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New studies cast doubt on film perks


Some lawmakers look to put cap on industry’s two recent studies suggest that film
incentives are losing, not making,
earned enough income to fund its
annual tax burden.
the average New Mexican’s hair, is
doing the movie star’s hair, which
incentives, while supporters tout benefits money for their states.
Last month the Washington, D.C.-
Among other findings, that report
states, “It is unlikely that movie pro-
may be an increase in income, but is
not a job created,” said Mark Robyn,
based Tax Foundation issued a special duction incentives generate wealth one of the contributors to the Tax
By Robert Nott the pros and cons of film incentives report, “Movie Production Incentives: in the long run. Most fail even in the Foundation study, by phone Tuesday.
The New Mexican around the country. Blockbuster Support for Lackluster short run.” The study also says that
At least 44 states now have some
Just as the governor announced Policy.” The foundation, which col- despite some states’ claims of more
Thor is coming to New Mexico, sort of film-incentive setup, making it
that Kenneth Branagh’s Thor will lects data and publishes research on jobs because of the film business, in
but even the Norse God of Thunder tough to construct a broad-based case
soon shoot in the Santa Fe area tax policies, is most famous for its truth, many of those positions are
would have a tough time hammering for supporting or criticizing incen-
(employing about 200 New Mexicans annual Tax Freedom Day, the day simply in-state transplants.
out all the confusing data regarding in cast and crew positions), at least when the country has theoretically “So a hairdresser, instead of doing Please see PERKS, Page A-8

New
Break in weather gives crews chance to fix pesky potholes

Smoothing out bumpy rides flights


boost
Storms wallop D.C.
Federal government largely
shut down since Friday; at
least another foot of snow
S.F. ties
expected today. Page A-2
Expanded service
provides three daily
links to Dallas
Senate By Bob Quick

overrides
The New Mexican

Expansion of American Eagle air-


line service between Santa Fe and

second Dallas/Fort Worth takes off this week-


end.
Starting Friday, a new early depar-

veto ture — leaving Santa Fe Municipal


Airport at 8:15 a.m. and arriving at
DFW at 10:55 a.m. local time — is
expected to prove especially popular
Bill would change with businesspeople looking to make
connections for flights to the East
makeup of State Coast and elsewhere, Santa Fe airport
Investment Council manager Jim Montman said.
“I’ve checked on the flight,” he said,
“and it appears to have been full for
By Steve Terrell
The New Mexican quite some time.”
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican Starting Thursday, an evening flight
For the second day in a row, New Mexico Department of Transportation employees, from left, George Montaño and Alvaro Baca fill potholes from the American Airlines hub at
the state Senate has voted Tuesday on Cerrillos Road. The crew first empties the hole of water and debris, then fills it with a winter-mix pot- DFW will also make it easier for west-
overwhelmingly to override a hole patch. Watch a video of workers filling a pothole at www.santafenewmexican.com. bound passengers to reach Santa Fe.
veto by Gov. Bill Richardson The flight will depart DFW at 7:40
of a bill passed last year. By Veronica M. Cruz “It’s an ongoing effort that we’re p.m. and arrive in Santa Fe at 8:30
The New Mexican dealing with,” Gabaldon said. “We p.m. local time. The crew overnights
The Senate voted 34 to FILING A

