Hot News

• Venture Capital Investments Grow in Q1 Venture firms invested about $16 million in funds in New Mexico companies in the first quarter.  
• Albuquerque Metro Area Coping Well with Recession Brookings Institution ranks the city 15th out of 100 metro areas.
  
• U.S. News and World Report Ranks Albuquerque in Top Ten The magazine cited the Sandia National Labs, Kirtland and other facilities for creating a stable economic environment. 
• Kiplinger Ranks Albuquerque #2  Best City in 2009 Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine ranks Albuquerque No.2 in its top ten list of best cities.
• Magazine Honors AED Site Selection Magazine ranked Albuquerque Economic Development among the top ten agencies in the country.
• Sundance Sets down New Mexico Roots Actor Robert Redford and Gov. Bill Richardson announce training program for film and the arts.
  

• Schott Solar Up and Running The first products produced by Schott Solar in Albuquerque came off the assembly line recently.

• Labs Receive $7 million toward Clean Energy Research Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs will use money to research solar and solid state energy creation.

• New Mexico's New Incubator Officially Opens WESST Corp's Enterprise Center will nurture entrepreneurs, small businesses. 

• Solar Array Ventures' First Incentive Approved Bernalillo County Commission approves $175 million Industrial Revenue Bond, construction bond. 
• Warner Bros. Reveals Film Data The film "Observe and Report," which filmed in New Mexico, spent $4.2 million locally. 
• New Solar Project for Albuquerque Area Solar Array Ventures Inc., said that it will build a solar panel manufacturing plant in Bernalillo County that could employ up to 1,000 people.

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