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B&H Photo also has a Sony Memory Card sale featuring 16 different products, a mix of SD*, microSD*, SRM and profeessional video storage options. Of SD* interest, the 32GB cards start at $10, the 64GB (up to 70MB/sec) for $15, the 256GB (up to 70MB/sec) for $80. Free shipping with an order of $49+.
32GB Sony XQD G Series (QDG32A/J) for $65
Some discounting on the XQD memory card front, the 32GB Sony XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s (model QDG32A/J) is on sale for $65 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of five per customer. This significantly "defeats" (in GB/$) the 64GB and 128GB versions which go for $150+ and $300+ respectively.
120 Sony Ultra H. Duty Carbon Zinc AA batteries for $27
If you are a fan of single use Carbon Zinc AA batteries, Adorama has a couple of offers on Sony Ultra Heavy Duty packs. The 120 Sony Ultra Heavy Duty Carbon Zinc AA batteries goes for $27, while the 80 Sony Ultra Heavy Duty Carbon Zinc AA batteries goes for $20. The 120-pack wins the batteries per dollar.
PS: these are delivered as multiples of 40s. The 80 count is two 40-packs, while the 120 count is three 40-packs. In case you want to split orders with friends and co-workers, this can be handy versus "counting batteries".
YMMV Amazon Chase VISA cardholders: Sony 70-200mm f2.8 (SAL70200G2) for $2400 with coupon
NOTE!!!: this is a YMMV promotion. I have no way of knowing how many people are eligible.
If you have an Amazon Chase VISA credit card and you are eligible for this promotion (detailed post explains the promotion ~ I don't want to repeat the whole post) and logged on to your eligible Amazon account, there is a super hot deal [you will only see the offer if you are eligible] for the Sony 70-200mm f2.8 (SAL70200G2) [this is the lens page, everyone will see this].
The standard price for this lens is $3000. You add the Sony 70-200mm f2.8 (SAL70200G2) to your shopping cart, make sure your payment method is the Amazon Chase VISA credit card, and enter coupon code ARC20SPRING there. The price will drop by 20% in the right sidebar of the Amazon Checkout page, making it $2400 (rounded) with free shipping. This has to be sold and shipped by Amazon itself, not 3rd-party sellers.
If it doesn't, it means the promotion is not working, either because you are not eligible or you are using a different payment method or Amazon is not the actual seller or for other reason(s) that I am not aware of.
If all is well, it should look like this:
Again, please note this is a YMMV type of an offer, I have no way of testing this at a grand scale. I tested with an account with the Chase VISA card, one without it, and not being logged on to Amazon.
IF you tried this and it worked or didn't please let us know in the comments!
32GB Sony SDHC Class 10 for $8 [128GB for $35] {shipping depends}
B&H Photo is having a Sony SD* memory card sale that includes the 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC card (the up to 70MB/sec model) for $8. Limit 50 per customer. Shipping depends. If your order total (of these and any other items) is $49+, you get free expedited shipping. Otherwise you have to pay for shipping.
With the same shipping terms as above, the 128GB version (the up to 70MB/sec model) goes for $35.
Costco Members: Sony a6000 with 16-50mm and 55-210mm and Extras and $50 Costco Cash Card by Mail for $730
The Adorama Sony a6000 two-lens kit bundle expired but if you missed it or didn't need Lightroom 6, or can't wait for future deals, and you are a Costco member, they are offering the Sony a6000 two lens kit bundle (with 16-50mm and 55-210mm and bag and 32GB card and DVD learnings) along with a $50 Costco Cash Card by mail (four weeks after camera delivery) for $730 with free shipping. Lightroom 6 is NOT included with the Costco offer. The price is for members. If you are not a member, you have to pay a 5% surcharge. Limit three bundles per customer. Promotion ends 5/29/16.
(ENDED) Sony a6000 Kits with $50 Gift Card and Free Accessories (at $450 body, $600 w/16-50)
As of 5/16/16, the gift card offers are still there, but the prices of the a6000 kits jumped up…
(ENDED) Sony a6000 with 16-50 and 55-210 and $50 Gift Card and Lightroom 6 for $746
As of 5/16/16 recheck, this tempting offer expired. The price is $1050 as of this check…
16GB Sony UHS-I SDHC Memory Card (Class 10) for $7 {shipping depends}
B&H Photo has a side dish doorbuster sale, the 16GB Sony UHS-I SDHC Memory Card (Class 10) is on sale for $7 with a limit of 40 per shopping cart. This is the "up to 70MB/sec" model. "Side dish" because it doesn't get free shipping on its own, but if your order total is $49 or more, then you get free expedited shipping on the whole order.
In-stock now: Sony FE Lenses: 50mm f1.8 and 70-300 f4.5-5.6
Two more Sony FE E-mount lenses are now in-stock and ready to ship to your front door from B&H Photo as follows:
+ Sony FE 50mm f/1.8 Lens for $250
+ Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS Lens for $1200
For more in-stock action (it looks a very busy month), check the In-Stock Alerts here at this blog (there's also a menu option up top in the blue bar), and also the Jon Snow resurrection of the Stock Status Tracker.
In-stock now: Sony RX10 III for $1500
For the boldly going early adopters, the third generation of the Sony RX10 1-inch superzoom (with its 24-600mm eq) is now in-stock and ready to ship to your front door (or other address of choice) for its starting price of $1500 with free shipping at B&H Photo.
For more in-stock action (it looks a very busy month), check the In-Stock Alerts here at this blog (there's also a menu option up top in the blue bar), and also the Jon Snow resurrection of the Stock Status Tracker.
Sony a6000 w/18-55 and 55-210 and Lightroom 6 and $50 Gift Card for $750
A potentially good "Getting Seriously Started with the Photography" kit is now available at Adorama for $750 with free expedited shipping. You get the Sony a6000 two lens kit with the 18-55mm and 55-210mm lenses, the Adobe Lightroom 6 software, and a $50 Adorama gift certificate. One could then use the $50 gift certificate to purchase other necessities for new photographers (tripod/monopod/etc).
Costco: Sony a6000 w/18-55 and 55-210 and Extras and $50 Costco Cash Card for $730
This Costco offer is open to all, but if you are not a member, you have to pay 5% premium over the listed prices. The Sony a6000 two lens kit with the 18-55mm and 55-210mm lenses and 32GB card and Learning DVD and Bag along with a $50 Costco Cash Card (via mail within four weeks of completed delivery) for $730. Promotion is good until 5/29/16. Limit three bundles per member.
PS: there's also a competing offer at Adorama, coming in the next post.
Tamron 16-300mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD w/$50 Rewards for $500 (C/N/A)
The Tamron 16-300mm f3.5-6.3 Di II PZD MACRO lens is currently on sale for $500 with 10% promotional rewards (around $50 to be used in future B&H purchases) with free shipping at B&H Photo. The Canon and Nikon versions are VC (image stabilization), while the Sony Alpha Minolta A-mount is not. Offer ends 5/9/16.
For more action, check their latest Mother's Day Specials good until 5/8/16 (some require coupon code MOMDAY16).
Sony a6000 kits with $50 Gift Card and Extras
B&H Photo has a promotion bundling a $50 B&H Photo Gift Card along with either 4% promotional rewards or free accessories for a variety of the Sony a6000 kits. A total of 24 bundles are available. Some get free accessories, some get 4% rewards, some get both, some get neither. Check each individual listing of interest to see what is included. Offers end 5/8/16.
For more action, check their latest Mother's Day Specials good until 5/8/16 (some require coupon code MOMDAY16).
72pk Sony Stamina Plus AA batteries for $16
If you are a fan of Sony Stamina AA single-use batteries, Groupon Goods is offering 72pks of Sony Stamina Plus AA or AAA single-use batteries for $16 per pack. That's 4.5 batteries per dollar. You can select AA or AAA from the menu there. Limit five total sets per customer. Free shipping if your order total is $35+, so if you want free shipping, you need three of these, or a combination of these and other products that get you over $35. Their expiration is in 2024 per the listing.
Imported Sony a7S II body w/1yr seller warranty for $2400
The Sony a7S II body only goes for $3000 at authorized Sony USA dealers bundled with free items (eg free Lightroom 6 at Adorama).
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with grey-market products that get a 1-year warranty from the Seller, not the Manufacturer, among the latest Trending eBay Deals you can get the new condition imported grey-market Sony a7S II body only for $2400 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty from the seller, not Sony USA. Limit five per customer. The seller is "Electronics Valley" (99.6%, ships from Somerset, New Jersey).
64GB Sony SDXC for $15 or 32GB for $8 or 128GB for $35 [the up to 70MB/s models]
More memory card action now, the 64GB Sony Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC (up to 70MB/s model SF64UY2/TQ) is on sale for $15 with a limit of 30 per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself, while the 32GB version goes for $8 (limit 30 as well). Meanwhile the 128GB version goes for $35 (same limit).
And to think that once upon a time we thought a 32MB Smartmedia card could hold so many pictures 🙂
Speaking of storage, here's a few other ones buzzing around:
+ 128GB PNY microSDXC for $30 ("defeats" other options in its own lineup)
+ 128GB PNY USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $25
The usual free shipping terms apply. Free 2-day for Prime members (remember you can get some digital credits or Prime pantry credits if you select slower shipping). Non-Prime members get free shipping with an order total of $49 or more in eligible items, or if your order contains at least $25 in books (I don't remember if used books fulfilled by Amazon count towards the limit).
Sony RX10 II with $100 Gift Card for $1200
The Sony RX10 II (second generation) is bundled with a $100 B&H Photo Gift Card, together going for $1200 with free shipping at B&H Photo. Alternately you can select bundles with Free Accessories or a Free Sony ECM-XYST1M Mic instead of the $100 gift card.
