(KKOB) — The Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance (AREA) announced that the 2022 505 Rising Star award will be bestowed upon PNMs Elisha Saavedra-Torres, Manager of Business Development. The award recognizes an emerging leader who is contributing to economic development programs, projects and activities in a significant manner that leads to increasing investment in New Mexico […]

By Scott Albright, Neighborhood Journal While students watched skits at the Simms Center for Performing Arts or hung out with friends around the bonfire Friday evening, Albuquerque Academy alumni were inside the music building for…READ MORE

Outside Editors If there’s one idea that gets at the very heart of Outside’s mission, it’s the why. Behind every passion, every pursuit, and every adventure there’s a why. It’s what motivates us to act, and action is what leads to improving ourselves and the world. That’s why we’re launching “Why I . . .,” […]

By New York Times In his two years as editor of DealBook, Jason has played a central role in the expansion of the newsletter’s editorial team and the increase in its audience, which is well more than double what it was when he started. He is a quick editor and writer with deep experience in […]

By Meagan Nichols – Editor-in-chief, Albuquerque Business First Justina Grant was named advertising sales director for Albuquerque Business First effective May 2. READ MORE.

BY STEVE VIRGEN / JOURNAL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Notah Begay III, the first Native American to compete on the PGA Tour and in the Presidents Cup, has been named captain of the U.S. Junior Presidents Cup team, the Presidents Cup and American Junior Golf Association announced on Wednesday. The event will be contested for the […]

BY KEVIN T. DUGAN / NY MAG Thirteen years after the birth of cryptocurrency, it was supposed to be time for Washington to rein it in. Instead, the White House punted, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is still hashing out how it’s going to oversee the $2 trillion industry. State watchdogs have filled that […]

BY TODD SPANGLER / VARIETY National Research Group (NRG), an entertainment and tech research firm and strategy consultancy, has hired Grady Miller, previously head of consumer insights for Apple TV Plus, as chief marketing officer. It marks Miller’s return to NRG, where he was most recently VP of strategy before exiting to join Apple in November […]

BY RANDY HARRISON / JOURNAL SPORTS EDITOR Notah Begay III has been in elite company all his athletic life. The four-time PGA Tour winner and current television commentator on golf is one of the four athletes to be inducted into the 2022 class of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) National High […]

BY STEPHANIE MEHTA / FOR FASTCOMPANY It may have started with a dress code. When tech entrepreneur and investor Tom Chavez was a senior at Albuquerque Academy in the 1980s, he bristled at the private school’s clothing rules—no jeans, collared shirts—a holdover from the school’s roots as an elite boys’ prep school. “I thought it […]