Deming and Luna County community calendar for Friday, April 9, 2021
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Poet Laureate virtual reading
The New Mexico Poet Laureate Program and Southwest Word Fiesta will be sponsoring Poetas del Sur, a virtual poetry reading by 20 poets from southern New Mexico, co-hosted by State Poet Laureate Levi Romero and Silver City Poet Laureate Eve West Bessier. This free event will take place via Zoom at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 11.
Follow on Zoom. To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/poetasdelsur.
Co-hosted by New Mexico Poet Laureate Levi Romero and Silver City Poet Laureate Eve West Bessier.
Help for businesses
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Updated: 4:27 PM EDT Apr 16, 2021 The Associated Press RELATED VIDEO: Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) delivers millions to local businesses in July 2020The state House on Thursday overwhelmingly backed legislation that would give additional state tax breaks to businesses that took federal loans to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Senate isn’t yet fully on board with the idea, which comes with a hefty price tag.Supporters of the House measure, including Republican Speaker Tim Moore and top Democrats, held a news conference before the initial floor vote on the measure related to Payroll Protection Program loans. They said restaurants, fitness centers and other businesses trying to emerge from eased lockdown restrictions don’t need an extra tax burden currently required as the May 17 filing date for many approaches. The PPP money was designed primarily to keep workers at shuttered or scaled back firms employed and paid. More than 129,000 loans for No
Yves here. In addition to Wolf’s caveats about the possible less than upstanding reasons for a spike in the number of new businesses, keep in mind that 90% of new businesses fail in the first three years. So while this is good news about the potential for recovery, don’t underestimate the amount of attrition.
Although I did not follow new business formation in the old normal, my recollection is one of the reasons for the high propensity to failure was that a lot of the new businesses were restaurants, which are more difficult propositions than talented chefs might believe. Needless to say, they aren’t a major category now. Instead, retail dominates. With America having had an extremely high level of retail space per capita among major economies, it remains to be seen if enough thinning of that herd has taken place.
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