Due to the new exclusive contract between UNM and Pepsi, five full-time Vending Services employees will be laid off next month. After their last day on July 12, the employees will be placed on layoff status and officially lose their jobs. Layoff status can last up to six months.
I totally disagree with Brandon Curtis' thesis that businesses should be stripped "of their right to dismiss without cause and without notice and make them abide along the lines we expect the government to follow."
If you're looking for a break from Albuquerque's normal film scene, look no further than the old San Mateo 8, remodeled into the next phase of movie viewing - Madstone Theaters.
The second suicide bombing in two days in Jerusalem left at least seven people dead and 35 wounded on Wednesday, as Israel prepared to implement a new policy of seizing and holding Palestinian territory in response to terrorist attacks.
OK, let's get this straight: Ozomatli is definitely not a local band. Even so, Ozomatli has already logged four performances since December 2001 in New Mexico - three in Santa Fe and one in Albuquerque - that might prompt some to mistakenly consider them local.
With a well-earned place in the final eight of the 2002 World Cup, the United States soccer team has done the seemingly impossible on two counts.
UNM filled one of its recent coaching vacancies Tuesday with the hiring of Washburn University head softball coach Kim Newbern.
I went to an anarchist conference in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. Aside from the tick nest incident, it was an OK weekend, complete with interesting and peculiar events.
The members of Boss Ordinance do not make up your typical Albuquerque band.
Derek Ingwaldson, 8, examines an animal horn instrument during a week-long summer children's program at the Maxwell Museum Wednesday.
There is a relic of 19th century norms still in vogue in the 21st century, a norm that is outdated and in need of updating. That norm is the doctrine of "employment at will," which allows a company to dismiss employees "with or without cause and with or without notice."
An interactive, multimedia exhibit explaining effective and affordable medicines for people in developing countries is rolling through UNM.
Within the first five minutes, "The Bourne Identity" launches into over-the-top action, adrenaline and suspense that saturate the movie.
This year's Albuquerque Folk Festival featured one of the most unique dance performances I have ever seen.
At a time when state drought conditions are beginning to reach emergency levels, the UNM campus may consume as many as 38 million gallons of water a month this summer, private contractor Joe Griffenberg said.
Brenda Hollingsworth Pickett enchants the audience with storytelling and dancing during the Albuquerque Folk Festival at the New Mexico State Fairgrounds Saturday.
Former UNM football player and Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher gives pointers to children participating in his football camp Tuesday morning at the Lobo practice fields.
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