slavery — Native Bound Unbound. u Northern New Mexico Recreation and Outdoor Conservation Foundation: Northern New Mexico Youth Spanish Music and Language as a Heritage Program. u Northern Youth Project: Educational Programming for Children and Teens. u Indigenous Ways: Indigenous Ways Festival.

Icy Art Can you redraw the pattern a skater left on the ice

without crossing over any lines or removing your pencil from the page?

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Are you an eagle-eyed reader?

Read the article below and circle the eight errors you find. Then rewrite it correctly on the lines below the article.

A Long Overtime

A hoockey game is usually plays in three 20-minute periods.

But in the 1936 Stanley Cup between the montreal Maroons and the detroit Red Wings, the scorre was tied at the end of the three periods. The game goed into overtime.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

HOCKEY STICKS PUCKS ZAMBONI PENCIL INVENTOR POTATOES COZY SKATES GAME RINK THIN FROZE POND COAL

The teams battled for 116 minute and 30 seconds before Detroit’s Modere “Mud” Bruneteau scored the won goal in a 1-0 victory.

S H L F T P O L C E K R S A R H U I K M A O E E O O I C I A T T S C O C Z N K G E N K T Y T O E C S S E N U I B A P Y D Y V I P M C I T Z N S N R A S T K A O O N I Z L E Y S S C P Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Good Sports

List characteristics of someone displaying good sportsmanship. Ask students to look in the newspaper for a picture of an athlete demonstrating good sportsmanship and explain why they chose that picture.

Standards Link: Writing: Use strategies to edit written work.

Standards Link: Physical Education: Understand the elements of socially acceptable conflict resolution in physical activity settings.

Hockey Happiness

Write an alliteration about ice hockey. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. Example: Awesome ants always agitate!

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Ohtani reaches record deal with Dodgers Two-way star will be paid $700M to join crosstown club, more than multiple teams’ payrolls

By Ronald Blum

The Associated Press

MARK J. TERRILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani celebrates as he rounds first after hitting a two-run home run during a July game against the Yankees in Anaheim, Calif. The two-time American League MVP — who also pitches at an All-Star level — announced Saturday he will make the short move to join the Dodgers.

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HEISMAN TROPH Y

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani has set a financial record to go along with his singular on-field performance, getting a record $700 million to make a 30-mile move up Interstate 5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

His agent, Nez Balelo, issued a midafternoon news release Saturday announcing the 10-year contract, ending months of speculation that began even before Ohtani became a free agent Nov. 2. In recent days, media and fans had tracked private plane movements

and alleged sightings like detectives in attempts to discern the intentions of the twotime AL MVP with the Angels.

“This is a unique, historic contract for a unique, historic player,” Balelo said. “He is excited to begin this partnership, and he structured his contract to reflect a true commitment from both sides to long-term success.”

Ohtani’s total was 64% higher than baseball’s previous record, a $426.5 million, 12-year deal for Angels outfielder Mike Trout that began in 2019.

His $70 million average salary is 62% above the previous high of $43,333,333, shared by pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander with deals they struck with the New York Mets. Ohtani’s average salary nearly doubles the roughly $42.3 million he earned with the

Angels. It also exceeds the entire payrolls of Baltimore and Oakland this year.

His agreement includes unprecedented deferred money that will lower the amount it counts toward the Dodgers’ luxury tax payroll, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not announced.

“He structured his contract to reflect a true commitment from both sides to long-term success,” Balelo said. “Shohei and I want to thank all the organizations that reached out to us for their interest and respect, especially the wonderful people we got to know even better as this process unfolded.”

This is perhaps the largest contract in Please see story on Page D-3

PREP BA SKE TBALL PRE VIEW

CHANGES UNDERWAY New Santa Fe High coach putting his own mark on program — and surprising strong play early has many taking notice

LSU QB overcomes lack of team success to win award Daniels first winner to be part of team that didn’t play for a conference title since 2016

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jayden Daniels was too good to be overlooked.

LSU’s dazzling dual-threat quarterback won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first player since 2016 to win college football’s most prestigious player of the year award as part of a team that did not play for a conference championship.

The fifth-year player, who transferred from Arizona State to LSU in 2022, received 503 first-place votes and 2,029 points after accounting for 50 touchdowns and nearly 5,000 total yards in just 12 regular-season games.

“This is a dream come true,” Daniels started his acceptance speech.

Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. was the runner-up with 292 first-place votes and 1,701 points and Oregon’s Bo Nix was third (51, 885), putting transfer quarterbacks in each of the top three spots.

Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. finished fourth (20, 352).

Wearing a sharp light gray suit, Daniels dropped his head for a moment when his name was called. He was the favorite to win the award but said he felt relieved when it was official.

Still, he stayed composed throughout his speech when he thanked everyone from his offensive line to the groundskeepers at Tigers Stadium and cafeteria workers who help feed the team.

“I wasn’t really like, emotional, like crying,” Daniels said later at a news conference. “I guess it’s kind of how I play on the field. I’m just enjoying the moment, just embracing everything, giving thanks to God.” Daniels, who turns 23 on Dec. 18, won AP Player of the Year earlier this week.

Daniels is the fifth quarterback in the last seven seasons to win the Heisman Please see story on Page D-5

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Santa Fe High coach Cisco Rivera watches an Albuquerque La Cueva shot attempt during Tuesday’s game at Toby Roybal Memorial Gym. In his first year as coach, the Demons have started 4-1 with a win over La Cueva and a close loss to Rio Rancho Cleveland, both Class 5A contenders. Santa Fe High was ranked 15th in the class in one preseason poll and seventh in another. “We always believe we’re the better team any time we step out on the court,” Rivera said.

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isco Rivera might be just five games into his head coaching career, but he’s already unafraid to take

chances.

The first-year head coach of Santa Fe High’s boys basketball program watched his Demons struggle through a 19-2 scoring run by Rio Rancho Cleveland on Friday night

that turned a 28-22 Demons lead into a 41-30 halftime deficit. Rivera said after the game he did it to see how his young team handled adversity, knowing there might come a time when they face a similar situation

and he can’t call a timeout to save them.

“I wanted them to fight through those mistakes and those things we talk about on a daily basis,” Rivera said. “We had a little moment in the second quarter where they started panicking a little. But we talked about it at halftime, and they had this sense of calm in the locker room. They figured it out.”

It showed in the third quarter, as the Demons fashioned a 15-5 run to

get within 46-45 of the Storm, the second-ranked team in Class 5A, and even took a 72-69 lead late in the game before losing 80-74.

It was the first loss for 4-1 Santa Fe High this year and the first in Rivera’s head coaching career, but the marriage between Rivera and the Demons is off to a fruitful start.

Of course, it helped that he already established himself as a trusted voice Please see story on Page D-4

Española Valley’s new leader gets assist from his family In second stint, Ray Romero’s staff includes sons Ray Jr. and Jeremy, plus daughter Kaitlyn, all stars for school

By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels holds the Heisman Trophy after winning the award Saturday in New York.

ESPAÑOLA — There’s a basketball standard planted into the ground right next to Ray Romero’s house in Velarde, N.M. It’s been there for years, going through a series of upgrades as the backboard has gotten a serious workout from countless attacks by multiple generations of family members. At the base of the main support post is a concrete slab that forever holds the handprints of the kiddos who grew up using it.

It’s a monument, of sorts, for a family that has grown up around a game that has come to define so much about them.

“I grew up around basketball; my kids have always been around it,” Romero said. “It’s a way of life for us.”

That way of life has translated to Edward Medina Gymnasium on the Española Valley campus. Romero is in his second stint as the girls’ coach. His staff includes his sons, Ray and Jeremy, and his daughter, Kaitlyn. His boys helped the Sundevils to postseason glory in The Pit, while his daughter as a high school star who played in college at Fort Lewis.

While the elder Romero, who left Los Alamos to Please see story on Page D-4

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Jordan Fox, jfox@sfnewmexican.com

MATT DAHLSEID/THE NEW MEXICAN

From left, Española Valley girls basketball assistant coaches Jeremy Romero and Ray Romero Jr. and head coach Ray Romero watch a shot during Thursday’s game against Mesa Vista in the Sundevil Shootout.

Ray Romero Jr., the eldest child, is described as the cerebral assistant, while Jeremy Romero is known for his energy and Romero’s daughter, Kaitlyn, not pictured, is known for connecting with players.

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TODAY ON TV

SPORTS BETTING LINE

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. onship, Final Round, Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, South Africa 11 a.m. ABC — The World Champions Cup: Final Day Matches, The Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Fla. 11 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour/LPGA Tour: The Grant Thornton Invitational, Final Round, Tiburón Golf Club, Naples, Fla. Noon NBC — PGA Tour/LPGA Tour: The Grant Thornton Invitational, Final Round, Tiburón Golf Club, Naples, Fla.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 10 a.m. CBSSN — Brown at Providence Noon ESPN2 — NABC Brooklyn Showcase: Colorado vs. Miami, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Memphis at Texas A&M 2 p.m. PAC-12N — Long Beach St. at Southern Cal 2:30 p.m. ESPNU — NABC Brooklyn Showcase: St. John’s vs. Boston College, Brooklyn, N.Y. 4:30 p.m. BTN — Michigan St. at Nebraska 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 — The Battleground 2K: Tulsa vs Oklahoma St., Oklahoma City 6 p.m. PAC-12N — Grambling St. at Washington St.

NBA G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL 2 p.m.NBATV — Salt Lake City at Santa Cruz NFL 11 a.m. CBS — Jacksonville at Cleveland 2:05 p.m. FOX — Seattle at San Francisco 2:25 p.m. CBS — Denver at L.A. Chargers 6:20 p.m. NBC — Philadelphia at Dallas

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ACCN — Florida Gulf Coast at Duke 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Invesco QQQ Hall of Fame: UCLA vs. Florida St., Uncasville, Conn.

Noon ACCN — Kentucky at Louisville Noon ESPNU — Florida at Tulsa Noon SECN — Ark.-Pine Bluff at Arkansas 12:30 p.m. BTN — Iowa at Wisconsin 12:30 p.m. ESPN — Invesco QQQ Hall of Fame: Utah vs. South Carolina, Uncasville, Conn.

3 p.m. ESPN — Invesco QQQ Hall of Fame: North Carolina vs. UConn, Uncasville, Conn.

NHL 11 a.m. NHLN — Florida at Columbus RODEO Noon CBSSN — PBR: Round 3 & Championship Round, Johnstown, Pa. SAILING 4 a.m. CBSSN — Sail GP: Event 6 — Day 2, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

COLLEGE WRESTLING 10 a.m. BTN — Pittsburgh at Ohio St.

GOLF 2:30 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: The Alfred Dunhill Champi-

WNBA 2:30 p.m. ESPN — WNBA Draft Lottery

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets New England South Jacksonville Houston Indianapolis Tennessee North Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati West

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10 9 4 4

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SUNDAY’S GAMES

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Houston at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Las Vegas, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Chargers, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:20 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Washington

MONDAY’S GAMES

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 6:15 p.m.

Tennessee at Miami, 6:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 14

L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 6:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 16

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 2:30 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 17

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at New England, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Rams, 2:05 p.m.

Dallas at Buffalo, 2:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Jacksonville, 6:20 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 18

Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES EAST Army 17, Navy 11

SOUTH

Cortland 49, Randolph Macon 14

MIDWEST

N. Dakota St. 45, South Dakota 17 North Central 34, Wartburg 27 S. Dakota St. 23, Villanova 12

SOUTHWEST

Harding 55, Lenoir-Rhyne 14

FAR WEST

Colorado Mines 35, Kutztown 7

Finalist voting for the 2023 Heisman Trophy, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points (voting on 3-2-1 basis): Player 1st 2nd 3rd Total Jayden Daniels, LSU 503 217 86 2,029 Michael Penix Jr., Washington 292 341 143 1,701 Bo Nix, Oregon 51 205 322 885 Marvin Harrison Jr., Ohio State 20 78 136 352 (x-vacated) 2023_Jayden Daniels, LSU, QB 2022_Caleb Williams, Southern Cal, QB 2021_Bryce Young, Alabama, QB 2020_DeVonta Smith, Alabama, WR 2019_Joe Burrow, LSU, QB 2018_Kyler Murray, Oklahoma, QB 2017_Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, QB 2016_Lamar Jackson, Louisville, QB 2015_Derrick Henry, Alabama, RB 2014_Marcus Mariota, Oregon, QB

PA

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New England 21, Pittsburgh 18

HEISMAN FINALIST VOTING

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324 258 210 246

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HEISMAN WINNERS

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6-3-0 5-3-0 5-4-0 2-6-0

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AWAY 5-2-0 3-3-0 2-4-0 1-6-0

6-1-0 3-5-0 3-4-0 3-5-0

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4-4-0 2-5-0 4-4-0 0-8-0

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6-2-0 4-3-0 6-3-0 3-5-0

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2013_Jameis Winston, Florida State, QB 2012_Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M, QB 2011_Robert Griffin III, Baylor, QB 2010_Cam Newton, Auburn, QB 2009_Mark Ingram, Alabama, RB 2008_Sam Bradford, Oklahoma, QB 2007_Tim Tebow, Florida, QB 2006_Troy Smith, Ohio State, QB 2005_x-Reggie Bush, Southern Cal, RB 2004_Matt Leinart, Southern Cal, QB 2003_Jason White, Oklahoma, QB 2002_Carson Palmer, Southern Cal, QB 2001_Eric Crouch, Nebraska, QB 2000_Chris Weinke, Florida St., QB 1999_Ron Dayne, Wisconsin, RB 1998_Ricky Williams, Texas, RB 1997_Charles Woodson, Michigan, CB 1996_Danny Wuerffel, Florida, QB 1995_Eddie George, Ohio State, TB 1994_Rashaan Salaam, Colorado, RB 1993_Charlie Ward, Florida State, QB 1992_Gino Torretta, Miami, QB 1991_Desmond Howard, Michigan, WR 1990_Ty Detmer, Brigham Young, QB 1989_Andre Ware, Houston, QB 1988_Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State, RB 1987_Tim Brown, Notre Dame, WR 1986_Vinny Testaverde, Miami, QB 1985_Bo Jackson, Auburn, TB 1984_Doug Flutie, Boston College, QB 1983_Mike Rozier, Nebraska, TB 1982_Herschel Walker, Georgia, HB 1981_Marcus Allen, Southern Cal, TB 1980_George Rogers, South Carolina, HB 1979_Charles White, Southern Cal, TB 1978_Billy Sims, Oklahoma, HB 1977_Earl Campbell, Texas, FB 1976_Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh, HB 1975_Archie Griffin, Ohio State, HB 1974_Archie Griffin, Ohio State, HB 1973_John Cappelletti, Penn State, HB 1972_Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska, FL 1971_Pat Sullivan, Auburn, QB 1970_Jim Plunkett, Stanford, QB 1969_Steve Owens, Oklahoma, HB 1968_O.J. Simpson, Southern Cal, TB 1967_Gary Beban, UCLA, QB 1966_Steve Spurrier, Florida, QB 1965_Mike Garrett, Southern Cal, TB 1964_John Huarte, Notre Dame, QB 1963_Roger Staubach, Navy, QB 1962_Terry Baker, Oregon State, QB 1961_Ernie Davis, Syracuse, HB 1960_Joe Bellino, Navy, HB 1959_Billy Cannon, LSU, HB 1958_Pete Dawkins, Army, HB 1957_John David Crow, Texas A&M, HB 1956_Paul Hornung, Notre Dame, QB 1955_Howard Cassady, Ohio State, HB 1954_Alan Ameche, Wisconsin, FB 1953_John Lattner, Notre Dame, HB 1952_Billy Vessels, Oklahoma, HB 1951_Dick Kazmaier, Princeton, HB 1950_Vic Janowicz, Ohio State, HB 1949_Leon Hart, Notre Dame, E 1948_Doak Walker, SMU, HB 1947_John Lujack, Notre Dame, QB 1946_Glenn Davis, Army, HB 1945_Doc Blanchard, Army, HB 1944_Les Horvath, Ohio State, QB 1943_Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame, QB 1942_Frank Sinkwich, Georgia, HB 1941_Bruce Smith, Minnesota, HB 1940_Tom Harmon, Michigan, HB 1939_Nile Kinnick, Iowa, HB 1938_Davey O’Brien, Texas Christian, QB 1937_Clint Frank, Yale, HB 1936_Larry Kelley, Yale, E 1935_Jay Berwanger, Chicago, HB

