Did you file for unemployment benefits with New Mexico in March? Did you/do you work in food, hospitality or hotels? Know someone? Please reach out. I’d like to hear your story.

!!! 66.5% of all of New Mexico’s cases have come in the last seven days...

Have you filed for unemployment benefits with the state of New Mexico? Did you/do you work in food, hospitality or hotels? Know someone? I’d like to hear your story — and more importantly — how you are doing.

Our Collin Krabbe has confirmed the Santa Fe Reporter story that Meow Wolf, the arts collective in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will eliminate 201 positions and furlough additional staff at is various locations. Read more here: bizjournals.com/albuquerque/ne…

Did your New Mexico business receive a PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan? Albuquerque Business First wants to hear about your experience. Email Albuquerque Business First Editor-in-Chief Rachel Sams at rsams at bizjournals dot com.

Restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 infections hit food service, hospitality & retail businesses especially hard, leaving millions across the country unemployed or on furlough. But these businesses are not among the top recipients of PPP loans according to SBA data.

31% of New Mexico's positive Covid-19 cases have come since Oct. 1, as of Monday afternoon. That's 13,216 cases between Oct. 1 and Oct. 26 out of 42,586 total since March 11.

With 1,500 new announced cases today, New Mexico has already recorded 74.7% of October's total in just 11 days.

New Mexico on track to surpass October's total announced Covid-19 infections by Saturday.