C
4 Tuesday know that they’re out there, and our in Santa Fe and then makes the early
to override ity and state maintenance COMPLAINT crews are working on them regularly.” flight back to DFW.
INSIDE Richardson’s crews took advantage of Potholes can be City crews took more permanent The expanded service, which was
u House OKs veto of Senate the break in the weather reported by calling measures to smooth out bumpy announced in mid-December, will use
statewide Bill 460 from Tuesday to fix bothersome the city’s streets divi- streets. the same 44-seat Embraer ERJ-140
ban on using last year’s ses- potholes on some of Santa Fe’s busi- sion customer-service The city’s streets division filled regional jets that provide American
cell phones est roads. line at 955-2411, the more than 30 potholes with hot Eagle’s other three daily flights in and
sion. The bill,
while driving. A crew from the Santa Fe High- constituent services asphalt mix, used for permanent
sponsored out of Santa Fe.
Page A-5 way Maintenance Patrol, part of the hot line at 955-6949 repairs, in areas including Siringo
by Sen. Steve or the state’s District 5 Fares are affected by how far in
Neville, R- New Mexico Department of Trans- Road, Guadalupe Street and the advance you book. A check of the
portation, was sent out to provide hot line at 827-9500.
Farmington, would change the bridge over the Santa Fe River at Gua- airline Web site on Tuesday evening
membership makeup of the emergency repairs for some of the dalupe Street. showed that a last-minute booking for
scandal-plagued State Invest- larger potholes on Cerrillos Road, Crews ran out of materials to con- a roundtrip departing Santa Fe early
ment Council, giving the Leg- St. Francis Drive, and St. Michael’s tinue the repairs Tuesday and will Friday and returning from Dallas on
islature more influence and Drive, said NMDOT spokeswoman Karyn Lujan. resume work today, said Sevastian Gurule, division Sunday evening would cost about
the governor less. Weather permitting, work will continue in those director for constituent services. $599. A similar itinerary in late March
“The message is that we areas today and throughout the week, she said. Since the beginning of this year, the city has was available for about $403.
want some transparency (on “Ideally, you’d like it to be sunny and everything fielded 85 complaints regarding potholes. Most of Valerie Alarid, officer manager of
the SIC),” Neville told report- would be dry and it would be like that for a few them concerned Cerrillos Road and St. Francis and Wings Travel, said American Eagle is
ers after the vote. He said the days,” said NMDOT District 5 engineer Miguel St. Michael’s drives, which are maintained by the becoming more popular with her cli-
state needs to instill more Gabaldon. “But we haven’t had that kind of weather state, Gurule said. ents as the airline adds more flights.
confidence in the SIC, which lately.” Potholes can cause damage to a vehicle’s struts “We have clients who want to leave
manages more than $12 billion Because of the amount of moisture in the ground, and shocks and cause uneven tire wear, according to the East Coast in the afternoon,” she
of state money — and which the state crew focused on temporary repairs that can a news release from AAA. said. “With this new flight (leaving
has been at the center of a fed- last anywhere from a few days to months. If there is Dallas at 7:40 p.m.), they can be back
more heavy snowfall, however, those potholes might Contact Veronica Cruz at 986-3042
See SENATE, Page A-5 pop up again, Lujan said. or vcruz@sfnewmexican.com. Please see FLIGHTS, Page A-4

Rosie Ledet SPORTS County might slash OBITUARIES


Pasapick

Ring in the Chinese New Year


& the Zydeco 60 jobs in budget fix Delfina Frances
with symbolic foods.
Playboys Armijo, 82, Santa
Finance director says Taste, B-5 Fe, Feb. 3
7:30 p.m., Santa Fe programs also in trouble. Patrick Head, Feb. 9
Brewing Company, Jose Patricio (Pate)
Local news, A-6
37 Fire Place, Martinez, 76, Feb. 5
$25, 988-1234, Juanita A. Martinez, TODAY
ticketssantafe.org, Woman accused of 97, Santa Fe, Feb. 7
Lady Braves stay on top
$29 at the door.
S.F. Indian School scores another
shifting state funds
State police probe alleged
TIGER’S Juanita Renkoff, 87,
Feb. 7
Mostly
cloudy.

More to do
district win over St. Michael’s.
Page B-1
transfer to jewelry business.
Page A-8
ROAR Marilyn Wilknson,
87, Jan. 26
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Senate GOP steels to stall health reform


President to sign social policy change in a generation.
In a White House ceremony State opposition: AGs poised
$1 trillion overhaul to sue after Obama signs bill
scheduled for today, President
Barack Obama will sign the nearly
$1 trillion health care overhaul given
legislation today final approval by the House on Sun-
day night, then take a victory-lap trip
By Denise Lavoie
The Associated Press
to middle America.
By Janet Hook and James Oliphant Traveling to Iowa on Thursday, In a defiant last stand against a newly passed health care
Chicago Tribune Obama kicks off a partywide effort overhaul, opponents are trying everything they can to stop it
to sell a still-skeptical public on from becoming the law of the land.
WASHINGTON — Even as Con- the benefits of his plan to reduce Republicans in the Senate are planning parliamentary
gress’ long health care debate nears the ranks of the uninsured, provide maneuvers to keep a companion bill from reaching the pres-
a close, Republicans in the Senate more stability and security for those ident’s desk. And lawmakers in at least 30 states are working
took to their battle stations Monday who have insurance, and begin slow- Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press to prevent what they say is an unconstitutional mandate
for one last round of the no-holds- ing the growth of health care costs. Activists and legislators gather Monday in Royal Oak, forcing Americans to have health insurance.
barred delaying tactics that they have Mich., to rally for a measure to exempt the state from
so far used in vain to fight the biggest Please see STALL, Page A-4 the federal health care overhaul. Please see STATES, Page A-4

