Headquarters Operations Incentive Bill Designed To Make New Mexico More Economically Competitive
Rep. Conrad James
STATE News:
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry (ACI) and Rep. Conrad James recently introduced the Headquarters Operations Incentive bill. The bill is designed to make New Mexico more economically competitive by expanding a sales factor corporate income tax approach to headquarters operations.
Under the existing three-factor system, sales, payroll, and property are all used as criteria to determine corporate income tax level. ACI and James argue as a result, New Mexico businesses are actually incentivized against hiring more employees Read More
Candelaria Introduces New Mexico Family Act To Bring Paid Leave To State
Sen. Jacob Candelaria
STATE News:
SANTA FE – Sen. Jacob Candelaria is sponsoring a bill, which would provide paid family, maternity and sick leave to New Mexico.
The New Mexico Family Act would provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
“Currently, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act fails to cover 40 percent of U.S. workers. Even among those covered, few can afford to take unpaid leave,” Candelaria said. “The current law asks too many New Mexicans to make an impossible decision: take unpaid sick leave and risk losing their jobs, or ignore their families’ health to keep getting their paycheck. Read More
Chamber Honors The Finishing Touch 35th Anniversary
Chamber Manager Nancy Partridge, right, recognizes The Finishing Touch owner Cheryl Sowder on 35 years in business and as a Chamber member. Courtesy/LACC CHAMBER News:
With a degree in interior design, a background in custom home design and construction and no retail business experience, Los Alamos natives Cheryl Sowder and her husband Joe Brophy bought the paint side of Netuschil Paint and Glass from Tom Netuschil in 1979. Netuschil retained the glass portion of the business, and Sowder added flooring and window coverings to her product mix at The Finishing Touch.
She soon realized Read More
Paula M. Glover Joins RE/MAX Of Los Alamos
Paula M. Glover
RE/MAX News:
Paula M. Glover has joined RE/MAX of Los Alamos. She brings with her 21 years’ experience in the real estate and lending industries, a comprehensive understanding of the real estate transfer and financing process, and a strong network of professional contacts.
Glover is a licensed Title Insurance Agent and has been with Stewart Title since 2002. She served as the division president for both the Los Alamos and Santa Fe markets managing residential and commercial transactions. Prior to the title insurance industry, Glover served as a loan officer Read More
UbiQD Start-Up Company Launches In Los Alamos
Dr. Hunter McDaniel in his lab space at the New Mexico Consortium’s laboratory in Los Alamos. Courtesy/NMC
NMC News:
Dr. Hunter McDaniel has launched UbiQD, LLC, a quantum dot manufacturing business located in the New Mexico Consortium’s (NMC) Los Alamos laboratory.
“The NMC is exploring models for facilitating small technology startups that benefit from New Mexico relationships and resources,” NMC Executive Director Katharine Chartrand said. “These are the relationships that have the greatest potential New Mexico impact.”
UbiQD, LLC produces quantum dots; semiconductor Read More
Letter to the Editor: Why Right-To-Work Is Wrong For New Mexico
By Sen. WILLIAM “BILL” SOULESSANTA FE – When I ran for public office, I made a commitment to make decisions based on facts, accurate information, and data and not on emotions, word-spin, and marketing.
The so-called “right-to-work” bills moving through the New Mexico Legislature are perfect examples of laws where spin and marketing are used to obfuscate, obscure, and confuse people about the real effects and purposes of the legislation.
The very name, “right-to-work,” was carefully chosen to affect public opinion when, in fact, the legislation has nothing to do with the rights Read More
Feb. 11 Entrepreneur Mixer: ‘Building The Team While Bootstrapping The Business’
BUSINESS News:
The Feb. 11 Entrepreneur and Start-up Mixer will focus on the topic “Building the Team while Bootstrapping the Business”.
The mixer is 5:30-7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at Diamond Mix (1900 Diamond Dr. in the Pueblo Complex. Attending is free although an RSVP (via the website) is requested.
This month there will be a speaker, Paul Short of Slipstream, LLC and a veteran of multiple bootstrapped start-ups.
There are several regular opportunities to get together with other people in Los Alamos who are interested in networking about entrepreneurial Read More
Partners Launch $2 Million Open Innovation Challenge
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Standards and Acting NIST Director Willie May speaks to reporters at a news conference in Phoenix, Ariz., held in conjunction with Super Bowl XLIX. May was jointly announcing with the National Football League, GE and Under Armour a new effort called Head Health Challenge III, an open competition to advance materials that better absorb or dissipate energy. Photo by Porter/NIST
NIST News:
NEW YORK – The NFL, GE and Under Armour announced Thursday that they have joined with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards Read More
Yang: Machiavelli & Lao Zi
Machiavelli & Lao ZiI am truly behind in my reading, more than 500 years in some cases. I have heard of Machiavelli’s The Prince for years, and I have certainly used “Machiavellian” often enough to be curious about its origin. It’s only recently that I read the thin but impactful manuscript. What a read.
It’s also amusing to follow up on Lao Zi’s non-intervention principles, of last week, with Machiavellian’s downright meddling principles. I contend that skillful and effective leaders and managers employ both Lao Zi’s and Machiavelli’s ideas.
Regardless Read More
Adkins Files ‘Small Business Saturday’ Legislation
Rep. David Adkins - Bill Creates Tax Holiday Saturday After Thanksgiving