Keep in mind the last model is the 3rd generation RX10 with a May 2016 release estimate and a starting price of $1500.
Sony a6300 w/16-50 and $100 Gift Card for $1200
The Sony a6300 with the 16-50mm lens goes for $1200 at authorized Sony USA dealers, but for a limited time, you can get it with a $100 B&H Photo Gift Card included at B&H Photo… This is one of their many NAB Trade Show Specials…
Sony a6000 kits at MAP prices with $50 Gift Card included
Sony a6000 kits are selling at MAP prices at authorized dealers, $550 body only, $700 with 16-50mm, $900 with 16-50 and 50-210. But retailers can offer free items with purchase, so if you are a regular Adorama customer or do not object to becoming one, they are offering $50 Adorama Gift Cards with the purchase of select Sony a6000 kits, namely the white a6000 body only and the a6000 with 16-50mm kits (black, silver, white)…
If you prefer a boatload of free accessories instead of a $50 gift card, peruse the aforelinked listings to see if there's any combination you find interesting…
The two lens kit does not get a $50 gift card, but the black two-lens kit includes the Lightroom 6 software…
No coupon, no rebate, the free items shown in the individual product listings are included automatically by Adorama while these promotions are running…
PS: the original post was a giant bloby paragraph, it's now broken up for readability/skimmability…
64GB Sony UHS-I SDXC Memory Card (Class 10; up to 70MB) for $14.29
The 64GB Sony Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC memory card (the up to 70MB/s model SF64UY2/TQ) is currently on sale for $14.29 at B&H Photo and Amazon by Amazon itself.
Free shipping depends. At B&H, you have to place an order of $49 or more. At Amazon, you get free shipping if you are a Prime member, or if you place a $49+ order, or if you place an order with $25+ in books.
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35 F4 ZA OSS with $100 Gift Card for $1250 [or $1000 Grey Market]
Choices are nice to have! If you are interested in the Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35 F4 ZA OSS lens, aka the SEL1635Z, there are two offers running, one authorized USA dealer, one imported at a lower price with a seller's warranty.
The authorized dealer promotion is the lens for $1250 with a $100 Adorama Gift Certificate included at Adorama.
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with imported grey-market lenses that are covered by a seller's warranty (instead of a Sony USA warranty), to the eBay Deals we go, where frequent grey-market eBay seller Get It Digital (99.4%) is offering the new condition imported grey-market lens for $1000 with a 1-year warranty from the seller.
Speaking of eBay, the main deal there is a blockbuster doorbuster by Target's eBay store, the Star Wars: The Force Awakens BluRay Set (BluRay and DVD and Digital HD copy) for $17 with free shipping and free returns, with a limit of three per Jedi. Fans of the Dark Side will just create more eBay accounts and get more 😉
Sony Alpha Lens Instant Savings (both DSLR and MirrorNyets)
Another round of manufacturer initiated instant savings promotion (the main form of discounting current prices in the MAP era) is out, this time featuring various Sony Alpha lenses (both DSLR and mirrorless), and you can see them all nicely organized at B&H Photo. This is an "ever scrolling" type of a page, keep clicking the orange "Load More" button to see more options.
Sony SD and microSD card sale (14 options; 32GB to 256GB)
Trios are a theme today, we have three memory card posts back to back, starting with a Sony memory card sale at B&H Photo featuring 14 SD* and microSD* cards, with storage capacities ranging from 32GB to 256GB. The SD cards include the "up to 70MB/s", the "up to 94MB/s" and the "up to 95MB/s" models. This sale ends on 4/9/16 at 11:59pm ET.
Sony RX10 II and Extras for $1200
The new Sony RX10 III is coming out in a few weeks for $1500. If you are convinced now to go for the previous generation model, the RX10 II, you can get it for $1200 with 4% promotional rewards (around $48) at B&H Photo… On the other hand, if you prefer tangible accessories in the hand instead of promotional rewards, you can get it for the same price with free Lowepro shoulder bag, 32GB Sandisk Extreme card, cleaning kit and the Corel software kit that includes Aftershot Pro 2 and Paintshop Pro X8 among other titles at Adorama…
In-stock nao: Sigma 30mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary for $339 (Sony E)
We continue this seemingly never-ending In-Stock Alert Wave with the Sigma 30mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens for the Sony E-mount, in-stock for $339 with free shipping at B&H Photo… The M43rds version is in pre-order state with a mid-April release estimate…
New Sony RX 10 III, 50/1.8 FE, 70-300 FE now available for Pre-Order
The new camera gear Sony announced earlier in the week are now available to pre-order at authorized dealers as follows:
+ RX 10 III rawsumer for $1500 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
+ Sony FE 50mm f1.8 Lens for $250 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
+ Sony FE 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G OSS Lens for $1200 at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon
Pre-order 3/31/16: Sony RX10 III for $1500
Time sure does fly, we now have the third generation of the Sony RX10 1-inch RAWzoomer fixed lens camera, with a 24-600mm f2.4-4 Zeiss blessed lens (on a 1″ sensor). This new camera will be available for pre-ordering on March 31st at 11am eastern for $1500. So far it has been listed at the B&H Photo website. Sony continues with their new two-step announcement process. This has been added to the New Cameras of 2016 tracking page.
Pre-order 3/31/16: Sony 50mm f1.8 FE and 70-300 f4.5-5.6 G OSS FE
Sony has two new FE E-mount full frame lenses that will also become available for pre-ordering/purchase on March 31st in 2016. One prime, one zoom. The prime is the 50mm f1.8 for $248, and the zoom is the 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G OSS FE for $1198. You can see their specs and pre-order pre-details at B&H Photo… These too have been added to the new of New Lenses in 2016 tracking page…
(ENDED) Wedn: Sony Xperia Z3 D6603 16GB Smartphone for $250 (Unlocked, No Contract, GSM)
This daily deal expired… For more action, check the B&H Featured Deals page…
64GB Sony SDXC C10 UHS-1/U3 for $23 {limit 30 per customer}
We previously mentioned the Sony "up to 70MB/sec" sales, but if you prefer the "up to 94MB/sec" cards, currently the 64GB Sony Class 10 UHS-1/U3 SDXC, model SF64UX2/TQ, is on sale for $23 per card at Amazon by Amazon itself. Limit 30 per customer. This particular one currently "defeats" all the other storage options in its own line (annotated screenshot crop below):
256GB Sony SDXC (up to 70MB/s) for $81 {limit 30 per customer}
Forgot about Dre! Also on sale in the Sony SDHC/SDXC line-up (the "up to 70MB/sec" models ~ this is what Sony and Amazon use to differentiate them {there's also "up to 94" and "up to 95"}, that's why I am mentioning the speeds like that) is the 256GB "up to 70MB/sec" SDXC card going for $81 with free shipping with a limit of 30 per customer.
PS: you can see all the available models, 8GB to 256GB by clicking on their thumbnails (the actual view may differ depending on your screen and viewport size and device ~ the wonders of responsive design). Annotated screenshot crop of the desktop view below:
32GB Sony Class 10 SDXC for $7.19 (limit 30 per customer)
It is back on sale again, the 32GB Sony Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC (up to 70MB/s Memory Card, model SF32UY2) is going for $7.19 at Amazon by Amazon itself, this time the limit is up to 30 cards per customer. This is not a lightning deal, so it is unknown how long this sale will last. Free shipping for Prime members or with an order of $49+ (or $25+ in books).
128GB Sony Class 10 SDXC for $30 (limit 30 per customer)
If you are a fan of Sony SD memory cards, their 128GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC (up to 70MB/s Memory Card, SFG1UY2/TQ) is currently on sale for $30 per card, with a limit of 30 cards per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself. This is not a lightning deal, so it is unknown how long this sale will last. Free shipping for Prime members or with an order of $49+ (or $25+ in books).
Costco Members Only: Sony HX400 with Extras for $380
Costco members only (restricted to members, you can't get it with the usual 5% surcharge if you are not a member) can get the Sony Cybershot HX400 superzoom (50x optical) along with a 32GB Sony SDHC card and carrying case for $380 with free shipping. Limit three per member. This offer is included in today's Costco email newsletter.
Big Sony SD/SDHC/SDXC sale (8GB to 256GB): 32GB for $8+, 64GB for $16+, 128GB for $34+
B&H Photo is having a big Sony Memory Card sale featuring SD/SDHC/SDXC and microSD* memory cards. A total of 22 items are participating (you can quickly skim/scan at the aforelinked page ~ it has them in a nice grid). Prices include:
+ 32GB for $8 or $11.50 or $18
+ 64GB for $16 or $23 or $32
+ 128GB for $34 or $45 or $68
+ 256GB for $90 or $96 or [N/A]
+++ price numbers above are for the: "up to 70" or "up to 94" or "up to 95" [that's printed on the card's face ~ a visual cue to tell them apart]
Sale ends 3/27/16 or earlier for any that sell-out and become unorderable.
Sony LCS-EME Sling Bag for $49 w/free S&H
The official Sony LCS-EME Sling Bag is currently on sale for $49 with free shipping by Adorama directly or if you have Amazon Gift Cards to spend, by Adorama on Amazon.
In-stock nao: Sony a6300 with 16-50mm
The Tall Ships from Japan are delivering supplies of the brand new Sony a6300 mirrorless camera. As of the time of writing, the a6300 with 16-50mm option is in-stock and ready to ship for $1148 at B&H Photo. The other kits are not here yet.
Pre-order new Sony HX80 compact-zoom (30x) for $348
There is a new Cybershot 30x optical zoom compact-zoom in the Sony line-up, it is the HX80, with an 18mp BSI CMOS sensor and it is available for pre-order for $348 at B&H Photo. There are many and more superzooms out there, figuring out which one to get is no easy task 🙂