Teens held San Ildefonso Pueblo revitalizes community farm tradition Robert
Romero
City manager

in auto proposes
an overhaul
that would

break-ins ax dozens of
jobs but add
others.

have crime
histories City may
cut jobs,
By Jason Auslander
The New Mexican

Court records show that 16-

reshuffle
year-old Cesar Barba-Villegas
had been arrested five times
on burglary charges in the
past 15 months before police

divisions
on Saturday accused him and
another teen of breaking into
eight cars downtown.
Barba-Villegas had been
caught breaking into a car Jan.
21, 2009; breaking into a house Facing new fiscal woes
in the 900 block of Camino
Vista Aurora on April 20; from lodgers tax drop,
breaking into another house
June 17; and another car Dec.
city manager aims
13, court records state. He was to save $6.5 million
placed on a year of probation
in June, another year of proba- By Tom Sharpe
tion in January and yet another The New Mexican
year of probation in February,
records show. Photos by Natalie Guillén/The New Mexican Santa Fe City Manager Robert
Then, on Saturday, a man Patrick Torres, left, and Lana Paolillo help build a small greenhouse Monday at San Ildefonso Pueblo. Paolillo is the Romero proposes to cut city expendi-
standing in the median on director of the tribe’s community farm program, and Torres is a Santa Fe County agricultural extension agent. tures by about $6.5 million a year by

Sowing sustenance
Paseo de Peralta near Gua- reorganizing the municipal bureau-
dalupe Street flagged down cracy and eliminating dozens of jobs.
an officer and said two teens His proposal came Monday as city
whom the officer had just councilors heard more bad financial
passed had broken into a news — an 8 percent drop in gross
nearby car, Santa Fe police Sgt. receipts tax revenue so far this fiscal
Jason Wagner said. The officer year and a 10 percent decline in lodg-
looked in her rearview mir- ers tax revenue.
ror and saw the teens running By Veronica M. Cruz as recently planted fruit trees bloom and soon-to-be- The city Finance Committee
toward the Railyard Park, he The New Mexican planted vegetables spring from the ground. approved most of the reorganization
“It’s about revitalization of our farming techniques

T
said. Monday, but balked at Romero’s pro-
The officer eventually he couple of acres surrounding the house through tradition, culture and our language,” Marti- posal to fill a few vacancies, includ-
caught up with the two, who that Tribal Councilman Tim Martinez and his nez said of a project taking root in his backyard: the ing hiring a city public-information
admitted to breaking into eight mother share at San Ildefonso Pueblo is little San Ildefonso Pueblo Community Farm Program. officer.
cars on Montezuma Avenue, more than dirt with a few patches of grass The biggest single cut would
Sandoval Street, Agua Fría and weeds. But come fall, the area will burst with life Please see FARM, Page A-5 eliminate 24 open positions at the
Street and Paseo de Peralta, city Water Division — for a savings of
Wagner said. One of the boys nearly $1.2 million a year.
rode around the area with an ‘It’s about Romero also proposes to consoli-
officer and pointed out the raising date the directors of the Water Divi-
cars they hit, Wagner said. healthy sion and Public Utilities Department
The boys had broken win- children,’ into a single position.
dows to steal property such as says San Although the city Wastewater Divi-
MP3 players and accessories, Ildefonso sion wouldn’t lose any jobs, the pro-
Pueblo Tribal
coins and phone accessories, Council
posal calls for saving about $620,000
Wagner said. Police recovered Member Tim a year by making better use of treated
some stolen property from the Martinez, effluent water and increasing the
two teens, he said. whose capacity of the city compost facility.
The other teen with Barba- backyard is In the Solid Waste Division, annual
Villegas was Ruben Navarette, the site of savings of $272,500 would be achieved
the garden
See BREAK-INS, Page A-10 project. Please see RESHUFFLE, Page A-5

Banff Mountain SPORTS OBITUARIES


Pasapick

Film Festival UNM is new Socorro Vargas Cordova,


53, Santa Fe, March 19
The best of the game for Donald “Don” Joseph
festival’s world tour, Los Alamos’ Hathaway, 87, Belen,
7 p.m., Lensic, 211 Alex Kirk March 19
W. San Francisco Beverly Chudakoff Katz,
St., $15, 988-1234. LOCAL BUSINESS With the prep Santa Fe, March 19
scene behind Epifanio “Eppie” TODAY
Velasquez, 78, Santa Fe,
A Hyatt in the works him, the senior March 20
Mostly
The new Cerrillos Road hotel is set to prepares for his Ronald Gene Womack, 63,
cloudy.
open in June. college journey. March 14 High 54,
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Gas line break shuts Zia Road Zia Road


