Home Care Company to Add 100 Jobs

By Todd G. Dickson, Las Cruces Bulletin Over the next 33 months, Heritage Home Healthcare and Hospice will add 100 new jobs to its Las Cruces operations, which will become its regional headquarters. Heritage CEO Len Trainor said he and his wife Liz started the company in 1993 out of their rental home in Albuquerque. [...]

Firm Adds 300 Jobs

By Todd G. Dickson, Las Cruces Bulletin When Cathy Holloway heard on the news that Convergys in Las Cruces was hiring 300 new workers, she grabbed her résumé and collected her letters of references to apply Tuesday, March 26. She moved here from Seattle a couple of weeks ago, but unlike many of the other [...]

Group Rallies for Spaceport Support

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson As Spaceport America readies to complete work on lengthening its runway and creating visitor centers, its anchor tenant Virgin Galactic is helping to secure passage of critical legislation. At a press conference Thursday, Nov. 15, in Albuquerque, the newly formed Save Our Spaceport Coalition held [...]

MVEDA: First Quarter Strong

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson Coming off a fiscal year that saw healthy job growth in Doña Ana County, Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance Executive Director Davin Lopez said MVEDA is well on its way to creating more jobs in the current fiscal year. Lopez said more than 250 jobs [...]

Is Space Tourism The Right Stuff?

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson The scaling back of government support for the traditional space program could be reversed if the new private space entrepreneurs are successful, said a keynote speaker on the first day of the two-day International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). Robert Dickman, executive director [...]

Space Industry to Meet Next Week

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson It’s been a big week in the new private space industry on the eve of the main space-industry gathering in Las Cruces. On Wednesday, Oct. 10, a commercially launched capsule docked into the International Space Station, marking the reopening of a U.S. supply line to [...]

Study Predicts Growth for Private Space Flight

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson A recent study finds that there not only is an existing market for space tourism, but predicts that market will only grow as more vehicles are developed and the price becomes competitive. The $277,000 study, called “Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A Ten-Year Forecast of Market Demand,” [...]

Businesses Work On Water Conservation

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson While the region is facing one of the worst droughts since the 1950s, businesses and industry were already working to reduce water use and waste. In a presentation to the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance Tuesday, Aug. 7, at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces, [...]

Virgin Galactic Continues Push to Revise ITAR

Article courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson Federal regulations that are relics of the Cold War and perpetuated by more recent concerns of terrorism have created a complex world for private spaceflight entrepreneurs, according to Virgin Galactic’s key person for navigating in this world – Bruce Jackson, vice president for trade [...]

Working on Spaceport Jobs

Article courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson With Virgin Galactic developing its spaceliner and new launch testing at Spaceport America, the first jobs created by the spaceport are coming, members of a panel said. At the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce community update forum Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the Doña [...]