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Laura Lingad of WiseChoice Foods LLC have been honored as 2021 Top Women in Grocery from Progressive Grocer Magazine. Elliott, president of the company, was named in the category of Senior-Level Executives. Lingad, director of operations, was in the Rising Star Category — the 15th Top Women in Grocery class, considered the most prestigious honor for female leaders in the grocery industry. Other honorees included female Laura Lingad executives from Coca-Cola, Target and Instacart. WiseChoice Foods is locally owned and operated in Albuquerque by Steven B. Chavez, and has been certified minor...

Letters to the editor: On the Republican party Las Cruces Sun-News GOP welcomes conservatives Well, here we go again, subjected to Peter Goodman’s fictitious fantasy world in which he thinks he knows the Republican mind. Peter Goodman has yet to meet a Republican he likes or likes him. There aren’t any Republicans that deign talk with him as he skews their words to embellish his own ridiculous idea of what Republicans represent. He says Republicans are changing election processes. Yes, but we are not changing the process to guarantee a win, we are changing the process so you, the citizen,...

By Daniel J. Chacón, Santa Fe New Mexican | February 17, 2021 At the start of their meeting last week, members of the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Board of Trustees spent 12 minutes talking over one other and arguing about the agenda and parliamentary procedures. “I really want to move forward,” an exasperated David J. Roybal said at one point of the bickering. “I feel that currently we spend a lot more time, as you can tell, on administrative oversight and Robert’s Rules of Order and personal attacks, when we need to get back to work being fiduciaries.” The ...

For the first time in more than four decades, House Bill 55 is poised to make New Mexico’s public infrastructure funding process transparent. House Bill 55 is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Reps. Matthew McQueen (D-Galisteo), Kelly Fajardo (R-Los Lunas) and Natalie Figueroa (D-Albuquerque), Sens. Bill Tallman (D-Albuquerque) and Steven Neville (R-Aztec). Just about every year since 1977, New Mexico has divided up its available funds for infrastructure projects, commonly known as “capital outlay,” among the governor and all 112 legislators. In 2019, each senator was allocated ab...

Credit ThinkNewMexico.org KSFR News Director Tom Trowbridge speaks with Fred Nathan—Founder and Executive Director of statewide think-tank, Think New Mexico, about its latest report—and legislative suggestions—on predatory lending in our state. Listen