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Lawsuit: President grilled on ‘lavish spending’ State is failing to curb pollution W EST E R N N E W M E X I CO U N I V E RS I T Y

International trips raise eyebrows for official at small, rural college who already gets car allowance, housing

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A budget presentation Wednesday at the Roundhouse turned into an interrogation of Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard following a report of “lavish spending” by the school

Plaintiffs: Constitutional obligations not being met due to lax oversight

By Scott Wyland

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Conservationists and Indigenous advocates are pushing ahead with a lawsuit that claims the Legislature, regulators and the governor have failed in their constitutional duty to protect the environment and disadvantaged front-line communities from fossil fuel pollution.

Those who filed the lawsuit earlier this year met this week to review their complaints, strategies and the court battles ahead as they look to compel the state to toughen what they contend is lax oversight of an industry that generates hefty tax revenues and pollution.

Their lawsuit contends the state has violated a 1971 provision in the state constitution calling for the Legislature to control pollution and protect New Mexico’s “beautiful and healthful environment.”

The litigation comes as the state’s oil and gas industry is having yet another record oil production year, giving lawmakers their all-time biggest revenues going into the next legislative session.

The industry contributed roughly 40% of the revenues to a state budget that has swelled to $12.77 billion, according to Legislative Finance Committee estimates.

And as state leaders cheer having more money for schools, social services and other vital programs, critics argue the fossil fuel expansion creates more pollution that can be harmful to the environment and residents while the state’s regulations fail to keep up.

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State GOP ends fight over 2020 redistricting In victory for Democrats, maps will remain in effect

By Robert Nott

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A Republican-led challenge to New Mexico’s congressional maps appears to be over.

Ash Soular, spokeswoman for the state GOP, wrote in an email Wednesday that the party has no plans to pursue a rehearing “at this time” of the state Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the districts.

That means the case, which has been playing out in the state courts since after the new maps were approved by lawmakers in 2021, ends in a victory for Democrats and the current lines will remain in place.

In late November, the state Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling in which a judge found that, while Democratic lawmakers had tried to dilute Republican voting power in the 2nd Congressional District, their efforts did not go so far as to violate state constitutional protections.

The state GOP had been

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Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard testifies Wednesday in front of the Legislative Finance Committee about university money he has spent on international travel and high-end furniture for his on-campus home. DANIEL J. CHACÓN/THE NEW MEXICAN

Justices take up abortion State high court to decide whether local governments can restrict procedure

By Robert Nott

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ew Mexico’s highest court will soon decide whether local governments have the right to restrict abortion in the face of state laws protecting abortion access.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who is challenging several conservative Eastern New Mexico cities and counties that have passed anti-abortion ordinances, said during Wednesday’s state Supreme Court hearing that such ordinances are “preempted by state law.”

This doesn’t just apply to abortion, Torrez said — other laws, such as the state’s legalization of recreational cannabis, cannot be ignored or contradicted by local governments either.

Erin Hawley, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney representing Roosevelt County, countered local authorities do have room to challenge state laws. In an interview after the hearing, she said many municipalities have passed their own minimum wage laws despite New Mexico’s statewide law.

“New Mexico has a history of localities … that deal with problems rather than rely on faraway legislators in the state capital,” she said.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vowed during her reelection campaign last year to codify abortion rights in the state, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the historic 1973 Roe v.

Wade ruling that mostly prohibited states from restricting abortion before the third trimester.

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ABOVE: Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon and Justice David Thompson listen to arguments from Erin Hawley, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney representing Roosevelt County in defense of its abortion restrictions. Hawley argued local authorities have some power to supersede state laws, including on issues like the minimum wage.

RIGHT: Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks with James Grayson following oral arguments Wednesday before the state Supreme Court. Torrez argued local abortion restrictions are preempted by state law. He said the issue is not just about abortion — other laws, such as the state’s legalization of recreational cannabis, cannot be ignored or contradicted by local governments either, he argued.

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U.S. Supreme Court to consider abortion pill access by mail Ruling could restrict medication even where abortion is legal

By Abbie Vansickle

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The Biden administration had asked the justices to intervene after a threejudge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals favored curbing distribution of the drug, mifepristone, appearing

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Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill, a Silver City Democrat whose district includes the university, turned up the heat on Shepard when he appeared before lawmakers on the Legislative Finance Committee in his capacity as chair of the Council of University Presidents.

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IN BRIEF Japan struggling to find enough troops as it builds up its military SASEBO, Japan — After 75 years of peace, Japan is facing immense challenges in its rush to build a more formidable military. The country faces a stark demographic reality as it confronts its gravest security threats in decades from China’s increasingly provocative military actions and North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal.

Japan has committed to raising military spending to 2% of gross domestic product, or by about 60%, over the next five years, which would give it the third-largest defense budget in the world. It is rapidly acquiring Tomahawk missiles and has spent about $30 million on ballistic missile defense systems.

But as the population rapidly ages and shrinks — nearly one-third of Japanese people are over 65, and births fell to a record low last year — experts worry the military simply won’t be able to staff traditional fleets and squadrons.

The army, navy and air force have failed to reach recruitment targets for years, and the number of active personnel — about 247,000 — is nearly 10% lower than it was in 1990.

Egg prices expected to rise again after bird flu hits top U.S. producer Egg prices are likely to start rising again after the top U.S. producer had its first-ever outbreak of deadly avian influenza.

Cal-Maine Foods Inc. in a statement Tuesday said one of its facilities in Kansas tested positive for highly pathogenic bird flu, affecting 684,000 egg-laying hens, or about 1.6% of its flock.

Based in Mississippi, the biggest U.S. producer had previously avoided infections in the worst-ever global outbreak that prompted more than 72 million birds to be killed in the U.S. to slow the spread of the virus. The latest outbreak adds to worries a resurgence could start boosting prices for eggs, which have fallen 69% since hitting a record of $5.35 a dozen in the Midwest about a year ago.

Elon Musk planning several new schools in Austin, tax filings reveal Elon Musk, who moved to Texas during the pandemic, is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for the billionaire’s latest charity called The Foundation.

The new institution, seeded with a roughly $100 million gift from Musk, will start with a STEM-focused primary and secondary school. Once that’s operating, it “intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels,” according to an application to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status obtained by Bloomberg.

Scientists pinpoint cause of severe morning sickness in pregnancies The nausea and vomiting that often define the first trimester of pregnancy are primarily caused by a single hormone, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers said the discovery could lead to better treatments for morning sickness, including rare, life-threatening cases of it.

The study confirms prior research that had pointed to the hormone, called GDF15. The researchers found the amount of hormone circulating in a woman’s blood during pregnancy — as well as her exposure to it before pregnancy — drives the severity of her symptoms.

More than two-thirds of pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting during the first trimester. And roughly 2% of women are hospitalized for a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes relentless vomiting and nausea throughout the entire pregnancy.

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Powell says expectation is aggressive campaign over; projection report for 2024 shows three rate decreases

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Tesla cars on a transport vehicle at the automaker’s factory in Fremont, Calif., in October. Tesla recalled more than 2 million vehicles Wednesday to update a function designed to ensure drivers are focused when using its Autopilot feature, according to safety officials.

Tesla recalls 2M vehicles over car Autopilot fears Regulators say systems don’t do enough to keep drivers attentive

By Jack Ewing, Cade Metz and Derrick Bryson Taylor The New York Times

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esla’s reputation for making technologically advanced cars suffered a blow Tuesday when the company, under pressure from regulators, recalled more than 2 million vehicles. U.S. officials said the automaker had not done enough to ensure drivers remained attentive when using a system that can steer, accelerate and brake cars automatically.

The recall by Tesla, the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles, was its fourth in less than two years and the most significant to date. It covers nearly all cars the company has manufactured in the United States since 2012, including its most popular, the Model Y sport-utility vehicle.

Tesla accounts for about half of the electric passenger cars sold in the United States, but its market share has been slipping as General Motors, Hyundai, Ford Motor Co. and other automakers have begun selling electric models. In addition, recent public statements

by Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, have been widely interpreted as antisemitic and offended some customers. The recall amounts to another dent in the company’s image.

“There’s no question” the company’s brand “has taken a hit this year,” Gary Black, managing partner of the Future Fund, who is generally positive about Tesla, said on social media site X, which is owned by Musk and was formerly known as Twitter.

The recall follows an investigation into Tesla’s driver-assistance system, Autopilot, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began in August 2021 after a series of accidents, some fatal, involving the technology. Autopilot is designed to control vehicles on its own when on highways. Tesla’s

owners manuals tell drivers that they should keep their hands on the wheel and take over if anything goes wrong.

The recall reflects regulators’ concern Tesla did not do enough to prevent drivers from misusing the system, including by turning it on while they travel local roads and by becoming distracted because they assumed their car could drive itself.

What Tesla calls Autopilot is a collection of features allowing the car’s technology to take over a vehicle’s control to varying degrees. The feature singled out in the recall, Autosteer, can keep a car in a lane without driver intervention.

There may be “increased risk of a crash,” the safety administration said, when Autosteer is engaged and drivers do not “maintain responsibility for vehicle operation.”

To address that problem, Tesla said it would wirelessly update its cars to add new, more prominent visual alerts and checks when Autosteer is engaged to remind drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.

The regulator said its investigation would continue.

Tesla said it did not agree with agency’s assessment of the system. The company has maintained Autopilot makes its cars safer.

Some experts question whether Autopilot makes driving safer. Philip Koopman, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies self-driving software, said that improvements in safety come almost entirely from one feature, automatic emergency braking, which is commonplace on all new vehicles.

It’s the second driverless system to face scrutiny in the last several months: In October, California regulators ordered Cruise, a GM subsidiary, to stop its driverless taxi service in San Francisco after a series of traffic mishaps.

Inquiry: Pharmacies shared patient records without warrant

By Remy Tumin

The New York Times

Law enforcement agencies have obtained the prescription records of thousands of Americans from the country’s largest pharmacy chains without a warrant, a congressional inquiry found, raising concerns about how the companies handle patient privacy.

Three of the largest pharmacy groups — CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid — do not require their staff members to contact a lawyer before releasing information requested by law enforcement, the inquiry found. The other five — Walgreens, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart and Amazon — said they do require a legal review before honoring such requests.

The policies were revealed Tuesday in a letter to Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, from Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Reps.

Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Sara Jacobs of California, all Democrats.

The inquiry began in June, a year after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion and cleared the way for Republican-controlled states to enact near-total bans on the procedure. Reproductive health advocates and some lawmakers have since raised privacy concerns regarding access to birth control and abortion medication.

“Although pharmacies are legally permitted to tell their customers about government demands for their data, most don’t,” the lawmakers wrote. “As a result, many Americans’ prescription records have few meaningful privacy protections, and those protections vary widely depending on which pharmacy they use.”

The inquiry found the pharmacies receive tens of thousands of legal requests annually for their patients’

pharmacy records. However, the letter said, the companies indicated a vast majority of the requests were submitted in connection with civil litigation.

In July, nearly 50 Democratic members of Congress wrote to Becerra to urge the Health and Human Services Department to expand regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, that would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant to gain access to medical records and would require that patients be notified when their records are requested.

Since then, lawmakers have been digging into the disclosure practices of major pharmacy chains.

During the congressional inquiry, CVS, Kroger and Rite Aid “indicated that their pharmacy staff face extreme pressure to immediately respond to law enforcement demands and, as such,

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The Federal Reserve may have reached the end of its aggressive two-year sprint to slow the economy through higher interest rates, with inflation easing and no sign of a recession ahead.

Capping off their final policy meeting of the year, central bankers left rates flat for the third straight time. And they sent perhaps the clearest message yet borrowing costs are now high enough to keep a grip on inflation — and that cuts are coming in 2024. Though no precise timeline was given, markets celebrated the news, almost like a parting gift for 2023.

“People generally think that we’re at or near [the final level], and think it’s not likely that we will hike,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, referring to his fellow officials. “They don’t take that possibility off the table.”

The interest rate announcement was expected, on the heels of encouraging economic data on inflation, the job market, wages and consumer spending.

Since late summer, Fed officials have stopped doling out rate hikes, instead waiting to see how the economy responds to their moves so far. The result: Inflation keeps coming down without triggering hazards for the job market or financial stability. And barring any surprises, that’s all expected to continue.

Markets popped on hopes borrowing costs would come down in the near future, and major indexes continued climbing through the afternoon. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 512.3 points, or 1.4%, to a record high of 37,090.24. The S&P 500 index climbed 1.37%, and the Nasdaq 1.38%.

Policymakers closed out the year with a fresh crop of economic projections, outlining their expectations for rates, inflation, the unemployment rate and overall growth. Those estimates showed three rate cuts in 2024. Officials stuck to previous estimates that the unemployment rate would rise slightly next year, to 4.1%. And they showed inflation improving over the coming 12 months but not quite reaching the desired 2% target.

Ultimately, Powell cast the economy as one that defied expectations for the better this year. Powell said “there’s little basis for thinking that the economy is in a recession now.” But he was quick to add his typical disclaimer it is too soon to declare victory because the economy has surprised just about everyone time and again.

“We kind of assume that it will get harder from here,” Powell said of the ongoing inflation fight. “But so far it hasn’t.”

Wednesday’s decision leaves the Fed’s benchmark interest rate, known as the federal funds rate, between 5.25% and 5.5%. That’s the highest level in 22 years, and it’s set at a point intended to slow all kinds of borrowing and investment, from mortgages and auto loans to business hiring.

Now the Fed’s plan is to keep rates high for as long as it takes to snuff out the remaining sources of inflation. The idea is that high borrowing costs will keep a tight grip on the economy, even if officials have moved past the hiking phase.

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House GOP votes to formalize impeachment probe Biden is eighth president to face impeachment inquiry

By Jacqueline Alemany and Matt Viser The Washington Post

House Republicans voted Wednesday to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden in an effort to strengthen their oversight powers as Republican lawmakers continue to investigate the Biden family’s finances.

The inquiry, which was launched without a vote in September by thenSpeaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has so far failed to prove the GOP’s claim that Biden benefited financially from his son’s foreign investment deals.

The vote brought about by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., however, had near-unanimous support among Republicans and comes after the president’s son, Hunter Biden, on Wednesday defied a congressional subpoena in the probe.

Joe Biden is the eighth president to face an impeachment investigation.

No Democrats voted in support of the measure, which passed on a vote of 221-212.

Ahead of the vote, Democrats took to the House floor to denounce Republicans for engaging in what they described as a conspiracy-fueled fishing expedition designed as retribution for the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump. Republicans, meanwhile, argued the administration was obstructing their investigation by failing to fully comply with the committees’ subpoenas and accused the president of lying about his involvement with his son’s foreign business dealings.

“Hunter Biden did a press conference — he was supposed to be in a deposition,” said House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. “And at that press conference, he said ‘my father was not financially involved in the business.’ Well, that’s an important qualifier. We haven’t heard that for three years. … All we’ve heard is Joe Biden had no involvement.

Now his son does a press conference when he’s supposed to be being deposed and says he wasn’t financially involved.

Well, what involvement was it?”

The foundation of the impeachment inquiry, outlined by Jordan in a briefing with reporters last week, rests on an unsubstantiated allegation that has become the linchpin of conspiracy theories and false claims regarding the Biden family’s purported corrupt and criminal conduct. Republicans have alleged without evidence that Joe Biden as vice president pushed for the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to quash a probe into the former owner of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where Hunter Biden sat on the board.

Former U.S. officials, Ukrainian anti-corruption activists and even some Republicans have rebutted that allegation.

As part of the yearlong inquiry, House Republicans also have elevated claims the Biden administration slowed a Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial background, but that testimony has been disputed repeatedly by officials involved in the case.

Biden in a lengthy statement ridiculed the vote as a “baseless House Republi-

9 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza City ambush

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An Israeli soldier consoles Adar Ben Basat on Wednesday during the funeral of her husband, Col. Itzhak Ben Basat, in Kfar Tavor, Israel. Ben Basat, 44, is the most senior officer to be killed in the Israeli military’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

crisis has sparked international outrage. The United States has repeatedly called on Israel to take greater measures to spare civilians, even as it has blocked international calls for a cease-fire and rushed military aid to its close ally.

Israeli troops are still locked in heavy combat with Palestinian fighters in and around Gaza City, more than six weeks after invading Gaza’s north following the militants’ Oct. 7 attack.

Clashes raged overnight and into Wednesday in multiple areas, with especially heavy fighting in Shijaiyah, a dense neighborhood that was the scene of a major battle during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

“It’s terrifying. We couldn’t sleep,” Mustafa Abu Taha, a Palestinian agricultural worker who lives in the neighborhood, said by phone. “The situation is getting worse, and we don’t have a safe place to go.”

The ambush took place Tuesday in Shijaiyah, where Israeli troops searching a cluster of buildings lost communication with four soldiers who had come under fire, the military said. When the other soldiers launched a rescue operation, they were ambushed with heavy gunfire and explosives.

Among the nine dead were Col. Itzhak Ben Basat, 44, the most senior officer to have been killed in the ground operation, and Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, a battalion commander.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a “very difficult day,” but he rejected international calls for a cease-fire.

“We are continuing until the end, there is no question. I say this even given the great pain and the international pressure.

Nothing will stop us, we will continue until the end, until victory, nothing less,” he said in a talk with military commanders.

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counsel Dick Sauber issued a Nov. 17 letter challenging the legitimacy of the inquiry and demanding that subpoenas and requests for interviews with Biden family members and White House aides be rescinded, GOP lawmakers rallied behind the idea of strengthening the House’s legal hand by moving to authorize the investigation with a vote.

“The House will likely need to go to court to enforce its subpoenas, and opening a formal inquiry — backed by a vote of the full body — puts us in the strongest legal position to gather the evidence and provide transparency to the American people,” Johnson said in an op-ed published Tuesday morning.

Hunter Biden’s decision to skip his deposition only strengthened Johnson’s argument among GOP lawmakers. The president’s son made a statement from Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, reiterating that he was willing to testify in a public hearing related to the inquiry, but that “Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics … or hear what I have to say.”

Senate passes defense bill, steering clear of far-right policy demands

By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery and Melanie Lidman

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine in an urban ambush, the military said Wednesday, a sign of the stiff resistance Hamas still poses despite more than two months of devastating bombardment.

The ambush in a dense neighborhood came after repeated recent claims by the Israeli military that it had broken Hamas’ command structure in northern Gaza, encircled remaining pockets of fighters, killed thousands of militants and detained hundreds more.

The tenacious fighting underscores how far Israel appears to be from its aim of destroying Hamas — even after the military unleashed one of the 21st century’s most destructive onslaughts.

Israel’s air and ground assault has killed more than 18,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health officials. Gaza City and surrounding towns have been pounded to ruins. Nearly 1.9 million people have been driven from their homes.

The resulting humanitarian

can impeachment stunt” and criticized them for not focusing on other issues including Ukraine and Israel, border security and inflation.

“There is a lot of work to be done,” he said. “But after wasting weeks trying to find a new Speaker of the House and having to expel their own members, Republicans in Congress are leaving for a month without doing anything to address these pressing challenges.”

Referencing the impeachment vote, he added, “Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’ lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies. Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.”

Some vulnerable Republican lawmakers previously were resistant to voting on impeachment — and remained opposed to proceeding with formal articles of impeachment given the underwhelming evidence Republican investigators have gathered. But after White House special

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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed an $886 billion defense bill that would set Pentagon policy and provide a 5.2% pay raise for military personnel, defying the demands of hard-right Republicans who had tried and failed to attach a raft of deeply partisan restrictions on abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives.

The vote was 87-13 to approve the legislation, which would expand the Defense Department’s ability to compete with China and Russia in hypersonic and nuclear weapons, implement components of a key Indo-Pacific security partnership with Britain and Australia, and direct hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine and Israel. The Ukraine and Israel programs authorized by the bill are distinct from a $111 billion spending bill to send additional weapons to those countries, among other expenditures, that is

currently stalled in Congress.

The defense bill would also extend into 2025 a program that allows the intelligence community to conduct warrantless surveillance of foreign individuals located outside the United States, which has come under scrutiny because of how the FBI has handled the communications of Americans in touch with the foreigners who are targeted.

Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate have championed the bill as a fair compromise that prioritizes competition with adversaries and demonstrates support for allies.

Some argued that was an important message to send the world at a time when global threats are mounting — particularly considering Republicans have blocked congressional efforts to approve tens of billions of dollars in emergency military aid for Ukraine and Israel, insisting it be paired with a crackdown on migration at the U.S. border with Mexico.

“Doing the defense autho-

rization bill is more important than ever,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said Wednesday, condemning the GOP for its refusal to approve the additional war funding. The defense bill, he added, was the product of “precisely the kind of bipartisan cooperation the American people want from Congress.”

The measure, the result of bipartisan negotiations between the two chambers, has prompted a backlash in the House, where many Republicans are angry at their leaders for agreeing to drop provisions hard-liners attached over the summer. Among the provisions dropped from the final compromise was a measure to revoke a policy of providing paid time off and transportation reimbursement for service members who must travel to obtain an abortion or other forms of reproductive health care. The Pentagon implemented the policy after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, creating a patchwork of abortion laws across the country.

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY AND PUBLIC MEETINGS/COMMENT PERIOD DOE Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office Issues Notice of Availability of the Draft NEPA Environmental Assessment for Chromium Interim Measures and Final Remedy In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) has prepared a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluates potential environmental impacts of DOE’s Proposed Action, a combination of treatment options whereby EM-LA would use adaptive site management (ASM) to select, implement, and manage removal of hexavalent chromium from source areas and the groundwater. The Proposed Action alternative includes four options, or a combination of these options, that can selectively be implemented to remediate chromiumcontaminated groundwater below Sandia and Mortandad canyons at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The EA also evaluates the No Action alternative.

