CHRISTUS St. Vincent President And CEO Lillian Montoya Receives Prestigious ACHE Regent’s Award
CHRISTUS St. Vincent President/CEO Lillian Montoya receives ACHE Regent’s Award. Courtesy photo
CHRISTUS St. Vincent News:
CHRISTUS St. Vincent President and CEO Lillian Montoya has received the prestigious American College of Healthcare Executives Senior-Level healthcare Executive Regent’s Award.
The award was bestowed on Montoya by Stephen Stoddard, MHA, FACHE Regent for New Mexico and Southwest Texas for the American College of Healthcare Executives.
The Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award recognizes ACHE members who are experienced in the field and have made Read More
Bills Providing Earned Sick Leave To Be Heard Today
House Democrats News:
SANTA FE — Today at 2 p.m., House Bill 20 – the Healthy Workplaces Act and House Bill 37 – the Paid Sick Leave Act, will be heard in the House Labor, Veterans’ and Military Affairs Committee.
More than 3,000 New Mexicans have died of COVID-19, yet almost half of the state’s workforce still cannot take paid time off when they are ill.
Guaranteeing hard-working New Mexicans earned sick leave would allow them to care for themselves and protect public health, without compromising their family’s financial security.
WHAT: Initial committee discussion and public Read More
Karen Wray Fine Arts Lifts Spirits During Pandemic
Artist and gallery owner Karen Wray with a recent painting at Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
Karen Wray Fine Arts has truly been all over this town. Wray signed her first lease in October 2008, for a location off Trinity Drive that started out as her studio and grew into a gallery space. That turned out to be a less than optimal location and the gallery moved to 15th and Central. That location proved too small and inconvenient. She closed that location and moved into studio space on Eastgate Read More
SB42 Requiring Employers To Pay More Into Retirement Fund For New Mexico Educators Passes Senate Committee
Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN
SFNM News:
A bill that would require employers to pay more into the retirement fund for New Mexico educators passed the Senate Education Committee on a 5-3 party-line vote Wednesday.
Under Senate Bill 42, the employer contribution rate to the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board would go up by 1 percent a year for the next four years.
Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, said the legislation would “go a long way towards the solvency” of the pension system, which covers all employees in K-12 schools, public colleges Read More
UbiQD Publishes Initial Results Of NASA-Funded Agriculture Study, Optimizing Spectral Quality For Growing Plants On Space Missions Using Quantum Dot Films
Artist’s rendition of UbiQD’s quantum dot-enabled greenhouse film, UbiGro™, installed in a lunar greenhouse growing tomatoes. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.
UbiQD News:
…The peer-reviewed study presents collaborative research with the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, validating the importance of light color on crop productivity
UbiQD, Inc., a Los Alamos-based advanced materials company, announced today that it has published the groundbreaking results of the first phase of its NASA-funded plant trials in the open-access Nature Research journal, “Communications Read More
Bills For Economic Recovery Heard In Senate Committee
STATE News:
Santa Fe — The first of many bills aimed at helping New Mexico workers and small businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic was heard Tuesday in the Senate Tax, Business & Transportation Committee.
Senate Bill 1 (Sponsored by Senators Peter Wirth, Jacob Candelaria, and Siah Correa Hemphill) creates a new $600 income tax credit for individuals earning up to $31,200 who claim the working families tax credit. It also establishes a new GRT deduction for certain food service establishments for the period between March 1, 2021 through June 20, 2021.
“Working families, particularly Read More
Office Of Renewable Energy Announces Two New Projects: 480 Acres Leased For Solar And 642 Acres Leased for Wind
Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard in her Office in Santa Fe. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
STATE LAND OFFICE News:
…New renewable energy projects will bring $5.2M in new revenue for New Mexico public schools
SANTA FE – The New Mexico State Land Office held auctions Jan. 8 for two renewable energy projects. The winning bidders – Wildcat Solar Power Plant, LLC and Boulevard Associates, LLC will move forward with development of new solar and wind energy projects that combined will bring an estimated $5.2 million in new revenue for the state trust land beneficiary.
In both Read More
New Mexico State Land Office 2020 Oil And Gas Royalty Audits Recoup $2.3 Million For Land Grant Permanent Fund
State Land Office News:
SANTA FE –The New Mexico State Land Office Royalty Management Division has announced the collection of $2,302,418 from standard audits of royalty collection for calendar year 2020.
The 2020 audit collection amount is a 47.5 percent increase from 2019 and a 120.4 percent increase from 2018.
The Royalty Management Division audits approximately 85 percent of State Land Office royalty revenue every five years. Staff auditors and compliance analysts look for mistakes and errors in reporting from all businesses that lease state trust land and are required to pay royalty Read More
BeWellnm Awards Contract To Albq. Hispano Chamber
BEWELLNM News:
Albuquerque — BeWellnm, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange (NMHIX), announced Tuesday it has awarded its outreach and education contract to the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce (Hispano).
The Hispano is a non-profit member-based organization focused on improving economic development, education and job training in New Mexico. The partnership between BeWellnm and the Hispano will increase awareness among New Mexicans about individual, family and small business health care coverage options.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber Read More
Albuquerque And Santa Fe Top MovieMaker Magazine’s Best Places To Live and Work
NM FILM OFFICE News:
SANTA FE — MovieMaker Magazine named two New Mexico cities Tuesday on their list of Best Places To Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2021.
For a third year in a row, Albuquerque is the #1 Best Place to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in the Big Cities category and Santa Fe was ranked #2 in the Small Cities and Towns category.
“This honor belongs to all of New Mexico, not just these two cities,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said. “The secret is well and truly out: New Mexico is the best place to film in all of the United States. With more long-term industry investments on Read More
