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DIVINE COMEDY TV NOW on HBO a personal look at faith Hall of Fame moment, today or later, is also N.M.’s SPORTS B1 IS IT TONIGHT? ABQJOURNAL.COM FINAL SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2018 $2.00 ESTABLISHED 1880 NEW LEADING NEWS SOURCE JOURNAL ALBUQUERQUE Weatherline 821-1111 ABQJournal.com Copyright 201 8 Journal Publishing Company INSIDE AUTO B7 CLASSIFIEDS B8 COMICS A18 EDITORIALS A16 OBITUARIES A9 PUZZLES A8, B8 TV NOW INSIDE WEATHER A13 MURALIST CREATES MASSIVE MANDALA DOW DROPS OVER 650 POINTS Guest artist Curiot monumental painting spans two stories at Downtown gallery. METRO NM A11 The market suffers its worst week in two years, as fears of inflation and disappointing quarterly results spook investors. BUSINESS A14 President, Democrats disagree on memo Trump says it proves bias of the Russia probe; critics say it BY ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK AND CHAD DAY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON President Donald Trump declassified a top-secret congressional memo Friday and suggested it proved the investigation of his presidential campaign and Russia was fatally flawed from the start. Democrats said the document did nothing to clear him or his campaign, and the FBI called the memo inaccurate and incomplete. Butting heads just as they had before the release, Trump and his critics stuck to the positions they had staked out in the weeks leading up to the hotly disputed release of the memo prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee.

The memo makes their case and that politically motivated abuses in the early stages of the investigation made it worse than worthless. The Democrats said the four-page memo merely cherry-picks Republican talking points in an effort to smear law enforcement and undercut the current federal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat, said the GOP document highly sensitive classified and its release do long-term damage to the intelligence community and our law enforcement The central premise is that the FBI relied Copyright 2018 Albuquerque Journal BY T.S. LAST JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Did Jeremiah Valencia the 13-year-old boy who allegedly was tortured and beaten to death by his boyfriend fall through the cracks of the education system? It might appear so because he was no longer enrolled in school.

According to the West Las Vegas School District, Jeremiah and his younger sister were enrolled in that district in the fall of 2016 and were withdrawn by their mother in February 2017. Santa Fe Public Schools says the mother, 35-year- old Tracy Ann Pena, who is also charged in the death, began the paperwork to enroll her children at Capshaw Middle School in Santa Fe in March 2017. That date syncs with the time Pena and her boyfriend, Thomas Ferguson, reportedly moved MARLA From left, Lobo Spirit dancers Shania Hernandez, Kristen Thompson, Elizabeth Feist and Gabriela Hernandez watch from a giant Adirondack chair as traditional dancers from Jemez Pueblo perform on Civic Plaza on Friday. The Lobo dancers were there to pose for pictures in celebration of National Wear Red Day, part of the Go Red for Women movement to raise awareness of the prevalence of heart disease in women and ways to prevent it. Bipartisan spirit abounds this year Copyright 2018 Albuquerque Journal BY DAN MCKAY JOURNAL CAPITOL BUREAU SANTA FE A year ago, with New budget running on fumes, Democrats and Republicans clashed over state finances, crime and gun control.

But a much different story is playing out in this legislative session. From the budget to crime, Republicans and Democrats are finding common ground inside the Roundhouse. They even sent a substantial bill adopting a multistate licensing compact for nurses to Republican Gov. Susana Martinez by the third day. think foreshadowing to Democratic Sen.

Bill of Albuquerque said. instinct is here to work Democrats hold a 38-32 majority in the House usually the more partisan of the two chambers and a 26-16 edge in the Senate. But no shortage of legislation picking up bipartisan support: A $6.3 billion budget cleared the House on a 65-3 vote Wednesday. The Accord reached on bills including budget, crime See BIPARTISAN A5 Opponents line up against PNM coal bill LEGISLATURE 2018 Copyright 2018 Albuquerque Journal BY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Public Service Co. of New Mexico has negotiated significant amendments to a bill that would allow it to recover its investments in abandoned coal plants, but strong opposition is casting a shadow over its fate in this 30-day session.

The Senate Conservation Committee is expected to hold its first hearing this morning on Senate Bill 47, which would allow the utility to raise cash from investors with bonds equivalent to 100 percent of the unrecovered, or investments in shuttered coal-fired power plants that regulators had determined were prudent. the money PNM would recuperate over the full life of the San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, which it now hopes to close in 2022. The bill would also allow PNM to recover 100 percent of its stranded assets from a 13 Amendments negotiated, but tight 30-day session may impede progress Did Jeremiah fall through the cracks? 13-year-old murder victim was not currently enrolled in school See VICTIM A5 See PRESIDENT A2 BRIGHT SPOT RED-LETTER DAY LEGISLATURE 2018 See FOES LINE UP A5 President Donald Trump 1388587-01.