The draft EA is available for public review at https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeea-2216chromium-interim-measure-and-final-remedy-los-alamos-new-mexico, and on the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Electronic Public Reading Room: eprr.em-la.doe.gov.

Public Comments and Meetings EM-LA invites public comment on the draft EA during a 60-day comment period commencing with this notice on December 14, 2023, and ending on February 12, 2024.

To enhance public and stakeholder participation, EM-LA is providing two meetings to share information and gather verbal and written comments on the draft EA. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions and submit comments on the proposed alternatives and options, and on the draft EA. DOE plans to complete the final EA after consideration of comments received on the draft EA. Public meetings are scheduled for the following dates and times: Monday, January 22, 2024: In-person meeting at Cities of Gold Hotel and Casino Ballroom, 10 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, New Mexico from 6:00-8:00 p.m. MDT Wednesday, January 24, 2023: Virtual meeting from 1:00-3:00 p.m. MDT • To join via video through your computer or smart device, go to https://Zoom.us/join and enter Meeting ID: 849 7723 8202. You will be prompted to enter a Passcode: 062428 and your name.

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Public comments must be received by February 12, 2024.

EM-LA is providing two additional options to submit written comments: • Email: EMLA-NEPA@em.doe.gov. Please use the subject line: Chromium Draft EA Comment • U.S. Mail: EM-LA NEPA Document Manager, U.S. DOE Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office, 1200 Trinity Drive, Suite 400, Los Alamos, NM 87544

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“We want the state to comply with its constitutional duty,” said Gail Evans, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. “We want the state to act to ensure that front-line community members, Indigenous people and youth are not injured and harmed from oil and gas pollution.”

Evans said although the constitutional amendment calling for pollution control has been around for a half-century, this is the first lawsuit based on the provision.

The 107-page lawsuit offers detailed arguments, complete with data and statistics, about how state regulators have failed to hold the industry accountable and how the system itself is flawed — either by hampering enforcement or not allowing oversight at all.

It requests new oil and gas permitting be suspended until the state establishes “a statutory, regulatory and enforcement scheme” that it contends is now severely lacking.

The lawsuit names the Legislature, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state regulators, including the Environment Department, the Oil Conservation Division and Environment Department Secretary James Kenney.

Aside from the Biological Diversity Center, plaintiffs include Youth United for Climate Crisis Action, WildEarth Guardians, the Pueblo Action Alliance, Indigenous Lifeways and 10 activists and residents.

The constitutional amendment on which this legal action is based has broad language.

“The protection of the state’s beautiful and healthful environment is hereby declared to be of fundamental importance to the public interest, health, safety and the general welfare,” it reads. “The legislature shall provide for control of pollution and control of despoilment of the air, water and other natural resources of this state, consistent with the use and development of these resources for the maximum benefit of the people.”

Regulators and the governor joined in filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing it lacks legal merit. The Legislature filed a separate motion to dismiss.

“This lawsuit seeks to have the judiciary decide on issues that have historically been the responsibility of our state’s legislative and executive branches,’” state Environment Department spokesman Matt Maez wrote in an email with the motion attached.

The Legislature has passed laws and the state has enacted rules that protect the climate, public health and natural resources, whether it’s reducing emissions or requiring polluters to clean up waste, the motion said. It contended the plaintiffs fail to consider the complexity involved in balancing competing interests as the state looks to develop natural resources in a responsible manner, inviting public input as much as possible.

The plaintiffs want the court to resolve a political issue and intrude

TAKEAWAYS ◆ Conservationists and Indigenous advocates are digging in with a lawsuit that claims state lawmakers, regulators and the governor have failed to adequately protect the environment, violating the state constitution. ◆ The lawsuit is based on a 1971 provision that calls for the Legislature to control pollution and protect New Mexico’s “beautiful and healthful environment.” ◆ The state has filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing it lacks merit.

on legislative and executive authority, the motion said.

“With every decision the Legislature, Governor, and executive agencies make in this area, they leave some people happy and others convinced the State either went too far or should have gone further faster,” the motion said.

Evans called the state’s arguments misleading.

“The state is trying to say this is a political question that does not belong in the courts — and they are wrong,” Evans said. “This is a constitutional question.”

The complaint lists the state’s environmental laws, such as the Hazardous Waste Act and Groundwater Protection Act, and says the oil and gas industry is exempt from nearly all of them to a large extent.

A big problem is state regulatory agencies lack the personnel to inspect and enforce the rules because they are not adequately funded, the lawsuit claimed, adding unlawful venting and flaring of natural gas increased in 2022 despite the state adopting a rule barring these releases except in emergencies.

And just because an agency gains authority doesn’t mean it will use it, Evans said. The Oil Conservation Division was given the power to regulate fossil fuel waste in 2019, but hasn’t issued a single penalty despite operators causing thousands of liquid waste spills since then, she said.

State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, is seeking a green amendment that would embed the right to a clean and healthy environment in the constitution.

The measure she said, would go into the state’s bill of rights, creating firmer legal ground than this current amendment does for people to sue the government when it fails to protect the environment.

Sedillo Lopez, who has tried unsuccessfully three times to get the green amendment through the Legislature, plans to try again in the upcoming session. She said she hopes the groups win their lawsuit.

Mario Atencio, an Indigenous community organizer and plaintiff, said historically the industry’s requests to drill have been rubber stamped, no matter what their potential impacts were on tribal lands.

The environmental injustice is blatant when poorer communities are the ones affected, he said, adding court actions are required to correct the problem.

“We are left holding all the costs associated with it — the human, public health costs,” Atencio said.

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Adrienne Mansanares, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, speaks Wednesday during a news conference following a hearing at the state Supreme Court on local abortion restrictions.

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spurred many Republican-run states to ban abortion or enact strict limits. Some conservative municipalities in New Mexico have also tried to restrict abortion, using the federal 1873 Comstock Act — which prohibits mailing abortion-related materials but which has long gone unenforced by the federal government — as the legal grounds.

Earlier this year the state Legislature passed House Bill 7, known as the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act, which prohibits local governments from restricting access to abortion. This state law, Torrez says, means that the measures passed by Lea and Roosevelt counties, Clovis, Hobbs and Edgewood are illegal. Earlier this year, he asked the state Supreme Court to rule on the matter, writing in his original complaint there are “matters of statewide concern for which there is clear legislative intent to preempt local legislation.”

Lawyers for the local governments said Wednesday that they have the right

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challenging the maps as an illegal gerrymander.

However, the state Supreme Court ruled in late November that 9th Judicial District Judge Fred Van Soelen’s ruling upholding the maps was “supported by substantial evidence” and was not the result of any “legal error.”

The 2nd Congressional District was reshaped to include portions of Albuquerque, adding about 40,000

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countries and $27,000 on furniture, just to name a few,” she said.

“Our job is to ensure there’s no misuse of taxpayer money on behalf of students and their families, especially when they’re experiencing a 3% increase in tuition, and on behalf of taxpayers who are paying for that tuition increase” through the government-funded Opportunity Scholarship, she said.

Correa Hemphill, a Western New Mexico alum whose husband works in its marketing and communications office, said she had “a few questions” triggered by a recent report by Searchlight New Mexico, which reported the university spent nearly $100,000 on international travel and at least $27,740 on high-end furniture at Santa Fe’s Seret and Sons to furnish Shepard’s campus residence.

On several trips to recruit international students, “Shepard has been accompanied by other university executives, as well as members of the WNMU board of regents and his wife, former CIA operations officer-turned-author and congressional candidate Valerie Plame. All have traveled on the university’s dime,” Searchlight New Mexico reported.

Western New Mexico has an enrollment of about 3,500 students.

After the report was published, the state Higher Education Department sent Shepard a letter asking for a “full justification of expenditures.”

Specific areas of concern outlined in the letter include: ◆ “Potentially unjustified international travel to Zambia, Spain, and Greece for student recruiting purposes.” ◆ The potential use of public funds to pay for Plame’s travel-related expenses, “as well as an expense account which she regularly files for

TAKEAWAYS ◆ State Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill, D-Silver City, grilled Western New Mexico University President Joe Shepard over a report the school has spent tens of thousands of dollars on international travel and expensive furniture. ◆ The New Mexico Higher Education Department raised concerns about recent news article that suggest “improprieties in the use of funding and resources” at the university and asked Shepard to provide a “full justification of expenditures.” ◆ In a brief interview, Shepard said he followed all university policies and procedures and that the expenditures are under review both internally and externally.

reimbursement from.” ◆ “Potential use of university employees for cleaning and cooking duties at the President’s residence.” ◆ The purchase of “luxury” furniture for the president’s home. “The basis for this allegation is that the purchases are overly lavish and expensive items, not indicative of what a prudent person using taxpayer funds would normally purchase.”

In a brief interview after appearing before lawmakers, Shepard said the spending is under review internally and externally.

“We have our auditors going through it, we have the state auditor going through it, and that’s appropriate,” he said. “It’s all about accountability, so we will do our due diligence. Our board will do [its] due diligence.”

He also said the public reaction to the university’s spending has been mixed.

“Some obviously want to know more.

Some obviously are very supportive of the university and all the great things we’re doing,” he said.

Asked whether he would do things differently in hindsight, Shepard said he followed all of the university’s policies and procedures.

“What I have done in the past I don’t have any issues with because they’re all within the guidelines of the university,” he said.

Shepard said he didn’t have second thoughts about the furniture purchases, either.

to adopt federal laws and there is nothing unconstitutional in their actions, adding their ordinances do not outlaw abortion outright.

“We are not against abortion, not at all,” said attorney Valerie Chacon, who is representing the city of Hobbs. She said the ordinances are designed to ensure any business opening in the area follows federal, state and local laws.

Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon did not buy that argument.

“You’re allowing them [abortion providers] to open up a four-wall building and do nothing,” she told Chacon.

Bacon said such ordinances have a “potentially very chilling effect” on any number of issues beyond abortion and could discourage abortion providers from moving into the counties and cities that create them.

At a news conference after the hearing, Torrez said he felt the justices were “supportive of the idea local governments cannot usurp state law.”

On the whole, he said, he was “very encouraged” by the high court’s response.

“No, because those purchases provided the quality and the warmth to the president’s residence,” he said. “It’s not my furniture. It’s not my home. It’s the university’s residence.”

Correa Hemphill said in an interview she was “very concerned about the possibility of misuse of taxpayer money” after the report was published.

“I believe that as the appropriating body, we need to be really, really accountable to the taxpayers,” she said.

“We have not historically had this level of funding and we want to make sure that when we’re appropriating money to our public institutions, it’s being utilized in a way that has a focus on those who need it most: the people of New Mexico.”

Based on the report, Correa Hemphill said, “it does seem like there may be some inappropriate use of taxpayer money.” She noted the Higher Education Department is looking into the expenditures and said she’s been contacted by the State Auditor’s Office.

“We will look into it more … so we’ll find out,” she said.

During the legislative meeting, Correa Hemphill fired off a series of questions and asked Shepard to keep his answers “short and concise” out of respect for her colleagues, who have been meeting in Santa Fe since Monday.

Correa Hemphill’s questions included what the policy is for issuing non-government employees a taxpayer-funded procurement card, known as a “P card.”

Democratic voters. Some heavily Republican communities in southeastern New Mexico, such as Hobbs, were then shifted from the 2nd District to Northern New Mexico’s 3rd District, which already had a comfortable Democratic majority.

After the lines were redrawn, U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat from Las Cruces, beat Republican Yvette Herrell the 2022 race for the 2nd Congressional District seat by about 1,300 votes. With Herrell’s defeat, New Mexico now has an entirely Democratic congressional

Shepard said the policy allows “some exceptions” for private citizens to obtain such a card.

“So for example, at our university, one of those exceptions would be the first lady of the university, which is my wife,” he said.

Correa Hemphill also asked Shepard what type of airline seats were purchased for him, his wife, faculty and regents on the international trips mentioned in the report.

“It would be business class,” Shepard replied.

“Have first-class tickets ever been purchased for you, your faculty, your spouse or your regents?” Correa Hemphill asked.

“For international, yes. For domestic, no,” he said. “There was a time when, for example, I would purchase an economy class and I might upgrade it.

I believe there might have been one or two incidents where, because the card on file was the university card, in my upgrade, it’d go to that, but then I’d reimburse the university.”

Correa Hemphill questioned whether Shepard violated state policy.

“You didn’t use your personal credit card [to purchase the] first-class tickets and then request reimbursement for the base fare. You used taxpayer funds and then you sought proof of that reimbursement,” she said. “I’m not sure that that’s in compliance with the state Use Act and the procurement code and policies and procedures, but maybe we could check on that.

“Just for the record,” she added, “when using taxpayer funds, airfare should be the lowest fare available, according to the New Mexico travel policies and procedure.”

Correa Hemphill also questioned Shepard on the type of hotels rented during the international trips and whether incidentals, mini bar expenses or room service were charged to the university.

Shepard said the type of hotels varied “based on the safety and location or the

Justice Michael Vigil listens to arguments Wednesday.

Before recessing, Bacon said the five-member court — all Democrats — will review the matter and issue a ruling, though she did not say when.

delegation. Herrell has said she plans to run again in 2024.

States generally redraw their legislative and congressional district lines every 10 years after the U.S. census. The process, which can determine which political party will hold power at the state and federal levels, often ends up in court.

The state GOP had 15 days from the date the state Supreme Court issued its ruling on Nov. 27 to request a rehearing, and that 15 days is nearly up.

It’s unlikely the plaintiffs can pursue any other legal avenues, such as a federal challenge — the U.S. Supreme Court essentially ruled in 2019 federal courts have no jurisdiction over state legislatures’ redistricting processes.

recommendation of the host institution.”

“They range,” he said. “I recall in Zambia staying in a hotel — I’m trying to recall if it had a cement floor — but suffice it to say, it was a very, very basic hotel.”

Asked how many international trips he had taken over the last five years, Shepard said he didn’t recall the total number.

“Most recently went to Serbia and Belgrade. Prior to that, of course, Mexico, a number of trips there. You mentioned the Spain, Greece trip. The Zambia trip. Gone there once,” he said, adding he could provide a full list afterward.

As reported by Searchlight New Mexico, Shepard said the university has not conducted a formal cost-benefit analysis of the trips.

Shepard, who has served as university president 12 years, had his contract extended last year through 2027.

The contract calls for Shepard to receive a base salary of $365,000, which increases by the same average rate as faculty salaries over the prior year, plus a $50,000-a-year retention bonus. It also calls for university to provide Shepard a residence, which is insured and maintained, including utilities, at Western’s expense, as well as a $2,000-a-month vehicle allowance.

Shepard also is entitled “to all normal and customary fringe benefits” available to university staff, such as sick leave, retirement and medical and dental insurance.

“The University shall pay 100% of the premium for the customary family health insurance,” the contract states.

“Further, the University shall pay 100% of the employee portion of the standard retirement contribution and 100% of the University portion.”

Shepard earns 16 hours a month, or 192 hours a year, in annual leave under the contract.

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authority of the FDA, which approved the pill more than two decades ago.

The Supreme Court is now in the unusual position of ruling on abortion access even after its conservative majority declared that it would leave that question to elected officials. Until the court issues a decision, the FDA’s approval of the drug remains in place, delaying the potential for abrupt limits on a medication that is used in more than half of all pregnancy terminations in the United States.

The Supreme Court did not set a date for argument but is expected to issue a decision by the end of its term, in late June.

That means a ruling could arrive at the heart of the campaign season, during which abortion is expected to be a centerpiece of Democratic platforms.

Abortion-rights groups welcomed the court’s decision to hear the case.

“The stakes are enormous in post-Roe America,” Nancy Northup, the president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a legal advocacy organization, said in a statement.

Alliance Defending Freedom, the group that is representing those challenging the FDA’s authority, said in a statement that the court would help settle whether “the FDA has harmed the health of women and undermined the rule of law by illegally removing every meaningful safeguard from the chemical abortion drug regimen.”

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the battle over abortion has largely played out in the states, where it remains a potent political and legal issue. More than a dozen states have enacted bans or restrictions, and Democrats have seized on the fallout from the ruling to galvanize voters at the polls, even in conservative-leaning states.

In Texas, a woman sought an emergency court order to receive an abortion but ultimately was denied by the state’s Supreme Court and left the state to undergo the procedure. And in Ohio, voters in November soundly approved a ballot measure that enshrined a right to abortion in its constitution. The success of similar campaigns has inspired efforts in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

The justices had discussed the case at their Friday conference, the private meeting among the nine. They will hear two consolidated cases challenging more recent changes the FDA made starting in 2016 to expand distribution of the drug — FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, and Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.

In asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, lawyers for the Justice Department described the ruling by the appeals court as unprecedented in questioning the expert judgment of the FDA. Such a decision, they added, “would threaten to severely disrupt the pharmaceutical industry and prevent FDA from fulfilling its statutory responsibilities according to its scientific judgment.”

Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy organization that has brought cases for clients opposed to abortion and LGBTQ rights, represents the challengers. In a brief, lawyers for the group argued that the Supreme Court did not need to weigh in, calling the appeals court decision a “modest decision” that “merely restores the common-sense safeguards under which millions of women have taken chemical abortion drugs.”

The tangled showdown over the future of the pill reflects how medication abortion has become the next major battlefront for conservative groups.

The case began in November last year, when an umbrella group of anti-abortion medical organizations and a few doctors filed a lawsuit describing the FDA’s approval as flawed and questioning the safety of the drug.

Many studies of mifepristone have found it to be highly safe and effective, and years of research have shown serious complications are rare. Fewer than 1% of patients need hospitalization, medical experts have said.

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Justices to hear Jan. 6 cases assaulted police officers as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 election. Like hundreds The Supreme Court agreed of other rioters whose actions Wednesday to hear a case that disrupted the certification procould upend the prosecutions of ceeding in the Capitol, Fischer hundreds of rioters who stormed was charged with the obstructhe Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and tion count, formally known as 18 delay — or limit the scope of — U.S.C. 1512. former President Donald Trump’s Fischer sought dismissal of trial on federal charges of trying a portion of the indictment to overturn his election defeat. brought under the obstruction At issue is whether the govlaw, which was passed as part of ernment can charge defendants the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, in the cases under a federal law a statute aimed primarily at that makes it a crime to corwhite-collar crime. Prosecutors ruptly obstruct an official prohave routinely used the obstrucceeding. The law is at the heart tion charge, in lieu of more of the prosecutions of many politically contentious counts members of the pro-Trump mob like insurrection or seditious that sought to block the congres- conspiracy, to describe how sional certification of Joe Biden’s members of the pro-Trump mob victory in 2020. It is also a key disrupted the peaceful transfer part of the federal indictment of presidential power. accusing Trump of plotting to Judge Carl J. Nichols of the remain in power despite the will U.S. District Court in Washingof the voters. ton granted Fischer’s motion The decision to hear the case to dismiss, saying that the law will complicate and perhaps required defendants to take delay the start of Trump’s trial, “some action with respect to now scheduled to take place a document, record or other in Washington in March. The object” — something he said was Supreme Court’s ultimate missing from Fischer’s conduct ruling, which might not arrive at the Capitol. until June, is likely to address A divided three-judge panel the viability of two of the main on the U.S. Court of Appeals counts against Trump. And it for the District of Columbia could severely hamper efforts by Circuit eventually reversed the special counsel, Jack Smith, Nichols’ decision, ruling that to hold the former president the law “applies to all forms accountable for the violence of of corrupt obstruction of an his supporters at the Capitol. official proceeding.” Three Jan. The court’s eventual decision 6 defendants, including Fischer, could also invalidate convictions ultimately asked the Supreme that have already been secured Court to decide whether the law against scores of Trump’s follow- had been properly applied to the ers who took part in the assault.

Capitol attack.

That would be an enormous The obstruction charge was blow to the government’s prose- never an easy fit in the cases cutions of the Jan. 6 riot cases. stemming from the storming of The case the court agreed to the Capitol. When it was passed hear involves Joseph Fischer, in the early 2000s, the law was aimed at curbing corporate malwho was indicted on seven charges for his role in the Capfeasance by outlawing things like destroying documents or tamperitol attack. Prosecutors say he

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Court will allow Texas voting map after clash over race

By Alan Feuer and Adam Liptak The New York Times

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Supporters of former President Donald Trump climb the walls of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A ruling by the Supreme Court on an obstruction charge could affect the cases of hundreds of people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — and potentially the prosecution of Trump.

ing with witnesses or evidence.

Defense lawyers representing Jan. 6 rioters have argued that federal prosecutors improperly stretched its scope to cover the violence that erupted at the Capitol and interfered with the proceeding in which lawmakers had gathered to certify the results of the election.

The lawyers also took issue with using the charge against people who stormed the Capitol, saying that many were not acting “corruptly,” as the law requires, because they believed they were protesting a stolen election.

“The statute has been used to over-criminalize the Jan. 6 cases,” said Norm Pattis, a lawyer for Jake Lang, one of the three defendants who appealed to the Supreme Court. “Congress never intended that.”

Pattis said the Supreme Court’s review was “significant” in hundreds of criminal cases stemming from the Capitol riot and was “yet another reason the 2024 case against Donald Trump should be delayed.”

Two of the four counts in the federal election interference indictment against Trump are based on the obstruction charge.

He has been accused of personally obstructing the certification proceeding at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and faces a separate count of conspiring with others to obstruct the proceeding.

The Supreme Court’s review,

while potentially damaging to the indictment, would not affect the other two charges against Trump. One accuses him of conspiring to defraud the United States by using relentless lies that the election had been stolen from him in an effort to reverse his defeat. The other charges him with plotting to deprive millions of Americans of the right to have their votes counted.

