On Sunday, December 20, Rep. Ben Ray Luján will travel to Las Vegas where he will hold a discussion on job creation and economic development with business leaders and community leaders. The event is schedule for 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM at Kennedy Hall at New Mexico Highlands University, [...]
Given that its unemployment rate has doubled over the past year, Albuquerque got some welcome news this week when Schott Solar announced that by the end of December its photovoltaic (PV) module production line will be at full capacity with 160 employees. The company has been hiring up to ten [...]
Gov. Bill Richardson’s office formally responded to my request for information about the 59 political appointees who are losing their jobs today and – surprise, surprise – the response included no information about those people who are losing their jobs.
As happened late Wednesday in its response to The [...]
The Executive Director of New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, Hank Hughes, has announced he is running for the Public Regulation Commission in the 4th district.
“This race is about the integrity of the Public Regulation Commission and about creating new green jobs in New [...]
Days after a spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson told a TV reporter that it was “not appropriate or dignified” to identify the 59 political appointees who are losing their jobs, Richardson’s office has formally denied a newspaper reporter’s request for that information.
The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Kate Nash [...]
Update 12.16: The location of the forum has been changed to: Grant County Business and Conference Center located at U.S. Highway 180 East.
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From USDA Rural Development:
Terry Brunner, USDA Rural Development State Director
Invites you to a Community Forum on
Jobs and Economic Growth
On
Thursday, December 17, 2009
USDA Rural Development is leading an [...]
It's irritating to read about the latest wrangling over health care (insurance) reform in the U.S. Senate. Clearly, the process is being controlled by A) the health care industry, B) the pharmaceutical industry C) compromised whack jobs like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson and, even worse' [...]
Today, Rep. Ben Ray Luján highlighted several Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG) made to communities in New Mexico’s Third Congressional District that will help improve energy efficiency and create clean energy jobs. The awards were made by the Department of Energy through the [...]
The final campaign finance reports of the 2009 Las Cruces municipal election were filed earlier this week. The result? The candidates spent a combined $83,000 on the election.
Of course, there’s more. The Las Cruces Sun-News has the full story. The short of it? The controversial Jobs for Las [...]
“Soft landings” is how the Albuquerque Journal characterizes the contracts Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration gave to two members of his cabinet after they left those public jobs.
The contracts – which some might characterize as “thank-yous” – given to former Information Technology Secretary Roy Soto and former Workforce Solutions Secretary [...]
Joe Campos discusses two of his top issues, renewable energy and green jobs, at the DFA-DFNM Meetup on 12.3.09
From Joe Campos for Lt. Governor:
Joe Campos
Candidate for Lt. Governor
Invites you to the Campaign Office for our
Grand Opening!
Saturday December 12, 2009
1:00 – 4:00 PM
1014 Central Ave (10th and Central)
Albuquerque, NM
Click [...]
From the City of Santa Fe:
Mayor David Coss and President Barack Obama are looking for ideas on how to create jobs, and to identify opportunities and obstacles both locally and nationally. At the request of the President, Mayors across the country are hosting forums to get input from small [...]
New Mexico is not the only state trying to crack down on double dipping. As USA Today reports, states from Utah to Florida are trying to figure out how to deal with government employees who retire, then return to their old jobs (or other government jobs), collecting both a [...]
Nearly 60 of Gov. Bill Richardson’s political appointees will lose their jobs next month, the governor’s office announced today.
Supervisors notified 59 exempt, or appointed, state employees that their positions are being eliminated, effective Jan. 8, in an effort to save about $8.3 million dollars and help balance the state [...]
Not that there isn't plenty to be thankful for. New Mexico's eternal gifts--its beauty, culture and climate--continue to delight year after year and generation after generation. But this is a year when more corporeal concerns dominate the thoughts of New Mexicans. Like jobs--and whether theirs will [...] From the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: For the first time in southern New Mexico’s history, a conference is being held focused solely on the economic values of creating jobs from our protected public lands. “Wilderness Economics” is a joint collaboration between the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, [...]
I need to understand something. Why is it that after 10 months in office that the Obama administration has allowed all of the bush appointed Bureau of Land Management state directors to remain in their jobs? Some of them should be transferred out for their complicity [...] 
