New Mexico

New Mexico Pecans

There’s More Energy Behind Those Pecans Than You Realize

New Mexico is full of heritage, with many farmers and ranchers tracing family ties back to Homesteading during the mid-late 1800s, as this part...
Dairy Farmer

If Chocolate Milk Comes from Brown Cows, then Electricity Must Come from Switches on...

When you sit down to eat, do you ever consider where your food comes from or what it takes to produce it? Seriously -...
New Mexico Farmer

Hay New York, Thank a New Mexico Farmer for Sustaining Your Zoo

Who doesn’t love the zoo? For nearly 150 years, families and schoolchildren on field trips have flocked to zoos to watch, and learn, about...
Albuquerque New Mexico skyline, mountains, and clouds

Cheap, Safe Natural Gas Fuels Economy

Randall Mccormick, former Lea County Commissioner and Magistrate Judge, explains why news that the hospitality industry is having to build up more to keep...
student debt

Will I Have To Move Back In With My Parents?

No matter how old, or young, you are, the joy of receiving a paycheck is generally universal. It’s confirmation that your hard work has...
healthcare

Can I Drop My Healthcare Insurance and Still Afford the Costs of Medical Bills?

The Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare, changed modern day healthcare. As Karen Pollitz, health care policy expert and senior fellow...
Santa Fe New Mexico

Energy Bill Not For New Mexico

CEA's Victoria Gonzalez discusses why a new energy bill mandating utilities get 80 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2040 is not good...
Abiquiu, New Mexico

Just Getting Somewhere in New Mexico is Expensive

New Mexico’s citizens are blessed with wide-open stretches of beauty that appropriately gives the state its title of Land of Enchantment. From the rocky...
A woman checking her coupons in the store

New Mexico’s Credit Card Burden is the Highest in America, Adding to Financial Woes

New Mexico’s families have the highest credit card debt in America, according to CreditCards.com. In fact, the average burden of $8,323 a month in credit...
homes

New Mexico’s Housing Costs Are Going Higher, Squeezing Working Families

New Mexico pulled off a rare feat late last year – it had record-setting home sales while high mortgage costs dulled sales across the...