Still, if the Supreme Court finds that the obstruction law does not apply to the mob attack at the Capitol, it could cripple plans by Smith to pin the violence on Trump.

Recent court papers in the election case have strongly suggested that prosecutors were planning to use the obstruction charge as a way to show the jury graphic videos of the Capitol attack and perhaps even introduce testimony from rioters claiming that they stormed the building on Trump’s instructions.

The possibility that the Supreme Court could review — and one day invalidate — the obstruction count has been looming over Trump’s election case for months. But the court’s decision to act Wednesday came at a particularly delicate moment: two days after Smith asked the justices to fast-track an appeal of Trump’s separate attempts to have the case tossed out on broad claims of presidential immunity.

By Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow The Washington Post

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a local Texas election to go forward under a map that a lower court had found diluted the votes of Black and Latino residents.

The order came in response to a challenge from civil rights advocates opposed to the voting districts in Galveston County. While the case involves the boundaries in just one locality, it could have broader implications for challenges to election maps and the protection of voting rights nationwide.

As is customary with emergency applications, the Supreme Court majority did not explain its rationale for leaving the map in place for now. That means it is unclear whether the majority thought it was too close to the election campaigns to get involved, or if some justices are sympathetic to the argument that “majority-minority” districts are not covered by the Voting Rights Act. The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision not to stay an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. That order said the map drawn by Republican county commissioners could be used for two reasons: first, because the election was not far off; and second, because the appeals court could eventually overturn its past rulings that the Voting Rights Act in some cases permits the creation of majority-minority districts.

WINTER GLOW HOLIDAY STROLL ON MUSEUM HILL Friday, December 15, 4–7 pm Celebrate the holidays with the Museum of International Folk and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture! Join MOIFA for the popular holiday play La Pastorela Cómica at 5 pm in the Vernick Auditorium, make Christmas cards, and savor refreshments in the atrium. MIAC welcomes visitors for holiday ornament making, a holiday Pueblo meal, storytelling, a visit from Santa Claus, and decorating the Christmas tree on Milner Plaza.

Free admission to both museums from 4–7 pm.

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Ukraine sees its war at pivotal moment

NATION & WORLD

Thursday, December 14, 2023

For first time, climate summit agrees on fossil fuel transition

By Brad Plumer and Max Bearak The New York Times

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By Paul Sonne and Andrew E. Kramer The New York Times

Ukraine faces dwindling reserves of ammunition, personnel and Western support. The counteroffensive it launched six months ago has failed. Russia, once awash in recriminations over a disastrous invasion, is celebrating its capacity to sustain a drawn-out war.

The war in Ukraine has reached a critical moment, as months of brutal fighting have left Moscow more confident and Kyiv unsure of its prospects.

The dynamic was palpable last week, as Vladimir Putin casually announced plans to run for six more years as president of Russia, swilling Champagne and bragging about the increasing competence of Russia’s military. He declared that Ukraine had no future, given its reliance on external help.

That air of self-assurance contrasted with the sense of urgency in this week’s trip to Washington

by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who pressed Congress to pass a stalled spending bill that includes $50 billion more in security aid for Ukraine.

Speaking at the White House alongside Zelenskyy, President Joe Biden said lawmakers’ failure to approve the package would “give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him.”

But Zelenskyy’s pleas fell flat, at least for now, with congressional Republicans, who are insisting that additional aid to Ukraine can come only with a clampdown on migration at the United States’ southern border. After meeting with Zelenskyy, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, said his skepticism had not changed.

The messages from Moscow and Washington illustrated the growing pressure on Ukraine as it shifts to a defensive posture and braces for a harsh winter of Russian strikes and energy shortages. Kyiv is struggling to maintain support from its most

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Joe Biden arrive for a news conference Tuesday at the White House.

With Western support for Kyiv softening and Congress holding up an urgently needed aid package, Vladimir Putin’s bet on outlasting Ukraine and its allies is looking stronger.

has time to try to work out an agreement that includes border security, and Zelenskyy said he remained optimistic about bipartisan support for Ukraine, adding, “It’s very important that by the end of this year we can send a very strong signal of our unity to the aggressor.”

A rupture in U.S. funding would risk proving Putin correct in his long-standing conviction that he can exhaust Western resolve in global politics and conflicts. Although his government bungled the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has regrouped, in part because Putin was willing to accept enormous casualties.

“Putin, soon after the initial offensive didn’t produce the results that Russia had hoped, settled in for a long war and estimated that Russia at the end of the day would have the biggest stamina, the longest staying power, in this fight,” said Hanna Notte, an expert on Russian foreign and security policy at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

important backer, the United States, a nation now preoccupied with a different war, in the Gaza Strip, as well as the 2024 presidential campaign.

Looming over Kyiv’s prospects is the possible return to office in 2025 of former President Donald Trump, a long-standing Ukraine detractor and praiser of Putin who was impeached in 2019 for withholding military aid and pressuring Zelenskyy to investigate Biden and other Democrats.

Almost 22 months into the war, polls broadly have found waning U.S. support for continued funding of Ukraine, particularly among Republicans. A recent Pew Research Center survey found just under half of Americans believe the United States was providing the right amount of support to Ukraine or should be providing more.

Johnson said money for Ukraine required more oversight of spending, and “a transformative change” in security at the U.S. border with Mexico. “Thus far, we’ve gotten neither,” he said.

But the White House still

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2035. Wednesday’s agreement is meant to guide those plans.

“This is not a transition that will happen from one day to the other,” Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environmental minister, said this week. “Whole economies and societies are dependent on fossil fuels. Fossil capital will not disappear just because we made a decision here.” But, she added, an agreement sends “a strong political message that this is the pathway.”

The deal represents a diplomatic victory for the United Arab Emirates, the oil-rich nation that hosted these talks at a glittering, sprawling expo center in Dubai under smoggy skies just 11 miles away from the largest natural gas power plant in the world.

It remains to be seen if countries will follow through on the agreement. Scientists say that nations would need to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 43% this decade if they hope to limit total global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with preindustrial levels. Beyond that level, scientists say, humans could struggle to adapt to rising seas, wildfires, extreme storms and drought.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For the first time since nations began meeting three decades ago to confront climate change, diplomats from nearly 200 countries approved a global pact that explicitly calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels” such as oil, gas and coal that are dangerously heating the planet.

The sweeping agreement, which comes during the hottest year in recorded history, was reached Wednesday after two weeks of furious debate at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai. European leaders and many of the nations most vulnerable to climate-fueled disasters were urging language that called for a complete “phaseout” of fossil fuels. But that proposal faced intense pushback from major oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq, as well as fast-growing countries such as India and Nigeria.

In the end, negotiators struck a compromise: The new deal calls on countries to accelerate a global shift away from fossil fuels this decade in a “just, orderly and equitable manner,” and to quit adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere entirely by midcen-

tury. It also calls on nations to triple the amount of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, installed around the world by 2030 and to slash emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term.

While past U.N. climate deals have urged countries to reduce emissions, they have shied away from explicitly mentioning the words “fossil fuels,” even though the burning of oil, gas and coal is the primary cause of global warming.

“Humanity has finally done what is long, long, long overdue,” said Wopke Hoekstra, the European commissioner for climate action. “Thirty years — 30 years! — we spent to arrive at the beginning of the end of fossil fuels.”

The new deal is not legally binding and can’t, on its own, force any country to act. Yet many of the politicians, environmentalists and business leaders gathered in Dubai hoped it would send a message to investors and policymakers that the shift away from fossil fuels was unstoppable. Over the next two years, each nation is supposed to submit a detailed, formal plan for how it intends to curb greenhouse gas emissions through

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LOCAL&REGION Police make arrest in weekend shooting Man, 32, apprehended Monday after he allegedly shot 21-year-old girlfriend Saturday near downtown The New Mexican

Los Lunas police have arrested a man suspected in a weekend shooting in Santa Fe that wounded his girlfriend.

Nathan Christopher Ludlow Warner, 32, was apprehended and booked into the Valencia County Detention Center on Monday, Santa Fe police said in a news release

issued early Wednesday morning.

Warner faces additional felony charges in Valencia County after police there alleged he had several guns, illegal drugs and was driving a stolen truck.

Warner is accused of shooting his 21-year-old girlfriend near Rio Grande Avenue and Piñon Drive near downtown following an incident in which she alleged he

tried to suffocate her, according to police.

The victim survived the shooting, police said.

Warner was Nathan charged Saturday Christopher with attempted Ludlow murder, shooting Warner at or from a motor vehicle and felon in possession of a firearm.

On Tuesday, he was charged in

Los Lunas Magistrate Court with transferring a stolen vehicle, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.

A Los Lunas police officer wrote in a criminal complaint Warner was arrested Monday evening outside a Big 5 store. Police were dispatched to the establishment after customers reported concerns the suspect was armed with a Taser, the officer wrote.

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Deal with fiscal agent approved, allowing city to access stalled outlay funding State finance department previously told city it would need to take step in order to utilize 2021 money amid late audits

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The Santa Fe City Council has approved an agreement with a fiscal agent so it can access capital outlay from the 2021 legislative session.

The state Department of Finance and Administration told the city in an August letter it would not be able to issue new grant agreements or bonded debt to the city until it is back in compliance with audit requirements. The city could only access 2021 capital outlay if it went through a fiscal agent, the letter said, and recommended hiring the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District.

After the letter became public knowledge following a New Mexican report, city officials said they were considering whether pursuing a fiscal agency would be the right path.

“If we think we’re going to be compliant very, very soon, would it be better to pay a 3 or a 5% fee on millions of dollars, or would it be better just to wait until we’re caught up?” City Manager John Blair said at a September meeting of the City Council.

The agreement with the economic development district was unanimously approved at Wednesday’s City Council meeting after a brief discussion. Under the terms of the agreement, the district will provide its services for 3% of the dollar amounts the city spends on the projects during the terms of the agreement. The city can terminate the agreement with 30 days’ notice.

“In the interim, it’s the best solution possible that we have at our availability,” City Attorney Erin McSherry said at the meeting.

The five 2021 capital outlay projects are: ◆ $1.805 million for additional upgrades to the Santa Fe ABOVE: Ed Williams of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club runs the model train Wednesday at the group’s yearly track setup at First National Bank on the Plaza.

The holiday trains, which run from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, are operated and maintained by the group’s volunteers throughout the holiday season. The track will be taken down Dec. 30.

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RIGHT: Susi Perry of Santa Fe smiles Wednesday as she walks past the holiday model train at First National Bank on the Plaza.

The Santa Fe Model Railroad Club meets the second Tuesday of each month, with the meetings open to any interested person.

The group is a product of state legislation earlier this year that split the former Law Enforcement Academy Board into two groups to oversee different functions

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pen pals with these people as well.”

Todd Winder, administrator of the Fort Bayard State Veterans Home in Santa Clara, echoed Shull’s thoughts. Sometimes, he said, the good feeling the missives and cards provide last far longer than a day as the veterans realize “someone sent a card — especially a stranger.”

Both men said such cards, which bear more emotional weight than an email, are particularly import-

During their first time meeting as a group Wednesday, members of a newly formed state police board revoked the certification of six officers — and one law enforcement communication worker — from around the state.

The board also issued certification suspensions — from 30 hours to 180 days — to eight officers or dispatchers and dismissed four disciplinary cases.

They were the first steps in a process that could shape law enforcement statewide for years to come — changes that could include the overhaul of rules that govern law enforcement policies, discipline and training.

In the short term, Wednesday’s moves cut down some of the backlog in disciplinary cases for the Law Enforcement Certification Board, a product of state legislation earlier this year that split the former Law Enforcement Academy Board into two different groups that each oversee different functions of the state’s police academy program.

The other newly formed body — the Standards and Training Council — met in recent weeks to begin its review of police training around the state.

One of the actions the board took Wednesday was a temporary suspension of certification for Brad Lunsford, a Las Cruces police officer who recently was indicted on a

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opportunities to operate the antique printing press; 5:30-7:30 p.m.; free admission.

Donations of nonperishable food welcomed.

Letter-writing program spreads joy to veterans’ homes Operation Holiday Cheer began in 2021 as way to let vets know public cares

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If you got your letters to Santa Claus and holiday cards off in the mail but you’re still itching to send good wishes to someone, sign up for Operation Holiday Cheer.

You don’t actually have to register — just send a card or letter to one of the many veterans residing

the state’s two veterans’ homes or to staff members who care for those veterans.

The program, launched in 2021 by the state Department of Veterans’ Services, is designed to give those veterans a shot of the holiday spirit and remind them that the world outside hasn’t forgotten them.

“It boosts the morale of the veterans,” said Kenneth Schull, administrator for the New Mexico State Veterans’ Home in Truth or Consequences, which has about 60 residents.

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Friday ETERNAL SUMMER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. Albinoni’s Double Oboe Concerto, Bach’s Brandenburg Concert No. 4, and Corelli’s Op. 6, No. 7 in D Major; 5:30 p.m., doors 5:15 p.m.; donations accepted.

WINTER GLOW HOLIDAY STROLL ON MUSEUM HILL Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Free admission 4-7 p.m.; holiday card mak-

“It’s a good ‘warm and fuzzy’ feeling for them because they know what they fought for, and it’s good for them to know the public is still out there, aware of their sacrifice,” he said.

A 30-year U.S. Army veteran, Schull said it always lifted his spirits to get old-fashioned cards and letters from people while he was serving overseas.

“And they don’t throw those letters away,” he said of the veterans at the home. “They hold on to them, they put them in scrap books and some of them become

ing, performance of the holiday drama Los Pastores o Pastorelas and the comedy La Pastorela Cómica.

COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSTORE ANNUAL HOLIDAY PLAYERS 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 Including Ali MacGraw, Carol McGiffin, Jim McGiffin, Natachee Momaday Gray, Felix Cordova and others; 6 p.m.; no charge; collectedworksbookstore.com.

ELEVENTH ANNUAL ‘A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS’ Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, A Christmas Carol on Airport Road (a short play by JoJo Sena Tarnoff), Ballet Folclórico de mi Pueblo, poetry readings and Santa Claus; 7 p.m., encores 2 p.m. Saturday and

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Sunday; $15; teatroparaguasnm.org.

Saturday WELCOME BACK TO THE NEW NORM CHRISTMAS BAZAAR San Ildefonso Pueblo Gym, Tunyo Po’ (N.M. 502, 15 miles north of Santa Fe off U.S. 84/285) Silversmiths, painters, beadworkers and potters (50 vendors); Pueblo oven breads, pastries and hourly raffles; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum downtown Music, the Baumann Marionette Christmas Show and holiday crafts; doors open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; events 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; free admission.

Railyard Plaza and West Casitas, 1612 Alcaldesa St. Holiday market, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Earl Buck, Adam Arcuragi, Schola Cantorum and vintage records spun by DJ Christina Swilley; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Donations accepted for the Northern New Mexico Toy Drive.

PETRA BABANKOVA AND NELSON DENMAN Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Guitar and cello recital of holiday music; 5 p.m.; $10 suggested donation.

CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE Palace of the Governors, 105 W. Palace Ave. Live music, Santa and Mrs. Claus and

Sunday FESTIVAL OF THE NATIVITIES Old San Ysidro Church, 966 Old Church Road, Corrales More than 100 displays from around the world; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; free and open to the public.

SCHOLA CANTORUM OF SANTA FE Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 417 Agua Fría St. Christmas music; 2 p.m.; donations accepted.

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Colo. cattle industry seeks to block wolf

By Matthew Brown The Associated Press

A federal judge is set to consider on Thursday a request by Colorado’s cattle industry to block the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to the state under a voter-approved initiative.

State wildlife officials plan to capture up to 10 wolves from Oregon and begin releasing them in Colorado by Dec. 31 as they race to meet a deadline imposed under a 2020 ballot proposal that passed by a narrow margin.

The animals would be among the first gray wolves in Colorado in decades.

The Gunnison County Stockgrowers’ Association and Colorado Cattlemen’s Association filed a lawsuit Monday to halt the releases. They claim the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately review Colorado’s plan to release up to 50 wolves onto state and private land over the next several years.

Judge Regina M. Rodriguez scheduled a 10 a.m. hearing at the federal courthouse in Denver to hear arguments in the case.

Gray wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S. by the 1930s under govern-

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Teen Center. ◆ $1 million for upgrades to city parks. ◆ $1 million for infrastructure design and construction work for the midtown campus. ◆ $300,000 for construction to the Tierra Contenta Trail. ◆ $250,000 for facility improvements for the Santa Fe Homebound Meals Program.

The park upgrades and midtown design are the city’s top two priorities, Finance Director Emily Oster said at a legislative breakfast Tuesday.

The district will be responsible for serving as a liaison between the city and relevant state agencies, signing off on project invoices and ensuring the funds are spent in accordance with state laws and relevant grant agreements.

At Tuesday’s breakfast, city officials urged Santa Fe-area lawmakers not to let the city’s overdue audit impact consideration of the city’s funding requests for the upcoming session.

“Any funding that is appropriated to the city this legislative session — we are ready and able to spend it,” Oster said.

Oster said she believes the issues that led the city to struggle with years of late audits have been fixed and expects the city to be “compliant and on time” with the fiscal year 2024 audit.

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ment-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns. They received endangered species protections in 1975, when there were about 1,000 left in northern Minnesota.

Wolves have since rebounded in the Great Lakes region. They’ve also returned to numerous Western states — Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and, most recently, California — following an earlier reintroduction effort that brought wolves from Canada to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s.

An estimated 7,500 wolves in about 1,400 packs now roam parts of the contiguous U.S. Their return to the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado would achieve a longstanding dream of wildlife advocates and fill in one of the last remaining major gaps in the species’ historical range in the western U.S. A small number of wolves from the Yellowstone region journeyed across Wyoming to Colorado in recent years. Some of those animals were shot when they wandered back into Wyoming, where shooting them is legal.

Colorado officials say they are currently managing only two wolves in the state.

The plan to establish a permanent wolf

population through releases of animals captured elsewhere has sharpened divides between rural and urban residents. City and suburban dwellers largely voted to reintroduce the apex predators into rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock that help drive local economies.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published an environmental review in September of what is called a 10(j) rule, which permits the killing of wolves in Colorado under certain scenarios — particularly in the defense of livestock — even though the animals are protected federally as an endangered species.

The rule is a key piece of Colorado’s reintroduction plan. The livestock groups contend the review of the rule failed to capture the full consequences of wolf reintroduction.

Colorado Assistant Attorney General Lisa Reynolds requested Thursday’s hearing after the livestock groups sought a temporary restraining order from Rodriguez to stop the wolf releases. Reynolds said in a Wednesday court filing that the releases would not begin prior to Dec. 17.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services spokesperson Joe Szuszwalak declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation.

Lindell was being disruptive while he was asking questions following the compensation study presentation. “[Councilor] Lindell, am I bothering you with my comments? I’m talking here,” Garcia said. It’s unclear what Lindell was doing to prompt his ire. ◆ A private discussion over an agreement with LiveArts Santa Fe to renovate and operate the Greer Garson Theatre on the midtown campus was postponed to Jan. 31. ◆ A resolution sponsored by Councilors Renee Villarreal and Jamie Cassutt opposing production of plutonium warhead cores at Los Alamos National CARINA JULIG/THE NEW MEXICAN Laboratory was introduced and Santa Fe Fire Chief Brian Moya delivers a plaque to Councilor is scheduled to go back to the Chris Rivera in thanks for his work on the Public Safety ComCity Council for final approval mittee at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Rivera’s last beon Jan. 10. A number of Los fore leaving office. Rivera served on the committee throughout Alamos Study Group members his 12 years in office. urged councilors to support the measure during public comment. people came to the meeting in the upcoming session will be ◆ As part of the consent support of the program. available for the 2024 fiscal year agenda, councilors approved a ◆ Outgoing Councilor Chris beginning in July, by which number of budget adjustment time Blair said the city will have Rivera was given a plaque by resolutions regarding the Fire Chief Brian Moya in recogsubmitted its 2023 audit and be spending of the unanticipated nition of his work on the Public “ready to access any dollars you $16.5 million in gross receipts Safety Committee, which he all are kind enough to appropritax revenue from the past fiscal has served on throughout his 12 ate for us. year, including $1 million for years in office.

“We will be compliant this renovation of the Salvador Perez ◆ Councilors heard a presenfiscal year,” Blair said.

Athletic Field and $800,000 for tation on a compensation study The current target date for design work to the midtown for city employees, which found campus. submission of the 2023 audit is the city’s pay range is about 20% May 15. ◆ At press time, councilors below the market average. The Other council business: were scheduled to vote later in study recommended setting up ◆ Councilors unanimously the evening on a bill giving the a new pay structure that is more Historic District Review Board approved agreements with Christ Lutheran Church and The competitive and accounts for final say over requests for buildemployees’ time with the city.

Life Link to host and staff a safe ing code exemptions in historic ◆ Councilor Michael Garcia outdoor space for the homeless. neighborhoods, reversing the and Mayor Alan Webber The city approved a one-year effects of a change to the process engaged in a brief back-and-forth made last year by the City Attorpilot program for the space in the spring. About two dozen after Garcia said Councilor Signe ney’s Office.

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voluntary manslaughter charge after he was accused of shooting and killing a man.

The board requested the academy’s staff to expedite an investigation into Lunsford’s disciplinary case.

Board members voted on the disciplinary cases after spending more than three hours in private discussions. The closed session also included discussion of four pending court appeals challenging suspensions or revocations by the former board, as well as one pending lawsuit from an Albuquerque Police Department officer whose certification-by-waiver was rejected by the former board in recent years.

The new certification board is made up of sheriffs and police chiefs from around the state as well as civil rights attorneys and academics.

