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SANTA FE (AP) — New Mexico can move ahead with establishing a staterun health insurance exchange under legislation signed into law Thursday by Gov. Susana Martinez. The new law takes effect immediately, and one of the next steps is the appointment of a 13-member gover ning board for the exchange. The exchange is to serve
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as a marketplace for the uninsured to buy medical coverage. One of the early decisions for the board likely will be selecting a contractor to establish a computer system, which will allow individuals and small businesses to shop online for health care plans offered by private insurers. Uninsured individuals and families can receive federal subsidies to reduce
Nearly a fifth of the state’s population lack insurance — one of the highest uninsured rates in the country — but some of those will be able to obtain medical services through a planned expansion of Medicaid ...
the amount they pay for insurance. Small businesses can be eligible for a tax credit to help provide medical coverage for workers.
Under a federal health care overhaul, states had the option of establishing their own exchange, leaving it to the federal government
CHIMAYO HOLY WEEK
CHIMAYO (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected during Easter weekend to visit El Santuario de Chimayo, one of the most popular Catholic shrines in the Americas. And this year, pilgrims are coming to this adobe chapel in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains under historic circumstances ... - PAGE A5
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Gateway Christian School students participate in a Work-a-Thon by helping to prepare a community garden next to the school, Thursday morning. Students were scattered throughout the area performing various acts of community service.
Gateway kids ditch class, clean up instead JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Purple-shirt-wearing students of all ages took a day off of class at Gateway
DEXTER, 10 ESTANCIA, 0
Much like any sport, baseball comes down to taking advantage of scoring opportunities. In the first game of the Sertoma Colt Classic, Dexter and Estancia both had prime scoring chances, but it was the Demons who cashed in on theirs. Dexter starting pitcher Edgar Munoz worked out of two early jams and the Demons scored four runs with two outs in the fourth inning on their way to a 10-0 six-inning victory over the Bears. Estancia started off fast, picking up two singles following a Joseph Jaquez ... - PAGE B1
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New Mexico faces a tight deadline —under federal law — to have the exchange ready to enroll the uninsured starting in October and be fully operating in January. It’s estimated that about 200,000 New Mexicans
Council renames links for Lopez
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or forming a state-federal partnership.
Christian School Thursday to give back to the community. The school’s fourth annual Work-a-Thon Day included pulling weeds from the nearby commu-
nity garden, cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors at local churches and hauling food around for local organizations. “We want to instill in them a good work ethic
and (a sense of) giving back to the community,” said the Rev. Rick Rapp, Gateway’s superintendent. “I think the kids
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Spring River Golf Course will now be known as Nancy Lopez Golf Course at Spring River, following a unanimous vote by City Council members present, Thursday. In a phone interview earlier that day, Lopez, who is in the middle of the LPGA’s Legends Tour, said the idea at first made her a little uncomfortable. “That’s something that usually happens when you pass away,” she said, laughing. “I just don’t think I’m that big a deal ... all I did was play golf.” What made her able to win, she said was due to her dad Domingo “Sunday” Lopez teaching her “the mental part of game.” “I’m really blessed,” she said. “God gave me a lot of talent, but my dad nurtured that talent. “Roswell is my home; it’s where I grew up, where I made all my friends. I
S&P closes at a record Job Corps hosts Women’s Forum high, beating ’07 mark
NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in less than a month, the stock market marched past another milepost on its long, turbulent jour ney back from the Great Recession, toppling another record left over from the days before gover nment bailouts and failing investment banks. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed at a new high Thursday, three weeks after another popular market gauge, the Dow Jones industrial average, obliterated its own closing record. The S&P capped its best quarter in a year, rising 10 percent, and the Dow had its best first quarter in 15 years, climbing 11 percent. hursday’s performance was driven by encouraging economic data. Companies
are making record profits quarter after quarter. They’re hiring in greater numbers, and the housing market is finally recovering. The economy has expanded for 14 quarters in a row. The Fed has helped, too. By keeping interest rates near record lows, the central bank has encouraged people to move money out of savings accounts that pay next to nothing and into stocks and other investments. On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 6.34 points, or 0.41 percent, to 1,569.19, beating by four points its previous record of 1,565.15 set on Oct. 9, 2007. The index is still shy of its alltime trading high of 1,576.09.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and “get squishy” on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers’ background checks.
kids.” More than three months after 20 first-graders and six staffers were killed in Newtown, Conn., Obama urged the nation to pressure lawmakers to back what he called the best chance in over a decade to tame firearms violence. At the same time, gun control groups were staging a “Day to Demand Action” with more than 100 rallies and other events planned from Connecticut to California. This was on top of a $12 million TV ad campaign financed by New York City Mayor Michael
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to-day, as well as in the working world, “women need to support each other.” “Some of the most atrocious things done to women are done by other women,” she said. The center organized a day of workshops on topics such as leadership, self-value and dealing with body image issues and ownership and Job Corps instructors also Ilissa Gilmore Photo shared their personal Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell talks with Job Corps student experiences to inspire Lesha Brown Thursday. Ezzell served as keynote speaker students. Rep. Candy Spence for the Center’s Women’s Day Forum. Ezzell, R-Roswell, served as the event’s keynote sonal and professional speaker and related her ILISSA GILMORE sisterhood among female experiences in managing RECORD STAFF WRITER students and help them all aspects of her life, Roswell Job Corps Cen- realize their potential. from her work as a Career Technical Edu- rancher to her legislative ter hosted Thursday a day-long Women’s Day cation Director Amy BrigForum to promote per- gs told students that day-
‘Shame on us’ if Congress forgets Newtown
“Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” Obama said at the White House, standing amid 21 mothers who have lost children to shootings. “I haven’t forgotten those
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Bloomberg that has been pressuring senators in 13 states to tighten background-check rules. But if political momentum was building after the nightmarish December shootings, it has flagged as the Senate prepares to debate gun restrictions next month. Thanks to widespread Republican resistance and a wariness by moderate Democrats from Southern and Western states — including six who are facing re-election next year — a proposed assault See OBAMA, Page A3
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Joan Blodgett, left, of the Altrusa Club of Roswell, delivers Easter baskets to the Assurance Home, represented by Alycia Miller, Thursday afternoon. Assurance Home is a United Way agency.