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3 section fishing rod Born and raised in deep-blue Santa Fe and a registered Democrat, Dominic Montoya seems like a fairly safe bet to be a Kamala Harris voter. But that isn't how it went in November, amid his concerns about wars overseas and the direction of the economy in the U.S. "There's many aspects that contributed to me voting for Trump," said Montoya, who was shopping at a south-side grocery store on Airport Road this week. "I think crime and also drugs have increased, especially fentanyl, I think everywhere." He's not alone. Freddie Lopez's great-grandfather voted for Democrats, he said. But that has not been the path for Lopez, another Santa Fe native who bucked the trend and supported Republican President-elect Donald Trump. "When you are born, you pretty much get branded with that stamp of Democrats," said Lopez, 23. "Our family goes back to being generations of Democrats. But in reality, what have Democrats done for Hispanics?" Receiving about 24% of the vote, a 2-point improvement from 2020, Trump received no mandate in Santa Fe County. Yet precinct data reviewed by The New Mexican illustrates that, particularly in polling locations that are home to higher numbers of Hispanic voters on the city's south side, the Republican set to return to the Oval Office on Jan. 20 made noticeable inroads. "I think the reason for that is many voters, particularly here on the south side where we have a majority-minority population of Hispanics, are [concerned about] the economy. People are struggling to put food on the table," said Lopez, the incoming first vice chair of the Republican Party of Santa Fe County. A common narrative that emerged from the Nov. 5 election is Trump made gains around the nation in counties with high Latino populations. Even in Santa Fe County, where Trump did about 2 points better overall than in 2020, his improved performance stands out most in precincts located in City Council District 3, the city's most heavily Hispanic area. According to a 2022 city Of Santa Fe document , about 78% of the area's population was Hispanic at that time. In one precinct off of Airport Road, Trump went from winning 21% of the vote in 2020 to 36% last month. But one never has to look far in Santa Fe County, where Harris had her best performance in New Mexico in this year's presidential race with 73% of the vote, to find people who are no fans of Trump. Also grocery shopping earlier this week on the city's south side, Diego Sagredo expressed surprise that higher numbers of Hispanic voters supported Trump this year. "I don't understand why ... Latino people voted for him," Sagredo said. Sagredo, who said he hopes Trump's tenure does not impact Latinos negatively, was asked about Trump's vow to carry out the "largest deportation" in American history. "And still people voted for him? I don't know why," Sagredo said. Although he lost New Mexico, Trump made inroads almost everywhere, picking up votes in most counties and losing the state by just 6 percentage points compared to 11 in 2020, the best showing for a Republican since President George W. Bush narrowly won the state in 2004. Trump improved on his 2020 performance in each and every District 3 precinct, not factoring in three precincts that were new in 2024 and did not have 2020 data to compare to. Overall, it should be noted Trump was still pummeled even in District 3. His strongest performance there was in Precinct 62, the southernmost precinct in the city, where he scored 37% of the vote. The data still illustrates a shift, however. For example, Precinct 145 spans an area that includes Oliver Road and borders Santa Fe County, far on the city's south side. In 2020, Trump won 21% of the vote there, or 38 votes. This year, 36% of voters, or 69, backed Trump in November. In Precinct 93, which covers an area in the far southwest corner of Santa Fe, Trump's numbers shot up from 23% of the vote in 2020 to 32% this year, from 115 people to 167 people. Trump improved on his 2020 performance by at least 6 percentage points in at least nine precincts in District 3 alone. In District 4, parts of which are also considered part of the south side, at least four precincts saw substantial swings in Trump's favor. Precincts 116 and 109, both of which border District 3, saw 9-point swings toward Trump from 2020 to 2024. Small swings to the tune of 2 or 3 percentage points in either direction were typical of almost all precincts in northern and eastern Santa Fe in council Districts 1 and 2, according to precinct data reviewed by The New Mexican . Harris won majorities in almost every precinct in Santa Fe County, with the exception of some in the conservative Edgewood area. Her 73% of the countywide vote was a slight drop from Biden's 76% share in 2020. Some areas that are normally very blue moved to the right across the country. The New York Times reported in November that Trump won 30% of the vote in New York City last month, a higher share than any Republican presidential nominee has won there since George H.W. Bush in 1988. For Cameron Crawford, a Santa Fe resident who is involved in the local Democratic Party, Democrats have taken Black and Hispanic voters for granted for a long time. "The Republicans really gained ground. And it wasn't even really the down-ballot Republicans. It was Trump," said Crawford, 23, a south-side resident who supported Harris. "And it was because he had a really simple message: 'Prices are too high.' And the Democrats were in office while the prices were too high. "When you're talking about issues that are very niche, as Democrats tend to do, it just doesn't resonate with people who have bigger fish to fry," Crawford continued, adding Democrats need to "stop running these super-soft, consultant-focused campaigns." Besides tapping into concerns about inflation, Lopez — who was