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Beirut’s performance included songs from earlier albums, as well as singles from the newly-released “No, No, No,” which is receiving widespread radio airplay. Condon who’s 29, and the band’s leader and composer, smiled broadly through the show. Early on in the concert, Condon acknowledged and thanked his parents who were standing at the foot of the stage.
Terms of the U-S Supreme Court begins, by statute, on the first Monday in October, which is today. Among the decisions of note in its most recent session, the high court ruled that same-sex marriage is granted by the Constitution. It also decided the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act in a case on mercury emissions from power plans. The Court’s majority ruled the agency had failed to undertake a cost-benefit analysis in deciding whether to set limits on emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants. University of New Mexico Law Professor Cliff Villa thinks there will be a final rule to address mercury and other toxic air substances from the power plants under the clean air act, and that the EPA will provide the court-requested information.
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In another ruling from the Supreme Court’s last session, the justices upheld President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In that case, it ruled that tax subsidies were being provided lawfully in three dozen states that had decided not to run marketplaces for insurance coverage. Villa says people largely thought that was a big win for the President and for health care.
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UNM Law School Professor, Cliff Villa.
The Santa Fe Company behind American Spirit cigarettes is being targeted in a class-action lawsuit. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports a Florida law firm filed the suit this week against Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. and its parent company, Reynolds American Inc. The plaintiffs say the cigarette maker's marketing deliberately tries to mislead smokers into believing their products are healthier than other tobacco products. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company spokesman Seth Moskowitz said Friday that he could not comment on the lawsuit because of company policy.
Visitors marveling at the fall foliage in New Mexico national forests might find some of the aspen leaves are brown and blotchy or gone already. U.S. Forest Service officials say that's the result of a fungal disease impacting aspen stands in the Southwest. Increased moisture is playing a big part in perpetuating the infection. Spores released from leaves and twigs infected by a fungus last summer were carried onto new leaves this year by splashing rain and wind.
Santa Fe Weather: Cloudy today with a 20-percent chance for showers and thunderstorms today’s high near 66. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tomorrow Mostly cloudy with a 30-percent chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms… tomorrow’s high near 67.