FAVORITE Detroit at ATLANTA at BALTIMORE Houston at NEW ORLEANS at CLEVELAND at CINCINNATI Minnesota at SAN FRANCISCO at L.A. CHARGERS at KANSAS CITY at DALLAS

OPEN 4½ 2 7 4½ 6½ 2 2½ 1½ 10½ 3 3 1½

TODAY 3 2½ 7½ 3½ 6 3 1½ 3 13½ 2½ 1½ 3½

O/U (43) (40½) (39½) (32½) (38½) (33½) (43½) (40½) (46½) (43½) (48½) (51½)

UNDERDOG at CHICAGO Tampa Bay L.A. Rams at N.Y. JETS Carolina Jacksonville Indianapolis at LAS VEGAS Seattle Denver Buffalo Philadelphia

FAVORITE Green Bay at MIAMI

OPEN 6 11½

TODAY 6½ 13½

O/U (36½) (46½)

UNDERDOG at N.Y. GIANTS Tennessee

MONDAY

FAVORITE at NORTH TEXAS at PROVIDENCE Princeton at WAGNER at IOWA STATE at LITTLE ROCK Colorado at NORTHWESTERN at CHARLESTON (SC) at BALL STATE at VCU St. Thomas at EASTERN ILLINOIS at NORTH ALABAMA at TEXAS A&M at UCF at USC at EAST TENNESSEE STATE at IOWA at UNC GREENSBORO at ST. JOHN’S at IONA at LIPSCOMB Michigan State at OKLAHOMA STATE at TEMPLE at WASHINGTON STATE

LINE 6½ 15½ 1½ 3½ 24½ ½ 1 24½ 8½ 3½ 13½ 3½ 5½ 1½ 7½ 3½ 13½ 7½ 3½ 14½ 5½ 15½ 6½ 1½ 5½ 6½ 22½

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DIV

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DIV

3-0-0 4-1-0 1-3-0 0-4-0

FAVORITE Florida at EDMONTON Nashville Washington at N.Y. RANGERS Winnipeg Minnesota at VEGAS

LINE -265 -156 -164 -166 -126 -178 -120 -335

UNDERDOG Fordham Brown at SAINT JOSEPH’S (PA) Boston University Prairie View A&M Winthrop at MIAMI (FL) Detroit Mercy Rhode Island SIU-Edwardsville Alcorn State at CHICAGO STATE Central Arkansas Morehead State Memphis Ole Miss Long Beach State Tennessee Tech Michigan Elon Boston College Saint Francis (PA) Tennessee State at NEBRASKA Tulsa Albany (N.Y.) Grambling

BOWL SCHEDULE SATURDAY, DEC. 16

Myrtle Beach Bowl Conway, S.C. Georgia Southern vs. Ohio, 9 a.m.

Celebration Bowl Atlanta Howard vs. Florida A&M, 10 a.m.

New Orleans Bowl New Orleans Jacksonville St. vs. Louisiana, 12:15 PM Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla. Miami (Ohio) vs. Appalachian St., 1:30 p.m.

New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico St. vs. Fresno St., 3:45 p.m.

LA Bowl Hosted Inglewood, Calif.

UCLA vs. Boise St., 5:30 p.m.

Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. California vs. Texas Tech, 7:15 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 18

Famous Toastery Bowl Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky vs. Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, DEC 19

Frisco Bowl Frisco, Texas UTSA vs. Marshall, 7 p.m.

UNDERDOG at COLUMBUS New Jersey at MONTREAL at CHICAGO Los Angeles at ANAHEIM at SEATTLE San Jose

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New York Brooklyn Toronto

16 14 12 12 9

5 7 9 9 13

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

15 12 9 7 3

7 10 12 13 18

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

15 12 13 9 2

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, DEC. 22

Dallas Houston New Orleans Memphis San Antonio

13 10 12 6 3

8 9 11 15 18

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

17 14 14 7 6

4 7 9 15 15

L.A. Lakers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Clippers Golden State

14 12 12 11 10

9 8 10 10 12

Gasparilla Bowl Tampa, Fla. Georgia Tech vs. UCF, 4:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 23

Camellia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. Arkansas St. vs. N. Illinois, 10 a.m.

Birmingham Bowl Birmingham, Ala. Troy vs. Duke, 10 a.m.

Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas No. 24 James Madison vs. Air Force, 1:30 p.m.

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho Georgia St. vs. Utah St., 1:30 p.m.

68 Ventures Bowl Mobile, Ala. South Alabama vs. Eastern Michigan, 5 p.m.

Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nev. Utah vs. Northwestern, 5:30 p.m.

Hawaii Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii Coastal Carolina vs. San Jose St., 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, DEC. 26

Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Bowling Green vs. Minnesota, noon First Responder Bowl Dallas Texas St. vs. Rice, 3:30 p.m.

Guaranteed Rate Bowl Phoenix Kansas vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27

Military Bowl Presented Annapolis, Md. No. 23 Tulane vs. Virginia Tech, noon Duke’s Mayo Bowl Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina vs. West Virginia, 3:30 p.m.

Holiday Bowl San Diego, Calif.

No. 16 Louisville vs. Southern Cal, 6 p.m.

Texas Bowl Houston No. 22 Oklahoma St. vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28

Fenway Bowl Bronx, N.Y. No. 17 SMU vs. Boston College, 9 a.m.

Pinstripe Bowl Boston, Mass.

Rutgers vs. Miami, 12:15 p.m.

Pop-Tarts Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 19 NC State vs. Kansas St., 3:45 p.m.

Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas No. 12 Oklahoma No. 14 Arizona, 7:15 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 29

Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Clemson vs. Kentucky, 10 a.m.

Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas No. 15 Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Oregon St., noon Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Memphis vs. Iowa St., 1:30 p.m.

Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas No. 7 Ohio St. vs. No. 9 Missouri, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30

Peach Bowl Atlanta No. 10 Penn St. vs. No. 11 Mississippi, 10 a.m.

Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Maryland vs. Auburn, noon Orange Bowl Miami No. 5 Florida vs. No. 6 Georgia, 2 p.m.

Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz.

Toledo vs. Wyoming, 2:30 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 1

ReliaQuest Bowl Tampa, Fla. No. 13 LSU vs. Wisconsin, 10 a.m.

Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 20 Iowa vs. No. 25 Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 18 Liberty, 11 a.m.

Rose Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal

SOUTHWEST

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

W

FRIDAY’S GAMES

.762 .667 .571 .571 .409

L

THURSDAY, DEC. 21 Boca Raton Bowl Boca Raton, Fla. USF vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.

PCT

L

— 2 4 4 7½

GB

.682 .545 .429 .350 .143

— 3 5½ 7 11½

.682 .600 .591 .391 .091

— 2 2 6½ 13

PCT

.619 .526 .522 .286 .143

L

PCT

L

PCT

GB

GB

— 2 2 7 10

GB

.810 .667 .609 .318 .286

— 3 4 10½ 11

.609 .600 .545 .524 .455

— ½ 1½ 2 3½

Orlando 123, Detroit 91 Phila. 125, Atlanta 114 Charlotte 119, Toronto 116 Brooklyn 124, Washington 97 Boston 133, New York 123 Minnesota 127, Memphis 103 Cleveland 111, Miami 99 Oklahoma City 138, Golden State 136, OT Chicago 121, San Antonio 112 Sacramento 114, Phoenix 106 Houston 114, Denver 106 Dallas 125, Portland 112 L.A. Clippers 117, Utah 103

SATURDAY’S GAMES

L.A. Lakers 123, Indiana 109 (Championship Game)

SUNDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Washington at Phila., 5 p.m.

Denver at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 6 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES EAST

Binghamton 91, Le Moyne 79 Colgate 77, Vermont 71 Fairfield 67, Sacred Heart 57 George Washington 76, Coppin St. 45 Kentucky 81, Penn 66 La Salle 67, Lafayette 51 Lehigh 88, Cairn 33 Longwood 62, Delaware St. 61 Maine 69, CCSU 56 Marist 63, Dartmouth 53 Merrimack 89, Felician 85 Monmouth (NJ) 74, N. Illinois 71 Morgan St. 120, Va.-Lynchburg 50 Mount St. Mary’s 77, Loyola (Md.) 64 Penn St. 83, Ohio St. 80 Pittsburgh 82, Canisius 71 Rutgers 70, Seton Hall 63 St. Bonaventure 89, Siena 56 Stony Brook 86, Bryant 75 Syracuse 80, Georgetown 68 Towson 89, UMBC 73 UConn 101, Ark.-Pine Bluff 63 UMass 91, Mass.-Lowell 77 Villanova 65, UCLA 56 W. Kentucky 82, Buffalo 65 West Virginia 66, Drexel 60

SOUTH

GB

Akron 77, N. Kentucky 76 American 77, VMI 69 Austin Peay 53, Murray St. 49 Belmont 75, Middle Tennessee 65 Bethune-Cookman 80, SC State 71 Clemson 74, TCU 66 Davidson 79, Miami (Ohio) 61 Duke 80, Charlotte 56 Florida 87, Richmond 76 Florida A&M 108, LeMoyne-Owen 78 Furman 100, Bob Jones 58 Georgia Tech 70, Alabama A&M 49 Grand Canyon 69, Liberty 64 James Madison 84, Old Dominion 69 Kansas St. 75, LSU 60

GB

TOTALS

25 5-8 18 3-4 26 6-8 31 10-14 22 3-12 29 3-6 21 2-8 11 0-2 10 1-2 5 0-0 2 0-0

1-4 1-2 1-1 2-3 3-4 5-7 7-8 2-2 0-0 1-2 0-0

N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Washington New Jersey Carolina Pittsburgh Columbus

2-6 1-6 0-0 1-6 0-1 2-4 4-7 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-0

0 0 1 4 3 1 0 2 0 1 0

2 4 1 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 1

11 7 17 22 9 11 11 2 2 1 0

FG FT REB SANTA CLARA MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

TOTALS

2-3 0-1 1-5 2-4 0-3 2-4 6-9 3-5 1-4 0-2 2-4 3-7

0-0 4-4 0-0 8-8 0-0 2-2 3-4 0-2 0-0 7-8 2-2 0-0

0-0 1-4 0-2 0-4 0-4 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-3 0-0 4-5 0-1

1 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3

4 1 1 1 2 0 4 3 3 0 2 2

4 4 2 13 0 8 16 7 2 7 6 7

200 22-51 26-30 7-26 16 23 76

Percentages: FG .431, FT .867.

3-Point Goals: 6-17, .353 (Knapper 2-3, Bryan 1-1, Tongue 1-1, Hammond 1-2, Bal 1-3, Benjamin 0-1, Marshall 0-1, O’Neil 0-1, Akametu 0-2, Ensminger 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 4 (Bryan, Ensminger, Knapper, Tilly).

Turnovers: 25 (Marshall 7, Tilly 5, Bal 4, Bryan 3, O’Neil 2, Akametu, Benjamin, Hammond, Knapper).

Steals: 5 (Bal 3, Hammond, Tilly).

Technical Fouls: None.

NEW MEXICO SANTA CLARA

47 27

46 49

— —

93 76

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES EAST

Albany (NY) 49, Marist 39 Boston U. 80, Harvard 77 Brown 53, New Hampshire 52 Drexel 65, Buffalo 57 George Mason 77, Mount St. Mary’s 30 George Washington 55, Coppin St. 41 Indiana 66, Rutgers 56 Manhattan 53, Vermont 43 Md.-Eastern Shore 54, Fairleigh Dickinson 47 Providence 63, Yale 58 Saint Joseph’s 73, Villanova 67 Youngstown St. 69, St. Francis (Pa.) 32

SOUTH

Alabama 74, Stephen F. Austin 69 Bethune-Cookman 85, Warner 47 Chattanooga 68, North Alabama 65 Mercer 55, NC A&T 52 Morgan St. 65, UMBC 42 Murray St. 93, Austin Peay 85 N. Kentucky 74, Kentucky St. 70 SC-Upstate 61, Furman 58 Southern U. 101, Louisiana Christian 45 Troy 71, UT Martin 59 UAB 73, Nicholls 62 UNC-Asheville 59, W. Carolina 48

MIDWEST

Bellarmine 90, Asbury 65 Dayton 73, Miami (Ohio) 60 Kansas St. 84, Missouri 56 Loyola Chicago 60, Milwaukee 47 Nebraska 80, Michigan St. 74 Oakland 79, Cent. Michigan 76 S. Dakota St. 78, N. Iowa 59 S. Illinois 75, Saint Louis 67 S. Indiana 72, E. Michigan 51 St. Thomas (MN) 64, Fort Wayne 59 Syracuse 82, Ohio 62 Valparaiso 83, Chicago St. 64 Wright St. 81, E. Illinois 67

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas St. 69, Louisiana Tech 58 Cent. Arkansas 69, Central Baptist 32 Gonzaga 80, Rice 72 North Texas 84, Alcorn St. 50 Oklahoma St. 67, Texas St. 52 Portland 68, UTEP 63, OT Texas A&M 67, Robert Morris 36 UNLV 92, Oklahoma 76

FAR WEST

Air Force 68, N. Colorado 60 BYU 65, Boise St. 50 Cal Baptist 60, Pepperdine 57 Cal Poly 84, Fresno St. 59 California 76, Nevada 49 Colorado St. 78, Montana 69 Denver 74, Stetson 52 E. Washington 82, Wolves 33 N. Arizona 92, San Francisco 76 Oregon 65, Portland St. 54 Oregon St. 78, Jackson St. 58 Utah Valley St. 68, Utah St. 38 Weber St. 77, Utah Tech 67

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL SATURDAY’S SCORES

Amarillo Palo Duro, Texas 61, Valley 54 Cliff 41, Hatch Valley 31 Clovis Christian 54, Hondo 38 Clovis Christian 61, Lake Arthur 23

39 34 32 32 31 27 25 22

87 65 80 67 84 77 97 82 98 105 75 95 79 94 78 70

25 18 6 27 15 10 26 12 7 24 13 8 25 14 10 27 14 12 26 11 12 29 9 15

1 2 7 3 1 1 3 5

37 32 31 29 29 29 25 23

82 70 83 73 79 84 60 70 91 91 91 94 75 69 85 101

CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Colorado Dallas Winnipeg Arizona Nashville St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

200 33-64 23-33 11-32 12 26 93

11 18 14 28 21 18 18 16 16 14 13 13

3 2 4 4 5 3 3 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Percentages: FG .516, FT .697.

3-Point Goals: 4-16, .250 (Baker 4-6, Amzil 0-1, Dent 0-1, Mushila 0-1, Washington 0-1, Webb 0-1, House 0-5).

Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 2 (Toppin 2).

Turnovers: 15 (Dent 3, Washington 3, Webb 3, Toppin 2, Amzil, Appelhans, Baker, Joseph).