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879423803036771742016-05-27T17:23:43.796-07:00Capitol Report New MexicoCapitol Report New Mexico has been a newspaper and a magazine. For financial reasons, there is no print version now. This blog is dedicated to the discussion of issues surrounding the New Mexico state legislature, the economy of New Mexico and other issues that may gain attention.Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-78562663810758086032016-05-27T17:23:00.002-07:002016-05-27T17:23:43.826-07:00Eight States Lose Jobs in April; NM Loses the FewestThe detailed wage job numbers for April, released late this afternoon by the Department of Workforce Solutions, confirm that metro Albuquerque is doing almost decently and certainly better than everywhere else in New Mexico. The figures below are not seasonally adjusted.
Albuquerque gained 3,200 jobs for the month and 4,700 for the year between April 2015 and April 2016. The year-over-year increase was 1.2%, hardly stellar, but far better than the state and other metro areas.
Farmington continued its unhappy performance with a 400-job loss, or 0.78%, over the year. Santa Fe added 500 jobs. Education and Health Services, up 500 jobs for the year, explains the Santa Fe growth.
Las Cruces added 200. The Las Cruces growth came on the strength of 900 more jobs in Education and Health Services, a 6.2% increase. Other Las Cruces sectors either lost a little or showed no change for the month.
In metro Albuquerque, as elsewhere, Education and Health Services led the growth, up 5.2%, or 3,200 jobs, year over year. Professional and business services added 1,400 jobs while state government chipped in with 1,000.
The state's loss of 300 jobs led the eight job-loser states in the sense of the smallest percentage drop. New Mexico's 6.6% unemployment rate is fourth among the states after the District of Columbia, West Virginia and Nevada. Only one New Mexico county, Luna, has an unemployment rate over ten percent. The Luna rate is 15.6%.
Oil production is the state's job problem these days with aggregate mining and logging sector down 6,400 jobs or about 25% year-over-year. This reverses the situation of the last ten years or so where oil and gas production has provided nearly all the job growth.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-38757644769602873582016-05-23T09:42:00.000-07:002016-05-23T09:42:30.118-07:00NM Metro Areas: Successful AgingA recent column discussed the characteristics of New Mexico's metro areas as places for older people. The information came from a report by the Milken Foundation of Los Angeles. The locations for the data about state cities is:
From the Milken institute

