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The Santa Fe New Mexican – The coming expansion project at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center might bring something we haven’t seen in Santa Fe in a long time — construction cranes. The absence of large-scale projects have taken its toll on New Mexico construction workers and both Santa Fe and Las Cruces are…

NM loses homegrown solar manufacturer

Albuquerque Journal – Direct Power & Water Corp. — one of New Mexico’s original, homegrown solar manufacturing companies — is consolidating its factory production in North Carolina where DPW’s parent firm, Preformed Line Products Co., has a massive factory. DPW makes racks and other components for solar systems at a three-building, 33,000-square-foot complex that it leases…