Board member and attorney Joseph Walsh called the new board structure “effectively a new paradigm that’s trying to be implemented to hopefully be a model for law enforcement.”

He added the new board structure can bring “true accountability.”

The board began a process to hire a CEO for the academy Wednesday with the approval of a job description to be posted for recruiting. Members expressed hope the position would be filled in six months to a year.

A CEO will act as the “enforcement mechanism” of the board’s directives at the academy, Walsh said, and make business decisions such as hiring and firing.

Until the position is filled, the board authorized academy director Sonya Chavez to make decisions.

Chavez, who began in the position Oct. 30, previously served as the U.S. Marshal of New Mexico. Before that, she worked as a special agent in the FBI. “What we’re involved in I think is going to

be monumental for law enforcement in New Mexico,” Chavez told the board Wednesday.

The board’s misconduct investigations and hearings are still conducted according to administrative rules set decades ago for the former board, which was for years led by the state Attorney General.

On Wednesday, board members voted to form a four-member working group to draft changes to the rules.

The two members tasked with drafting changes to the rules for the board’s disciplinary actions are public defender Julie Ball and Cody Rogers, a Las Cruces-based attorney. Rule changes pertaining to certification qualifications were assigned to be reviewed and redrafted by John Soloman, a criminal justice program director at Central New Mexico Community College, and Carly Lea Huffman, a training coordinator at the Bernalillo County Emergency Communications Center.

The rulemaking process is expected to generate new administrative rules for the board to be in place by the end of 2024.

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ant for veterans who no longer have family members or whose families live far away.

“You may have a bad day, and you get that letter — it gives you purpose going forward,” Schull said. “With a lot of them, their spouses are gone, their family is not near. It sparks the Christmas feeling in them.”

Ray Seva, spokesman for the state Department of Veterans’ Services, said after a visit he paid to the Truth or Consequences facility in November 2021 he saw “how alone the veterans are. A lot of them are alone all year. I thought, ‘For the holidays, that’s got to be really tough.’ ” He said he pitched the idea of Operation Holiday Cheer to his department that year and it was accepted.

Winder said veterans like hearing stories about the people

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George Gray, left, and Gary Chandler, who have known each other since high school, in their room in May at the state veterans home in Truth or Consequences. The Operation Holiday Cheer letter-writing program was launched in 2021 by the state Department of Veterans’ Services and is designed to give veterans a shot of the holiday spirit and remind them the world outside hasn’t forgotten them.

who are writing the cards and letters to them.

“Thank them for their service and tell them a little story about

who you are,” he advised. “They like to hear something about the person writing the card, their dreams and challenges.”

Operation Holiday Cheer encourages New Mexicans to write holiday cards and greetings to veterans who are residents of the state’s two veterans’ homes, as well as staff members helping to care for those veterans.

According to the state Department of Veterans Services, this is how to help: For veterans, address cards with “Dear Veteran” or “Dear Hero” and include a short message of appreciation for their military service.

For staff members, address cards “Dear Frontline Hero” or “Dear Veterans’ Home Staff Member” and express gratitude for their care.

Write “Attention: Operation Holiday Cheer” on the front of the card.

You can mail the cards to one or both of the state-run veterans homes: The New Mexico State Veterans Home, 922 South Broadway, Truth or Consequences, NM, 87901.

Fort Bayard State Veterans Home, 41 Fort Bayard Road, Santa Clara, NM, 88026.

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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

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pickup that was reported stolen in Española, the complaint states, and police found a handgun concealed in his jacket as well as “an AR-15 style rifle” in the truck, according to the complaint.

Police found Warner had two active arrest warrants for probation or parole violations

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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in addition to one issued for the attempted murder charge in Santa Fe, according to the complaint.

Warner was arraigned on charges in Los Lunas Magistrate Court on Wednesday. A judge set a secured cash bond of $200 for Warner’s release, according to an order setting conditions of release filed Wednesday morning.

An administrative assistant at the Valencia County jail said Warner was still detained at the facility Wednesday afternoon.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS BARBARA OLIVER

December 28, 1942 - December 2, 2023 Ashland - Barbara Roastingear Oliver passed peacefully at Celia’s House in Medford, OR on December 2, 2023.

Barbara Jo Roastingear, daughter of Julius and Grace Maloy Roastingear, was born December 28, 1942 in her Grandmother Jess Maloy’s living room in Bunch, Oklahoma. She and her mother lived with her Granny Mary Roastingear while her Cherokee father served in WWII in Europe. Barbara was two years old before she would meet her father.

Barbara spent her grade school years in Oklahoma while her father and mother attended Northeastern University in Tahlequah and the University of Oklahoma in Norman on the GI bill. Barbara, along with her father, mother and younger brother, Julius (currently of Durango, CO) moved to New Mexico where her parents worked in the New Mexico public school system. Barbara’s teenage years were spent on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and Zuni Pueblo as her mother taught and father was principal. Graduating as Valedictorian from Zuni High School, Barbara excelled in sports and academics, graduating at the young age of 16. Barbara then went on to attend the first graduating Dental Hygiene class at the University of New Mexico. She graduated in 1963 and practiced dental hygiene under NM license #86 for many years.

Barbara married Douglass Shelton Moore in 1964. They had two children, Douglass Moore (deceased) and Mary Flitner of Terrebonne, Oregon. They divorced in 1981. Barbara married Harry Oliver August 7, 1986. Barbara and Harry spent many joyful years in New Mexico, Wyoming and Oregon until her death, December 2, 2023, less than a month before her 81st birthday. Harry and Barbara have three grandchildren, Samuel Flitner, Grace Flitner and Shelby Moore.

Barbara loved her Native American heritage, her multitude of friends, art, laughter and her family. Her remains will be spread on her favorite spots in New Mexico and a celebration of life will be held at their home in Ashland on June 1, 2024.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to Celia’s Hospice House 217 Modoc Ave. Medford OR 97504.

ARCELIA “ARCHIE” BACA Arcelia “Archie” Baca, age 92, was born on June 2, 1931, and was called home to our Lord on December 1, 2023. Archie was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend.

Archie was preceded in death by her parents, Jose Antonio and Elvira Vigil, her husband Roy Baca, her sisters Helen Elena (Pete), Tillie (Eutimo), Mary (Abe), her brothers Walter, Leo (Viola), Antonio “Tony,” and brother-in-law Louis “Louie”.

Archie is survived by her son Wilfred Baca (Jane), daughter Sabie Ann Baca, sister Orilia “Lila” Baca, and a very special sister-in-law, Lillie Vigil. Archie was blessed with her three grandchildren, Ashley (Gary), Kelly, Josh (Monique), her six great-grandchildren, Jayden, Bryana, Dominic, Colt, Elena, and Emery, and numerous beloved nieces and nephews, to include a very special goddaughter, Nadine Serrano.

Archie lived most of her life in El Rito, NM. She was a very strong and independent woman who lived her life with a strong faith in our Lord. Archie loved her family and was especially proud of her son, Will. He was her best friend.

The celebration of Archie’s life will begin with a rosary at San Juan Nepomuceno Church in El Rito, NM on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 10:00am, followed immediately with a funeral mass at 11:00am.

Burial services are to be determined and will be held on a later date.

Archie’s family would like to give a special and heartfelt thanks to Brookdale of Santa Fe and Ambercare Hospice for providing Archie with exceptional care and compassion.

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Reinstate radiation exposure compensation

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etting the U.S. Congress to do the right thing is never an easy task — and in the case of New Mexico residents and their descendants adversely affected by nuclear bomb testing or uranium mining, at times seems almost impossible.

New Mexico is the birthplace of the atomic bomb and site of the first test in 1945.

But people here were not included in the original legislation designed to compensate individuals harmed by the nation’s nuclear efforts. Last week, a new injustice: An amendment to the 2024 defense spending bill to allow federal compensation for New Mexicans hurt by mining or testing was struck from the National Defense Authorization Act during House-Senate Armed Service Committee negotiations last week.

Compensation for radiation exposure had been included as part of the defense spending bill in an amendment sponsored by U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján along with GOP Sens. Mike Crapo of Idaho and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

Luján has sponsored radiation exposure com-

pensation bills in every Congress since he first was elected to the House in 2008.

Inside the National Defense Authorization Act was an expansion of eligibility under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. It would have offered up to tens of thousands of dollars to people in New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Guam and Missouri, plus some parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah. The money would go to individuals who suffered ill effects from nuclear testing or uranium mining and who aren’t covered under the current program.

Expanding eligibility would deliver justice. Why everyone was not included in compensation programs has never made sense. People who were harmed deserve recompense.

As Archbishop of Santa Fe John C. Wester said in a statement supporting those damaged by the nation’s nuclear activities, “Even though atmospheric nuclear weapons testing ended long ago in 1962, future cancer deaths will still far exceed past deaths due to long-lived fallout. Why is it that our gov-

ernment does not inform us of this future suffering while also failing to justly compensate past and present suffering?”

Time is running out to do the right thing.

The original Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is set to expire in July; this proposal would reauthorize funds for another 19 years while expanding eligibility for compensation — including New Mexicans who have been ineligible up until now. This, despite well-documented effects of the harmful health effects to residents living downwind of nuclear test sites. These “downwinders” have waited decades for justice.

Hawley is not taking the exclusion of his constituents lightly. He called their exclusion “obscene” and is blaming GOP leadership — both Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson — for stripping the provisions. There’s been no explanation, he said, although some have speculated concern over the measure’s cost is one reason. From 2024-33, the Congressional Budget Office estimated expansion of downwinder status and uranium

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 14, 1923: The Santa Fe high school has just closed what proved to be the most successful football season in the history of the school.

During the session ten games were played out of which eight victories were won by Santa Fe, the most notable of which was the victory over the strong Las Vegas Normal, the first time the local team has vanquished the Normal on the gridiron.

Dec. 14, 1948: Life insurance agents meeting here yesterday at the summons of corporation commissioner-to-be Ingram Pickett adopted a resolution asking that State Insurance Superintendent Ralph Apodaca by retained. Apodaca has been in jeopardy for more than a year as a result of falling out with the Second Floor Governor.

Dec. 14, 1973: Among one of the pieces of legislation which should come before the next session of the New Mexico Legislature is a bill backed by the state’s press and news media for a tougher open meeting law for public bodies.

Recent events around the state demonstrate that a tough enforceable law, with a few penalties designed to make public officials think, is needed.

Dec. 14, 1998: When Tesuque resident LaLa Ortiz had a heart attack, a friend visiting from out of state did the right thing by dialing 911.

Then came the hard part, when friend Tina Sontono had to tell the emergency dispatcher how to get to Ortiz’s home. Sontono, who had never been to Ortiz’s house before, didn’t know how to describe the series of winding dirt roads that led to the house. Luckily, a neighbor drove by, and Sontono was able to flag him down and then give accurate directions to save her friend’s life.

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State Democratic Party considers thorny cease-fire resolution, Dec. 8

Hamas is a clear threat “ to Palestinian and Israe-

li civilians. Hamas was supposed to govern Gaza, not steal billions in aid meant for civilians in order to build a huge military infrastructure underneath its own people, then commit a brutal attack against Israel with the intent to start a war and then forbid its own population from hiding in their miles of tunnels.” Kathy Rappaport

Fine, pass a resolution “ for a cease-fire. All it does

is let certain voters know what your position is, but it changes nothing nor does it motivate any change in the situation. This is a waste of time.” Jerry Appel

mining would add up to some $143.4 billion over time.

The conference committee version of the defense bill passed the Senate on Wednesday night — the House is next. Expanding radiation exposure compensation will have to wait until next year. Listen to Hawley, though. As he said earlier this year at a rally in favor of his amendment, “The government used the city of St. Louis as a uranium processing facility as a major site, and then when that was over, what did it do? Did it take care of the waste?

No. It allowed it to seep into the groundwater.”

Later, he added, “If the government is going to create a disaster, the government should clean it up.” There’s little on which we agree with Hawley, but on this point, he is correct.

With members of the two major political parties unable to agree on much, it is disappointing a measure with so much bipartisan support was killed. It would have recognized, after 78 years, people in New Mexico exposed to radiation from the first nuclear blast at the Trinity Site. That recognition — and compensation — is long overdue.

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New veterinary clinic welcome but confusing

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The stakes are clear: Ukraine could lose PARIS n unspoken, unspeakable potential endgame in the Russia-Ukraine war is suddenly being uttered out loud: Kyiv is at risk of losing — and suffering unimaginable carnage and consequences.

The fact that Ukraine’s fate is hanging in the balance arises not from its inability to recapture territory from entrenched Russian forces, nor from the related fact of the Biden administration’s foot-dragging in providing the Ukrainian military with the weapons it needed, nor even from Russia’s advantage in sheer mass and resources.

It springs from two more immediate causes. One is opposition from House Republicans to further U.S. assistance. The GOP lawmakers are holding future weapons packages hostage to the unrelated issue of blocking migrants from illegally crossing the southern border. The other is aid from the European Union that is imperiled by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has become Vladimir Putin’s stalking horse.

House Republicans stand in the way of the Biden administration’s proposed $61 billion package of arms and other help that is critical to Kyiv’s ability to hold the line against Russian forces on the battlefield.

Orban, exercising Hungary’s veto as an EU member, is blocking $54 billion in budget support that would help pay Ukraine’s bills through 2027. He is also impeding talks that would lead to Ukraine’s eventual membership in the 27-nation group.

Without those infusions of cash, arms and munitions, even the disappointing status quo over the past year, in which Ukraine has not managed to recapture much territory, is unlikely to endure.

Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told a Washington forum last week that the “big risk” is Kyiv’s troops could “lose this war.”

That message should jolt policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. The danger, as Ukraine’s top general warned publicly last month, isn’t simply stalemate. It is that Ukrainian forces, running low on equipment, might be compelled to fall back, shorten their defensive lines and abandon territory.

“It would be a way back to the darkest times of the war,” Nico Lange, a German security expert on Ukraine, told me.

It’s essential to think about what Ukraine’s defeat means, because it would be as much a strategic disaster for the United States and its NATO allies as a tableau of terror for Ukraine. Dual cataclysms, equally stark, played out on different timetables.

A complete Ukrainian military collapse is unlikely,

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at least in coming months. Kyiv’s armed forces remain well-led and motivated, and they are husbanding equipment to prepare for shortfalls. But it is equally unlikely to expect a negotiated cease-fire with Russia that would maintain existing battle lines. To believe in that seemingly anodyne outcome is to misjudge Putin — again.

For the Kremlin dictator, a “compromise” would involve Ukraine’s subjugation and dissolution as an independent state. That would include regime change, with Zelenskyy in exile (or dead), as well as an end to Kyiv’s aspirations to join the EU or NATO. Putin and his factotums have held to that stance, even if they convey it using code words. In an interview last week with Agence France-Presse, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reiterated that the Kremlin insists on the “withdrawal” of Ukrainian troops from territory Russia has illegally annexed, as well as “demilitarization” and “denazification.” Translation: Stop fighting, retreat and accept a pro-Moscow government in Kyiv.

The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank, wrote in an assessment this week that “Russia does not intend to engage in serious negotiations with Ukraine in good faith and … negotiations on Russia’s terms are tantamount to full Ukrainian and Western surrender.”

In fact, Putin’s main advantage is strategic patience — the capacity to wait out what he is confident is finite Western political will and resources to sustain Ukraine, buttressed by his indifference to Russia’s staggering casualties. In the end, he believes, Ukraine will be forced to capitulate.

If he is right, the timetable of that ending would be accelerated if Congress and the EU fail to approve fresh support. That would leave Ukraine’s government unable to maintain basic services, and its military increasingly short of artillery ammunition, air defense capability and other equipment. Ukraine’s already badly battered front-line forces would become more brittle. Russian territorial gains would be accompanied by murders, rapes, kidnapping of children and other Russian war crimes on a chilling scale.

That grim scenario would be a staggering blow to Western prestige and credibility, revealing that pledges to back Ukraine for “as long as it takes” were empty.

A failure on that scale — let alone actual defeat in Ukraine — would have much more lasting repercussions than Kyiv’s inability to break through Russian battle lines. It could raise the curtain on a new era of aggression by authoritarian states, unchecked by the world’s diminished democracies.

Lee Hockstader writes for The Washington Post.

t seems words don’t mean much these days in fields even outside of politics. Santa Fe has desperately needed more veterinary care offices for many years. Now we’re being told that a new “urgent care clinic” is opening, but — not only will the clinic not provide “primary care” (which is difficult enough to obtain here in a city where a high percentage of people own pets) — it will not be providing “emergency care” either. So what exactly does “urgent care” involve? According to one of the founders, “It’s still a bit of an open question [what services will be offered].”

Really? Since when is a business envisioned by the creators to the point of actually of having an address without the founders developing a detailed business plan outlining what it will be doing for the public?

Are terrified pet owners supposed to assess — during regular business hours because of course the office won’t be open at night — what level of urgent care the clinic owners are willing to provide?

S.E. Fisher

Santa Fe

A cruel decision The unconscionable decision of the Texas Supreme Court to deny a mother of two experiencing a devastating pregnancy the chance to protect her health and her ability to have more children exposes the hypocritical nature of so-called pro-life policies. The decision does not support families or life and is neither humane nor Christian. It is simply vicious cruelty.

Pat Preib

Santa Fe

Not the right time Regarding the article (“State Democratic Party considers thorny cease-fire resolution,” Dec. 9): Keep the facts in mind. Hamas broke the cease-fire by firing rockets all over Israel. Hamas broke the ceasefire by refusing to release all the women and children still held hostage after their violent abductions at gunpoint from their homes. Israeli analysts are convinced Hamas refuses to release hostages due to their condition and the stories they would tell. A cease-fire now only benefits Hamas terrorists and puts more Israeli and innocent Palestinian lives at risk. The New Mexico Democratic Central Committee should stay away from a cease-fire resolution.

Dr. David Jaffe

Santa Fe

Futile bombs It is not very gratifying to see the daily rubble in Gaza created by the bombs bought for Bibi Netanyahu with my tax dollars. I suppose in the future my tax dollars will rebuild Gaza, so it can be bombed again. When will military doctrine catch up with the reality that bombing a population does not win wars and is very expensive? Reflecting on the bombings of London, Dresden, Tokyo, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hanoi, Afghanistan and Iraq, I would ask Gen. Curtis LeMay if his bombing strategy ever worked?

Hiroshima did not win a war already won, but did teach us that we have the power to destroy mankind.

So now, we revert to the useless, anger-inspired strategy of bombing populations with artillery and drones (Ukraine) and bombs (Gaza).

Dr. Gerald M. Rosen

Santa Fe

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Dec. 14, 1924 - The temperature at Helena, Mont. plunged 88 degrees in 34 hours. The mercury plummeted from 63 above to 25 below zero. At Fairfield, Mont., the temperature plunged 84 degrees in just 12 hours, from 63 at noon to 21 below zero at midnight.

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80° in Catalina Foothills, Ariz.

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Cancún 82/72

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Monterrey 67/62

Carlsbad 56 / 37

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Hobbs 47 / 37

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St. Louis 58/34

Hermosillo 76/56

Roswell 50 / 34

Las Cruces 62 / 33

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Omaha 52/33

Las Vegas 61/40

Boston 36/27

Minneapolis 46/35

Boise 40/31

Los Angeles 73/54

Clovis 40 / 32

Ruidoso 46 / 27 Truth or Consequences 59 / 32

San Francisco 62/48

Las Vegas 36 / 20

Pecos 37 / 24

Seattle 47/42 Billings 50/29

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AIR QUALITY INDEX

Source: www.airnow.gov

Partly Cloudy.

Sunday

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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.

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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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WATER STATISTICS

.Wednesday's . . . . . . . . . . . rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 .. . . . . . . . .Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 ..

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The following water statistics of December 12th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.880 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.704 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.791 Total production: 6.375 Total consumption: 6.378 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.73 Reservoir storage: 322.11 Estimated reservoir capacity: 25.21%

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For Christmas, cutting down a tree helps environment The base of a just-felled tree is trimmed at a Christmas tree farm in Quebec, Canada, in 2020. Experts say tree farms can function like young forests, pulling carbon from the atmosphere and giving habitat to wildlife amid woodlands loss.

By Cara Buckley

The New York Times

A few years after the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests started a Christmas tree farm, Nigel Manley, who oversaw the operations, began noticing some interesting developments among the rows of fragrant balsam and Fraser firs lining the land.

In the spring, areas around the younger trees drew ground nesters like bobolinks — songbirds that migrate to and from South America — killdeer and woodcocks, who availed themselves of the open spaces to perform their courtship flights and rear their young. Deer hid their fawns in long grasses. Waxwings and robins nested in older trees, their young fledging many months before harvest. Mice and voles living on the land drew foxes and migratory raptors such as kestrels and harriers, who feasted

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on the cornucopia each time the grass was mowed.

In these climatically perilous times, when the cooling and oxygenating properties of trees have never been more valued, it seems counterintuitive to support chopping them down. Yet, the ecological benefits of real

Christmas trees are why many environmentalists endorse them over the fake, petroleum-based versions that are shipped from half a world away.

Christmas tree farms can function much like young forests, said Andy Finton, a forest ecologist with the Nature Con-

servancy in Massachusetts. Two to three saplings are generally planted for every tree harvested, and, according to Jill Sidebottom, a spokesperson for the National Christmas Tree Association, Christmas tree farms are often cultivated on otherwise unused farmland, allowing growers to keep their green spaces.

“They’re pulling carbon from the atmosphere,” Finton said of the trees. “They’re cleaning the air and, in many cases, cleaning the drinking water. They’re keeping the landscape undevel-

oped, preventing impervious surfaces, by giving economic incentives to landowners.”