Large cities Madison #1
http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/bcsa2014.taf?page=metro&year=2014&mcode=C31540&pop=large

#100 Stockton-Lodi, CA

Albuquerque #67

http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/bcsa2014.taf?page=metro&mcode=C10740&pop=large

Small Cities
#1 Iowa City #252 Vineland/Bridgeton, NJ

Santa Fe #76

http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/bcsa2014.taf?page=metro&year=2014&mcode=C42140&pop=small

Las Cruces #140
http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/bcsa2014.taf?page=metro&year=2014&mcode=C29740&pop=small

Farmington #169
http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/bcsa2014.taf?page=metro&year=2014&mcode=C22140&pop=small
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-15211912948898165352016-05-20T17:05:00.000-07:002016-05-20T17:05:05.664-07:00State Job Picture Nets Nothing. Abq improves 1%.Some economic improvement seems to be happening in Albuquerque, meaning Bernalillo County. In April, as compared to April 2015, the labor force was up 2,500. Employment was up 5,000 and unemployment was down 2,400. The employment gain is about 1.3%, so hold the excitement. The net is a 4.9% unemployment rate for April.
The Department of Workforce Solutions released the job report this afternoon.
The state is another story. Basically, oil offset welfare for a net of nothing.
The wage job total dropped 300, April to April. Since all these ever so precise numbers come from estimates, the total could just as well have been a 300-job increase. The Bureau of Labor Statistics review of statistically significant job happenings during the month left out New Mexico. The NM DWS gets the numbers from the BLS.
Mining, meaning, mostly, oil and gas has lost a quarter of its jobs since April 2015. More are coming (or going). A potash mine is closing in Carlsbad. Intrepid Potash is putting its West facility into what it calls "a care and maintenance mode" in July and laying off 300 employees. Intrepid got 42% of its potash production from the West facility in 2015, the company said.
The sectors with larger job increases were education and health services, plus 6,900 jobs or 5.2%, and professional and business services, plus 1,400 jobs or 1.4%.
A surprise was the 1,600 one-month job loss in leisure and hospitality. DWS' explanation was the changes appear "to be due to atypical seasonal changes in several subsector areas in the industry." If you understand that, let me know.
Another DWS explanatory winner was about mining, "Growth fell negative in March 2015 and has declined in every month since January 2015, except the last two months."
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-25463532844114596682016-05-20T14:37:00.003-07:002016-05-20T14:37:48.397-07:00Metro Home Sales Continued to Increase During AprilSince January the monthly number of closed sales of single family detached homes in metro Albuquerque has increased 336 units, or 57%. During April there were 930 homes with sales closed. It was 594 in January.
The big leap was between February and March. The pace of increase slowed considerably in April with sales up 34 units or 4% over March. Still, April closed sales were a nice 10.2% over the 844 closed sales in April 2015.
Homes with the sale closing during April sold in an average of 57 days. That was 13 days faster than during April 2015.
Pending sales—1,211 in April—were 3% over March and 2.6% above the 1,180 pending sales in April 2015.
The 1,650 new listings during April were up slightly—23 units—from March and down 1.6% from April 2015. The 3,275 listings active during April were down 17% from a year ago. Active listings are down a third since the recent peak of 5,043 in August 2014.
Both Median and average prices increased during April over the previous year. The $185,000 median price was 4.6% above the $177,500 during April 2015. The average price, $217,616, increased 3.5% or about $7,000 from April 2015, but dropped $535 from March.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-28955143604137557112016-04-18T16:56:00.000-07:002016-04-18T16:56:10.903-07:00Leisure and Hospitality Jobs Up 5.3%, Mining down 25%The start the year, New Mexico's job engine (snicker) showed a January 2015 to January 2016 performance of a decrease of 1,800 jobs. The year-over-year "growth" for February was 300, meaning zero, which the Department of Workforce Solutions pointed out before talking about the "month's very modest gain."
For March the year-over-year gain was 3,000 jobs, probably enough to mean that indeed a few jobs were added around the state after considering statistical variability.
For the sectors, leisure and hospitality led the percentage growth with a 5.3% increase from 4,800 jobs. The larger education and health services sector led the number gain with 6,800 new jobs, or 5.1%.
Professional and business services (+800 jobs), construction (+700 jobs) and other services (+600) were the other private sector gainers.
Local government added 800 jobs. The devil in that detail is the 800-job loss in local government education, namely the public schools, which means that the rest of local government gained 1,600 jobs.
Mining is down 6,900 jobs, or a bit more than 25%, from a year ago. The sector now has 20,100 jobs.
Employment (different from wage jobs) was up about 5,500 in metro Albuquerque to 392,000. In Farmington, employment dropped about 700 during the year and increased 600 in Las Cruces and 200 in Santa Fe.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-57583625787795184312016-04-16T17:25:00.003-07:002016-04-16T17:25:41.220-07:00Home Sales Jump 40% in MarchThe February increase in metro Albuquerque sales of single family detached homes appears to have turned into the spring seasonal increase. Closed sales during March jumped 40% from February to 896 units, an 8.3 hike from March 2016.
Those 896 homes sold in an average of 62 days, an eight day improvement from February.
The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors released the March sales figures on April 11.
The market remains tight, tilting toward sellers. The adsorption rate is 3.85, indicating that it would take 3.85 months to clear the present inventory of 3198 detached homes.
The negative, if one wants to call it that, is that the March jump was lower than the 49% that sales during March 2015 grew from February 2015.
The March 2016 closed sales were 86% of the 1,040 sales pending during February. For March, pending sales increased to 1,188, up 148 from February, or 14%. The March pending sales were 7.8% ahead of March 2015.
Though still below last fall, prices are doing well for a March. The March median price of $180,000 is the highest March median since 2009. The March median increased $2,000 from February and was up 2.9% from a year ago.
The March average price, $218,141, is also the highest since 2009. The March average was nearly $6,000 more than February, a three percent increase, and a 3.8% increase from March 2015.
Sale of ten detached homes in the $750,000 - $999,000 price range helped the average price. This category had two March sales last year and three in 2015.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-20954653213184853662016-04-04T16:33:00.000-07:002016-04-04T16:33:29.924-07:00ART Draws LawsuitThe proposed Albuquerque Rapid Transit project has drawn a lawsuit, the Albuquerque Journal reported today. Another suit is expected. While I'm totally outside active participation in this dispute, the suits appear to be part of a delaying approach by opponents. The project would run a bus line using fancy buses down the middle of Central Ave., eating two of the four present traffic lanes. Opposition has been vehement. Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-73282211896616858492016-03-10T18:18:00.001-07:002016-03-10T18:18:52.816-07:00Abq Homes Sales Up 7% in FebruaryAfter the way up and way down gyrations of December and January, sales of single family detached homes in metro Albuquerque resumed an upward path in February and threw in nice year over-year and month-over-month price increases as a bonus. The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors (gaar.com) released the February sales report today.
Sales closed on 638 homes during February, a 44 unit, or 7% increase from January, and an 84 unit or 15.2% jump from January 2015.
Sale was pending on 638 metro homes during February, up 128 homes, or 14%, from January and up 119 homes, or 13% from February 2015. Of the 912 homes with sale pending in January, 70%, a relatively low figure, turned into closed sales in February.
Across the entire metro, the homes with sales closing were on the market for 70 days, three days less than February 2015 but six days more than January. The sales were much slower in Rio Rancho, where homes were on the market for 82 days. It was 62 days in Albuquerque.
The average sales price, $212,172 in February, dropped two percent, or $5,075, month-over-month but was up 6.5%, or about $13,000, from February 2015. That $212,172 average was the highest February average since 2011. One reason the average price dropped was that the month's best selling price group was the $120,000 to $139,999 range with 83 sales, a 36% year over-year hike. In February 2105, the group ranked third in sales.
February's median sales price, $178,000, was the highest February median since 2009. The $178,000 median was up five percent, or $9,000, year over-year and increased $3,000 from January.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-64284016936950217152016-02-12T16:32:00.004-07:002016-02-12T16:32:51.371-07:00Abq January Home Sales Down 26%After inexplicably jumping 26% between November and December, closed sales of metro Albuquerque single family detached homes more than gave away the December gains with a 26%, or 213 unit, drop in January.
The 594 closed sales during January were 10.6% more than December 2014 closed sales of 656 homes.
The suggestion of improved sales during February comes from the 34% increase to 912 homes of pending sales during January. That's a 233 unit or 34% increase.
It took an average of 64 days for a home to sale during January, fairly quick, but still the longest sales period since April 2015.
The median price for home with sales closed during January was $175,000, up 3.2% from January 2015, but down $500 from December. The $175,000 median price was the lowest since $175,000 in March 2015.
January's average price was $217,247, up 4%, or $9,018, from December and up 6.8% from January 2015. Three homes sold in the million dollar plus price range helped that average as did eight in the $750,000 to $999,000 range where four homes sold a year ago.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-83208251414817149182016-02-06T11:00:00.000-07:002016-02-06T11:00:19.147-07:00Luján Statement on Pearce Gold King Mine BillThe statement below was provided by the office of Rep. Ben Ray Lujan in response to my request for comment about Rep. Steve Pearce's Gold King Accountability Act of 2016. At 154-words the statement is too long to include in my column about Pearce's bill. The point of requesting comment was that the river pollution from the mine spill happened in Lujan's district. For reader convenience the statement is posted here.

Received February 5, 2016 via email from Monica Sanchez, a member of Rep. Lujan's Washington, D.C., staff

"The Gold King Mine spill has taken a huge toll on communities in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation, impacting businesses, farmers, and ranchers. I am pleased that Congressman Pearce's legislation includes provisions that are in the Gold King Mine Spill Recovery Act, which I introduced in September with New Mexico's Senators and Congresswoman Lujan Grisham. These provisions establish an office within the EPA to provide compensation to make those impacted whole and require the agency to work with state, local, and tribal governments to ensure long-term water quality monitoring.