near

Homes By Ana Maria Trujillo


The New Mexican
“Whoever did this left their backhoe,” city pub-
lic information officer Carla Lopez said Thursday
Camino
Carlos Rey
was closed
in area Officials say a contractor drilling a hole in a
evening, while Zia Road remained closed between
Camino Carlos Rey and Yucca Street due to the
Thursday
after a
temporarily south-side Santa Fe street struck a gas line late
Thursday morning, causing a leak that blew open a
damage.
Although police initially said a communications
contractor
drilled into
evacuated hole in the pavement.
The incident forced a temporary evacuation of
company was responsible for the drilling, Lopez said
that hadn’t been confirmed. She expected details
a gas line.

due to leaks the neighborhood and shut down traffic on nor-


mally busy Zia Road. Please see BREAK, Page A-6
Jane Phillips
The New
Mexican

EL SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYÓ Dolores


LOCAL ECONOMY

WALK TO More
Roybal of
Santa Cruz
holds a
candle for

shoppers,
her grand-

REMEMBER
son, Julian
Bourguet,
5, to light

but no
Thursday
at El San-
tuario de
Chimayó.

boom
Retailers, restaurants
say good ski season
provides spring break lift
By Bob Quick
The New Mexican
Many Santa Fe retailers report more
consumer confidence, but it’s far too
early to say the good old days are com-
ing back. High unemployment and
uncertainty about what will happen
in coming months apparently are still
causing visitors to hold off on buying
sprees, for now at least.
Last year at spring break, Latricia
Gonzales McKosky says, when she asked
people browsing her InArt gallery on
Delgado Street if she could help them,
some reacted defensively. She took that
as an indication of worries about their
jobs and the faltering economy — and a
lack of money to buy much of anything.
This spring those who come into the
gallery seem to have a whole different
attitude. “It makes a big difference,”
Gonzales McKosky said. “People seem
more optimistic about things.”
Please see SHOPPERS, Page A-5

Jobs: Private
employment outlook
A crucifix overlooks Juan Medina Road on the way to El Santuario de Chimayó early Thursday. Thousands of pilgrims will visit the holy site this weekend.
stabilizes in city
Thousands of pilgrims — some familiar, By Bruce Krasnow
The New Mexican
Car strikes child near Chimayó some not — make their way to holy site It’s possible that the loud thud work-
A 6-year-old boy sustained serious but not life- ers heard in January was Santa Fe’s job
threatening injuries Thursday night when he was By Veronica M. Cruz tiny well carved into the stone floor. market hitting bottom.
struck by a car near El Santuario de Chimayó on Photos by Luis Sánchez Saturno Rubbing the fine dirt between her Raw numbers released Thursday
N.M. 503, police said. The New Mexican hands, she smoothed it over her aching by the state Department of Workforce
The boy’s family was operating a vending booth Solutions show February unemploy-

C
leg, then did the same to her left leg and
along the northbound lanes of the road about four HIMAYÓ — Wearing a the small of her back. ment in Santa Fe County was 7.2 per-
miles south of the chapel, police said. bright-orange safety vest and “It’s healing sand,” Paisano-Suazo, 55, cent, up significantly from the 5.5 per-
The child was crossing the road to light luminarias carrying a cactus walking said. “After that many days of walking, cent a year ago.
when he was struck about 8:15 p.m. by a 1994 Mitsubi- stick made by her nephew, my legs are tired.” But the drop from January’s
shi sedan driven by Roberta Plante, 72, of Cundiyo, Aleta “Tweety” Paisano-Suazo walked 7.7 percent rate was big enough that
Paisano-Suazo is one of thousands
said Lt. Eric Garcia, a state police spokesman. through the small doorway to the side economists warned there’s likely some
of Holy Week pilgrims who will walk
The child was transported by helicopter to Univer- room at El Santuario de Chimayó — statistical glitch that won’t be known
along the roads into the valley at Chi-
sity of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque with leg finally reaching her destination Thurs- for months, said Mark Boyd with Work-
and head injuries, he said. mayó to visit El Santuario, a holy site
day after walking a total of 28 hours where a chapel was built in the 1800s force Solutions. Still, he said it’s likely
The accident was still under investigation, though over the course of four days. private-sector employment losses have
Garcia said it was unlikely that the driver would be on ground believed to have miraculous
She sat down and rolled up the right powers. stabilized — though it will be years
cited. Alcohol was not a factor. leg of her black windbreaker pants, before New Mexico gets back to pre-
The New Mexican Like many of the visitors, most of
exposing her calf and thigh, then recession levels.
scooped up the sacred dirt from the Please see WALK, Page A-4
Please see JOBS, Page A-5

