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But that’s what happened on Oct. 1 when I opened to the books section of the Albuquerque Journal to find a piece by the paper’s longtime reviewer David Steinberg of Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters , which was published by the University of New Mexico Press .

Not only did David write a timely review, but he also included a box listing my upcoming appearances and book signings in October and November.

I would like to thank David and the Journal for taking an interest in my book.

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New Mexico: 100 Years of Statehood (Albuquerque Journal) Paperback – January 1, 2012

• Print length 146 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Albuquerque Journal
• Publication date January 1, 2012
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• Overall, we rate the Albuquerque Journal Right-Center Biased based on an editorial board that consistently favors the right and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record.

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Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA MBFC’s Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

The Albuquerque Journal traces its history to 1880. It is the successor to a newspaper called the Golden Gate, established in June of that year. In the fall of 1880, the owner of the Golden Gate died, and the Journal Publishing Company was founded. The daily paper’s name was changed to the Albuquerque Journal in 1925 when an independent editorial policy was established. 

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In review, the Albuquerque Journal reports local news through journalists using minimally loaded headlines such as this: NM oil production hit record high in 2018 . Information in articles is typically well-sourced. National News comes from the Associated Press . Editorially, the topic selection is mainly balanced with slightly more leaning right. Further, the Albuquerque Journal has a long history of endorsing Republican candidates. For example , the editorial board of the Albuquerque Journal “endorsed Republican presidential candidates including former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney in 2012, U.S. Sen. John McCain in 2008 and President George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.”

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Books | former denver post reporter writes book about slain colleague’s murder, “the last story,” by arthur kane tells the story of jeff german’s killing in las vegas.

German is much more than a statistic, though.

In “The Last Story: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist In Las Vegas (WildBlue Press), German’s colleague Arthur Kane delves into the reporter’s professional life, the police investigation into his death, and the evolution of Las Vegas and news media over recent decades.

“It was important to me to get the story out there,” said Kane, an award-winning investigative journalist who worked at The Denver Post for seven years. “As far as we can tell, the last time a public government official was accused or convicted of killing a journalist was in the ’40s in Texas when a [deputy] sheriff killed a radio reporter who was digging into some of his properties he was running brothels out of.”

“We talk about threats all over the world to journalists, but a lot of times people don’t realize it happens here.”

German was 69 when he was fatally stabbed outside his Las Vegas home. He spent four decades working as a reporter there, covering everything from the mob to corrupt politicians. Police allege former Clark County public administrator Robert Telles killed German as retribution for an article he wrote, based on staff interviews, about the “hostile work environment” Telles’ created and an inappropriate relationship he had with a coworker.

A month after the story published, Telles lost a primary for re-election.

His arrest soon after the murder shocked many of German’s colleagues since the articles weren’t among the journalist’s most forceful or impactful. They didn’t expect any serious fallout from what he wrote about Telles, a low-level government official. (After all, German had once been sucker-punched by a mobster.)

“We didn’t think anything of it,” said Kane, who joined the Review-Journal in 2016 and is currently the investigations editor. “There was nothing to indicate that this would be anything different than a politician trying to cover up for things he did wrong in office and blaming the messenger for it.”

“The Last Story” is not just about German’s tragic death, though. It covers much of the newspaperman’s life, homing in on his career, from covering organized crime in Sin City at the Las Vegas Sun — which led him to host the second season of the “Mobbed Up” podcast — to major court trials to questionable actions by government personnel.

Kane doesn’t gloss over the negative moments of German’s career, either; he describes some questionable ethical decisions and calls out some of his colleague’s more arrogant moments. “I [set out to] try and paint the most accurate picture of his life, what happened and what kind of city Las Vegas is away from the Strip, this level of conflict that [German] lived through for 40 years of his life here,” said Kane. “Jeff’s life mirrored a lot of really interesting times in Vegas.”

Kane sometimes gets a little lost in the details of those times, inundating the reader with names and meticulous narrations. But “The Last Story” also paints a larger picture through its exploration of Las Vegas’ underbelly, its exploration of the state of contemporary journalism and the struggle to continue doing the kind of hard-hitting investigating work to which German and Kane devoted their careers.

German’s killing has also raised intriguing questions about a free press — chiefly, whether a journalist’s sources remain protected after death. Information gleaned from German’s personal devices (the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department seized his cellphone, four personal computers and a hard drive after the murder) are an ongoing question despite the Nevada Supreme Court ruling in October that the state’s shield law that protects journalists from being forced to disclose sources remains intact in death. More than 40 news organizations filed a brief asking the judge not to allow police to access German’s electronic devices.