Steals: 18 (House 6, Dent 3, Baker 2, Mushila 2, Webb 2, Amzil, Toppin, Washington).

Technical Fouls: House, 18:35 second; Lobos, 16:58 second.

O’Neil Caffaro Tilly Bal Marshall Knapper Tongue Bryan Ensminger Benjamin Akametu Hammond

26 18 5 26 16 8 24 14 6 26 14 8 29 13 11 27 12 12 28 11 14 22 11 11

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

NEW MEXICO 93, SANTA CLARA 76 Toppin Joseph Baker Dent House Washington Mushila Amzil Webb Forsling Appelhans

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Florida Toronto Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

FG FT REB NEW MEXICO MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL

ATLANTIC

Arizona 98, Wisconsin 73 Boise St. 109, W. Oregon 70 Cal St.-Fullerton 62, Sacramento St. 60 Drake 72, Nevada 53 E. Washington 73, Air Force 68 Fresno St. 89, Pacific 56 Idaho 63, Utah Tech 62 Loyola Marymount 78, UNLV 75 Milwaukee 81, UC Davis 79 Montana 88, Montana Tech 67 New Mexico 93, Santa Clara 76 Oregon 71, UTEP 49 Oregon St. 74, Utah Valley St. 71 Pepperdine 68, UC San Diego 62 Portland St. 83, George Fox 77 S. Utah 82, Idaho St. 74 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 64, Colorado St. 61 San Diego 89, Arizona St. 84 San Diego St. 63, UC Irvine 62 San Jose St. 87, New Orleans 82 Seattle 101, Northwest U. 46 UC Santa Barbara 126, Bethesda 76 Utah 73, BYU 69 Utah St. 84, NW Nazarene 53 Washington 78, Gonzaga 73 Weber St. 78, Cal Poly 50 Wyoming 78, Stephen F. Austin 70

CFP National Championship Houston Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.

W

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

FAR WEST

MONDAY, JAN. 8

SOUTHEAST

Albuquerque High 53, Hope Christian 44 Centennial 46, Highland 23 Clovis Christian 29, Hondo 17 Clovis Christian 33, Lake Arthur 14 Del Norte 40, Sandia Prep 36 Mayfield 41, La Cueva 36 Mesa Vista 74, Miyamura 54 Pojoaque 51, Socorro 12 Rio Rancho 40, Santa Fe 14 Ruidoso 45, Capitan 35 Sandia 75, Las Cruces 41 St. Michael’s 41, Rio Grande 36 Taos 47, Bernalillo 44 Volcano Vista 52, Organ Mountain 48 City Of Champions Classic= Artesia 65, Alamogordo 52 Carlsbad 37, Deming 24

Arkansas St. 87, UAB 68 Houston 89, Jackson St. 55 N. Arizona 76, Incarnate Word 75 Oklahoma 79, Arkansas 70 Texas 77, Houston Christian 50 Texas A&M-CC 62, Omaha 58

LINE +215 +130 +136 +138 +105 +146 +100 +265

W

SATURDAY’S SCORES

SOUTHWEST

Pasadena, Calif.

No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m.

Allstate Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal New Orleans No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas, 6:45 p.m.

ATLANTIC

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL

Auburn 104, Indiana 76 Butler 97, California 90, 2OT Creighton 109, Cent. Michigan 64 Dayton 82, Troy 70 DePaul 75, Louisville 68 Fort Wayne 89, SE Missouri 80 Indiana St. 98, S. Indiana 54 Kansas 73, Missouri 64 Kent St. 83, Cleveland St. 77 Loyola Chicago 115, Goshen 64 Marquette 78, Notre Dame 59 Marshall 74, Ohio 69 Minnesota 77, Florida Gulf Coast 57 Missouri St. 69, Sam Houston St. 60 Norfolk St. 64, Illinois St. 58 Oral Roberts 110, Ambassadors 51 Portland 83, North Dakota 72 S. Dakota St. 79, Wichita St. 69 Saint Louis 71, Hofstra 68 South Dakota 78, CS Bakersfield 73 Toledo 84, N. Iowa 80 UMKC 72, Lindenwood (Mo.) 67 W. Illinois 68, Green Bay 59 Xavier 84, Cincinnati 79 Youngstown St. 72, W. Michigan 68

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SUNDAY

Del Norte 53, Manzano 51 East Mountain 37, Laguna-Acoma 32 Grants 72, Aztec 45 Highland 60, Centennial 57 Kermit, Texas 68, Jal 48 La Cueva 65, Mayfield 54 Maxwell 63, Clayton 59 Mesa Vista 68, Miyamura 49 Mesilla Valley Christian 56, Elida 49 Penasco 62, Jemez Valley 55 Roswell 80, Espanola Valley 54 Ruidoso 68, Capitan 53 Tohatchi 91, Thoreau 57 City Of Champions Classic= Alamogordo 58, Lovington 44 Carlsbad 74, Deming 24 Los Lunas 75, Gallup 30 Rio Rancho 57, Artesia 49, OT

MIDWEST

NHL

FIGURE SKATING 2 p.m. NBC — ISU Grand Prix: Final, Beijing (Taped)

W

NFL SUNDAY

SUNDAY

SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 a.m. USA — Premier League: Chelsea at Everton 9:30 a.m. USA — Premier League: Newcastle United at Tottenham Hotspur

East

Kennesaw St. 84, SC-Upstate 77 Louisiana Tech 72, Louisiana-Lafayette 67 Mercer 64, Georgia St. 60 Mississippi St. 106, Tulane 76 Nicholls 84, Elizabeth City St. 70 North Florida 64, Georgia Southern 56 Purdue 92, Alabama 86 Queens (NC) 112, Piedmont International 64 Radford 82, NC Central 74 South Alabama 91, Spring Hill 74 South Carolina 68, East Carolina 62 South Florida 88, Florida St. 72 Southern Miss. 83, Northwestern St. 74 Southern U. 69, SE Louisiana 44 Tennessee 86, Illinois 79 Virginia Tech 71, Valparaiso 50 W. Carolina 78, UNC-Asheville 63 Wake Forest 83, NJIT 59 Wofford 88, Coastal Carolina 80

27 26 25 26 27 27 25 26

16 15 15 13 14 13 9 9

L OT PTS

GF GA

L OT PTS

GF GA

9 8 8 11 13 13 12 16

2 3 2 2 0 1 4 1

34 33 32 28 28 27 22 19

94 89 81 86 85 76 78 63

82 81 68 77 85 88 88 90

Vegas 28 18 5 5 41 95 65 Vancouver 28 18 9 1 37 111 76 Los Angeles 24 16 4 4 36 91 56 Calgary 27 11 13 3 25 78 93 Edmonton 24 11 12 1 23 84 83 Seattle 28 8 13 7 23 77 101 Anaheim 26 10 16 0 20 69 88 San Jose 27 8 17 2 18 58 111 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Florida 3, Pittsburgh 1 Columbus 5, St. Louis 2 Edmonton 4, Minnesota 3

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Boston 5, Arizona 3 Vegas 6, Dallas 1 New Jersey 4, Calgary 2 Washington 4, N.Y. Rangers 0 Toronto 4, Nashville 0 Montreal 3, Buffalo 2, SO Ottawa 5, Detroit 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 3, OT Vancouver 4, Carolina 3

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Florida at Columbus, 11 a.m.

New Jersey at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Vegas, 8 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Detroit at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Vegas, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Florida at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Acquired C Max Stassi from Atlanta in exchange for a player to be named later or cash.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Announced Atlanta Hawks G Trae Young has been fined $25,000 for confronting and directing inappropriate language toward a game official at the conclusion of their game against Brooklyn on Dec. 6.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled G Amen Thompson from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the G League.

PHILADELPHIA SIXERS — Assigned G Jaden Springer to the Delaware Blue Coats of the G League.

PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS — Assigned F Kris Murray and G Rayan Rupert to the Rip City Remix of the G League.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Assigned F Sandro Mamukelashvili and G Blake Wesley to the Austin Spurs of the G League.

TORONTO RAPTORS — Agreed to terms with F Jontay Peter on a two-way contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Activated TE Dawson Knox from injured reserve. Released LB AJ Klein.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Activated CB Cameron Mitchell from injured reserve. Elevated QB Joe Flacco to the active roster from the practice squad. Waived QB P.J. Walker.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed QB Nathan Rourke to the active roster.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed FS Bryan Cook on injured reserve. Activated LB Nick Bolton from injured reserve. Elevated S Deon Bush and RB Deneric Prince from the practice squad.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Placed OL Zack Bailey on injured reserve. Elevated TE Stephen Anderson from the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed LB Calvin Munson off the New England practice squad. Placed OLB Jerome Baker on injured reserve.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed RB Adam Prentice to the active roster. Elevated WR Marquez Callaway and DL Jack Heflin from the practice squad. Placed OL Nick Saldiveri on injured reserve.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed OL Jacob Hanson to the active roster. Placed OL Wes Schweitzer on injured reserve. Elevated OL Chris Glaser and DL Jalyn Holmes from the practice squad..

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed WR Ray Ray McCloud III on injured reserve. Signed WR Chris Conley to the active roster. Elevated S Erik Harris and RB Jeremy McNichols from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled RW Matt Coronato from Calgary (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Isaak Phillips from Rockford (AHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned D Mason Millman to Lehigh Valley (AHL) from Reading (ECHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Recalled D Henry Thrum from San Jose (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled LW Hugh McGing from Springfield (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Sent C Linus Karlsson to Abbotsford (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned C Hendrix Lapierre to Hershey (AHL).

SPORTS

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Defense keys another Lobos victory UNM forces 26 turnovers to win eighth straight at event in Nev.

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Friday: New Mexico (9-1) vs. New Mexico State (4-6), 7 p.m. in Las Cruces TV: CBS Sports Network Radio: KKOB (770 AM) Live stats: GoLobos.com/mbbstats

A year ago, the soft underbelly of the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team was the defense.

Not so much anymore.

The Lobos (9-1) won their eighth straight game Saturday evening, forcing 26 turnovers and finishing with 18 steals in a 93-76 win over Santa Clara in the Jack Jones Classic in Henderson, Nev. Five players finished in double figures, led by Donovan Dent’s 22. Jermarl Baker Jr. dropped in 17 and had all four of UNM’s made 3-pointers.

“He’s really helped us because we needed that 3-point line to be a factor, and he just keeps hitting them from deep, which is great,” said New Mexico coach Richard Pitino.

The Lobos led nearly the entire game, trailing only briefly in the first few minutes.

They opened a 23-point lead in the second half, using their defense to disrupt the Broncos’ ball-control style.

Guard Jaelen House had six steals, while four of his teammates had at least two.

House had another quiet night in the scoring column with nine points on 3-of-12 shooting,

but it was his energy without the ball that helped set the tone early.

“We really wanted to pressure them,” Pitino said. “They play big, and we were a little bit smaller, and we said, ‘All right; let’s get up there, be aggressive, trap those ball screens, fly around.’ We had moments of brilliance. We didn’t sustain it for 40 minutes, but the effort was phenomenal.”

UNM got another solid game from role player Isaac Mushila. The offseason transfer from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi had 11 points and a team-high seven rebounds in 22 minutes off the bench. Undersized for a forward, he said the mindset is to not let size be a factor.

“When you look at me, 6-5, they’re like, ‘Nah, he ain’t going to do nothing,’ but when we actually get on the court and playing I’m actually using my strength,” he said. “I always say that I’m 6-5, but I play like I’m 6-10.”

Tru Washington also had 11 points off the bench. In the last two games he has scored 26 of his 28 points in the second half.

The Lobos’ relentless defense did lead

By Will Webber

to fouls. Santa Clara (7-3) attempted 30 free throws, making 26. House and Pitino were both assessed technical fouls of the second straight game.

“We gotta stop, myself included,” Pitino said. “It starts with Jaelen’s gotta stop, Donovan’s gotta stop worrying about it, and I think it all is kind of connected, and myself included. We’re too good of a team to continually worry about that.”

Santa Clara’s leading scorer on the season, Carlos Marshall Jr., was held scoreless. He attempted only three shots and never made it to the free throw line. He came in averaging more than 15 points a game.

Lobos power forward J.T. Toppin had 11 points and a pair of blocked shots. He and center Nelly Junior Joseph pulled down 12 rebounds between them.

NOTES UNM has played four of its first 10 games in the Dollar Loan Center, scoring at least 90 points each time. … Guard Jamal Mashburn Jr. has missed five straight games with a lower leg injury and a torn thumb ligament in his shooting hand. He suffered both injuries Nov. 22 against Rice in Henderson. Pitino said he has begun running at practice but there is no timetable for his return to game condition. … UNM heads into finals week, giving the players six days off before heading to Las Cruces on Friday for a rematch with New Mexico State. The Lobos have won five or their last six games by double digits, including a 44-point win over the Aggies on Dec. 2.

NBA L AKERS 123, PACERS 109

Lakers win inaugural In-Season Tournament

By Mark Anderson

The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — As Commissioner Adam Silver prepared to hand LeBron James the MVP trophy of the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament, he cautioned “it doesn’t come with a franchise.”

James bent over in laughter, but he has been serious about wanting to own an NBA expansion team in Las Vegas.

For now, he’ll more than settle for the individual honor and tournament championship after scoring 24 points and adding 11 rebounds Saturday night to help the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Indiana Pacers 123-109 in the final.

“My enthusiasm about being here post-career, bringing a team here has not changed,” James said.

“The fans are amazing here. They have everything already: WNBA team, they have a baseball team [Athletics] coming in soon, NFL team, hockey team, F1 [Formula One] was just here. This is a place that loves great attractions, and I think the NBA will be another great addition to this city.”

As well as James played Saturday, the star was teammate Anthony Davis, who had 41 points and 20 rebounds — numbers that would have been season highs if they counted.

This is the only game in the tournament that doesn’t figure in the standings or statistics.

Davis also shot 16 of 24, had five assists and blocked four shots.

“They’re a hell of a one-two punch,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said about James and Davis.

“That one or two could be either one of them on any given night.

At the end of the day, they know how to take it to the next level when everything is on the line.”

Los Angeles is the first In-Season Tournament champion because the two headliners received plenty of help.

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

MEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL T OP 25

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Arizona guard Caleb Love dunks over Wisconsin guard Max Klesmit during Saturday’s game in Tucson, Ariz. Love scored 20 points for the Wildcats in the 98-73 win.

No. 1 Arizona passes first test in top spot The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. — Pelle Larsson scored a career-high 21 points, Caleb Love added 20, and No. 1 Arizona 1 Arizona 98 rolled to a 23 Wisc.

73 98-73 win over No. 23 Wisconsin on Saturday.

The Wildcats — playing as the top team in the country for the first time in nine years — looked comfortable in their new role, using a 25-8 run to end the first half and take a 17-point halftime lead.

Larsson finished 6 of 6 shooting from the field, including 4 of 4 on 3-pointers. The Wildcats (8-0) shot 58% from the field.

In Lawrence, Kan., Hunter Dickinson had 13 points and 16 rebounds, Kevin McCullar Jr. and KJ Adams had 17 points each and Kansas beat rival Missouri.

Austin Reaves scored 28 points, D’Angelo Russell added 13 points and Cam Reddish set the tone defensively by limiting the damage by Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, who emerged as one of the faces of this tournament.

He had 20 points and 11 assists against the Lakers, often passing to a teammate rather than trying to force the action. “[Reddish] didn’t score a lot, but I felt like he was one of the best players on the court with the way he defended and really changed the game on that end of the floor,” Reaves said.

Also for the Pacers, Bennedict Mathurin scored 20 points and Aaron Nesmith had 15.