With intense development pressures and accelerating loss of natural woodlands, he said, tree farms can provide habitats for wildlife, especially birds and mammals that prefer open spaces at forest edges.

A German study published last year found conifer plantations could provide important refuges for four threatened species of farmland birds: the common linnet, tree pipit, woodlark and yellowhammer. Where ground cover is used, pollinating insects can benefit. Ten years ago, researchers documented 80 plant species at tree farms in North Carolina, including milkweed growing waist-high at the edges of fields, which drew 17 genera of bees and predatory insects that gobbled up tree pests.

Tom Norby, president of the

Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association, said a small portion of the trees were harvested each year, leaving roughly 90% growing and available for animals. On his own farm, he has seen deer, rabbits, a pygmy owl, bears, coyotes and cougars, who follow elk that forage in his fields when mountain ranges are covered in snow.

Support for the farms is not universal. Nathan Donley, the environmental health director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said a real tree was far preferable to a plastic one, and Christmas tree farms were ecologically superior to golf courses or athletic fields.

But he said the big tree farms were generally tightly packed, single-crop plantations and use pesticides.

“You’re really grasping at straws for species that find benefit,” Donley said. “In the interest of efficiency, sustainability takes a back seat.”

Hey bartender, I’ll have a Doritos Chip maker creates a nacho-flavored liquor with Copenhagen distillery

ship, they are supplying the chips: Williams estimates they use a standard, 2¾-ounce bag in each bottle of the 42% ABV product.

So, what does it taste like?

By Kate Krader Empirical’s liquid tastes uncannily like a bag of Bloomberg News Doritos nacho cheese flavored tortilla chips. From the first whiff, there’s an instant hit of corn, then Doritos Nacho Cheese chips partnerships have the follow-up of nacho-cheese powder. gone to countless places, from Call of Duty to virtual Then when you take a sip, any initial skepticism concerts with the Netflix series Stranger Things. may well dissolve, depending on your tolerance for One place Doritos has never gone, at least in a the flavors of toasted corn, as well as the cheese way officially sanctioned by parent company and onion powder that define so much of that DorPepsiCo Inc, is into alcohol. itos flavor hit, in liquid form.

But on December 12, the flaming orange chips The Doritos Nacho Cheese flavor has been hangwill get sloshed with the launch of Empirical x ing out in Empirical’s lab for a while, according to Doritos Nacho Cheese.

Williams. The original version was made around the The partnership with Doritos — the most popular time the brand started in 2017. It was an “accident” savory snack among Gen Z and the eighth-ranked that came about during preliminary experiments with brand overall — is the most commercial offering ingredients such as licorice, parsley and ras el hanout. from Empirical Spirits, a Copenhagen-based distill“One production guy went out to lunch and came ery. The limited release of the beverage, available back with a bag of Doritos,” says Williams. “I decided, at doritos.x.empirical.co and at to-be-announced ‘Why not?’ and threw it in.” The impact of the infulocations in New York and California, will go for $65 sion was shockingly successful. “When I tasted it, it for a 750 milliliter bottle. (The companies did not was so much like Doritos, I just started laughing,” says disclose the number of bottles they’re releasing.)

Williams. But he ruled it out as an early Empirical Empirical was started by Lars Williams and Mark flavor in favor of more artisanal blends.

Emil Hermansen, both veterans of the kitchen at Not long after Empirical launched, however, a Copenhagen’s acclaimed Noma. Williams oversaw handful of PepsiCo executives ate at Noma. “I was the mad-scientist experiments in the restaurant’s clear with the team, do not give them the Doritos Nordic Food Lab. spirit; there’s a 99% chance we’ll get sued,” says Williams. Instead, it was applauded.

Though PepsiCo is not paying for the partner-

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Lobos aiming for post-Christmas gift

Owners plan more contests outside U.S. in next 2 years

By Schuyler Dixon

The Associated Press

IRVING, Texas — The NFL is adding Brazil as its first regular-season destination in South America next year.

An increase in the number of international games by 2025 means other new cities are on the way.

The league said Wednesday at the owners meetings in the Dallas area the 2024 game will be played at Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The stadium has a capacity of nearly 50,000 and was a venue for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

The NFL also announced a doubling of the potential international games from four to eight in 2025, not counting an additional game that Jacksonville has the option of including each year.

There were five international games this year, three year in London and the first two in Frankfurt, Germany. There will be five more next season — another three in London along with a return to Germany and the addition of Brazil.

Spain got strong consideration for the bid that went to Brazil, and the NFL made it clear a regular-season game was coming to the European country at some point. A return to Mexico also is expected.

“I think our focus is on looking at where are those next markets based on where the fan passion exists, where the opportunity is to have the greatest impact,” said Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s executive vice president for club

Coach Pitino says injured Mashburn expected to return to lineup by then

By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE — University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino said Wednesday the hope is injured guard Jamal Mashburn Jr. will return to the Lobos’ lineup after Christmas.

A senior who transferred to UNM from Minnesota when Pitino was hired three years ago, Mashburn led the Mountain West Conference in scoring last season and was a

preseason all-MWC pick this year.

He hasn’t played since Nov. 22 in Las Vegas, Nev., when he aggravated a torn ligament in his right thumb.

Pitino said Mashburn initially injured his shooting hand in a preseason practice and played through the discomfort. He started the first five games, partially wrapping his hand in tape. It wasn’t until he aggravated the injury against Rice while also incurring what Pitino described as a “leg contusion” that he was put on the shelf.

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19-0 run fuels Jags’ win Hustling Bencomo takes over while Horsemen hurt by foul trouble

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The Associated Press

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UNM’s Jamal Mashburn Jr. on Feb. 14 in The Pit against Wyoming.

Mashburn led the Mountain West Conference in scoring last season and was a preseason all-MWC pick this year.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — College athletes who were denied the chance to play immediately after transferring a second time can return to competition — for now — after a federal judge issued a 14-day temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA. U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey in northern West Virginia issued the order against the NCAA from enforcing the transfer rule. A lawsuit filed by West Virginia and six other states alleged the rule’s waiver process violated federal antitrust law. The order clears the way for athletes to play during the two-week period and also ensures that schools won’t be punished for allowing it.

The NCAA said in a statement it would comply with the order and notify schools.

The ruling comes while the transfer

“His leg is healed; now we’re waiting for his thumb to kinda heal so that he feels really, really good, pain-free there,” Pitino said.

An MRI revealed the extent of the damage. The ligament was partially torn but didn’t require surgery.

Pitino said the team’s depth at guard made it easier to make the decision to keep Mashburn out of action for the last three weeks.

“He could probably play through

ABOVE: Capital senior Santiago Bencomo shoots against St. Michael’s on Wednesday in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. He helped ignite a 19-0 run late in the third quarter that led to the 68-51 win over the visiting Horsemen.

It took all of us hustling and “playing hard, including our bench. We all brought the energy, and it’s a good feeling when you keep building on that.”

Capital guard Santiago Bencomo RIGHT: St. Michael’s Sabi Rios Guevara drives on Capital’s Eli Dominguez in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. PHOTOS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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antiago Bencomo is listed as a 5-foot-8 guard on Capital’s boys basketball roster.

For a healthy portion of the second half in Wednesday night’s game against visiting St. Michael’s, the senior point guard stood about 10 feet tall as he led a ferocious Jaguars rally. He scored nine of his game-high 18 points in the final four minutes of the third quarter, highlighting a 19-0 run that erased what had been a seemingly safe 38-28 Horsemen lead in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium.

It paved the way for a 68-51 win just four days after Capital (4-2) experienced a humbling 39-point loss to Farmington in the final of its own tournament.

“It was all energy and effort and it took all of us, not just five guys, not just two,” Bencomo said. “It took all of us hustling and playing hard, including our bench. We all brought the energy, and it’s a good feeling when you keep building on that and build on those mistakes that the other team makes.”

Up to that point, St. Michael’s had played a relatively clean game. The Horsemen (2-3) never trailed in the first half, using solid shooting and good ball control to offset Capital’s relentless defensive pressure.

Reed Bass’ two free throws with 4:45 left in the third quarter handed St. Mike’s its biggest lead.

Just 39 seconds later, Horsemen guard Santiago Sandoval was called for his third foul and sent to the bench. It came a few minutes after center Donevan Ricker picked up his third, and only 19 seconds before Lucas Gurule got his third.

With fouls mounting and key players heading to the bench, Capital struck. Sandoval had been red hot all night, hitting 3-pointers on consecutive possessions in the second quarter and adding another from the top of the key less than two minutes into the second half. His exit had an impact.

“We just stopped playing,” said St. Michael’s coach Gerard Garcia, who made it a point to put the responsibility for his team’s loss squarely on his shoulders. “Over the last couple of days we didn’t have very good practices. Really none since November, or at least since the football players joined us. That falls into game time. We play as our energy takes us, and we haven’t had any. At least, not enough.”

The Horsemen committed five turnovers in the first half and had 11 in the third quarter.

Most of those came during Capital’s second half dominance in which Jaguars forward Nathanael Ortiz continually got a step in transition and hit a number of layups in traffic.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. BTN — Jacksonville St. at Wisconsin 5 p.m. SECN — East Carolina vs.

Florida, Lakeland, Fla. 6 p.m. FS1 — St. Thomas (Minn.) at Marquette

IIHF HOCKEY (WOMEN’S) 5 p.m. NHLN — Rivalry Series: U.S. vs. Canada, Kitchener, Ontario NBA 5:30 p.m. NBATV — Cleveland at Boston 8 p.m. NBATV — Golden State at LA Clippers

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S) 5 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Pittsburgh vs. Nebraska, Semifinal, Tampa, Fla. 7:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Texas vs. Wisconsin, Semifinal, Tampa, Fla.

NBA G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPNU — Rip City at Team Ignite NFL 6:15 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas

GOLF 1:30 a.m. Friday GOLF — DP World Tour: The AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, Second Round, Mont Choisy Le Golf, Grand Baie,

SOCCER (MEN’S) 10:45 a.m. FS2 — King Cup: Al-Ahli at Al-Fayha, Quarterfinal

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New England 21, Pittsburgh 18

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore 37, L.A. Rams 31, OT Chicago 28, Detroit 13 Cincinnati 34, Indianapolis 14 Cleveland 31, Jacksonville 27 N.Y. Jets 30, Houston 6 New Orleans 28, Carolina 6 Tampa Bay 29, Atlanta 25 Minnesota 3, Las Vegas 0 San Francisco 28, Seattle 16 Buffalo 20, Kansas City 17 Denver 24, L.A. Chargers 7 Dallas 33, Philadelphia 13 Open: Arizona, Washington

MONDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Giants 24, Green Bay 22 Tennessee 28, Miami 27

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.

2023-24 BOWLS SATURDAY

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

Famous Toastery Bowl Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky vs. Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

Frisco Bowl Frisco, Texas UTSA vs. Marshall, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 21 Boca Raton Bowl Boca Raton, Fla. USF vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 22

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.

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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 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.

MONDAY, JAN. 8

CFP National Championship Houston Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL MEN’S TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

No. 1 Arizona (8-0) did not play. Next: at No. 3 Purdue, Saturday.

No. 2 Kansas (9-1) did not play. Next: at Indiana, Saturday.

No. 3 Purdue (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 1 Arizona, Saturday.

No. 4 Houston (10-0) did not play. Next: at Texas A&M, Saturday.

No. 5 UConn (9-1) did not play. Next: at No. 10 Gonzaga, Friday.

No. 6 Baylor (9-0) did not play. Next: at Michigan St., Saturday.

No. 7 Marquette (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. St. Thomas (MN), Thursday.

No. 8 Creighton (8-2) lost to UNLV 79-64. Next: vs. Alabama, Saturday.

No. 9 North Carolina (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 14 Kentucky, Saturday.

No. 10 Gonzaga (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 5 UConn, Friday.

No. 11 Oklahoma (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Green Bay, Saturday.

No. 12 Tennessee (7-3) did not play. Next: at NC State, Saturday.

No. 13 Clemson (9-0) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Saturday.

No. 14 Kentucky (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 9 North Carolina, Saturday.

No. 15 FAU (8-2) beat FIU 94-60. Next: at St. Bonaventure, Saturday.

No. 16 Illinois (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. Colgate, Sunday.

No. 17 Colorado St. (9-1) did not play. Next: vs.

CSU-Pueblo, Sunday.

No. 18 BYU (9-1) beat Denver 90-74. Next: vs.

Georgia St., Saturday.

No. 19 Texas (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. LSU, Saturday.

No. 20 James Madison (9-0) did not play. Next: at Hampton, Saturday.

No. 21 Duke (7-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 6 Baylor, Wednesday.

No. 22 Virginia (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Northeastern, Saturday.

No. 23 Wisconsin (7-3) did not play. Next: vs.

Jacksonville St., Thursday.

No. 24 Miami (7-2) did not play. Next: vs.

La Salle, Saturday.

Subject to change. Check with schools regarding tickets and game times and dates. Send changes to sports@sfnewmexican.com.

Thursday Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Dulce vs. Monte del Sol, 12:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs. Bernalillo, 3:30 p.m.; Portales vs.

Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: Wagon Mound vs. Questa, 12:30 p.m.; Maxwell vs. Abq. Legacy Academy, 3:30 p.m.; San Luis (Colo.)

Centennial vs. Questa, 6:30 p.m.

Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: first round, Melrose vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 1:30 p.m.

Hub City Tournament at Belen: first round, Academy for Technology and the Classics vs. Belen, 7:15 p.m.

Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: first round, Quemado vs. Escalante, 12:30 p.m.

J. May Classic at Tularosa: first round, Lordsburg vs. McCurdy, 5 p.m.

Capital at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Tierra Encantada, 6:30 p.m.

Peñasco at Springer, 5 p.m.

Los Alamos at Valencia, 5:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: first round, Capital vs. Academy for Technology and the Classics, 9:30 a.m.; Crownpoint vs. Portales, 11 a.m.; Dulce vs.

Monte del Sol, 2 p.m.; Shiprock vs.

Pojoaque Valley, 5 p.m.

LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: Maxwell vs. Questa, 11 a.m.; Rehoboth Christian vs. Abq. Legacy Academy, 2 p.m.; San Luis (Colo.) Centennial vs. Questa, 5 p.m.

Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: first round, Santa Fe High vs.

Abq. Sandia, 5 p.m.

Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: first round, Gateway Christian vs. Escalante, 2 p.m.

New Mexico School for the Deaf at Tierra Encantada, 5 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Dulce vs. Portales, 12:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs. Monte del Sol, 3:30 p.m.; Beralillo vs. Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: TBA

SPORTS BETTING LINE

Academy for Technology and the Classics at Hub City Tournament at Belen: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA McCurdy at J. May Classic at Tularosa: TBA Santa Fe High at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Pecos, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: semifinals, Capital/Academy for Technology and the Classics winner vs. Portales/ Crownpoint winner, 2 p.m.; Dulce/ Monte del Sol winner vs. Shiprock/ Pojoaque Valley winner, 5 p.m.; consolation, Capital/Academy for Technology and the Classics loser vs. Portales/Crownpoint loser, 9:30 a.m.; Dulce/Monte del Sol loser vs. Shiprock/Pojoaque Valley loser, 11 a.m.

LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: semifinal/consolation, Santa Fe High vs. Las Cruces Centennial/Rio Grancho, 1 p.m.(semifinal)/3 p.m.(consolation) Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA St. Michael’s at Taos, 7 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Pecos, 6 p.m.

NFL THURSDAY FAVORITE

at LAS VEGAS

OPEN

TODAY

3½

(34½)

O/U

UNDERDOG

OPEN

TODAY

O/U

UNDERDOG

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

3½

SATURDAY FAVORITE

at CINCINNATI at INDIANAPOLIS at DETROIT

1½ 1½ 4½

SUNDAY

FAVORITE

at GREEN BAY Atlanta Kansas City at CLEVELAND at NEW ORLEANS at MIAMI at TENNESSEE San Francisco at LA RAMS at BUFFALO Baltimore

3½ 3 11½ 3½ 5 13½ 3 13 5½ 1½ 6½

MONDAY FAVORITE

Philadelphia

WEDNESDAY SCORES EAST

Adelphi 67, Caldwell 62 Baldwin Wallace 83, La Roche 78 Bridgeport 62, Pace 61 California (Pa.) 94, Wheeling Jesuit 90 D’Youville 65, Edinboro 58 Dartmouth 63, Boston U. 54 Eastern Nazarene 82, Fitchburg St. 68 Endicott 105, Saint Joseph’s (Maine) 85 Fairmont St. 117, Bethany (WV) 81 Gannon 104, Salem International 56 Holy Family 98, Cheyney Wolves 66 Howard 88, Regent 49 Kings (Pa.) 100, Penn College 94 Princeton 92, Bryn Athyn 40 Ramapo 84, Montclair St. 72 Roberts Wesleyan 85, Mansfield 82 Rowan 114, NJ City 111, OT Rutgers-Camden 71, Kean 60 Saint Elizabeth 68, Sarah Lawrence 35 Seton Hill 69, Glenville St. 57 Stony Brook 84, Norfolk St. 78 Tcnj Lions 78, Stockton 69 William Paterson 65, Rutgers-Newark 52 Wilmington (DC) 92, Queens (NY) 83, OT York College (NY) 82, Merchant Marine 75

SOUTH

Appalachian St. 93, Queens (NC) 81 Arkansas St. 75, Louisville 63 Auburn 87, UNC-Asheville 62 Belmont Abbey 84, Converse 81 Bridgewater (Va.) 58, Greensboro 53 Carson-Newman 83, Tusculum 73 Catawba 88, Anderson (SC) 76 Chowan 82, North Greenville 67 Emmanuel 96, Lees-Mcrae 82 FAU 94, FIU 60 Ferrum 67, Mary Baldwin 55 LSU 74, Alabama St. 56 Lenoir-Rhyne 80, Mars Hill 59 Liberty 74, Tennessee St. 52 Limestone 67, Newberry 63 Louisiana-Lafayette 73, E. Kentucky 62 McNeese St. 67, Southern Miss. 48 Mississippi St. 85, Murray St. 81 North Alabama 76, Charleston Southern 64 Nova Southeastern 103, Keiser 73 Presbyterian 118, Mid-Atlantic Christian 51 UAB 93, Alabama A&M 82 UNC-Pembroke 80, King (Tenn.) 70 Young Harris 89, Francis Marion 82

MIDWEST

Augustana (SD) 101, Wayne St. (Neb.) 88 Blackburn 79, Eureka 76 Chicago St. 75, Northwestern 73 Coe 73, Cornell (Iowa) 53 Concordia (Wis.) 63, Edgewood 54 Dominican 78, Milwaukee Engineering 74 Fort Hays St. 73, Bethel (KS) Threshers 48 Greenville 86, Spalding 82 Hanover 74, Rose-Hulman 59 Ill.-Springfield 104, Knox 51 Longwood 80, Milwaukee 67 McKendree 80, Thomas More Saints 71 Muskingum 82, Washington & Jefferson 75 NW Missouri St. 68, Washburn 65 Ohio Dominican 76, Central St. (Ohio) 69 Toledo 88, Marshall 87 Wis.-La Crosse 74, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 59 Wis.-Platteville 80, North Central College 65 Wis.-Whitewater 74, Lawrence 50

FAVORITE

OPEN

Georgia Southern

Louisiana Miami (OH)

New Mexico State

1½

3½

(51½)

Fresno State

UCLA

2½

4½

(48½)

Boise State

Texas Tech

1½

3

(57½)

Cal

Old Dominion

4½

2½

(54½)

Western Kentucky

7

12½

(52½)

Marshall

4½

3

(60½)

South Florida

NBA THURSDAY

FAVORITE at BOSTON at MIAMI at DALLAS at DENVER at PORTLAND at SACRAMENTO at LA CLIPPERS

LINE 8½ 6 1½ 10 1½ 1½ 6

FAVORITE at TULANE at WISCONSIN at FLORIDA at CHARLESTON (SC) at LAMAR at MARQUETTE at DRAKE

LINE 6½ 20½ 15½ 14½ 2½ 24½ 22½

SOUTHWEST

Rice 80, Incarnate Word 57 Rogers St. 80, Northeastern St. 72 UALR 93, UTSA 84

FAR WEST

E. Washington 103, Portland Bible 34 UNLV 79, Creighton 64

WOMEN’S TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Presbyterian, Saturday. bNo. 2 UCLA (9-0) did not play. Next: at No. 12 Ohio St., Monday.

No. 3 NC State (10-0) did not play. Next: at South Florida, Saturday.

No. 4 Iowa (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Cleveland St., Saturday.

No. 5 Texas (11-0) beat Arizona 88-75. Next: at Texas Rio Grande Valley, Wednesday.

No. 6 Southern Cal (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Cal St.-Fullerton, Monday.

No. 7 LSU (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Northwestern St., Sunday.

No. 8 Colorado (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. N. Colorado, Thursday.

No. 9 Stanford (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Portland, Friday.

No. 10 Baylor (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. Delaware St., Thursday.

No. 11 Utah (8-2) did not play. Next: at S. Utah, Saturday.

No. 12 Ohio St. (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Grand Valley St., Friday.

No. 12 Kansas St. (9-1) did not play. Next: vs.

North Florida, Saturday.

No. 14 Notre Dame (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Purdue, Sunday.

No. 15 Indiana (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Evansville, Monday.

No. 16 Virginia Tech (7-2) did not play. Next: at Rutgers, Sunday.

No. 17 UConn (6-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 18 Louisville, Saturday.

No. 18 Louisville (10-1) beat Morehead St. 74-48.

Next: at No. 17 UConn, Saturday.

No. 19 Marquette (10-0) beat No. 20 Creighton 76-70. Next: vs. Appalachian St., Sunday.

