NMSBIC Meeting Brings Capital Providers to Española
NMSBIC News:
The New Mexico Small Business Investment Corporation (NMSBIC) will host a community meeting to introduce owners of new and expanding businesses to sources of capital and to knowledgeable resources that can help their businesses grow.
The meeting, called Accessing Capital in New Mexico, is open to the public and will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 at the Santa Claran Hotel, Rio Grande Room, 460 N. Riverside Dr. in Española.
New Mexico and Española business-service providers will discuss free and low-cost services, and a panel of representatives from lending organizations Read More
Udall, Heinrich Call For Emergency Help To Support Food Bank
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udalland MartinHeinrich called on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to make emergency purchases for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to ensure food banks in New Mexico and across the country are able to help families in need.
TEFAP buys food and makes it available to agencies, such as New Mexico’s Human Services Department, which work with the state’s major food banks to distribute to food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters.
In a letter, Udall, Heinrich and a bipartisan group of 20 other senators urged Vilsack to use Read More
State Shuts Doors and Windows on Los Alamos Eateries
New Mexico Environment Department has ordered the large windows lining the front of the Dixie Girl Restaurant to be closed permanently. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comGone are the days of dining in fresh air from open windows and doors at Los Alamos restaurants.
The New Mexico Environment Department issued warnings to the Pajarito Brewpub and Grill and the Dixie Girl Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos for having open windows while serving diners.
“The inspector tapped me on the shoulder at noon Wednesday and held his badge in my face Read More
Udall, Bingaman, McMillan, Hommert Speaking at Tech Transfer Conference
Sen. Tom Udall
STATE News:
SANTA FE ─ U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. will host a conference on ways to help spur innovation and create high-tech jobs and businesses in New Mexico by encouraging technology transfer from the national labs and universities to private entrepreneurs at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 12, in the Jemez Room at Santa Fe Community College.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman
Udall will present the keynote address at 10:40 a.m. at the half-day event and workshop, co-hosted by Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Read More
Food Aid Cuts to Affect 442,000 New Mexicans
STATE News:
ALBUQUERQUE—Around 442,000 people in New Mexico will see a cut in their food assistance benefits this fall, when a temporary boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is set to expire.
This is according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) discussed in a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Nearly half of all New Mexico children—42 percent or more than 215,000 children—benefit from SNAP. All of them will be impacted by this cut. This news comes on the heels Read More
Legislative Jobs Council to Rank Most Promising Industry Sectors
STATE News:
SANTA FE – The Legislative Jobs Council continues to build its framework for putting New Mexicans back to work.
During its third planning meeting, the group will focus on which industry sectors show the most promise for creating jobs in the next five to 10 years.
The meeting is 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 8 at the Taos Convention Center, 120 Civic Plaza Drive, in Taos. The meeting is open and the public is invited to stay for a 3:30 p.m. public comment segment.
The planning session will begin with a more detailed look at how many jobs need to be created to restore New Mexico to sound Read More
Reconciliation Ceremony Marks Anniversary of Hiroshima
Los Alamos students participate in today’s Peace Ceremony at Fuller Lodge Art Center marking the anniversary of Hiroshima. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Students were asked to turn out and look at the adults as part of today’s ceremony. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
Students joined adults at a reconciliation ceremony and reception at Fuller Lodge Art Center commemorating today’s anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.
The Peace’s New Century Project is a collaboration between Betsie Miller-Kusz of the Jemez Read More
‘Make It In America’ Added to Agenda
CONGRESSIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced that legislation he has introduced to increase partnerships between businesses and national laboratories has been included as part of House Democrats’ Make It In America Agenda (MIIA.)
Luján’s legislation authorizes a dedicated fund to provide for the government’s share of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) that support maturing lab technology and transferring it to the private sector. The bill will help foster relationships between businesses and national laboratories that can help spur Read More
Udall Unveils Major Legislation to Reform FISA Courts
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Tom Udall, D-N.M., joined by Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., unveiled two bills that would ensure FISA courts properly balance the need to protect national security with constitutional and statutory requirements to safeguard individual rights to privacy and liberty.
The first bill, the FISA Court Reform Act of 2013, would create a Special Advocate with the power to argue in the FISA courts on behalf of the right to privacy and other individual rights of the American people. The second bill, The FISA Judge Selection Reform Read More
Heinrich Includes Amendment Expanding Tech Development
Sen. Martin Heinrich
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, July 30, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, successfully included an amendment to S. 1317, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Reauthorization Act of 2013, to expand the development and testing of new space technologies within NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program.
The NASA Reauthorization Act of 2013, including Sen. Heinrich’s amendment, passed the committee and can now go to the Read More