OBITUARIES GENERATION NEXT The New Mexic


an’s Weekly Magaze
ainment & Cultur
ine
Painting with LOCAL NEWS
throwaways
of Arts, Entert
April 2 - 8 , 2010

Rosemary Graver,
91, Santa Fe, What’s outside your window
March 27
Teen starts blog that features someone’s Collage artist Lance
Charles R. Greer,
view around the world each day. Letscher tells the
84, Santa Fe,
March 16 tale of The Perfect
Page D-1 Machine in a new
David J. McGown,
Santa Fe, March 27 children’s book. TODAY
Celia A. Romero,
Today a show of
Santa Fe, March 30 Cloudy and
Eugene F. Romero, Letscher’s work
Ex-officer: FBI tapes altered breezy with a
Santa Fe, March 31 opens at Eight
Patricia Sanchez, chance for rain.
Santa Fe, March 30
Modern. Former Santa Fe detective is accused
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Teen murder suspect in custody “If we limit our


own discussion,
we could be out
By Jason Auslander ing to Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Detectives assigned to the case of here by 7:30.”
The New Mexican Abram Anaya and online jail records. learned that during the course of the
He is charged with an open count of party, Carrera asked a 15-year-old girl ANGÉLICA RUIZ
An 18-year-old Santa Fe man murder in connection with the death to step outside and talk to him. The
charged with shooting and killing of Edward Herrera, 17, at a party early girl later told police that Carrera was
another teen early Sunday turned him- Sunday morning in the 900 block of trying to get her to go home with him. SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
self in to police Tuesday afternoon. Calle Carmelita.

Board opts
Herrera, the girl’s ex-boyfriend, then
Jaime Carrera was booked in to the Meanwhile, new details about Herre- walked outside the party and told Car-
Santa Fe County jail about 2 p.m. after ra’s killing emerged Tuesday in a search
Jaime Carrera surrendering an hour earlier, accord- warrant filed in state District Court. Please see SUSPECT, Page A-5

to start
Five-hour standoff school one
week earlier
ends peacefully Calendar likely to move up two
weeks; proposal to track meeting
attendance fires up members
By Robert Nott
The New Mexican

Who said Board of Education meetings can’t be fun?


In a roughly 3-hour meeting Tuesday night, the
school board voted to start school a week earlier next
year — on Aug. 16 — and to not forgo its per-member
per diem of $85 per meeting.
Oh, and the board may require a sign-in sheet for
members to keep track of time spent in session, but
that’s for discussion down the line.
Although the main issue of the meeting — which,
for once, didn’t revolve around the district’s $7.4 mil-
lion budget shortfall — was about the new calendar, at
least 50 minutes was taken up discussing a proposal to
require board members to attend at least 85 percent of
each meeting to get the $85 per diem.
Board member Frank Montaño brought up the issue
at a budget meeting over a week ago. At that meet-
ing, board member Angélica Ruiz told the assemblage
that the proposal was probably aimed at her, since she
sometimes shows up late and leaves early.
Ruiz is a single mother of five who is running for
District 3 County Commission.
Tuesday night, Montaño suggested some form of
sign-in and sign-out sheet to track board members’
attendance records, as well as an attendance roll call at

Please see BOARD, Page A-4

School budget
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
Santa Fe city police officers block the entrance of Camino Lado at Siringo Road on Tuesday afternoon after reports that an armed man
had barricaded himself in a house. Residents were allowed back into the neighborhood around 6:15 p.m. after negotiators spoke with
the man, identified as Peter Sandoval, and he came out of the home unarmed. He was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

