Intel will invest as much as $1.5 billion to upgrade Fab 11X at its Sandoval County plant. The money is made possible by the $16 billion industrial revenue bond the county issued to the tech giant in late 2004, says Liz Shipley, spokeswoman.
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It’s official. The proposed bunker-busting bomb test dubbed “Divine Strake” that seemed destined for White Sands Missile Range, is dead.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency announced it has canceled plans for the test after facing public outcry everywhere it was proposed.
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Taxpayers, unite -- The grassroots taxpayer group Stop Wasting Albuquerque Taxes, has issued a call to action for other citizens to protest the Albuquerque City Council and Mayor Martin Chavez’s determination to get a $300 million streetcar project back on track.
The call to action went out to city neighborhood associations and the media:
“We ask you to email all of the city councilors and the mayor and reiterate your objection to this project without an unbiased, comprehensive study and the direct consent of the voters. Let them know in clear terms that responsible voter-taxpayers passed the original tax, that we haven't approved a street car system, and that we demand this issue be decided by voters at the municipal election this fall.”
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