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Despite valiant efforts by healthcare providers, the costs keep going up. What to do? Healthcare in New Mexico continues to reinvent itself with a controversial new heart hospital emerging, a [...]

New Mexico, in many ways, does not provide the ideal climate for an architectural business. With a total population of under two million, it's only a fraction of the size [...]

King Philip V of Spain gave the land away in 1710 and the rest, as they say, is history The new Cottonwood Mall on Albuquerque's west side is teeming with [...]

The Land Office wants to develop the 13,000-acre tract south of the Airport, but the city is dragging its feet in favor of the West Side Mesa del Sol, the [...]

Some women who have climbed to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder or who hold high positions in other fields such as education and government suggest that the oft-mentioned [...]

New Mexico's 'hiring highway' is full of potholes. Business had better be concerned. The business community is beginning to provide report cards for New Mexico students and schools and the [...]

In New Mexico, labor and management actually work together, even amiably At its annual convention last fall, The AFL-CIO, the mammoth national umbrella organization for most of the country's labor [...]

Most hospitals outside the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metropolitan areas are relatively untouched by managed care and capitation, but few think they will remain untouched. With both the state and [...]

'Capitation' (which is not the opposite of 'decapitation') is compelling change. New Mexico's hospitals are responding with programs meant to keep people well. The bottom line is: don't get sick. [...]

Not bad at all. Oil and gas are being found pumped and sold. Some observers are expecting wildcat successes. An agreement is struck in the 1980s between the Reagan administration [...]

If the Glass-Steagall act is repealed by Congress, as is likely, banks, brokerages and even insurance companies will look more and more alike. The battle for turf in the financial [...]

The number of biosciences companies is growing - faster than you might think New Mexico's abundance of high-tech wizardry is yielding an emerging industry. Three closely linked disciplines - biotechnology, [...]

Formal ground breaking for Santa Ana Pueblo's new 250-room resort hotel, scheduled for early June, will signal the first of several stay-and-play destination sites tied to Indian-owned casinos in the [...]

The Native American Business Development Center helps companies achieve success Native American and other minority businesses sometimes face barriers to success that can put them a step behind non-minorities, but [...]

Technology has taken away some of the romance once associated with the old-time print shops - the smell of ink and molten lead, hand-fed letter presses and artesan printers who [...]

Legal uncertainties combined with onerous payments to the state could prevent Indian gaming from hitting the jackpot Odds are, the longer you gamble and the higher the stakes, the more [...]

The New Mexico Amigos is 35 years old this year and flourishing. The organization, chartered in 1962 by the New Mexico Legislature to celebrate the golden anniversary of statehood, is [...]

Eddie Corley initially came to Grant, NM, in 1955 as one of the first two Afro-American residents of the town. Despite the racial prejudice he encountered, he managed to prosper and became a respected member of the community. When Ford contacted him to offer him a recently-closed dealership, he was initially reluctant because of his lack of experience but he decided to push ahead when he obtained financing from the local bank. Today, Corley's franchise is extremely successful, enjoying some $20 million in sales in 1994 alone.

Implementing a salary program for the sales staff, working out the bugs and then working out more bugs: ``Well,'' Marshall Jespersen says, ``it's not the easiest thing in the world.'' [...]

The sales staffs at the Melloy dealerships in New Mexico have a choice of compensation plans: They can be paid either a straight salary or a commission, says Alex Bahls, [...]

Within five years, more than half of sales for Zangara Dodge in Albuquerque, N.M., will be a result of customers shopping on the Internet. That's the prediction of Rob Reddish, [...]

Looking for a job that will allow you to work 40 hours a week and be home every night in time to cook dinner for the kids? If you are, [...]

The Galles family in Albuquerque, N.M., boasts of having been in business since 1908. Now at least one branch of it, Galles Motor Co., is on the move in the [...]

A number of institutions of higher learning are figuring out what businesses need The New Mexico business community has, in recent years, helped shape education in the state as much [...]

Santa Teresa is poised to capitalize on NAFTA There's a new kid on the block in Santa Teresa, the dusty little border town nobody ever heard of. His name is [...]

