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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market continued its climb Wednesday, despite a handful of disappointing economic reports. It’s a recurring theme in the stock market. While surprisingly bad news can still shake investors’ nerves, they’ll often shrug off reports of sluggish economic - PAGE B5
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Preakness draw was over, and trainer Shug McGaughey listed a variety of reasons why he was OK with having Kentucky Derby winner Orb starting Saturday’s race from the rail. Then someone asked him, “If you had your choice, where would you want to be?” Without hesitation, McGaughey responded, “The outside.” - PAGE B1
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May 16, 2013
THURSDAY
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NM faces medical access difficulties
SANTA FE (AP) — New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said Wednesday.
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
A report released by the Legislative Finance Committee said state residents could encounter growing problems of access to med-
ical care due to the potential need of 2,000 physicians, 3,000 registered nurses and as many as 800 dentists. Up to 172,000 uninsured New Mexicans are expected to receive medical coverage next year either through an expansion of Medicaid or a state-run health insurance exchange. More than 400,000 New Mexicans lack health care coverage. “The number of health
Auditors suggested the state’s Medical Board should consider expanding the role of physician assistants by giving them more independence to practice outside the supervision of a doctor.
care professionals and their maldistribution throughout the state cannot adequately meet current demand, let alone the additional pressures brought about by the newly insured in 2014,” the
report said. “In the near ter m, the lack of supply will result in longer wait times to see a provider and more difficulty accessing specialists. As New Mexico’s population
expands and becomes proportionately older, the state can expect even greater health care access problems.” Auditors said “it’s unlikely that New Mexico will experience a train wreck” in 2014 but there will be a gradual deterioration of access to health care. Auditors recommended the state take a number of
FatMan’s open for business in Hagerman
See MEDICAL, Page A3
realization has been more than six years in the making. The project received funding from various state, federal and local agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Mexico EcoDevelopment nomic Department, the New Mexico Finance Authority and New Mexico’s Legislative Capital Outlay Program. Cliff Waide, mayor of Hagerman, thanked Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell and for mer legislators T im Jennings and Keith Gardner for their help in securing funding. “It’s been a community effort,” Waide said. “We’re very fortunate.” Robey also thanked Hubert Quintana, director of the Southeastern New Mexico Economic Development District, who, he said “really spearheaded” the project. Quintana said the facility has been a great project and that he looks forward to seeing it expand even more. He also hopes to see more tenants come Amy Vogelsang Photo to the Industrial Park and From left: Hagerman Mayor Cliff Waide, Hagerman Town Councilor Connie Andrews, and Ellen Robey and Rick Robey, of Fat- fill what is left of its 80 Man’s Beef Jerky, cut the ribbon on FatMan’s new facility, Wednesday. acres. Robey offered visitors a years, FatMan’s Beef man’s Industrial Park. the 6,000-square-foot ILISSA GILMORE tour of the facility, which Jerky finally cut the ribOwner Rick Robey said facility possible. The projRECORD STAFF WRITER bon Wednesday for its the efforts of many organi- ect broke ground three After more than six newest facility in Hager- zations helped to make years ago, but the facility’s
UFO Research Center library outgrows space See FATMAN’S, Page A3
JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
The library at the International UFO Research Center will relocate following this year’s UFO festival in July. Considering 28 percent of voting Americans believe aliens exist, and 21 percent think a UFO crashed in Roswell in 1947, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling in April, the library is still growing and in demand. When the library first opened, it contained one bookshelf and a few magazines. Several donations later, the shelves have grown into two large rooms, two video viewing rooms, an office and a research
area. The library now contains more than 5,000 books, 1,000 magazines and periodicals and more than 1,000 videos. “It’s really grown,” said library director Karen Jaramillo. The UFO center has already purchased space next door to relocate the library, but visitors must still enter through the main entrance. Although the library did loan out its books about aliens, extraterrestrials, crop circles, big foot, UFOs and other phenomenon, the works are now too rare and out-of-print to loan, Jaramillo said. The library has an extensive collection of binders
ILEA reception
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ILEA delegates from Colombia, Peru, Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia arrive at Roswell Nissan for a welcome reception, Tuesday.
filled with unclassified materials about sightings, articles and other related materials. Researchers can access the pages easily in binders and at desks provided. And recently, it received the Candusso Collection from Americo and Maggie Candusso. The siblings started collecting articles on UFOs when they were young. The entire 25-box collection is inventoried and in binders. The collection is so large, it covers an entire wall of the existing library. “We were actually in his will to receive this,” Jaramillo said. The library also owns nearly all movies or television shows made of Roswell
or other alien-related subjects. Visitors can borrow a video room to view a show anytime. The library also has access to a “sightings” database in-house with
records of UFO sightings from all over the world, Jaramillo said. The library is open to researchers from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — More than 50 inmates were mistakenly released early from New Mexico prisons, including a convicted murderer with more than four years left to serve, according to a new state audit released Wednesday. The New Mexico Corrections Department said most of 51 offenders identified in the audit of 6,900 inmate files were erroneously released from September 2010 and September 2012 due to miscalculations on time left to serve. According to the audit, an inmate convicted of sec-
ond-degree murder was incorrectly let free in February 2012 but had four years and four months left on a prison term. Another inmate convicted of seconddegree murder walked out in November 2011 with 30 days left, the audit found. Around 15 were convicted of violent offenses ranging from aggravated battery to sexual contact of a minor, the audit showed. Most of the inmates released early had less than a month left to serve, the audit said. Names of those released early were not revealed
since authorities were seeking to bring them back into custody. The audit was “phase 1” of three massive reviews of inmate files ordered by Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel after a series of early releases were discovered last year, and of ficials realized that a detailed inmate audit had not been conducted since 2006. During the audit, officials were finding mistakes and working to apprehend offenders, including some
Jill McLaughlin Photo
The International UFO Museum Research Center Library.
50+ NM inmates released early
See INMATES, Page A2