In addition to taking home a trophy, Lakers players on standard contracts each made $500,000 and the Pacers received $200,000

apiece. Players on two-way deals take home half those amounts.

The tournament and the title game had a combination of a NBA playoff and one-and-done NCAA Tournament kind of atmosphere, and the Pacers and Lakers played as if their seasons were on the line.

Los Angeles making it Las Vegas where it was essentially the home team before a sellout crowd played Sunday like it had been here before. The situation was different for the Pacers, who are still trying to prove they are a championship-level team.

“We just got outplayed tonight from the start of the game to the end of the game,” Haliburton said. “Just didn’t do the job on loose balls, didn’t rebound, didn’t get enough stops when needed.

They just outplayed us, and it’s

frustrating. It’s funny because everybody says this has the NCAA Tournament feel, but after a game like that you’re sitting in the locker room going, ‘Most of us ain’t graduating.’ We play on Monday.”

The Lakers led most of the game, though Indiana kept in striking distance until Los Angeles went on a 15-3 run late in the fourth quarter to turn in a 100-96 lead into a 115-99 advantage.

“Our guys got a real taste of what the elevated stage is all about,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. “It’s so important to have this experience, to feel the intensity, to feel the glare and the glow and to find out what it means to be totally together in an effort to conquer it. We conquered a lot of challenges along the way. This one tonight was a little too steep.”

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sports history, topping highs believed to be set by soccer stars Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé.

There was no immediate comment by the Dodgers. Ohtani has not spoken with reporters since Aug. 9.

“I apologize for taking so long to come to a decision,” Ohtani said in an English-language statement on Instagram. “I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone involved with the Angels organization and the fans who have supported me over the past six years, as well as to everyone involved with each team that was part of this negotiation process.”

“And to all Dodgers fans, I pledge to always do what’s best for the team and always continue to give it my all to be the best version of myself,” he continued.

“Until the last day of my playing career, I want to continue to strive forward not only for the Dodgers but for the baseball world.”

Ohtani joins a lineup that also includes 2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts and 2020 NL MVP Freddie Freeman. The Dodgers won the NL West this year for the 10th time in 11 seasons before they were swept by Arizona in the Division

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Angels starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani pitches against the Dodgers during a June game in Anaheim, Calif. Ohtani agreed Saturday to a record $700 million, 10-year contract to join the Dodgers after six seasons with the Angels.

Series in October.

Los Angeles begins the 2024 season in Seoul, South Korea, against San Diego on March 20-21.

Ohtani’s decision came six years and one day after he first agreed to his deal with Angels.

Ohtani has redefined modern baseball since he chose the Angels as his first

major league team. Nobody has come close to matching his achievements at the plate and on the mound, becoming one of the majors’ elite players in both roles when healthy. Along the way, he has become one of the most marketable athletes in the world, a force when it comes to ticket sales, TV ratings and sponsorship revenue.

SAINT MARY’S 64, NO. 13 COLORADO STATE 61 In Fort Collins, Colo., Joshua Jefferson scored 16 points including a key 3-pointer down the stretch and Saint Mary’s sent Colorado State to its first loss of the season.

Augustas Marciulionis led the Gaels (5-5) with 18 points before fouling out, and Aidan Mahaney added 10 points.

Isaiah Stevens had 20 points to lead Colorado State (9-1).

Patrick Cartier had 16 points and Nique Clifford added 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Colorado State had a chance to tie in the last 10 seconds but Stevens and Clifford both missed 3-point attempts.

In Salt Lake City, Gabe Madsen made five 3-pointers and scored 17 points, and Utah beat BYU.

NO. 16 KENTUCKY 81, PENN 66

In Houston, Emanuel Sharp scored a career-high 25 points, LJ Cryer added 21.

In Philadelphia, Aaron Bradshaw celebrated his homecoming with 17 points and 11 rebounds and Rob Dillingham also scored 17 points to lead Kentucky past Penn at the Wells Fargo Center.

NO. 4 PURDUE 92, ALABAMA 86

NO. 17 TENNESSEE 86, NO. 20 ILLINOIS 79

NO. 3 HOUSTON 89, JACKSON STATE 55

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had 16 points and seven assists and Texas beat Houston Christian.

UTAH 73, NO. 14 BYU 69

NO. 2 KANSAS 73, MISSOURI 64

Lakers forward Rui Hachimura, left, celebrates Saturday with forward LeBron James after James was named NBA In-Season Tournament MVP and L.A. won the championship in Las Vegas.

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In Toronto, Zach Edey matched his season high with 35 points in his hometown, Braden Smith had a season-high 27 points and Purdue rallied to beat Alabama 92-86.

Playing in his home city for the first time since he was a high school sophomore in 2016-17, Edey made 11 free throws without a miss, was 12 for 20 from the field and had seven rebounds.

He passed Robbie Hummel to move into the top 10 on Purdue’s career scoring list.

NO. 5 UCONN 101, ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF 63 In Storrs, Conn., Alex Karaban scored a career-high 26 points to lead UConn to a rout of Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

NO. 8 MARQUETTE 78, NOTRE DAME 59 In Milwaukee, Oso Ighodaro scored 20 points, Tyler Kolek added 17 and Marquette defeated Notre Dame.

NO. 10 CREIGHTON 109, CENTRAL MICHIGAN 64 In Omaha, Neb., Isaac Traudt set career highs with five 3-pointers and 18 points off the bench, and five other Creighton players scored in double figures as the Bluejays routed Central Michigan.

NO. 12 TEXAS 77, HOUSTON CHRISTIAN 50 In Austin, Texas, Max Abmas

He was a unanimous AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 — he finished second in 2022 — winning this year despite injuring his elbow in late August and an oblique muscle in early September.

Ahead of his 30th birthday on July 5, he has a .274 average with 171 homers, 437 RBIs and 86 stolen bases along with a 39-19 record with a 3.01 ERA and 608 strikeouts in 481⅔ innings. Ohtani has 34.7 Wins Above Replacement (WAR), per Baseball Reference.

The Halos are a perennial also-ran, both in the AL standings and in the Los Angeles market, but they won Ohtani’s services in late 2017 partly by promising him the freedom to train and to play however he wanted. Ohtani immediately dazzled the entire sport in 2018, batting .285 with 22 homers and 61 RBIs as a designated hitter and going 4-2 with a 3.31 ERA and 63 strikeouts.

Ohtani won the AL Rookie of the Year award in 2018 despite making just one pitching appearance after early June due to an injured elbow ligament that required Tommy John surgery following the season. Ohtani made just two mound appearances in the next two years while continuing to play as the Angels’ DH. When his arm was finally healthy in 2021, Ohtani put together a season for the ages.

He won the AL MVP award with 46 homers and 100 RBIs at the plate while going 9-2 with a 3.18 ERA on the mound.

In Knoxville, Tenn., Dalton Knecht scored 21 points and Tennessee rallied from a second-half deficit to beat Illinois.

Guard Santiago Vescovi added 12 points and nine rebounds for Tennessee (6-3). Jonas Aidoo scored 14 and Josiah-Jordan James had 12 points and seven assists.

NO. 18 JAMES MADISON 84, OLD DOMINION 69 In Norfolk, Va., TJ Bickerstaff scored 21 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead James Madison over Old Dominion.

NO. 19 OKLAHOMA 79, ARKANSAS 70 In Tulsa, Okla., Javian McCollum had 20 points, five rebounds and four assists to lead undefeated Oklahoma over Arkansas in the third annual Crimson & Cardinal Classic.

NO. 22 DUKE 80, CHARLOTTE 56 In Durham, N.C., Jared McCain scored 14 of his season-high 21 points in the first half and Duke got rolling again following two losses and a week layoff, beating Charlotte.

NO. 24 CLEMSON 74, TCU 66 In Toronto, Joseph Girard III scored 21 points, PJ Hall had 17 and Clemson extended its unbeaten start to the season by beating TCU.

He improved as a pitcher in 2022, going 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA and a 1.01 WHIP while still driving in 95 runs at the plate, but finished behind Aaron Judge in the MVP voting after the Yankees star hit an AL record 62 homers.

After winning the MVP award in the World Baseball Classic last March while leading Japan to victory — he struck out Trout to end the tournament — Ohtani maintained his two-way magnificence this year, hitting 44 homers with a career-high 1.066 OPS while going 10-5 with a 3.14 ERA before tearing his elbow ligament again on Aug. 23. He didn’t hit after Sept. 3 because of the strained right oblique.

Along with his elbow injuries, Ohtani’s transcendent success has come with another significant damper: He has never made the playoffs or even played on a winning team in the majors. Owner Arte Moreno’s Angels haven’t won more than 80 games or finished higher than third in the AL West during his tenure alongside Trout, a three-time AL MVP, and a perennially disappointing cast of supporting players.

Ohtani earned $42,269,259 in his six seasons with the Angels. After receiving a signing bonus of $2,315,000 with his initial deal, he had salaries of $545,000, $650,000, $259,259 (in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season), $3 million, $5.5 million and $30 million.

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

PREP BASKETBALL

Sunday, December 10, 2023

ARMENDARIZ T OURNAMENT

Farmington beats Capital at own game to easily win title

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

The Capital Jaguars knew they were heading into a tough battle against the Farmington Scorpions on Saturday night.

But they never seemed to respond to the intensity and energy level Farmington brought to Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. Sparked by a Farmington 66 19-point performance from Capital 27 tournament MVP Cody Vassar-Steen, Farmington left Santa Fe with the Al Armendariz Tournament trophy in a resounding 66-27 win.

With the loss, the Jaguars (3-2) entered new territory never experienced by a Ben Gomez-coached team. It was the second time already this season they lost a game by at least 30 points. At least Gomez knew why it happened.

“One of the things we talked about was just going out there and battling,” Gomez said. “And I don’t think we did.”

Despite the lackluster performance, Capital overcame a 0-for-9 start from the field and a 15-3 deficit to pull within 22-16 on Santiago Bencomo’s baseline jumper with 2:46 left in the first half.

Then, the wheels fell off the Capital wagon. It started with back-to-back 3-pointers by Farmington’s Sataurus Griego that sandwiched a Bencomo runner amid a sea of Scorpions in the paint for a 28-18 lead with 1:35 left. Those baskets ignited a 15-2 run that went into the third quarter and built a 37-18 lead on Vassar-Steen’s transition layup with 5:14 to go.

“I feel like our toughness is what keeps us in games,” Capital senior forward Nathaniel Ortiz said. “That’s what did it for us last year. We just gotta lead by example.”

It didn’t happen against the Scorpions (3-0).

Capital scored just nine points in the second half as Farmington’s ball pressure and defensive intensity overwhelmed the Jaguars. One Capital possession early in the fourth quarter needed 45 seconds before getting a shot, which ended with a Jude Torres layup with 5:25 left in the game to make it 55-25.

Gomez said he was happy with the execution he saw on offense at times but the shots often didn’t fall. He said that was partly a credit to Farmington’s defense, which had the Jaguars shooting harder shots at the basket.

“Even for our layups, we were fading away, while they were finishing at the rim,” Gomez said.

Capital gets a four-day window to work on things before taking on St. Michael’s at home.

Third place The Panthers got off to a fast start, hitting five 3s to build a 21-13 lead after a quarter, but the Elks changed up their defense and took away the perimeter shot, allowing just two triples the rest of the game.

Pojoaque (4-2) methodically chipped away at the margin, getting within 34-29 at the half and 49-46 entering the fourth. The Elks then turned the tables on Pecos, hitting four 3s in a finishing 19-6 scoring run.

Deondro Lopez led Pojoaque with 18 points, while Jordan Lopez added 15. Pecos (3-2) had Lawrence Ragland score 21 points, and Joshua Gonzales added 14.

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take over at his alma mater during the most recent offseason, calls all the plays and does most of the pacing back and forth in front of the team bench, his kids each play a separate and vitally important role.

Ray is the cerebral assistant, the one who’ll lean into his dad’s ear to share trends he’s picking up on. Jeremy is the energy guy, the one who’ll burst into the locker room and light a fire under the kids.

Kaitlyn, she’s the quintessential player’s coach, her dad said. What most coaches see on the court, she sees on the bench and in the players’ faces. She relates to their issues and has the innate ability to settle things down when emotions start to boil over.

“She understands the players, and they turn to her,” her dad said.

To say Romero raised a family of hoopers is an understatement. He raised three kids who made the No. 10 a digit the current generation of kids now wants to wear.

Ray, now 32, was the first to don it when he played before packed crowds at home during his time in Medina.

The Sundevils spent much of his junior and senior years as the top team in the state. To this day, his jumper to send a game to overtime against Atresia his senior year in the state tournament in The Pit is regarded as one of the loudest crowd eruptions in the tournament’s history.

A couple years later it was Jeremy’s turn. When Ray graduated, Jeremy, 29, rose to the varsity roster and inherited the jersey before playing in college at Northern New Mexico. He led the Sundevils to a state championship and still has a title ring that’s a crown jewel in the family home.

“Jeremy’s the dog, the guy who would dive on the floor and come away with bruises while Ray was the leader, the distributor,” Romero said. “They’re like that as coaches, too. They have that same style on the sidelines that they had as players. It’s a great balance.”

When Kaitlyn made the varsity in eighth grade and cracked the Lady Sundevils’ starting lineup as a freshman, she wore No. 10. She parlayed that into a career that made her one of the best players in program history.

As all three kids went on to college, Ray dabbled in coaching. He was the Lady Sundevils’ coach for one year, then joined the boys’ program as an assistant the year they won the school’s second state championship in 2016.

He became an assistant with the Los Alamos girls program in 2019 and rose to head coach during the height of the coronavirus pandemic season in 2020. He said the only reason he took the role was his kids.

“At first I didn’t want to do it, but all three of them said they’d come with me and do whatever I needed,” Romero said. “We did three years up there. The first one was rough, but basketball in Los Alamos is just as important as it is in Española. It’s just there’s more people who think it’s important here.”

Romero said he doesn’t necessarily see his assistant coaches as family during the heat of the game. He trusts the input he gets from each of them, but he also values the freedom to lead a program with a slew of trusted assistants who’ll challenge him and respect his position.

“We’re a complete staff; when I see them and look at other staffs I think I have a little edge,” he said. “They do all the little things, all the fundamentals that they they’ve learned. We all live within a mile of each other, and when we get together for dinner we’ll just talk basketball. We’ll talk about certain plays or even players. It’s just who we are; the game is always around us.”

Romero is clearly a man of vision, organization and effort. He prides himself on teaching players life skills and stressing academics. All three of his kids earned degrees, each building successful careers.

The ties that bind are seen in the gym, in the locker room. Romero and his staff gave each of their players a binder so they can map out the days and weeks ahead.

Punctuality is important, but organization is even more so.

“You can’t be successful unless you know what’s going on and where you need to be,” he said. “The message I want all of the players to carry is there’s more to life than basketball. You can love sports, but you have to balance the commitment to sports with your school work and your responsibilities in life.”

That’s another reason he cherishes the input of his kids.

They were raised with that mindset and each is aligned with their dad’s mentality with regards to the players.

So far, so good. The Lady Sundevils are slowly building something special. The players are adapting to the new staff and the team has been making strides in the first few weeks of the season.

At the end of the day, it’s all about family for Ray Romero. Having just turned 55, he’s healthy and happy knowing he’s back at his alma mater with the most important people in his life surrounding him in the place that matters most.

“I’m home and my kids are with me,” he said. “How can a guy not be happy about that?”

Third place

GRANTS 72, AZTEC 45

SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL 42, WEST LAS VEGAS 36

The Pirates (3-1) built a 34-17 lead at the half of the consolation championship game and never looked back against the Tigers.

