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Lab workers face shutdown Oct. 18 With no federal spending agreement, most work will halt at Los Alamos By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
The nukes will be secured, the science will stop, and thousands of Los Alamos National Laboratory
employees will be sent home if the federal budget impasse between Congress and the White House continues through next week. “It’s very frustrating. I’m sure I feel like America does,” said Liddie Martinez, a lab security officer who works with a subcontractor. The official word came Wednesday: The lab will shut down for business at the end of the day Friday, Oct. 18,
Balloon crash injures 2 A balloon became tangled in power lines in Rio Rancho during a Balloon Fiesta flight, injuring a passenger and pilot. PAge A-5
if there’s no spending agreement, and nonessential employees will be furloughed without pay starting Oct. 21. The workers deemed “essential” for securing the lab’s facilities across 36 square miles and protecting the nuclear stockpile will remain on the job with pay. “Protecting nuclear material, national security information, workers, the public and the environment
remains an essential function,” LANL spokesman Fred deSousa said Wednesday. The looming furlough will affect most of the 10,000 LANL staff, scientists, post-doctoral students and subcontractors. So far, subcontractors have endured the brunt of the budget crisis, and some 290 had been told
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Lights out at Legal Tender Couple shutter Lamy saloon as legal fees mount in lease dispute
Homebuilder arrested Wanted in New Mexico on fraud charges, William “Kal” Kalinowski is held in Massachusetts. PAge A-5
Bushee demands answers about city salary hikes Mayor Coss says he supports manager’s decision to increase pay By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
Saying she was “disturbed” to learn in the newspaper about significant salary increases received by some city employees, Santa Fe City Councilor Patti Bushee on Wednesday demanded a list of everyone who has received a raise in the past two years. “We’ve been giving out substantial raises without any real discussion on the part of the councilors, particularly the Finance Committee,” Bushee said. Bushee told senior staff during the City Council meeting that there should be limits on salary increases, including those that are the result of promotions. “If it was the previous city manager that authorized these, all of them in their entirety, that’s disturbing to me,” she said, referring to former City Manager Robert Romero, who retired in May. Most, but not all, of the salary increases since January 2012 happened under Romero’s watch. The New Mexican first disclosed pay raises of up to 62 percent for high-level employees that city officials say are tied to promotions. The city also approved pay increases for at least two dozen high-ranking police supervisors to deal with what
Willi Haye and Bill Davis dance to the Buffalo Nickle band at Legal Tender on July 13, 2012. The couple said they were happy the establishment had reopened after being closed for 10 years. In September, however, legal costs forced the restaurant, saloon and dance hall to close its doors once more. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTOS
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Feds’ troubled tech history at root of health site glitches By Craig Timberg and Lena H. Sun
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Problems with the federal government’s new health care website have attracted legions of armchair analysts who speak of its problems with “virtualization” and “load testing.” Yet increasingly, they are saying the root cause is not simply a matter of flawed computer code but rather the government’s habit of buying outdated, costly and buggy technology. The U.S. government spends more than $80 billion a year for information-technology services, yet the resulting systems typically take years to build and often are cumbersome when they launch. While the error messages, long waits and other problems with www.healthcare.gov have been spotlighted by the high-profile nature of its launch and unexpectedly heavy demands on the system, such glitches are common, say those who argue for a nimbler procurement system.
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The storied Legal Tender building, shown in October 2012, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Obituaries
Felix Ronquillo Sr., 92, Oct. 5 Nancy Smith, 77, Santa Fe, Raymond Anaya, 66, Oct. 7 Oct. 7 Martha K. Iwaski, Santa Fe, Dr. Juan Jesus Tellez, 83, Santa Fe, Oct. 4 Sept. 29 Thomas Rivera, Oct. 3
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he Legal Tender restaurant in Lamy, whose operators have been locked in a legal battle with their landlord, the Lamy Railroad & History Museum, closed last month after being overwhelmed with legal expenses, patrons learned in an email Tuesday. The historic restaurant, saloon and dance hall, which had been closed for years, was reopened by a nonprofit in September 2011 with a volunteer waitstaff and an abundance of community support. After a lease dispute with the museum board, the Legal Tender shut down in May — but not for long. Patrons came out in full force to save the business, and a judge ordered the museum in June to allow it to reopen. But the costs of the legal battle apparently have been too steep for John and Cindy Jednak, of the nonprofit Learning Mind Inc., who had been managing the operation.
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Pasatiempo’s cover story takes a look at Tapia, the documentary that will get its New Mexico premiere during next week’s Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. The film tells the story of five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia, the scrappy kid from Albuquerque with a troubled childhood, a running battle with cocaine addiction, a warm heart and a flair for entertaining, who was found dead May 27, 2012, in an Albuquerque hotel room. Writer Loren Bienvenu explores how filmmaker Eddie Alacazar captured the highs and lows of the boxer’s life, combining archival footage and commentary by Tapia, including his own
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account of what he called “mi vida loca” — a label he had tattooed in Gothic script across his stomach.
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