Author: sierracounty

Expired Solar Energy Tax Credit Before House Committee

On Monday January 23rd, 2017, HB61 will be heard by the House Labor and Economic Development Committee. The bill would extend an expiring tax credit offered [...]

Current challenges facing small businesses

The latest available U.S Small Business Administration statistics show that there are well over 150,000 small businesses (those that employ under 500 [...]

Help Wanted – the latest

Businesses: submit your jobs and press releases.  |   Job Hunters: Check previous roundups. Comfort Inn at 2205 N Date is hiring for front desk, [...]

Merle Norman store grand opening

Elephant Butte - On Saturday, January 21, 2017, at 10AM, the new Merle Norman store in Elephant Butte will open its doors to the public. Merle Norman is a [...]

Southern New Mexico offers snowlike sand, hot springs, sandhill cranes

Ed. Note: A dispatch from Columbus Ohio about our region. When the rambling man inside your head threatens to grab the wheel, succumb: A good old-fashioned [...]

3 New Mexicans to know who are allies to the business community

I often talk about the need to create a stronger private, for-profit sector and more jobs that create wealth, and therefore the ability to pay taxes and donate [...]

SBA Launches 2017 InnovateHER business challenge

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the launch of the 2017 InnovateHER: Innovating for Women Business Challenge, a nationwide business competition [...]

New Mexico community a model for use of federal funds

DIXON, N.M. — A northern New Mexico village is a model for accessing federal funding, leading to new jobs along with a grocery co-op, vineyard and one of [...]

Ted Turner Is on a Mission to Save Everything

If mountains are said to loom, to appear suddenly in portentous size, no range quite so captures the sudden part as Fra Cristobal, a 17-by-7-mile massif [...]

NMSU helps small businesses with energy efficiency

A team from New Mexico State University has spent the past year providing technical assistance to two small businesses in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. [...]