Tristen Fernandez and Coudy Melonas each had 13 points for Grants, while Jaden Sims had 21 for Aztec (1-3).

Seventh place KIRTLAND CENTRAL 74, ABQ. COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL PREP 30 The Broncos (1-3) exploded for 55 first-half points, building a 39-point lead at the break against the Coyotes.

Devin Ramone had 18 points to pace Kirtland Central, as every single player scored a point. Kaeden Pettis scored 22 points to lead Cottonwood Classical (2-5).

GIRLS

Championship

POJOAQUE VALLEY 65, PECOS 55

Española Valley

Fifth place

HOBBS 81, NAVAJO PREP 32 The Eagles ran everybody at the Armendariz tournament out of the gym on their way to defending their title, outscoring their opponents by an average of 57.7 points. Hobbs (5-1) jumped out to a 30-9 lead on the Lady Eagles (5-1) after a quarter and upped it to 47-16 at the half.

Brynn Hargrove had 20 points to lead a quartet of double-digit scorers. Bhrett Clay and Jayla David each scored 12 and Nakia Mojica had 10 points in the first half.

Navajo Prep’s Aniyah Johnson had 13 points to lead all of its scorers.

BOYS DISTRICT OUTLOOKS: CLASSES 5A, 4A

Class 4A District 2-4A: Uncertainty

abounds in the district, as Taos comes back to the pack after reaching the 4A semifinals in March. Los Alamos has the best guard duo in Niko Garcia and Josiah Fresquez, but the Hilltoppers lack the kind of size teams have

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before he took over the job in June.

Rivera spent six years as the varsity assistant to then-head coach Zack Cole before spending the 2022-23 season watching from the stands as he focused on his family after the birth of his second child.

When Cole left for Cleveland in May, Rivera threw his hat in the ring.

While Rivera brings much of the same system Cole used, he is finding ways to put his own stamp on the program. He emphasizes Santa Fe High is far from a finished product this year.

“We’re not even close to being where we want to be defensively,” Rivera said. “We need to be a little more crisp offensively, and we need to be more physical.”

Despite that, the Demons have already made noise in beating Albuquerque La Cueva and giving Cole’s Storm a run for their money. It’s a team that plays fast and with high intensity from one end of the court to the other. While a lot of their success relies upon senior guard Lukas Turner, who is averaging 25 points per game on the season, the Demons have a team full of shooters who can make teams pay for double-teaming Turner.

The recipe has worked so far, but it took some time in the summer and the preseason for it to come together. There were times the Demons looked out of sync in the summer and through the fall league they participated in at Cleveland.

Some of that was due to the inexperience some of the Demons had in playing at the varsity level.

“It was hard at times because guys like me and [junior Joe Gonzales], we came straight from junior varsity to varsity,” junior guard

Fifth place PEÑASCO 53, PECOS 39 Peñasco (3-1) only led 35-29 after three quarters in a battle of Panthers for the consolation title but outscored Pecos 18-10 the rest of the way to secure fifth.

Rochelle Lopez was huge in the fourth, scoring 10 of her 15 points to keep Pecos (1-2) at bay. Analise MacAuley had 23 points to lead Peñasco. Natalia Stout had 13 points but only two in the final quarter.

Seventh place CAPITAL 38, GRANTS 26 The Jaguars (1-3) earned their first win of the season, holding the Pirates to just three points in the final quarter to break a 23-all tie. Capital hit nine of 12 free throws in the fourth to pull away.

Annica Montoya had 13 points to lead the Jaguars, while Jhayren Rodriguez added 11. Lariahis Desiderio scored eight points to lead Grants (0-4).

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Class 5A District 5-5A: The foregone conclusion Los Lunas was the odds-on favorite in the district is suddenly cloudy after Santa Fe High’s 5-1 start to the season. The Demons have a plethora of shooters and a dynamic guard in Lukas Turner, who can score 30 points almost any night of the week. The key to their success will be determined by the chemistry they develop as the season comes along.

Turner is a talented scorer, but can he get his teammates involved enough to make defenses pay for focusing on him?

Meanwhile, Capital looks like a work in progress, as evidence by its 80-48 season-opening shellacking by Rio Rancho Cleveland. However, the Jaguars have the potential to play a spoiler role by the time district season rolls around. Santiago Bencomo is a terrific shooter, but undersized, while Elijah Rodriguez is athletic but equally undersized compared to the wings he will face in 5A. The Jaguars have more size than they did over the past two years, but they also are more inexperienced than they have been in years.

In a matchup of District 2-3A teams, the Lady Braves (4-3) built a 23-17 halftime lead and steadily grew it until reaching 39-24 with 5 minutes left in the contest. Then the Lady Dons used a 12-0 run to get within 39-36 with less than 2 minutes left before SFIS hit three of six free throws down the stretch.

Kaydence Riley had 12 points for the Lady Braves, and Emma Lewis added 10. Alexis Pacheco had 12 points to lead West Las Vegas (5-2), and Silvia Lucero added 11.

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Capital’s Santiago Bencomo goes up to score during the first half of the Jaguars’ Nov. 28 season opener against Rio Rancho Cleveland at Capital. come to expect from the program.

Pojoaque Valley is the most intriguing team, having started off 4-2 under new head coach Ryan Cordova. The Elks have a talented 6-foot-4 wing in sophomore Serafin Mendez, depth and a strong guard rotation with Joziah Salazar and a trio of Lopezes (Jordan, plus brothers Dalian and Deondro).

Española Valley has a senior-dominant roster (six in all), led by forward Kyle Coffeen. The Sundevils also have some talented sophomores in the form of Jerek Duda and Irvin Primero.

Taos lost 6-7 forward Daemon Ely to graduation, but Noah Washington gives the Tigers an athletic guard.

Their bigs are young, and it might take time for them to develop.

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Nico Morales said. “It was a big transition, but we ran through it in the summer. Now that we’re getting into the groove, we’re good.”

Rivera said he was missing a few players like Juan Ortiz, Michael Abeyta and Josh Gallegos because they were playing football in the fall, so the first two weeks of the season were crucial in forming the chemistry needed to start the season.

Turner said the hard work the team put in when basketball practice began Nov. 20 showed in the strong start.

“They want to be good, and they’re working for it,” Turner said.

“I didn’t doubt them this year, at all.”

Still, the Demons heard some of the doubts. The web site nmpreps. com had Santa Fe High ranked 15th in the preseason, and when the first coaches poll by New Mexico Overtime Sports came out on Dec. 4, Santa Fe High was No. 7.

Heads started turning when the Demons beat Albuquerque La Cueva at home, 54-44, on Tuesday, then came the near win over Cleveland. Suddenly, a different tune is being sung about Santa Fe High.

“This was a pretty good week for us — two big games in a row for us to show the state what we got,” Turner said.

Rivera added he was not surprised at all by the good start.

“We always believe we’re the better team any time we step out on the court,” Rivera said. “But we just want to continue to improve. There is a lot that we can still improve on.

We’re not close to where we want to be defensively. We can be a little more crisp offensively. And we can be more physical.”

If the first two weeks of the season are any indication, the Demons are more than ready for any challenge — even those coming form their own coach.

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What happened: The Roadrunners improved to 4-0, dominating their Roadrunner Classic tournament by outscoring their opponents by an average of 41 points. NMSD beat Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind 54-18 and Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind 72-12 on Friday to get to the finals.

Standouts: Tyler Todorovic had a huge weekend, scoring 21 points against PSDB and had 19 points against ASDB. Aarien Ercolino added 18 in the championship game. Alex Lopez-Gonzales, who scored a game-high 28 points against CSBD, had 14 in the finale.

What’s next: NMSD plays Tierra Encantada on Thursday.

What happened: The Blue Griffins led the Class 5A Ravens 20-17 at the half behind a tough defensive effort. But Rio Grande stepped up its own defensive intensity and took control of the fifth-place game of the Albuquerque Sandia Prep Sundevil Invitational.

Standouts: Van Anderson scored 22 points, and Mitch Grover added 12. Isaiah Gonzales led the Ravens with 19 points, and Eliseo Velasquez added 18.

What’s next: Van Anderson scored 22 points, and Mitch Grover added 12. Isaiah Gonzales led the Ravens with 19 points, and Eliseo Velasquez added 18.

Girls basketball ST. MICHAEL’S

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What happened: The Lady Horsemen traveled to the South Valley and earned a win over a 5A program in the Ravens. St. Michael’s built a 21-15 lead at the half and withstood every Rio Grande challenge in the second half.

Standouts: Mariella Ruiz led the Lady Horsemen with 10 points, while Ceciliana Ruiz and Jada Lujan each had nine.

What’s next: St. Michael’s (4-3) plays at Pecos on Tuesday.

The New Mexican

GIRLS DISTRICT OUTLOOKS: CLASSES 5A, 4A Class 5A District 5-5A: On paper, it’s a one-bid district. Recent history has proven that 5-5A is not a place where postseason championship dreams are launched, as Albuquerque High was the lone team to make the state tournament field a year ago (as the No. 9 seed) and only two made the field the year before. All three entrants were eliminated in the opening round. That said, Albuquerque High returns as the favorite, but the door is certainly open for a challenger or two.

Santa Fe High made the state tournament two years ago. The Demons have a very young roster with just two seniors, guards Alexah Garcia and Leslie Garcia.

The two will share the point guard duties for a team that will rely heavily on its backcourt at both ends of the floor. The Demons’ identity might well become that of a defensive-minded club that will look to grind games out.

It’s another uphill climb for Capital, which is coming off consecutive 20-loss seasons and has not finished above .500 in 16 seasons. The Jaguars’ saving grace is the district itself, which leaves every team in 5-5A thinking it has a shot at the regular season crown. Albuquerque High is the favorite, but any kind of sustained momentum from either Santa Fe school could be enough to land what may well be the district’s only postseason bid.

Class 4A District 2-4A: It has all the

makings of an entertaining race.

Española Valley is the preseason favorite with a 10-player-deep roster. Aliya Real Lopez is a 5-5 junior who has shown a flare for stepping up her game when it matters most, like a recent game against Miyamura where she sparked a 14-0 fourth-quarter run with nine points, two steals and one diving stop on defense.

Moriarty, Pojoaque Valley and Los Alamos have the talent to make things interesting. While Pojoaque has had its issues in the past, the emergence of legendary coach Cindy Roybal as the person in charge will ensure a steady rise for the Elkettes.

Any success they’ll have will come Cindy Roybal with the Roybal stamp of crisp fundamentals and rocksolid defense.

Los Alamos is already on its second coach, continuing a messy trend at a school that saw its volleyball team cycle through coaches all season. If the Hilltoppers can find any semblance of stability at the top, the youthful roster of nine underclassmen and only two seniors will need to find a reliable go-to scorer to have any chance down the 2-4A road.

Will Webber

FOOTBALL

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Army beats Navy on late goal-line stand Knights up 17-3 with less than five minutes left, but Navy rally falls short on sneak as time expires

By Jimmy Golen

The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Army held its ground on a goalline stand in the final seconds to send Navy mascot Bill the Goat — and Navy superfan Bill, the G.O.A.T. — home disappointed.

Army linebacker Kalib Fortner scored on a fourth-quarter strip sack and then helped stuff quarterback Tai Lavatai inches from the end zone with 3 seconds left to lead the Black Knights to a 17-11 victory over Navy on Saturday and win the 124th meeting of the nation’s oldest service academies.

“Why’s it always got to be like that?” said Army coach Jeff Monken, whose team won last year in double overtime. “It is.

It’s always like that. We had a 14-point lead, and with 1 second to go they’re standing there knocking on the door with a chance to tie the game. Unreal.”

Bryson Daily ran for 84 yards and threw Army’s first touchdown pass against Navy since 2015 to help the Black Knights claim the much-coveted bragging rights for the sixth time in eight tries. Kanye Udoh ran for 88 yards for Army, which also claimed the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy that goes to the team with the best record in head-to-head matchups against other service academies. Army

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Navy safety Rayuan Lane III deflects a pass intended for Army receiver Noah Short during Saturday’s game in Foxborough, Mass.

Quarterback Bryson Daily threw Army’s first touchdown against Navy since 2015 as the Black Knights’ only offensive score.

upset then-No. 17 Air Force last month.

Lavatai came off the bench in the second quarter and rushed for 74 yards, completing 16 of 26 passes for 176 yards — the most passing yards for a Navy quarterback against Army since 2010. Jayden Umbarger caught six passes for 75 yards and a touchdown that made it 17-9 with 2:47 left.

“This game, in the grand scheme of things, is about more than football,” Navy coach Brian Newberry said. “It’s about celebrating some of the finest young men in the country on the field, and then celebrating and recognizing all those that have dedicated their life to service, that have served and are serving your country. Shining a light on them, celebrating them

and showing gratitude for their sacrifice and their commitment.

That’s what it’s all about.

“I think, at the end of the day, whoever was in the stands was proud of what they saw these young men do.”

The matchup of patriots at the Patriots’ home brought an injection of pomp and excitement to Gillette Stadium. New England is on pace for the worst season in Bill Belichick’s three decades as an NFL head coach, stripping some of the shine off the devoted Navy man who is in the discussion for the greatest coach of all time.

Belichick, who grew up in Annapolis while his father spent 34 years as a Navy assistant coach, spoke to the Midshipmen on Friday night and pulled on a Roger Staubach-era Navy helmet

for a TV pregame show to predict the winner.

It wasn’t enough.

“I know Belichick has a rich history with Navy. I know his dad coached there,” Army linebacker Leo Lowin said. “I know Boston’s near the ocean. But it’s good to get an Army win here.”

The Black Knights opened a 17-3 lead with less than five minutes to play before Lavatai drove Navy for one score and then took the Midshipmen to the Army 6 in the final minute. He threw two incompletions before hitting Alex Tecza, who was tackled in bounds at the 2.

With no timeouts and no opportunity to spike the ball — it was fourth down — Navy scrambled to line up and get the play off. Lavatai surged forward as his whole team pushed, ahead of him and behind, but Army held on; replay confirmed the ball never crossed the goal line.

To kill the remaining 3 seconds, Daily took a shotgun snap, hesitated, and stepped out of the end zone for an intentional safety.

Cadets began to storm the field before being sent back for another review to see if time had expired. The confirmation from the booth set off another wave of Army fans onto the field.

“It definitely would have been nice to have more of a stressfree game. But it speaks to the Army-Navy rivalry: They don’t quit; we don’t quit,” Lowin said.

“I’m just so proud to be a part of this team, and say I was an Army football player.”

Eagles security chief won’t be allowed on field

By Dan Gelston The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro has been barred by the NFL from being on the sideline Sunday night against the Cowboys after he was ejected in last week’s game for a scuffle with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, the team announced Saturday.

DiSandro is allowed to travel with the team and perform all other work duties when

Philadelphia (10-2) visits Dallas (9-3).

But he is not allowed on the sideline.

“This is an ongoing conversation Dom DiSandro with the NFL, and we are going to respect the restriction that is currently in place,” the Eagles said in a statement.

DiSandro pulled Greenlaw off

Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith and shouted at him after a reception in the third quarter.

Greenlaw, who was penalized for unnecessary roughness on the play, popped up and reached over two officials to put his hand in DiSandro’s face.

Greenlaw was ejected. DiSandro also was told to leave and walked to the locker room to a roaring ovation from Eagles fans.

“I know in Dom’s heart, he truly was trying to defuse the situation right there,” Eagles coach

NFL WEEK 14 CAPSULES

Detroit’s Sam LaPorta gets past defenders into the endzone during last week’s game against the Saints in New Orleans. LaPorta became the second rookie tight end since 1970 to have 140 yards and a touchdown in a game and caught all nine of his targets.