Republican Audrey Trujillo's campaign manager when she ran for state Senate this year in District 9, losing to Democrat Cindy Nava — feels Trump capitalized on the perception that crime and lawlessness have shot up. The election played out in a year when concerns about crime and homelessness have been particularly visible on the south side. "I am a lifelong resident of Santa Fe, and the crime has only gotten so much worse," said Lopez. "When you read the newspaper, or even go to the social media of the Santa Fe Police Department, you see nothing but press releases and articles of shootings." Lee Garcia, who represents District 3, is the lone Republican on the City Council. In an interview at a recent south-side event, Garcia downplayed the influence of partisanship in his work on the council. "I never got into my position to try to be the poster-child Republican for Santa Fe," he said. But Garcia does think concerns about crime played a role in his district's voters moving right, as well as a desire for more government accountability. "In terms of the shift of more people voting toward the Republican side, whether it be Trump or anybody else, I think it's because so many people tend to think, 'Look at the crime in our area. Look what's happening here,' " Garcia said. Hyperlocal issues, including the controversy over the Soldiers' Monument, could also begin to play a role in the way voters view partisan politics, said Lopez. "Look at what happened with the obelisk downtown. To me, it's clear as day why many Hispanics are leaving the Democrat Party," Lopez said. "... They haven't taken care of us. We are [ranked] last in everything good. And we are first in everything bad." "We do have to have rules and regulations in our society or we go down the road that we are going down now, which is a lawless society practically," Garcia said. "A lot of judicial reform is needed." Republicans hope to harness the enthusiasm Trump managed to generate to make down-ballot gains. "And now the challenge for Republicans is: Can we keep the momentum going?" Bob Witsenhausen, who chairs the Santa Fe County GOP, said in an interview in November. "Can we channel this momentum into local races that really affect our community almost more?” Crawford said people are looking for populist politicians these days, and Democrats need to be the party for workers. "We need to nominate working-class candidates, people who understand what it means to work two or three jobs to pay rent," said Crawford. "We need to emphasize the Republicans are not your friend," he added. "Their policies are not there to benefit you."Should the Dolphins Have Played It Safe with Tua’s Fifth-Year Option?

Yard waste collection in parts of Anne Arundel County is set to resume Dec. 2 following the end of a three-month strike. County Executive Steuart Pittman announced Saturday that a new collective bargaining agreement has been reached between Teamsters Local 570 and Ecology Services Inc. “I am pleased that curbside collection services will soon return to normal for our residents,” Pittman said in a news release. “I also want to thank our Department of Public Works and the local contractors who stepped up over the past three months to ensure essential services were maintained for our communities.” The strike disrupted services in Service Areas 5, 8, and 15, covering Pasadena, Severna Park, Odenton, Laurel and Maryland City. About 70 contracted sanitation workers walked off the job Sept. 4, citing demands for better pay and improved safety measures. The union stated in a press release that management had offered only a 38-cent per hour raise and failed to address critical safety concerns. The safety issues gained prominence after a worker sustained a severe head injury earlier this summer when he fell from a truck due to heat exhaustion and lack of water. The strike occurred amid heightened attention on sanitation worker safety, following the deaths of two Department of Public Works employees in Baltimore City. Ronald Silver II, 36, died Aug. 2 from hypothermia while on his trash collection route. On Nov. 8, Timothy Cartwell, 60, was killed on the job when he was caught between a utility pole and a trash truck. Their deaths have led to City Council hearings on working conditions within Baltimore’s DPW. Details of the new agreement between Anne Arundel County workers and Ecology Services Inc. have not been disclosed. Have a news tip? Contact Mary Carole McCauley at mmccauley@baltsun.com and 410-332-6704.Nearly 200 countries agreed to triple the amount of money available to help developing countries confront rapidly warming temperatures. But the deal reached at the close of the two-week COP29 summit in Azerbaijan resulted from fractious and at times openly hostile negotiations, producing an agreement that even its supporters may see as insufficient and disappointing. The process of global climate cooperation will lurch forward from here under the weight of heavier existential questions. Rich countries have pledged to provide at least $300 billion annually by 2035, through a wide variety of sources, including public finance as well as bilateral and multilateral deals. The agreement also calls on parties to work toward unleashing a total of $1.3 trillion a year, with most of it expected to come through private financing. Developed and developing countries entered the negotiations far apart on what was necessary yet realistic. At one point on Saturday, the talks even appeared to be on the brink of collapse, before the mood lifted late in the evening following numerous closed-door meetings. “It was hard fought” and the amount of financing “is at the boundary between what is politically achievable today in developed countries and what would make a difference in developing countries,” said Avinash Persaud, special adviser on climate change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Rich