Company is expected to create 100 jobs By Brook Stockberger Las Cruces Bulletin Dumitiru Popescu spent about 24 hours on planes and in airports on his way from Romania to Las Cruces. He said the trip was well worth all the time being spent in a flying tube with wings. In fact, flying tubes with wings — an oversimplification of course — are the main reason he left Eastern Europe for the desert ...

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Workers, business owners debate minimum wage at Council work session By Mike Cook Las Cruces Bulletin It’s a hot topic, but it was a very polite discussion Monday, July 13, as the Las Cruces City Council held a work session and listened to members of the public discuss the impact of the city ordinance passed last December that raised the local minimum wage. According to City Treasurer Mark Krawczyk, on Dec. 1, 2014, ...

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Can Ag football exploit talent? For a football team on a 10-game losing streak and considered one with a big hill to climb – cbssports.com ranks New Mexico State University No. 123 out of 128 teams in the country – NMSU has still found respect in the form of preseason award nominees. The Aggies, 2-10 in 2014, enter their 2015 campaign with several potential all stars. Let’s take a look: ...

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By Marissa Bond The Las Cruces Bulletin The percussive fireworks ringing in the summer have exhaled into smoke, and the bright, dogstar days have settled in. Despite the heat, the season brings a gravel- hunger for traveling and being outside. In southern New Mexico, residents and visitors don’t have to travel far to be able to appreciate sleeping in the great outdoors. Even with only a weekend or a single night, the Mesilla ...

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