COVID-19 loans didn t help save everyone s jobs in New Mexico Share Updated: 7:19 PM MDT May 13, 2021 Share Updated: 7:19 PM MDT May 13, 2021
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Show Transcript TONIGHT TARGET 7’S TODD KURTZ , AND T.J. WILHAM FOLLOWED THE MONEY TO FIND OUT WHY SO MANY PEOPLE HERE WERE OUT OF WERE WITHOUT A JOB. $3.2 BILLION. THAT’S HOW MUCH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LOANED TO NEW MEXICO COMPANIES DURING THE PANDEMIC RECORDS SHOW ALL TO KEEP PEOPLE WORKING. A RECORD NUMBER OF 297,000 NEW MEXICANS FILED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT DURING THE PANDEMIC. IT SET A NEW HISTORIC PRECEDENT IN NEW MEXICO. THE WORSE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WE HAVE SEEN SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. SO WHERE DID THE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? THE PPP LOAN WAS DESIGNED TO HELP THE EMPLOYER KEEP HIS EMPLOYEES ON WORK OR BRING HIS EMPLOYEES BACK INTO WORK. BUT THAT DID NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN, FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY. TARGET 7 DUG THROUGH DATA FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREA
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Spring-sport athletes in Albuquerque Public Schools may decline to be tested for COVID-19 without fear of having their playing privileges stripped from them.
That was the message Thursday from APS Superintendent Scott Elder in a letter he sent to principals and athletic directors of the district’s 13 high schools, informing them of APS’ abrupt change in policy.
“While we are within our rights to require testing, it wasn’t the state’s intent to penalize students who choose not to be tested,” Elder wrote in the letter obtained by the Journal. He also cited some public outcry as reason for the change.
A.D. Chavez retires; Carver decides to un-retire
Even as the Cleveland High athletic director, Larry Chavez could be seen encouraging city student-athletes.
Photo Gary Herron / Observer
Rio Rancho Public Schools will have another executive director of athletics as it heads into the 2021-22 school year, now that Larry Chavez has set his sights on retiring.
His final day with the district, where he began in 1997 when Rio Rancho High School opened, is June 30.
He said, despite the disappointment and frustration of not seeing the Rams and Storm in action this school year, his decision isn’t the result of the pandemic: “This has been in the cards for a couple years now,” he said, closing a 38-year career in high school athletics.
Unprecedented.
It’s a word that’s been used to describe nearly every facet of life over the past 12 months as the coronavirus continues to radically alter the way most people go about their lives – whether that’s going to the doctor’s office, attending school or making a trip to a grocery store.
But it also aptly describes the level of federal funding pumped into the economy through various stimulus programs including the Paycheck Protection Program.
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“We’ve never dealt with anything like this before,” John Garcia, director of the Small Business Administration New Mexico office. “… This has been very different. This is a virus that we are at war with.”
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Prior to Saturday’s brunch-hour Lobo tipoff, somebody tipped me off to this: For all the New Mexico men’s basketball stress coming into Saturday, they’d (1) won the games they were supposed to win and (2) lost to the league teams expected to be superior.
Well, as for (1), that got shot out of the sky big time, didn’t it? Given Saturday’s opponent (San Jose State, minus its top scorer), the margin of defeat (83-71) and other context (the Lobos had just drubbed this team two days earlier), can you recall a more dispiriting defeat by your UNM basketball team?