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THE NEW MEXICAN Saturday, November 15, 2014
LOCAL NEWS
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Murder suspect on ‘wanted’ list Report: LANL Feds say fugitive sought in two teens’ slayings is tied to Latin Kings gang By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
The suspect in the shooting deaths of two Santa Fe teens is now listed by the U.S. Marshals Service as one of its most wanted violent fugitives. Local authorities last Friday issued an arrest warrant for Ricardo “Ricky” Martinez, 20, of Santa Fe on two open counts of murder in connection with the Oct.
24 slayings of Venancio Cisneros, 18, and Anamarie Ojeda, 13, whose bodies were found in a bloodstained Toyota Corolla off N.M. 14 south of the city. The Marshals Service said Friday, Nov. 14, in a news release that Martinez is affiliated with a national gang known as the Latin Kings, one of the largest Hispanic street gangs in the U.S. A jail mugshot shows that Martinez has an L and a K tattooed under his right eye, and the same letters tattooed on his neck, the news release says. Authorities said at least three witnesses told investigators they saw Martinez and an unidentified man with the victims on the day before the bodies
were found on East Ramada Way. Local residents found the bodies at about 9 a.m. Oct. 25. The arrest warrant states Cisneros had been shot three times in the head and Ojeda had been shot once in the head. The sheriff’s office has warned that Martinez is considered armed and dangerous. The Marshals Service asks that anyone with knowledge of the suspect’s whereabouts call 346-640. The sheriff’s office is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to Martinez’s capture. Anyone with information can call county authorities at 428-3730.
budget system is ‘unreliable’
Planning, scheduling, accounting program could be replaced By Patrick Malone The New Mexican
Ricardo ‘Ricky’ Martinez
From left, Monte del Sol Charter School students Matthew Montoya, Shalto Dascher and his twin brother, Skye, and Ben Murdock, a student at Santa Fe Community College, fill out applications during the annual Santa Fe Ski job fair on Friday. The fair continues from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Jobs with perks on the slopes Ski Santa Fe hiring seasonal workers, from mountain maintenance to child care By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
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undreds of people flocked to Ski Santa Fe on Friday — and it wasn’t for the snow. Instead, the mountain-goers were seeking seasonal employment. Ben Abruzzo, the mountain manager, said between 300 and 600 people usually apply for jobs ranging from mountain maintenance to child care. Dick Smith, the operations office manager, said Ski Santa Fe employs about 400 people during the winter season, but he couldn’t say Friday how many new employees the company would hire this season. It was a nippy Friday afternoon on
the mountain, which was sparsely covered in a bit of fresh snow. A spokeswoman for the resort said a recent cold snap allowed crews to start making artificial snow, as well. Inside the resort cafeteria, dozens of applicants milled about while filling out paperwork. Some drank coffee or hot chocolate and chatted among themselves while waiting to be called for an on-site interview. Most wore brightly colored ski jackets and jeans rather than the professional attire. Some of the job hopefuls, like Kim Redfearn, who said she currently works at a local restaurant, applied to work at the resort because of the free
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ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexicans looking for health insurance can enroll online starting this weekend through a government website serving as the state’s online marketplace for medical plans. Nearly 35,000 New Mexicans signed up for insurance plans offered by private insurers through the state’s health insurance exchange in the first enrollment period, which ended earlier this year. J.R. Damron, chairman of the exchange’s governing board, said he hopes the state will be able to enroll between 40,000 and 45,000 individuals in the next three months. Here are some answers to questions about how New Mexico’s health insurance exchange works. When can I begin to enroll? Enrollment opens Saturday and runs through Feb. 15. Individuals need to enroll by Dec. 15 if they want their coverage to go into effect in January.
Main office: 983-3303 Late paper: 986-3010 News tips: 986-3035
Love triangle turns fatal for Lamy’s nephew
I St. Michael’s High School students Alyssa Evans and Jordyn Romero fill out applications during the fair.
