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Topic: economy
Wednesday, August 31,2011
Local News

Slow Grow

Indicators: Aug. 31

Joey Peters
New Mexico’s economy—and the US economy as a whole—is not growing fast enough to substantially reduce unemployment.
Wednesday, August 31,2011
Local News

Pit Stop

US House budget would curtail LANL funding

Wren Abbott
Two controversial Los Alamos National Laboratory construction projects will take big hits if a budget bill passed by the US House of Representatives is signed into law next month.
Wednesday, August 17,2011
Local News

Hunger Pangs

Indicators: Aug. 17

Joey Peters
More than a quarter of households with children in New Mexico have recently been unable to afford food, according to a national survey by the Washington, DC-based Food Research and Action Center.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

Pay to Play...Kickball

Budget woes shortchange kids’ fitness

Wren Abbott
For Atalaya Elementary School physical education teacher Kristy Filbin, a simple game of Frisbee golf underscores a major shortcoming in Santa Fe’s public schools.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

Bearly Getting By

In Brief

Wren Abbott
The animals of northern New Mexico know drought by a different name: hunger.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

The Big Picture

The Price is...

Ramon A Lovato, Alexa Schirtzinger
Visualizing national debt, the cost of commuter miles and budget shortfalls and campaign contributions state by state and according to political party.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

Going Public

Medical marijuana expo unites growers, patients and fans

Joey Peters
At the state’s inaugural Marijuana and Natural Healing Expo in the Albuquerque Convention Center, many points of view about New Mexico's medical cannabis program were on offer.
Wednesday, July 27,2011
Local News

Corporate Welfare

For JPMorgan Chase, food stamps are a thriving business

April Goméz-Rodriguez knows what to feed her family of five: olive oil instead of vegetable oil, fish instead of marked-down ground beef. But with a meager income supplemented by food stamps, she can’t always afford to make the right decisions.
Wednesday, July 27,2011
Local News

Powering Down

An Arizona utility moves past coal, but PNM digs in

Wren Abbott
More than 16 percent of children in Farmington Municipal School District, located 15 miles from the San Juan Generating Station coal plant that produces most of PNM’s electricity, have asthma or a related illness
Wednesday, July 20,2011
Local News

Stimulus Snafu

Was federal funding used for green building...or against it?

Tracy Dingmann
Did the state of New Mexico spend nearly half a million dollars of federal stimulus money to accomplish exactly the opposite of what the federal award required?
 
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