By Cindy Boren

The Washington Post

San Francisco 49ers players made a deliberate fashion choice last week, wearing all-black outfits when they arrived in Philadelphia to play the Eagles.

“My mind-set was gonna be time to kill.

We’re going to a funeral,” Trent Williams said.

With a 42-19 victory, the Niners staked a claim to being the best team in the NFC despite having one more loss than the Eagles, but that talk seems premature with Sunday Night Football bringing a key game between the 10-2 Eagles and 9-3 Cowboys.

The 49ers have played three teams with at least eight victories (the Jaguars, Cowboys and Eagles), winning by a combined score of 118-32, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sees his team stacking up well against the Eagles and 49ers going forward despite their 28-23 loss to the Eagles last month. “... [Do] I expect an all-out — the complete — just an NFL war?” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. “To over-exaggerate, yes, I do. Because they’ve got great players, both teams, San Francisco and Philadelphia, they’ve got outstanding players, they’ve got great coaching. But, guys, we do, too.”

BROADCAST LOCALLY

Jaguars (8-4) at Browns (7-5) 11 a.m., CBS Jacksonville’s overtime loss on “MNF” means its AFC South lead shrank to one game with five left, opening a path for Houston and Indianapolis in the race for the division title.

Seahawks (6-6) at 49ers (9-3) 2:05 p.m., Fox The Seahawks are in a brutal stretch of their schedule, this being the third of four games likely to determine their postseason fate. So far, they’ve lost to the 49ers on Thanksgiving and the Cowboys.

Broncos (6-6) at Chargers (5-7) 2:25 p.m., CBS The Chargers’ six points against New England were the team’s fewest in a win in franchise history. The team’s previous low was seven points scored in a 1963 game against the Boston Patriots.

Eagles (10-2) at Cowboys (9-3) 6:20 p.m., NBC, Universo Sure, all of Dallas’ wins have come against teams with records of .500 or worse. But Dak Prescott has entered the MVP conversation, passing for 20 touchdowns and averaging 317 passing yards, with only two interceptions, over the last six games.

Nick Sirianni said Monday.

Greenlaw said Wednesday he and DiSandro sent apologies through intermediaries after San Francisco’s 42-19 victory over Philadelphia. He said he holds no ill will.

“He seemed like a genuine guy, seemed like a guy that everybody loved in the building,” Greenlaw said. “Honestly, I really hate that it escalated and went to that. That’s never something I ever been a part of or seen in the game.”

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Titans (4-8) at Dolphins (9-3) 6:15 p.m. Monday, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes With 78- and 60-yard TD catches against Washington, Tyreek Hill has 20 scores of at least 60 yards, tied for fourth all time with Bobby Mitchell. DeSean Jackson leads with 26, followed by Jerry Rice (23) and Devin Hester (21). Miami is 9-3 for the first time since 2001.

Packers (6-6) at Giants (4-8) 6:15 p.m. Monday, ABC, ESPN Plus In Matt LaFleur’s five seasons as coach, the Packers are 16-0 in December and they’ve beaten the Chargers, Lions and Chiefs in the last three weeks, with Jordan Love passing for 857 yards and eight touchdowns (with no interceptions). Over their last eight games, Green Bay hasn’t given up more than 24 points.

OTHER GAMES

Buccaneers (5-7) at Falcons (6-6) 11 a.m.

Few things are more automatic than wide receiver Mike Evans topping 1,000 yards in every season of his 10-year career.

Rams (6-6) at Ravens (9-3) 11 a.m.

L.A. has won three straight, with victories over two teams that entered the games against the Rams with winning records. They’re back at .500 again and are right in the NFC wild-card race.

Lions (9-3) at Bears (3-8) 11 a.m.

Detroit’s rookie tight end Sam LaPorta gained more than 100 receiving yards for the first time in his career, catching all nine of his targets for 140 yards and a touchdown against the Saints.

He is the second rookie TE since 1970 (along with Jacksonville’s Pete Mitchell in 1995) to have 140 yards and a TD reception in a game.

Colts (7-5) at Bengals (6-6), 11 a.m.

Jake Browning, the former University of

Washington QB, gave the Bengals a big boost Monday night in his second career start, becoming the 10th player in the Super Bowl era to throw for 350 or more yards and complete at least 85% of his passes. Four of Cincy’s last five games are against teams currently playing a backup QB.

Panthers (1-11) at Saints (5-7) 11 a.m.

Carolina’s loss to Tampa Bay ensured it would become the first team eliminated from playoff contention.

Texans (7-5) at Jets (4-8) 11 a.m.

With Tank Dell lost for the rest of the season with a fractured fibula, C.J. Stroud turned to Nico Collins against Denver, passing for 173 yards and a touchdown on eight completions.

There maybe added pressure against a Jets defense that held Atlanta’s Bijan Robinson to 53 yards on 18 carries.

Vikings (6-6) at Raiders (5-7) 2:05 p.m.

In 2021 — the year Jon Gruden was replaced

by Rich Bisaccia — the Raiders were 6-7 with fading playoff hopes. But that team ran off four straight wins and secured a playoff berth. Can history repeat itself, with remaining games against the Chargers, Chiefs, Colts and Broncos?

Bills (6-6) at Chiefs (8-4) 2:25 p.m.

Since 2020, Kansas City has won three of these teams’ five matchups and has scored 146 points to Buffalo’s 139 in those five games. Suddenly, though, the Chiefs have stumbled with losses in three of their last five games. That’s a departure for them — in 2019 they won their final six regular season games; in 2020 they won their last 10 before sitting starters in the last regular season game; in 2021 they won nine of their last 10 regular season games; and last season they won 10 of their last 11 in the regular season.

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IN BRIEF Former OU, UCF QB Gabriel announces transfer to Oregon Former Oklahoma and UCF quarterback Dillon Gabriel announced Saturday he is transferring to Oregon for a sixth season of college football.

Gabriel, who is from Hawaii, posted on social media “Marcus Approved” in reference to former Oregon Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, who was also born in Hawaii.

Gabriel wears jersey No. 8 in honor of Mariota. Oregon opens its 2024 season on the road against Hawaii.

Gabriel lines up as Oregon’s replacement for Bo Nix, a Heisman finalist who spent the last two seasons with the Ducks after starting his career with Auburn. The Ducks are transitioning from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten next season.

He is the most experienced and productive quarterback available in the portal for next season, with 14,865 career yards passing. He is 4,352 yards behind former Houston quarterback Case Keenum’s major college football record of 19,217 and 2,207 behind Timmy Chang in second place with 17,072.

Gabriel threw for 6,828 yards and 55 touchdowns and ran for 18 scores the last two seasons with Oklahoma. He played his first three seasons at UCF, passing for 70 touchdowns.

North Dakota St. rolls into FCS semis VERMILLION, S.D. — Cam Miller had a touchdown by pass and run, Cole Payton rushed for two scores and North Dakota State rolled over South Dakota 45-17 on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs.

The Bison (11-3), who have won nine of the past 11 FCS championships, will travel to second-seeded Montana for a semifinal matchup.

The third-seeded Coyotes

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(10-3) won 24-19 at NDSU in September to snap a six-game losing streak to the Bison but were down 21-0 after the first quarter Saturday following an 82-yard punt return by Jayden Price. Miller ran 9 yards to cap NDSU’s opening 75-yard drive and running quarterback Payton rushed for a 43-yard score.

Miller added a 4-yard TD pass to finish an 81-yard drive and Payton ran 17 yards for a 35-3 halftime lead.

No. 1 SDSU escapes low-scoring day to reach semifinals BROOKINGS, S.D. — Isaiah Davis ran for 192 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown run, and top-seeded South Dakota State, the defending national champions, defeated eighthseeded Villanova 23-12 on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs.

That touchdown early in the fourth quarter was the only offensive score by either team going into the wind, which gusted up to 45 miles an hour.

The Jackrabbits (13-0), who won their 27th-straight game, are home against the winner of No. 4 Idaho and No. 5 Albany in the semifinals next weekend.

The only other touchdown going into the wind was Matthew Durrance’s punt block, scoop and score covering 45 yards in the second quarter that gave South Dakota State a 10-6 lead.

The Wildcats (10-3) had taken the lead on a 25-yard run

by Jalen Jackson, but missed the extra point. Matthew Mercurio kicked a field goal late in the second quarter to pull them within 10-9.

South Dakota State got a key touchdown midway through the third quarter on a Mark Gronwoski pass to Jaxon Jahnke that covered 20 yards.

Villanova got another field goal early in the fourth quarter, but on the next possession, Davis burst through the stacked line for the game-sealing touchdown.

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had a special player that was having a special year.”

While Daniels faded from the playoff picture, his perforContinued from Page D-1 mance continued to demand attention. Against Florida, he after transferring, joining became the first major college former LSU star Joe Burrow in football player with at least 350 2019 and USC’s Caleb Williams yards passing and 200 rushing last year. in a game, going for a total of “I want to thank all my 606 yards against the Gators. teammates, from Arizona State His teammates goaded him to LSU,” Daniels said. “You’re into flashing a Heisman pose my brothers. You work so hard during the game in Baton every day, inspiring me to be Rouge, La. Daniels said it my best.” was after that performance He is also LSU’s third he started to believe winning Heisman winner overall, along the Heisman could become a with running back Billy Canreality. non in 1959.

Daniels’ evolution this seaBurrow led LSU to a son has been a revelation. He national championship and became just the second SEC Cannon’s team came close, player, joining 2012 Heisman finishing No. 3 in the country. winner Johnny Manziel from Daniels’ Tigers (9-3) slipped Texas A&M, and eighth in out of that race with two losses major college football to pass in the first six weeks, but he for at least 3,500 and run for certainly wasn’t to blame.

1,000 in a season.

“I really wish I could have He began his career at Aribrought you back another zona State as a four-star recruit championship,” Daniels said as from Southern California he thanked the LSU fans. under then-coach Herman Week after week he fueled Edwards. Daniels started all the best offense in the country three seasons for the Sun with his passing (3,812 yards) Devils, proving capable but and running (1,134). He leads inconsistent. With the Sun the nation in total offense Devils facing an NCAA invesat 412 yards per game and is tigation, Daniels left for LSU to averaging an astounding 10.71 play for Kelly. yards per play.

“A transfer quarterback that No. 13 LSU is set to face Wis- comes in to your program has consin in the ReliaQuest Bowl to win the locker room, and on Jan. 1, though Daniels has you do it by your work ethic. not yet decided if he will play.

You do it by being humble, you Louisville’s Lamar Jackson do it with your actions and he was the last and only player did that on a day-to-day basis,” to win the Heisman on a team Kelly said. that lost three games and Daniels led the Tigers to an didn’t play for a conference SEC West title last year and title during the nine previous when he decided to return years of the College Football for a fifth season of college Playoff. football it was clear he could Voters usually look to CFP be part of the Heisman discuscontenders to find a Heisman sion. winner these days, but Daniels He ended up dominating could not be ignored. that conversation even though LSU was eliminated from his team was out of the spotthe Southeastern Conference light down the stretch. LSU race when it lost to Alabama ran an aggressive campaign to in early November, despite 382 support its quarterback. yards and three total touchDaniels and the Tigers downs in three quarters by finished their season against Daniels. A hard hit put him in Texas A&M on rivalry weekconcussion protocol and kept end, with Nix, Penix and Harrihim out of final quarter. son playing high-stakes games “Your goals are to play for with playoff implications. championships at LSU and Daniels was the leader in the when we did not have that clubhouse on championship opportunity after the Alabama weekend as Nix and Penix game, you start to recalibrate. squared off in the Pac-12 title And certainly one of them was game.

Both played well in a drato rally behind what we conmatic game that decided on sidered was the best player in playoff spot, but — much like college football,” coach Brian Kelly said. “Every player that is opposing defenses — neither could chase down Daniels. in our program knew that we

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AREA RAINFALL

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POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1, Severity . . . .Low ...

Allergens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper ......

Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ......

Source: https://pollen.com

TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

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The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

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39 / 29

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Wind: SSW 10 mph

Wind: SE 15 mph

Wind: E 15 mph

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Taos 41 / 15

Farmington 42 / 17

Raton 50 / 23

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San Francisco 60/47

Las Vegas 53 / 24

Pecos 43 / 25 Albuquerque 47 / 19

Ruidoso 46 / 24 Truth or Consequences 51 / 26

Las Vegas 60/41

Denver 50/26

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The Northeast will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain, highest temperature of 67 in Seaford, Del. The Southeast will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms, highest temperature of 83 in The Hammocks, Fla. In the Northwest there will be mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain and isolated snow, highest temperature of 56 in Coos Bay, Ore. The Southwest will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 77 in Lake Forest, Calif.

WEATHER HISTORY

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Las Vegas Lordsburg Los Alamos Los Lunas Portales Raton Red River Rio Rancho Roswell Ruidoso Santa Rosa Silver City Socorro T or C Taos Tucumcari Univ. Park White Rock Zuni

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W 34/13 pc 53/24 mc 54/26 mc 49/32 s 53/23 s 60/32 mc 32/18 s 41/25 s 46/31 mc 43/22 s 46/14 s 51/24 mc 40/28 pc 53/26 s 60/28 pc 34/18 mc 50/23 pc 47/24 mc 29/6 mc 37/12 s 45/16 mc 37/23 s 45/22 s 49/28 mc 47/39 s 57/28 s 61/31 pc 32/23 s 46/24 s 58/31 mc 40/25 pc 53/27 s 54/28 mc 53/23 s 49/28 s 57/34 mc 44/28 s 48/22 s 54/27 mc 46/31 s 51/26 s 57/32 mc 33/6 pc 41/15 s 50/18 mc 40/19 sn 56/24 s 54/26 pc 51/36 s 51/27 s 59/33 pc 32/18 s 44/22 s 48/27 mc 39/13 s 49/18 s 57/21 mc

Dec. 10, 1989 - Heavy snow fell across the northern and central mountains of Colorado, with 24 inches reported at Steamboat Springs. Six to 12 inches of snow fell in the Denver and Boulder areas, delaying plane flights and snarling traffic.

NATIONAL EXTREMES SATURDAY High

89° in Linn, Texas

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3:39 a.m.

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Cancún 82/76

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Miami 82/68

Monterrey 68/52

Carlsbad 56 / 28

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Dallas 54/36

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Detroit 42/28

St. Louis 42/28

Albuquerque 47/19 Phoenix 70/44

La Paz 75/68

Alamogordo 49 / 28

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Omaha 42/23

Hermosillo 80/58

Roswell 57 / 28

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Boise 44/33

Los Angeles 76/51

Clovis 52 / 29

Las Cruces 51 / 26

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Minneapolis 32/18

Billings 49/32

Santa Fe 41 / 25

Gallup G 4 / 14 46

Sillver City 49 9 / 28

Seattle 51/46

Clayton 54 / 28

Los Alamos 41 / 25

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A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation

0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous

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Wednesday

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The following water statistics of December 7th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.879 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 2.980 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 6.859 Total consumption: 6.488 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.87 Reservoir storage: 337.35 Estimated reservoir capacity: 26.40%

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7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE

Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37°/21° ......

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Record Santa Fe Airport Precipitation .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.04" .... . . . . . . . month Normal . . . . . .to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.28" ....

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Last . . . . year . . . . .to. .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.76" .....

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Thousands descend on NYC for Santa-themed bar crawl Charity event with throngs clad as Old St. Nick joined similarly themed Christmas bacchanals across cities in U.S. and Europe The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Here come Santa Clauses.

