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It would take a lot of solar panels to power the United States – so many, in fact, that they would fill almost 5 million football fields, says a spokesman with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It’s an area about one-twelfth the size of the Land of Enchantment. Public Service Company of New Mexico’s proposed … Read more

Lisa Ayres doesn’t know where she’s going to find the 30 minutes to write about her business every day, but she plans on tracking them down. It’s well worth her while, she said, because the writing will be published on a Web-based platform that more and more businesses are latching onto as a way to … Read more

Stigma against mental illness can make the workplace a tough place to be for those battling the health problem. People dealing with mental illness say some co-workers unfairly assume colleagues with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia will blow up or won’t be able to handle their jobs. But a New Mexico lawyer who prefers to be … Read more

Eric Morgan knows about stress. It’s something the employees he supervises battle every day as they field hundreds of calls inside Public Service Company of New Mexico’s customer care center. The calls can get heated, Morgan says. Customers might want something the company simply cannot give them. There can be verbal attacks. “Some (employees) become … Read more

Christian Dimery is happy to have the street outside his antique shop closed down today, even though it might mean fewer customers. After all, the industry doing the closing also does great business with Morningside Antiques at 4001 Central Ave. N.E. From 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, Central Avenue between Washington Street and Carlisle … Read more

Growing pains can be tough. For an expanding city, they can mean car-clogged streets, crime or, on occasion, the application of a 50-ton Band-Aid. That was the case for Albuquerque after power demand on the city’s rapidly expanding West Side overwhelmed and shut down a substation of Public Service Company of New Mexico last week. … Read more

Kurt Lucero is wondering about dresses. But not just any dresses. Beaded dresses. Sequined dresses. “Elegant” and “very delicate” dresses, said Lucero, owner of the Cleanery, a high-end clothes-cleaning company with three locations in Albuquerque. And they’re potentially famous dresses, too. His company recently cleaned about 30 dresses used in “Bordertown,” a film about a … Read more

Saving the world is a pretty good business. Just ask PNM Resources. After adopting an environmental sustainability policy in 2004, the company has moved more urgently ahead with in-house recycling programs that are keeping the world a little more green and making PNM Resources a buck to boot. “Recycling is a good thing for the … Read more

For being about as big as a breadbox, the LCD video projector at Scalo Northern Italian Grill sure holds a lot. Two RGB D-Sub 15-pin inputs? Check. A 2,100-lumens contrast ratio? Yep. High Definition TV capability? Mm-hmm. Laptop readiness? Sure. And a 233 percent jump in private party business for Scalo in Nob Hill? It … Read more

In 1972, Mario Gonzalez had experience as a cattle-herding cowboy, $1,000 and a deep-rooted fascination with Disneyland. With his father’s blessing and encouragement from a friend, Gonzalez struck out for California from his home of San Miguel, a town in Mexico he guessed to have about 25,000 people at the time. His mission: see every … Read more