"While I have some concerns with Congressman Pearce's bill, I am committed to holding the EPA accountable for this disaster. That is why I traveled to San Juan County immediately following the spill to participate in the first of a series of community meetings, met with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in Farmington and Durango, and have repeatedly questioned EPA officials at Congressional hearings."
 Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-77287172269335310512016-02-03T18:15:00.000-07:002016-02-03T18:15:51.382-07:00State Job Growth Slows, Three Metros LoseDuring the year from November 2014 to November 2015, metro Albuquerque gained 7,200 seasonally unadjusted wage jobs. For December the year-over-year gain dropped to 5,000 on the "strength" of losing 2,400 jobs between November and December.
Over the year, Santa Fe (-100), Farmington (-1,000) and as Cruces (-1,100) combined to lose 2,200 jobs. That was 400 fewer jobs lost than during the November 2-14 to November 2015 year.
The state gained 2,600 jobs for the year and lost 1,800 for the month. Seven states performed worse than New Mexico. Two showed no job total change and five lost jobs.
Retail trade was the leading loser for the month, down 1,200 jobs, which generated a 900 job loss for the year. That retail trade would lose jobs during December seems curious, what with the holiday shopping. The retail losses concentrated in Albuquerque, down 700 for the month and 800 for the year. Albuquerque is the sate's retail center.
Making the state/Albuquerque retail performance is Las Cruces showing no change for the month and the year and Santa Fe with no change for the month and 100 more jobs for the year.
In Albuquerque professional and business services lost 300 jobs for the month and gained 3,700 for the year. Education and health services had no change for the month and 1,500 more jobs for the year. Leisure and hospitality dropped 400 jobs for the month and gained 1,200 for the year.
Statewide, leisure and hospitality showed 1,100 more jobs during the month and 4,400 over the year. Education and health services had 2,900 more jobs year-over-year and 300 more for the month. Professional and business services also added 300 jobs during December and 2,500 year-over-year.
The Las Cruces jobs losses were professional and business services (-700), leisure and hospitality (-300), construction (-300) and manufacturing (-100). Except for September 2014, Las Cruces has lost jobs since May 2014.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-19773820049641423522016-02-01T17:10:00.000-07:002016-02-01T17:10:03.792-07:00NM As Federal Colony. Acoma Myth ContinuedIn December 2014, the Journal's Win Quigley compared New Mexico to Equatorial Guinea.
In his January 31 Up Front column, he was back at it.
There is a photo of the Onate statue in Alcalde. The photo caption mentions, "Acoma Indians whose feet were amputated…" Thomas Chavez and John Kessell, two of our leading historians, both say that while the Spanish ordered amputation as punishment for opposing the Spanish, no evidence exists that the mutilation actually happened. Kessell's point was that the Spanish were meticulous record keepers, but record exists of the actual amputation.
Sloppy. And perpetuating a myth of the evil Spanish.
More important, Quigley, without supporting evidence, writes "of our almost total dependence on federal energy and defense spending for what economic progress we did enjoy in the 20th century…"
To be sure, defense spending drove growth in the 1940s and 50s as the Bernalillo County population about doubled during each decade and others grew rapidly.
I'm not sure the meaning of "almost total dependence…"
But Quigley misses a few things, starting more than a century ago with art and tourism development by the Santa Fe Railway. Oil in Lea County starting in 1928. Potash in Lea and Eddy Counties. Skiing. Natural gas in San Juan County. Intel and other silicon wafer manufacturing. The Santa Fe Institute. St. John's College.
Quigley worked for Digital Equipment Corp., a computer manufacturer. I guess he forgot that. Or maybe DEC, which came and went, doesn't count as "economic progress." The old DEC plant now houses a bunch of service businesses. While these businesses probably provide less value added than building computers, they are more than the pre-DEC value added, which was nothing.
Quigley says, "New Mexico, as a ward of Washington, in some ways remains a colony to this day," just as under the Spanish. Quigley says New Mexico also was a colony of the United States. Wrong. New Mexico was a territory, something quite different.
But stealing the local's land was the game after the Civil War. Today the results are "living history," Quigley calls it, and "a nightmare." Rampant victimhood is one result, I believe.
Quigley's image of New Mexico as a "colony" suggests that we cower here under the lash of the federal government. Hardly.
Our federal scientific facilities do work around the world. They work with other labs (Are Argonne or Lawrence Livermore colonies?). Lab staff commute to Washington, D.C. and D.C. staff commute to New Mexico.

Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-65775505903515549492016-01-30T18:46:00.002-07:002016-01-30T18:46:41.593-07:00Martinez' Crime Policies WatchedCrime policy actions by Governor Susana Martinez are watched nationally. The attention comes because Martinez' previous job was a Dona Ana County district attorney. The observation came from Vikrant Reddy, senior research fellow for the Charles Koch Institute.
Reddy was in New Mexico pitching criminal justice system reform. The Institute hosted events in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Retired very famous race driver Bobby Unser was Albuquerque's star attraction. He told of his nearly fatal adventure getting lost in a blizzard near Chama while snow mobiling above timberline. Unser and his companion spent three nights on the mountain in snow caves.
Once rescued Unser was charged with wrongly being on forest service land with the snow mobiles and assessed a $75 fine. Unser suggest what the feds could do with their charge and the fine and took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. "You have to stand for something," Unser said.
Reddy, who is from Texas and ought to know better, told the audiences in Albuquerque and Santa Fe how wonderful he thought it was to have found, on a previous trip to Albuquerque, people as varied as a physicist and a rancher who were very politically informed.
Actually, Texans can be condescending about almost everything.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-25708742125742255702016-01-26T17:42:00.000-07:002016-01-26T17:42:14.289-07:00Nation's Unemployment Rate Leader AgainThe unemployment rate in New Mexico dropped a hair in December (0.01 points) but managed a second month as the nation's highest with 6.7% unemployment. That rate, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics news release put it, is "significantly different" from the national 5% unemployment rate on a seasonally adjusted basis. The unemployment rate was 6.8% in November and October.
Of the 26 states with a statistically significant unemployment rate change between December 2014 and December 2015, New Mexico was the only one where the rate increased. Seven other states showed rate increases over the year, but nothing significant. The unemployment rate dropped in 42 states and the District of Columbia, the BLS said.
This is just amazing. Not that we didn't already know it.
The Department of Workforce Solutions overlooked these two details in its release about the job numbers. No surprise.
Our wage employment did increase during the year, going from 827,400 in December 2014 to 830,000 a year later, a 2,600-job, or 0.3% (three-tenths of one percent). The "improvement" rode a 2,900 job, or 2.2%, increase in education and health services, which means Medicaid.
Behind the New Mexico performance is a 4,500-person seasonally adjusted year-over-year drop in the labor force. The labor force is defined as people working or looking for work. That group of 4,500 gave up.
Meanwhile the number of unemployed grew 6,000 over the year from 55,100 in December 2014 to 61,100 in December 2015, an 11% jump.
The job growth came in leisure and hospitality (tourism + skiing), professional and business services, and education and health care (Medicaid). Carroll Cagle has a nice summary of the number (and it's a big one) that Medicaid is doing on state finances. See the News and Views Blog at newmexicoprosperity.org.
Employment, which is somewhat different from wage jobs, in Lea County dropped 2,388 during the year from 29,390 to 27,302.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-8588483665193559492016-01-14T15:10:00.001-07:002016-01-14T15:10:49.506-07:00Abq Home Sales Take Surprising Jump in DecemberThe sale of 807 single family detached homes closed in Metro Albuquerque during December. The performance is amazing. Two reasons: The December performance was 23% ahead of December 2014. It happened in an economy that seems to be improving, but with a good many of the new jobs coming from Medicaid (i.e., welfare) expansion. Second, The sales were 13 units more than the 794 sales pending during November.
The December closed sales performance was also 155 more than during November, a 24% increase.
Sales of condos and townhouses also jumped during December, going from 62 in November to 90 in December.
During December, homes took an average of 61 days to sell, a ten-day improvement from December 2014.
The seasonal rule is that sales decline from the previous month in December, January and February and then pick up in March.
The strength of the performance motivated a call to the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors, which released the December sales report December 11. Nothing unusual happened during December, GAAR staff said.
For December, sales were pending for 679 homes, a 4.6% increase from December 2014 and down 115 units or 14% from November. The seasonal pattern reappeared here.
The median sales price was $175,500 during December. The average sales price was $208,229. Both figures were down about $5,000 from November and dropped around one percent from December 2015.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-34851293171108416002016-01-08T16:22:00.000-07:002016-01-08T16:22:30.216-07:00Impressions: Three Bad. One Good.The known impressions left on Albuquerque by the "Breaking Bad" cult television series and the successor, "Better Call Saul," include tours of the filming sites. But there is more. A friend in New England works for a large national organization with an Albuquerque office. A colleague of my New England friend recently called someone in the Albuquerque office to inquire about the meth environment in Albuquerque. I not quite sure what that means, but it doesn't sound like a trolley tour is being considered.
A guess is that the suspicion of a "meth environment" would deter an executive considering locating a business in Albuquerque.

