Susana Martinez

As the variety of tax incentive programs has grown, one thing is increasingly getting cut: the middleman. Companies that buy tax credits from producers are increasingly working with those producers directly, rather than going through a broker. That...

A long-standing dispute between the Governor's Office and state employee unions over back pay and raises -- which Gov. Susana Martinez says has a price tag of $23 million -- was aired Wednesday in the state Supreme Court. State workers jammed the...

Gov. Susana Martinez's finance chief admitted to legislators this week that on the last day of this year's legislative session, he gave the state House of Representatives some inaccurate fiscal-impact figures on the controversial tax bill that zipped...

Building Spaceport America in Southern New Mexico always was a risk. After all, no one knew whether businesses would flock to the spaceport after it opened -- and that was after spending $209 million in taxpayer dollars to get it built. An empty...

Please, spare us. 2016 is a world away. It does no good to spend hours of time and gallons of ink discussing whether Hillary Clinton is going to run for president as the Democratic nominee in 2016. In fact, discussions and focus on the horse race of...

Spaceport America is located north of Las Cruces, and is expected to provide a good economic boost to this entire area. Spaceport officials and those from Virgin Galactic had said failure to pass the bill a year earlier had hampered recruitment of other...

The Otero County Commission was recently put on a list of delinquent entities for lack of accountability due to turning in a late audit report this year. According to New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas, 59 entities in the state that spend or...

Among the advantages of Spaceport America cited by Gwynne Shotwell, COO and president of SpaceX, in announcing a three-year agreement to lease facilities at the spaceport, were the "physical and regulatory landscape needed ..." That regulatory landscape...

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - About 5 miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be home to any number of small agricultural businesses. But Valley Meat Co. is no longer...

Last year the New Mexico Racing Commission banned the drug clenbuterol, a decongestant and bronchodilator that also builds muscles as a steroid, for use in racehorses. This month it extended the ban as it awaits recommendations from the Association of...

Emily Hilla said there is one big similarity between her mother, Johanna Fisher, and her Big Sister, Valerie Terry: "They both care about me." Then she went back to bowling. Emily was one of about 90 people who made up 16 teams of bowlers at Saturday'...

"You have to make a profit to be sustainable in the business world," says Glenn Schiffbauer, executive director of the still young Santa Fe Chapter of the New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce. Schiffbauer, a Santa Fe native with a long history in the...