Regional Economic Development

“One New Mexico” Releases A Plan For The State

Ed. note:  One New Mexico has printed 2000 copies of a booklet prescribing a range of fixes for the state's ailing economy. You can download it here: [...]

Legislators Roll Out Jobs Package to Jump-Start Ailing Economy

Ed. note:  Sierra County is represented in the state Senate by John Arthur Smith, (575) 546-4979 / john.smith@nmlegis.gov Democratic members of the New [...]

Economic incentives help Tucumcari thrive

Ed. note: The author is Mayor of Tucumcari. The last few years have been good to Tucumcari — in large part due to the fact that we’ve had the tools and [...]

Questions remain as company seeks to re-open long-defunct copper mine

Now, New Mexico Copper Corporation, a subsidiary of THEMAC Resources Group, is trying to reopen a copper mine that ran for just a few months in the early [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rural development grant program fosters job growth

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies in rural communities have economic development funds at their fingertips through the Rural Business Development [...]