No. 20 Creighton (7-2) lost to No. 19 Marquette

7 9 11 16 22

W

L

GB

L

PCT

GB

PCT

GB

15 12 14 6 3

8 9 11 17 20

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

17 15 16 8 6

5 7 9 16 16

L.A. Lakers Sacramento L.A. Clippers Phoenix Golden State

15 13 13 13 10

10 9 10 11 13

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

TUESDAY’S GAMES

.696 .583 .391 .318 .130

.708 .591 .542 .360 .083

.652 .571 .560 .261 .130

— 2 2 9 12

GB

L

PCT

GB

.773 .682 .640 .333 .273 .600 .591 .565 .542 .435

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Denver, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 8 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Detroit at Phila., 5 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Phila. at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

— 3 4 8½ 15

PCT

New Orleans 142, Washington 122 Phila. 129, Detroit 111 Miami 115, Charlotte 104 Toronto 135, Atlanta 128 L.A. Lakers 122, San Antonio 119 Houston 117, Memphis 104 Milwaukee 140, Indiana 126 Brooklyn 116, Phoenix 112 Utah 117, New York 113

SATURDAY’S GAMES

— 2½ 7 8½ 13

L

Boston 120, Cleveland 113 Dallas 127, L.A. Lakers 125 Denver 114, Chicago 106 Phoenix 119, Golden State 116 L.A. Clippers 119, Sacramento 99

FRIDAY’S GAMES

— 1½ 4½ 4½ 8

PCT

Dallas Houston New Orleans Memphis San Antonio

L OT PTS

GF GA

NEW YORK (AP) — The 23 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources.: AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (1) — Signed Craig Kimbrel, Philadelphia, to a $13 million, one-year contract.

DETROIT (2) — Signed Kenta Maeda, rhp, Minnesota, to a $24 million, two-year contract; signed

BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Cooper Criswell on a one-year contract.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Erick Fedde on a two-year contract. Designated RHP Yohan Ramirez for assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Luis Garcia and Adam Cimber on one-year contracts.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent SS David Fletcher outright to Gwinnett (IL).

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jorge López on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Waived G Dylan Windler.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Designated CB Bobby Price to return from injured reserve to practice.

Signed WR Andre Baccellia to the practice squad.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed QB Malik Cunningham. Placed WR Devin Duvernay on injured reserve.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed Chris Pierce to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed DE Yannick Ngakoue on injured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed S Grant Delpit on injured reserve. Signed S Duron Harmon to the active roster from the practice squad and T Joey Fisher to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Designated OL Billy Price and DL Viliami Fehoko to return from injured reserve to practice.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed DT Chris Smith to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Designated K Ka’imi Fairbairn to return from injured reserve to practice.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Designated WR Jamal Agnew to return from injured reserve to practice.

LOS ANGLES RAMS — Signed TE Miller Forristall to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed OL Jonotthan Harrison to the active roster. Placed OL Connor Williams on injured reserve. Signed OL Matt Skura to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed G Henry Byrd to the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed RB James Robinson to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed OT Obinna Eze to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Promoted WR David Moore from the practice squad to the active roster. Signed LS Evan Deckers and CB Keenan Isaac to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed DL Quinton Bohanna from the Detroit’s practice squad and DL Keondre Coburn from Kansas City’s practice squad to the active roster. Placed CB Kristian Fulton and DL Kyle Peko on injured reserve.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Designated OL Saahdiq Charles to return from injured reserve to practice. Placed LB Jamin Davis on injured reserve. Waived CB Kyu Kelly and DB Danny Johnson on waivers.

4 2 5 4 5 4 3 0

40 88 67 36 85 73 35 94 84 34 106 92 31 96 106 28 79 101 27 86 106 22 79 74

27 19 7 28 14 7 28 15 10 25 14 8 27 15 11 28 15 12 28 13 12 30 9 16

1 7 3 3 1 1 3 5

39 35 33 31 31 31 29 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Colorado Dallas Winnipeg Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

L

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GF GA

27 18 5 28 17 9 26 15 6 28 15 9 30 13 12 29 12 13 30 12 15 23 11 12

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

GB

— 2 2½ 10 11

— ½ 1 1½ 4

LINE +110 +205 +132 OFF +125 +128 +188 -102

L OT PTS

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia Washington New Jersey Carolina Pittsburgh Columbus

NBA

W

UNDERDOG Washington Columbus at DETROIT Ottawa Calgary Tampa Bay Chicago at VANCOUVER

Andrew Chafin, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $4.75 million, one-year contract.

HOUSTON (1) — Singed Victor Caratino, c, Milwaukee, to a $12 million, two-year contract.

KANSAS CITY (1) — Signed Will Smith, lhp, Texas, to a $5 million, one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (1) — Signed Luis García, rhp, San Diego, to a $4.25 million, one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY (1) — Re-signed Chris Devenski, to a $1.1 million, one-year contract.

TEXAS (1) — Signed Kirby Yates, rhp, Atlanta, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (1) — Signed Eduardo Rodriguez, lhp, Detroit. to an $80 million, four-year contract.

ATLANTA (1) — Signed Reynaldo López, rhp, Cleveland, to a $30 million, three-year contract.

CINCINNATI (2) — Signed Nick Martinez, rhp, San Diego, to a $24 million, two-year contract; signed Emilio Pagán, rhp, Minnesota, to a $16 million, two-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (3) — Re-signed Jason Heyward, of, to a $9 million, one-year contract; re-signed Joe Kelly, rhp, to an $8 million, one-year contract; signed Shohei Ohtani, dh-rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $700 million, 10-year contract.

MILWAUKEE (2) — Re-signed Colin Rea, rhp, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Wade Miley, lhp, to an $8.5 million. one-year contract.

NEW YORK (2) — Signed Joey Wendle, inf, Miami, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Luis Severino, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $13 million, one-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA (1) — Re-signed Aaron Nola, rhp, to a $172 million, seven-year contract.

ST. LOUIS (3) — Signed Lance Lynn, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to an $11 million, one-year contract; signed Kyle Gibson, rhp, Baltimore, to a $13 million, one-year contract; signed Sonny Gray, rhp, Minnesota, to a $75 million, three-year contract.

ATLANTIC

Gallup 50, Fort Defiance Window Rock, Ariz. 49 St. Pius X 53, Sandia Prep 33 Whitehorse, Utah 76, Navajo Pine 7 Zuni 56, Ramah 19

17 13 13 9 2

LINE -132 -250 -160 OFF -150 -154 -230 -118

Atlanta at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Miami, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Golden State, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 7 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Boston Florida Toronto Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

WEDNESDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

FAVORITE at PHILADELPHIA at TORONTO Carolina at ST. LOUIS at MINNESOTA at EDMONTON at SEATTLE Florida

NHL

Capital 67, St. Michael’s 51 Whitehorse, Utah 61, Navajo Pine 60

7 10 14 15 20

UNDERDOG Furman Jacksonville State East Carolina Citadel UL Monroe St. Thomas Grambling

NHL

PREP SCORES

W

UNDERDOG Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Brooklyn Utah Oklahoma City Golden State

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

WEDNESDAY BOYS BASKETBALL

16 14 9 7 3

O/U (226½) (217½) (229) (228½) (228½) (243) (OFF)

THURSDAY

Texas 88, Arizona 75

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

Ohio

(59½)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

.773 .696 .565 .565 .417

UNDERDOG

(48½)

(44½)

Syracuse

FAR WEST

5 7 10 10 14

O/U

at SEATTLE

3

THURSDAY, DEC. 21 BOCA RATON BOWL, BOCA RATON, FLA.

Cincinnati 87, Howard 62 DePaul 90, Northwestern 65 Green Bay 64, Ill. Chicago 56 Marquette 76, Creighton 70 Minnesota 96, Grambling St. 64 South Dakota 100, Mount Marty 35 Wisconsin 78, St. Thomas (MN) 55 SOUTHWEST Texas Tech 76, Incarnate Word 35

17 16 13 13 10

UNDERDOG

6½

UTSA

MIDWEST

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

O/U

(47½)

1½

TUESDAY FRISCO BOWL, FRISCO, TEXAS

SOUTH

PCT

UNDERDOG

Tampa Bay at CAROLINA at NEW ENGLAND Chicago NY Giants NY Jets Houston at ARIZONA Washington Dallas at JACKSONVILLE

4½

MONDAY FAMOUS TOASTERY BOWL, CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Auburn 94, Alabama St. 37 Lamar 63, Louisiana-Lafayette 60 Louisville 74, Morehead St. 48 North Florida 105, Piedmont 66 Radford 57, Liberty 45 Samford 76, LaGrange 50 UT Martin 69, Freed-Hardeman 41

L

O/U

(41½) (34) (37) (38) (39½) (37½) (37½) (47½) (50½) (50½) (42½)

Jacksonville State

INDEPENDENCE BOWL, SHREVEPORT, LA.

Bryant 93, Fisher 20 Princeton 66, Rutgers 55

W

Minnesota Pittsburgh Denver

Appalachian State

L.A. BOWL, INGLEWOOD, CALIF.

WEDNESDAY SCORES EAST

SOUTHWEST

3½

NEW MEXICO BOWL, ALBUQUERQUE

76-70. Next: at Drake, Sunday.

No. 21 Gonzaga (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. S. Dakota St., Sunday.

No. 22 Florida St. (7-3) did not play. Next: at Drexel, Sunday.

No. 23 UNLV (9-0) did not play. Next: at Seton Hall, Saturday.

No. 24 Miami (8-0) did not play. Next: at No. 10 Baylor, Saturday.

No. 25 North Carolina (6-4) did not play. Next: vs.

W. Carolina, Friday.

CENTRAL

TODAY

1½

NEW ORLEANS BOWL, NEW ORLEANS

CURE BOWL, ORLANDO, FLA.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

(40) (42½) (47½)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Boys basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: round robin, Portales vs. Monte del Sol, 12:30 p.m; Bernalillo vs. Dulce, 3:30 p.m.; Santa Fe Indian School vs.

Pojoaque Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Wildcat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Bruce King Tournament at Moriarty: TBA Academy for Technology and the Classics at Hub City Tournament at Belen: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA McCurdy at J. May Classic at Tularosa: TBA Peñasco at Clayton, 2:30 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Cuba, 4:30 p.m.

Pecos at Taos, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Ben Lujan Tournament at Pojoaque Valley: championship, 5 p.m; third place, 2 p.m.; fifth place, 11 a.m.; seventh place, 9:30 a.m.

LadyCat Winter Jam at Questa: TBA Santa Fe High at Mel Otero Tournament at Rio Rancho: TBA Escalante at Mescalero Holiday Classic at Mescalero Apache: TBA Gallup at Española Valley, 5 p.m.

Peñasco at Clayton, 1 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Cuba, 3 p.m.

Wrestling — Santa Fe High, Capital at Rio Hondo Invitational at Roswell, 8 a.m.

Taos at Rattler Invitational at Tucumcari, 8 a.m.

SOUTHEAST

3½

SATURDAY MYRTLE BEACH BOWL, CONWAY, S.C.

Saturday

ATLANTIC

3½ 3 8½ 3 6 8½ 2½ 12½ 6½ 1½ 3½

4½

THURSDAY No. 25 Northwestern (7-2) lost to Chicago St. 7573. Next: at DePaul, Saturday.

2½ 1½ 4

LA Chargers

29 27 27 29 28 28 26 28

18 16 16 16 13 13 10 9

9 8 9 13 13 14 12 18

2 3 2 0 2 1 4 1

89 78 87 90 85 76 64 72 94 96 92 91 83 74 87 106

38 110 35 95 34 90 32 90 28 90 27 80 24 81 19 66

89 84 74 88 86 94 88 98

Vegas 30 20 5 5 45 105 73 Vancouver 29 19 9 1 39 111 74 Los Angeles 25 16 5 4 36 94 64 Edmonton 26 13 12 1 27 92 85 Calgary 29 11 14 4 26 87 104 Seattle 30 9 14 7 25 78 101 San Jose 29 9 17 3 21 64 117 Anaheim 28 10 18 0 20 74 96 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.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Carolina 4, Ottawa 1 Toronto 7, N.Y. Rangers 3 Pittsburgh 4, Arizona 2 Detroit 6, St. Louis 4 Nashville 3, Philadelphia 2, OT Vancouver 4, Tampa Bay 1 Seattle 4, Florida 0 Vegas 5, Calgary 4, OT Edmonton 4, Chicago 1 San Jose 2, Winnipeg 1

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 3, SO New Jersey 2, Boston 1, OT N.Y. Islanders 4, Anaheim 3 Colorado 5, Buffalo 1 Winnipeg at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Columbus at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Dallas, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Vegas, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver at Minnesota, noon Colorado at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Montreal, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Florida at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Calgary, 8 p.m.

MLB FREE AGENT SIGNINGS

TRANSACTIONS

SPORTS

Thursday, December 14, 2023

NBA

Green suspended indefinitely Warriors forward struck Suns center in face

By Janie McCauley

The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face and received a flagrant 2 foul and ejection.

The league said the penalty handed down by operations chief Joe Dumars begins immediately. This is already Green’s second suspension this season.

“He will be required to meet certain league and team conditions before he returns to play,” the league said.

The NBA noted that “this outcome takes into account Green’s repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts.”

The Warriors didn’t have a statement Wednesday but said

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Warriors forward Draymond Green, left, on Tuesday against the Suns in Phoenix. He was later ejected after striking Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face.

Green’s suspension would be addressed at shootaround Thursday in Los Angeles ahead of a game against the Clippers.

The 33-year-old Green, part of four Warriors championships, was ejected for the 18th time in his career — most among active

NBA players.

As the Warriors were inbounding the ball near their own bench early in the third quarter in a 119-116 loss at Phoenix, Green and Nurkic were fighting for position near the baseline corner and the two

tangled. Green appeared to slip slightly then pivoted around right into Nurkic with his right arm connecting with the big man’s face.

Nurkic fell to the ground instantly and stayed down briefly before getting up to remain in the game.

“That had nothing to do with basketball,” Nurkic said. “I’m just out there trying to play basketball.”

Green was suspended five games by the NBA for putting Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert into a headlock during an altercation in November.

There is little precedent for an indefinite suspension. In 2010, then-Commissioner David Stern suspended Washington guard Gilbert Arenas indefinitely for bringing firearms into the team locker room. That was a precursor to what became a 50-game suspension for Arenas, after Stern said “his ongoing conduct ... led me to conclude that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game.”

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The Jaguars’ Miguel Herrera tries to make his way past a Horsemen defender.

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quarter as the Jaguars led by as many as 20 points.

Capital’s Elijah Rodriguez-Montano had 11 points and Sebastian Gonzalez 10. Rodriguez-Montano had identical runners in the lane just one minute apart in the fourth quarter while another Bencomo bucket on a fast-break layup capped what was a 36-7 run over a 10-minute stretch between the third and fourth quarters.

It was a clinic in how to play disruptive defense; defense that set up several transition scoring opportunities for a team that thrives in such circumstances.

“When everybody gets playing like that, it’s fun,” Bencomo said.

Gurule finished with a team high 16 points for the Horsemen while Sandoval had 12. Ricker scored all four of his points early in the first quar-

MOUNTAIN WEST UNLV defeats No. 8 Creighton In Henderson, Nev., a federal judge’s ruling in West Virginia had an impact that reached across the country Wednesday, benefiting UNLV hours before it faced No. 8 Creighton.

Keylan Boone, who previously played at Oklahoma State and Pacific, took advantage of the decision that put him on the court and totaled 10 points and six rebounds as the Rebels pulled off a 79-64 upset in the Jack Jones Classic.

UNLV was a 131/2-point underdog, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

It was the first appearance at UNLV for Keylan Boone after the judge ruled double transfers could play immediately. Boone had appealed the NCAA’s decision that kept him sidelined until Wednesday night.

“I just wanted to help these guys,” he said.

ter; an indication, Garcia said, that the offense wasn’t quite operating the way he wanted it to.

“I know this team will get hungry again,” he said. “We started off slow last year, so I’m not worried. It’s just a frustrating defeat. We have seven new varsity players, a lot of them younger guys who didn’t get much time with us. We’ll get there, I know we will.”

Capital has two more games before the holiday break. The Jaguars head to Española Valley on Thursday night, then have a nine-day layoff before hosting West Mesa on Dec. 23.

St. Michael’s meets Santa Fe High on Friday night. The Demons (4-1) climbed to No. 4 in the Class 5A coaches poll this week after a close loss at No. 2 Rio Rancho Cleveland.

The Horsemen head to Las Vegas between Christmas and New Year’s Day for the annual Stu Clark Tournament at New Mexico Highlands, facing Belen in the opening round Dec. 27.

NEVADA 72, WEBER STATE 55 In Reno, Nev., Kenan Blackshear scored 15 points as Nevada beat Weber State.

Blackshear also contributed five rebounds and five assists for the Wolf Pack (8-1). Jarod Lucas made three 3-pointers and scored 13 points. Nick Davidson had 11 points. Tre Coleman and K.J. Hymes added 10 points apiece for Nevada, which shot 57% (28 of 49) from the floor.

The Wildcats (5-4) were led by Blaise Threatt, who recorded 18 points and four assists.

UTAH STATE 84, SANTA CLARA 82 In Santa Clara, Calif., Ian Martinez had 28 points in Utah State’s victory against Santa Clara.

Martinez hit a 3-pointer that stretched the Aggies’ lead to 78-73 with 1:41 remaining. He then shot 4 of 4 from the free-throw line to help seal it.

Darius Brown II added 23 points, seven assists and four steals for Utah State (10-1). Max Agbonkpolo had 10 points. The Broncos (7-4) were led in scoring by Adama Bal, who finished with 18 points.

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it with some pain — and he would, but I don’t know if that’s the best thing for him right now,” Pitino said. “I think the thing, very similar to Jaelen House was, we gave him rest so that hopefully he would be good for the rest of the season. We’re doing

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SIDELINES Belichick deflects questions, saying, ‘I’m getting ready for Kansas City’ FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick declined to discuss his future Wednesday amid a report owner Robert Kraft had already decided to fire the sixtime Super Bowl champion after the season.

Asked repeatedly whether he would be back, or wanted to be back, or whether he’d discussed 2024 with Kraft, Belichick said he was only focused on Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.

“I’m getting ready for Kansas City,” Belichick said. “That’s what I’m doing.”

NBC Sports Boston reported Tuesday night that Kraft came out of the Patriots’ 10-6 loss to Indianapolis in Germany on Nov. 12 determined to end things with the coach that — along with quarterback Tom Brady — led the franchise to six NFL championships and 17 AFC East titles in a 19-year span.

“A decision was made,” the station reported. “They were going to play out the string, and at the end of the year there would be a parting of the ways.”

The Patriots did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Belichick’s six Super Bowl titles — he won two more as a New York Giants assistant — are the most in history. He is second in career coaching victories, needing 16 more to pass longtime Miami Dolphins mentor Don Shula.

Giannis scores franchise-record 64 as Bucks beat Pacers 140-126 MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a franchise-record 64 points to help the Milwaukee Bucks outscore the Indiana Pacers 140-126 on Wednesday night.

Antetokounmpo broke the team record of 57 set by Michael Redd in 2006 in a 113-111 loss to the Utah Jazz. Antetokounmpo’s previous career high was 55 in a 123-113 victory over Washington in January 2023. He had 54 at Indiana on Nov. 9.

Antetokounmpo was 20 of 28 from the field, made 24 of 32 free throws and had 14 rebounds.

Antetokounmpo was tackled by Aaron Nesmith on a play underneath with 10:10 remaining, setting off a brief heated exchange involving several players. Nesmith was called for a flagrant 1, and Nesmith and the Bucks’ Bobby Portis were assessed technical fouls.

Antetokounmpo hit both free throws, and Khris Middleton hit a jumper on the next possession to put the Bucks up 108-96.

Portis was called for a second technical and ejected with 9:13 remaining, finishing with 19 points.

Antetokounmpo scored seven straight for the Bucks to push the lead to 118-100 with 6:26 left. Damian Lillard added 21 points for the Bucks. Lillard’s second 3-pointer with 8:06 left in the third quarter was the 2,451st of his career, moving past Kyle Korver for fifth place in NBA history.

Huge underdog Chicago State stuns No. 25 Northwestern 75-73

By Beth Harris and Ronald Blum

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani can opt out of his $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers if either of two key executives is no longer in place, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Ohtani, who will be formally introduced by the Dodgers at a news conference Thursday, would be allowed to terminate his deal if Mark Walter no longer is controlling owner or president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman no longer is with the team, the person said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the terms were not announced.

Ohtani’s deal, announced Monday, provides 97% of the money be deferred without interest and not fully paid until 2043.

The Athletic first reported Wednesday that Ohtani’s deal contained a provision allowing him to opt out at the end of a season if the Dodgers made specific personnel changes.

The deal is still in the form of a letter of agreement between Ohtani’s representatives and the team, and a formal contract has not been submitted to Major League Baseball, the person said.

Led by Walter, the private partnership Guggenheim Baseball Management purchased the Dodgers in 2012 for $2.15 billion.

In his early years as controlling owner, Walter was a regular at Dodger Stadium. But his presence gradually decreased and last season he attended only a handful of games.

Walter’s global financial services company, Guggenheim Partners, has headquarters in Chicago and New York.

Friedman was hired by the Dodgers in 2014 after spending a decade with the Tampa Bay Rays. He gradually rebuilt that franchise and the team reached the World Series in 2008 despite operating with one of the sport’s lowest payrolls.

Friedman has an enviable record in Los Angeles, with the Dodgers winning nine division titles under his leadership, three NL pennants and the 2020 World Series during the pandemic-shortened season.

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the same with Jamal.”

Mashburn was leading the Lobos in scoring through the first five games, averaging 18.2 points.