Murphy Platero appreciates his mentors Today, Murphy Platero is the owner of a successful and rapidly growing metal roofing business in Albuquerque called Native Edge. Things weren't always so wonderful [...]

LAS CRUCES (POP. 71,043) Jeff Cannole's know-how in the automotive business has sent profits skyrocketing for Bonnan Automotive Group in Las Cruces, N.M. Cannole is the managing partner in dealerships [...]

The incoming president of Associated General Contractors of America Is an uncompromising advocate of planning and training J. Howard Mock was born at a construction site in 1941 and has [...]

Even a relaxing of government regulations isn't likely to slow the process. Cleaning up the environment is big business in New Mexico. So big, in fact, that at least one [...]

The fire sale in Albuquerque commercial real estate is over, and it appears that the phoenix of prosperity is rising cautiously from the ashes. 'Commercial real estate has come into [...]

Pat Gurley, head of Gurley Motors which is based in Gallup, NM, has the inhabitants of the 25,000-sq. mile Navajo Nation as his primary customers. Through financing assistance, Gurley has been able to sell majority of his Ford pickups to the Navajo tribe who compose 80% of his customer base. The vehicle type is well suited to the rugged roads in the area. Gurley also sells Mercury, Lincoln and Nissan models.

You're rushing through the empty hallway, late for play tryouts. You stumble around for what seems like an eternity looking for the tryout room, but you can't find it. You've [...]

You're not off to a good start in school, you say? You don't look your best, you don't feel so great, and your self-confidence is shaky. Maybe you're in a [...]

Fever A Burning Issue Everybody's had it - that hot, burning feeling that can go along with a headache and body aches, followed the next minute by a chill. Altogether, [...]

Wayne Culiver is the son and brother of auto dealers, and he himself has more than 22 years in the business. He has handled 15 franchises and, until November 1998, [...]

Turning over most of the aspects of running the business to her two sons was as much a parenting decision as a personal one for dealer Sheilah Garcia. Garcia owns [...]

TAOS (POP. 4,433) Judi Friday is nobody's girl Friday, although it took her four decades to realize that and to become general manager of Friday Motors (Chevrolet-Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac) in Taos, N.M. [...]

Childhood Diseases Last November, the rival Los Angeles football teams of the University if Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), met on the playing field. [...]

The Scent of Confidence 'You're going to find that people in other parts of the world can be just a little different,' the veteran traveler said to 17-year-old Lori, who [...]

Presents information on the connection between businesses and public funded community colleges in New Mexico. Benefits of the two-year colleges to the state government and the tax payer; Categories of public-funded two-year institutions in New Mexico; Identification of programs which link businesses and junior colleges; Comments from Bruce Hamlett, executive director of the New Mexico's Commission on Higher Education.

Presents information on Grants located in New Mexico. History of the town; Plans of the residents to save the Corrections Corporation of America prison that Governor Gary Johnson wants to relocate; Comments from Ed Jungbluth, executive director of the Grants/Cibola County Chamber of Commerce; Development of the town; Tourism seen as a project for the town.

Profiles several women executives in New Mexico. Includes Computer One president and owner Carrie Roberts; Bank of America New Mexico chairman of the board and chief executive officer Laura Fitch; Rick Johnson & Co. Inc. president Debbie Johnson.

Focuses on the growth of conventions to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Activities by the Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau; Expected worth of the conventions for the city; Comment by Richard Gilliland, president and chief executive officer of the bureau; Factors that need to be considered by convention planners in the city.

Offers tips for small businesses in New Mexico on where to look for capital aside from banks. Contributing factors to difficulty of startup businesses in finding capital; State's Economic Development Department; Microlender ACCION New Mexico; Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp.; New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund; Amount of loan offerings; Offered services.

Reports on the construction of a resort hotel in an Indian reservation in Santa Ana, New Mexico. Number of rooms; Terms of profit sharing agreement between Indian tribes and the state; Other hotel constructions on Indian reservation sites.

Presents information on lawyers in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Approximation of 3000 lawyers in the county in comparison to 1979's 1,100; Information on legal business handled by various lawyers; Effects of the use of personal computers on paralegal work; Comments from William Carpenter, a solo practitioner.