nations are grappling with a slew of fiscal and political constraints, including inflation, constrained budgets and rising populism. The election of Donald Trump and his threat to pull the U.S. out of the landmark Paris climate agreement also hung over the COP29 summit early on. Under a compromise to get a deal over the line, rich nations eventually agreed to commit $50 billion more than what a draft agreement on Friday called for. They had also made any agreement contingent on reaffirming last year’s COP28 outcome in Dubai that included a vow to transition away from fossil fuels. A separate text calls on parties to “contribute to the global efforts” toward that landmark agreement, without explicitly naming fossil fuels. ‘Too little’ The promised funding, however, falls short of the trillions of dollars poor and vulnerable nations say they need to climate-proof their economies. They also want more of that money to come in the form of grants and other affordable financial support, since market-based loans risk deepening their debt burdens. The deal’s adoption came over the objections of India, whose delegates had raised their hands in an attempt to intervene, and as the gavel fell, walked up to the stage in a failed bid to get attention. Leena Nandan, India’s secretary of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, called the deal inadequate. “The goal is too little, too distant,” she said, her speech punctuated frequently by applause and cheers. Still, for some the result will likely serve as proof the COP process is still the best approach for coordinating global action to meet the escalating challenges of climate change. “COP29 took place in tough circumstances but multilateralism is alive and more necessary than ever,” Laurence Tubiana, chief executive office of European Climate Foundation, an architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. The new agreement will help inform individual country commitments for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 as well as the next round of U.N. climate talks in Brazil. Many developing nations have emphasized the scale of available climate finance is directly tied to how quickly they can build emission-free energy and how ambitious they can be in setting carbon-reducing targets due in February. ©2024 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Lorenz scores 20, Wofford downs Kentucky Christian 100-55

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto defamed exiled party member Moira Deeming in a series of media appearances following her involvement with a controversial rally, a court has ruled. Ms Deeming, who remains a sitting MP, was ousted from the Liberal Party, after promoting and speaking at a rally in March last year. Organised by British activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, the ‘Let Women Speak’ rally was gatecrashed by white supremacist groups who performed a Nazi salute outside Parliament House. On Thursday, the Federal Court in Melbourne ruled Mr Pesutto’s commentary in the wake of the controversy had defamed Ms Deeming in five publications, and awarded her $300,000 in damages. Justice David O’Callaghan ruled in the Federal Court on Thursday that across the publications, there were six defamatory imputations, including that Mrs Deeming was ‘unfit to belong to the Victorian parliamentary Liberal Party because she knowingly associates with neo-Nazis”. “The imputation found to be conveyed is that Mrs Deeming participated in a rally and knowingly worked with Ms Keen and other organisers to help them promote their odious Nazi agenda and their white supremacist and ethno-fascist views. “I’ve also found that has caused and is likely to cause serious harm to her reputation”. While Justice O’Callaghan declined to award Mrs Deeming aggravated damages, he did rule that “the appropriate award of damages to Mrs Deeming for non-economic loss is $300,000.” Mrs Deeming sat smiling in the front row of the court as the ruling was read out, while Pesutto did not attend today’s ruling. Looking defeated after the ruling, a member of Mr Pesutto’s legal team was heard simply saying “Court of Appeal”. Mrs Deeming was expelled from the party in May 2023 after attending an anti-transgender ‘let women speak’ rally gatecrashed by a white supremacist group who performed Nazi salutes outside the state parliament. Now a crossbencher, Ms Deeming had argued in court she was defamed by the Liberal leader in media interviews, an expulsion motion, a press conference, and a media release which her lawyers had argued contained 20 imputations painting her as a neo-Nazi sympathiser. Lawyers for Mr Pesutto had disputed all of the imputations alleged by Ms Deeming, arguing that she alone was responsible for her reputational damage after failing to distance herself from the rally. In their closing submission, lawyers for Ms Deeming claimed Mr Pesutto “undertook a relentless and ongoing campaign to convince fellow parliamentarians, the media and the public, that Ms Deeming was associated with and shared platforms with Nazis.” “By these allegations, the further message that was conveyed about Mrs Deeming was that she herself was a Nazi sympathiser or a person who shared or agreed with views espoused by Nazis ... such that she could be fairly described as a Nazi herself.” Mr Pesutto’s lawyers relied on honest opinion and contextual truth defences, arguing also that he was protected by common law qualified privilege due to the fact his comments concerned “the discussion of government and political matters.” Justice O’Callaghan’s ruling found that none of these defences were adequate. Following the ruling, Mrs Deeming said she was very grateful to the court for its prompt ruling. “Now we’re just going to get back out there and continue to get safe space rights for women and safeguards rights