He and House, who played sparingly in the season opener before missing the next four games due to a hip injury, have been on the court together for

fewer than 20 minutes this season. When Mashburn went out, House returned and the Lobos have gone 5-0 in his absence.

The Lobos’ depth at the guard spot has carried them to a 9-1 record heading into Saturday’s game at New Mexico State.

Sophomore Donovan Dent got most of House’s minutes in the

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four games, while freshman Tru Washington has averaged more than 23 minutes during Mashburn’s absence.

Washington was named the MWC freshman of the week on Dec. 4, and Dent is the reigning conference player of the week.

Dent has enjoyed a breakout season, averaging 17.6 points and 6.7 assists while Washington is averaging 11.6 points, 5.0 rebounds 1.7 steals.

EVANSTON, Ill. — Wesley Cardet Jr. scored 30 points and Chicago State stunned No. 25 Northwestern in a 75-73 upset Wednesday night.

Boo Buie made two layups 41 seconds apart to put Northwestern in front 67-65 with 2:30 left in a back-and-forth game.

Cardet tied it 26 seconds later and then hit a 3-pointer with 1:23 remaining for a 70-67 lead.

Chicago State (4-9) sealed it with three late free throws from A.J. Neal and two by Noble Crawford.

“This is probably one of the biggest wins in the state of Illinois history,” said third-year Cougars coach Gerald Gillion, who had five brothers in the stands. “For Chicago State, not even a question. This was huge. Huge for our guys.”

Northwestern was favored by 241/2 points, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Buie had 23 points and Ryan Langborg scored 18 for the Wildcats (7-2), who lost to Chicago State for the first time.

Northwestern had won 15 straight against the South Side program since the teams first met in 1981.

Cardet shot 13 of 21 and Jahsean Corbett added 17 points for the Cougars, a conference independent that climbed to NCAA Division I play in 1984.

Cardet, a 6-foot-6 junior guard, never ran out of gas.

“I trained really hard before this game,” he said. “I have a good team camp that keeps me mentally strong and helps me prepare for games like this.

“This is probably our biggest win, against a ranked team.

This just shows how good we can really play and can compete with anybody in the country.”

LeBron says seeing son Bronny James debut meant everything for his family DALLAS — LeBron James didn’t get the same break as his Los Angeles Lakers teammates after they won the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament.

The superstar went back to L.A. from Las Vegas, Nev., on Sunday to watch his oldest son, Bronny James, make his collegiate debut for Southern California nearly five months after going into cardiac arrest during a workout.

The Lakers had another day off before returning to the regular season with a 127-125 loss at Dallas on Tuesday night.

James didn’t miss a beat, finishing with 33 points, nine assists and eight rebounds.

“It was everything for my family,” James said of his detour back to California. “It was just an emotional, draining day, from the time we all woke up to the time the buzzer hit zeros.”

After getting a pat on the rear from his dad before the opening tip, Bronny James had four points, three assists and two rebounds while playing 16 minutes in an 84-79 overtime loss to Long Beach State.

“I think the most important thing, who cares about the win or the loss, the kid was standing tall and standing strong at the end of the game,” said James, who turns 39 later this month.

“That is a blessing in its own right, and that is a win. He’s won at life, and everything else at this point is extra credit.”

Ex-Bills punter Araiza dropped from rape lawsuit, wants fresh NFL shot SAN DIEGO — Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021.

The woman agreed Tuesday to dismiss Araiza from the lawsuit she filed last year, while Araiza agreed to dismiss his defamation countersuit against her, his attorneys said in a statement.

He’ll be removed from the suit in the next week, won’t pay any money to the woman and reserves the right to sue her attorney for harm caused, the statement said, terming the agreement “bittersweet.”

“Matt has been forced to defend himself for the last 16 months against false accusations and a campaign to ruin his career in the NFL. He will never get this time in his life back,” attorneys Dick Semerdjian and Kristen Bush said.

“Thankfully, there was extensive evidence that was key to securing Matt’s voluntary dismissal from this lawsuit,” the statement added. “Matt was and has always been innocent. The case is over, and Matt has prevailed.”

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Attacks on refs could ‘kill’ sport, top ex-official says

By James Robson

The Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — Attacked on the field by the president of a top Turkish soccer team, referee Halil Umut Meler desperately tried to cover his head to shield himself from the kicks of angry fans.

Monday’s shocking scene at the end of a Turkish league game was an example of the violence and abuse directed toward officials that, it was claimed Wednesday, have included incidents as extreme as car bombs.

“It’s a responsibility for all those who love the ‘beautiful game’ to take action and do something. Before it’s too late,

before this cancer will kill [soccer],” Pierluigi Collina, chairman of FIFA’s Referees Committee, said Wednesday.

Meler was hospitalized after being punched by MKE Ankaragucu President Faruk Koca at the end of a 1-1 draw with Caykur Rizespor. He fell to the ground and was also kicked in a melee when fans invaded the pitch after Rizespor scored a last-minute equalizer.

Meler was discharged from the hospital Wednesday.

Koca and two other people have been placed under pre-trial detention, facing charges of causing injury to a public official.

The Turkish Football Federation suspended all league games in response.

“A referee cannot be beaten because of a decision they took, even if it’s wrong. His or her car cannot be bombed or set on fire because of a penalty kick,” Collina said in a statement that did not provide examples. “Unfortunately this is not an exaggeration, as car bombs and cars being set on fire is something that has happened in some countries, and not so rarely.”

In recent times there have been a number of high profile incidents involving attacks or threats made toward officials in soccer.

In Brazil, the president of fourth-division club Sergipe was suspended after he came onto the pitch and punched a referee in March. Last month, an official

with Brazilian club Corinthians tried to break into the referee room after one of the team’s players was sent off.

English referee Anthony Taylor and his family had to be escorted away by security at an airport in Hungary after Roma fans targeted him and threw a chair in his direction after the Europa League final in May. More extreme incidents include the gun-toting owner of Greek team PAOK Thessaloniki marching onto the field following a disputed goal in 2018. And a weekend soccer player was sentenced to at least eight years in prison in 2015 in the United States for a punch that killed a referee.

Soccer has for a long time been con-

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aston Stick will be the latest backup to make his first start in a season filled with injuries to high-profile quarterbacks.

Justin Herbert joined a growing list of signal-callers who’ve suffered season-ending injuries, paving the way for Stick to make his first career start Thursday night when the Los Angeles Chargers (5-8) visit the Las Vegas Raiders (5-8).

Stick came off the bench after Herbert went down in a loss to Denver last week and completed 13 of 24 passes for 179 yards.

The Raiders have lost three in a row after interim coach Antonio Pierce won his first two games.

Aidan O’Connell and the offense couldn’t do anything in a 3-0 loss to Minnesota and Pierce wouldn’t say Wednesday if veteran Jimmy Garoppolo would start against Los Angeles.

The Raiders are 3-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Pro Picks looks to continue its winning ways on Thursday nights and will take the road team.

Upset special: Chargers, 20-17

Atlanta at Carolina Line: Falcons minus 3 The Desmond Ridder-Drake London connection is heating up for the Falcons (6-7).

Atlanta can’t look past the woeful Panthers (1-12) with first place very much in play.

Best bet: Falcons, 24-13

Minnesota at Cincinnati Line: Bengals minus 31/2 The Vikings (7-6) are turning to their fourth starting quarterback, going from Joshua Dobbs to Nick Mullens.

Jake Browning has saved the season for the Bengals (7-6) after Joe Burrow went down. Cincinnati has scored 34 points in consecutive wins.

Bengals, 27-20

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Chargers quarterback Easton Stick throws as Broncos defensive end Zach Allen is held by center Will Clapp on Sunday in Inglewood, Calif. Stick will start Thursday against the Raiders.

Denver at Detroit Line: Lions minus 4 The Broncos (7-6) have won six of seven to climb within one game of AFC West-leading Kansas City.

Russell Wilson could have a big day against a defense that’s allowed an average of 29.8 points over the past five weeks.

The Lions (9-4) have a comfortable lead in the NFC North, but their shaky defense is a major concern.

Lions, 27-26

Tampa Bay at Green Bay Line: Packers minus 31/2 Baker Mayfield’s last-minute touchdown pass against Atlanta put the Buccaneers (6-7) on top of the weak NFC South. Now, they’ve got to find a way to win another road game against a team fighting for a wild-card spot. The Packers (6-7) are on a short week after they were on the wrong end of Tommy DeVito leading the Giants to a comeback win Monday night.

Packers, 20-17

Chicago at Cleveland

Pittsburgh at Inidanapolis Line: Colts minus 21/2 Mitch Trubisky will make his second straight start filling in for injured QB Kenny Pickett and the Steelers (7-6) aim to rebound from consecutive losses to teams that entered with two wins.

They might be without star edge rusher T.J. Watt.

The Colts (7-6) had their fourgame winning streak snapped last week, but they’re right in the middle of the AFC wild-card race.

Colts, 24-17

Line: Browns minus 31/2 With Joe Flacco providing a steady hand at quarterback as well as the team’s stingy defense, the Browns (8-5) have a chance to put some heat on the AFC North-leading Ravens.

They can’t afford a slip-up against the improved Bears (5-8). Justin Fields has led Chicago to consecutive wins.

Browns, 23-19

New York Jets at Miami Line: Dolphins minus 81/2 After a major collapse in the final minutes Monday night against Tennessee, the Dolphins (9-4) can’t let up against another inferior opponent. Zach Wilson is coming off his best game for the Jets (5-8) and they still are clinging to slight playoff hopes.

Dolphins, 23-17

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window is open for football and creates an opportunity for players who have already transferred using their so-called one-time exception for immediate eligibility to enter the portal again and be cleared to compete next season.

A hearing on the restraining order is scheduled Dec. 27.

NCAA rules allow underclassmen to transfer once without having to sit out a year. But an

cerned about how abuse at the top of the sport can lead to rising incidents at amateur and youth level.

“The image of Halil Umut lying on the ground, with his hands protecting his head while he was kicked by his assaulters, as well as the image of the bruise under his eye, are horrific,” Collina said. “But even more horrific is to know that there are thousands of referees around the world who are verbally and physically abused at lower levels of the game across the world, without being reported by media.”

A referees’ charity in England has warned incidents like the one in Turkey could soon be repeated in the Premier League.

additional transfer as an undergraduate generally requires the NCAA to grant a waiver allowing the athlete to compete immediately. Without it, the athlete would have to sit out for a year at the new school.

In January, the NCAA implemented stricter guidelines for granting those waivers on a caseby-case basis.

Bailey wrote the transfer rule “is the exact kind of unreasonable restraint of trade within labor markets that the relevant

Washington at L.A. Rams

New York Giants at New Orleans Line: Saints minus 6 DeVito has turned into a folk hero after leading the Giants (5-8) to three straight wins to put them one game behind a bunch of teams in the NFC wild-card race. Derek Carr and the Saints (6-7) catch New York on a short week.

New Orleans has covered the spread just twice in the past eight games.

Saints, 23-16

Houston at Tennessee Line: Titans minus 21/2 Fresh off an improbable comeback win in Miami on Monday night, Will Levis and the Titans (5-8) look to spoil Houston’s playoff hopes. The Texans (7-6) have lost two of three and QB C.J. Stroud is in concussion protocol.

If he doesn’t play, Tennessee has the upper hand.

TITANS, 22-17

Kansas City at New England

Dallas at Buffalo Line: Bills minus 11/2 Josh Allen saved Buffalo’s season with an impressive performance in a win at Kansas City. Now the Bills (7-6) even have a shot at the AFC East, but Dak Prescott and the Cowboys (10-3) have been scorching hot during a five-game winning streak.

Bills, 31-28

Baltimore at Jacksonville Line: Ravens minus 3 Lamar Jackson and the Ravens (10-3) can strengthen their grip on the AFC’s No. 1 seed with a road win.

The Jaguars (8-5) are reeling after two straight losses.

Ravens, 27-23

Philadelphia at Seattle

Line: Chiefs minus 91/2 Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs (8-5) are frustrated following two straight losses. Bill Belichick’s Patriots (3-10) had an extra few days to prepare after a Thursday night win.

Chiefs, 27-13

San Francisco at Arizona

Line: Eagles minus 31/2 The Eagles (10-3) are on the ropes after two straight lopsided losses.

They’ve lost seven in a row to the Seahawks (6-7). Geno Smith is banged up for the Seahawks, who’ve lost four in a row.

Eagles, 30-23 LAST WEEK: Straight up: 8-7.

Against spread: 8-6-1

Line: 49ers minus 131/2 The 49ers (10-3) have taken over as the NFC’s No. 1 seed, but can’t afford to look ahead to a prime-time matchup against the Ravens on Christmas. San Francisco has been favored by at least 13 points twice in the past four games and didn’t cover the spread either time. The Cardinals (3-10) are 1-2-2 against the spread as a double-digit underdog in the past 10 games.

49ers, 30-17

antitrust laws prohibit” and that the plaintiffs “have a strong likelihood of success.”

The states involved in seeking the restraining order were Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether any of the affected players would try to compete during the 14-day window.

West Virginia basketball player RaeQuan Battle transferred this season from Montana State after playing at Washington and has been sitting out.

“I’m in the gym every single day with the team, with the blood, sweat and tears with them,” Battle told the court

Line: Rams minus 61/2 The surprising Rams (6-7) have moved into the NFC wild-card race.

The Commanders (4-9) have lost four in a row and coach Ron Rivera’s seat is getting hotter.

Rams, 26-20

OVERALL: Straight up: 128-80.

Against spread: 109-91-8.

BEST BET: Straight up: 9-5.

Against spread: 6-7-1.

UPSET SPECIAL: Straight up: 8-6.

Against spread: 10-4.

THURSDAY: Straight up: 11-5.

Against spread: 12-3-1.

MONDAY: Straight up: 8-9.

Against spread: 12-4-1.

Wednesday. “When the ball is thrown up and that tipoff starts, I’m not suited up. That’s what hurts me the most.”

Battle, who grew up on the Tulalip Indian Reservation in the state of Washington, has said his mental health is a big reason why he came to West Virginia.

Battle said he has lost “countless people” to drugs, alcohol and coronavirus.

After Battle visited West Virginia, he learned now-coach Josh Eilert had lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota with his mother following his parents’ divorce and felt a connection with the coach. West Virginia’s next game is Saturday in Springfield, Mass.,

business, and international and league events. “It’s not mapped today, and that’s the flexibility we have working with the clubs.”

At the December owners meetings two years ago, the league designated home marketing rights for teams in various countries as part of a strategy to build fan growth internationally. Miami is the only team with such rights in Brazil.

“Bringing the NFL to new continents, countries and cities around the world is a critical element of our plan to continue to grow the game globally,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “Brazil has established itself as a key market for the NFL.” Pollster IBOPE Repucom published a study in February in which it said the NFL has more than 35 million fans in Brazil. In 2013, only 3 million Brazilians paid attention to the sport, the pollster said.

Local estimates say 2.5 million Brazilians watched this year’s Super Bowl, almost 20% more in comparison with the previous edition. Brazil has the second-largest international fan base behind Mexico.

Sao Paulo Mayor Ricardo Nunes led the Brazilian contingent that made a presentation to owners in Texas, and smiled widely as he held a football during a news conference.

“The right choice was made,” Nunes said through a translator. “With the game in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will surpass Mexico as only behind the U.S. in terms of total number of fans.”

The stadium in Sao Paulo belongs to Corinthians, one of Brazil’s most popular soccer teams, and is part of the country’s bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup. “We are immensely happy and proud with this partnership,” outgoing Corinthians President Duilio Monteiro Alves said. “There were many months of studies and negotiations, including two visits to Europe and many meetings at the stadium so we could get here.”

In other news Wednesday: u Los Angeles will host the Super Bowl to wrap up the 2026 season. That means L.A. will get a Super Bowl, World Cup soccer and the Summer Olympics in a little more than a two-year span. The 2028 Games will be in Southern California. u NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent said the league will seriously consider banning the so-called hip-drop tackle.

Goodell echoed Vincent’s comments.

The tackle results in players being dragged down from behind and has led to serious lower-body injuries for Dallas running back Tony Pollard and Baltimore tight end Mark Andrews, among others. u Vincent dismissed as false a report suggesting the league or Goodell wanted to get rid of the “tush push” quarterback sneak perfected by Philadelphia.

Goodell said he wants to hear both sides of the discussion after the season.

“Philly does it better than everyone else. That’s a fact,” Vincent said. “You won’t want to punish anyone for doing something well.” u Vincent said kickoffs have become a “dead ceremonial play” with the infrequency of returns.

The league wants to hear ideas from coaches on improving the return rate of less than 20% this season without reversing the progress on injuries.

“We’d like to see that higher, but we also want to make sure the injury rate is addressed,” Goodell said. “We’re going to have to do what we’ve done before, which is make the game more exciting and make it safer at the same time. We’ve proven we can do that, and we’re going to do it.”

The league is using a one-year rule that allows fair catches anywhere on the field. They are the same as touchbacks, with the ball placed on the 25-yard line. u Vincent said the league will review the rule that gives the defense the ball at the 20-yard line on a fumble into the end zone and out of bounds. Some argue the offensive team should keep the ball where the fumble happened.

“Many believe it may be too punitive with that penalty,” Vincent said.

against UMass.

“We are consulting with WVU’s General Counsel along with outside counsel prior to making a determination on the eligibility status of any of our student-athletes,” West Virginia athletics said in a statement.

“We will discuss this with our student-athletes to make the best decision possible taking into consideration the potential consequences of our decision.”

Battle has the opportunity to play in at least three games before the 14-day window ends.

“Welcome to the party,” West Virginia forward Quinn Slazinski said on social media.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said

he’s “looking forward to proving definitively” that multitransfer athletes should be able to play without a waiting period.

The lawsuit alleged requiring athletes to sit can mean lost potential earnings from endorsement deals with their name, image and likeness or professional careers. It pointed to exposure from competing in national broadcasts, noting: “One game can take a college athlete from a local fan favorite to a household name.”

“It is ironic that this rule, stylized as promoting the welfare of college athletes, strips them of the agency and opportunity to optimize their own welfare as they see fit,” the lawsuit said.

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Winter open house Friday at Santa Fe animal shelter Visit the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday for an open house and watch the farolito lighting in honor of those we love, past and present. Classical guitar, hot chocolate, holiday treats and, of course, adoptions from 5 to 6 p.m.

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Felines & Friends still in need of foster families for kittens

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Española Humane takes first place in annual light parade Española Humane was awarded first place for nonprofits Saturday at the 27th annual Española Electric Light Parade.

The parade, which drew an estimated crowd of 20,000, illuminated the 3-mile route through Española, marking a cherished annual holiday tradition. This year’s theme, “Merry ChrisMoose,” honored Marty Moose, embracing the spirit of Northern New Mexico.

Volunteers Julie and Mike Martinez orchestrated the shelter’s 35-foot entry, bedecked with oversized balloon-like representations of dogs and cats, Christmas trees and adorned with holiday-themed signs spotlighting the shelter’s advocacy for free spay and neuter services and vaccinations.

Check out the photos available on the shelter’s Facebook page at facebook.com/EspanolaHumane.

Española Humane extends free vaccine clinics through December Española Humane continues to offer free vaccines by appointment throughout December.

Operating from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the shelter’s clinic, 108 Hamm Parkway in Española, these clinics cover core vaccines such as DA2PP Canine and FVRCP Feline, administered based on each pet’s age. To secure an appointment, contact the clinic at 505-753-8662, ext. 111.

Sponsored by Santa Fe Kia and with core vaccines supported by Petco Love’s national vaccination initiative, these December clinics aim to promote community pet health. For more information, visit espanolahumane.org.

Holidays gifts for all on ‘Pet Chat’ The hottest holiday gifts for dogs, cats and people are discussed this week on Pet Chat with Murad & Bobbi. The author of Dog Lessons: Learning the Important Stuff from Our Best Friends, Hersch Wilson, provides insight and stories on writing his new book.

Plus, his life partner, Laurie Wilson, owner of Teca Tu, discusses unique holiday gifts for anyone on your list.

Pet Chat airs 9 a.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at 1260 AM and 103.7 FM.

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y sweet Lance cries at the backdoor to go out. Even during the snowstorm and cold evenings, he is right there when I let the dogs out. Lance is my newest rescue cat in our family of seven (two of whom are humans) and was rescued by Dew Paws Rescue in January.

Once I saw his picture, I was convinced my other rescue cat, Billy, needed a playmate.

This will be Lance’s first Christmas with us.

Having cats in a home, you learn to sacrifice ways you are used to living. We will put up our 3-foot tabletop Christmas tree decorated with plastic ornaments again this week. Last year, Billy was curious but didn’t touch it. Lance is a less curious cat than his brother, but we will have to see if the tree survives. It’s just an artificial tree that can be replaced at the after-Christmas sales.

I look at the photo of Macy, a 2-year-old black-and-white cat who has been at Española Humane since August. “Macy was found in the Española Walmart parking lot on Aug. 18 and a good Samaritan brought her to us,” said Jayden Romero, Española Humane’s cat care coordinator. “She was lactating, but her kittens were nowhere to be found.”

Macy has been at the shelter for so long she is beginning to lose her spark. “Macy has been here in her kennel for about 17 weeks, utterly overlooked without a single adoption application, and no matter how much care and enrichment we provide, that’s hard on a cat’s mental health.

There’s no place like home,” said Mattie Allen, the shelter’s communications director.

“We noticed that Macy has been starting to sleep in her bed all day, only getting up to eat.

