Early-stage science and technology companies in New Mexico occasionally need a little boost, and the state’s Innovation Vouchers program, first launched in 2017, is there to lend a hand.

Managed by the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Office of Science and Technology, the program offers competitive grants of small amounts — $2,000 per individual per award — to help a company during critical moments of growth and development.

According to Jessica Mraz, communications and marketing coordinator for the EDD, Innovation Vouchers build on the state’s history of successful research and development and help to commercialize innovative technologies from the state’s...

Contract opportunities to benefit state economy

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján welcomed a new agreement for procurement opportunities for northern New Mexico businesses contracting with Los Alamos National Laboratory Nov. 20.

Under LANL’s new management and operating contract between Triad National Security, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, that went into effect Nov. 1, there continues to be a pricing preference for contracting with small businesses in the northern New Mexico region and a new and additional pricing preference has been established for the members...

Once the frenzy of Black Friday fades, Small Business Saturday aims to attract shoppers to local merchants whose stores serve hometown retail needs — not just to keep those businesses healthy in today’s hypercompetitive retail environment but also to generate tax revenue that provides vital community services.

To stoke that fire, the 2018 New Mexico Legislature passed a law authorizing a one-day tax holiday that will remove state gross receipts taxes from a variety of retail products on the Saturday after Thanksgiving — one of the year’s busiest shopping days, when many people hunt for the best deals on holiday gifts — from 2018 through 2020.

The 24-hour consumer tax relief...

“…but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:31 (ESV)

In this phrase we have the entire purpose of the gospel (good news) of John: that we might have eternal life through Jesus the Christ. Chapter 20 is the climax of John’s writing, the resurrection of Jesus. Yet the point of Jesus’ coming to earth, becoming a human baby, growing to manhood, and dying as a human comes to completion with the resurrection.

Jesus’ resurrection is different from the previous resuscitations of people like Lazarus who would die again.

Jesus’ resurrection has at least three implications...