Speaking of darkness, we did the Albuquerque luminaria tour. To avoid the traffic, we rode the bus. But the bus windows are tinted, thereby obscuring the view of the soft glow of the candles in the paper bags. Maybe the bus windows are tinted to make it more difficult to see how people ride the bus.

This was a map caption. The map showed employment changes by county in the United States. The caption pointed out that Harding County had the nation's largest unemployment rate gain. Another winner for a vibrant New Mexico.

And finally, something nice. Las Cruces was a runner up in Sunset magazine's Best Hometowns 2016 competition. The category, won by Santa Barbara, California, was Best Sustainable Community. The other categories were neighborhood, small town, medium-size town and suburb. The article is in the February issue.
Las Cruces was the only New Mexico community to place in the ratings. Never thought of Las Cruces in that way.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-61927768959014009492016-01-01T18:32:00.000-07:002016-01-01T18:32:02.878-07:00Professional and Business Services Leads Abq. Other Metros Drop Jobs.The state's three smaller metro areas lost 2,600 jobs in the year from November 2014 to November 2015, according to the Labor Market Review newsletter released December 28 by the Department of Workforce Solutions. Albuquerque added 7,200 jobs, a 1.9% gain, making for 4,600 net new wage jobs produced, year over year, by the four metros.
Across the entire state, 3,000 new jobs appeared which means that the 26 rural counties lost 1,600 jobs over the year.
These figures are not seasonally adjusted.
Lea County alone accounted for all these jobs, almost says a special Labor Market Review article. I say "almost" because the LMR article uses numbers from the second quarter for 2015. Lea's wage job total was down 1,667 between the second quarter of 2014 and the second quarter of 2015. Mining, meaning oil and gas production, lost 964 jobs.
Biofuels cuts also affected Lea County such as the layoffs at Joule Unlimited.
Statewide, mining lost 2,900 jobs. The other biggest losers around the state were manufacturing (-1,100), transportation, warehousing and utilities (-1,100), and wholesale trade (-800).
The statewide winners, year-over-year, were the three sectors that have been adding decent numbers of jobs the past few months: leisure and hospitality (+3,100), the Medicaid-driven education and health services (+2,900), and professional and business services (+2,800).
In Albuquerque, professional and business services added 4,000 new jobs over the year through November 2015. That's a seven percent increase, more, DWS said, than in the past 20 years. Skepticism seems warranted. No headlines jump out to explain this alleged boom.
The big loss in Las Cruces was in professional and businesses services (-900).
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-31695848633999117722015-12-30T15:21:00.001-07:002015-12-30T15:21:35.464-07:00Business "Climate"A friend from New England works for a large national organization that has a branch in Albuquerque. Recently a New England colleague of my friend called an Albuquerque colleague and inquire about the meth atmosphere in Albuquerque. This environment was all too well portrayed in the "Breaking Bad" television series. While one can't complain about the Albuquerque businesses offering tours of the sites seen in "Breaking Bad" and in the "Better Call Saul" series, this overlay (underlay?) on the Duke City's reputation could be one of those other-things-equal decision points that would drive a business or an individual to locate elsewhere. Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-89176869552914036762015-12-18T15:30:00.002-07:002015-12-18T15:30:27.204-07:00NM Continues as Unemployment Rate LeaderA statistically significant seasonally adjusted job gain of 3,900 happened in New Mexico Between October and November. But it was little enough to keep us at the bottom (or top) of the unemployment rate rankings with 6.8% unemployed, up from 6.1% in November 2014, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this morning.
The 6.8% unemployment rate was unchanged from October (and, indeed, unchanged from September. We now have the nation's highest unemployment rate, up (or down) one place from October. We continue, therefore, with the nation's worst economy.
New Mexicans are dropping from the labor force. Some of those not working have gone back to not bothering looking for work. The labor force dropped 2,100 from 916,600 in November 2014 to 914,700 last month, a drop of two tenths of one percent (0.02%). The more serious deterioration has been since September when the labor force was 923,500. The two-month seasonally adjusted decline is 8,800 people, or 0.95%, more than four times the year-over-year rate.
Meanwhile 6,100 more people have become unemployed year-over-year.
Unemployment has been steady at around 62,000 the past three months with the unemployment rate at 6.8%. That means the unemployment rate increase between November 2014 and November 2015 have come because of the drop in the labor force, because of people giving up this work thing.
"Employment" is defined as the labor force count minus unemployment. Employment dropped 8,000, or 0.93%, year over year.
Wage employment, the "other" set of job numbers, puts us in a bit better light. Between November 2014 and November 2015, seasonally adjusted wage employment increased 3,000 or a whopping 0.36% (a bit more than three tenths of one percent).
Separate surveys produce the separate numbers.
The Department of Workforce Solutions reported the unemployment rate in its release in mid-afternoon. DWS ignored our national unemployment rate standing. Gee.
The seasonally unadjusted sector wage job growth leaders between November 2014 and November 2015 were leisure and hospitality, up 3,100 jobs, or 3.5%, education and health services, up 2,900 jobs, or 2.2%, and professional and business services, up 2,800 jobs, or 2.8%.
Mining, meaning oil and gas, was down 2,900 jobs. Manufacturing and transportation both lost 1,100 jobs over the year.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-70384974983161334112015-12-13T16:09:00.000-07:002015-12-13T16:09:29.692-07:00Fundamental Issues Confronting New Mexico TodayRevised 2015. Prepared for discussion by Harold Morgan, syndicated columnist

In this week's newspaper column I promised to post the revised list of what I consider fundamental issues facing New Mexico. These issues provide the basis for much of what appears in the column each week. While the list is incomplete, it provides a broad framework of deep, structural matters needing attention. How to take discussion of these issues to the rest of state is the problem. I'm working on an idea, a series of conferences, which of course would cost money. If you have any thoughts on the issues list and/or on how to bring the issues to a wider audience, email to email@example.com. - Harold

