Mexico Forum: Grant to help youth center
Santa Fe Bureau Chief SANTA FE The Court Youth Center in Las Cruces and an Indian youth leadership program in Gallup are among the organizations that will benefit from a $5.2 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced Monday.The grant will be administered by the New Mexico Community Foundation and will be used to help youth programs in New Mexico, said Stephen Patrick, director of youth and emerging initiatives for the foundation."It will end up supporting a...
Mexico Forum: $5.2 Million Benefits N.M. Children
Grant From Foundation Funds Youth Programs The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is giving $5.2 million to help New Mexico harness the potential of its youth. The Michigan-based foundation announced this week that it would award the money in the next five years to the New Mexico Community Foundation. "The Kellogg Foundation believes that all young people have the potential to succeed," William C. Richardson, Kellogg president and CEO, said in a news...
Mexico Forum: Personal Technology
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Can the new mapping software get you across the country? That was the challenge in the May ComputerLife ($2.95), which used the programs to plan a vacation trip.The May Wired ($4.95) compares and contrasts the on-line craze with the early days of radio in the 1920s. The main question is whether the new medium - like radio - will change from an interactive one dominated by users into a marketing medium controlled by corporations.ON CD-ROM: I.M. Meen ($49.95, Simon &...
Mexico Forum: The trashing of Dixie Chicks
Well, how's this for a fine howdy-do? A good ol' country tune about a "Travellin' Soldier"- about as red-white-and-blue as they come, seeing the guy dies- slides down the charts because the singer is suddenly considered to be "Un-American."That's what's happening to the Grammy-winning Dixie Chicks- who performed at George W. Bush's 1995 inauguration as Texas governor and...
Mexico Forum: CITY SERVICES TIED TO GROWTH, ECONOMIST SAYS
Albuquerque and other New Mexico cities are addicted to growth to keep their operations running, a local economist said Thursday.The city's general fund operating budget, which pays for basic services such as police and fire protection, gets about 69 percent of its money from the gross receipts tax. And taxes on construction make up a significant part of that revenue, said Lee Reynis, the city's economist."What that means is that we have operating...