for children.”, she said. In a statement posted to social media immediately after the decision, Ms Deeming said she was relieved and vindicated. “It has been an incredibly tough 22 months for me and my family but I can now start to move forward with the judgment today clearing my name,” she said in the X post. “The organisers and attendees of the 2023 Melbourne “Let Women Speak” Rally did nothing wrong and it is shameful that they were treated without fairness or respect by so many in public office. “I will continue to fight for the rights of parents, women and children - and I know I won’t be alone.” Ms Deeming pointed out “every single one of Mr Pesutto’s defences, failed”. “This judgment is a public acknowledgment that there was never any justification - legal, moral or political - for what the Opposition Leader did to me and to my family.” Ms Deeming thanked supporters “despite personal and political differences and regardless of the cost”, including friends, strangers, opponents, Liberal members and colleagues. “And finally, thank you to my family, especially my husband.” Originally published as Court finds John Pesutto defamed Moira Deeming after rally appearanceThe world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low. After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours in a sports stadium in Azerbaijan. But the applause had barely subsided in Baku when India delivered a full-throated rejection of the dollar-figure just agreed. "The amount that is proposed to be mobilised is abysmally poor. It's a paltry sum," said Indian delegate Chandni Raina. "This document is little more than an optical illusion. This, in our opinion, will not address the enormity of the challenge we all face." Nations had struggled to reconcile long-standing divisions over how much rich nations most accountable for historic climate change should provide to poorer countries least responsible but most impacted by Earth's rapid warming. EU climate envoy Wopke Hoekstra said COP29 would be remembered as "the start of a new era for climate finance". Sleep-deprived diplomats, huddled in anxious groups, were still revising the final phrasing on the plenary floor hours before the deal passed. At points, the talks appeared on the brink of collapse, with developing nations storming out of meetings and threatening to walk away should rich nations not cough up more cash. In the end -- despite repeating that no deal is better than a bad deal -- they did not stand in the way of an agreement, despite it falling well short of what they wanted. The final deal commits developed nations to pay at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developed countries green their economies and prepare for worse disasters. That is up from $100 billion under an existing pledge but was slammed as offensively low by developing nations who had demanded much more. "This COP has been a disaster for the developing world," said Mohamed Adow, the Kenyan director of Power Shift Africa, a think tank. "It's a betrayal of both people and planet, by wealthy countries who claim to take climate change seriously." A group of 134 developing countries had pushed for at least $500 billion from rich governments to build resilience against climate change and cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. UN climate chief Simon Stiell acknowledged the deal was imperfect. "No country got everything they wanted, and we leave Baku with a mountain of work still to do. So this is no time for victory laps," he said in a statement. The United States and EU have wanted newly wealthy emerging economies like China -- the world's largest emitter -- to chip in. The final deal "encourages" developing countries to make contributions on a voluntary basis, reflecting no change for China which already provides climate finance on its own terms. Wealthy nations said it was politically unrealistic to expect more in direct government funding. Donald Trump, a sceptic of both climate change and foreign assistance, returns to the White House in January and a number of other Western countries have seen right-wing backlashes against the green agenda. The deal posits a larger overall target of $1.3 trillion per year to cope with rising temperatures and disasters, but most would come from private sources. Wealthy countries and small island nations were also concerned by efforts led by Saudi Arabia to water down calls from last year's summit in Dubai to phase out fossil fuels. The main texts proposed in Baku lacked any explicit mention of the Dubai commitment to "transitioning away from fossil fuels". A number of countries had accused Azerbaijan, an authoritarian oil and gas exporter, of lacking the experience and will to meet the moment, as the planet again sets temperature records and faces rising deadly disasters. bur-np-sct/lth/tym

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The debate over NGAD has sparked scrutiny as funding the project is feared to squeeze out resources for other initiatives. Finding the money without compromising other areas of the defense strategy can be difficult. The cost pressure may result in a smaller fleet size, similar to how the B-2 Spirit production ended. As the program continues to develop, the Air Force is attempting to wrangle the risk of budget inflation to ensure unanticipated expenses don't bloat program costs. 