Some major institutional issues (including the usual suspects, such as water, agriculture and energy) are listed alphabetically:
• A majority of Hispanics tracing their heritage to Mexico. Cultural differences with traditional northern Hispanics.
• A state economy crossing multiple sectors and therefore not usefully measured. Generally we do science (labs to Intel) and work deriving from the land and culture (tourism, agriculture, literature, the Museum of New Mexico). Pure national defense (Holloman, Cannon) is a separate, smaller sector.
Economic activity should be identified to include everything associated with the business. Mines and smelters should go together. Aggregating everything involved with agriculture might take the sector from two percent of the economy to nine percent.
Comprehensive arts sector study released in 2014 indicates measurement approach as does the 2015 Borderplex Strategic Plan.
• Broadband (transportation of information).
• Environmentalist politics.
• Financial institution capability and role of community banks. Dodd-Frank regulations increase costs and constrain lending, more so in smaller communities.
• "Government dependence." "Too much," it is always alleged. In New Mexico federal activities are appropriate—border administration, land management, Indian affairs (see Native American, below). Research, itself widely varied. Military. Culture creates process orientation.
• Labor force participation. Low for decades.
• Land use and ownership. The private sector is the biggest owner of land in the state with 44 percent. Surprise! The feds own about a third of the state—34.3 percent—with the state at 12 percent and tribes with 9.4 percent. Private land ownership ranges from 6 percent in San Juan County to 93 percent in Curry County. These are old numbers and may have changed a little.
• Native American. Tribes, comprising almost ten percent of New Mexicans, are said to consider themselves ignored, not "at the table." The Traditional Cultural Property dispute, fundamentally about theology and bureaucracy, has a major land use component. (See PERC Reports, Summer / Fall 2012, www.percreports.org or www.perc.org.) Custodial "trust" relationship with federal government inhibits reservation economic activity.
• New Mexico as the nation's number two majority-minority state.
• Non-farm proprietorships (commonly without employees).
• Northern counties as "rural ghetto."
• Population change driven by new babies. Adults provide the smaller portion of our population growth. But adults are the ones who pay taxes. Babies consume taxes. Increasing movement to other states. Population decline in 2014.
• Technology transfer: Being in the national defense business with an emphasis on nuclear limits development of an entrepreneurial culture. Some technology heads to the private sector. Los Alamos National Laboratory has recently restructured its approach. Recent awards for technologies involving contaminant removal, filtering water, open software wireless well monitoring and recycling Strontium-82 generated enthusiastic news releases and headlines.
• New Mexico's Constitution.
• Transportation – highways, that is. Nine figure gap between desired construction and maintenance and money available.
• Underground or shadow economy. The only available estimates says 9.3% of New Mexico's gross state product operates "off the books." Aspects: cash only, no regular healthcare, no use of banks, inability to grow businesses. See non-farm proprietorships.
• Uneducated young people. That our kids can't read is bad enough. History courses appear to be process. Knowing the facts—who won the particular war—is necessary before the processes. A high school catalogue calls New Mexico history a semester-long survey "with an emphasis on the 20th century to the present." The 17th, 18th and 19th centuries don't count much.
The economics course cites "government agencies" as the first player in the "allocation of scarce resources and the economic reasoning." People are mentioned but not markets.
• Communication: Perhaps the biggest challenge. New Mexico is a big state with 77.9 million acres, or 121,335 square miles. Just over half of us live in the north central Rio Grande Valley from Belen to Velarde. The rest of us live everywhere else.
Events in one corner of the state fail to penetrate the other corner. The private sector might step up here.

Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-60386432326561522532015-12-13T15:51:00.000-07:002015-12-13T15:53:49.952-07:00Colorado Column 2014, No. 1In my newspaper column that will appear in nine community newspapers around the state this week, I wrote about New Mexico's (non) rankings among the 50 state on 109 factors listed in the new edition of "Toward a More Competitive Colorado." I promised to post for comparison the columns about the 2014 edition of the publication. The first column follows. The second column is the next post. - Harold Morgan

12/5/14

Colorado Comparison Part One: Things Can Change

By Harold Morgan

If Colorado's leaders are smarter than those in New Mexico, something I don't believe, they can't be that (BF? Ital?) much smarter. After all, to determine our performance in a host of categories, we can freeload off Colorado and save work and money. The reference here is to the just released 10th edition of "Toward a More Competitive Colorado," a comprehensive look at nine general categories, each with up to a dozen components. To find the report, go to metrodenver.org and look in the research and reports section.
New Mexico's various national rankings are what this column and the next are about. But the other important point, maybe the important point, is that things can change and change for the better. In 2013 Colorado was third for job growth. It was 49th in 2002 after what the report calls "the 'dot.bomb' recession."
Many of the comparisons are ugly. But facing these things offers a place to begin a vision. Colorado seems in the top handful on just about everything. New Mexico, well, not so much.
Necessarily the report deals with the past; most tables use data through 2013. In the present, New Mexico tied Idaho for 34th place among the states in job production performance between October 2013 and 2014. Alaska was the only state losing jobs during the year. New Mexico's four neighboring state all finished in the top ten for job growth percentage. Texas was 2nd; Utah 3rd; Arizona 8th, and Colorado 9th.
For economic outlook, the American Legislative Council places New Mexico 37th. New Mexico's outlook has been in the mid-thirties since dropping ten places in 2010. Colorado's outlook has slipped. "The economic outlook for all (Colorado's) competitor states except New Mexico surpassed Colorado in 2013 and 2014," the report says.
The big categories are economic vitality, innovation, taxes, livability, K-12 education, higher education, health, infrastructure and international.
The overall infrastructure index from the Beacon Hill Institute puts New Mexico 42nd in 2013 after a bump to 22nd in 2008. The index measures "concentration of mobile phones, access to high-speed broadband, air travel, worker commute times, and access to an affordable cost of living."
Getting federal money for highways is a place where New Mexico does well. The criteria seem to be few people and much land. New Mexico is 11th in per capita federal highway money (Alaska is first, Wyoming, 2nd) and 7th in "highway performance," according to the Reason Foundation. This measure leaves unexplained the nine figure gap between available money and what the Department of Transportation would like to build and fix.
Health is another matter. We are 48th in the percentage of the population with health insurance. For registered nurses per 100,000 people, we are 43rd, not good but a six-place improvement since 2008.
Subsidized energy is big. New Mexico is fourth in installed solar energy. Colorado is sixth. Colorado is tenth in wind with New Mexico 18th.
Population growth rate reflects the decisions of many people. Our neighbors live in the top ten. Utah is 2nd, Colorado 3rd, Texas 4th, Arizona 8th, and New Mexico almost last at 48th.
People moving here come to the state with the ninth highest per capita state government spending. Our low property tax status disappears when comparing the largest city in each state. New Mexico, i.e., Albuquerque, is 25th. Only California and Minnesota claim higher business taxes than New Mexico. "New Mexico's top corporate income tax rate and its higher sales, gross receipts, and excise tax burdens are challenges," the report says.
"Challenges" is the report's double-speak word for "problems." More next week on the opportunities and the problems including the economic vitality rankings.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-5855344217975148842015-12-13T15:45:00.001-07:002015-12-13T15:45:36.282-07:00Colorado Column, 2014, No. 2© 2014 NEW MEXICO NEWS SERVICES
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"Oil Curse" Is Invented

