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Labor: Hiring up in August, job openings down
New Mexico Business Weekly - U.S. employers advertised fewer jobs in August than July, but filled the most positions in three months — a mixed signal for the job market. The U.S. Labor Department said Oct. 10 that job openings dropped by 32,000 to 3.56 million in August. July’s openings were also revised lower. However, employers hired 4.39 million people in August – the most since May. According to an Associated Press report in the Albuquerque Journal, the number of available jobs has risen about 63 percent since the recession ended three years ago. However, it remains below the more than 4 million jobs a month advertised before the recession. Read More News New Mexico
Wahlberg filming new movie in Santa Fe
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| Mark Whalberg |
Mark Wahlberg and the rest of the crew were spotted shooting at some pretty high altitudes recently. They're filming a movie called "Lone Survivor." It's based on a book about Navy SEALs. Some of the scenes set in Afghanistan are being shot on top of Santa Fe Ski Mountain. Actors had to use ATVs or ski lifts to get up there.
The state's film office said the movie is employing about 200 New Mexico crew members and actors. Some crew members told Action 7 News that Wahlberg's a really nice guy and even cooked them burgers for dinner one night.
The production of "Lone Survivor" has faced a major hurdle. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said someone stole thousands of dollars worth of propane and copper wiring that are used for special effects.
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NM wheat crops lowest since 1927
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The number of acres of
The Portales
News-Tribune reports a U.S. Department
of Agriculture report shows 90,000 acres of wheat were harvested for grain this
year. The previous low was 25,000 acres in 1927.
The report shows the state's
farmers brought in two million bushels of grain in both 2011 and 2012. In 2010
they harvested eight million bushels.
New Mexico Agriculture Statistic Service
deputy director Longino Bustillos says many farmers did not harvest this year
due to lack of moisture.
Fed and Labor Dep't. can't get their stories straight
Commentary by Jim Spence - Did the Obama administration cook the books on the unemployment data a week ago? Nobody has found the smoking gun yet, but we have recovered the dead body. There were only two places to look for the corpse.
The most obvious first step in the investigation of the murder of the truth was to peruse through what is known as the U.S. “workforce participation rate.” This was a logical place to look. But the fudge factor in this area had already been exploited to the max for almost four years. The rate has been dwindling for the entire Obama presidency. Amazingly, when people give up looking for work and drop out of the hunt for a job it actually LOWERS the unemployment rate the government can report. Only in politics can more people not even looking for work help slant perceptions.
The other place to look was at the data reported by Obama’s census workers. These are government workers who make phone calls to households and also make a few house calls to gather very subjective jobs data. If a census worker finds that someone did part-time work, like babysitting for one hour, their response can provide an excuse to provide data to the Bureau of Labor Statistics that classifies the person as suddenly being employed part-time. So ripe with the potential for manipulation is the system that the Department of Labor’s "Handbook of Methods" provides a detailed explanation of the subjective nature of the data it uses.
Last week the Obama administration released a report showing that during August and September, federal, state, and local governments added 602,000 workers to their payrolls. This report came on the heels of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke saying the economy stunk so bad he was initiating Quantitative Easing #3 to stem the downturn. Let's get this straight. The largest two-month increase in job creation in more than 20 years occurred while the U.S. Federal Reserve was executing an unprecedented effort to revive a horrible economy?
The most obvious first step in the investigation of the murder of the truth was to peruse through what is known as the U.S. “workforce participation rate.” This was a logical place to look. But the fudge factor in this area had already been exploited to the max for almost four years. The rate has been dwindling for the entire Obama presidency. Amazingly, when people give up looking for work and drop out of the hunt for a job it actually LOWERS the unemployment rate the government can report. Only in politics can more people not even looking for work help slant perceptions.
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| Jim Spence (left) |
In fact, the total of 873,000 workers that the Obama officials claimed were added in September is the largest one-month increase in twenty-nine years. Did Obama administration officials working with their employees at the Census Bureau use the wide latitude available in both the questions and interpretation of the answers given to produce improvements in employment data that haven’t been seen in decades.....simply to strengthen the chances their man would be re-elected? You be the judge.
NRA endorses Heather Wilson
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The
National Rifle Association is wading into
The NRA has a huge
footprint in New Mexico
Heinrich is an avid hunter and outdoorsman who's
"A" rating from the NRA slipped to a "B" because of a
couple of controversial votes in the House.
Raton mayor resigns as protest to voting system
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| Charles Starkovich (Photo-KRTN Radio) |
A mayor of a northern New Mexico
Raton Mayor Charles Starkovich said in a letter Wednesday
that he was resigning as mayor and city commissioner in protest to Raton's
at-large voting system. Starkovich says the system violates the federal Voting
Rights Act and that he plans to file a formal complaint with the U.S. Justice
Department.
City Manager Pete Kampfer says he was disappointed in Starkovich's
resignation but agreed that Raton's system discriminates against the city's
Hispanic residents. Kampfer says all three city commissioner live within blocks
of each other in the same districts.
The city has five districts and is around
60 percent Latino. Raton has one Hispanic city commissioner.
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Gov. pushes for Mexican wolf relocation
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is urging federal officials to
relocate a Mexican gray wolf pack linked to recent killings of cows in
southwestern
The letter comes
just as federal officials captured an elusive female Mexican gray wolf wanted
for killing too many cows in the disputed area.
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