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tor is a federal crime, although major impetus to re-examine the 28 patients who experienced Griffin said no one at the VA entire process of setting perfor“clinically significant delays in has been charged with a crime. care” that negatively affected the mance expectations for its leadWASHINGTON — Manag- The FBI and Justice Department patients, Griffin said. Of those ers and managers” throughout ers at more than a dozen Vetthe system. are investigating allegations of patients, six died, he said. In erans Affairs medical facilities wrongdoing at the Phoenix VA addition, the report identified Griffin also defended the indelied to federal investigators and other sites. 17 patients who received poor pendence of his office and the about scheduling practices and care that was not related to report’s findings. Griffin was testifying on an other issues, the department’s delays or scheduling problems, investigative report by his office “Our job is to speak truth to inspector general said Tuesday. on delays in patient care at the Griffin said. Of those patients, power, and our record reflects Richard Griffin, the VA’s 14 died. troubled Phoenix veterans’ hosthat is what we have always acting inspector general, pital, where a whistleblower first done,” he said. Three high-ranking officials said his office is investigating exposed long delays and falsified at the Phoenix facility have Veterans Affairs Secretary allegations of wrongdoing at waiting lists. A resulting scanbeen placed on leave while they Robert McDonald called the 93 VA sites across the country, dal led to the ouster of former appeal a department decision to inspector general’s report trouincluding 12 reports that have VA Secretary Eric Shinseki last fire them. bling and said the agency has been completed and submitted spring. begun working on remedies recGriffin said the report by his to the VA for review. ommended by the report. The Aug. 26 report said work- office provides the VA with “a “The rest are very much ers at a Phoenix VA hospital active,” Griffin told the Senate falsified waiting lists while their Veterans Affairs Committee on supervisors looked the other way Tuesday. or even directed it, resulting in Authorized Rolex Service Griffin’s office has been Buying fine timepieces chronic delays for veterans seekinvestigating VA hospitals and ing care. The inspector general’s 216 Mckenzie Street | Santa Fe, NM clinics across the country foloffice identified 40 patients who 505-992-0200 www.WCWTimePieces.com lowing reports of widespread died while awaiting appointdelays that forced veterans in ments in Phoenix, but the report need of medical care to wait said officials could not “concluSanta Fe Science Café For Young Thinkers months for appointments. sively assert that the absence of Investigators have said efforts timely quality care caused the to cover up or hide the delays “Understanding Global Warming” deaths of these veterans.” were systemic throughout the Investigators identified agency’s network of nearly Donald Neidig 1,000 hospitals and clinics. National Solar Observatory (Ret.) While incomplete, Griffin provided the panel with a Wednesday, September 10, 6 – 7:30 PM snapshot of the results so far. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex Managers at 13 facilities Repair • Restore • Recolor 123 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe lied to investigators about Don’t Replace It – Call Us To Restore It. scheduling problems and other Admission is free and all are welcome. Don is a retired issues, he said, and officials astrophysicist, having studied solar activity at the National at 42 of the 93 sites engaged Solar Observatory for 28 years. He took up the study of in manipulation of schedulclimate change as a retirement project. He now chairs the ing, including 19 sites where 709-0889 Academy for Learning in Retirement at NMSU. appointments were canceled weathersbyguildnm.com and then rescheduled for the More Info? Visit www.sfafs.org or call 603-7468. *furniture same day to meet on-time performance goals. 8 TO 10 MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING Sixteen facilities used paper WEEK Still Life Drawing - Beginning Drawing Still Life waiting lists for patients Figure Drawing Drawing Figure CLASSES Beginning & Intermediate Painting and Drawing Painting and Drawing and Intermediate Kevin instead of an electronic waiting Kevin Gorges Gorges Richard Kevin KevinGorges Gorges RichardGuzmán Guzmán 1:30 pm –244:30 pm Sept. 22-Nov. (10 wks) list as required, Griffin said. 6:00 – 24 8:30 pm 9:30 – 12:30 pm Sept.am 22-Nov. 24 (10 wks) Sept. pm 22-Nov. (10 wks) 8 weeks $169.95* 1:30-4:30 pm Lying to a federal investiga8 weeks $169.95 8 weeks $169.95 9:30 am-12:30 pm 6:00-8:30 pm $209.9531 + tax/model March – Mayfee19 March$209.95 31 –+May March$209.95 31 –+May tax 19 tax 19
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Maya Archaeology and Its Relevance to the Modern World While the great architectural, artistic, and intellectual achievements of Pre-Columbian Maya peoples continue to bedazzle us for their richness, an understanding of the arc of ancient Maya civilization has relevance to problems facing the world today. SFI President Jerry Sabloff focuses on lessons about sustainability and societal resilience gleaned from new evidence relating to the decline of many major cities in the southern Maya Lowlands in the ninth century CE. He also explores heritage education and tourism in today’s Maya world, among other topics.
