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John Braman, executive director of Upaya Zen Center, the local Buddhist monastery and social-action organization, will leave the organization soon to embark on a “dream year.”
Braman, former head of the Bear Canyon Project at Albuquerque Academy and a college professor at Lesley University, has guided Upaya through a major growth phase over the past two years, launching a breakthrough initiative in the health-education field for contemplative approaches to end of life care.
Since the state's medical-marijuana law took effect in July, 50 patients with debilitating health conditions have received permission to grow, possess and use this otherwise illegal drug.
``They're very, very sick people,'' said Dr. Steve Jenison, the program's medical director at the Health Department, who is pleased the law isn't being used as it has been in some other states.
ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday ordered the state Taxation and Revenue Department to refund penalties assessed on thousands of New Mexicans for their 2006 income taxes, saying taxpayers had not been warned about penalties.
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It all starts with a broken window on a house in a nice, respectable neighborhood.
The neighbors see it, but don’t do anything. They believe that, eventually, the home’s owners will fix it themselves.
Then weeds begin to grow around the home, and still nothing is done. Soon, another neighbor’s home begins to look dilapidated and goes without a new paint job.
In this presentation, photojournalist Jane Phillips visits the New Mexico State Fair and learns more about the nation's only grand carousel that is both mobile and accessible to people with disabilities.
TULAROSA — A contractor digging up a yard in Tularosa to find a leak in a sprinkler system found old bones instead.
The human remains, estimated to be up to 4,000 years old, were discovered earlier this month about 4 feet down in the front yard. The home’s owner, Bill Turner, called police, who contacted the Otero County sheriff, who called the medical examiner in Alamogordo.
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Many of the Western Indian tribes who engaged in warfare with white civilians and soldiers were led by chiefs whose names remain familiar to most Americans.
Examples are Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull of the Lakota, Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé, the Apaches’ Cochise and Geronimo and the half-Comanche war leader Quanah Parker.
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Teacher started program to connect sign language and Spanish-speaking families
Some students remembered his thick mustache and bushy eyebrows while others said they won’t forget his laugh. But Ralph Sedano’s legacy will run deeper than that.
Upaya’s John Braman leaves for ‘dream year’ 