Again.

Throngs of people dressed as jolly Old St. Nick descended on New York City for the annual SantaCon charity pub crawl Saturday.

The booze-fueled stroll, which included no shortage of Grinches, elves and other Christmas-themed costumes, kicked off at 10 a.m. in bars and clubs in midtown Manhattan.

Revelers were expected to make their way downtown where the festivities end at 8 p.m. in local watering holes in the East Village.

The organizers encouraged participants to donate $15 to enter participating venues, which they have said will go to charitable causes.

Similar Christmas-themed bacchanals were slated in cities across the U.S. and Europe, from San Francisco and Cincinnati to London and Berlin, on Saturday.

As in years past, transit agencies hoped to keep the revelry from causing too much chaos in the nation’s busiest train system.

Commuter rail lines from New Jersey and the New York suburbs banned passengers from drinking on trains headed into Manhattan starting from 4 a.m. Saturday through noon Sunday.

The New York Police Department also reminded revelers that the city’s open container laws prohibit consuming alcohol in the street still applies.

“Ensuring everyone has access to safe and orderly travel is a top priority,” Metropolitan Transit Authority Police Chief John Mueller said in a statement last week announcing the restrictions. “The holiday season is a wonderful time of year, and we want everyone to get to their destination smoothly and on time while enjoying the festivities.”

Revelers take part in the annual SantaCon charity pub crawl Saturday in New York. The booze-fueled stroll, which included no shortage of Grinches, elves and other Christmas-themed costumes, kicked off early Saturday in bars and clubs in midtown Manhattan. ANDREW MELDRUM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In Los Angeles, deaths are handled by the ‘coroner to the stars’

By Corina Knoll

The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — In most places, it is a trade of little glamour. Transporting bodies, performing autopsies — the role of a coroner’s office tends to be dismissed as a macabre necessity.

But this is Los Angeles, where the list of those who have died unexpectedly is iconic: Marilyn Monroe. The Notorious B.I.G. Whitney Houston. Michael Jackson.

In late October, it was actor Matthew Perry — beloved for playing Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends — who suddenly departed, stunning legions of fans around the world. The 54-year-old, who struggled with addiction, was found unresponsive in a hot tub.

It is the latest celebrity mystery for the office often referred to as “the coroner to the stars,” but formally called the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner. Its workload and unique terrain are unparalleled, spanning 88 cities across 4,000 square miles in the nation’s most populous county. The office must deal with the

same tragic notes as any area — traffic accidents, homicides, drug overdoses, suicides — but also earthquakes, wildfires and riots.

And celebrities.

In a region still defined by its Hollywood culture, employees have long been accustomed to satellite trucks parked outside. Now, prying eyes are everywhere, as the proliferation of social media and entertainment sites has only intensified the demand for instant answers and the spotlight on high-profile deaths.

When news leaked that Perry had died at his home in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood, fans and media bombarded the medical examiner’s office with phone calls and emails throughout the night. News outlets were glued to its website, keenly aware when Perry’s name was added to its online database, then quickly taken down. When the office finally posted a statement, it was terse but reported with significance worldwide.

It was the usual frenzy that comes with the death of a star. The tabloid site

TMZ was the first to break the news, in the same way it had been with the deaths of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. The site follows an atypical practice of paying for information and has a history of sparking a media rumpus.

“You get hammered by the press so violently,” said Bob Dambacher, a former investigator in the office over decades when Robert F. Kennedy, William Holden, John Belushi and Janis Joplin died in Los Angeles County.

Even before the internet, the coroner’s office held mystique. In 1962, Dambacher and another investigator went to the west side of Los Angeles to retrieve Marilyn Monroe’s body. When he emerged with the covered actress on a gurney, his photo was snapped, soon to be splashed on newspapers around the world.

“Oh, my goodness, I was just married, and it was a nightmare with people calling me,” he recalled. “I even got fan letters, believe it or not. People wanting to know who I was. It was crazy.”

Some in the office did not shy away from the limelight. Thomas Noguchi, a

former chief medical examiner with a colorful personality, wrote two books about investigating the deaths of stars including Natalie Wood and had a penchant for calling news conferences. Ed Winter, a deputy coroner, was known well by reporters who could often reach him by phone or get him to speak on camera. When Winter died this year at age 73, many outlets treated him as a local celebrity in his own right.

Located on a busy thoroughfare not far from downtown, the office is unlike others in the industry. In 2011, actor Lindsay Lohan was sent there to mop floors as part of her court-ordered community service for shoplifting.

Former investigators have gone on to advise for television shows like CSI. One now rents out morgue equipment to entertainment studios and owns a postmortem business with a catchy name: 1-800-AUTOPSY. For many years, the agency operated a small gift shop known as Skeletons in the Closet, a testament to the unique draw of the Los Angeles coroner’s office.

Among its collection were beach towels

imprinted with a chalk outline and mugs with the words “bodily fluids.”

The gift shop also was a pit stop for travelers, particularly those interested in true crime, said Scott Michaels, who runs Dearly Departed Tours, which focuses on celebrity deaths.

Michaels visited the medical examiner’s office dozens of times and was friendly with employees. He once even rented out a room at the facility for an event to raise money for an unmarked grave. About 100 people came to hear the chief of investigations speak and give a tour.

Actors have taken their own tours to research their roles. Brad Pitt arrived one day. As did Hilary Swank. Emily Deschanel, too. Employees grew used to the visits, said Dan Anderson, a toxicologist who worked for the medical examiner’s office for 25 years.

Anderson, who worked on the cases of actors River Phoenix and Phil Hartman, said that being star-struck on the job was generally not a thing. “We work just as hard on a John Doe as we do Brittany Murphy,” he said.

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very lot in Santa Fe may have an accessory dwelling unit. Unless it can’t. It’s a “by-right” provision, but with many reasons why it’s not done more often.

Though revised city rules in 2020 made building an accessory dwelling unit easier, to stimulate more affordable housing, applications to the land use office are a trickle.

Thousands of existing homes in Santa Fe could have secondary residences, but getting approval is cumbersome, especially if intentions are a rental paying its own utility bills from its own address.

The easiest rental casita with the least hassle is one within an existing house on a street at least 35 feet wide with rents including all utilities and no new address. The new unit does need its own bathroom, kitchen accoutrements and separate entrance.

The new unit can be as large as 1,500 square feet or one foot less than the primary residence, whichever is smaller.

If on a street less than 35 feet from curb face to curb face, then an additional parking space must be on the lot. Thirty-five feet or wider typically allows on-street parking.

But suppose you’re a property owner wanting to rent two distinct structures to separate long-term tenants, which is allowed. That changes things. In order of aggravation, from easiest to hardest, the landlord may want a new separate address, new electric meter, new water meter, new gas meter or new electrical service “drop” to a new casita.

Getting a new address is straightforward and issued by the city. The Planning and Land Use Department reviews a plan for compliance with rules for zoning, parking, building setbacks and other issues. After that green light, a simple GIS department application creates the address and alerts postal providers.

A new electric meter is allowed when there’s a new address but not necessarily a new electrical service drop.

Instead, a sub-meter and breaker panel is tied into the master meter and panel. But if the existing breaker panel is not large enough to handle the load from the new unit, then panels must be upsized. That’s expensive and often

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f you haven’t finished — or started — your holiday shopping, don’t panic: This gift guide is for you. Homes are personal, which makes choosing a gift for someone else’s tough. My strategy? Aim for something fun, with at least a dash of utility.

BUSINESS&PLEASURE CO.: THE PLACEMAT $79 for four | Basic enough to appeal to most recipients, but whimsical enough to feel special, these come in four color combos that will liven up any table. businessandpleasureco. com

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HAY: BOTTOMS UP VASE $95 | The beauty of this vase — aside from its modern shape and color — is that it’s really two gifts. Flip it one way to hold flowers; flip it the other and it’s a trinket dish. us.hay.com POTTERY BARN: MASON STONEWARE PET BOWLS $9.50-$29.50, plus $15 for name or mono-

gram | Pet bowls often sit out all day, and the simplicity of these makes them nice to look at. Plus, they’re sturdy (my dogs use them) and you can have them personalized. potterybarn.com SALT & SUNDRY: ENGRAVED NICK & NORA GLASSES $40 for two | The unsung hero of cocktail glassware is the Nick and Nora — as versatile as the ubiquitous coupe glass, but less prone to spills. These would look lovely on any bar. shopsaltandsundry.com MOMA DESIGN STORE: URI PORTABLE TABLE LAMP $55 | Both appealing to look at and eminently practical, this indoor/outdoor rechargeable light works just as well for entertaining alfresco as it does in a power outage. store.moma.org SYDNEY HALE CO.: WOODS CANDLE $34 | Stand out from the other party guests and their regifted wine by bringing your host one of these instead. The cozy scent is approPlease see story on Page E-2

Why extended warranties are a loser for the consumer

By Laura Daily

The Washington Post

A new dishwasher, headphones, sofa, espresso maker, leaf blower — name it and probably someone has tried to sell you an extended warranty for it. Recently, the self-service checkout screen asked me if I wanted to purchase extra product protection for a remote-control toy car on clearance. Of course, it makes sense to

protect yourself against financial catastrophe. That’s why we insure our homes, vehicles and health. But do you really need to pay $3.99 to protect a $7.99 toy?

The answer is simple: No. It’s all a mind game, says Kevin Brasler, executive editor with Consumers’ Checkbook, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. “Sellers amp up consumer anxiety that you are spending money on a prod-

uct and will feel awful if something unexpected happens to it. Then, they offer a solution — to sell you a warranty, which is basically really expensive insurance.”

Almost all products come with a written “manufacturer’s express warranty.”

This affirms the quality of the goods and agrees to provide repairs or a replacement within a specified time if the product is defective or fails, says Cathy Lesser

Mansfield, a consumer law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In addition, products have an “implied warranty of merchantability.”

That’s a merchant’s guarantee that your purchase will do what it’s supposed to do. For example, a washing machine should wash clothes, or a new watch should keep accurate time. If it doesn’t, you have a right to return it.

Manufacturers’ warranties provide some protection at no additional cost for at least a few months, if not longer.

The trick is knowing what is covered and for how long. Before you buy, ask the retailer about the warranty for the specific item you want or do an online search (for example, “GE refrigerator warranty”). If you know the model, Please see story on Page E-2

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Pantone announces its 2024 color of the year — Peach Fuzz The world’s color authority has declared we need to be comforted. And there’s only one hue that’ll provide a sufficient level of coziness and warmth.

Enter Peach Fuzz, Pantone’s 2024 color of the year.

Soothing our fractured world sure sounds like a tall order for a muted mix of pink and orange.

But in a news release, Pantone’s executive director, Leatrice Eiseman, asserted: “Peach Fuzz brings belonging, inspires recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing. Drawing comfort from PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, we can find peace from within, impacting our wellbeing.”

Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the Pantone Color Institute decreeing a color of the year.

The special occasion might explain the company’s

relative return to basics with a hue as classic as peach. By comparison, it introduced last year’s Viva Magenta alongside immersive AI-generated images, and for 2021, the company kind of cheated and selected two colors.

In recent years, Pantone has emphasized the ways in which its chosen color inspires courage and vitality, but Peach Fuzz seems to bring a different energy to the table. “The color is one whose warm and welcoming embrace conveys a message of compassion and whose cozy sensibility brings people together and enriches the soul,” Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, said in the same news release announcing the shade.

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Many credit cards offer extended protection on items you Even when extended warranty purchase with the card, making coverage is comprehensive, it is it easy to say no to the upcharge. still expensive relative to the risk of breakage or failure. Brasler says Some cards will either double or add 24 months to the manufacContinued from Page E-1 his daughter saved all summer to buy a new phone that came with a turer’s warranty. include that in your search.

Brasler says that Costco also one-year manufacturer’s warranty.

Keep in mind that retailers get After her trade-in and other offers a free warranty extension a percentage or a commission for incentives, she paid about $600. on certain products regardless of every extended warranty sold, how you pay. “The fact that Costco The company offered a two-year and they often incentivize salesextended coverage plan with theft offers for free this kind of coverpeople to push them. “Whenever and loss protection for $269, he age shows it’s not worth paying salespeople say you must protect says, with a deductible of $149 for hundreds of dollars,” he says. One the item, that’s a red flag. They’re theft/loss, $29 for a broken screen other option to help defray the looking to make extra profit,” or $99 for any other damage. cost of repairing and replacing Brasler says. And Lesser ManUnder the plan, you get only one items is to set up a savings account sfield points out that if you are replacement or repair. And once earmarked for repairs, even if you financing the purchase and buy you’ve redeemed the warranty, can only contribute $10 a month, an extended warranty, you’ll pay you have to buy an additional says Lesser Mansfield. interest on that, too. policy. “The math really creeps Or, instead of dealing with “Everyone is making money off up,” Brasler says. “Do you really pages of fine print, do your that extended warranty, except the need insurance when it costs $400 research on big-ticket items and consumer,” says Andrea Woroch, to replace a $600 phone? I told my consider spending a bit more — if a consumer savings expert. daughter a really good case is just your budget allows — to buy repMost extended warranties have as good insurance.” utable, reliable products. “Being many exclusions and conditions smart about a purchase gives you It’s important to read the over which you have no control. warranty section of the product’s the best protection,” says Woroch.

They may cover a broken wire, As a rule, extended warranties users manual and understand but not failure caused by a power what is already covered. “You are a cost not worth the reward. surge. And many warranty prowon’t understand it. I’m a conResist the sales pitch. “Merchants viders contract with third-party sumer law attorney and even I make you feel dumb not to get repair companies, so you have no don’t understand all the wording. them, but the benefit doesn’t calidea who will service your item But try to figure out the basics culate to the cost,” Lesser Mansor how reliable and skilled they of what it covers,” says Lesser field says. “Don’t beat yourself up are, says Woroch. Electronics and Mansfield, who previously was a for hitting the decline button at appliances have a rapid deprepolicy analyst at the Consumer checkout.” ciation value, so if something can’t be repaired, you may get no choice on the replacement model, or the warranty provider will use the depreciated value.

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The casita approach to more housing has hurdles dropping new overhead lines is underwriting rules now allow easy. casita rental income to be added requires panels difficult to as qualifying income for prospecMany newer subdivisions, source with ongoing supply tive buyers, or for financing new influenced by New Urbanist chain issues. principles aspiring to mimic casitas. That’s a game-changer.

A new water meter also is development patterns of pre-auAdditionally, the Santa Fe straightforward. New water lines tomobile neighborhoods, are Association of Realtors is chammust be dug and laid from the more challenging. pioning adoption of pre-apburied meter can to the casita, With buried electrical services, proved stock casita building but installing a double yoke water narrower streets and no on-street plans to streamline permitting meter assembly in an existing can parking, neighborhoods like Nava and kick-start what could be takes less than an hour.

Adé and Tierra Contenta are another answer to Santa Fe’s Apparently, according to city harder than Bellamah, Barrio La housing shortage. land use personnel, a new elecCañada and Stamm subdivisions.

Could trickle become flow? tric line coming from an existing Older neighborhoods have wider Time will tell. transformer to a new casita is streets and overhead electric not allowed, though a reading of lines.