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Tuesday was the final primary election of the 2014 midterms until Election Day — for every state but Louisiana. The same day, Nov. 4, Louisiana holds a “jungle primary,” with all candidates on the ballot, even those of the same party. If no candidate receives 50 percent-plus-one vote during the primary election, a runoff election will be held on Dec. 6 between the top two vote-getters in the primary.
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to unseat Patrick four years ago, but he hopes a well-financed campaign and sharpened message can lead to a win in solidly Democratic Massachusetts. u Rhode Island: Gina Raimondo beat Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and newcomer Clay Pell, husband of Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan, to win the Democratic nomination for governor in Rhode Island. The state’s general treasurer trumpeted her leadership in overhauling the state’s troubled pension system, and in the process outraised and outspent both of her opponents, shelling out more than $5 million. Raimondo will face Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, who beat businessman Ken Block, founder of the Moderate Party, on the Republican side of the ballot.
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ways to avoid ruling on same-sex marriage, as it did for many years on interracial marriage bans. WASHINGTON — Both “I think the court will not do sides in the gay marriage debate what they did in the old days agree on one thing: It’s time for when they continually ducked the the Supreme Court to settle the issue of miscegenation,” Ginsburg matter. said. “If a case is properly before Even a justice recently said she the court, they will take it.” thinks so, too. The speed at which gay marThe emerging consensus riage has moved through the makes it likely that the justices courts stems from the Supreme soon will agree to take up the Court’s decision less than question of whether the Consti15 months ago in U.S. v. Windsor tution forbids states from definto strike down a provision of the ing marriage as the union of a federal Defense of Marriage Act man and a woman. A final ruling that denied a range of tax, health isn’t likely before June 2015, but and veterans benefits to legally a decision to get involved could married gay couples. come as soon as this month. Since that decision, nearly two “I don’t see a lot of reasons for dozen judges have relied on Justhem to wait,” says Dale Carpen- tice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion ter, a gay rights expert at the Uni- for the court to extend the Windversity of Minnesota law school. sor decision to strike down state “You have almost no one at this same-sex marriage bans in every point opposed to certiorari,” the region of the country. Only one legal term for high court review. federal trial judge, Martin FeldOfficials in five states in which man in Louisiana, has upheld a marriage bans were struck down state anti-gay marriage law. Elseby federal courts have rushed where, two appellate judges have their appeals to the Supreme dissented from rulings in favor of Court, in time for consideration same-sex marriage. by the justices when they meet Same-sex couples can now get in private on Sept. 29. Moving married in 19 states and the Disat breakneck speed, at least for trict of Columbia. Judges in an the legal system, Indiana and additional 14 states have struck Wisconsin filed appeals on down prohibitions but put the Tuesday, just five days after the rulings on hold pending appeals. federal appeals court in Chicago The federal appeals court in struck down their state bans. Cincinnati could issue a decision The Chicago decision itself came at any time affecting Kentucky, just nine days after judges heard Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. arguments, extremely fast for a Appellate judges in San Franprocess that usually is measured cisco heard arguments Monday in months. Officials in Oklahoma, over bans in Idaho and Nevada. Utah and Virginia also have The situation is strikingly difappealed to the Supreme Court. ferent from the last time a state’s Adding to the momentum, the same-sex marriage ban came to winners in all those cases — who the Supreme Court — and that typically want to preserve their was only two years ago. Samelower court victories and would sex marriage then was legal in normally oppose Supreme Court just six states. review — want the justices to “Talk about a journey. It’s a weigh in. As expected, so do the movement that took a long time losers. to get going, but it has really snowballed in the last two years,” In all, 