By Harold Morgan
New Mexico Progress

Forty-fourth is New Mexico's position on a State Competitiveness Index from the Beacon Hill Institute, and it's included as the first item in "Toward a More Competitive Colorado," an annual publication of the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
Eighth place for openness and environmental policy was New Mexico's highest competitiveness sub-index ranking.
"Competitiveness is a useful concept that points us to the micro‐foundations — the right mix of policies and endowments — that lead to prosperity," Beacon said in announcing the 2013 rankings. As usual, our neighbors ranked well above New Mexico. Colorado, Utah and Texas were, respectively 7th, 8th, and 9th.
Definitions of economic competitiveness are fuzzy. One suggestion is how well a state marshals resources for prosperity. In the political and policy dialogue, competitiveness seems to mean how well one state compares to another for those businesses seeking a location for a new facility.
State competitiveness leads the economic vitality section. The remaining ratings are for "new economy," employment growth, gross domestic product per employee, per capita income and economic outlook.
At 37th among the states, our economic outlook isn't that bad. We could be New York (50th) or Vermont (49th). Vermont and New York lead per-student spending in public schools. We should be with Utah (1st) and Arizona (7th). The outlook comes from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The Innovation category leads with a state innovation index from the federal Economic Development Administration that seems to measure pervasive technology. Massachusetts leads, with California second, Idaho third (no idea about that one) and Washington fourth (Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) New Mexico is 25 for 2013, down four places from the two previous years.
Montana and Alaska, respectively, lead the entrepreneurial index. We are eighth, well above the innovation rank. For California and Colorado, innovation and entrepreneurialism rankings closely associate. I wonder if New Mexico's situation might be much more characterized by the one-person businesses. As a percentage of employment, New Mexico's proprietors are 29th. The small business survival index ranks New Mexico 27th.
In theory, our long leadership in the ratio of research and development spending to state gross domestic product should translate to high per capita R&D spending at our universities. Wrong. The academic spending rank is 21st after being sixth and ninth a few years ago. One can only speculate about the reasons.
The Milken Institute's State Technology and Science index puts us 22nd for 2012. Massachusetts, Maryland, California and Colorado lead in that order. We do have a lot of high tech employment, sixth per 1,000 workers, but apparently they aren't that well paid; the average wage is 22nd. Curious.
New Mexico's oft-cited sunsets apparently add little livability. The well being index places us 33rd. The Dakotas lead. Money and employment must bring happiness. Check with Lea and Eddy county residents on this point. Third place Nebraska is nice but without the psychic sunset appeal. The football, perhaps?
Our sunsets draw few people. Our 2013 population growth placed 48th, ahead of coal-ridden West Virginia and really cold Maine. Utah and Colorado, both blessed with functioning economies, are second and third in population growth.
A thorough review of the Competitive Colorado report might spark understanding of our state's situation. Or as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Nov. 4 in his election victory speech, "We believe you should build the economy from ground up that's new and fresh and organic."
For now we're stuck with the latest Albuquerque pundit complaint that we have an "Oil Curse," that masses of resource money will destroy us just like Equatorial Guinea and other sixth world countries. That's wrong, bizarre, stupid and insulting.
New and fresh and organic. I like that.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-77283140264202256102015-12-10T19:16:00.002-07:002015-12-10T19:16:37.864-07:00Home Sales Continue Ahead of 2014The metro Albuquerque real estate performance for both single family houses and townhouses/condominiums continued in November to run nicely ahead of the month a year ago, according to the November sales report released today by the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors.
Closed sales for single family homes were 652 in November, 8.5% ahead of November 2014. Seasonality stepped into the November sales picture with a 183 unit, or 22%, drop from October. Sales during November 2014 were 21% below October 2014.
November showed 794 pending sales, 56 homes or 7.6% ahead of a year ago. Pending sales dropped 17% from October.
Homes sold during November were on the market an average of 62 days. May was the last month when the days-on-market period was last over 60 days.
The median single family detached home price was $180,000 during November. That was down $5,000 from October, but remained ahead of October 2014 by $5,000. The average price, $213,686, was down one percent or about $2,200 from November 2014 and also down from October by about $2,600. The average price is down around $13,000 since hitting $226,337 in June, the high for the year.
No $1 million-plus homes closed sale during November.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-62343366234750519182015-11-10T17:52:00.003-07:002015-11-10T17:53:22.603-07:00Home Sales Cool For Fall, Continue Above 2014Seasonality appeared in metro Albuquerque's real estate market during October as sales of single family detached homes dropped 6.7% from September's closed sales of 886 homes to 835 in October. The improved market is seen in October's 10.2% sales increase over the 758 sales in October 2014.
The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors released the October sales report this afternoon.
Pending sales were 958 homes during October, a seasonal-looking 4.2%, or 42 homes, from 1,000 sales that were pending during September. October saw 83% of the September pending sales turn into closed sales. Pending sales were more than 1,000 homes for seven months ending in September.
Those October sales that closed were on the market an average of 59 days, marking the fifth consecutive month with an average sales period of less than 60 days.
The median sales price of $185,000 during October was up 5.7% from October 2014 and increased 11.4% from October 2013. The median price increased 2.2% from $180,850 in September.
By contrast, the average prices dropped $8,101 from September to $216,252 in October. That was a 3.6% decline. Speculation here, but the decline from September might be partly due to no one dollar million plus priced homes selling during September and punching up the average.
The October sales came in a market where sellers continue to offer less product to buyers. Available listings were 3,763 during October, a 20% drop from October 2014. This was the third month with a year over year inventory decline of around 20%.
Attached homes and condominiums show about the same pattern as the detached homes with closed and pending sales well up from October 2014 and the number of listings down 24% from a year ago.
Capitol Report New Mexicohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-787942380303677174.post-22168594755728565552015-10-28T10:37:00.000-07:002015-10-28T10:37:10.254-07:00Abq, Farmington Dominate Job GrowthThe Albuquerque/Farmington metro job growth combo continued to dominate the state in the year from September 2014 to September 2015. The year-on-year switch from recent months is that the rest of the state lost jobs if one subtracts the 8,700 new wage jobs in Albuquerque and Farmington.
The statewide gain was 7,600 jobs, a 0.9% increase that trailed every state in the region except Wyoming, which isn't quite in the southwest and which lost 0.9% of its jobs. Oklahoma's 0.1% increase was closed to New Mexico. Job growth in the other states bordering New Mexico was 1.7%, Colorado; 1.9%, Texas; 2.3% Arizona; 3.9% Utah.
The numbers here are not seasonally adjusted.
At 2.1%, Albuquerque's annual increase of 7,800 jobs was decent on a percentage basis. Farmington's 900-job increase was 1.8%. The Las Cruces recession continued with a 1,300-job or 1.8% job loss for period. Santa Fe dropped 100 jobs.
The figures were released yesterday in the Labor Market Review newsletter of the Department of Workforce Solutions.
In Albuquerque the big gainers year-over-year were professional and business services (+3,000); construction (+2,000); education and health services (+1,900); and leisure and hospitality (+1,400). Manufacturing, retail and government together lost 800 obs.
For Las Cruces, professional and business services (-700) and construction (-600) explain the job losses. Smaller losses in manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, services and government were offset by gains in education and health services, retail and transportation.
In oil news, employment Lea County employment was down 1,500 for the year.
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The promotional multi-city tour for the movie "ABCD - Any Body Can Dance", which was supposed to start from New Delhi, will now take off from Bangalore for the sake of injured choreographer-turned-actor Salman Yusuf Khan.
"We will be going to Bangalore where Salman will be joining us for the promotions of 'ABCD'. The team is wishing him to get well soon and he is getting better. We want him to join us at the earliest as we start our city visits tours," director Remo Dsouza told IANS.
Salman, who is making his acting debut, hurt himself badly while performing a stunt at the recent BIG Star Entertainment Awards in Mumbai.
He went to his hometown Bangalore for treatment, and he has been advised rest. His family members are taking good care of him.
The team of "ABCD" will perform folk dances in eight cities across the country, starting from the first week of January.
"ABCD", a dance-based film, releasing in February 2013, also features other young performers, as well as veterans like Prabhu Deva and Ganesh Acharya.
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Faith Building: Follow Me Part 23Mark 6.45-52 (Jesus Walks on Water) Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and head across the lake to Bethsaida, while he sent the people home. After telling everyone good-bye, he went up into the hills by himself to... read more
Some Thoughts on Communication, Culture & The GospelWhere there is a distinct language, lingo or even jargon there is a distinct culture every time. Often times communication on every level fails to a greater or lesser extent because this rule is neglected. Every time I hear an Independant Fundamental Baptist,... read more
What Is The Gospel?A Plan? If you do a Google search of "What is the gospel?" you will find that almost all Christian denominations (especially evangelicals) that center their faith on the Bible, conversion, the cross and the resurrection explain the gospel in this way. First, admit... read more
Done With Church? Don't Crap In The Pool And Run Away.There is a growing population of folks that say they are "Done With Church". These people are being called "Dones". I have friends that would identify as "Done With Church". People might be quick to pass this movement off as a phase but it is actually more like... read more
The Awkward Continuationist: Revival ≠ Circus"Revival." Now, there's a word that comes pre-loaded with all manner of mental images, assumptions, and expectations. To be "revived", if we are going to be carefully specific, means that what was once alive, and then died, has been... read more
5 Roads That Can Lead Away From A Simple Believing Faith.Once a month or every two months I try to field a good question or comment given to me from the congregation I serve. Folks in our congregation place their questions or comments in the offering plate, give me a text or give me an email. After some consideration I... read more
The "How-To's" of Spiritual Manipulationperchance, you have a desire to become better skilled in the art of manipulating people into accepting your own personal heresies, here's a few insider tips: Ahem… *cough*cough* First and foremost, it's vitally important to begin well; this is best... read more
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The Icelandic government, two Icelandic municipal authorities and the EFLA engineering company signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the creation of a new port in the northeast corner of Iceland.
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