South-central neighborhood, Rail Runner service disrupted after man shoots off rifle woes may force
By Veronica M. Cruz
The New Mexican
difficult choices
Santa Fe police locked down two schools Board members say shortfall
and a south-central neighborhood Tuesday
afternoon after an armed man barricaded puts ‘everything on the table’
himself in a house. The nearly five-hour
standoff also inconvenienced residents of the By Robert Nott
area and even passengers on the Rail Runner The New Mexican
Express.
The man, whom acquaintances identified As Santa Fe Public Schools continues to host a series
as Peter Sandoval, called 911 about 12:35 p.m. of public meetings to discuss more than $7 million
and said he was a former Naval gunner and budget cuts for next year, it’s becoming increasingly
was armed with a hunting rifle at a residence clear that the public has its own priorities of “don’ts”:
in the 2000 block of Camino Lado. u Don’t close small schools or consolidate them
“I saw him come out and he had a rifle and into K-8s.
he fired the rifle four or five times into the u Don’t increase class size.
air, and then went back in the house,” said u Don’t cut back on arts or athletic programs.
Sandoval’s neighbor Bob Keesing. “I decided Natalie Guillén/The New Mexican But as board of education members watch the clock
he was being stupid, so I went about my Commuters use a bus to get back and forth from the N.M. 599 Rail Runner station and the tick down to deadline day — they have until April 22
business and then I heard the police com- Santa Fe Depot after the northern portion of the service was temporarily shut down dur- to recommend a final budget — they may have few
ing.” ing Tuesday’s incident. Police suspended service as a precaution. other viable choices, as they made clear in telephone
Keesing said Sandoval shared the home interviews on Tuesday.
with one male and one female roommate, negotiators converged on the neighbor- doval by phone, were able to convince him “I want to stress that, rather than someone coming up
and he had been living in the home for a few hood just across Siringo Road from Santa to come out of the home around 5:30 p.m. and saying, ‘I don’t like the fact that you are considering
years. Fe High School. According to Police Chief
Officers, the city’s SWAT team and crisis Aric Wheeler, negotiators, speaking to San- Please see STANDOFF, Page A-5 Please see BUDGET, Page A-4

Photo-eye First TASTE No more jail OBITUARIES


Pasapick

Wednesday for accomplice Crowning Dolores Dueweke, 88,


Santa Fe
Salon
Forum with
Victim’s mother
objects to plea deal.
streak Isidora Flores, 99,
Villanueva, April 3
photographers UCONN fends Edward Herrera, 17, Santa Fe,
Local news, A-7 off Stanford for April 4
Jason Jaacks, Marcelino Lucero, 82,
Brandon Soder, second straight Santa Fe, April 3
Facing nuclear national title. Manuel A. (Mannie) Sanchez,
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Pork & Brew untapped Sports, B-1 80, Santa Fe, April 1 Mostly sunny
Huddleston, terrorism Madeline Maria Tapia-
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Obama lays out new
salon 6:45-9 p.m., barbecue and even a pig race. Irene J, Uranga, 53, Santa Fe, clouds.
defense strategy. March 31
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Santa Fe New Mexican.

More help
sought for
Cold War
victims
Western senators look to expand
compensation for radiation exposure
By Sue Major Holmes
The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — A bipartisan group of U.S.


senators from Western states wants to expand federal
compensation for people who became ill from working
in uranium mines, living near debris left from mining or
living near atomic tests from the 1940s into the ’60s.
The measure, introduced Monday, would broaden
who’s eligible for compensation, expand the downwind
exposure area to include seven states and fund a study
Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
of health impacts on families of uranium workers and
Lorraine Goldman speaks for closing small schools but not cutting programs during Tuesday’s school board meeting. Board members on people living near uranium development.
Thursday must decide what they will trim in order to fill a budget deficit of nearly $7 million.
“As the U.S. built up its Cold War nuclear arsenal …
many Americans paid the price through their health,”
By Veronica M. Cruz budget ax will fall for the 2010-2011 school elementary schools likened the budget situa- the measure’s prime sponsor, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M.,
The New Mexican year. tion to trimming a “big pot full of flowers.” said Tuesday.

T
Many arts and music teachers voiced “They look all right now. They’re starting Senate staffers could not say how many people might
eachers, parents and other commu- opposition to one proposal that would alter- to bloom,” he said. “But what are they gonna potentially be covered by the proposed amendments to
nity members made last-minute pleas nate music and art programs on a yearly or look like in a few weeks?” the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA.
to the Santa Fe Board of Education semester basis and eliminate a coordinator Another issue raised during the public The bill would add all of New Mexico, Arizona,
on Tuesday night, urging members to position — a total savings of $1 million. Sup- forum was the idea of consolidating small Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah to areas
reconsider merging small schools and slash- porters stressed the positive effects of arts schools. An advisory committee formed by
ing arts and music funding — actions that education on students’ overall achievement Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez proposes Please see VICTIMS, Page A-4
have been identified as ways to cut nearly and participation in school. turning Alvord, Larragoite and Kaune ele-
$7 million in costs next school year. “The arts are not a frill — they are essen- mentary schools into a K-8 and consolidat-
A capacity crowd filled the meeting room tial to every child’s education,” said Karen ing Acequia Madre with Atalaya and Carlos

