New Mexico Unemployment Rate 7.6 Percent In July 2021
NMDWS News:
New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in July, down from 7.9 percent in June and down from 12.5 percent in the previous year.
The national unemployment rate in July was 5.4 percent, down from 5.9 percent in June and down from 10.2 percent in July 2020.
Total nonagricultural payroll employment grew by 33,100 jobs, or 4.3 percent, between July 2020 and July 2021. Nearly all gains came from the private sector, which was up 32,500 jobs, or 5.4 percent.
The public sector was up 600 jobs, or 0.4 percent. Most private sector gains were in the private service-providing Read More
New Mexico COVID-19 Update Aug. 20: 871 New Cases, Totaling 223,796 With 9 New Deaths And 199,401 Recovered
- 169 new cases in Bernalillo County
- 1 new case in Catron County
- 69 new cases in Chaves County
- 9 new cases in Cibola
Rockfall Mitigation Project On Main Hill Road Runs Long
Although N.M. 502 was expected to reopen at 3 p.m. today, Los Alamos County was notified that the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) rockfall mitigation project was still underway late today and Main Hill Road didn’t re-open as scheduled. Motorists should use the truck route to exit Los Alamos. The Main Hill Road should be avoided at this time. The project began Monday and is scheduled to last 10 days. Motorists coming up to Los Alamos should take the Truck Route between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. or possibly later if crews run into issues that delay their work schedule), Monday through Read More
Chart 492: COVID-19 Update New Mexico Aug. 20
The bars in this semi-logarithmic plot show the number of COVID-19 diagnoses in New Mexico versus date, and the line shows the seven-day average. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-NaimLeague Of Women Voters Los Alamos Presents: Women’s Votes, Voters’ Voices At Mesa Public Library Step Up Gallery
The League of Women Voters Los Alamos exhibit ‘Women’s Votes, Voters’ Voices’: Alice Paul (depicted by Karyl Ann Armbruster) was jailed for seven months in 1917 for ‘obstructing traffic’ while peacefully picketing the White House for women’s rights. She organized a hunger strike and force-fed through a hose to prevent her starving to death. Learn about the struggle for voting rights at the Mesa Public Library Step Up Gallery, and stand with Alice Paul and the rest of the suffragists as we honor all those who continue to struggle for voting rights here in the US and around the world. Courtesy/LWV Read More
Gessing: Back To School Brings Big Challenges
By PAUL J. GESSING
Executive Director
Rio Grande Foundation
School has begun for most New Mexico students. While every school year is different, this year is certainly more different than most. For starters, students are returning to “semi-normal” classrooms after 1.5 years of remote learning and relative chaos.
Unfortunately, as of this writing schools in Rio Rancho, Carlsbad, Los Lunas, and Roswell have “temporarily” had to again go “virtual”.
Lost classroom time has had a big impact on academic outcomes for New Mexico students.
According to the Legislative Finance Committee, the Legislature’s Read More
New Mexico Medical Society, Nurse Practitioner Council And NMNA Applaud Vaccine Mandates For Health Care Workers
NMMS News:
Over the last 17 months in New Mexico, health care workers have made incredible sacrifices to ensure that the health care needs of New Mexicans have been met.
The State of New Mexico, its people, and its health care organizations will forever be indebted to the health care workers who have put their lives on the line to save others.
To stop the spread of COVID-19, health care organizations must lead by example and ensure that all health care workers in New Mexico accept the COVID-19 vaccine.
The New Mexico Medical Society, New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council, and the New Mexico Nurses Read More
NMFO: Little Brother Begins Production In New Mexico
NMFO Director Amber Dodson
NMFO News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Film Office (NMFO) Thursday announced the feature film Little Brother is in production in New Mexico.
The film is produced by 19 Twelve Films, Made by Limbo, and Circa 1888. Filming will take place through September 2021 in Albuquerque, Moriarty, Cedar Crest and Mesita.
“Little Brother is going to showcase so many great landscapes and locations across New Mexico – mountains, desert, urban, rural. This is an exciting project, and we are pleased to see New Mexicans at the helm,” NMFO Director Amber Dodson said.
Little Brother is directed Read More
NIST: Discovering Crystal Exhibiting Exotic Spiral Magnetism
This ‘semimetal’ crystal consists of repeating unit cells such as the one to the left, which has a square top and rectangular sides. The spheres represent silicon (violet), aluminum (turquoise), and — in gold — neodymium (Nd) atoms, the last of which are magnetic. Understanding the special magnetic properties of the material requires nine of these unit cells, shown as the larger block to the right (which has a unit single cell outlined in red). This 3×3 block shows green ‘Weyl’ electrons traveling diagonally across the top of the cells and affecting the magnetic spin orientation of the Read More
EMNRD & 4 Higher Education Institutions Awarded $750K To Expand Energy Conservation Code Training And Education
EMNRD Cabinet Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst
EMNRD News:
SANTA FE — The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s (EMNRD) Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD), was awarded $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for an exciting new opportunity to train New Mexicans on energy efficiency and energy management.
In cooperation with four higher education institutions, Northern New Mexico College, Santa Fe Community College, Doña Ana Community College and San Juan College, ECMD will facilitate continuing education, training and technical assistance Read More
New Mexico [External Sources]
- Mitch's Kentucky outshines New Mexico for once | Local News | santafenewmexican.com - Santa Fe New Mexican
- New Mexico United to host MLS team in US Open Cup - KRQE News 13
- Montana State women further bolster backcourt with New Mexico transfer Hannah Robbins - Montana Sports
- Hannah Robbins transfers from New Mexico to Montana State - The Montana Standard
- Warm for western New Mexico, cloudy and cool east - KOAT New Mexico
- The United Family donates more than 50,000 pounds of apples across Texas and New Mexico as part of the Take a Bite Out of Hunger program - KCBD