She’s depressed and lonely. She gained four pounds — she was seven pounds when she arrived and she’s now up to 11 pounds,” Romero said. “I’ve started taking her into my office while I’m working so that she has companionship. She loves to walk around to get pets and explore, and she purrs when she lays on our desks to watch us while we work. She’s just so sweet and gentle, and that little bit of time with us makes her so happy.”

With the holidays on the horizon, Española staff and volunteers would love nothing more than for Macy to curl up under her first Christmas tree decorated with lights and ornaments and to know the pure cat joy of boxes and wrapping paper and bows on Christmas morning.

Macy’s adoption fee is waived during the #EmptyTheShelters event with BISSELL Pet foundation.

Española Humane is open to walk-in adopters

A moment of peace, courtesy of an old man and an old dog

saw him as I walked into Starbucks. He was a senior guy, a little hunched over, sitting at a table by the door. At his feet was his dog, a German shepherd, with gray on his snout. The dog was leashed but relaxed and comfortable in the store with a food bowl and water under the table.

This being Santa Fe on a midmorning Monday in December, it was an older crowd wandering in and out. There were a few with dogs — a woman holding a Chihuahua, another with a Shih Tzu on a leash.

The German shepherd seemed to take it all in with a calm grace, pressing his body against the leg of his guardian.

In a world gone mad, it was a lovely interlude: a coffee shop filled with patient people and dogs.

As I sat there, what struck me most was how the German shepherd’s guardian would occasionally bend down and whisper to his dog. I had no idea what he was saying, but the dog would lean in a little harder as if to make sure he was catching every word.

I wondered about many things — first, the bond between the two. We see individuals with dogs every day. They are mostly loving and kind relationships. (Occasionally, you see someone with a dog that seems just an accessory.) But there was something ineffable about this relationship.

As I watched him whisper to his friend, I thought about how they clearly depended on each other. If you have an older dog, think about how your dog depends on you — they know the daily routine: a walk, a nap, good food and the indescribable joy a dog has when you return home, whether you just walked down to pick up your mail or had been gone for weeks. With an older dog, there is the contract.

It is that we will be together. Simple as that.

Next, I wanted to know if he was alone except for his dog. Was this their morning routine? Would they go home to a house full of people decorated for the season? Or would they return to a small apartment where it was just the two of them?

I wanted to know if they had grown old in each other’s company and watched the years pass together, sharing the same aches, pains and trepidations about the future. We assume humans become wiser as they age (with some notable exceptions), but do dogs become wiser? I think so. Our late Bernese mountain dog, Nellie, when she was old at 8, had lost an eye to cancer and had had ACL surgery.

PET CALENDAR Friday ADOPTIONS AT PETCO Noon-3 p.m., 2006 Cerrillos Road Presented by the Española Humane.

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CAT ADOPTIONS AT PETCO 1 to 4 p.m., 2006 Cerrillos Road Presented by Felines & Friends NM. Visit FandFnm.org.

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A present for Macy: A home for the holidays

IN BRIEF

Felines & Friends continues to receive a record number of abandoned and injured kittens, rescued from underserved communities. Foster parents and donations are still greatly needed to help care for these cats until adoption. Visit FandFnm.org to learn more, apply to foster or donate toward their medical care.

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Hersch Wilson

Tale of Tails

She would still bark and rumble at the coyotes, but the little things that used to wake her from slumber and make her bay at the moon didn’t upset her. She was content to watch the world pass by.

I got the sense it was the same for the two of them sitting in Starbucks. The joy of being together and just observing the world pass by. There was no need to get excited or upset, no need to bark or growl, just comfortable with the understanding they had seen much together and nothing surprises.

The best part of the morning was when the German shepherd got up, stretched and, dragging his leash, came over to say hello to me (or he smelled the banana walnut bread I had bought). He put his head on my leg; I scratched him between his ears.

He closed his eyes for a second or two, then wandered back to his table.

Good dog.

As this special “old” dog slowly settled down with a sigh, his guardian reached down and placed his hand on the dog’s head. It was a simple gesture and one that summed up the morning.

Despite its challenges, of which there are many, and considering the alternative, it is a gift to be old.

It is a time of reflection and letting go of all past shortcomings (no one is perfect!). It is a time for engaging deeply with what matters: loved ones, friends and, if you are extraordinarily lucky, a dog that curls up at your feet.

As this year rushes to a close with all its tribulations and heartbreak, take a moment to close your eyes and imagine an old man and an old dog sitting peacefully in a coffee shop, just watching the world go by together.

Hersch Wilson’s latest book, Dog Lessons: Learning the Important Stuff from our Best Friends, is available at bookstores everywhere and online.

Saturday ADOPTIONS AT TRACTOR SUPPLY IN ALBUQUERQUE

ADOPTIONS AT PETCO Noon-3 p.m., 2006 Cerrillos Road Presented by the Española Humane.

Visit espanolahumane.org.

10 a.m-2 p.m., 8100 2nd St. NW, Albuquerque Presented by Dew Paws Rescue and Santa Teresa Rescue. Visit santateresanm@gmail.com.

1 to 4 p.m., 2006 Cerrillos Road Presented by Felines & Friends NM. Visit FandFnm.org.

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11 a.m.-1 p.m., 6824 Cerrillos Road Presented by Felines & Friends NM. Visit FandFnm.org.

1 to 4 p.m., 2006 Cerrillos Road Presented by Felines & Friends NM.

CAT ADOPTIONS AT PETCO

CAT ADOPTIONS AT PETCO

Monday through Saturday, and 2-year-old Macy goes home spayed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Tracks Dew Paws Rescue: Dew Paws Rescue is helping a pet owner in Albuquerque’s South Valley transfer puppies to Colorado. If you are interested in one of these puppies, they will be Dew Paws Resready to foster with intent cue’s puppies to adopt in two weeks.

Call 505-412-9096 or go to infodewpaws@gmail.com for photos and gender information.

Española Humane: Millie arrived at the shelter as an injured stray one month ago. This poor girl had a huge wound on her face that was so painful and infected she couldn’t eat or see out of her right eye. After several weeks of treatment and surgeries, the wound has healed, and this lovely little one is ready to find her forever home.

Zuzu is a bundle of peppy puggle perfection.

This 8-month-old will soon be “paw-roled” from the Paws in the Pen program, a partnership with the New Mexico Corrections Department. Each of the dogs in the program is paired with two inmate trainers and enrolled Zuzu in a 24/7, eight-week training curriculum designed to develop wonderful family dogs with excellent training. Zuzu is potty and crate trained and knows a long list of cues and behaviors. Apply for adoption at espanolahumane.org and email pawsinthepen@espanolahumane.org.

Felines & Friends: Five-month-old black-andwhite Pinguino was found fending for himself as a solo kitten. His foster mom says he is a great cuddler. He loves to steal socks and place them around his foster home. This adventurous boy isn’t much into canned food but loves dry kibble.

Nine-month-old Patches is a white kitty with tabby spots and a pleasant, inquisitive meow. He is both mellow and playful. Patches would love to have a young kitty friend in his forever home.

Meet these kittens and more at Home for the Pawlidays, a Felines & Friends adoption event hosted by Lexus of Santa Fe from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday. All Felines & Friends cats are spayed/ neutered, microchipped, vaccinated for rabies and FvRCP, and tested for FeLV and FIV. Most have been socialized in foster homes. Apply to adopt at FandFnm.org or visit adoption centers at Teca Tu and Petco Santa Fe. The Horse Shelter: Phoenix is a 4-yearold chestnut mare. She is very early in her under-saddle training and needs an experienced

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Macy came to Española Humane in August.

Phoenix

adopter who has the knowledge and skills to continue her training. She is skeptical about new things and people but turns into a smooth-gaited, willing partner once she trusts her rider. She is available for adoption as a riding horse to the right home. If you are interested in adopting Phoenix, review her riding video at thehorseshelter.org or call 505-577-4041 for more information.

The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Chance is an 8-month-old bundle of joy ready to steal your heart. He is a 35-pound pup and is a perfect fit for any home, adoring both people and fellow furry friends. Chance’s playful spirit and loving nature make him an ideal companion for families of all sizes. Come meet Chance and light his way home this holiday season.

Primrose, a 9-month-old female, was surrendered to the shelter by her former owner. A very gentle girl, she would love to be in a home where her kitten soul can light up for the holidays.

Meet pets looking for homes at the Santa Fe animal shelter at 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s adoption hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.

For more information, call 505-983-4309, ext. 1610.

Contact Sandra Jaramillo at sjaramillo80@yahoo. com.

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I for the date, time, at the address listed Name, address, and and place set forth below, or filed with the Probate Court phone number of below: Plaintiff’s attorney: Date: Tuesday, January of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located Wainwright and Asso- 16, 2024 at the following adciates, Time: 11:30 a.m. dress: P.A., 3301 Coors Blvd Place: In-Person NW Suite R #274 Albu- Judge Steve Herrera 100 Catron St., Santa Fe, NM 87504 querque, NM 87120, Judicial Complex 505-842-1313.

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The Applicants seek to Replacing Ordinances (Houston) change the PLA for 2004-1 [Mayor Pay] • +1 669 444 9171 US and 2012-02 [Councilor • +1 669 900 6833 US 0.34 irrigated acres of surface water curand Judge Pay]. During (San Jose) the public hearing, cit- If you are an individual rently used for izens will be given the with a disability who is irrigation purposes, diopportunity to com- in need of a reader, verted from Acequia qualified de Barranco Blanco ment. A copy of the Or- amplifier, dinance may be sign language inter- SD-00144 located at a requested by contact- preter, or any other point where X = ing the Town Clerk at form of auxiliary aid or 407,789 Easting and Y service to attend the = 3,371,724 Northing, 505-286-4518.” hearing or meeting, UTM Zone 13 North, please contact Lisa NAD83. The current PUB: Dec. 14, 2023 McNiven by phone at PLA for SD-00144-26 is (505) 435-0930 or by e- in the SW1/4 NW1/4 mail at Lisa.mc- SW1/4 of Section 07 of niven@state.nm.us, at Township 19 North, least seven calendar Range 9 East, days prior to the meet- New Mexico Principle

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0.34 irrigated acres of surface water currently used for purposes,B-7 diThursday, December 14, 2023 THE SANTA irrigation FE NEW MEXICAN verted from Acequia de Barranco Blanco SD-00144 located at a point where X = 407,789 Easting and Y = 3,371,724 Northing, UTM Zone 13 North, NAD83. The current PLA for & SD-00144-26 is CAMPERS RVS in the SW1/4 NW1/4 SW1/4 of Section 07 of Township 19 North, Range 9 East, New Mexico Principle Meridian (NMPM), also described as being located at 1 Kokopelli Drive on land owned

by Sefarino, Ruby, and Eric Valdez, and 2 Kokopelli Drive, on land owned by Tiffany Valdez, in the CLASSIC CARS county of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The new PLA, File No. SD-00144-27, is located LEGAL #91996 1979 Apollo, Stored on 33ft landRV, owned byfor the over 10 years.

All fiberglass top of Applicants within the NOTICE is hereby given line. 42,000 miles.

NW1/4original SW1/4 of Secthat on Junethe 1,2023, Great for temporary living or Monica Trujillo, Treas- tion 07 of Township 19 office. Needs TLC. North, Range 9 East, urer, and construction Kelse $2,177.

505-699-6161 Lighthizer, Chair, for NMPM, also described Acequia del Barranco as being located on a Blanco (Applicants), parcel west adjacent 1757 State Road 502, to the current POU for Santa Fe, New Mexico, SD-00144-26 on Tract I 1984 Volvo Wagon Cross Country. filed with the STATE Private Claim 167 Auto. All-wheel drive. Leather interior.

ENGINEER 184,000 Miles. SUPER CLEAN. $5700 Application Exception 122 on land No. SD-00144-26 for owned by Acequia del obo. 505-603-8636 Barranco Blanco. The Permit to Change Place of Use (PLA) of purpose of use and an Existing Water point of diversion will Right (Non 72-12-1) not change. within the Nambe-Po- To view the application and supporting joaque Tesuque Stream System (Rio documentation conWinnebago tactMinnie the StateWinnie Engineer Grande Underground District Office Basin) of the State of Class 31K C 6RV 2018at (505) 827-6120 to New Mexico.Ford Santa Fe V10 6.8L Gasoline Engine. One arrange a 8, date and is the countySlide affected Out, Awning, Sleeps A/C Unit. by the diversion and in time for an appointThe 505-412-5664 District 6 Ofwhich the water hasJimment.

50,000.00 Carrigan been or will be put to fice is located in suite beneficial use. This no- 102 of the Bataan Metice is ordered to be morial Building at 407 published in the Santa Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Fe New Mexican.

The Applicants seek to Any person, firm or change the PLA for corporation or other 0.34 irrigated acres of entity asserting standobjections or surface water cur- ing to TOfile UNLIMITED protests shall do so in IMPORTS rently used for TWO WAYS writing (objection irrigation purposes, diDIGITAL ACCESS be legible, verted from Acequia must 2010 Suburu Forester. Beautiful Pearl de Barranco Blanco signed, and include Grey. AWD. $6000. Call 575-770-5598 SD-00144 located at a the writer’s complete point where X = name, phone number, 407,789 Easting and Y email address, and = 3,371,724 Northing, mailing address). If UTM Zone 13 North, the protest does not NAD83. The current include the complete PLA for SD-00144-26 is name, phone number, in the SW1/4 NW1/4 email address, and SW1/4 of Section 07 of mailing address, it Township 19 North, may be deemed invalid and not accepted Range 9 East, filing unless New Mexico Principle for provides Meridian (NMPM), also Protestant described as being lo- with the protest an afThe NEW stating that it cated at 1 Kokopelli fidavit eNewMexican not have one of Drive on land owned does above-liste eleby Sefarino, Ruby, and the App for iOS and Android Eric Valdez, and 2 ments/requirements BICYCLES Kokopelli Drive, on (phone number, mail• Your choiceing of 7-day, Fri/Sat/Sun, address, email adland owned by dress, etc.).

The Tiffany Valdez, the only or in Sunday print home delivery county of Santa Fe, objection to the approval of the applicaSanta Fe, New• Unlimited Mexico. online The new PLA, File No. tion must be based on: • eNewmexian replicaif detriDetriment: SD-00144-27, is located (I) digital LEGAL #91996 on land owned by the ment, you must specifNOTICE is hereby given Applicants within the ically identify your that on June 1,2023, NW1/4 SW1/4 of Sec- water rights; and/or Public Monica Trujillo, Treas- tion 07 of Township 19 (2) urer, and Kelse North, Range 9 East, Welfare/Conservation Lighthizer, Chair, for NMPM, also described of Water: if public welAcequia del Barranco as being located on a fare or conservation of Blanco (Applicants), parcel west adjacent water within the state Schwinn Biketo2000 24 the current POU for of New Mexico, you 1757 StateMountain Road 502, speed mountain bike,full suspenSD-00144-26 on Tract I shall be required to Santa Fe, New Mexico, sion,recently overhauled, new QUESTIONS? provide evidence Claim 167 filed STATE tires,with grip the shifters.

It’sPrivate a sweet ENGINEER Application Exception 122 on land showing how you will ride. $149 970-406-0101 505-986-3010 No. SD-00144-26 for owned by Acequia del be substantially and Barranco Blanco. The specifically affected.

Permit to Change Place of Use (PLA) of purpose of use and The written protest an Existing Water point of diversion will must be filed, in triplicate, at the District 6 Right (Non 72-12-1) not change. within the Nambe-Po- To view the applica- Office or by mail at PO tion and supporting Box 25102, Santa Fe, joaque Tesuque Stream System (Rio documentation con- NM 87504-5102, on or Grande Underground tact the State Engineer before February 9, 2024, LEGALS Facsimiles 6 Office at Basin) LEGALS of the State of DistrictLEGALS 827-6120 to (faxes) will be acNew Mexico. Santa Fe (505) is the county affected arrange a date and cepted as a valid by the diversion and in time for an appoint- protest if the hard which the water has ment. The District 6 Of- copy is hand-delivered been or will be put to fice is located in suite or mailed and postbeneficial use. This no- 102 of the Bataan Me- marked within 24tice is ordered to be morial Building at 407 hours of the facsimile. published in the Santa Galisteo Street, Santa Mailing postmark will be used to validate the Fe, NM 87501.

Fe New Mexican. period.

The Applicants seek to Any person, firm or 24-hour change the PLA for corporation or other Protests can be faxed 0.34 irrigated acres of entity asserting stand- to the Office of the surface water cur- ing to file objections or State Engineer, (505) protests shall do so in 827-6682. If no valid rently used for (objection protest or objection is irrigation purposes, di- writing be legible, filed, the State verted from Acequia must de Barranco Blanco signed, and include Engineer will evaluate SD-00144 located at a the writer’s complete the application in acpoint where X = name, phone number, cordance with the pro407,789 Easting and Y email address, and visions of Chapter 72 = 3,371,724 Northing, mailing address). If NMSA 1978.

UTM Zone 13 North, the protest does not NAD83. The current include the complete Pub: Dec 7, 14, 21, 2023 PLA for SD-00144-26 is name, phone number, in the SW1/4 NW1/4 email address, and LEGAL #92000 SW1/4 of Section 07 of mailing address, it Township 19 North, may be deemed in- LEGAL PUBLIC valid and not accepted NOTICE- REQUEST FOR Range 9 East, filing unless PROPOSAL New Mexico Principle for provides Meridian (NMPM), also Protestant described as being lo- with the protest an af- The State of New Mexcated at 1 Kokopelli fidavit stating that it ico General Services Drive on land owned does not have one of Department Facilities

by Sefarino, Ruby, and the above-liste ele- Management Division Eric Valdez, and 2 ments/requirements (FMD) is seeking proKokopelli Drive, on (phone number, mail- posals for architecing address, email ad- tural and engineering land owned by design services on an Tiffany Valdez, in the dress, etc.). The county of Santa Fe, objection to the ap- ‘on-call’ basis in New Santa Fe, New Mexico. proval of the applica- Mexico. This is the ofThe new PLA, File No. tion must be based on: ficial notice that the SD-00144-27, is located (I) Detriment: if detri- Request for Proposal on land owned by the ment, you must specif- (RFP) will be available Applicants within the ically identify your to the public on or NW1/4 SW1/4 of Sec- water rights; and/or about December 14, Public 2023. tion 07 of Township 19 (2) North, Range 9 East, Welfare/Conservation This RFP#40-35000-23NMPM, also described of Water: if public wel- 088751 can be found as being located on a fare or conservation of online at: parcel west adjacent water within the state https://bids.sciquest. to the current POU for of New Mexico, you com/apps/Router/Pub licEvent?CusSD-00144-26 on Tract I shall be required to provide evidence tomerOrg=StatePrivate Claim 167 Exception 122 on land showing how you will OfNewMexico&tab=P owned by Acequia del be substantially and HX_NAV_SourcinBarranco Blanco. The specifically affected. gOpenForBid&tmpurpose of use and The written protest stmp=1467214109161 point of diversion will must be filed, in triplicate, at the District 6 Any inquiries regardnot change.

To view the applica- Office or by mail at PO ing this RFP should be tion and supporting Box 25102, Santa Fe, made to the FMD ProManager, documentation con- NM 87504-5102, on or curement tact the State Engineer before February 9, Martin Kuziel, at 505827-2141 or 2024, Facsimiles District 6 Office at (505) 827-6120 to (faxes) will be ac- martin.kuziel@gsd.nm .gov arrange a date and cepted as a valid time for an appoint- protest if the hard is hand-delivered Pub: Dec 14, 2023 ment.

The District 6 Of- copyContinued...

Continued... fice is located in suite or mailed and post102 of the Bataan Me- marked within 24morial Building at 407 hours of the facsimile.

Galisteo Street, Santa Mailing postmark will be used to validate the Fe, NM 87501. period.

Any person, firm or 24-hour corporation or other Protests can be faxed entity asserting stand- to the Office of the ing to file objections or State Engineer, (505) protests shall do so in 827-6682. If no valid writing (objection protest or objection is must be legible, filed, the State signed, and include Engineer will evaluate the writer’s complete the application in acname, phone number, cordance with the proemail address, and visions of Chapter 72 mailing address). If NMSA 1978. the protest does not include the complete Pub: Dec 7, 14, 21, 2023 name, phone number, email address, and mailing address, it may be deemed invalid and not accepted for filing unless Protestant provides

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Venus and unpredictable Uranus. This means you will enjoy schmoozing with friends and groups. However, something might catch you off guard.

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Within two months after our first date, we told each other we were in love with each other and wanted to date each other exclusively.

Yet, within four months, she was lying to me, going off for a night here and a night there, claiming to visit her sister, but actually staying with a married man she’s known since high school — a man with whom, she has admitted to me, she cheated on her late husband.

During our first year of dating, she tried reassuring me that it’s “emotional, not physical.” Is that supposed to be better?!

I told her she knows how I feel, and I’d appreciate her not talking to this man, at this point.

Yet, one day she was showing me something on her phone and accidentally showed me photos of them together. I looked at her phone later and saw the photos were dated recently.

She lied to me about her whereabouts on those days. I have confronted her about her ongoing relationship with this man.

She refuses to admit they still see each other.

We have lots of years and dating histories under both our belts. I realize that. I am not trying to control her, but I am also not willing to share her — not in this way.

Is it wrong to ask to see her phone records to see if she is still talking and texting with him before I say “I do”? Is just having the question in my head enough that I should call it off?

— Looking for Information Dear Looking for Information: Reviewing her call logs might provide you with temporary relief, but it wouldn’t actually heal the fractured trust. In fact, in the long term it could just make things worse, by reinforcing a dynamic where you feel compelled to play private investigator to quell any suspicions.

Unfortunately, it does sound as though your suspicions are well-founded. It’s OK for our significant others to have friends of the opposite sex or even to be platonic friends with exes.

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