Journalist: Wars
at the school district’s Education Services Conley, who identified herself as a music Gilbert.
Center at 610 Alta Vista St., where the board teacher in the district.
is scheduled to decide Thursday where the A band director for Sweeney and Chávez Please see PLEAS, Page A-5

proof country
Chinese earthquake’s Paljor Thon-
dup, founder
is in decline
ripples felt in Santa Fe of Project
Tibet in
Santa Fe, is
organizing a
‘Alternative Radio’ host contends
U.S. pursues ‘same imperialism’
relief effort
President of Project ect Tibet in Santa Fe, was born in
Jyekundo, capital of the Yushu region
to help the
By Tom Sharpe
victims of
Tibet seeks help for of Qinghai Province and the city the recent The New Mexican
hardest hit by the quake.
devastated region He has a cousin among the missing.
earthquake
in remote Barack Obama is following the foreign policies of his
“Each family there has lost one or two western predecessor in the White House, says radical radio host
By Steve Terrell people there,” he said in an interview China. Thon- David Barsamian.
The New Mexican dup was born
Tuesday in his Canyon Road office, in Jyekundo, “It seems to me it’s like more old wine in new bot-
which has walls decorated with pho- the city hard- tles,” Barsamian said Tuesday evening at the Center for
Paljor Thondup has personal rea- tos and a painting of the Dalai Lama, est hit by the Contemporary Arts.
sons for organizing a relief effort for the spiritual leader of Tibet. quake. It is “It’s the same imperialism. It’s dressed up. It’s cer-
victims of the devastating earthquake Thondup is seeking donations to an area pri- tainly eloquent and articulate by someone who ... has
last week in western China. buy medical supplies, tents, blankets marily popu- an extensive vocabulary and can actually complete sen-
The earthquake, which registered and digging tools. lated with tences. … But what of the policies?”
a magnitude of 6.9, was in his home- Tibetans.
Although the region officially is Barsamian, an author and globe-trotting journalist,
land, high on the Tibetan plateau. Leigh Fagerstrom
Thondup, president of Proj- Please see RIPPLES, Page A-7 The New Mexican Please see DECLINE, Page A-5

A Murmation SPORTS Capital High class OBITUARIES


Pasapick

Grilling
of Starlings cracks grisly case Margaret M.
basics Archuleta, 83, Ohkay
Southwestern Despite missed clues, for the Owingeh, April 19
Association for students earn high marks. outdoor Stephen Howell, 62,
Indian Arts’ literary chef. Santa Fe, April 18
Local news, A-10
arts series featuring Rose Montoya–Olivas,
Taste, B-4
Native writers Layli 91, Santa Fe, April 17
TODAY
Fire
Long Soldier and European flights Rose P. Romero, 94,
James Thomas Powerful pitching slowly resume Santa Fe, April 18 Partly
cloudy

it up!
Stevens, 6-8 p.m., Elkettes down St. Michael’s Airlines work on backlog Page A-10
Collected Works 8-2 for key District 2AAA victory. and windy.
as Icelandic volcano stirs.
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Late paper............986-3010
Two sections, 24 pages A locally owned and
independent newspaper,
Annie’s Mailbox............A-9 Crossword.....................A-9 Obituaries ...................A-10 Sports............................ B-1 Classifieds...........986-3000 161st year, Issue No. 112 serving New Mexico
Calendar........................A-2 Horoscope ....................A-9 Opinion.........................A-11 Taste ..............................B-4 News tips ............ 986-3035 Publication No. 596-440 for 161 years

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BOOZE SWEEP Operation Safe


Celebration: City
and state officers

YIELDS 9 BUSTS crack down on liquor


sales to minors

Fulad Hamdard/The Associated Press


A medic checks on a schoolgirl Sunday in
a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. More
than 80 girls have fallen ill over the past
week, raising fears that militants are using
poison to scare them away from school.

Afghanis
fear sickness
is strike on
schoolgirls
Illness not serious; officials
suspect it is Taliban ploy to keep
girls from pursuing education
By Rahim Faiez
The Associated Press

KABUL — Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls have


fallen ill in recent days after reporting a strange odor
in their classrooms in northern Afghanistan, prompt-
Photos by Jane Phillips/The New Mexican
ing an investigation into whether they were targeted
by militants who oppose education for girls or vic- Victor Villa-Diaz, 26, received a felony citation Friday after purchasing alcohol for a teen girl working undercover with the multi-agency
Operation Safe Celebration, a liquor-law sweep targeting establishments that sell alcohol to minors. Villa-Diaz and his passenger, Maclovia
tims of mass hysteria. Either way, the reports from
Villa-Diaz, were cited during a shoulder tap, when the teen stood outside a store and asked them to purchase liquor for her.
three schools within 2 miles of one another in Kun-
duz province have raised alarm in a city threatened
by the Taliban and their militant allies. By Veronica M. Cruz
The latest cases occurred Sunday, when 13 girls The New Mexican LIQUOR LAW