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505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

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96 Double Arrow Road

7 Grillo Loco

2 Entrada Hermosa

1106 Calle Conejo - Sierra del Norte

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LUXURY SANTA FE LIFESTYLE IN LAS CAMPANAS

5 BEDROOMS & 4 BATHS - GATED & VIEWS

This custom single-level 3-bedroom home on 1.65 acres in Las Campanas features a contemporary Southwestern aesthetic and was sited to capture sweeping mountain vistas. The open floor plan links interior and outdoor spaces, creating an easy flow for living and entertaining. Include: diamond plaster walls ideal for art, built-in speakers, a heated 3-car garage, xeriscaping, and a rainwaterharvesting system. $2,795,000 MLS # 202339183

Stunning 4BR, 4.5BA contemporary home built in 2021 approximately 15 minutes from Santa Fe Plaza. Entertain in grand style in an expertly landscaped outdoor oasis complete with custom outdoor kitchen and awe-inspiring Sangre de Cristo Mountain views. Expansive 1,200 sq. ft. covered and heated patio with gas fire pit provides threeseason enjoyment. $2,600,000 MLS # 202341280

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Sandia, Sunset and Night Light Views plus Privacy are yours at this Single-Level Soft Contemporary 5 Bedroom / 4-Bath home that includes a spacious 2 Bed / 1 Bath Guest House, built by Respected Builder Doug McDowell, on 2-plus acres in a private, gated community inside Sierra del Norte with easy walking access to the Dale Ball Trail System. $2,495,000 MLS # 202340660

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TIM & PAULA GALVIN

(505) 920-8001 • dstreit@dstreit.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 988-2533 326 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 sothebysrealty.com

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4 Storm View Lane

942 E Palace Avenue

39 Lluvia De Oro

LUXURIOUS LIGHT-FILLED LIVING

BLENDING EASTSIDE HISTORY & MODERNITY

GREAT CHANCE FOR YOU TO SEE A SPECIAL HOUSE!

Timeless Santa Fe architecture, clean modern lines, and spectacular Jemez and Sangre de Cristo Mountain views are celebrated at this exciting straw-bale-construction residence on a private 1.6-acre lot in Las Campanas. The recently updated five-bedroom home includes a great room, a chef’s kitchen, outdoor living areas, and attached guest quarters. $1,995,000 MLS # 202340540

Built in 2020 • Historic Eastside • Single-level • 1,995 SqFt • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms • Gated entrance • Heated, detached 2-car garage • Highbeamed ceilings • Grid attached solar power • Rich wood flooring • Woodburning fireplace • Contemporary kitchen, stone countertops, high-end stainless appliances • Primary suite with portal, double vanity, steam shower, large walk-in closet • View of Santa Fe River $1,995,000 MLS # 202340871

And what makes a house special? A good parcel/builder/design to start.

No HOA allows additions: carports/studio/dog run/solar panels. Single level living & 4 bedrooms are a big bonus. All spaces are gracious, with a great open flow. Views? Absolutely, 1 large portal promises sunsets and huge sky views; 4 other portals are secluded and off bedrooms, serving as private retreats. Come see and appreciate! $1,400,000 MLS # 202341958

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DURAN ERWIN GROUP

JULIA GELBART

505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

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355 E Alameda Street, Unit #B

1331 Vista Morada

43 Avenida Frijoles

CONTEMPORARY BEAUTY IN HISTORIC EASTSIDE

OPEN PLAN RIDGETOP COUNTRY HOME WITH VIEWS

BEAUTIFUL DESIGN & LANDSCAPING IN ALDEA

Elegant contemporary design • 1482 SqFt • Built in 2003 • 2 Bedrooms/ 2 Bathrooms • 12 ft ceilings with beams in open concept design • Beautiful stained concrete flooring • Kitchen has sleek design with a wall of custom cabinetry and large island • Professionally landscaped side courtyard with 2 sitting areas • Forced air heating with central A/C • 1 block from Canyon Rd • 3 blocks to The Plaza! $1,295,000 MLS # 202341523

Santa Fe style, custom built, single level, passive solar home. Large combo living/dining/kitchen with high ceilings, views and French doors to big deck. Mostly concrete construction. New roof November 2023.

Radiant heat. Separate office/studio. Hot tub. Convenient, close-in NW location just 5 minutes to 599. 3 beds, 2 baths, office, 3,000 sq ft, 1.8 acres. $1,275,000 MLS # 202341704

Aldea de Santa Fe • 2,500 Sqft • 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms • Single level • 3 fireplaces • Recently updated kitchen, granite countertops, premium appliances • Diamond plastered walls, vigas, tongue and groove ceilings • Primary bedroom, raised fireplace, egress to back portal • Primary bathroom, large walk-in shower, deep soaking tub, double vanities • Oversized 2-car garage • New roof w/ 10-year warranty $1,095,000 MLS # 202341968

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505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

GAVIN SAYERS

(505) 690-3070 • sayersgavin@gmail.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 216 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 santafeproperties.com

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505-204-2491 • duranerwingroup@santaferealestate.com Barker Realty • (505) 982-9836 530 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 santaferealestate.com

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18 Avenida La Scala

6 Floresta Drive

A TREY JORDAN SOFT CONTEMPORY

2BR, 2BA CONDOMINIUM WITH MOUNTAIN VIEWS

NEWLY RENOVATED ELDORADO HOME & CASITA

A rare opportunity to purchase this spacious one-owner unit in Callecita Place. Two bedrooms, each with ensuite bathrooms. Open concept living and dining on the main level complete with a powder room. The private gated courtyard offers an elegant entrance into the property. A perfect lock and leave residence with ideal proximity to The Plaza and Ft. Marcy Park. $995,000 MLS # 202340836

Located in the private gated community of Casas de San Juan, this open concept floor condominium features a wall of 2-story windows in the living area, brick floors, a kiva fireplace and an intimate nook. Offers a Chef’s kitchen, spiral staircase leading to a generous open area loft. Split bedroom plan for privacy. 260 + sq. ft. detached studio with its own entrance. Lush landscaping & short drive to town. $875,000 MLS # 202341060

4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms • 2,647 SqFt • Attached casita with private entrance • Beautifully renovated, new roof, new stucco, new windows • Panoramic views of Ortiz and Sandia mountains • High ceilings, vigas, latillas, clerestory windows & wood burning fireplace • Gourmet kitchen • South-facing deck in front courtyard • Northeastfacing back portal, enclosed courtyard • 1.86 acres $845,000 MLS # 202341852

HAL LOGSDON

DURAN ERWIN GROUP

DARLENE STREIT

(505) 819-8796 • hal.logsdon@sfprops.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 216 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 halhomes.net

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4018 Painted Pony Circle Santa Fe, NM 87507

2831 Plaza Verde

3BR, 2BA NORTHERN NEW MEXICO-STYLE HOME

WONDERFUL HOME IN VISTA PRIMERA!

NEW STAGING BRINGS THIS 2BR, 2BA HOME TO LIFE!

Conveniently located at the end of a cul-de-sac this single level home offers spacious outdoor gardens & distant mountain views. Features open concept living area w/vaulted, beamed ceilings, stately fireplace, and transom windows, Chef’s kitchen & dining room with garden views.

Third bedroom offers flex space. Back portal and Metal Propanel pitched roof with attic storage. 2-car attached garage. $725,000 MLS # 202340889

Come check out this Santa Fe style home with 3 bedrooms + a sunroom, 2 baths, about 1938 square feet, 2-car garage & large front & back yards!

Kiva fireplace in the living room, along with high ceilings & beams.

Located in a desirable neighborhood with security gate & lovely park! We look forward to seeing you! Call Marcos at 5056145646 for the gate code! $549900 MLS # 202341774

This stand alone home has a lovely floor plan with a bedroom on each side of the spacious Great Room, Dining Room and Kitchen There are only two stairs in the whole house and an oversized, attached, two car garage. The floors throughout are Saltillo tile. The Living Room has a tongue-in-groove wood ceiling with beams between the rooms and a corner fireplace for cozy winter evenings. The sellers recently had the whole house painted. Don’t miss this home! https://bit.ly/2831PVTour $$499,000 MLS # 202338085

DARLENE STREIT

TANYA L CLOKEY

(505) 920-8001 • dstreit@dstreit.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 988-2533 326 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 sothebysrealty.com

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5056705154 • homesbytlc1@gmail.com Marcos Medina • 5056145646 Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties • 5059887285 132 E Marcy Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.santafe.realestate.com

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505-501-3385 • LiseKnouse@KW.com Keller Williams • 505-983-5151 130 Lincoln Avenue Suite K, Santa Fe, NM 87501 liseknouseandassociates.kw.com

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Desirable Tesuque 1.48-acre residential lot with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Unique, private wooded lot with newly installed driveway just off historic Bishop’s Lodge Road. Shared well and all other utilities available. Santa Fe National Forest hiking trails nearby. Minutes to Tesuque Village Market and the Santa Fe Opera. May be purchased with 1479, C to create a special compound retreat. $275,000 MLS # 202341948

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JobsSantaFe To advertise call: Laura Harding • 505-995-3878 or email:lharding@sfnewmexican.com www.jobssantafe.com PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER Location: High School Academics Posted: December 4, 2023 Closing Date: December 17, 2023

Minimum Qualifications:

Santa Fe Indian School

1501 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87502 P.O. Box 5340 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Main: (505) 989-6302 www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Valid NM Teaching License with PE endorsement. Experience teaching Native American students preferred. Preemployment background check required.

Salary/Contract: Salary Range: $51,700-$71,800 depending on education, experience and license level. Benefits Include: paid time off, paid sick leave, Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurances.

To Apply: Email Application, Letter of Interest & Resume to: SFIS Human Resources Email: jobs@sfis.k12.nm.us Fax (505) 989-6304 Application and position description available on website:www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency has the following job openings: Transfer Station Manager

Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station Bachelor’s degree required Hourly rate range: $35.63 – $57.04

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CDL A with Hazmat endorsement or obtain within six months of hire Hourly rate range: $21.60 – $31.32

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$16.99 per hour Excellent full-time employee benefits, including paid leave, PERA retirement benefit plan, health insurance, dental and vision insurance and life insurance.

For more information on the job openings or to download employment application forms, please call (505) 424-1850 x 150 or visit our website at www.sfswma.org.

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Santa Fe Indian School

1501 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87502 P.O. Box 5340 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Main: (505) 989-6302 www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in a Business Administration, Human Resource Management, or other related field of study. Three (3) years of benefit coordination. Experience working with Native American students, and Native American or Tribal entities preferred. Must possess a valid NM Driver’s License. Must complete and successfully pass a complete background investigation, including FBI fingerprint check. Full Job Description available on request.

Salary Range: $47,407.20 - $53,333.10, depending on experience and education. Benefits Include: paid time off, paid sick leave, Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurances. 260 days/year TO APPLY: Email Application, Letter of Interest & Resume to SFIS Human Resources: Email: jobs@sfis.k12.nm.us (505) 989-6309 | Fax (505) 989-6304 Application available on website: www.sfis.k12.nm.us Conditions of Employment: Compliance with the immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; Pass Criminal History Background Check per PL 101-647 and 45 CFR 1301; must provide official transcripts; and SFIS Superintendent approval.

Santa Fe Indian School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, marital status, disability, handicap, or military status in compliance with federal and state laws. Native American Hiring Preference.

Location: High School Academics Posted: December 4, 2023 Closing Date: December 17, 2023

Santa Fe Indian School

1501 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87502 P.O. Box 5340 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Main: (505) 989-6302 www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Minimum Qualifications: Valid NM Teaching License with Gifted endorsement.

Experience teaching Native American students preferred. Pre-employment background check required.

Salary Range: Salary Range: $51,700-$71,800 depending on education, experience and license level. Benefits Included: Paid time off, paid sick leave, Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurances.

TO APPLY: Email Application, Letter of Interest & Resume to SFIS Human Resources: Email: jobs@sfis.k12.nm.us (505) 989-6309 | Fax (505) 989-6304 Application available on website: www.sfis.k12.nm.us Conditions of Employment: Compliance with the immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; Pass Criminal History Background Check per PL 101-647 and 45 CFR 1301; must provide official transcripts; and SFIS Superintendent approval.

Santa Fe Indian School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, marital status, disability, handicap, or military status in compliance with federal and state laws. Native American Hiring Preference.

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ACCOUNTING Accounts Payable Specialist New Mexico Consortium (NMC), a non-profit NM corporation, is seeking candidates for a full-time Accounts Payable Specialist. NMC provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a retirement plan, and much more.

HOUSES PARTIALLY FURNISHED YOUR DREAM RENTAL RENTAL New 3 bedroom bedroom 2 bath bath

Location: Los Alamos, NM. Responsibilities include: Monitoring bank account and credit card transactions, processing bills and invoices including fund verifications and PI approvals; reconciling and obtaining internal approvals, entering data in QuickBooks, preparing year end documents for 1099, processing payments, and providing ongoing support for the Financial Controller.

Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree or experience in Accounts Payable, general bookkeeping and administration, experience with QuickBooks Online, Salesforce, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Quintessential Adobe. Extremely secluded at end of private road on large 3 lot property. Sunset and mountain views. 10 ft. ceilings. Plaster walls. Brick floors.

Come Look! $4,567 monthly.

The annual salary range will be between $45,00 and $55,000 depending on experience.

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The position is open until filled. Apply online or by mail to NMC, 4200 W. Jemez Road, #301, Los Alamos, NM 87544.

EOE M/F, Veterans and Disabilities and E-verify employer

HOUSES UNFURNISHED Professionally built, wired. $45000 or negotiate. May consider trading for back-hoe tractor of equal value. Also, Have 1-acre mountain land overlooking Pecos river. Can sell with cabin or separate. Serious only.

Call 575-421-0606 or 505-426-7393.

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Santa Fe Indian School

1501 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87502 P.O. Box 5340 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Main: (505) 989-6302 www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma or G.E.D., Must be 21 Years of Age or older, Experience in Security, Safety or Law Enforcement is preferred. Valid Driver’s License w/ 3yrs. free of major driving violation.

Salary Range: Starting $19.17–$21.56/ hr. depending on experience and education. Benefits Include: paid time off, paid sick leave, Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurances. .

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Email Application, Letter of Interest & Resume to SFIS Human Resources: Email: jobs@sfis.k12.nm.us (505) 989-6309 job Fax (505) 989-6304 Application available on website: www.sfis.k12.nm.us

Conditions of Employment: Compliance . . .with .the immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; Pass Criminal History Background Check per PL 101-647 and 45 CFR 1301; must provide official transcripts; and SFIS Superintendent approval.

Santa Fe Indian School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, marital status, disability, handicap, or military status in compliance with federal and state laws.

Native American Hiring Preference.

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Research Admin/ Project Coordinator New Mexico Consortium (NMC), a non-profit NM corporation, is seeking candidates for full-time Research Administrator/ Project Coordinator position. NMC provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, a retirement plan, and much more.

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Minimum requirements: bachelor’s degree and 3-year experience in a related field, strong communication and organizational skills; attention to detail; excellent time management, prioritization, and problem-solving skills; proficiency in using standard technology tools such as Zoom, MS Office, G Suite.

The position is open until filled.

For best consideration, apply by 5pm MST December 15, 2023. Apply online or by mail to NMC, 4200 W. Jemez Road, #301, Los Alamos, NM 87544.

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

System Administrator The New Mexico Consortium (NMC), a non-profit NM corporation, is seeking candidates for (2) full-time System Administrators (Computer Science Professional 2 / 3). NMC provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a retirement plan, and much more.

Location: Los Alamos, NM. Responsibilities include: Supporting the information technology systems and infrastructure of NMC. Includes user support and providing software and runtime environments, system integration, administration, configuration management, of research and high-performance computing (HPC) systems and supporting infrastructure such as networking, storage, cooling, and security, in support of NMC’s computing capability. This includes a range of deployments from desktop, local cluster, to cloud computing with a diverse and distributed user community.

Requirements: Master’s, bachelor’s degree or experience in computer science, related technical areas.

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