4 Emerging technologies For NGAD development, like all projects that demand invention, the engineers and craftsmen who construct this revolutionary new aircraft must integrate bleeding-edge technology that has never seen the battlefield. In order for the sixth-generation jet to be safe to fly and lethal in its mission execution, all of that new technology must work together seamlessly. DefenseScoop reported that the Air Force seeks to integrate unmanned collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) with the NGAD to enhance operational flexibility. Air Force Secretary Kendall remarked on this combined strategy, saying, "threat changes; because of financial constraints; because of the development of technology, including the introduction of CCAs [autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft]," he said, "it would be imprudent to commit to a single design before reconsidering all available options." The B-21 Raider might be able to fit at least some of NGAD's role as a penetrating command center controlling advanced drones. Producing a real and tangible fighter that can do everything asked of it will be intensely complex and call for a deep investment of intellectual power from the American industrial sector. All of the usual prime contractors are interested, including Collins Aerospace , Raytheon, Lockheed Martin , Boeing and Northrop Grumman . Without exceptional minds and skills, it will be impossible for the NGAD to ever take flight. 3 Industrial constraints The NGAD program's demands on the capacity of the US defense-industrial base has raised the curtain on the complexity of modern weapons manufacturing. Successfully completing this program and realizing the potential of many innovative concepts will demand a vast array of highly specialized components, materials, and production processes. Bottlenecks in the supply chain have recently been further exacerbated by the global pandemic, conflict, and competition, especially for rare earth materials. All of these threaten to slow production timelines and increase costs. The US Air Force is concerned about proceeding with its Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program unless the fighter jet is cheaper than the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which costs between $80 and $100 million each. The US Air Force aims for NGAD to replace the F-22 Raptor. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall suggested that the F-35 is the cost ceiling for the future fighter program during the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air Space Cyber conference in September.“We are looking at what we need in order to achieve air superiority in a manner consistent with the increased threat, the changing character of war in the most and the most cost and combat effective way,” he said. The estimate for NGAD’s original concept was three times the price of an F-35, which led the US Air Force to reconsider the contract, which should have been awarded this year. Still, Secretary Kendall also stressed the urgency of the 6th Generation Fighter Jet project's deliverables.Some believe the Air F 2 Unmanned vs manned systems The US sixth-generation fighter program will adopt a dual approach to future air power. That means manned and unmanned systems will work together on the battlefield to complement each other. This doctrine represents a significant shift in air combat strategy. Incorporating the CCA unmanned platforms in support of high-risk roles such as electronic warfare, reconnaissance, and targeting will free up manned jets and improve pilot safety. The Washington Times reports that the Air Force wants to start with “200 NGAD fighters and 1,000 unmanned collaborative combat aircraft (CCAs), assuming the use of two CCA platforms for each NGAD fighter and another two for each of the 300 F-35 fifth-generation fighters.” Developing such a dynamic and hazardous human-machine interface introduces unknown challenges. The CCA's and NGAD’s AI algorithms must make split-second decisions while remaining in sync with human commands or actions. Ensuring that unmanned systems effectively complement piloted aircraft and don’t pose any risk will require rigorous testing and development to thoroughly vet and verify. 1 Policy risks Significant political, policy, and programmatic obstacles threaten the NGAD timeline. The schedule and technological goals are in jeopardy of compromise or interference from a multitude of other actors who are vying to draw resources away to their own ends. Delays have called the program's viability into question, raising doubts about the Air Force's ability to deliver the platform on time. The Aviationist reported on the program status after the Air Force paused NGAD reviews to reassess priorities: “From a requirements perspective, what I would say is we’re going back and starting at the beginning with ‘What is the thing we’re trying to do?’” said the Vice Chief of Staff James C. Slife. “‘How do we achieve air superiority in a contested environment?’ would be one way to frame the question. A different way to frame the question would be, ‘How do we build a sixth-gen manned fighter platform?’ I mean, those are not necessarily the same question.” Proposed NGAD Features Stealth capabilities with enhanced radar evasion Modular airframe design to enable adaptability High-speed propulsion with potential hypersonic integration Advanced networking for multi-domain operations Unmanned systems integration with AI-driven autonomy Enhanced electronic warfare capabilities Increased payload capacity for diverse mission types The NGAD program aims to define the future of air dominance by integrating manned and unmanned platforms and a host of sixth-generation technical innovations that would put the US Air Force leaps and bounds ahead of its adversary's capabilities. The resolution of strategic issues that are crippling progress depends on overcoming challenges in procurement areas such as supply chain resilience, affordability, technological integration, and strategic alignment. Whether the NGAD program realizes its transformative potential or encounters compromises that undercut its lofty objectives will depend on how well it navigates these complexities while keeping an eye on the future.Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100

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