36 states, encompassing said James Esseks of the Ameriboth those that allow same-sex can Civil Liberties Union. marriage and those that don’t, want the justices to join the fray. Then, supporters and oppoThirty businesses, including nents of gay marriage squared off Alcoa, Amazon, eBay, General over whether the justices should Electric, Intel, NIKE, Pfizer and even hear the case. Opponents Target, say the Supreme Court urged Supreme Court review, should extend same-sex marwhile supporters pleaded with riage nationwide because the the justices to stay out of it. “current patchwork of state laws The court eventually agreed to causes employees justifiable hear the California case as well as uncertainty about how their the federal Defense of Marriage employers and governments will Act case. The justices issued a treat their familial relationships.” technical ruling in the California case that eliminated Prop 8 but The range of cases seems to left for another day whether meet the standard set by Justice same-sex couples elsewhere have Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she a constitutional right to marry. predicted in an interview with The Associated Press in July The prevailing view is that day that the court would not look for will soon arrive.
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Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag in front of the Supreme Court in Washington in June 2013. It’s likely that the justices soon will agree to take up the question of whether the Constitution forbids states from defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
on the ballot Tuesday — and won her primary for governor of Massachusetts.
but he fell far shy of posting the kind of overwhelming victory Former Massachusetts Sen. that might have been expected Scott Brown, a front-runner from a popular incumbent aimsince he announced his bid in ing to win a second term in Longtime House April, glided to an easy win November. Tuesday in the Republican pri- member loses Cuomo moves on to face mary for Senate in neighboring Republican Rob Astorino, the U.S. Rep. John Tierney, New Hampshire. D-Mass., conceded defeat to for- Westchester County execuBrown was one of 10 canditive, and Green Party candidate mer Marine and Iraq War vetdates on the Republican ballot eran Seth Moulton, bringing an Howie Hawkins in November. seeking to challenge first-term end to his congressional career Democratic incumbent Sen. after 18 years in office. Other big races Jeanne Shaheen in NovemTierney, who prides himber. That race is among those u New Hampshire: Retired self on his constituent service expected to decide control of defense industry executive Walt and his record on education, the Senate for the final two Havenstein secured the support barely survived the 2012 elecyears of President Barack of the Republican establishment tion. He edged out Richard Obama’s term. early and beat tea party activist Tisei, a former state senator Brown won a special elecAndrew Hemingway and two and openly gay Republican, by tion in 2010 in Massachusetts just 4,330 votes. others. to finish the term of the late Havenstein now faces firstMoulton will face Tisei, again Sen. Edward Kennedy, but he term incumbent Democratic the Republican nominee, in lost his bid for a full term two November. Gov. Maggie Hassan. years later to Democrat Elizau Massachusetts: Coakley beth Warren. Late last year, won some measure of political he moved to New Hampshire Cuomo challenged redemption after her loss to and won praise for not taking Brown, a defeat that ended the New York Gov. Andrew this primary campaign for Democrats’ supermajority in Cuomo didn’t end up having granted. the U.S. Senate. She beat state much to worry about when it “Some thought he might Treasurer Steven Grossman and came to winning his Demohave an ‘above it all’ camDonald Berwick, a former fedcratic primary against Zephyr paign,” former state Repuberal health care administrator, to Teachout, a largely unknown lican Party Chairman Fergus win the Democratic nomination liberal activist. Cullen said. “But the guy has for governor. But Teachout’s presence on earned it.” In the Republican primary, the ballot nonetheless served as Worth noting: Brown beat a referendum on Cuomo among Charlie Baker, chief executive Massachusetts Attorney Genliberals, highlighting his uneasy of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, eral Martha Coakley in that relationship with the party base. beat tea party-backed candidate 2010 Senate race. She was also Cuomo won the race with ease, Mark Fisher. Baker lost his bid The Associated Press
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