I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A growing number of New Mexico dairies are going out of business due to plummeting milk prices, KOAT reports. There’s a 2 percent excess supply because of reduced demand in the export market. It really is a global recession.
The local effects of the failure of Albuquerque-based Eclipse Aviation have been well-documented. The hundreds of layoffs have hurt the economy; politically, some feel it would be a black eye to Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, who has championed…
A federal judge has granted a motion for Eclipse Aviation to liquidate its assets, ending a decade-long run for the aircraft maker, the Associated Press reports.
Also, the sole airline at the Farmington airport will add a flight to…
It appears that Eclipse Aviation couldn’t complete its sale to a European company and has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in federal court, KOAT-TV is reporting.
KOAT TV and the Associated Press (AP) are reporting that Eclipse Aviation Corp. officials sent about 800 employees home today.
The company sent the workers home as it waited for the completion of the company’s sale to European-based…
Major milestones achieved by commercial space companies in the past six months have some hoping that space flight takes off in New Mexico in 2010, according to the New Mexico Business Weekly.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the…
It has been clear for some time now that Eclipse Aviation is in trouble. Two weeks ago the light-jet manufacturer could not pay their employees.
Today Eclipse issued a statement saying the company would be filing for Chapter…
Eclipse Aviation employees who arrived at work today were told they wouldn’t be receiving paychecks for the past two weeks and were handed an 800 number. Federal immigration officials tell the New Mexican that they arrested nine people in late October…
