On Thursday, Eric Griego for Congress in New Mexico’s First District announced the endorsement by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1564, which represents 3,300 members working at Smith’s, Albertson’s, Safeway and John Brooks st... »
Over the next decade, the nation needs 22 million students to earn a college degree to meet the demands of the work force. America is expected to fall short of this goal by at least three million, according to the “Building a Grad Nation” report by the... »
GUest Blog by Alex Curtas. Alex is the Research and Special Projects Director for ProgressNow New Mexico, a nonprofit progressive advocacy organization. In recent days, an already popular proposal to designate an Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national m... »
Share Our Strength®, a national nonprofit, is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Despite being in the world’s wealthiest nation, more than 16 million children in A... »
Energy Efficient Buildings Would Reduce Global Warming Pollution, Save New Mexican Families $309 Annually (photo to right by amerigreen, insert by dfnm) New Mexican families could save $309 every year on their electricity bills by 2030 if the governmen... »
Today, President Obama will visit Maljamar, New Mexico as part of a political PR tour to convince voters that this month's record gasoline prices aren't his fault. What you won’t hear from President Obama today is that any increase in federal oil and g... »
My whole “what’s all the fuss? we can cope with far less water than we’re now using” agenda is on display in this screed in the morning newspaper about the implications of Albuquerque’s drop from 252 gallons per person per day a decade-and-a-half ago t... »
With America’s economy heading toward the same cliff that Greece’s has fallen off, economist Dr. Mark Dotzour suggested that Albuquerque real estate executives not leave on vacation any time soon. Doutzour, the chief economist for Texas A&M’s Real Esta... »