Review-Journal employees recently finished reviewing those gadgets and logging what they consider to be privileged information not relevant to the case; they’re expected to turn over more than 1,000 items to prosecutors.

Telles’ murder trial has been postponed until early August. He has pleaded not guilty and remains in jail without bail. He faces life in prison if convicted.

Kane said he and German used to joke to one another about watching their backs after sensitive stories were published. They’d ask the other journalist to investigate and write about it if a source did come after them. It was, Kane said, “gallows humor.” But it took on a more serious bent after German’s death: Kane had last seen him in person a week earlier, after Telles had lost his re-election and the two journalists recited the same old shtick.

“In a way, I’m keeping a promise to Jeff,” Kane said of the book. “I feel obligated to do what we talked about even if it was joking.”

“The Last Story”

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Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

Former President Donald Trump, with his attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to reporters following the day’s proceedings in his trial, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

FILE - Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides in court, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump.

The move seems likely to delay the case and is the second time in as many days that the former president has gotten a favorable ruling that could push any future trials beyond the November election, when he is expected to be the Republican nominee for president. A day earlier, the judge in his Florida classified documents case indefinitely postponed that trial date .

Trump and some other defendants in Georgia had tried to get Willis and her office removed the case, saying her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a conflict of interest. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in March found that no conflict of interest existed that should force Willis off the case, but he granted a request from Trump and the other defendants to seek an appeal of his ruling from the Georgia Court of Appeals.

That intermediate appeals court agreed on Wednesday to take up the case. Once it rules, the losing side could ask the Georgia Supreme Court to consider an appeal.

Trump’s lead attorney in Georgia, Steve Sadow, said in an email that the former president looks forward to presenting arguments to the appeals court as to why the case should be dismissed and why Willis “should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution.”

A spokesperson for Willis declined to comment on the Court of Appeals decision to take up the matter.

In his order, McAfee said he planned to continue to address other pretrial motions “regardless of whether the petition is granted ... and even if any subsequent appeal is expedited by the appellate court.” But Trump and the others could ask the Court of Appeals to stay the case while the appeal is pending.

McAfee wrote in his order in March that the prosecution was “encumbered by an appearance of impropriety.” He said Willis could remain on the case only if Wade left, and the special prosecutor submitted his resignation hours later.

The allegations that Willis had improperly benefited from her romance with Wade resulted in a tumultuous couple of months in the case as intimate details of Willis and Wade’s personal lives were aired in court in mid-February . The serious charges in one of four criminal cases against the Republican former president were largely overshadowed by the love lives of the prosecutors.

Trump and 18 others were indicted in August, accused of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn his narrow 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia.

All of the defendants were charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law , an expansive anti-racketeering statute. Four people charged in the case have pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors. Trump and the others have pleaded not guilty.

Trump and other defendants had argued in their appeal application that McAfee was wrong not to remove both Willis and Wade, writing that “providing DA Willis with the option to simply remove Wade confounds logic and is contrary to Georgia law.”

The allegations against Willis first surfaced in a motion filed in early January by Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer for former Trump campaign staffer and onetime White House aide Michael Roman. The motion alleged that Willis and Wade were involved in an inappropriate romantic relationship and that Willis paid Wade large sums for his work and then benefitted when he paid for lavish vacations.

Willis and Wade acknowledged the relationship but said they didn’t begin dating until the spring of 2022, after Wade was hired in November 2021, and their romance ended last summer. They also testified that they split travel costs roughly evenly, with Willis often paying expenses or reimbursing Wade in cash.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Strategies for the effective design and regulation of carbon-based metacomposites: a review.

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Since their revolutionary report in 1967, metamaterials have exhibited extraordinary physical properties such as the negative refractive index and the inverse Doppler effect. In recent years, metacomposites with adjustable negative permittivity achieved via classical design and general manufacturing techniques have been proposed, which show potential applications in radar antennas, perfect absorption and invisibility cloaks. However, previous reviews have focused more on metal-based or conductive polymer-based metacomposites, and there are only few reviews on carbon-based metacomposites. Moreover, emphasis is placed on content adjustment; however, design and regulation strategies based on the composition, structure, interface and defect of metacomposites lack in-depth summaries. Therefore, this review thoroughly summarizes the design and regulation of carbon-based metacomposites for the first time. In particular, the component regulation strategy is discussed based on the type, content and distribution of carbon; structural regulation is classified based on carbon dimensions; and the effects of interface and defect engineering involving doping, multilayer and heterogenous interfaces are clarified. This review not only summarizes the regulating strategies of carbon-based metacomposites, but also presents the current challenges and specific perspectives for future development.

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