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Most California municipalities ban commercial cannabis activity

CALIFORNIA – Two-thirds of California municipalities prohibit marijuana businesses from setting up shop, underscoring the hurdles MJ entrepreneurs face in trying to break into the world’s largest legal cannabis market Only 161 of California’s...

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California lost nearly 10,000 solar plant jobs in 2018

CALIFORNIA – California’s solar industry shed nearly 10,000 jobs last year over uncertainty about the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported solar panels and state policy changes, a new report reveals The tariffs were set in January 2018,...

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New Mexico boasts US$2.2 billion in oil revenue for 2018

NEW MEXICO – New Mexico received US$22 billion in revenues from oil production in 2018, according to numbers from the state’s Tax Research Institute This was a 26% increase on the year, or US$465 million As stated by the Albuquerque Journal, a...

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New commercial flights departing Chihuahua are announced

CHIHUAHUA – The head of Desarrollo Económico y Turístico, Maria Angelica Granados, announced four new national commercial flights and one new international flight for the city of Chihuahua, starting in March The flights will depart from...

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Google to expand in Texas as part of its US$13 billion investment plan

AUSTIN, TX – Google recently announced that it is to expand in Texas Through a post on the company’s website, Google explained that they are investing more than US$13 billion in the development of new offices and data centers across the United...

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Sinaloa and Sonora, the states with the highest development of shrimp in captivity

MEXICO – For Mexico, the shrimp industry is fundamental in its trade balance Only in 2017, foreign sales of this product totaled US$452 million, representing a central element for the country's economic development Aquaculture farms for the...

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Nuevo Leon and Chihuahua, the Mexican states with the most indebtedness

MEXICO – As of September of 2018, Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Quintana Roo ranked as the states with an indebtedness per capita above US$584, according to the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria (CIEP) As stated by their...

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Baja California to receive economic increase for investment programs in 2019

BAJA CALIFORNIA – The federal government is to grant Baja California a strong economic increase for investment programs and projects to be executed in 2019, according to the Centro de Estudios de las Finanzas Públicas (CEFP) In this sense, the...

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Arizona public universities generate billions in economic impacts

ARIZONA – A first-of-its-kind study reveals that the economic and fiscal impacts of Arizona’s public universities total billions of dollars each year The Arizona Public University Enterprise, which includes Northern Arizona University, Arizona...

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Arizona solar jobs down 10% in 2018

ARIZONA – The US solar industry employs 242,343 workers as of 2018, a decline of nearly 8,000 solar jobs (32 percent) compared to 2017, according to the National Solar Jobs Census 2018, released today by The Solar Foundation In Arizona, there were...

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