Las Cruces Sun-News

The holding company for MediaNews Group, the newspaper chain that is the owner or majority stakeholder in nine New Mexico newspapers including the Las Cruces Sun-News and Farmington Daily Times, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company claims that the move will allow it to eliminate a great deal of debt without affecting [...]

Three days into the special legislative session, a nearly $900 million structural deficit continues to confound the New Mexico Legislature. Meanwhile, Richardson, the state’s bigger-than-life chief executive and former presidential candidate, finds himself attacked from both the political right and left.

Reading this year’s legislative scorecard put out by the Albuquerque-based Association of Commerce and Industry, you would think Doña Ana County’s legislative delegation is pretty unfriendly to business.
“Don’t buy it,” the Las Cruces Sun-News’ Walt Rubel writes in a recent commentary.

Apparently, three layoffs and weeklong, unpaid furloughs for all employees weren’t enough. The company that owns the Las Cruces Sun-News now plans to move the newspaper’s copy desk to the El Paso Times in Texas, eliminating two jobs in the process.

Three staffers at the Las Cruces Sun-News — two in the editorial department and one in the advertising department — have been laid off in the last week as the newspaper and its parent company deal with economic woes that are hampering the newspaper industry.