S
became sick, Kunduz provincial spokesman Mah- CITATIONS
bobullah Sayedi said. Another 47 complained of itting in the back seat of a Ford pickup, an 18-year-
dizziness and nausea the day before, and 23 fell ill old New Mexico college student waited anxiously Santa Fe busi-
last Wednesday. All complained of a strange smell in as the truck pulled into the parking lot of Albert- nesses that
sons on Zafarano Drive on Friday afternoon. With sold alcohol to
class before they fell ill. minors:
$37 in hand, she prepared to walk into the store to pur-
Please see SICKNESS, Page A-4 chase alcohol for the first time. ◆ Blue Corn
“Your whole life you’re told, ‘Don’t buy alcohol unless Cafe
you’re 21.’ You don’t do certain things, and I consider ◆ Second
myself to be a really good person,” she said. “I’ve never Street Brewery
◆ Allsup’s

Rupert Murdoch
gotten a speeding ticket, never been in trouble.”
Several minutes after walking into the store, she said she No. 344
◆ Bumble Bee’s
found the liquor section, picked out a four-pack of Bud-
◆ Walgreens

ratchets up his
weiser and walked to a checkout lane with an older male No. 2900
cashier. George Vaisa, a server at Olive Garden, was referred
◆ Albertsons
He checked her identification, which indicates she is for a felony Friday after selling alcohol to a minor. ‘She
No. 986

newspaper war under 21 until 2012, and entered her date of birth into the looked of age,’ Vaisa told state agents and city police
who had enlisted the teen. ◆ Olive Garden
system. ◆ Adelitas Mex-
“I honestly thought he was going to tell me off, or yell at ican Restaurant
it to him and he kind of held it up and compared it to me,
me, and instead he was really nice,” she said. ◆ Quick Stop
and he was like, ‘smile,’ so I smiled, and then he punched
Damage from ‘Journal,’ ‘Times’ “I handed him the Bud and he was like, ‘Let me see that No. 5
fake ID,’ and I was like ‘OK, I must be busted,’ so I handed
rivalry may be felt nationwide Please see BUSTS, Page A-10

By Andrew vanacore
The Associated Press
“We want to prevent the opportunity for these kids to drink. ... For someone to make
NEW YORK — It might be the last great Ameri-
a poor decision to sell to them — it doesn’t help the issue.” — LT. ERIC GARCIA, state police spokesman
can newspaper war. And Rupert Murdoch intends to
win it.
He has made a career of grabbing readers and
advertisers from competing newspapers, and now he
is racheting up the challenge his Wall Street Journal
poses to The New York Times. Today, the Journal is
Local poverty, world hunger drive Santa Fe walk
launching a metro section that will vie for readers
and advertisers on the Times’ turf.
By Dennis J. Carroll raise donations and awareness of hun- Plaza and then up Alameda Avenue ON THE WEB
For The New Mexican ger as an issue both worldwide in gen- to Canyon Road and back to Alameda
Although the new section will be available only ◆ www.church
eral and in New Mexico in particular. — a total of about 2.5 miles. worldservice.org
in the New York City area, collateral damage could
spread around the country. Both newspapers are Puppies on leashes, babies in car- Sherry Hooper, executive director of About 40,000 New Mexicans — half ◆ www.ilasanta
jostling with each other, USA Today and regional riages and bottles of water at the ready, the Santa Fe Food depot, put the prob- of them children and the elderly fe.org
about 100 Santa Feans set out Sunday lem in perspective as walkers set out ◆ www.thefood
Please see NEWSPAPER, Page A-4 afternoon on a leisurely short walk to from Cathedral Park headed for the Please see WALK, Page A-4 depot.org

Art talk: Miners


Pasapick

Patricia
Johanson Ancient city rising memorial
President Obama
The artist discusses Aleppo, Syria, eulogizes 29 men
her work as part survived invaders, killed in a mine
of the Santa Fe massacres and explosion.
Art Institute series earthquakes. Its Page A-3 TODAY
“Elemental: Earth, LA VOZ new challenge:
Air, Fire, Water,” ‘Nuevos Americanos’ en N.M. foreign tourists. Sunny,
OBITUARIES breezy.
6 p.m., booksigning Get out, A-12
Un estudio indica que los inmigrantes John Francis Stack,
follows, Tipton Hall, High 66,
tienen un poder de compras de miles de Santa Fe, April 22
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Late paper............986-3010
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independent newspaper,
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