A look at N.M.’s online health network How does the system work? New Mexico will use a federal website for enrolling individuals (www.healthcare.gov), and the state has a website (http:// bewellnm.com) that provides links for enrollment and other assistance. Consumers can go online to shop for insurance plans, comparing prices and coverage, without enrolling. The state decided to continue using the federal website for determining eligibility and enrolling individuals. The exchange’s governing board decided more time was needed before switching to a planned state-run system. Damron says the federal website has been upgraded to try to make it easier to use and to fix technical problems that plagued the system when it was launched last year. What if I need help? The state operates a toll-free call center at 855-99-NMHIX, seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., except on holidays. Individuals will be referred to a health care
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Dramatic affair ends with gunfire outside Exchange Hotel on Plaza
Q&A: INSURANCE EXCHANGE
The Associated Press
The system at Los Alamos National Laboratory that tracks budgeting and progress toward project goals has been unreliable and could be scrapped, according to a nuclear industry trade publication. Certification of the lab’s Earned Value Management System, first granted in 2009, faces withdrawal by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration over “systemic and material deficiencies,” the Nuclear Security and Deterrence Monitor reported Friday. The publication cites a draft letter from Los Alamos Field Office Contracting Officer Sheryl Chesnutt and an attached memo from the Department of Energy’s Office of Acquisition and Project Management saying a review of the lab’s system this summer yielded 92 corrective actions and found it out of compliance with 31 of 32 accepted guidelines for systems of its kind. Over the course of three reviews in the five years that the tracking system has been in place, Energy Department reviewers found repeated deficiencies and “an increasing trend in repeat findings.” Among the failures identified the report were planning, scheduling, budgeting and accounting. The report said the lab had trouble managing projects and encountered massive cost increases that delayed one construction project and caused major cost and schedule overruns on another. “Data is not reliable, accurate, timely, auditable, traceable, or reconcilable, and therefore, any performance Measurement baseline would be invalid such that neither the current project status nor the forecast completion cost and schedule are determinable,” Paul Bosco, Energy Department Acquisition and Project Management chief, wrote in an Oct. 30 memo to lab and NNSA officials, according to the Nuclear Security and Deterrence Monitor. “As a result, the Government cannot have confidence in any project’s reported financial position, and the Government’s ability to manage and take corrective actions has been hampered.”
HEALTH CARE RESOURCES Federal website: www.healthcare.gov State website: http://bewellnm.com Toll-free number: 855-99-NMHIX, 7 days a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
guide or an insurance broker for assistance. Consumers also can go online to find someone near where they live to provide help. Clinics and hospitals often have health care guides who can answer questions and assist with the enrollment process. The exchange also has established an assistance center in Albuquerque where consumers can walk in for help with enrollment or to get more information. How much will the insurance cost? Premiums vary depending on the insurance plan, region of
the state and age of the enrollee. Monthly premiums will range from $183 to $514 for a 50-year-old nonsmoking man who lives in the Albuquerque area. Premiums are lower in Albuquerque than other parts of the state because it has more health care providers and greater competition. New Mexicans can select from plans offered by five insurers with a range of coverage called bronze, silver, gold and platinum. The least costly, or bronze plans, will require people to pay more out-of-pocket expenses. What if I can’t afford the premiums? Federal premium subsidies are available for some individuals and families depending on their income, generally from about $23,850 to $95,400 for a family of four. Low-income adults also may qualify for medical coverage through the state’s Medicaid program. Individuals seeking to enroll in a health plan through the exchange will be referred to Medicaid if they qualify.
n 1879, a most extraordinary killing occurred at the old Exchange Hotel (at the site of today’s La Fonda) on the Santa Fe Plaza. The man who pulled the trigger was none other than John B. Lamy, the nephew and namesake of New Mexico’s far-famed Archbishop Lamy. The incident rocked New Mexico’s capital and, according to one source, left the aging archbishop “cast down with sadness.” There was scarcely a person in the territory who was not aware of the shocking details. Strangely, you will seldom find this interesting case mentioned in the history books. It’s as if there was a conspiracy of silence on the part of writers, Marc aimed at shielding the revered Simmons archbishop. Trail Dust An early biography by Louis H. Warner, Archbishop Lamy, An Epoch Maker, makes no reference to the affair at all. And Paul Horgan in his 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lamy of Santa Fe, gives only four lines to it. The sequence of events is clearly set forth, however, in the newspapers of the day. From them, the story can be pieced together and told. In 1870, Lamy’s young nephew had arrived in Santa Fe from their native France. Since both men had the same name, to distinguish them, the latter was often referred to as J.B. Lamy, or sometimes as John B. Lamy Jr. Folks later said that J.B. was honest and hardworking and that while he had come to New Mexico to live in the shadow of his celebrated uncle, he still he pulled his own weight and asked no special favors. It wasn’t long before J.B. Lamy met and became smitten with a beautiful young lady, Doña Mercedes Cháves. She was the daughter of a former governor, José Cháves, who had owned a hacienda down the Rio Grande at Los Padillas. Soon the couple were married, and they took up residence in a fine house with elegant furnishings located on lower San Francisco Street. The Lamys seemed happy. They threw large parties and moved in the best social circles. Because of their connection with the archbishop, everyone wanted them on their guest list. For their comings and goings through the narrow streets and across the Plaza, they rode in a splendid car-
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